AN: Ok this is a shout out to any of you who'd like a character in my stories I'm looking for warriors I need their names and gender as well as personality and any other things you'd like to add this will be a great help. The warriors you submit will be featured in the next chapter of this fic. Thanks so much for your help!

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Legolas had the day off from lessons and so he had taken his little toy soldiers and gone out to the garden to play. The elfling had gotten extremely bored playing by himself and had managed to convince one of the guards to play with him. Legolas was having an amazing time the guard Callon was very nice and Legolas rarely had someone to play with so this was a welcome change to being alone. They had been playing for a while when a yell had went up from the courtyard. Legolas let out a squeal of excitement his older brother Thalion was set to return today and the call could mean only one thing that he was back. The little elfling tore down the hall and through the front doors. He was quickly pushed aside as healer elves ran all around him. He saw warriors being carried one by one into the healing house. Legolas spotted his ada out among all the chaos talking with the head healer Maenor. The little elfling looked around as he walked toward his ada he froze half way there staring an elf lay on the ground unmoving covered in blood and dirt but the part that frightened Legolas the most was his eyes; the elf's eyes were empty and unseeing, his eyes were dead. Legolas couldn't tear himself away from the terrifying image before him, he watched as a couple healers closed his eyes and covered him with a white sheet blocking him from Legolas's view and yet the little elfling could still see his eyes staring at him without seeing.

Legolas stood there trying to understand everything that he had seen. He knew about death, well at least the kind of death that killed plants in the winter, and the kind of death that had taken his Nana. But this whole thing was new to him, yes in his mind he understood that the warrior was dead, but he didn't understand why. Elves didn't just die and yet nothing else could explain the image that seemed to be trapped in his head.

"Legolas what are you doing out here" Thranduil walked up to his youngest son the little boy looked up at him and Thranduil stopped short there was fear reflected in those innocent blue eyes.

"Ada" the little voice was soft and it held nothing but fear and confusion. Thranduil scooped his son up into his arms

"What is it ion Nin what's wrong" but his son didn't answer he just buried himself deeper into his father's arms gripping his dress robes tightly in his little fists. This concerned Thranduil majorly his son had never acted like this before. Suddenly the little boy began to shake. Legolas while buried in his father's arms thought about his older brother, he was supposed to be here where was he? Legolas hadn't seen him in the courtyard and he was supposed to be there. The little elfling's mind took him to the worst scenarios and then he had thought of the dead elf and the face of the warrior had twisted so that it was now his brother with the empty eyes and Legolas had begun to shake in fear. "Legolas, Greenleaf speak to me what's wrong" Legolas couldn't answer his mind reeling with fear. Thranduil took his son into the palace and away from the scene outside thinking that Legolas was scared because of it. "It's ok little Greenleaf it's gone you don't have to be frightened."

"ada where's Thalion, I want to see him" Thranduil was confused by Legolas's sudden request and also weary Thalion had been injured and was now residing in the healing ward which was not a place his son needed to be at the moment.

"You can't right now ion Nin your brother is tired and needs his rest" Thranduil looked down at his son as the boy stopped shaking. Legolas looked up at his ada and nodded, if he said that Thalion was resting then Legolas believed him. Now that his fear had been calmed the poor elfling felt drained and exhausted. Thranduil chuckled at his young son "tired" Legolas wanted to protest but he was to tired and so he just nodded laying his head down on his father's shoulder. The king let out a sigh of relief perhaps after having his nap the elfling would go back to normal; he had been starting to worry Thranduil.

Legolas thrashed in his sleep his mind coming up with images of the dead elf then switching to his dead brother. The little boy screamed waking himself up. He breathed deeply his body wracked with tremors. The little elf lay there unable to move as fear gripped him the nightmare of his brother's dead body swirling in his mind. Legolas slipped out of bed he needed to see Thalion. The little boy made his way down the hall. He walked until he came to his brother's room; he reached up and pushed open the door. Legolas pouted as he found the room empty, in fact it seemed as though the room hadn't seen any activity in days which means his brother was never in here resting, his ada had lied to him. Legolas felt crushed why had he lied? The only explanation was that Thalion was not alright. Legolas ran back out into the hall and toward the healing house if Thalion was anywhere it would be there.

Legolas slipped into the healing house quiet as a mouse he walked down the halls and ducked behind whatever he could as healers ran past him, all too set on their work to notice the little elfling. Legolas listened to the healers talk hoping for something on his brother. He couldn't afford to go into every room he'd be caught that way. Legolas focused on each healer listening to scraps of their conversations and then moving on when he didn't hear anything helpful. Then he heard it…"the prince…" Legolas listened intently

"In the last room" Legolas took off down the hall until he reached the last room he reached out his hand and stopped hesitating his hand almost to the handle Legolas wasn't dumb by any means he knew what he might find on the other side of this door. The dead eyes flashed through his mind and the little elf gulped but he gathered his courage and pushed the door open. He peeked inside there was a healer leaning over the bed Legolas went a little farther into the room until he could see his brother and then he stopped unable to move forward; his brother was lying on the bed unmoving his eyes weren't open they were closed Legolas knew that if Thalion was just sleeping his eyes would be open and glazed in sleep he'd seen it plenty of times before. And so in the little elfling's mind he could only think of one alternative, that his brother was dead and his eyes had been closed just as the healer had done to the elf outside before he had pulled the sheet up. The little elfling looked up and saw to his horror the same motion being repeated here a white sheet was being lifted over his brother's body. Legolas barely registered anything he let out a scream and was running back the way he came away from what he had seen.

The healer had gone into the prince's room to check on his injuries. He pulled off the blankets and gently unwrapped his leg nodding as he saw the bite was healing nicely. He looked up at the sleeping prince surprised that he had not woken at his prodding it just showed how exhausted he was. He began to pull the sheets back up over the prince when the silence around him was shattered by a shrill scream of horror; the healer turned sharply and the prince jerked awake, the healer just caught the golden hair of the prince as he ran from the healing house "Legolas" the price groaned out as he tried to get up, the healer pushed him back down "release me"

"You can't move your highness your leg is not fully healed"

"That was my brother just now I have to go to him"

"With all due respect my lord you can't even walk right now" the healer stated settling the price back down

"Get the king I want to speak to him" Thalion stated the healer bowed and hurried away. Thalion looked to the door in concern his brother had sounded so hurt he wanted nothing more than to find the little boy but the healer was right he could hardly walk there was nothing for it but to wait for the king to come. The healer came back swiftly.

"The king is in a meeting with your second in command he'll be notified that you wish to speak to him as soon as it's over." Thalion frowned but nodded Legolas couldn't get into too much trouble in such a short time he thought to himself.

AN: Ok that's part 1 the second chapter will be up really soon. Please review!