 The One Ring 1 in stock Cost : Your Free Will |
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The One Ring 1 in stock Cost : Your Free Will |
"DO YOU SEE HIM YET?" shouted Miow. She got Merry to climb a very tall tree.
"NOOOOO!" Merry shouted back. "CAN YOU GET ME DOWN FROM HERE NOW?"
"OH JUST JUMP! YOU'LL LAND ON ONE OF MY WINGS. THEY'RE SOFT."
"BUT, ...I DON'T WANNA JUMP."
"MERRY! IT'S NOT GOING TO KILL U TO JUST 'FALL' FROM A TREE ON PURPOSE! JUMP!"
"OK!!!! GEEZ!"
Merry finally jumped and landed on one of Miow's stiff but soft wings.
"See that wasn't so hard now was it?"
"Hmm I guess not."
"So now what do we do, Merr?"
"I don't know, but I'm hungry. Lets eat." said Merry pulling out all kinds of pots and pans and a few other things.
"Man you certainly did pack up before we actually left!" remarked Miow in amazement. Merry just giggled a bit and sent Miow to get some fire wood. When she returned...THREE HOURS LATER...Merry FINALLY made the late meal and ate it with Miow.
"What took you so long" asked Merry
"Oh! This dude, or at least i think it was a dude, with a pointy hat was talking to me. He was very tall. That's why i couldn't tell if 'it' was a dude or a lady person. Had a long beard too...very gray..." Miow pictured the tall one talking to her. She was about to convey their conversation to Merry when suddenly...
"MIOW! THAT WAS GANDALF YOU JUST DESCRIBED! DID HE GO ANYWHERE? WHY DIDN'T YOU BRING HIM HERE? ...OH MY GOD! YOU SPOKE TO HIM! WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT SPEAKING TO ANYONE HERE THAT WASN'T ME!?--"
Merry continued shouting at Miow and worring all at the same time. Merry didn't notice it, but Miow left a while ago while he was hootin' and hollerin'. She went to go and get the tall fellow. She figured it would shut Merry up. That and she felt a little stupid that she didn't realize it was The Gandalf. When she came back with him, Merry was still at it. He stopped abruptly when he saw Gandalf.
"So you were looking for me, Merry? What's on your mind? I could hear you on the other side of that hill over there." said Gandalf rather calmly.
"Well, I was wondering if you would help me and my friend here find Pip. He's been gone for quite a while and i'm getting very worried--"Merry explained.
"VERY worried," Parotted Miow interupting Merry in the process.
"--and so will you help us, Gandalf?"
"Yeah, will ya Gandy man?"
"MIOW!" whispered Merry irately, "SHUT UP!"
"...ok..hee...sorry." Miow whispered back.
"Of course I'll help the two of you. I've been wondering where the lad has been myself." Replied Gandalf. The trio finished off the wonderful meal and then spoke of plans.
Our dear friend, that Miow hasn't met yet, Pip, was in deep trouble. He had decided to go and get food from this garden that he and Merry were always after. That particular day he went alone was not a good idea. He had had a little fight with Merry that morning a few weeks ago. Merry didn't want to go because he had to clean his home, that was getting rather cluttered, he was expecting some company as well, then he had wanted to go with Frodo to go and tell little children Hobbits the story of how the Ring was destroyed. Sam was out fishing that day and Frodo needed Merry to fill Sam's place. Pip didn't like that for some odd reason and totally blew up. So he went to go and steal food from the garden by himself.
The hobbit that grew that one garden was putting one of his plots to keep his crops his! There were covered holes everywhere and fake crops that looked real enough that would activate other holes, there was a dog there as well, and many other sorta of traps and tricks set about the garden. When he caught the hobbit's that were taking his food he was going to torture them to death! A long and painful one too.
"So Gandalf...how much further do you think this is? this place that we just discovered that Merr here knew about that i have never seen and prolly don't wanna see anymore. what time is it? when are we going to take a break? ...are we there yet? do you even know where we're going? and if so why is it taking so long to get there? I mean really it's not like we're going to Rivendale or anything like that--" Rambled and complained the horse of course.
