Part 2
Chapter 1-Technically, We Don't Exist.
TC and MC paused. They'd both heard Pippin scream for them to stop. MC caught the door before it fully closed.
"I don't wanna come back." MC said quietly.
"Neither do I...I like Hobbiton, I wanna stay there." TC replied. MC reopened the door. Merry and Pippin saw them, and in their joy, tackled the two girls back into MC's house. Pippin accidentally kicked the door, causing it to close. All four of them paused, silence ensued. They all stared at the door. Merry and Pippin didn't understand why TC and MC suddenly looked very worried.
"Oh no...we're in trouble..." MC stated.
"You guys are idiots!" TC continued.
"Why?" Pippin and Merry asked simutaneously.
"THIS!" MC walked over to the door, and opened it, revealing her front yard. There was no trace of Hobbiton. "THIS IS WHY!"
"Oh."
They heard the garage door shut.
"Yes and now that we've cleared that up MY MOM IS HOME!"
"That could be bad." TC pessimized.
"Well, considering there's two hobbits in my front hall, YES IT COULD BE BAD!" MC screamed at her. "Merry! Pippin! Quick! Get in the closet!" MC quickly shoved the two hobbits into the closet and slammed the door shut. Then she ran over next to TC.
"Hey girls--er..." MC's mom walked into the hallway, then stared at the two girls in confusion. "Tawny, Marie, WHAT HAPPENED?!"
"It's TC and MC!" MC corrected. "and what do you mean 'what happened'?"
"You're short! Pointy ears..."
"Uh oh!" TC and MC both looked down at themselves. They were still hobbits!
"Well..." TC said. "A lot of stuff happened..."
There was quite a racket coming from the closet. MC's mom began yelling at them. "AND HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU NOT TO PUT THE CAT IN THE CLOSET?! MY GOSH! THAT'S WORSE THAN RUNNING IT OVER WITH A LAWNMOWER!"
"But mom...that was you!"
"IT'S STILL WORSE!"
"Merry!" Pippin grunted, suddenly, as the two hobbits fell out of the closet.
"This just keeps getting better and better." TC muttered sarcastically.
"WHAT ARE THEY DOING HERE! Wait, don't answer! I don't want to know! Just...just fix this yourself and I won't tell your father."
"But MOM!" MC whined. "How am I supposed to change the species of me and my friend and make two other hobbits dissappear?! I only have five minutes until dad gets home!"
"Well I was only gone for five minutes!"
"What?"
"I left five minutes ago to pick your brother up, now I'm back. It's only been five minutes."
"We've been gone for over a year...."
"What are you talking about?"
"WE'VE BEEN IN MIDDLE EARTH!" TC yelled, earning a blank stare from her friend's mother. She decided to elaborate. "We were gonna go see the horses but we left and when we got outside the door closed and we were surrounded by hobbits and hobbit holes and we couldn't get back and we realized we were in Hobbiton and then we realized we were hobbits too and we were stuck because the door had closed and so we started looking for a way out and we saw Merry and Pippin but we didn't talk to them because I was too shy and then we were riding a horse on a path and we ran into Merry and Pippin and two other hobbits Sam and Frodo and they didn't like us and they weren't very nice to us and so we joined them on their journey thing and then we were chased by a ring wraith on a big black bloody horse and so the horse me and Pippin were riding threw us across the river and so we went to Bree where we ran into this dude, Aragorn, or something so he began leading us into the wild and we went to Weathertop and my feet got set on fire so MC's were hairier and then the wraiths attacked and stabbed Frodo so we had to leave immediately and so then this other elf came and took Frodo away and so we had to walk the rest of the way to Rivendell and Merry began stalking MC and me and Sam didn't like each other and he never let me ride Bill but then he did and he made me fall off and then we fought the rest of the way and then we finally reached Rivendell then we set off and there were eleven of us and we were the 'Fellowship of the Ring' and so we went to the Pass of Carahdras and almost froze to death so we went to Moria and Gandalf fought a demon thing and fell into fire and died, but not really, and Pippin threw a skeleton down the well which alerted orcs and woke the demon thing up and Merry tried to carry MC all the way through and then we left after Gandalf sort of died and then we went to Lothlorien and there were elves and Galadriel, some weird elf lady, gave us things, except she didn't give anything to me she just slapped me because I gave everyone there different hair cuts and different hair colors and so they tried to drown me and MC and then she made us leave so we canoed down a river and Frodo left us and the four of us got captured and Sam and Frodo abandoned us and so we were taken by these orcs and then they tried to take us to Isengard then they tried to eat us then they got slaughtered so then