(Hello all, I am currently listening to The Cranberries, I don't know if
anyone out there has ever heard them but they are really good. Anyway I
have been reading fanfics for around three hours this morning, so now I am
going to carry on writing this one, here it is, enjoy.)
Chapter 6
In Which Legolas Exacts Revenge
"Well as you all know Estel here isn't the most graceful of beings. Hence his title of Lord of Impeccable Timing, and an event that occurred on one of his visits to Mirkwood proved this.
Now on this visit Aragorn had been staying for a couple of weeks before this affair happened. One day we had gone hunting and we returned back to the palace rather late, late enough to miss dinner and in fact everyone had gone to bed by the time we got back which meant that ada had to get up and open the gates for us.
This fact made him cross enough, and he had also been worried that we hadn't returned by nightfall as planned so therefore, as a punishment for both of these factors he said we weren't to have any dinner and were to go straight to bed.
This didn't really bother me, after all elves can last a long time without food but with humans it is a different matter. Estel was especially put out by this order because not only is he a human he was worn out by the days activities and so was particularly hungry at the time. He didn't dare argue with my father though, it was obvious to everyone that he wasn't in a good mood, and instead he went of to bed without objecting.
At the time I thought it was rather strange, he was obviously hungry, but as I was rather tired I didn't question him on it and went to bed instead. Now I'm sorry I didn't, if I had persuaded father to give him some food maybe it wouldn't have happened, ah well it did happen and it was really rather funny."
"For you maybe" Aragorn cut in sulkily "I didn't find it at all humorous"
"You wouldn't though would you, considering you are the object of the humour"
The human was about to protest when Elladan cut in hastily
"Yes, well, let's not argue about it now, I think we all want to hear the rest of the tale"
Nodding in agreement Legolas continued talking, ignoring the glares sent in his direction by the young Dúnedan.
"Well after the affair happened, I questioned Aragorn on what took place and this is what he told me. He had waited a while until he thought that everyone was asleep and then he had made his way down to the kitchens, careful not to disturb anyone.
On upon reaching the kitchens he had two choices. He could either eat something that had already been cooked and prepared, or he could choose the difficult option and cook something from fresh. Well being Estel he of course chose the difficult way and decided that he didn't like any of the prepared food and wanted to cook something else.
He started off easily enough, finding the ingredients he wanted and preparing them without difficulty but when he started cooking them, his impeccable timing kicked off and disaster struck.
He started the oven up to cook the meat and had put it inside to cook. Next he turned round to get a saucepan to cook some vegetables, not noticing the fact that his arm was dangling over the flame. Well I say he didn't notice, as soon as his sleeve caught fire and started spreading up his arm he noticed it quickly enough.
Needless to say he panicked and started running around trying to put the fire out. In fact he only succeeded in spreading it around the room until half the kitchen was aflame. It was only after this had happened that he remembered the saucepan of water that he had been using and stuck his arm into it, managing to put out the flames. As he looked around the kitchen though, his panicked returned as he noticed the roaring flames that were threatening to consume the area, and most likely the rest of the palace.
Well first he tried chucking the saucepan over the flames, but they were much too big for that to help at all, so then he tried blowing on them. That however just made the flames bigger and so, giving up on solving the problem himself and so avoiding getting into trouble, he ran out into the corridor yelling "FIRE" at the top of his voice.
This served to wake us all up pretty quickly and everyone rushed out of their rooms, surveying in horror at the flames that were spreading out of the kitchen.
We all grabbed whatever supplies of water we could find and started to put the fire out. We managed to quench the flames without much difficulty, and on surveying the damage we discovered that it wasn't that bad. Then my father began to ask about who was responsible. You should have seen how quickly Estel paled before admitting that it was him, and then you should have heard the lecture he was given, it lasted for several hours and my father's voice was hoarse by the end of it. And then when my father had finished Estel provided yet another sensation by fainting, it turned out that he had burnt it extremely badly when he had set it on fire. Needless to say Estel kept out my father's way for a long time after that"
Legolas finished his story and looked around, beaming at the reaction he had caused. The other elves were all laughing manically at Estel's expense and the human was sitting there muttering various curses under his breath in numerous languages.
"Well" Legolas asked "Who wants to tell the next story?"
"I will" Haldir said, grinning and looking in the twin's direction.
The aforementioned elves looked at each other worriedly, wondering who was to be Halidir's victim. They didn't have to wonder long as the blond haired elf's grin widened and he said.
"This story happened to Elladan when he was dropping of a message from Lord Elrond to his grandparents, I don't think any of you know about it because none of you where in Lorien when it happened, not even you Arwen."
Elladan groaned, knowing exactly what story Haldir had in mind, he also knew however that there would be no dissuading the elf and resignedly he sat back, waiting for him to begin.