"MIOW! Stop pestering Gandalf! It's getting on my nerves and for goodness sake, when you talk use better grammar and spelling than that! For crying out loud people are reading this!" said Merry in a huff interrupting Miow.
"They are?" questioned Gandalf,"Who are these 'they who are reading this'? Why haven't they said something?"
The trio looked all around to see a sign of them being watched, or read for that matter, trying to see if they could come up with whatever image that was reading what they were saying and wondering if the reader could see them some how.
"Lets call it...Bob." Said Miow finally
"Ok." agreed the other two.
"I wonder if Bob is having fun over there reading whatever and such?" pondered Merry
"Hmmm..anyway Miow we are not there yet and we've only been walking for a half hour. It won't be long until we get to the location that Merry has pointed out. It's about a quarter of a mile away--"
"A QUARTER OF A MILE! I'LL DIE!!...How far is that anyway?"Interupted Miow
"--the time is 4:13pm and we will get there at about 4:24pm if you keep up. We will take a break when we get there. I do know where we are going as well and for the love of ...hmmm what do you like?"
"Umm Black American Rabbit ...raw of course"
"Hmm interesting..for the love of Black American Rabbit Stew stop complaining!"
"...About what Gandy man?"
*sigh*"Don't call me 'Gandy Man' either."
"But, I didn't. I called you Gandy man."
"Whatever Miowlavu! Just don't call me it!"
"...ok...Hey where did Merry go?"
"Probably to get away from you're constant rambling." grumbled Gandalf. Miow somehow put him in a bad mood. Hehe go figure. Merry only ran ahead to survey the area in which Pip had gone that day a few weks ago that the two had had a fight. It was pretty. Next thw trio traveled to the very garden that Merry and Pip went to steal food. It was very odd ...like it was hiding some sort of bad thing even though it was a very pretty place. Gandalf had realized that there were many traps...well actually he already knew. So he advised everyone to be careful were they stepped. Miow found this advice stupid. After all she had wings and could glide and glide she did. She landed on the roof top and waited for the other two to get to the house. Once they got there, Miow had already inspected the roof for any sign of...well anything that could lead them to Pip. There was nothing of course. Mean while on the ground at the front porch, Merry hid behind Gandalf as he knocked on the door....It...opened
The hobbit of the hobbit-house was finely dressed and looked nothing like someone who would harm anything or anyone. He invited Gandalf in...Merry too once he saw him. The three of them talked a long time trying to get him to let Pip go out of whatever situation he was in. The gentle hobbit wouldn't be convinced to let Pip go. Pip was in a locked room full of food in little, closely bared, iron boxes. Pip was being tortured. All of that food and he couldn't get to it. The hobbit keeping him there feed him bread and water twice a day. Pip was living like this for two entire weeks! He was starved! Gandalf and Merry heard him fighting with the boxes of food despite the fact that Pip was a very starved hobbit.
Miow was still on the roof. She eventually became aware that other hobbits could see her. SHE WAS STILL IN HER MERCURASIAN FORM!!! So she did the only thing that she could...she fained a pegasus with a bad eye infection (in both eyes) and said not a thing to anyone. She even put a little sign that Merry made that read "I am an ill pegasus creature. If you don't want to be ill too, I sugest that you get away from me and never come into contact with me ever. I belong to Merry Brandybuck." (she added the last sentence herself. it was to get back at Merry and try to get the whole of the Shire to not like him and think of him strange) But the probablem was that they were "children hobbits" as Miow would say if she weren't pretending to be a sick pegasus. She couldn't stand to just stand ther and be quite...besides they couldn't read what the sign said...and if they could they were too busy staring at her. Finally she couldn't take it anymore! She...TALKED TO THEM!!! They found it odd and were very scared, but Miow insisted that they played. After LOTS of conversing and coxing, Miow was playing with the little "childern hobbits" as Miow called them.
