I'm so sorry that it took me so long to get this chapter out!!! I've been having more computer problems and couldn't get it posted!! But here it is for your entertainment!!
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"Thank you Lindir, you may leave." The elf, formerly known as that bastard-of-a-commander, bowed and left the large study, shutting the large doors behind him.
Elrond's eyebrows furrowed as he looked at me, standing stupidly in the middle of his study.
"What do you think you were doing Jarla? You could have injured yourself more than you are already!" His voice was even, considering the look on his face which was one of annoyance. The scroll he was reading now lay on the desktop, forgotten.
"I don't see why it's any of your business what I do. And as for being injured, I'm completely healed so just back off. Besides why the hell are you up so damn late? Don't you have to catch up on your beauty sleep or something?"
The Elf-lord's eyes narrowed in confusion. "What do you mean you're already healed? You are no elf. Unless it has something to do with the ring of Rillëval." He glanced at the emerald ring on my finger which seemed to glint in response. "As for being up late I was reading up on the ring you now wear."
I scoffed, "Like hell it has to do with this ring. Damn you are just as annoying as Elbereth and Oromë."
"Elbereth? Oromë? Why do you speak of them as if you know them?" I rolled my eyes. It sure took him a while to figure things out.
"They're the ones who fucking gave me this ring!! And now thanks to them I'm stuck in the middle of bumblefuck and have no way of getting away thanks to those damn guards you have out there!!"
"So it is truly the ring," Elrond leaned back in his in his chair, eyebrows once again knitting together. "Then you are one of the three who will save us."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute here," I walked forward and leaned over the Elf-lord's desk until my black eyes were level with his grey ones. "How the hell can I be this 'savior' that everyone keeps talking about? I never asked for this and now suddenly you want me to save this so called world of yours?"
My voice began to sound shrill to my own ears as I spat this out. What the hell did these people want from me? They refuse to answer any of my questions and to top it off they want me to fucking bend over backwards to accommodate them!! To hell with that! These people were nothing like me so why should I help them? I could feel anger beginning to boil inside me. They had no right asking me to help them! I dug my nails into the hard wood of Elrond's desktop making deep groves in the dark colored surface.
"You can't expect me to just suddenly drop everything and help you out do you? I don't owe you anything and plus you are not even my one of my own kind!"
"Jarla," the elf leaned close to my face. "Because this ring has been reveled a new evil will try and take over this world. And because you are part of this world it fully concerns you. As for the petty reason of not using the ring to help Middle Earth, you are a human just like countless others in this world. You are not only helping me but them also."
I blinked a couple of times after his speech before sniggering. He really didn't know what I was.
"What exactly do you think is so funny Lady Jarla? I do not see this as a laughing matter."
"Me a human! You actually think that I'm human?" I flashed him a fanged smile. "I am far from human." Elrond quizzically looked at my grinning face.
"You are not human or elf? Then what are you?" I chucked again.
"I am just like you are Lord Elrond. I am a half breed, a hybrid. Half vampire, half human." Elrond stared and blinked at me making him look like an owl.
"A vampire?" I crossed my arms over my chest.
"Yes a vampire. You know 'I vant to suck your blood.'"
"I do not know what a vampire is," He spoke slowly. I sighed, this was going to take a while…
"A vampire is a creature of the night. To stay alive they must drink the blood of mortals," I flashed my fangs again and pointed at my mouth. "That's what these babies are for. Not only are vampires immortal be we have special abilities as well. Amazing speed, the ability to read minds, super strength, and the list goes on." Elrond stared for a second before nodding.
"I see. And you are only half vampire, is that correct?" I rolled my eyes and nodded.
"Yeah I just said that."
"Well I do not see why you cannot help our world," he leaned back into his chair again. "After all it looks as if you have nothing else to do now that you are here." I glared at his smug face, how dare he say that to my face the bastard! I spun around determined to leave Elrond in a hurry when his voice stopped me.
"I will give you one day to decide, Lady Jarla. But I must let you know, the fate of Middle Earth now rests on you and your other two comrade's shoulders. Are you truly going to leave them to fight by themselves? After all, you know how it feels to be alone in the world." I glared at him again before wrenching the doorknob around and flinging the heavy wooden door open.
I stormed out of the office and past that Lindir guy who was apparently guarding the doors. He yelled something after me that sounded like 'You stupid human' but I didn't care at this point what was coming out of that whelp's mouth.
'Who the hell does he think he is, telling me to do this? He has no right, the bastard.' My body flushed with anger once again. Clenching my fists, I stormed off down the hall.
After a few minutes of stomping around Rivendell, I finally found a bench to sit down on made out of a beautiful silvery wood. I sighed and rubbed my temples trying to ward off the on coming migraine.
"Ugh. This fucking sucks," I muttered.
"Such crude language from a lady." I jerked my head up; before me was the blonde guard that had helped escort me back to Rivendell.
"Oh it's you," I sneered. "What the hell do you want?" The elf's face remained impassive to my rude response. He stared at me making me fidget under his steely gaze. I felt my hand twitch impulsively towards the knife hidden in my sleeve.
"Well?" The tall elf bowed gracefully before straightening up.
"For give me Lady. I have not introduced myself to you. I am Lord Glorfindel of Rivendell. I merely came to see the young lady who would save us from the next evil to threaten Middle Earth." His eyes quickly darted towards the ring that I still wore.
