Chapter 16. Elfin Magic.
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O.k. guys, this chapter's dedicated to Legolas-crazy-girl! Not that I blame
her or anything!!!! I personally have no idea what role you want elves to
have in it! But review and tell me and I could put it in, well Dunya is an
elf so I can maybe get her to.hmm..for the.hmm maybe, yeah I might put that
in it! So review and tell me what you want me to do o.k.?! See ya! Hope
this chapter's o.k.! Oh and who wants a Legolas character to actually be in
it??? And if so do you mean Legolas from the book or Legolas from the film?
I'd personally go for the one from the film! (It's pretty obvious why!!!)
Review and give me answers o.k.?
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Kel inhaled slowly, breathing in the steam of the hot tub of water she
was soaking in. Exhale, inhale, exhale, she breathed in a steady pattern.
Her whole body was aching. She had been kicking, punching, rolling,
jabbing, feinting and blocking the whole day! She could feel the tiredness,
weariness and the pains slowly seeping out of her body with the heat of the
water. She heard a knock on the door which surprised her because it was
quite late. She heard Lalasa go to answer it and invite, whoever it was
into the room. With a great effort, pulled herself out of the comforting
water. She put a bathrobe on and walked around the screen that she had been
bathing behind. She noted that the fire was lit and Lal was bringing a tray
of drinks and biscuits to the three chairs that were next to the fire.
She walked up to the chairs and the two faces that greeted her were the faces she would least expect to see. "Master Sallet! Dunya!" she gasped. The two people smiled up at her but with smiles that seemed worn out and worried in a way. "Uh do you two.?" she asked and Dunya started tripping over herself to answer her question. "We.uh.know each other.uh from.um" Dunya started but Master Sallet cut in smoothly, "we're old acquaintances" he said and Kel knew that she shouldn't question them further. "Uh.why are you here? Not meaning to sound rude or anything but.?" Catile (if I may call him by his silly first name!) seemed to have regained composure and answered automatically, "Oh we just bumped in to each other outside your door!" I came here for one reason and I'm sure Dunya.zad came for a different reason. Kel looked at Dunya for a sign that this was true but the young girl was in a trance, and glowing a bright aquamarine colour.
"Oh gods! Dunya what's wrong? Dunya???" Kel leapt up and started shaking her. Dunya's eyes jerked open, "Kel are you o.k?" she asked. "Me?! Are you okay? What were you just doing?" Kel asked her, after a moment of relief. "Oh I was checking to see if Catile, I mean Master Sallet was here for the same reason I am so we can talk freely." Dunya answered. "But that wasn't the gift was it? Or at least it wasn't the gift I'm used to seeing." Kel said. "No that was elfin magic you just experienced, or did you not realize that princess Dunyazad was an elf?" Catile said dryly. Dunya flashed a look of annoyance at him but he gave her a look Kel couldn't read and Dunya blushed and looked down. Kel got the feeling that something was going on that was waaaay beyond her! She was sure though that the two people in front of her were more than just 'old acquaintances'! "I.I thought that, maybe." mumbled Kel into her cup of green tea that Lal had just handed to her.
There seemed to be some sort of tension in the air and Kel had the feeling that some sort of resistance was going on between Dunya and Catile. "What is elfin magic and what do you mean Princess???" Kel asked confusedly. "Oh Her Highness here is princess and future ruler of the Lolakin Forest elves, didn't you know?" Catile asked, his tone seemed innocent enough but it had a lilt of mocking to it. Dunya was still looking at the ground as if she was almost ashamed about something and Kel saw something akin to tears start to well up in her eyes. Catile seemed to notice this too because the tight, cold expression on his face gentled and he looked away. "And the elfin magic? And of course the Lolakin Forest elves?" Kel repeated her question as it hadn't been answered.
Dunya spoke up quietly, her dark black hair glinting off the fire, "Elfin Magic is more powerful than your human's gift. It has the power to control all the elements, the main ones being fire, water, air, ice and earth. It does not drain us as easily as the gift drains you. It gives us the ability to talk to most of the animals of wing and sea as air and water are elves' strong point. Some of us can, at times become invisible, but only the strongest of us. Not all elves have magic, indeed only a few do but those few start training with their magic when they are very young and this goes on for decades, centuries, sometimes with certain elves and with others it takes only a few months. "Centuries.what?" Kel choked on her tea. "Elves live for hundreds, even thousands of years and they never grow old or age in looks either." Dunya said, "I myself are 263 years old!" Kel gaped at her. "That is only about 22 in your years." She said, smiling gently at Kel's open mouth.
