Author's notes: I hope you like this, it's my second Legolas as a child fic. And I'm including Elladan and Elrohir!
Disclaimer: Lord of the Rings and characters belong to the great master Tolkien.
First Meetings.
Máraran, Queen of Greenwood walked down the corridors of her Kingdom. Celebrian, who she had grown up with and was her best friend, had sent her a letter. Celebrian and her husband Elrond had just celebrated their daughters fifteenth birthday. Celebrian wanted their children to meet, and seeing as they hadn't seen each other in a while Máraran had decided it would be a nice idea. So they were preparing to leave for Lorien, for a big meeting. Pushing the doors open she looked upon her children. Beren her eldest was tickling Lúthien her only daughter, while her youngest was standing there fiddling with his braid. She smiled slightly, Legolas was defiantly the innocent of the three . . . . in looks of course. She walked over gently dropping to her knees beside him, she opened her arms and he ran into them. She ruffled his hair gently.
"How are you my Little Greenleaf?"
"I'm fine Amme*, why are we going to Lorien?"
"To meet some very good friends of mine."
"Alright."
Smiling Máraran took Legolas's hand in her own and walked out the door. Once they realised that their mother and brother were gone, Beren and Lúthien turned and ran after them.
It had taken them longer than expected to get to Lorien, and it was the children's first time to the golden wood. Beren was on his own horse, while Lúthien was behind Thranduil and Legolas behind Máraran. Legolas peered into the trees, his mouth open in an 'o' of delight.
"The trees are very beautiful Amme." Lúthien whispered, her eyes widening slightly.
"I'm glad you like it. I grew up here."
Lúthien smiled before narrowing her eyes. A group of elves were approaching on foot. Lúthien stared at them, trying to work out who they were. But Legolas beat her too it.
"Haldir!"
Legolas jumped down from the horse and bolted over to the elf. Haldir had visited Greenwood when Galadriel and Celeborn had come once. And had always been the one to bear messages since as the children had loved him so. The small blonde wrapped his arms round the elder elf's waist. Haldir ruffled the child's hair, laughing slightly.
"Welcome to Lorien."
"We are very happy to be here." Came Legolas's muffled voice from where he was hugging Haldir. A wave of laughter came up at that, though Legolas couldn't quite understand why they were laughing. The adults then went into a 'grown-up conversation' as Legolas and his siblings put it. Legolas had been standing to the side running his fingers through the leaves of a nearby bush, while they had chatted for at least half an hour he had become very bored. Seeing no one looking at him Legolas turned and wandered off into the woods.
After a while of walking around Legolas heard a distant yelling. Being he curious elfling he was, Legolas went strait towards the area the sound was coming from. Legolas stared from his place behind a tree, three elves stood before him. He knew only one of them, an elf by the name of Ereinion and he was presently yelling at a pair of elves. They were twins, both having long dark brown hair.
"We didn't mean too - "
"Didn't mean too! You tied my brother to a tree and dumped mud all over him!"
"Well . . . . um . . . ."
Legolas would never work out why he did what he did then. Running over he stood in-between the twins and Ereinion.
"It was me Ereinion, I'm sorry but you know me and my tricks."
Ereinion opened his mouth to reply, but Legolas cut him off. His eyes widened and he clasped his hands behind his back. And in a sweet innocent voice he whispered, "I'm very sorry Ereinion, I really really am. I won't happen again, I won't do anything to your brother."
He swung side to side slightly as he spoke to the elf, a sweet smile plastered across his face.
"Alright, just be good alright."
Legolas nodded and he waited until the elf had vanished from view before turning to the pair in front of him. Two sets of silver eyes bore into Legolas, the elf squirmed slightly under their gaze.
"Why did you do that?" The one on the left said.
"I don't know, I just felt I should."
"Do you play tricks?" This time it was the one on the right.
"Yes."
They both nodded and then in perfect unison exclaimed, "How did you get Ereinion to leave?"
"Oh, that it's what my brother and sister call my 'innocent' face. The only people I know that ca resist it are my family, Elerossë, Haldir and Lady Galadriel and Lord Celeborn. And well . . you of course."
