Chapter 5
Disclaimer U know the drill. Oh yes and if I failed to mention this before.. Fainu, Felwin and the Dark elves of Mordor are MINE! Don't touch them with out my permission...
~*~*~*~ == opening and closing to dream sequence
Italics == telepathic communications
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Legolas waited in the room for three days for Galadriel to open the locked door and let him into see Fainu. When the door was finally opened the stench of the cell hit him full blast, light flooded over Fainu who was lying on the floor and the dead body on the far side of the room. He soaked in every detail in the room; he tried to turn away from the dead maggots that were on the floor in a circle around the dead dark elf. Fainu was facing the door her hands were covered in blood and rotten wood. He bent over and gently turned over the dark elf, her fingers were ripped and torn splinters stuck deep into them, her face was twisted in horror as she laid still.
"It's okay Fainu, we are going now." Legolas said softly. Legolas gently lifted Fainu up and raced up the stairs he wanted to get the elf out of this place. Galadriel knew that he had wanted to leave the day after she had gathered Fainu's magic but the spell had not fully dissipated by then. Galadriel followed slowly not worrying about where they would be, Legolas would not travel far until he was sure that Fainu would be all right. When she got to the top she found Legolas gently tracing his fingers over the dark elf's face to the side of the entrance.
"She will be fine." Galadriel said calmly, looking down in disgust at the small elf.
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"Kallieere? Is that you?" Fainu said looking at the taller dark elf.
The elf smiled softly at her and nodded his head.
"So am I?" Fainu asked moving towards the semi-translucent elf.
Kallieere shook his head no as he gently ran a finger under the elf that was his only love. He wiped away a tear with his thumbs and drew her against him kissing the top of her head.
Fainu wrapped her arms around him, she remembered this feeling she had longed for it for over five hundred years and soon she was going to be taken away from him again.
Kallieere lifted her chin, and smiled softly at her.
"I love you; I will wait for you even when stars fade from existence." Kallieere whispered softly just before he kissed her softly. Fainu smiled through her tears and squeezed him in her arms before the image began to fade.
"Fainu."
"Fainu."
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"Fainu!" Legolas called gently shaking the elf.
"Kallieere." Fainu whispered
"Fainu. You're awake." He lifted her up and carried her to Felwin and slid her onto the tall horses back.
"Leave quickly Legolas or I may change my mind in what I will do with her." Galadriel said glaring at the prince of Mirkwood. He jumped up and wrapped an arm around the limp elf before he softly spoke to Felwin and trotted through the forest with two of the guards close on his trail. More followed further behind with weapons drawn and ready to be used.
Legolas glanced back over his shoulder at the edge of Lothlorien; the small group that had followed him closely out of the woods had stopped and watched him leaving. He knew that it would be a long journey home with Fainu unable to do anything so he would have to take care of her. He looked towards Mirkwood the edges of it far off in his vision, "Soon you'll be safe."
Legolas pulled up Felwin and slid off his back before gently taking Fainu off and laying her down on the ground. He knew that upon her awakening she wouldn't trust him. He'd betrayed her, and it had almost killed her, he took off the mantle that he had put on earlier and covered her with it. Before eating a small amount of lembas and sipped some of the water from his canteen, he had been hoping that she would have woken up that day but she still had not and it had been two days since they had left Lothlorien. He sat don beside her and stared up at the stars and sang softly. He missed the shores of Valinor, he and his father along with many others had returned when the new Dark Lord began to form. Very little was known about him, except that he fashioned himself as Lord Devorque and claimed to be the son of Morgoth.
Fainu sat in the darkness alone she had never felt like this before. She felt like she couldn't move, couldn't speak. At times she thought she was dead or about to die but Kallieere had told her she wasn't going to die yet or he would have stayed with her. She turned her head slightly, she thought she had heard singing but it faded. She wanted to scream in frustration but she couldn't even do that, she resigned herself to shutting her eyes and thinking about Kallieere and trying o forget the betrayal she had felt from Legolas.
