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Elf of Rivendell

I made a story about Town Hall itself. I'm using you guys as characters. I hope you don't mind!

I know a lot of it isn't polished, but I just typed this right now. I'll make needed corrections soon.

The Town Hall Chronicles, or Something Very Much Like That
Chapter One

It was just a small town in the middle of nowhere. A town named Town Hall. No one knew how it got its name.

However different each of the citizens were, they all seemed to have one common interest; a certain radio show called "Adventures in Odyssey."

It was another one of those hot summer days. Mayor Jared Walczak sat at his computer, glaring at the screen. He was typing up another political speech to present next week when a furious knock shook the entire mayoral office. Jared grunted and stalked toward te door, yanking it open. "You know, you could have used the doorbell."

Outside stood pianokitty. She held a cat in each arm.

"Mayor Jared, I think you should be booted from office!"

"Why are you telling me that? And that's Mayor Walczak, thanks."

"You haven't done anything to change the town like you promised!"

"On the contrary, I have been doing much work behind the scenes. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a speech to write. Good day!" He slammed the door shut in pianokitty's face. Pianokitty shrugged. Then she turned around and walked back to her Chinese food restaurant, Shae Moi's. Already a few customers were getting impatient.

Meanwile, a 19-year-old Townie, Hawkeye, was walking through town. He grinned as he saw the numerous posters on the window of the Electric Palace. Some of them said in big red and blue letters, "YOU SHOULD HAVE VOTED FOR HAWKEYE!" while others stated, "Hawkeye was the man for you!" Obviously, many of the citizens were discontented at the fact that Jared Walczak had won the mayoral election. Hawkeye turned right at the intersection. At the end of the stretch of the road was a small forest. One huge tree particularly stood out from the others. A spiralling catwalk led up the tree to its tope where it disappeared into the thic green leaves. This was were the Lord of the Rings fan club met.

Two people were walking toward the trees. Hawkeye noticed that one of them was his campaign manager, Elf of Rivendell. She owned the Electric Palace and also was trying to become an attorney. She was fourteen years old. The other one was a short girl named Robin Baggins. She was an avid Lord of the Rings fan and also disliked Mayor Walczak. She always wore hobbit clothes.

However, this was not where Hawkeye was heading. Turning aside from the road, he headed into a large building. There was a huge sign in neon letters that said, "THE BC MANSION". The BC Mansion was a soda shop and an arcade center, but rumors abounded that many who used the attractions were injured. Recently, there had been people who came out of those machines with cuts, bruises, and even a broken bone in one case. Walking into the building, he went straight for the arcade corner. He opened the door of one machine. A drop of blood stained one of the seats. Hawkeye took his camera out, took a picture, and hurriedly left the building.

Bennett Charles watched him and grinned. "So I'm going to be sued, eh? They won't have the slightest chance of winning." He started programming his inventions again.

Beside him, a man wearing a WWF T-shirt was playing one of the games. A teenage boy, Jacob Isom, stood next to him. "TTC, your T-shirt is extremely annoying! You should change it!" Near the soda shop, Ferder and Mellow were arguing with someone about how they thought of the BC mansion, while Rose and su-z-q were debating about their most guarded secrets. In short, the BC Mansion was chaos.

This was the average day in Town Hall. However, both trouble and excitement were just around the corner...

Elf of Rivendell · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 7:05 pm Post subject:

...when suddenly, a strange Arabian man with a chainsaw rushed into the town.
"Who is that?" ILqueen strained her eyes to see better.

"It's Azheim." Bennett Charles said in a bored voice, looking out the window. "He belongs in Cherries City! What's he doing here?"

Azheim proceeded to tear through the city and went straight for... the library.

Elf of Rivendell · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 7:05 pm Post subject:

Chapter Two

Bennett Charles ran out of the BC Mansion furiously. "Cherries must die!" He screamed and jumped up and down in rage. "Zwall, come here! I have something to settle with you!!!! David O, you too!" Of course, no one listened.

Meanwhile, Azheim was running about in the library, replacing each grammar or etiquette book with "Azheim Books". No one noticed this in their frenzy to capture Azheim and ship him back to Vanilla Duckies. E87M2 and Mellow ran around crazily in an effort to stop the chainsaw-wielding Arabian, stumbling over eachother every now and then.

