Chapter 3: Making friends?
Hi guys! So so so so so so sorry for being late with this chapter I promise to do better, but I had to admit I had some trouble writing this one. I'm sure it will be easier with the rest J Anyway let's get to this chapter. Enjoy!
Leia had travelled all around Middle Earth meeting her father's children and some elves, learning their or "her" ways. She had also found that she admired the lives of the hobbits in the Shire cheerful and unfazed by anything going on around and outside the Shire. She had stayed with them for years, learning to love each and every one of them.
The reason she admired their lives was because they were peaceful folk. She on the other hand was nowhere near peaceful in the time she had been on Arda. She had already made many enemies along the way, many mainly being orc's and goblins, but the one who put the cherry on top was none other than the mutant spawn of Azog the defiler himself. On their last meeting they had both left a mark on the other Leia had been given a scar on her face, stretching from her right eyebrow to just below her cheek, where as Bolg's entire head was almost been bashed in rendering his left eye completely unusable, were it not for his two soldiers, she would have killed the sorry mop of grey then and there. At least her eye had been sparred and still functioned perfectly, but the scar she chose to keep not as a trophy but rather a warning to those who would dare to cross paths with her.
Being immortal and completely unable to die she decided to travel alone at all times for she never chose the easy paths, this being caused by her need for excitement, also the reason why she always was in some or other trouble. There was always more to her than people thought she seemed to be hurt or sick, but this was always because of her clothes being torn or filthy and so she always needed a lot of money on her to buy new clothes, but was insistent in having the same clothes at all times. Unfortunately she could never have the same tunic and had to get used to wearing a dark blackish blue one instead.
The day she feared had come upon her, there was nowhere she had not been except Mirkwood. She had repeatedly avoided the wood at all times the reason being that there was evil upon the wood. Knowing that she had to go in there whether she liked it or not, for within lay one of the greatest elven kingdoms known, the Halls of Thranduil. She had heard much about the elf-king and had come to a conclusion that he is selfish and an utter bastard, but for some reason she was curious to know if these rumours were true or no.
She slowly made her way into the cursed wood, but something felt wrong it was as if the very air around her was pressing into her and holding on to her for dear life. She had heard about these this, but it felt different now that she could feel it. Hours slowly melted into days and days into weeks, but she could not find the halls nor any elves and she always felt as if she was being watched. She made it apparent to go above the trees and seek fresh air every night and during the day she had to endure the foul air in the wood.
There it was again that feeling about being watched, she looked around worriedly but could not see anything, Leia knew what kind of feeling it was when elves was looking upon her and this was no elf it was something entirely different. She had become weak because of the foul air and could no longer see as well as she used to, but what felt the worst was the fact that her "wounds" was hurting badly she was starting to lose her strength, she became scared for she had never felt this feeling of pain before. Placing her hand on a tree as to support herself, she noticed something moving toward her very slowly and knew what it was, but had never seen one bigger than her palm before. She took out her bow and notched an arrow ready for a fight, letting loose she hit her mark with perfect presision and then it began, all at once there was five more she let loose her arrows hitting her marks, but did not notice one coming behind her. She was to weak and at once the beast had her in his jaw pushing down with all his might she could no longer fight against her attacker and slowly stopped stirring, letting her drop to the floor the beast was about to roll her up in his web when an arrow came flying passed him hitting one of the spiders behind him, then another came this one being his end.
Leia awoke to a figure standing above her also seeing more figures behind him, but focused on the one hovering over her, he had blond hair with beautiful blue eyes and he carried a bow and knives. The others looked to be guards and all had bows, she still felt weak but had enough strength to push the blond aside this made the others quite angry and she knew then that he must be their leader. Sitting up proved to be a little harder then it seemed but she did it without so much as making a sound, she than looked over the group thoroughly, to her surprise she recognised the blond and felt ashamed when she realised that she had pushed the prince of Mirkwood away from her in front of his patrol. "Are you alright?" he asked this with concern, Leia chose not to speak which angered the patrol even more, but she had a reason she did not want them to know that she actually knew who each and every one of them were. Seeing that she was not in a corruptive mood he signalled his men to help her up and as soon as she was on her feet they took her along with them to the Halls of Thranduil.
The Halls of Thranduil
Thranduil was sitting in his throne room thinking to himself when one of his son's guards came running towards him, "My King on our patrol today we found a woman being attacked by spiders, she was about to be killed when we interfered." The guard spoke quickly but he managed to understand what the elf was saying. "Where are they know?" Thranduil seemed more confused that calm, what was a woman doing on her own in the woods? , his thoughts were interrupted by the patrol guard's answer, "They are not far and will be here shortly." Saying this as if he knew exactly where the patrol was now. "When they arrive tell my son that I want to see him immediately." After saying this Thranduil made his way to his son's quarters were he would speak to him.
