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CHAPTER 2 - MEETINGS AND DREAM-SHARING

It was almost a few days that pass by nearly a week later, that Lord Elrond from Rivendell and Lady Galadriel from Lothlorien had finally come to the Woodland Realm to visit the Elvenking Thranduil, along with Gandalf the Grey wizard who followed beside them after they had gotten the messages and the Istari was curious about why the Elvenking needed him along so he came with the other two elves to Thranduil's kingdom.

Once they were brought in and guided to the Elvenking politely by some guards and the royal elf butler, they were led straight to King Thranduil who was already waiting for them calmly in the grand royal throne room.

Though he looked calm and stone-cold looking on the outside, the elf lord and the elf queen, even the grey wizard could easily tell that he seemed anxious and worried about something on the inside. They wondered what this is about until the Elvenking motioned to his elf guards and other elves, and he ordered them to leave them alone, and then they all did until it was only the Elven rulers and the Istari wizard that was there in the grand room.

Then he motioned them to follow him as they walked to some sort of private room where no one could hear their conversation from the outside, even if it's the other elves that are nearby of that room. Once they're all in, Thranduil dropped his ice-cold persona and looked at his Elven friends anxiously.

"Thank you all for coming, especially you, Mithrandir. I feel like I'm almost reaching at the edge of a cliff or something," he said softly as if he couldn't hold whatever he's been holding something inside in and speaking in the Westron common language, despite that Gandalf could speak and understand Sindarin Elf language.

Elrond looked at his friend Thranduil confused as if surprised at the kind of worrying emotions that he's giving out to them. "I understand that the message sent to us has notified that you have your soulmate mark but…I don't see why it gives you that much concern?"

Galadriel nodded in agreement. "Indeed. Finding out that your Elven soulmate has been born is a cause for rejoicing and celebration. Why are you being like this, my friend?"

Thranduil shook his head. "I'm sorry for my actions but-yes, I'm overjoyed about my mark and finding out of my soulmate but…the reason, why I've been so anxious and worried when I sent out the messages to you, is that my pair is in danger."

Instantly his two friends tensed in shock and alarm at this and Thranduil continued before they were about to ask or speak more. "And the threat that's endangering my soulmate is a dark Istari."

"What!?" Gandalf exclaimed incredulously as he's completely stunned at this sudden grim knowledge.

Then the two elf rulers and the wizard listened to Thranduil as he told and explained to them everything that he had seen through the gifted connection of the Dream-sharing with his pair and the three people listened to the Elvenking without interrupting until he's finished telling them what they need to know and what his concerns and worries were.

"...And then the elf woman had picked up my soulmate after the snowy owl brought her there, and just as I was about to follow them where she was taking her to wherever she was living in the forests that the Dream-sharing ended and I woke up." Thranduil finished saying and he saw that the three of them were stunned as he's done telling what happened with his pair.

"How fascinating! Elves that can use magic like an Istari-remarkable!" Gandalf remarked in amazement and stroked his beard.

"But the kind of dark magic that monstrous being is using…" Galadriel shuddered as her Elven gift of telepathy had helped her see the same things that Thranduil had seen in his Dream-sharing while he told them everything about his pair. "How horrible!"

Elrond pursed his lips grimly. "If that dark Istari is still roaming about somehow in his phantom form…then that means we must make haste on finding your pair and her guardian."

Thranduil agreed with his friend and he was already prepared for that, for after he had sent out the messengers, he also sent out elf scouts around Middle Earth with the sketches that he drew from the elf people he had seen from the Dream-sharing. He also hands out the copies of the drawn sketches he had made of his soulmate's elf parents and the elf woman who has his soulmate in her care towards his friends. "Please tell me either of you recognize any of them or familiar with?" he asked pleadingly, hoping that one of them does.

Elrond, Galadriel, and Gandalf looked at the pictures with studying eyes as if intensely trying to remember who they might or where they might have seen them, and then it took about a few minutes for Elrond to be staring at the picture of the elf man who is the father, while Galadriel is staring and unblinking at the image of the elf woman who's the mother.

