A/N: Sorry about the wait but when no one reviews its kinda depressing. Of course, there were like a gazillion projects I had to do (side note to readers never take all advanced courses they always give gigantic projects). Then my wonderful sister pulled the computer plug and killed the computer, which by the way is not a good thing to do, and my dad installed new and totally weird software which is very confusing. So that's my explanation, and then I was rather lazy. Anyway my co-writer wants a word. . .

MaquedenEvenstar speaking We're back! Finally! :) Rightey-o... Sorry... It took us forever to update because we were at band camp, right, precious? Hehe, sorry... I like scaring people... Nope, one of us was too lazy to write and the other one couldn't find time... And that really applies to both of us... :)

SUPER DUPER IMPORTANT FF.net has changed the format so you can't tell that Kira is speaking telepathically. Once I figure it out I will change it but I'm too frustrated at the moment so just use your imagination and pretend you can tell.

Chapter 7 Little Angels. . .NOT

Rona sighed. The twins were nowhere to be seen. She, Gandalf, and Elrond had searched the rest of the night and into the morning, and the twins STILL hadn't turned up. Elladan, Elrohir, and Arwen had to be forcibly removed from the scene when Elrond ordered them to go to their rooms and try to get some sleep. Now Rona led the way up to the girls' room, opening the door and telling the two men to stay behind her. "If we can't find the little buggers," She said, peeling back the bed covers and finding cookie crumbs, "We can at least find where they went." She looked on the floor, finding more crumbs there.

"Eureka! I found it!" She exclaimed, following the crumbs out of the door and into the hallway. Once she reached the door, however, the crumbs disappeared. Birds flew away as soon as she opened the door.

"Well, we're not going to find any evidence here." She said, feeling like a crime scene investigator. "Gandalf, go over there." She waved towards the forest. "Elrond, Erestor, and Glorfindel, go search around the house again. I'm going to the Hall of Fire." The men went their ways and Rona headed toward the Hall of Fire.

Once inside she glanced around and spotted a large pile of cushions, which was the only possible hiding spot in the room. "Typical of elves to not search the place they received the news in."

Rona walked softly over the cushions and started to remove them. Underneath were two little girls with their hair spread out around their heads and eyes closed in sleep.

Smiling at the sight Rona gently shook them awake.

Kira's eyes slowly opened. KALI!!! There's a strange woman over us. Wake up!!!

I'm up. Now stop yelling, it hurts Kali answered groggily. She sat up quickly staring at the woman. "Who… um, what are you?"

Rona smiled. They had learned quickly that there were different types of races. "I'm Rona. I am one of the hidden Istari, or wizards as some call us."

"Rona," Kali asked, "What is a hidden wizard?"

Rona grinned widely (they had asked the unavoidable question very quickly), and answered, "They are the Istari that are not well known. The world does not accept us very kindly. We are looked upon with scorn and fear. Most think we are evil. They burn us as witches whenever they catch us alone. We usually travel with one of the male Istari because they can convince people we are not evil. Elves are more accepting of us because several of their women are also considered evil sorceresses like Lady Galadriel of whom there are many tales told of."

"Do you know any magic tricks?" were the next words out of Kali's mouth.

"I know a few." Rona replied, "But at we the moment we need to go find Elrond- he has been looking for you all night. Don't worry, I won't let him punish you."

"Thanks." Kali said.

Rona led them through the halls until they found Elrond who was looking in the cupboards in the kitchens. The cooks didn't look too happy about that. When Elrond saw who Rona had with her he quickly led them out of the kitchen to his study, telling a passing elf to find Gandalf, the twins, Arwen, Glorfindel, and Erestor. The elf looked at him strangely but went to do the Lord of Rivendell's strange bidding anyway.

As soon as all ten people were in Elrond's study, the Lord of Rivendell looked to the youngest set of twins, who were holding onto Rona as tightly as she would allow them.

"Why did you leave you room?" Elrond asked, a malicious grin on his face.

"Well," Kali answered, "we wanted to hear Elladan and Elrohir sing." Rona, Gandalf, Glorfindel, Erestor, and Arwen looked very amused at the little girl's answer. Elrond didn't even seem fazed.

