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Power in the Shadows

(This one has nothing to do with my other Legolas FanFictions)

Type: Legolas Fic

Rating: R (Graphic war scenes; Inhumane Punishments)

Copyright: I don't own most of this.

Archive: I would be honored :)

Summary: AU-NO RING- Men and Elves in a battle for power, but there is an evil that manipulates the war in the shadows. Can Men and Elves stop the ultimate source of power? Or will the war destory them all?
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Chapter 15
The Gail

After Éowyn left, Legolas was on his own. He pulled on the tunic on his body that Éowyn had given him and started to leave the room. The wizard Saruman stopped him on the way out.

"Are you leaving, elf?" Saruman asked.

"Yes," Legolas replied. "Do you require payment."

"That ahs already been taken care of, elf," Saruman replied. "I need to restock a certain herb and Lady Éowyn has offered to do this for me. That is all the payment I require."

"Then I thank you for lending me your skills of healing and bid you farewell," Legolas replied and Saruman let him pass.

Legolas left the tower and saw a brown mare standing and waiting patiently, her reins tied around a tree in the garden that Saruman had. Legolas walked slowly, not wanting to open his wound, and carefully mounted the mare. Legolas and his mare set off for Rivendell... in hopes that Legolas would find shelter from the king.

Back inside the tower, Saruman was cleaning up the blood and mess that was made in the room.

"You can come out of your hiding now, Sallery," Saruman said out loud, placing a few bottles on the shelf.

"Sallery?" Saruman asked, turning around. "I have sensed you in this room ever since he arrived, now show yourself."

But nothing appeared. Saruman then heard one of the doors off his tower open and he went to go find out who it was.

A beautiful blonde, dressed in a velvet cloak of black appeared in the center, standing tall and proud. It was Sallery... who was not in the room that Saruman claimed her to be.

"What news have you received about the war, wizard?" She asked.

"I shall not speak of that until you tell me why you were spying on me and the wounded elf," Saruman replied.

"I know not of what you speak, old man," Sallery replied.

"Then explain me sensing your presence," Saruman told her.

"I have been with my queen for the last two days, plotting the time of awakening, old man," she replied.

"Indeed," Saruman replied. "Did you find the elf attractive? Is that why you were sneaking about?"

"I recommend you dull that sharp tongue of yours, old man," Sallery replied. "Before I have to do it myself."

"So you claim you were not in the room?" Saruman replied.

"Yes," she replied. "And this is the last time I will tell you, old man!"

"Stay where you are then," Saruman replied stepping inside the room he came from and looking down at the blood covered table cloth and placed hand on it. Sallery's soul could be sensed from this table, but how? Saruman eyes then lighted with fire when he knew the answer. He walked back to Sallery to give her his conclusion.

"I have disappointing news," Saruman replied. "Your Queen's defeat has recently left here."

"Impossible!" Sallery replied, raising an eyebrow. "The Gail has been killed for years now. Your senses grow old, wizard. The Queen made sure it was dead over a thousand years ago."

"Even if my senses have grown tiresome, I would not let my guard down if I were you ro your Queen," Saruman replied. "We have gone to far into this plan for it to fail now."

"Oh trust me, old man," Sallery replied. "It is all falling together most perfectly. Now what of the war have you learned?"

"I have learned that an attack on Lothlorien by Gondor took place no more than two weeks ago," Saruman replied.

"That is surprising news," Sallery replied. "And the outcome?"

"Lothlorien was victorious," Saruman replied.

"Good," Sallery said with relief. "They cannot kill Galadriel until we gain her treasure."

"I still do not know how you plan on stealing it from her," Saruman replied. "She wears it and never removes it. It gives her the power of her governing over her people. She cannot do without it."

"We have our plans, old man," Sallery replied. "Now I shall take my leave."

Sallery walked out of the tower and rode her horse back to the Misty Mountains where her Queen waited anxiously.

Saruman then thought about the 'Gail' she spoke of.

"I recognize word," Saruman replied. "It is elven."

He walked into his library and pulled down a book. He opened it an searched for the word. He found it and noted the meaning.

"So this boy might be the 'bright light'," Saruman said to himself, and then thought about what he should do... how could he put out 'Gail'?

"This boy will bring our downfall if we don't act quickly," Saruman replied. "I will inform 'them' only when I find out more. Then they can tell the Queen of Dark..."

Saruman the left the tower himself so that he could mediate on the problem... the 'Gail', Legolas.