Legolas laid down finally to rest for a few hours before journeying again, but when he tried to rest his mind he just felt an overwhelming shame from taking Fainu to Galadriel and making a deal with her. H wanted nothing more than to be able to take back what he had done, Felwin whinnied in terror and he was awake immediately. Orcs and goblins surrounding him and Fainu, Felwin bucked and struck out ant the orcs that reached for him. Legolas could see that there were many but he couldn't see well enough to know. He pleaded silently or Fainu to wake up and tell him, here eye sight by far exceeded his when it came to darkness. Before he had a chance to do any more than stand up he was attacked, he barely dodged it before he pulled out his swords. He cut any orc or goblin that drew near enough but he didn't dare go chasing after the few that escaped with only minor cuts. He knew that there was no way he would win if he had to continue to fight for the rest of the night, he had counted ten in the dark but he had already slayed five but there was no way that he would still be fending off attacks from the goblins and orcs if he had already cut their number by half. Blood covered him and his knives as he cut a sixth orc, he glanced back to see a goblin lifting Fainu. He swung his sword cutting the goblin dirty throat. Its large eyes went wide as its blood sprayed out, the dark fluid splashed across Fainu's face as the wretched creature collapsed.
The pungent smell of blood filled the air around her; she could taste it in her mouth, burning itself into her mind. She tried to spit it out but it was too late she had tasted to blood of a goblin.
Legolas grit his teeth as he cut through the orcs and goblins kept coming, he was grateful for his elven endurance or he would have been slain long ago. He spun at a sound that came from Fainu.
Fainu opened her eyes slowly, the smell of blood hung heavily in the air, slowly she looked down at the weight on her stomach, the wide eyes of a goblin stared back at her, she shoved it off of her and looked around. There were many dead orcs and goblins around her, and she could see many more in the distance that were still coming, she stood slowly, her eyes came upon Legolas. Then at the blood that covered him and his swords. As much as she wanted him to suffer she wouldn't allow it to be done by orcs or goblins. She pulled out the two knives that she still had from her home.
Legolas could tell that she hated him more than anything, her eyes fixed on him and then at the twisted creatures behind him. She snarled and began to fight, the orcs and goblins backed away slightly, staying well clear from the precise strokes of the two elves dealt. He didn't know where she had gotten her energy, or why she had woken up when she had but right now he didn't care.
"How many of them can you see?" Legolas asked as he cut another goblin across the stomach.
"More than you could handle, I don't want to be left with your scrap body parts to take my rage out on." She snarled the daggers cutting through bone and flesh alike, spraying blood everywhere.
"I don't blame you." Legolas said, not sure why he kept fighting if he was going to be mutilated by the girl.
"You are mine."
"Did you say that?" Fainu snarled, as she literally sliced the orcs face open
"Say what? I just said that I didn't blame you for what you wanted." Legolas said spun sideways cutting the orc that had been coming in from the side spraying both elves with blood before it fell.
"You are mine; you have tasted the blood of my minions."
"Who is saying that?" Fainu shouted as she kicked another goblin flailing its ribs. Sending it cowering away to die slowly from the severe wound.
"Saying what?" Legolas said paused for only the slightest of instances but he knew that it was a mistake. One of the jagged blades came close to cutting him.
"They are claiming me." Fainu snarled as she struggled to block to attacks that came from opposite directions.
"Claiming you?" Legolas didn't understand but he didn't understand how she had gotten her energy either, before she had been almost lifeless and slowly she was gaining more and more energy rather than losing any.
"Y-," Fainu started as she cut another of the orcs attacking her, its blood sprayed her face.
"Drink it. It is you, you are my first."
Fainu's eyes went wide as pain seared through her body. She put away a knife and stood still, the orcs and goblins backed away from them. Legolas turned and looked at her, she turned and looked at him. Her breaths coming in short gasps, the pain was evident on her face. Legolas watched in horror as the other dagger clattered to the ground as she sank to her knees. "Get out of my head!" She screamed, Legolas wanted to back away from her but he didn't want to leave her alone if the orcs and goblins were to try and get her.
