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Three guards came in to get Legolas. What for, he did not know, but surely he did not want to find out. Legolas was amazed when they slipped his own quiver of arrows and bow onto his back. Suddenly, a stone door that Legolas had not noticed was now open and he was pushed through it after being unshackled. Legolas found himself in a dark dome, barelt lit, but surounded by dwarfs in consession stands. He could barely see his suroundings in the dark and of no doubt did he know that the dwarfs could see him. This could not be good he thought. This could not be good.
Gimli sighed when his thoughts were confirmed. Yes, Legolas would soon meet a variety of apponents. It was only a matter of time before the opposite entrance to the dome opened. Gimli knew no better fighter than Legolas with his archery and daggers, but he also knew that the elf could barely see, unlike him, in the dark. He felt a deep dread as the opposite entrance opened.
Legolas watched as a small herd of orc bounded out of the door opposite of the dome. He readied his bow in a second and launched the arrows through the dark, each one streaming toward it's target. The crowd around him littered the arena with noise. Legolas felt like he wanted to launch his arrows into the crowd, but decided ot keep them for whatever enemies came at him. Out of the ten orcs, only about four remained and Legolas reached for his blades in a flash, slicing through the orc like it was no problem for he could hear the loud creatures coming at him.
Gimli was forced ot watch as his friend was tried to kill the orcs that rushed at him one by one. He felt helpless as his hands were still shackled together and he was being held by a few guards. He silently prayed that the opponents still being held outside the dome weren't going to be let in.
"Let us see if your friend can so easily defeat our next victim." Gathor laughed sinisterly and then watched back down at the display at the bottom of the dome.
Luckily, Legolas had defeated the orc with out a scratch. As the last orc fell the crowd roared. Legolas figured that they definitley weren't rooting for him. Legolas quickly looked around and tried ot squint his eyes. He couldn't bare the dark anymore and it was making his ability to fight even harder. He tried to search the crowd for Gimli, but he could barely see past his own hands. Legolas stood feet apart ready for whatever came at him.
And then the doors opened. At first all Legolas saw was darkness, and then it came at him quick as a bullet. Tevildo, the giant cat enchanted by Morgoth's powers leapt at Legolas with it's giant claws. The ever usually quick Legolas didn't even have time to shoot an arrow into the beast, it simply pawed the elf to the ground. Struggling underneath the animal he could hear the crowd cheering. That's when he reached back and ignoring the claws digging into his arm pulled out one of his daggers and sliced the beast in the back. The cat was momentarily hurt and Legolas had the chance he needed to get up. The cat's red eyes dug into Legolas as he circled around the elf.
Legolas noticed the gold collar around the cat's neck. It was said that the collar is what is enchanted and keeps the cat's unusually large size. How was he supposed to break it though? Or get it off for that matter. For the first time in his life, Legolas wished he had a sword because his daggers did not so easily decapatate a victim. It would have to be enough. Legolas swept out with both of his blades at the giant cat's neck and Legolas suffered as Tevildo swiped his paw along Legolas' shoulder. The elf let out a scream and heard the crowd cheer, until that is he swept out once more with his blades and beheaded the cat, leaving the golden collar on the ground. Eveen through the darkness Legolas could see the blood splatterd over the ground. He was growing impatient, but there seemed to be no way out.
Gimli let out a big breath of air seeing that his friend was still a live. He had noticed though that now Legolas was injured. Not only was his friends injuered, but he was running out of arrow and was fighting in the dark of a cave. He turned to Gathor, "Are you satisfied, he has been deeply wounded. You may as well let him go now because he won't be able to fight as well." When Gathor ignored Gimli he began to lose his temper emmensly. Here was his friend fighting for his life at the ammusement of his so called friends, all because he was an elf. Gimli was going to help him if it was the last thing he did. Gimli looked at gathor and asked, "What made my father think that I was taken prisoner by Mirkwood'd elves."
Gathor laughed, "I may have let a couple of my own lies slip out." With that, Gimli seethed with anger.
Legolas watched as the doors opened once again, this time it was a shelob, a giant and very evil spider. Legolas flinched from all his previous wounds which seemed to be coming back to him. He felt somewhat better though because he knew that he could easily defeat this monster. And that he did, after jumping from up the side of the wall and onto the back of the spider he sent an arrow straight through the skull of the spider. The crowd was still making plenty of noise and Legolas Yelled from atop the dead spider, "Is that all you got? I've seen bugs bigger than this in Mirkwood! If you shall let my friend Gimli and I go then I will forget all about the horrible way in which you have treated us and I will spare all your lives."
The crowd burst into a heated laughter and Gathor turned to Gimli, "Elves always are quite the entertainment aren't they." Gimli, a bit confused himself at legolas' words looked at his friend at the bottom of the arena and wondered what he had in store. "Ahh." Said Gathor, "Let's see you'r elf outlive this one!"