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Chapter 46: Using Ones Abilities
Celebfaer and Legolas rode for half a day before they made it to the woods and they met no trouble on the way. They rode through the woods for a short while, before Celebfaer decided to stop to make camp. She would need some strength and she did not want Legolas to feel pressured or angry with her for pushing him too much. The first night was awkward, and they ate in silence, sitting around the fire to try and keep warm. Eventually Celebfaer grew tired of the silence.
"Legolas." She said and he looked up at her. "I am going for a walk, will you be alright here for a while?" She asked him and he glared at her.
"I am not a child Celebfaer. But you brought me out to the woods, merely so you could leave me alone?" He asked her and she shook her head.
"There is something I must do." She said, then she got up and walked off into the woods.
When she was out of ear shot of Legolas, she called out to the wind spirit.
"It is Rydia, the lost one and young heir of Queen Asura." He said when he arrived and was sitting, perched on one of the branches in the tree she was standing near. Removing her cloak, Celebfaer flew up to join him and he smiled at her. "Your wings are finally cleansed."
"Yes they are." She said with a smile, then she looked at him. "You spoke of the Queen. What of my mother? How does she fare?"
"She is well and asks the spirits for news of her daughter telling them that you go by the name Celebfaer now though you will answer to either. Second-daughter is the title you have taken for yourself, but you are only second-daughter if you are second born."
"Send back to her that I am well. Of my title, I wish not to speak." Celebfaer said then she nodded to the spirit. "But I shall only take a small amount of your time for I wish to know what you know of dark clouds."
"None dwell in the sky, if that is what you mean."
"Not that kind of cloud." She replied with a smile and as the spirit threw her a blank look, she explained to him what she wished to do.
He gave her the advice that she needed then she let him go and called the rest of the spirits, even the fire spirit this time, though she saved her for last because the fire spirit was Celebfaer's favourite.
The fire spirit had the final piece to her puzzle and she spent a while talking to her then she went back to the camp to find Legolas already asleep. It was late however, and she had spent many hours in the woods talking to the spirits. She had lost track of time and was glad that nothing had tired to attack Legolas.
Celebfaer looked at him sleeping, so peacefully that she knew it would be sinful to wake him. So, she smiled, then settled down in her bedroll and went to sleep herself.
The next day she spent just walking through the woods with Legolas, talking to him about anything that came to her mind and getting the same responses that she was used to. She was not going to put her plan into action until that night as she needed for Legolas to be asleep before she could do anything. Also she wanted him to believe that it was the fresh air of the woods that made him feel better, if her plan worked that night.
Finally they went back to their camp and sat by the campfire, talking of the same things that they had during the day, getting the same sort of emotionless responses that she was used to. Eventually Legolas announced that he was going to bed, so Celebfaer waited until he fell asleep before she started the first part of what she hope would be a cure, the part that involved Fire and Earth.
It took a few hours until she was finished the chanting that to anyone other than herself and nearby spirits, would have sounded like the mummering of the wind.
When she had finished she went to sleep, putting up a mental mind-barrier so that she could not and would not feel exhaustion. She would need all of her strength for the next day.
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The next morning, Celebfaer was up before Legolas, so she went about making breakfast, trying not to wake him. When Legolas eventually did wake up, she had just finished making breakfast, so he walked over to where she was, as she put some of the food onto his plate.
"How are you feeling?" She asked him and he smiled, but the smile was a genuinely happy one, which was rare for Legolas of late. It was the first smile she had seen on his face since before she had left Eryn Lasgalen for the Fairy Realm.
"Better, it appears as though you may have found a cure Celebfaer." He said and she smiled inwardly then gave him his breakfast.
"It is merely walking through the woods again........."
"Nay, it is not that. For I tried it already, with Gimli." He said and she smiled at him.
"There is something I want to show you today." She said, changing the subject and he frowned.
"What?"
"You shall see, but the sooner you eat your breakfast, the quicker we will be there." She replied and he laughed, a happy laugh and Celebfaer's heart soared.
Legolas was rather hungry and he ate quite a bit for breakfast, which she had been expecting. The spirits had told her what to expect, but she just hoped she was able to do the last bit or else he would be ten times worse tomorrow morning when he woke up. It had been another thing that the spirits had told her. The consequences of failing could very well kill the person that was already dying.
So, when they had finished their breakfast, they packed up the camp a little bit and they set off. Celebfaer set a brisk pace, and for the first time in a while, Legolas found it easy to keep up with her.
"What did you do to me?" He asked her amazement in his voice and she laughed then shook her head.
