A/N: Sorry! I lost the password to my ff.net account, that's why there were
no updates recently. But now I found it again. ^_^ Yay! Oh, and explanation
for my last chappy. It was a little rushed and not as long or well-written
as the others. So here's a nice long one to make you happy.
Anakin sighed, and turned his light saber off. Though he thought that he could easily have snapped the string off the bow, and sent the arrow flying backwards at Legolas. But the weird elf-dude really didn't do anything to deserve it. He did look quite scared of his light saber anyway. And he could have been nice and turned it off in the first place... Legolas looked at the weird hilt of the light saber blankly, and then lowered his bow.
"So... if you are not a wizard, would you mind explaining... that?" he asked.
Anakin rolled his eyes. Hadn't the elf-dude ever seen a light saber before? Maybe not. He did hear of a few solar systems that were still... uncivilized. However he severely wished that this was not one of them, because then, since he landed on the planet and talked with even one of the beings he could get in BIG trouble, violating a whole lot of Galactic-Laws and regulations.
"Well, Mr. Legolas," Anakin said with a small sigh. "This is a light saber. A light saber is basically a sword, except that it is made out of a beam o flight. It can cut through anything, except for another light saber. It can only be made and used by a Jedi like myself. It's a pretty neat weapon."
Legolas blinked at him, and then frowned.
"I... I don't understand. Why do you not just use a regular sword? Certainly it couldn't be that much different than then your... light saver."
Anakin rolled his eyes.
"No, light sabers are very different than regular swords. They're much cooler. They are the only weapon that Jedis ever need. They can open doors without much trouble... slice through bad-guys faster than steel... uhm... and they make this cool sound when you move them around!"
Legolas scratched his head.
"But what about a long-range battle? Would a Jed-Eye not use something that could... go further distances?" He fingered his own trusty bow. "What if you see an Orc a stone's throw away, and it is charging at an innocent bystander? Would you ... throw your light saver at it?"
Anakin blinked at him.
"Well... Uhm... I was... Yeah, uhm... not trained for that sort of thing... yet. I'll... ask Obi-Wan, when I get ... back..."
Legolas cocked an eyebrow at him.
"'Obi-Wan'?" he asked. "Who is he?"
"Another Jedi. I thought I already..."
"There's more than one Jed-Eye???"
"Yeah. There is a whole Jedi Order. There used to be a whole lot, now there's only a couple hundred. A council of the most powerful Jedis from all over the galaxy governs us... Though there is not a 'real' leader, there's this one dude, Master Yoda, who's the most powerful of the powerful of the yadayadayada. hey! Ha! Yoda, yada! Yoda, yada... ahem. Anyway. He's ancient too. He's more than 900 years old... I think. He-"
Legolas interrupted with a snicker.
"He became head of a council at the mere age of 900?"
Anakin was flabbergasted.
"Don't... you think that 900 years old is ... a long time to... live?"
Legolas shook his head.
"At 900 years of age, an elf might just be old enough to join my adar's patrols. If he is exceptionally strong."
"What???" Anakin's eyebrows rose in disbelief. "Really???" Legolas nodded again. "Wow! How old are YOU?"
Legolas crossed his arms, giving the Jed-Eye a stern look.
"Do Jed-Eyes not have any manners? T'ain't polite to ask someone his age."
"Aww... c'mon! Tell me!"
Legolas narrowed his eyes, but smirked.
"I am old enough to take your 'Master Yoda' over my knee and send him to bed without supper."
Anakin nearly burst out laughing at the visual. Oh sheesh, he could just hear it... 'Put me down you will! Psychopath you are!'
"That is amusing to you?" Legolas asked seriously.
"Uhm... no. Yes. No. I..."
"Anyway. Where does this... Jed-Eye council meet?" the elf asked, thinking of the White Council, and wondering whether they knew about the Jed-Eye one. Perhaps it was better if they knew that there could possibly be a whole band of these crazy beings running about, using magic swords and trespassing into Elven realms.