"You are mine, drink it. You are one of my thirteen." Fainu felt her arm move against her will it ran her fingers through the orcs blood that covered her and put the blood covered fingers on her lips. She knew somewhere in the back of her mind she knew what the thirteen were, she didn't understand fully the story behind them but they were dangerous and she was the first. The taste of the blood filled her entire being burning her the way the blood she had tasted when she was still unable to do anything from what Galadriel had taken her magic.
"Fainu! Don't!" Legolas knew that whatever was going to happen with Fainu it was extremely dangerous.
"I can't. I'm not in control anymore. I don't know when I lost it!" Fainu cried out struggling with new thoughts that swirled in her mind.
"Fainu." Legolas glanced around him, the sounds of the orcs were around before had disappeared. He bent down and wrapped an arm around her and lifted her up. "We are going now; I'll get you home and try to find out what is happening."
Fainu nodded and stood slowly allowing Legolas to lead her, to Felwin who snorted at Fainu and tried to bite her past the Sindarin elf.
Legolas spoke sharply to the horse, but still the horse would not hold still for Fainu to get on his back. Legolas glanced back at the dark elf; she lowered her eyes. He could tell that she was unsure now; he pulled himself up on the horse and reached down for the dark elf but Felwin shied away. Fainu smiled sadly.
"It's alright. I can walk well enough on my own." Fainu waited for Legolas to lead the way.
"I'm sorry." With that the let Felwin walk way from Fainu, she went back to the place where they had defended themselves and picked up the dagger she had dropped and jogged to catch up to the elven prince.
"How long is it going to take to get to Mirkwood?" Fainu asked walking beside Legolas. Legolas looked down at her and grabbed her by the upper arm and pulled her up onto Felwin.
Felwin crow-hopped and bucked trying to get the dark elf off of his back, he spun and tried to bite Fainu. The dark elf pushed back into Legolas barely escaping the teeth that were aimed for her.
"Felwin!" Legolas struggled to keep the both of them on the horse.
"Let me go!" Fainu cried. Legolas shocked by what she said complied. The dark elf slid of the horses back onto her feet only to have Felwin try to step on her. She cried out and raced into the grass away from the horse.
"Where are you?" Legolas asked as he scanned the area around him.
"I'm fine. Just leave me alone. I'll stay out of Felwins sight and follow you until I figure out why I can suddenly hear voices in my head.
Legolas nodded and let Felwin walk towards Mirkwood. "So when do you plan on taking your rage out on me."
"When I find out why I am being claimed as one of the thirteen." Fainu said calmly from a fair ways behind him.
"One of the thirteen? Do you know what they are?" He hated not being able to see the dark elf but he couldn't trust Felwin to behave.
"Kind of. If I were able to go back to the Dark elves archives I would probably be able to find out everything." Fainu said calmly. "The thirteen are some sort of powerful commanders."
"Commanders? For who?" Legolas looked back over his shoulder.
"I think for the Dark Lord." Fainu whispered softly. She looked at the blood cover in then stopped she realized what she had just said; she sank down and sat in shock.
Legolas pulled up Felwin and looked over his shoulder, Fainu had disappeared, if what she said was true she would become hunted by every free race in middle earth.
"The Dark Lord." Fainu whispered.
"I am waiting for you my first."
"No." Fainu gasped in terror
"Come to me. Come to your destiny."
"No." Fainu felt tears sliding down her face as vision flashed before her eyes, memories that she had long forgotten or had been forced to forget. She saw her supposed father, the elf that had raised her, taking her from a sealed room. Magic flew from the open doorway; it had preserved her as a child ceasing her aging. He took her to live with him as his child, as his child? She wasn't his child? She wasn't a dark elf?
