Aight, wow, these replies are getting so big!

Zam! please, calm down! Don't kill me!
*sighs with relief, then points and laughs as my Rohirrim save me* My bodyguards cannot be beaten! I know we would all hate for your ORcs to become just like Ugluk and his gang in TTT!! AHAHAHA!
Sexolas....well, sissy....it is confirmed. You and I are the biggest idiots on the face of the planet. Leggy Sexolas....Lexy Segolas..lmbo!

Halo! Sqeak...Ouchies! *gets wacked with squeaky hammer* *mutters* that thing could put an eye out...lol
*cringes, but sighs with relief as Halo is distracted from smacking me* YEa, go play Trivia Pursuit! have fun! go! LoL. Relax! I love Estel, too.....I wouldn't do anything *too* horrible to him....bwahaha!!

Elentari Manwe. Tis no problem! I love the throw blanket! I'll sleep with it every night! LoL......yes, poor, poor Estel...what more is there to say?

trata...the reason they don't pop up under Aragorn's name is because I don't categorize my stories my characters....i'm lazy like that. lol thanks, I'm glad you like it!

Xae-chan...don't worry! he can't die...he's the HOT hero..........lol or can he? Well, if you think that chapter was sad, you will pass out when you see the ones following...

Nili..the falling confetti thing happens often to you? LoL.
REcite Aragorn's heritage...............wow....that's a long one...I wanna answer it going backwards from Estel.....Aragorn, Arathorn................bla bla the list goes on forever.
okay, keep him upright and warm..............got it. Don't worry! Elrond can save him! (If he gets there in time) Elves are magical. Elrond can heal anything! think positive (wicked grin)
Elladan and Elrohir need time to recover, but fear not, they are appearing in Chapter 8 later on...........oh, I've said too much! I gotta go!
OH, Eomer has something to say to you...

Eomer: *rides in with his band of Rohirrim behind him* ROHIRRIM!!!!!!!!!!
Lina: well, he's cute, right?! LoL.
Eomer: I am far from stupid! I can say many sentences at a time without saying...ROHIRRIM!
Lina: Okay...I see what you mean, Nili....
Nili: *sighs....*
Eomer: *pulls Lina up onto the horse in front of him* come, fair author, we ride south in fear of your reviewers! ROHIRRIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*rides off into the sunset*



DISCLAIMER: I do not own any recognizable characters or places....those are Tolkien's...so, don't own, don't sue don't worry.....you wouldn't get anything anywayz...I'm a poor writer that lives off imagination.

I own RinIauren'(I made that up myself!), the characters Golradir, Calaglin, Dinendal, and Golradir. (The names are Tolkien's, I'm just borrowing them to slap them on a character.....) Aight? Aight...lol Just don't use them w/o my permission!

A/N: REMEMBER, this is NOT slash. NONE WHATSOEVER!!!

Also, this chapter might be a bit of a tear jerker.....I dunno, I wrote it. Only you guys can judge. Just have tissues just in case....

Ch. 7


"Aragorn! ESTEL!" Legolas gently shook his friend as Aragorn went alarmingly limp.

Without further thought, tears falling down his face, Legolas raced over to where the horse was and quickly mounted it.

He then spurred the animal forward, driving it onward at a grueling pace, Aragorn's limp body a constant reminder of the dire circumstances.

If he did not get the human to Rivendell soon, then Estel would die.

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Aragorn was floating....

He 'opened his eyes' to see a beautiful, green field of flowers around him. A sky of blue, filled with clouds hung above him.

"Where am I?"Aragorn wondered aloud.

The breeze blew a gentle, indistinguishable answer to his ears, but, he understood the unspoken answer.

"So....this is paradise."

Aragorn looked around him to see nothing but blue sky and luscious grass............a true beauty to gaze upon.

He then turned, half expecting to see a friend there to share it with, but froze, remembering he was alone..........

Alone.

The word seemed to echo in the air around him. Yes, he was indeed alone in paradise.

Suddenly, a portal opened in the air before him. He looked into the portal, as if seeing his own broken body from a spectator's point of view.

Legolas held his body cradled against him as he rode doggedly forward.
That was not what caught Aragorn's eye and froze his breath in his throat.

The hot, salty tears of grief and anguish that ran down Legolas's face made Aragorn's heart ache with sorrow for his friend.

No.....he couldn't leave Legolas to that. He could not let his friend be in such anguish over him.

Aragorn took a deep breath. "Namarie." He muttered a soft goodbye to the wonders of the paradise he had dwelled in, even if for barely moments.

Then, he stepped into the portal and prepared to fight his way back into his body and into the harshness of the real world yet again.

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Legolas slowed his mount as Aragorn stirred slightly in front of him. The human's limp body began trembling greatly. Aragorn suddenly inhaled deeply, as if taking his first breath.

Aragorn's glazed eyes fluttered open, barely able to focus on his friend. "L-L-Legolas?"

"Uma, mellonnin? (Yes, my friend?)" Legolas looked down to meet Aragorn's gaze, confident that the horse would keep it's course steady and straight.

"Amin i-i-ikotane naringwe (I am s-so cold)"Aragorn managed, his words halting and forced.

"Ratho, lle aut-naeithel (Soon, you are going to be well)"Legolas soothed.
((Gosh, I am so bad at Elvish...just please, ignore how horrible I am...either that, or tell me how I can learn to speak Elvish...))

Aragorn's breathing began to become more and more labored with each passing moment.

His renewed strength he had seemed to get from his little visit with 'paradise' was failing rapidly..........

Aragorn's senses were dimming...it was beginning to become hard to make out the faintest outline of objects.
His hearing was beginning to dull, as well.

What made a tendril of fear lace through the Dunadan was the fact that his mind was beginning to slip through his fingers into the delirious world.

"Amin nagorg (I am afraid)"Aragorn murmured.

"En' mani, quel mellonnin? (Of what, my good friend?)"Legolas questioned softly.

Aragorn's senses began to fade and dim. A familiar fear snaked through him......he could no longer see. His vision hazed and blackened as his senses failed him.......
((Reference to Piercing the Veil...that's the familiarity))

He was dying....

"Naereb(to be alone)"Aragorn replied, his words slurring as his hearing began to fail him as well. He was having difficulty hearing his own words, either that, or consciousness was slipping from his grasp. "Amin um n'umnamern naavaene seere(I do not want to be without peace)."

Legolas's heart sank upon hearing Aragorn's words. Realization hit him like a slap in the face as he comprehended his friend's words..........

Legolas gently pulled Aragorn against his chest to where the young human could feel his heartbeat. "San tyay i'seere llema(Then feel the peace which you seek)."

Though Legolas was unsure as to whether his friend could hear those words, he felt Aragorn relax slightly, but the trembling still continued violently.

Legolas looked ahead, recognizing the familiar paths of the woods that surrounded Imladris.
They were barely hours from Rivendell....

"Please, hold on, Estel.........Please, stay with me,"Legolas pleaded into the night.

Aragorn leaned against his best friend's chest, concentrating on breathing, on staying alive.

The darkness that had claimed his senses threatened to drag his mind down as well, but now, he would not give in.

Not as long as he had something to live for....

Thus, Aragorn continued to battle for his life.

And Legolas continued his race against time itself.

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