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Setting: The next day after the end of Kings and Princes. Summary: A copmletely and utterly pointless little fic that i wrote while under the influence of insanity. Legolas and Aradel are camping and find a little something that scares the crap out of 'em. :D
New Beginnings
Legolas and Aradel had set up camp at the very edge of some uncharted forest. They had already eaten and were now 'snuggling' beside it. She was leaning against him and his arm was around her.
"How long do you think it will be until we reach Rivendell?" she asked just for the sake of conversation.
"Oh, say two weeks. If the weather holds out with this lovely sunshine." He replied tilting his head up towards the clear sky, dotted with stars.
"I hate the confounded sunshine." She commented argumentatively. "I want it to rain. Legolas make it rain."
"Alright I'll just go to Ulmo and ask him to make it rain for some whiny little girl. I'm sure he'll be ecstatic." His voice was practically dripping with sarcasm and his eyes rolled to match.
"Thank you that would be lovely." She grinned brightly and he smacked her lightly on the head making her frown mockingly before nestling her head back into his chest.
"Why are you being so close?" he asked suddenly. "Just out of curiosity."
"Because I feel like. You have a problem you can go. Go on, leave." She replied prissily. Then her expression turned darker. "If you dare." She then laughed with an evil hint to it, which in turn made him laugh.
"You are completely insane."
"We've already gone over this about a million times, Legolas, if I explain one more time I'm afraid I will have to kill you all."
"All?"
"You and the little flying, sparkly dwarves hovering around your head." She grinned at the expression on his face. "And where is this forest you speak of. I can't see it for there are too many trees in the way!"
"You're being crazy on purpose, just to irritate me aren't you?" he asked dully.
"Yes, quite." She grinned again, wider this time, her face flickering in the firelight.
He sighed dejectedly and gave her a quick squeeze before getting up and stretching. "I shall retire for the night at this point, we shall rise again at dawn."
She laughed. "Yea, good luck with that, Legolas. I'll probably punch you in the face when you try to wake me up at dawn."
"Very well. We shall rise again when you get your lazy butt up. Then we'll hunt for breakfast, then eat breakfast then…"
"We need not a play by play Legolas, though thank you for the offer, I think I'll go to bed as well." So she lay down where she was and, quite comfortably and quickly, fell asleep with amusing dreams of Legolas in pink things.
He sighed again, though this time in contentment. As her breathing slowed to a slow steady pace and her eyes began to flicker as they did when she slept. She really was beautiful, he wonder why he hadn't noticed before. Probably all the annoying idiotic attitude attached to it.
Realizing then that he had been watching her sleep for over five minutes (surely a minute more and she would be calling him a perverted sleep watcher for weeks) he took out his sleeping blanket and went quickly to a sleep of relaxation and rest.
The next morning Legolas as predicted woke up hours before Aradel and had to prod her quite forcibly to get her up.
"Come on, if we want to get there on time you have to get up now!" he grunted in annoyance after poking her for the hundredth time. Finally getting fed up he took a sharp stick and dug it hard, though not piercing the skin, into her side.
She sprung up and in one fluid motion grabbed the stick and smacked him over the head with it. "What in Valar's name was that for?! You could have just poked me you know."
Rubbing his head where the stick hit he replied, "I tried that for about an hour. You are a deep sleeper."
Instead of dignifying that with an answer she stood up and stretched her tired muscles before sitting back down and taking the plate of breakfast the blond elf had prepared before hand.
They started to eat without words, though with fake angry and amused looks, for the first couple of minutes before Legolas broke that silence. "Can I see your ears?"
"Is that some sort of fetish of yours?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.
He laughed. "No. Ever since I met you, you've been hiding them but now that I know you are indeed an Elf I thought I could see them pointed."
She sighed and pulled back her hair revealing her elegantly pointed ears. They were also slightly paler than the rest of her face, from being covered the majority of the time.
