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Things are getting complicated and Haldir has a secret.. : ) Thanks for the reviews! I hope you'll also like this chapter!

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You say that love will capture me

But not unless you give it free

We're sailing on the seven seas

Sister Ray is on TV

The light of love that shines so bright

That the F.B.I won't sleep tonight

Because I'm so in awe of you

That I don't know what to do

And I'm sailing on the seven seas so blue

Sailing on the Seven Seas - OMD

We stopped near from the cliff.. the four of us were so confused that we didn't know where to start.. we knew that sooner or later we would change from century, from time.. but we didn't know how. Legolas walked two steps towards the edge of the rocks and looked at the ocean, spreading in front of our eyes.

"Something tells me that we must cross this barrier of water.. " He whispered, watching at Haldir, who also nodded.

"And how do you plan to do it, genius?" Gimli asked, with a scared expression on his face.. I was convinced that he hated water more than anybody else in the world.

"The King gave us a small boat" Haldir frowned, looking at the dwarf.

"A small boat? For all of us?" My voice sounded nervous. I never had fear of water, but a small ship, crossing the ocean.. none of us was able to sail.. what if a storm came? What if we died?

"Don't worry, we have to trust on Destiny.. remember Gandalf's words, Zana.." Legolas smiled, and then looked in the distance.

"At least, we must try it" Haldir commented, walking on the rocks, going down and reaching the small beach. We followed him, and Gimli was murmuring something in dwarfish.

A boat was waiting for us. Made of wood, without any kind of sailing instrument, just an oar. There was space only for four people, and it looked dangerous indeed. I gave a look to Haldir, and he caught my gaze. He was worried, but tried not to show it.

"Come on" He said, taking my arm.

"I'm scared.. I can't do this" I had to admit that, at that moment, I would have given up with the mission. I barely could breath, I was sweating and a panic invaded me. Gimli jumped inside the boat, and Legolas came next to me.

"What's wrong?" He asked, looking at Haldir.

"She says she can't do it.." Then ,they both exchanged a look.

"What?" I asked, nervously. I wanted torun, and I was about to do it when I felt one of Haldir's arms in my waist and the other one under my legs. "Haldir, leave me on the ground!" I shouted, but he led me to the boat and left me inside. Legolas followed us and untied the rope that kept the boat safe on earth.

"Trust me, Zana.." Legolas said firmly. "And don't move too much or else you'll throw all of us into the water" I couldn't believe that they had forced me to go. I was too angry, too scared. And we were sailing. The coast was more and more distant and the light sun warmed us. The deepness of water made me shake.. it was so strange.. I had never been afraid of water before, in my whole life. I remembered when I went with my aunt and uncle, on their yacht, and I walked on the surface and then dove inside the blue ocean. But in that moment, I didn't want to watch the shaking waters.. I closed my eyes, trying to breath again. Something was wrong with me and I didn't know what was it. Something had changed.

"Open your eyes, Zana.." Haldir said, sharply. "Don't be stupid, it's just water, you can swim" I was shocked with his words.. suddenly he had turned into an angry elf, someone who was making fun of me. I looked at him surprised.

"The only stupid person here is you, Haldir.. since we went to the Tor you're unbearable, and I won't allow you to talk to me like this" Gimli and Legolas stared at us. The dwarf shook his head.

"Haldir is having a bad time since he talked to Lancelot, but he doesn't want to tell us what is going to happen.." The dwarf explained me, and this made the elf even more angry.

"You promised me you wouldn't say anything" Haldir's voice sounded like a thunder.

"So you're keeping secrets?" Legolas frowned, looking at him. Haldir lifted his hands, giving up.

"OK" He said. "Lancelot told me something that made me worried.. but I won't say anything about it. I'm sorry but it's personal.. Merlin told him , and he told me. It's about my private life and it doesn't have anything to do with all of you. Don't fear anything" .

"I'm sorry for insisting.." I whispered, and then closed my eyes again. My fears came once more, and I wished, more than ever before, that someone hugged me.

"If it's something personal then.. forget it, and forgive us" Legolas said with a smile, and I noticed the ship moving too much. Taking a deep breath, I held the sit with my hands, but there was nothing to worry about. Legolas had caused that movement when he sat next to me. "I'm sorry if you're having a bad time, Zana" Somehow, his words, spoken so close to me, made me feel a lot better. I opened my eyes and realised he was really close, his blue eyes shining like the water.

