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 Ten, Where Are They?
Shí burst into a swamped healing hall calling out for Sérle in panic. Shí couldn't see her friend anywhere, or Pedi for that matter. Ahora was shocked at how many people were in the healing hall.
"Gaalin? Gaalin!" someone shouted her name. She turned to find Maruun tending a broken arm.
"Maruun! Where's Sérle?" Gaalin asked.
"He took his sister for a walk just before the battle and they didn't return. I've been worried sick about them! You must find them Shí, I would be looking for them only I'm too busy here" Maruun said quickly.
"Thank you Maruun!" Shí called as she ran out of the healing hall with Ahora following her. They bumped into Legolas who was searching for Eriaur. "Sérle's missing! So's Pedi!" Shí almost cried.
"So's my youngest brother" Legolas told her. They began searching together with no luck until.
"Look, that windows broken but nothing else here's been touched" Ahora pointed out.
"What?" Legolas and Shí asked at the same time. They walked up to the window and looked out of it. There was one dead guy but allot of blood down there. The three raced down the stairs till they came to the body. Ahora looked away as she saw the sword through his neck.
"I'll bet you anything Sérle did that" Shí said. Legolas nodded. "Theres footprints heading into the garden, lot's of footprints" Shí said, touching the ground lightly.
"Let's go" Legolas said and the three began following the footprints.
"You might as well give up girl, I'm better than you" the man snarled as they locked swords and pushed.
"Never" Leila snarled.
"No one can beat Gilfin" the man, Gilfin snarled while drawing back suddenly and slashing at Leila's shoulder. He didn't get her skin but once again caught her shirt which ripped some more. Her shirt now was hanging dangerously loose, but luckily her body wrap covered everything. She managed to cut his cheast light, but that also only cut his clothes.
"I have a feeling this will go one for a while" Leila muttered.
"I agree, and I will win" Gilfin snarled.
"Not likely" Leila snapped and the two began again.
As they got closer the sound of swords clashing caught their attention. Legolas and Shí looked at each other before they stepped into the clearing what they saw surprised them. Six hooded figures lay dead as did Valbal. Now Leila was fighting the remaining one alone. Her shirt was falling off her revealing her shapely figure and flat stomach. They could clearly see the fight was even and neither was going to give up easily.
"Where's my brother?" Legolas asked worriedly. Unfortunately the sound of Legolas' voice distracted Leila and a well aimed swipe from Gilfin caught her on the thigh. Leila cried out and fell backwards in pain, directly in the way of an oncoming attack. Shí didn't think as she charged into the battle with her sword up high. Gilfin was stunned when a sword stopped his sword killing Leila.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you" Shí said threateningly. Gilfin growled and backed up a bit.
"A new challenge huh? Are you a girl too?" he asked laughing. Leila growled and stood up slowly, holding her sword infront of her weakly. "Two against one, this should be fun" Gilfin said as he charged at the pair of them. He punched Leila in the cheek without the cut causing her to reel backwards while he parried Shí's sword with his own before twisting it and flicking her sword away. Shí stumbled backwards as he tried to stab her but he gasped when he found both a sword in his belly and a knife in his heart. Both Leila and Legolas had tried to kill him at once, the result being what had happened. He collapsed backwards with a gasp. "Beaten by a girl" he moaned angrily.
"Two actually" Shí said spitting on him. Leila lay panting on the floor, her body shaking with all the pain it had been put through.
"Where's my brother?" Legolas asked while he and Ahora walked over. Leila weakly gestured to the tree just as Risen was lowered from it. Legolas went over to her and helped get the still crying Pedi down and then Eriaur down. Eriaur hugged his older brother tightly.
"My back hurts" Pedi complained through her tears and now everyone noticed the remnants of Eriaur's tunic tied to her bleeding back.
"What happened little one?" Ahora asked as she gently picked Pedi up. Pedi just cried into her shoulder.
"What did happen?" Legolas asked his brother. "From the beginning."
"Well those 2 were lost so I was taking them back. The attack started and the bad elves saw me and came after us. We ran into a dead end and so she smashed the window and we jumped down, not before she whacked one of them against the wall though" Eriaur said, pointing at Leila who smiling and waved her hand at him. "Then 7, no 8 of them cam at us and she told us to run in here and hide, so we did. I don't know what happened but when she came back one wasn't there and three were hurt. She killed one, then two at the same time. Then one had a knife and a sword and at the time she only had two knives and somehow he managed to get a clean shot at her only that little one jumped from the tree onto him with no hesitation" Eriaur said admiringly, pointing at Pedi.
