Legolas' POV

Leana's attitude the next day puzzled me. Before we bedded down for the night she had been utterly joyous, today she was surly and snapping at everyone. When Faramir offered her some of the dried rations she pointedly refused him and instead started eating food she had conjure out of nowhere.

When we set off I offered her a horse but instead of a nod of acceptance or a polite decline she promptly slapped me in the face and proceeded to run behind us, easily keeping up. I could not fathom the sudden change in Eafth's behavior, she never seemed to flaunt her powers before.

When night finally came, I was grateful, the whole day was spent with Eafth throwing spiteful words at anyone who approached her. As we once again set up campsite I approached Faramir, we needed to talk to her.


Leana's POV

It all made sense why they had rescued me now. They knew, or perhaps guessed, who I truly was, that's why they kept calling me 'my lady'. The day proceeding my discovery I tried to avoid all of them as much as possible. I was tempted to resume my original form, but I decided to remain elven, at least for a while.

We had finally set up camp when Legolas and Faramir approached me. "My lady, is something wrong?" Enquired Faramir.

I tried to keep my head held up as high as I could and said, "No, of course not, why would you think so?"

Legolas seemed to think for a minute then he said, "Leana, something is obviously wrong, tell us now."

The use of my old alias, seemed to break some kind of dam in me. Standing up I screamed for the whole camp to here, "I thought you rescued me because I was your friend, heck I would have been happier if you rescued me out of guilt rather than rescuing me because of who I am. If I wasn't an Ireath would you have rescued me? Would you?"

With every word I felt my self restraint slip as I slowly shed my elven form and transformed into my true form of power. After I finished my tirade and looked straight into Legolas and Faramir's eyes, "Would you have?" I asked softly, regaining my composure. Both heads nodded 'yes', both sets of eyes said 'no'.

At their unwitting admission I felt something inside me snap, no, something inside me exploded into a million pieces. With a wave of my hand, I slammed each man into the surrounding trees, enjoying the sickening crack before I scrambled up one myself and slipped into restfulness.

The next morning when I woke I was briefly disoriented, until I saw the blood on the trunks of trees, until I heard the moans of the wounded, the reassuring whispers of the healers. That brought me sharply back to unwelcome reality, I remembered the horrible things I ha done and...and I had taken pleasure from it.

Jumping clear off the tree I ran over to the men intending to apologize, but as soon as they saw me, they began to retreat, backing away as fast as they could. "P-please," I felt myself choke out, "I mean no harm, I-I'm sorry,"

To emphasize my point, I tried to step forward to try to heal one of the injured men. But he gave a loud cry of alarm and screamed, "Go away!" before realizing what he said and clamping his mouth shut.


(A/N Here I got lazy and skipped to the whole 'we're back in Gondor' part)


The rest of the journey was spent in similar awkwardness, it was a relief when we finally reached Gondor. To be honest, I would have just left them and gone home, if not for the fact that the children were in Gondor, along with four pendants.

When we reached Gondor, many of the people were standing along the path to the top level, thanking me on saving the royal children and praising the valor that I had returned. I smiled at each of them, trying to look genuinely pleased. When we finally reached Aragorn, I was rather tired of smiling and waving, I swept my deepest courtesy and said, "Your highness,"

"You bow to no one my lady," Said Aragorn as he pulled me up. I smiled frostily at his words and I think he recoiled slightly but my attention was immediately diverted as two small children bowled me over and I landed on the floor laughing.

"Leana! You are safe! You came back!" Cried a delighted Eldarion and Elewyn, slowly as disentangled myself and stood up smiling.

"Yes I am, but I have to go soon," and then I added at the sight of the children's dismay, "but I will be back soon." then I caught one of my pendants I just spotted dangling around Elewyn's wrist, "Just wear these and I will find you."

It took me more than quite a few days to get everyone to treat me as Leana again, but eventually I managed to and well, I eventually forgave the royal family, as they still seemed to like me just as well as Leana.


The End

A/N Special thanks to elenweth durfaer, and of course Havain. I am so sorry for the incredibly lame and short ending, I just felt that the whole Ireath spark was dying and this was the best I could conjure up. So sorry.

On a happier note I finally finished my first multi chapter story :D *woooo!* And I think the longest fan fiction story I have written, posted or not, ever.

Finally, the language Leana was using is 华文 or simplified Chinese.

Second finally, thanks to all those who supported me, perhaps one day I will change this incredibly terrible ending, but for now...