Descendants of Darkness (Yami no Matsuei): LotR Style
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The Case of the Mirkwood Vampire 2
Guest Stars: Arwen Undómiel and Lady Galadriel
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Legolas didn't move, fearing that the dagger would cut deeply into his skin. Okay, it wasn't as if he would die of such a cut. He was immortal after all. But it would be painful and unpleasant.
"What do you want from me? I'm not a vampire!" he asked his attacker.
This one didn't loosen his grip.
"Oh, you're not? And why does it come that I saw you running away from your last victim? You've been very careless by doing that!" the voice hissed into his ear.
"Okay, you really get this wrong. I'm not a vampire and it would be really nice of you if you could release me now! At least show me your face. I'd like to know who threatens me like that!"
His assailant hesitated for a moment and then he pushed the blond elf round to face him. To Legolas' big surprise the attacker was...another elf. He looked much younger than Legolas, had long dark hair and dark grey eyes. In short, the other elf reminded the fair-haired elf strongly of Elrond, only that the elf, who stood now right before him, was wearing Jeans, a shirt and a jacket instead.
And it seemed that he had no intention to let him go, since the dagger was still aimed at his throat.
"Could you please take this...thing from my throat?" Legolas asked the other elf.
"Tell me one reason why I should do this, VAMPIRE!"
Legolas sighed internally. That was going to be difficult. He doubted that his attacker would release him even if he would find a reason. The elf knew that he had only one chance of escape by using his powers. But Legolas hesitated to use them since it was a public place here.
Suddenly someone unexpected seemed to solve the difficult situation.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?" a well-known voice startled them.
Both elves turned their heads towards the voice. Legolas was relieved when he saw Merry standing there, not looking happy at all.
"Merry, it's good to see. Can you tell this boy to release me?"
"Why should I? But fine...why not? But I warn you. The next time you leave me alone with a corpse, I'll smack you personally on the head with my computer!" the hobbit scolded the blond elf, giving him his best glare.
Only then he risked a glance at the young, dark-haired elf and realisation hit him.
"Oh, I see, you already have found each other! And I thought I had to search longer!" he said.
That comment made both elves look at each other and the dark-haired one finally drop his dagger.
"What do you mean with that, Merry?" Legolas asked puzzled.
"Yeah, what does this mean?" the dark-haired elf snapped.
Merry resisted the urge to roll his eyes.
"It's simple. He's your new partner, Legolas!"
Again, both elves looked at each other, an unbelieving expression on their faces. Then it came.
"HE'S WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?" two voices sounded through the afternoon air, causing a swarm of birds to startle.
*
Twenty Minutes later. A restaurant.
After the first shock had worn off, Merry, Legolas and the other elf were sitting now in a restaurant and waited for their meals. While both elves were busily engaged in a silent staring, or rather, glaring contest, Merry typed something on his laptop.
"So, you're my new partner! What's your name anyway? And how old are you? You look so young!" the blond elf finally asked.
"Elladan...Elladan Peredhel (Author's note: Just imagine, Peredhel is a common surname among the elf race)! I'm 16." the dark-haired elf answered, looking bored all of a sudden.
"Oh!...Well, I'm Legolas Greenleaf. It's nice to meet you." Legolas said, offering his hand to Elladan.
But the other elf still eyed him suspiciously and Legolas drew his hand back.
"How comes that one so you is already working for our division? How did you die anyway?"
"An accident. But I believe that's none of your business!" the dark-haired elf said.
"Okay, okay, it was just a question! Maybe we should start working on this case! Did you already find some clues that could help us to solve this case?......Damn, where stays that waiter with our food? I'm hungry." he asked again before taking a sip of his drink.
Elladan sighed, but answered.
"Not much. I've searched all places, where the victims had been discovered, but found nothing except a single white hair. Maybe it belongs to the vampire." He said.
"White hair..." Legolas murmured, remembering something.
"Hmmm. I suspect it could be an elf." Elladan finally said.
"That's right! Legolas, tell him of the elf-woman, who bumped into you!" Merry suddenly said.
Elladan was confused.
"What woman?"
