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Chapter Three
Legolas and Tylendal were out early the next day. They had decided to spend the day together, and were intent on doing so without thinking of the Queen's death.
Elrond stood speaking with Thranduil when the two went by them, and Thranduil smiled to see his son in such good spirits. He had hoped Legolas would not take the happenings of that night too harshly.
"I'd be wary of them if I were you. Where these two tread, trouble follows." The Mirkwood king said with amusement. Elrond smiled. They reminded him of Elladan and Elrohir, and if the four got together, chaos was surely going to break loose in the palace.
"Us?" Legolas cried indignantly.
"Never," Tylendal declared.
"We're harmless."
"Innocent."
"Absolutely."
The king rolled his eyes, but said only, in the driest voice imaginable, "Indeed."
The two gave the king pitying looks, and exited the palace. Definitely like Elladan and Elrohir, Elrond thought.
Walking through the gardens and towards the trees, they noticed Elladan and Elrohir sitting at the base of one of the trees, heads together and speaking in whispers. Legolas and the twins had become good friends last night, and Legolas thought about how much they enjoyed pranks. With a sudden wicked smile, Legolas turned to Tylendal and nodded his head towards the two below the tree. With a smile to match, Tylendal moved closer.
"Rainy Day." the elf prince whispered to him, using one of the many code names for the different pranks they played. 'Rainy Day' was one of their favorites.
Tylendal moved off, and Legolas prepared his approach.
"What are you doing?" Legolas asked as he stood before the twins. He had to buy enough time for Tylendal to set up.
"We are planning some.entertainment." Elrohir said. And Elladan nodded. Legolas smiled.
"What kind of entertainment?" The prince asked. Tylendal was out of sight, but near. Legolas just had to wait for the subtle signal.
"It's a surprise." Elladan replied cryptically. A low, warbling sparrow call cut across the rest of the bird chatter. Legolas nodded, and turned to leave.
He was five paces away when a splash sounded out behind him, and he heard the surprised cries of Elladan and Elrohir. He turned and had a hard time of concealing his laughter. Both twins were soaking wet, water dripping down their dark hair and drenching their clothes. Elladan sputtered and spat water, while ahead of them rang out the musical laughter of Legolas.
They looked up, and saw the somber eyed Tylendal standing stoically in the broad tree branches above them with a wooden bucket in one hand. He stared back at them with his intense gaze, and raised his hands in front of him.
"Hard feelings bode not. It was in jest, only." He said, and pointed to Legolas, who was doubled over with laughter.
"Since the prince commanded it done, no quarrel have you with me." He added. Elladan and Elrohir stood and rushed Legolas, who gave a surprised look at Tylendal and ran.
"Aren't you going to help me?" Legolas called over his shoulder as he ran, closely pursued by the twins.
"For which blessing, to serve my enemy, am I bound?" Tylendal called back, his voice as serious as ever.
"You're ENEMY?" Legolas shouted incredulously, before he ran below the arch that was the entrance to the gardens. He trip over a tangle wire and hit the ground, just before another bucket of water fell over onto the prince, triggered by the wire.
"Rainy Day and trip wires." Tylendal identified from his tree unnecessarily. Legolas glared murderously over towards his friend, while Elladan and Elrohir roared with laughter.
"You forget he did the same to you." Legolas stated smugly. They stopped their laughter and silently agreed with Legolas. Turning, they prepared to charge Tylendal and exact their revenge, but Tylendal had fled.
~*~*~*
Tylendal smirked as he ran into the palace. He rushed past elves, not daring to slow, weaving in and out of them, and trying to stay out of sight.
Once again, he ran into the elf Lord from Rivendell. Both staggered back, with Tylendal gaining his balance quickly and staring in horror at King Thranduil who stood beside Glorfindel.
"Well met again." Glorfindel said, rubbing the bruise that was already beginning form. He glanced sideways, to see Thranduil trying to hold back a smile while the elfling look terror-stricken.
"TYLENDAL! Where are you, Tylendal?" The unmistakable voice of Elladan shouted.
"Aye! Where are you hiding, you double crossing traitor!" Legolas roared, sounding very much alike to Thranduil at the moment. Glorfindel and Thranduil couldn't keep the smiles off their faces as Tylendal paled.
