No, unfortunately, neither lily7707 nor I own Lord of the Rings or anything to do with it… Cause if we did, then we'd be rolling in money… Which we're not…
"Where is Johnny?" Legolas demanded turning to Lanna.
"Oh, Leggy" Lanna ran over to him and started crying on his barbequed shoulder. Legolas pealed her off of him and held her at a arms distance as to look into her tear filled eyes.
"Where is he?" Legolas repeated.
"They took him to the mines! He'll die down there! That's where they station all the guards who..." she cut off in her own terror. Sheryll stepped in.
"The guards stationed there are the ones who cannot control themselves and get some sick pleasure from torturing slaves for no good reason" she said through her own tears.
"There have been awful stories of slaves beaten to death deep underground or thrown into the furnace for entertainment! He's only 9!" Lanna cried. "I don't understand, Johnny was a good slave, always followed ALL the rules." Legolas pulled Lanna into a hug and motioned for Sheryll to join the hug. Legolas whispered into their ears.
"Dry your tears, I WILL get Johnny back"
"HOW LEGOLAS?" Sheryll screamed backing out of the hug. "How you gonna do that? Need I remind of you of a teeny, tiny ever so crucial detail: YOU ARE A SLAVE!" tears streamed down her cheeks. Legolas ignored her and instead asked Lanna.
"Lanna, what is your daily routine? When you're not "in trouble" that is?"
Lanna looked confused but answered. "6 set table for master's breakfast..." Legolas put up a hand with a smile.
"Thank you Lanna that'll work" he said looking at the two girls' extremely confused faces. "Sheryll, Lanna, do not become angry at me for what I propose next" they glared but nodded. "We gotta be good little slaves
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Johnny was scared. Johnny was honest to God- if there was one, since Johnny was seriously doubting Him now- scared. He knew every story of the slaves who were taken to the mines. They went down the mine stairs and never came out, beaten to death by guards, pushed into the furnace for entertainment, mine collapsing, or dying from dehydration. Johnny was thrown from his thoughts when the guard opened a familiar door, a door that appeared quite frequently in Johnny's dreams since he found out what it led to. The door to the outside world. He was led outside and pushed all thoughts of the mine from his mind as mud squeezed between his bare toes and for the first time in 9 years he took a breath of fresh air. This is it. He thought, this is what Mr. Legolas was talking about. This is why he's so determined to find a way out. This is what he misses. It was a dream beyond which he was ever able to dream. He felt as if he could run a million miles without ever stopping. He lifted his face into the sun and let it warm his features. However as all dreams, it ended much too soon and he was forced down into the mines. He took a breath half-way expecting still have a little bit of the fresh air but was greeted with a very dusty and gross reality. Freedom smells of pine. Slavery smells of death. The miner gave him a gold plated smile.
"Welcome to the seventh layer of hell, Johnny boy."
So this is how Mr. Legolas felt.
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Everything had gone according to Legolas's master plan. Legolas acted broken and ashamed and Regulus bought it brushing it off as finally getting through to him with the last session of torturer. So to the mighty Regulus, Legolas was finally broken in and ready for his first day of chores. But Regulus got too cocky and let the three slaves set the breakfast table with only two guards waiting outside the doors. Legolas walked purposefully toward Lanna and grabbed her hand opening it and wrapping it around a steak knife that he had gotten out of the dinner wear. She looked at it for a long moment before looking up at him with doe eyes.
"You can do this" he encouraged her.
"No," Sheryll interrupted "that man took Johnny's mother and my best friend. Now he tries to take Johnny as well. He's mine," she took the knife from Lanna and held it threateningly by her side with her pointer finger against the back of the blade.
"Listen to me carefully" he demanded. "Sheryll will play the part of poor, defenseless, innocent slave and kill Regulus. Lanna you will follow behind her. Open the window from Regulus's room and climb onto the roof. There should be a tree right next to the roof, if both your descriptions are correct, and you both run straight in to the trees. Do not stop for anything. Not for me. Not for Johnny. Anything. You run until you get to Rivendell—you've both heard my description. Find a human by the name Estel, hopefully he would have had the sense to go back to Rivendell when I did not show at our meeting place. Tell him Legolas needs him and point him in the right direction. Then, STAY AT RIVENDELL" he whispered the plan harshly.
"What about you, Leggy?" Lanna asked.
"Not your concern. Now go," he pleaded. The trio separated with each person ready to carry out their part of the plan.
Legolas ran for the mines, keeping to the shadows as much as possible. He made it to the front door... it was unguarded but Legolas didn't have time to be suspicious. He wrenched them open and ran towards the mines. Didn't even take the time to take a deep breath. He felt a hand on his arm and he heard the whispered words in his ear
"Well, well, well, it seems little Leggy ain't so broke after all" he was dragged by two goons away from the mines, away from Johnny, away from freedom, back inside back to slavery. He just he just prayed to whatever greater force out there that the girls had been able to get away even if they hadn't killed Regulus.
Lily: So close... so far away.
Voice: Poor Johnny boy!
Lily: OMG Voice! I just realize I just completed my last chapter before the epilogue!
Voice: Yup, Smiley gets to wrap it up and then we get the epilogue aka the scene that started it all.
Lily: How we doin'? Exciting? I've given up being evil on this story I just can't seem to do it.
Voice: That's because you're writing other stories which are just plain mean, such as I don't know, Isa. I mean how many times have you all but killed the character IN THE FIRST CHAPTER?
Lily: Hahaha you're still mad about that?
Voice: Yes!
Lily: REVIEW :D IT MAKE ME HAPPY you want me to be happy right? I write faster when I'm happy... also Smiley likes me more when I'm happy aka I can actually convince smiley to write when I'm happy :D