"Shortly before we discovered the last corpse, a strange young elf-woman collided with me. She had silver-white hair and eyes of the same colour, which is very unusual for our kin. I followed her to a church and then unfortunately lost her trace."
"Great! And what do we do now?"
"Have dinner, of course!" Legolas giggled, when he finally saw the waiter bringing their food.
Elladan stared aghast at the blond elf and then turned to Merry.
"Is he always like that? I hope not." He whispered to the hobbit, glancing over to Legolas who was happily enjoying his meal.
"I'm afraid he is. But you will get used to this. Just try to ignore his ten-minutely childish outbursts and you both will get along well!" Merry said and turned his attention once again to his computer while eating.
"But Thranduil said that I will work with the best of the summoning division." Elladan countered.
The hobbit suddenly gave him a strange look.
"Legolas? The best of the division? I hope you're jesting. You're his sixth partner within the last two years, because nobody wants to work with him! Didn't you his nickname, "The lazybones of the summoning division"? I guess Thranduil duped you!" he said.
The dark-haired elf internally groaned. What had he gotten himself into? Maybe after this case, he should have an urgently small talk with Chief Thranduil about not mentioning some important facts. But for now......well, he would see.
*
Later at the Mirkwood Inn. Legolas and Elladan's hotel room.
A not amused Legolas carried a sleeping Elladan into their shared hotel room and dropped the latter one on the big bed. Then he turned to the hobbit.
"Why did I have to carry him?"
Merry just glared at him.
"You started this foolish drinking contest. Besides I'm too small to carry him! I'm just a hobbit just in case you forgot."
"Hnnn, I had no idea that he couldn't handle a single drink!"
"Legolas, he's just 16 and has no experience in such things. You had more practice until now. So please don't do such a stupid thing again!"
Legolas began to pout, but turned his attention to the sleeping elf on the bed.
"Did your cousin find something about that woman?" he asked, suddenly serious.
"Wait a minute and I can tell you more!"
The hobbit began to type on his computer.
"My cousin and I are momentary busy sorting the unsolved cases in the library. We're connected by our computer just in case I need some information."
"There are unsolved cases in our division?" Legolas asked astounded.
"Of course. There was just recently one. Ahhh, here it is!"
He opened a file and showed on the screen. Legolas moved behind the hobbit and looked at the display. Immediately his gaze darkened.
"Isn't that Elladan's file?"
Merry looked closer.
"Hmmm, you're right. Although I don't know how it came into this section. As far as I know his file is closed! I'll better inform my cousin about this mistake."
"Wait a minute! Can I at least read it? Finally I just want to know more about my partner since I doubt that he will tell me anything about himself!"
"Fine. Just hurry!" the hobbit sighed.
"Okay, okay. Don't rush me!"
Said, Done. When Legolas was ready with reading, he shook his head.
"Who would have thought that he's a telepath?"
But just then he was interrupted when the sky outside the hotel was suddenly illuminated by marvellous, colourful fireworks. Legolas' eyes began to sparkle with joy.
"Oh, how wonderful! Is a fair or something taking place here?" he exclaimed happily.
"Hmmm, as far as I know, it's the annual Mirkwood Sun & Moon Festival that takes place at the moment. It's so famous that the TV brings a special report on it. But I thought you would know that." Merry said without taking his eyes from the screen.
The blond elf then grabbed the remote control and turned the TV on. Why not watching TV for a while? It was better than to do nothing. Like Merry had said, there was a special report. The female human reporter was standing in the middle of a crowd, who was gathered around her and cheered into the camera.
"We're here at the local festival place at the right side of the Wood River, where the annual Sun & Moon Fair started one hour ago. During the next week various events and concerts will be take place. One of the performing artists is a singer from Rivendell, who has become very famous in whole Middle-Earth in the last two years, and I'm really proud to welcome her with us tonight. Please welcome Arwen Undómiel!" the reporter exclaimed.
The crowd cheered, when a young elf-woman with in a short, deep-green dress went to the reporter. Her long, black hair was elaborately braided and decorated with white flowers.
"Welcome to Mirkwood!" the human reporter greeted the young elf.
"Good Evening! I'm glad to be here!" Arwen said quietly.