"No, it can't be. It's not possible." Elrond whispered to himself in soft pauses but Thranduil noticed this and asked him. "Elrond, my friend. You know him?"

"I think so, maybe. This elf man-he might be a descendant of a missing Elf who has the same black hair and he was supposed to sail to Valinor with his family almost three millennia ago, but they never made it to the ships," he said.

Galadriel seemed to be agreeing with Elrond as she shared her thoughts on the picture of the elf woman she's holding. "You may be right on that. I'm familiar with a bit of the image of this woman. I believe this red-haired green-eyed elf woman is a descendant of another missing Elf and her family that were also supposed to sail to Valinor for about two millennia ago but-"

"They didn't make it to the ships?" Gandalf finished the Elf Lady's sentence and she nodded to him.

Galadriel continued, "When I heard of it, I sent my kin out to find them but…it's like they disappeared into thin air or something."

"It's the same with mine. I had sent out men and scouts to search for that missing Elf's family and then sometime later, they reported back to me that they couldn't find them at all and it baffled them that they had somehow disappeared just like that." Elrond said.

Thranduil looked confused at this while Gandalf looked puzzled and interested over this mystery of the missing Elven families from long ago. "Interesting…very interesting…" he mused to himself softly.

Then the Elvenking sighed as he took the third picture of his soulmate's caretaker and guardian. "It doesn't help much but-I'm sure none of you recognize or familiar with this one?"

They all shook their heads in a negative, and Gandalf is also a bit stumped that he never bumped into or met that elf woman during his travels.

"But don't lose hope," Galadriel said as she reassured Thranduil. "Maybe by the next night of the Dream-sharing with your pair, you will be able to find out where she is and who is taking care of her and everything."

The Elvenking was instantly comforted at her words but he couldn't stop the worry for himself about his soulmate that is vulnerable and still in danger from the phantom-ghost dark Istari that's roaming about somewhere unknown and might be hunting her. He couldn't wait until night time comes so that he'll be in the Dream-sharing again and find out what's happening with his pair and what's going on.

Thranduil looked at his two Elven friends and Gandalf imploringly before he asked them nervously which is the first time for someone known to be as cold like him among his people in his kingdom realm, except his son Legolas, his two Elven friends and the wizard Gandalf had long known the Elvenking better than what other elves had thought about the cold and ice-stone king.

"Would you mind if all of you would stay for a few days and accompany me?" he asked uncertain and nervous, hoping that they will stay and help him with his troubles concerning his worries over his soulmate pair.

They understood and smiled reassuringly to their friend as they accepted his offer and Gandalf said jovially. "Of course, your majesty! To be precise, I wasn't planning to travel anywhere right now and taking a short break for myself. This is an interesting opportunity I wouldn't want to miss out on about your pair!"

Elrond and Galadriel chuckled at the wizard's enthusiasm and excitement over something new that he's being part of and joining in, while King Thranduil doesn't know whether he should be a bit amused at this or insulted that his soulmate is some sort of entertainment for the Grey Wizard.

But he knew that the gray Istari meant no harm with his words as he could also understand his enthusiasm for learning something new about magic, especially that somehow Elves could use it and using wands instead of staff to channel the magic. True, it is rare in some cases that Elves would use magic as part of some of their gifts blessed from the Valar, but there was no record of any story told that an Elf would use wand magic of the kind.

After that, Thranduil talked to his Elven friends and the wizard some more about other things, it wasn't long until one of his servants announced that it's dinner time and they went to have their meals before the Elvenking led his guests to their guest rooms where they will stay in their duration here in the Woodland Realm.

After he was finished leading his friends to their rooms, he went hurriedly to get ready for bed and get back to the Dream-sharing so that he would find out what's been happening with his soulmate pair.

He didn't realize that his anxiety and eagerness to getting back to the Dream-sharing with his elf pair, has made him instantly fall asleep once he lies on the big grand bed in his room.

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Thranduil's eyes blinked like he's being woken up and was delighted to find himself standing in the same royal robes again like before and he saw that the surroundings around him looked to be the same kind of forests that he had seen the elf woman, who was called Adriana Evergreen, is somewhere living in with his soulmate.

