The idea for Arriël's weapon is a crossover from Inuyasha. I DO NOT OWN THAT I IDEA SO PLEASE DO NOT SUE ME FOR USING IT! I JUST REALLY LIKE SANGO'S WEAPON!
Chapter 8: The Pathway of Pain
As the fellowship travels down the Anduin river. Arriël sits in the boat with Legolas, and is reminded of a poem that reminds her of her own situation.
"Amen girl" Alexia said.
Arriël stopped and remembered all that her savior had endured for her and everyone in the world. No one asked him to die for her, but he did because he loved them and still does. Despite all their sin, and wrong doing.
"Legolas, Lex, Dimtilion, Aragorn, Talther something's coming" Arriël said getting up. "Look out Frodo!" She screamed in terror. Frodo looked to her just before the arrow hits his back. "No!" Arriël screamed in anger.
"Arriël concentrate!" Alexia said the girls concentrate on their powers finding their enemies.
"Now!" Arriël yelled. Lifting their enemies into the air bringing them out of the woods. She looked at all of them. "Lex it's them the creatures I saw in my vision" she said in fear loosing concentration.
"Arriël no!" Alexia yelled there are about twenty creatures. Legolas and the other row our boats ashore. The creatures fall to earth, but it only stuns them.
"Sam watch Frodo! Talther come here!" Arriël yelled, while Talther ran to her. "Legolas, Dimtilion, Gimli, Aragorn, Alexia get over here" She said. "Lex together alright."
"Let's do this girl" Alexia said, they do their hand shake were they slide their hands across each other, and bump their fists.
"Ok we're going to bring them up into the air, you are going to shoot them we'll disable their ability to move" Arriël said. Looking to Alexia she nods they focus all their power on finding the creatures once more. Gandalf below protecting the little hobbits wielding his staff creating a shield around them.
"Here they come get ready!" Arriël warned grabbing her bow and quiver all twenty creatures fly into the air. Not knowing what's going on the snarling creatures trying to intimidate them. Legolas shoots about ten and Arriël five. Alexia two, Gimli chops up two Aragorn, and Talther shot the same one. Dimtilion shot the same ones as Legolas making sure they were dead. All fall to the ground, Alexia and Arriël along with the others float back to the ground. We scan the area and find no more.
"Gandalf those we're not no ordinary creatures they weren't orcs. They look a little different not as large as the Uruk-Hai but close enough." Aragorn said to the wizard.
"Yes I saw, Arriël you must tend to Frodo's wound" Gandalf said.
"Yes Gandalf" she walks over to the small child who is an adult. He moves to sit up. "Gandalf this arrow it was poisoned it's flowing throughout his entire body I can feel it" Arriël said to him removing the arrow, applying pressure.
"Here" Aragorn hands Arriël athalas placing it in his wound.
"Look out!" Arriël yelled seeing an arrow headed for Aragorn but stops it. Before anyone can shoot the orc an arrow hits it. It's executioner an elf a young man light skin, black hair, and light blue eyes muscular body, tall. He runs to the fellowship
"Who's he?" Merry asked Pippin.
"He's an elf" Gandalf said proudly.
"Gandalf is it really you" he said touching his face. "We heard you were killed long ago. We gave up hope of ever seeing you again of ever learning of the lost princess of our forgotten city" he said smiling.
"It is me my old friend, and as for your princess she is now your queen. Malichi I want you to meet your queen, and her second heir her sister" Gandalf said pointing to us. "Malichi meet Arriël Serenity, your queen and her sister Alexia your princess. Arriël Alexia meet Malichi one of the last of your people" he said smiling.
"Gandalf you told us that all of our people were dead, you lied to us" they said shocked.
"It was to be a surprise" he said smiling.
"Well, hello Malichi I'm Arriël you can call me Ari" she said shaking his hand.
"And I'm Alexia you can call me Lex or Lexi" she shook his hand as well.
"Your highnesses" he bows, but they pick him up.
"Don't ever bow to us, and you will regard that as a command" Arriël said angrily.
"Forgive me maladies" he said stuttering.
"We don't like being treated as royalty we're still pretty young. Not to mention the only one we bow to is Jesus Christ the one who created us along with you and everything that is alive." Alexia said.
"Uh...Hello if you're done reminiscing I think you forgot that" Merry inhaled a deep breath. "Frodo has poison running through his veins!" Merry yelled so fast that the little hobbit became short of breath.
"He's going into the darkness" Arriël patted his forehead with a damp cloth. "Frodo." She looked at him. "He's fading fast, we must get him to shelter" Arriël explained picking him up. "Frodo lasto beth nîn, tolo dan na ngalad" calling him back into the light. Frodo hear my voice come back to the light. He breathes heavily.
