Author's Notes: Not sure if anyone reads these... but anyway, I'm sorry about the late update, but I just graduated, and finals were killing me, and I managed to fall in love with the most unaffectionate creep ever to live, so I've been rather busy! Well, here goes the next chapter, but AN IMPORTANT NOTE: I am only responding to the choice reviews that I had something to SAY with, some reviews are just "nice" or " update soon". So if I have something to say about something you've written in the last like 5 chapters THEN i'll write it at the end.
P.S: NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS, I have been on a trip through Europe for summer so this has been written in Germany, Venice, Italy, Debrovnik, Croatia, Rome, Paris, and London too. Well, I think I deserve SOME SORT OF AWARD, I mean, honestly, where HAVEN'T I written this story so far?!?
Chapter 26
" Kat, and Adrianna, left together?" Jem couldn't understand what Legolas was telling her, it wasn't possible.
" Yes, I believe they said something about a truce" Legolas commented offhandedly, he was busy trying to lambaste Gimli for using his pipe, and "accidentally" setting his hair on fire.
" Men." Jem sighed. " They are so ignorant!" Jem placed her hands on her temples, and could feel a migraine coming on. " You think they left here on OK terms?! You're crazy!"
" Kat even transported them!" Legolas began to defend his beliefs.
" Are you sure?" Jem knew there was only one place they could be, and ran off to find them.
Back To The Problem
" Oh, what's the matter? Can't get any air? Struggling to breathe? World closing in around you? Well NOW you know how I felt when your so called love turned his back on me! His best friend! What kind of sadistic person does that to someone?" Adrianna obviously didn't realize the irony of her statement.
Kat was flipping back and forth on the ground, she couldn't feel her legs, she didn't have any. The world did seem to be closing in on her, she was clutching to the only thoughts she could. Her mind was reeling, she couldn't hold onto a thought for longer than a few moments, her eyes were trying to move, but strangely could not. Kat tried to think, but thoughts would come and go quickly, its was an awful sensation, she tried to focus.
I am not going to die. I can't die, I- What a nice dress she's wearing, I wonder who- Legolas probably won't even notice when i'm gone- Will Jenn worry? Cry? IM NOT GOING TO DIE! When does school start? Will I miss the beg- I wonder if I could invent a plane here! Does anyone miss me back home? I bet Michael is throwing a party- I really want to watch a movie!
It was no use, her thought were a tangled conundrum of things on her mind in the past few weeks.
" Maybe I could keep you in a little fish bowl, as my personal pet. I could name you... dumb dumb!" Adrianna was getting more and more amused by the second.
Kat's eyes began to flit around the area, the trees were beginning to mix together, rocks were getting bigger and smaller randomly, things were disappearing from her sight and she wasn't sure if they had ever even been there! All the clarity had been taken away from her life, and she wasn't sure if she wanted it back at this point.
" Should I go get a bowl, or am I too lazy. No, far too lazy." Adrianna was musing to herself, and giggling at her own jokes. She looked closely at the fish struggling on the ground I almost feel bad for the poor thing, it's not like she really did anything wrong. . . But as soon as the thought crossed her mind, she chased it away with the memories of hurt and neglect, mostly from Legolas.
You're the one who is in the wrong! Sienatin heard the voice, and quickly turned her head. Scanning around the clearing, she couldn't find any trace of movement, save for the fish. Change her back! The voice sounded like it was coming from INSIDE her head! Impossible! CHANGE HER BACK! It was yelled this time, and she held her hands over her ears, not like it would help.
Jem looked furiously at Adrianna from the trees, she would simply have to resort to more. . . creative ways. Quickly whipping her hand in a circle Jem froze the scene. Everything was frozen in time, and she had work to do. Jem ran over to Adrianna and placed Adrianna's hands above her head. Jem ran and put the fish who was mid flop in front of Adrianna's face, then she ran back into the tees. Unfreezing time she laughed as Adrianna screamed at the fish in front of her face, about to fall to the ground. Jem froze time once more, and placed the fish in front of Adrianna's face once more, then unfroze time. Adrianna screamed, and the cycle began again, Jem did this quite a few times, so to Adrianna it looked like the fish was rising up and down in front of her face, and floating! This freaked Adrianna out considerably, and she decided a fish was not her best shot at killing Kat. She flicked her wrist, and Kat fell to the ground with a thud.
