Hello, everyone reading this. I love you all for doing so! This is my first fanfic, so please review so that I can learn from this! Anyhoo, let me give you a break down as to the dialogue in the here story.
It goes like this: Words between " and " is spoken dialogue, words between ' and ' are someone's thoughts, and lastly, this is the important one: words between and are two people's unspoken dialogue going on in there heads. It's kind of like Galadriel in LOTR:FOTR with Frodo, but mine is a little bit different. Now I've had a little bit of trouble with the upload of the story to the website, so if you see someone talking but it is tabbed in or in Italic, that is also unspoken dialogue in the mind.
Disclaimer: I'm real sorry, but I do not own any of J.R.R.Tolkien's marvelous characters in his most amazing books, although I may want to own Meriadoc or Legolas, I don't! Please don't sue me; you won't get any money for I am just a penniless high school student. Writing is just my way of paying homage to the Genius that is Tolkien!!!
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"Halt, Prince Legolas, son of King Thranduil. Who is it that you bring here to this hallowed place?" A guard at the front of the gate demanded.
"We bring two human women, fleeing their home and town." He replied.
"Do you believe they are of good or evil?"
"You do not see them bound or receiving any other form of hostile treatment, so therefore you can see that they are of good."
"Very well. You may enter. They, as you know, will be considered prisoners until the king and his advisors say otherwise. Open the gate!"
The group entered the realm and dismounted off their horses. Nuinlambeion whispered to the girls that their weapons and other belongings would be taken from them, and they would be taken into the dungeon cell to wait being seen by King Thranduil. He also warned that they had best not put up a fuss at all, for that could be seen as a mark of sauron's dark agents and spies.
Pheraearion, Ascavilyaion, Legolas, and Nuinlambeion then said goodbye to Talia and Tatyana. The girls were then led away form them and their hands were bound in front of them. They were taken down a dark staircase, and down a long dark hallway. Then they came to the door. One of the guards opened the door and the other three pushed them inside. Then the door slammed shut, and they were plunged into darkness. And they were all alone in the suddenly vast pitch black darkness.
Now, you can't forget that they were already exhausted. Then you add the above mentioned incident, and you can't blame them for feeling hopeless, can you now? Just think how you would react to the same situation! But anyways, you didn't come here to hear my insane ramblings on your reaction to a completely imaginary situation. My profound apologies to one and all ! ! ! ! ! !
Sitting there, Talia couldn't help but feel terrified.
Tatyana, I'm scared!
Talia, stop it. We can't be scared. That will make us weak in mind and body.
I don't care. I still am scared. And besides, Tatyana, we are human women, all alone in an elven city, fleeing our home accused of being witches! WE ARE VERY WEAK!!!!! You must see that!
No Talia, we have to be strong! There is no other option. In case you didn't notice, the rest of the elves didn't look on us favorably. If we let up, even just briefly, it will be the end of this.
Alright. We must put our trust in our new friends Pheraearion, Ascavilyaion, Legolas, and Nuinlambeion.
Trust?!?!?! How can you trust them? They have only known us for 2 days! You saw how apprehensive the other elves were to us! There is no way we can trust them.
Tatyana, we must have faith in them that they will dot the right thing and help us.
Faith????? We must have faith????? What kind of faith are you talking about? The same kind of faith that we foolishly put in our 'friends' after we were first accused of witchcraft? The same faith that so completely backfired on us and was thrown in our face when the same 'friends' took up the charge and became the strongest opponents to us! Do you remember all the vicious lies they claimed we had engaged in?!?!? Talia, I'm sorry, but I don't think I will ever be able to trust or have faith in anyone for the rest of my life!
And with that, Tatyana sunk to the floor in hopeless despair.
Tatyana, peace! I never meant to upset you. I too, the feeling of betrayal we felt at the hands of our most trusted friends, but we can not take it out on those who could help us.
You're right, as usual. But do you really think that they would speak up for us, stick their neck out for us, when we have just barely met?
I think so.
Alright then, then I will have faith that you are right, and I have misjudged them.
What's this? Do my ears deceive me? I recall a certain sister of mine saying she didn't think she could ever trust again. I must be mistaken!
Oh, stop it! Of course I will trust you, you are my twin sister. You are my good side!
The mood lightened up a bit after that, but it would not last, for suddenly, a mysterious voice spoke out:
The elves are more understanding to the unusual than you two might think.
"Who's there???? How in the world could you hear our conversation?????
Silence.
"Speak now! We demand answers! Who are you?" Tatyana demanded.
Again silence.
"Please answer us." Talia's soothing voice spoke out.
I am one just exactly like you, but alas, it appears that you do not know who you are. And in the mean time, please communicate to me in your thoughts and minds, and not out loud therefore you do not raise suspicion in the guard's minds.