"You were sent to your beds early and you defied your punishment."

"Well, it's like this... see … We did go to our beds! You just never specified about leaving them after we were there." Kali replied.

Elrond sighed rather tiredly and mumbled to himself, "You would think after Elladan and Elrohir I would learn to be more specific!" He paused, thinking of a punishment vile enough to keep the scoundrels out of any more trouble. An evil grin formed on his face, causing the twins to whimper out of fake terror.

As Elrond turned the full wake of his fury on them, the girls put on their angel faces. "What do you think, Glorfindel?" Elrond asked, catching the elf lord's eye. Glorfindel saw a strange twinkle in Elrond's eyes and had to stop himself from breaking out in laughter. It wasn't often that the Lord of Rivendell got in this particular mood.

"Perhaps they should muck out the stables?" Elrond suggested, his grin now not-so-evil. Glorfindel caught on and started thinking of punishments as well.

"Or the library? Perhaps make them dust every book? There are some that need some repairing, and I am sure that your librarian would be most pleased to have the girls' help." Glorfindel suggested.

"YUCK!" Kali cried, Kira echoing her opinion. "We can't even read yet!"

"Yeah, no fair." Kali mumbled. "I can't count past twenty! Do you know how long it would take to finish the whole library?"

"Long enough to keep you out of trouble." Glorfindel said smartly. Kira and Kali scowled at him.

"And as I believe, the kitchens could also use some work."

"We'd kill people! I can't cook!"

"And I can't see what I'm puttin' in the pot! I can't even see the pot!"

"Rona! YOU PROMISED!!!!!!" Kira yelled.

Elrond grinned wickedly. "I think I have decided your punishment…" While he twiddled his thumbs idly, Glorfindel smirking from behind his back.

"Never, never never fall asleep in the Hall of Fire without someone knowing you're there!" Elrond thundered.

The twins stood there in shock, before Kali timidly asked, "Is that it?"

"Is what it?"

"That was our punishment?"

"What punishment?"

"The horrible, mean, nasty punishment you were going to inflict upon our tired, frail little bodies?" Kira said, heaving an exasperated sigh.

"Do you want a horrible mean, nasty punishment inflicted upon your tired, frail little bodies?" Elrond asked, a grin spreading across his face.

"NO!" Both twins cried, clinging to Rona even tighter. The Istari grimaced in pain.

"All right, all right, you're excused from your punishment." Elrond said, waving the twins out of his office. "You three, out!" He waved at Arwen and Elladan and Elrohir. "And you, Erestor." He paused. "And you too, Glorfindel."

After everyone was out of the room, Elrond turned to Rona and Gandalf.

Gandalf spoke first. "We have decided upon a course of action to take in the matter concerning the girls."

"And that would be…?" Elrond asked, at the same time as Rona said, "Stop acting so professional, Gandalf!"

"The planned course of action is," Gandalf began, ignoring Rona's snide comment. "That you keep the twins until they are twelve."

"What? I can barely keep track of them now! I've already lost them once in one month! Plus they're a bad influence on Elladan and Elrohir! I almost had them under control, then the twins show up and they go back to their old ways!" Elrond whined, although he didn't particularly mind keeping the twins there for another 6 years.

"Get used to it." Gandalf snapped. "This is no time for joking around, Elrond. You are to train them in fighting until I see that they are fit for their task. Rona or I will stop by every year or so to make sure you are properly schooling them. You also need to teach them to speak elvish and western, to read and to write, and to ride horses. Properly. None of that fancy stuff you elves are so interested in."

"But… but… we're elves! We can't help it!"

"Oh forget it! Just train them!"

"Should I tell them who they truly are?"

"NO! We'll take care of that."

"Right." Elrond said, turning towards the window. "If the find the prophecy…"

"They won't. I've already hidden it."

"I have this horrid feeling that they're going to find out who they are…"

"Trust me. They won't." Rona said. "And if they do, I can spell them. Don't worry, it's perfectly harmless. They won't remember a thing."

"Sounds real harmless to me."

That settled, they moved on to other, more important things. Like the weather.

KIRA AND KALI

Kira scampered up a very large wall, and then helped Kali up. "So…" She asked, surveying the long fall to the ground. "Ready to jump?"