"Calm yourself my first. You are mine, a creation greater than any even my father could make."
Fainu saw more and more that she had long forgotten, she didn't remember the dark room where she had been kept during her young years. Now she knew why her 'father' had not cared about her death. She was not his and she never would be she was considered an outsider. The only one that had seen past the fact her father was Morgoths son had been Kallieere, he had known. He had always known what she was, he hadn't cared. Distantly she heard hoof beats and then the movement of grass as some one quietly walked through it towards her.
"Fainu?" Legolas looked down at her, she was staring back at him but her eyes held a far off sense. He bent down and pulled her to her feet, tears trickled down her face silently. "Wake up Fainu."
Fainu started and pushed away from him, her eyes wide with a fear of something only she knew.
"What's wrong Fainu?" Legolas knew that the dark elf didn't trust him but this was beyond anything he'd seen her do.
"Stay away from me Legolas. You do not know me." With that she turned and ran her instincts leading her back the way they had come from; she was heading back to Mordor.
"Fainu! Don't! Don't go to the Dark Lord I know that it's not what you want!" Legolas chase for a short distance but knew that the only thing that he could do to stop her was to bring her down with arrows and he didn't have those.
Fainu stopped a far distance from where Legolas had stopped chasing her. She sat down; she didn't understand anything any more. She wanted to ask her father why he'd hidden her past from her; she wanted to ask Kallieere how he could love her. She was a monster, she should have stayed with Legolas and let him cut her throat, the horror would have been over then. She curled up on the ground and sobbed quietly finally allowing herself to sleep. She no longer cared if the orcs came and killed her, she had lost any fear of death she longed for it, she needed it, and death was the only solution in her mind.
Legolas walked after the elf he could tell that she had stopped, his ears couldn't hear the grass moving any more and there was the sound of soft sobs. He traveled through the night following the few clues that she had left behind. When he found her she was curled up in a small ball sobbing in her sleep. He bent near her and pulled his mantle off and covered her with it, he moved over to where Felwin was standing and sat down. He watched over her the entire night. He knew that she didn't trust him, but he didn't understand why she had run from him, he sadly watched the stars fading into a rainbow of colors with the sunrise. Fainu didn't wake with the sun, but her sobbing had stopped, which made him worry all the more, he had never seen an elf cry except when they were mourning and were so sorrowful that they died.
He moved back over to her, and pushed her onto her back; Fainu opened an eye and looked at him. Her eye was red from crying but even that didn't cover the loss of life in it. "Fainu are you al-"
"So Legolas are you going to end the fourth war before it begins?" She asked her voice barely above a whisper.
Legolas pulled away from her, he didn't believe what he had just heard. "End it before it begins?"
Fainu sat up slowly handing him back his mantle as she nodded. "I already know what the voice means, and who it is. Please Legolas, I would be happier dead." With that she pulled her long dark hair back, and handed him one of the blades that she had taken from the target.
Legolas watched her, she sat waiting on the ground, her face was red and her eyes swollen from crying. He looked at the blade in his hand, it was still sharp and if he did cut her it would be clean and almost painless. He shut his eyes and weighed his options.
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Author babble:
Red Demon: Look! I made Frodo perfect! (The ring bearer walks out from behind a wall, his feet shaved)
Kara J: Ohh.Hairless. Aren't they a bit white though?
Red Demon: Yeah a bit but we'll send him out side with 50-sunblock on everywhere else and let them get good and colored.
Legolas: (Looks at the hobbit and laughs) and I thought it was bad when you had my hair in mini braids with ribbons.
Red Demon: No this is serious. I did that because I was bored. By the way do you still have those ribbons? Gimli and Aragorn finally got back from Mordor.
Legolas: Why? What are you going to do?
Kara J: (Giggles) don't worry Leggy. You know that Red Demon would never do anything-permanent.
Legolas: Oh God. What are you going to do to me now?
Red Demon: You? Who said the ribbons were going to be used on you this time?
