HEY GUYS!
Thank you all so much for all your support on my previous stories. I really appreciate everyone who took the time to review! :D You guys are awesome!
So I know you all wanted me to write Legolas and Celeberyn stories...so here they are!
This is going to be a series of oneshots featuring the two brothers, with some Thranduil thrown in too. I'm also going to do a seperate story featuring Legolas and Thranduil that I'll hopefully start soon.
Anyway, so lots of fluff ahead...and I hope you like it!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of Tolkien's stuff, or anyone you recognize (I do own Cel, though, mwahahahaha)
"Cel'beryn, Cel'beryn!" The halls of the Mirkwood king was filled with the voice of a tiny elfling with disheveled hair and dressed in nothing but his underwear, giggling and running towards his older brother's room.
The servants that the elfling ran by tried not to gasp in horror at his actions. The elfling didn't care, though. He was too excited.
Reaching his destination, he burst through the doors with a huge grin plastered on his little face. The crown prince Celeberyn, who was talking with his friend Elfaron, stared with his mouth wide open as his little brother flew into his room and sailed into his arms like an impossibly adorable cloud.
It took a few moments for Celeberyn to gather himself and say, "Legolas, what in Arda are you doing? Where are your clothes?"
Elfaron stood next to him, trying to stifle a laugh. "My prince, you're so energetic!"
Legolas grinned, drumming his little fists on Celeberyn's chest. "Ready? Ready? Let's go!"
Celeberyn couldn't help but smile upon seeing the elfling's excitement. He'd promised his brother that they'd spend the entire day together in a small section of the forest near the palace. "Go where, Legolas?" He teased, pretending to have forgotten.
"To the forest, of course!"
Celeberyn tilted his head in a thoughtful expression. "The forest? I don't remember saying anything about the forest…"
"Yes you did!" Legolas cried desperately. "You say we go today!"
"Did I?"
"Yes!"
Celeberyn laughed. "I'm just teasing, honeg. Of course I remember! I'm all set to go!"
"Yay! Me too!"
"Oh, no you're not, little leaf. We are putting some clothes on you first!"
Legolas giggled as his brother carried him back to his room with Elfaron following. "El! Are you coming with us?"
"I am for a little while, my prince."
"Yay! It's going to be so fun!"
A few moments later, Celeberyn emerged from the room with Legolas on his back, who was dressed in soft green and brown and tiny leather boots. The three elves headed into the courtyard, where two horses and four guards waited. Since they were going to be so close to the palace, there should be no need for guards to accompany them. However, Celeberyn was taking no chances. I swore to protect you, honeg. And protect you I will.
"Alright!" The crown prince grinned. "Who's ready?"
"Me! Me!" Legolas pounded his brother's shoulders in excitement.
The elves mounted and trotted into the forest until they reached a small stream just outside the palace. Legolas, who'd never left the palace before, started at everything with wide eyes. The morning was crisp and cool, with a slight breeze in the air. The trees rustled their leaves in joy of the elves' presence, a sound like music to Legolas' ears.
The guards stood a distance away as Elfaron and Celeberyn dismounted, barely able to contain an overly excited Legolas.
"The trees! The trees! The grass! The birds! The squirrels!" Legolas squealed, spinning around in circles. "I'm going to live out here forever!"
Celeberyn grinned. "Did you see any fish?"
"Fish?" Legolas asked, instantly curious. "I've seen pictures of fish…"
"Today, you'll see one for real, my prince!" Elfaron smiled, taking a bag of supplies from his horse. "We're going to fish for some fish!" he frowned. "That just sounded weird."
"Yayyy!" The elfling jumped up and down. "I want to fish fish!"
"Well, honeg, fishing takes patience. Can you do that?" Celeberyn asked, raising an eyebrow playfully.
"Of course I can!"
"Okay, sit down next to me and Elfaron will teach you." Legolas immediately dropped into his brother' lap, settling down and looking expectantly at Elfaron.
Elfaron laughed. "Alright. But first, I have to thread the fishing pole."
Legolas watched, fascinated, as the elf took a long, thin length of string and attached it to the end of a long bendy pole. He repeated the action until he had two large fishing poles and a short one for Legolas.
"Now, my prince, we must look for bait."
"Bait?" Legolas asked curiously. "What's that?"
"It's what we feed the fish so we can catch them." Celeberyn replied.
"Today, we're going to use worms. Is that alright, my lord?" Elfaron looked up at Celeberyn.
"Of course it is! And seriously, since we're alone, please just call me Celeberyn."
"As you wish." He grinned and knelt with a tiny shovel, digging for worms.
Suddenly, Legolas turned and looked up at his brother. "Cel, you should go help Elfaron. He'll get tired."
Celeberyn laughed. "Will he, now?"
"Yes! Digging for worms looks very tiring. Come on, Cel. You have to be nice! Isn't he your friend?"
"Well, yes."
"Then hurry, hanar! El's waiting."
Elfaron grinned and sat up expectedly, eyes shining in mirth. "I'm waiting, Celeberyn."
