Nanaylia growled at the commodore as she began to loosen her grip even further. Elizabeth and Will were both becoming very nervous with the scene before them before the gargoyle before she decided to quickly move and throw Norrington on the ground behind her. He lay there, holding his thraot, gasping for air as another soldier hurried up to him.
"Thank you for sparing my life," Norrington told her.
"Who said anything about sparing your life? I merely decided to not throw you over the side of the building onto the rocks below. I decided to savour your death myself," she told him.
"You really can't be serious!" Will cried out.
"I have never been more serious in my entire life," Nanaylia replied as she slowly walked up to the commodore.
Norrington was slowly trying to back away from her and the soldier quickly got out of the way, but not going too far away.
Norringto couldn't help but look at the person standing before him.
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Sonja looked over Legolas and placed her ear over his mouth.
"He's breathing but barely," she told Thranduil before motioning to him to lay Legolas flat on the ground.
She took a breath and breathed into his mouth. She did it again a few times before Legolas began to cough a bit and began to breath on his own. Thranduil was more than overjoyed to see that his oldest child wasn't dead.
"Legolas, how do you feel?" he asked.
"Throat... very sore. Difficulty... to speak," came the quiet reply.
"Then do not. But I have to go stop your sister. She is about to kill the man who ordered your death," Thranduil told his son.
Legolas nodded, understanding. Sonja stayed with Legolas as she watched Thranduil head for Nanaylia. He saw her hovering over the man. He was very angry with what he was seeing.
"Stop this!" he cried as he stepped forward, getting everyone's attention.
Nanaylia glanced over at him and lowered Norrington to the ground before going to all fours and backing away in fear from her father. He slowly shook his head before walking over to her.
"Follow me," he whispered to her. "I would like to show you something."
The gargoyle followed the elf towards where her brother was now sitting. She was surprised to see him like that and Thranduil could tell that she was. She was expecting him to be dead.
"You do not have to kill him in the gargoyle ways of justice that you have learned over those years. Your brother is fine and we shall leave this place without anymore incident," Thranduil told her.
"I am sorry," she barely said.
She began to follow him as he headed over to Legolas. She began to feel guilty at what she had been about to do and she couldn't face Norrington.
Norrington managed to stand up and stare at the group of three.
"You will not get away with this," he growled at them. "You attacked me and that cannot be tolerated."
Will and Elizabeth in front of him and he was not surprised by this action.
"Why are you defending these 'people'?" wondered Norrington.
"We are defending them because they are our friends. We know of things which you do not," Elizabeth replied as Will nodded in agreement.
"Well, I poarticularly do not care. There are a people different from us and they need to be questioned further. If it turns out they are witches, they will have to die," Norrington explained. "Get them!"
The soldiers headed for the three and restrained them. Nanaylia became frantic as memories soon after her capture came back to her. Legolas remembered the time he and Haldir were attacked by wolves in Lothlorien.
"No. The wolves," whispered Legolas as he couldn't help but fall to his knees from the pain coursing through his body.
Nanaylia managed to pull her arms free and she knelt beside him. Thranduil heard him say this as he began to struggle in the arms of the men holding them. He looked at the ground in thought as he turned towards Nanaylia.
"Jack!" cried Sonja as she ran over to him.
"Sonja," Jack said as they gave each other a hug.
The two let go of the embrace but Jack made sure that he was between her and Norrington.
"I don't believe it. Jack Sparrow has someone to confide in. Too bad that I almost killed her," Norrington said with a smile. "What would have done then?"
"I'm going to make sure you don't go near her anymore, savvy?" Jack replied.
"Try me," the commodore said.
Thranduil turned to Nanaylia and Legolas, who was nearly to the point of passing out.
"Where is the book?" Thranduil asked her in a quiet voice.
Nanaylia gasped as she tried to find it only to find it was nowhere on her.
"I am unsure. I have not seen it since we came here. How will we be able to get back home now?" she replied, sounding upset by it.
Thranduil's face showed anguish. He looked over at Will and Elizabeth as he and his children were being taken away.
'We may never find our way home,' the elf thought to himself.
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"The book! Of course! The book!" Galadriel called out.
The others looked at her with strange looks on their faces.
"Manlin had a book. Nanaylia read from it and now she does not have it. That is because it is still at the place the three were when they disappeared! It never went with them!" she explained.
"Then we should go find it and bring them back," Haldir suggested.
"I believe it is more difficult than what it actually is," murmured Galadriel.
"Well, we should go find this book and bring them back! They belong here!" Elrohir cried out as he stood up from his chair.
Arwen nodded her head in agreement.
"Then lead on back to the place where we found the blood," Celeborn said with a smile.
