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 18; I Have No Son

Shi held little Tinw( in her arms lightly, looking at him. Not a bit of him looked like Leila. He had a fistful of her hair in his hand and kept pulling on it.
"Is it true then?" Eriaur asked quietly.
"What?" Shí asked.
"That is Leila's baby?" Eriaur asked. Elrond had explained to them about Tinw( but had admitted that they had no clue who the father of the adorable little boy was. But he had noticed Shí blush allot at the mention of this and had a feeling in the pit of his stomach...
"Yes" Shí said simply.
"Do you know who the father is?" Lord Elrond asked her.
"I do, but I will not tell you. He doesn't know himself" Shí said sadly.
"He looks allot like Leg..." Eriaur froze mid-sentence and stared at Tinw( in shock.
"Shut up" Shí hissed but Elrond had already guessed the rest of the name and left the room hastily. "Now look what you've done. Leila didn't want your brother to know" Shí said, mildly angry.
"Sorry, but I didn't know" Eriaur mumbled. "I miss Risen" he said out of the blue.
"We'll find her. Come, do you want to hold you nephew?" Shí asked. Eriaur nodded and allowed Tinw( to be put in his arms. Tinw( giggled happily and grabbed some of Eriaur's hair. "Seems he likes doing that" Shí said, nodding to the fist of hair.
"I don't mind."

Risen held the sleeping Pedi gently, but it was awkward as she was trying to fix a mans shirt at the same time. The men were all sharpening their swords and drinking around them.
"That little one's just a nuisance, you should get rid of her" one man said to the lord that had bought them. Risen looked at him and he gestured for her to come forewords. Risen lifted Pedi up gently and walked up to him slowly.
"What's her name?" he asked.
"Pedoé" Risen said quietly.
"Give her to me." Risen shook her head and held Pedi tighter. "I said give her to me girl" he was getting slightly irate now. Risen made the great mistake of trying to take a step backwards away from the group of men. A man to the right of her grabbed a fistful of her hair while the lord took Pedi from her arms.
"You'd do well to obey girl" the man holding her hair hissed. Risen whimpered and tried to claw at his hands. The lord however was not paying attention to what they were doing as he was gently holding Pedi in his arms.
"I've always wanted a little girl" he mumbled.
"My lord how should we punish this one?" the one holding Risen asked, shaking her roughly.
"Any way you like but no rape" the lord said, pushing a strand of Pedi's hair off her face. The men smiled and pulled Risen towards a back room.
"We don't need to rape you to punish you" the man snarled as he threw her against the wall...

"Prince Legolas?" Elrond asked as he entered the stables. Legolas was brushing down his horse angrily.
"Yes Lord Elrond?" he asked tensely.
"I was wondering if you'd like to meet Tinw(" Elrond said casually.
"Who's that?" Legolas asked, trying not to show that he knew about his son.
"Leila's son." Legolas froze. He looked at Elrond, guilt and slight amazement on his face.
"She has a son? Who's the father?" Legolas asked, hoping he wouldn't know.
"I think you should know who the father is if you see him, he looks just like him" Elrond said quietly. Legolas looked at him and realised he'd been figured out.
"Is it...that obvious?" Legolas asked.
"He looks exactly like you, but your highness, sleeping with an unmarried woman is..." Elrond said.
"I know, unforgivable, having a child is a crime, even more so for it to be a royal" Legolas said angrily.
"So what do you intend to do about your son?" Elrond asked bluntly.
"..." Legolas thought for a moment before turning away. "I have no son" he said quietly.

A/N Sorry this is really short but the next chapter has to start after this for it to work k? Tell me what you think and I'm actually quite pleased to have gotten some flames (although they were pretty stupid) because not everyone can like everything otherwise there would be no individualism and then we'd all be boring because...I'm gonna shut up now.