"What did you do now, little one?" Thranduil asked. It was not often someone got the better deal with Legolas or the twin sons of Elrond.
"Nothing, My King." He insisted, though his eyes darted towards every possible escape. The amused crowd of elves parted as the three angry princes darted towards Tylendal.
With a quick apology to his King and the elf lord, Tylendal sprinted out the nearest door and continued running.
Glorfindel had an even harder time of concealing his laughter as a sopping wet Legolas, Elladan, and Elrohir burst through and came at them, with water dripping from their long hair, and their tunics were dark with the moisture.
"Ada, where did that little dragon that calls himself my friend go?" Legolas said, his eyes narrowed and scanning the throne room. A long lock of blonde hair fell charmingly over one blue eye, and he irritability pushed it back behind an ear.
Without a word, the King pointed towards the door Tylendal had run through. Legolas took off, and Elladan and Elrohir followed.
~*~*~*
Tylendal found himself trapped. Behind him pounded the three princes and he ran into a dead end. He stopped and turned to face his pursuers.
"Well, you led us on a merry chase." Legolas said, advancing with Elladan and Elrohir on either side of him. Tylendal backed off slightly, before darting towards the right.
He didn't get far. Elladan tackled him and the two grappled for a moment before Elrohir and Legolas joined. A few minutes later, Tylendal found himself pinned beneath the three, and no amount of struggling would free him.
Legolas snickered as he held his friend's shoulders, while Elladan and Elrohir ruthlessly began describing what they were going to do to Tylendal with graphic detail.
They would have gone on for sometime, but suddenly a loud shout rang out in the halls, echoing from the throne room, and they looked up at the sound.
"ELLADAN, ELROHIR! Where are you two?" A shout followed, and obviously being the voice of Elrond.
The two in question paled, while Tylendal freed himself from their suddenly loose grasp. Legolas couldn't help but smile.
"The 'entertainment' you were speaking of, I presume?" Legolas said with a smirk, while Elrohir only nodded. They stood to see what had happened, and at the sight Legolas laughed heartily.
Apparently, their target was the elf lord Glorfindel, (and Tylendal stood discreetly behind Legolas at the sight of him) and they had used a bucket of water as well, and added other components to get a very wet and messy and angry elf lord.
It was altogether a brilliant set up, and Legolas filed it away for possible use in the future.
Tylendal eyed the mess, also thinking of ways to use it. He caught Legolas's eye, and both smiled at the thought.
Elladan and Elrohir were led off by their father, while some elves helped Glorfindel into dryer things.
Thranduil gestured for Legolas and Tylendal to go do something, and they happily ran off.
~*~*~*
Tylendal went through the library, eyeing the books. The night that he spent in the library after the Queen's death he had seen something of interest.
He stopped and pulled a book off the shelf. Flipping through it, he saw exactly what he wanted. With a grin, he took the book and left the library.
Elladan and Elrohir will pay for humiliating him yesterday, and Tylendal took his revenge seriously.
~*~*~*
Elladan walked through the door into Elrohir's room. His brother was draped over his bed, asleep. With a grin, Elladan moved slowly towards Elrohir and crept beside him.
Grabbing a glass of water from the bed side table, he dribbled it onto his brother.
With a shout Elrohir came up sputtering. He tossed a pillow at his brother, shaking his wet hair out of his eyes. Elladan caught the pillow and threw it back with a laugh.
"Come on! We were going to have our fun today!" Elladan said. He and Elrohir had planned the day testing some of their newest pranks, and had considered the elven prince as the perfect target.
Elrohir rolled out of bed, threw on a tunic and both ran out the door.
And found themselves flat on the floor as they slipped on a puddle of water that had somehow appeared there after Elladan had went through the door.
They struggled to their feet, only to hit a trip wire that triggered something hidden above them.
Dye poured down, coating the two elves. They sputtered, and staggered away. That was a mistake, for they hit another trigger wire and more dye coated them.
They stumbled out of reach, running towards the throne room where their father would be.
~*~*~*
Elrond and Glorfindel were shocked as a multi-colored Elladan and Elrohir came charging at them.
Green, blue, and a purple that had a nice shade of indigo in it, was splattered over them. It made quite a marvelous appearance. Glorfindel could not help it, he excused himself and when he was out of the room his laughter rang out.
