Disclamer: I don't own Legolas but I do own everyone else. Set before the
War of the Ring. Two girl, Leila and Shí disguise themselves as men and
join the army. It's an elvish sort of Mulan with two heroines. Shí/Ahora.
Legolas/Leila. (For once none of the characters are based on me!) The
original version of this story was a swap story between me and my mate Liz.
Ada means father and Nana mother.
The way I'm doing the elves ages is that 500 is the equivalent of a 5 year old so 1500 is a 15 year old. And I'm having it that they stop growing at 2000 or 20 so that's why they always look so young. Got it?
Hidden Identity
Chapter 2; First Test
2 Years Later
"My legs look like a blokes" Leila said and she punched her thigh.
"We are blokes" Shí said for the hundredth time that day. She was cleaning her knives while Leila was supposed to be cleaning her bow, but was not doing it. They were sat on their own in the tent they shared. They completed their training in another year and then would go to grand battles.
"Come on, hand to hand" Leila said exasperatingly. They put down their weapons and walked to the training courtyard. The other men were already there.
"Nearly late" Legolas commented. He had just been put in charge of this group, whatever they were learning. "Pair up and start with what you have learnt" Legolas said, going over to Dalamar who was calling him. As usual Leila and Shí paired up. They started with the normal stuff, punches and low kicks, but then they got into it and started doing higher and higher kicks until eventually Leila's foot soared over Shí's head, Shí didn't even move. The other men gradually froze what they were doing and formed a circle around the pair. Shí managed to flip Leila over her head, making most men flinch but Leila spun around on the ground so she was on her back and kicked Shí squarely in the back with both feet, landing on her feet. The men burst into applause as Shí landed face first on the ground. Leila gasped as she looked around, everyone was watching them.
"Oh no" Leila mumbled. She hadn't really realised what she was doing!
"Very impressive" Dagon, a tall muscled elf with typical blonde hair and blue eyes. Some women at the side of the courtyard giggled and waved. Leila blushed deep red.
"What's going on here?" Legolas demanded.
"The young lads are naturals" Dallas, a tall thin elf said to Legolas.
"This one can kick peoples heads!" Dagon put in amazed. Leila looked at the ground.
"That one flipped 'im over 'is 'ead" Toledo, a country boy put in.
"Did they?" Legolas asked. All the men nodded. Legolas turned to Leila. "Can you kick my head?" he asked. Leila looked up at him and nodded slowly, thinking it through. "Try" Legolas obviously didn't believe the men and was very surprised when Leila spun and her foot missed his nose by a cm.
"Only just" Leila said. "Your too tall". Legolas stared at her until she looked away.
"Don't frighten the lad Legolas" Dalamar said coming over. "Where did you learn to do all that?" he asked Leila and Shí who had picked herself up off of the floor.
"We didn't really learn it, we just did it. We started fighting like that when a band of orcs attacked our village" Shí said. That at least wasn't a lie. "We were only little and had to do something so we jumped off the roofs, it was quite funny" Shí said.
"For you maybe, I'm afraid of heights" Leila muttered.
"What are your names?" Legolas asked.
"Sérle" Leila said quietly.
"Gaalin" Shí said. Legolas wrote their names down on a piece of parchment from his pocket and then walked away.
"Back to practice" Dalamar ordered.
"That guy's seriously cute" all the men heard one girl say.
"Shí, who's she pointing at?" Leila asked, her face so red she couldn't look up.
"Um.you" Shí said simply.
"ME!" Tal squeaked, making some men look at her.
"His voice hasn't broken yet" one muttered, causing Leila to, if possible, blush even more.
2 Weeks Later
They were all camped out in the forest. They were all so hot that most had stripped down to their leggings only as they did their usual exercises. Shí and Leila obviously hadn't, but they had undone the top button of their shirts. Shí did things as normal as ever but whenever Leila looked at one of the men she blushed. Dallas and Dagon called Shí over to them.
"Is Sérle strait?" they asked.
