RUNES
by Pride
*A.N.: Hey people! I got dedication and a note afore you can read this! First, I'd like to dedicate this story to my BarrowDown family: Thal, BP, Manwe, Padme, Wisp, Lady Arwen, Papi Thingolfin, Mami Devi and any others I forgot.I would like to say I am on an Eminem high as I write this and always will be listening to 8 Mile, so beware! Also a dedication to my Student Anne. Your really great, girl! Keep it up!*
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Aragorn leaned back against the wall. Beside him Gimli looked rather nervous and Legolas stared start across the way at the opposing wall. He looked consumed wholy in thought. Aragorn stood smoking his pipe and gazing down the street occasionally.
Once he noticed something that held his eyes. A cloaked figure was ducking into a dark alleyway farther down the street. Legolas had noted this too. He looked over to Aragorn as a silent question. Aragorn nodded towards the alley and Legolas moved nearer to it. Legolas looked back before nodding and entering the alley.
The minutes lengthened and finally they heard a loud noise that even made Gimli start. A male yelling. More like one yell, then nothing. It came from the alley and was Legolas.
Aragorn pushed off the wall quickly, pulling a knife from his boot. Gimli took out an axe and followed him though the crowds of People.
The alleyway was extremly dark, so dark that Aragorn could not see more than 5 feet before him. They heard the same male groan from farther down the way.
"Legolas? Legolas?!" Gimli shouted. Another groan. They hurried down the way towards the groan. Finally they came upon a figure. A paling light came from him.
"Legolas!" Aragorn whispered and rushed down to him, "What happened?!" The elf had a bleeding gash across his cheek and his wrists were cut. Aragorn pulled him into a sitting position.
Legolas istantly looked around, scared. " Where is she?! Did you see her?!" He grabbed Aragorn's collar. "Where??!"
"Who? Who is she? Did she cut you(a.n:duh.)?" Gimli said gruffly from behind Aragorn.Legolas' eyes moved to Gimli and he released Aragorn.
"Her. She attacked me. Look! There she is!!" Legolas exclaimed. Gimli spun around to face a 5 and a half foot tall elf. Female. With golden -brown hair and a silver elven circlet on her forehead. Her blue eyes looked down at them. In her hands was an arrow of Legolas. She was looking it over carefully.
"Nice craftmanship, Son of Thranduil. Well-made." She grinned at them mysteriously.
"Who are you?!" Aragorn yelled and attacked her. He rammed her into the wall and knocked the wind out of her. She exhaled/gasped loudly and coughed. Then she did something absolutly crazy. She smiled at him.
She smiled at him and laughed. Aragorn was very angry at her now. He pulled her out from the wall and slammed her into it again. She coughed again. "Answer me!!" Aragorn yelled, an inch from her face.
"I am Melanna. I am who cut up your friend. Legolas. He entered our place. I had every right." The women said.
" Melanna. You said 'our place.' Who else is there?" Gimli spoke up to her. Melanna freed her hand and quickly clapped twice before Aragorn could restrain her.
There came a great hissing and muttering as though voices one hears in the head. Gimli immeaditley regretted asking.
30-some people, hooded and cloaked had emerged from various places.