He heard laughter ahead among the thick forest trees, that looked to be darkened in a grey misty shadow, despite that it's a bright sunny day that he had noticed. He went forward to follow the sounds but also cautiously just in case he might run and see something unsavory or suspicious up ahead.

It didn't take long for him to approach into what looked to be a forest glade, with two slightly leafless giant trees in the middle of it, and one of them had a small house-like cottage that looked to be attached or fused against the bark and roots of the tree.

He was about to come closer to the cottage to find out if his soulmate and her guardian is living there, when it turns out that he didn't have to when the elf woman Adriana opened one of the windows of the cottage and poked her head outside, looking around and shouted.

"Hari!" Adriana Evergreen yelled in the common language to somebody out there in the forest glade she's living in. "Hariana Evergreen, where are you!? It's almost lunchtime-come home right now and wash your hands, little lady!"

"Coming!" a childish toddler voice cried out in the same language the adult elf woman spoke and the voice came from the tall flowery bushes of the glade, as a young elfling that looked to be a toddler had come running out from the plants and was giggling merrily while being followed by her feet of a few cute white rabbits hopping behind her.

Thranduil was completely stunned shocked by seeing his soulmate had already grown up so fast, despite that he knew that all elves age slowly in Middle Earth. It's impossible for time to move so fast since it's only been a day that he had the Dream-sharing with his pair on the very beginning moment that the elfling was born. He wondered what in Valar's grace is going on but then he realized that magic might have something to do with it since he had witnessed and seen it before that his soulmate's parents and her new elf guardian can somehow wield it. It looks like that he'll have to focus on being close to his soulmate and her new guardian to find out and discover answers on this unusual and peculiarly unique predicament.

He quickly followed after his soulmate that was running inside the cottage, and the little white rabbits followed along behind her, and he managed to get in before the door closed, even though he nearly forgot that he's in a dream and that he could have just phased through it like a ghost, without worry on hitting against something solid at his face.

He looked around at the inside of the cottage and it looked like a normal clean country house, except he noticed some things around him from all sides that there are objects and other things that show signs that a typical usual Istari is living in it. He had his fair share on knowing that this is slightly similar to how Istari has been living since he used to personally visit a few of them, including Gandalf the Grey himself. He could see a bookshelf filled with magic books on one side, while another side showed a cabinet table that has bottles and vials in different sizes and has liquid contents inside it in various colors, and he thinks from first sight they might be potions or magic medicine of some sort. Thranduil wanted to look around more and see if he could find any clues from the inside of the cottage that would tell him who the elf woman is and wonder how she could be able to wield magic like an Istari, the same before like his soulmate's parents.

But then he decided to look on his soulmate and smiled at the sight when little elf Hari had finished washing her hands and was now sitting on her chair next to a dining table, looking a little impatient to have her lunch now.

Hari was swinging her little feet as she sat on her chair and giggled a little when her rabbit friends hopped about as if wanting to catch the feet she's swinging about, then she stopped when Adriana came over and then put down their plates that has their food on it and she was excited to eat already as Adriana sat down on her chair. Once she did, the elfling ate her lunch with good table manners and it made her guardian proud and before they were finished with their luncheon meal, Adriana stopped eating for a moment, took out her wand from the holster inside one of the arms of her long-sleeved shirt, gave it a wave and summoned a water-full pitcher and two glasses to their table.

Hari squealed and clapped her hands in glee as she saw the magic happen and the summoned items flew gracefully towards the table, the empty glasses laid next to each of their plates and the water pitcher tilted to fill the two glasses and then sets down, without a drop spilled. Adriana smiled at the elfling's enthusiasm when she did this and then she became serious when Hari spoke to her in a fluent Elf language childishly. "Mom, when will I be able to do magic too?!"

"When you grow older, and not until after you learn first to be a true elf of Arda, that you are born as," she replied calmly as if the elfling had asked this many times.

"But Mom!" she cried whining with a cute pout. "That's too long! I wanna do magic too!"