Aragorn and Legolas and Gimli came back and then Gandalf came back so we went to some city, Edoras, and I beheaded a chicken and got chased by it's owner so then we all had to leave to go to Helm's Deep and I got a pet warg because we had to fight those things and I kept one and Aragorn and Pippin and MC went over a cliff and we thought they were dead and so we left and they came to Helm's Deep after we had gotten there and I accidentally shot Aragorn with a mudball, like on Carahdras with the snowballs, and he wasn't happy so he chased me for a while then he informed Theoden, the king, that there was an army of orcs ten thousand strong headed for Helm's Deep so they came and we battled them and began losing so then Gandalf came and he had a herd of people with him and I sicced my warg on the orcs and they ran away like wusses so then we went to Isengard and Pippin and Merry became giants and absolutely destroyed the place so then we left back for Edoras but Pippin looked in this glass ball so me and him and Gandalf had to go to Minas Tirith and everyone else had to go to Helm's Deep and so then Pippin became a knight for Denethor and I had to stay alone in the city but I managed to entertain myself but then orcs and wraiths attacked and I totally destroyed the city, well, not totally, and then Rohan people came and MC and Merry were with them and we beat the orcs then went to fight near Mordor cause that's where Frodo and Sam were and Merry helped Eowyn kill the leader ring wraith and I saved Pippin from being smothered by a cave troll and then Frodo and Sam, well, actually Gollum destroyed the ring because he bit off Frodo's finger and danced around and tripped over the edge and fell into the fires of mount Doom and so we all went back to Gondor because Aragorn was heir to the throne so then all of us hobbits went back to Hobbiton and then Frodo had to leave with elves and Gandalf and Bilbo to the grey Havens and it was sad and then we came back and the portal was opened to here again and so we went through and then Pippin yelled for us to wait so we opened the door and then they tackled us and Pippin kicked the door shut accidentally so the portal closed and so then you came and I don't know why we're still hobbits and why they are and...and..."TC then passed out from lack of air, as she had forgotten to breathe through her whole speech. MC and her mother weren't worried, it happened a lot.
"You guys are really getting into your role-playing." MC's mother decided aloud.
"We weren't role playing!" MC protested.
"Whatever...anyways, just fix this yourselves." With that, MC's mother walked off.
"Great. Just great!" MC flopped down on the floor. Merry and Pippin walked over.
"Your mom doesn't know how to pronounce my name." Merry stated bluntly.
"What?"
"She emphasized the wrong part."
"Oh, that. She wasn't mispronouncing your name, Merry."
At this moment, TC woke up, looking rather confused. MC continued what she was saying.
"She was saying my REAL name. MC is only a nickname. My real name is Marie."
"What?"
"It's like, how people call you Merry, but your real name is Meriadoc." TC joined into the conversation.
"Oh..."
"Who's Tawny?" Pippin asked.
"Me." TC replied. "But if you ever call either of us by our real names..."
"You will pay dearly!" MC finished.
"Anyways, how are we supposed to fix this?"
"Fix what?" Pippin asked.
"Our...hobbitness." MC answered.
"What's wrong with being hobbits?"
"Well, technically, we don't exist." TC informed them.
Merry and Pippin stared at the girls blankly.
"We gotta get out of here!" TC hissed, and ran out the front door, the other three following her.
~~~~
"This just doesn't make sense!" MC said, for about the thousandth time. They were walking through the cornfield located in MC's yard.
"Will you please tell us what doesn't make sense?"
"When we went through from Earth to Middle Earth, we went from humans to hobbits. When we came back to now, we remained hobbits. So it doesn't make sense that you guys wouldn't turn into humans, and it makes less sense that we didn't turn back to humans..."
"Yeah." TC agreed. "I mean, we should have at least gone back to human form. That is what we really are, after all."
"No! You girls are hobbits!" Merry and Pippin insisted at the same time.
"If we're hobbits, shouldn't we be in a time and place where hobbits exist?"
"WE DO EXIST! STOP SAYING THAT!" Pippin yelled.
"Hobbits only exist in Middle Earth!"
"Well, apparently they exist in the 21st century, as well." MC stated.
The four were silent for a while.
"So what now?" TC finally asked.
"We could..." MC was trying to come up with a suggestion.
"I feel like frolicking!" Merry said.
"Me too." Pippin added
"Why does that sound familiar?" MC asked.
"I doubt anyone is at my house," TC said, ignoring the others. "we could go there."
"But people will get home."
"We could just get the essential stuff. Money, clothes, stuff like that."