Disclaimer U know the drill. Oh yes and if I failed to mention this before.. Fainu, Felwin and the Dark elves of Mordor are MINE! Don't touch them with out my permission...
~*~*~*~ == opening and closing to dream sequence
Italics == telepathic communications
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Legolas waited in the room for three days for Galadriel to open the locked door and let him into see Fainu. When the door was finally opened the stench of the cell hit him full blast, light flooded over Fainu who was lying on the floor and the dead body on the far side of the room. He soaked in every detail in the room; he tried to turn away from the dead maggots that were on the floor in a circle around the dead dark elf. Fainu was facing the door her hands were covered in blood and rotten wood. He bent over and gently turned over the dark elf, her fingers were ripped and torn splinters stuck deep into them, her face was twisted in horror as she laid still.
"It's okay Fainu, we are going now." Legolas said softly. Legolas gently lifted Fainu up and raced up the stairs he wanted to get the elf out of this place. Galadriel knew that he had wanted to leave the day after she had gathered Fainu's magic but the spell had not fully dissipated by then. Galadriel followed slowly not worrying about where they would be, Legolas would not travel far until he was sure that Fainu would be all right. When she got to the top she found Legolas gently tracing his fingers over the dark elf's face to the side of the entrance.
"She will be fine." Galadriel said calmly, looking down in disgust at the small elf.
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"Kallieere? Is that you?" Fainu said looking at the taller dark elf.
The elf smiled softly at her and nodded his head.
"So am I?" Fainu asked moving towards the semi-translucent elf.
Kallieere shook his head no as he gently ran a finger under the elf that was his only love. He wiped away a tear with his thumbs and drew her against him kissing the top of her head.
Fainu wrapped her arms around him, she remembered this feeling she had longed for it for over five hundred years and soon she was going to be taken away from him again.
Kallieere lifted her chin, and smiled softly at her.
"I love you; I will wait for you even when stars fade from existence." Kallieere whispered softly just before he kissed her softly. Fainu smiled through her tears and squeezed him in her arms before the image began to fade.
"Fainu."
"Fainu."
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"Fainu!" Legolas called gently shaking the elf.
"Kallieere." Fainu whispered
"Fainu. You're awake." He lifted her up and carried her to Felwin and slid her onto the tall horses back.
"Leave quickly Legolas or I may change my mind in what I will do with her." Galadriel said glaring at the prince of Mirkwood. He jumped up and wrapped an arm around the limp elf before he softly spoke to Felwin and trotted through the forest with two of the guards close on his trail. More followed further behind with weapons drawn and ready to be used.
Legolas glanced back over his shoulder at the edge of Lothlorien; the small group that had followed him closely out of the woods had stopped and watched him leaving. He knew that it would be a long journey home with Fainu unable to do anything so he would have to take care of her. He looked towards Mirkwood the edges of it far off in his vision, "Soon you'll be safe."
Legolas pulled up Felwin and slid off his back before gently taking Fainu off and laying her down on the ground. He knew that upon her awakening she wouldn't trust him. He'd betrayed her, and it had almost killed her, he took off the mantle that he had put on earlier and covered her with it. Before eating a small amount of lembas and sipped some of the water from his canteen, he had been hoping that she would have woken up that day but she still had not and it had been two days since they had left Lothlorien. He sat don beside her and stared up at the stars and sang softly. He missed the shores of Valinor, he and his father along with many others had returned when the new Dark Lord began to form. Very little was known about him, except that he fashioned himself as Lord Devorque and claimed to be the son of Morgoth.
Fainu sat in the darkness alone she had never felt like this before. She felt like she couldn't move, couldn't speak. At times she thought she was dead or about to die but Kallieere had told her she wasn't going to die yet or he would have stayed with her. She turned her head slightly, she thought she had heard singing but it faded. She wanted to scream in frustration but she couldn't even do that, she resigned herself to shutting her eyes and thinking about Kallieere and trying o forget the betrayal she had felt from Legolas.