"You did it again?" Legolas asked the little girl who smiled and blushed through her tears. "Then what happened?"
"Well the guy slashed the little one up her back which made her very mad. She threw the little one up at me and I only just managed to catch her! She then chopped his head off. Then that one appeared with a knife at the other little ones throat" Eriaur said pointing at first Valbal, then Risen. "So he threw the new little one at her and she made her climb the tree. Then they fought and she killed him. Then the other guy cut her shirt and we found out she was a girl and not a boy. Then she killed him. Then the last one and her had a major sword fight and then you turned up" Eriaur said enthusiastically. Leila laughed but it quickly turned into a groan as the pain started to register all over her body.
"Never let me do that again" she muttered. "I feel like I've been trampled by a troll" she muttered.
"Here" Legolas said, taking off his tunic and giving it to Leila who quietly slipped it on.
"Thank you. Now can you get me to Maruun cos I feel awful" Leila said with a huff of verification. Legolas easily picked her up and the small group walked back to the palace.
"Maruun? Maruun we found him but before you treat him theres a couple of things you need to know" Shí said to Maruun. Thankfully the healing hall had calmed down a bit now.
"What's that?" Maruun asked.
"One, he just beat 9 of the bad guys on his own, mostly un armed. Two, she saved the Princes life, both her sisters lives and my life. Three, Pedi's hurt so she needs treating too but four, four is the most important of all. He is a she" Shí said quietly.
"I don't understand the last one" Maruun said, looking confused.
"Sérle is a girl called Leila" Shí said simply.
"What?!?" Maruun shouted shocked.
"Shhh, look Maruun if you don't help her she'll die" Shí said.
"Is it that bad?" Maruun asked, worried immediately.
"Possibly worse" Shí admitted.
"Where is she?" Maruun asked.
"Prince Legolas's chamber" Shí told him. He gathered what he needed and followed her to the room.
"Well Leila. You've certainly got a collection of injuries" Maruun said kindly when he was finished. "Other than your original broken leg, cut cheek, cut leg and cut stomach you now have a cut thigh, bruises everywhere, a cut on your arm, lots of cuts on you ankle...I think that's it" Maruun said smiling. "Anyone would think you like being in pain."
"My back hurts" Pedi said.
"Coming little one" Maruun said going to his next patient. The door opened suddenly and there stood Tharanduil and the two other Princes.
"You found him" Tharanduil said happily, noticing Eriaur.
"Yes. Father I have a strange tale of events to tell you about his part in the battle actually. It all started...." Legolas began to explain to everyone who didn't know what Leila had done and who she was. When he had finished Leila had turned bright red because he had described her kills better once she had helped fill in the gaps to him. Tharanduil was staring at the girl who saved his sons life and possibly the kingdom.
"A girl!" Tharanduil shouted in shock looking at Leila who looked down at the bed cover. "A girl in the warriors!" he continued shouting. He stormed off to find out from the rule book what to do about this.
"Well that went well" Shí said sarcastically. Everyone glared at her.
"I don't see what the problem is" Eriaur said at last.
"The problem dear brother is that girls are not allowed in the warriors" Tharh(th said.
"So? She saved my life and beat them when it was 8 on 1" Eriaur said.
"He does have a point. There has to be an exception in some cases" Tharh(th said.
"Unfortunately I don't think there are" Legolas said. Leila tried to sit up but it ended up with her crying out in surprise as pain coursed through her body. Immediately everyone was around her.
"What's wrong?" Maruun asked.
"Nothing, just found out how many muscles I pulled" Leila muttered causing everyone to laugh.
"What moves did you do to pull muscles? Most don't pull muscles" Tharh(th asked.
"If I know her it will have included the splits, a couple of flips and some rolls?" Legolas asked Leila who blushed.
"You can do that?" all the other Princes asked.
"In all the fights I've seen her do she always does that, or she kicks people heads" Legolas said.
"I'm not that bad. It's just how I fight" Leila said shrugging.
"Leila, you broke a guys neck by kicking the side of his head once" Shí pointed out.
"That was with a spinning kick!" Leila said defensively. Everyone stared at her.
"I think it runs in the family" Legolas muttered.
