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Chapter VII: Trouble.

"Alfred the elf, are you sure this is a good idea?" Noritz asked nervously as they followed the stranger trough the doors and out to the darkness that greeted them. Alfred wrapped his coat tighter around his, beginning to freeze, body and nodded, trying to convince him self.

The man led them out the bar and across the street. He turned his head now and then and looked nervously over his shoulders, what he was afraid of neither Alfred or Noritz knew, but it made the hair on their back stand. The followed him a couple of meters down the street, and then suddenly he turned into an alley. They could smell the foul stench of dead cats and decomposing food. But the man didn`t seem to notice, he continued to walk.

"In here" the man said suddenly and gestured to an old red oak door. Alfred looked one last time at the dwarf, and hesitating Noritz nodded. The man lifted his hand, ready to knock on the door when Alfred said. "Before we step trough this door, tell us your name."

The man hesitated and they could clearly see the panic on his face. "Ed" he muttered as if his name was blasphemy. Then he knocked on the door, two times, and after a couple of minutes, the answer came, five knocks.

The door slid open and they stepped inside, only to be greeted by a sharp light that made them shed their eyes. It was a small basement they had entered. The walls were of gray concrete was filled with posters with UFO`s and even one from the X-files: I BELIEVE. Beside the posters were pictured of dead and praised heroes of the modern technology. There was Albert Einstein, grinning next Thomas Edison. There was even a poster with a smiling Bill Gates that said: Gates is God. And trough the room machines and computers glowed against them.

Noritz stared at everything, afraid that his eyes would fall out. Then suddenly two other guys' popped out from nowhere. Their faces were vampire pale, showing that they had not seen sunlight for several years; they had long hair making them look hippie, hanging over their shoulders.

The man dressed in black with the sunglasses, took of his clothes showing them an equal pale face with large brown eyes. "This is Ned and Fred," he said, gesturing to the two guys. Alfred scratched his head feeling like he had just stepped into an X-files fan fiction with the Lone Gunmen.

"You said you knew where Gustav is," Noritz said, feeling the urge to raise his axe. The three guys nodded in union and then motioned for one of the many computers.

"We hacked into the police files earlier, we like to keep an update on what happens" Ned said and sat down in a chair, and started to type on the  keyboard. After a couple of minutes the computer chimed and a picture of Gustav appeared.

"That is him" Noritz cried, "and he is trapped inside this box!" Alfred gripped his arm, just as the dwarf raised his axe. "Calm down" he said and then turned to Ed. "How…do you know that we are looking for him" he said not feeling entirely certain about the whole situation.

"We know much" Fred said calmly and Ned nodded. "Yes and we want to help you!" Alfred furrowed his eyebrows, "help us with what?" he asked feeling the need to make up some reasonable explanation to why Noritz was running around dressed as a Viking.

"Help you defeat the dark Lord"

            "I can almost guarantee you that your friend is not here!" David said and grabbed Horizt`s arm ready to drag him out from the `Pussy Cat` But the dwarf just shook him off and staggered into the club, staring, gaping and drooling over everything.

"Surly, this must be an illusion, a test to tests us…..and surly I will fail" the dwarf muttered as one of the girls slid past him, running her hand trough his hair. She then walked over to David and wrapped her arms around him.

"Hey handsome, wanna have some fun?" she asked suggestible. David hesitated, but then quickly shook the thoughts out of his head. "Not now Lulu" he said and loosened her grip. She sighed disappointingly and strolled out to a man with thick glasses in the bar.

Horizt stared at all the woman dancing back and front on the stage, some even in cages. "What beats have trapped these woman" he sighed to himself wondering when the brutality of this gray world would end.

"I will free them" he suddenly cried and raised his axe and charged towards the cages. People stared to scream as he swung his axe, nearly cutting the head off a waitress. "To freedom" he bellowed and sliced a table in two, and then he ran towards the cages.

David heard that Horizt had gotten in trouble before he saw what the dwarf was doing. People were running around screaming, the girls were hiding behind men, who bravely tried to get as far away from the mad man with the axe as possible.

