Impossible love

Chapter 1

A group of slender elves approached silently the dark tower. The moon's light was reflecting on their hair and made them glow like pure silver.

Two soldiers were garding the tall, black tower, but they were no threat. They each received an arrow, one in the chest and the other in the eye. They collapsed and were dead before touching the floor. The elves quietly entered the dark tower and closed the large wooden door behind them.

There wasn't much light inside, just a few torches on the dirty, stone walls. They walked through a short, round corridor until they arrived in front of one, single door. It was made out of wood, with stripes of metal pinned on it.

An awful scream nearly made the elves jump out of their skin. The terrified cry was coming from the other side of the door. One elf, Santym, the leader, counted to 3 on his fingers and when all his digits were curled into a fist, he suddenly broke-opened the door with a violent kick. All the elves rushed in, shooting arrows at everything that moved. Everything except a curled figure, kneeled on the floor.

The grunts of the surprised orcs soon faded away, they were all dead in the space of a few seconds. Elves are very fast... But between the corpses, the girl sitting on the floor broke the silence with a sob, she was crying.

The elves were standing proud like always, heads high, holding their bows. They looked around. This was probably a torture room. The smell of blood came rapidly to the elves' noses. They could almost feel the Death in this room...

Santym took a step forward but his foot hurt something. He looked down and was horrified to see that he's just kicked a head ! A head ! In a puddle of blood, separated from it's body !! He looked around on the floor and realized that there were not only orcs lying on the floor, but also a dozen of humans, all dead in horrible ways. They surely suffered a lot before dying, and the girl saw everything. The people she probably knew well had just been tortured and killed just in front of her !!

Santym walked behind her and cut the rope holding her wrists with his elven knife. She was sitting there, not moving at all except from her chest going up and down with her heavy breathing.

« Are you alright ? » No answer...

It was such an awful sight to see such horror and sadness on the girl's face... Pearls of tears rolling down her cheeks. She was staring at a human body, who's hands and feet had been cut off...

One elf, Legolas, detached from the group and walked up to her. He took the human girl by the shoulders to make her stand up and brushed a strand of her golden hair out of her face.

She slowly lifted her blue eyes to look at Legolas who was watching her. Legolas was lost in the endless depth of her blue eyes when she violently pushed away.

« Don't touch me ! Don't come near me !! » she spat out. She was obviously terrified, it's normal, after what she's been through...

She took a few step backwards and her hand touched something hot, she spun around to see a man, a dead man ! He had a rope around his neck and his stomach was open in half, his guts hanging out, mixed with a lot of blood.

She screamed and covered her face with her hands. She was still screaming when Legolas took her in his arms. The screams soon turned to sobs. She was crying, tears leaking from her beautiful eyes.

When she finally stopped sobbing, she snuggled up closer to Legolas. She didn't want him to leave her alone and held tightly onto him.

But she hadn't eaten anything for a while so her last strength left her and she collapsed on the floor. So Legolas carried her outside the terrible tower, onto his white stallion and back to Mirkwood, the elves' home...

Chapter 2 coming soon.