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.
This is dedicated to Liz who helped me start it and has told me in person that she loves the fight scenes and ended up cheering out when she was reading it (causing her parents to look at her).
Thanks to whoever it was that informed me about the kids name promlem. This Tinw( is supposed to say T-I-N-W-E but the e has 2 dots over it but it doesn't work sometimes.
Hidden Identity
Chapter 17, They've Gone!
Tinw( giggled happily as the twins played with him while Arwen and Leila talked. Leila was fit and healthy again and had immediately started up her fighting practise with Arwen anytime possible.
"How about this afternoon?" Leila suggested.
"Can't, father has asked me to look after some guests he is expecting" Arwen said, shaking her head apologetically.
"That's alright, I needed to right to my brother about Tinw( anyway" Leila said. She actually needed to tell Shí that she'd given birth because at that point in time she'd been putting it off as much as possible. Elrond and Glorfindel watched the group from one of the balconies.
"Melyanna seems quite healthy again" Glorfindel said.
"She's much better, and that little son of hers is healthy as well but he reminds me of someone familiar but I can't place it" Elrond admitted.
"When I first saw him he reminded me immediately of Tharanduil and what all his children looked like as babies, but it's probably just the hair" Glorfindel said, laughing quietly and Elladan threw Tinw( up into the air playfully and caught him. Elrond looked at the little baby.
"He does look a bit like them I guess, but I was hoping it would tell us who the father could be but Melyanna has told me she was a lower class citizen so there is no chance it could have been one of the Prince's" Elrond said sadly, going inside.
"If only she'd tell us who he is" Glorfindel said, following Elrond inside.
Leila sat in her room at her desk, little Tinw( asleep in his crib. She was staring at the blank sheet of parchment infront of her, quill in hand running through her head what to say, how to explain her decision. Eventually she began to write. Dear Gaalin,
I hope that you and the others are well. I have some good new and some bad news to tell you. The good news is I have a son, we named him Tinw(. He looks allot like his father which is why I have made a decision, the decision being the bad news. I have decided to stay in Rivendell permanently. Hopefully that way no one will guess who Tinw('s father is so Legolas's good name shall be intact. I do love you all and hope you come to visit.
Melyanna. Leila sighed and put it in an envelope before sealing it with a stamp. Her hand was shaking as she placed it back on the desk. She knew in her heart Shí would be angry at her decision and that Risen and Pedi would not come to see her but how she missed them. She missed seeing Pedi play and watching Risen flirt badly. Yes she'd noticed Risen's infatuation while she had been there but it had only just begun then, how would she know if they got together?
Leila was shaken from her thought's when Tinw( began crying. Leila went over to him and picked him up gently. He stopped crying after a while and pulled on her hair, a habit everyone had quickly noticed.
"You won't make me leave you will you little Spark? I hope not" Leila whispered to him, kissing his tiny forehead softly.
2 Weeks Later,
Shí angrily threw Leila's letter down on the ground. How dare she decide to stay in Rivendell permanently!?! Risen looked up from her sewing and Pedi stopped colouring her piece paper with the paintbrush in her hand.
"What's wrong?" Risen asked. Ahora was shopping so she wasn't here.
"Your sister has decided to remain in Rivendell, forever" Shí said angrily.
"Oh, well, we can visit some time right?" Risen asked, looking at Pedi who didn't quite understand.
"She says you can, to visit her son I expect" Shí said abruptly leaving the room. Risen picked up the letter and placed it on the desk but not before reading it quickly.
"Tinw(. That's a nice name at least" Risen said sadly. She looked at Pedi who reminded everyone of Leila and started to cry sadly.
"Why sad Risen?" Pedi asked, walking over to her big sister slowly.
"Leila's not going to be back for a long time Pedi" Risen said quietly.
"Why not?" Pedi asked.
"She has her reason's. Come here Pedi" Risen said holding out her arms to Pedi who jumped into them. Neither of them noticed the cloaked figure at the window.
Shí lashed out viscously at the practice object, a piece of wood. Legolas and the other people training noticed her anger and stayed as well away as they could get. Of course they all knew her as Gaalin still.
"Why so angry Gaalin?" Dallas asked, not moving towards Shí.
"Leila" Shí said angrily, kicking the post.
"What about her?" Dagon asked.
"She's-decided-to-stay-in-Imladris-forever" Shí said, hitting the post between each word.
"She's in Imladris?" Legolas asked in disbelief. Shí froze mid kick.
"I shouldn't have said that" Shí muttered before quickly running away, know Legolas would want to ask more.
