Chapter Three: Meeting the 'Kids'

"YOU DID WHAT?!?" Legolas yelled as they made their way back to the palace. Just then a sixteen year old elf ran past them. He handed them a box, grinned handing them a box. Legolas held the box as the elf ran off. "You know that looked a lot like father…" Legolas said as a silver harried elf ran up, garbed the box and yelled " Don't touch that!!" Then he ran off to.

"Please tell me that wasn't Celeborn." Legolas said looking straight at his sister. She just stared blankly at him.

"Looks like him…."She said as she trailed off.

"YOU ARE SO DEAD!" Celeborn yelled from the direction he and Thranduil ran. Legolas thought that described what he wanted to say to Alexis. Alexis started to giggle but abruptly stopped when her brother gave her a look. She figured she was in deep trouble. Just then someone had bumped into her disrupting her thoughts.

"Sorry" a morose voice came from behind her.

Legolas promptly screamed. "YOU GOT ELROND TOO!!"

Alexis looked down sheepishly. "Looks like it…"

"What next, Galadriel as a cheerleader?" Legolas asked sarcastically. Then they heard someone.

 "Look into my mirror! Rah! Rah! Rah! Give me a G! Give me an A! Give me a LADRIEL! What does that spell? GALADRIEL! Yea!" Legolas slumped against the wall and mooned. 

Alexis couldn't help but laugh, but stopped when she heard a strange song being sung about a time warp. "I guess now is a good time to say I'm sorry?"

"No now is a good time to say 'I know how to fix this Legolas.'" He said.

"No…but dad did."  Legolas was about to yell something when an elf in a purple dress run by. "Is that…." Alexis trailed off.

"Glorfindel?? And is that your dress Alexis?" Legolas asked very confused.
Alexis looked up. "Yes it is." She sighed. "Are you sure it's him?"

A purple dressed elf strutted by them. Legolas and Alexis looked at each other. Legolas spoke slowly. " Yes quite sure." Alexis suddenly too up an offensive.

"It's all stretched out of shape."

"Well it's not like you ever wear it mind you." Legolas replied.

"still…"

" Wait, is the Person-Who-Did-This-In-The-First-Place complaining? Are my very sensitive ears deceiving me?" Legolas shot at her sarcastically.

Alexis glared at him. " I wonder if I got Haldir too?" she asked, ignoring her brother's statement.

Legolas opened his mouth to say something, but closed it, then opened it again only to let out a moan. "Yes I think you did." He said as he pointed to an elf in the doorway. He had thick black glasses on, a pocket protector, and his shirt on backwards.

Alexis laughed. She couldn't help it. He was actually cute when he was a 'grown up'. "Who else do you think?"

"We've seen Elrond, Glorfindel, Celeborn, Haldir, heard Galadriel, and have been framed by father….is there any one LEFT?"

"Elena" she replied in a low whisper.

"…but she is OUR age! What would she be reduced to, infant state??" Legolas cried out. Alexis grinned at that and watched as Glorfindel went back to singing the 'Time warp' and Celeborn was playing keep way with Haldir's glasses. Haldir was jumping up and down trying to get them back, but all he managed to do was bump into the walls on account that he couldn't see.

"Should we leave Elrond un supervised?" Alexis asked.

"…No he seems suicidal… FATHER! GE OFF THE CHANDILEIR!" he suddenly yelled.

Alexis got up. "I'll go and check up on Elrond and the others and bring them back."

Legolas sighed." I'll go round up father, Celeborn and Haldir. Will you get Glorfindel and Galadriel as well?" He asked her.

"Should I tell him to get out of my dress?"

Legolas thought for a moment. "Nah. Let him be…er…individualistic."

"Ok then." Alexis replied as she went to look for the others.

Legolas noticed that Celeborn and Haldir were already safe in the corner. Now to get Thranduil off the chandelier…

Alexis started to look for Elrond and the others. She soon found Elrond singing his obituary with a dragger very close to his left wrist. "Elrond! Put the dagger down…please?" she pleaded with him. She managed to forcibly remove it from his hand and they went to find the others.

"Father…" Legolas grabbed for a foot. Legolas was fast, even for elves, but missed anyway. Legolas climbed onto a cabinet.  Out of the corner of his eye we saw Alexis leading Elrond away…most likely to find the others. He saw a hand, went for it and misses. He came crashing to the floor,

Alexis had found the others and was walking to the main hall when she saw her brother come crashing to the floor. "Legolas!" she yelled as she ran over. "Are you ok?"

Legolas looked up. His father was poking him in the side and he could hear Alexis running over. Thranduil was still poking Legolas. Is it dead? He wondered.

Alexis ran to her brother's side. "Legolas…talk to me. If you don't I'll rip your comics to bits."

Legolas jumped up. "No not my comics!"

Alexis smiled. "Good you're alive. I found mine."

Legolas turned and took their father by the hand and dragged him to the corner were the others were. "And I have mine.

Alexis sat down and put her hands in her lap. "What should we do, Legolas?" She asked.

"I'm not sure. I've never really dealt with children before...much less ones as insane as this. Make a picture, bring in a witness? Make evidence?"

Alexis sighed. "I haven't taken care of children this young ether." Then she noticed Elrond with another dagger and abruptly took it from him and searched him for any other weapons and took them from him. "No I don't think we should make evidence"

"Why not? It be so fun to tease them afterwards...er, Alexis..." he said trailing off.

She looked up at him "Yes..." not likening the look in his eyes.

"...Elrond and Celeborn are staring at you. In that 'she's really cute' type of way."

"....." she was at a loss for words. "…that's not good."

"No, it's not." Legolas nodded. Then he opened his mouth and moved it. Nothing came out, so he just tapped Alexis on the shoulder and pointed in Elrond's direction. Elrond was picking roses. Black roses, from the garden.

Alexis put her head on the wall slightly banging it. She didn't intend for this all to happen. She turned back to her brother. "Do you think they will remember any of this?" She asked. The Elrond handed her the roses. "Thank you..." She looked to her brother then back to Elrond."...My Lord." He went red across his cheeks as she ushered him back to were the others were. "Perhaps I should find some water for these"

"Yes, that would be a good idea. Galadriel, when back to normal, will kill if she finds that her precious roses are damaged." Legolas said, glancing at the cheerleader warily. "Do you want to be between an angry Galadriel and revenge for her flowers?"

Alexis looked scared just for a moment." No not really." Galadriel had planted them there on her last visit. "Watch them for a while would you?" She said as she went to find some water for the roses.

"I'll try." Legolas promised. He looked at the "children". Swallowing, he called after her, "Hurry, though!"

"I will!" she called back heading to her room.

Legolas started to feel uneasy when he noticed Thranduil whispering to Elrond and Glorfindel, then hurrying and also whispering to Celeborn. He grew even more afraid when Thranduil smiled at him innocently. "Hey, do you want to play a game? The other one can join us when she comes back..." Legolas looked at him suspiciously. This was the elf that had been hanging off a chandelier not 10 minutes ago. "We promise to behave..."

Alexis was having a hard time trying to find some water and a vase. She finally found one and put the roses in it and put them in her room.