"What happened?" Elrond asked, while trying desperately not to laugh or smile.
"Someone put dye over our rooms! We walked out and someone put dye over our rooms so that it would hit us!" Elladan said, squeezing blue green dye out of is dark hair as best as he could. The color was dripping from them onto the floor, and some elves were immediately trying to mop it up.
"What is this?" a new voice said, as King Thranduil walked in to see what was happening. He glanced over towards the door to the Throne Room, where Glorfindel's laughter could still be heard.
"Apparently, someone decided to play a joke upon my sons." Elrond said, solemn faced but with his eyes dancing with amusement. Thranduil looked over the twins, and noticed their slightly .colorful. appearance. He hid a grin, thinking he knew who it was.
"Galion, would you find my son?" The king said to his butler, who nodded and left.
He returned with Legolas in tow, and Legolas immediately stifled laughter.
"What happened to you two?" Legolas said, his voice oddly strangled with his restrained laughter.
"You played a prank on us." Elladan said, while Elrohir nodded. Legolas's face was filled with such shock and disbelief that it was obvious he did not know what they were talking about.
"I did not! I was out on the archery field all this morning!" The elven prince said firmly.
"We'll let you figure this out." Elrond said, as he and Thranduil walked off. The other elves went about their business, leaving the three elflings together.
"So you were out on the archery field. Well, then who did this to us?" Elrohir said, promising revenge on whoever did this.
Legolas shrugged, and fled before they could question him any more.
~*~*~*
"Tylendal, they're on to you," Legolas said to his friend once he found him.
Tylendal leaned back, replacing the book he was reading. He cocked an eyebrow at Legolas.
"Come you here, when alone I wish to be? Unsure, I am, how to go about with this." He said, his eyes half lidded.
"Friend you are to me, yes?" He said, sitting up straighter.
"Of course!" the elven prince said, surprised at such a question.
"Then, help me you will?" He asked, eyes lighting up eagerly. Legolas sighed and nodded, wondering what he needed help on now.
"If help me you will, what we do is this."
Chapter Three
Legolas and Tylendal were out early the next day. They had decided to spend the day together, and were intent on doing so without thinking of the Queen's death.
Elrond stood speaking with Thranduil when the two went by them, and Thranduil smiled to see his son in such good spirits. He had hoped Legolas would not take the happenings of that night too harshly.
"I'd be wary of them if I were you. Where these two tread, trouble follows." The Mirkwood king said with amusement. Elrond smiled. They reminded him of Elladan and Elrohir, and if the four got together, chaos was surely going to break loose in the palace.
"Us?" Legolas cried indignantly.
"Never," Tylendal declared.
"We're harmless."
"Innocent."
"Absolutely."
The king rolled his eyes, but said only, in the driest voice imaginable, "Indeed."
The two gave the king pitying looks, and exited the palace. Definitely like Elladan and Elrohir, Elrond thought.
Walking through the gardens and towards the trees, they noticed Elladan and Elrohir sitting at the base of one of the trees, heads together and speaking in whispers. Legolas and the twins had become good friends last night, and Legolas thought about how much they enjoyed pranks. With a sudden wicked smile, Legolas turned to Tylendal and nodded his head towards the two below the tree. With a smile to match, Tylendal moved closer.
"Rainy Day." the elf prince whispered to him, using one of the many code names for the different pranks they played. 'Rainy Day' was one of their favorites.
Tylendal moved off, and Legolas prepared his approach.
"What are you doing?" Legolas asked as he stood before the twins. He had to buy enough time for Tylendal to set up.
"We are planning some.entertainment." Elrohir said. And Elladan nodded. Legolas smiled.
"What kind of entertainment?" The prince asked. Tylendal was out of sight, but near. Legolas just had to wait for the subtle signal.
"It's a surprise." Elladan replied cryptically. A low, warbling sparrow call cut across the rest of the bird chatter. Legolas nodded, and turned to leave.
He was five paces away when a splash sounded out behind him, and he heard the surprised cries of Elladan and Elrohir. He turned and had a hard time of concealing his laughter. Both twins were soaking wet, water dripping down their dark hair and drenching their clothes. Elladan sputtered and spat water, while ahead of them rang out the musical laughter of Legolas.
