Chapter Four: Aren't you glad she took the dexy now?

An Elf, whom was on the unlucky job of Pit guarding, was coming out to the Child Pits when he heard a voice behind him.

"Galdor," he looked back and saw a man walking up to him. "Where are you going?"

"It is my duty to guard the Children Pens tonight," he told the man. "Do you need something, Orrick?"

"Yes, I do. I need some support." The man leaned against a tree. "I seem to be the only person in all of Middle-earth who believes that these pens will never be the answer."

Galdor shook his head. "I cannot help you any more than become a bird and fly away. The Pens are the best solution at the present time."

"The best solution?" Orrick laughed. "You can hardly keep the Children in before they escape again! Those pens cause more of a nuisance than the Children themselves did!"

"I would rather continue returning them to the Pens than murder all the Children from the Other World," Galdor replied firmly.

"Murder?" Orrick stepped in the Elf's way. "Did you say murder? I never said a word about such a foul thing! I am speaking of ending the problem once and for all!"

"Through blood," he replied coldly. "Goodnight, Orrick." He roughly brushed past the man and continued on his way to the Children Pens. Orrick watched him walk into the dark and disappear. He never said a word, just looked off into the direction Galdor had gone. Finally, he walked back into the castle.

~*~

"Did you hear that?" a small Child climbed out of the tree and looked at his companion. "That guy wants to kill us!" The other Child's face went pale.

"We have to warn the others," he whispered back. "He's going to be trouble…"

The two loped off in the direction of the Pits to find the rest of their group.

~*~

At that time (geez, that reminds me of Liturgy…), Lexiss and her group had made it to the borderline of the trees and were doing a rather excellent job of whacking any Elves who came too close on the head with rocks.

"Okay, let's take 'em back to the Pits," Lexiss grabbed the feet of one while another Child grabbed the arms. "Oof! Heavy…"

They dragged them all back to the Pits and tossed them in. Fortunately, most of them were just stunned, so they managed to move out of the way before more Elves fell on top of them.

"Hey guuys," Lexiss called down in a singsong voice, "we've got a visitor for you!" They immediately tossed the Elf down. He must have come to his senses on the way down, because about half way, he began shouting in Elvish. Lexiss watched his progress, a grin somewhere between evil and just really hyper. When he hit the leaves, she waved down to him.

"We'll be back with more of your buddies later, okay?" There was a multitude of cries from the now imprisoned Elves.

"Amin feuya ten' lle!*" one of them shouted up to her.

"Yeah, well, llie n'vanima ar' lle atara lanneina!" one of the Children in her group shouted down at him. He looked at Lexiss and grinned.

"My sister's obsessed with the Elvish language."

"And that means…what?"

"'You're ugly and your mother dresses you funny'." Lexiss laughed.

"Good stuff! Let's use it on Elves at the castle!" She then began to jog back. They rolled their eyes and followed her.

~*~

Two Elves walked outside. One of them took in a deep breath of fresh air and looked at his companion.

"It is quiet tonight," he said. "Wonderfully quiet."

"Or too quiet." His companion looked around suspiciously. "I have a feeling that something is not right. Something involving the Children…"

"You got that right!" Two Children appeared out of nowhere (not really, they just didn't notice them) and whacked them over the head with heavy pieces of wood. The two Elves fell senseless to the ground.

"Hey!" one of the Children held up a coiled rope. "What a nice Elf! He was carrying rope so we wouldn't have to look for something to tie him up with!"

"Let's drag them to the nearest pit!" The two Children practically had them out of sight when some Elves came out.

"Mani naa tanya?**" One of the Elves pointed to the boots poking out from underneath a bush.

"Amin caela n'noa,***" another replied. Then the whole group of them hurried over to the boots and pulled them out. Imagine their surprise to see Elves lying there with big bumps on their heads!

"CHILDREN!!!!" An Elf jumped to his feet and began running towards the castle. "THE CHILDREN ARE LOOSE!!"

"Can you take him out from here?" one of the two Children hidden in the tree asked his friend. The other shook his head.

"Nope. Let's get the others down below us," he replied. The first one grinned and nodded.