"Well, Lord Glorfindel, who said that I was planning on going through with this? Elrond did say that I had a day to decide whether or not to use my ring and save Middle Earth. Hell, he doesn't even know what this new evil is and he's the fucking lord of Rivendell!" Glorfindel frowned.
"So I take it that you are just planning staying here until Middle Earth falls? Is that correct?"
"Uh-h." I stuttered and fell silent. What hell was I going to do exactly? I was in another world and had no way of returning to my home. Dammit the elf had me there!
A ghost of a smile crossed Glorfindel's face. It was odd to see, what I knew was a hard and steely warrior, almost smirk.
"I see. So it seems that you have no choice in the matter after all." I glared at him as he turned and began to walk away from me.
"But fear not little one, for you are not the only one who will face this same challenge." And with that he disappeared around the corner. Wait a sec, why the hell did he call me little one? And how did he seem to know so much about what Elrond had said to me?
"I need some sleep," I muttered to myself. The migraine I was trying to ward off had come into full bloom, pounding at my temples. But now the real question was how the hell do I get back to my room? In my temper tantrum I had completely forgotten my bearings. I quickly decided that the best thing to do was to head off in the direction that Glorfindel had taken hoping that I'd either catch up to him and ask that smug-ass elf for directions.
I never did find Glorfindel but some how I did find my way back to my room. I still don't know quite how I did it. But to tired to contemplate how I found my dammed room, I oh-so gracefully flopped down on my large bead and unlaced my leather boots, kicking them in the corner near my window. I curled up under my sheets and buried my head under my pillows, waiting for sleep to take over me.
Birds flitted from branch to branch in the morning light, twittering and chatting to each other. I groaned and rolled over. Why the hell do birds have to get up so damn early? My tangled hair hung down in my face irritating me even more.
"Shut the fuck up!!!" A grabbed a large pillow from my bead and chucked it out the window hoping to whack a few of the noisy animals outside. More twittering only reached my sharp ears, the birds had just moved into another tree near by.
"I guess I have to get up now…" I groaned and rubbed my hair out of my face.
Slowly, pealing back the covers, I slouched out of bed and went to my armoire and looked inside. Several beautiful long dresses hung on small wooden hangers.
"Mer, all dresses. And they don't even have any in black." I lifted the sleeve of a beautiful deep red one.
"I just go like this. Screw them if they don't like it." I shut the wooden door and walked into a small washroom that was adjacent to my bedroom. I must have missed the door way the first few times I'd looked around. After looking around in the cabinets and drawers, I recovered a silver handled brush to detangle my unruly hair.
Once I had roughly brushed out my tangles and washed my face I laced my boots and headed out to find my way to some sort of dining area so that I could eat.
My stomach growled as I wandered around the halls.
"There has to be someone around here that can get me some food." I rounded the corner to see a person walking down the hall ahead of me.
"Hey!! You!" The elf turned around as I jogged up to ask for directions.
"Hey dude, do you think-oh it's you. Lindon or what ever your name was." It was that oh-so lovable elf that had lead me to Elrond's study.
He frowned, "My name is Lindir, my lady."
"Never mind I'll find it myself." He arched an eyebrow at me.
"What may I ask are you looking for?" I snorted.
"Like you would want to know. It's probably just be something that a stupid human like me wouldn't know." The elf frowned.
"I see you are still sore about the way I treated you." He bowed curtly. "I apologize for your treatment. Lord Elrond only just told me your situation this morning."
"Damn straight," I muttered.
"Oh, and Lord Elrond wishes to see you immediately."
"What? Why?"
"I do not know my lady. He just said that it was important. So come, follow me." He turned and walked back the way I had come. I grumbled but followed none the less.
We came to the familiar double doors of Elrond's study; my companion briefly knocked on the door which was answered by Elrond's voice inside. Lindir pushed open the doors and walked inside.
"Ah, good morning Lady Jarla!" Elrond greeted.
"Good only if you get woken by a bunch of annoying little birds, the little fuckers."
"My lady! Such a mouth for a young lady!" Lindir stood in shock.
"Yeah what are you going to do about it?" Elrond raised his hand to silence us.
"Lindir, I believe that Lady Jarla has not eaten yet. Would you bring her some breakfast?" Lindir nodded and left, shutting the door behind him.
"Now, I believe that you have an extremely important question to answer." Elrond arched a very angled brow. Crap here was the dreaded question. Ugh, why does life hate me?
"Well, I thought it over," I began, twirling the ring around my finger. "And since it looks like I have nothing better to do I'll do it." Elrond smiled and laced his long fingers together in his lap.
"Excellent! This is good news! I have more good news for you! I received a message from King Aragorn of Gondor, I assume that the Valar have taught you of Gondor," I nodded. "And it appears that in his country another young girl was discovered with another of the rings that will help save Middle Earth. And this girl will be arriving tomorrow."
"What?!" I did an almost cartoonish double take. Another one?
"Here we are!" Lindir pushed open the door and walked in holding a tray of full of fruit and bread. "I hope you like-oh…"
"Jarla, you will soon be joined by one of the partners you will work with." Elrond smiled.
'Dammit,' I thought. Why the hell did this have to get so big so fast?
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