A/N: Hi there, well this is my very first attempt on a "Lord of the Rings" – FanFiction written in English. I have to admit that my first language is German and not English, so please be kind and forgive my mistakes with this language. A friend of mine just urged me to write an English story…so there it goes…I hope you'll like it a little.

Please leave a review for I would be very pleased about any comments on my story.

Disclaimer: Do I own Legolas? Well…um…let me think…no…poor me…but he belongs to J.R.R. Tolkien and his amazing book…don't sue me, I do not earn money with this story.

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Moon's Song

Prologue: Midwinter's Night

Nightfall was close when crows flew over Mirkwood, like black hunters chasing the stars. Wren was singing its last anthem to the winter before the stars beat the sunrays and the small bird hid in its nest to wait for sunrise and its warming caresses. Winter was always hard in Mirkwood and only seldom Elves were out at this season. Sometimes, when the moon was up and no sound but the wind's echoed through the woods, you could hear them sing their bitter-sweet song about their longing for spring and its new born life.

Dark creatures haunted Mirkwood and no one knew where they came from.

Some said that the Dark Lord would have sent them out to increase His power and to cover the Greenwood with shadows. Only a small part of Mirkwood was in light, yet. The north of this forest was the home and last resort of Silvian Elves under King Thranduil's rule.

Snow was falling down, dancing in the cold and crisp air, only to land on top of the huge trees, oaks and beeches. The fine layer of snow reminded of crystals of sugar as it was glistening softly in the silver and silken moonlight. Branches were rocking in the wind, formed shadows, like black imps they were skipping through the undergrowth. It was the coldest night of Mirkwood's winter – Midwinter's night.

And a small girl of mankind was lost in this labyrinth of trees. She woke up laying on her stomach when the sun died that day, the last sunrays were painting the sky red and orange, snow had already begun to fall. She could not remember anything but the wolves that attacked her and her parents at this dark and gloomy path through the woods. Nothing but this. Neither she knew her name, nor anything about this area she found herself again. She could hear the wind calling her names, singing its satirical song to her. Where was her mother? And her father?

And why couldn't she even remember how they looked like? Her quivering hand touched her forehead. She had a bad head-ache and she was so cold.

The small cape of leather just barely fit her right, it was torn up at its seam, fringes testified to what happened to her and her parents. When she removed her hand from her cold skin she saw trails of blood on her palm. Daddy always told her to be careful in the wilderness for wild animals could scent her blood when she was wounded. And soon they would come to get her because she would be a sitting duck to them. "Daddy?", she whispered with a husky voice when she heard a twig snapping. A shiver ran down her spine and goosebumps formed on her undressed forearms.

"Daddy?", she repeated a little bit louder but still she got no response. She didn't dare to move, not even a single limb. There she stood alone in the dark – alone with her fear. She noticed the trails of blood all around her but she knew that it wasn't her blood only.

Maybe those creatures that watched her at the moment came back to catch her as they did with her parents before. The small girl with an age of only four years kept standing there like she was frozen. But when two silver eyes appeared in the dark around her, fear turned to panic and finally she turned around and ran as fast she could.

Barefooted she scampered under the equally bare treetops to escape the danger that surrounded her. Behind her she could hear a quite big and wild animal growling, running after her. She didn't turn around, because the angst of what she would see frightened her to death.

Her breath raced through her lungs, her small body could no longer stand this strain, her feet cut on a root and she tumbled, crashing into a trunk. For a moment, she lost her sense of direction completely and ere she recovered from the heavy, sudden fall she felt a huge foot on her back, tearing the thin cloth up from her back and leaving a bad cut on her sensetive skin. She screamed as loud as she was able to and leaned forward, feeling her cape tearing apart completely.

But her cape saved her life for the wolf that hunted her, was tangled up with the fringed cloth and so she won time to get back on her aching feet again.

Whimpering she rushed straight on, not looking back. She ran between the trunks, breathing fast.

And when she felt her strength melting away like snow beneath the sunlight, the girl quickly climbed into a very small, hollow tree in order to hide from the wolf that soon caught up with her again and lingered in front of the tree, vainly trying to catch the girl with its claw. She screamed again when the beast crashed into the tree in order to destroy her resort. Her heart was beating much too fast, blood was flowing down from her brow to her fine, small nose. She began to cry, shuddering in the cold with fear and loneliness.

The wolf crashed into the tree again, still scenting its helpless quarry, howling with pain and hunger, frightening her even more. The wind was rustling through the branches, its sound mixed up with the wolf's howling, creating a symphony of the night.

The girl cried, clenched her tiny fingers into the cloth of her cape, pulling it closer to her wounded and cold body. Tears mixed up with her blood, composing a red, salty fluid that soon covered all of her face, driving the hungry animal mad.

"Daddy", she shouted again, but her daddy couldn't hear her anymore. Nobody could, excepting the beast with its gleaming white teeth. Again it smashed the trunk with its claw, wood was splitting and the hole that lead inside the hollow tree enlarged a little. She desperately tried to climb even deeper into the tree, but she was too big to hide even further, too small to stand this stress any longer.

"Go away, please…please just clear off", she begged, throwing some frozen mud towards the greedy animal which made it only more aggressive. The moon was the only light she could see, it emphasized the wolf's silhouette, made it look like pure silver. The eyes of the wolf were as clear as golden sparkling precious stones. It howled again, causing her to shiver visibly. She gave in to her fear, ceased to feel her pain and hope. Nothing would save her, she was lost in a terrain she couldn't remember. And ere she would find out, she was dead.

The beast nervously walked around the tree, particular crashing into the root, extracting its claws, splitting wood. But it couldn't reach her. No matter how hard it tried.

The girl's tears dried on her pale skin, leaving salty trails along her cheek. With widened eyes she stared at the wolf that finally began to give up its quarry and turned its back toward her, disappearing in the dark. "Clear off…", she whispered, still shocked. She was exhausted, her whole body quivered in the winter's cold. And soon she got so tired.

She remembered her daddy telling her of staying awake in the cold because weariness was the first sign of freezing to death. She tried to draw a picture of her father in her head, but she couldn't remember him or her mother. She couldn't. Her memory seemed to be lost, forgotten was everything she loved, anything she needed to stay alive. The only thing she knew was the sound of her father's voice. Nothing was left in her head. Nothing.

With this scary thought her lids fluttered close and she slowly drifted into sleep.

`Maybe I'll die in the wilderness, in this hollow tree´, she thought and a lonesome tear rolled down her cheek before she fell asleep. Her sleep was tight and dreamless.

She had found a resort for the night, but would she survive another winter's day in the woods? A four years old girl all alone and without any memory?

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A/N: Reviews? Always welcome :) This was only the prologue, yet, I always try to improve my English, so pardon my mistakes, alright? Please leave a review *puppy eyes*