Legolas laid down finally to rest for a few hours before journeying again, but when he tried to rest his mind he just felt an overwhelming shame from taking Fainu to Galadriel and making a deal with her. H wanted nothing more than to be able to take back what he had done, Felwin whinnied in terror and he was awake immediately. Orcs and goblins surrounding him and Fainu, Felwin bucked and struck out ant the orcs that reached for him. Legolas could see that there were many but he couldn't see well enough to know. He pleaded silently or Fainu to wake up and tell him, here eye sight by far exceeded his when it came to darkness. Before he had a chance to do any more than stand up he was attacked, he barely dodged it before he pulled out his swords. He cut any orc or goblin that drew near enough but he didn't dare go chasing after the few that escaped with only minor cuts. He knew that there was no way he would win if he had to continue to fight for the rest of the night, he had counted ten in the dark but he had already slayed five but there was no way that he would still be fending off attacks from the goblins and orcs if he had already cut their number by half. Blood covered him and his knives as he cut a sixth orc, he glanced back to see a goblin lifting Fainu. He swung his sword cutting the goblin dirty throat. Its large eyes went wide as its blood sprayed out, the dark fluid splashed across Fainu's face as the wretched creature collapsed.
The pungent smell of blood filled the air around her; she could taste it in her mouth, burning itself into her mind. She tried to spit it out but it was too late she had tasted to blood of a goblin.
Legolas grit his teeth as he cut through the orcs and goblins kept coming, he was grateful for his elven endurance or he would have been slain long ago. He spun at a sound that came from Fainu.
Fainu opened her eyes slowly, the smell of blood hung heavily in the air, slowly she looked down at the weight on her stomach, the wide eyes of a goblin stared back at her, she shoved it off of her and looked around. There were many dead orcs and goblins around her, and she could see many more in the distance that were still coming, she stood slowly, her eyes came upon Legolas. Then at the blood that covered him and his swords. As much as she wanted him to suffer she wouldn't allow it to be done by orcs or goblins. She pulled out the two knives that she still had from her home.
Legolas could tell that she hated him more than anything, her eyes fixed on him and then at the twisted creatures behind him. She snarled and began to fight, the orcs and goblins backed away slightly, staying well clear from the precise strokes of the two elves dealt. He didn't know where she had gotten her energy, or why she had woken up when she had but right now he didn't care.
"How many of them can you see?" Legolas asked as he cut another goblin across the stomach.
"More than you could handle, I don't want to be left with your scrap body parts to take my rage out on." She snarled the daggers cutting through bone and flesh alike, spraying blood everywhere.
"I don't blame you." Legolas said, not sure why he kept fighting if he was going to be mutilated by the girl.
"You are mine."
"Did you say that?" Fainu snarled, as she literally sliced the orcs face open
"Say what? I just said that I didn't blame you for what you wanted." Legolas said spun sideways cutting the orc that had been coming in from the side spraying both elves with blood before it fell.
"You are mine; you have tasted the blood of my minions."
"Who is saying that?" Fainu shouted as she kicked another goblin flailing its ribs. Sending it cowering away to die slowly from the severe wound.
"Saying what?" Legolas said paused for only the slightest of instances but he knew that it was a mistake. One of the jagged blades came close to cutting him.
"They are claiming me." Fainu snarled as she struggled to block to attacks that came from opposite directions.
"Claiming you?" Legolas didn't understand but he didn't understand how she had gotten her energy either, before she had been almost lifeless and slowly she was gaining more and more energy rather than losing any.
"Y-," Fainu started as she cut another of the orcs attacking her, its blood sprayed her face.
"Drink it. It is you, you are my first."
Fainu's eyes went wide as pain seared through her body. She put away a knife and stood still, the orcs and goblins backed away from them. Legolas turned and looked at her, she turned and looked at him. Her breaths coming in short gasps, the pain was evident on her face. Legolas watched in horror as the other dagger clattered to the ground as she sank to her knees. "Get out of my head!" She screamed, Legolas wanted to back away from her but he didn't want to leave her alone if the orcs and goblins were to try and get her.
