Chapter 12

Unexpected

"English."
Thoughts.
"Elvish." Even if it's written in English.

A/N: I love this cliffhanger

Disclaimer: This is a work of fanfiction so I own nothing except my OC. and the changes I am gonna do in the story. It turned out that I don't even own the name Nienna;;-;;

Legolas P.O.V.

I saw Nienna's back disappear into the wood. I sat where I were, still taking in her actions and words. Not her soul mate…. I am her soul mate… she have to feel the sparkling when she touch me or when I touch her.
Dose she? Said a voice in my head, What makes you so sure that she is? Just because you feel a little tingling when you touch each other?
I did not listen to the voice, I am sure it is her.

I sighed and rose to walk back to the rest of the fellowship. I walked back thru the wood and too the garden. I saw that it was, to my relief, not elves there. I looked up at the sky and saw that it was just three or four hours left till dawn. So I hurried back to the three we were staying in.

When I was at the top, all in the fellowship was a sleep, and Nienna was not there. I walked passed everyone and sat down at a nearby three starred at the sky and waited for the others to wake up.

A couple of hours later the fellowship woke one by one. And when everyone was up, I hear someone walk up the staircase, by the sound of it an elf. I hoped it was Nienna, she had not gotten back, but it was just an elleth that told us that it was breakfast.
"Where is lady Nienna?" I asked the elleth. She looked at me, and look on her face said that she was pleased with what she saw.
"She is with the lady of light and will not be joining you for breakfast."She answered as we entered the dining area. We sat down at one corner of the room, where we could have some privacy. I sat down in the end of the table, with Aragon at my left side. IU took some bread and cheese and eat it slowly.
"Where is Nienna?" Asked Peregrin to no one in particular.
"She is with lady Galadriel." I and Aragon said. "And she will not be joining us in a while." Aragon continued, Pippin nodded and turned to his friends and Boromir to tell him the story on how he and Merry joined Frodo, Samwise and Nienna. I listened to him in silences while I ate.
"Do you know where Nienna was last night?"Argon asked and looked at me.
"She walked back to her family tree, to spend to night there."I lied and hopped it was true.

The fellowship and I exchanged stories and guessed what Nienna had been doing, before we walked back to the tree we were staying in. I changed from my silver tunic and back over to my traveling clothes, strapped my quiver and bow on my back, when I heard to elves walk up the staircase. One of them was Nienna. When she got in view she had another elf beside her or elleth to be more correct. This elleth had red hair in the rots and it got more and more yellowish the further down you got, she had clear green eye color and red lips. She was almost as tall as Nienna and was a little slimmer in her body. It took me sometime to place the elleth with a name.
"Merilwen?" I asked in surprise and did not believe that the woman born of fire stood in front of me.
"Well meet my prince." She said and bowed her head. I scanned her down and up, she had cloths that were a little strange and odd. She had brown boots, not so odd, but the rest. She had tight dark red breeches, with a strange looking skirt, it was black in the begging and in the end it was yellow/golden. Her shirt was in two parts, there was a sort of light gray under-shirt. The other shirt was back whit long arms and open shoulders. Between her breasts broach that almost looked like real fire. Around her neck was a necklace and in the middle was a ball that was made of…fire?
"Who are you?" Boromir asked and look curiously at the woman in front of us.
"I am Merilwen, the woman born of fire and cousin to Nienna."
"Cousins? I have a hard time to believe that." Boromir said and looked at Merilwen in suspicious.
"When I was little I and my family got caught in a fire. My mother and father died, but I somehow survived. My white hair changed to this color and I got the ability to control fire. It was Nienna's uncle that found me and adopted me." She said in a sad voice. "I have told you my name, what is yours my lords?"
"I am Boromir, son of Denethor."
"Aragon, son of Arathron."*
"Gimli, son of Glóin."
"I am Peregrin Took, and this is Merry Brandybuck, Samwise Gamgee and Frodo Baggins." Pippin said and pointed at the hobbit when he said there names.
"And I am Legolas of the wood realm." She gave me a big smile.
"Oh, I know who you are, I saw you for the first time when you was just elfling. I have to say that you have come to look more like your father and more handsome over the years that passed." I felt my cheeks grow hot. She just smiled at me.
"Gentleman I am just going to show Nienna a thing, so if you will be so kind and excuse us." Merilwen said and dragged Nienna towards the staircase. "Oh and met us at the training ground in 1 hour, and take Haldir with you." And with dose words she was gone, with Nienna in her heels. I looked at Aragon and he looked at me, he shrugged.
"What just happened?" Asked Boromir confused.
"Is that not obvious, it seems that Nienna is not as lonely as she thinks." Aragon said. An awkward silence grew and I was the one to break it.
"Shall we go and look for Haldir?" I asked, and everyone nodded in agreement.
"So, dose someone knows where he is?" Pippin asked.
"He is in his home, I was supposed to meet him today and talk a little about what rode we will take next." Aragon said while he started to walk down the stairs.