I do not understand you. How can you hear our conversation, and how can we hear you? How can you speak to us?
Please talk to us. What do you mean by that you are exactly like us, but that we do not know who we are? Talia pleaded.
Silence once again.
There was a noise at the door. The guards had come for the girls. The door burst open, and a guard told them it was time to meet before the king and his advisors.
They were led back up the dark hallway and then up the staircase, where their hands were untied. Then the guards led them down a corridor. Then they stopped in front of a couple of massive golden doors. The guards turned to them: "Watch yourselves, for you are in the presence of Royalty. One cross word and you will regret coming here."
"It is not like whether we had any choice on coming here, you know." Tatyana replied.
"Comments like that will soon land you in more trouble than you will know!"
"She's sorry! She did not mean it! Sometimes things just slip out of her mouth!" Talia exclaimed, almost pleadingly.
"Well, see to it that she slip anything else out, or that is it!" He replied gruffly.
And with that, the golden doors opened up, and the girls stood there in shock. They had never seen anything so beautiful. It was very simply ornate, but all the same, it was so very elegant.
The guards waited for Tatyana and Talia to move for a moment, but when they didn't, they nudged them into the Golden Hall. Tatyana and Talia looked around, and saw King Thranduil, sitting in the center of a half-circle of elves. Off to the king's right, there sat Legolas, sitting right next to him. Further down were Pheraearion, Ascavilyaion, and Nuinlambeion. And to the King's left, there sat many elves, looking quite distinguished, and very official.
The King then spoke to Tatyana and Talia: "What are your names?"
Talia looked at Tatyana, and Tatyana knew that Talia did not want to be the one to speak. Tatyana knew Talia was overwhelmed. "My name is Tatyana Bruwncuge, and this is my twin sister, Talia."
"And what are you doing so deep in our forest? This forest has been taken over by Sauron's evil forces, so how do we know that you are not of evil?" He asked.
"We are human women, fleeing our town of Blue's Bluff. Now I do not know how to prove ourselves except for Your Highness sending some men to that town, and asking around about us." She replied.
"And why, may I ask, are you fleeing your town?"
"We are fleeing unjust and wrong accusations for our lives."
"The charge being what?"
"Well, we were accused of being witches and engaging in witchcraft."
"Why do they think that you two are witches?"
"I am not completely sure, for when the mob showed up, they weren't exactly explaining very thing clearly, but I believe most of stems from our age."
"Your age? Why your age?"
"Well we are a lot older than we look. We just don't show our age very well."
"Pray, tell us what your age is."
"Well, let's just say that we are far older than we look."
"What is your age, exactly?" His voiced thundered out in the huge room. It startled Talia so mush that she jumped a foot off the ground, and inched behind Tatyana. And Tatyana was slightly startled before, but Talia's reaction startled her more. Stammered as she responded to the king's demand, "Ah, Ah, we, we are f-fo-forty years old—but we just don't show our age!"
"That would be very shocking indeed, if it is true." He replied, much softer than his last comment. Then Talia, fearing that they did not believe them and that they would spend the rest of their lives in the Mirkwood dungeons, burst out with: "Please! You have to believe us! They were going to kill us! We could not possibly be witches! Oh Please! We just want to get away and go somewhere remote where we won't have to deal with humans! Please, we beg of you!"
"Settle down Talia Bruwncuge of Blue's Bluff. I will now discuss this among my advisors and then we will tell you what I have decided. Guards? Please escort them back to the dungeon."
The guards came up and led them away. But as they were walking out, Tatyana and Talia sensed something, or rather someone. Someone who felt vaguely familiar. Thy both looked to the right. Therein the shadows, they saw a figure robed in rich, dark velvet. He had long dark brown hair, but there was something else about him. They felt connected to this man, but yet they didn't know him.
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Well, was it worth the wait? I hope so. Now I won't be mean and demand a certain number of reviews for the next chapter, but I do, do, do loooooooove reviews! Especially since I am unsure as to where to go with this. Should I have them end up being members of the Fellowship in a thousand years, or should I just have them have hang out with Pheraearion, Ascavilyaion, Legolas, and Nuinlambeion and get into some interesting adventures? Hmmmm, Choices, choices. The path has been laid before all of you, which path are you going to take? Hehehehe. Anyway, if you don't review, then you can't complain about the way it turns out (Kind of like if you don't vote, then you don't have the right to complain about the government)!
Anyhoo, any kind of review is okay. Flamers, "it was cool.", etc. It doesn't matter, except for Salogel! You gotta quit destroying your keyboard with your head and hammer!!!! Emmither—now you can stop harassing me at lunch! I finally got it posted!
Hmmm, I do believe that is all I have say, so farewell until we meet again! J (And I finally get Chapter #3 up!)
