Author's Note: Hey everybody, sorry for the wait again, but if it's not math (in which I'm doing much better by the way, if anyone's interested, my teacher got her act together and we're doing great), then I'm having a problem in chemistry. (Uhhh, I think I'm going to fail it. I have an A right now, but I understand absolutely NOTHING of what we're doing, next test, I will so fail, but I am getting tutored so once I get that fixed, my updates should be nice and regular again.)
Sorry, but in the wise but very annoying words of so many people (including my mom and teachers) "School comes first."
Anyway, for a couple answers,
Winter's Roar: Umm, the door thingy, truthfully, I don't understand it either. What usually happens when I write, is my fingers type and my mind follows closely behind. Yeah when I was writing that I was like " Hmmm, no door, weird, hmmm..." Basically what my fingers were probably thinking is that when I was watching a "making the movie" on LotR, they were saying that they wanted Gandalf's powers to be very subtle, well for Him, I think He would be a type of person to be flaunting his powers and using it for everything. That will explain the door thing (just a show off for his powers I suppose) and some other stuff.
Also, basically, I'm really sorry about my chapters being so slow lately, it's just that I'm honestly having a really hard time in school right now. Math is getting much easier like I said, but now Chemistry is going really hard, and I'm also being put into French 3 and skipping French 2, so that'll be hard. Anyway, I'm hoping to get this all cleared up, and I hope you guys can give me another chance and not lose interest completely yet. Note: Italics mean thoughts.
My rebellious plan is officially in action! Testing One Two Tree! Testing One Two Three!!
And finally, for the story,
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Selecting her words vigilantly, Kenisse began to tell Alinne and Legolas of His strategy.
"After Mirkwood is taken, He will have very easy access to the land around it. That is what he wants the most for right now."
Alinne was still clueless over what He could possibly want that was next to Mirkwood. There was nothing of great importance like kingdoms that He could want, or at that hasn't occupied already. But despite Alinne's confused thoughts, Kenisse continued with her speech.
"To start from the beginning, I believe you might be wondering what happened to King Thranduil," she said turning to Legolas although she knew Alinne would be just as interested in the topic. "What did you tell him Alinne?"
Alinne looked down in shame, "I t-told him the king left."
"That he left?" Kenisse broke out in a loud outburst of laughter. "The king just left? Please tell me you did not believe a word of that, or are you that naïve?" she said turning to Legolas.
To Legolas it suddenly seemed like he had been betrayed by the one person he trusted. Alinne lied to me? She knew all along what happened to my father and she did not tell me anything. He was beginning to be overcome with sadness and anger.
"Well, I will tell you now what really happened," Kenisse began, " you see, you might respect him for being your father, but in truth he was nothing but a coward," inside, Legolas was fuming with anger, but childish outbursts would get him nothing in this situation so he tried his hardest to keep them suppressed. "Mirkwood was attacked by Him, you know," she continued, "yes Legolas, while you were out on your adventures with your dwarf friend, it was attacked."
"But how…nothing is ruined," Legolas said in disbelief. From what he recalled of Mirkwood, there was no sign of battles or war. Everything seemed just the same with the exception of it now being smaller and more hidden.
"Your father, the king, fled. Yes," she added seeing Legolas' horror stricken face, "he fled and was caught and killed. That is why there were no battle scenes outside of Mirkwood. After that however, there was not enough time to proceed with the attack on Mirkwood so it was postponed. No one in Mirkwood really knew what happened, although Alinne, your little princess, knew. She lied to you, Legolas, she is not worth your time."
"Legolas, I am so sorry," Alinne yelled through tears, "I just did not want you to think your father a coward until you knew the whole story!"
"Oh but he was a coward," Kenisse interrupted, "there is nothing else to the story, he saw danger and fled. He was a complete coward."
"He was not!" Alinne yelled back, "He was a brilliant king!"
"Brilliant? Then what happened? Why did he flee Alinne?"
She didn't say anything in answer. What could she say? She knew nothing; she did not know why he left so suddenly or what truly happened. All she did in lying to Legolas was sparing him the thoughts of his father betraying his country.
"Anyway, to continue with my story, Mirkwood was very lucky to be saved, and they-"
"Kenisse, just skip to the important part." Nerodel interrupted sounding nothing short of aggravated.
"Alright alright, Master Hasty. So, you two must be wondering why you are here. It is very simple really, He has battled many places and though we have conquered many, some places still find ways to avoid us. For a very long time we did not know where a whole village could go. But then we found it, a huge tribe of elves and men living right outside of Mirkwood. Quite smart they were really, they would warn other villages when we were getting close and would send men to fight if the village did not flee in time. We lost many battles this way and so we came up with a plan of our own that will stop those men. Understand?"
"No," answered Alinne, "why do you not just attack the people in that tribe? What need do you have of Mirkwood?"
"Very simple really," answered Kenisse, "those people have set up quite a watch for themselves, we would never be able to get to them without them being warned by a scout. And going through Mirkwood is impossible too, " she continued, "because by the time we won that battle, our army would be too weak to continue on to the village. The people would probably have warned you by then as well. Is it clear now?"
"Too clear." Answered Alinne.
"So now, what you two are doing here; we need control of Mirkwood without having to fight it. At first we did not know how to do this, but then you, Legolas, came back. You picked a great time to, might I add, we were just about to give up on that plan and go on to other regions. Had you arrived one day later, you would have saved your poor little Mirkwood."
Legolas' heart had been slowly sinking to the ground throughout Kenisse's speech, but now it just plummeted to the ground and was resting quite uncomfortably in his feet.
"Bow that you came back we can easily take Mirkwood by marrying you off to someone."
"That someone being you, right?" Legolas asked, not really expecting an answer different from what he was thinking.
"Well, you catch on quickly my prince. Did you not wonder why I was trying so hard to impress you?"
"Oh is that what you were doing?" Legolas asked sounding surprised, "I thought you were trying to repulse me, and doing a great job at it might I say."
Alinne felt Nerodel's body shake with suppressed laughter. "Funny," said Kenisse with anger matching that of thunder in the darkest storm.
"All right, what is Alinne doing here? Why do you need her?"
"Well we do not, not really," answered Kenisse.
"Then let her go." He said quickly.
"We do not need her, but we want her. You see we were sure you would refuse to marry me without some sort of persuasion. And seeing how you practically love her and everything, we can be very persuasive."
"You are sick!" he spat out.
"Yes I know, but what can I say, I am enjoying my life this way. I think I have said enough. It is time for you to meet Him."
Alinne's breath was caught in her throat and it felt like her blood stopped flowing through her body. Nerodel's grip once again painfully tightened around her waist and she waited in the silence to what would come next. Her eyes roamed through the room and found Legolas. He was looking back at her with almost as much fear; it was in his eyes, although his face hid it well. She felt smoke all around her and could see it through the side of her eyes, but she could not move her eyes from Legolas' face. Very soon the smoke overwhelmed the room and she could no longer see anything, but her eyes never moved. In darkness, looking in the direction where he would be, at least, would give her confidence.
"Hello my guests." She heard the voice she heard only a little while ago. The smoke began to clear up and her breath held itself once again as she waited to see the man she feared the most in the world.
Author's Note: Yep, a bit slow, but I can only write so fast when I only have a little time each day. Well, at least it's something; hope you guys don't hate me. I've figured out what times I can type so fingers crossed, next update should be soon. Hope I don't lose you guys by then and thank you for being patient with me; you have no idea how much it means to me.