The prince shook his head, trying not to burst into laughter. "Alright, Legolas. You can watch your dear hanar get mud all over himself, digging for worms." He got up and knelt next to his friend who was trying hard not to explode.
"My dear prince, I would insist you not….but it's such a good excuse to see you get dirty."
"You!" Celeberyn shoved his friend lightly as he laughed and dug his fingers into the soft earth.
"Go, Cel! You can beat him!" Legolas cheered.
"What, it's a competition now?" Celeberyn asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I guess so." Elfaron glanced at the prince, and they immediately flew into action, scooping up handfuls of dirt as fast as possible. Celeberyn laughed as chunks sprayed onto his face and clothes. The two friends dug as if their life depended on it, however, when actually removing the worms, their hands immediately became gentle. Worms were living things, after all. Legolas sat several feet away, giggling and cheering his brother on. Getting an idea, Celeberyn grinned as he scooped up a small handful of dirt and flung it towards Legolas.
Legolas squealed and jumped up, running towards the crown prince. He dipped his small hand in mud and smacked it on his brother's cheek.
"Legolas!" Celeberyn's look of absolute horror was plain on his face, but quickly changed into mischief. "Ohhh, you're gonna get it, honeg!" He scooped up some mud and threw it, smacking the elfling in the shoulder. Legolas shrieked in laughter as he ran up and smacked handprints on Celeberyn's clothes. "Hey!" Celeberyn grabbed a handful of dirt and tossed it onto his brother.
Legolas giggled and hid behind a tree. The two princes ran between the trees, flinging dirt at each other as the forest was filled with their merry sounds. Elfaron laughed as he mounted his horse. He was reluctant to leave, but had to return to the palace and tend to his duties.
Celeberyn and Legolas flopped down on the grass, panting and covered from head to toe in dirt. "I beat you!" Legolas declared.
"I don't think so, little leaf!" The prince grinned.
Legolas rolled onto his brother's chest. "Of course I did! You're dirtier."
"Am I, now?" Before Celeberyn could continue, Legolas pointed to the trees.
"Cel, I wanna climb."
The prince shook his head. "Until you get older, little leaf."
"But…" Legolas gazed up with such longing that Celeberyn could feel his heart aching.
"Well…I could carry you up."
The elfling gasped and looked at his brother with joy twinkling in his blue eyes. "Really? Really, Cel?"
"Yes, honeg." He kissed Legolas's dirty cheek, who then giggled and pulled his brother up from the grass excitedly. Celeberyn chose one of the tallest trees next to them, and swung Legolas onto his back, instructing him to grab on tightly.
Legolas wrapped his arms and legs around his brother as he grabbed a low branch and pulled them up. The elfling held his breath as Celeberyn climbed higher and higher like a squirrel, his feet barely touching the branches before leaping to the next. Like dancing. Leaves rustled by and tickled Legolas' face. He felt amazing with his brother's strong body beneath him and the beautiful clear sky above, like nothing was impossible. He immediately knew that he wanted to become just like Celeberyn when he grew up. The elfling giggled and buried his face in his brother's silky hair as the wind whipped by like a gentle friend.
When Celeberyn stopped, Legolas looked up in disappointment, which quickly turned into awe. They were standing on one of the thinnest branches at the top, where the sky surrounded them and he could see nothing but trees.
Legolas' mouth dropped open in a O as he stared. The sky was so big! Like a huge treasure chest, where Legolas and Celeberyn were small gold coins among all the other precious things. Him and Celeberyn. Legolas smiled. His brother was his best friend and they'd stay together for all of eternity. The thought made him excited and he giggled, which made Celeberyn grin.
"Amazing, isn't it?"
"Yes. Hannon le, Cel," the elfling whispered. "We're going to do this forever, right? Me, you, and Ada, under these trees forever…Can you bring me up here tomorrow too?"
"Definitely, my little leaf. As much as you'd like. Ready to go back down?"
"Okay!" Legolas tightened his hold on his brother as he started jumping down gracefully with absolutely no effort.
The two brothers laid upon the grass, looking up at the clouds in the sky.
"Alright…what does that one look like?" Celeberyn asked, pointing to a fluffy puff.
"Ada!" Legolas replied immediately.
"Well, isn't the belly a little too big for Ada?"
"That's Ada when he's really full and can't move!"
"…I see…" Celeberyn stifled a laugh as he pointed to another cloud. "That one?"
"A dwarf!"
"You know about dwarves?"
"Yeah, Ada told me. They're mean and greedy. That's why it's the ugliest cloud."
"What about that cloud over there?"
"That's a bird after it's eaten five worms and is standing on the branch of an oak tree, preparing to fly."
Celeberyn laughed. "That's specific. And…that one?"
Legolas stared up at the place where his brother was pointing, trying to figure out the shape of the cloud. It looked kind of like a fish….no. Suddenly he sat up, alarmed. "The fishies! We didn't catch any yet!"
A few moments later, Celeberyn and Legolas were sitting on the banks of the stream, with their fishing poles in the water. Unfortunately, the worms they'd dug up earlier had burrowed back into the earth, so the crown prince had spent a couple minutes finding new ones. Now they were happily waiting for the fish to come and take a bite.
