The Road Goes Ever On And On
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Chapter Twenty-two: The Torture Begins!
The first people that Tithenwen saw the following day were none other than her uncles, Elladan and Elrohir. The twin elves may be Elrond's sons but they were nothing like the greedy dress wearer. And the twins had long been the terrors of Rivendell.
"What do you want?" Tithenwen asked, suspicious from the moment she saw the twins. They had apparently been waiting for her outside her room.
"We're just offering to help you out with ada…" started Elladan.
"We heard about you and Nicholas! Congrats!" finished Elrohir.
"And what do you want to do?" Tithenwen asked, unsure if she could trust the elves.
"Help you torture ada? We are the experts after all!" said Elladan with an evil smile. Elrohir nodded in agreement.
Tithenwen smiled and said, "Why not? We can use all the help we can get!"
"Great!" said the twins happily and they followed Tithenwen to where she was to hold a meeting with the other crazy people.
Tithenwen joined the small group of Mary, Faramir, Becca, Dolly, Kate, Legolas, Gimli, and Nicholas who had gathered just outside of Elrond's house. Elladan and Elrohir joined the group also and everyone eyed them suspiciously.
"It's okay," she said to the rest of the group. "They're on our side."
"Sure…" mumbled Mary under her breath.
Tithenwen heard Mary but tried to ignore her. It was more important that Elrond be tortured than anything else.
"I say that we destroy Elrond's dresses today! Who's with me!" Tithenwen proposed to the group.
Cheers erupted from the crazy people. Tithenwen smiled and continued, "Elrond is already upset, and the four ghosts are doing a great job annoying him. But it is up to us to truly piss him off! So, everyone dress in black and we'll sneak in and destroy the dresses!"
"Yay!" cried everyone as they ran off. Soon everyone except Tithenwen, Nicholas, and the twins were gone.
"So you must be Nicholas!" said Elladan cheerfully with a smile.
"Who the hell are you?" Nicholas asked.
"My uncles," Tithenwen said. "And yes, they are nana's brothers and Elrond's sons."
"Oh! Nice to meet you!" said Nicholas shaking hands with the twins.
"I'll see you all later! Bye!" said Tithenwen as she left Nicholas alone with Elladan and Elrohir and headed back to her room to change.
"Hey, Nicholas," said Elrohir, in a very serious tone.
"What?" asked Nicholas, afraid and he wondered why Tithenwen had left.
"You'd better nice to our niece. We approve of you two but if you hurt her feelings…" Elladan said, also serious.
Nicholas looked from Elrohir and Elladan, scared to death and clearly got their message. And as soon as he could, he ran away.
Under the cover of darkness, everyone slipped into Elrond's rooms, torches in hand. The four ghosts were distracting Elrond and keeping him busy. But the ghosts could only guarantee a few minutes at most. So the group would have to work quickly. As everyone spilt up into two person groups, the theme from "Mission Impossible" begin to play and was followed by the theme from "Tomorrow Never Dies". Even though they couldn't hear the music, they acted like secret agents and like they could hear the music.
Mary and Faramir went into one room, Mary with the torch, seeing as Faramir was more than a little afraid of fire. Legolas and Kate went into another, Legolas carrying the torch and Kate clinging to his side, because she was scared of the dark. Tithenwen and Nicholas went into another room, Tithenwen holding the torch while Becca and Gimli followed them, Becca holding the torch because they were in the largest room which would require two teams. Elladan and Elrohir stood guard, neither one with a torch.
Silently, everyone slide along the walls, hiding in the shadows and searching out the greedy dress wearer's dress collection. Mary and Faramir and Tithenwen and Nicholas were the only people to find dresses and therefore, the only ones allowed to burn something.
Gleefully, Tithenwen lit row after row of Elven dresses with her torch, an evil smile on her face as she pictured Elrond's face after he found out what had happened. Mary on the other hand was stabbing each dress that she found with a torch, yelling at it, "Burn! Burn! Burn you damn dress!" or telling it to "Die! Die! Die evil dress!". A few minutes later, the dresses were all gone and the group slipped out of Elrond's rooms, mission accomplished.
Later that night, all of Rivendell heard an unearthly, girlish shriek originating from Elrond's rooms. As each member of the dress-burning brigade heard the shriek, they smiled and laughed. Of course, Elrond knew who was behind the attack and cursed them. But he could not afford to lose his composure just because someone or someones decided to burn them. He would just have to get new ones made. He wasn't about to give in so easily.
Author's Notes:
Troublesome chapter to write, I must say! I hope everyone liked it! Kate does like a whole routine to "Mission Impossible" music that you can't hear and it is hilarious! She is seriously convinced that a giant snake lives in her freezer and does her routine every time she has to get something out of the freezer. Anyways I'm sorry about the delay, I was sick and my sister moved in so… Yeah, you all get the picture. And I had to throw in the bit about James Bond by mentioning "Tomorrow Never Dies" because my dad's been playing his Bond soundtrack again and that theme is stuck in my head. It's a pretty good song and fit the story well.
Next update, soon!
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(Chapter 19)
Laer4572 – It figures that she'd have to visit the creepy people! But at least she's got Nicholas!
(Chapter 20)
Laer4572 – Elrond torture is sooo much fun, I almost don't know where to begin!
(Chapter 21)
Boromir's Curse – That's a good idea for Lothlorien! That would be so funny! And of the course the ghosts do our evil bidding!
Mr. Random – Glad you are enjoying the story!
Laer4572 – Leave it to the ghosts to steal the story!