Suddenly, and rain of heavy rocks began falling onto the Elves. They grabbed the unconscious Elves and made a run for the safety of the castle…except for one.

The Elf who stayed behind pulled out his bow, and the rain of rocks stopped. He lowered his bow, and it started again, but from two different places in the tree. He raised the bow, and the rocks stopped.

"Who are you, and why have you not run away from us, as you normally do?" he called to the tree.

"WE'RE TIRED OF THE UNFAIRNESS!!" yet another volley of rocks was thrown.

"Stop throwing the rocks, and I shall not harm you," he tried. A rock bounced off the bow.

"Yeah, and then throw us back into those stupid pits! NO WAY!"

The Elf was about to say something else when he got the distinct feeling that there were more Children out there than he realized. He could practically see their eyes gleaming in the darkness, and hear their breathing. He looked behind and saw himself surrounded by Children.

"How—how did you escape?" he gasped. They all grinned. "Tell me! HOW??"

"How do you think?" a voice called from the shadows.

"I've been saying that we should have gotten rid of them," everyone looked up and saw a man standing above them. He was shaking his head and sighing. "Haven't I been saying this would happen?"

"GET HIM!" one of the Children yelled, pointing at the man. "HE WANTS TO KILL US ALL!"

"WHAT?!" a girl stepped out of the shadows and pushed her glasses up her nose with her free hand. In her other hand was a large piece of wood.

"I heard him! He wants to destroy us!"

Ssssss…Thunk!

They all watched the Child's eyes widen, then see the Child fall, an arrow in his side. They looked up and saw the man carried a crossbow.

"THERE THEY ARE!" they saw an army of Elves come rushing out of the castle. Immediately, the Children began throwing whatever they could get their hands on at the oncoming Elves.

The girl with the glasses ran up to the Elf who they had trapped and dragged him down to her level.

"Help us get them away, and we won't throw you into your own Pits!" He looked at her like she was insane.

Out of the forest came an army of Children…led by Lexiss. And she was singing!

We are brave though we be tiny,

We aren't tall, but very mighty!

Don't mess with us, we have the reason,

We'll be free before this season

ends!

No lying down and dying for us,

In the end, we'll be victorious!

The battle will be over and done,

But you won't win, we'll have won!

HOORAY FOR US, THE KIDS!!

HOORAY FOR US, THE KIDS!!

HOORAY FOR US, THE KIDS!!

HOORAY FOR US, THE KIDS!!!

Everything stopped and stared at her. She stared back…and grinned. She looked at her troops.

"Looks like we haven't missed the battle after all! LET'S GO!" The Children rushed past her, yelling at the top of their lungs. Finally, she ran with them, charging the Elves. She ran straight at the first Elf, and pulled off a move she couldn't have done at home. She managed to jump off the ground and thrust both her feet into the Elf's stomach, forcing him back several feet and onto the ground.

She looked at a few of the Children not fighting. She grinned and waved to them.

"COME, MY FELLOW ESCAPEES! LEAVE NO ELF UNTHROWN!!"

Ashley ran over to Lexiss as fast as she could. "LEXISS! WATCH OUT FOR THE GUY UP THERE!" Lexiss noted Orrick and them began beating upon an Elf who had grabbed her from behind. When he went limp, Lexiss looked and saw a boy about her size with a textbook.

"I KNEW THIS STUPID BOOK WOULD BE USEFUL SOMEDAY!!" He held it up in the air, and Lexiss could see it was for geometry.

"LET'S GIVE THE ELVES A LESSON IN GEOMETRY!" he shouted and rushed another Elf and whacked him in the face with the book. "EAT PROOFS!"

Lexiss laughed silently and then turned around and flew (not really flew, flew, but more of ran flew…never mind) towards the Elves, fists flailing…when someone grabbed her from behind and ran off with her under his arm.

"So," she heard him say, "you are the cause of all this…no matter. I knew they would cause problems soon enough. 'Tis a pity no one would listen to me, isn't it?"

"LET ME GO AND FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN!" she shouted, wriggling like a giant worm. It didn't work. He tightened his grip around her.

"If I shoot you here, then I might hit an Elf, and that would truly be a tragedy."