On arriving Legolas told the others to take the woman to the healers and was then told that his father was waiting for him in his quarters, on his way there he couldn't help but think about the woman he was not attracted to her, but the moment he made eye contact with her, her eyes mesmerized him not only because of their colour but there was just something about them as if there was a story there just waiting to be told. He came to the door to his quarters, composing himself before entering, his father was sitting in one of his chairs obviously waiting for him. "You wanted to see me, father?" Legolas knew exactly why his father was sitting before him now and in a private room where only they could hear each other. "Who is she?" coming right to the point Thranduil looked at his son, "I don't know, we found her asked her many questions, she refused to answer any…" he looked at his father who still wasn't convinced, "so we brought her to the healer to see if she is alright." Thranduil got up from where he was sitting and was now standing in front of his son, "So you mean to tell me that you know nothing of her?" still not convinced he looked down to his son, "Yes, all I know is that she has strange eyes." He said this slowly and unsure if he should tell his father about it, "What do you mean?" Thranduil was now extremely confused, "Her eyes seem different and as if there is something hiding behind them, something she does not want people to know." Hearing this Thranduil started to make his way to the room of the healers with his son just behind him, whoever this mystery woman was he did not like her one bit.
Leia was taken to the healers, but knew that she did not need them after all her wounds were healing again, it must have been because of the air it was no longer strangling her, she almost felt relived. They sat her down on one of the tables and left the room, she was left to the mercy of the healer, who seemed to be an old looking elleth with dark brown hair and a few grey streaks. She did not care for him all she needed was peace and now she had it, she slowly started to relax closing her eyes she stared to heal faster. The healer saw her taking deep breaths and then he was shocked to witness her wounds heal as fast as they were given, backing up he made his way to the door, once he was outside he saw the king making his way towards the healing rooms.
Just as they were about to enter the healing rooms one of the healers stopped them, "Your highness there is something strange about the woman your son brought to me." Thranduil tensed up sensing danger in his voice, "When I was about to take a look at her wounds I saw her taking deep breaths, at first I thought that she must be injured fairly badly, but then she closed her eyes and her wounds started to heal faster than I have ever seen." At this moment Thranduil and Legolas agreed that this woman must be dangerous and entered the room.
Just as Leia was all healed someone barged into the room, to her surprise it was Legolas and… King Thranduil both looked at her strangely before coming to stand in front of her. "Who are you?" Thranduil spoke first, hearing him speak made her feel strange she then stared to find him quite attractive and quite handsome. She then brought her legs up and was now sitting crossed legged staring straight into the eyes of the King of the Woodland realm. This took Thranduil by shock, no one has ever been this casual in his presence before, "Who I am does not concern you or your kingdom and I am merely passing by, so there is nothing for you to be worried about then, is there?" she looked at him and could see that he was growing inpatient, "When I ask you for your name you will answer me….. is that clear." He said this through gritted teeth and seeing that she was quite tired after her 3 week journey she answered, " Very well, Your highness…" sarcasm was practically dripping out of her, "My name is Leia and the only reason I told you that was because I'm am tired and not in the mood for a fight." He could see that Leia was tired and wanted to ask his question quickly so she could rest, but he could not understand why he wanted this so badly. "I need to see your face, to ensure me that you are in fact not a danger to my people." Looking at her he saw that she had no intention of showing them what she looked like. "Well I'm sorry that I have to tell you no, there is no whey that I am going to take my hood off for you." She said this with conviction and was not going to comply and so having a short temper Thranduil ripped the hood off of her head letting it fall to the floor and was amazed at what he saw, the woman that sat before him was in fact an elleth, but she was no mere elleth, she had short brown hair with golden striges in it and when she opened her eyes he was overcome by the beauty of them they were both a beautiful hazel, both her hair and eyes was something he had never seen before in any elf. Not even Galadriel was as beautiful as her.
"Happy now." Saying this almost disappointed in him Leia went to stand up, but her legs suddenly became week, she became drowsy feeling as if the air was once again strangling her she feel to the floor, but then she felt a pair of arms around her knowing that someone had to have caught her and opening her eyes for a second she than saw that it was indeed the elven king Thranduil. He looked to be as surprised as she was, but she would not be able to ask him anything nor could she push him away, she then realised that she had not slept in 18 days and was now consumed by it. She could not move at all and felt weaker than ever, slowly giving in to the slumber in the arms of Thranduil himself.
There we have it chapter three done JJ
So I should probably tell you why I took so long, well final exams start in less than a week and I have to study so if you guys are wondering why I am not uploading it's because of that. I will not be able to upload any chapters until the 25th of November. GREAT…
So maybe I'll find some time to upload but don't count on it.
So that's all I wanted to say. I guess I'll see you guys in the next chapterJToodles!
