Disclaimer: Don't own LotR… wish I did though. *sigh*

A/N: It is probably full of mistakes as I haven't had any time to go over it but I need to get it up. This is my last free hour before more company comes. There will be fourteen people at my house. ARGH!! I had company last week too or this would have been up a bit faster. Before that was the week of tests and parties, my last year before high school exams. On a side note I have seen RotK two times and if you haven't seen it yet you're missing out.

Chapter 6

"Elladan! We're done! Let's go!" Elrohir said, poking his twin in the stomach. "Let's go check on Kira and Kali. I bet those two squirts aren't even in their pajamas yet. Come on, we can catch them and get them back for giving us out first manure duty in 382 years."

"You keep track?"

"I did. With them around, we'll be getting it a lot more often, to be sure." Elladan pushed open the door. What the twins saw made them stop in their tracks. Rather, it was what they didn't see.

Instead of two little black-haired heads lying on the pillows there was only empty space. The twins frantically searched the room. Finding nothing, they looked in all the rooms in that hall. When that search proved fruitless, they raced back to the Hall of Fire. Elrond spotted them and frowned. The twins would never come back to the Hall of Fire of their own free will unless something was seriously wrong. "Father?" Elladan said. "Something is seriously wrong. The girls have disappeared."

Elrond groaned inwardly. He turned to the rest of the elves, who were now all watching his curiously. "I'm sorry to say that I have a problem that must be taken care of at once. I must as your forgiveness for my abrupt leaving." He left the Halls with Elladan, Elrohir, and Arwen on his heels. His children heard him distinctly mutter, "Gandalf is going to be very displeased."

Once outside, Elrond turned to his children. "When did you last see them?"

It was Arwen who answered. "I took cookies to them and sent them to bed at dusk."

"You took COOKIES            to them?" Elrohir asked, incredulously.  

Arwen sent a death glare at him.

"OKAY! I get the point!"

"Stop that!" Elrond snapped, "Arwen, go get Glorfindel and Erestor. Arwen left at a fast walk.

Elrohir yelled after her, "Can't you go any faster than a turtle?!"

Arwen sent another death glare his way.

Elladan said, "Dear brother, I do believe that she is trying to kill you today."

"Children! Stop bickering!" Elrond snapped. "Elladan and Elrohir go outside and search there. I will be searching the house." The twins ran outside to start looking. Elrond started walking towards Arwen and his advisors, who met him halfway.

"Arwen," Elrond said to his daughter, "go outside help your brothers." Arwen started off and Elrond called after her, "please don't get in a fight with them or anything stupid like that."

Once she was outside Elrond turned to his advisors who were looking at him with expressions of barely concealed curiosity.

"What is going on," asked Glorfindel, the tall blond and blue-eyed elf was Elrond's most trusted advisor and the only one allowed to even think of questioning any of the elf lord's decisions.

"I would also like to know what is going on," Erestor said. He was the second most important advisor after Glorfindel. The brown-haired and hazel-eyed elf was very young compared to Glorfindel and Elrond but was very well informed on all matters of the world. Elladan and Elrohir considered him no fun at all and very pompous because he was very formal around the Lord of Rivendell's family.

"It's complicated," Elrond said.

"Try us," was Glorfindel's replied.  

Elrond sighed, " Do you know of the Legend of the Warriors?" The two elves nodded. "Gandalf and I believe Kira and Kali are it," Elrond said," he entrusted them to me in a letter. Gandalf and Rona should have been here a while ago, but now they are missing."

"Who's Rona," Erestor asked.

"One of the hidden Istari," Glorfindel answered, "If they are lost than we must start looking.

"Yes I am aware of that," Elrond said. "Elladan, Elrohir, and Arwen are outside.  We are going to search inside the house. Glorfindel take the west side, Erestor you take the north, and I will take the south and east. Don't forget to look in any small spaces they could fit in many small spaces that we can not fit in ourselves."  The three elves went their ways to look for the girls.

Morning approached and still none of the six elves had found any sides of the missing girls. Some hours later all of them heard two horses gallop into Rivendell. Elrond hurried to the front courtyard with all of them close behind. The sight they saw was not a welcome one to Elrond.

Sitting on top of the horses were two Istari. One was an old man with gray hair in a gray cloak. In his hand was a brown staff. The other was a woman who looked to be around thirty-five. She had dark brown hair and dark green eyes with a hint of blue. She wore a dark blue cloak. In her hand was a brown staff similar to Gandalf's except that had intricate designs all over it.  

"I welcome you Gandalf the Gray and Rona," Elrond said graciously.

 "Out with it Elrond," Gandalf said,  "What is wrong?"

"Well," Elrond said nervously, "Kira and Kali are missing."

"What!" Gandalf said angrily, "Elrond you mindless simpleton!! If SHE finds them than I'll fry you over pit filled with boiling oil."

"Can you do that even if they are safe," Elrohir asked, "That would be very interesting." He received a stern glare from his father in return for his comment.

"My dear brother," Elladan whispered, "It would be wise to refrain from making any more comments like that for a while until father isn't in danger of being decapitated. Now lets watch father get scolded."