"You are mine, drink it. You are one of my thirteen." Fainu felt her arm move against her will it ran her fingers through the orcs blood that covered her and put the blood covered fingers on her lips. She knew somewhere in the back of her mind she knew what the thirteen were, she didn't understand fully the story behind them but they were dangerous and she was the first. The taste of the blood filled her entire being burning her the way the blood she had tasted when she was still unable to do anything from what Galadriel had taken her magic.
"Fainu! Don't!" Legolas knew that whatever was going to happen with Fainu it was extremely dangerous.
"I can't. I'm not in control anymore. I don't know when I lost it!" Fainu cried out struggling with new thoughts that swirled in her mind.
"Fainu." Legolas glanced around him, the sounds of the orcs were around before had disappeared. He bent down and wrapped an arm around her and lifted her up. "We are going now; I'll get you home and try to find out what is happening."
Fainu nodded and stood slowly allowing Legolas to lead her, to Felwin who snorted at Fainu and tried to bite her past the Sindarin elf.
Legolas spoke sharply to the horse, but still the horse would not hold still for Fainu to get on his back. Legolas glanced back at the dark elf; she lowered her eyes. He could tell that she was unsure now; he pulled himself up on the horse and reached down for the dark elf but Felwin shied away. Fainu smiled sadly.
"It's alright. I can walk well enough on my own." Fainu waited for Legolas to lead the way.
"I'm sorry." With that the let Felwin walk way from Fainu, she went back to the place where they had defended themselves and picked up the dagger she had dropped and jogged to catch up to the elven prince.
"How long is it going to take to get to Mirkwood?" Fainu asked walking beside Legolas. Legolas looked down at her and grabbed her by the upper arm and pulled her up onto Felwin.
Felwin crow-hopped and bucked trying to get the dark elf off of his back, he spun and tried to bite Fainu. The dark elf pushed back into Legolas barely escaping the teeth that were aimed for her.
"Felwin!" Legolas struggled to keep the both of them on the horse.
"Let me go!" Fainu cried. Legolas shocked by what she said complied. The dark elf slid of the horses back onto her feet only to have Felwin try to step on her. She cried out and raced into the grass away from the horse.
"Where are you?" Legolas asked as he scanned the area around him.
"I'm fine. Just leave me alone. I'll stay out of Felwins sight and follow you until I figure out why I can suddenly hear voices in my head.
Legolas nodded and let Felwin walk towards Mirkwood. "So when do you plan on taking your rage out on me."
"When I find out why I am being claimed as one of the thirteen." Fainu said calmly from a fair ways behind him.
"One of the thirteen? Do you know what they are?" He hated not being able to see the dark elf but he couldn't trust Felwin to behave.
"Kind of. If I were able to go back to the Dark elves archives I would probably be able to find out everything." Fainu said calmly. "The thirteen are some sort of powerful commanders."
"Commanders? For who?" Legolas looked back over his shoulder.
"I think for the Dark Lord." Fainu whispered softly. She looked at the blood cover in then stopped she realized what she had just said; she sank down and sat in shock.
Legolas pulled up Felwin and looked over his shoulder, Fainu had disappeared, if what she said was true she would become hunted by every free race in middle earth.
"The Dark Lord." Fainu whispered.
"I am waiting for you my first."
"No." Fainu gasped in terror
"Come to me. Come to your destiny."
"No." Fainu felt tears sliding down her face as vision flashed before her eyes, memories that she had long forgotten or had been forced to forget. She saw her supposed father, the elf that had raised her, taking her from a sealed room. Magic flew from the open doorway; it had preserved her as a child ceasing her aging. He took her to live with him as his child, as his child? She wasn't his child? She wasn't a dark elf?