Then a short interview began. Meanwhile Legolas took a closer look at Arwen's face. Something about the girl made him extremely suspicious. It was as if he already had seen her somewhere...But where? Legolas stared further at her, trying to associate her face.
Then it hit him. The colour of the eyes and the hair were different, but that was unmistakably the female elf-vampire who had bumped into him this afternoon.
"LEGOLAS!"
Merry's voice let him snap out of his train of thoughts.
"Yes?" Legolas answered.
"Are you alright?"
"Hmmm.........Merry, could you please check something for me?" the elf finally asked, his eyes never leaving the television screen.
*
The next day.
"Gods, can somebody please kill me?" Elladan groaned, holding his throbbing head with both hands.
He had awoken this morning with a terrible hangover and after that had sworn to himself, never to lay a finger on alcohol again.
"Are you alright, boy?" Legolas asked with a concerned look on his face.
Elladan just shot him a murderous glare.
"Don't call me that! By the way, it's your entire fault! You started this." he yelled at the other Shinigami, but winced, when this action caused his head to spin again.
Suddenly the pain vanished when all of a sudden a welcoming coolness touched his throbbing forehead. Astonished, Elladan opened his eyes and saw Legolas smiling standing, holding a cold drink bottle at the dark-haired elf's forehead.
"Better?"
"Yes......Thank you!" Elladan said after a moment of hesitation.
Legolas just smiled at him.
*
An hour later the three of them reached a skyscraper, which turned out to be the main building of Channel Mirkwood, the local TV station.
"Okay. Why exactly are we here?" Elladan asked.
"Oh, there might be the present abode of the vampire. Merry?"
The hobbit nodded, opened his laptop and began to speak:
"Okay. I've been doing some research and as you've suspected, the date of the beginning of these attacks matches with the arrival of Arwen Undómiel here in Mirkwood!"
Elladan narrowed his eyes.
"You think she's responsible for the murders?"
The blond elf smiled at his partner.
"That's what we'll find out!"
"Fine, why not?" the dark-haired elf sighed.
"Okay. Be careful. I guess I'm better going back to my main job since your partner is now here. Oh, don't forget to bring me a nice souvenir!"
The hobbit waved a last time to them and then disappeared. Legolas clapped his hands happily.
"Okay, then let's go!"
Elladan just sighed heavily and both elves disappeared.
*
The corridors inside the building were empty. Only footsteps could be heard, but no one could be seen. One moment later two male elves appeared out of the blue. Luckily there were alone at the moment or anyone in this part of the building would have been there, he would have run away screaming, thinking he had seen some ghosts.
Legolas looked around, searching for the dressing room of Arwen Undómiel. After a second or so he realized that he was standing right in front of it. A last glance around and he gripped the handle of the door, when Elladan stopped him all of a sudden.
"Wait a minute!" he hissed.
"What's up?"
"I don't know but something is strange here. I can't sense her presence. Are you sure she's here?" the dark-haired elf asked.
"I don't know. Let's find out!" Legolas replied and opened the door a little crack.
He took a careful peek inside, making sure if someone was inside or not and then opened it further. Both elves went inside and narrowed their eyes, when they discovered that the room was empty. And that wasn't everything. All over the room, things were in a mess and flower vases were knocked over. Either someone had searched the room or someone was really untidy.
The two elves looked around.
"And what are we doing now?" Elladan asked a little annoyed.
"I don't know...!" Legolas stopped speaking when he suddenly heard something.
"ARWEN! WHERE ARE YOU?" a female voice called.
Shortly after a grim-looking she-elf in a long white dress and with long, blond hair entered and stopped short, when she saw Legolas and Elladan.
"Who are you? What are doing here and where's Arwen?"
"Um...well......I just wanted an autogr...hey, where are you going?"
The blond elf was confused when Elladan's head suddenly shot round and he started to run. All of a sudden he had sensed a strange presence not far away from here. It was a female aura, but strangely it changed in something more disturbing. Maybe Legolas was right and behind this Arwen was more as it seemed at first.
Legolas excused himself to the female elf and ran after his partner.
"Hey, what's going on? Did you sense something?" he shouted.
"Yes. Not far from here. But we better hurry. I have the bad feeling that something awful is going to happen."
