Hope, Light and... Elves?
by WSJ
Chapter 2: Family Heritage

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Legolas sat at the messy desk in his apartment, pouring over his meticulouly kept notes. After all of Sam's children had grown up and their children had had children, Elanor had given him Bilbo's book, along with all the notes Sam and Frodo had made in them. He had made quite a few notes of his own, and had kept a detailed account of the evalution of the Middle-Earth of his time into the Earth of present day. Those notes also included the complete family trees of Aragorn and Sam, as well as Pippin.

(Remember, Pippin had a son before he died.)

Every time a new child had been born, he'd added another branch, and he'd always managed to keep track of every one of them throughout their lives. Except this latest generation. They were so spread out now that it was getting hard.

Finally he found the family tree he was looking for and traced it down as far as it would go. There it was. Aragorn's great-great-great-many times great-grandchildren: Tai and Kari Kamiya.

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Meanwhile, in the park...

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Kari chuckled as she watched Gatomon rolling around on the snow, then leap up to chase a squirrel up a tree. "Gatomon... Leave the poor thing alone!" she laughed.

(It's winter. The whole Christmas episode thing... This is maybe December 20th.)

They were the first ones there, but as Gatomon climbed down from the tree, up walked Ken and Wormmon.

"Ken!" Kari said, surprised. "You're the one that lives farthest away!"

Ken smiled. "I know. That's why I made sure to get here extra early. What did Gatomon find out?" He knew that it would probably be a while until everyone else showed up, especially if they had to wait for Davis. And he was dying to know about the pointy-earred stranger.

"Well," Kari said, "This isn't something *Gatomon* found out, but it's reeeally intresting." She leaned closer to the former Kaiser. "Have you ever read 'The Lord of the Rings', by JRR Tolkein?" Ken shook his head. "Well I haven't either, but Tai practically lives on them. I was telling him about what happened yesterday, and he said 'Legolas Greenleaf? No way!' and got really excited."

"Hm..." Ken said. "Did he tell you why he was so hyper?"

It was Kari's turn to nod. "Yes. It turns out that 'Legolas' is one of the charactor names from Tolkein's books. He's an Elf, you know, pointed ears and all that jazz."

"So the guy that saved you was just an Elvish wannabe?"

Slowly the Lady of Light shook her head. "Nooo... I don't think so... Tai read me some of the passages that had Legolas as a key charactor, and strangely enough, I think that the Legolas we met yesterday is the real thing."

She caught Ken's look and smiled. "I know, you think i'm a cook, but I was this far away -- from his ears and they certainly didn't look fake. And another thing, I was out for this, but Gatomon told me about that awesome jump he did to catch me, and the way he landed. She said he was just like a cat, which is what Tolkein's Elves are described as."

"One last thing," she said. "When he ran away, you guys were to busy worrying over me to notice, but /he walked *on* the snow/! On *top* of the snow!"

Ken whistled. "Pretty impressive. But if he's the real deal, then how did Tolkein's books get written?"

Kari shrugged helplessly. "I don't know. We'll have to ask Legolas. Gatomon found out where he lives, by the way."

"Good." Ken said, nodding again.

"Hey!" TK called as he, Yolei and Cody walked up with their Digimon. "You haven't started without us, have you?"

"Yes." Kari said, grinning. TK pretended to pout, but then smiled too.

"So what'd you find out?"

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Oikawa dropped to one knee, bowing his head before his 'boss'. "What do you wish of me Master?" he asked.

"There is one of the Fellowship who still remains." said a cruel, cold voice from the boiling shadows in front of him. "And two who have much Elven blood. Find them, and kill them."

Oikawa looked up, shivering at the sight of two golden and red eyes peering out of the darkness, which was all he could see of his Master. "You ask much." he said.

"I will give you some hints. The two who are part-Elven are DigiDestined as well so you will," he chuckled sinisterly at the metaphor. "Killing two birds with one stone."

Oikawa dropped his eyes again. "Yes Master." His eyes fell on something by his feet, and he picked it up, slipping it into his pocket before turning to leave. Outside he examined it in the cold December daylight.

It was a gold ring.

Back inside the basement that served as contact point between what was left of Mordor's Dark Realm and the Real World, the evil entity chuckled. Soon, all Elves would be gone from Earth and he would be free to rule again.

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What do you think? I'm bringing more and more elements from Middle-Earth into Digimon. *smiles* Review pleases!