The cloaked figure silently climbed through the window and up behind Risen who still held Pedi. He pulled her backwards quickly and threw her to the ground. Pedi started screaming so the cloaked figure brought up his fist and hit Pedi in the side of the head, causing her to fall in a heap.
"Leave her alone!" Risen shouted, running at the figure. He stopped her easily and simply tied her hands together behind her back. "Who are you? Why are you doing this?" Risen asked.
"None of you business girl" the figure growled in a deep male voice, starting to pick Risen up. Risen let out an ear piercing scream causing him to drop her. She tried to get away from him but he caught her and slung her over his shoulder. She screamed again so the man pulled her infront of him and took another piece of rope from his pocket and tied it around her mouth as a gag. Risen had tears tumbling down her cheeks as he held her out the window and simply dropped her. She felt herself being caught just before she passed out.
The man picked the still unconscious Pedi up easily. She had a bruise forming that covered the whole side of her face. He moved to the window just as the door opened and some of the palace guard ran in.
"Stop!" the ordered. The man simply held Pedi out the window. "Don't drop her!" the guards shouted.
"Why not?" the man asked, letting go. Pedi was caught by another cloaked figure and before the guards could do anything the man had jumped from the window as well.
"Go find their majesties Ronda. The rest of you come with me!"
The guards couldn't find any trace of the kidnappers and returned to the bedroom to find Legolas, Eriaur and Shí rather distraught.
"Did you find them?" Shí asked.
"No sir. Not a trace. Are there any clues in here?" the lead guard was well know for being able to find anyone who broke the law.
"Nothing, except for moved furniture" Eriaur said. Legolas had noticed the letter and picked it up. He read it quickly and froze. He put it in his pocket, deciding to save it till later.
"Send out search party's, I want the ones who did this found and brought to me!" Legolas snapped angrily. He'd grown attached to Pedi easily and had grown used to looking after her.
Pedi woke up to the feeling of being passed from one person to another. She looked up into the face of a man with a scar all down his left cheek, a human man.
"15 silver pieces for this one and 10 for the little'un" someone said.
"What's going on?" Risen tried to say but she still had the gag on so it came out an indistinguishable mumble.
"That's far too much. 5 for the little'un and 10 for this one" the one holding Risen said.
"No, 15 or we go to someone else. They are good friends with the Princes and she can sew well, or so I'm told" the voice trying to sell them said.
"So basically the royal guard will be after you and you want to get rid of them by selling them to us?" the one holding her asked.
"Yes" at this Risen started to struggle. There had to be a way to get free.
"Hold still girl" the one holding her snapped. "I'll not pay no more than 12 for this on and 6 for the little'un."
"Done" the money was passed over and the sellers rode away. Risen at once began to struggle again until she was roughly dropped from the horse. She looked up and found she was surrounded by humans, one holding the still unconscious Pedi. "There's no where for you to run girl but be my guest and try, we like hunting slaves" the one who dropped her snarled. The other men laughed. Risen looked around her and then began to cry. Someone scooped her up onto a horse. "Ride out!"
2 Weeks Later,
"A party from Mirkwood has just arrived my lord and wish to see you on urgent matters" a messenger said to Elrond at the breakfast table. Leila looked up from her plate. Leila watched as Elrond left the table which was in a hushed silence. Leila rose quickly and left the room, walking out into the corridor to see Legolas, Eriaur and Shí talking to Elrond.
"Oh dear" Leila muttered, trying to go the other way without being seen. Only Eriaur had seen her.
"Leila?" he asked loudly, causing the conversation to stop and everyone's gaze to fall on Leila.
"I'm afraid you must have me mistaken My Lord, my name is Melyanna" Leila said, looking at the ground.
"There isn't any point in lying Leila, I know it's you" Legolas said quietly.
"You know her?" Elrond asked.
"Yes, Leila once posed as one of my warriors and when she was discovered...fled" Legolas said pausing. Elrond looked at Leila in surprise while Leila cursed quietly and blushed.
"Is this true?" Elrond asked.
"Kinda yes" Leila said sadly. Elrond didn't speak for a while.
"I'm afraid we haven't had any elves from Mirkwood here since Mely- Leila" Elrond said to Legolas. "If we see any I will inform you."
"What's wrong?" Leila asked.
"Someone's gone missing" Legolas said.
"Who?" Leila asked.
"Pedi and Risen." Leila stared at him in shock before her eyes rolled upwards and she feinted.