"I shall see if it works properly before I think about telling you." She said then he laughed this time and her heart skipped a beat. The laugh was happy this time. He seemed to be getting happier by the second and Celebfaer just wanted to throw her arms around him and apologise for everything bad that she had ever done for him. She wanted so badly to take him in her arms and hug him until the world ended, but she knew that before she could do that she needed to know that he was fully cured.
They finally made it to where she wanted them to be and Legolas looked around, wondering why she had brought him there.
The place she had brought him to was a small clearing, that was surrounded by a circle of trees, In the middle of the clearing was a relatively large body of water. The water was a beautiful colour and looked as though it had never been touched by evil, despite the closeness of the land to Mordor. Legolas frowned at her when he saw it and she smiled.
"All shall be revealed soon Legolas, my love." She said sweetly and he turned to look at her to see that she had dropped her cloak and that her breathtakingly beautiful wings exposed to the world.
She had taken off her cloak and now was standing in front of Legolas as the Fairy that she was, very scared and very nervous about what she was about to do. She had never done anything like it before, but she had been told by her mother once that something like what she was about to do was done by a female fairy on her wedding night or if she wanted to seduce a mortal.
The garment that she wore barely covered her properly, but it was the fairy way, and though she did not feel right in it, the spirits had told her that in order for it to work, she needed to act as a true fairy would. So she had made a few alterations to the one fairy dress she had brought to the woods with her, silver as always, but now it had a lower neckline that normal.
"You must sit in a tree Legolas, and if you trust me I can put you up there, if you wish, or you can climb up yourself." She said and he smiled.
"I think I am able to climb. In fact I think I could shoot three arrows and get a bulls-eye with each. I have energy and I am suspicious about what you have done to me." He said and she smiled, then waited for him to climb a tree and perch on one of its branches before she flew up to sit beside him. As soon as she lifted herself off the ground with her wings, Legolas looked at her, completely shocked. He had never seen her fly before and she smiled at his shock. She would win him over and he would be cured by the end of the day or she would spend the rest of her life wondering Middle Earth, with nowhere to live.
"Legolas you are like a little child." She said.
"I am sorry Celebfaer, but you startled me with your flying." He said and she laughed.
"Now. Before I show you what we came here for I need you to promise me that you will not move, but you will watch me and nothing else. Your eyes must not wonder, for it is important that you look at me only Legolas."
"You have my word, my lady." He said with a smile.
"Thank you." She said, then she whispered a few words that he was unable to hear before she floated down to the ground.
"Legolas Greenleaf." She said and his eyes moved from her still fluttering wings, to her eyes. "You have stolen my heart and now I wish to attempt to steal yours back in true Fairy fashion." She added then she started to dance, occasionally muttering words in a different tongue and Legolas was not able to pick up the words.
Legolas was transfixed by her dance, and when she floated out into the water, he was amazed even more because she could actually walk on water, something that no Elf had ever been able to do. Though he remembered her telling him that she could once, he had not believed it and now he saw it with his own eyes, so he had no choice but to believe it.
Eventually the dance lifted up and soon she was dancing in front of his eyes in a neat pattern of movements that only she could have made gracefully. The moves of the dance were intoxicating and it was almost as though she was casting a spell, bewitching him and enchanting him so that he would be lost forever, like in the songs.
Legolas had no idea how long he sat there watching her but when the dance came to a close, it had felt like years, though it could not have been more than half a day and he was transfixed. He found that he could not pull his eyes away from the creature that danced before him. She danced for him, and him alone and the beauty and grace of her movements were what captivated him.
He felt warmth flowing through his whole body and a happiness that he had not felt in almost a year spread through his body, to the very tips of his soul. It was almost as though the sun was rising, warming each part of the land separately as it rose, until it was high enough in the sky to illuminate the whole landscape. Except that it was rising in his body, gradually warming him up. Then, Legolas felt as if something close to his heart exploded and he felt a rush of emotions.
As the dance came to a close, Legolas looked at her in disbelief, though Celebfaer did not see him, for she had been concentrating on her dance. She needed to get it perfect, because she did not want to think of the consequences of her failure. It was the final part of the cure that the spirits had offered. This was the part of the Wind and Water spirits. The 'cure' was complete and she could only pray that it had worked.
When she had finished, Celebfaer flew up and sat beside Legolas on the tree and looked at him, hoping for a sign that it had worked she sat looking at him and waiting for her breath to come back to her.
Legolas was so amazed that he could not bring himself to speak. He felt as though a veil had been lifted from his eyes and he was now seeing her for the first time. She was plain, but beautiful and he fell in love with her all over again. The amount of emotions that he was feeling he could not express into words; all he could do was look at her, pure amazement clear on his face.