"You jerk!" He sighed.

"Now I must kill you myself to prove my point." He threw her to the ground. She rolled several feet then jumped to hers. She got into a fighting stance and hoped fear wasn't stamped on her face (it was).

"How is killing children going to solve your problem?" she watched him load his crossbow.

"It will decrease the amount of Children. Goodbye, Child." He aimed the crossbow.

"LEXIIIIIIIIIIIIISS!!!!!" a hoard of the little Children dog piled the man (whom we know to be Orrick).

"GET THE CROSSBOW! GET THE CROSSBOW!" the weapon came sailing out of the pile and shot a tree a few yards from Lexiss. She quickly grabbed it and jumped on it until it broke under her feet.

"THAT'S for trying to kill us!" she looked up from the remains of what had nearly been the instrument of her doom and saw—

"Sam?! I thought I told you and the others to keep away from the battle!" the little boy looked up at her, eyes wide.

"You did!"

"So why aren't you safe?!"

"An Elf found us," he replied. Lexiss raised an eyebrow.

"An Elf? And you went with him?!" He nodded. "WHY?!"

"He said he knew you!" he cried. "He said he wanted to help you out, so we needed to come with him!"

"By any chance, you didn't catch his name, did you?" he shook his head. "Drat!" She walked over to the small Children who now surrounded the very nervous, very afraid man known as Orrick.

"How could Children so small be able do this…? He whispered. He looked up and found Lexiss glaring down at him. "How?"

"You'd kill us all if you had the chance…" Lexiss growled. "Why shouldn't we kill you?"

"Don't sink down to his level, Lexiss." She looked over and saw Ashley (a very…odd-looking Ashley) standing there. She walked over and kicked him. "It's not worth it."

"Well, we can't leave him like this, he might try to kill us again!" Ashley raised an eyebrow.

"Look how smart the youngest of us are!" Lexiss looked and saw them tying him up…tightly.

"Okay, we can leave him here, or take him to the Pits, or we can take him to the Elves and say that he tried to kill us!"

"They know," Ashley whispered. "He already got someone…" she glared at him. "I hope whatever they do to you is painful!"

"Well spoken," Beren walked over. His tunic was ripped and hanging off his shoulder. He had a black eye and his nose was bloody. "He did already kill an innocent Child, and he shall be severely punished for it."

"YOU!" Lexiss jumped at him. "YOU STARTED ALL THIS!!" Ashley began trying to pry her friend off the terrified Elf.

"NO! I DIDN'T!" he managed to pull himself away, but his tunic was ripped even further in the process. "It wasn't my idea, Lexiss!"

"If it wasn't yours THEN WHOSE IDEA WAS IT?!?!" Then something clicked in her brain. Legolas promised to talk about freeing them. Then Beren comes and says he's leaving Middle-earth forever. She sends him back to Legolas with her message of pure revenge. They escape, and now a good deal of the Elves are in the Pits.

LEGOLAS.

Beren nodded as if he knew what she was thinking.

"Where is he?" she demanded. Sam pulled at her hand. When she looked down, he pointed up. When she looked up, there he was.

"Speak of the Elf!" she shouted. He came down and nodded to Ashley, and then to Lexiss.

"Nae saian luume'****, Lexiss," he said. He was greeted by his shirt being grabbed, and Lexiss pulling him down to her size.

"Ohhh…I should KILL you! How could you just PISS me off that much and then expect me to turn around and thank you?!" He calmly loosened her grasp on his shirt and eventually was able to pull her hands off.

"Because this is how we show the Free Peoples that you and the Children are capable of defending themselves, ingenious, and tenacious. This was the easiest way to convince them that you shouldn't be kept there. They believe us now! The Children of the Other World are free!"

"…oh…"

A/N: Yes, this is a shorter chapter. I hope you enjoyed it, because I enjoyed writing it! If you have any suggestions or questions, don't be afraid to ask me! JUST PLEASE DON'T FLAME ME!! ^_^ And don't forget to R&R!

Amin feuya ten' lle! = You disgust me!*

Mani naa tanya? = What is that?**

Amin caela n'noa = I have no idea***

Nae saian luume' = It has been too long***