Miow got so wrapped up in playing that she forgot about Merry and Gandalf and Pip too. She went off with her new little friends. Miow showed them that she could change into just about anything. She changed into a little hobbit sized pony. The children chased her and one of them was riding on Miow's now very small and tiny back. They were recreating the Ringwraiths that Frodo had told them about a while ago with Merry. They had turned it into some other little tag game. The cool thing about it was that Miow sounded just like one! Well to the little ones anyway...
After much conversing with the hostage holding hobbit, little progress was made. Finally Gandalf and Merry left poor Pip to his torment. They made for Merry's house. Once they got to Merry's home, they were still thinking of what to do to get Pip out of his situation. They had totally forgotten about Miow, who was still out with the children hobbits, she was taking them each to their homes so they would be there in time for Supper.
Gandalf sat down infront of the fire mumbling odd things to himself as he did when the whole situation of the One Ring was about. Merry was very sad as he served the two of them tea. That was when Gandalf had sprung an idea! As he puffed his pipe rapidly talking ever so quickly and quite muffled that Merry was totally confused about what he was talking about. Suddenly, Gandalf went back to the puffing of the pipe going back on his little idea. He insisted that it wouldn't work. He went back to mumbling to himself at the fire, puffing and sipping his tea.
While all of this thinking and puffing was going about, back at the house of torment Pip was loosing strength and was getting tired of trying to open the boxes of food that he simply could not open. The horrible hostage holding hobbit laughing his head off all the same while eating a rather tasty looking ham right infront of the poor lad. He told Pip about his little visitors from earlier that day.
"People came looking for you today," he said between chews of ham, "I sent them away. They wanted me to free you way before your punishment was due to end. How dare they think they could order me about in my own home! If i have it my way I'll see to it that you never leave! That you starve to death! HAHAHAHAAAA!!!" He laughed an ugly laugh as he revieled his true form. For he couldn't be a Hobbit. I mean really, if you were a hobbit, would you be able to have another hobbit in your home starve to death? Certainly not! It's not propper! He came near to the dripping room that he had been keeping Pip in for so long, "Don't believe i couldn't keep you here forever until you die and way beyond?! Huh!?" He teased our poor friend Pip with a scrap of meat hanging from a bone.
"Please let me go," mumbled Pip with the little voice he had left, "I promise that I'll never return to your garden." He pleaded to the nameless beast known as a Puro.
"I'll let you go...in time...maybe,"replied the Puro, "BUT how will I know that you won't come back? How will I know that your little friend won't come back? Why don't you tell me his or her name? If you did that I would certainly feed you and let you go on your way as I have said before..." The Puro was waiting for the weak hobbit to reply.
"I'll never tell you!" screamed Pip with all of his might.
"Fine then! You have sentenced yourself to death!" Roared the Puro. He marched off and left Pip to die!
Pip layed there on the cold damp floor and wished he had never gotten mad at Merry and that he was at home eating something very tender...with a bit of mild sauce...and so he daydreamed. He would never give that Nameless Puro Merry's name. He was and is very loyal to his friends and even more so ever scence the whole adventure with the One Ring. He drifted into sleep as he curled up in his cold, windowless room on the hard damp floor.
Talk about your crule and unusual punishment. That is how the Puros work. They are just about as crule as they are ugly. They are just about as tall as hobbits and are very skinny and bony no matter how much they eat or do not eat. They have large round eyes, Yellow and Green, that bulge out of their beedy little heads. Their long thick ears stick out such as a grimlin's ears with long hairs growing out of them. This particluar Nameless Puro was a bit deformed and mutalated. He was missing several fingers and multiple masses of skin. He had many scars and some never healed. He wore an old torn loin cloth that looked like he had taken from a mummy that was dead for several thousand years...smelled like it too...ew... He was burned in various places and one begins to wonder if this particular Puro had any real skin at all. He was a dark charcoal color with a greasy texture. Most discusting little snot you could ever lay eyes on. The only question is why is he in the Shire and how long has be been there?
