Not your ordinary fairy tale

Chapter #1

"Aw man Vodia, I told you not to do that!" I said while turning back toward the target.

"I'm sorry, Sathien, I couldn't help it!" Vodia said while giggling.

I couldn't believe it. This was the second time she made me laugh right before I shot the arrow.

"You know if you keep doing that, I might end up shooting you in the leg" I said knowing she would be un-amused.

We had both decided to learn how to use a bow and arrow, just incase we might need it some day. And with all the orcs around, it couldn't hurt. (Well unless I use it on her then it could hurt.) My uncle had started to teach us the summer he visited. After he left we decided to continue and teach ourselves. Of coarse no one knew about it, It wasn't right for girls to learn how to use one. That's why we tried to be quite. It never worked.

" I wonder if anyone has got suspicious yet, you know about you and me sneaking off all the time" Vodia questioned.

"If they had, don't you think we would be on house arrest by now?" I answered

"I guess your right, but I still think its fairly obvious" She replied.

There was a noise behind us. We turned around and got our bows ready. It was to late; two male elves already had their arrows pointing right at our heads.

"Who are you?" Vodia demanded.

I had already started to put my arrow down.

"Sathein! Don't it could be dangerous" she whispered, as if they couldn't hear her.

"Vodia, even if we shot we probably would have missed anyway" I whispered back.

"Well that answers one of our questions,"one elf said as he turned to his friend," they have names"

"Who are you?" Vodia snapped back.

"Be nice," I said. I had always been a little more relaxed than she was.

The elves started to put down their bows, and took a step closer.

Vodia, let go of the arrow. It landed about a foot in front of her. (I always did have a better shot than she did) I looked at her like `oh great, so much for trying to look good'

"Sorry," she said with a fake sort of laugh, "it slipped"

She bent down and picked up her arrow, and we rested our bows against a tree.

" So what are you two girls doing out here in the wood, and with a bow and arrows, of all things?" One of them asked. They seemed to be flirting with us.

"Practicing" I answered back, in a not interested way, although they were kind of cute, I pushed that thought back in to the back of my head. It wasn't right for two girl elves to be in the forest alone, especially flirting with guys. In fact our parents never liked the idea of us dating. (In other words it was forbidden.)

I could tell Vodia had done the same. We had known each other for a long time, and so we knew, for the most part what the other was thinking. Our parents had the same ideas about raising an elf, infact sometimes they would let each other's parents, lecture us because they knew that they would end up saying the same thing anyway.

Both the boys acted like we hurt their feelings because, we didn't seem interested. Even though we were.

The elves started to talk to us; they ended up having names. (who would have thought)? Elriowyn, and Elelas.

Suddenly we heard a noise and then another like something cutting through the air. Then an arrow flew right past my head, and skimmed my ear. Vodia screamed, I dropped my bow, she ran to my side. The two elves, looked at us concerned, but kept their guard up.

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