Trying new, more interesting stuff for my Disclaimer. Sometimes "I own nothing!" just doesn't cut it. Platy, your gonna recognize this. As for the rest of you, you will probably be confused.
(A lone girl sits on a platform. She's wearing a leather bustier and matching leather pants and looks ridiculously someone straight out of an episode of X-men Evolution. On top of her blonde head sits a rainbow colored pith helmet with the words "ROSEBLADE22" on the front and "ORLANDO BLOOM AND JOHNNY DEPP'S BITCH AND BLOODY PROUD OF IT" somehow crammed onto the back. A Zorro mask is laying on the floor by her side. A notebook is in her hands, and she's scribbling in it furiously, and muttering to herself.)
Roseblade:
(muttering and staring at the notebook)
Beautiful William,
How my heart adores thee,
You hot sexy-ness is just too much for me,
Oh, Lovely William,
How my heart starts to flutter,
When…(pauses)
What the fork rhymes with "flutter?" (thinks) Hm. (slams pencil and notebook down) Fork! HAAALDIR!!!
Haldir: (appearing from the darkness) Need help on your poem again, my sweet?
Roseblade: Don't call me sweet, Haldy. You know I'm involved with someone.
Haldir: Yeah, too bad he don't know.
Roseblade: (dangerously) Don't make me get out my num-chucks! (Randomly, into the darkness) William WILL be mine!!
Haldir: So…need help with your poem?
Roseblade: No. I need you to say the disclaimer. Just like Will and Jack do on Platy's fics.
Haldir: Copy-cat.
Roseblade: (dangerously again) Just. Do. It.
Haldir: Well…you know Jack and Will get paid more than me to say disclaimers. I want a raise.
Roseblade: (glaaaare)
Haldir: (raises eyebrow) Okay then. (Into the darkness, shouting) Roseblade don't own anything. Except me, cuz I'm her bitch! (a beat) Wait…doesn't Platy have a bitch too?
Roseblade: (swoons a little at the mention of William) Yes.
Haldir: GASP! You ARE a copy-cat!
Roseblade: (glaaaaaaaaaaaaaare) If your gonna be my partner in crime, you'd better learn to keep your trap shut.
Haldir: Alright, alright! I'll shut up. Sheesh.
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And a note to the people at Fanfiction.net: That thing up above in script format is the DISCLAIMER so you can't delete my story because of that!!! Why'd you have to delete Platy's stories? Meanies!!
Another note to my reviewers: I love you guys! But I'm going to New York City next week so I won't be able to write or update. My next update might take a while. That is why I made this chapter long for you, so you'll forgive me! Thanks guys, I love you so much! Bye!
~Roseblade22
Ok. Now for the real story. Oh, and this chapter is what most authors call the "Turning Point" in the story, so enjoy!
************Chapter 49****************
The next night, Legolas and Eressa nervously prepared to carry out the escape they had been planning for months. Eressa watched Legolas as he shakily pulled out everything from under his bed: the bow he had carved, the stakes, even the scissors had it's uses in the plan.
She clasped her hands against her chest. They were cold and clammy. She shivered, and she knew it was not because of the cold. Legolas glanced over his shoulder at her.
"Are you ready?" He asked softly.
Eressa nodded, hitching in a breath. She said nothing.
Legolas set his weapons down and walked slowly over to her. His arms folded around her with a swift, graceful movement and his mouth covered hers in a possessive kiss.
"I won't let anything happen to you." He said softly.
"That's not what I'm worried about." She said coldly. Legolas frowned.
"Melamin, we've had this conversation many times before." His arms unwrapped themselves from around her involuntarily.
Eressa didn't look at him. "I know."
Legolas sighed and began to turn back to his weapons. But just then Eressa called back to him.
"Legolas?"
He turned back immediately. "Yes, Eressa?"
Eressa looked up at him with fearful eyes. "No matter what happens, I will always love you."
Legolas paused for a moment and then managed to smile. "And I will always love you, Eressa."
She watched him intently as he turned back to his weapons. Her eyes fell onto his back, were his dirty shirt was clinging to him, and his arms, the very arms that held her. She gazed on as she saw him notch a hand-made arrow into his bow.
Silently, as if she didn't even realize it, she began to cry.
Legolas sensed it immediately and turned around, eyes concerned. "Melamin?"
Legolas was about to ask what was wrong, but he knew. So he said nothing. Turning around, completely, he spread his arms out, urging Eressa to come to him.
She did, in a rush of sorrow and tears. She kissed him and ran her hands through his hair desperately, thinking that each time she did it would be the last time. And he did the same.
