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The nobles were all at dinner in the palace eating, the servants were all at homes in their beds and the guards were out on the borders keeping an unobtrusive watch. And two elflings were in a deserted stable.
"I don't see how this is going to work!" protested Legolas, scuffing his tiny feet along the ground.
Ranna rolled her eyes, "I'd like to see you come up with something better!" Then, very childishly, stuck out her tongue. Then she went back to searching for the answer to all there problems.
Said answer came in the form of a little black box. However, said box wasn't were she had hid it, which was causing a delay in the master plan. Bored, and not confident in his companions abilities, Legolas wandered out of the tack room and into the stables.
"Legolas! Get out of there!"
"Not until you admit that your idea is stupid!"
"Fine, stay there then!"
The curious prince examined the stables with prying eyes, wondering where, in the maze of stalls, the horses were kept. Almost absently, he removed some spinach from his pocket, hidden during dinner, and sneaked it into a few saddlebags that hang on a large rack on the wall. A loud snort caused Legolas to step back in shock, knocking into the rack, which fell down with a loud crash.
"You okay?"
"Yep! Nothing broken!"
"Darn, well I could always hope."
With a huff of annoyance the blond prince turned and winced as he saw the large mess of cloaks and saddlebags not to mention the large wooden rack that now lay on the floor. However his sense of curiosity overcame his sense of responsibilities, so, with small creeping feet, the prince inched towards the sound the snort had came from. Coming to a stall, Legolas hoisted himself up onto the wooden beam of one of the doors. His blonde head could just barely see over the top of the stable thus the prince leaned up on his tip toes, not that it made much difference, in an effort to see.
He giggled as he was rewarded with the sight of a beautiful grey mare nibbing at her two young foals who disobediently pranced around the stall. One of the foals stopped to regard Legolas with wide eyes and with cautious steps it walked over to meet Legolas's amazed blue glaze. Gingerly the prince held out his hand towards the foal.
'Ouch!" Legolas glared at the foal that ran back to its mother's protective presence, and rubbed his hand which now sported a foal sized bite mark.
Suddenly everything went black; distantly the prince could hear Ranna screaming out words that she really shouldn't have picked up. Legolas struggled desperately to escape the hands that he sensed covering his eyes and abruptly felt himself falling backwards. The distance to the ground seemed impossibly long but finally his head smacked the hard ground of the stable. His eyesight returned, he looked up to see Arieindyo staring at him with an impish grin.
"Got ya! "
"Not funny! " the tumble of blond locks and blue eyes attempted to stand but found himself on the floor again, as dizziness washed over him.
"Need a hand?! " the smirk on Arieindyo face was getting a bit too much however, standing really didn't seem like a good idea right now.
"I'll stay on the floor if I wanna! " Arieindyo just grinned but it was short-lived as screams of anger were still coming from the tack room. Trisain was then thrust into the room followed quickly but a furious Ranna who knocked the Trisain elfling to the floor and started attacking him without mercy.
"Do that again and I swear I will get you good! "Smirking Legolas leaned back on his elbows to watch the fight. Arieindyo didn't seem to keen on helping him either. Finally she relented with a huff and glared at the other two as if daring them to make a comment on her unlady like behaviour.
"What are you two doing here anyway? " Legolas asked from his spot on the ground.
"We saw you two sneak out of dinner so we came to help with whatever you two are planning next. "
Ranna's eyebrows furrowed and her eyes stared at him thoughtfully s she frowned. "Where are the others then? "
"Distracting the adults so you don't get caught! "
"You're forgiven then! "Ranna grinned and helped Trisain to his feet but offered no apology. Triumphantly she held up a bottle of wax and a small net to show to her companions.
"That's your master plan! " Legolas sneered, "how is that suppose to get the jewels?"
"You'll see, I just need one more thing." Green eyes gazed over the room until they came to rest on the resting place of the only cloaks in the stable that weren't currently littering the floor. They balanced on what resembled a hat rack and it reached a good height over there tiny heads.
With a swift kick, she knocked it over and proceeded to try and break off the legs that had moments ago supported it. However she was too weak and, without a word of explanation to her friends, she left but returned quickly with a hammer and an evil grin set on her determined face.
When the elfling was down with her battle, all which was left on the once proud and intricately designed hat rack was a long, battered stick. Lifting it over her head with all her strength, Ranna pointed the stick in the direction of the door.
"Now march!" commanded the miniature general, "jump to it!"
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It didn't take long for them to collect some of the jewels from the bottom of the river. Her idea was a stroke of genius really. Quite simply, she attached some wax to the end of the remains of the hat rack used it to spear the jewels to the stick. Only Legolas had any success with using the small net to nab some of the jewels so that left him and Trisain doing all the work.
"I don't see why I have to pick up the jewels! " Trisain whinged.
"it's simple, I came up with the idea so I don't have to do any work. Plus, Arieindyo here is keeping watch. " The smug girl returned to jumping from branch to branch on a tree that overlooked the river. Small buds nestled in the leaves in the tree, finding some that had hardened with age and the toil of winter, the young elfling aimed with a true arm at the head of Legolas.
"Ouch!"
Then at Arieindyo's forehead
"Hey!"
Then at Trisain's stomach
"Stop it!"
Giggling madly, she raced up the branches as a furious tornado of blonde hair and pale limbs raced up the tree. With the skill of wood elves, they chased each other amongst the leaves and branches, neither slipping nor fumbling. Their folly ended when Legolas cornered Ranna on a long, thick branch that reached out towards the river.
"Say yield!" grinned the triumphant prince, as Ranna edged further away from him and closer towards the end of the branch.
"Never! It is you who should yield!" with a grin, Ranna tackled the young prince, forgetting their tedious balance on the branch.
Splash!
The sight of the two imps splashing around desperately in the deep water sent their friends into gales of laughter. A thoroughly drenched Legolas looked murderously at his friends before turning his glare to the dripping Ranna.
"Tis your fault"
"You started it," hissed Ranna, with a toss of her wringing locks; she started to swim towards shore.
Legolas griped her leg before she could swim away and it wasn't long before they continued the fight that had started up in the tree.
Shaking her head at their antics Arieindyo had a sudden burst of inspiration, "Hey! While you two are in their why don't you get some of the jewels?"
Legolas paused and released the hand that had been holding Ranna's head under the water. Ignoring the screeching girl, Legolas dived under the clear water and surfaced with two brightly glowing jewels in his hands.
With a mischievous grin, he looked towards the smiling Ranna.
"Bet I can get more than you can!"
It was only after all the jewels within there reach had been collected that a burst of realisation descended upon the soaking prince as he looked down at his wet clothes.
"I don't think Ada's going to be happy."
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