"You could have been a little kinder! They are her sisters after all" Shí snapped as she caught Leila.
"Why should I care" Legolas said angrily. "We leave as soon as the horses have rested" he ordered walking off. Elrond looked at Eriaur who looked about ready to cry.
"If you would like to follow me I'll take you to Mely-Leila's room" Elrond said, still not used to calling her Leila. Shí picked Leila up and Elrond lead the way down the hall. They reached Leila's room in time to hear Tinw( start wailing. Elrond opened the door and went over to the crib, picking the little boy up. Eriaur stared in surprise at the mini-Legolas held in Elrond's arms.
"Are you going to let me in or shall I just stand here with her in my arms?" Shí asked angrily. Eriaur blinked and stepped aside so Shí could lay Leila on the bed. Tinw( had stopped crying and was as usual holding some of Elronds hair in his tiny fist. Everyone who knew Tinw( knew that most times he woke up crying he just wanted to be held and be able to pull on someone's hair which he seemed fascinated with.
"Now, tell me everything, from the start before I go and inform my children of the change of names" Elrond said. Shí started the story right at the beginning.
Risen sat on the floor in he main room of the castle she and Pedi were being held in, patching up one of the humans shirts. Pedi was sat by her playing with some stones. Other slaves were around the floor, some sewing, some polishing boots or blades and some serving food to the 20 men.
"'What's the time mister wolf?' 'Why I don't know mister pig, how about you duck?'" Pedi played quietly.
"That ones useless" a man said angrily, gesturing to Pedi who played on blissfully.
"Little'un! Come here!" the leader shouted. Pedi, who had realised she was always referred to as little'un stood and walked to him. Risen kept her gaze fixed on her. "How old are you?"
"Um, dunno. Risen? How old am I?" Pedi asked Risen.
"351 Pedi" Risen said quietly.
"That is the reason she doesn't do anything Grille, she's too young. Go back to other one" the leader said to Pedi.
"Her names Risen" Pedi said sweetly as she walked away. Risen put an arm around her as she began to play with her stones again, feeling the men still watching them.
A/N There yah go. Sorry it's a bit short but I had to leave it here. Has anyone else seen War Of The Buttons because it's the best movie ever! But I can't buy it anywhere because it's not been asked for for so long it's been deleted from the files, can't even order it!!!
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.
This is dedicated to Liz who helped me start it and has told me in person that she loves the fight scenes and ended up cheering out when she was reading it (causing her parents to look at her).
Thanks to whoever it was that informed me about the kids name promlem. This Tinw( is supposed to say T-I-N-W-E but the e has 2 dots over it but it doesn't work sometimes.
Hidden Identity
Chapter 17, They've Gone!
Tinw( giggled happily as the twins played with him while Arwen and Leila talked. Leila was fit and healthy again and had immediately started up her fighting practise with Arwen anytime possible.
"How about this afternoon?" Leila suggested.
"Can't, father has asked me to look after some guests he is expecting" Arwen said, shaking her head apologetically.
"That's alright, I needed to right to my brother about Tinw( anyway" Leila said. She actually needed to tell Shí that she'd given birth because at that point in time she'd been putting it off as much as possible. Elrond and Glorfindel watched the group from one of the balconies.
"Melyanna seems quite healthy again" Glorfindel said.
"She's much better, and that little son of hers is healthy as well but he reminds me of someone familiar but I can't place it" Elrond admitted.
"When I first saw him he reminded me immediately of Tharanduil and what all his children looked like as babies, but it's probably just the hair" Glorfindel said, laughing quietly and Elladan threw Tinw( up into the air playfully and caught him. Elrond looked at the little baby.
"He does look a bit like them I guess, but I was hoping it would tell us who the father could be but Melyanna has told me she was a lower class citizen so there is no chance it could have been one of the Prince's" Elrond said sadly, going inside.
"If only she'd tell us who he is" Glorfindel said, following Elrond inside.
Leila sat in her room at her desk, little Tinw( asleep in his crib. She was staring at the blank sheet of parchment infront of her, quill in hand running through her head what to say, how to explain her decision. Eventually she began to write. Dear Gaalin,
I hope that you and the others are well. I have some good new and some bad news to tell you. The good news is I have a son, we named him Tinw(. He looks allot like his father which is why I have made a decision, the decision being the bad news. I have decided to stay in Rivendell permanently. Hopefully that way no one will guess who Tinw('s father is so Legolas's good name shall be intact. I do love you all and hope you come to visit.
