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.
This contains FemSLASH ok?
Hidden Identity
Chapter 19, You Shouldn't Have Come
"I'm coming and you can't stop me" Leila growled at Legolas, Eriaur and Shí. They were in the stables and Leila was protesting to not being allowed to come. Shí sighed in defeat but the Prince's weren't going to give up.
"It's far too dangerous for a girl" Legolas snapped.
"Shí's going!" Leila said angrily. Eriaur blinked in shock and stared at Shí who slapped Leila around the face.
"Thanks Leila" she huffed walking off.
"Whoops" Leila muttered.
"Any way, you can't come because you must care for your son" Eriaur said, gesturing to Tinw( in Leila's arms. Legolas looked almost wistfully at his son but then looked up at Leila again.
"I'm still coming" Leila snapped. She turned and stormed back to her room. Once there she put Tinw( back in his crib and pulled out the shirt and legging's she sometimes wore for her daily exercises. She pulled them on and then grabbed one of the tunic's she'd 'borrowed' from the twins and pulled it on. She pulled on her boot's before she braided her hair warrior style after cutting it with her knife so it was no longer down to her waist. Grabbing a piece of parchment and a quill she scribbled quickly
Look after Tinw( for me, I'm going to rescue my sisters and I may not live to come back. Thanks Elladan for the tunic I borrowed and am wearing now. Please look after Tinw(, love Leila (but I'll always be Melyanna to you) She put the note on the table and kissed Tinw('s forehead lovingly. She pulled on her old cloak which she had kept and pulled the hood up and then ran towards the stables. Legolas, Shí and Eriaur glanced at her when she entered. They were already in their saddles. "Ah..." Leila muttered, looking around.
"What?" Legolas asked angrily.
"I don't own a horse" Leila said simply.
"Your problem, not mine" Legolas said coldly. Leila glared at him and grabbed the reins to Elrohir's favourite horse.
'Hope he doesn't mind' Leila thought as she pulled herself up onto the horses bare back. She rode out of the stable, the other 3 following her. Leila found Shí along side her and the Prince's were behind them.
"It's nice to have you back Sérle" Shí said smiling.
"It's nice to be back Gaalin" Leila said laughing.
"So Gaalin's a girl as well?" Eriaur asked his brother.
"Yes, but her identity is still a secret" Legolas said. His anger had gone and now he stared only wistfully at the back of Leila's head, hidden by the cloak.
Risen sobbed pitifully as she clutched at her aching stomach. The men had hit her so much. Her face was throbbing but her stomach was even worse. Blood trickled down her cheek from a cut to her eyebrow. She crawled back to her place on the floor, ignoring the stares she got and began sewing with shaking, cut fingers, her gaze never leaving Pedi who was still asleep in that bastard's lap.
'Oh Eriaur, please help me, please' Risen sobbed loudly but wiped her face dry at a glare she got from the lord.
Three days had passed and the hunters were no closer to finding Pedi and Risen when they came across a party of 3 men lazing around afire. The 4 elves lay in the long grass and listened to their conversation.
"She's a sweetie, that little'un the lord's adopted, but her Big Sis, now she's the most gorgeous elf I have ever seen" one said drinking Beer from his canteen.
"Aye, even with those bruises they put on her for resisting. What her name, something like Sunrise?" another asked laughing. Leila's fist's clenched.
"Risen" one that was obviously sober said, looking depressed.
"That's the one! Shame that boss said no touchy" the first one said giggling, miming feeling something infront of him. The other man laughed. Eriaur was being pinned to the floor by Legolas now and Leila was only just managing to stay hidden.
"Yeah, saves the best for himself" the other drunk said.
"No actually, he's saving her life or had you forgotten that elves die from the grief of being raped?" the sober one asked.
"That's just a myth, made up so he can get a little..." he thrust his hips "...with the best ones" the first drunk said. The 2 drunks laughed loudly but the sober one looked disgusted.
"You need to loosen up a bit, have a drink or 2, sleep with a woman" the second drunk said to the sober one.
"I'd rather not. Drinking is foul and talking about raping young girls is even fouler" the sober one snapped, looking away from the drunks.
"I like him" Shí muttered.