"I don't know what's wrong with me.." I whispered, ashamed. I felt Haldir's gaze on us, but it didn't stop me, I went on looking at Legolas.

"The wind is changing" Gimli said, and the ship gave a turn. My heart started beating so fast when I saw Legolas and Haldir exchanging a worried look.

"The time has come.." One of them murmured, but I couldn't tell who. I was too scared. We were turning more and more, spinning around, the ship lifting in the air.. and suddenly, everything was calmed. No breeze, no wind.. nothing.. only sun and a calmed sea..

"A ship is coming.. a huge ship!" Legolas stared at the horizon and we all looked in that direction. He was right, an amazing big ship was coming, I felt panic and, at the same time, I was happy to see it.. Haldir smiled a bit, but his worried look was still on his face.

"They're coming.." He commented, as if he knew who was coming. We waited for some minutes, in silence, and then we saw a small boat coming from the main one, with maybe six sailors , approaching us. When they were closer I noticed they were dressed like gladiators.. we had travelled through time, but.. who were they and what were they doing ? Were they dangerous? And why those clothes? They didn't look like Romans.. They came. They observed us, with worried faces, amazed. Gimli was their favourite objective, obviously they had never seen a dwarf before. Haldir and Legolas hide their pointy ears under their hair. They also stared at me, as if they didn't understand anything. They spoke some words between themselves.. another language that sounded like.Greek? But I couldn't speak it.. they asked us something, and nobody was able to reply.

"We only speak English.." Haldir and Legolas looked at me. "Well, the Common tongue.." One of the soldiers/sailors watched me. His skin was dark because of the sun, but he looked very young. Frowning, he said some words. Now all the looks were on me. "You're speaking Greek.. Athens.." I started to say known words, and they understood, because their eyes widened. "Is this a ship from Athens?" I said, pointing the huge boat. The young one shook his head, and with a nice voice talked about something I interpreted like Greece, but not the capitol. I went on speaking. "Poseidon?" And they all jumped, as if I had named a forbidden name.

"What are you talking about?" Gimli asked me, and I noticed that Legolas was observing me with surprise.

"They're from Greece.. we're in the old times of this empire.." I murmured, amazed. I looked at another sailor, who showed us a sit inside the boat. We jumped there, and we started the journey to the main ship. During all those minutes, the group checked us. I felt a bit scared, but Legolas was sitting with me and this was calming. "Promise me something.." I said , and he turned to meet my eyes.

"Whatever you want.." He whispered.

"That you won't leave me alone with any of those men.. we're in very old times and..well, things were very complicated for girls.. bad things can happen to me if.."

"Don't worry. Trust me" He smiled and touched my arm. I made a big effort and looked in another direction. Over the big ship there were hundreds of men, similar to those ones, who were waiting for our boat. And I heard a stronger voice among all of them. A kind of leader, I would say. And I saw him, metres over us. He was blonde, with blue eyes and dark skin. He looked so strong, dressed like a gladiator, with those strange clothes.. but there was something different on him. He was like magical.. like a hero from movies.

"Welcome to my ship, strangers" He said, with a strange accent.

"You speak our tongue!" Legolas shouted, and the man looked offended.

"Of course.. I've sailed on all the seas of this world and met the most different kinds of people you could ever imagine" His voice was arrogant, and I noticed that Legolas didn't like him. While we arrived in the big ship, tied with ropes and climbing, the man went on asking us. "Who are you and where do you come from? What were you doing in the middle of the Egeo Sea?" He was looking at me, as if he had seen me before. And I didn't know what to reply, we hadn't thought about a possible story to tell.. so I had to hide some details.

"We come from a distant land.. we were lost in the sea and.."

"How come the woman is speaking and the three men are so quiet?" He asked, with an angry expression.

"I'm not less than them and I can speak if I want" All the sailors looked surprised with my reply, and as if they agreed with me, Legolas, Haldir and Gimli encouraged me to go on speaking. "As I was saying, we were lost until you found us.. the truth is that we don't know what are we looking for, because until this moment, we've lost all the hope and all what we thought it was real , was fake.. we need help to find our way" My words caused a strange effect on him, and for the first time, I saw a smile on his face, and I was surprised to see that he was so good-looking, under that sharp expression.

"Well, then our missions are not so different.. we're also looking for something.. but it's not time to talk about it yet" He was rude again, and walked with us through the wooden floor. "The only thing I can do for you is carry you to the place where we're going.." I stopped and touched his arm, making him stop too. I was surprised that my friends were so quiet..

