Hello everybody! First off, I would like to apologize for the super long wait on this chapter (and with this story in general, I might add). I suddenly caught the dreaded disease known as writers block, but thanks to TehZach1993 I'm finally back! YAY! *fires off a bunch of confetti cannons to celebrate* Anywho, you probably don't wanna continue to listen to me talk so I'll just shut up now and let you read. So without further ado, here's Natsu with the disclaimer.

Natsu: Why do I gotta do it?

Mew Sakura: *glares* Just do it! Don't make me have to get Erza here.

Natsu: Fine, anything's better than having Erza here. Mew Sakura doesn't own Fairy Tail or Lord of the Rings.

Mew Sakura: Thank you, now onto the story. :)


Chapter 3 Fairies At A Hobbit Party Equals Chaos

Before the party started, the guests were treated to a sort of projection (courtesy of Gandalf) of Bilbo's adventures on the Quest for Erebor.The dragon's attack on Ereborwas shown, and King Thror's mad love of gold. They saw Bilbo's bravery and the company of the thirteen dwarves make their way to the Lonely Mountain, they sent Bilbo in as their master burglar to retrieve the Arkenstone. Eventually Smaug roared through to the great hall, where Thorin taunted him and sought to drown him in molten gold. "YOU will take NOTHING from me, dwarf! I laid low your warriors of old, I instill terror in the hearts of men! I am king under the mountain!" Smaug was shown flying off and burning Laketown, and landing atop the smoldering village and turning to Bard the Bowman in a tower, noticing his bow was broken. "Now that is a pity…what will you do now…bowman? You are forsaken, no help will come!" Smaug crept towards the tower, where Bard and his young son stand. "Is that your child? You cannot save him..from the FIRE!" Bard ingeniously placed the two wooden parts from his bow on either side of his son, embedding them in the tower, and using a belt clip and his own son's shoulder. "Stay still son!" "Tell me…wretch! How now can you, challenge me?" Smaug's voice said above them in the magical vision. Bard's son looked over his shoulder fearfully at Smaug. "Hey! Son…look at me…" Bard said soothingly, his son staring into his eyes. "Look..at..me." "You have nothing left, but your DEATH!" With a mighty roar Smaug charged the tower, exposing the unknown weakness of a missing scale on his left breast. Bard let loose the powerful black arrow…and it embedded itself fully in the exposed flesh. Smaug roared and screamed in absolute agony as he weakly flew above Laketown and roared and screamed with his last breath: "NO! NO-AAGH!" He fell from the sky silently as his glowing eyes went dark.

Time skip to Thorin and Bilbo parting in friendship: "I wish to part from you in friendship, you were right...stealing the Arkenstone from me...it was what a true friend would do. ...If more people valued home and friends...above wealth and gold...the world would be a merrier place..."

The Fairy Tail wizards, as well as all of the hobbits that were gathered around, all continued to watch the scene unfold before them with interest. When it had ended, Natsu decided to be the first to comment.

"Whoa! That was AWESOME!" Well, it was more like an excited exclamation. His expression suddenly saddened a moment later though as he sighed. "Makes me wish Igneel was still alive though..."

Wendy nodded sadly. "Yeah, it's still hard to believe our dragons are gone again after we were just reunited with them," she agreed.

"Not to sound insensitive to your moment or anything, but everyone's watching us," Gray suddenly pointed out.

"Probably from Natsu causing a scene. Well that and... Where are your clothes, Gray?!" Lucy shouted at him.

"Huh? Ah crap, not again!" Gray exclaimed at realizing he was in his underwear

Natsu snickered. "Hey Lucy, by 'scene' did you actually mean Gray taking his clothes off?"

"Shut up, Natsu!" Gray retorted.

"Anyway, I actually thought the part where in the end Thorin and Bilbo parted ways in friendship was the best," Lucy commented, deciding to ignore Natsu and Gray's fighting. "It just proves that having friends is more valuable than wealth." Of course, she was also thinking of when she had gone to confront her father after Phantom Lord had attacked Fairy Tail to try to capture her to return her home.

"Wow Lucy, that's coming from someone who always obsesses over rent money," Happy teased.

"Shut it, fleabag!" Lucy told him. "That's only when my rent is due."

"I agree with you about that part, Lucy," Wendy said.

"Yeah! 'Cause friendship is Fairy Tail!" Natsu declared loudly enough that everyone around him heard. He then stuck his hand in the air in the form of the guild's signature sign. "And Fairy Tail will always be number one!" he added while giving his trademark grin.

"Aye!" Happy agreed. "Well I'm off to go find some tasty fish to eat."

"Huh? Hey Happy, wait up!" Natsu called after him, taking off after the blue Exceed.

Although by this point some of the more respectable hobbits began to whisper amongst themselves about the strange Bigfolk that they've never even seen before in Middle Earth who they seemed to find just plain weird and a bit too rowdy for their liking, and also about how much they stood out from other Bigfolks here in Middle Earth. As if their odd hair colors and the way they dressed weren't bad enough, some hobbits even questioned the dark haired boy's stripping habit as well as how the busty blond haired girl's clothes were a bit too inappropriate and immodest compared to how other women of Middle Earth dress. And then there were the two cats, just what sort of cats were they that had the ability to talk like people? And not to mention since when do cats even fly? Were the questions that any of the more respectable hobbits were all thinking, especially the Sackville-Bagginses that Bilbo didn't like.