"What? Why do you ask?" Shí asked, what had Leila done to make it seem she liked boys, which she really did but never mind.
"Every time he looks at one of our chest's he blushes" Dallas said.
"He does. Well that's odd because he had a sweetheart at home. Her name was Carmel. She died and he's never been the same since" Shí said sadly.
"Poor lad. How'd she die?" Dagon asked.
"Speared by an orc, not nice" Shí said sadly. "Hang on, let me rephrase that, impaled by an orc, not nice" Shí said. That made the two men feel ill. "If you'll excuse me" she went over to Leila and pulled her aside, explaining the conversation she'd just had.
"Thanks" Leila said to her. "Now all I have to do is act sad around the women, they all flirt with me" Leila complained making ill noises.
"Yeah, but you are quite cute.as a boy I mean" Shí said quickly walking away.
"Thank god she added that on the end. Oh god, why do they like me and not her, she's a girl-liker" Leila said, going back to her exercises. The area around them was quiet until.
"CHARGE!" Elves in black capes with the mark of Sauron on them charged at the elves. Arrows shot out of no where, one barely missing Leila.
"Not good" she hissed. All of the elves drew their weapons and stood battle ready as the enemy charged.
"I though you said they hadn't got past Grey Watch!" Dalamar shouted at Legolas.
"They hadn't" Legolas called back. Leila and Shí glanced at each other, Grey Watch was their village. The enemies archers were quite good and succeeded in getting four elves before their own warriors got in the way. Each elf was one to two or sometimes three. Shí had two and Leila had three. Shí and Leila were mixing in their hand to hand moves with their blade moves and were winning, that is until the elf infront of Leila pulled out a knife and slashed all up her cheek.
"Ahhhh!" Leila screamed, just managing to hold onto her sword. She growled as blood poured down her cheek, spun and kicked the elf in the side of the head, breaking his neck, leaving her leg in the air after until she dropped, did the splits avoiding a sword and then kicked the elf's legs out from under him, slicing his throat as he hit the ground. She jumped up and put her sword infront of her. The last of her attackers charged at her from behind and she easily flipped him over her shoulder. "I'm not in the mood" Leila growled, spitting blood into the attackers face. She placed her foot on his throat and pressed slightly. "You ain't goin' no where."
"Adios!" Shí said as she jumped over one of her attackers head and kicked him in the back. He fell into the other one and the other ones sword went clean through his stomach. Shí dodged his blade as angrily swiped at her but couldn't get far enough out of the way and felt his sword slash her arm. She spun one of her knives around and threw it so it embedded itself in his neck. Soon all the evil elves were dead, bar the one Leila was stood on.
"Are they all dead?" Legolas asked.
"Bar this one!" Leila called. All the men gathered around her and smiled at the sight of the small thin boy holding down a big strong warrior with his foot.
"Good, interrogation" Dagon said. Leila stepped off the man and he was hauled to his feet. His hands were bound behind him but as they led him away he turned to Leila.
"I'll get you back for this boy" he hissed. Leila just smiled and waved at him as two of the warriors dragged him off.
"Sérle, your cheek is awful" Shí said, using the cover name because the men were still near by.
"Your arms not much better" Leila muttered.
"Let's pile the dead up and bury them. Then we ride to Grey Watch!" Legolas ordered. Most of the men picked up a body each but Leila and Shí helped each other.
"God, whoever killed this one sure can throw a knife strait" someone muttered.
"Oh, can I have that back?" Shí asked, nodding to the knife. The man pulled it out forcefully as it was embedded to the hilt. He slid it back into the sheath on Shí's back. "Thanks" Shí said as she and Leila put down the man they were carrying.
"This ones necks at a right angle!" another elf said. Leila blushed as she and Shi went to grab another body.
"What did you do?" Shí asked noting that the elves neck was at a right angle.
"Spinning kick" Leila said.