Finally, when the police arrived, order was restored and Azheim was carted back to Vanilla Duckies.

The evening seemed peaceful and quiet. Evenings like this rarely occured in Town Hall, what with the riotings, wars on food, and demonstrations against WWF T-shirts. Ferder sat on a bench outside with a laptop, typing the fifth chapter of his new story, in which he introduced an extremely annoying character set upon good manners. Suddenly, he stopped to think. "Wait a minute, what were the proper manners for this situation?" He pondered for a while, and then ran off to the library.

At the library, Ferder quickly scanned through the bookshelf and grabbed the one that had something about proper English and etiquette on its cover. He checked it out and returned to his bench. He referred to the book often as he typed the dialogue. Soon, the new character was talking in lisps, laughing maniacally, and saying "Shut your face" whenever possible. As he looked over his writing, Ferder frowned and shook his head. He picked up the book, took a good look at the cover... and fainted. In large red letters, the word "GUIDE TO PROPER ENGLISH AND ETIQUETTE" was engraved, but above it, small indigo letters stated, "Azheim's".

Meanwhile, a few crazy Townies were running toward a strange-looking building. David O was the first one inside and immediately started bouncing off the padded walls. Zwall was next. He buried David O's face in banana pies from Lissa's Bakery. Suddenly, Eiram rushed into the room. "Shoplifter!!!!" she yelled at Zwall and doused him with a bucket of banana filling. Gimp tottered into the room after her. She took one look at David O's bulging pocket. "Duckie sandwiches!" she shouted as she ran straight at him. She accidentally bumped into the TV. It turned on.

Coralfish's face was shown full screen. He was wearing his judge's robe and banging his gavel. No one seemed to listen. Finally, he cracked the wood with his gavel and yelled at the top of his voice, "be quiet, AND LISTEN!!!!!" The whole courthouse went silent. Coralfish then went on in a solemn voice. "The court hereby decides to restrict Azheim's entry into Town Hall. We also give a search warranty to search Vanilla Duckies for their books... for free to anyone who wants it, just in case they miss their books, which I am sure they don't." Most of the audience did not understand a word he said, but some cheered, and Ferder was shown on the screen, grinning ear to ear like... like... Azheim.

David O's face went scarlet. "Hey, no one ever asked me how I felt!"

"Well, I'm looking for those books." Eiram said. "They have personal info about my duckies there and I don't want them kidnapped!" Then she glared at David O. "Gimp was talking about your duckie sandwich...?

Elf of Rivendell · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 9:19 pm Post subject:

Chapter Three

Elf hurried out of the Electric Palace immediately after the court decision. She had to get that Lord of the Rings encyclopedia back from wherever Azheim took it. Already quite a number of people were gathered outside the city- Eiram, Ferder, Zwall, Jill, and rose were only a few of them. David O was there as well, but it was doubtful if he was taking the trip to AIOD just for the sake of looking for the books taken by Azheim.

The two towns were bordered by huge lake and some mountains. AndyGHarvey grabbed a few canoes and everyone piled in.

Meanwhile, Jared was inspecting the BC Mansion. He only had a few minutes before BC closed it down.

"Get out of here, will you?" BC growled as he pulled the shades down.

"No, I have every right to inspect this place for any more supporting proof for my case against you."

"Exactly. I don't want prosecuting lawyers poking their noses in here." BC said. He walked over to The BC Station and was about to shut it down when Jared quickly stood in the way. "Just a second. I'm most interested in this particular machine."

Jacob Isom and TTC sat in the same canoe, rowing as fast as they could toward the other shore.

"I still haven't convinced you about those WWF T-shirts, have I?"

"No."

"On this little trip, I believe I can show you plenty of proof why wearing WWF T-shirts are bad."

TTC frowned and dipped his paddle in the water carelessly. It struck something, and before he knew it, Felicity had catapulted out of her canoe, hit TTC and Jacob's canoe, and overturned it.

Jacob resurfaced first and managed to climb back onto his canoe. TTC followed, sputtering. As he wearily plopped into his canoe, he noticed that the T-shirt had stuck to himself completely especially the part where the WWF pictures were printed. Jacob Isom grinned happily. "See?"

Meanwhile, Mellow was trying to figure out how much distance they had left to row until they reached the mountains. "20 miles... I think..."

Ferder groaned. "Why couldn't we take the other way around?