"And Lolakin elves?" Kel asked, regaining composure. "There are lots of elf kingdoms and elf clans all over the world but Lolakin elves are special, for they are the only elves with dark hair and dark features." Dunya explained. "Do.do you get along with other clans?" Kel asked tentatively. "Of course we do!" Dunya exclaimed, looking scandalised, "We get along with them just like you would get along with your best friends. But not all elves live on land, there are water elves also, they are alike to merfolk in some ways but they do not have the tail. They live underwater and hardly ever come up onto the land bit we still get on with them very well." "Is this a lesson on the amazing creatures of the gods or a conversation supposed to be on what we came to tell you?" Catile cut in sarcastically, Kel looked at him with concern, she had never seen him like this before, he was always cheerful, happy and kind. It was very strange for him to be this way.
Dunya looked hurt and abashed at the same time but she just said "well we're both here about the same thing so let's get down to it, you say what you want to say first" "I was just coming to say that.you recall me telling you about me being friends with the centaurs? Well someone called Lord Randall Wintak came to them to ask them to join him and his mistress Lady- something-or-other in a war against the three ts!
I don't know who that is but anyway; the centaurs don't nose into other people's business and don't normally hurt people without a good reason so they said no, and then." Catile's voice cracked with emotion, "when they said no, the man and his soldiers started to attack them but before the archers could get their bows and before our centaur-mages could put protective wards around us, they had killed two of the centaurs, one of them was the son of the chief who was.my best friend.and the other was a young filly who had been so bravely reckless and had tried to protect, Huni, the chief and Darrel, the chief's son." But it was too much for poor Catile and his voice gave way and he looked as though he would break down crying. Kel felt an anger bubble up inside her that felt like nothing she had felt before, she felt so angry at lord Wintak and so sad for those poor centaurs and for Catile. She patted Catile's back awkwardly and Dunya did the same but Catile shook Dunya off. Dunya looked so lost and alone that Kel felt a great sympathy towards her.
"Um why are you here Dunya?" Kel asked. "I hope you don't mind this Kel but I do it to every customer like you. When you were describing your dream for me I saw it in my mind and I took a pinch of that dream which enables me to know when you have another one of those dreams and so I know about your most recent warning." Dunya said. "I also know what happened in it and I can tell you that this worries me." "What worries you?" Kel asked curiously. "This.man that spoke to you in the dream, he seems.different in some way. Like he's not human" "I thought that too, but I mean if not a man then what could he be?" Kel said, frowning. "I, like you have yet to figure that out!" Dunya replied. "But the place you were in, it seemed like it was.oh I don't know I'm probably just paranoid about it." She said. "No tell me, where did you think it was?" Kel begged her. "It's just that it seemed to me like it was.I dunno, somewhere in the.divine realms?" Kel nearly passed out! "N.no.i.it couldn't be." She said frantically but in the back of her mind she remembered saying to herself, 'what is this place? Immortal land or something!' It had been a joke at the time, to cheer herself up in the dream but now it seemed like a nightmare! "Oh no!" she groaned.
Dunya nodded gravely. "But I don't know for sure though, so don't start worrying yet!" she said. "And what has this got to do with what I came to tell you?" Catile asked coldly. "Lord Wintak and Lady Sulia Serafines were in my dream Catile" Kel answered quietly. The Master chocked on his green tea, "W..What?" he spluttered, "you heard me, they were in my dream" Kel repeated. Then of course she had to tell the whole story to him. She started from when she first met Dunya. When she had finished Catile sat back thoughtfully.
"Well this clinches it, you have the gift, and it is far more powerful than anyone else's except maybe.of course! It never hit me before! Lady Alanna, she can teach you! She has a more powerful gift than anyone else in this world, and.that's because she's touched by the mother goddess!" he said slowly but excitedly. "And personally I don't care if his majesty said you can't see her, I want to find out more about this strange magic!" "But you can't possibly be saying that I'm touched by the goddess!" Kel said incredulously "that isn't possible!" "And why not?" Catile said, "It happened to Alanna didn't it?" "Yes but that's.that's different!" Kel said. "How is it different?" Dunya asked quietly and as she'd thought, Kel could find no answer. Catile got up and stretched. "I'm going to go back to my room and go to sleep" he said, "Kel, thanks for the tea and I'll talk to you again soon." Kel and Dunya bid him goodnight and he went away. The girls sat in silence for quite some time when suddenly Dunya spoke up; "You want to know don't you?" she said, "what happened between me and him," her voice was bitter. "Well I'll tell you now then."