"What does that mean?" Leila asked angrily.
"Pedi jumped from a horse and a tree to save your life" Legolas pointed out.
"Oh yeah" Leila muttered.
"That was fun, well except for getting hurt. Can I jump out of the tree again?" Pedi asked.
"Pedi..."Leila warned.
"I know I know, be careful and ladylike" Pedi muttered.
"If you'd listened to Nana's rule you wouldn't have been hurt" Risen pointed out.
"So! I still had fun!" Pedi said indignantly.
"Young ones" Legolas muttered to his brothers, shaking his head.
"Right, everyone bar the patients out!" Maruun ordered.
"Yeah, we need to recover" Leila said laughing.
"If I know you Leila, you'll be out of that bed in half an hour challenging me to a match" Shí said laughing.
"I could..." Leila started.
"Get out!" Maruun shouted.
"Ruin my fun" Leila mumbled. The other all left except Legolas and went there separate ways. Risen went with Shí and Ahora because she was lonely.
"I tired" Pedi mumbled.
"Come and lie down then" Leila said lifting up the covers so her sister could slip in next to her. In next to no time Pedi was sound asleep.
"Keep and eyes on her so she doesn't aggravate the cut" Maruun said to Leila and Legolas. "Now I must return to my other patients. Stay in bed!" he said to Leila threateningly before leaving the room.
"Why do people always tell me to do that?" Leila asked Legolas who sat on a chair by the bed.
"Because they know you don't want to" Legolas smiled at her. Her face changed as a sudden thought filled her brain.
"What will happen to Pedi and Risen if I get banished or..." Leila made a slicing move across her throat.
"I doubt it will come to that. But if you do get banished I'll look after them if you want" Legolas let the offer hang.
"If...if is good" Leila tried to sound optimistic but failed.
"Don't worry about it. Now you should probably go to sleep" Legolas said, gently touching her bruised cheek.
"Yeah, I'm kinda sleepy actually" Leila murmured yawning. She lay down and soon was fast asleep. Legolas sat by her side watching her and tried desperately to stop himself falling for her.
A/N Wot do you think. Actions over, but the tears and angst is just beginning (as is the romance *wink wink*)
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 Ten, Where Are They?
Shí burst into a swamped healing hall calling out for Sérle in panic. Shí couldn't see her friend anywhere, or Pedi for that matter. Ahora was shocked at how many people were in the healing hall.
"Gaalin? Gaalin!" someone shouted her name. She turned to find Maruun tending a broken arm.
"Maruun! Where's Sérle?" Gaalin asked.
"He took his sister for a walk just before the battle and they didn't return. I've been worried sick about them! You must find them Shí, I would be looking for them only I'm too busy here" Maruun said quickly.
"Thank you Maruun!" Shí called as she ran out of the healing hall with Ahora following her. They bumped into Legolas who was searching for Eriaur. "Sérle's missing! So's Pedi!" Shí almost cried.
"So's my youngest brother" Legolas told her. They began searching together with no luck until.
"Look, that windows broken but nothing else here's been touched" Ahora pointed out.
"What?" Legolas and Shí asked at the same time. They walked up to the window and looked out of it. There was one dead guy but allot of blood down there. The three raced down the stairs till they came to the body. Ahora looked away as she saw the sword through his neck.
"I'll bet you anything Sérle did that" Shí said. Legolas nodded. "Theres footprints heading into the garden, lot's of footprints" Shí said, touching the ground lightly.
"Let's go" Legolas said and the three began following the footprints.
"You might as well give up girl, I'm better than you" the man snarled as they locked swords and pushed.
"Never" Leila snarled.
"No one can beat Gilfin" the man, Gilfin snarled while drawing back suddenly and slashing at Leila's shoulder. He didn't get her skin but once again caught her shirt which ripped some more. Her shirt now was hanging dangerously loose, but luckily her body wrap covered everything. She managed to cut his cheast light, but that also only cut his clothes.
"I have a feeling this will go one for a while" Leila muttered.
"I agree, and I will win" Gilfin snarled.
"Not likely" Leila snapped and the two began again.
As they got closer the sound of swords clashing caught their attention. Legolas and Shí looked at each other before they stepped into the clearing what they saw surprised them. Six hooded figures lay dead as did Valbal. Now Leila was fighting the remaining one alone. Her shirt was falling off her revealing her shapely figure and flat stomach. They could clearly see the fight was even and neither was going to give up easily.