Adriana sighed before she had a sudden idea on how to distract her away from this subject. "Are you finished with your lunch? You can play with your animal friends now."

"YAY!" Hari instantly cried out in glee, instantly forgetting about wanting to do magic part, and quickly jumped off the chair and ran off outside into the glade with her white rabbit friends trying to chase after her in their hopping.

Adriana also followed after the running elfling and shouted over to her as she stood on the open doorway. "Just remember to stay inside the magical barriers of the Grey-Mists Forest, Hari!"

"I know, Mom! I remember!" Hari cried back as she runs around and was calling for her other forest animal friends. Adriana shook her head fondly at the sight of her elfling playing about before she turned around and shut the door behind her as she busied herself in cleaning up.

Thranduil followed his young soulmate, Hari, as she romps around and plays with her animal friends, which is a mixture from small like the rabbits, squirrels, and chipmunks, and from the big ones, like the female does, male stags (which he is happy to see that his soulmate favored the stag more), badgers, and foxes. It surprised him a little that Hari also made friends with a big grizzly bear who was very gentle with her like a real teddy bear, and a gray-white wild wolf that frolicked around her like a playful puppy and made the elfling giggle with glee at the fun she's playing with the animals. Then he noticed that above on the trees, perching on the branches and watching her like guard dogs, are the same two owls he had seen before which was the snowy white owl Athena that belong to his soulmate, and the eagle owl that belong to his pair's guardian which he didn't know what name the bird's been given.

He wondered to himself why that her guardian is not teaching her to use magic as well for it is useful when she needs to protect and defend herself against any danger or threat since he still worries about the dark Istari phantom that's lurking about somewhere and is after his soulmate. He wondered why she said that Hari has to wait until she's older and that she needs to learn and grow to be the elf of Arda that she needs to be in the future.

While he was thinking this, he didn't realize that Hari has been playing and had gone far away from the forest glade as she had intended to and that's when he noticed some kind of shimmering glowing barrier at the far edge of the forests, which he instantly thinks that this must be the magical barriers that surround the forest, the ones that the elf woman Istari had said before. He noticed that Hari wasn't aware that she was playing and running about near the magic barriers until some of her animal friends noticed this and knew about the dangers and tried to stop her from going there. As the elfling Hari became instantly confused at the sudden change of behavior in her animal friends, Thranduil suddenly noticed with his keen elf eyes that someone was standing outside the magical barriers of the forest and he tensed and was on guard, thinking that whoever that was might be a threat to his soulmate.

He saw that his pair had noticed the strangers outside the barriers of her forest home and she became instantly scared and was about to run away from them when the two strangers saw her, but then the Elvenking became more horrified when the two strangers revealed themselves to be Istari as well, and that they are the bad types because one of them started to entice his soulmate, Hari, with a wave from his wand and cast magic shiny bubbles at her sight, enchanting her when she saw this. He instantly knew that they are bad ones, despite they're wearing normal colored wizard robes because the other one beside the wizard who was using magic to enchant his elf soulmate was preparing himself to capture Hari as soon as she gets out of the barrier and he saw some kind of magic collar on one of his hands, while the other hand is holding his wand, that will be used to enslave his soulmate or something.

He was instantly angered and outraged that these two Istari would dare to enslave his pair but he was helpless to just watch this since he couldn't be able to intervene in the Dream-sharing and stop Hari from getting near towards the evil Istari as she got enchanted by the magic she caught sight of. However, he became instantly relieved when he heard shouting that is familiar to him and recognize that it's his soulmate's guardian coming to the rescue.

'STUPEFY! STUPEFY!' Adriana yelled angrily as she made striking waves from her wand, and then red rays of light struck at the two wizards outside the forests' magic barriers and they fell back down stunned on the ground like statues. Hari gasped as she seemed to snap out of whatever magic daze she got trapped in and was instantly scooped up by her guardian and she started crying when Adriana went to scold her sternly and punish her by spanking her bottom. "You foolish girl! What were you doing?! I told you not to get out of the magic barriers!"

