Part 2
Chapter 4The next time Shadow woke she was in a room and it wasn't her room. For a second she started to freak when the day before came back to her. 'Where the hell is Kat?' Shadow wondered frantically.
Looking around Shadow spotted her clothes lying neatly folded on a table near the bed she was lying on, but her daggers weren't there. Shadow jumped out of the bed and pulled her clothes on quickly and went off in search of Kat. Ever since the two of them had been little Shadow had always been able to sense Kat's whereabouts and vise versa. Shadow took off in a run following her instincts on the whereabouts of her friend.
After 5 minutes of running Shadow burst threw another door, to see Elrohir, Elladan, and Legolas being scolded by a man that could only be Lord Elrond of Rivendell. Ignoring the other men in the room Shadow walked up to Elladan- she could tell by the small bruise on his eye Kat had undoubtedly left- pulled her fist back and let it fly. Her fist connected squarely with Elladan's surprised nose, and sent him sprawling back onto the floor then into the wall. His nose bled freely onto the floor, clearly broken.
"That's for slapping my cousin you asshole," Shadow snarled. Without another word she continued on to where her senses said Kat was. As Shadow had expected Kat was lying on a bed staring at the ceiling. At the sight of Shadow, Kat broke out into a grin.
"Thank god. I thought I was going to die of boredom," said Kat sitting up. The only visible wound she had was a dark bruise on her cheek and eye.
"You may yet, because I'm going to kill Elladan. Then maybe the Orcs, but defiantly Elladan," said Shadow.
"No worries. Elrond is already on it. He was so pissed when I told him where I got the bruise. Elladan had apparently told him I had gotten it from getting hit with the hilt of an Orc blade," said Kat.
"What was up with you? One minute you were your normal, cheerful, ass kicking self, and the next your picking fights with a group of Elves acting like a regular PMSing female," said Shadow as she rose an eyebrow.
"Poison. The blade a got hit with had a type of poison on it that causes a person to become really violent," Kat said simply.
"What ever…just as long as you're happy as a clam. So, when can you blow this place?" Shadow asked.
"When Elrond is done with Elladan, Legolas and Elrohir," said Kat. Shadow smiled sadistically, her eyes gleamed with mischievousness.
"Such bad, bad elves," Shadow said sarcastically. Kat rolled her eyes. A few minutes later Elrond came back into the room with Elrohir, Elladan, and Legolas following meekly behind. Elladan's nose was swollen, bruised and had stuffed with gauze to stop the bleeding.
"Boys, I think you have something you would like to say to these young ladies," said Elrond.
Elladan, Elrohir and Legolas stood shoulder-to-shoulder and faced Shadow and Kat. "We would like to apologize for our behavior in the forest," Elladan started.
"We are not use to female warriors coming into our wood, and it caused us to become suspicious," Legolas said.
"Especially with the group of Orcs you took out, nearly on your own," Elladan finished.
Shadow and Kat looked at each other for a second, and Kat held out her hand. "Apology accepted. However, never slap me again, I hit back," said Kat giving Elladan a look. He nodded and bowed respectfully.
Shadow, however, didn't move. ~Are you going to let them off the hook that easy?~ she asked, turning to Kat. To everyone else's ears, it sounded like gibberish, but it made full sense to Kat.
~Why not? We're stuck in the middle of the Lord of the Rings, best be in Elrond and companies good side,~ replied Kat in the same strange language.
~Have you looked in the mirror? The whole right side of your face is one big bruise,~ said Shadow.
~I've had worse,~ said Kat. The two of them continued to argue, exchanges becoming faster and faster, leaving the four elves in bewilderment.
"Ladies?" Elrohir asked hesitantly. Neither girl heard him. "Ladies?" he asked a little louder.
"WHAT?" they yelled in unison. Elrohir paled.
"We were just wondering what you were talking about," Elrohir croaked.
"I'll accept your apology on one condition," said Shadow.
"What would that be My Lady?" Elrond asked.
Kat had hardly hat time to blink before Legolas went sprawling onto the floor, his nose broken and blood flowing onto the floor. Elladan flinched in sympathy having had his own nose broken in the same manner only a few minutes before. "Apology accepted," said Shadow smirking down at Legolas.