"No."
"Why not?"
"The clothes will be way too big, and there's no way we'd be able to show our faces in public, thus the money would not be useful."
"Oh. Right. We have to do something, though."
"One of our friends! We could get one of our friends to help us!"
"Yeah...our friends are great, but I just don't think any of them would quite...understand our situation, here." TC pessimized.
"Rhia!" MC yelled.
"Oh yeah! She knows what it's like to be a hobbit in the current day!" TC said sarcastically.
"Well, she'd be least likely to freak out."
"True. Fine. We'll go to my house and call her."
"Why don't we just go to her house?"
"What if her mom, or her brother answers the door?"
"Right."
"Okay." TC and MC began walking in the other direction, towards TC's house. Merry and Pippin followed.
"I wish it was dark." MC said.
"Yeah." TC agreed.
"Why?" Pippin asked.
"Because we're freaks." TC answered nonchalantly.
"No we aren't."
"Yeah, trust me, we are." MC said.
"We're perfectly normal!"
"We aren't REAL!" TC yelled. Silence ensued. They reached the edge of the cornfield and began walking next to the road, as there were no trees to hide them.
"Ah crap!" MC suddenly muttered. A car was driving in the road. The driver spotted them. The hobbits began running. Luckily at this point, they were very close to TC's house. They reached the driveway and TC regretted that it was gravel, and on a very steep incline. Luckily, the car didn't follow them.
~~~~
"Hello, is Rhia there?" TC asked into the phone.
"HOLY CRAP!" Merry yelled from her room.
"TOLD YOU!" MC and TC both yelled back. Then TC heard someone on the other end of the line. "Hey, Rhia?"
"Yeah, who is this?" Rhia answered.
"This is TC."
"Oh hey! What's up?"
"Uh...well...I think it would be better if we explained this to you in person."
"Good or bad?"
"Well, that really depends on how you look at it. Me, MC and some...friends are here. Can you help us?"
"With what?"
"Like I said, it'd be better if we explained this...face to face."
"Oh."
"When you come, come alone. Please." TC requested, right before a loud explosion occured.
"TC!" Rhia scolded. "You've been using the microwave, haven't you?"
"That wasn't me...it was, Pippin."
"What?!"
"Just come, now!"
"Fine."
They hung up.
Chapter 1-Technically, We Don't Exist.
TC and MC paused. They'd both heard Pippin scream for them to stop. MC caught the door before it fully closed.
"I don't wanna come back." MC said quietly.
"Neither do I...I like Hobbiton, I wanna stay there." TC replied. MC reopened the door. Merry and Pippin saw them, and in their joy, tackled the two girls back into MC's house. Pippin accidentally kicked the door, causing it to close. All four of them paused, silence ensued. They all stared at the door. Merry and Pippin didn't understand why TC and MC suddenly looked very worried.
"Oh no...we're in trouble..." MC stated.
"You guys are idiots!" TC continued.
"Why?" Pippin and Merry asked simutaneously.
"THIS!" MC walked over to the door, and opened it, revealing her front yard. There was no trace of Hobbiton. "THIS IS WHY!"
"Oh."
They heard the garage door shut.
"Yes and now that we've cleared that up MY MOM IS HOME!"
"That could be bad." TC pessimized.
"Well, considering there's two hobbits in my front hall, YES IT COULD BE BAD!" MC screamed at her. "Merry! Pippin! Quick! Get in the closet!" MC quickly shoved the two hobbits into the closet and slammed the door shut. Then she ran over next to TC.
"Hey girls--er..." MC's mom walked into the hallway, then stared at the two girls in confusion. "Tawny, Marie, WHAT HAPPENED?!"
"It's TC and MC!" MC corrected. "and what do you mean 'what happened'?"
"You're short! Pointy ears..."
"Uh oh!" TC and MC both looked down at themselves. They were still hobbits!
"Well..." TC said. "A lot of stuff happened..."
There was quite a racket coming from the closet. MC's mom began yelling at them. "AND HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU NOT TO PUT THE CAT IN THE CLOSET?! MY GOSH! THAT'S WORSE THAN RUNNING IT OVER WITH A LAWNMOWER!"
"But mom...that was you!"
"IT'S STILL WORSE!"
"Merry!" Pippin grunted, suddenly, as the two hobbits fell out of the closet.
"This just keeps getting better and better." TC muttered sarcastically.
"WHAT ARE THEY DOING HERE! Wait, don't answer! I don't want to know! Just...just fix this yourself and I won't tell your father."