"This happened many years ago" Aragorn said taking him from Arriël. "Malichi is your home close?" he asked.
"Yes come my friends, we will not reach it in time though he will leave us before then" Malichi said gravely.
"No he won't" Arriël said. Using their power to levitate everyone into the air. Malichi guiding them to his sanctuary. Its beautiful place and looks just like Rivendell but even more beautiful concealed among an ugly forest at the end of the horrid place. A beautiful place lies. It's not that big though only about fifty people are its residents. Their elven looks are the same as our fair kin, but some not as fair skin.
"Here Arriël lye him down here" Malichi said. They entered a large room lit with beautiful gold candles a large balcony overlooking the small village of their people.
"Give me time, alone with him" she said. Before leaving her Legolas brushed her cheek with a kiss.
In the other room, the rest of the Fellowship talked to Malichi. "Ok wait so you're saying that not everyone died, when Molirion destroyed Imanaca?" Alexia asked.
"Yes. I along with a small group of people fled, as our fair city went down in flames. I was only 1000 years old still very young. It has been fifty years since that day. I searched everywhere for the small princesses, and I found nothing but their clothes. Along with a few other items." He said pulling out a small chest filled with toys, Alexia pulls out a small doll.
"I remember this," she said smelling. "Mama gave it to me, when I was baby" she said holding it close the last thing she had to remember her parents.
"This was also something I took incase I ever found you two" Malichi pulls out a small rolled up canvas.
"Is that?" Alexia said.
Back in Frodo's room Arriël worked hard to bring him back. "Frodo lasto beth nîn, tolo dan na ngalad, come back to me Frodo." Her voice pleading with his mind and soul. His body flinched, his pain eased and she sees a smile smear across his face, in his deep slumber. Arriël dresses his wounds and walked out. A sigh of relief, for her small hobbit friend.
"He's going to be ok, the wound was really deep. He'll will need time to heal but none the less he'll heal" Arriël said smiling, but Alexia turns to me in tears. "Did someone die?" She asked confused.
"Arriël look" Alexia said showing her young sister a large canvas painting. A man tall muscular face very serious, and yet his dark brown eye's show an unconditional love. His skin golden tan much like Alexia and Arriël's. His long hair done in the elven fashion, pulled away from his face. His clothes he wears a brown, and green tunic. A gold circlet around his head.
The woman beautiful beyond words, she has dark green eyes. A beautiful smile, light skin, her raven hair hangs to her back. Around her head a gold circlet as well. Her dress is a forest green, with gold leaves all over the front of her chest. Going down to her stomach her long hair ends. Two small children are also in the picture one, a baby with straight raven hair. Dark brown eyes and golden tan skin. The other with long black curly ringlet hair that reaches her mid-back. Her eye's a lighter brown and her skin somewhat fairer than the other child's. She dressed in a scarlet dress, a silver circlet around her head.
"It's Mama and Daddy" Arriël touched the picture the man's face. Along with the woman's, and then down to the small children. "It's us," she whispered as if the entire world could hear her if she didn't. "She's beautiful, and he's so handsome." She looked them over again.
"This was when you Alexia were only still considered a baby elf. And Arriël of course you were a baby. Your mother and father had this made right after you were born Arriël" Malichi said smiling.
"Lex look at your ring in the picture" her young sister pointed to the silver ring. It's a combination of a Celtic knot work, made into a flower. Arriël has the exact same thing; the small elven girl in the picture has it to.
"It's my ring," she said touching her ring, crying Arriël hugged her.
"We found them Lex" Arriël said happily the tears rushing down her face although they're not alive. Just the simple fact that she knows what they look like is enough for her.
"Yeah and what good does it do us! Their not here when we need them most!" Alexia said coldly. "As far as I'm concerned the only parents we had are back in our old time," her voice sounds hurt, and angered.
"They died for us! They gave up their lives along with the lives of hundreds of innocent people! They never asked to be punished but they were!" Arriël said angrily. "If you ever so much as say anything, that makes them sound as if they didn't love us. I'll make you wish you didn't," She said walking back into Frodo's room. Alexia gets up to stop Arriël but Gimli stops her.
"Let her go lass, let her go" Gimli said grabbing her arm.
"I didn't mean to it's just that," Alexia's voice trailed off.
"Come on melamin, you need some sleep" Dimtilion said grabbing her hand.
"How could she say that about them? They died for us and all she can do is sit there and blame them for what happened" She said crying. "Mama, Daddy I wish you were here but you sent us away only for us to return to fulfill our destiny. And this is what we were meant to do have a destiny of our own" Arriël said to herself. The door creeked open she turns and sees Alexia.
