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Chapter 6- "Still of Siders and Princes"
I grabbed her hand without a second hesitation and before I could change my mind. Shy was screaming bloody murder as she ran beside me but she didn't pull back or try to stop and I was grateful for that because I was pretty sure I couldn't handle her fear as well as my own. We ran as fast as we could and I was suddenly glad for my jeans, T-shirt and new Nike cross trainers, which made running over such unfamiliar terrain a little easier. We jumped over huge tree roots, and fallen branches as we ran. Until suddenly a shadow descended over us.
"Spiders can jump?!" I heard Shiana yell as the shadow passed over us and before us stood the giant spider. Again.
'This is it," I thought "We're going to die. At least I'll finally get to see Jesus and heaven and I'll have Shy to keep me company and drive all of heaven crazy with her antics," I thought briefly before.
Fwap, fwap two arrows landed in what looked to be the spider's head. It scuttled a little nearer to us before falling over dead. I breathed a sigh of relief. Thank God. Turning to Shy I went to say something about the power of prayer when she grabbed my forearm and squeezed. I didn't need her to squeeze me; one look at her terrified face was enough to convince me that we weren't out of danger yet. I turned back to face what I expected would be a newly revived spider. Instead my eyes fell on the ugliest looking thing I had ever seen. It was covered in what I can only describe as ick. "Blood and guts!" That's how Shy would later describe it. It wasn't huge or anything, almost human in size and shape, but there were three of them and two of us. We were already terrified with adrenalin pumping through our bodies. This just kept getting better and better.
"Woman flesh. No, Elf flesh" one of them sneered over at us with a grin that turned insane once he spotted me.
"What are you doing out here all alone?" another said nastily revealing ugly crooked rotting teeth. They spoke with a horrible accent and the stench coming from them was no less than putrid.
"Uh, nothing. Thanks for saving us. We've really got to go now." Shy said inching back with me."
"No, girls stay, stay and let us play with you awhile."
Shy seemed to be getting fed up. I knew how she was. She will scream and cry at first until you get her mad, or tired enough and she decides that's it. Looking over at the frown developing on her face I didn't know whom I was more afraid for. The creatures or us. She dropped my arm stepped away from me and took a step towards the hideous creatures.
"OK that's enough. I've had it. Get out of here you demons, in the name of Jesus." She shouted pointing at them. Just as soon as the words had left her mouth the creatures fell dead to the floor.
"Wow, heh heh, check out the power of God." She chuckled, looking at me with the widest grin spread across her beautiful features. I just breathed in relief.
"Are you alright?"
"Ahhh!!!!" We both yelled jumping a foot into the air grabbing each other and turning to the voice that had spoken from behind us. Standing there was a man, standing a little over 6 ft. tall, slender, holding a bow and arrow and sporting an outfit that looked like it would fit the cast of Robin Hood Men in Tights. He had these sparkling blue eyes that unwittingly captured my gaze. As Shy would later describe the encounter "Damn was he fine!"
"Geez sicko, you nearly scared us to death. A giant spider and three boogie men couldn't kill us, but you jump out from nowhere and we nearly die of a heart attack." Shy yelled at him.
"I apologize. I did not mean to startle you." The man said.
"Yeah sure. Ok fine, we're fine. So who are you anyway?" Shy asked placing a hand on her hip and assuming her tough girl stance.
"Shy" I poked her in the side, "don't be so rude."
She gave me a weird look. "And why not? If Blondie over there had been more obvious with his approach then I wouldn't be standing here with my heart fibrillating!"
"Uh, you'd probably be dead too." I felt it necessary to point out to her.
"Huh?" she asked. I pointed to the three "boogie men" behind us, each lying on the ground face down with an arrow embedded dead center in the back of their heads. Some black substance that was probably blood was beginning to pool around them.
"Oh" was all she said.
"I must offer my apologies as well ladies." Another man stepped from the trees behind the dead boogiemen. "We did not mean to frighten, only to protect you. These woods are extremely dangerous. He too had long blonde hair and was dressed similarly to the third. There was something different about his clothing though, the first one's clothes seemed to be nicer, more elegant if you can use that word to describe tights.
"Yes, the woods are dangerous even now in these times, though the initial darkness has passed, May I ask why you are out here all alone?" asked a third man coming from behind the second.
Geez, how many were there? At least this one wasn't blonde. His hair was long as well, but dark brown. He was actually quite handsome. Ok all of them were handsome. In fact, to put it right out there -they were pretty. Like in a guy kind of pretty though, but this last one seemed to have a distinct attractive look. Although not as handsome as the first in my eyes, he had these alluring green eyes that made you want to look again. The first guy just made me want to look forever. I noticed Shy staring at dude number three. Did that girl ever think of anything else? Well I did.
"We are out here minding our business, and leaving yours the heck alone" I replied in an admittedly rude tone of voice.