"Now that I know, you do look a lot like Galadriel. I noticed a little bit before but I didn't pay any attention to it." He commented.
"I see."
"I still don't understand the whole concept of why Celeborn and yourself are having this feud."
"It's not a simply feud, Legolas, it runs deep within my veins and I'm pretty sure his as well." She answered monotonously. "It's not the kind of thing you would understand."
"Please. Even if I do not understand I will do my best to look like I do." He pleaded with those cursed puppy-dog eyes of his.
She took one look at him and smiled. "Fine. It all started when my sister, Celebrian, I believe you used to know of her by reputation, died in an orc attack." She went on to explain how the whole thing came to be, how close they used to be, how vicious they are now, and how she had to move out of her own home to get away from him.
When she was finished he was staring at her blankly like she was speaking dwarfish. He nodded slowly to acknowledge that he noticed she was finished.
"You don't get it at all do you?"
"No, not really."
"I told you that you wouldn't understand."
"I believed you."
"Are those all the questions you have, or are you further interested in prying into my personal life?"
"I must pry. Elaborate on the 'inheriting you mother's mind' idea for me. Please." He added with a bright smile and he started to pack up all their stuff, with no help whatsoever from Aradel who was still not yet fully awake.
She sighed. "It's exactly as it was before. I know what you're thinking if it's being emphasized in your mind. As for telling the future I have had no such burden to bare."
"Lucky you." He said absent mindedly, while packing up the stuff that they would need. "So are we going to have any crazy wild adventures like we used to have? I miss those, it seems like the only fun thing we've done lately has been in one big group. I like the small things we used to do."
"I agree. We should have more small adventures but it seems like I've run out of ideas on how to annoy you!" she said looking shocked.
"Such a miracle I would have thought never possible." He exclaimed nonchalantly. "Take this." He said just before roughly shoving a pack full of stuff into her. He then mounted his gleaming horse and she followed suit quickly afterward.
"And I didn't get anything for you." She replied sarcastically.
"Tragic."
"Oh, shut up, you're just grumpy because you didn't get as much sleep as you're used to."
"Probably." She scowled and he laughed, then they both started to walk briskly towards the rising sun.
"Why do we have to walk towards the sun?" Aradel asked, squinting her eyes to make the glare go away.
"It's the fastest way to Rivendell. Do you want to spend a month trying to get there?"
"No. Mother."
"If I was your mother…" he said threateningly shaking his fist menacingly. That apparently was funny because just then she burst out laughing hard. When she was finished, which took about ten minutes, they hadn't changed but she continued to scowl at the sun viciously attacking her eyes.
The trees loomed tall over the two as they walked, as the sun slowly moved behind them basking Legolas and Aradel in cool shadows. The day seemed like an eternity after only one or two hours because of lack of conversation. The rolling green hills and flawless countryside proved far less interesting than they had anticipated. By midday they felt they need a break for lunch.
"The days now just keep going on, don't they?" she said plopping down on the ground before the small fire Legolas had prepared for cooking sausages given to them by the Hobbits.
"Yes. I suppose it's the vast loss of numbers in our group. When Aragorn, Gimli, or even Merry was here it was almost effortless to come up with conversation. Sometimes when not need as well."
"I find that good conversation is hard to come by these days. This generation is way to lax about manners and etiquette."
"I agree. No sense of what a good conversation sounds like." He said with a nod. "In fact I think I'm starting to forget, since I haven't had a conversation in a while." At this point he chose to glare pointedly in Aradel's direction.
She looked offended. "We're having a conversation right now, you can't blame your lack of interesting thought on me!"
"I will if I please." He replied sticking his nose in the air melodramatically.
"And I will murder you and hide your chopped up carcass in the forest. I am a little bit morbid."
"Magical."
"Isn't it just?"
"No."
She stuck out her tongue at him, making her seem extremely childish.
"Why am I dating you again?"