The twins both smiled, extending two hands towards Legolas."
"Elladan and Elrohir at your service. What's your name?"
"Legolas."
"Nice to meet you, I think this may be the start to a beautiful friendship."
Legolas smiled his eyes lighting up, "I couldn't agree more."
Máraran sighed, they hadn't realised Legolas was gone for a while. And when they finally did they couldn't find him. He was an expert when it came to hiding form people. Probably because he spent most of his time hiding from his father and Elerossë when he and his siblings played tricks. She looked up when Galadriel, Celeborn, Elrond and Celebrian walked over.
"Máraran!"
"Celebrian!"
The two ladies ran over, hugging each other tightly. Celebrian's dark golden hair, falling about her shoulders in waves.
"It has been far too long!"
"I agree, I agree" Celebrian paused peering over her friend's shoulder, "I thought you had three children?"
Máraran smirked slightly, "I thought you actually had children."
Celebrian laughed, "I suppose I cannot talk. The twins are off somewhere, and we couldn't bring Arwen. She's too young to travel."
The elven queen nodded, Legolas was only just old enough to be taken anywhere and only short distances. There was a sudden yell of surprise and a crashing sound from somewhere near them. Máraran heard Elrond mutter a "Please, not now. Please, please let them behave."
Before the group turned and ran off into the forest, they came upon a most unusual sight. An elf was lying on the floor, covered from top to toe in honey. Bees were hovering about him, and the elf was occasionally swatting them away but apart from that he was just staring at the three in front of him.
"You see Mister elf we really didn't mean to drop the honey on you honest."
The elf sighed and nodded, unable to yell at such an innocent creature. Standing up he turned and walked away, his fingers running through his sticky hair. The second he had left the three turned to each other and smiled wickedly.
"And that my friends" Elladan said, in a evil tone, "Is just the beginning."
"I think" Celebrian whispered, "Our sons have already met."
The group just nodded, not knowing what to say to that.
Legolas smiled at the sun from his position on his window sill. Yesterday had been fun, after his parents had found him he had been introduced to Elrond and Celebrian. They had spent most of the evening talking to each other, before the children were sent to bed. Elrohir and Elladan were really interesting people, odd but interesting. His brother and sister found them nice to and they had spent a while chatting about them before Lúthien and Beren had gone to their own rooms. Legolas hummed to himself as he pulled a leg up to his chin, today would be interesting he was sure of that. A tapping on his door told him that his siblings were awake.
"Come in."
Two heads popped round the door, smiles on their faces.
"Legolas, we have to go the twins have an idea!"
Nodding the blonde, ran over to the door when a bellow reached their ears.
"My little princes and princess if you even think of going anywhere and playing any tricks I may have to hang you up by tour feet. Especially after yesterday!"
Legolas pulled Beren and Lúthien into his room and locked the door. Giggling they made their way to the window and climbing onto some of the limbs of the tree they made their way down. Running across the grounds laughing merrily the three made their way towards the twins.
Haldir scanned the bushes, after Elerossë had told him that the children of Thranduil had escaped he had know they were going to meet a certain pair of twins. Which meant that the whole of Lorien was in trouble, why oh why did their parents insist on making them meet up? If two or three trouble makers was bad enough, there were now five! So he, Glorfindel and Elerossë had split up and were searching for them. The elf didn't know why but the lords and ladies always seemed to send them off to catch the children. Maybe it was because they knew the elflings and usually weren't fooled by their tricks, maybe it was because the three were quite high up in the ranks, maybe it was because the three were best friends and enjoyed capturing the elflings. He would never work it out. He stepped under a tree and cried out as his feet flew from beneath him. He glanced around glaring, he was in a net which had been covered in leaves. He growled sitting up slightly, he looked up and his mouth dropped open. The five elflings he had been searching for were on a branch just out of his reach, and each had a bucket in their hands. Legolas smiled evilly for someone who was hailed as the beautiful, adorable, innocent son of Thranduil, and poured the contents of the bucket out. Haldir was splattered in mud, he wiped the substance from his eyes and looked up. Only to have two buckets of tar thrown over him, the elf turned and spat the tar from his mouth. He desperately hoped that if he didn't look up, they wouldn't throw any more things over him. He had no such luck, two buckets of feather cascaded through the air, landing and sticking to the elf below. And array of giggles sounded above him.
