Disclamer: I don't own Legolas but I do own everyone else. Set before the
War of the Ring which is why there aren't many references to LOTR in this
story. Two girls, 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. Basically minus the 2 0's and you got the age they look like. And I'm having it that they stop growing at 2000 or 20 so that's why they always look so young. Got it?
To all those who flamed about Éowyn already doing this.she is a human! These are elves. Éowyn fought in one battle, these two fight in lots and train for years. If you notice the whole of the elven army is male so I thought this fitted. Éowyn may do the same but this is set a long time before Return of the King OK? I know Éowyn is a cool character, one of my favourites actually but this is totally different to her. One small note which had been pointed out to me, the reason the girls have joined the army is explained later on because I know it says they wasn't girl power basically but later on it is explained why girl power is so important to them.
Thank you to all those who reviewed and thank you to all those who flamed. I take flames as a persons opinion but as long as not all of my reviews are flames this story will remain up kay? I do have to agree with one piece of constructive criticism/flame, the names are not very elven I know. They would be more elven as I've just found this great name generator site but when I started this story the only names I had were the names on a list my friend Blaze made up for me. Sorry about that, I'll try to make any knew characters names more elven for you. Also the length of hair as I see it is women-really really really long! Men-just below the shoulders and always braided.
Hidden Identity
Chapter Nine, Battle Commences
Leila pulled Eriaur around a corner breathing fast. It was a dead end. Leila growled and tried to open the doors, all of them were locked.
"I really am a jinx" Leila muttered. Just then she noticed the window. She ran to it, dragging Eriaur with her. Pedi was sobbing into the Princes shoulder. Leila kicked the glass with her foot and it shattered, the shards scratching at her ankle. She looked down and saw that the ground wasn't far away. "Can you make that?" she asked Eriaur who nodded. "Give me Pedi. Jump down and then catch Pedi when I throw her to you. NOW!" Leila snapped. Eriaur handed her Pedi and climbed out the window before jumping lightly to the ground. He turned round and held out his arms. Leila could hear the people coming and hurriedly held Pedi out the window. Pedi screamed when Leila lets go but Eriaur caught her easily. Leila started to climb out of the window just as the hooded elves turned the corner. She was about to get through when one of them grabbed her arm. She pulled her arm through the window which caused the elf's head to smash into the wall above the small window, rendering him unconscious. Unfortunately this also meant that Leila was no longer holding on so she fell ungracefully to the ground and just managed to land on her feet. Her broken leg screamed in pain and she bit her lip to keep herself from screaming.
"Are you alright?" Eriaur asked her worriedly.
"Never better. Is they're anywhere safe we can go from here?" Leila asked.
"Not really, just the gardens, it looks like every where's full of those hooded elves" Eriaur said, looking around.
"Great, we'll just stick to the plan and run" Leila said. There was a thump behind them as one of the hooded elves jumped out the window and landed behind her. "Run for the gardens and hide" Leila ordered the Prince who nodded and ran through a gate into the extensive palace gardens. She stood infront of the gate and brandished the small knife infront of her as more of the hooded elves jumped out the window or ran through the door. They all had swords and Leila felt more than a little vulnerable with just the knife.
"Move aside boy and we'll let you live" one of the hooded elves said. He had to admire the boy for bravery if not his stupidity.
"Never" Leila hissed.
"We want the Prince, not you" the hooded elf snapped.
"You can have him over my dead body" Leila snapped.
"With pleasure" and the eight hooded elves charged at her.
"I'm scared" Thoron whimpered as the horses charged along the winding path.
"Don't be, I'm here" Shí was thankful that her horse could make the turns of the path without being told to as she had to focus on holding onto both the toddler and the baby.
"Where's Eledh?" Thoron asked.
"With a friend of mine" Shí said kindly to the boy.
"I feel sick" Thoron mumbled.
"I do to but you need to hold it in till we stop the horse or it will just splat on your face" Shí said which made Thoron laugh quietly. Ann(n was asleep which was a blessing because Shí didn't know if she could handle a complaining child and a wailing one too. Shí sighed and focused on staying on the horses back.