"Now that that is settled," said Elrond, with a hint of a smile. He obviously thought the boys deserved it. "In two days time we will be hosting a feast in honor on my daughter, Arwen Evenstar's return from her Grandmother's home in Lothlorien. Gandalf the Gray shall be present at this feast and we will discuss your predicament then," said Elrond.
'He knows,' Shadow and Kat thought at the same time. "In the mean time however, Elladan, Elrohir, and Legolas shall show you around," Elrond continued. The three elves looked like Elrond had just sentence them to death, and in a way he had. "Lady Kat, your clothes are on the counter in the bathing room. A bath has been drawn for you there. Come boys, leave the girls to their devises," said Elrond pulling the three boys out of the room.
"So what do you think?" Shadow asked Kat as soon as Elrond shut the door of the room.
"I think we got pulled into the Lord of the Rings universe by some psycho storm and are about to become the Mary-sues from hell," said Kat, smirking.
"My sentiments exactly. But what about the time line? When in hell are we?" asked Shadow.
"By my guess, I think Gandalf will get here in about a week, and the hobbits and Strider a few days after that. Then 3 more days till the Council of Elrond. Are we going to walk?" Kat asked, a psychotic glint in her eyes.
"Walk? Ha! We don't walk! We stalk! And we shall stalk in insane glee!" she replied maliciously.
"Of course dear Shadow," Kat agreed, smirking.
"So, what shall we do in the mean time? Stalk elves? We are kind of out of practice, and we may have issues with Legolas and his Elven hearing. What about a small prank on the boys?" Shadow asked, grinning evilly.
"What did you have in mind dear cousin of mine?" Kat asked. Shadow only grinned and the girls began to plan in low whispers of their strange language.
Chapter 5"Shhh! Quit laughing Shadow. You're gonna blow this," Kat whispered, smacking Shadow on the arm. Shadow glared evilly, but didn't say anything. After three days of careful planning and stalking of the three Elf victims, they had finally they had finally figure out their bathing habits. (A/N: Hint, hint! ^_~)
The three elves were currently bathing in a hot spring a mile or so inside the forest. Shadow and Kat had followed them, making sure to be silent and unnoticed. Shadow, however, had nearly blown their cover when Legolas, Elladan, and Elrohir had stripped down to their birthday suits.
Luckily they hadn't been heard. After a few minutes Legolas, Elladan, Elrohir started splashing and fooling around in the surprisingly large hot spring. Silently Shadow and Kat snuck up to the tree where they had hung their clothes, as not to get them dirty. Making no noise Shadow and Kat managed to get every article of clothing the Elves had brought with them.
Walking about 20 feet into the forest Kat turned around and shouted, "See you later boys!"
Shadow turned around, waved and yelled, "We love you!" before taking off after Kat. The girls nearly broke down in giggles when one of the Elves yelled, "Bloody hell!"
"Getting into Harry Potter now aren't we?" asked Shadow. Kat grinned and kept running. After a few more minutes of running they burst out of the forest and down the path to the center of Imladris. Less than a minute later Legolas, Elladan, and Elrohir burst out of the forest, running after them looking pissed.
Shadow and Kat had turned around to look behind them for a second, and suddenly found themselves staring up at none other than Gandalf the Gray himself. The two girls wasted no time in jumping up and taking off again. "Sorry Gandalf!" yelled Kat.
"We'll catch up later!" Shadow squealed, seeing how close the three Elves were.
"We're kind of busy at the moment!" Kat finished, as both girls ran as fast as they could.
As they were running Shadow had a thought. "How do you think Elrond is going to take all this?" she asked.
Kat and Shadow stopped dead in the center of the large group of bewildered Elves and stared at each other. "Oh shit!" they said in unison. The two girls squealed, dropped the Elves clothes and took off running back towards the forest, right past the bewildered Elladan, Elrohir and Legolas.
Chapter 6"Elrond is going to be SO pissed," said Shadow a day later. The two girls had been wandering around in the forest outside of Rivendell for several hours, waiting for the undoubtedly pissed Elrond to calm down.
"I vote we lay low till Strider and the Hobbits get there, they will be too busy to be mad at us," said Kat.
"I vote we go find Strider and the Hobbits and stalk them for a few days while kicking Ring Wraith ass. What say you?" asked Shadow.
