Chapter 4
Disclaimer: U should already know what I am going to say.(Oh yeah and there's a bit of a spoiler in the author babble.most of you won't see it though.)
And for a change:
AUTHOR BABBLE!:
RD: Kara J?
Kara: Yeah too many people were Karamel.
RD: *WHINE* But now I have to change my Twelve days of Christmas!
Kara: Live with it.
RD: I hate you. LEGOLAS!
Kara: Uh-oh..poor bugger.
Legolas: (Worried look on face) Yes?
RD: She depressed me.Come here. (Latches on to elf.)
Legolas: (Looks at Kara with intent to kill written all over face.)
Kara: (Shrugs) I'll be going now. (Tries to sneak of through side door.)
RD: No, Aragorn can't toss you to the bridge; he's still working on getting Gimli out of Mordor. You know the punishment that I gave the little midget for not behaving in the 12 Days? And I have Legolas.
Kara: (Backs away slowly) Fine I'll go hide in the caves.
Legolas: Can we work on the story?
RD: Hmmm..good idea
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Legolas sat waiting, he did not like having arrows stuck in his face but he couldn't do much else. He didn't want to have to turn back to Mirkwood and try to get Elrond to come quickly from Rivendell, he didn't think that the dark elf would last that long. He shifted her again and glared at the archers. "I came here for help and this is how I am treated?"
"If you had not brought that." The archer said motioning to the still form. "You would have been let in quickly."
"You very well know that what I bring was once like us. Even though she might be a Dark elf she is still an elf." Legolas growled.
"They were servants of the first Dark Lord. I don't think that the Lady will want anything to do with her." The elf frowned in disgust.
"We will see about that." Legolas growled under his breath. He didn't like waiting for Lady Galadriel, even if it was only the life of a dark elf she didn't know what this elf had done.
"The Lady will allow them to enter." The messenger said as he ran up to the archer that held his arrow aimed fro Fainu's forehead. "But she wants the Dark elf well guarded incase she is faking"
Legolas nodded and handed the reigns over to the elf and made sure Fainu was alright, he disliked having to let her be an open target but if this was the only way to get Galadriel's help then he would have to comply.
"Don't try to keep her safe Prince Legolas. You have brought a dangerous being into the Lady's realm; she wants to speak to you about her." The messenger said coolly. Legolas nodded but didn't loosen his grip on the dark elf.
"I have my limits of what I will allow. I will not let you kill her without a fight." Legolas looked down his nose at the elf.
The messenger looked at him and snarled, but allowed the prince to continue to hold the dark elf. They led them through the ancient forest quickly; soon the small caravan reached the home of Galadriel. An eerie calmness and serenity had come over the realm; Legolas could feel it he didn't like it and he tightened his grip on the elf in his arms. He glanced up at the tree tops, Galadriel looked down at him.
"Calm yourself Legolas; you will crush the elf before I can do anything." She said softly.
The prince looked up at her, their eyes locked he loosened his grip only slightly. He didn't want the person who had saved his life to face death.
"She will be fine with me Legolas. It is not I that neither you, nor your companion needs to fear. I know the past of the dark elves, bring her here."
Legolas slid off Felwin; he gently carried the smaller elf up the stairs to the Lady. Galadriel looked at the pale face of Fainu; she ran her fingers over the girls face.
"She is far gone Legolas, but I must ask to keep her here after I heal her to gather her magic." Galadriel said softly.
"No, she has already told me that she knows about Lothlorien. Please I have only gotten her trust." He backed away slightly.
"I will not let harm come to her when I gather her magic, she will be well cared for." Galadriel's serine face didn't change as she looked at the dark elf.
Legolas stayed still for a long time weighing his options, he could leave and try to reach Rivendell but risk having Elrond say the same or simply saying no to helping him. He looked at Fainu he already knew that either way she wouldn't be happy if she were healed by either elf, she knew Lothlorien so she would probably know Rivendell. "Fine but I want to stay with her the entire time."
"No, no one will be with her. Not even me. When her magic is being gathered it is dangerous to any living thing in the same room. If the being doesn't have enough magic then they die, but I can make it so that it gathers all but a tiny amount so that she lives." Galadriel whispered.
Legolas glared at Galadriel. "If there were another choice I would take it in an instant but you know that I don't."
Galadriel nodded and with that she leaned close to the girls face. "Tul aldamo morne feanor, i silme entuulda feanor-lya.*" She stood up when the dark elf stirred slightly in Legolas' arms.