Leila deflected the first one to reach hers sword with her foot while slashing at the elfs hidden face. Leila could feel she hit something and the elf cried out and fell back but he was soon replaced by two more. One aimed a sword swipe a Leila's head while the other tried to slash her stomach. Leila dropped to the ground doing the splits and slashed her knife up in between the one to the right of hers legs. He fell back screaming. She then rolled as the one to her right tried to slash her head off and stabbed his foot. He dropped his swords and fell back, the knife strait through his foot. Leila jumped up and picked up the mans dropped sword. Another one charged at her but this one had two long knifes. She deflected them with the sword but he still managed to slash her arm.
"You spilled my blood, now your gonna pay" Leila growled while going at him in mild rage. She parried his knives and pretended to get ready to kick him so he moved his knives long enough for her to swing the sword up and embed it through, yes through his neck. He went limp and fell backwards, but not before Leila grabbed his knives. So now 3 of the hooded elves were injured and hung back, one was dead and the other four stood infront of her. Realising she wasn't going to win this fight in such a small space she turned and ran into the gardens with them close on her heels. "And here was me wanting to go away for the fight, well the fight's come to me instead" Leila muttered angrily as she ran along.
The warriors found the palace gates open and the palace guard fighting with about 200 hooded elves.
"Gaalin! Keep those children safe!" Legolas called as the rest of the warriors charged at the hooded elves. Shí found herself alone with Dallas who had ended up with the girl.
"No fighting for us then" he said.
"We should hide before someone sees us" Shí said. Dallas nodded in agreement and the two rode their horses slowly to the stables. Shí jumped down with the baby in her arms but left the toddler on the horse. Just as she went to help him down the air was filled with female and childish screams.
"They've found the women and children in the great hall" Dallas said, sounding panicked.
"We have to help them" Shí said.
"We can hide these three in the straw" Dallas said. So they put the three children at the back of the stable in the hay stack.
"Stay here, don't move. If someone comes hide in the straw. If they find you, use this" Shí said to the girl handing her a knife, Shí's lucky spare knife. "Come on then" Shí said and she and Dallas ran through the fighting without being noticed and towards the great hall.
Leila stopped running in a clearing surrounded by tress and turned to face the seven hooded attackers.
"We finish this now boy" on snarled at Leila and charged at her with his sword aimed at her stomach. Leila jumped aside at the last moment and brought one of her knives down on the base of his neck, killing him instantly. Unknown to her Eriaur and Pedi were hidden in one of the trees around the clearing and were watching her every move in awe. Leila was charged by two now, one coming from either side of her at a full run and she just jumped up and they impaled each other.
"Thanks for saving me the trouble" Leila said as she landed. Now the three wounded elves and one fine elf were stood glaring at her. The fine one ran at her with a knife in one hand and a sword in the other. He managed to deflect every move she did and vice versa but he slowly moved her so her back was up against the tree. He managed somehow to get her blades crossed under his own knife and swung his sword at her side, but it never hit her. He suddenly found himself propelled backwards onto the ground with a little body on top of his chest.
"Hi" Pedi said waving down at the elf she was on. The elf was definitely pure evil as he mercilessly slashed up her back, not enough to kill her but enough to make her scream loudly. Leila pulled her up off him and threw her up into the tree, knowing the Prince would catch her, which he did. The man jumped up but found one of Leila's blades in his cheast.
"No one hurts my family" Leila hissed, spitting on his face as he fell to the ground dead. Eriaur was amazed at how Leila was fighting and he only took his gaze off her to pull off his tunic and press it up against the cut on Pedi's back. The three remaining elves had already reason enough to kill her so Leila knew this would be a hard fight. She brandished her remaining knife infront of her while flicking a sword up with her foot, catching it by the blade so it cut her hand but she flicked over and pointed it at the elves as well.
"You're a good fighter boy, are you sure your on the right side?" the lead elf, the one who's face she had slashed asked.
"Yes" Leila growled. The lead elf clicked his fingers and the elf whose privates she had slashed ran forewords.
"I'm going to kill you for what you did to me!" he hissed.
"Your welcome to try" Leila snarled. His sword clanged as it hit her knife with such a force that would have broken her wrist if she hadn't let go. Then he did the same to the sword so now she was left defenceless.
