Disclaim is the same, I only own what you do not recognize. This is short kinda chapter, I'm building in this one. Get ready for some slight torture in upcoming chapters, maybe. Thank you all you lovely reviewers!
~*~ Soccer-Bitch: I appreciate your kind reveiws and keep me updated on your friend's story!
~*~ KaTiE15: Thank you for your review. Mistakes happen. I'll tell you like I have told any English teacher I have ever had: Proper grammer is like beauty; it is in the eye of the beholder! (Try that on yours and see what they say!)
~*~ tiffiany-45: This is a PG-13 story! Remember that with your dirty mind! *lol* I might do a prequel and I might not. It's all in how I feel at that time.
~*~ Legolas/SailorMoonLoverBonita: I don't think I'm wonderful, brilliant maybe, but not wonderful. (*I'm just kidding!*) Thank you for your awesome review. I'm glad you liked it.
~*~ Iluvien: Wow, you update a lot, I like that. As for some of your comments: I thought I had fixed the whole Thurdail and Thranduil problem. I apparently missed a few. Sorry. They were both engaged at the same time b/c I mentioned earlier that their fathers were great friends and fathers do enjoy embarrassing their kids at the same time. Kinda like a two for one deal ya know? Zara comes from a noble family BTW. Glad you like my Gandalf lines. I was waiting on someone to say something about them. Yes, dude is an elf. The King of Gondor would head the party b/c he used to be a ranger and knows the land and b/c he is their friend. Wouldn't you? He is looking in Bree b/c he knows their going to the Shire. Gandalf dropped them hints on that like the looks and saying that things are going to get interesting. Thank you for your ample reviews.
Now, onto the story!
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Chapter 9
The next morning Gimli made his way down the stairs of the Prancing Pony into the dining area. There was nobody in the pale morning light lit bar except the hunched over figure of Aragorn.
His back was turned to him and Gimli made his way to his friend. Aragorn was pouring over a map, as if deciding what would be the best route to led the troops next.
"Where to?" Gimli asked trying to make light of the situation. "I'm not sure Gimli." Aragorn said as he settled back into his chair. "Part of me wonders if Legolas and Zara have done their deed in the Shire yet and have left. That way we could go there and Frodo could tell us that they were there and are now headed back home. Yet,"
He paused as he continued to stare at the map.
"Yet we could lead our company elsewhere and let their already down spirits plummet." "But they would get a surprise when they got home wouldn't they?" Gimli said with a slight chuckle. "That's not all that worries me." Aragorn whispered unamused and looked around the pub to make sure nobody was around. "I heard from a confidant of mine last night that there were orcs spotted not far from here. Whether or not they will meet Legolas and Zara, I do not know. However, we could easily fall into their grasp as my confidant claimed that they were all over this part of the land."
He stopped and stared into space, deep in thought. "What if they do meet Legolas and Zara?" Gimli dared to ask after several minutes of quiet thinking. "Then this expedition will turn into a real search and rescue mission. If there is anything left to rescue." "But Legolas.." Gimli started. "Legolas cannot hold off an army of orcs on his own. These creatures are traveling in packs of at least a hundred a piece. And I severely doubt that Zara is trained in any fighting skills. Our best bet is to hope that they can stray away from danger as much as they can. As for us, we are heading toward the Shire in three days time."
Gimli nodded at the plan. By time they arrived, surely Legolas and Zara would have left. The slamming of the door broke their peaceful silence. The man and dwarf turned to find Lord Rinarmo in riding clothes looking slightly disheveled.
"Lord Rinarmo." Aragorn said as he and Gimli rose to meet the lord. "Where is she?" The tall lord asked. "We do not know." Gimli answered. "I did not mean for you to answer dwarf, I wish for someone with some sense of intelligence." Rinarmo sneered.
Aragron pulled his sword from its holster. "That will do." He growled. "As Gimli has already informed you, we do not know where Zara or Legolas is right now. They did not come this way." Aragorn could see the features of the nobleman darken. He clearly did not like being told what he did not want to hear.
"What do you plan to do then?" "I plan to go to the Shire in three days time." "Why three days?" "Because orcs are everywhere in these parts. It is rumored that they are only passing through. Legolas and Zara should stay out of harm's way for the time being. In three days, we will find them."
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Several days later the two newly wed elves were making their trek back home. Legolas and Zara were both riding Legolas' horse. Olasa, Zara's horse, was behind them with their light luggage. Zara, who was in front, was humming a nameless melody and absentmindedly staring at the scenery.
Legolas, on the other hand, was kissing along her neck and jawline with his hands at home among her waist and stomach. His lips gently made their way up to her temple where her birthmark laid. This was a sweet spot of Zara and she always seemed to melt whenever Legolas so much as breathed on it.