"I'm sorry, Mommy! I'm sorry!" she cried when her guardian lightly spanked her bottom as punishment for almost disobeying her. "But I didn't mean to! The Istari outside was showing nice shiny magic to me that I wanted to come close and see it more!"

Adriana sighed, "Good or not, you should've stayed within the circle and not out of it! Thank Eru and great Valar, Archimedes flew straight back to me and warned me about it!"

The eagle owl that is Adriana's familiar is named Archimedes and he was flying around a bit like he's proud of what he did and then went to perch beside Athena the snowy owl and puffs up proudly which made Athena huff a bit disapprovingly at the eagle owl's prideful behavior, even though Athena is the same way too.

Thranduil watched as Adriana was done punishing Hari a little for her attempt to leave the magic barrier despite that it wasn't her fault but the fallen Istari for making the elfling fall to their trap. Then the elf woman Adriana changed her stern attitude to a loving one as she soothed Hari to stop her crying. After Hari was comforted, Adriana turned serious again, set the elfling down and told her to stay there while she deals with the Istari she had struck whatever spell she cast to stun them down.

He saw her come out through the barrier, march straight to kneel next to the two fallen Istari and then heard her mutter something as she cast another two spells at them which were two rays of white light into their heads. He was shocked to hear that the spells she had struck on the two Istari were memory-erasing spells and she intoned the magic of the spells to make the Istari forget about everything that they had seen elfling Hari, the place they had seen her and anything else they thought of knowing about the elves. Once Adriana is finished, she waved her wand again and then made the stunned fallen Istari disappear and transport them into another place far away from their forest home. Once she's done with that, she went back inside the magic barrier, picked Hari up and then walked back to their cottage in the forest glade. He followed after them, as he is relieved that his soulmate has a strong magic-wielding guardian taking care of her forever until he finds a way somehow to find his pair and bring her to his kingdom safely, away from these Istari and the dark phantom Istari that is hunting for them. He guessed a little that may be part of the reason why the dark Istari that's roaming about as a phantom wraith hasn't found Hari yet was because of the magical barrier she and her guardian are inside within of the forest home.

He went inside the cottage, following Adriana as she goes to put Hari into her bedroom, which looked neatly clean and very luxurious like it's fitted for a royal visitor or something. Thranduil smiled fondly at the sight when Adriana gently placed Hari on her bed from her arms and then tucked her in.

He watches Hari begging her guardian for a story and just as Adriana smiled warmly at her charge, sat down and was about to tell her something, did little Hari started asking for another kind of story. And it turns out that the young elfling Hari wanted to know about why she's not allowed to get outside the magic barrier of the forest.

Thranduil saw that the elf guardian Adriana hadn't expected that and she asked Hari if she was sure that she wanted to hear the story about it because it's a very sad one and not good for an elfling to hear. He could see that despite how very young Hari is as an elfling, it's like she had matured quickly and demanded to know the reason why she's not allowed to get out and explore the world beyond the Grey-Mists Forests.

He saw the elf woman looked torn and indecisive at this, that she wanted Hari to wait until she grows older to understand but he saw that she knew that it was inevitable and that there is a risky chance that Hari might be enticed again by the Istari outside, so she told her story as best as she could for the elfling to understand what her elf age right now could grasp.

It was fortunate that he could hear and now know about this, but what he heard next as Adriana Evergreen had told the story to Hari about all of it and everything else-it was not something that he wholly expected. Something that he never thought was beyond anything he could ever imagine on finding out and discovering about his soulmate's whereabouts.

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As the new day arrived with the rising sun of the early morning, the Elvenking Thranduil had woken up from the Dream-sharing when it ended with the sunlight shining through the windows and into his room, but he just stayed there lying on his bed, looking up the ceiling dazedly as if stunned at what he had seen or heard from his pair the last night.

He laid there for a silent moment in a long time, but it's only a few seconds before he sat up quickly on his bed, dressed hurriedly to his royalty clothes and then walked off in a fast sprint to get to Lord Elrond, Lady Galadriel, and Gandalf and gather them for another meeting that they must discuss about more.