"I would like to know something very simple.. where are we? On which year?" He looked shocked with my words, and frowned.

"You're very strange indeed.. " He analysed me for a while, and then took a deep breath. "We're sailing on the Egeo Sea.. on our way to Troy."

"Troy?" I shouted, and I remembered many things.. I laughed, nervously. When I had left Earth, and landed in Middle Earth, I was about to watch a movie in the cinemas.. I was waiting for it, like I waited for Lord of the Rings.. another movie with Orlando Bloom.. but that was impossible.. were, all from the sudden, all my wishes coming true? Was that the place I was expecting to see? And what if the persons I was going to meet there looked exactly like the ones in the movie, another reincarnations of the original ones? I remembered Lancelot.. he was so alike to Aragorn, but I couldn't recognise him under that beard.. and he was younger, a lot younger than Aragorn.. like a teenage Aragorn.. and the man in front of me, in that moment, with that strange helmet hiding half of his face was.. no, it couldn't be real. I went on laughing, all people looking at me. "I'm becoming crazy, completely crazy.."

"What do you mean?" The tall man asked.

"I know who are you" I said, smiling. My friends were surprised too. "You're Aquilles" The man became pale, his sword fell on the floor. There was a silence all over the ship.

"How do you know this?" He murmured, shocked.

"And you're going to Troy because Helen was kidnapped by Paris, right?" Now I felt a sword on my throat.

"You're a spy" He shouted, angrily. I saw Legolas shaking his head.

"Zana.." Haldir said, with a desperate voice.

"I'm not a spy, I come from England! We all come from England.." Aquilles took my arm and left the sword apart.

"But you know our secret mission, how come?" I saw his blue eyes through the helmet, he looked scared. "You're just a young girl, with strange clothes.."

"Leave her alone" Legolas gave some steps towards us. Aquilles looked at him. "I asked you to leave her alone" His voice was sharp.

"And who are you?" His voice sounded sarcastic.

"I'm Legolas, and she's my friend, and I won't allow you to hurt her."

"What a strange name, Legolas.. and who are your friends?" He looked amused.

"Haldir and Gimli" Aquilles and the sailors started to laugh out loud.

"For a moment we thought that you were Trojans, but obviously, with those names and this accent.." His gaze turned kind and he left my arm. "Anyway, you know too much about us.. please, explain me it.." By that moment I suspected there was something behind this man, something he already knew.. and I thought about Gandalf, adopting another personality.. maybe Aquilles knew about our arrival, but he had to hide it.

"I think you also know about us.." Legolas commented, and the man turned around to see him. And he was silent.

"We'll talk when we'll arrive in Troy.. now, you can eat and drink something." He left us there, and we walked behind two sailors who led us to a fresh place inside the ship. While we were eating, Haldir looked at me.

"How come did you know who were they? " The three looked at me, and I shrugged.

"History from Earth, nothing else.. and you, Haldir.. I think oyu knew that we would meet them.. you were too calmed.." Haldir's face changed, he just nodded. Legolas got so angry.

"You.. we were in danger and you said nothing!"

"I told you it was personal.. I knew they wouldn't hurt us.. please, trust me" He looked at all of us.

"And something personal will happen to you in Troy.." I said, slowly, starting to understand everything..

"Very personal.." He didn't talk more for the rest of the lunch. Legolas and Gimli shrugged. After eating, Haldir excused himself and went to sleep somewhere. Gimli followed him and I stayed alone with Legolas.

"Thanks for defending me.." I said, and he smiled.

"You would have done the same for me"

"I'm afraid of what we'll find there.." I looked throw a small window, ,and sighed.

"I'm sure that Gandalf is already waiting for us.. who knows under which character.. by the way.. you recognised Aquilles appearance.. did you see him before?"

"It's difficult to explain, Legolas.. I saw the man who played him in a movie before.."

"Like it happened with me.." I nodded, and he sat closer to me, interested on the conversation. "So you're finding all our reincarnations through time? Until 21rst century?"

"It seems so.. but the thing I don't understand is why did he travel back through time..we're a lot of centuries before King Arthur's time.." Legolas laid down on the long bank and looked at me.

"Maybe you need something from this century.." he commented, while he seemed to be falling asleep.

"Maybe this century needs something from us.." My voice was just a whisper, and I noticed Legolas was asleep and he didn't hear my last remark. "This is a mess.." The blue sea shone under the sun.