"This is the shortest way!" Mellow retorted. "You'll have to go at least 40 miles if you want to get around the lake."

On the other boat, Ruby Baggins was leaning over the side of her canoe and retching.

This wasn't a fun trip.[/u][/i]

Elf of Rivendell · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 1:10 am Post subject:

This chapter isn't the best... sorry, I'm tired right now

Chapter Four

Night came, and the canoes were still wobbling forward on the glassy surface of the lake. However, occasional falls kept breaking the "glass," often overturning the other canoes as well.

In TH, both Jared and Bennett Charles had remembered, to their dismay, that all of their witnesses had gone on the trip to the town of AIOD. Jared immediately called Coralfish up.

"Coralfish, it's Jared."

"Oh, hello. What can I do for you, Mr. Mayor?"

"All our witnesses are gone."

"Oh. Then we had better get them, Mr. Mayor." coralfish said very practically and hung up.

Jared growled and hopped on his bike. He rode to the rental store and borrowed a canoe. He pushed out into the lake.

Bennett Charles was already rowing out into the middle. He could see other canoes very far away. Probably some of them were the witnesses he had planned to use in court. "WAIT FOR ME!" he screeched and started to row harder.

Pianokitty's canoe was loaded with 5 cats and one small piano(like the one Schroeder has in Peanuts). Every now and then, one of her cats clawed at a fish that poked its head out of the water. The floor of the boat was littered with fishbones. Suddenly, Elf, who was rowing her canoe right near hers, lost her balance and fell headfirst into the water. Her canoe tossed to and fro and hit the front of Pianokitty's canoe. Both overturned.

Pianokitty soon swam up to her canoe with her cats and piano. She heavily plopped the piano into her canoe, but it was quite an effort getting the cats off her hair. Elf climbed back into her canoe and managed an apology through her chattering teeth.

Suddenly, all the bottoms of the canoes made a scraping sound. "LAND!" David O screamed in a cheesy voice.

TO BE CONTINUED

Elf of Rivendell · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2003 8:20 pm Post subject:

Sorry about the LONG, LONG delay... writer's block...
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Chapter Four

10:00 PM
David O and Zwall's canoe was the first to reach shore and they both tumbled off gratefully. "Every step we take is taking us closer to home!" David O said. Eiram glared at him from her canoe. "What are you going to Cherries for, anyways?" Zwall quickly clamped his hand over David O's mouth.

"Uh, David O is- er- temporarily insane."

"I should think so!"

It took quite a while for everyone to get off their canoes. Skygazing tripped on the side of her canoe and lay there on the sand gazing up at the night sky for a full five minutes. Robin Baggins kept getting her elvish cloak wet and complained. But the one who took the longest was Arem, who had to make sure that each of her hacking devices were safe. Finally, she shoved all of her equipment back into her shoulder bag and declared, "Well, I'm ready!"

ZZZZZZ. SNORK. The only responses she got were snores.

"What's with you people? Wake up!"

Felicity opened one eye. "Why? Is it morning already?"

Arem looked at the sky- and nearly fainted. The sky already was lighting up with orange lines. "It didn't take THAT long to check my stuff, did it?"

No answer.

"Did it?"

"See for yourself..." Samwise yawned.

"Oh well, let's get going anyways."

"Yeah. Sure."

Sleepily, everyone stood up, scrubbed their eyes, yawned, and scrubbed their eyes some more. "I don't particularly feel like going through the mountain pass right now." Rose said in between yawns.

"It's the closest way." David O argued. "Come on, don't you really want to get there?"

"For the sake of my duckies, yes." Eiram finally said.

"The dictionaries!"

"The LOTR books!"

"The WWF picture books!"

A few minutes later, everyone was toiling up a steep slope. The two peaks soared high above them, and morale was dropping every minute.

TO BE CONTINUED

Elf of Rivendell · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 4:02 am Post subject:

Chapter Five

Coralfish struggled up the rough path. Ends of roots and rocks stuck out here and there along the ground, and it took a lot of effort to avoid tripping over each of them. Her feet were feeling like chunks of lead now. She hardly had the willpower to lift them over the ground and set them down again. She sighed and glanced at her watch. They had been walking for more than ten minutes now. She raised her head and forced her hoarse voice out of her throat. "People, I think we've been..." Suddenly, a tree root caught her foot and sent her sprawling to the ground.