"The best plan is to wait and see..." Legolas trailed off as Leila jumped up and walked towards the men. "Great" he said angrily. Leila kicked one of the drunk's in the head and slammed her fist into the other one's nose before she drew her knife and pressed it to the sober man's throat.
"Where are they?" Leila demanded.
"Who?" the man asked, his eyes never leaving the knife at his throat.
"My sisters."
"Look lad, your gonna have to be a little more precise than that" the man said, not noticing the other elves behind him.
"You were just talking about them" Leila snapped. "Talking about raping my sister" she growled, pressing the knife against his through more.
"Oh, those girls. There at the castle, that way, you can't miss it" the man said, gesturing East with his hand.
"We came that way1 Tell me the truth or you'll find yourself with a rather high pitched voice" Leila snapped, lowering the knife to the man's groin. Legolas and Eriaur flinched at the thought.
"North! It's North!" the man squealed. Shí pulled out a length of rope and pulled the mans hands behind him. The man jumped (luckily Leila had moved the knife) and looked behind him at Legolas, Eriaur and Shí. Legolas and Eriaur swiftly tied up the man's companions. "What do you care anyway, they're in reasonably good hands for out here" the man said. Legolas only just managed to stop Leila stabbing the knife threw the mans heart. He pulled her away, she struggled and swore at the man that she'd kill him slowly. Eventually Legolas got her far enough away and pinned her to a tree.
"That was reckless, he could have killed you!" Legolas snapped, pulling the knife from her grip.
"Didn't you hear what he said?!?" Leila demanded angrily, pushing at Legolas.
"Yes, and it was wrong of him but you need to calm down Leila" Legolas said.
"No! Leave me alone!" Leila snapped.
"Why didn't you tell me about my son?" Legolas asked suddenly. Leila froze.
"How do you...?"
"Elrond confirmed it but I already knew, I read your letter to Shí" Legolas said. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"You didn't need to know. Now let go of me and go back to being Prince Legolas, asshole who doesn't care about me" Leila said sadly, trying to push away from him.
"I do care about you Leila, but you should have told me" Legolas said, equally sad.
"I know" Leila whispered. "But I did it for your own good anyway, your father already hates me" Leila said, smiling ruefully. She finally broke free of his grip and walked back to Shí. Legolas watched her sadly, hoping one day he might be able to have a proper conversation with her about this, for he truly, deeply loved her. When Leila arrived at where Shí and the other men were they all glared at her, bar Shí of course. Leila pulled one up and lay him across her horse's back and hopped up behind him. The other elves did the same.
They started riding and soon they found themselves coming up to a very large, menacing looking castle. They made sure that their hood's covered their faces with shadow and rode through the gate. The men had been knocked unconscious again and gagged for safety. They stopped when a guard stepped out infront of them, pointing his spear at them.
"What is your business here travellers?" the guard asked.
"We were told horse thieves fetched a good price here" Legolas said, lifting the man laid infront of him's head up. The guard nodded.
"Leave your horse's here and I will take you to my lord" the guard said and 4 stable boys took the horses reins from the elves. The elves picked up a man each, except for Eriaur who didn't have one, and followed the guards. They were led to a grand hall and Leila had to bite her lip to stop herself screaming in anger. Pedi was sat in a man's lap reading a book with him and Risen was struggling with 2 men pulling her to a back room, she was already covered in bruises. "My lord, horse thieves" the guard said, gesturing to the men the elves literally dropped on the floor. The man reading with Pedi looked up.
"What do we do?" Leila whispered as the man picked up Pedi and walked over to them.
"Get them out by any means necessary" Legolas said quietly. All four elves nodded and discretely drew their knives inside their cloaks.
"Horse thieves eh? Well let's see if they have a bounty on them already," the lord said, pulling down the hood of one of the prisoners. He jumped back when he saw one of his men bound and gagged. "What is the meaning of this!?!" he demanded. The 4 elves took their knives out from inside their cloaks.
"Give us the two elflings and no one will be hurt" Legolas said directly to the man.
"Kill them!" the lord shouted, holding Pedi close and backing away from the elves. The guards and soldiers charged at the elves, the odds 4 to 1. The four elves split into twos, Eriaur and Shí going towards Risen and Leila and Legolas going towards Pedi. One man stepped on the back of Eriaur's cloaked and it began to strangle him as he continued to move forewords so eventually he undid the clasp and it fell to the floor.