Ok so I could be as bitchy as Shiana. There's a reason we were best friends after all. And I was finally feeling some of the stress. I mean it isn't everyday your parents -one- tell you that their not really your parents, -two- you get sucked away from home, -three- almost eaten by a giant spider, -four- threatened with God knows what from some ugly looking hunchback things. And of course lets not forget -five- getting saved by three absolutely gorgeous guys in tights. Well maybe the last one wasn't so bad.
The men just looked at each other confused after my rude remark, and when they turned I noticed something that had not caught my eye at first. Their ears, they were pointed just like mine. What? Were they my long lost family or something? Scary how close you can come sometimes to the truth when you're not even trying, huh? Rethinking my haste to be rude to the first human like beings we'd encountered today I amended.
"Uh, what I mean is thank you for helping us. Now if you could just point us to the nearest camp site or at least a town we'll be on our way."
The first one spoke to us again, walking around us to join his companions.
"My name is Legolas Prince of this realm, Eryn Lasgalen, and these are my two most trusted guardians Sérener (boyish blond looks), and Rínon (tall dark and handsome). I do not know of any camp or town nearby, but you are both welcome to refresh yourselves in my father's kingdom until you wish to leave.
He looked and sounded pretty sincere and harmless. Well, only if one didn't account for the bow and arrows and obviously killer aim. I didn't answer for a second, only stared at him. He was something to behold. He was tall and thin but not in any way skinny. And he was standing with a posture that seemed to reek of confidence and grace. He had these piercing blue eyes and long blonde hair. I was curious about that. No one wore their hair like that anymore. The Hanson brothers had barely gotten away with it when they first came out and that was forever ago. But for some reason it just looked right on him. His name was weird too, what had he said it was? Oh right, Prince Legolas of Erin Lasgoleth or something like that.
Wait a minute- Prince! I fought back a groan. "Why did Shy always end up being right even when her predictions of the future were crazy. Here was Prince Charming staring us in the face. Well I didn't know him well enough to figure the charming part in yet but if anyone in this day and age could be, this Legolas guy could probably cut it.
Still, I had this strong urge to tell him there weren't any Princes in the U.S so who did he think he was fooling. There's no way a girl would fall for something like that. But then I remembered. What did I know, this definitely wasn't home. He could very well be a prince and I'd have just sounded stupid arguing. Besides, he didn't look like the type that needed to lie to get a girl.
"Um, nice to meet you Prince Legolas. My name is Niari and this is my friend Shiana. Thank you for your offer." I said as politely as I could, ignoring Shy's famous evil eye boring a hole in the side of my head, probably for accepting help from strangers.
"Mae govannen Niari."
"Huh?" I asked with an admittedly stupid expression on my face. "What was that you just said?"
But before he could respond.
Chapter 6- "Still of Siders and Princes"
I grabbed her hand without a second hesitation and before I could change my mind. Shy was screaming bloody murder as she ran beside me but she didn't pull back or try to stop and I was grateful for that because I was pretty sure I couldn't handle her fear as well as my own. We ran as fast as we could and I was suddenly glad for my jeans, T-shirt and new Nike cross trainers, which made running over such unfamiliar terrain a little easier. We jumped over huge tree roots, and fallen branches as we ran. Until suddenly a shadow descended over us.
"Spiders can jump?!" I heard Shiana yell as the shadow passed over us and before us stood the giant spider. Again.
'This is it," I thought "We're going to die. At least I'll finally get to see Jesus and heaven and I'll have Shy to keep me company and drive all of heaven crazy with her antics," I thought briefly before.
Fwap, fwap two arrows landed in what looked to be the spider's head. It scuttled a little nearer to us before falling over dead. I breathed a sigh of relief. Thank God. Turning to Shy I went to say something about the power of prayer when she grabbed my forearm and squeezed. I didn't need her to squeeze me; one look at her terrified face was enough to convince me that we weren't out of danger yet. I turned back to face what I expected would be a newly revived spider. Instead my eyes fell on the ugliest looking thing I had ever seen. It was covered in what I can only describe as ick. "Blood and guts!" That's how Shy would later describe it. It wasn't huge or anything, almost human in size and shape, but there were three of them and two of us. We were already terrified with adrenalin pumping through our bodies. This just kept getting better and better.
"Woman flesh. No, Elf flesh" one of them sneered over at us with a grin that turned insane once he spotted me.
"What are you doing out here all alone?" another said nastily revealing ugly crooked rotting teeth. They spoke with a horrible accent and the stench coming from them was no less than putrid.
"Uh, nothing. Thanks for saving us. We've really got to go now." Shy said inching back with me."
"No, girls stay, stay and let us play with you awhile."
Shy seemed to be getting fed up. I knew how she was. She will scream and cry at first until you get her mad, or tired enough and she decides that's it. Looking over at the frown developing on her face I didn't know whom I was more afraid for. The creatures or us. She dropped my arm stepped away from me and took a step towards the hideous creatures.
"OK that's enough. I've had it. Get out of here you demons, in the name of Jesus." She shouted pointing at them. Just as soon as the words had left her mouth the creatures fell dead to the floor.
"Wow, heh heh, check out the power of God." She chuckled, looking at me with the widest grin spread across her beautiful features. I just breathed in relief.