"I say yes. We probably would be less likely to get yelled at if we were guarding The Hobbits and Strider," said Kat.
"As if Strider needs protection," Shadow said grinning.
"Hey, no Mary-sueing yet woman! Especially after someone that is taken," Kat yawned. Both of the girls were getting tired.
"Leave me alone. It's not like you don't have your fantasies," Shadow murmured. She half-glared at Kat.
"As a matter of fact I don't," said Kat.
"No, you fantasize about the Mad Hatter," Shadow teased.
"Woman! Shut it about the Hatter and me already! For the last time I do not have a crush on him," said Kat.
"Sure you don't Kat. Hold on, do you hear that?" Shadow asked, stopping. The sound of battle filled their ears.
"I think it's time to go kill some Ring Wraiths cousin of mine," said Kat.
"I second that." Shadow grinned manically pulling her two daggers from her boots. After the two of them had been deemed not a threat Elrond had returned their weapons, or what he thought was their weapons. Kat, true to form, had several other knives hidden in her clothes and the heels of her boots.
The two girls ran towards the sound of the battle, and burst out of the brush to see Strider holding off not one, but four Ring Wraiths. Shadow immediately jumped in and started fighting, good for Strider because one of the Wraiths would have taken his head off if not for Shadow.
Kat however, took a more calculated approach. She pulled out her double long daggers and attacked, no one noticed a 5th Ring Wraith till they heard a shout. Kat was the first to react, running to where the yell came from. Shadow and Strider had heard the yell, but they were busy with the other 4.
Pinning a small hobbit Kat recognized as Frodo to a log was the 5th Wraith. Its dark blade was imbedded deeply in Frodo's shoulder. Kat had hardly realized what had happened before the hooded Wraith went flying, Kat didn't bother to watch for it to land, as she was busy picking up Frodo.
She was slightly surprised at the lightweight of the Hobbit, but paid it no mind. Hiding under and old log near the main road Kat found 3 more hobbits. "I'm a friend of Elrond's, come," said Kat motioning for the small hobbits to come forward.
"I-is he dead?" one of them asked.
"No, he'll be fine once we get him to Rivendell. You're Merry right?" Kat asked the one who had spoken. He nodded. "And you two are Pippin and Sam?" Again, the hobbits nodded. "Alright, I'm taking you back to Strider on the main road. The Wraiths should be gone by now."
The group of 5 made their way back to the main road where Strider and Shadow were waiting for them. "Look, Strider, I'm sure your really confused but we don't have the time to explain. Frodo is hurt and some freaky shit is happening, and we really need to get going. It's only a few hours run from here, if we hurry we should be there by night fall," said Shadow, reading Kat's mind or her body language.
Kat nodded faintly as she looked at Strider. Shadow smiled happily as she turned around and began to take off skipping. Sadly, or luckily depending on how well you knew her, she could jump high and bound much area, it took much more of her hyper energy but it was faster than running. Strider looked at her confused and then looked at Kat.
"She is…special" she said with a sigh as she watched her dear cousin bound off. Looking at the group again she spoke. "Come on, follow Shadow. She knows the way, but be careful, no need to attract Orcs or worse, the Wraith of Shadow" She looked back at Strider and the Hobbits before running after Shadow, carrying Frodo. The group of Strider and the hobbits soon followed the hyperactive Shadow and the nonchalant Kat.
True to Shadow's word, a few hours later they reached the outskirts of Rivendell. The 3 other Hobbits looked tired but managed to keep up with Strider and Kat, who ran about 15 feet behind Shadow. As they neared the healing halls they met a very flustered Elrond. He nearly turned purple at the sight of Shadow and Kat, but paled at seeing the wounded hobbit Kat was carrying.
"Give him to me," said Elrond, taking the hobbit out of Kat's hands. "Strider, come!" The 3 other hobbits followed Strider as Elrond raced off.
~Something isn't right Shadow, this isn't following the normal story line,~ said Kat, rounding on Shadow.
~You're right, but there isn't much we can do about it. We're kind of stuck here, and things will only get worse if we disappear,~ said Shadow.
~Oh shit! We've got company,~ Kat whispered. Walking towards them at a steady pace was Elladan, Elrohir, and Legolas. ~What say you? Do we run?~ Kat asked as the three Elves drew closer.