"Legolas!" She whined playfully. "If you keep on with that, we're never going to make it home!" "Fine with me." He breathed into her ear as he nipped the lobe with his teeth. "I'm sure it is." She mummered as his lips continued their path to her mouth.
Legolas kept his mouth on Zara's and one of his hands on her waist while the other groped for the hair along the horse's neck, it was time for another `break.' Far away in the distance Legolas heard a familiar stomp.
He pulled away from his wife and listened more carefully.
"Legolas, what's wrong?" Zara asked. Legolas placed a finger on her lips to silence her as he listened to the steady pounding of feet; orc feet.
He dismounted from the steed and pulled his bow and an arrow from his back. "Legolas." Zara said more anxiously. "Get out of here." Legolas said once he was seated on Olasa. "What?" "Orcs are coming. Get out of here! Do not look back!" He said as he hit the rear of his horse with his bow and sent Zara speeding off into the woods.
His actions of protection, however, were in vain. Orcs were also coming from the direction that Zara was going into. Her horse reared in surprise and almost bucked her off his back. One orc pulled the horse down and roughly yanked her off her horse. She shrieked at the sight of something so hideous.
His dark, tough skin was covered in chain mail and armor, his yellow teeth were bared, and his yellow-orange eyes were bulging at the sight of his find. Being raised in a noble home as a gentle lady, she was not exactly trained in the art of war and battle. She did struggle as much as she could in the dark arms of her captor, scratched him with her nails, and kicked with her feet.
She could see Legolas' white knife glinting in battle, with dark blood trickling off the blade ahead but she knew in her heart that it was hopeless. It was an army of a hundred against a single elf and his wife.
"Legolas!" She cried out as she saw a particulary heavy instrument of war come crashing down on his head and his body fall to the ground, unconscious. She struggled more as her eyes cried tears of grief for at this angle, it looked as if he were dead.
"Stay still." She heard her captor demand in his crude tongue as he tightened his grip on her. The orcs bound her arms and legs and placed a dirty rag in her mouth to keep her screaming muted.
She saw another orc pick Legolas up as if he were nothing more than a sack of wheat and flung him over his shoulder. She could make out the blood on his fair face and his hair was tinted and matted from it. Her tears came faster as she tried to force her way to him, to see if he were alive.
"I told you to stay still girl." The orc cried as he jerked her back by her hair and tilted her head up. "We have plans for you sweet." He said as he bared his yellow teeth in a cruel grin. "Special plans." He repeated as he dragged her by her hair deeper into the forest.
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Short I know. Review regardless please!
~*~ Soccer-Bitch: I appreciate your kind reveiws and keep me updated on your friend's story!
~*~ KaTiE15: Thank you for your review. Mistakes happen. I'll tell you like I have told any English teacher I have ever had: Proper grammer is like beauty; it is in the eye of the beholder! (Try that on yours and see what they say!)
~*~ tiffiany-45: This is a PG-13 story! Remember that with your dirty mind! *lol* I might do a prequel and I might not. It's all in how I feel at that time.
~*~ Legolas/SailorMoonLoverBonita: I don't think I'm wonderful, brilliant maybe, but not wonderful. (*I'm just kidding!*) Thank you for your awesome review. I'm glad you liked it.
~*~ Iluvien: Wow, you update a lot, I like that. As for some of your comments: I thought I had fixed the whole Thurdail and Thranduil problem. I apparently missed a few. Sorry. They were both engaged at the same time b/c I mentioned earlier that their fathers were great friends and fathers do enjoy embarrassing their kids at the same time. Kinda like a two for one deal ya know? Zara comes from a noble family BTW. Glad you like my Gandalf lines. I was waiting on someone to say something about them. Yes, dude is an elf. The King of Gondor would head the party b/c he used to be a ranger and knows the land and b/c he is their friend. Wouldn't you? He is looking in Bree b/c he knows their going to the Shire. Gandalf dropped them hints on that like the looks and saying that things are going to get interesting. Thank you for your ample reviews.
Now, onto the story!
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Chapter 9
The next morning Gimli made his way down the stairs of the Prancing Pony into the dining area. There was nobody in the pale morning light lit bar except the hunched over figure of Aragorn.
His back was turned to him and Gimli made his way to his friend. Aragorn was pouring over a map, as if deciding what would be the best route to led the troops next.
"Where to?" Gimli asked trying to make light of the situation. "I'm not sure Gimli." Aragorn said as he settled back into his chair. "Part of me wonders if Legolas and Zara have done their deed in the Shire yet and have left. That way we could go there and Frodo could tell us that they were there and are now headed back home. Yet,"
He paused as he continued to stare at the map.