"Not so confident now are you?" he snarled swinging his sword around and down, aimed at her shoulder. She waited till he could stop his momentum and dived to the side. She rolled on the ground, grabbed her knife and threw it at him. It embedded itself in his stomach (she'd never been that good at knife throwing) and he dropped to his knees, both his hands going to the knife which would slowly kill him if it wasn't treated soon. She picked his sword up and kicked him over so he lay on his side, dying slowly.
"Who's next?" Leila asked the remaining 2 hooded elves.
"I am" a voice behind her snarled. She spun around and came face to face with Valbal holding a struggling Risen against him with a knife pressed up against her throat.
Shí and Dallas arrived at the great hall in time to see three hooded elves charge at the women. Ahora was stood out the front, holding something that resembled a very large candle stick (about the size of an average person). She used it to stop the hooded elves and hit them with. Shí and Dallas jumped into the fray, taking one each and leaving one for Ahora to handle.
"Better late than never Gaalin" Ahora said as she swung the candlestick around and up in between the hooded elves legs. He screamed and fell backwards twitching at the pain.
"Ouch! Gaalin, never let me get on your girlfriends bad side" Dallas said as he slit his attackers throat. Shí grinned as she embedded her knife in her attackers cheast.
"We'd better stay here in case any more come" Shí said to Dallas who nodded in agreement. Just then more hooded elves ran through the door.
"I think you just jinxed us" Ahora muttered.
"You!" Leila hissed.
"Yes me and this time I will kill you!" Valbal shouted at Leila.
"Valbal! We thought you were dead!" the lead hooded elf said surprised.
"No, this *lad* here caught me and turned me over to the crown prince. I escaped but this *boy* knocked me out so I have the right to kill him!" Valbal snapped, putting emphasis on her age.
"Let Risen go and I'll beat you again!" Leila snapped. Risen was crying and trying to pull Valbal's arms off her.
"Here! Catch!" he said before throwing Risen at Leila. Leila just managed to move her sword so she didn't skewer her own sister.
"Go up that tree and stay with Pedi up there" Leila hissed pushing Risen towards the tree. Risen climbed up the tree quickly leaving Leila facing Valbal alone.
"No interference, this *boys* mine" Valbal sneered.
"No interference" the other two hooded elves agreed. Then Valbal charged at Leila who jumped lightly over his head. Valbal growled and started attacking Leila wildly with a force strong enough to drive her backwards. She felt her back press up against the tree and as he swung she ducked and rolled away from him.
"Not scared of me *boy* are you?" Valbal sneered laughing. "Where's that little brat that jumped me last time? I'll kill her as well" Valbal snarled at Leila. Leila's expression was one of pure hatred as she charged at Valbal. He gasped as her sword slid right threw his stomach before he knew what was happening.
"Never-ever threaten my family" Leila snarled. (She twisted the sword on the-ok?) Valbal laughed madly. He knew he was dying now but he'd made damn sure she'd die too. He brought his blade up on the now defenceless Leila as her blade was still embedded in his stomach.
"If I'm going to die then I'll be damned if I don't take you with me boy!" Valbal shouted, charging at her once again. Leila simply swung her leg up and kicked the sword out of his hand. He collapsed to his knees as the world turned dark.
"Just so you know, I'm not a boy" Leila snarled, pulled Valbal's face up to look her in the eyes. "I'm a girl" she hissed.
"A girl!" all the men in the clearing (even in the tree) cried out in surprise. Valbal looked shocked and he died with that expression on his face. The elf she had stabbed in the foot with the knife charged at her with a slight limp, a sword he had gotten from somewhere pointed at her belly. She looked around for a weapon but found none close enough and when she looked back she only just had enough time to jump back from a viscous swipe down. Unfortunately the sword tip cut away the fabric of her shirt so she now had a huge rip down the centre of it, revealing the fabric wrap around her cheast. The shirt was now hiding nothing so she just glared at them.