"Are you ok?" Eiram asked and plopped heavily down on the ground beside her.

"Yes..." Coralfish replied and tore her shoe off, inspecting the sprain. Her ankle was slightly tinted with red and purple. "My ankle doesn't seem that bad either."

"Well, I think it's time we rested now!" Eiram shouted so that everyone could hear her.

"NO!"

"Oh... David O. You again." Samwise grumbled and sat down. "Listen, couldn't we rest for at least a minute?" Paul B had already passed out.

"No! Come on! Are we warriors or are we wimps?"

"WIMPS!" All the girls yelled at him. "We've heard that before anyways."

"Fine, I guess I'll be a wimp too then." David O sat down against a tree and gulped water from his bottle. Streams of water cascaded down his chin. Elf of Rivendell and Pianokitty grimaced. "David O, you remind me so much of Azheim."

"That's because..." David O began to say, but Zwall pinched his mouth shut yet again.

"Be quiet..."

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Jared leaped off his canoe wearily and spread his sleeping bag on the shore. He immediately went to sleep. Bennett Charles landed near him and was about to do the same thing, but suddenly changed his mind.

"Wait... if I get to Cherry Duckies before Jared, I could convince Azheim to come back to TH again before he notices, and he could help me with that latest plan..." He quickly slinked onto the woody path and disappeared.

TO BE CONTINUED

Elf of Rivendell · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 8:31 pm Post subject:

Chapter Five

ILqueen stared up the slope again. She did not like the looks of it.

"I can't believe we have to climb that far," Coralfish frowned. ILqueen suddenly turned around suspiciously.

"Coralfish, I don't think you were there when we finally reached shore. How did you get here from TH so fast?"

Coralfish looked puzzled. "Wasn't I? I was!"

ILqueen shook her head slowly. "I was almost sure you weren't."
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Jared yawned and finally decided to crawl out of his sleeping bag. It was already noon. "I probably should call Coralfish to tell her I've finally gotten half of the way." He picked up his pager.

"Hello, this is the Odyssey courthouse."

"Hello Coralfish. This is Mayor Walczak. I just wanted to tell you I'm halfway there."

"That's nice to her, Mr. Mayor. Now if you'll excuse me, I have much to do."

"Of course. Goodbye!"

Jared rolled his sleeping bag up and stuffed it in his backpack. Then he started the long walk up the mountain.
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Jacob Isom wheezed, sputtered, and finally sank down on the ground. They had finally reached the top of the mountain pass. Now they only had to go down the other side, and Cherry Duckies would be right in front of them.

"It's already night. Let's camp here!" Zwall said.

"I love camping!" Mandy Straussburg exclaimed and started to help Zwall set up the tents. Zwall looked at the others with a withering look. "What are you guys doing? Give me a hand with this, will you?"

A wax hand came flying through the air and bonked him on his head. "Very funny. Get to work!"

"Fine, Othniel," Hawkeye finally got up and grudgingly began to help.

Meanwhile, Coralfish sneaked into the woods nearby. Paul B noticed her soon. "Coralfish, what are you doing there? We need to build up a fire now!" Coralfish seemed to have heard him and moved further into the woods.

"What is she doing?" Pianokitty wondered aloud and went after her. She looked around. The woods were dark and gloomy. "Coralfish, where are you?"

A few moments later, pianokitty came crashing out of the woods. "I can't find her anywhere!"

TO BE CONTINUED

Elf of Rivendell · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 8:38 pm Post subject:

Sure Smeagol, you're getting a part in the next chapter!
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Chapter Six

Another day was already coming to a close, and Jared was hopelessly lost in the woods. After wandering around for a while in the thick trees, he finally sat down and started looking for theflashlight he had packed inside his huge backpack.

After throwing out numerous unneeded articles (the speeches he had discarded, old newspapers, used tissues and such), he finally found it and switched it on.

"If only I had brought my compass..." Jared growled and mentally kicked himself. He shone the beam of his flashlight around. Every way he looked, there was nothing to see but trees and shadows. It was impossible to find his way out now, when it was so dark. He spread his sleeping bag again and decided to wait until the morning.

Suddenly, he thought he heard something and got up. "What in the world..."

