'…' Thoughts
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{…} Telepathic speech
(…) Author's notes
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*** Skip of time
*~*~…~*~* Pov
^^^^^^^^^^ Vision
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Death, Betrayal, Lies. Life*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
~*~*~*Chapter 5: Nazgul Hobbits and Rangers, Oh My!*~*~*~
Serenity put her hood on so it covered her face and balanced her self in a tree, over looking Aragorn and Thranduil. She watched as they talked for a while. Then without notice, someone or something pulled her backwards out of the tree.
"Yee!" she shrieked [Eek!]
"Mani naa essa en lle ar' mani naa lle umien sinome?" [What is your name and what are you doing here?] The person said. They had long blonde hair and was an elf. He was male. He was around 6 feet, short for an elf. Serenity felt like she knew him, but couldn't remember where.
"Antolle ulua sulrim!" [Much wind pours from your mouth!] She spat.
"Mani naa essa en lle ar' mani naa lle umien sinome?" He repeated
"Mankoi lle irma sint?" [Why do you want to know?]
He gripped her arms tighter "Ya naa lle?" [Who are you?]
"Tanya awra!" [That hurt!]
"Ya naa lle?!" He said, gripping her tighter.
"Serenity! Amin Serenity!" [Serenity! I am Serenity!]
"Mankoi naa lle sinome" [Why are you here]
"I am with Aragorn"
"If you are with him, why are you not with my father?"
"I am not meeting with Thranduil because I don not wish to see someone I met long ago"
The elf let go of her hands. "Who?"
Then Serenity remembered. The elf reminded her of Legolas. It all fitted. Thranduil was king of the Mirkwood elves and Legolas was his son, if this elf said that Thranduil was his father…
"I do not wish to tell you, for someone might be listening to us and will probably tell that person in particular," Serenity said as she removed her cloak.
"Lle naa vanima" [You are beautiful]
"Yet you still don't remember?"
"But I have never met you before, what is there to remember?"
{Legolas, you have a short-term memory}
"Serenity!"
"The one, the only!" She said, her arms open to embrace him, but he kissed her instead.
"You have no idea how long I have waited for this moment!"
"Well, its here now and that's all that matters"
"But where have you been all this time?"
"Doing what I have wanted to do be free. But now I have I want nothing more than to return home."
"So you mean your staying?"
"No, not yet. Gandalf has some errands to be run"
"But you have only just returned!"
Serenity smiled. "Elrond will hold a council in a couple of weeks. He will call for you, but I will already be there"
"Tell me this, why did you not want me to see you?"
"I wanted to wait until the council. I didn't want to see you then leave straight away. Speaking of leaving, I have to go"
"Namaarie, melamin" [Farewell, my love]
"Don't call me mealimin!" She said, turning back and running back to where she should be. Aragorn was already there.
"Where were you?" He asked
"Nowhere" She replied blankly
"How can you be nowhere when you always have to be somewhere?"
"Disappear"
"Really, where were you?"
"Looking around"
"If you say so"
*** Several days/weeks later
Serenity sat at a table next to Aragorn. They both had cloaks covering their faces; Aragorn was smoking and Serenity leaned back in her chair very bored.
"Are the Peredhil here yet?" She asked again
"For the millionth time today, no!"
"I am so bored! I'm going outside!" She said as she got up but Aragorn pulled her back down.
"Look, there they are now" He said, indicating to the child-like people who just entered.
"Okay, I know what to do." She said getting out of her seat. She walked over to them and walked straight past, gently brushing them with her hand. Then she walked back to Aragorn with a huge smile on her face.
"So what do you want to know?" she asked him
"All I need to"
"Okay. The first one is Frodo, son of Drogo. His last name is Baggins but he's keeping a low profile and he's using Underhill. The One Ring has been found again and guess who has it? Him. That one is Samwise Gamgee, his gardener, he got into this mess by eaves dropping. The other two are Merridoc Brandywine and Peregrin Took. They got into this mess by steeling food from a farmer."
"And what's gong to happen?"
"Well, Frodo is going to slip and the ring will slip on his finger, drawing the Nazgul here. That's your chance to have a word with him."
"And when will this happen?"
"He already knows who we are so about… now"
As she said it, Frodo slipped and the ring fell on his finger.
"Bye bye" She said indicating to Aragorn that he could talk to him. As Aragorn left Serenity walked over to the other hobbits and told them where Frodo had gone but they left before she could say "He is in no danger"
They burst into the room with candle posts as weapons, Aragorn immediately drew his sword. After the light ramble, Serenity came into the room.
{I'm sorry; they ran off before I could tell them he was safe with you} Her voice rang through Aragorn's head. She didn't realize that the hobbits heard her too.
"Never mind that now," He replied. "You can remove your hood."
"N'ume, Amin merna" [No I don't want to]
"Fine"
"Quel" [Good]
"You draw far to much attention yourself, Mr. Underhill. My associate and I can avoid being seen if we want, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift."
"We do not intend to hurt you, or your lackeys," Serenity added the most important thing Aragorn forgot "we are friends of Gandalf the Grey"
"How do we know to trust you?" Sam asked
"Ah, you don't, not until we save Frodo's life and we reach Rivendell" She replied
"Or, you can read the note Gandalf left" Aragorn said.
"There was a note? Why didn't you tell men there was a note? You never tell me if there's a note!" She asked Aragorn. He didn't reply.
"So you are Strider?" Frodo asked.
"Yes, I am" He replied
"And you are?" Frodo asked Serenity
" A friend"
"And your name?"
"Remains a secret to all but few"
"Can you please remove your hood?"
Serenity knelt down so she was around his height. "Nay, not here, not now." She got back up.
"The Nazgul may be here soon, we need something to trick them."
"I'll do something about it, keep an eye on the Peredhil," He said as he left.
"You better get some rest, Rivendell is quite far from here, this may be the only decent sleep you get for a while."
"What about you?" Pippin asked her.
"The last time I slept was more than 2000 years ago"
"You are an elf then?"
"Ume, I am" [Yes, I am] "rest now, questions later" She told them, as they got ready to rest.
Aaye! Kinda short to what I usually right but hey, whatya gunna do about it?
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