"Dunya you don't have to tell me-" Kel started but Dunya insisted. "I met Catile when I was out in the forest one day; he had been hunting but was wounded by a spidren, the thing was about to kill him when I fired my arrow (elves always use bows and arrows and rarely miss their target because of their elvensight) the arrow caught the monster in the chest and I had to fire three more arrows to finally kill it. My father was furious, he's all for the traditions, elves being elves and not being in contact with any humans but I insisted on bringing Master Sallet back to our home so he could be healed because the wound seemed fatal and I wouldn't just leave him to die. Well my father was furious but he loves.loved me so he let Catile stay for six months. We spent a lot of time together, and finally he told me.he told me that he loved me. He proposed to me and I accepted his proposal but unfortunately, my father didn't accept. Catile asked him but then my father started yelling at him about old times and keeping elves to themselves and how dare he suggest something like that? I told him that I loved Catile and that I wanted to marry him but he wouldn't let me because I'm an elf. I'm proud of being an elf and I wouldn't change it, but that's no reason to not let me marry a non elf. Well Catile blamed me for my father's decision and he left my home. I then turned on my father and left home too but I went to a different place than Catile because he had told me he never wanted to see me again.
He.he hurt me, and I only met him again today, outside your door, for the first time in three years. I don't know if I'd accept to marry him if he asked me again, I mean, he blamed me for being an elf! And besides I've started seeing another elf from a different clan. I'm not seeing him because he's an elf, that doesn't matter to me but he's really kind and I really, really like him." She sounded so sad throughout the story but when she mentioned this 'other elf' her eyes lit up and her voice sounded happy and carefree.
"It's so strange that he acted that way, he never acts like that normally, I'm sorry that sounds like I'm trying to insult you" Kel apologised. Dunya waved it off carelessly. "We should meet again sometime soon" she said. "Yeah, I might come to your 'palace' in the next couple of days" Kel replied. After Dunya had gone, Kel got into bed and started doing some serious thinking. All this was so strange; I mean why did it happen to her? Finding out that she had the gift was strange enough but being touched by the goddess????" she couldn't be. Could she? Elves, fathers, magic, wars and dreams all wheeled around in Kel's head. Nothing made sense anymore! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Please read and review guys, I seriously need reviews to keep me going on this one so PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!! And how was that chapter Legolas-crazy- girl??? I'm reading a really good fanfic at the moment and she's got over 300 reviews! It really depresses me because she's only got a few more chapters on than me! Oh well, see ya! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
She walked up to the chairs and the two faces that greeted her were the faces she would least expect to see. "Master Sallet! Dunya!" she gasped. The two people smiled up at her but with smiles that seemed worn out and worried in a way. "Uh do you two.?" she asked and Dunya started tripping over herself to answer her question. "We.uh.know each other.uh from.um" Dunya started but Master Sallet cut in smoothly, "we're old acquaintances" he said and Kel knew that she shouldn't question them further. "Uh.why are you here? Not meaning to sound rude or anything but.?" Catile (if I may call him by his silly first name!) seemed to have regained composure and answered automatically, "Oh we just bumped in to each other outside your door!" I came here for one reason and I'm sure Dunya.zad came for a different reason. Kel looked at Dunya for a sign that this was true but the young girl was in a trance, and glowing a bright aquamarine colour.
"Oh gods! Dunya what's wrong? Dunya???" Kel leapt up and started shaking her. Dunya's eyes jerked open, "Kel are you o.k?" she asked. "Me?! Are you okay? What were you just doing?" Kel asked her, after a moment of relief. "Oh I was checking to see if Catile, I mean Master Sallet was here for the same reason I am so we can talk freely." Dunya answered. "But that wasn't the gift was it? Or at least it wasn't the gift I'm used to seeing." Kel said. "No that was elfin magic you just experienced, or did you not realize that princess Dunyazad was an elf?" Catile said dryly. Dunya flashed a look of annoyance at him but he gave her a look Kel couldn't read and Dunya blushed and looked down. Kel got the feeling that something was going on that was waaaay beyond her! She was sure though that the two people in front of her were more than just 'old acquaintances'! "I.I thought that, maybe." mumbled Kel into her cup of green tea that Lal had just handed to her.