Anakin winced. He probably shouldn't say anything about space travel anymore. Legolas would probably flip. Besides... he was being quite reasonable at the moment.
"Oh, Coruscant." He said blankly.
"Coruscant... that is... where?"
"Oh, just... somewhere... north."
The Elven prince rolled his eyes. To Anakin's relief, Legolas looked behind the Jed-Eye's shoulder. The elf saw something.
"Get off the road," Legolas said.
"What?"
"Get off the road! Quick!" He took hold of the Jed-Eye's arm and pulled him into the foliage at the side of the path. *
The boy tripped over a root, and fell flat on his face, and Legolas peered out at the path from a hiding place behind a tree. Presently the sound of voices and mumbling came from up the path, and then the glow of red torches lit up the surrounding area. Then, Legolas saw about twenty elves walking down the path, humming and whistling, leading, surprisingly, about eleven dwarves with blindfolds and ropes. The Elven prince paused to watch the strange sight. The dwarves were groaning and complaining loudly, and the elves who led them were quite annoyed with them. Now, if Legolas was surprised to see such a thing, he didn't show it, and stepped out of the forest as the odd company passed by. Since he was an elf, the other elves barely noticed him as he walked through their ranks to the leader, other than commenting on him with "Hello Legolas" or nodding and saying "Prince". Legolas tapped on the leader's shoulder.
"Hello Reggon! What have you here?"
The other elf was somewhat startled, and turned around to look at Legolas. His eyebrows shot up.
"Prince Legolas!" he cried. "What are you doing here?"
He stopped, and signaled the rest to do the same. Legolas grinned.
"I asked first," he said.
The elf, named Reggon by Legolas, glanced at his charge of ten or eleven dwarves. They were all huddled up close to each other, and they were so small that it was hard for uninterested elves to count them. They all looked the same, anyway, with big beards and wide girth.
"Well, these are a group of elves that your Adar has been jumping up and down trying to find. Three times they tried to attack us during the summer feasts! Thranduil is quite upset with them."
Legolas winced, and nodded.
"I can imagine."
"SPEAKING of summer feasts, Prince," Reggon said with a smirk. "You too are not in his favour. He will have a word or two with you when you return. You went hunting... AGAIN... during the feasts? You are a prince, Legolas. You have to act like it. Make appearances. Make..."
"'My Adar proud'?" Legolas finished, rolling his eyes. "I am a Prince. And whether anyone else thinks so or not, I do not care. What is the fun of feasts, anyway? You eat! You drink! You sing! And then you leave. You can do the same thing at home, without getting dressed up and wasting more time than necessary."
"Very well, Legolas," snorted the other elf. "I will leave Thranduil to lecture you. Now, what are you doing back so soon? You only left a few days ago, and I see no game with you."
"Oh," Legolas turned back to where his charge was hiding... badly... behind the trees a little way back. "Alright, Jed-Eye! You can come out now! I found a trespasser too. Hey, I wonder why there are so many that choose to come into my Adar's land so without permission? I mean, this is no Lothlorien. And nearly everyone who steps in here gets lost... why don't they just stick to their own lands?"
Anakin walked towards his strange elf-dude companion, but as he walked towards them he bumped into something and nearly tripped. He heard a muffled "Ooch!", and turned to see who it was that he had hit, but he saw naught but thin air. So he shrugged and walked past the other glaring elves to stand next to Legolas. The other elf was much different than the prince. He had dark hair and dark eyes, and looked over Anakin with a frown.
"What was his excuse?" Reggon asked.
"Uhm," Legolas realized that he had never asked Anakin how he had gotten into Mirkwood in the first place. "He got lost. Hey, can we walk with you guys back to Adar's?"
Reggon shrugged. "Sure."
So they walked towards the halls of Thranduil... and Anakin was still not sure what would happen to him once he got there. He remembered how he had originally thought Legolas was a cannibal... could it really be true? Would he ever get back to Coruscant again? COULD LEGOLAS REALLY TAKE ON YODA? Uhm... he would have to wait and find out, he supposed.
