Daughter of the King Chapter 5

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Legolas began to wake to a bright sun beating down on him. His eyes shot open as he realized where he was and who he was next to well suppose to be next to. He looked around and the horses were gone and so was Arethen.

"What the hell?" he asked as he turned around in circles using his elf eyes to see if he could find them.

"I should have known that girl was not what I thought! Why did I like-" he was cut of by a voice saying, "Why did you like what?"

"Arethen?" Legolas spoke blushing as he turned around.

"The one and only. Now we have a problem." She said as she dismounted her horse.

"Wait where is Brethan?" He realized his Brown mare was not anywhere to be seen.

"That would be the problem, I woke up and she was gone. You were sleeping like a baby, again, and so I went to go look for her but I could not find her. Now we can do 2 things. One into the next village we pass we buy another horse or two we rise together the rest of the way and in the next village we get blankets for us and so some food, I have Money but not enough for both." She said as she walked to the lake and keeled down to splashing water in her face to cool off.

"Let's think," He paused and sat down next to her, "if we get another horse we will freeze or we will die of hunger if we don't find food. But if we buy food and blankets we could use Regotho's speed to get to Rivendell even faster," he thought out loud. She sat back as Regotho pushed her out of the way to get some water.

"Plan 2 it is then," he said as he got up. She followed closely with an evil grin on her face. Legolas hopped on grabbed the reins and then leaned down holding out his hand to a still grinning Arethen. She slowly took a step back then he gave her a confused look.

Legolas did not notice that the white stallion mussels tighten under him. As in slow motion Regotho's back legs lifted from under the blond, who was totally oblivious to the fact of what was going on and not expecting the horse to buck him sent him flying towards the lake.

Arethen was balling she was laughing so hard. Legolas came up for a huge gasp of hair. He saw her rolling on the ground laughing. He slowly got out of the water with out her noticing and sneaked up behind her.

He reached down and picked her up hugging her to his chest. He had one hand in the middle of the back and the other band under her knees. This made her stop laughing.

"You knew that Regotho was going to do that?" He asked as she looked into the wet male's eyes and started to laugh and nodded.

"Well Arethen, I think you need to cool down." With that said Legolas took off toward the water. Once he was about waist deep he used his strength and threw her outward. She screamed the whole way until she splashed into the water.

Bubbles were blasting up through the water where she went under. After a couple of second passed and Legolas began to worry she had would not come up.

"Arethen?" he yelled out. He swam over to where the last of the tiny bubbles were beginning to fade away in the dark blue water.

"ARETHEN!?" he yelled again. Suddenly claws went into his left leg around his ankle. Legolas screamed and put his hand around the thing that had it claws in him, and pulled up swiftly. To his relief it was a soaking wet Arethen who was laughing and gasping for breath when she could. After a couple of minutes of claming her breath, she and him walked to the shore in silence. Once on the shore Arethen finally spoke, " You know you scream like a girl."

"Do not." he smiled.

"Do to." She argued back.

They fought for a good 30 minutes and laughed at what happen.

"So he only lets you ride him?" he asked.

"No he only lets me and my friends ride him." she stated.

"I thought you were my friend."

"You are but you see when Regotho does that bucking thing to people, it means that he like you, now he won't do that to you anymore." She explained as she pulled the reins of the white stallion. "Get on."

Legolas hesitated for a minute. He slowly walked over to the horse and put his leg in the stirrup and threw his other leg over. He stood up for just to make sure that horse fully trusted him. Then after a few seconds he slowly sat down. The horse gave a small grunt of approval. Arethen handed Legolas the reins and walked over to the side of the horse, and started to try and get on the horse until, a creamy white hand was held out in her face.

She looked up and saw Legolas smiling down at her. She took hold of his hand and held on as he pulled her up. She threw her leg over the horse, as the elf said, "Hang on."

With that Legolas lightly put pressure on the horse's side and Regotho start to walk off away from the lake. "BOREING!" the girl yelled, "Only one horse now, lets go! HANG ON!" she said. She put her arms around his waist then leaned again his back. She leaned to the side so she could be near her horse's ear.

"Show me Regotho. Show me your speed. Show us the meaning of haste. Go!" she whispered into the horses hear so softly Legolas could barely hear, but then again Legolas could barely concentrate on already because the person who he liked had their chest against his back!

The horse pulled back a little ten took off giving the still distracted Legolas whiplash, as Arethen laughed at him. Legolas held on tighter as Him and the Daughter of the King rode to the next village.

To be continued...

----Author Note----

Okay- Ahh! At Grandmother's house, not having fun, very bored, try to update again soon! REVIEW PLEASE!!