Melyanna. Leila sighed and put it in an envelope before sealing it with a stamp. Her hand was shaking as she placed it back on the desk. She knew in her heart Shí would be angry at her decision and that Risen and Pedi would not come to see her but how she missed them. She missed seeing Pedi play and watching Risen flirt badly. Yes she'd noticed Risen's infatuation while she had been there but it had only just begun then, how would she know if they got together?
Leila was shaken from her thought's when Tinw( began crying. Leila went over to him and picked him up gently. He stopped crying after a while and pulled on her hair, a habit everyone had quickly noticed.
"You won't make me leave you will you little Spark? I hope not" Leila whispered to him, kissing his tiny forehead softly.
2 Weeks Later,
Shí angrily threw Leila's letter down on the ground. How dare she decide to stay in Rivendell permanently!?! Risen looked up from her sewing and Pedi stopped colouring her piece paper with the paintbrush in her hand.
"What's wrong?" Risen asked. Ahora was shopping so she wasn't here.
"Your sister has decided to remain in Rivendell, forever" Shí said angrily.
"Oh, well, we can visit some time right?" Risen asked, looking at Pedi who didn't quite understand.
"She says you can, to visit her son I expect" Shí said abruptly leaving the room. Risen picked up the letter and placed it on the desk but not before reading it quickly.
"Tinw(. That's a nice name at least" Risen said sadly. She looked at Pedi who reminded everyone of Leila and started to cry sadly.
"Why sad Risen?" Pedi asked, walking over to her big sister slowly.
"Leila's not going to be back for a long time Pedi" Risen said quietly.
"Why not?" Pedi asked.
"She has her reason's. Come here Pedi" Risen said holding out her arms to Pedi who jumped into them. Neither of them noticed the cloaked figure at the window.
Shí lashed out viscously at the practice object, a piece of wood. Legolas and the other people training noticed her anger and stayed as well away as they could get. Of course they all knew her as Gaalin still.
"Why so angry Gaalin?" Dallas asked, not moving towards Shí.
"Leila" Shí said angrily, kicking the post.
"What about her?" Dagon asked.
"She's-decided-to-stay-in-Imladris-forever" Shí said, hitting the post between each word.
"She's in Imladris?" Legolas asked in disbelief. Shí froze mid kick.
"I shouldn't have said that" Shí muttered before quickly running away, know Legolas would want to ask more.
The cloaked figure silently climbed through the window and up behind Risen who still held Pedi. He pulled her backwards quickly and threw her to the ground. Pedi started screaming so the cloaked figure brought up his fist and hit Pedi in the side of the head, causing her to fall in a heap.
"Leave her alone!" Risen shouted, running at the figure. He stopped her easily and simply tied her hands together behind her back. "Who are you? Why are you doing this?" Risen asked.
"None of you business girl" the figure growled in a deep male voice, starting to pick Risen up. Risen let out an ear piercing scream causing him to drop her. She tried to get away from him but he caught her and slung her over his shoulder. She screamed again so the man pulled her infront of him and took another piece of rope from his pocket and tied it around her mouth as a gag. Risen had tears tumbling down her cheeks as he held her out the window and simply dropped her. She felt herself being caught just before she passed out.
The man picked the still unconscious Pedi up easily. She had a bruise forming that covered the whole side of her face. He moved to the window just as the door opened and some of the palace guard ran in.
"Stop!" the ordered. The man simply held Pedi out the window. "Don't drop her!" the guards shouted.
"Why not?" the man asked, letting go. Pedi was caught by another cloaked figure and before the guards could do anything the man had jumped from the window as well.
"Go find their majesties Ronda. The rest of you come with me!"
The guards couldn't find any trace of the kidnappers and returned to the bedroom to find Legolas, Eriaur and Shí rather distraught.
"Did you find them?" Shí asked.
"No sir. Not a trace. Are there any clues in here?" the lead guard was well know for being able to find anyone who broke the law.
"Nothing, except for moved furniture" Eriaur said. Legolas had noticed the letter and picked it up. He read it quickly and froze. He put it in his pocket, deciding to save it till later.
"Send out search party's, I want the ones who did this found and brought to me!" Legolas snapped angrily. He'd grown attached to Pedi easily and had grown used to looking after her.
Pedi woke up to the feeling of being passed from one person to another. She looked up into the face of a man with a scar all down his left cheek, a human man.
"15 silver pieces for this one and 10 for the little'un" someone said.
"What's going on?" Risen tried to say but she still had the gag on so it came out an indistinguishable mumble.
"That's far too much. 5 for the little'un and 10 for this one" the one holding Risen said.