*Apologies. I couldn't resist but to use that bit from the movie. It popped into my head. Hey, you must know how hard it is to get rid of those plot bunnies once they stick their teeth into your flesh!
Anakin sighed, and turned his light saber off. Though he thought that he could easily have snapped the string off the bow, and sent the arrow flying backwards at Legolas. But the weird elf-dude really didn't do anything to deserve it. He did look quite scared of his light saber anyway. And he could have been nice and turned it off in the first place... Legolas looked at the weird hilt of the light saber blankly, and then lowered his bow.
"So... if you are not a wizard, would you mind explaining... that?" he asked.
Anakin rolled his eyes. Hadn't the elf-dude ever seen a light saber before? Maybe not. He did hear of a few solar systems that were still... uncivilized. However he severely wished that this was not one of them, because then, since he landed on the planet and talked with even one of the beings he could get in BIG trouble, violating a whole lot of Galactic-Laws and regulations.
"Well, Mr. Legolas," Anakin said with a small sigh. "This is a light saber. A light saber is basically a sword, except that it is made out of a beam o flight. It can cut through anything, except for another light saber. It can only be made and used by a Jedi like myself. It's a pretty neat weapon."
Legolas blinked at him, and then frowned.
"I... I don't understand. Why do you not just use a regular sword? Certainly it couldn't be that much different than then your... light saver."
Anakin rolled his eyes.
"No, light sabers are very different than regular swords. They're much cooler. They are the only weapon that Jedis ever need. They can open doors without much trouble... slice through bad-guys faster than steel... uhm... and they make this cool sound when you move them around!"
Legolas scratched his head.
"But what about a long-range battle? Would a Jed-Eye not use something that could... go further distances?" He fingered his own trusty bow. "What if you see an Orc a stone's throw away, and it is charging at an innocent bystander? Would you ... throw your light saver at it?"
Anakin blinked at him.
"Well... Uhm... I was... Yeah, uhm... not trained for that sort of thing... yet. I'll... ask Obi-Wan, when I get ... back..."
Legolas cocked an eyebrow at him.
"'Obi-Wan'?" he asked. "Who is he?"
"Another Jedi. I thought I already..."
"There's more than one Jed-Eye???"
"Yeah. There is a whole Jedi Order. There used to be a whole lot, now there's only a couple hundred. A council of the most powerful Jedis from all over the galaxy governs us... Though there is not a 'real' leader, there's this one dude, Master Yoda, who's the most powerful of the powerful of the yadayadayada. hey! Ha! Yoda, yada! Yoda, yada... ahem. Anyway. He's ancient too. He's more than 900 years old... I think. He-"
Legolas interrupted with a snicker.
"He became head of a council at the mere age of 900?"
Anakin was flabbergasted.
"Don't... you think that 900 years old is ... a long time to... live?"
Legolas shook his head.
"At 900 years of age, an elf might just be old enough to join my adar's patrols. If he is exceptionally strong."
"What???" Anakin's eyebrows rose in disbelief. "Really???" Legolas nodded again. "Wow! How old are YOU?"
Legolas crossed his arms, giving the Jed-Eye a stern look.
"Do Jed-Eyes not have any manners? T'ain't polite to ask someone his age."
"Aww... c'mon! Tell me!"
Legolas narrowed his eyes, but smirked.
"I am old enough to take your 'Master Yoda' over my knee and send him to bed without supper."
Anakin nearly burst out laughing at the visual. Oh sheesh, he could just hear it... 'Put me down you will! Psychopath you are!'
"That is amusing to you?" Legolas asked seriously.
"Uhm... no. Yes. No. I..."
"Anyway. Where does this... Jed-Eye council meet?" the elf asked, thinking of the White Council, and wondering whether they knew about the Jed-Eye one. Perhaps it was better if they knew that there could possibly be a whole band of these crazy beings running about, using magic swords and trespassing into Elven realms.
Anakin winced. He probably shouldn't say anything about space travel anymore. Legolas would probably flip. Besides... he was being quite reasonable at the moment.
"Oh, Coruscant." He said blankly.
