Sigh, you guys are no fun--But don't worry, no one's dead--YET!! **EVIL LAUGHTER** Fear me for I am in command!!!
Chapter 25
Jasia charged forward toward Legolas. Without bothering to slow down, she swept out her arm and caught him around the waist then kept going. The arrow missed both of them and sank into the ground where Legolas had been standing.
"Jaisia! Stand still!!" Legolas shouted. He leaped up to stand on her back, notched an arrow and fired. He leaped back down immediately after to avoid any return fire.
The archer would not be retaliating though. His eyes crossed as if he was trying to look at the Elven arrow between his eyes then he dropped dead.
Kai fought by Aragorn, each of them guarding each other's back as if they'd fought together for years. One of the men lunged at Aragorn's back. Kai cut him off the smashed his mace down on his head. The man collapsed, skull crushed.
Gimli buried his axe between another's eyes. At that the last one dropped his sword and held up his empty hands. "I surrender! Mercy!" he shouted.
Aragorn put the tip of his sword to the man's throat while Kai bound the prisoner's hands behind his back. Backing off, Kai moved where the man could see him and glared.
"Why did you attack us?" Aragorn demanded as Gimli, Legolas and Jaisia came over to listen.
The prisoner swallowed hard. "If I answer will you free me?" he asked, eying the Centaurs.
"That depends on what the answer is," Aragorn said.
"Then why should I?" the prisoner demanded.
Gimli tested the edge of his axe with a calloused thumb. "Because if you don't I'm going to start cutting off limbs. I'll start with your left foot and end with your head," he said casually. That somehow made the threat worse.
The man paled and swallowed thickly. "We were after the centaurs," he said.
"Why?" Aragorn asked.
The man hesitated, obviously reluctant to speak.
"Don't make me start chopping," Gimli warned. "I could get carried away."
"Because of the bounty on them," the man said.
"What bounty?!" Kai demanded angrily.
"Lord Andur of Rildar pays gold for every centaur brought to him alive," the man gulped.
"Why?" Jasia demanded.
"For the gladiatorial games held in Rildar, its east of here," the man said. "Now will you release me?"
"He's a damned scum bounty hunter!! Hunting our kind and selling them like beasts! Our laws demand his death!!" Kai said fiercely.
"It is our law, if we let him leave, he'll tell the man about us or bring more men back," Jaisia said.
"We cannot kill an unarmed man either," Legolas protested. He smiled suddenly. "But there is another way to settle this." He stood over the prisoner, blue eyes cold.
The man stared. "What are you doing?" he said.
Legolas started muttering softly in Elvish and touched the man's forehead. After a few minutes he stepped back. "It's done," he said.
The man shuddered. "W--What did you do to me?" he quavered.
"A simple spell, go near Rildar and you're dead on the spot, your brains will be leaking out your ears," Legolas said.
Aragorn freed the man's hands. "I've seen that spell work, messy indeed, now get out--leave the horses," he said.
The man took to his heels and fled without looking back.
So, there you have it!! The quest is revealed!! How was it? R/R!!!!