"It's true!" the man snarled. He went at Leila again but this time she jumped up and over him. She landed on the ground hard and her broken leg really badly protested to this torture she was putting it through. She looked around for any weapon but the only one she could see was firmly embedded to the hilt in a body. Looking over her shoulder she just had enough time to roll to avoid a swing aimed at her back. The sword cut deep into the earth giving her the chance she needed. She went over to the body, pulled the sword out and while the hooded elf struggled to free his own blade she slashed at his head with enough force to sever his head from his body. Now Leila turned to face the last hooded elf.
"You're a good fighter for a girl" the elf snarled as the two began circling.
"I trained with the best" Leila said simply.
"Not the best, only second best" he said. "I'm the best teacher" he said boastfully.
"If you're the best why did I manage to slash your face?" Leila asked. She stopped moving so her back was to the tree everyone was up.
"It was only a scratch" he snapped.
"Then why not prove it was only a scratch" Leila said. "Second best" she taunted. His hand whipped up and pulled the hood, revealing a handsome blonde elf with a nasty scratch across his cheeks and nose.
"Now I'll kill you and take the Prince" he snarled.
"Not likely" Leila said. They both ran at the same time and soon there was a very fast, very complicated sword fight going on in the centre of the clearing.
The battle in the palace was over and the alive enemies were being put in the dungeons. Legolas met up with his father and Tharh(th in the great hall where he was surprised to find Dallas and Shí.
"I thought I told you..." Legolas began.
"Where Sérle?" Shí asked worriedly.
"I haven't seen him, the healing hall is swamped with wounded. The warriors they're put up a good fight supposedly" Legolas said. Shí ran off followed by Ahora.
"My lords, I will go and retrieve the children from there hiding place" Dallas said bowing to the royalty.
"Father, where's Eriaur?" Legolas and Tharh(th asked at the same time.
"I don't know" Tharanduil said slowly. Harnan burst into the room and ran up to his father and brothers.
"Have you seen Eriaur? I was looking for him throughout the battle but I couldn't find him!" Harnan said panickly. He was shaking and had a scratch along one cheek from a knife.
"No. He's what they were after father, we must find him!" Legolas said worriedly.
"Find him!" Tharanduil ordered angrily. Harnan was crying quietly so Tharanduil put his arm round his youngest sons shoulders and kept him with him.
A/N Here we go. Yet another cliff hanger. Please review, even flame if yah really want to.
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. Basically minus the 2 0's and you got the age they look like. And I'm having it that they stop growing at 2000 or 20 so that's why they always look so young. Got it?
To all those who flamed about Éowyn already doing this.she is a human! These are elves. Éowyn fought in one battle, these two fight in lots and train for years. If you notice the whole of the elven army is male so I thought this fitted. Éowyn may do the same but this is set a long time before Return of the King OK? I know Éowyn is a cool character, one of my favourites actually but this is totally different to her. One small note which had been pointed out to me, the reason the girls have joined the army is explained later on because I know it says they wasn't girl power basically but later on it is explained why girl power is so important to them.
Thank you to all those who reviewed and thank you to all those who flamed. I take flames as a persons opinion but as long as not all of my reviews are flames this story will remain up kay? I do have to agree with one piece of constructive criticism/flame, the names are not very elven I know. They would be more elven as I've just found this great name generator site but when I started this story the only names I had were the names on a list my friend Blaze made up for me. Sorry about that, I'll try to make any knew characters names more elven for you. Also the length of hair as I see it is women-really really really long! Men-just below the shoulders and always braided.
Hidden Identity
Chapter Nine, Battle Commences
Leila pulled Eriaur around a corner breathing fast. It was a dead end. Leila growled and tried to open the doors, all of them were locked.
"I really am a jinx" Leila muttered. Just then she noticed the window. She ran to it, dragging Eriaur with her. Pedi was sobbing into the Princes shoulder. Leila kicked the glass with her foot and it shattered, the shards scratching at her ankle. She looked down and saw that the ground wasn't far away. "Can you make that?" she asked Eriaur who nodded. "Give me Pedi. Jump down and then catch Pedi when I throw her to you. NOW!" Leila snapped. Eriaur handed her Pedi and climbed out the window before jumping lightly to the ground. He turned round and held out his arms. Leila could hear the people coming and hurriedly held Pedi out the window. Pedi screamed when Leila lets go but Eriaur caught her easily. Leila started to climb out of the window just as the hooded elves turned the corner. She was about to get through when one of them grabbed her arm. She pulled her arm through the window which caused the elf's head to smash into the wall above the small window, rendering him unconscious. Unfortunately this also meant that Leila was no longer holding on so she fell ungracefully to the ground and just managed to land on her feet. Her broken leg screamed in pain and she bit her lip to keep herself from screaming.