"Because you love me." She informed him with a grin.
"Oh yea." He put the sausages on the frying pan he had put on the fire during their conversation and started to prod them.
"We're not a terribly romantic couple are we?" she asked interestedly.
"No." he said. "I don't think it would half as much fun as it is if we were."
She was about to reply when her head pricked up and turned to the forest to their backs. He noticed she was more tense than usual, like she was when she was hearing something from afar but if she was he should have heard it as well.
"What is it?" she stopped him with her hand as she got up and walked slowly, carefully towards whatever it was she was sensing. With a small twist of her chocolate coloured hair she looked over at him and pointed to her bow then waved at herself. He got the idea and silently as an owl in the middle of the night handed it to her all the time with his in his own.
She put up three fingers and started to slowly count them down. On one they simultaneously burst through the thick bushes and drew their bows. Behind the bushes they found a big empty clearing encased with large trees and one solitary bush in the middle. And it rustled. Solitary bushes in the middle of a clearing, with no people around for miles, no wind don't shake that way.
"Show your self!" Legolas said in a raised voice, just below yelling level.
"You heard the blond one!" Aradel exclaimed after a minutes, earning herself a glare from him. "Show yourself. We'll only ask once more!"
The bush rustled again, every so slightly. They again more violently. The two Elves exchanged glances. "Show yourself. Final warning!"
No response. Both archers shot an arrow, one green, one blue, into each side of the dense bush piercing it right through. They heard no sound, not a squeal or whimper of pain, or even a thud.
"Did we kill it?" Aradel asked inching her way closer to the bush.
"I don't know but I certainly hope so." Legolas replied not far behind her.
They stopped just in front of the mysterious shrubbery. Aradel looked at her companion. "Well? Aren't you going to look behind?"
He looked surprised. "What if it's some injured animal ready to strike and kill us all?"
"I thought you were supposed to be some sort of hardened warrior."
"That doesn't stop me from being somewhat afraid of giant animals waiting for their prey behind a small bush."
"Fine, I'll do it if you're going to be a baby about it." She said prissily taking a step forward and parting the bush where she was sticking her head.
Legolas waited behind her craning his neck to see without getting to close. Suddenly she let out a blood curdling scream and withdrew from the bush so quickly that she fell back right on her bottom.
"Valar! Are you OK? What was it?" he dropped down to her side trying to read her expression. It took him a while to realize that her expression was hilarity and she laughing so hard that she couldn't at this time move a muscle. Other than her heart of course.
"You should have seen the look on your face!" she choked, eventually, when her laughing had died down.
"I don't get it! What was behind there?!" he asked in annoyance and concern for his own safety. She was not known for great ability to assess risk levels.
"Go look for yourself." She suggested still laying face up on the dirt. He glared then without a word stood up and cautiously approached the bush.
He slowly and carefully parted the green plant and poked his head in a little to get a tiny peak at whatever it was. When he saw it he gasped in surprise and disappointment at himself. He turned back to Aradel who had gotten herself up and coordinated.
"Let's go." He said simply, and started walking back out and in the general direction of Rivendell. With a smile and a backward glance Aradel followed. That glance was directed at the bush where behind it a small bird, a robin, lay impaled by two arrows. One blue and one green.
The End
A/N: Well that was completely and utterly pointless (if you didn't read the summary, which you should have). There's a little joke in there, hidden somewhere. When Legolas said. "If i was your mother..." that not an inside joke exactly but only certain people will no what it means. It's a song by Bon Jovi, and i did the same thing to my friend and i started laughing histerically and she didn't get it. Just a little point of interest. Sorry i haven't updated, school and all, give me ideas. Nehoo, bye-bye!:D
kougayurizoku: Thanks! I don't have time for long responses right now but i am definatly going to continue the series. If i didn't what would my life revolve around?
Sapphire Dragon: Wow thanks, I love the word magnificent! Don't ask why i just do.