They looked up, and saw the somber eyed Tylendal standing stoically in the broad tree branches above them with a wooden bucket in one hand. He stared back at them with his intense gaze, and raised his hands in front of him.
"Hard feelings bode not. It was in jest, only." He said, and pointed to Legolas, who was doubled over with laughter.
"Since the prince commanded it done, no quarrel have you with me." He added. Elladan and Elrohir stood and rushed Legolas, who gave a surprised look at Tylendal and ran.
"Aren't you going to help me?" Legolas called over his shoulder as he ran, closely pursued by the twins.
"For which blessing, to serve my enemy, am I bound?" Tylendal called back, his voice as serious as ever.
"You're ENEMY?" Legolas shouted incredulously, before he ran below the arch that was the entrance to the gardens. He trip over a tangle wire and hit the ground, just before another bucket of water fell over onto the prince, triggered by the wire.
"Rainy Day and trip wires." Tylendal identified from his tree unnecessarily. Legolas glared murderously over towards his friend, while Elladan and Elrohir roared with laughter.
"You forget he did the same to you." Legolas stated smugly. They stopped their laughter and silently agreed with Legolas. Turning, they prepared to charge Tylendal and exact their revenge, but Tylendal had fled.
~*~*~*
Tylendal smirked as he ran into the palace. He rushed past elves, not daring to slow, weaving in and out of them, and trying to stay out of sight.
Once again, he ran into the elf Lord from Rivendell. Both staggered back, with Tylendal gaining his balance quickly and staring in horror at King Thranduil who stood beside Glorfindel.
"Well met again." Glorfindel said, rubbing the bruise that was already beginning form. He glanced sideways, to see Thranduil trying to hold back a smile while the elfling look terror-stricken.
"TYLENDAL! Where are you, Tylendal?" The unmistakable voice of Elladan shouted.
"Aye! Where are you hiding, you double crossing traitor!" Legolas roared, sounding very much alike to Thranduil at the moment. Glorfindel and Thranduil couldn't keep the smiles off their faces as Tylendal paled.
"What did you do now, little one?" Thranduil asked. It was not often someone got the better deal with Legolas or the twin sons of Elrond.
"Nothing, My King." He insisted, though his eyes darted towards every possible escape. The amused crowd of elves parted as the three angry princes darted towards Tylendal.
With a quick apology to his King and the elf lord, Tylendal sprinted out the nearest door and continued running.
Glorfindel had an even harder time of concealing his laughter as a sopping wet Legolas, Elladan, and Elrohir burst through and came at them, with water dripping from their long hair, and their tunics were dark with the moisture.
"Ada, where did that little dragon that calls himself my friend go?" Legolas said, his eyes narrowed and scanning the throne room. A long lock of blonde hair fell charmingly over one blue eye, and he irritability pushed it back behind an ear.
Without a word, the King pointed towards the door Tylendal had run through. Legolas took off, and Elladan and Elrohir followed.
~*~*~*
Tylendal found himself trapped. Behind him pounded the three princes and he ran into a dead end. He stopped and turned to face his pursuers.
"Well, you led us on a merry chase." Legolas said, advancing with Elladan and Elrohir on either side of him. Tylendal backed off slightly, before darting towards the right.
He didn't get far. Elladan tackled him and the two grappled for a moment before Elrohir and Legolas joined. A few minutes later, Tylendal found himself pinned beneath the three, and no amount of struggling would free him.
Legolas snickered as he held his friend's shoulders, while Elladan and Elrohir ruthlessly began describing what they were going to do to Tylendal with graphic detail.
They would have gone on for sometime, but suddenly a loud shout rang out in the halls, echoing from the throne room, and they looked up at the sound.
"ELLADAN, ELROHIR! Where are you two?" A shout followed, and obviously being the voice of Elrond.
The two in question paled, while Tylendal freed himself from their suddenly loose grasp. Legolas couldn't help but smile.
"The 'entertainment' you were speaking of, I presume?" Legolas said with a smirk, while Elrohir only nodded. They stood to see what had happened, and at the sight Legolas laughed heartily.