"Thank you Lady Galadriel." Legolas managed to say before he set Fainu's feet on the ground.
Fainu curled slightly into Legolas; she still couldn't distinguish between his and Kallieere's scent. She opened her eyes slightly, she knew that she was in Legolas' arms immediately and pulled away, once she wasn't next to him though she could smell the difference in the air. She gasped, when she saw who was looking down at her, a tall female elf, light shone from her; her cold eyes never changed. She immediately knew that this was the Lady Galadriel, she shrunk into Legolas' arm her blue eyes wide now in horror.
"Why?" She finally managed to ask pushing away from the tall blond elf.
"Because I didn't have a choice. I'm sorry." Legolas moving towards her, unsure of why she was reacting like this.
"Leave me alone." Fainu hissed, "You are no better than my father." She moved to run away but drawn arrows trained on her face met her.
"The Lady has an agreement with Legolas and it will be fulfilled."
Fainu turned and glared at both elves. "I should have left you in dark of the tunnel. Fainu hissed. She looked ready to go for Legolas' throat.
"I'm sorry but it I thought you were going to die and I did not have the time to take you to Rivendell." Legolas barked back.
"I would rather have died." Fainu snarled.
"You aren't going to die, stupid girl." Galadriel said looking down at the dark elf.
"And why should I trust you? I can smell better than any elf, dark or pale do not try to tell me that you don't kill my kind." Fainu snarled, the lingering scent of dark elf blood wafted through the air burning her senses.
"I will not deny that I have killed your kind but I have made a deal that you will live." Galadriel had not realized that Fainu could smell that good. Legolas looked from Fainu to Galadriel; he had never seen this side of the Lady of the Woods.
"Of course. Most likely barely alive, unable to even move, don't think I don't know what happens when a dark elf uses most of their magic." Fainu glanced back over her shoulder at the two guards, their arrows trained on her.
"I already told you that I would not kill you." Galadriel was beginning to run out of patience with this girl. "Take her to the room." The two guards came up the stairs. She struggled at first but then gave up as the guards bound her wrists tightly. Legolas watched in horror as the guards wretched her arms the wrong way, causing to elf to cry out ever so slightly. She looked back at him, hatred and malice radiated from her, he knew that he had lost the little trusted that he had only just gained.
"You told me that no harm would come to her!" He turned to the Lady.
"While I was gathering her magic." With that she moved down the stairs.
Legolas followed wishing for a full quiver with all his might. He hadn't thought that Galadriel could be this cruel. He followed her deep into Lothlorien he had never seen this part of the woods, all around him beautiful statues carved from stone and marble set with gems and gold. But as they traveled deeper the statues gave way to dark trees. The air grew heavy around him and he did not remember feeling this closed in, in any other forest. He rounded a bend to see Galadriel standing beside an opening at the base of one of the ancient trees. She glared at him.
"Keep up or you might get lost." With that she turned into dark entrance.
Fainu's eyes were wide. She could see everything around herself in the dark staircase. She couldn't see the dark elves that were in the frightening prison but she could hear and smell them. Their blood and rotting flesh stung her nose and the soft murmurs in her tongue rang in her ears. Her breath began to come faster as she began to panic, she struggled against the bindings, but every time she moved her wrists they became tighter and they were beginning to dig into her wrists. She could see the angry faces of the guard s that led her down the stair.
"If you don't stop struggling girl I'll make sure that you never struggle again." Fainu felt hot tears trickling down her cheeks. She had trusted Legolas and this is what he did, lead her to the most dangerous place for a dark elf then make an agreement that involved her with the Galadriel without even thinking of the consequences. The metal on her wrists bit into her skins, she could smell her blood as it began to escape the scraped and bruised wrists. As they continued down the stairs the smells of pain and death burnt her nose worse and worse, and the tunnel started to spiral downward, no longer going down on a gentle slope but a steep pitch. She felt as if the smells and sounds that were coming from below were going to crush her.
Legolas kept close to Galadriel, she was the only thing that he could see in the darkness, he could hear faint murmurs from somewhere far below him and there was an overwhelming smell in the air. He thought about what Fainu was going through, she could smell better than him and hear better than him and he was already guessing that the captives that were still alive were all Dark elves. If he had of thought that this was how Galadriel was going to treat the smaller elf he would have tried to get to Rivendell, he understood fully why Fainu had reacted as she had. He sped up his steps a bit more as Galadriel rounded the first stair in second set of stairs.