When we got to where Haldir lived he was talking to his brothers, Rúmil and Orophin. Haldir looked a little skeptical about watch two woman watch attempt to fight. His brother just looked at him questioningly, Haldir quickly explained what was going on in elvish. The two brothers looked at each other and laughed.
"You would get surprised in both the way they fight and how experienced they are." Aragon said, the brothers stopped laugh and looked at Aragon amused.
"We are coming, Estel." Rúmil said and rose from the chair.

When we go to the training ground the first thing I saw was that Nienna had a big boulder over her head while the wind was twisting around her. The second thing was that she had changed cloth, not only from a gown till breeches and a tunic; she had got a new outfit. She had green boots the end by her knees, her breeches was tight and in a cream color. Her shirt looked like it was in two parts; the lower part was brown and looked like it was some sort of corset and the upper part was in a light green color with drack green details. I saw that too had armor ion her lower arms. I was about to call the girls names when I saw that Nienna was in deep concentration, the sweat was pearling in her forehead and she started to bleed from her nose. When the blood started the drip on the ground Merilwen entered.
"That is enough you can drop the boulder." She said and Nienna thru the boulder at the side, so that the ground shook and took up a piece of cloth and dried away the blood from her face. I saw that Nienna had a cut her hair too, not much, just in the forehead. "That was good…."
"Let me guess, I can do better?" Nienna said bitterly.
"Yes, you can." Merilwen said in a low and desirous voice. The two girls starred at each other in anger and was it a piece jealousy from Merilwen.
"What is so special, I have seen you lift a boulder before." Boromir said, and broke the silence that had grown.
"I lifted the bolder with the element of air." She said, and got really surprised and was not the only one.
"What? Why does everyone look so surprised?" Orophin asked.
"Nienna just lifted that rock with the element of air." I said and they looked as surprised as I felt.
"If you think that was impressive you may like to watch a battle between two elemental controllers." Merilwen said.

So there we stood at the training ground. I, the fellowship, Haldir, his brothers and some other elves, and was about to witness a battle between two elements controllers.
"There is only one rule, no weapons, only fight with the element." Nienna said.
"To make it a little fair, you should choose one to fight with." Merilwen said.
"Just because you can only control one dose it nor mean I have to do it." Nienna said little cocky.
"Wait!" Pippin exclaimed. "So Merilwen, you can only control one. While Nienna can control two."
"I can control four axially." Nienna interrupted, Pippin starred at her with his mouth open. I was surprised too, I had only seen her control one, but knew that see could control two.
"What I think Pippin is trying to say is, why is that? Why is that you can control four while Merilwen one?" Both Nienna and Merilwen shrugged.
"Why can Lady of the light read thoughts and Lord Elrond see in the further?" Nienna asked as a rhetorical question.
"Shall we start? And yes you can use all the elements." Merilwen said and walked a good way from Nienna. Nienna crouched, placated one hand flat on the ground and the other in the air behind her back and leaned forward. Merilwen too crouched but putted only her finger tips on the ground and two finger to her face, and held a straighter potion. Nienna was the first one to attack, she leaped up and jumped high in the air and in the proses a rock few up in her hand. Merilwen stayed where she was, just waited. Nienna landed and thru the rock in lighting speed towards Merilwen. The rock was a few meters from Merilwen's face when she threw a fireball that destroyed the rock. Nienna stomped in the ground and pulled her fists down and up. So that she bought up two rocks, that she kick them away towards Merilwen. She rolled away from them and slapped her hands together and created a big pile of fire directed towards Nienna, but Nienna pulled her hands in front of her and the fire moved to the sides.

They continued to attack and evade each other until one point Nienna just threw rocks at Merilwen, whom in her turn destroyed them with fire. It formed a great dust cloud that hid the two fighters for the crowd. When the cloud was gone Nienna stood in front of Merilwen, that was stuck in the ground, with ice spears directed to her face and chest.
"It looks like I win." Nienna said and turned the ice into water and into the water skin behind her back. She realized Merilwen and helped her up.
"But you are still cheating." She said and walked away.
"Hey, you think dose elemental controllers we are going to meet is going to do it nicely? No, they are going to play all the dirty tricks they can, so they can kill or capture us." Nienna said.
"If we do meet some." Merilwen said and walked out from the training ground.
"What did she mean with that?" I asked her.
"Elemental controllers are getting fewer and fewer, I and my brother was the latest once to be born with the gift." She said. It was quiet and we started to walk from the training ground.
"So what do we do now?" Pippin asked.
"We train and recover our strength before we get back out on our task." Aragon said.
"Do you mind if I join you on your task to destroy the one ring?" Merilwen said and appeared from out of nowhere.

A/N: I know this is a kind of short chapter but I wanted update. So you like it? Hate it? And what do you think about this new character?