*Pouting* Even Johnny Depp has refused to come to me! *Tiny tear*...sad day :(

Well, I guess nothing belongs to me. At all. Sorry. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
Same goes for money.
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One by one, the members of the Fellowship were begining to awaken. Gimli was the first to regain conciousness, as he had been tended to by Marie first. Then after he was up and stiffly walking about, she helped to wake Aragorn, Arwen, Boromir, Frodo, Merry, Sam, Pippin, and Legolas.

There was only one problem.

"Where in Eru's Middle-Earth is Gandalf?" Asked a bewildered Aragorn. He was the only one who had so far noticed the wizard's distinct absence.

"Who's Gandalf?" Willy asked, appearing next to the rugged Ranger. Aragorn stared at the strange man, unable to form a coherent sentance. The chocolatier was indeed a strange sight, even for the modern standards. So it would be easy to imagine how strange and foreign he looked to someone who was used to leather jerkins and chain mail.

Marie stepped up to the plate, not wanting Willy to be put off by Aragorn's obvious shock. "He's our wizard." She explained. "He's really tall and wears a long white robe. He's.." She blushed, feeling as if she were insulting the powerful Maia. "Well..he's kinda old.. and has long white hair and a beard."

"Ahhhh..." Willy said with a massive grin. "I get the feeling that in your Canon that the word Wizard means more than parlor tricks." She nodded and smiled even wider. Then he made the weirdest noise she'd ever heard in her life, it sounded like lalalala, but she wasn't quite sure.

Into the room came a group of three miniscule men. They were all dressed in different colored body-suits, but each had a gold, swirly 'W' on their chests. All three of them did an arm-to-shoulder clasp and bowed. Willy responded in turn, then stood aside for introductions.

"There are Hobbits in this Canon!" Pippen said happily.

Willy frowned. "Uhhhh..no. These are Oompa-Loompas." The men bowed again. "From Loompaland. I rescued them from the horrible conditions there and allow them to work here for their room and board."

"That's very noble of you." Commented Legolas approvingly.

"Thank you." Willy stood up a bit taller and straightened his violet waistcoat. "Now, I must tell you their names." he gestured to the first, who was in a red body-suit. "This is Mikhi, he works in the Chocolate Room." The second came forward, this one dressed in yellow. "This is Javin. He busies himself in the Nut Room." Finally, the third was dressed in white. "And this is Ward. The TV Room is his speciality." All of them bowed once more, then awaited his instructions. "Now, our guests are missing one of their friends." He told them in a very serious voice. "I want you to search all the rooms in the factory. Make sure that he hasn't turned up somewhere dangerous." The three nodded and exited.

Willy clapped his hands together. "Now..while they're busy looking, would you all enjoy a tour?" He inquired enthusiastically.

"You mean of the factory? That would be spectaculous!" Marie jumped up and down ecstatically, her energy having returned after it had been sucked out by the journey there.

Willy smiled widely at her. "Spectaculous? Is that a combination of-"

"Spectaculer and fabulous, yes." Answered Marie with a grin of her own. "I love to make up words. *So* much easier and funner than using the usual ones, right?"

He giggled. "Yeah!" He swung his candy-filled cane in a circle and pointed at a pair of closed elevator doors. "We'll be taking the Glass Elevator. It's a whole lot faster than the stairs."

He led the confused Fellowship (and Marie) over to the doors and pressed a button. The doors slid open with a ding to reveal the most unusual sight.

Its walls were transparent and very thick. One side was full of hundreds of tiny buttons wth labels under each one. Willy ushered them all in, and with one small wave at , pushed the button that read 'Chocolate Room'.

To the surprise and dismay of the Middle-Earthians, the elevator jerked sideways. This lead to one very irate Dwarf shouting at Boromir to get his 'rotten arse out of his face'. Boromir responded in kind by using Gimli's beard as a stabilizer as they suddenly began to lose altitude.

"My poor beard!" Shouted Gimli as he glared at the Gondorian. "My poor, abused beard." He complained. "I'll get you for that, you young rascal." He threatened. Unfortunately, he'd left his axe back in the Puppet Hospital and therefore had nothing to back his words up. So he was reduced to tripping the bigger Man up when they slammed to a halt. Boromir glared and Gimli chuckled. "Sometimes being short is to your advantage." He whispered to Marie, who was the only one who was within inches of his own heighth and not of the Hobbit persuasion.

"Son of rotten Snozzberry!" She cursed lightly with an accusatory glance at the innocently giggling chocolatier. "That was a wild ride."

Willy stared at her for a moment."That's really good. Do you mind if I use it?"He asked between his giggles.

"Go ahead."

"Oh, and Marie?" He smiled, his laughing fit ceased. "It gets a lot wilder from here on out." He said as he took out a giant keyring and inserted into the door.

AN3/

Did anyone catch my very corny joke?

If you did, tell me.

If you didn't, I'll tell you what it was in the next chapter.