The blond elf frowned at this, but somehow he knew that Elladan was right. Hopefully they weren't too late.
*
Next to the building were several warehouses, the studios of the TV Station. In one of them, a young human was busy to gather some things for a show. He didn't know that he wasn't alone anymore. Behind him appeared the figure of a female elf, which slowly began to walk towards his direction. If the young man had taken a closer look at the she-elf, he would have noticed the strange blank expression on her face.
Unfortunately for him, he didn't notice her until she was standing behind him. Startled, the young man got up and turned round, eyes widening when he recognised the she-elf.
"M...Miss Undómiel! What are you doing here?" he stammered.
Arwen didn't answer, but embraced the young man and leaned forwards, intending to kiss. The human was too stunned to something different, but sliding his arms around her waist. But instead of kissing the human man, the dark-haired she-elf opened her mouth, uncovering a pair of very sharp fangs. Just a moment before they sank into the man's neck, a loud voice interrupted her and her head shot round to face the new intruders.
Legolas and Elladan stood there, their faces grim.
"Go away from him, vampire!" Legolas shouted.
The female vampire hissed at the male elves and pushed the young human into a pile of crates, which promptly collapsed and buried the young man below it. Then the she-elf fled.
"Take care of him. I'll go after her." The blond elf ordered.
Elladan nodded and ran to the still form of the human, looking for injuries, while Legolas tried to follow the Vampire elf-woman. But he didn't come far. Suddenly the room began to quake and a loud roaring resounded. The heads of the elves jerked up and their eyes widened when out of the blue a gigantic white dragon appeared in front of them.
"What the...?"
Elladan tried to say something, but astonishingly couldn't. He had never seen a creature like this before. On the contrary, the dark-haired elf had really thought that dragons were just a fairy tale. But how to fight such a monster?
His fears dissolved when Legolas turned to him once more:
"Take care of this human. I'll lure the dragon outwards and make sure he won't do any damage."
"Okay...!" the younger elf stuttered.
Then the blond elf folded his hands and began to murmur barely noticeable words. At first, nothing seemed to happen, but then a small, glowing aura surrounded Legolas. His eyes turned serious and then made his attack. He swung his armed and shot a glowing ball of energy at the white dragon, to get the beast's attention, a strategy, which fortunately succeeded.
The dragon roared and focused his attention at the blond elf. This one smirked and shouted:
"Catch me if you can!"
With these words he disappeared through one wall. The dragon turned and crashed through the wall, through which the elf had vanished. Once outside, the monster spread out his wings and rose up in the sky, preparing his attack. Shortly after, Elladan could hear battle noises like the roaring of the dragon and another one, which sounded like a gigantic bird.
Being curious, the dark-haired elf risked a look through the hole in the wall and gasped astonished. Legolas had summoned a gigantic phoenix, who was now fighting against the dragon.
//Wow...maybe I've underestimated him. He seems to know what to do...// the younger elf thought in view of the powers, which the blond elf seemed to have.
The fight itself didn't last long. When Legolas' phoenix prepared for another attack, the dragon suddenly vanished, leaving two stunned elves behind.
"What's going on? Where is he?" Elladan shouted to his partner.
Legolas didn't answer. He was surprised that the dragon had vanished as quickly as he had appeared. Maybe his appearance wasn't unplanned and someone had summoned to prevent him from following the vampire she-elf. Maybe this someone was the driving force behind those murders, because he couldn't believe that a girl like Arwen would commit murder voluntarily.
"I guess I have still some investigating to do before I can close this case!" the blond elf sighed, before he went back to the warehouse.
"Are you alright?" the dark-haired elf asked.
Legolas smiled.
"Of course. Let's get him to the hospital or at least a doctor!" the blond elf suggested.
Elladan nodded agreeing. Both elves picked up the young human and brought him out of the warehouse. Neither of them noticed the human man, who stepped forwards from behind the pile of containers, where he had hidden the entire time. He looked after the retreating forms of the two elves.
"So, you're not an ordinary elf. I knew it the first time when I saw you. But now you proved it. Well...I see it'll be fun to play with you, my beautiful Legolas!" the human said and began to smirk.