"Eriaur!" Risen cried happily, trying to move towards him but one of the men grabbed her around the waist tightly, pressing against the bruises and making her to cry out. Eriaur growled and sliced across one mans throat with his knife.
Legolas felt his feet pulled out from underneath him and just managed to stop the man spearing him. Leila was blindly fighting her way towards Pedi and in the movement her hood fell down, revealing her face.
"Leila!" Pedi shouted happily, squirming in the lords arms to get to her sister. Leila reached out and tried to take Pedi from him but he stepped back.
"Give me my sister and I may spare you" Leila said angrily.
"Never! She's my daughter now!" the man shouted. He put Pedi on his thrown, drew a small knife from his belt and before Leila knew what had happened stabbed her in the stomach.
"Leila!" Legolas shouted frantically as he saw Leila clutch at the knife. She looked at him with a pained looked on her face before she growled and sliced at the lord's face. He gasped and fell backwards giving Leila the perfect chance to stab her knife threw his heart. He died instantly and Leila slumped next to him. Legolas managed to kill the man trying to spear him. Shí killed 2 men easily and turned to see how Leila was faring and gasped in shock.
Eriaur stood infront of the man frantically using Risen like a shield and glared at him. He waited until his head poked out from behind Risen and Eriaur thrust his knife in-between the man's eyes, killing him. Risen wrapped her arms around him and sobbed into his shoulder.
Legolas dashed to Leila's side and pulled her into his arms. She was still breathing, but only just. Pedi ran over to her and poked her slightly. Legolas motioned Shí over who picked up Pedi without being asked to. Legolas picked Leila up as gently as he could but she still gasped in pain. He nodded to Shí and ran towards the stables. No one in the castle stopped them as they were in slight shock at having their lord killed. Legolas got onto his horse, still holding Leila infront of him gently and galloped off towards Imladris.
"I told you that you shouldn't have come. Please don't die Leila. I never had the courage to tell you, I love you" Legolas half whispered, half sobbed as he tried to stop the bleeding and control the galloping horse.
A/N There yah go. Legolas is slowly admitting that he loves her to her, just that her being unconscious and dying doesn't help.
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.
This contains FemSLASH ok?
Hidden Identity
Chapter 19, You Shouldn't Have Come
"I'm coming and you can't stop me" Leila growled at Legolas, Eriaur and Shí. They were in the stables and Leila was protesting to not being allowed to come. Shí sighed in defeat but the Prince's weren't going to give up.
"It's far too dangerous for a girl" Legolas snapped.
"Shí's going!" Leila said angrily. Eriaur blinked in shock and stared at Shí who slapped Leila around the face.
"Thanks Leila" she huffed walking off.
"Whoops" Leila muttered.
"Any way, you can't come because you must care for your son" Eriaur said, gesturing to Tinw( in Leila's arms. Legolas looked almost wistfully at his son but then looked up at Leila again.
"I'm still coming" Leila snapped. She turned and stormed back to her room. Once there she put Tinw( back in his crib and pulled out the shirt and legging's she sometimes wore for her daily exercises. She pulled them on and then grabbed one of the tunic's she'd 'borrowed' from the twins and pulled it on. She pulled on her boot's before she braided her hair warrior style after cutting it with her knife so it was no longer down to her waist. Grabbing a piece of parchment and a quill she scribbled quickly
Look after Tinw( for me, I'm going to rescue my sisters and I may not live to come back. Thanks Elladan for the tunic I borrowed and am wearing now. Please look after Tinw(, love Leila (but I'll always be Melyanna to you) She put the note on the table and kissed Tinw('s forehead lovingly. She pulled on her old cloak which she had kept and pulled the hood up and then ran towards the stables. Legolas, Shí and Eriaur glanced at her when she entered. They were already in their saddles. "Ah..." Leila muttered, looking around.
"What?" Legolas asked angrily.
"I don't own a horse" Leila said simply.
"Your problem, not mine" Legolas said coldly. Leila glared at him and grabbed the reins to Elrohir's favourite horse.
'Hope he doesn't mind' Leila thought as she pulled herself up onto the horses bare back. She rode out of the stable, the other 3 following her. Leila found Shí along side her and the Prince's were behind them.
"It's nice to have you back Sérle" Shí said smiling.
