A/N: I'm sure you all hate me... I always forget to update this story along with all my other ones... Anna especially hates me (please don't kill me, I want to keep up my precalc grade, hehe)... but I AM updating now because it's spring break and I have nothing else better to do... I've actually had this story updated since late December I just keep forgetting to upload it onto FF... well I shall start now, much love!! EXiLe

Leaders Never Die: Part 2
Chapter 4

The three elves stood on the pavement in front of the large white building, staring into the city.

"I've never seen anything like it before... The height of these blocks far outsize any tree I've ever seen both in Mirkwood or Lorien before." Legolas gasped.

"What's that noise?" Durian mumbled. The far-off rumbling sounded like thunder to the ears of the elves and made the earth tremble beneath their feet. "It's getting louder..."

"My prince, this strange light approaching us is generating such noises." Lestan notices, staring at the single blinding light that was quickly approaching them.

"What is it?" Legolas asked Lestan.

"I know not. I have yet to encounter such an instrument before," Lestan told him. "I shall speak with it."

Lestan walked in front of the light between the parallel metal bars on the ground in hopes of speaking to this creature.

Suddenly a large cry came from the creature. It sounded so hideous and deafening to the elvish ears, almost like that of an extremely large orc. "Lestan! It is evil! Come away from it!" Legolas screamed.

Lestan jumped off the tracks as soon as the obviously metal creature passed them. The elves stood there in shock as the length of the creature passed in front of their eyes. Five minutes later, the elves watched two red eyes on the back of the creature move away from them.

"We must be careful," Legolas inquired. "Strange things lurk on Earth, we do not know friend from foe. Be on your lookout.

"Aye, my Lord. Shall we continue? We must find some aid for Durian. He is becoming pale." Lestan gestured to the sickly elf. "He is losing blood."

Legolas pulled Durian up by an arm and Lestan took the other and placed it around his shoulder so that both elves shared equal weight. "We should go into the city. We are bound to find some sort of help."

The elves began staggering towards the empty road. They turned and passed over a bridge. "Would you look at that..." Legolas exclaimed, peering over the side of the bridge.

They stared in shock at the hundreds of creatures traveling at great speeds below them. Some were larger than others, but all relatively small in comparison to the larger monster from before.

"We should avoid these creatures as much as possible. We do not know the nature of their being, they may be workers of evil." Legolas said.

The three continued to walk into over the bridge and closer to the illuminated lights of the city. They passed strange men and women on the streets who seemed to be in search of something. Only some of the men approached the elves in search of food or money, others shied away from them, trying to hide in the shadows from the strangely dressed men.

"Lestan, do you have any memory of this place at all. You had said earlier that you've been in this portion of Earth before. Can you explain these creatures passing us or the lights over head?" Legolas asked while readjusting Durian's arm on his shoulder, which was beginning to feel like it weighed over 1000 pounds.

"It's been so long... these smaller creatures are for transportation I believe. My guess is that they have replaced horses with them. I still do not know what the large metal snake we encountered before was though.... However, these lights are used to aid the transportation of the metal boxes, strictly based on my current observation," Lestan explained.

"Go on," Legolas urged.

"Well, my Lord. As you see, when that little light up there turns red, the boxes seem to stop. But when they are green, the boxes go... I'm unsure of the yellow light. The boxes don't seem to know what to do when they come to such a light." Lestan said.

"What do you suppose that is, Lestan?" Legolas asked, looking up at the huge building across the stream of metal boxes from them.

"The Radisson? I do not know what this is..." Lestan told him. "Wouldn't hurt to find out though. It seems to be one of the only buildings open at this time of night."

The elves staggered into the road, forgetting to look at the light. The metal boxes around them screamed and swerved all around the road trying to avoid hitting the three of them.

"These things are crazy..." muttered Legolas.

They finally reached the revolving doors of 'The Radisson'. "How do we go inside?" Lestan asked, observing the doors that were swinging in a circular motion in front of him.

"It looks like a game, or a trick of some sort. We must follow the openings until we reach the other side, without getting hit by the moving wall." Legolas said.

They waited until they found a suitable opening, before they jumped in between the two walls and ran along with the doors until they reached the opening on the other side.

"Would you look at that?" Lestan said in amazement at the beauty of the building. "It is so different from the grotesque look of the outside."

"May I help you?" Asked a woman behind a desk some ways in front of them. She looked nervous while she talked, she also had her hand placed on a phone in front of her.

The elves staggered up to her, and as they got closer, she noticed that one of the men in front of her was bleeding profusely from his leg. "Oh my God... Do you need help?" She asked, taking her hand away from the phone. She came out from behind the desk and kneeled down in front of Durian and looked at his leg.

"Yes, my lady. We are in dire need of aid... he has been bleeding for awhile and our medicine cannot heal him. We need help," Legolas pleaded.

"Is this a gunshot wound?" She asked.

"Nay, tis an arrow wound," Lestan said.

The woman glanced at him skeptically. She decided that it would be better to not ask about it, or about their clothing for that matter. She went back to the desk and picked up the phone and pressed three buttons, "Yes, I have an emergency here..."

"Legolas..." Durian mumbled as he fell to the floor. "Where are we...?"

"He has lost too much blood, he is delusional!" Lestan cried as he supported Durian's head.

Legolas held onto his little brother, it was the only thing he felt he could do while his brother lied there.

The woman returned to them after she had gotten off the phone with the police, "There is an ambulance on the way, they are going to take you to the Cleveland Clinic. Everything will be better... don't worry."

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"Amanda, please hang in there!" Tiffany cried as she held her friends hand. They were tearing down the highway towards downtown in an ambulance. It had taken awhile for the ambulance to reach them and Amanda had already lost so much blood by the time they got there.

"Terf..." Amanda said.

"Ssshhh... don't try to talk. We're almost there. They're taking you to the Cleveland Clinic. Don't worry, things will be ok..."

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So yea... hopefully it will be less than a couple months before I update again, hehe... buh byes!!! Much love... don't be afraid to review (