"Are you alright?" Eriaur asked her worriedly.
"Never better. Is they're anywhere safe we can go from here?" Leila asked.
"Not really, just the gardens, it looks like every where's full of those hooded elves" Eriaur said, looking around.
"Great, we'll just stick to the plan and run" Leila said. There was a thump behind them as one of the hooded elves jumped out the window and landed behind her. "Run for the gardens and hide" Leila ordered the Prince who nodded and ran through a gate into the extensive palace gardens. She stood infront of the gate and brandished the small knife infront of her as more of the hooded elves jumped out the window or ran through the door. They all had swords and Leila felt more than a little vulnerable with just the knife.
"Move aside boy and we'll let you live" one of the hooded elves said. He had to admire the boy for bravery if not his stupidity.
"Never" Leila hissed.
"We want the Prince, not you" the hooded elf snapped.
"You can have him over my dead body" Leila snapped.
"With pleasure" and the eight hooded elves charged at her.
"I'm scared" Thoron whimpered as the horses charged along the winding path.
"Don't be, I'm here" Shí was thankful that her horse could make the turns of the path without being told to as she had to focus on holding onto both the toddler and the baby.
"Where's Eledh?" Thoron asked.
"With a friend of mine" Shí said kindly to the boy.
"I feel sick" Thoron mumbled.
"I do to but you need to hold it in till we stop the horse or it will just splat on your face" Shí said which made Thoron laugh quietly. Ann(n was asleep which was a blessing because Shí didn't know if she could handle a complaining child and a wailing one too. Shí sighed and focused on staying on the horses back.
Leila deflected the first one to reach hers sword with her foot while slashing at the elfs hidden face. Leila could feel she hit something and the elf cried out and fell back but he was soon replaced by two more. One aimed a sword swipe a Leila's head while the other tried to slash her stomach. Leila dropped to the ground doing the splits and slashed her knife up in between the one to the right of hers legs. He fell back screaming. She then rolled as the one to her right tried to slash her head off and stabbed his foot. He dropped his swords and fell back, the knife strait through his foot. Leila jumped up and picked up the mans dropped sword. Another one charged at her but this one had two long knifes. She deflected them with the sword but he still managed to slash her arm.
"You spilled my blood, now your gonna pay" Leila growled while going at him in mild rage. She parried his knives and pretended to get ready to kick him so he moved his knives long enough for her to swing the sword up and embed it through, yes through his neck. He went limp and fell backwards, but not before Leila grabbed his knives. So now 3 of the hooded elves were injured and hung back, one was dead and the other four stood infront of her. Realising she wasn't going to win this fight in such a small space she turned and ran into the gardens with them close on her heels. "And here was me wanting to go away for the fight, well the fight's come to me instead" Leila muttered angrily as she ran along.
The warriors found the palace gates open and the palace guard fighting with about 200 hooded elves.
"Gaalin! Keep those children safe!" Legolas called as the rest of the warriors charged at the hooded elves. Shí found herself alone with Dallas who had ended up with the girl.
"No fighting for us then" he said.
"We should hide before someone sees us" Shí said. Dallas nodded in agreement and the two rode their horses slowly to the stables. Shí jumped down with the baby in her arms but left the toddler on the horse. Just as she went to help him down the air was filled with female and childish screams.
"They've found the women and children in the great hall" Dallas said, sounding panicked.
"We have to help them" Shí said.
"We can hide these three in the straw" Dallas said. So they put the three children at the back of the stable in the hay stack.
"Stay here, don't move. If someone comes hide in the straw. If they find you, use this" Shí said to the girl handing her a knife, Shí's lucky spare knife. "Come on then" Shí said and she and Dallas ran through the fighting without being noticed and towards the great hall.
Leila stopped running in a clearing surrounded by tress and turned to face the seven hooded attackers.