Oooh, sorry, probably should have slowed you down there Jem allowed Kat to register the situation, so she simply froze Adrianna in time, and not the scene.
Kat looked around timidly, and didn't say anything, which was new for Kat. Suddenly she looked up at Adrianna, and her face lit up with anger.
" You, you, you!" Kat looked so angry, words seemed to be hard to form.
" No Kat, you must not kill her, yet that is," Jem was trying to hold Kat back, and freeze Adrianna. " Transport us back to the boys, and we'll sort this whole thing out, OK?" Kat tiredly agreed, and made Jem hold onto Adrianna's hand, she wanted nothing to do with her.
A burst of light, and suddenly the three were in the cave with Gimli, and Gandalf, the former looking quite scared.
" Sorry to drop in like this, would you take care of her? " Jem shoved Kat at Gandalf, and strode out of the cave towards Aragorn. " You have apologies to say, LOTS of 'em, but not now, now you get to carry Adrianna, niftily frozen in time by me" Jem proudly put her thumb to her chest. " Yep, I can freeze people in time, muahaha I have power, go me, OK, im done now." Jem had been doing a lot recently, and she began to think it was getting to her!
" All right." Aragorn was worried for Jem's mental stability at this point, so he went into the cave to humor her. Upon entering the cave he found Gandalf looking quite scared while Kat rambled on to him and Gimli, about what, he had no clue, and hoped never to find out. He numbly took Adrianna's hand, and half carried her out of the cave. Jem was looking at him quite haughtily.
" Told you so. Now, get Leggy over here, and we'll sort this whole mess out." Jem called Legolas' name QUITE loudly, and he came bleary eyed out of the woods. Legolas hadn't been sleeping much, if at all recently, and so he had been taking a kat nap- CAT nap of sorts.
" What is going on?" Legolas knew Adrianna wasn't just holding REALLY still, she had been frozen in time.
" Well, shall we get the whole gang together while I reveal this, bad mystery movie style?" Jem was already mentally calling Kat. Gimli and Gandalf came sprinting out of the cave, while Kat came walking out a few moments later. Kat had apparently been listing to them all the problems with men these days. The poor fellows.
" We are awful things placed upon this earth to ruin her existence." Gandalf muttered, a blank expression on his face, Jem figured Kat had probably traumatized him for life.
" NOW, NOW, NOW. Adrianna over here is EVIL, like we have been trying to tell you all along. Now, with a show of hands, how many people believed Kat and I when we TOLD you Adrianna was evil?" Jem paused in her speech. All the men looked around a bit guiltily. " No one? I see, well, I just came upon Adrianna in the woods, killing Kat. She turned her into a fish, and was letting her die by being on dry land. This is not the work of someone hugged often as a child, I seriously think this girl has some problems, but the fact of the matter is, you all owe us an appology." Jem seemed to be taking most of the credit for this, and with good reason, Kat hadn't really done anything, and Kat STILL wasn't exactly doing anything. Jem finally took notice of this, but before she could question the state of her friends health, Legolas interrupted.
" The Serenity Orb did not shatter when she said she wished no harm though!" Legolas declared, happy to finally feel like he had the grounds to be an absolute jerk.
" Sienatin asked if Adrianna wanted to kill you. Adrianna DIDN'T want to kill you, she wanted to hurt you as badly as she thought possible, by killing the one you love." Jem was finding herself very clever, and looking at her friend, who's expression FINALLY changed.
" Too bad she got it wrong." Kat said. "Unfreeze her Jem, she deserves to hear what's being spoken about her." Kat was being unusually fair to Adrianna, which was just plain spooky.
Jem unfroze Adrianna, who immediately fell to the floor. No one moved to hel her to her feet.
" Legolas, wont you help me? "Adrianna asked in a pitiful voice.
" Why? Why would you even conceive hurting Kat, she had done nothing to you. I am the one you have your feud with, why bring her into it?" Legolas' eyes were cold as ice.
" Because I knew killing her would hurt you more than simply killing you. I wanted you to feel the pain I felt when you betrayed me, but you will NEVER know that pain, not even if I killed a thousand loves, you can't know my pain." Adrianna dusted her dress off, and started towards Legolas with an evil gleam in her eye.