"Yet we could lead our company elsewhere and let their already down spirits plummet." "But they would get a surprise when they got home wouldn't they?" Gimli said with a slight chuckle. "That's not all that worries me." Aragorn whispered unamused and looked around the pub to make sure nobody was around. "I heard from a confidant of mine last night that there were orcs spotted not far from here. Whether or not they will meet Legolas and Zara, I do not know. However, we could easily fall into their grasp as my confidant claimed that they were all over this part of the land."
He stopped and stared into space, deep in thought. "What if they do meet Legolas and Zara?" Gimli dared to ask after several minutes of quiet thinking. "Then this expedition will turn into a real search and rescue mission. If there is anything left to rescue." "But Legolas.." Gimli started. "Legolas cannot hold off an army of orcs on his own. These creatures are traveling in packs of at least a hundred a piece. And I severely doubt that Zara is trained in any fighting skills. Our best bet is to hope that they can stray away from danger as much as they can. As for us, we are heading toward the Shire in three days time."
Gimli nodded at the plan. By time they arrived, surely Legolas and Zara would have left. The slamming of the door broke their peaceful silence. The man and dwarf turned to find Lord Rinarmo in riding clothes looking slightly disheveled.
"Lord Rinarmo." Aragorn said as he and Gimli rose to meet the lord. "Where is she?" The tall lord asked. "We do not know." Gimli answered. "I did not mean for you to answer dwarf, I wish for someone with some sense of intelligence." Rinarmo sneered.
Aragron pulled his sword from its holster. "That will do." He growled. "As Gimli has already informed you, we do not know where Zara or Legolas is right now. They did not come this way." Aragorn could see the features of the nobleman darken. He clearly did not like being told what he did not want to hear.
"What do you plan to do then?" "I plan to go to the Shire in three days time." "Why three days?" "Because orcs are everywhere in these parts. It is rumored that they are only passing through. Legolas and Zara should stay out of harm's way for the time being. In three days, we will find them."
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Several days later the two newly wed elves were making their trek back home. Legolas and Zara were both riding Legolas' horse. Olasa, Zara's horse, was behind them with their light luggage. Zara, who was in front, was humming a nameless melody and absentmindedly staring at the scenery.
Legolas, on the other hand, was kissing along her neck and jawline with his hands at home among her waist and stomach. His lips gently made their way up to her temple where her birthmark laid. This was a sweet spot of Zara and she always seemed to melt whenever Legolas so much as breathed on it.
"Legolas!" She whined playfully. "If you keep on with that, we're never going to make it home!" "Fine with me." He breathed into her ear as he nipped the lobe with his teeth. "I'm sure it is." She mummered as his lips continued their path to her mouth.
Legolas kept his mouth on Zara's and one of his hands on her waist while the other groped for the hair along the horse's neck, it was time for another `break.' Far away in the distance Legolas heard a familiar stomp.
He pulled away from his wife and listened more carefully.
"Legolas, what's wrong?" Zara asked. Legolas placed a finger on her lips to silence her as he listened to the steady pounding of feet; orc feet.
He dismounted from the steed and pulled his bow and an arrow from his back. "Legolas." Zara said more anxiously. "Get out of here." Legolas said once he was seated on Olasa. "What?" "Orcs are coming. Get out of here! Do not look back!" He said as he hit the rear of his horse with his bow and sent Zara speeding off into the woods.
His actions of protection, however, were in vain. Orcs were also coming from the direction that Zara was going into. Her horse reared in surprise and almost bucked her off his back. One orc pulled the horse down and roughly yanked her off her horse. She shrieked at the sight of something so hideous.
His dark, tough skin was covered in chain mail and armor, his yellow teeth were bared, and his yellow-orange eyes were bulging at the sight of his find. Being raised in a noble home as a gentle lady, she was not exactly trained in the art of war and battle. She did struggle as much as she could in the dark arms of her captor, scratched him with her nails, and kicked with her feet.
She could see Legolas' white knife glinting in battle, with dark blood trickling off the blade ahead but she knew in her heart that it was hopeless. It was an army of a hundred against a single elf and his wife.
"Legolas!" She cried out as she saw a particulary heavy instrument of war come crashing down on his head and his body fall to the ground, unconscious. She struggled more as her eyes cried tears of grief for at this angle, it looked as if he were dead.
"Stay still." She heard her captor demand in his crude tongue as he tightened his grip on her. The orcs bound her arms and legs and placed a dirty rag in her mouth to keep her screaming muted.
She saw another orc pick Legolas up as if he were nothing more than a sack of wheat and flung him over his shoulder. She could make out the blood on his fair face and his hair was tinted and matted from it. Her tears came faster as she tried to force her way to him, to see if he were alive.
"I told you to stay still girl." The orc cried as he jerked her back by her hair and tilted her head up. "We have plans for you sweet." He said as he bared his yellow teeth in a cruel grin. "Special plans." He repeated as he dragged her by her hair deeper into the forest.
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Short I know. Review regardless please!