"It's nice to be back Gaalin" Leila said laughing.
"So Gaalin's a girl as well?" Eriaur asked his brother.
"Yes, but her identity is still a secret" Legolas said. His anger had gone and now he stared only wistfully at the back of Leila's head, hidden by the cloak.
Risen sobbed pitifully as she clutched at her aching stomach. The men had hit her so much. Her face was throbbing but her stomach was even worse. Blood trickled down her cheek from a cut to her eyebrow. She crawled back to her place on the floor, ignoring the stares she got and began sewing with shaking, cut fingers, her gaze never leaving Pedi who was still asleep in that bastard's lap.
'Oh Eriaur, please help me, please' Risen sobbed loudly but wiped her face dry at a glare she got from the lord.
Three days had passed and the hunters were no closer to finding Pedi and Risen when they came across a party of 3 men lazing around afire. The 4 elves lay in the long grass and listened to their conversation.
"She's a sweetie, that little'un the lord's adopted, but her Big Sis, now she's the most gorgeous elf I have ever seen" one said drinking Beer from his canteen.
"Aye, even with those bruises they put on her for resisting. What her name, something like Sunrise?" another asked laughing. Leila's fist's clenched.
"Risen" one that was obviously sober said, looking depressed.
"That's the one! Shame that boss said no touchy" the first one said giggling, miming feeling something infront of him. The other man laughed. Eriaur was being pinned to the floor by Legolas now and Leila was only just managing to stay hidden.
"Yeah, saves the best for himself" the other drunk said.
"No actually, he's saving her life or had you forgotten that elves die from the grief of being raped?" the sober one asked.
"That's just a myth, made up so he can get a little..." he thrust his hips "...with the best ones" the first drunk said. The 2 drunks laughed loudly but the sober one looked disgusted.
"You need to loosen up a bit, have a drink or 2, sleep with a woman" the second drunk said to the sober one.
"I'd rather not. Drinking is foul and talking about raping young girls is even fouler" the sober one snapped, looking away from the drunks.
"I like him" Shí muttered.
"The best plan is to wait and see..." Legolas trailed off as Leila jumped up and walked towards the men. "Great" he said angrily. Leila kicked one of the drunk's in the head and slammed her fist into the other one's nose before she drew her knife and pressed it to the sober man's throat.
"Where are they?" Leila demanded.
"Who?" the man asked, his eyes never leaving the knife at his throat.
"My sisters."
"Look lad, your gonna have to be a little more precise than that" the man said, not noticing the other elves behind him.
"You were just talking about them" Leila snapped. "Talking about raping my sister" she growled, pressing the knife against his through more.
"Oh, those girls. There at the castle, that way, you can't miss it" the man said, gesturing East with his hand.
"We came that way1 Tell me the truth or you'll find yourself with a rather high pitched voice" Leila snapped, lowering the knife to the man's groin. Legolas and Eriaur flinched at the thought.
"North! It's North!" the man squealed. Shí pulled out a length of rope and pulled the mans hands behind him. The man jumped (luckily Leila had moved the knife) and looked behind him at Legolas, Eriaur and Shí. Legolas and Eriaur swiftly tied up the man's companions. "What do you care anyway, they're in reasonably good hands for out here" the man said. Legolas only just managed to stop Leila stabbing the knife threw the mans heart. He pulled her away, she struggled and swore at the man that she'd kill him slowly. Eventually Legolas got her far enough away and pinned her to a tree.
"That was reckless, he could have killed you!" Legolas snapped, pulling the knife from her grip.
"Didn't you hear what he said?!?" Leila demanded angrily, pushing at Legolas.
"Yes, and it was wrong of him but you need to calm down Leila" Legolas said.
"No! Leave me alone!" Leila snapped.
"Why didn't you tell me about my son?" Legolas asked suddenly. Leila froze.
"How do you...?"
"Elrond confirmed it but I already knew, I read your letter to Shí" Legolas said. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"You didn't need to know. Now let go of me and go back to being Prince Legolas, asshole who doesn't care about me" Leila said sadly, trying to push away from him.
"I do care about you Leila, but you should have told me" Legolas said, equally sad.