"Horizt!" David cried and tried to make his way trough the crowd. The dwarf swung his axe at the cage, and surprisingly the door slid open. The woman inside was huddled on the floor screaming and sobbing.

"Fear not" Horizt said and reached out a hand to help her to her feet, but she just cried even harder.  Suddenly a pair of strong arms grabbed the dwarf from behind. Before he had time to defend him self, the axe was ripped out of his hands.

"Argh" he screamed and tried to kick the person holding him, but it was useless. Finally David managed to make his way trough the crowd. He saw that five of the guards were holding Horizt who was screaming and kicking, trying desperately to get free.

"Stop!" David shouted, he was certain that nobody had heard his voice trough all the noise, but to his surprise, everybody stopped screaming and looked at him. Even Horizt stopped kicking.

"You know this man?" one of the guards asked. David was tempted to answer that he had never seen this men before in his life, but somehow he sensed that Rory would never forgive him. He swallowed deeply and nodded.

"Then you to are under arrest."

"Get him!"

One man charged at him from behind, and Legolas spun around, stared the man right in the eye and then punched him in the stomach.  Quickly he turned around kicked another man in the groin, and swiped the feet to a third one.

Rory was about to jump off the chair, when the fat man grabbed her arm again. He dragged her out on the floor, twisted her arm around her back, and before she knew it she had a knife pressed against her neck.

"You move she looses a head!" The man warned and Rory could feel him spit in her ear.  Legolas` tensed muscles relaxed and he looked at Rory, and the men around him.  "Don`t hurt her" he said calmly and then men laughed.  Rory gritted her teeth and the man tightened his grip around her arm.

"Let me go" she hissed and the man laughed. "Feisty little kitten" he said, "I've got a good mind what to do with you," he suggested in a raspy voice. Rory growled and struggled to get free, but it was hopeless.  "Come on!" the man said and pulled her towards the exit.

Just then she had enough, the anger towards the men, and the unused rage for David seemed to wash trough her, and suddenly she knew exactly what to do and had the strength to do it. Without thinking she stomped her foot on the mans toes, he yelped in pain and she pushed her elbow right in his stomach making him double over in pain, and even before anybody could do anything she kicked him in the knee.

In the mist of this confusion that settled over the bar, the men charged at Legolas, but this time he withdrew two long and narrow swords. Then men yelped and immediately drew back taking cover behind each other's back.

The man Rory had hit stumbled up growled and ordered his men to take them. Hesitating a young man with a long and brow ponytail jumped at Rory, who dodged him and he went flying over the counter and crashed in the bottles and ended on the floor among heaps of glasses.

"I think we are not welcomed here anymore" Legolas said as he moved swiftly out of the way when a another man charged at him, as he passed Rory, she used her elbow on his back sending him of to unconsciousness.

"I think you are right" she said, feeling like she was in the middle of some bad action or western movie. Legolas twirled his swords elegantly around in his hands and started to walk towards the exit, Rory followed him staring at the men left in the bar. One sat on the floor wiping blood of his nose, another man whimpered behind the counter.

"Uh…hope you had a nice time, and please come back" the bartender whimpered.

Just as they reached the exit, the door swung open and five uniformed men entered with guns drawn. Legolas spun around his swords raised to fight, but Rory sighed and put a hand on his arm and said quietly. "I don`t think that would be very wise".

"Freeze! Drop your weapons and put your hands over your heads, you are under arrest!"

He could not understand why they had to put ink on his fingers. He let the men holding his hands place the fingers on a piece of paper. He turned to Rory, to make sure everything was all right, she nodded and the look from her eyes told him to not to make any protests.

They grabbed him by the arm and then lead them trough a long and narrow corridor. Nobody needed to be a genius to understand that this was a prison, and they were prisoners. Skinny woman and fat and sleazy men reached out their arms and tried to grab them as the police officers led them down the corridor. Legolas could see that Rory was shuddering as they passed a cell were a single man with tattoos on his face was sitting. Then they were pushed into a small room, and the door was closed.

He wasn`t sure what to do, but calmly he walked over to the hard wooden bench and sat down. Rory hesitated then followed him and sat down next to him. For a long time they sat in silence before a small voice said from the room next door:

"It is good to see you again, your majesty!"