"Hey Changa" she said smiling. Arriël wiped away her tears, and smiled at the old nickname. Hey Monkey.
"Hey" she greeted.
"Look Arriël I'm really sorry about what I said. It's just we never even got to talk to them, it's like a whole lifetime with them was stolen from us" she said crying.
"I know it's funny even though we never talked to them. I feel like we have you know, like we never missed a thing," Arriël said smiling.
"Yeah I know I feel the same way," Alexia said.
"Me too" Arriël's voice trailed off again. The vision reappeared again it's Molirion he's making a great army more of those creatures those orc things.
"Arriël? Oh no please not again." She can hear Alexia's voice trailing off into nothing. Now she's surrounded by blackness. Seeing Molirion and herself in some black dress her eye's have no color to them. Alexia brings in a bow and quiver.
"Now you will kill the love of your life." Molirion commanded, her body turns and faces a blonde haired figure it turns and Legolas's face is the one she sees. Arriël takes the arrow and shoots him dead in the chest. A single tear falls from his face before he falls to the ground.
"Lex? Alexia?" Arriël said crying. "I, I killed him?" She said coming back into reality.
"Killed who Arriël? Who did you kill?" Alexia asked confused.
"Legolas I shot him, and he died" Arriël said crying. "We were with Molirion, and he told me to and I did."
"No Arriël, that's just Molirion trying to mess with you. Your not going to kill Legolas or anyone do you understand," she said strongly.
"My lady" Malichi said walking in.
"Yes Malichi?" Arriël asked wiping away her tears.
"My ladies, a few of our men have been attacked by the orcs. We need your healing power," he said. "Alexia you are also needed" he said, leaving Frodo's side. Asking Sam to watch him.
"What happened to them all?" Arriël asked walking in finding five men, with bloody wounds.
"My son, oh my son!" an older man walks into the room.
"No, Éomer you must not stay here go so Arriël and Alexia may work" Malichi pushed the old man out. Alexia and Arriël worked all day tending to the men, they are not elven but mortal men. Malichi tells the girls that they are their allies, from Rhoan King Éomer came with them, to aide the small village.
All of the men have recovered except one, Éomer's son Cullen. He died from a deep wound close to his heart; a little to close internal bleeding was his death. Arriël crying on him remembering earlier when he had this fear in his eye's the fear of death. Arriël asked him if he knew the Lord and he replied yes, she told him no matter what. That he is always with him, he was at peace and fell asleep, she talked to Éomer. Asking him about his earlier years in Middle-Earth trying to get his mind off of his son's condition. It didn't work he asked Arriël to check on his son's condition. Walking into the room and discovering he died in his sleep, and now she has to tell him that he's lost his only son.
Knocking on the door. "Éomer," Arriël walks in finding him sitting on his chair near the fire place, not looking at her just staring into the golden flames. On bended knees I hold his hands. "My lord your son is dead? My lord? Éomer?" She said slowly shaking his hands crying.
"Will you not go to be with him, will you do nothing?" Arriël asked crying harder kissing his hands. Feeling small tears fall onto her head looking up to see his eye's full of tears. She hugged him tightly as he sobbed louder.
"Sh . . . It's alright he died peacefully in his sleep. I have already had the others dig a grave for him. We will give him an honorable ceremony. One to honor him as he should be honored. I have already changed him in his royal tunic, his battle weapons lye with him." Arriël said getting up.
"Come all we need now is you" she said grabbing his hand. Legolas, Aragorn, Malichi, Talther carry out Cullen in his glass case. Arriël and Alexia lower him down into his grave throwing beautiful flowers down. Crying her tears hitting the glass case, the small liquid diamonds stain the glass. The day passes on, there's nothing to smile about there's too much death around. Frodo although has awaken and is fully healed.
Arriël awoke in the morning and dressed in her tunic, as well as Alexia they wake the small hobbits and get breakfast. "Namarië Malichi, take care of our people, we will meet again, and this I promise I will not fail you all" she said hugging him.
"I know my queen," he said kissing my palm. "Alexia you must be strong much will happen in these short days do not fall to easily" he said hugging her and kissing her palm. "I give you these, our own elven arrows, and daggers made by our people. To you Arriël the bow your mother used. Alexia the sword your father wielded" Malichi gave us the girls gifts. They left tears streaming down their cheeks. "And one more weapon we thought you might like Arriël." Malichi brings out a giant boomerang with leather wrapped around each end and leather handles to throw it. Along with a longer strap to go around her body.
"This thing is awesome, I love it." Arriël said smiling it is about seven tall if it stretched out, but since it curves, it is only about a good five.
"It was made from the bone of Smug the dragon killed many years ago," he said looking it up and down.