Looking into his eyes she was amazed at the emotion that she saw there. Elves, she had learnt rarely showed emotions as plainly as she could see them in his eyes and seeing this scared her a little.
"Legolas?" She asked him softly, hoping he would not close his eyes and fall from the tree. Or that he would snap out of the trance that he was in, for all he could do was look at her and that unnerved her quite a bit.
His response shocked her though, as she did not expect it at all.
Legolas simply cupped her face with his hands then he kissed her pouring all the emotions and love that he felt at that moment into the kiss. He felt there was no words that could describe what she had done to him, so he had needed to show her. Celebfaer could not believe how deeply passionate the kiss was and the kiss left her breathless.
When he finally broke off, she opened her eyes and looked at him once more, only to see that he was smiling happily.
"Celebfaer, my love. Thank you." He said and she smiled.
"No, thank you Legolas." She said.
So, they got down from the tree, then walked back, hand in hand to the campsite, not wanting to let each other go, in fear that the other would fade away and they would wake up from the wonderful dream. Back at the campfire, they talked for many hours and eventually they fell asleep.
Celebfaer had fallen asleep with her head resting on Legolas' chest, listening to the steady beating of his heart as she fell asleep, it was soothing and she wanted to lie like that for the rest of eternity. Legolas had been so happy that they were finally together that he had not been able to sleep terribly much. He merely wanted to watch her sleep, for she looked so peaceful in her sleep.
When they woke the next day, Celebfaer looked up into Legolas' eyes and he smiled at her the love he felt for her clearly on his face.
"Melamin, when we return to Mirkwood, I shall announce to the kingdom that I have found my bride. We shall be wed as soon as can be arranged, for my heart beats only for you and I will bind myself to you for the rest of eternity." He said and she smiled.
"Legolas, I shall look forward to the day when we are wedded, so that all of Middle Earth can know of the love that I have for you and no other. My heart beats for you and no other, nor will it ever beat for another. Shall you die, I shall die too for my heart cannot beat without you beside me." She said softly and he smiled, then he leaned forward and kissed her.
Eventually they got up from the peaceful floor of the wood and they prepared for ride back to Minas Tirith.
A/N: How could you all think I would let him die? He is one of the main characters! Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed it and there are still a few more chapters left before I am finished for good, so until I update next, have a good one.
Cheers.
Chapter 46: Using Ones Abilities
Celebfaer and Legolas rode for half a day before they made it to the woods and they met no trouble on the way. They rode through the woods for a short while, before Celebfaer decided to stop to make camp. She would need some strength and she did not want Legolas to feel pressured or angry with her for pushing him too much. The first night was awkward, and they ate in silence, sitting around the fire to try and keep warm. Eventually Celebfaer grew tired of the silence.
"Legolas." She said and he looked up at her. "I am going for a walk, will you be alright here for a while?" She asked him and he glared at her.
"I am not a child Celebfaer. But you brought me out to the woods, merely so you could leave me alone?" He asked her and she shook her head.
"There is something I must do." She said, then she got up and walked off into the woods.
When she was out of ear shot of Legolas, she called out to the wind spirit.
"It is Rydia, the lost one and young heir of Queen Asura." He said when he arrived and was sitting, perched on one of the branches in the tree she was standing near. Removing her cloak, Celebfaer flew up to join him and he smiled at her. "Your wings are finally cleansed."
"Yes they are." She said with a smile, then she looked at him. "You spoke of the Queen. What of my mother? How does she fare?"
"She is well and asks the spirits for news of her daughter telling them that you go by the name Celebfaer now though you will answer to either. Second-daughter is the title you have taken for yourself, but you are only second-daughter if you are second born."
"Send back to her that I am well. Of my title, I wish not to speak." Celebfaer said then she nodded to the spirit. "But I shall only take a small amount of your time for I wish to know what you know of dark clouds."
"None dwell in the sky, if that is what you mean."
"Not that kind of cloud." She replied with a smile and as the spirit threw her a blank look, she explained to him what she wished to do.
He gave her the advice that she needed then she let him go and called the rest of the spirits, even the fire spirit this time, though she saved her for last because the fire spirit was Celebfaer's favourite.
The fire spirit had the final piece to her puzzle and she spent a while talking to her then she went back to the camp to find Legolas already asleep. It was late however, and she had spent many hours in the woods talking to the spirits. She had lost track of time and was glad that nothing had tired to attack Legolas.
Celebfaer looked at him sleeping, so peacefully that she knew it would be sinful to wake him. So, she smiled, then settled down in her bedroll and went to sleep herself.