Footsteps were crunching on the fallen twigs that lined the ground. They slowly approached. Jared turned his flashlight on again. Just then, a figure appeared out from behind a huge tree. Jared stared in disbelief. "Coralfish! What are you doing here?"

Coralfish did not answer and kept walking. Jared walked toward her, but she broke into a run and disappeared into the trees. Jared ran after her. A moment later, his flashlight flickered. Then the light disappeared.
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12:16 AM

E87M2 turned over again. It was still too cold at night, and her sleeping bag seemed to be made of the thinnest cloth. Suddenly, she heard a soft thud outside. She shivered and opened the flap of her tent. Something was lying on the ground. She put her sandals on and cautiously approached the object. It was someone curled up in what looked like a sleeping bag. Jared.

"This is getting weirder all the time," E87M2 muttered and shook Jared.

Jared growled and burrowed deeper into his sleeping bag. "Don't make me wake up yet, Mom..."

"Jared, it's me!"

Jared opened one eye. "I'm sleepy. Vote for me..." His eyelid closed again.

"JARED!"

"Huh? Coralfish is not Coralfish. One of them is..." He fell asleep again before he could finish the sentence.

TO BE CONTINUED

Elf of Rivendell · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 1:36 am Post subject:

Sorry I couldn't update! I was gone all day yesterday.
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Chapter Seven

Mellow yawned and turned over, facing upwards. The inside of his eyelids were colored a vivid red lined with orange. He shook his head and forced his eyes open. He had somehow gotten halfway out of his tent during the night, and the sun was shining directly in his eyes. "Oh brother... I need to go to the stream to wake up...." he muttered and stumbled to his feet. Then he tottered across the rough ground toward the stream. Suddenly, his left foot caught something and he fell face down on the ground.

Something-- or someone groaned, and Mellow dragged himself off the lump on the ground. "Now what's Jared doing here?" He wondered, half asleep, and slapped him several times. Then he got up again and blundered into a tree. "OW!" He yelled. He was now fully awake and rushed toward the brook to cool off his burning forehead.

"Oh, be quiet, please..." Arem snapped sleepily, slowly crawling out of the tent. The next thing she knew, ice-cold water was pouring onto her head in torrents. Arem rolled over onto her side and kicked at the legs that were standing right beside her.

Robin tumbled to the ground. Her bucket flew out of her hand. "I was just trying to make you wake up!" she said.

"Well, thanks... I think," Arem replied as she began to stand up.

By now, Jared was wide awake because of the commotion. "What's going on here?"

"Uh..." The Top Crusader stopped to think.

"Town Hall-ness!" The others all answered in unison.

"Ah."

Suddenly, E87M2 remembered something. "Jared, what were you saying about Coralfish last night?

"Coralfish? Oh, yes... you know, it's the strangest thing. Yesterday when I called Coralfish, she was at the Town Hall Courthouse. Then I saw her in the woods a few hours later. I'm sure she couldn't have gotten there that fast."

"How do you explain it, then?" Hawkeye challenged.

"I don't know. Maybe Azheim is pulling something on us."

"Maybe..." Madison frowned.

"I just hope he hasn't done anything to the book about duckies." Eiram sighed.

"Oh yeah, and that reminds me." David O suddenly spoke up. "Don't you think we should be going now? Let's get to Cherries before it gets dark."

The others acquiesced and slowly started to pull their tent pegs out.
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Meanwhile, in Cherries...

Azheim gripped the remote control. He was staring into the screen intently. The screen showed some trees in the front. From between the trees, he could see the Townies cleaning up their camping ground. Suddenly, Mandy approached to dump the garbage nearby.

"Better go now..." He thought and pressed a few buttons on the remote.

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"Hey, what's that?" Mandy shouted as she buried the banana peels in the hole she had dug yesterday for the garbage.

"What?" Jacob Isom asked, dropping two tent pegs he had been holding.

"I think I saw someone in the woods."

"I don't see anything..."

"I'm sure I saw something! It seems to be gone now though..."

Jacob shrugged and returned to his work. "You must have been seeing things."

Mandy stared into the woods for a while longer. She was sure she had seen something. Just then, she heard someone walk up behind her. It was Smeagol.

"I think I saw something as well. Something... uh... brown."

"Yeah, it was brown. What do you think it was?"

"I don't know. Maybe it was spying on us...?"

TO BE CONTINUED