Sorry I haven't updated in like a week. But I was at my dad's house and he doesn't have Word on his compy so I didn't get to type up this chapter. So here is the next installment for TROR. I haven't had this much inspiration on a story in a long time and I'm really excited about it!! ^__^ So without further ado here is the chapter!
Disclaimer: Jarla is mine. If I owned Lord of the Rings I would have Haldir and Glorfindel in my closet right now. Which I don't so don't sue me!!!
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I stared at the man that had swung open my door. He looked just like the elf lord next to me. He had the same long dark hair and strong handsome face as his father only unlike the Elf-lord before me, was clad in crimson leggings and a white tunic.
"Ada!" he called again and dashed over to the elder elf. "I heard that a maiden was found in the forest outside of Rivendell-" It was then he noticed whom Elrond was sitting next to. "Oh, I guess this is her…" I gave him a weak grin.
Elrond sighed and rubbed his temple, "Elrohir, how many times do I have to tell you to knock on the door before entering a room? Please excuse my son, Lady Jarla." I stared at Elrohir. So I was right! This Elro… what ever his name, was the son of the Lord here!
"Ada!!" Another voice called outside of my door. In entered an elf that was identical to the one that had just come in seconds before. And as if not being twins was confusing enough this twin had on the same exact clothes and hairstyle as his identical counter part.
"There is word-" Elrond held his hand up to silence his other son.
"Yes I know, your brother Elrohir has just come to ask me about this 'mysterious maiden'. And her is that enigmatic lady now." He motioned towards me. I stared indifferently at the twin. Why should I trust these people? I knew nothing about who they were. For all I know they could be psychopathic people that were working for the night-walkers.
"Allow me to introduce myself," the twin bowed. "I am Elladan, son of Lord Elrond of Rivendell. "I inclined my head to acknowledge him.
Elrond rose to his feet and grabbed each of his sons by the elbow. "I think it would be best if we let the Lady Jarla rest for a while in peace."
"Yes." I half glared at the twins.
"It was nice to meet you, Lady Jarla." One of the two, I have no clue which, said over his shoulder as his father shooed him out of the room. The door was quietly shut behind them as they left the room.
Thank god that was over. I sighed absently and twisted the ring around my long finger. The long drapes moved softly in a small breeze that blew through my open window. I looked around my room and I fiddled with my ring, thinking about how the hell to get myself out of this strange situation. The room I was in was elaborately furnished. Ornate carvings wound around the ceiling, depicting delicately carved vines and what looked like tree roots in a beautiful dark colored wood. The bedposts had tiny rune characters carved into the ebony wood which spiraled upward to the canopy above my bed.
My mind was racing so fast that I hardly had time to comprehend what I had just thought, almost like a top that was spinning out of control on a tabletop. I was in a place called Rivendell, where the hell this place is I have no clue. I silently decided to myself that I would leave under cover of darkness and try to find my way back to my home. Anyone who thought that I was supposed to save their 'world' with a ring and went so far to make me believe he was an elf by messing with his ears defiantly went under my list of people to avoid. Now how to get out unnoticed.
"Ha-ha!! I've got it!!" I chirped to no one in particular. I'd slip out the window using my powers and figure out where to go from there. I sniggered knowing that these people didn't have a chance in hell of finding me once I left.
"Sometimes being a half-breed is not so bad…" I sighed, placing my hands behind my head and snuggling down into the comforter that covered the bed. This was going to be a snap. My eyes began to droop and blur until I completely fell into a deep slumber.
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'Little one…'
'Wake up, little one…'
It was those damn voices again. I opened my eyes to see that familiar black room again. What did they want this time?
'We are disappointed, little one,' that same woman's voice spoke. 'You have no belief in what we have sent you to do.'
"How the hell am I supposed to have faith in you people when I don't even know who you are!! Let me out of here god dammit!!" I retorted angrily.
'We have told you,' answered the man, his voice slightly annoyed. 'I am Oromë. One of the Valar.'
'Once again, I am Elbereth, little one. I am sorry but we cannot let you go just yet…' Answered the woman a little less agitated.
I growled letting my vampire rage get a hold on me for a second, "How the hell am I supposed to understand that if I don't even know who or what the Valar is!!"
'We will show you what you seek…' The voices faded and before my eyes appeared a screen like form. It almost looked like the illusion that you see during the summer when heat rises off the road only in color and shimmered like water. Scenes flashed before me showing me what looked like the creation of a world.
'This was the beginning.' Spoke the woman. 'When Ilúvatar made the Ainur, also called the Holy Ones, from his thought. We are the Ainur, the Valar.'
The scenes began to flash faster showing the birth of other beings, the Children of Ilúvatar the voice called them.
'My husband, Manwë, is the mightiest of the Valar.' She spoke almost arrogantly of her husband's power.
"But who is this?' I questioned, pointing to a dark figure on the screen. 'He feels…evil..."