"We finish this now boy" on snarled at Leila and charged at her with his sword aimed at her stomach. Leila jumped aside at the last moment and brought one of her knives down on the base of his neck, killing him instantly. Unknown to her Eriaur and Pedi were hidden in one of the trees around the clearing and were watching her every move in awe. Leila was charged by two now, one coming from either side of her at a full run and she just jumped up and they impaled each other.
"Thanks for saving me the trouble" Leila said as she landed. Now the three wounded elves and one fine elf were stood glaring at her. The fine one ran at her with a knife in one hand and a sword in the other. He managed to deflect every move she did and vice versa but he slowly moved her so her back was up against the tree. He managed somehow to get her blades crossed under his own knife and swung his sword at her side, but it never hit her. He suddenly found himself propelled backwards onto the ground with a little body on top of his chest.
"Hi" Pedi said waving down at the elf she was on. The elf was definitely pure evil as he mercilessly slashed up her back, not enough to kill her but enough to make her scream loudly. Leila pulled her up off him and threw her up into the tree, knowing the Prince would catch her, which he did. The man jumped up but found one of Leila's blades in his cheast.
"No one hurts my family" Leila hissed, spitting on his face as he fell to the ground dead. Eriaur was amazed at how Leila was fighting and he only took his gaze off her to pull off his tunic and press it up against the cut on Pedi's back. The three remaining elves had already reason enough to kill her so Leila knew this would be a hard fight. She brandished her remaining knife infront of her while flicking a sword up with her foot, catching it by the blade so it cut her hand but she flicked over and pointed it at the elves as well.
"You're a good fighter boy, are you sure your on the right side?" the lead elf, the one who's face she had slashed asked.
"Yes" Leila growled. The lead elf clicked his fingers and the elf whose privates she had slashed ran forewords.
"I'm going to kill you for what you did to me!" he hissed.
"Your welcome to try" Leila snarled. His sword clanged as it hit her knife with such a force that would have broken her wrist if she hadn't let go. Then he did the same to the sword so now she was left defenceless.
"Not so confident now are you?" he snarled swinging his sword around and down, aimed at her shoulder. She waited till he could stop his momentum and dived to the side. She rolled on the ground, grabbed her knife and threw it at him. It embedded itself in his stomach (she'd never been that good at knife throwing) and he dropped to his knees, both his hands going to the knife which would slowly kill him if it wasn't treated soon. She picked his sword up and kicked him over so he lay on his side, dying slowly.
"Who's next?" Leila asked the remaining 2 hooded elves.
"I am" a voice behind her snarled. She spun around and came face to face with Valbal holding a struggling Risen against him with a knife pressed up against her throat.
Shí and Dallas arrived at the great hall in time to see three hooded elves charge at the women. Ahora was stood out the front, holding something that resembled a very large candle stick (about the size of an average person). She used it to stop the hooded elves and hit them with. Shí and Dallas jumped into the fray, taking one each and leaving one for Ahora to handle.
"Better late than never Gaalin" Ahora said as she swung the candlestick around and up in between the hooded elves legs. He screamed and fell backwards twitching at the pain.
"Ouch! Gaalin, never let me get on your girlfriends bad side" Dallas said as he slit his attackers throat. Shí grinned as she embedded her knife in her attackers cheast.
"We'd better stay here in case any more come" Shí said to Dallas who nodded in agreement. Just then more hooded elves ran through the door.
"I think you just jinxed us" Ahora muttered.
"You!" Leila hissed.
"Yes me and this time I will kill you!" Valbal shouted at Leila.
"Valbal! We thought you were dead!" the lead hooded elf said surprised.
"No, this *lad* here caught me and turned me over to the crown prince. I escaped but this *boy* knocked me out so I have the right to kill him!" Valbal snapped, putting emphasis on her age.
"Let Risen go and I'll beat you again!" Leila snapped. Risen was crying and trying to pull Valbal's arms off her.
"Here! Catch!" he said before throwing Risen at Leila. Leila just managed to move her sword so she didn't skewer her own sister.
"Go up that tree and stay with Pedi up there" Leila hissed pushing Risen towards the tree. Risen climbed up the tree quickly leaving Leila facing Valbal alone.