Miow had dropped off the last of the children hobbits, as she called them, and suddenly remembered the situation that she abruptly abandoned! Quickly she shifted back to her own form and glided off in the general direction of the that evil hobbits home.
Once she got there, there seemed to be no one there. There was a fire in the living area of the home, but no hobbit. She heard the moans of Pip. she knew she had to get in there and look to see what had become of Merry and Gandalf. She didn't know that they had left hours ago. She looked about the nicely kept home for a way to get into it. She couldn't find an entrance other than the door. "Go figure," she thought aloud. She proceeded to laydown infront of the door. She listened to Pips moans of hunger, his time to live was running short. Miow rolled over and faced the door. There was the answer. while the rest of the house looked very nice the bottom of the door did not! there were many holes and cracks lining the bottom of it! Miow stared at the bottom of the unkempt door. She was in deep concentration. What animal would fit through there and did she know the DNA of one such creature?
"A MOUSE!!!" cried Miow as she shifted her form to a little white mouse. She just fit under the largest little hole under the door. She sniffed about and found this hobbit hole a mess and rather smelly. "Eeek!" She squeeked. She saw the Puro sleeping on what probably was a...a couch? Couldn't really tell what it was.
Miow silently walked about the house. She formed a set of wings that belonged to the hummingbird species and she floated silently into the air. Suddenly she caught the smell of food. It was good food too. She figured that it was with Pip because it was comming from down the hall and not from the kitchen. So Miow, our little mouse with hummingbird wings, sped off in flight to see where that food was. She came to a door, a wooden door that was mostly rotted. She landed on the floor and sniffed. She tried to squeeze under the door, but found that she couldn't. "*sigh* Now what? hmmm...a bug!" As Miow thought of some bug that could fit under the door she found that she had never turned into a bug. Therefore she didn't have the DNA to turn into one. Still in her hummingbird-mouse form, she sat and looked at the floor.
Pip woke up suddenly and saw the little shadow at the door. He wondered that or who it was...or maybe it was that bone that the Puro might have dropped. Not that it would had done Pip any good, after all he couldn't reach it, but he still wondered. He crawled over to the door and jumped back as he met two little eyes looking at him from under the door.
"Ahh! What on Earth are you?!"
"Hey! Shut up in there before you wake the Puro!"
"Sorry...what are you?" Whispered Pip with much concern.
"I'm Miowlavu Don Shazi. You don't know me, but I've heard a great deal about you. I'm a Mercurasian Horse from Mercury the Planet of course. I'm here helping Merry and Gandalf look for some hobbit named Pip. I think he's in this house. Have you seen him? or Gandalf? ...or Merry for that matter?" replied Miow.
"You're a horse? but you're so small. And I am Pip, no i haven't seen Gandalf or Merry...how are you a horse when I can see that you are small like a mouse?"
"I had to shift shape to a mouse to get in here. Let me in."
"I don't have any keys. If i did I wouldn't be here right now!"
"SHHHHH!!! Keep it down!"
"Right...sorry"
The Puro stirred, but had not waken.
"What creature can fit under this door?" asked Miow
"An ant"
"Ah ha! an ant! Do you have one in there with you?"
"No! Why are you asking anyway?"
"Well, dear Pip, I can't get in to get you out if i don't have anything to shift shape into to get under the door. How about something else small?"
"There's a dead beetle in here. Will that work?"
"Hmmm...It just might...only if you can slide it under the door in one piece."
"How do I know that you're here to help me? Why should I trust you?"
"Because I AM here to help you get out and alive. I've been looking for you with Merry and Gandalf. Now will you slide the beetle under the door?! We don't have much time before the Puro wakes up. Sheesh! For a starved hobbit you sure are loud!"