'He is Melkor, or Morgoth as he is also know. He became corrupt and betrayed the Valar.'
As she spoke more flew by as the story of the Valar was depicted on the image in front of my eyes. It seemed as if I stood for hours watching the story, while both of the Valar paused to answer my questions. I saw the abduction of the Silmarils, Fëanor swear to retrieve them, Luthien and Bern fall in love and parish, the betrayal and fall of Gondolin. My legs ached from standing, protesting the long amount of time spent standing. But I kept on standing, watching the story not wanting to take my eyes away for fear of missing something. Just when I thought that I would pass out from exhaustion the screen faded away into nothing. I stood transfixed, stunned and amazed by what I had just witnessed.
"So I'm stuck out in bumblefuck, supposedly the new savior of the world you two just showed me?" I snapped back to reality. All of this meant nothing to me. Their problems we no concern of mine.
'You are in Middle Earth, little one. And you must save it from a new evil that is in danger of covering the world in darkness.' Elbereth spoke urgently. 'Did not the appearance of Lord Elrond and his sons prove it to you?'
I stopped. I'd forgotten that Elrond had indeed had pointy ears.
'Does that explain all that you wish to know, little one?' I slowly began to nod still pondering Elrond's ears.
"Yeah…wait! Why should I believe you? Why shouldn't I just believe that you aren't just figments of my imagination? And what is this 'new evil'?!"
Oromë chucked, 'You will discover that soon, little one.'
I glared into the abyss before me, "Stop going in circles!! I want answers! And stop calling me 'little one'! And what about these supposed powers you gave me? Huh? If I have them where the hell are they?"
'All of that will soon be discovered, little one.' It was Oromë again. 'Namárië…' The voice began to fade.
"Dammit I want answers!!!" I suddenly stopped. My body was glowing an eerie green color. What the fuck? Was this part of the gifts that I was given? I looked at my hands as the aura began to fade away.
'Crap.."
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Gasping for air I bolted upright, clutching the sheets around me. I shut my eyes, trying to calm my heart from pounding out of my chest. Slowly I opened my clamped eyes hoping that it was all just a dream. It wasn't. I could see the familiar site of the four poster bed and the wide bay widows through the darkness that had fallen while I was asleep. I had to get out while it was still dark.
"That's it I'm leaving."
I flung back the comforter and hopped to my feet. Where were my shoes and trench coat? I still had on my sleeveless black tank top and tight black pants, but as for where my other things were I was at a loss. Swiftly moving to what looked like some sort of dresser or armoire I pulled open the tall door. Hanging peacefully on a hock was my worn coat and at the bottom was my pair of boots. I yanked both out and slipped the coat over my shoulders and began to unlace my boots so I could get them on my feet. Jamming one foot into its proper shoe I began to lace the thin nylon cords. I move on to the other foot and stood up from my bed that had been used as a makeshift stool. Silently, I move over to the set of windows and looked down. It was a six-foot drop to the ground at most. No problem for someone like me. Hanging one leg precariously out off the ledge of the window I swung the other around using the momentum to propel me out of the room.
"Think they can keep a day-walker like me captive? I think not!"
Using my keen eyesight I looked into the darkness around me. Luckily for me many ancient looking trees surrounded the building I was in. I softly chucked to myself. This was almost too easy. I ran along the side of my building until I saw a wall, which had woods beyond it. I snuck along the wall until I came to a large tree that over hung the wall just slightly. Ah-ha!! I climbed up the tree and used the branch to reach the other side.
I jogged for what seemed only about five minutes before I sensed a presence.
'Sentries,' my mind screamed. How could I forget about the possibility for them? I veered right trying to move around them but soon found myself surrounded by the presence of what felt about six or seven guards.
"Now look at what you've gotten yourself into Jarla." I growled and readied myself for an attack that I knew would soon come.
I suddenly felt an extremely strong presence behind my and ducked down just in time to miss a fist aimed at the back of my head, trying to knock me out. Damn he was fast! I barely had time to move out of the way and I was using my very useful speed!! Using the person's forward momentum I kicked his feet out from under him. More came forward from the trees and soon I was completely surrounded. Two more came at me, one from my right another from behind, I had a split second to look up and jump into the canopy of branches before the one behind my tried to strike out.
"Let's see those fuckers try and find my now." I hefted my frame onto the thick branch and clutched the rough bark of the tree's trunk, steadying myself, before leaping to the next branch above me. Hearing a small rustle below me I looked down to see three dark forms following me up the tree.
'Crap!' I climbed faster hoping to out climb them. No such luck, the figures, if possible, were climbing faster as we got higher.
I could see the branches get gradually smaller and thinner as I got nearer to the top. I reached for a branch and began to pull myself up.
CRACK!
'Fuck!' The branch gave way in my hand as it broke clear off the trunk, sending me spiraling to the forest floor.