Setting: The next day after the end of Kings and Princes. Summary: A copmletely and utterly pointless little fic that i wrote while under the influence of insanity. Legolas and Aradel are camping and find a little something that scares the crap out of 'em. :D
New Beginnings
Legolas and Aradel had set up camp at the very edge of some uncharted forest. They had already eaten and were now 'snuggling' beside it. She was leaning against him and his arm was around her.
"How long do you think it will be until we reach Rivendell?" she asked just for the sake of conversation.
"Oh, say two weeks. If the weather holds out with this lovely sunshine." He replied tilting his head up towards the clear sky, dotted with stars.
"I hate the confounded sunshine." She commented argumentatively. "I want it to rain. Legolas make it rain."
"Alright I'll just go to Ulmo and ask him to make it rain for some whiny little girl. I'm sure he'll be ecstatic." His voice was practically dripping with sarcasm and his eyes rolled to match.
"Thank you that would be lovely." She grinned brightly and he smacked her lightly on the head making her frown mockingly before nestling her head back into his chest.
"Why are you being so close?" he asked suddenly. "Just out of curiosity."
"Because I feel like. You have a problem you can go. Go on, leave." She replied prissily. Then her expression turned darker. "If you dare." She then laughed with an evil hint to it, which in turn made him laugh.
"You are completely insane."
"We've already gone over this about a million times, Legolas, if I explain one more time I'm afraid I will have to kill you all."
"All?"
"You and the little flying, sparkly dwarves hovering around your head." She grinned at the expression on his face. "And where is this forest you speak of. I can't see it for there are too many trees in the way!"
"You're being crazy on purpose, just to irritate me aren't you?" he asked dully.
"Yes, quite." She grinned again, wider this time, her face flickering in the firelight.
He sighed dejectedly and gave her a quick squeeze before getting up and stretching. "I shall retire for the night at this point, we shall rise again at dawn."
She laughed. "Yea, good luck with that, Legolas. I'll probably punch you in the face when you try to wake me up at dawn."
"Very well. We shall rise again when you get your lazy butt up. Then we'll hunt for breakfast, then eat breakfast then…"
"We need not a play by play Legolas, though thank you for the offer, I think I'll go to bed as well." So she lay down where she was and, quite comfortably and quickly, fell asleep with amusing dreams of Legolas in pink things.
He sighed again, though this time in contentment. As her breathing slowed to a slow steady pace and her eyes began to flicker as they did when she slept. She really was beautiful, he wonder why he hadn't noticed before. Probably all the annoying idiotic attitude attached to it.
Realizing then that he had been watching her sleep for over five minutes (surely a minute more and she would be calling him a perverted sleep watcher for weeks) he took out his sleeping blanket and went quickly to a sleep of relaxation and rest.
The next morning Legolas as predicted woke up hours before Aradel and had to prod her quite forcibly to get her up.
"Come on, if we want to get there on time you have to get up now!" he grunted in annoyance after poking her for the hundredth time. Finally getting fed up he took a sharp stick and dug it hard, though not piercing the skin, into her side.
She sprung up and in one fluid motion grabbed the stick and smacked him over the head with it. "What in Valar's name was that for?! You could have just poked me you know."
Rubbing his head where the stick hit he replied, "I tried that for about an hour. You are a deep sleeper."
Instead of dignifying that with an answer she stood up and stretched her tired muscles before sitting back down and taking the plate of breakfast the blond elf had prepared before hand.
They started to eat without words, though with fake angry and amused looks, for the first couple of minutes before Legolas broke that silence. "Can I see your ears?"
"Is that some sort of fetish of yours?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.
He laughed. "No. Ever since I met you, you've been hiding them but now that I know you are indeed an Elf I thought I could see them pointed."
She sighed and pulled back her hair revealing her elegantly pointed ears. They were also slightly paler than the rest of her face, from being covered the majority of the time.