"Ouch" Shí muttered cringing. Soon all the body were piled up and burning and peoples injuries started getting treated. Shí's arm was bandaged but when it came to Leila's face the healer frowned.
"That's gonna need stitches" he said.
"Man" Leila moaned. The healer looked at her, he didn't have to put the stitches in but if he didn't."Do it" Leila muttered. So the healer got the needle and thread and began to sew Leila's cheek together. Leila didn't scream but flinched allot.
"There, finished" the healer said.
"Ow" Leila moaned, talking now hurt allot.
"You can't talk properly till it's healed I'm afraid and it's going to throb like hell so be warned" the healers said wiping the last of the blood off with a damp rag.
"Thanks" Leila muttered, moving her mouth as little as possible.
"Come see me every morning so I can make sure it doesn't get infected" the healer said before moving onto the next elf. Leila got up and walked to her horse. She slowly began preparing it to ride out. Many of the other elves were doing this as well.
"I'm not going to tell you anything!" their prisoner cried out as Legolas asked him something. "Never" he growled. He looked away from Legolas and Dagon and his gaze found Leila's. It turned icing and he spat at the ground. Legolas noticed this and looked where the man was looking and saw Leila grooming her horse with her cheek in stitches, although he thought it was a he. "Fought well that lad did, too well" the man muttered.
"Saddle up! We ride now!" Legolas shouted. The tents were dismantled and put onto saddles and the elves all got into their saddles waiting to go. Legolas tied one end of a length of rope to the prisoners bound hands and the other to his saddle before mounting. Then they began riding. The prisoner ran and Leila somehow ended up riding next to him.
"I'll get you you know, no one beats Valbal and lives more than a week" he growled at her. Leila looked away from him and rode foreword, ahead of everyone.
"Sérle! You'll get lost!" Legolas called but Leila paid him no heed and just galloped away from the party.
"Don't worry my lord. We used to live in Grey Watch. He wont get lost" Shí said to Legolas.
"Oh, but what made him gallop off like that? I could court marshal him for that." (They have court marshalling in this version) Legolas said.
"Our prisoner said something to him and then he rode away" Shí said.
"Oh" Legolas said.
A/N Told you more action didn't I? And this ones a little longer than the 1st chapter.
The way I'm doing the elves ages is that 500 is the equivalent of a 5 year old so 1500 is a 15 year old. And I'm having it that they stop growing at 2000 or 20 so that's why they always look so young. Got it?
Hidden Identity
Chapter 2; First Test
2 Years Later
"My legs look like a blokes" Leila said and she punched her thigh.
"We are blokes" Shí said for the hundredth time that day. She was cleaning her knives while Leila was supposed to be cleaning her bow, but was not doing it. They were sat on their own in the tent they shared. They completed their training in another year and then would go to grand battles.
"Come on, hand to hand" Leila said exasperatingly. They put down their weapons and walked to the training courtyard. The other men were already there.
"Nearly late" Legolas commented. He had just been put in charge of this group, whatever they were learning. "Pair up and start with what you have learnt" Legolas said, going over to Dalamar who was calling him. As usual Leila and Shí paired up. They started with the normal stuff, punches and low kicks, but then they got into it and started doing higher and higher kicks until eventually Leila's foot soared over Shí's head, Shí didn't even move. The other men gradually froze what they were doing and formed a circle around the pair. Shí managed to flip Leila over her head, making most men flinch but Leila spun around on the ground so she was on her back and kicked Shí squarely in the back with both feet, landing on her feet. The men burst into applause as Shí landed face first on the ground. Leila gasped as she looked around, everyone was watching them.
"Oh no" Leila mumbled. She hadn't really realised what she was doing!
"Very impressive" Dagon, a tall muscled elf with typical blonde hair and blue eyes. Some women at the side of the courtyard giggled and waved. Leila blushed deep red.
"What's going on here?" Legolas demanded.
"The young lads are naturals" Dallas, a tall thin elf said to Legolas.
"This one can kick peoples heads!" Dagon put in amazed. Leila looked at the ground.