After Elladan's groan subsided Haldir bent forward and began, eyes twinkling with mirth at the memory.
(Well there you are, remember any ideas for stories will be much appreciated.)
Chapter 6
In Which Legolas Exacts Revenge
"Well as you all know Estel here isn't the most graceful of beings. Hence his title of Lord of Impeccable Timing, and an event that occurred on one of his visits to Mirkwood proved this.
Now on this visit Aragorn had been staying for a couple of weeks before this affair happened. One day we had gone hunting and we returned back to the palace rather late, late enough to miss dinner and in fact everyone had gone to bed by the time we got back which meant that ada had to get up and open the gates for us.
This fact made him cross enough, and he had also been worried that we hadn't returned by nightfall as planned so therefore, as a punishment for both of these factors he said we weren't to have any dinner and were to go straight to bed.
This didn't really bother me, after all elves can last a long time without food but with humans it is a different matter. Estel was especially put out by this order because not only is he a human he was worn out by the days activities and so was particularly hungry at the time. He didn't dare argue with my father though, it was obvious to everyone that he wasn't in a good mood, and instead he went of to bed without objecting.
At the time I thought it was rather strange, he was obviously hungry, but as I was rather tired I didn't question him on it and went to bed instead. Now I'm sorry I didn't, if I had persuaded father to give him some food maybe it wouldn't have happened, ah well it did happen and it was really rather funny."
"For you maybe" Aragorn cut in sulkily "I didn't find it at all humorous"
"You wouldn't though would you, considering you are the object of the humour"
The human was about to protest when Elladan cut in hastily
"Yes, well, let's not argue about it now, I think we all want to hear the rest of the tale"
Nodding in agreement Legolas continued talking, ignoring the glares sent in his direction by the young Dúnedan.
"Well after the affair happened, I questioned Aragorn on what took place and this is what he told me. He had waited a while until he thought that everyone was asleep and then he had made his way down to the kitchens, careful not to disturb anyone.
On upon reaching the kitchens he had two choices. He could either eat something that had already been cooked and prepared, or he could choose the difficult option and cook something from fresh. Well being Estel he of course chose the difficult way and decided that he didn't like any of the prepared food and wanted to cook something else.
He started off easily enough, finding the ingredients he wanted and preparing them without difficulty but when he started cooking them, his impeccable timing kicked off and disaster struck.
He started the oven up to cook the meat and had put it inside to cook. Next he turned round to get a saucepan to cook some vegetables, not noticing the fact that his arm was dangling over the flame. Well I say he didn't notice, as soon as his sleeve caught fire and started spreading up his arm he noticed it quickly enough.
Needless to say he panicked and started running around trying to put the fire out. In fact he only succeeded in spreading it around the room until half the kitchen was aflame. It was only after this had happened that he remembered the saucepan of water that he had been using and stuck his arm into it, managing to put out the flames. As he looked around the kitchen though, his panicked returned as he noticed the roaring flames that were threatening to consume the area, and most likely the rest of the palace.
Well first he tried chucking the saucepan over the flames, but they were much too big for that to help at all, so then he tried blowing on them. That however just made the flames bigger and so, giving up on solving the problem himself and so avoiding getting into trouble, he ran out into the corridor yelling "FIRE" at the top of his voice.
This served to wake us all up pretty quickly and everyone rushed out of their rooms, surveying in horror at the flames that were spreading out of the kitchen.
We all grabbed whatever supplies of water we could find and started to put the fire out. We managed to quench the flames without much difficulty, and on surveying the damage we discovered that it wasn't that bad. Then my father began to ask about who was responsible. You should have seen how quickly Estel paled before admitting that it was him, and then you should have heard the lecture he was given, it lasted for several hours and my father's voice was hoarse by the end of it. And then when my father had finished Estel provided yet another sensation by fainting, it turned out that he had burnt it extremely badly when he had set it on fire. Needless to say Estel kept out my father's way for a long time after that"
Legolas finished his story and looked around, beaming at the reaction he had caused. The other elves were all laughing manically at Estel's expense and the human was sitting there muttering various curses under his breath in numerous languages.
"Well" Legolas asked "Who wants to tell the next story?"
"I will" Haldir said, grinning and looking in the twin's direction.
The aforementioned elves looked at each other worriedly, wondering who was to be Halidir's victim. They didn't have to wonder long as the blond haired elf's grin widened and he said.
"This story happened to Elladan when he was dropping of a message from Lord Elrond to his grandparents, I don't think any of you know about it because none of you where in Lorien when it happened, not even you Arwen."
Elladan groaned, knowing exactly what story Haldir had in mind, he also knew however that there would be no dissuading the elf and resignedly he sat back, waiting for him to begin.
After Elladan's groan subsided Haldir bent forward and began, eyes twinkling with mirth at the memory.
(Well there you are, remember any ideas for stories will be much appreciated.)