(-)Chapter 14(-)
Aragorn glanced over at his friend from where he stood next to his horse and laughed slightly, moving behind him to help get his long hair hidden.
"Thank you," he muttered, rolling his eyes slightly as he pulled the hood up again.
"No problem my friend!" Aragorn laughed as he pulled off the leather overcoat and rolled it up, stuffing it into his pack and unstapping his weapons.
Sardyn watched in amusement as the man unstapped his sword and a hunting knife and pulled out a couple small throwing knives and a boot knife.
Aragorn glanced up and blinked, "What? You can never be too prepared," he joked, unstrapping his bow and quiver.
Sardyn accepted the weapons but handed the boot knife back, "Keep it with you, just in case."
Aragorn shrugged and slipped the small blade back into his boot, then glanced over at the tall house, "So... that's it huh?"
"That's it," the elf muttered, staring up at the building through the darkness.
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"Well," Aragorn muttered, sitting on the end of the bed, "that was easy."
"Indeed," Sardyn sighed.
"What?"
"I do not like having to treat you this way Ruith, I had thought I'd escaped that."
Aragorn smiled, "Don't worry about it my friend, just, think of it as a joke. My brothers' treat me like that all the time!" he joked good-naturedly.
Sardyn smiled slightly.
"Look, find out if you can get a quick tour to refresh your memory, look for the arrows, he'll probably say something if you find them and mention them," he smiled, "then just remember where they are. We'll get them as soon as possible."
The elf nodded, "Well, I might as well get that over with. Stay here okay? I don't want you in trouble."
"What do you take me for?" Aragorn raised an eyebrow jokingly.
"You don't want me to answer that."
"Well that was just mean," he muttered.
Sardyn rolled his eyes and shut the door behind him.
Aragorn sighed when the door shut and he stood, quickly going through the room to make sure it was secure. He stopped fifteen minutes later, pleased with how it seemed and sat in the corner, just in case someone decided to check in on him.
Sardyn came back twenty minutes later.
"So?" Aragorn inquired as soon as the door was shut.
"They're in his trophy room," the elf muttered.
Aragorn rolled his eyes, "A trophy room?"
"Aye. One problem though, he locks it."
"What kind of lock?"
Sardyn blinked, "Just a normal lock."
"Perfect," the human pulled his overcoat out of the pack and quickly pulled out a couple of long, thin needle-like pieces of metal.
Sardyn frowned slightly, "What do you intend to do with those?"
Aragorn raised an eyebrow, "Pick the lock of course. Dense elf," he laughed, "we'll be out of here in no time."
Sardyn smiled.
"The majority of them will probably be in bed in an hour or so, until then, we can relax," he joked.
Sardyn rolled his eyes, "Of course... do you think it'll be that easy?"
"I hope so."
The two sat and talked for nearly two hours, of everything they could think of so they could really get to know each other.
For the last half hour, though, Aragorn decided it would be fun to repay the twins for their little story and filled the elf in on the whole 'snow monster' thing.
Aragorn stood suddenly as the candle outside their room was put out, "Here we go," he muttered, pressing his ear to the door and listening to the retreating footsteps.
He nodded and opened the door carefully and slipped out, with Sardyn right behind him.
Aragorn followed the elf through the dark hallways and knelt in front of the door. He knelt there for almost ten minutes without luck. Sardyn was getting impatient but he didn't seem fazed in the least. He grinned when the lock clicked open and he opened the door.
Sardyn was in and out of the room in the blink of an eye, and the two went to hunt down this wicked elf before heading back to Rivendell.
Sardyn took the lead again, heading towards the elf's chambers. He handed Aragorn his sword just as he reached the door.
Aragorn flung the door open and the two leapt in and were on the elf before he even had a real chance to wake up. Aragorn quickly gagged him and held the sword to his throat.
"Don't even think about trying anything," he hissed.
They dragged the elf out to the stables where he was bound and thrown over Sardyn's horse's back. The silver-haired elf jumped up behind him and Aragorn swung up onto his own horse. The two then nudged the creatures in the direction of Rivendell and were off. Stopping some time later when they were hidden by the trees.
Aragorn grinned once they finished setting up camp, "Well! That was easy!"
Sardyn grinned, "Indeed! Almost too easy..."
"I know... it almost wasn't any fun at all," he joked.
Morderen glared at them.
Sardyn smiled and pushed his hood back, "Hello again," he smirked.
Aragorn grinned at the shocked look on the wicked elf's face, "Ai, I hate that, it never fails you know?" he muttered, leaning back against a tree, "Your past... will always come back... to bite you! It's almost sad that you didn't even see it coming. But no, it's just funny."
Sardyn laughed slightly, "Finally, this will all be set straight."
"Indeed," Aragorn grinned innocently, "you can finally get back to your girlfriend."
Sardyn choked, "What!"
"Admit it Sar! Sindiyen? That's why she's always so down, she misses you Sar."
