Disclaimer: Duh. Same as always…only this time around I also don't own the guys of The Used, My Chemical Romance, or Velvet Revolver…they own themselves.


"So, we there yet?"

"No."

"You sure?"

"Yes!"

I smirked to myself at Legolas's obviously pissed off reaction to my pestering. The evil plan was indeed working.

"Legolas?"

What sounded like a cross between a sigh and groan emitted from Legolas's mouth. "What now?" I would have sworn I heard him mutter 'stupid girl' under his breath after tensely answering. Fine then. I could play that way too.

"Well insolent elf, I was wondering if you could do me a favor…"

"It really quite depends on what it is." Skillfully avoiding the insult, of course. Must be some Elven thing. Legolas never seemed to respond to any insults. It was actually really frustrating.

"Well, really it's like answering a question…"

"Which would be?"

"How do you stay so clean? Are you like a cat and you lick yourself clean or something, or do you perhaps use some Elven hair product that's similar to glue to keep flyaways at bay?"

Legolas gave me a look that could freeze hell over, to which I responded to by smiling cheerfully.

"I'm just curious you know." I said in an annoyingly cheerful voice.

Wow. Could that guy glare. Holy crap.

I cleared my throat awkwardly. "I take it that's a no then…"

"Legolas, mellon, stop trying to drill holes into Noel's head. What did she do to you to deserve such a reaction?"

God bless Strider. God bless him.

Legolas didn't say anything; he just stopped looking at me and opted instead to walk up a bit to talk to Gandalf, muttering things along the lines of 'idiotic brat' and 'immature child'. Clearly he wasn't in the mood to discuss his Elven habits, or anything for that matter, with me.

Mental note to self: Comparing Legolas to a cat is a good way to get to him.

"Are you aware that your friend is attempting to kill me with his laser beam vision?" I asked Strider, who gave me a confused look. I guess laser beams weren't as big of a thing in Middle Earth as they were at home. I'll have to educate Strider later about the joys of the world's greatest cat toy. Heh, cats, I'm a real riot today, comparing everything to cats.

I'm also very possibly suffering from severe lack of sleep. These people feel the urge to wake up at dawn every morning, for which I want to shoot them so bad.

I sighed as I walked. Here comes the severe angst of not being at home. Mainly for the fact that I, if my counting was correct, was missing a concert that consisted of The Used, My Chemical Romance, and Velvet Revolver.

The guys and I had been counting down the days to that concert, all of us managing to have gotten tickets in the second row. This was an improvement on our seating position at Velvet Revolver's last concert…our seats being somewhere in row ZZ or something like that.

I sighed again before I began humming The Used's All That I've Got.

I saw Adrian turn around and smirk at me.

Fright immediately crept into my body. Lord knows the type of stuff that runs through that man's head.

At that moment I heard Adrian begin to sing the lyrics aloud to the song I was humming.

Oh, I just couldn't resist. I quickly decided to join in, much to the great distress of Legolas, judging from the look on his face when the other guys decided to add in their two cents, including their instrumental parts that occurred during the pauses.

Revenge was sweet.


There was a river.

No, this isn't the beginning of one of Noel's retarded stories; this is a reflection of my joy at finally finding a place to bathe.

So, let me try again.

THERE IS A RIVER!

Better?

And indeed, there was a river flowing very closely nearby, mind, it was at the base of a mountain, meaning that the water was going to be really cold, but I would live.

"Here is your river Noel."

I spun around to see Strider behind me, a small smile on his face as he took in my apparent joy.

"It's more like a large creek really…" I said before I blew off all my worries. It was water. I could take a bath in it. I'd be fine.

"It trails off of the snow from the mountain." I nodded, understanding that by getting in that water I was going to freeze my ass off.

Not that that facts stopped any of my guy friends who, upon seeing the small body of water, managed to get rid of their shirts, shoes and socks in record time and were now sliding into the clear water.

"Ah! Fuck! It's fucking cold!" Zeke yelled as he got in.

"Get over it you wuss." Erick said with a grin as he splashed Zeke and then went under the water to either avoid Zeke's responding splash, or to wet his hair.

Or a combination of both.

"Noel, you getting in?"

"In a minute." I said in response to Adrian's question.

It was at that moment that I realized that I had a slight problem.

I wasn't quite as willing to randomly take my shirt off, showing my bra to the world, as all the guys were.

Nor was I in the mood to wander around in a soaking wet black tank top and jeans until they dry. How I wished I wore a different pair of pants the day we came here. All the guys had on pants of some other material that I couldn't place, but I knew that it dried a lot faster than jean did.

I contemplated what to do for a few minutes before coming to my conclusion.

I couldn't help but be amused by everybody's reactions when I stripped down to only my black bra and underwear. It was a total Kodak moment. Clearly nobody was expecting me to be so blatantly indecent.

Well tough shit for them.

"Any reason that you are not wearing like anything?"

I grinned at Jack. "Don't wanna worry about needing my clothes to dry." I smirked at him.

"Ok then…"

With that, I slid into the water and discovered that it was indeed very, very cold.

My feelings of happiness were cut off abruptly as soon as I looked up and saw a big mountain looming over me.

The mountain itself wasn't that bad. It was actually rather pretty…

The knowledge that I would be climbing that mountain in the next few days was what put a damper on my happiness.

At that second I could only think about one thing in relation to that mountain.

Oh shit.


A/N: Hello hello hello! Hope all of you are doing well! I hope to get in one or two more updates before school's out on June 24 (we get out so much later than everyone…grumbles angrily), then I'll have a lot more time to update. Just a reminder, after chapter ten I'm going to do a major editing thing. Ok, now for my wonderful reviewers!

Ravyn-Spirit- Thanks so much for your review! I agree that the chapter wasn't one of my best, it was a major filler. Actually so was this one, but there will be stuff going on soon! Thanks for your input into the poll, and I totally agree with your thoughts on Legolas romance, so tired with it! Hope you liked this chapter!

EverAfter-01- Hey! I'm glad you liked the chapter, and yes, we will need to try that thinking thing one of these days. Now go! Listen to what your teacher has to say, it's probably going to be on your final, even if you use it nowhere else ;). Hope you liked this new chapter!

YojimbosBlade- Hey, thanks for all the reviews Jake, I really appreciate them, and I'm glad that you understand my reasoning with my answer. I hope we can just stay really good friends! Again, thanks for your reviews, you're very enthusiastic, which I love! Here's the new chapter!

cat.l.d- Yes! I am back, and I am defiantly considering some of your suggestions…I'm particularly fond of the transexual one! Yes, starting her period would be a horrible thing for me to do, but I mean, it would come around at one point…I'll probably hold off until Lothlorien though. And there will be battles coming, in many, differentways…Enjoy the chapter!

Mystical Full Moon Maiden- Thanks for your thoughts on my little survey thing, and thanks for reading! And of course Noel will tease Zeke; it's the way of life! As I mentioned above, I'll probably have her period hold off for a while, I'll make chaos in other ways instead. I'm glad you liked the last chapter, and I hope you enjoy this one too!

Well, thanks so much for the reviews! I love you all with all my heart! I'll be seeing you all again in a short while, we have long weekends for the next few weeks, so I'll be back soon! Oh, and remember to review!

Laterness!

Celebel