~On the count of 3. 1—2—3!~ Shadow yelled, and they were off, with the three Elves close behind. The two girls had thought they had lost the three Elves when somehow, the twins appeared in front of them. Shadow and Kat screamed and took off in the other direction only to run into Legolas, they were cornered.
"Hello Ladies," said Elladan, flashing them a smile. They were doomed. "In return for that little stunt of yours we have planned our payback. In two days there will be a banquet, which both of you are required to go. On the orders of Elrond, you must wear dresses, both of you," Elladan said sweetly.
Kat and Shadow looked at each other before turning back to the Elves. "Of course you know, this means war!" Shadow and Kat growled in unison. For a second, the 3 elves looked scared. Ducking out of the corner the Elves backed them into Shadow and Kat disappeared into Kat's room, which wasn't far from where they had been.
Chapter 7
"I'm going to kill them," Shadow growled. It was an hour before the banquet was to begin and she and Kat were being tortured by Elven maids that were trying to get them ready. Kat readily agreed with Shadow's statement.
After another 45 minutes of hair pulling and swearing from Kat and/or Shadow the she-elves were finished. "There, don't you two clean up nice. If I didn't know better I'd say you both were Elves yourself," said one of the she-elves.
Kat and Shadow examined themselves, then each other in the mirror. Shadow was dressed up in a flowing emerald evening gown. It was smooth and showed of Shadow's body a little too much for her liking. Woven into the dress was a type of ivy that neither girl could identify. The same type of ivy was woven into her hair, keeping it out of her face, accepted for two small strands of hair, which drew attention to he face. Also weaved into her hair was a gold chain of small bells and an emerald ribbon, all forming an impossibly intricate braid. The make-up, and the easiest part of the whole ordeal was, like the dress, perfect. Smoky green eye shadow was placed lightly on Shadow's eyelids, making her hazel eyes take on the emerald color. A small amount of soft pink lip-gloss painted upon her lips made her cotton candy colored lips come out, and some rose blush brushed on her pale cheeks gave a lively look to her face.
Kat had the same type of dress, with long belled sleeves, and an Elven pattern woven into the edges in silver. The dress it's self was a dark shade of blue and made of velvet and lined with silk. Like Shadow's dress it had ivy sewn into it, but instead of green ivy, this ivy was shining silver. Also like Shadow the ivy was woven into her hair with a silver belled chain and a blue velvet ribbon. She also had a minimal amount of make-up on. Glittery silver eye shadow splashed across her eyelids, making the blue in her eyes shine. Soft red rose lip-gloss painted on her lips made her look regal, along with the light pink blush brushed upon her tanned cheeks.
"We look hot!" Shadow exclaimed as she looked at her reflection. The She-elves look confused by this but say nothing since they looked happy enough.
Kat looked shocked. Her blue-green eyes were wide with shock, her mouth hung wide.
"I-uh-um" she stuttered, staring at her reflection. "Wow," she finally squeaked.
One of the she-elves started to get impatient and pushed the two girls out the door and into their awaiting escorts. Standing there were Legolas and Elrohir, staring at the two girls in shock. "Um- you look lovely," Elrohir said uneasily. He obviously didn't think either girl would clean up as nicely as they did.
Legolas, however, just stared with his mouth open, eyes trained on a certain inappropriate part of Shadow's body. "Oi! Elf-boy, eyes are up here," said Shadow, noticing the Elf's stare. Legolas blushed and stuttered and apology.
While Shadow playfully bantered Legolas about the location of different body parts, Kat surveyed the two Elves. Legolas was dressed in a perfectly matching outfit to Shadows. He wore an Emerald green and gold tunic with black leggings and boots. A gold and green circlet sat on his head, showing his status as the Prince of Mirkwood.
Kat was also surprised to see Elrohir dressed to match her. He was wearing a blue velvet tunic with silver designs woven into the fabric and black leggings and boots. Like Legolas his wore a circlet, his made of silver, showing his status as one of the Heirs to Rivendell.
"Shall we?" asked Elrohir, offering his arm. Kat accepted and they drew the attention of Shadow and Legolas. Legolas also offered his arm and Shadow accepted. A few minutes later they arrived at the Dinning hall.
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