Fainu shut her eyes as she was shoved into a bright room, each of the torches gave of a light that was much like the sun at noon and it hurt her eyes to be in that much light. She was lead blindly down a hall to a dark door, a horrible smell came from behind it and Fainu thought she was going to throw up. She didn't even realize that this was where they were putting her until she was locked in the darkness. He eyes went wide as her eyes focused in the rotting corpse bound by chains like hers; the dark elf's skin was grey and eaten by bugs that crawled on the floor.
"Let me out!" Fainu shrieked slamming against the door her terror now over coming her training as a hunter. She would rather of being taken by orcs or the new Dark Lord that was rebuilding Mordor.
"Be still you stupid dark elf or perhaps the Lady will not let you out." The guard snorted through the door. Fainu looked at the small crack of light that came under the door making it extremely easy for her to see the holes in the dead elf's skin. Maggots crawled from the gaping wounds and an odor came from the elf that was worse than even the dead marshes and all of the orcs that she had slain over the last 500 years put together. She could see the bugs crawling around in the tangled dirt hair and others came from the slightly open mouth. Fainu finally bent over as her stomach muscles contracted sharply. Once her stomach was empty she sank to her knees against the door praying that the Vala would take her to their halls.
Legolas could see a bright light at the end of the twisting stairs, he could see each of the steps clearly now but he didn't dare race ahead of Galadriel. When they finally arrived in the room he was mortified by the stench and the sobs coming from behind one of the locked doors.
"Fainu." He ran to the door, His hand brushed over the lock, it burnt to touch. The guard looked at Legolas and smirked.
"I don't suggest trying to open the lock only Lady Galadriel or Lord Celeborn can do so."
Legolas looked at Galadriel but she was at the far end of the room. "Please Lady Galadriel; let her out from that cell.
"I can not do that." With that she stepped towards the Sindarin elf and waited for him to move so that she could cast the spell that would gather the magic from the girl.
Legolas moved out of the way and watched as the Lady cast the spell.
Fainu saw a blue mist come into the room filling it., she stood and pounded on the door, crying out to be set free. When there was no answer she turned back to the gloom of her cell, her eyes felt heavy but before the shut and she collapse she say the maggots wreathing in pain as their magic was drawn from them. Just before she went under the spells power she smirked. She would finally be reunited with Kallieere.
*-Come back dark spirit, the starlight returns your spirit.
Disclaimer: U should already know what I am going to say.(Oh yeah and there's a bit of a spoiler in the author babble.most of you won't see it though.)
And for a change:
AUTHOR BABBLE!:
RD: Kara J?
Kara: Yeah too many people were Karamel.
RD: *WHINE* But now I have to change my Twelve days of Christmas!
Kara: Live with it.
RD: I hate you. LEGOLAS!
Kara: Uh-oh..poor bugger.
Legolas: (Worried look on face) Yes?
RD: She depressed me.Come here. (Latches on to elf.)
Legolas: (Looks at Kara with intent to kill written all over face.)
Kara: (Shrugs) I'll be going now. (Tries to sneak of through side door.)
RD: No, Aragorn can't toss you to the bridge; he's still working on getting Gimli out of Mordor. You know the punishment that I gave the little midget for not behaving in the 12 Days? And I have Legolas.
Kara: (Backs away slowly) Fine I'll go hide in the caves.
Legolas: Can we work on the story?
RD: Hmmm..good idea
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Legolas sat waiting, he did not like having arrows stuck in his face but he couldn't do much else. He didn't want to have to turn back to Mirkwood and try to get Elrond to come quickly from Rivendell, he didn't think that the dark elf would last that long. He shifted her again and glared at the archers. "I came here for help and this is how I am treated?"
"If you had not brought that." The archer said motioning to the still form. "You would have been let in quickly."
"You very well know that what I bring was once like us. Even though she might be a Dark elf she is still an elf." Legolas growled.
"They were servants of the first Dark Lord. I don't think that the Lady will want anything to do with her." The elf frowned in disgust.
"We will see about that." Legolas growled under his breath. He didn't like waiting for Lady Galadriel, even if it was only the life of a dark elf she didn't know what this elf had done.
"The Lady will allow them to enter." The messenger said as he ran up to the archer that held his arrow aimed fro Fainu's forehead. "But she wants the Dark elf well guarded incase she is faking"
Legolas nodded and handed the reigns over to the elf and made sure Fainu was alright, he disliked having to let her be an open target but if this was the only way to get Galadriel's help then he would have to comply.
"Don't try to keep her safe Prince Legolas. You have brought a dangerous being into the Lady's realm; she wants to speak to you about her." The messenger said coolly. Legolas nodded but didn't loosen his grip on the dark elf.