After a few minutes they parted, and Legolas suddenly went to the wall above his bed, where his elven handwriting was scratched into the wall. He pointed to a character on the wall definitely.
"See this? This marks today. And it also marks the last day we will be here." He said.
Eressa sniffed and reached out for him again. Legolas took her hands, but didn't allow her to embrace him.
"You must be strong, Melamin." He said. "You must be strong, no matter what happens tonight."
"I know that." Eressa said impatiently. She had heard this speech many times during the last two nights.
Legolas leaned forward and gently cupped her face in his hands. Her eyelashes fluttered as she looked up at him with wet, beautiful eyes.
"You must promise me, Eressa." He said, close to tears himself. "You must promise me that you will be strong, no matter what happens."
He closed his eyes for a moment and drew in a trembling breath. "Please, Eressa. Promise me."
She stared at him with raw emotion. Then she said: "I promise, Legolas."
Legolas let his hands fall to his sides. He blinked and looked away, his eyes grazing the bed, with all his weaponry on it.
"It is time, Eressa." He said blankly. "You know what to do."
Eressa's eyes went wide for a moment, but then she nodded and walked to the door. She glanced back at the elf for one last time, took a deep breath, and then began it.
She screamed loudly and pounded the door with her fists. "Guard! Guard!" She cried, acting as best as she could. "Help! He's going to kill me! Help!"
Legolas watched her, resisting the urge to grin, as he held his bow at ready. The stakes and scissors he had placed in a leather belt Eressa had spared for him the day before. Faintly, he heard the sound of footsteps approaching.
Eressa continued yelling and pounding on the door until the door swung open. Then, following what Legolas had told her to do, Eressa flung herself back, and Legolas stepped forward, raising his bow.
The stunned guards gasped and reached for their weapons, but before their hands could reach them they each had a straight wooden arrow sticking out of their chests. Eressa screamed and whimpered slightly behind Legolas. He tried to ignore it. He didn't like having to force her to see him kill other people, but he had too.
"Come." He ordered, and hand in hand, they ran out the door. Legolas had memorized the map Aleka had drawn for them, and they reached the hall where Eredor's cell was supposed to be found.
Legolas paused as he felt Eressa squeezing his hand with more strength he thought she had in her little body. He glanced at her and saw that she was terrified. Shaking, eyes wide, and struggling to breath.
Legolas shot her a smile. "It's gone according to plan so far, Melamin." He whispered. "But I am sorry I had to make you watch what…what I did."
Looking about, he saw no sign of guards. He could hear voices echoing off the stone and mud walls from farther away in the labyrinth, but they were to far away to have heard the death cries of the other two guards he had just killed.
Putting a finger to his lips, Legolas led Eressa past the rows and rows of doors, looking closely at each one for any mark of blood on it. Finally, near the end of the hall, he reached it.
Following the procedure of the plan, Legolas knocked on the wood twice. He heard a sudden scurrying of feet from inside and then two other knocks came from the other side. Legolas smiled and looked at Eressa. She was staring at the door in disbelief. Legolas realized that this would be the first time she'd seen her brother since they had been bought by Lord Curdolin.
The elf whipped out the scissors and jammed the sharp end into the key hole. He had bent the end into a right angle, and when he turned it, he felt the lock catch, and then turn a little. Then the end of the scissors slipped. After a few agonizing tries, Legolas finally got the lock to click.
And he opened the door. Eredor stood there, staring and mouth wide open. His eyes went from Legolas to Eressa and then back again. Legolas quickly put his finger to his lips before he could say anything.
Eredor nodded eagerly and then stepped forward, grinning like a madman. He again looked at his sister.
"Eressa…" He whispered. "By the gods, you've grown so much!"
Eressa drew in a nervous breath and returned without smiling: "So have you."
Legolas interrupted their reunion regretfully. "We mustn't linger." He said. "This can wait."
The two humans looked at him and nodded. Legolas then rushed back to where they came, and then Eressa led them from there to the red door that led to the main house. They all knew this would be the most difficult part of the plan to carry out.
Together, both Legolas and Eredor charged up the stairs and flung open both doors. They had hoped that the force of the doors being flung open so forcefully would hit the guards that usually stood in front of them—and to their surprise it worked.
Their cover being intentionally blown, Legolas gestured to Eressa, who was still past the door and at the bottom of the flight of stairs. "Come on!" He shouted.
"Hey! Get back!" Cried one of the guards, who was already getting up. Eressa ran up the stairs and got past him just as he stood, but then he reached forward and grabbed her by her long hair.
"Eressa!" Eredor and Legolas shouted in unison. Legolas drew back his bow.
The guard wrestled with the struggling girl and Legolas found it hard to get a clear shot. Eredor began to step forward, but Legolas stopped him.