There seemed to be some sort of tension in the air and Kel had the feeling that some sort of resistance was going on between Dunya and Catile. "What is elfin magic and what do you mean Princess???" Kel asked confusedly. "Oh Her Highness here is princess and future ruler of the Lolakin Forest elves, didn't you know?" Catile asked, his tone seemed innocent enough but it had a lilt of mocking to it. Dunya was still looking at the ground as if she was almost ashamed about something and Kel saw something akin to tears start to well up in her eyes. Catile seemed to notice this too because the tight, cold expression on his face gentled and he looked away. "And the elfin magic? And of course the Lolakin Forest elves?" Kel repeated her question as it hadn't been answered.
Dunya spoke up quietly, her dark black hair glinting off the fire, "Elfin Magic is more powerful than your human's gift. It has the power to control all the elements, the main ones being fire, water, air, ice and earth. It does not drain us as easily as the gift drains you. It gives us the ability to talk to most of the animals of wing and sea as air and water are elves' strong point. Some of us can, at times become invisible, but only the strongest of us. Not all elves have magic, indeed only a few do but those few start training with their magic when they are very young and this goes on for decades, centuries, sometimes with certain elves and with others it takes only a few months. "Centuries.what?" Kel choked on her tea. "Elves live for hundreds, even thousands of years and they never grow old or age in looks either." Dunya said, "I myself are 263 years old!" Kel gaped at her. "That is only about 22 in your years." She said, smiling gently at Kel's open mouth.
"And Lolakin elves?" Kel asked, regaining composure. "There are lots of elf kingdoms and elf clans all over the world but Lolakin elves are special, for they are the only elves with dark hair and dark features." Dunya explained. "Do.do you get along with other clans?" Kel asked tentatively. "Of course we do!" Dunya exclaimed, looking scandalised, "We get along with them just like you would get along with your best friends. But not all elves live on land, there are water elves also, they are alike to merfolk in some ways but they do not have the tail. They live underwater and hardly ever come up onto the land bit we still get on with them very well." "Is this a lesson on the amazing creatures of the gods or a conversation supposed to be on what we came to tell you?" Catile cut in sarcastically, Kel looked at him with concern, she had never seen him like this before, he was always cheerful, happy and kind. It was very strange for him to be this way.
Dunya looked hurt and abashed at the same time but she just said "well we're both here about the same thing so let's get down to it, you say what you want to say first" "I was just coming to say that.you recall me telling you about me being friends with the centaurs? Well someone called Lord Randall Wintak came to them to ask them to join him and his mistress Lady- something-or-other in a war against the three ts!
I don't know who that is but anyway; the centaurs don't nose into other people's business and don't normally hurt people without a good reason so they said no, and then." Catile's voice cracked with emotion, "when they said no, the man and his soldiers started to attack them but before the archers could get their bows and before our centaur-mages could put protective wards around us, they had killed two of the centaurs, one of them was the son of the chief who was.my best friend.and the other was a young filly who had been so bravely reckless and had tried to protect, Huni, the chief and Darrel, the chief's son." But it was too much for poor Catile and his voice gave way and he looked as though he would break down crying. Kel felt an anger bubble up inside her that felt like nothing she had felt before, she felt so angry at lord Wintak and so sad for those poor centaurs and for Catile. She patted Catile's back awkwardly and Dunya did the same but Catile shook Dunya off. Dunya looked so lost and alone that Kel felt a great sympathy towards her.
"Um why are you here Dunya?" Kel asked. "I hope you don't mind this Kel but I do it to every customer like you. When you were describing your dream for me I saw it in my mind and I took a pinch of that dream which enables me to know when you have another one of those dreams and so I know about your most recent warning." Dunya said. "I also know what happened in it and I can tell you that this worries me." "What worries you?" Kel asked curiously. "This.man that spoke to you in the dream, he seems.different in some way. Like he's not human" "I thought that too, but I mean if not a man then what could he be?" Kel said, frowning. "I, like you have yet to figure that out!" Dunya replied. "But the place you were in, it seemed like it was.oh I don't know I'm probably just paranoid about it." She said. "No tell me, where did you think it was?" Kel begged her. "It's just that it seemed to me like it was.I dunno, somewhere in the.divine realms?" Kel nearly passed out! "N.no.i.it couldn't be." She said frantically but in the back of her mind she remembered saying to herself, 'what is this place? Immortal land or something!' It had been a joke at the time, to cheer herself up in the dream but now it seemed like a nightmare! "Oh no!" she groaned.