"No interference, this *boys* mine" Valbal sneered.
"No interference" the other two hooded elves agreed. Then Valbal charged at Leila who jumped lightly over his head. Valbal growled and started attacking Leila wildly with a force strong enough to drive her backwards. She felt her back press up against the tree and as he swung she ducked and rolled away from him.
"Not scared of me *boy* are you?" Valbal sneered laughing. "Where's that little brat that jumped me last time? I'll kill her as well" Valbal snarled at Leila. Leila's expression was one of pure hatred as she charged at Valbal. He gasped as her sword slid right threw his stomach before he knew what was happening.
"Never-ever threaten my family" Leila snarled. (She twisted the sword on the-ok?) Valbal laughed madly. He knew he was dying now but he'd made damn sure she'd die too. He brought his blade up on the now defenceless Leila as her blade was still embedded in his stomach.
"If I'm going to die then I'll be damned if I don't take you with me boy!" Valbal shouted, charging at her once again. Leila simply swung her leg up and kicked the sword out of his hand. He collapsed to his knees as the world turned dark.
"Just so you know, I'm not a boy" Leila snarled, pulled Valbal's face up to look her in the eyes. "I'm a girl" she hissed.
"A girl!" all the men in the clearing (even in the tree) cried out in surprise. Valbal looked shocked and he died with that expression on his face. The elf she had stabbed in the foot with the knife charged at her with a slight limp, a sword he had gotten from somewhere pointed at her belly. She looked around for a weapon but found none close enough and when she looked back she only just had enough time to jump back from a viscous swipe down. Unfortunately the sword tip cut away the fabric of her shirt so she now had a huge rip down the centre of it, revealing the fabric wrap around her cheast. The shirt was now hiding nothing so she just glared at them.
"It's true!" the man snarled. He went at Leila again but this time she jumped up and over him. She landed on the ground hard and her broken leg really badly protested to this torture she was putting it through. She looked around for any weapon but the only one she could see was firmly embedded to the hilt in a body. Looking over her shoulder she just had enough time to roll to avoid a swing aimed at her back. The sword cut deep into the earth giving her the chance she needed. She went over to the body, pulled the sword out and while the hooded elf struggled to free his own blade she slashed at his head with enough force to sever his head from his body. Now Leila turned to face the last hooded elf.
"You're a good fighter for a girl" the elf snarled as the two began circling.
"I trained with the best" Leila said simply.
"Not the best, only second best" he said. "I'm the best teacher" he said boastfully.
"If you're the best why did I manage to slash your face?" Leila asked. She stopped moving so her back was to the tree everyone was up.
"It was only a scratch" he snapped.
"Then why not prove it was only a scratch" Leila said. "Second best" she taunted. His hand whipped up and pulled the hood, revealing a handsome blonde elf with a nasty scratch across his cheeks and nose.
"Now I'll kill you and take the Prince" he snarled.
"Not likely" Leila said. They both ran at the same time and soon there was a very fast, very complicated sword fight going on in the centre of the clearing.
The battle in the palace was over and the alive enemies were being put in the dungeons. Legolas met up with his father and Tharh(th in the great hall where he was surprised to find Dallas and Shí.
"I thought I told you..." Legolas began.
"Where Sérle?" Shí asked worriedly.
"I haven't seen him, the healing hall is swamped with wounded. The warriors they're put up a good fight supposedly" Legolas said. Shí ran off followed by Ahora.
"My lords, I will go and retrieve the children from there hiding place" Dallas said bowing to the royalty.
"Father, where's Eriaur?" Legolas and Tharh(th asked at the same time.
"I don't know" Tharanduil said slowly. Harnan burst into the room and ran up to his father and brothers.
"Have you seen Eriaur? I was looking for him throughout the battle but I couldn't find him!" Harnan said panickly. He was shaking and had a scratch along one cheek from a knife.
"No. He's what they were after father, we must find him!" Legolas said worriedly.
"Find him!" Tharanduil ordered angrily. Harnan was crying quietly so Tharanduil put his arm round his youngest sons shoulders and kept him with him.
A/N Here we go. Yet another cliff hanger. Please review, even flame if yah really want to.