" I do not have a thousand loves Adrianna, there is only Kat. If you do anything to harm her, or ANY of my friends, you will dearly suffer." Legolas did not raise his voice, he simply stated the fact, plain as day, and it was just as scary as if he had.
" I have done enough I think, more than I had intended actually. This works out better than killing her I think, I believe my escort is here." Adrianna looked to the trees.
" I have been looking for you my child." Sienatin said, appearing from the red mist. "I do not think you will wander from my sights again, and you will be punished for your crimes, but now is not the time or place to speak of such things. Come along." Sienatin looked expectantly at Adrianna, and Adrianna did indeed follow.
The group watched her disappear into the trees with much relief.
" Glad that's over, time for me to go back to knitting my new shirt" Gimli said, while walking back to the cave, he suddenly stopped in his tracks. "I mean, ugh, sharpening my axe, yes, sharpening my good ol' axe." He quickly ran into the cave once more.
" Who does he think he's fooling?" Gandalf idly wondered aloud.
Aragorn shrugged his shoulders, and tried to pull Jem away from Legolas and Kat, she had such a profound feeling of well being, JEM had saved the day darn it, and she wanted to see the fruits of her labor! "We will retire to the woods, I found an amazing clearing not far from here, you can see so many stars. . ."
" but I wanna-" Jem protested lightly, wanting to see the couple interact, and hear what Kat had to say and such.
" Yes, I know you want to see the lovely stars, come along now." Aragorn practically dragged her away from the two. He didn't want her spoiling a moment or anything.
" Kat, I really am sorry, from the deepest parts of my heart, I am sorry I didn't believe you." Legolas looked at her, and she didn't respond, only looked at him, a blank, bored expression on her face.
Legolas suddenly understood what Adrianna had meant by having "done enough" Kat no longer trusted him the way she once had. He was normally the one she trusted most, and at night slept by, and was always there for her. Legolas now saw that he hadnt been trust worthy, had not guarded her while she slept, and had not been there for her. She would not, and possibly could not, trust him.
" Kat? Please say something." Legolas couldn't stand this.
" I'm tired, I think i'll go to sleep." Just like that, Kat turned around, and went into the woods.
Legolas naturally followed her at a distance. He watched as she laid down on the grass, and curled herself into a ball. He made a move to comfort her, but she shied away from his touch.
" Kat, you cannot do this, please don't do this" Legolas was the closest to tears he had ever imagined.
Kat didn't move from her present state. Legolas got up, and walked away from her slowly, turning his head slightly, he whispered "I love you"
Kat's eyes filled with tears, and her heart clenched in her chest. He had never said this before, and it made her feel so warm inside, she practically melted into the ground. If only she could believe him, if only he hadn't been so cruel. Kat tried not to think, she tried to sleep, tried anything to keep her mind off of what was plaguing her. Legolas.
The morning came, and the sunlight hit her directly. Opening her eyes a crack, she noticed it wasn't the actual sunlight, it was the sun's reflected rays bouncing off of something glittering in front of her.
Kat sat up slowly, and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes. She gently picked up the object that had been laying on the ground in front of her.
It was a silver tiara.
Authors Notes: I know it's been a while, and I hubly than all that waited THIS LONG for an update, I swore I would finish, and I am as good as my word. I WILL FINISH.
Thank You
elven angel11: trees and mutant crickets? Oook. . . I know which song you meant tho, it's ok.
Faith Destroyer: I was very sick with a stomach ache, but it wasn't THAT serious, I didn't think I had THAT MANY out there idea's anyway.
Lady Skywalker: I would NEVER assume you were a TOTAL bitch.
Kiedis: I DO love you, all of you! gives reviewers huge hug
ElvenStar5: Ooh, your brother does seem to care SO MUCH, you poor thing, next time, refuse to even look at him if he has even a cold
Anime no Megami: LOL I saw that episode of charmed actually. . .
Eowyn: I TOTALLY know what you mean, the next book is taking FOREVER to come out! I wouldn't mind you sending some cookies my way. . . lol ; )
NaruNaraChi-San: I almost made you cry?! YAYAYA! Sorry, not that i'm out to make you cry or anything, I just am really happy people feel for my characters like that. : )
Nethrahen: Well, because you asked so nicely. . . lol. I'm glad SOMEONE enjoys the cliffhangers, mostly I get death threats. . .