"Alright alright here it is," Pip slid the beelte under the door. Miow quickly ate it and discovered it's DNA. She scanged her form and crawled under the largest crack in the door she could find. Apparently beeltes are alittle bigger alive than dead. "And I will have you know that I am not loud."
"Whatever Pip."
After much thinking and puffing and drinking of tea, Gandalf and Merry finaly realized it was quite. WHERE WAS MIOW??? The proceeded to look for her all around the Shire, but the couldn't find her...ANYWHERE!! They looked in the usual areas they looked in the unusual areas. Then they captured every creature they could get their hands on to see if it was really what it was. In the end it always was what it really was. They continued to look for Miow for they just realized that she could be in trouble...or be causing trouble...or she could be lost or some troll could be about to eat her any second!
But you and I and Miow know where Miow is. Lets get back to that part of the story now shall we Bob.
After squeezing under the door as a beetle, Miow returned to her true Mercurasian form. Only because she could fit in the room. Pip went whiter that Miow's fur when she popped up from a beetle like that. He gave a loud yelp. The Puro jumped awake form his sleeping spot and dashed over to the door and was starting to unlock it to see what was wrong with the hobbit to wake him with such a start. Before Miow knew it, she didn't have much time to react, the door was just opening and Pip what scared stiff. the door flung open and then there were, the the Puro's surprise...two Pip's. He couldn't decise how this happened and quickly dismissed that fact that Pip had 'multiplied.' He then thought that Pip was playing some sort of wall trick thing. What can we say? Puro's are very stupid creatures indeed. The Pip that was Miow stood behind the real Pip undoing all of the knots and such that held the poor starved hobbit. The Puro took no notice, he was too busy shouting and yelling at Pip who still stood unmoved from his spot. Just then the Puro had had enough of the hobbit and started to try to beat the last bit of life out of him. Miow changed back to a horse again and attacked the Puro. He flew and hit the wall, shaking the entire house, it almost made the roof cave in. Pip was still scared stiff and still had not moved a single muscle. The Puro, outraged, jumped to his feet and charged at Miow. Miow tried to dodge out of the way, but falied to do so. The Puro slached and bit at Miow's flesh. Miow screamed in pain. The Puro backed off a little, she had hurt his ears. While the Puro was recovering from the scream, Miow, dripping blood down the front of her, grabbed Pip and shoved him in her tail. He would be safe there. Miow glanced at the Puro and he charged at her again. Instead of darting out of the way like she tried last time, she screamed even louder. She had realized his weakness. She screamed and screamed and he backed out of the room. The Puro cringed on his dirty couch trying to hide from the ear splitting screams. With that Miow smashed the door open and glided off to Merry's house.
Gandalf and Merry were looking around the house for Miow still. They were circling the area at a 20 mile radius (which included the house of the Puro, they just didn't get that far yet). They were really worried and could not think of any other way to get Pip out of his prision.
Merry was histerical and would not shut up. "Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Gandalf! Gandalf! Any luck?! OH what are we going to do?! Miow's gone and Pip is in peril! Ooohh OOoohh!"
"Merry Please calm down. We will find Miow and once we do, we will figure out how to get Pip out of that house. Just keep searching."
The looked and looked for hours and hours more with out much luck. They went back in Merry's hole for a rest. The two were planning out where they would go and look next. They were just abou to leave again. Gandalf opened the door and to his surprise he saw Miow standing there with her hoof up about to knock on the door!
"MIOW! We were just about to go look for you again. Where were--"
"MIOW!! "Miow come come now inside let me fix you up"
Miow walked in slowly. She had lost alot of blood. Gandalf fixed the slashes and bites. Miow told him what happened to the best of her ability. Gandalf was very astonished at the story. Just then the starved Pip fell out of her tail. Gandalf handed him a plate of food. Pip ate it so fast that Gandalf didn't have the chance to blink! Gandalf refilled his plate and finished tending to Miow. Merry finally woke up on his front porch and came inside and talked to Pip for a long while. Later they went and visited Miow in the living room. They all talked a bit, Miow was feeling a bit better.