The next day she spent just walking through the woods with Legolas, talking to him about anything that came to her mind and getting the same responses that she was used to. She was not going to put her plan into action until that night as she needed for Legolas to be asleep before she could do anything. Also she wanted him to believe that it was the fresh air of the woods that made him feel better, if her plan worked that night.
Finally they went back to their camp and sat by the campfire, talking of the same things that they had during the day, getting the same sort of emotionless responses that she was used to. Eventually Legolas announced that he was going to bed, so Celebfaer waited until he fell asleep before she started the first part of what she hope would be a cure, the part that involved Fire and Earth.
It took a few hours until she was finished the chanting that to anyone other than herself and nearby spirits, would have sounded like the mummering of the wind.
When she had finished she went to sleep, putting up a mental mind-barrier so that she could not and would not feel exhaustion. She would need all of her strength for the next day.
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The next morning, Celebfaer was up before Legolas, so she went about making breakfast, trying not to wake him. When Legolas eventually did wake up, she had just finished making breakfast, so he walked over to where she was, as she put some of the food onto his plate.
"How are you feeling?" She asked him and he smiled, but the smile was a genuinely happy one, which was rare for Legolas of late. It was the first smile she had seen on his face since before she had left Eryn Lasgalen for the Fairy Realm.
"Better, it appears as though you may have found a cure Celebfaer." He said and she smiled inwardly then gave him his breakfast.
"It is merely walking through the woods again........."
"Nay, it is not that. For I tried it already, with Gimli." He said and she smiled at him.
"There is something I want to show you today." She said, changing the subject and he frowned.
"What?"
"You shall see, but the sooner you eat your breakfast, the quicker we will be there." She replied and he laughed, a happy laugh and Celebfaer's heart soared.
Legolas was rather hungry and he ate quite a bit for breakfast, which she had been expecting. The spirits had told her what to expect, but she just hoped she was able to do the last bit or else he would be ten times worse tomorrow morning when he woke up. It had been another thing that the spirits had told her. The consequences of failing could very well kill the person that was already dying.
So, when they had finished their breakfast, they packed up the camp a little bit and they set off. Celebfaer set a brisk pace, and for the first time in a while, Legolas found it easy to keep up with her.
"What did you do to me?" He asked her amazement in his voice and she laughed then shook her head.
"I shall see if it works properly before I think about telling you." She said then he laughed this time and her heart skipped a beat. The laugh was happy this time. He seemed to be getting happier by the second and Celebfaer just wanted to throw her arms around him and apologise for everything bad that she had ever done for him. She wanted so badly to take him in her arms and hug him until the world ended, but she knew that before she could do that she needed to know that he was fully cured.
They finally made it to where she wanted them to be and Legolas looked around, wondering why she had brought him there.
The place she had brought him to was a small clearing, that was surrounded by a circle of trees, In the middle of the clearing was a relatively large body of water. The water was a beautiful colour and looked as though it had never been touched by evil, despite the closeness of the land to Mordor. Legolas frowned at her when he saw it and she smiled.
"All shall be revealed soon Legolas, my love." She said sweetly and he turned to look at her to see that she had dropped her cloak and that her breathtakingly beautiful wings exposed to the world.
She had taken off her cloak and now was standing in front of Legolas as the Fairy that she was, very scared and very nervous about what she was about to do. She had never done anything like it before, but she had been told by her mother once that something like what she was about to do was done by a female fairy on her wedding night or if she wanted to seduce a mortal.
The garment that she wore barely covered her properly, but it was the fairy way, and though she did not feel right in it, the spirits had told her that in order for it to work, she needed to act as a true fairy would. So she had made a few alterations to the one fairy dress she had brought to the woods with her, silver as always, but now it had a lower neckline that normal.
"You must sit in a tree Legolas, and if you trust me I can put you up there, if you wish, or you can climb up yourself." She said and he smiled.
"I think I am able to climb. In fact I think I could shoot three arrows and get a bulls-eye with each. I have energy and I am suspicious about what you have done to me." He said and she smiled, then waited for him to climb a tree and perch on one of its branches before she flew up to sit beside him. As soon as she lifted herself off the ground with her wings, Legolas looked at her, completely shocked. He had never seen her fly before and she smiled at his shock. She would win him over and he would be cured by the end of the day or she would spend the rest of her life wondering Middle Earth, with nowhere to live.
"Legolas you are like a little child." She said.
"I am sorry Celebfaer, but you startled me with your flying." He said and she laughed.
"Now. Before I show you what we came here for I need you to promise me that you will not move, but you will watch me and nothing else. Your eyes must not wonder, for it is important that you look at me only Legolas."
"You have my word, my lady." He said with a smile.