"Where's my brother?" Legolas asked worriedly. Unfortunately the sound of Legolas' voice distracted Leila and a well aimed swipe from Gilfin caught her on the thigh. Leila cried out and fell backwards in pain, directly in the way of an oncoming attack. Shí didn't think as she charged into the battle with her sword up high. Gilfin was stunned when a sword stopped his sword killing Leila.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you" Shí said threateningly. Gilfin growled and backed up a bit.
"A new challenge huh? Are you a girl too?" he asked laughing. Leila growled and stood up slowly, holding her sword infront of her weakly. "Two against one, this should be fun" Gilfin said as he charged at the pair of them. He punched Leila in the cheek without the cut causing her to reel backwards while he parried Shí's sword with his own before twisting it and flicking her sword away. Shí stumbled backwards as he tried to stab her but he gasped when he found both a sword in his belly and a knife in his heart. Both Leila and Legolas had tried to kill him at once, the result being what had happened. He collapsed backwards with a gasp. "Beaten by a girl" he moaned angrily.
"Two actually" Shí said spitting on him. Leila lay panting on the floor, her body shaking with all the pain it had been put through.
"Where's my brother?" Legolas asked while he and Ahora walked over. Leila weakly gestured to the tree just as Risen was lowered from it. Legolas went over to her and helped get the still crying Pedi down and then Eriaur down. Eriaur hugged his older brother tightly.
"My back hurts" Pedi complained through her tears and now everyone noticed the remnants of Eriaur's tunic tied to her bleeding back.
"What happened little one?" Ahora asked as she gently picked Pedi up. Pedi just cried into her shoulder.
"What did happen?" Legolas asked his brother. "From the beginning."
"Well those 2 were lost so I was taking them back. The attack started and the bad elves saw me and came after us. We ran into a dead end and so she smashed the window and we jumped down, not before she whacked one of them against the wall though" Eriaur said, pointing at Leila who smiling and waved her hand at him. "Then 7, no 8 of them cam at us and she told us to run in here and hide, so we did. I don't know what happened but when she came back one wasn't there and three were hurt. She killed one, then two at the same time. Then one had a knife and a sword and at the time she only had two knives and somehow he managed to get a clean shot at her only that little one jumped from the tree onto him with no hesitation" Eriaur said admiringly, pointing at Pedi.
"You did it again?" Legolas asked the little girl who smiled and blushed through her tears. "Then what happened?"
"Well the guy slashed the little one up her back which made her very mad. She threw the little one up at me and I only just managed to catch her! She then chopped his head off. Then that one appeared with a knife at the other little ones throat" Eriaur said pointing at first Valbal, then Risen. "So he threw the new little one at her and she made her climb the tree. Then they fought and she killed him. Then the other guy cut her shirt and we found out she was a girl and not a boy. Then she killed him. Then the last one and her had a major sword fight and then you turned up" Eriaur said enthusiastically. Leila laughed but it quickly turned into a groan as the pain started to register all over her body.
"Never let me do that again" she muttered. "I feel like I've been trampled by a troll" she muttered.
"Here" Legolas said, taking off his tunic and giving it to Leila who quietly slipped it on.
"Thank you. Now can you get me to Maruun cos I feel awful" Leila said with a huff of verification. Legolas easily picked her up and the small group walked back to the palace.
"Maruun? Maruun we found him but before you treat him theres a couple of things you need to know" Shí said to Maruun. Thankfully the healing hall had calmed down a bit now.
"What's that?" Maruun asked.
"One, he just beat 9 of the bad guys on his own, mostly un armed. Two, she saved the Princes life, both her sisters lives and my life. Three, Pedi's hurt so she needs treating too but four, four is the most important of all. He is a she" Shí said quietly.
"I don't understand the last one" Maruun said, looking confused.
"Sérle is a girl called Leila" Shí said simply.
"What?!?" Maruun shouted shocked.
"Shhh, look Maruun if you don't help her she'll die" Shí said.
"Is it that bad?" Maruun asked, worried immediately.
"Possibly worse" Shí admitted.
"Where is she?" Maruun asked.
"Prince Legolas's chamber" Shí told him. He gathered what he needed and followed her to the room.
