Chapter 137: Back at the palace...
Thranduil woke up and found himself in bed, and he could not recall how he got in his bed or what had happened the night before. Thranduil's head was also throbbing and he felt quite sick.
The twins where already up and making breakfast.
"'Ro, why do we have such disgusting cereal? Everywhere we go it's all... Gross. You know, some smart guy should invent some sort of sugary cereal. Something that I would enjoy eating."
"Perhaps that smart guy is not so smart. Perhaps that no so smart guy is you, Elladan..." Elrohir muttered, snatching the sack of plain cereal, which was typically cheerio with out honey and nuts and poured him a bowl.
"Besides, I like this cereal and unless you would like to be as fat as a dwarf you should eat this too."
Elladan grumbled and poured milk into his cereal and into Illiendal's, who stood right beside him.
"Thanks 'Dan."
"Why don't you ever pour MY milk, 'Dan? You are my twin, not Illien's twin!" Elrohir frowned at Elladan who sat beside him and Illiendal.
"Because I am afraid you will become as fat as a dwarf."
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"Cield... W-what happened last night?" Thranduil asked, holding Cield's shoulder tightly.
"Tonus and I returned with Legolas' chain and showed you. You went inside the palace, and when i saw you again you at the dining table, asleep because you had druken at least one full bottle of wine."
"Urg..." Thranduil put a hand on his forehead and sat down on Tonus' bed when he heard a scream and jumped up.
"Is that you Legolas?" Thranduil asked, but with no sweetness in his voice.
"No!" Tonus' head popped up from beneath the covers.
"You sat on Tonus, ada." Cield smirked at his brother.
"What where you doing under there Tonus?"
"Hey, is that a teddu bear?" Cield asked, jumping onto the bed and forcing the sheets off Tonus to reveal his army of teddy bears. Tonus turned red and Cield had a laughing fit.
"Stop it Cield!" Tonus blushed more and more as Cield turned red with laughter. Tonus raised a fist to punch Cield but Cield protected himself with one of the teddy bears.
"Cield, stop bothering your brother." Thranduil groaned as Cield ran around the room with Tonus' favorite bear, Tappin.
"Give him back Cield! It's not funny!" Tonus ran around the room, chasing his brother and finally managed to throw himself onto Cield's back and send Cield hurling to the ground.
Tonus was very happy to get Tappin back, but then Cield (who now had a great pain in his torso because of falling to the ground) grabbed Snowdon, Tonus' other lucky bear.
"Snowdon! Ada, please make him stop!"
Thranduil was feeling very sick and simply grabbed hold of Cield by a braid of his hair and slapped him across his face.
"I-I'll give Tonus Snowdon ada... Sorry..." Cield handed Snowdon back, who was placed right beside Tappin and Billy Bob.
"I am sorry Cield, but damn it your going to be a father and if you plan to steal your own child's teddy bears then I might as well just take away the un-born child right now!"
Cield nodded his head sadly, always keeping his eyes to the floor.
"I am going to go to the healers and be sick, so you two please go see how the twins and Illiendal are doing for me."
Cield and Tonus left the room and entered the kitchen where cereal was everywhere. Illiendal hid behind Elladan as Elrohir was shooting his cereal at his twin, and Elladan fought back with milk.
"My father is going to murder you both!"
The twins froze and turned around to see Cield and Tonus.
"You... you wont tell him?"
"We don't need too... Once our father finishes vomiting he will murder you both and leave no proof that he was the murderer!"
"Please don't let him find out! We will clean up, I promise! We promise, don't we?"
"Yea, we do!"
Cield smirked at the twins. "ADAR!" Cield yelled, and Thranduil slowly arrived to see the cereal and milk covered twins.
"What went on here?" Thranduil asked miserably.
"They had some sort of food fight ada." Cield said, smirking at the horror struck Elladan.
"Sir, we will clean up, we promise!"
"Cield, deal with them in which ever way you find necessary... I'm going to go find where Galion hid my bottle... He says he's 'cutting me off'... What I crazy butler I have."
Tonus sighed and followed his father and Cield began to walk around the two twins who stood as still as possible.
Cield smiled at Elladan who gulped.
"Clean the mess up."
"Is that all?" Elrohir asked, Elladan looking rather madly at his twin.
"No, then you can clean my room, and Legolas' while you're at it... Then, make lunch, do whatever Illiendal asks you to do and... Clean the stairs leading up to the palace. Do it in whichever way suits you best but only make lunch at lunch hour."
The twins looked at each other sadly.
"We may as well start with the stairs, it's the smallest job."
"I would not say that. The stairs are long and if you fell you'd get badly bruised." Illiendal said, but the twins continued to believe in cleaning the stairs being the easiest.
Elladan took a broom and Elrohir did the same and the two swept the stairs. But as Elladan swept the top stair for a second time, Elrohir accidentally pushed his two with the end of his broom and Elladan tumbled down the stairs.
"Elladan!" Elrohir jumped down to see his brother.
Elladan held onto Elrohir's arm tightly as he was raised to his feet.
"Are you alright, Dan?" Elrohir asked, checking his twin for injuries.
"Just a bit bruised, I'll be better soon... It hurts to walk though."
"So sit, I will do the work by myself if I must, but you need rest, and it's my fault."
Elladan watched as Elrohir worked hard, and Illiendal looked up at him.
"Your perfectly fine, aren't you?"
"Yup."
To be continued...