"Now that I know, you do look a lot like Galadriel. I noticed a little bit before but I didn't pay any attention to it." He commented.
"I see."
"I still don't understand the whole concept of why Celeborn and yourself are having this feud."
"It's not a simply feud, Legolas, it runs deep within my veins and I'm pretty sure his as well." She answered monotonously. "It's not the kind of thing you would understand."
"Please. Even if I do not understand I will do my best to look like I do." He pleaded with those cursed puppy-dog eyes of his.
She took one look at him and smiled. "Fine. It all started when my sister, Celebrian, I believe you used to know of her by reputation, died in an orc attack." She went on to explain how the whole thing came to be, how close they used to be, how vicious they are now, and how she had to move out of her own home to get away from him.
When she was finished he was staring at her blankly like she was speaking dwarfish. He nodded slowly to acknowledge that he noticed she was finished.
"You don't get it at all do you?"
"No, not really."
"I told you that you wouldn't understand."
"I believed you."
"Are those all the questions you have, or are you further interested in prying into my personal life?"
"I must pry. Elaborate on the 'inheriting you mother's mind' idea for me. Please." He added with a bright smile and he started to pack up all their stuff, with no help whatsoever from Aradel who was still not yet fully awake.
She sighed. "It's exactly as it was before. I know what you're thinking if it's being emphasized in your mind. As for telling the future I have had no such burden to bare."
"Lucky you." He said absent mindedly, while packing up the stuff that they would need. "So are we going to have any crazy wild adventures like we used to have? I miss those, it seems like the only fun thing we've done lately has been in one big group. I like the small things we used to do."
"I agree. We should have more small adventures but it seems like I've run out of ideas on how to annoy you!" she said looking shocked.
"Such a miracle I would have thought never possible." He exclaimed nonchalantly. "Take this." He said just before roughly shoving a pack full of stuff into her. He then mounted his gleaming horse and she followed suit quickly afterward.
"And I didn't get anything for you." She replied sarcastically.
"Tragic."
"Oh, shut up, you're just grumpy because you didn't get as much sleep as you're used to."
"Probably." She scowled and he laughed, then they both started to walk briskly towards the rising sun.
"Why do we have to walk towards the sun?" Aradel asked, squinting her eyes to make the glare go away.
"It's the fastest way to Rivendell. Do you want to spend a month trying to get there?"
"No. Mother."
"If I was your mother…" he said threateningly shaking his fist menacingly. That apparently was funny because just then she burst out laughing hard. When she was finished, which took about ten minutes, they hadn't changed but she continued to scowl at the sun viciously attacking her eyes.
The trees loomed tall over the two as they walked, as the sun slowly moved behind them basking Legolas and Aradel in cool shadows. The day seemed like an eternity after only one or two hours because of lack of conversation. The rolling green hills and flawless countryside proved far less interesting than they had anticipated. By midday they felt they need a break for lunch.
"The days now just keep going on, don't they?" she said plopping down on the ground before the small fire Legolas had prepared for cooking sausages given to them by the Hobbits.
"Yes. I suppose it's the vast loss of numbers in our group. When Aragorn, Gimli, or even Merry was here it was almost effortless to come up with conversation. Sometimes when not need as well."
"I find that good conversation is hard to come by these days. This generation is way to lax about manners and etiquette."
"I agree. No sense of what a good conversation sounds like." He said with a nod. "In fact I think I'm starting to forget, since I haven't had a conversation in a while." At this point he chose to glare pointedly in Aradel's direction.
She looked offended. "We're having a conversation right now, you can't blame your lack of interesting thought on me!"
"I will if I please." He replied sticking his nose in the air melodramatically.
"And I will murder you and hide your chopped up carcass in the forest. I am a little bit morbid."
"Magical."
"Isn't it just?"
"No."
She stuck out her tongue at him, making her seem extremely childish.
"Why am I dating you again?"