"That one flipped 'im over 'is 'ead" Toledo, a country boy put in.
"Did they?" Legolas asked. All the men nodded. Legolas turned to Leila. "Can you kick my head?" he asked. Leila looked up at him and nodded slowly, thinking it through. "Try" Legolas obviously didn't believe the men and was very surprised when Leila spun and her foot missed his nose by a cm.
"Only just" Leila said. "Your too tall". Legolas stared at her until she looked away.
"Don't frighten the lad Legolas" Dalamar said coming over. "Where did you learn to do all that?" he asked Leila and Shí who had picked herself up off of the floor.
"We didn't really learn it, we just did it. We started fighting like that when a band of orcs attacked our village" Shí said. That at least wasn't a lie. "We were only little and had to do something so we jumped off the roofs, it was quite funny" Shí said.
"For you maybe, I'm afraid of heights" Leila muttered.
"What are your names?" Legolas asked.
"Sérle" Leila said quietly.
"Gaalin" Shí said. Legolas wrote their names down on a piece of parchment from his pocket and then walked away.
"Back to practice" Dalamar ordered.
"That guy's seriously cute" all the men heard one girl say.
"Shí, who's she pointing at?" Leila asked, her face so red she couldn't look up.
"Um.you" Shí said simply.
"ME!" Tal squeaked, making some men look at her.
"His voice hasn't broken yet" one muttered, causing Leila to, if possible, blush even more.
2 Weeks Later
They were all camped out in the forest. They were all so hot that most had stripped down to their leggings only as they did their usual exercises. Shí and Leila obviously hadn't, but they had undone the top button of their shirts. Shí did things as normal as ever but whenever Leila looked at one of the men she blushed. Dallas and Dagon called Shí over to them.
"Is Sérle strait?" they asked.
"What? Why do you ask?" Shí asked, what had Leila done to make it seem she liked boys, which she really did but never mind.
"Every time he looks at one of our chest's he blushes" Dallas said.
"He does. Well that's odd because he had a sweetheart at home. Her name was Carmel. She died and he's never been the same since" Shí said sadly.
"Poor lad. How'd she die?" Dagon asked.
"Speared by an orc, not nice" Shí said sadly. "Hang on, let me rephrase that, impaled by an orc, not nice" Shí said. That made the two men feel ill. "If you'll excuse me" she went over to Leila and pulled her aside, explaining the conversation she'd just had.
"Thanks" Leila said to her. "Now all I have to do is act sad around the women, they all flirt with me" Leila complained making ill noises.
"Yeah, but you are quite cute.as a boy I mean" Shí said quickly walking away.
"Thank god she added that on the end. Oh god, why do they like me and not her, she's a girl-liker" Leila said, going back to her exercises. The area around them was quiet until.
"CHARGE!" Elves in black capes with the mark of Sauron on them charged at the elves. Arrows shot out of no where, one barely missing Leila.
"Not good" she hissed. All of the elves drew their weapons and stood battle ready as the enemy charged.
"I though you said they hadn't got past Grey Watch!" Dalamar shouted at Legolas.
"They hadn't" Legolas called back. Leila and Shí glanced at each other, Grey Watch was their village. The enemies archers were quite good and succeeded in getting four elves before their own warriors got in the way. Each elf was one to two or sometimes three. Shí had two and Leila had three. Shí and Leila were mixing in their hand to hand moves with their blade moves and were winning, that is until the elf infront of Leila pulled out a knife and slashed all up her cheek.
"Ahhhh!" Leila screamed, just managing to hold onto her sword. She growled as blood poured down her cheek, spun and kicked the elf in the side of the head, breaking his neck, leaving her leg in the air after until she dropped, did the splits avoiding a sword and then kicked the elf's legs out from under him, slicing his throat as he hit the ground. She jumped up and put her sword infront of her. The last of her attackers charged at her from behind and she easily flipped him over her shoulder. "I'm not in the mood" Leila growled, spitting blood into the attackers face. She placed her foot on his throat and pressed slightly. "You ain't goin' no where."
