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Chapter1:
Arien awoke to strange voices in her room talking barely above a whisper. She could not hear what they said but knew they should not be here. Opening her eyes slowly, she saw it was still dark. Sometime in the middle of the night. As her eyes adjusted to the darkness she could make out the outline of three figures. The three start walking towards her and the one nearest to her spoke, this time she could make out what he said and who he was. It was her Uncle.
"Hurry and take her, she will awaken soon." Her Uncles voice snapped. Hearing these words Arien slowly moved her right hand up under her pillow where she kept her dagger. Her fingers found it and slowly wrapped around the hilt/handle of the dagger.
"We do not normally take Queens. Someone will regonise her." A voice she did not regonise spoke.
"Put her in rags and some dirt upon her face and no one will distinguish her. And if they do, think of the high price you will get for her." He uncle spoke again.
"I'm not sure.."
"I will pay you extra if you take her now and do not speak another word."
There was a silence. Suddenly two pairs of hands came down on to Arien. Her hand that held the dagger was grapped and the knife fell to the ground with a loud clang. Frightened, Arien struggled, the hands only gripped tighter, until suddenly everything went black.
"Be quiet Aragorn." Legolas hushed his friend. "Will you stop sniggering they will hear us. Ok on my count. One, two, three." And with that the two buckets the friends had been holding where turned over and their contents spilled on top of the unsuspecting brothers. There where two identical howls and the brothers jumped out of bed.
"Run!" Shouted Aragorn throwing his bucket at Elrohir, Legolas did the same to Elladan and they both ran laughing from the room as fast as they could.
A half hour later in the dining hall, Aragorn and Legolas where getting their first lecture of Legolas' visit.
"You could not even wait one day? Why must it have been in the middle of the first night?" Lord Elrond was questioning as the two friends tried to hide their smirks.
"Ada, if we had not struck last night, they would have beaten us to it. You know this." Aragorn answered trying not to laugh.
"Estel. I think you and Legolas need to go away for a while." Lord Elrond sat to the surprise of the friends.
"But Ada, it was only a bit of water."
"Estel it was two buckets full of water. But that is beside the point. I was going to ask you two to do this for me in a few days, but there is no time like the present. Especially since the twins retalliation will no doubt envolve a lot of mess and noise."
"How long will it take?" Asked Aragorn.
"Do not worry you will be gone and back again within two weeks. I want you to go check on Princess Arien, she has lost her mother and has no family left. She is to be crowned Queen within the week and I do not trust her uncle. There is something about him I do not like. Quite frankly I fear for her safety."
"Of course Ada. We will leave after breakfast." Estel answered while Legolas nodded in agreement.
Two hours later the two friends left in high spirits. Not only because they would get to spend more time together but also the face of disappointed both Elladan and Elrohir had worn when they were told they were going had caused them to smile knowing they had some time before they would have to face the twins a rath.
A/N: You will have to forgive any spelling mistakes. My Microsoft Word is broken and I am using some other one that has no spell check. Also I am back to school next Tuesday so if my updates are slow I apologise. I am in my last year and doing my Leaving Cert so I'll be kept busy with homework. Please review, thanks!