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The Case of the Mirkwood Vampire 2
Guest Stars: Arwen Undómiel and Lady Galadriel
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Legolas didn't move, fearing that the dagger would cut deeply into his skin. Okay, it wasn't as if he would die of such a cut. He was immortal after all. But it would be painful and unpleasant.
"What do you want from me? I'm not a vampire!" he asked his attacker.
This one didn't loosen his grip.
"Oh, you're not? And why does it come that I saw you running away from your last victim? You've been very careless by doing that!" the voice hissed into his ear.
"Okay, you really get this wrong. I'm not a vampire and it would be really nice of you if you could release me now! At least show me your face. I'd like to know who threatens me like that!"
His assailant hesitated for a moment and then he pushed the blond elf round to face him. To Legolas' big surprise the attacker was...another elf. He looked much younger than Legolas, had long dark hair and dark grey eyes. In short, the other elf reminded the fair-haired elf strongly of Elrond, only that the elf, who stood now right before him, was wearing Jeans, a shirt and a jacket instead.
And it seemed that he had no intention to let him go, since the dagger was still aimed at his throat.
"Could you please take this...thing from my throat?" Legolas asked the other elf.
"Tell me one reason why I should do this, VAMPIRE!"
Legolas sighed internally. That was going to be difficult. He doubted that his attacker would release him even if he would find a reason. The elf knew that he had only one chance of escape by using his powers. But Legolas hesitated to use them since it was a public place here.
Suddenly someone unexpected seemed to solve the difficult situation.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?" a well-known voice startled them.
Both elves turned their heads towards the voice. Legolas was relieved when he saw Merry standing there, not looking happy at all.
"Merry, it's good to see. Can you tell this boy to release me?"
"Why should I? But fine...why not? But I warn you. The next time you leave me alone with a corpse, I'll smack you personally on the head with my computer!" the hobbit scolded the blond elf, giving him his best glare.
Only then he risked a glance at the young, dark-haired elf and realisation hit him.
"Oh, I see, you already have found each other! And I thought I had to search longer!" he said.
That comment made both elves look at each other and the dark-haired one finally drop his dagger.
"What do you mean with that, Merry?" Legolas asked puzzled.
"Yeah, what does this mean?" the dark-haired elf snapped.
Merry resisted the urge to roll his eyes.
"It's simple. He's your new partner, Legolas!"
Again, both elves looked at each other, an unbelieving expression on their faces. Then it came.
"HE'S WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?" two voices sounded through the afternoon air, causing a swarm of birds to startle.
*
Twenty Minutes later. A restaurant.
After the first shock had worn off, Merry, Legolas and the other elf were sitting now in a restaurant and waited for their meals. While both elves were busily engaged in a silent staring, or rather, glaring contest, Merry typed something on his laptop.
"So, you're my new partner! What's your name anyway? And how old are you? You look so young!" the blond elf finally asked.
"Elladan...Elladan Peredhel (Author's note: Just imagine, Peredhel is a common surname among the elf race)! I'm 16." the dark-haired elf answered, looking bored all of a sudden.
"Oh!...Well, I'm Legolas Greenleaf. It's nice to meet you." Legolas said, offering his hand to Elladan.
But the other elf still eyed him suspiciously and Legolas drew his hand back.
"How comes that one so you is already working for our division? How did you die anyway?"
"An accident. But I believe that's none of your business!" the dark-haired elf said.
"Okay, okay, it was just a question! Maybe we should start working on this case! Did you already find some clues that could help us to solve this case?......Damn, where stays that waiter with our food? I'm hungry." he asked again before taking a sip of his drink.
Elladan sighed, but answered.
"Not much. I've searched all places, where the victims had been discovered, but found nothing except a single white hair. Maybe it belongs to the vampire." He said.
"White hair..." Legolas murmured, remembering something.
"Hmmm. I suspect it could be an elf." Elladan finally said.
"That's right! Legolas, tell him of the elf-woman, who bumped into you!" Merry suddenly said.
Elladan was confused.
"What woman?"