"No, 15 or we go to someone else. They are good friends with the Princes and she can sew well, or so I'm told" the voice trying to sell them said.
"So basically the royal guard will be after you and you want to get rid of them by selling them to us?" the one holding her asked.
"Yes" at this Risen started to struggle. There had to be a way to get free.
"Hold still girl" the one holding her snapped. "I'll not pay no more than 12 for this on and 6 for the little'un."
"Done" the money was passed over and the sellers rode away. Risen at once began to struggle again until she was roughly dropped from the horse. She looked up and found she was surrounded by humans, one holding the still unconscious Pedi. "There's no where for you to run girl but be my guest and try, we like hunting slaves" the one who dropped her snarled. The other men laughed. Risen looked around her and then began to cry. Someone scooped her up onto a horse. "Ride out!"
2 Weeks Later,
"A party from Mirkwood has just arrived my lord and wish to see you on urgent matters" a messenger said to Elrond at the breakfast table. Leila looked up from her plate. Leila watched as Elrond left the table which was in a hushed silence. Leila rose quickly and left the room, walking out into the corridor to see Legolas, Eriaur and Shí talking to Elrond.
"Oh dear" Leila muttered, trying to go the other way without being seen. Only Eriaur had seen her.
"Leila?" he asked loudly, causing the conversation to stop and everyone's gaze to fall on Leila.
"I'm afraid you must have me mistaken My Lord, my name is Melyanna" Leila said, looking at the ground.
"There isn't any point in lying Leila, I know it's you" Legolas said quietly.
"You know her?" Elrond asked.
"Yes, Leila once posed as one of my warriors and when she was discovered...fled" Legolas said pausing. Elrond looked at Leila in surprise while Leila cursed quietly and blushed.
"Is this true?" Elrond asked.
"Kinda yes" Leila said sadly. Elrond didn't speak for a while.
"I'm afraid we haven't had any elves from Mirkwood here since Mely- Leila" Elrond said to Legolas. "If we see any I will inform you."
"What's wrong?" Leila asked.
"Someone's gone missing" Legolas said.
"Who?" Leila asked.
"Pedi and Risen." Leila stared at him in shock before her eyes rolled upwards and she feinted.
"You could have been a little kinder! They are her sisters after all" Shí snapped as she caught Leila.
"Why should I care" Legolas said angrily. "We leave as soon as the horses have rested" he ordered walking off. Elrond looked at Eriaur who looked about ready to cry.
"If you would like to follow me I'll take you to Mely-Leila's room" Elrond said, still not used to calling her Leila. Shí picked Leila up and Elrond lead the way down the hall. They reached Leila's room in time to hear Tinw( start wailing. Elrond opened the door and went over to the crib, picking the little boy up. Eriaur stared in surprise at the mini-Legolas held in Elrond's arms.
"Are you going to let me in or shall I just stand here with her in my arms?" Shí asked angrily. Eriaur blinked and stepped aside so Shí could lay Leila on the bed. Tinw( had stopped crying and was as usual holding some of Elronds hair in his tiny fist. Everyone who knew Tinw( knew that most times he woke up crying he just wanted to be held and be able to pull on someone's hair which he seemed fascinated with.
"Now, tell me everything, from the start before I go and inform my children of the change of names" Elrond said. Shí started the story right at the beginning.
Risen sat on the floor in he main room of the castle she and Pedi were being held in, patching up one of the humans shirts. Pedi was sat by her playing with some stones. Other slaves were around the floor, some sewing, some polishing boots or blades and some serving food to the 20 men.
"'What's the time mister wolf?' 'Why I don't know mister pig, how about you duck?'" Pedi played quietly.
"That ones useless" a man said angrily, gesturing to Pedi who played on blissfully.
"Little'un! Come here!" the leader shouted. Pedi, who had realised she was always referred to as little'un stood and walked to him. Risen kept her gaze fixed on her. "How old are you?"
"Um, dunno. Risen? How old am I?" Pedi asked Risen.
"351 Pedi" Risen said quietly.
"That is the reason she doesn't do anything Grille, she's too young. Go back to other one" the leader said to Pedi.
"Her names Risen" Pedi said sweetly as she walked away. Risen put an arm around her as she began to play with her stones again, feeling the men still watching them.
A/N There yah go. Sorry it's a bit short but I had to leave it here. Has anyone else seen War Of The Buttons because it's the best movie ever! But I can't buy it anywhere because it's not been asked for for so long it's been deleted from the files, can't even order it!!!