"Honestly," Carla huffed. "Did they really have to make that much of a scene?"

"Right? So much for first impressions," Lucy muttered as she suddenly felt her self-esteem drop a little.

The party soon went out with a bang, literally, as Gandalf had begun the first of his fireworks.

"Wow!" Lucy exclaimed in awe.

"They're all so pretty," Wendy agreed as she was also admiring the fireworks, when she soon spotted Frodo amid the crowd of hobbits. "Hey look, there's Frodo-san!" she suddenly pointed out.

The dark haired hobbit had just gotten his friend Sam to go dance with a hobbit-woman he kept glancing at, when he noticed the Fairy Tail wizards (minus Natsu and Happy, who were still off somewhere stuffing their faces) walking over to join him.

"Mind if we join you?" Lucy inquired, though she flopped down beside him anyway and putting her head face down on the table with a whiny-sounding sigh that also indicated that she was annoyed mixed in with it.

"Sure, go right ahead," Frodo replied, as the four Fairy Tail wizards took a seat next to the younger Baggins who kept glancing at the blond curiously.

"Yeah, it's better if you don't ask," Lucy told him, holding up a hand before he could say anything. "I think I just lost my self-esteem from that now."

"You mean because of your friend with the pink hair?" Frodo inquired.

"Natsu? Yeah, he's always the one causing some sort of scene like that," Lucy replied. "And then there's Gray's stripping habit to deal with as well."

"Just call it a curse because of how I had to train while learning how to use ice magic from Ur of all people," Gray stated dryly. "In other words, I had to learn to adapt to the cold that way by stripping."

Frodo blinked. "Well I'll admit that is a bit...disturbing," he said hesitantly, worried he might offend the ice wizard by accident. "And although it is odd for someone to show enthusiasm about dragons, this Igneel he mentioned must really be somebody important to Natsu."

Wendy nodded. "Like we explained earlier, Natsu and I were both raised by dragons as well as being taught our magic by them. The Fire Dragon Igneel is Natsu's foster father, while the Sky Dragon Grandina is my foster mother," she explained while leaving off the part about Igneel recently being killed by Acnologia.

"By the way, where did he run off to anyway? The blue cat too?" Frodo queried, when he noticed Natsu and Happy were missing.

"If you mean Natsu and Happy, they're probably somewhere pigging-out and stuffing their faces," Gray replied.

Sure enough, that just so happened to be exactly what they were doing. While Lucy and the others were discussing with Frodo about which of Gandalf's fireworks were their favorites as well as talking about the projection display about Bilbo's adventure that Gandalf had set up, the pink haired pyro and his talking blue cat had indeed found the nearest buffet table and were now stuffing their faces when they was soon joined by two hobbits who introduced themselves as Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took, or Merry and Pippin for short, and pretty soon Natsu found himself being dragged off by the two mischievous hobbits.

"So what are we doin' again?" a confused Natsu asked. "And what's it gotta do with the old man's firework cart? Just being near it is makin' me feel sick..."

Merry and Pippin didn't really understand why the cart would even make the pink haired boy feel sick in the first place, judging by the confused looks they were giving him.

"Eh, nevermind, it's just a bit of motion sickness," Natsu said, slightly coming out of it a bit.

"But it's not in motion right now, though," Pippin pointed out.

"Yeah, but just thinkin' about usually makes me wanna hurl," Natsu admitted.

"Alright," Merry said after checking to see if the coast was clear. "Quickly, help me lift Pippin into the cart."

Once Pippin was in the cart, he began looking for a really good firework to set off until he found a big red one in the shape of a dragon's head which the three of them all agreed on. Natsu, of course, gave a feral grin as soon as he saw it and commented that it -in his own words- 'almost kinda looked like Igneel'.

Meanwhile
Happy was now flying around looking for Natsu after he disappeared somewhere with the two hobbits Merry and Pippin, having been busy munching on a fish to even notice he had left.

"Natsu!" he called out. "Natsu, where are you? Natsu!"

He continued to fly around until he soon ended up coming across Lucy, Gray, Wendy, and Carla -somehow talking with Frodo had made Lucy feel a bit better, as she was back to her usual self again.

"Hey, have you guys seen Natsu? I can't find him anywhere," Happy asked them.

"I thought he was with you," Gray replied.

"Yeah, but now he's gone and I can't find him!" Happy wailed frantically.

"Calm down, tomcat," Carla told him. "I'm sure he's just somewhere enjoying this party, so there's no need to worry."

"Aye, I guess you're right," Happy replied glumly.

"Gee Happy, there's no reason to look so glum because of it," Lucy told him, which only seemed to make the blue Exceed feel even worse for some reason even though Lucy only meant to cheer him up.

"Waaaahhhh! Lucy's being cold to me!" Happy wailed.