He knew that it was rude on barging into their guest rooms and waking them up, but his friends could tell from his hastiness that he seemed worried about something and didn't mind the impolite manners the elf king had done to them, for they understood the concern radiating from him about his soulmate.

So the two elf rulers and the wizard hurriedly dressed up and then followed Thranduil to the same private room where they will be having their conversation.

After the servants that were inside the private room had finished setting up the few drinks and small meals for their breakfast, King Thranduil waved them off with a slashing gesture for them to leave them alone and they did until it's only the Elvenking, the two elven rulers and the Grey wizard that are only there in that room.

However, King Thranduil was a bit polite at least to let them have their breakfast first, as he just took a drink of hot tea to calm his nerves down and relax so that he would be able to tell the story about his pair to his friends without looking frantic again like before. Once they were finished and the three were anticipating patiently to listen to his story, and so Thranduil went straight to the point and told them everything that he had gotten from the Dream-sharing of his soulmate pair.

Once he had finished telling and they heard the whole story without interrupting, they were all stunned amazed and mystified as they reacted the same way as Thranduil did last night, for they did not expect a shocking revelation about the Elvenking's pair.

"Another world? Are you absolutely sure, my friend?" Elrond asked, looking stunned shocked at the prospect that there is another world besides Arda or Middle Earth itself.

Thranduil nodded at him. "I'm positive. Everything I had seen, witnessed and listened in my dreams last night from my pair wasn't a lie or some kind of twisted magical fabrication. Her guardian even used magic to show my pair about the world she's living in when she was telling her the story. My soulmate is born and living in another world that is known amongst the populace as Earth and among the parts of where the magical beings are is called the Wizarding World."

"How fascinating!" Gandalf exclaimed excitedly as he stroked his beard with one hand. "Another world that has these kinds of new magic and many Istari almost similar like me!"

"But the world is divided from between the magical beings and the normal human races because of the magical ones' unknown fear or prejudice against the mundane ones." Galadriel mused at this thoughtfully as her gift of telepathy had helped her to see what Thranduil has seen and listened in the dreams of his soulmate.

"I know that it's rare for two elven soulmates to have this connecting gift of Dream-sharing but-I never heard of such a thing that another pair would be living in another world, instead of Arda." Elrond mused aloud, thinking thoughtfully over this on how such a soul-bonding union would be possible for King Thranduil if his soulmate is in a different world vastly far and unknown than here of Middle Earth. Then the Rivendell Elf Lord became serious as he gazed at Thranduil and asked. "And you say that your soulmate is in danger from this other world that had these Istari in it?"

Thranduil nodded with a grim look on his face like he's frustrated at this knowledge and that he couldn't do anything to help his pair. "Yes. According to her guardian-from what I could decipher and understand on the story she had told to my pair-, she said that ever since that somehow the elves and dwarves of Middle Earth long ago had stumbled into the other world of Istari, and that they are all trapped there and had no means to get back-no matter how much they have tried to find or research on it but all have failed. Even as time had passed on, and grown along with their passing family bloodlines and descendants, there has been no successful attempt on finding a way back to Arda. And the elves and dwarves have adapted to survive in the other world by utilizing and wielding their new magic. They did this for most of the Istari in the other world wanted to enslave them all, forcing them into hiding, all because they are different from the dwarves and elves of the Istari's world. Even those Istari that think themselves that they are the good ones of the Light believes that it is their right to enslave the beings of Arda into eternal servitude."

This kind of knowledge about the other world and its Istari counterparts living in it had shocked, amazed, and also horrified Thranduil's elven friends, even the grey wizard, and it had also saddened Gandalf even more on the appalling facts about the Istari in the other world are all blinded with their prejudice and bias because they believe themselves better than the other species of that magical world, as they had done with them dividing themselves away from the mundane normal human beings. Though he was excited to learn about the new kind of magic of the other world, he instantly became disappointed in finding out how the Istari have been using it, for both good and bad.

Lord Elrond turned to Lady Galadriel seriously when he considered this grave situation. "If this is true-then this is what happened to the missing Elven families millenniums ago. We'll need to send out people to track their last whereabouts and find out exactly where they have gone missing, then maybe we might be able to find the source on how they disappeared and had gotten into that other world." Lady Galadriel nodded in agreement with this.

