LOL All! Thank you soooooo much for the reviews! Sorry it's taken a while to update, but hrere's a chapter nonetheless. Reviewers...
jacobstr I know where you sit at lunch! Well, that was sort of a given. I'll have to think of something more . . . shocking. Like the electric chair on our seat. That was weird.
carolsi13 awwww. the squid is nice and friendly . . . sort of.
JustMe The death of the squid is a spastic act of Kelsey. (Kelsey: well, he was going to die anyway. Might as well make him go out with a "bang!") Do not blame the author . . . though she wrought it, but we'll just ignore that fact.
E.T.Phonehome Tomato is someone we know that goes to our school...Tomato is his nickname...
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Kelsey's PoV
It's a Hate-Hate Relationship
"Wow . . . It is dark in here," Legolas' voice echoed.
"Thank you, Captain Obvious," Nicole replied sarcastically.
"Aah! Something touched me!" Mandy shrieked.
"Sorry!"
"Pippin?"
"Ow! Kelsey!"
"What? I'm over here!"
"Then what's touching me?" There was a long pause, broken only by some scuffling beside me.
"Everyone shield your eyes," Gandalf ordered.
"Why? It's so dark . . . B–" Scott moaned as a light from Gandalf's staff blazed.
"No cussing, Scott!" I yelped covering my eyes.
"Fire!"
"Tomato!" Allie grabbed him before he touched Gandalf's staff. "No, bad! No fire!" Tomato slumped back and pulled on his hood.
"Aah . . . I didn't like that fire anyway," he sulked. I blinked and looked around. Frodo, Sam and Merry were clutching each other, still a little shaken from the Watcher. Boromir was trying to shake Gimli off of his arm. Why he was afraid, I'd never know. Nicole was sprawled on the floor next to Allie, Scott and Tomato. Aragorn and Gandalf were watching something with amusement.
"What?" I asked, following their gaze. Mandy was on top of something that was moving. "Oh . . ." She had fallen on top of Legolas. "Mandy! OFF!" I ran over and pushed her off.
"Ow!" she groaned as she hit the ground. "Oh, ow! What the heck is on the ground?" Mandy stood up. We all decided not to tell her anything as she stumbled around. "You Dwarves are so messy! What do your par–Ow! My foot's stuck!" Mandy looked down to tug her foot out from under whatever was holding her captive and then froze, eyes wide. "Oh, my . . ." she whispered, staring at the skulls.
"Mandy . . ." Nicole said quietly.
"AAH!" Mandy screamed, jumping about a foot in the air. Then, she began to run into the Mines. "Eeeeeeeaaaah!"
"Someone get her!" Gandalf cried. "We don't want whatever lives in here to know we're here!" Nicole and I made a mad dash at her, but Legolas got there first.
"I have got her!" Legolas cried, tackling Mandy and placing a hand over her mouth.
"Legolas!" I snapped. "This is not football! Mandy's not a ball, and you're not a football player! One, you're too wimpy, even to be a quarterback. Two, there is no turf in here. Three, your muscles need a little work before you even try to tackle another guy. Four, there are no referees. Five, y–"
"Okay, Kelsey! We get the point! " Allie yelled before going back to her conversation with Tomato and Scott. That's when Scott saw Mandy and Legolas.
"What the h–"
"Scott . . ."
"I mean," he correction quickly. "Just . . . Wow. You two must really like each other . . ." We all stared at him. "What?"
"Okay . . . You did not just say that," I breathed, making a mental note to have a long talk with Scott and calm Mandy down as she was staring daggers at Scott.
"Wha–" Scott's eyes widened. "OH!" I slapped my forehead. The Hobbits giggled softly while Boromir, Aragorn and Gandalf looked at each other.
"We'd . . . We'd better be off if we're to get through Moria," Gandalf finally decided. I looked at Nicole, who was pulling Legolas off of Mandy.
"Yeah . . . We need to go."
Nickel's PoV
Wow . . . I was on a sugar high! I was bouncing like crazy around the caves 'cause Kelsey's bag had produced some major coffee products.
"So, so, so what are we going to do today, hmm, hmm, hmm?" I asked Gandalf, jumping as high as I could. Pippin looked up at me, amazed.
"Did she have a pint of ale, or something?" he inquired.