"I know" Leila whispered. "But I did it for your own good anyway, your father already hates me" Leila said, smiling ruefully. She finally broke free of his grip and walked back to Shí. Legolas watched her sadly, hoping one day he might be able to have a proper conversation with her about this, for he truly, deeply loved her. When Leila arrived at where Shí and the other men were they all glared at her, bar Shí of course. Leila pulled one up and lay him across her horse's back and hopped up behind him. The other elves did the same.
They started riding and soon they found themselves coming up to a very large, menacing looking castle. They made sure that their hood's covered their faces with shadow and rode through the gate. The men had been knocked unconscious again and gagged for safety. They stopped when a guard stepped out infront of them, pointing his spear at them.
"What is your business here travellers?" the guard asked.
"We were told horse thieves fetched a good price here" Legolas said, lifting the man laid infront of him's head up. The guard nodded.
"Leave your horse's here and I will take you to my lord" the guard said and 4 stable boys took the horses reins from the elves. The elves picked up a man each, except for Eriaur who didn't have one, and followed the guards. They were led to a grand hall and Leila had to bite her lip to stop herself screaming in anger. Pedi was sat in a man's lap reading a book with him and Risen was struggling with 2 men pulling her to a back room, she was already covered in bruises. "My lord, horse thieves" the guard said, gesturing to the men the elves literally dropped on the floor. The man reading with Pedi looked up.
"What do we do?" Leila whispered as the man picked up Pedi and walked over to them.
"Get them out by any means necessary" Legolas said quietly. All four elves nodded and discretely drew their knives inside their cloaks.
"Horse thieves eh? Well let's see if they have a bounty on them already," the lord said, pulling down the hood of one of the prisoners. He jumped back when he saw one of his men bound and gagged. "What is the meaning of this!?!" he demanded. The 4 elves took their knives out from inside their cloaks.
"Give us the two elflings and no one will be hurt" Legolas said directly to the man.
"Kill them!" the lord shouted, holding Pedi close and backing away from the elves. The guards and soldiers charged at the elves, the odds 4 to 1. The four elves split into twos, Eriaur and Shí going towards Risen and Leila and Legolas going towards Pedi. One man stepped on the back of Eriaur's cloaked and it began to strangle him as he continued to move forewords so eventually he undid the clasp and it fell to the floor.
"Eriaur!" Risen cried happily, trying to move towards him but one of the men grabbed her around the waist tightly, pressing against the bruises and making her to cry out. Eriaur growled and sliced across one mans throat with his knife.
Legolas felt his feet pulled out from underneath him and just managed to stop the man spearing him. Leila was blindly fighting her way towards Pedi and in the movement her hood fell down, revealing her face.
"Leila!" Pedi shouted happily, squirming in the lords arms to get to her sister. Leila reached out and tried to take Pedi from him but he stepped back.
"Give me my sister and I may spare you" Leila said angrily.
"Never! She's my daughter now!" the man shouted. He put Pedi on his thrown, drew a small knife from his belt and before Leila knew what had happened stabbed her in the stomach.
"Leila!" Legolas shouted frantically as he saw Leila clutch at the knife. She looked at him with a pained looked on her face before she growled and sliced at the lord's face. He gasped and fell backwards giving Leila the perfect chance to stab her knife threw his heart. He died instantly and Leila slumped next to him. Legolas managed to kill the man trying to spear him. Shí killed 2 men easily and turned to see how Leila was faring and gasped in shock.
Eriaur stood infront of the man frantically using Risen like a shield and glared at him. He waited until his head poked out from behind Risen and Eriaur thrust his knife in-between the man's eyes, killing him. Risen wrapped her arms around him and sobbed into his shoulder.
Legolas dashed to Leila's side and pulled her into his arms. She was still breathing, but only just. Pedi ran over to her and poked her slightly. Legolas motioned Shí over who picked up Pedi without being asked to. Legolas picked Leila up as gently as he could but she still gasped in pain. He nodded to Shí and ran towards the stables. No one in the castle stopped them as they were in slight shock at having their lord killed. Legolas got onto his horse, still holding Leila infront of him gently and galloped off towards Imladris.
"I told you that you shouldn't have come. Please don't die Leila. I never had the courage to tell you, I love you" Legolas half whispered, half sobbed as he tried to stop the bleeding and control the galloping horse.
A/N There yah go. Legolas is slowly admitting that he loves her to her, just that her being unconscious and dying doesn't help.