Marie's Note: All I have to say is read it and review it. Thanks!
In their day, the Beauty Parlors of Gloria were a place to behold. You could get your hair cut, dyed, trimmed or highlighted. Skilled Mole manicurists were waiting to cut, polish, and paint your nails so that they rivaled even the fairest Bell's.
But this happy time had since been forgotten, and the parlors had fallen into decay and disarray. The Mood Ring Club found this out when they stepped through those great doors. The easy-to-adjust swivel chairs needed new upholstery. There were clippers and old editions of Bell magazine strewn about and littering the linoleum floors.
Blini looked around at the mess and cried out in despair. "NOOOOO!"
Lego-lord-as looked down at a pair of thick, but broken, glasses and the truth dawned on him. "Dorks!"
"We should leave. We should never have come here!" Doromir turned to leave but all of a sudden the doors closed by themselves. Apparently the same kinds of doors that automatically open can be programmed to automatically close too.
Thonagong turned to push the convenient 'override' button, but it was too late. Mitten had leaned against the inconvenient button that said, "Push this button to cause automatic closing doors to stay automatically closed," trapping the whole Mood Ring Club inside the Beauty Parlors of Gloria.
"Well that's just great! Now we have to go all the way through these outdated beauty parlors! Urgh!" Bingaling complained, obviously upset about the whole scenario. He didn't like the Moles because of that unfortunate Mohawk they gave him quite a while ago, back when the Moles had gone retro, trying to bring back the '80s.
The group journeyed almost silently through Gloria, only stopping once when Bingaling forgot something again. I think it was that he forgot the way, which wouldn't be surprising, coming from a man who can't even remember what day it is.
At this small interlude in their quest, Dodo took the time to talk to himself, lamenting over having to carry the One Mood Ring all the way to Jeldur.
As he was going over all this and whining to himself he noticed something that the artificial lights glinted off something that looked like spectacles. He rushed to Bingaling, alarmed.
"Bingaling, there's something down there!" He exclaimed, pointing. He was afraid the glasses were attached to the face of a Dork.
The gizzard seemed unphased by this remark. "It's Melvin."
Dodo was amazed at this discovery. "Melvin?"
"He's been following us for 3 days," said Bingaling, obviously unconcerned about the matter.
Melvin. Dodo had learned a lot about Melvin from Nemo. Melvin was who Nemo got the ring from. The queer (and no, not queer as in 'gay', queer as in how it was originally used in the English language- weird) creature had carried it with him into the Crispy Mountains, keeping it for five years.
Finally Bingaling figured out which path to choose (took him long enough) and they continued on their merry way.
The next disturbing thing to happen to the club was when they discovered Marlin's room. Blini recognized it and rushed toward the opening, hoping to find his dear cousin still alive. The sight that met him made him gasp.
All that was left of old Marlin of Gloria was a pile of cut, dyed, and highlighted hair, sitting by a Dork's outdated hair dryer.
Blini was blown away (not literally, of course, since that is what hair dryers do to Moles, as everyone knows- they literally blow the moles away, leaving only their hair to remember them by). "NOOOOO!" he exclaimed for the second time that day. He must like that expression.
"He is gone then," Bingaling said regretfully.
The group milled about, looking at the remnants of the once glorious and thriving enterprise that was the Beauty Parlors. Mitten came upon a deep well and he just couldn't resist.
"Yodel-e-hi-hoooooooo!" Mitten was known back in the Choir for his yodeling. Of course he was also known as not being the brightest bulb in the box…
So, that is why his yodeling down the well, which echoed something fierce, was not appreciated very much by the rest of the club.
"Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time and rid us of your stupidity!" Bingaling was so upset he got Mitten's name wrong.
"Who's a Took?" asked Sad.
"No, you idiot, he said rule of a book!" Blini wasn't all the bright either.
"Who's a book?" asked Mitten.
"No," said Spam. "He said mule of a mook."
"He meant to say Fool of a Look!" exclaimed an exasperated Dodo. He turned to Spam, puzzled. "What's a 'mook'?"
Their debate was cut short when they heard a strange sound.
"What is this new angelry?" asked Doromir.
"Devilry," whispered Thonagong. He couldn't let a fellow Delondorian go about with such a horrible grammatical error hanging over his head.
"Did you just call me devilry?" asked the other man, quite angered by the comment.
"No, I…"
The future king never finished his sentence. Bingaling had made a dramatic motion for them to be quiet so he could make a theatrical comment.
He bent over his stick thing and said, "This is a great evil that the moles awoke in the deep- a foe too great and terrible to imagine."
Everyone waited for him to explain what this horrible thing was. Dodo couldn't think anything was worse than those vampiric clowns that ran around in Barbie sheets, but he supposed that he was open to anything new.
"THE LITTLE SISTER! RUN!"
Gasp! The dreaded little sister! Dodo had no idea that they still existed!
"Play with me! Play with me!" The horrid thing came skipping after the fleeing group, her hideous pig-tails bouncing up and down with every step.
They finally got to the Great Crossing and everybody crossed…except Bingaling.
He turned around and dramatically said, "You shall not pass!"
The little sister giggled and repeated her deadly phrase, "Play with me!" She took a step forward.
Bingaling stomped his long stick thing on the bridge, saying, "You cannot pass!"
"Bingaling, stop trying to gain yourself a dramatic death scene and come on! We have an appointment in Gothlorien in a few hours!" Thonagong tapped his booted foot impatiently.
But Bingaling was intent on what he was doing. The little sister took another step and the weight of her chubby legs broke the bridge, the reverberation causing Bingaling to lose his balance and fall, only to grab on to the very edge of what was left of the Great Crossing.
Deciding to mix things up a bit, he imitated Taraman by saying in a loud squeaky voice, "Fly, you fools!" And then, of course, he was dumb enough to let go.
Dodo realized that he should probably start screaming his head off so he yelled loudly, obviously stealing Blini's favorite line, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO take a breather OOOOOOOOOOOO!"
There was nothing else they could do. The Dorks were coming and would be on top of them soon, you could tell by hearing their loud breathing and them puffing on their inhalers.
Dodo had to be picked up by Doromir; he was in too much shock to move.
Bingaling…was gone.
Post note: Haha! I love drama! Tehe! Anyway, much credit goes to Rochelle, the wonderful person who came up with this idea. Go you! Hope you guys liked this chappie!