"Haldir looks like a chicken."
The elf screamed in rage, reaching for the knife on his belt. The children screamed, jumping from the trees and running away.
Glorfindel and Elerossë ran into a clearing only to see a flurry of leaves and hear a large thump as something hit the ground. Glancing up they saw the remainders of a net. Haldir stood up from beneath it. Not a inch of him was clean, and he looked like a some sort of dishevelled bird. He noticed the other two and sent them a glare as he walked over.
"Don't say a word." He hissed as he pointed a finger at the two, who were trying not to laugh and fighting a loosing battle. They burst into pails of laughter, clutching their sides as tears of mirth made their way down their faces.
"Fine" Haldir cried out, "YOU go find them and bring them back, I shall not be helping you."
This stopped the elves from laughing and they looked at Haldir dumbfounded.
"They went that way." He said pointing vaguely and sending the pair a nasty smirk as he turned and walked off. The two glanced at each other, "We are going to die."
Meanwhile five elflings had made their way to the river, and were presently sitting on it's bank with their feet in the water.
"Did you see the look on his face?"
Legolas's giggles were Elrohir's reply.
"I do not think I have been so happy since the time Legolas accidentally on purpose knocked Golradir into the pond."
Lúthien giggled, Golradir was a rather stuck up elf that was one of their teachers. He was strict and in their opinion shouldn't be teaching as he seemed to hate children, or he liked to yell lots and be incredibly strict and wanted to punish people lots and lots. They all giggled but stopped when they heard a calm voice from behind them.
"What do you think? Should we hand them up in the dungeons?"
They turned round to see Glorfindel and Elerossë smiling down on them. One of those smiles that said, first I'm going to chase you then I'm going to torture you till you beg for mercy and that's before I've even handed you over to your parents. They froze for a second before screaming, grabbing their shoes and running up the river bank. Glorfindel and Elerossë glanced at each other before turning and bolting after them. The pair lost sight of them as the children went round the bend and when they reached the bend themselves , they were gone. Muttering about evil children they went off into the forest for them. Once the two had vanished a small giggle came from one of the boats lining the shore. The five were lying on the bottom of the boat trying hard not to laugh. When they had managed to stop their silent laughter Beren whispered, "We should stay here for a while. We can play in the boat and if we here someone coming we can hide in the bottom."
Everyone nodded and sat up, starting to talk, their happy voice filling the air. They stayed there for hours, talking and laughing together before their activities finally got to them. And lying down, they cuddled up thinking up new tricks. Maybe they didn't notice that the boat was rocking more fiercely, maybe they didn't notice that the land was slowly passing them by or they may have but had taken no notice of it. For if they did they would have realised that they were floating down stream and out of Lorien.
Elvish translations.
Amme: Mother
Characters guide.
King Thranduil: Legolas's father.
Queen Máraran: Legolas's mother.
Crown prince Beren: Legolas's brother.
Princess Lúthien: Legolas's sister.
Elerossë: Captain of Mirkwood, good friend of Thranduil.
Lord Elrond: Lord of Rivendell, husband of Celebrian.
Lady Celebrian: Best friend of Máraran. Mother of Elladan, Elrohir and Arwen.
Elladan: First of the twins of Elrond and Celebrian.
Elrohir: Second of the twins of Elrond and Celebrian.
Arwen: Only daughter of Elrond and Celebrian.
Glorfindel: Elven lord, advisor and good friend of Elrond.
Galadriel: Lady of Lorien and Mother of Celebrian.
Celeborn: Lord of Lorien and father of Celebrian.
Haldir: Master archer of Lorien. Good friend to Glorfindel and Elerossë.
Ereinion: An elf of Lorien.