"I have my limits of what I will allow. I will not let you kill her without a fight." Legolas looked down his nose at the elf.
The messenger looked at him and snarled, but allowed the prince to continue to hold the dark elf. They led them through the ancient forest quickly; soon the small caravan reached the home of Galadriel. An eerie calmness and serenity had come over the realm; Legolas could feel it he didn't like it and he tightened his grip on the elf in his arms. He glanced up at the tree tops, Galadriel looked down at him.
"Calm yourself Legolas; you will crush the elf before I can do anything." She said softly.
The prince looked up at her, their eyes locked he loosened his grip only slightly. He didn't want the person who had saved his life to face death.
"She will be fine with me Legolas. It is not I that neither you, nor your companion needs to fear. I know the past of the dark elves, bring her here."
Legolas slid off Felwin; he gently carried the smaller elf up the stairs to the Lady. Galadriel looked at the pale face of Fainu; she ran her fingers over the girls face.
"She is far gone Legolas, but I must ask to keep her here after I heal her to gather her magic." Galadriel said softly.
"No, she has already told me that she knows about Lothlorien. Please I have only gotten her trust." He backed away slightly.
"I will not let harm come to her when I gather her magic, she will be well cared for." Galadriel's serine face didn't change as she looked at the dark elf.
Legolas stayed still for a long time weighing his options, he could leave and try to reach Rivendell but risk having Elrond say the same or simply saying no to helping him. He looked at Fainu he already knew that either way she wouldn't be happy if she were healed by either elf, she knew Lothlorien so she would probably know Rivendell. "Fine but I want to stay with her the entire time."
"No, no one will be with her. Not even me. When her magic is being gathered it is dangerous to any living thing in the same room. If the being doesn't have enough magic then they die, but I can make it so that it gathers all but a tiny amount so that she lives." Galadriel whispered.
Legolas glared at Galadriel. "If there were another choice I would take it in an instant but you know that I don't."
Galadriel nodded and with that she leaned close to the girls face. "Tul aldamo morne feanor, i silme entuulda feanor-lya.*" She stood up when the dark elf stirred slightly in Legolas' arms.
"Thank you Lady Galadriel." Legolas managed to say before he set Fainu's feet on the ground.
Fainu curled slightly into Legolas; she still couldn't distinguish between his and Kallieere's scent. She opened her eyes slightly, she knew that she was in Legolas' arms immediately and pulled away, once she wasn't next to him though she could smell the difference in the air. She gasped, when she saw who was looking down at her, a tall female elf, light shone from her; her cold eyes never changed. She immediately knew that this was the Lady Galadriel, she shrunk into Legolas' arm her blue eyes wide now in horror.
"Why?" She finally managed to ask pushing away from the tall blond elf.
"Because I didn't have a choice. I'm sorry." Legolas moving towards her, unsure of why she was reacting like this.
"Leave me alone." Fainu hissed, "You are no better than my father." She moved to run away but drawn arrows trained on her face met her.
"The Lady has an agreement with Legolas and it will be fulfilled."
Fainu turned and glared at both elves. "I should have left you in dark of the tunnel. Fainu hissed. She looked ready to go for Legolas' throat.
"I'm sorry but it I thought you were going to die and I did not have the time to take you to Rivendell." Legolas barked back.
"I would rather have died." Fainu snarled.
"You aren't going to die, stupid girl." Galadriel said looking down at the dark elf.
"And why should I trust you? I can smell better than any elf, dark or pale do not try to tell me that you don't kill my kind." Fainu snarled, the lingering scent of dark elf blood wafted through the air burning her senses.
"I will not deny that I have killed your kind but I have made a deal that you will live." Galadriel had not realized that Fainu could smell that good. Legolas looked from Fainu to Galadriel; he had never seen this side of the Lady of the Woods.
"Of course. Most likely barely alive, unable to even move, don't think I don't know what happens when a dark elf uses most of their magic." Fainu glanced back over her shoulder at the two guards, their arrows trained on her.
"I already told you that I would not kill you." Galadriel was beginning to run out of patience with this girl. "Take her to the room." The two guards came up the stairs. She struggled at first but then gave up as the guards bound her wrists tightly. Legolas watched in horror as the guards wretched her arms the wrong way, causing to elf to cry out ever so slightly. She looked back at him, hatred and malice radiated from her, he knew that he had lost the little trusted that he had only just gained.
"You told me that no harm would come to her!" He turned to the Lady.
