Title: The Darkness Comes

Chapter: One- It's here

Author: ScottyLass

Warnings: Some violence and possible male/male relationships so if ya don't like don't read. Simple.

Pairings: Elrohir/Legolas, probably others later on.

Authors notes: This is my first ever fic so any suggestions as to how I can improve my writing will gladly be accepted. This fic is dedicated to MysticHeero who kept pushing me to write this (she was hitting me on the arm constantly until I did) so here goes.

Summary: Legolas has a strange illness as well as a few other elves. Can Haldir find out what is wrong and save them. ( I suck at summaries )

Disclaimer: unfortunately I do not own any of the characters. They all belong to Tolkien etc.(but some day you never know hee hee hee- I wish)

Another quick note: I'm sorry to everyone who had already read this but it got taken down and my computer broke so I couldn't put it back up until now but the next chappie will be up soon I'm just typing it up at the moment so thanx again and I hope you enjoy it. Here goes.

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It was the first time Legolas had been in the great realm of Imladris since the downfall of Sauron and the land seemed more peaceful and relaxed than the many times before that he had visited. There was just one difference as this time he was here under entirely different circumstances, he was here to enjoy himself and not perform a duty. Legolas first received the call while he was chatting to Elladan and Elrohir who now that the war was over seemed more relaxed. Glorfindel had come into the room with a panicked look in his eyes and had informed them that Elrond was waiting for them in his study as he had some bad news for them. The three wasted no time in running out of the room at full speed and didn't even pause to knock on the study door. Legolas was the last one to come in and he didn't notice that the twins had stopped in front of him and he toppled into them causing a domino like effect which amused Elrond and Glorfindel despite the bad news which they had just received.

"Please, tell us what happened. Has someone died?" This question brought Elrond out of his musings and he turned to both of his sons and Legolas.

"Sit down and I will explain everything that I know." All of the elves present reluctantly sat down and Elrond began explaining."

"I've just received an urgent message from Aragorn telling me that Arwen has slipped into a strange coma where she just screams and according to Aragorn the only symptoms she had before this happened was a headache and drowsiness." An eerie silence filled the study no one knew what to say as they were all shocked and thought it rather strange as elves rarely got sick but then again Arwen was cleaved to human kind so they didn't know if this still applied to her. It was Glorfindel that finally broke the silence with the question that was on everyones mind.

"So what are we going to do about this now? We obviously can't ignore it" Elrond seemed to have regained his composure though when he spoke his voice was cracked with emotion.

"Of course we are going to do something I'm not going to sit back and watch my daughter suffer. I have sent a message forward to Aragorn telling him to bring Arwen here so that I might examine her and find the cause of this mysterious illness and help her. I probably didn't need to send that message as he's probably on his way already." Both the twins and Legolas jumped up at this point and said that they wished to meet them half way so that they may help but Elrond intervened and said that even though they all loved her and wanted to help her the company they were traveling in was probably already large and if they went they would only hinder the progress by making it larger and therefore slower moving. The three elves gave in as they knew that when Elrond decided on something there was no arguing with him so they got up and left the study to head to their rooms and rest before Aragorn and Arwen arrived. Secretly Legolas was grateful as he was very tired and he had an awful headache coming on.

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"Aahh noooo!" Elladan and Elrohir were awoken by a scream so naturally they went running to the source of the scream, which happened to be legolas's room. When they entered what they saw shocked them because Legolas was on his bed thrashing around and screaming. Just as they were about to restrain him so that they could wake him up they were stopped in their tracks by a very loud blood curdling scream emanating from his mouth and the blood that came running out from his mouth and ears. Elladan and Elrohir tried to calm Legolas down but nothing was working and they were thankful that at least the bleeding had stopped. Suddenly amidst the blood curdling screams Elladan and Elrohir could make out six quiet words escaping from Legolas's mouth

"Please help me, it's got me." After hearing this Elladan and Elrohir got really worried and so Elladan went to get Elrond leaving Elrohir with Legolas to try and calm him down. In a matter of moments Elladan reappeared with Elrond by his side and Elrond started to examine Legolas, which was hard as they still hadn't managed to calm him down. Elrond eventually stopped what he was doing and turned to Elladan and Elrohir telling them that he didn't know what was wrong and that he would conduct a more thorough examination in the morning as maybe Legolas would improve during the night. He was almost out the door when he turned to his sons saying

"One thing I'm sure of is that Legolas is in some sort of coma and has only calmed down because I gave him a sedative so I would like the both of you to stay here with him through the night to look after him." And with that he left with another bundle of worries and instead of going to his chambers he went to his study to try and find some answers.

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