Chapter 116: Tonus' vision
Legolas pulled down his leggings behind the tree he had selected, a dead tree as not to anger a living one.
Haldir's brothers all found Legolas to be simply adorable: his small little voice and how hyper he always was. Everyone was amazed that Rumil had not screamed when the elfling chewed on his leggings, but that shall ever remain a mystery.
Legolas pulled his leggings back up and just before he was going to return to Rumil, Haldir and Orophin, he saw a small little spider. It was only a baby, and Legolas knew that baby spiders where not poisonous. The little elfling took it in his hands and then sauntered to Haldir. Legolas did not see the thing that was following him, but others did.
A giant, black, poisonous spider chased after Legolas. None of the elves where armed, so Haldir quickly threw his body over Legolas', protecting him from the spider's venom. Rumil did not want Haldir poisoned, so tried to distract the spider, whilst Orophin gathered rocks and tried to kill the spider.
Rumil and Orophin did not distract the spider, for the rocks did not hurt him and the spider had his prey: Legolas. The elfling had the spider's child, and the spider did not plan to give up until the spider was back, and Legolas dead.
The spider's hairy legs threw Haldir away from Legolas, and the elfling began to scream and cry, pushing at the spider, hoping it would go away, but it did not. Haldir jumped on the spider, but was bitten on his arm. Haldir gasped and fell backwards, and was pulled away by Rumil, who, after examining Haldir's arm more than necessary, learnt that the skin was not broken and Haldir not poisoned. Legolas cried though, and Rumil had not even made Legolas cry so much when he stepped on the elfling's small foot.
Haldir could no longer stop the spider. He had no weapons, and his brothers held him back, for Haldir could not kill that spider without proper weapons, for none where aware of how many children the spider could have that where ready to strike.
Legolas was screaming as loud as his little elven voice could, and his face covered in tears. 'Why isn't Hal saving me?' Legolas thought as he kicked at the spider with his thin bare feet.
Tonus was sitting on his father's wooden throne, quite proud of himself, when he had a sudden... vision... a secret he had been keeping from Thranduil for as long as he could remember (since he thought Thranduil would not care anyways), and he saw Legolas... the elfling lay on the ground, and appeared dead. There where bite marks on his leg, and his chest did not move. Haldir, Orophin and Rumil cowered in a corner by a huge black spider, bigger than any Tonus had ever seen before. Tonus clutched the armrest to his father's throne as the part with Legolas' dead body played over and over again in his mind, and he jumped from the throne, and without saying a word grabbed his bow and quiver and ran outside to where the four elves where, Legolas screaming and crying.
To be continued...