"Are you kidding?" Kelsey muttered, amused. "She's just had a ton of sugar." I kept jumping up and spinning in circles until something caught my eye. Three dark shapes were moving into the depths of a cave.
"Hey!" I called but the figures ignored me.
"Hey!" Merry copied.
"Okay, why have you guys been copying me?" I asked, somewhat annoyed. Merry looked at Pippin, who looked at Sam, who looked a Frodo, who looked at his feet. "Well?"
"Well?" Pippin mimicked. I glared at him.
"Well . . . We think you guys are really cool," Merry confided slowly. "So . . . Whatever you all say–"
"Y'all," Pippin corrected softly.
"Yeah, so whatever y'all say . . . It's cool!" Merry continued eagerly. I stared at them.
"Coolio," Mandy said. I jumped.
"Since when have you been here?" I asked. Mandy glanced toward the cave.
"Not long . . ." Mandy muttered. "Anyway, Hobbits, is it okay if don't copy us? Can you, like, use it in everyday speech?"
"Like, okay!" Pippin replied. Mandy rolled her eyes.
"Whatever," I said, looking around. "Hey where's Allie?"
Mandy's PoV
Man,we'd walked a LOT today and all of us were exhausted. I had done a little extra, of course, and had checked outsome cave or another with Scott and Allie. Only, they hadn't returned with me...Something about shiny... well, that's Allie and Scott...er...followed her... yeah.
Legolas was on watch, mainly to make sure orcs didn't attack, though, he was also watching for Allie and Scott. They had disappeared, but no one was too concerned about them.
Neither had returned in the morning, but we couldn't dilly-dally. We left them, wherever they were, and continued through Moria.
"I know a song that everybody knows!" Nicole sang, bouncing like a tennis ball.
"Lady Nicole, would you stop that?" Legolas hissed through gritted teeth. Poor guy. He really did not like Nicole, yet he was trying to be nice. I gave him a big hug.
"'Sokay! Nickel can just get annoying!"
"Hey, I resent that!" Nicole yelped.
"As do I," Legolas murmured. Nicole and Legolas shared an evil glare for a moment so I ducked behind Legolas, gripping his arm tightly.
"Don't let her hurt me!" I squealed.
"Mandy, I'd be more worried about me killing your boyfriend!" Nicole shouted angrily. I think she would have killed him if Aragorn and Kelsey hadn't been the great compromisers. (A/N: Like Henry Clay! At least, I think that's his name...)
The rest of the walk on the 14th was uneventful, save me keeping Legolas and Nicole from killing each other. We slept in the guard room, according to Gandalf and Gimli. Or "slept." According to my watch, it was about 1:00 in the afternoon. We really hadn't covered a lot of ground. Mainly because Legolas was running after Nicole because Nicole was singing and the rest of us were making sure they A) wouldn't kill each other, and B) they wouldn't get lost.
We were all cramped around a fire, Legolas' cloak around my shoulders and Aragorn's cloak around Kelsey's when–
"OW! Would you midgets stop poking me?" Tomato yelped. Sam jumped back in horror. "Geez! Where is Scott when you need him?"
"Beggin' your pardon, sir, but why is your name Tomato if you're not part tomato?"
"Stupid midget! It's my nickname!" Tomato shouted. Immediately, Boromir clapped a hand over Tomato's mouth.
"Do you want the orcs to kill us?" Boromir hissed, but Tomato was distracted.
"All right! Fire!" Tomato punched the air and grabbed a stick out of the fire, waving it in the air frantically.
"No! No fire, Tomato!" Nicole reprimanded. I'd practically put her in a straight jacket to keep her from strangling Legolas, so she was feeling a little tetchy.
Nicole began struggling against her cloak. "It's too warm!" she gasped. "Have to . . . Get out!"
"Like that will ever happen," Legolas retorted. I think he was a little happier with his straight jacket – I was hugging him extremely tight.
Over the next six hours, everyone drifted in and out of sleep, and we all ate something . . . Everyone except for Gandalf and Nicole, that is. Gandalf was busy trying to figure out where we were to go now – left, right or straight. And Nicole, well . . .
"Hello? Is anyone going to let me out of this thing?"
Classic, eh? Everyone else is sleeping, but there is someone left struggling with something...Quite hilarious, if you ask me...
I didn't think it was very nice.
You usually don't Nickel. AAHHH! Don't hurt me! (runs around frantically to escape Nicole) R&R PLEASE!
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