The Road Goes Ever On And On

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Chapter Twenty-five: Final Round

The following morning, soon after dawn had broken, Nicholas found Tithenwen, who was very cross and still hanging upside down. Nicholas carefully helped her down, cutting the rope and catch her. As Tithenwen sat down and rubbed her sore ankles, she swore under her breath in Elvish. Nicholas didn't need to understand her speech to understand that she pissed off at someone.

"What happened?" he asked, concerned.

"Elladan and Elrohir happened! That's what!" spat Tithenwen, furiously and she followed up with a string of English cursing that caused Nicholas to wince.

Nicholas could easily see why Tithenwen was upset. Anyone would be upset to be hanging upside down, but to have your own uncles be responsible for it? That would make someone very upset.

"Where's everyone else?" Tithenwen asked, calming down slightly, yet still looking like she was about to throttle someone (namely Elrond).

"I don't know," Nicholas said, sadly, shaking his head.

"Well, we'd better find them because we've got some planning to do! The worst torture in the history of Middle-earth is about to begin!" Tithenwen declared with an evil grin.

Nicholas gave a half smile and immediately began to worry about what Tithenwen was plotting. He had only know her for a short period of time but he already knew that whoever her plans were directed at, were seriously in for it. Even if it was well deserved, he felt some measure of pity for those involved.

A few hours later, everyone met in a large group. And for once, all of the four ghosts attended. Tithenwen was still pissed and everyone was afraid to incur her wraith and sat quietly, even though quite a few of them were hyper.

"We have to do something drastic if we are to win this war!" Tithenwen announced, breaking the awkward silence.

"What war?" asked Kate, who was, as usual, confused.

Tithenwen shot Kate a particularly nasty look and rolled her eyes before continuing to speak, "So I have come up with a little plan that I like to call 'Operation Legolas'!"

"Legolas!" cried Kate, popping up from her seat. "What about Legolas!"

"Will you shut up?" Dolly asked, glaring at Kate.

"Why should I?" Kate replied. "She mentioned Legolas!"

"Will you both shut up!" Mary ordered, giving the two friends a death glare.

Dolly shot an evil look at Mary, but shut up. Kate shut up too, with a frightened look on her face seeing as she was very much afraid of Mary. Tithenwen gave Mary a thank-you-for-your-help look. Mary shrugged as if to say no problem.

"Legolas will be doing a lot of the torturing this time around. Well, after we catch them that is."

"So what can we do?" Mary asked.

Traps had been carefully laid and Tithenwen was in position. Elladan, Elrohir and Elrond would appear any minute now and they would chase her. Of course, Elrond wouldn't chase her for very long--he'd leave that to the twins. Which they had already planned on of course.

Right on time, the three dark-haired Elves appeared and Tithenwen smiled. Elrond's face changed drastically, and as it did, he yelled, "Get that Ranger brat!" and three Elves made chase after her.

Tithenwen took off running, with Elladan and Elrohir close on her heels. Elrond stopped running as soon as he realized what might happen to his new dress. Tithenwen noticed this and shrugged it off, knowing that he would be dealt with. She only had to worry about the twins.

As she hopped over a log, Elladan and Elrohir fell into one of Tithenwen's traps. The ground they had been standing on had given way when the Elves stepped on it. Which sent two very cross Elves into a deep, dark hole. Tithenwen smiled at them as the four ghosts appeared with flamethrowers and marshmallows in hand. Twin Elven shrieks echoed as they were burned by the marshmallows and flames.

Tithenwen slipped away to where Elrond would have been trapped and where Mary and Dolly had been stationed to bother him. Dolly was poking him with the Witch King's sword that she'd stolen while Mary sang off-key to the songs blaring from the SUV parked nearby. Elrond was whimpering and begging to be freed from the insanity, which only increased the torture. Tithenwen couldn't help but smile. Things were going as planned, and were only about to get worse for three Elves.

Legolas was waiting when Mary, Dolly, Becca, Tithenwen, Nicholas, Faramir, and the four ghosts escorted the three Elves into the room. He was smiling and the three Elves were either scared or ticked, which varied by the second. Mostly they were pissed at being caught. The twins were sporting burns and Elrond was sporting a few holes in his new dress.

"Welcome my friends!" Legolas greeted joyfully.

"What the bloody hell is this?" growled Elrond.

"My shop!" Legolas sang in answer.

"What?" demanded all three Elves.

"This where I teach you to be Elves!" Legolas sang with a smile.

The three Elves were released and Legolas immediately started making suggestions, all which earned nods and agreement from the bystanders. Before they knew it, Legolas had changed all the Elves' hairstyles into styles that he referred to as "the newlook for Elves every where" and was teaching them how to act like him. All three Elves looked to be in severe pain because they all secretly hated Legolas.

Soon Legolas also had them dressed just like him and even forced them to wear blond wigs (he thought that he was dying their hair). He also had them smelling like flowers. After several hours, he released them by bringing them to a ball being held in their honor. And he forced the three Elves to stay for the duration.

Mary, Faramir, Dolly, Becca, the ghosts, Nicholas, and Tithenwen were all about to fall over from laughter. They too had to attend the ball, but they could barely keep it together. They knew that they had won. They also knew that Legolas had done an excellent job torturing the Elves to the breaking point.

But they wouldn't know until the following morning if they had succeeded in their mission.

Author's Notes:

This was a troublesome chapter, and I hope everyone enjoyed it! A new, short chapter, should be up by the end of the weekend and then a long chapter will be posted next weekend.

Reviewers!

Cassandra of Troy - Nope they don't! They love to bother people, and couldn't resist the chance to bother Tithenwen!

Mr. Random - Yeah I agree! No offense PJ, he just looks to creepy to be taken seriously! He does look okay in the prequel, but other than that… he scares little children!

Laer4572 - Well Tithenwen's just as much trouble as the twins are!