I do not own lord of the rings or any of its characters.

Okay as you pplz may have noticed is that I used to have a....er.....slightly different story that was much like this one. Well I'm just going to inform you that I got a lot of flames on that one and apparently it wasn't factual.......well this one is. Pretty much the same story though.... Anyways! Please enjoy and R&R!!! (No flames this time though, please)

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It was a fine sunday morning when Alassë decided to get out of bed. She opened the window to her large bedroom in the palace of Minas Tirith and breathed in the fresh air. She brushed her long brown hair and got into a long flowing velvet dress. She went out into her little sister Nienna's playroom where she found Nienna and her older sister Nessa playing. Namarië was 5 and Nessa was 16 while Alassë was in between at the age of 14. They had an older brother at the age of 17 named Eldarion but he was probably out with their father, Aragorn King of Gondor learning about being the King.

"Good morning Alassë!" said Nessa as she looked up from her younger sister.

"Morning. Mind if I join you?" Alassë asked

"Come play Lassë! Come play!" Namarië said. She jumped up and pulled Alassë by the sleeve down onto the floor to play with them.

They had been playing dolls for an hour when Nessa jumped up and looked at her watch in alarm.

"Oh no! I promised Eonesse that I would meet her at noon! It's almost noon! I'll talk to you guys later. Bye!" she said.

And so the rest of the day went in a stupor of boringness. Nessa came back around 4:00 and Eldarion appeared at 2:00 looking very sweaty. Dinner which was very uneventful unless you count Namarië refusing to eat her food because she was hungry (?). After dinner all four of the siblings sat down and they talked. They did this every night. They were very close for siblings of such huge age gaps. Each knew most of the other's gossip, whether it be big or small. Apparently Eldarion had spent his day practicing his sword fighting, and Nessa and Eonesse had hooked up with a group of their friends and wandered around the city talking. As for Alassë and Namarië they had spent most of the day playing with Namarië's dolls in various games. Oh how Alassë wished she could have gossip like Nessa's, but the truth was she didn't have many friends. She went to school with all of the other children in Minas Tirith but nobody wanted to be her friend because they all thought she was some rich snob because she was a princess, even though she wasn't a rich snob. She was rich, yes, but in reality she was a kind, gentle, loving person who really wanted a friend who didn't just pretend to be her friend to get things from her. That's what most kids did. They used her and she hated it. She felt as though she wasn't worth anything. That's why she tended to spend her weekends with Namarië or on the archery range or with the horses, she didn't have anybody else. Alassë went to bed that night with the thoughts of a deeply wanted best friend on her mind.

It was early in the morning when Alassë woke up and for a minute she couldn't figure out why. But after a second of looking around her dark bedroom in confusement she spotted a tall figure kneeling next to her bed. She let out a loud gasp or surprisement and the stranger quickly covered her mouth with his hand.

"Sh! It's just me, Eldarion! Be quiet! Now quick get up and get dressed!" He said hurriedly.

"Eldarion!? What are you doing here? What time is it?" Alassë asked

"It's four o'clock in the morning and I'll tell you why I'm here when you're up and dressed! Now please hurry!" He replied as he actually pulled her out of bed onto the floor.

"Eldarion!? What are you doing!?" Alassë asked in amazement as she sat on the cold floor watching Eldarion rummage through her closet and pulling the plainest thing he could find out, grabbed her and pulled her up and shoved the dress into her arms.

"Quick put this on! I'll be back in 5 minutes and it had better be on!" He said and he left the room and Alassë heard the lock click so she guessed that he locked it for some reason. She walked over to the door and checked just in case. He had locked it. She was so confused and because she had nothing better to do except hope she was dreaming, she put the dress on. It was rather long and flowing and it had a brown leather vest that laced up the back, rather like a corset but very different. the sleeves were long and almost reached the ground. They had a band around the upper arm and came to a V at the elbow leaving most of the arm bare. She put it on quickly and in 5 minutes exactly her brother returned this time with Nessa who was holding Namarië in her arms. Everyone was dressed very plainly, in the plainest clothes they had.

"Will somebody please tell me what is going on!?" Alassë said as she crossed her arms.

"OK. But I suggest you sit down first." Eldarion said slowly and quietly. Alassë sat down quickly wanting to know why she had been woken up so early in the morning and forced out of bed and into a very plain dress. "Earlier this morning I heard a scuffle down the hall and wasn't sure what was going on. I got out of bed, slowly, because I was tired but when I came out of my room I saw that the carpet was all messed up outside our parent's bedroom door and that their door was open. I crept down the hallway to their bedroom and found the contents everywhere! The drawers and closet were open and clothes were strewn all over the floor! Our parents werent' in their beds, Alassë. But pinned to a pillow on their bed was this." He passed Alassë a note that read:

Dear Reader:

Your King and Queen have been kidnapped! We have taken them to a place far from here where you will never find them! If you wish to see your beloved monarchs again pay up! We want 400 000 pounds by 3 days from now and if we don't get it......you'll never see them again!!!

The Haradrim

Alassë stared at the note in shock. "They're gone?" she finally was able to get out.

"Yes. We have to go find them or we'll never see them again. We have to go before anybody discovers that they're gone. If they do before we're gone they will never let us go! we need to make it look like we were taken too. We've already packed extra clothes and food for all of us now lets go! Grab anything you think is necessary that we wouldn't have already packed and be quick!" Eldarion replied. Alassë grabbed some hair elastics and her hairbrush as her neseccary things and they were off.

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And that's my new and improved first chappie!!! Please R&R and PLEASE try to be nicer this time! ^.^