"Thank you." She said, then she whispered a few words that he was unable to hear before she floated down to the ground.
"Legolas Greenleaf." She said and his eyes moved from her still fluttering wings, to her eyes. "You have stolen my heart and now I wish to attempt to steal yours back in true Fairy fashion." She added then she started to dance, occasionally muttering words in a different tongue and Legolas was not able to pick up the words.
Legolas was transfixed by her dance, and when she floated out into the water, he was amazed even more because she could actually walk on water, something that no Elf had ever been able to do. Though he remembered her telling him that she could once, he had not believed it and now he saw it with his own eyes, so he had no choice but to believe it.
Eventually the dance lifted up and soon she was dancing in front of his eyes in a neat pattern of movements that only she could have made gracefully. The moves of the dance were intoxicating and it was almost as though she was casting a spell, bewitching him and enchanting him so that he would be lost forever, like in the songs.
Legolas had no idea how long he sat there watching her but when the dance came to a close, it had felt like years, though it could not have been more than half a day and he was transfixed. He found that he could not pull his eyes away from the creature that danced before him. She danced for him, and him alone and the beauty and grace of her movements were what captivated him.
He felt warmth flowing through his whole body and a happiness that he had not felt in almost a year spread through his body, to the very tips of his soul. It was almost as though the sun was rising, warming each part of the land separately as it rose, until it was high enough in the sky to illuminate the whole landscape. Except that it was rising in his body, gradually warming him up. Then, Legolas felt as if something close to his heart exploded and he felt a rush of emotions.
As the dance came to a close, Legolas looked at her in disbelief, though Celebfaer did not see him, for she had been concentrating on her dance. She needed to get it perfect, because she did not want to think of the consequences of her failure. It was the final part of the cure that the spirits had offered. This was the part of the Wind and Water spirits. The 'cure' was complete and she could only pray that it had worked.
When she had finished, Celebfaer flew up and sat beside Legolas on the tree and looked at him, hoping for a sign that it had worked she sat looking at him and waiting for her breath to come back to her.
Legolas was so amazed that he could not bring himself to speak. He felt as though a veil had been lifted from his eyes and he was now seeing her for the first time. She was plain, but beautiful and he fell in love with her all over again. The amount of emotions that he was feeling he could not express into words; all he could do was look at her, pure amazement clear on his face.
Looking into his eyes she was amazed at the emotion that she saw there. Elves, she had learnt rarely showed emotions as plainly as she could see them in his eyes and seeing this scared her a little.
"Legolas?" She asked him softly, hoping he would not close his eyes and fall from the tree. Or that he would snap out of the trance that he was in, for all he could do was look at her and that unnerved her quite a bit.
His response shocked her though, as she did not expect it at all.
Legolas simply cupped her face with his hands then he kissed her pouring all the emotions and love that he felt at that moment into the kiss. He felt there was no words that could describe what she had done to him, so he had needed to show her. Celebfaer could not believe how deeply passionate the kiss was and the kiss left her breathless.
When he finally broke off, she opened her eyes and looked at him once more, only to see that he was smiling happily.
"Celebfaer, my love. Thank you." He said and she smiled.
"No, thank you Legolas." She said.
So, they got down from the tree, then walked back, hand in hand to the campsite, not wanting to let each other go, in fear that the other would fade away and they would wake up from the wonderful dream. Back at the campfire, they talked for many hours and eventually they fell asleep.
Celebfaer had fallen asleep with her head resting on Legolas' chest, listening to the steady beating of his heart as she fell asleep, it was soothing and she wanted to lie like that for the rest of eternity. Legolas had been so happy that they were finally together that he had not been able to sleep terribly much. He merely wanted to watch her sleep, for she looked so peaceful in her sleep.
When they woke the next day, Celebfaer looked up into Legolas' eyes and he smiled at her the love he felt for her clearly on his face.
"Melamin, when we return to Mirkwood, I shall announce to the kingdom that I have found my bride. We shall be wed as soon as can be arranged, for my heart beats only for you and I will bind myself to you for the rest of eternity." He said and she smiled.
"Legolas, I shall look forward to the day when we are wedded, so that all of Middle Earth can know of the love that I have for you and no other. My heart beats for you and no other, nor will it ever beat for another. Shall you die, I shall die too for my heart cannot beat without you beside me." She said softly and he smiled, then he leaned forward and kissed her.
Eventually they got up from the peaceful floor of the wood and they prepared for ride back to Minas Tirith.
A/N: How could you all think I would let him die? He is one of the main characters! Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed it and there are still a few more chapters left before I am finished for good, so until I update next, have a good one.
Cheers.