"By the way, Cel, who won the worm-digging competition?"
"Why, your brother did, of course! I beat Elfaron by two worms." Celeberyn replied proudly, as if he'd just announced that he saved Mirkwood by slaying a dragon.
"Yayyy! Good job, Cel! Here's your prize!" Legolas handed his brother a squashed ball of mud wrapped in a leaf like it was a gold coin. "I picked the leaf when we were in the tree, and the mud is for decoration."
"Hannon le, little leaf." The prince smiled, ruffling the elfling's hair.
Suddenly, Legolas felt a tug on his fishing pole. "Cel!" He said excitedly. "It's a fishie!" Celeberyn helped his brother pull it in, revealing a small silver fish which they dumped in a bucket filled with water. Legolas watched, mesmerized as the animal swam around in circles, sunlight glinting off its shiny scales. "So that's a fishie," he noted. "I thought it'd be prettier."
Celeberyn laughed. "Oh, Legolas. You have such high expectations!"
The brothers rode back to the palace in all their muddy glory, causing some of the servants to gasp in horror. Legolas proudly gave his fish to the royal cook to make up for all the cakes he's stolen.
Celeberyn ushered his brother into the bathroom to wash all the mud away. He stripped Legolas of his dirty clothes and dumped him into the huge bathtub, lathering up his hair with loads of soap, much to the elfling's complaint.
"A prince has to be really clean, little leaf."
"You're not clean, Cel." Legolas replied matter-of-factly.
"I will be in a little bit."
"You sure will!" The elfling laughed and launched himself at Celeberyn, who yelped as a wet, soapy brother tackled him and somehow dragged him into the bathtub. How it happened, the prince was at a loss. But he was now sitting in the water fully dressed and completely soaked. Legolas giggled and clapped his soapy hands on Celeberyn's face, washing the dirt away.
"Legolas, you evil little leaf!" The prince grinned and dunked his brother in the water, who squealed and splashed a wave at him.
"Cel!" Legolas climbed on his brother's back excitedly. "Do the moving thing in the water!"
"You mean swim?"
"Yes! Swim for me!"
Celeberyn sighed, grinning. "The things I do for you, honeg." The large bathtub was more of a pool, with shallow steps and a deeper end. He gently dived into the deeper end with Legolas sitting on his back proudly. There wasn't much room to swim, but the prince did his best, smoothly cutting through the water as his brother said,
"Is this what riding a horse feels like? Go, Cel!" Legolas drummed his little fists on Celeberyn's back as he swam back and forth in the warm bathtub, still fully clothed and feeling slightly silly.
Thranduil headed towards the bathroom, thinking that Celeberyn would probably need some help bathing Legolas. What he found made him want to go straight to bed and sleep for a hundred years. Legolas was sitting on the crown prince's back, who was fully dressed and swimming in the bathtub, with water splashed all over the ground.
When Celeberyn saw his father in the doorway with a horrified expression on his face, he immediately stood up and set Legolas back on the bathtub's step, smiling as if nothing happened.
"Ada! I was just finishing up."
Thranduil shook his head and started laughing, shaking his head in exasperation. "Cel! I think Legolas gets encouraged by you to act so childish instead of the other way around!"
"Ada!" Legolas jumped up in excitement. "It was so fun today! You need to come with us next time." Before the Elvenking could react, the elfling ran up to him and gave his father a huge, wet, soapy hug.
"Can we go into the forest again soon? Ada can come with us!" Legolas whispered excitedly, as Celeberyn tucked him in for the night.
"Sure, if Ada's not too busy. Do you want a story?"
"Yes! Um…..tell me about….." a long period of silence followed, as the elfling thought hard about what he wanted to hear. He suddenly sat up in the bed beaming, causing his brother to sigh.
"Legolas, what is it now? You really need to go to sleep."
"Cel! I figured out the shape of that cloud!"
"Really?" Celeberyn was surprised that Legolas had spent the entire day thinking about what seemed like a really insignificant question. "And what shape was it?"
"It was you carrying me on your back climbing the tree!"
The prince felt a smile spreading on his face. "That was fun, wasn't it?"
"Yeah!" Legolas snuggled close to Celeberyn. "You're my best friend ever!"
Celeberyn felt like he should melt into the ground and stay there for a while from the cuteness. He started telling Legolas a story about some Mirkwood warriors, but the elfling fell asleep on the third sentence.
Smiling, the prince quietly got up, blew out the candles, and snuck out of the room. He paused at the doorway and looked back at Legolas' sleeping form, feeling an overwhelming sense of love. You're my best friend too, Legolas.
My brother.
Yayyy! so finished the first story of this series
honeg - little brother
hanar - brother
hannon le - thank you
Took me a while to think of the ending, LOL my friend totally helped me with that part.
Lots of more chapters coming!
If you guys have ideas/suggestions for chapters, please let me know :D
I hope you can follow Legolas and Celeberyn's growth with me!
I'll try to upload the next chapter soon.
Also, you should look for future Legolas and Thranduil oneshot series!
Thank you all so much!
TBC