"Shortly before we discovered the last corpse, a strange young elf-woman collided with me. She had silver-white hair and eyes of the same colour, which is very unusual for our kin. I followed her to a church and then unfortunately lost her trace."
"Great! And what do we do now?"
"Have dinner, of course!" Legolas giggled, when he finally saw the waiter bringing their food.
Elladan stared aghast at the blond elf and then turned to Merry.
"Is he always like that? I hope not." He whispered to the hobbit, glancing over to Legolas who was happily enjoying his meal.
"I'm afraid he is. But you will get used to this. Just try to ignore his ten-minutely childish outbursts and you both will get along well!" Merry said and turned his attention once again to his computer while eating.
"But Thranduil said that I will work with the best of the summoning division." Elladan countered.
The hobbit suddenly gave him a strange look.
"Legolas? The best of the division? I hope you're jesting. You're his sixth partner within the last two years, because nobody wants to work with him! Didn't you his nickname, "The lazybones of the summoning division"? I guess Thranduil duped you!" he said.
The dark-haired elf internally groaned. What had he gotten himself into? Maybe after this case, he should have an urgently small talk with Chief Thranduil about not mentioning some important facts. But for now......well, he would see.
*
Later at the Mirkwood Inn. Legolas and Elladan's hotel room.
A not amused Legolas carried a sleeping Elladan into their shared hotel room and dropped the latter one on the big bed. Then he turned to the hobbit.
"Why did I have to carry him?"
Merry just glared at him.
"You started this foolish drinking contest. Besides I'm too small to carry him! I'm just a hobbit just in case you forgot."
"Hnnn, I had no idea that he couldn't handle a single drink!"
"Legolas, he's just 16 and has no experience in such things. You had more practice until now. So please don't do such a stupid thing again!"
Legolas began to pout, but turned his attention to the sleeping elf on the bed.
"Did your cousin find something about that woman?" he asked, suddenly serious.
"Wait a minute and I can tell you more!"
The hobbit began to type on his computer.
"My cousin and I are momentary busy sorting the unsolved cases in the library. We're connected by our computer just in case I need some information."
"There are unsolved cases in our division?" Legolas asked astounded.
"Of course. There was just recently one. Ahhh, here it is!"
He opened a file and showed on the screen. Legolas moved behind the hobbit and looked at the display. Immediately his gaze darkened.
"Isn't that Elladan's file?"
Merry looked closer.
"Hmmm, you're right. Although I don't know how it came into this section. As far as I know his file is closed! I'll better inform my cousin about this mistake."
"Wait a minute! Can I at least read it? Finally I just want to know more about my partner since I doubt that he will tell me anything about himself!"
"Fine. Just hurry!" the hobbit sighed.
"Okay, okay. Don't rush me!"
Said, Done. When Legolas was ready with reading, he shook his head.
"Who would have thought that he's a telepath?"
But just then he was interrupted when the sky outside the hotel was suddenly illuminated by marvellous, colourful fireworks. Legolas' eyes began to sparkle with joy.
"Oh, how wonderful! Is a fair or something taking place here?" he exclaimed happily.
"Hmmm, as far as I know, it's the annual Mirkwood Sun & Moon Festival that takes place at the moment. It's so famous that the TV brings a special report on it. But I thought you would know that." Merry said without taking his eyes from the screen.
The blond elf then grabbed the remote control and turned the TV on. Why not watching TV for a while? It was better than to do nothing. Like Merry had said, there was a special report. The female human reporter was standing in the middle of a crowd, who was gathered around her and cheered into the camera.
"We're here at the local festival place at the right side of the Wood River, where the annual Sun & Moon Fair started one hour ago. During the next week various events and concerts will be take place. One of the performing artists is a singer from Rivendell, who has become very famous in whole Middle-Earth in the last two years, and I'm really proud to welcome her with us tonight. Please welcome Arwen Undómiel!" the reporter exclaimed.
The crowd cheered, when a young elf-woman with in a short, deep-green dress went to the reporter. Her long, black hair was elaborately braided and decorated with white flowers.
"Welcome to Mirkwood!" the human reporter greeted the young elf.
"Good Evening! I'm glad to be here!" Arwen said quietly.