The group went back out towards the area they were at earlier. They began to look around the place for the book but it was nowhere to be found. Elladan and Arwen both sighed in unison.
"This is hopeless. We are never going to find it. They are never going to get home," Elladan said as he sat down next to a tree.
Arwen knelt beside him and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Do not worry Elladan. We will find it really soon. I have a feeling we will," she told him.
"Do you really think so?" he asked her, blinking the tears from his eyes.
"I have no doubt in my mind," she replied as she glanced down the ravine nearby.
She gasped, causing her family and Haldir to gather around to see what she was looking at. Elladan had to turn to see it. The book.
"How did it get all the way down there?" Elrohir wondered aloud.
"It just has to fall down a hill," muttered Elladan.
"Who is willing enough to retrieve it?" wondered Arwen as she glanced at her brothers.
The twins stared at each other before Elladan sighed and climbed to his feet.
"I will go get it," he told them, placing a hand over his eyes.
Galadriel smiled as the elf began his slow descent down the hill.
"Be careful," he heard Arwen call down to him.
Haldir watched the elf and was soon angry with himself as he looked at Celeborn and Galadriel.
"I should be the one heading down there to get the book, not Elladan. He could get himself seriously injured," Haldir told the two.
"It is hard to say Haldir. The same thing might have happened to you as it will Elladan," she quietly told himas her eyes looked over at him. "One can never tell."
Elladan soon managed to climb down the hill and he soon came to the bottom without incident. He sighed once he picked up the book.
"That was easy enough," he said to himself as he began to climb back up the hill.
"Elladan, are you sure that is a good idea?" Elrohir wondered.
"I will be fine," Elladan replied as he stepped on a rock to gain some leverage.
But that rock immediately gave away and Elladan fell the few feet back down to the ground, landing in an awkward position. He gasped out in pain. The book lay nearby, open to a page. He stared at it, barely hearing his name being called in the distance.
"I think we might have something here," he said to himself.
In a few minutes, he soon became aware of the two figures beside him. He looked up at Haldir and Elrohir.
"Are you alright?" asked his brother.
"I will be fine," groaned Elladan as he tried to stand up and pain screeched through his arm.
He grabbed his arm and both Elrohir and Haldir became worried.
"You are not fine. Your arm has become injured in that fall. We will help you to the top of the hill," Haldir said with a shake of his head.
Elrohir picked up the book and looked at it, becoming just as intrigued as his brother by the strange markings on the page. He took note of the page before the three headed up the hill.
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Once they were at the top and Elladan's arm was taken care of, Elrohir pulled out the book and opened it to the page.
"What do you make of this?" he asked Galadriel.
She took the book and stared at the writings on the page.
"I never believed it possible but it is true," she quietly said.
Everyone around heard what she said and was very curious by it.
"What does that mean?" wondered Arwen.
Galadriel didn't answer her as she studied the writings even further.
'I cannot tell them now. They simply cannot know now. I know that everything about this book will be explained within time. But what should I tell them in the meantime?' Galadriel thought to herself. "I cannot believe that these markings might have been what Manlin used in his spells, like the one he used to control Nanaylia."
The others accepted the answer and Galadriel was happy of that. She read the two pages before her over and over again. She was almost beginning to nderstand but she wasn't certain.
"I believe that this was the spell she used. Notice the tiny blood spatters here," she said, showing the others.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Elrohir wondered. "We should bring them back."
Galadriel looked over the group and smiled.
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Thranduil looked over at his children in the next and could nothing except sigh at the sight.
"Father, if we do not have the book, how can we get home?" he heard Nanaylia ask him.
"Without the book, we have no way of knowing where to start. I am so sorry Nanaylia, for everything," Thranduil told her, his head in the palm of his hand.
They soon heard noises coming from within the building. The two looked to see Wil and Elizabeth hurrying into the room.
"Why are the two of you here?" wondered Thranduil.
"We've come to help you, that's why. Now to get these cells open," Will replied.
The cells were soon opened and Thranduil gently picked up his son as Nanaylia followed him. They followed Will and Elizabeth outside.
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"Why did we stay back again?" wondered Sonja.
"The reason we didn't leave aboard the 'Pearl' is because I want to make sure they're fine. We were in a simliar position as they were," replied Jack as they watched the prison. "I knew that we could help Will and Elizabeth get them out."
Wil and Elizabeth had gone inside and now the two pirates were waiting for the two to walk back out with the three elves.
"There they are," Jack said as they headed towards the door.
A few minutes went by and the group soon came out to be greeted by the two pirates.
"Jack! Sonja!" Will said with a smile on his face.
"Now that these three are out, let's get going before someone notices that they're gone," Jack told them.
He received a group of nods and they hurried back towards the docks.
TBC...