Apparently, their target was the elf lord Glorfindel, (and Tylendal stood discreetly behind Legolas at the sight of him) and they had used a bucket of water as well, and added other components to get a very wet and messy and angry elf lord.
It was altogether a brilliant set up, and Legolas filed it away for possible use in the future.
Tylendal eyed the mess, also thinking of ways to use it. He caught Legolas's eye, and both smiled at the thought.
Elladan and Elrohir were led off by their father, while some elves helped Glorfindel into dryer things.
Thranduil gestured for Legolas and Tylendal to go do something, and they happily ran off.
~*~*~*
Tylendal went through the library, eyeing the books. The night that he spent in the library after the Queen's death he had seen something of interest.
He stopped and pulled a book off the shelf. Flipping through it, he saw exactly what he wanted. With a grin, he took the book and left the library.
Elladan and Elrohir will pay for humiliating him yesterday, and Tylendal took his revenge seriously.
~*~*~*
Elladan walked through the door into Elrohir's room. His brother was draped over his bed, asleep. With a grin, Elladan moved slowly towards Elrohir and crept beside him.
Grabbing a glass of water from the bed side table, he dribbled it onto his brother.
With a shout Elrohir came up sputtering. He tossed a pillow at his brother, shaking his wet hair out of his eyes. Elladan caught the pillow and threw it back with a laugh.
"Come on! We were going to have our fun today!" Elladan said. He and Elrohir had planned the day testing some of their newest pranks, and had considered the elven prince as the perfect target.
Elrohir rolled out of bed, threw on a tunic and both ran out the door.
And found themselves flat on the floor as they slipped on a puddle of water that had somehow appeared there after Elladan had went through the door.
They struggled to their feet, only to hit a trip wire that triggered something hidden above them.
Dye poured down, coating the two elves. They sputtered, and staggered away. That was a mistake, for they hit another trigger wire and more dye coated them.
They stumbled out of reach, running towards the throne room where their father would be.
~*~*~*
Elrond and Glorfindel were shocked as a multi-colored Elladan and Elrohir came charging at them.
Green, blue, and a purple that had a nice shade of indigo in it, was splattered over them. It made quite a marvelous appearance. Glorfindel could not help it, he excused himself and when he was out of the room his laughter rang out.
"What happened?" Elrond asked, while trying desperately not to laugh or smile.
"Someone put dye over our rooms! We walked out and someone put dye over our rooms so that it would hit us!" Elladan said, squeezing blue green dye out of is dark hair as best as he could. The color was dripping from them onto the floor, and some elves were immediately trying to mop it up.
"What is this?" a new voice said, as King Thranduil walked in to see what was happening. He glanced over towards the door to the Throne Room, where Glorfindel's laughter could still be heard.
"Apparently, someone decided to play a joke upon my sons." Elrond said, solemn faced but with his eyes dancing with amusement. Thranduil looked over the twins, and noticed their slightly .colorful. appearance. He hid a grin, thinking he knew who it was.
"Galion, would you find my son?" The king said to his butler, who nodded and left.
He returned with Legolas in tow, and Legolas immediately stifled laughter.
"What happened to you two?" Legolas said, his voice oddly strangled with his restrained laughter.
"You played a prank on us." Elladan said, while Elrohir nodded. Legolas's face was filled with such shock and disbelief that it was obvious he did not know what they were talking about.
"I did not! I was out on the archery field all this morning!" The elven prince said firmly.
"We'll let you figure this out." Elrond said, as he and Thranduil walked off. The other elves went about their business, leaving the three elflings together.
"So you were out on the archery field. Well, then who did this to us?" Elrohir said, promising revenge on whoever did this.
Legolas shrugged, and fled before they could question him any more.
~*~*~*
"Tylendal, they're on to you," Legolas said to his friend once he found him.
Tylendal leaned back, replacing the book he was reading. He cocked an eyebrow at Legolas.
"Come you here, when alone I wish to be? Unsure, I am, how to go about with this." He said, his eyes half lidded.
"Friend you are to me, yes?" He said, sitting up straighter.
"Of course!" the elven prince said, surprised at such a question.
"Then, help me you will?" He asked, eyes lighting up eagerly. Legolas sighed and nodded, wondering what he needed help on now.
"If help me you will, what we do is this."