Dunya nodded gravely. "But I don't know for sure though, so don't start worrying yet!" she said. "And what has this got to do with what I came to tell you?" Catile asked coldly. "Lord Wintak and Lady Sulia Serafines were in my dream Catile" Kel answered quietly. The Master chocked on his green tea, "W..What?" he spluttered, "you heard me, they were in my dream" Kel repeated. Then of course she had to tell the whole story to him. She started from when she first met Dunya. When she had finished Catile sat back thoughtfully.
"Well this clinches it, you have the gift, and it is far more powerful than anyone else's except maybe.of course! It never hit me before! Lady Alanna, she can teach you! She has a more powerful gift than anyone else in this world, and.that's because she's touched by the mother goddess!" he said slowly but excitedly. "And personally I don't care if his majesty said you can't see her, I want to find out more about this strange magic!" "But you can't possibly be saying that I'm touched by the goddess!" Kel said incredulously "that isn't possible!" "And why not?" Catile said, "It happened to Alanna didn't it?" "Yes but that's.that's different!" Kel said. "How is it different?" Dunya asked quietly and as she'd thought, Kel could find no answer. Catile got up and stretched. "I'm going to go back to my room and go to sleep" he said, "Kel, thanks for the tea and I'll talk to you again soon." Kel and Dunya bid him goodnight and he went away. The girls sat in silence for quite some time when suddenly Dunya spoke up; "You want to know don't you?" she said, "what happened between me and him," her voice was bitter. "Well I'll tell you now then."
"Dunya you don't have to tell me-" Kel started but Dunya insisted. "I met Catile when I was out in the forest one day; he had been hunting but was wounded by a spidren, the thing was about to kill him when I fired my arrow (elves always use bows and arrows and rarely miss their target because of their elvensight) the arrow caught the monster in the chest and I had to fire three more arrows to finally kill it. My father was furious, he's all for the traditions, elves being elves and not being in contact with any humans but I insisted on bringing Master Sallet back to our home so he could be healed because the wound seemed fatal and I wouldn't just leave him to die. Well my father was furious but he loves.loved me so he let Catile stay for six months. We spent a lot of time together, and finally he told me.he told me that he loved me. He proposed to me and I accepted his proposal but unfortunately, my father didn't accept. Catile asked him but then my father started yelling at him about old times and keeping elves to themselves and how dare he suggest something like that? I told him that I loved Catile and that I wanted to marry him but he wouldn't let me because I'm an elf. I'm proud of being an elf and I wouldn't change it, but that's no reason to not let me marry a non elf. Well Catile blamed me for my father's decision and he left my home. I then turned on my father and left home too but I went to a different place than Catile because he had told me he never wanted to see me again.
He.he hurt me, and I only met him again today, outside your door, for the first time in three years. I don't know if I'd accept to marry him if he asked me again, I mean, he blamed me for being an elf! And besides I've started seeing another elf from a different clan. I'm not seeing him because he's an elf, that doesn't matter to me but he's really kind and I really, really like him." She sounded so sad throughout the story but when she mentioned this 'other elf' her eyes lit up and her voice sounded happy and carefree.
"It's so strange that he acted that way, he never acts like that normally, I'm sorry that sounds like I'm trying to insult you" Kel apologised. Dunya waved it off carelessly. "We should meet again sometime soon" she said. "Yeah, I might come to your 'palace' in the next couple of days" Kel replied. After Dunya had gone, Kel got into bed and started doing some serious thinking. All this was so strange; I mean why did it happen to her? Finding out that she had the gift was strange enough but being touched by the goddess????" she couldn't be. Could she? Elves, fathers, magic, wars and dreams all wheeled around in Kel's head. Nothing made sense anymore! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Please read and review guys, I seriously need reviews to keep me going on this one so PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!! And how was that chapter Legolas-crazy- girl??? I'm reading a really good fanfic at the moment and she's got over 300 reviews! It really depresses me because she's only got a few more chapters on than me! Oh well, see ya! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*