"Because you love me." She informed him with a grin.
"Oh yea." He put the sausages on the frying pan he had put on the fire during their conversation and started to prod them.
"We're not a terribly romantic couple are we?" she asked interestedly.
"No." he said. "I don't think it would half as much fun as it is if we were."
She was about to reply when her head pricked up and turned to the forest to their backs. He noticed she was more tense than usual, like she was when she was hearing something from afar but if she was he should have heard it as well.
"What is it?" she stopped him with her hand as she got up and walked slowly, carefully towards whatever it was she was sensing. With a small twist of her chocolate coloured hair she looked over at him and pointed to her bow then waved at herself. He got the idea and silently as an owl in the middle of the night handed it to her all the time with his in his own.
She put up three fingers and started to slowly count them down. On one they simultaneously burst through the thick bushes and drew their bows. Behind the bushes they found a big empty clearing encased with large trees and one solitary bush in the middle. And it rustled. Solitary bushes in the middle of a clearing, with no people around for miles, no wind don't shake that way.
"Show your self!" Legolas said in a raised voice, just below yelling level.
"You heard the blond one!" Aradel exclaimed after a minutes, earning herself a glare from him. "Show yourself. We'll only ask once more!"
The bush rustled again, every so slightly. They again more violently. The two Elves exchanged glances. "Show yourself. Final warning!"
No response. Both archers shot an arrow, one green, one blue, into each side of the dense bush piercing it right through. They heard no sound, not a squeal or whimper of pain, or even a thud.
"Did we kill it?" Aradel asked inching her way closer to the bush.
"I don't know but I certainly hope so." Legolas replied not far behind her.
They stopped just in front of the mysterious shrubbery. Aradel looked at her companion. "Well? Aren't you going to look behind?"
He looked surprised. "What if it's some injured animal ready to strike and kill us all?"
"I thought you were supposed to be some sort of hardened warrior."
"That doesn't stop me from being somewhat afraid of giant animals waiting for their prey behind a small bush."
"Fine, I'll do it if you're going to be a baby about it." She said prissily taking a step forward and parting the bush where she was sticking her head.
Legolas waited behind her craning his neck to see without getting to close. Suddenly she let out a blood curdling scream and withdrew from the bush so quickly that she fell back right on her bottom.
"Valar! Are you OK? What was it?" he dropped down to her side trying to read her expression. It took him a while to realize that her expression was hilarity and she laughing so hard that she couldn't at this time move a muscle. Other than her heart of course.
"You should have seen the look on your face!" she choked, eventually, when her laughing had died down.
"I don't get it! What was behind there?!" he asked in annoyance and concern for his own safety. She was not known for great ability to assess risk levels.
"Go look for yourself." She suggested still laying face up on the dirt. He glared then without a word stood up and cautiously approached the bush.
He slowly and carefully parted the green plant and poked his head in a little to get a tiny peak at whatever it was. When he saw it he gasped in surprise and disappointment at himself. He turned back to Aradel who had gotten herself up and coordinated.
"Let's go." He said simply, and started walking back out and in the general direction of Rivendell. With a smile and a backward glance Aradel followed. That glance was directed at the bush where behind it a small bird, a robin, lay impaled by two arrows. One blue and one green.
The End
A/N: Well that was completely and utterly pointless (if you didn't read the summary, which you should have). There's a little joke in there, hidden somewhere. When Legolas said. "If i was your mother..." that not an inside joke exactly but only certain people will no what it means. It's a song by Bon Jovi, and i did the same thing to my friend and i started laughing histerically and she didn't get it. Just a little point of interest. Sorry i haven't updated, school and all, give me ideas. Nehoo, bye-bye!:D
kougayurizoku: Thanks! I don't have time for long responses right now but i am definatly going to continue the series. If i didn't what would my life revolve around?
Sapphire Dragon: Wow thanks, I love the word magnificent! Don't ask why i just do.