"But MOM!" MC whined. "How am I supposed to change the species of me and my friend and make two other hobbits dissappear?! I only have five minutes until dad gets home!"
"Well I was only gone for five minutes!"
"What?"
"I left five minutes ago to pick your brother up, now I'm back. It's only been five minutes."
"We've been gone for over a year...."
"What are you talking about?"
"WE'VE BEEN IN MIDDLE EARTH!" TC yelled, earning a blank stare from her friend's mother. She decided to elaborate. "We were gonna go see the horses but we left and when we got outside the door closed and we were surrounded by hobbits and hobbit holes and we couldn't get back and we realized we were in Hobbiton and then we realized we were hobbits too and we were stuck because the door had closed and so we started looking for a way out and we saw Merry and Pippin but we didn't talk to them because I was too shy and then we were riding a horse on a path and we ran into Merry and Pippin and two other hobbits Sam and Frodo and they didn't like us and they weren't very nice to us and so we joined them on their journey thing and then we were chased by a ring wraith on a big black bloody horse and so the horse me and Pippin were riding threw us across the river and so we went to Bree where we ran into this dude, Aragorn, or something so he began leading us into the wild and we went to Weathertop and my feet got set on fire so MC's were hairier and then the wraiths attacked and stabbed Frodo so we had to leave immediately and so then this other elf came and took Frodo away and so we had to walk the rest of the way to Rivendell and Merry began stalking MC and me and Sam didn't like each other and he never let me ride Bill but then he did and he made me fall off and then we fought the rest of the way and then we finally reached Rivendell then we set off and there were eleven of us and we were the 'Fellowship of the Ring' and so we went to the Pass of Carahdras and almost froze to death so we went to Moria and Gandalf fought a demon thing and fell into fire and died, but not really, and Pippin threw a skeleton down the well which alerted orcs and woke the demon thing up and Merry tried to carry MC all the way through and then we left after Gandalf sort of died and then we went to Lothlorien and there were elves and Galadriel, some weird elf lady, gave us things, except she didn't give anything to me she just slapped me because I gave everyone there different hair cuts and different hair colors and so they tried to drown me and MC and then she made us leave so we canoed down a river and Frodo left us and the four of us got captured and Sam and Frodo abandoned us and so we were taken by these orcs and then they tried to take us to Isengard then they tried to eat us then they got slaughtered so then Aragorn and Legolas and Gimli came back and then Gandalf came back so we went to some city, Edoras, and I beheaded a chicken and got chased by it's owner so then we all had to leave to go to Helm's Deep and I got a pet warg because we had to fight those things and I kept one and Aragorn and Pippin and MC went over a cliff and we thought they were dead and so we left and they came to Helm's Deep after we had gotten there and I accidentally shot Aragorn with a mudball, like on Carahdras with the snowballs, and he wasn't happy so he chased me for a while then he informed Theoden, the king, that there was an army of orcs ten thousand strong headed for Helm's Deep so they came and we battled them and began losing so then Gandalf came and he had a herd of people with him and I sicced my warg on the orcs and they ran away like wusses so then we went to Isengard and Pippin and Merry became giants and absolutely destroyed the place so then we left back for Edoras but Pippin looked in this glass ball so me and him and Gandalf had to go to Minas Tirith and everyone else had to go to Helm's Deep and so then Pippin became a knight for Denethor and I had to stay alone in the city but I managed to entertain myself but then orcs and wraiths attacked and I totally destroyed the city, well, not totally, and then Rohan people came and MC and Merry were with them and we beat the orcs then went to fight near Mordor cause that's where Frodo and Sam were and Merry helped Eowyn kill the leader ring wraith and I saved Pippin from being smothered by a cave troll and then Frodo and Sam, well, actually Gollum destroyed the ring because he bit off Frodo's finger and danced around and tripped over the edge and fell into the fires of mount Doom and so we all went back to Gondor because Aragorn was heir to the throne so then all of us hobbits went back to Hobbiton and then Frodo had to leave with elves and Gandalf and Bilbo to the grey Havens and it was sad and then we came back and the portal was opened to here again and so we went through and then Pippin yelled for us to wait so we opened the door and then they tackled us and Pippin kicked the door shut accidentally so the portal closed and so then you came and I don't know why we're still hobbits and why they are and...and..."TC then passed out from lack of air, as she had forgotten to breathe through her whole speech. MC and her mother weren't worried, it happened a lot.
"You guys are really getting into your role-playing." MC's mother decided aloud.
"We weren't role playing!" MC protested.
"Whatever...anyways, just fix this yourselves." With that, MC's mother walked off.