"Don't!" He said. "You will only complicate things."
Suddenly, Eressa let out a shriek and threw up her hand into the guards face. Her nails clawed angry red lines down his face and dug into his eyes. He screamed and let her go, clutching his face. Eressa fell to the floor and crawled to Eredor, who quickly helped her up.
"Go!" Legolas yelled, lowering his bow. He ran with them. Suddenly heads started poking out from behind doors. But they were not the heads of the royals. They were the heads of the servants. There were gasps and shouts as the three slaves rushed past them. Legolas didn't feel the need to use his bow here.
"Whater they doin'?" One cried.
"Are they trying to escape?"
"Fools!"
"Good for 'em! Their doin' what we shoulda done years ago!"
Legolas smiled as he gradually heard the shouts of surprise turn into shouts of support. And Eredor and Eressa were shocked when they looked back over their shoulder to find many of the slaves running with them.
"They're uniting!" Eredor panted. "We could make it! We all could!"
Suddenly, it all came to an abrupt stop when two guards stepped around the corner. They had heard the commotion and come to investigate. They hadn't expected and all-out revolution of angry slaves.
Before Legolas even had a chance to raise his bow, the other slaves rushed passed them and attacked. The guards were on the floor in an instant.
Legolas and Eredor looked at each other. Eressa was still tightly holding on to Legolas's hand. They all had tremendous smiles on their faces.
They ran. They all ran through the corridors, thru the halls and galleries. Guards came and were overwhelmed.
We're going to do it. Legolas finally realized. It's going to work!
Eressa suddenly shouted. "Legolas!" She said, pointing ahead of them. "The main door!"
The slaves hit the door in one huge swarm. They slammed the carefully fashioned door open so hard the iron and wood split. And Legolas saw the whole glory of the night sky for the first time in many months.
The mansion was surrounded by a high and heavily guarded fence. Legolas then realized that commotion had been noticed too quickly. There was already and army of guards with spears guarding the main gate. Some of them had bows.
Legolas raised his bow and brought and arrow up to it. He aimed and fired. One guard went down. Then another, and another. The slaves attacked with him and all hell broke loose.
"Legolas!" Legolas could hear Eressa screaming his name in fear. She was clinging to him by the back of his shirt, moving with him as his arrows brought down guard after guard. And after his arrows ran out, he brought out his stakes. Eressa closed her eyes and didn't watch then.
Eredor saw the door huge gate open first. The slaves had driven the guards back. Legolas caught his eyes with his own and time stopped for a moment. Legolas's eyes were full of raw fury. Eredor knew then that he was looking at a real warrior.
The gates were open, and the rebelling slaves were pouring out like a swarm of insects. Legolas, Eredor and Eressa became one with the crowd as they flowed toward the gate…and freedom.
Then Legolas looked back behind him, and he saw what he feared most. There were guards pouring out of the mansion, armored and weapons in hand. A least three dozen bows were aimed at the escaping slaves.
"Faster!" Legolas heard Eredor shout, and he did. Eressa struggled to keep up with the two males, but she did.
Then the first rain of arrows came. Slaves all around them fell, the wooden shafts sticking out of their flesh. A woman Eressa had had friendly conversations with fell right in front of them, and she tripped over the body, falling into the frost-covered street.
"Eressa!" Legolas said. He helped her up and they ran again. Then the second rain of arrows came.
Legolas looked back over his shoulder and watch, as if the world was in slow motion, as a lone arrow sailed downward towards them.
"Duck!" He cried, but it was too late.
The arrow hit Eredor in his lower back, below his left shoulder. He didn't cry out, but fell immediately. Eressa screamed and dropped to her knees again.
"Eredor!" She cried, shaking him. "Get up!"
Eredor moaned. "Get away. Get out of here!"
"Eressa." Legolas meant to shout his lover's name, but it came out more like a soft statement instead. The guards released the last round of arrows and then began to move forward towards the slaves that had fallen.
Legolas looked up. The scene looked like a battlefield. Lord Curdolin's arrows had found their mark in many people.
"Eressa, we must go now!" He urged. He wanted to help Eredor, but he could not be helped. Grasping her arm, he tried to pull the girl off her brother.
She fought him.
"No, Legolas!" She cried, tears streaming down her face. "No! I won't leave him!"
"Eressa, listen to him!" Eredor choked out again. He tried to get up but screamed and fell again. The guards came closer.
"NO!" Eressa screamed in return. She flung herself away from Legolas and over her brother's body protectively. "Legolas, I won't leave him!"
Legolas looked at her. He looked to the horizon, were through the darkness he saw the East side of the Misty Mountains. And then he looked back towards the guards, getting closer.
