Another Chapter, Yay! I have to admit, I love Merry and Pippin, but it is a challenge finding personalities to fit the children. I do not own Tolkien or his works, but would love to. I do claim artistic licsence for Gary and Pip B, and other non-Tolkien characters.
Sam arrived at the picnic ground at around eleven that morning. As soon as the cart stopped, the children ran riot. He called after them to help with the food, but none seemed to answer. Merry and Pippin called from afar.
"Hoy! Samwise my good fellow! Over here!" they cried and they motioned towards the amount of food that they themselves had prepared. Sam greeting them with hugs and greetings of pure joy (and relief).
"It has been a long time since we were last together as a group." Merry said.
"The last time we met, Sam had nine and a half children, I think," Pippin laughed, "How many now Sam? Twenty? Thirty? A Gross?"
"Twelve the last time I checked." Sam replied.
"I'd like to see what happens at mealtimes at your place. All the food." Pippin's eyes widened in awe.
"Imagine Bilbo's party, except louder, busier and the sometime involvement of animals." He laughed.
"Gosh, I have enough trouble with the twins," Merry said scratching his head.
"Faramir can be a shocker too, you wouldn't believe how much we threatened him and cajoled him to do something civilised for once." Pippin said, rolling his eyes.
"Enough of talk, lets get this picnic under way." Merry said, snapping his fingers so his friends could start laying the food from Sam's cart.
"I don't know Mr Merry, but I have a strange feeling that I have forgotten something."
"Not to worry Sam, If you have forgotten something, there is the chance we haven't." he said, lifting a basket of mushrooms from the cart. There were a lot of mushrooms.
"Whoops, it looks like this one has already been plundered." Pippin said, lifting the cloth of one of the baskets. Sam wheeled around to the squadron of children standing by for lunch.
"Who took the mushrooms?"
"The Took took the mushrooms!" The children replied in a hobbit childhood saying. Pippin laughed, walking away to the grounds.
"There's not much damage done, not until this Took gets into them. Though I think we may have contributed to the extinction of an entire species of mushroom." He added in mock sorrow.
Then the field was set, and it was one of those rare times where they say it snowed food and rained drink, and the desires of greedy and gluttonous children were satisfied and some perhaps did not want to become greedy or gluttonous ever again, the amount of food curing those deadly sins.
TBC