"Adios!" Shí said as she jumped over one of her attackers head and kicked him in the back. He fell into the other one and the other ones sword went clean through his stomach. Shí dodged his blade as angrily swiped at her but couldn't get far enough out of the way and felt his sword slash her arm. She spun one of her knives around and threw it so it embedded itself in his neck. Soon all the evil elves were dead, bar the one Leila was stood on.
"Are they all dead?" Legolas asked.
"Bar this one!" Leila called. All the men gathered around her and smiled at the sight of the small thin boy holding down a big strong warrior with his foot.
"Good, interrogation" Dagon said. Leila stepped off the man and he was hauled to his feet. His hands were bound behind him but as they led him away he turned to Leila.
"I'll get you back for this boy" he hissed. Leila just smiled and waved at him as two of the warriors dragged him off.
"Sérle, your cheek is awful" Shí said, using the cover name because the men were still near by.
"Your arms not much better" Leila muttered.
"Let's pile the dead up and bury them. Then we ride to Grey Watch!" Legolas ordered. Most of the men picked up a body each but Leila and Shí helped each other.
"God, whoever killed this one sure can throw a knife strait" someone muttered.
"Oh, can I have that back?" Shí asked, nodding to the knife. The man pulled it out forcefully as it was embedded to the hilt. He slid it back into the sheath on Shí's back. "Thanks" Shí said as she and Leila put down the man they were carrying.
"This ones necks at a right angle!" another elf said. Leila blushed as she and Shi went to grab another body.
"What did you do?" Shí asked noting that the elves neck was at a right angle.
"Spinning kick" Leila said.
"Ouch" Shí muttered cringing. Soon all the body were piled up and burning and peoples injuries started getting treated. Shí's arm was bandaged but when it came to Leila's face the healer frowned.
"That's gonna need stitches" he said.
"Man" Leila moaned. The healer looked at her, he didn't have to put the stitches in but if he didn't."Do it" Leila muttered. So the healer got the needle and thread and began to sew Leila's cheek together. Leila didn't scream but flinched allot.
"There, finished" the healer said.
"Ow" Leila moaned, talking now hurt allot.
"You can't talk properly till it's healed I'm afraid and it's going to throb like hell so be warned" the healers said wiping the last of the blood off with a damp rag.
"Thanks" Leila muttered, moving her mouth as little as possible.
"Come see me every morning so I can make sure it doesn't get infected" the healer said before moving onto the next elf. Leila got up and walked to her horse. She slowly began preparing it to ride out. Many of the other elves were doing this as well.
"I'm not going to tell you anything!" their prisoner cried out as Legolas asked him something. "Never" he growled. He looked away from Legolas and Dagon and his gaze found Leila's. It turned icing and he spat at the ground. Legolas noticed this and looked where the man was looking and saw Leila grooming her horse with her cheek in stitches, although he thought it was a he. "Fought well that lad did, too well" the man muttered.
"Saddle up! We ride now!" Legolas shouted. The tents were dismantled and put onto saddles and the elves all got into their saddles waiting to go. Legolas tied one end of a length of rope to the prisoners bound hands and the other to his saddle before mounting. Then they began riding. The prisoner ran and Leila somehow ended up riding next to him.
"I'll get you you know, no one beats Valbal and lives more than a week" he growled at her. Leila looked away from him and rode foreword, ahead of everyone.
"Sérle! You'll get lost!" Legolas called but Leila paid him no heed and just galloped away from the party.
"Don't worry my lord. We used to live in Grey Watch. He wont get lost" Shí said to Legolas.
"Oh, but what made him gallop off like that? I could court marshal him for that." (They have court marshalling in this version) Legolas said.
"Our prisoner said something to him and then he rode away" Shí said.
"Oh" Legolas said.
A/N Told you more action didn't I? And this ones a little longer than the 1st chapter.