Then a short interview began. Meanwhile Legolas took a closer look at Arwen's face. Something about the girl made him extremely suspicious. It was as if he already had seen her somewhere...But where? Legolas stared further at her, trying to associate her face.
Then it hit him. The colour of the eyes and the hair were different, but that was unmistakably the female elf-vampire who had bumped into him this afternoon.
"LEGOLAS!"
Merry's voice let him snap out of his train of thoughts.
"Yes?" Legolas answered.
"Are you alright?"
"Hmmm.........Merry, could you please check something for me?" the elf finally asked, his eyes never leaving the television screen.
*
The next day.
"Gods, can somebody please kill me?" Elladan groaned, holding his throbbing head with both hands.
He had awoken this morning with a terrible hangover and after that had sworn to himself, never to lay a finger on alcohol again.
"Are you alright, boy?" Legolas asked with a concerned look on his face.
Elladan just shot him a murderous glare.
"Don't call me that! By the way, it's your entire fault! You started this." he yelled at the other Shinigami, but winced, when this action caused his head to spin again.
Suddenly the pain vanished when all of a sudden a welcoming coolness touched his throbbing forehead. Astonished, Elladan opened his eyes and saw Legolas smiling standing, holding a cold drink bottle at the dark-haired elf's forehead.
"Better?"
"Yes......Thank you!" Elladan said after a moment of hesitation.
Legolas just smiled at him.
*
An hour later the three of them reached a skyscraper, which turned out to be the main building of Channel Mirkwood, the local TV station.
"Okay. Why exactly are we here?" Elladan asked.
"Oh, there might be the present abode of the vampire. Merry?"
The hobbit nodded, opened his laptop and began to speak:
"Okay. I've been doing some research and as you've suspected, the date of the beginning of these attacks matches with the arrival of Arwen Undómiel here in Mirkwood!"
Elladan narrowed his eyes.
"You think she's responsible for the murders?"
The blond elf smiled at his partner.
"That's what we'll find out!"
"Fine, why not?" the dark-haired elf sighed.
"Okay. Be careful. I guess I'm better going back to my main job since your partner is now here. Oh, don't forget to bring me a nice souvenir!"
The hobbit waved a last time to them and then disappeared. Legolas clapped his hands happily.
"Okay, then let's go!"
Elladan just sighed heavily and both elves disappeared.
*
The corridors inside the building were empty. Only footsteps could be heard, but no one could be seen. One moment later two male elves appeared out of the blue. Luckily there were alone at the moment or anyone in this part of the building would have been there, he would have run away screaming, thinking he had seen some ghosts.
Legolas looked around, searching for the dressing room of Arwen Undómiel. After a second or so he realized that he was standing right in front of it. A last glance around and he gripped the handle of the door, when Elladan stopped him all of a sudden.
"Wait a minute!" he hissed.
"What's up?"
"I don't know but something is strange here. I can't sense her presence. Are you sure she's here?" the dark-haired elf asked.
"I don't know. Let's find out!" Legolas replied and opened the door a little crack.
He took a careful peek inside, making sure if someone was inside or not and then opened it further. Both elves went inside and narrowed their eyes, when they discovered that the room was empty. And that wasn't everything. All over the room, things were in a mess and flower vases were knocked over. Either someone had searched the room or someone was really untidy.
The two elves looked around.
"And what are we doing now?" Elladan asked a little annoyed.
"I don't know...!" Legolas stopped speaking when he suddenly heard something.
"ARWEN! WHERE ARE YOU?" a female voice called.
Shortly after a grim-looking she-elf in a long white dress and with long, blond hair entered and stopped short, when she saw Legolas and Elladan.
"Who are you? What are doing here and where's Arwen?"
"Um...well......I just wanted an autogr...hey, where are you going?"
The blond elf was confused when Elladan's head suddenly shot round and he started to run. All of a sudden he had sensed a strange presence not far away from here. It was a female aura, but strangely it changed in something more disturbing. Maybe Legolas was right and behind this Arwen was more as it seemed at first.
Legolas excused himself to the female elf and ran after his partner.
"Hey, what's going on? Did you sense something?" he shouted.
"Yes. Not far from here. But we better hurry. I have the bad feeling that something awful is going to happen."