"I'm not so sure we should. What if we break something?"

"If elves can do it, so can we. Besides, we're jumping into mud. OR had you forgotten?"

"OOH! MUD! LET'S GO!"

Not far off, Elladan and Elrohir were keeping an eye on the two little devils standing atop the wall. "Erm… Elladan? I think they're going to jump."

"Nonsense." His brother waved it off. "They're not smart, but they're smart enough to know not to jump."

"And... There they go."

The twins scampered up and raced to catch Kira and Kali, and just barely managed to do so before they fell into the mud. Which they all did anyway.

"Hey! No fair!" Kali said grouchily, wriggling out of Elladan's hold on her.

"Yeah! We were going to go swimming in the mud!"

"You can't swim in mud."

"You can too."

"Can not."

"Can too."

"Can not."

"Can too."

"Can not."

"Can too."

"Can not."

"CAN TOO!"

Everyone winced from the shock of Kira's telepathic yell.

"Come on, let's get you cleaned up before Ada sees you. Rona will kill him. You haven't even been outside for five minutes!"

"And your point is…" Kali replied

"There isn't one," Elladan answered, effectively silencing the girls for a little bit.

After a few minutes, the twins led Kira and Kali to the river to wash them off. After forcing the little mud monsters in the water, they found it extremely difficult to stay dry and get them out. After a while they gave up on being dry and dragged the girls out of the water. The sun was starting to set and they were all cold, so everyone went traipsing in through the back door, leaving little wet footprints all over the place. The head cook shooed them out of the kitchens and they all hurried upstairs before they were caught by Elrond, or worse, Rona. Or worse than that... Both.

ONE WEEK LATER

Kira and Kali had somehow found their way to the massive library. They had wandered so far in that they couldn't find their way out again, so they contented themselves with looking at picture books. A particularly glittery one caught Kali's eye, and she clambered up the shelves to get it. When she pulled it off the shelf, Kira noticed it. "Hey! Can I see it?" She asked, abandoning her book to look at Kali's.

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"Hmph! Why can't I see it?" Kira asked, reaching for the book, which was again snatched out of her grasp.

"Because! I saw it first!"

"So? Lemme see it!"

"NO!"


Elrond entered the library drawn by the comments of several elves about an argument going on. What met his ears was not pleasant. He could hear screams of outrage and pleas of stop it or that's not fair. Added to that was the fact they were at a high pitch making the noise almost unbearable for sensitive elvish ears. He followed the sounds to their source, wincing with every step.

He rounded the last bookshelf and was not pleased with what met his sight. Kira and Kali were sprawled on the floor rolling around; both had acquired a quite a few scratches and one or two nasty looking bruises. Kali had a colorful looking black eye and Kira had a bright red hand print on her face.

"Stop that right now you two," Elrond sternly said, quite loudly. At the sound of his voice both girls sat straight up. "What happened?"

"She wanted to look at my book, but I was reading it, so I said no, and she got all mad at me and tried to take it from me, and then…"

"I did not, I asked very nicely if I could look at it. She started it!"

"No, you did."

"Na-ah, you were the one who started it."

"I did not!"

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Augh!" The girls turned at the sound of Elrond's voice. "I give up! Come with me, both of you."

When they had arrived at the dining room, he sent them each to opposite sides of the room. "Stay put." He told them. After he was sure they weren't going anywhere, he left to find Gandalf and Rona.

"Twins!" He sighed, leaning heavily against the wall. "Just when they have you thinking that they're perfect little angels…"

"I'm just glad it's you that's stuck with them for a few years." Rona sighed as she mounted her horse. "I don't know what I'd do if I was stuck with them!"

"Yes, it must be awful for you." Gandalf muttered, knowing that Elrond could still hear him. He swung himself up onto his horse and waved goodbye to the twins, who had moved from their designated spots and were now fighting for window space. Elrond sighed heavily and went inside to separate them again.

A/N: So thats the end of the search. Nice to know I still have readers out there. I have to admit I was getting worried. Updates will be faster because school is out and I have nothing to do except be incredibly bored.

MaquedenEvenstar I wasn't worried, but then again, I'm not the one getting reviews. He he.

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