I felt my body hitting branches, and very thick ones at that, all the way down the tree. My shoulder popped painfully as I hit the grassy ground. I tried to sit up and get to my feet but when I moved my joint sent knives of pain down my arm. Suddenly the injured arm was wrenched upward and I was pulled to my feet making me grit my teeth. My other arm was pulled around behind me and bound at the wrist.
"What business do you have in the forest of Rivendell?" I looked up at one of my captors.
He had long dark brown hair that was tied back into a half ponytail. His chin was delicately pointed giving him an almost feminine look while his nose turned up just slightly giving him a look of arrogance. I looked, grimacing at the throb in my arm, and glared at him.
"Answer me human," he spit out that last word with so much venom that my only answer was to just stare in disbelief.
"I am no human," I snapped at him. He arched a thin eyebrow and looked at me with suspicion.
"You are no elf for you do not have the ears for it. Nor do you have a long beard and are short, so you are neither a dwarf. So you must be a human," he sneered at me.
"There are no such things as elves." He let out a short barking laugh.
"Why my little human, do you not believe what is before you?" I glared and spit in his face. He stepped back in shock before striking me across the face. My head snapped to the side and my cheek stung, I knew I was going to have a nasty bruise in the morning. I glared into his eyes and tried reaching into his mind with my own.
'Let me go.' He continued to glare at me. What the hell why wasn't my mind control powers working? I tried again mentally ordering the man before me to let me go. But he was now busy speaking to one of his men in some language that was quite foreign. I could feel my rage pooling in my belly when I was not getting the results that I wanted.
"We will take you to see the Lord." The same man looked down his nose at me. "He will want to question you on your presence near Rivendell considering that you will not speak." The man behind me gave me a quick shove and the small group of men moved forward. I was now heading back to where I started.
The walk was a lot rougher than how it had seemed coming from the direction I came from. We walked in silence aside from a few murmurs that passed between the men as they forced me on. I let my mind wander once again, I thought of my mother. My beautiful, wonderful, sad mother. When I was younger every time she looked at me she had given me a small smile because she knew how I would be treated for the rest of my life, after all she was in love with a vampire herself. I sighed and looked at the men who were taking me back to Riven-whatever. There were three in the group now, their bastard-of-a-commander had told some of them to stay behind while he took two of his best men with him to bring me to see Elrond.
The one the walked to my right and slightly behind me had long blond hair that seemed to glow in an angelic halo around his face and cold cobalt colored eyes. He was slightly taller than the other two and had an air of a deadly warrior about him. The way he walked, stiff yet fluid at the same time gave the impression that he had been doing this sort of job of a very long time. Instinctively I tried to reach out and probe his mind but of course it didn't work. His comrade that stood to my left was quite different.
This one had long dark hair like the commander also pulled back into a half ponytail, only he had such an odd color of blue that they were almost green. The way he walked was also very striking for a guardsman. He had a boyish bounce that would almost make it seem as if he posed no threat to others. The only thing that gave this away was the fact that he had very strong callused hands that hung akimbo. As I studied his face his dark eyes locked with my green ones. Half blushing, I quickly lowered my gaze trying to make it as though the ground had become very interesting.
From then on I kept my eyes on the ground or on the trees around us. I didn't like people to stare at me so intensely except during battle, it made me feel uneasy. I know that sounds strange but I guess it comes from being controlled by a few vampires through eye contact that way.
"We have arrived," the commander's voice cut through the silence.
"Feh." He only glared at me with that same steely gaze.
They lead me through the front gates that I apparently had failed to see during my 'escape'. I was lead into a large court yard which was scattered with a few beautifully carved statues.
"You are dismissed." The two guards gave their commander a short bow before leaving. He turned and faced me studying me again. He was probably thinking that I dressed like a freak…
"Follow me." Abruptly turning around he strode swiftly across the courtyard. It took me a moment to catch up to him because he had slightly larger strides than I did. After traveling down what seemed endless corridors we finally halted at a large set of double doors.
"Turn around." He commanded.
"Why the hell should I?" I hissed back. He sneered at me.
"So I can untie you." I hissed but turned around. From somewhere he produced a long knife and cut away my bonds and the opened the doors. He stepped in the door way blocking my view.
"Lord Elrond, we have captured an intruder within the forest of Rivendell."
"Bring them forward." The commander stepped to the side and practically shoved me in. "Lady Jarla?" Lord Elrond looked up from the scroll he was reading.
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Well that's it!! Let me know how that chapter went!! I'd love to get lots of reviews!! *HINTHINT* I sincerely hope that there are few if not no errors in this!! _ Here are the reviews from the last chapter!!
Marlene: I'm glad that you're impressed with the way I've written this!! I'm sorry this is sort of Mary Sueish!! It was not supposed to be like that at all!! _
HrilRamNathron: Surprised by which twin it was? Sorry this is not going to be a Legomance and this is not supposed to be a Mary Sue! So I'm sorry if it seems that way!!
Ivoryi: Glad you liked it!! I just got into a vampire kick one week and BAM!! This story came to me!!!