"While I was gathering her magic." With that she moved down the stairs.
Legolas followed wishing for a full quiver with all his might. He hadn't thought that Galadriel could be this cruel. He followed her deep into Lothlorien he had never seen this part of the woods, all around him beautiful statues carved from stone and marble set with gems and gold. But as they traveled deeper the statues gave way to dark trees. The air grew heavy around him and he did not remember feeling this closed in, in any other forest. He rounded a bend to see Galadriel standing beside an opening at the base of one of the ancient trees. She glared at him.
"Keep up or you might get lost." With that she turned into dark entrance.
Fainu's eyes were wide. She could see everything around herself in the dark staircase. She couldn't see the dark elves that were in the frightening prison but she could hear and smell them. Their blood and rotting flesh stung her nose and the soft murmurs in her tongue rang in her ears. Her breath began to come faster as she began to panic, she struggled against the bindings, but every time she moved her wrists they became tighter and they were beginning to dig into her wrists. She could see the angry faces of the guard s that led her down the stair.
"If you don't stop struggling girl I'll make sure that you never struggle again." Fainu felt hot tears trickling down her cheeks. She had trusted Legolas and this is what he did, lead her to the most dangerous place for a dark elf then make an agreement that involved her with the Galadriel without even thinking of the consequences. The metal on her wrists bit into her skins, she could smell her blood as it began to escape the scraped and bruised wrists. As they continued down the stairs the smells of pain and death burnt her nose worse and worse, and the tunnel started to spiral downward, no longer going down on a gentle slope but a steep pitch. She felt as if the smells and sounds that were coming from below were going to crush her.
Legolas kept close to Galadriel, she was the only thing that he could see in the darkness, he could hear faint murmurs from somewhere far below him and there was an overwhelming smell in the air. He thought about what Fainu was going through, she could smell better than him and hear better than him and he was already guessing that the captives that were still alive were all Dark elves. If he had of thought that this was how Galadriel was going to treat the smaller elf he would have tried to get to Rivendell, he understood fully why Fainu had reacted as she had. He sped up his steps a bit more as Galadriel rounded the first stair in second set of stairs.
Fainu shut her eyes as she was shoved into a bright room, each of the torches gave of a light that was much like the sun at noon and it hurt her eyes to be in that much light. She was lead blindly down a hall to a dark door, a horrible smell came from behind it and Fainu thought she was going to throw up. She didn't even realize that this was where they were putting her until she was locked in the darkness. He eyes went wide as her eyes focused in the rotting corpse bound by chains like hers; the dark elf's skin was grey and eaten by bugs that crawled on the floor.
"Let me out!" Fainu shrieked slamming against the door her terror now over coming her training as a hunter. She would rather of being taken by orcs or the new Dark Lord that was rebuilding Mordor.
"Be still you stupid dark elf or perhaps the Lady will not let you out." The guard snorted through the door. Fainu looked at the small crack of light that came under the door making it extremely easy for her to see the holes in the dead elf's skin. Maggots crawled from the gaping wounds and an odor came from the elf that was worse than even the dead marshes and all of the orcs that she had slain over the last 500 years put together. She could see the bugs crawling around in the tangled dirt hair and others came from the slightly open mouth. Fainu finally bent over as her stomach muscles contracted sharply. Once her stomach was empty she sank to her knees against the door praying that the Vala would take her to their halls.
Legolas could see a bright light at the end of the twisting stairs, he could see each of the steps clearly now but he didn't dare race ahead of Galadriel. When they finally arrived in the room he was mortified by the stench and the sobs coming from behind one of the locked doors.
"Fainu." He ran to the door, His hand brushed over the lock, it burnt to touch. The guard looked at Legolas and smirked.
"I don't suggest trying to open the lock only Lady Galadriel or Lord Celeborn can do so."
Legolas looked at Galadriel but she was at the far end of the room. "Please Lady Galadriel; let her out from that cell.
"I can not do that." With that she stepped towards the Sindarin elf and waited for him to move so that she could cast the spell that would gather the magic from the girl.
Legolas moved out of the way and watched as the Lady cast the spell.
Fainu saw a blue mist come into the room filling it., she stood and pounded on the door, crying out to be set free. When there was no answer she turned back to the gloom of her cell, her eyes felt heavy but before the shut and she collapse she say the maggots wreathing in pain as their magic was drawn from them. Just before she went under the spells power she smirked. She would finally be reunited with Kallieere.
*-Come back dark spirit, the starlight returns your spirit.