"Calm yourself my first. You are mine, a creation greater than any even my father could make."
Fainu saw more and more that she had long forgotten, she didn't remember the dark room where she had been kept during her young years. Now she knew why her 'father' had not cared about her death. She was not his and she never would be she was considered an outsider. The only one that had seen past the fact her father was Morgoths son had been Kallieere, he had known. He had always known what she was, he hadn't cared. Distantly she heard hoof beats and then the movement of grass as some one quietly walked through it towards her.
"Fainu?" Legolas looked down at her, she was staring back at him but her eyes held a far off sense. He bent down and pulled her to her feet, tears trickled down her face silently. "Wake up Fainu."
Fainu started and pushed away from him, her eyes wide with a fear of something only she knew.
"What's wrong Fainu?" Legolas knew that the dark elf didn't trust him but this was beyond anything he'd seen her do.
"Stay away from me Legolas. You do not know me." With that she turned and ran her instincts leading her back the way they had come from; she was heading back to Mordor.
"Fainu! Don't! Don't go to the Dark Lord I know that it's not what you want!" Legolas chase for a short distance but knew that the only thing that he could do to stop her was to bring her down with arrows and he didn't have those.
Fainu stopped a far distance from where Legolas had stopped chasing her. She sat down; she didn't understand anything any more. She wanted to ask her father why he'd hidden her past from her; she wanted to ask Kallieere how he could love her. She was a monster, she should have stayed with Legolas and let him cut her throat, the horror would have been over then. She curled up on the ground and sobbed quietly finally allowing herself to sleep. She no longer cared if the orcs came and killed her, she had lost any fear of death she longed for it, she needed it, and death was the only solution in her mind.
Legolas walked after the elf he could tell that she had stopped, his ears couldn't hear the grass moving any more and there was the sound of soft sobs. He traveled through the night following the few clues that she had left behind. When he found her she was curled up in a small ball sobbing in her sleep. He bent near her and pulled his mantle off and covered her with it, he moved over to where Felwin was standing and sat down. He watched over her the entire night. He knew that she didn't trust him, but he didn't understand why she had run from him, he sadly watched the stars fading into a rainbow of colors with the sunrise. Fainu didn't wake with the sun, but her sobbing had stopped, which made him worry all the more, he had never seen an elf cry except when they were mourning and were so sorrowful that they died.
He moved back over to her, and pushed her onto her back; Fainu opened an eye and looked at him. Her eye was red from crying but even that didn't cover the loss of life in it. "Fainu are you al-"
"So Legolas are you going to end the fourth war before it begins?" She asked her voice barely above a whisper.
Legolas pulled away from her, he didn't believe what he had just heard. "End it before it begins?"
Fainu sat up slowly handing him back his mantle as she nodded. "I already know what the voice means, and who it is. Please Legolas, I would be happier dead." With that she pulled her long dark hair back, and handed him one of the blades that she had taken from the target.
Legolas watched her, she sat waiting on the ground, her face was red and her eyes swollen from crying. He looked at the blade in his hand, it was still sharp and if he did cut her it would be clean and almost painless. He shut his eyes and weighed his options.
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Author babble:
Red Demon: Look! I made Frodo perfect! (The ring bearer walks out from behind a wall, his feet shaved)
Kara J: Ohh.Hairless. Aren't they a bit white though?
Red Demon: Yeah a bit but we'll send him out side with 50-sunblock on everywhere else and let them get good and colored.
Legolas: (Looks at the hobbit and laughs) and I thought it was bad when you had my hair in mini braids with ribbons.
Red Demon: No this is serious. I did that because I was bored. By the way do you still have those ribbons? Gimli and Aragorn finally got back from Mordor.
Legolas: Why? What are you going to do?
Kara J: (Giggles) don't worry Leggy. You know that Red Demon would never do anything-permanent.
Legolas: Oh God. What are you going to do to me now?
Red Demon: You? Who said the ribbons were going to be used on you this time?