"Really? Quit overreacting already," Lucy muttered.

Back with Natsu, Merry, & Pippin
"Man, this is gonna be awesome!" Natsu was saying eagerly as he was still with Merry and Pippin and the firework they managed to sneak from Gandalf's cart.

The three of them had taken the dragon firework into the nearest tent where Natsu used his flames to light it just by igniting a single finger, when they suddenly realized something as Merry and Pippin began passing it back and forth between each other while arguing about how it was supposed be in the ground and outside.

"Will you guys just hurry it up already before it-" before Natsu had a chance to finish that sentence, the firework had suddenly already shot up into the sky taking the tent along with it. "-goes off," Natsu finished too late.

Merry and Pippin were now on the ground covered in soot, while Natsu -being a fire wizard- remained unaffected though his hair was now slightly disheveled from the firework going off.

"Hey, what's that?" Wendy suddenly pointed out, as the firework suddenly exploded and took the form a dragon made entirely of flames.

"A dragon made of flames?" Lucy queried when she noticed it. "Must be another one of Gandalf-san's fireworks."

"I'm willing to bet it was probably Natsu," Gray stated.

The Fairy Tail wizards all just stood there watching, unsure of what they should do, as all the hobbits were trying to take cover from the 'dragon'. They even noticed Frodo calling out to Bilbo to 'watch out for the dragon', as he managed to pull the older hobbit down as the 'dragon' soared over them and right towards Natsu's open mouth.

The hobbits all began curiously watching as the pyro was now devouring the flames, and wondering to themselves how that was even possible.

"Now I've got a major fire in my belly!" Natsu declared once he was finished. "And I'm about to let it out with a Fire Dragon... ROOOOAAAAAARRR!" he bellowed, sending the firework dragon shooting straight up into the sky as it exploded into a huge firework that lit up almost the whole sky, and grinned as the hobbits all cheered and applauded at his little firework display. Though the more respectable hobbits -like the Sackville-Bagginses, and many others like them- were still disapproving of the strange Bigfolk.

Even Merry and Pippin watched in awe at the pink haired wizard who could breathe fire like an actual dragon, and they were about to consider getting another firework to set off when Gandalf suddenly appeared behind the two and grabbing each of them by the ear.

"Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took, I might have known," the old wizard said sternly, before glancing over at Natsu who had now begun to sneak away. "And Natsu Dragneel, it would seem I have failed to realize that you are just as troublesome as these two here," he added in reference to Merry and Pippin.

Natsu just sweat-dropped while grinning sheepishly.

"Aye! That's Natsu for ya," Happy replied.

"Told ya so," Gray added smugly.

Gandalf then had Merry and Pippin, and Natsu as well, all wash dishes as their punishment while he was supervising to ensure the three of them didn't try to slack off.

"Aw come on gramps, it's not like we went overboard and accidently destroyed a town or something," Natsu protested.

"Why would we want to go overboard and destroy a town?" Pippin inquired curiously.

"Don't you start picking up on his little quirks now, Peregrin Took," Gandalf sternly warned him. "And Natsu, you had better not go destroying any towns even if it is by accident."

"Aye," Natsu mumbled.

"Aye aye!" Pippin added just for a bit of humor, as Natsu suddenly couldn't help snickering.

Even Merry decided to join in as well. "Aye aye aye!"

"Really? What's with the bad Happy impressions?" Lucy suddenly asked dryly.

"Face it Lucy, it's because I've become more awesome than you here," Happy teased her.

"Zip it, furball!" Lucy muttered.

"Either it's Happy impressions, or they're probably just trying to sound like pirates now judging by all those 'ayes' they're doing," Gray suggested. "But either way, it's definitely gonna get old fast."

"Ooooh, now Gray is jealous of my awesome cuteness," Happy bragged teasingly, earning a punch in the face from the ice wizard.

"Just shut up, Happy," Gray told him.

"Lucy, Gray, and Happy," Gandalf said. "Are you three wishing to join them as well?"

"Nope, sorry but I'm gonna go find Carla now," Happy replied before flying off to go do just that.

Lucy and Gray took off after him, rejoining Wendy and Carla just as Bilbo was now about to give a speech.

During Bilbo's speech, however, the Fairy Tail wizards all suddenly felt a disturbing presence coming from something the old hobbit had in his possession. Though Natsu and Wendy both felt it with their dragon senses, while the others just sensed that something was off.

Still, it wasn't like they could just randomly point out whatever was causing the evil presence without causing a panic so the Fairy Tail wizards just kept it to themselves for now. Even Natsu, surprisingly, didn't comment on it. Well, at least not until Bilbo had suddenly vanished right before everyone's eyes.

Before Natsu had a chance to ask questions, however, he suddenly found himself being whisked away by Gandalf who then found Lucy, Gray, Wendy, and the two Exceeds before then heading back to Bilbo's hobbit-hole before the old hobbit himself arrived there.


Again, I'd like to thank TehZach1993 for helping me to keep this story going. Arigato gozaimasu! And I hope ya'll enjoy this. Read and review. :) Reviews give me the motivation to continue. ^_^