The blond elf frowned at this, but somehow he knew that Elladan was right. Hopefully they weren't too late.
*
Next to the building were several warehouses, the studios of the TV Station. In one of them, a young human was busy to gather some things for a show. He didn't know that he wasn't alone anymore. Behind him appeared the figure of a female elf, which slowly began to walk towards his direction. If the young man had taken a closer look at the she-elf, he would have noticed the strange blank expression on her face.
Unfortunately for him, he didn't notice her until she was standing behind him. Startled, the young man got up and turned round, eyes widening when he recognised the she-elf.
"M...Miss Undómiel! What are you doing here?" he stammered.
Arwen didn't answer, but embraced the young man and leaned forwards, intending to kiss. The human was too stunned to something different, but sliding his arms around her waist. But instead of kissing the human man, the dark-haired she-elf opened her mouth, uncovering a pair of very sharp fangs. Just a moment before they sank into the man's neck, a loud voice interrupted her and her head shot round to face the new intruders.
Legolas and Elladan stood there, their faces grim.
"Go away from him, vampire!" Legolas shouted.
The female vampire hissed at the male elves and pushed the young human into a pile of crates, which promptly collapsed and buried the young man below it. Then the she-elf fled.
"Take care of him. I'll go after her." The blond elf ordered.
Elladan nodded and ran to the still form of the human, looking for injuries, while Legolas tried to follow the Vampire elf-woman. But he didn't come far. Suddenly the room began to quake and a loud roaring resounded. The heads of the elves jerked up and their eyes widened when out of the blue a gigantic white dragon appeared in front of them.
"What the...?"
Elladan tried to say something, but astonishingly couldn't. He had never seen a creature like this before. On the contrary, the dark-haired elf had really thought that dragons were just a fairy tale. But how to fight such a monster?
His fears dissolved when Legolas turned to him once more:
"Take care of this human. I'll lure the dragon outwards and make sure he won't do any damage."
"Okay...!" the younger elf stuttered.
Then the blond elf folded his hands and began to murmur barely noticeable words. At first, nothing seemed to happen, but then a small, glowing aura surrounded Legolas. His eyes turned serious and then made his attack. He swung his armed and shot a glowing ball of energy at the white dragon, to get the beast's attention, a strategy, which fortunately succeeded.
The dragon roared and focused his attention at the blond elf. This one smirked and shouted:
"Catch me if you can!"
With these words he disappeared through one wall. The dragon turned and crashed through the wall, through which the elf had vanished. Once outside, the monster spread out his wings and rose up in the sky, preparing his attack. Shortly after, Elladan could hear battle noises like the roaring of the dragon and another one, which sounded like a gigantic bird.
Being curious, the dark-haired elf risked a look through the hole in the wall and gasped astonished. Legolas had summoned a gigantic phoenix, who was now fighting against the dragon.
//Wow...maybe I've underestimated him. He seems to know what to do...// the younger elf thought in view of the powers, which the blond elf seemed to have.
The fight itself didn't last long. When Legolas' phoenix prepared for another attack, the dragon suddenly vanished, leaving two stunned elves behind.
"What's going on? Where is he?" Elladan shouted to his partner.
Legolas didn't answer. He was surprised that the dragon had vanished as quickly as he had appeared. Maybe his appearance wasn't unplanned and someone had summoned to prevent him from following the vampire she-elf. Maybe this someone was the driving force behind those murders, because he couldn't believe that a girl like Arwen would commit murder voluntarily.
"I guess I have still some investigating to do before I can close this case!" the blond elf sighed, before he went back to the warehouse.
"Are you alright?" the dark-haired elf asked.
Legolas smiled.
"Of course. Let's get him to the hospital or at least a doctor!" the blond elf suggested.
Elladan nodded agreeing. Both elves picked up the young human and brought him out of the warehouse. Neither of them noticed the human man, who stepped forwards from behind the pile of containers, where he had hidden the entire time. He looked after the retreating forms of the two elves.
"So, you're not an ordinary elf. I knew it the first time when I saw you. But now you proved it. Well...I see it'll be fun to play with you, my beautiful Legolas!" the human said and began to smirk.
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