"Well Leila. You've certainly got a collection of injuries" Maruun said kindly when he was finished. "Other than your original broken leg, cut cheek, cut leg and cut stomach you now have a cut thigh, bruises everywhere, a cut on your arm, lots of cuts on you ankle...I think that's it" Maruun said smiling. "Anyone would think you like being in pain."
"My back hurts" Pedi said.
"Coming little one" Maruun said going to his next patient. The door opened suddenly and there stood Tharanduil and the two other Princes.
"You found him" Tharanduil said happily, noticing Eriaur.
"Yes. Father I have a strange tale of events to tell you about his part in the battle actually. It all started...." Legolas began to explain to everyone who didn't know what Leila had done and who she was. When he had finished Leila had turned bright red because he had described her kills better once she had helped fill in the gaps to him. Tharanduil was staring at the girl who saved his sons life and possibly the kingdom.
"A girl!" Tharanduil shouted in shock looking at Leila who looked down at the bed cover. "A girl in the warriors!" he continued shouting. He stormed off to find out from the rule book what to do about this.
"Well that went well" Shí said sarcastically. Everyone glared at her.
"I don't see what the problem is" Eriaur said at last.
"The problem dear brother is that girls are not allowed in the warriors" Tharh(th said.
"So? She saved my life and beat them when it was 8 on 1" Eriaur said.
"He does have a point. There has to be an exception in some cases" Tharh(th said.
"Unfortunately I don't think there are" Legolas said. Leila tried to sit up but it ended up with her crying out in surprise as pain coursed through her body. Immediately everyone was around her.
"What's wrong?" Maruun asked.
"Nothing, just found out how many muscles I pulled" Leila muttered causing everyone to laugh.
"What moves did you do to pull muscles? Most don't pull muscles" Tharh(th asked.
"If I know her it will have included the splits, a couple of flips and some rolls?" Legolas asked Leila who blushed.
"You can do that?" all the other Princes asked.
"In all the fights I've seen her do she always does that, or she kicks people heads" Legolas said.
"I'm not that bad. It's just how I fight" Leila said shrugging.
"Leila, you broke a guys neck by kicking the side of his head once" Shí pointed out.
"That was with a spinning kick!" Leila said defensively. Everyone stared at her.
"I think it runs in the family" Legolas muttered.
"What does that mean?" Leila asked angrily.
"Pedi jumped from a horse and a tree to save your life" Legolas pointed out.
"Oh yeah" Leila muttered.
"That was fun, well except for getting hurt. Can I jump out of the tree again?" Pedi asked.
"Pedi..."Leila warned.
"I know I know, be careful and ladylike" Pedi muttered.
"If you'd listened to Nana's rule you wouldn't have been hurt" Risen pointed out.
"So! I still had fun!" Pedi said indignantly.
"Young ones" Legolas muttered to his brothers, shaking his head.
"Right, everyone bar the patients out!" Maruun ordered.
"Yeah, we need to recover" Leila said laughing.
"If I know you Leila, you'll be out of that bed in half an hour challenging me to a match" Shí said laughing.
"I could..." Leila started.
"Get out!" Maruun shouted.
"Ruin my fun" Leila mumbled. The other all left except Legolas and went there separate ways. Risen went with Shí and Ahora because she was lonely.
"I tired" Pedi mumbled.
"Come and lie down then" Leila said lifting up the covers so her sister could slip in next to her. In next to no time Pedi was sound asleep.
"Keep and eyes on her so she doesn't aggravate the cut" Maruun said to Leila and Legolas. "Now I must return to my other patients. Stay in bed!" he said to Leila threateningly before leaving the room.
"Why do people always tell me to do that?" Leila asked Legolas who sat on a chair by the bed.
"Because they know you don't want to" Legolas smiled at her. Her face changed as a sudden thought filled her brain.
"What will happen to Pedi and Risen if I get banished or..." Leila made a slicing move across her throat.
"I doubt it will come to that. But if you do get banished I'll look after them if you want" Legolas let the offer hang.
"If...if is good" Leila tried to sound optimistic but failed.
"Don't worry about it. Now you should probably go to sleep" Legolas said, gently touching her bruised cheek.
"Yeah, I'm kinda sleepy actually" Leila murmured yawning. She lay down and soon was fast asleep. Legolas sat by her side watching her and tried desperately to stop himself falling for her.
A/N Wot do you think. Actions over, but the tears and angst is just beginning (as is the romance *wink wink*)