"Are you alright?"
"Ahhh!!!!" We both yelled jumping a foot into the air grabbing each other and turning to the voice that had spoken from behind us. Standing there was a man, standing a little over 6 ft. tall, slender, holding a bow and arrow and sporting an outfit that looked like it would fit the cast of Robin Hood Men in Tights. He had these sparkling blue eyes that unwittingly captured my gaze. As Shy would later describe the encounter "Damn was he fine!"
"Geez sicko, you nearly scared us to death. A giant spider and three boogie men couldn't kill us, but you jump out from nowhere and we nearly die of a heart attack." Shy yelled at him.
"I apologize. I did not mean to startle you." The man said.
"Yeah sure. Ok fine, we're fine. So who are you anyway?" Shy asked placing a hand on her hip and assuming her tough girl stance.
"Shy" I poked her in the side, "don't be so rude."
She gave me a weird look. "And why not? If Blondie over there had been more obvious with his approach then I wouldn't be standing here with my heart fibrillating!"
"Uh, you'd probably be dead too." I felt it necessary to point out to her.
"Huh?" she asked. I pointed to the three "boogie men" behind us, each lying on the ground face down with an arrow embedded dead center in the back of their heads. Some black substance that was probably blood was beginning to pool around them.
"Oh" was all she said.
"I must offer my apologies as well ladies." Another man stepped from the trees behind the dead boogiemen. "We did not mean to frighten, only to protect you. These woods are extremely dangerous. He too had long blonde hair and was dressed similarly to the third. There was something different about his clothing though, the first one's clothes seemed to be nicer, more elegant if you can use that word to describe tights.
"Yes, the woods are dangerous even now in these times, though the initial darkness has passed, May I ask why you are out here all alone?" asked a third man coming from behind the second.
Geez, how many were there? At least this one wasn't blonde. His hair was long as well, but dark brown. He was actually quite handsome. Ok all of them were handsome. In fact, to put it right out there -they were pretty. Like in a guy kind of pretty though, but this last one seemed to have a distinct attractive look. Although not as handsome as the first in my eyes, he had these alluring green eyes that made you want to look again. The first guy just made me want to look forever. I noticed Shy staring at dude number three. Did that girl ever think of anything else? Well I did.
"We are out here minding our business, and leaving yours the heck alone" I replied in an admittedly rude tone of voice.
Ok so I could be as bitchy as Shiana. There's a reason we were best friends after all. And I was finally feeling some of the stress. I mean it isn't everyday your parents -one- tell you that their not really your parents, -two- you get sucked away from home, -three- almost eaten by a giant spider, -four- threatened with God knows what from some ugly looking hunchback things. And of course lets not forget -five- getting saved by three absolutely gorgeous guys in tights. Well maybe the last one wasn't so bad.
The men just looked at each other confused after my rude remark, and when they turned I noticed something that had not caught my eye at first. Their ears, they were pointed just like mine. What? Were they my long lost family or something? Scary how close you can come sometimes to the truth when you're not even trying, huh? Rethinking my haste to be rude to the first human like beings we'd encountered today I amended.
"Uh, what I mean is thank you for helping us. Now if you could just point us to the nearest camp site or at least a town we'll be on our way."
The first one spoke to us again, walking around us to join his companions.
"My name is Legolas Prince of this realm, Eryn Lasgalen, and these are my two most trusted guardians Sérener (boyish blond looks), and Rínon (tall dark and handsome). I do not know of any camp or town nearby, but you are both welcome to refresh yourselves in my father's kingdom until you wish to leave.
He looked and sounded pretty sincere and harmless. Well, only if one didn't account for the bow and arrows and obviously killer aim. I didn't answer for a second, only stared at him. He was something to behold. He was tall and thin but not in any way skinny. And he was standing with a posture that seemed to reek of confidence and grace. He had these piercing blue eyes and long blonde hair. I was curious about that. No one wore their hair like that anymore. The Hanson brothers had barely gotten away with it when they first came out and that was forever ago. But for some reason it just looked right on him. His name was weird too, what had he said it was? Oh right, Prince Legolas of Erin Lasgoleth or something like that.
Wait a minute- Prince! I fought back a groan. "Why did Shy always end up being right even when her predictions of the future were crazy. Here was Prince Charming staring us in the face. Well I didn't know him well enough to figure the charming part in yet but if anyone in this day and age could be, this Legolas guy could probably cut it.
Still, I had this strong urge to tell him there weren't any Princes in the U.S so who did he think he was fooling. There's no way a girl would fall for something like that. But then I remembered. What did I know, this definitely wasn't home. He could very well be a prince and I'd have just sounded stupid arguing. Besides, he didn't look like the type that needed to lie to get a girl.
"Um, nice to meet you Prince Legolas. My name is Niari and this is my friend Shiana. Thank you for your offer." I said as politely as I could, ignoring Shy's famous evil eye boring a hole in the side of my head, probably for accepting help from strangers.
"Mae govannen Niari."
"Huh?" I asked with an admittedly stupid expression on my face. "What was that you just said?"
But before he could respond.