The Lord of the Apples

(A High-School Setting)

FELLOWSHIP OF THE APPLES PART 1 CHAPTER 5 GIMLI

A/N: Well, I'm almost done with the introductory chapters; this'll be the last.

Thanks to all reviewers and readers for bearing with me! Remember—this takes place before classes on the first day of school!

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Most of the Dwarves in MECI had come to the D.G.T.C's first meeting. Elrond walked calmly into the small class and looked around at the dwarves, " Welcome to the Dwarf-Get-Together-Club's first meeting. Your regular supervisor, Balin, is busy this morning; so I'll be substituting. Go ahead. Do what ever you dwarves do." He went and sat in the teacher's desk and started writing notes.

Gimli looked around the class at the other dwarves. Some of them were sleeping or listening to music; others were sword fighting with school supplies, such as rulers. One dwarf was even reading. Gimli turned to the dwarf nearest him, who was pressing buttons on a little rectangular object, watching the screen intently, "Hey; what you doing?" he asked.

The dwarf, still watching the object, replied in a deep voice, "My name's Malcolm. I'm just playing my gameboy."

Gimli leaned in for a closer look at the little contraption, "What's a gameboy?" he queried in awe.

Malcolm paused his game and looked up proudly "Well, a gameboy is a machine and it's made by boys that play games."

"Ohhh," said Gimli, for lack of anything better to say.

Another dwarf, one who had been 'sword fighting', moved closer to Gimli and Malcolm, "No, you got it all wrong. It's a boy that plays games."

By now all the dwarves, having short attention spans, had stopped whatever they had been doing and were watching the conversation. The dwarf who had been reading, quite an accomplishment for a dwarf, put down his book and looked knowledgably at the other dwarves. "You're BOTH wrong. My book about everything says it's a small machine used to play games on and that it was created by a company named Nintendo."

The dwarves all looked at him respectfully, repeating the name in awe, "Nin-ten-do!"

Elrond, who had been observing the conversation, shook his head in disbelief. Most of these Dwarves are dolts. That's amazing; but they have to be good for something. He looked back down at his notes on the behaviour of teenage dwarves. I'm going to need more paper.

The dwarves continued their conversations on basically nothing till one dwarf looked up with excitement. He had been trying to think of a good question to ask to stump his peers and had finally come up with it, "What does the area of a circle equal?" he asked triumphantly.

"Pie!" shouted Gimli before the dwarf with the book on everything could reply. Gimli wanted to show the other dwarves that he was smart too.

"Hey, you're smart!" announced the dwarf who had asked the question.

Gimli smiled, "Ya. I'm in an academic class," he said proudly.

"Wow, that's amazing!" the dwarf raised his voice, "Guys, Hey Guys! Gimli is in an academic class!!!"

The dwarves, who had all stopped their conversations, let out a cheer. Gimli clambered onto a table and bowed as they all applauded enthusiastically, since a dwarf in an academic class was normally unheard of.

The Bell for first class rang and the dwarves all left to try and find their first classes. Elrond packed away his notes with a malicious grin on his face, I've seen enough for today.

As the dwarves wandered around looking for their classes, 3 hobbits walked off after a parting call of "see ya" and "wouldn't want ta be ya" while another hobbit, Sam, was thinking of brilliant things he should have said to Rosie on his way to class. Legolas was wandering in the direction of his first class musing on how great he looked and how fun it was going to be at the Big Dance with Arwen. Arwen had skipped off to class, after a brief visit to her mirror, and Éowyn was humming happily to herself at finally getting to be with Aragorn. The mentioned head quarterback was slowly walking to class, confused, and had sworn that as-long-as-he-lived-he-would-never-understand-girls. Faramir's ear still hurt and Boromir was absentmindedly staring out the window at the empty school grounds.

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Well. That's the last of the introductory chapters. Now we get into the real story...