"Eressa!" He said urgently. "We must go now!"
"I won't do it!" She screamed, her voice becoming hoarse. "I can't! I can't leave Eredor…"
"Eressa…"
"NO! You wouldn't leave me, Legolas, would you?! And I'm not going to leave him!" Eressa's breaths hitched in her throat as she sobbed the words. "I won't leave him, Legolas."
Legolas's eyes darted between her and the horizon again. Then he looked back at her again, his decision made.
"No, I wouldn't leave you, Eressa." He said softly, kneeling. "And I won't now."
Eressa gasped. She had expected him to leave her with Eredor and then escape himself. "But…"
"No. Don't say a word. You won't leave Eredor and I won't leave you." Legolas said calmly. "We're staying."
A second later he felt the sharp tip of an arrow pressed against his neck.
"Don't even think about moving, elf!" The guard ordered, kicking Legolas to the ground. He took it. He even used the motion to get in between the guards and his friends.
Half and hour later the situation was under control. Most of the slaves that had attempted to escape had been either recaptured or killed. Legolas, Eredor, and Eressa still sat on the frost-covered ground, saying nothing to each other. Eredor had fallen into the realm of the unconscious, and Eressa was crying.
"I knew this would happen…I had dreams about it…oh, Legolas…they'll kill you!" She was sobbing. The elf looked at her with eyes that didn't seem like his. It was as if he had died but was still living. His eyes were that of a corpse.
"No matter what happens…" Legolas suddenly said to her. Eressa blinked and then sobbed again as she recognized the meaning of those words.
"…I'll always love you." Eressa finished, looking straight into his eyes. They both realized it could be the last time they exchanged these words.
They said nothing more. It was not long before more guards came…and then Angarod himself appeared. The ugly man rushed up to the elf and didn't hesitate to backhand Legolas across the face. The action forced Legolas to the ground and Eressa whimpered in fear for her beloved.
"I knew you would try a little something like this, you filth!" He hissed. "You'll pay for this! And I'll enjoy it!"
Legolas said nothing to him. He didn't even look at the man. He simply replaced himself between Angarod, his friend, and his lover. Angarod's blood boiled. He grabbed Legolas by the front of the shirt and dragged him up to eye level.
"I SAID YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS, DAMN YOU!" He screamed, his entire face turning beat red in his fury. "AND I'M GOING TO ENJOY EVERY AGONY YOU SUFFER!"
To Angarod's great surprise, the Legolas smiled. He placed his hands against the man's chest and pushed him away. Then he pulled his last stake from his belt.
"No, you won't." The elf said definitely.
Angarod's eyes grew wide and Legolas saw the first look of fear cross the man's face. Then he plunged the stake deep into his chest.
Angarod fell down an instant later, blood spurting out in a burst of red, and his eyes rolled back into his head. He was dead in a few seconds. One of the guards shouted.
"You're going to die, you damned creature!" He raised his bow at Legolas and was about to shoot when loud voice boomed over all of them.
"Stop!"
Legolas and all the surrounding guards turned their heads to see who had spoken. Lord Curdolin stood on his front steps, an elegantly made robe wrapped tightly around his pudgy body.
"Stop!" He cried again. The man looked over the scene until his eyes rested on the elf, standing assertively in the center of the bodies, the young servant girl weeping over her brother behind him. Legolas looked straight back at the Lord. There was a long, agonizing silence.
"Sir?" A guard at Curdolin's right finally asked.
The man licked his fat lips with a pale tongue and rubbed his beard. Glancing one more time at the elf and his companions, he uttered four dangerous words:
"I want them alive."
***********Personal thingy**************
I know you all want to kill me. And not just because of the cliffy. But you can't, because I made this chapter extra long! And I did it all in one night too! Go me! Hehe. Much more pain and suffering to come. This is where it will get fun. *evil laugh*
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Deana: Yes, she is pregged! Um…and as you read…no, none of them escape. *winces* Sorry I ruined your happy! It will be happy towards the end…but first I must go through all the pain and suffering…and that's the fun stuff to write!! Hehe! Me so evil. Thanks girl!!
Legolas-gurl88: Yay! Leggy's a father!! You'll have to wait to see what the kids gonna look like!! Yes, that will be in the third part of the trilogy. That will be a long while from now, sorry. Hehe. Oh. So that's how your school works. My school day is longer! No fair! I get up at 5:30 too and then school gets our at 3:07! Not fair, I tell you! And we have 8 class periods. Um…about Eredor thinking of Eressa's pregnancy…I cannot tell. You'll have to find out for yourself. Thanks a lot! Bye!
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