Okay, I think I've sorted out the problem. It's taken awhile, but I think I've now got it! I'm going ahead and posting this to get it out of the way.
Disclaimer: Yes! It is mine! My own! My precious! I OWN it! And soon, I will own the world as well as Shiny Things Inc.! What? I can dream, can't I?
Mud, Gunk, and Stuff
Kelsey's PoV
"You three . . ." Celeborn paced up and down. We gulped as he stopped and glared at us. "Explain yourselves." I looked at the others. We were coated in mud and various green plants, as well as sweaty. Not to mention the clothes belonged to Lothlorien Designers & Co. Oh, yeah. There was a lot to explain.
"Well . . ." Nicole started, but we had best backtrack. After the elves were splattered with the water balloons, one Elf managed to see us.
"Valar!" he had shouted. "Up there! Look!" So then they had turned to see us clinging to the tree branches.
"Get them!" another howled and the crowd joined in enthusiastically. We stared at each other.
"Run!" we screamed, leaping to our feet and running as fast as we could. We forgotten we were in trees.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" We been falling for awhile. The trees were really tall. We thought we were going to die.
But, the cloth had, amazingly, formed some kind of a net. We landed in our masterpiece, which broke the moment all four of us had touched it. Luckily, it hadn't been much farther to the ground.
"Ow!"
"Amanda!" Mandy landed directly on her leg, which, in turn, had severely hurt her.
"Go on without me!" she wailed dramatically as the stampede of elves drew close. We glanced at each other, then followed Mandy's directive by running away . . . fast. We heard the elves interrogating Mandy, who was screaming that she had the right to remain the silent.
"She could plead the Fifth, also," I breathed.
"Faster!" Lisa yelled. Lucky long legs. I was having trouble running. Period. I looked down at my feet.
"Uh, guys!" I yelped. They turned to me. "I'm stuck in mud!"
"Hang on!" Nicole run to me, grabbed my arms and tugged. She fallen face first into the gunk.
"I'll save you!" Lisa grasped my hands and jerked me back before falling over Nicole.
"Haha! You guys are dirty!" I giggled. Nicole and Lisa then had flung some mud in my face. "Hey!"
"Gotcha!" Lisa screeched with laughter, then tried to stand. She failed. "Ugh! I can't get out of this!"
"I can't either!" Nicole moaned.
"I think this is the elves' version of a nail strip," I said, exasperated. For about five minutes, we all struggled to get out of the mud, continuously failing. And the elves finally figured out where we were.
"Get them!" someone yelled, heading for us.
"Get out of this now!" Lisa pushed Nicole, who fell into me.
"Get off!" I groaned, pushing Nicole back.
"We need to get out!" Nicole shouted, straining against the mud as the elves began to surround us. With a little more struggling, the mud had lessened, and we were able to get out of it. Then, someone grabbed us by our forearms and locked our arms behind our backs.
"Get off!" I shouted, now struggling away from my kidnapper.
"Take them to Celeborn!" another Elf yelled.
"To Celeborn!"
"No!" Lisa kicked her elf, but he didn't notice. And now, we're back to where we started. In Celeborn's office . . . thingy.
". . . And that's why we're covered in mud and grass." Celeborn stared at us. "What?" Celeborn leaned back in his chair and chuckled. We looked at each other, eyebrows raised.
"Oh, you sound like me when I was but a young elfling." He grinned at the ceiling.
"So . . . we're not going to be punished?" I demanded. Celeborn's head snapped up.
"Guess not! Bye!" Lisa grabbed Nicole and me by our shoulders and dragged us out of the door quickly.
"Hey! We've already been dragged around Lothlorien!" Nicole snapped. "Let us walk on our own!"
"Fine!" Lisa dropped us on the ground. I scrambled up.
"Hey! What was that for?" Nicole moaned, leaping to her feet. I looked at the two of them, realizing we had a person missing in action.
"Um . . . Where's Mandy?"
"Injured. Probably in their 'House of Healing' dealymabob(A/N: I like this word)," Nicole sarcastically retorted as Lisa nodded wisely.
"Yeah, she probably is. The House is over that way." She indicated a direction as Nicole blinked.
"There's a House of Healing?" Lisa looked at her.
"Like, yeah!"
Nicole skipped ahead of us, humming some incomprehensible song. I tugged on Lisa's sleeve.
"Hey, did you know that tomorrow's Valentine's Day?" Lisa raised her eyebrows.
"Really? The that means that," Lisa ticked off her fingers. "There are only four more days until Nicole's birthday."
"Are you serious?" I frowned. "The how come I didn't remember-"
"OMG Kelsey guess what!"
"What Nicole?"
"Tomorrow's Valentine's Day!" Lisa and I shared a look.
"Yeah, we know." Nicole frowned.
"You know, we've already decorated Lothlorien." Shecommented. "But what could we do instead?"
"OMG I know!" Lisa squealed, scaring some passing Elves. "We could just get the couples to do something! Nicole, go talk to Legolas about doing something for Mandy-"
"No way." Nicole interrupted. "I'm not promoting anything between Mandy and Legolas." Lisa rolled her eyes.
"Fine. I'll talk to Legolas. Nicole, go talk to Haldir, and Kelsey go talk to Celeborn. And here's what we'll do..."
Cliffhanger! Coolio! Can't wait to get more up! And I will! I'm typing up more Lothlorien and that will be up by Friday. Kelsey and Nicole, sorry for posting, but I wanted to get this chapter out of the way. Toodles!