Gandalf spoke out loud joining in. "I will help! If magic is the possible root source on somehow transporting the elves and dwarves into the other world, then maybe I could be able to research on the matter, and discover and find out how to get them all back here into Arda."

Thranduil instantly latched onto this and demanded from the Grey wizard. "Can it be possible, Mithrandir?!"

Gandalf decided to state the truth bluntly, even with the possible theories and consequences. "I could try but-I cannot guarantee that whatever I discover or any answers I could get with pursuing this endeavor could be fruitful. Remember, the other world has a different type of magic, and the Istari here in Arda is not used to or capable of understanding, utilizing and wielding it. I just need to research and study more about it, once we find the very place that had gotten the races of elves and dwarves into the other world."

"Please do so, Gandalf. The beings of elves and dwarves trapped in that other world are depending on all of us to bring them back to their real homeworld," Galadriel ordered pleadingly as she sympathized on how much the trapped races have been suffering in the other world, as they couldn't find ways to get themselves back to their home-world in Middle Earth.

Lord Elrond nodded at this. "Now that it is settled. How about we make haste with this mission for all of us that we have to succeed for Thranduil's sake?" he smiled reassuringly to the Elvenking and patted his shoulder in a comforting gesture. "So don't worry and fret so, my friend. We might be able to bring your soulmate here soon enough."

Thranduil sighed, "I sure hope so, my dear friend. I cannot imagine how long I must wait for her to come here to Arda. I'm anxious and worried enough as it is with my soulmate being trapped there for eternity, and in danger because of these Istari hunting her and her Elven kin."

Gandalf pointed out. "There's also the race of dwarves that were trapped there in the other world, also being hunted by the Istari." but he knew that his words were pointless to tell it to King Thranduil, for he had almost forgotten about him being the one partly responsible for the feud of Elves and Dwarves in the first place almost a hundred years ago when the dragon had raided the Dwarves' homelands. And also Thranduil had started to harbor a disliking hatred against the Dwarves because they had broken their promise into giving the Elvenking the promised pure white gems of starlight.

King Thranduil was polite enough to not show his dislike of the Dwarves, and after their conversation, the two Elven rulers and the Grey wizard are now preparing to leave the Woodland Realm, go back to their kingdoms and send out people to find out more about where the missing Elven families from long ago had disappeared, while the wizard Mithrandir will be busy going traveling again as he'll have to search for more knowledge about on how to get the trapped races in the other world back to Middle Earth.

The Elvenking Thranduil watched his friends leave in the top of the balcony and gazing at them as they left with their elven escorts, then he turned to gaze at the horizon, thinking deeply about what he should do for the time being, and at the same time, trying to ease himself of his worries for his soulmate.

He decided to stay in his personal library to meditate and calm his thoughts running in his head, and as he walked off, he told some of the guards at his royal castle to send out some more troops to deal with the spiders that are still infesting parts of his Woodland Realm, in the place called Mirkwood. Then he told some of his servants as he went near the library, to not let anyone disturb him, except his son Prince Legolas.

Once he got inside and took one book to try to read it as he sat down on a luxurious lounging chair, but he didn't read the book in his hands at all, because he is distracted at the thoughts he has in his mind, concerning about his soulmate pair.

He hoped that his Elven friends might be able to succeed in finding out where the elves and dwarves had disappeared to and find out how they somehow have gotten into that other world. Then he thought of Gandalf and hoped that he might be able to find out and discover something that would be able to bring them back to Arda, including his soulmate.

But little did the Elvenking Thranduil know, is that his soulmate will be making a life-changing decision soon in the other world, and it's something he would not expect that his pair will decide to do for herself while being trapped there and living in it.

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AUTHOR'S NOTES:

Another chapter finished! I hope you like it!

A big surprise in the next chapter, so please follow this story so that all will read what happens next!

There will be more chapters and updates soon, I promise!

Enjoy Readers!

PLEASE REVIEW OR COMMENT!

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