"Coruscant... that is... where?"
"Oh, just... somewhere... north."
The Elven prince rolled his eyes. To Anakin's relief, Legolas looked behind the Jed-Eye's shoulder. The elf saw something.
"Get off the road," Legolas said.
"What?"
"Get off the road! Quick!" He took hold of the Jed-Eye's arm and pulled him into the foliage at the side of the path. *
The boy tripped over a root, and fell flat on his face, and Legolas peered out at the path from a hiding place behind a tree. Presently the sound of voices and mumbling came from up the path, and then the glow of red torches lit up the surrounding area. Then, Legolas saw about twenty elves walking down the path, humming and whistling, leading, surprisingly, about eleven dwarves with blindfolds and ropes. The Elven prince paused to watch the strange sight. The dwarves were groaning and complaining loudly, and the elves who led them were quite annoyed with them. Now, if Legolas was surprised to see such a thing, he didn't show it, and stepped out of the forest as the odd company passed by. Since he was an elf, the other elves barely noticed him as he walked through their ranks to the leader, other than commenting on him with "Hello Legolas" or nodding and saying "Prince". Legolas tapped on the leader's shoulder.
"Hello Reggon! What have you here?"
The other elf was somewhat startled, and turned around to look at Legolas. His eyebrows shot up.
"Prince Legolas!" he cried. "What are you doing here?"
He stopped, and signaled the rest to do the same. Legolas grinned.
"I asked first," he said.
The elf, named Reggon by Legolas, glanced at his charge of ten or eleven dwarves. They were all huddled up close to each other, and they were so small that it was hard for uninterested elves to count them. They all looked the same, anyway, with big beards and wide girth.
"Well, these are a group of elves that your Adar has been jumping up and down trying to find. Three times they tried to attack us during the summer feasts! Thranduil is quite upset with them."
Legolas winced, and nodded.
"I can imagine."
"SPEAKING of summer feasts, Prince," Reggon said with a smirk. "You too are not in his favour. He will have a word or two with you when you return. You went hunting... AGAIN... during the feasts? You are a prince, Legolas. You have to act like it. Make appearances. Make..."
"'My Adar proud'?" Legolas finished, rolling his eyes. "I am a Prince. And whether anyone else thinks so or not, I do not care. What is the fun of feasts, anyway? You eat! You drink! You sing! And then you leave. You can do the same thing at home, without getting dressed up and wasting more time than necessary."
"Very well, Legolas," snorted the other elf. "I will leave Thranduil to lecture you. Now, what are you doing back so soon? You only left a few days ago, and I see no game with you."
"Oh," Legolas turned back to where his charge was hiding... badly... behind the trees a little way back. "Alright, Jed-Eye! You can come out now! I found a trespasser too. Hey, I wonder why there are so many that choose to come into my Adar's land so without permission? I mean, this is no Lothlorien. And nearly everyone who steps in here gets lost... why don't they just stick to their own lands?"
Anakin walked towards his strange elf-dude companion, but as he walked towards them he bumped into something and nearly tripped. He heard a muffled "Ooch!", and turned to see who it was that he had hit, but he saw naught but thin air. So he shrugged and walked past the other glaring elves to stand next to Legolas. The other elf was much different than the prince. He had dark hair and dark eyes, and looked over Anakin with a frown.
"What was his excuse?" Reggon asked.
"Uhm," Legolas realized that he had never asked Anakin how he had gotten into Mirkwood in the first place. "He got lost. Hey, can we walk with you guys back to Adar's?"
Reggon shrugged. "Sure."
So they walked towards the halls of Thranduil... and Anakin was still not sure what would happen to him once he got there. He remembered how he had originally thought Legolas was a cannibal... could it really be true? Would he ever get back to Coruscant again? COULD LEGOLAS REALLY TAKE ON YODA? Uhm... he would have to wait and find out, he supposed.
*Apologies. I couldn't resist but to use that bit from the movie. It popped into my head. Hey, you must know how hard it is to get rid of those plot bunnies once they stick their teeth into your flesh!