"Great. Just great!" MC flopped down on the floor. Merry and Pippin walked over.
"Your mom doesn't know how to pronounce my name." Merry stated bluntly.
"What?"
"She emphasized the wrong part."
"Oh, that. She wasn't mispronouncing your name, Merry."
At this moment, TC woke up, looking rather confused. MC continued what she was saying.
"She was saying my REAL name. MC is only a nickname. My real name is Marie."
"What?"
"It's like, how people call you Merry, but your real name is Meriadoc." TC joined into the conversation.
"Oh..."
"Who's Tawny?" Pippin asked.
"Me." TC replied. "But if you ever call either of us by our real names..."
"You will pay dearly!" MC finished.
"Anyways, how are we supposed to fix this?"
"Fix what?" Pippin asked.
"Our...hobbitness." MC answered.
"What's wrong with being hobbits?"
"Well, technically, we don't exist." TC informed them.
Merry and Pippin stared at the girls blankly.
"We gotta get out of here!" TC hissed, and ran out the front door, the other three following her.
~~~~
"This just doesn't make sense!" MC said, for about the thousandth time. They were walking through the cornfield located in MC's yard.
"Will you please tell us what doesn't make sense?"
"When we went through from Earth to Middle Earth, we went from humans to hobbits. When we came back to now, we remained hobbits. So it doesn't make sense that you guys wouldn't turn into humans, and it makes less sense that we didn't turn back to humans..."
"Yeah." TC agreed. "I mean, we should have at least gone back to human form. That is what we really are, after all."
"No! You girls are hobbits!" Merry and Pippin insisted at the same time.
"If we're hobbits, shouldn't we be in a time and place where hobbits exist?"
"WE DO EXIST! STOP SAYING THAT!" Pippin yelled.
"Hobbits only exist in Middle Earth!"
"Well, apparently they exist in the 21st century, as well." MC stated.
The four were silent for a while.
"So what now?" TC finally asked.
"We could..." MC was trying to come up with a suggestion.
"I feel like frolicking!" Merry said.
"Me too." Pippin added
"Why does that sound familiar?" MC asked.
"I doubt anyone is at my house," TC said, ignoring the others. "we could go there."
"But people will get home."
"We could just get the essential stuff. Money, clothes, stuff like that."
"No."
"Why not?"
"The clothes will be way too big, and there's no way we'd be able to show our faces in public, thus the money would not be useful."
"Oh. Right. We have to do something, though."
"One of our friends! We could get one of our friends to help us!"
"Yeah...our friends are great, but I just don't think any of them would quite...understand our situation, here." TC pessimized.
"Rhia!" MC yelled.
"Oh yeah! She knows what it's like to be a hobbit in the current day!" TC said sarcastically.
"Well, she'd be least likely to freak out."
"True. Fine. We'll go to my house and call her."
"Why don't we just go to her house?"
"What if her mom, or her brother answers the door?"
"Right."
"Okay." TC and MC began walking in the other direction, towards TC's house. Merry and Pippin followed.
"I wish it was dark." MC said.
"Yeah." TC agreed.
"Why?" Pippin asked.
"Because we're freaks." TC answered nonchalantly.
"No we aren't."
"Yeah, trust me, we are." MC said.
"We're perfectly normal!"
"We aren't REAL!" TC yelled. Silence ensued. They reached the edge of the cornfield and began walking next to the road, as there were no trees to hide them.
"Ah crap!" MC suddenly muttered. A car was driving in the road. The driver spotted them. The hobbits began running. Luckily at this point, they were very close to TC's house. They reached the driveway and TC regretted that it was gravel, and on a very steep incline. Luckily, the car didn't follow them.
~~~~
"Hello, is Rhia there?" TC asked into the phone.
"HOLY CRAP!" Merry yelled from her room.
"TOLD YOU!" MC and TC both yelled back. Then TC heard someone on the other end of the line. "Hey, Rhia?"
"Yeah, who is this?" Rhia answered.
"This is TC."
"Oh hey! What's up?"
"Uh...well...I think it would be better if we explained this to you in person."
"Good or bad?"
"Well, that really depends on how you look at it. Me, MC and some...friends are here. Can you help us?"
"With what?"
"Like I said, it'd be better if we explained this...face to face."
"Oh."
"When you come, come alone. Please." TC requested, right before a loud explosion occured.
"TC!" Rhia scolded. "You've been using the microwave, haven't you?"
"That wasn't me...it was, Pippin."
"What?!"
"Just come, now!"
"Fine."
They hung up.