The elf was searching for something to say, unnaware that he had turned pink.
Aragorn smirked and laid back, "I rest my case."
"I'd hardly call that a case."
Aragorn rolled his eyes, "Never mind."
Morderen stared at them blankly, -These two are insane,- he thought to himself, rolling his eyes.
Aragorn blinked suddenly, "Sar? Can I have my weapons back now?"
"Oh, sorry," he muttered and quickly handed them to the man.
Aragorn smiled and pulled the hunting knife out of its sheath and began absently straightening a long stick he'd found near the camp.
Sardyn settled down across from him and they simply sat there, listening to the night's sounds... and the squirming and groaning of the annoyed elf whom they had tied to a tree.
Aragorn took the first watch and woke the elf up half way through the night and fell asleep immediately.
Sardyn now sat, staring at the sky, wondering how this would all turn out.
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The two elves were staring at each other, though both had completely different expressions.
Morderen looked highly annoyed.
Sardyn looked amused at the annoyance of the other.
Aragorn had taken off a while ago, grumbling about lazy elves who didn't seem to want to eat in order to stay alive. He'd taken the stick he'd found and attached an arrow to the end, saying he wanted to go fishing but he had problems shooting the things because 'the water was cruel and distorted the images and the fish were hard enough to catch without the waters help'.
Aragorn was now headed back to the camp, a mischievous grin on his face, -It's time to teach this elf to be on watch,- he smiled innocently, -after all... it's only fair to ready him for the twins.-
He left two of the three fish on the first branch of a tree and brought up a bucket or water and the third fish and slowly inched across the branch that overhung the small camp and hung right over the elf. He braced himself and dumped the bucket of water on his head.
Sardyn's eyes widened as he gagged on the water and quickly stood, he shook his head in shock and glanced up, only to be hit in the face with a fish.
Aragorn laughed and dropped from the tree to stand in front of the elf, "I'm sorry," he mocked, "I know not why I did that."
Sardyn gaped at him, "Ruith! How did you remember that!"
"I have a good memory, how could I forget the second thing you ever said to me? And I never forget a prank," he crossed his arms, "and you need to be taught how to prank someone properly or the twins will murder you."
"This is looking more and more promising," the elf muttered flatly.
Aragorn laughed and dissapeared into the trees, returning a moment later with the other two fish and the home-made spear.
The two sat down and quickly gutted and speared the fish, setting them over the fire once they were ready.
Aragorn pulled out his herb box and plucked out a couple leaves that basically were used to simply help keep a mortal from getting sick, though they worked well for seasoning meat as well.
They sat around until the fish was ready to eat, they carved out a good deal of one of the fish for their breakfast and gave a good sized chunk to the unhappily bound elf who almost refused to eat it until the other two started teasing him with the fish and his hunger quickly won over.
They waited for the fish to dry out and basically turn into jerky before wrapping it and setting off at a fast pace to make up for their lost time.
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Aragorn smiled, feeling at peace for the first time in a long time as his horse sloshed through the shallow ridge in the Bruinen, he glanced over at Sardyn and cocked his head to the side once they reached the other side of the river.
"So Sar? How does it feel to be back in an elven realm?" he smiled.
The elf smiled, "Impossible to describe," he smiled at the man, "thank you."
Aragorn grinned, "Oh you wont be thanking me once ada gives up trying to protect you from the twins."
They were silent for a while, though Morderen shifted uncomfortably.
"How long do you think it will be before we're noticed?" Sardyn asked suddenly after nearly two hours of comfortable silence.
Aragorn laughed slightly, "We'd have been noticed by now, we can only hope my brothers' aren't out patroling today or they'll probably jump on us," the second bit was spoken a bit louder than the first.
"Ai, he found us out!" Elrohir laughed as he dropped out a tree to their right.
Elladan came after him and smacked him upside the head, "We could have stayed quiet."
Aragorn rolled his eyes and simply continued down the path.
"No greeting brother?" Elrohir asked in mock sadness.
"Well now, you did not greet me either did you?"
They shrugged and quickly followed them.
"We weren't on patrol you know," Elladan nodded, laughing slightly, "we guessed you'd be by eventually today."
"Of course," Aragorn nodded, "ah yes, Elladan, Elrohir, this is Morderen, he is a murderer. Say 'Hi' Mor," he smirked innocently.
The gagged elf just glared at him, -I wont even kill an orc again if it keeps me away from you, you insane human.-
A/N
Elven Kitten: Hello again:) I figured I'd post right away since it's Wednesday and I don't wanna miss my usual updating day soo... yeah... hear I am:P
Flamesofthemo0n - Lol, I hope you liked:)
IwishChan - lol, yesh, teh snow monster... :) I hope you liked the chapter:D
Microchips - My misspelling? Mah... lol, you-know-who is you-know-who will be introduced next chapter :)
viggomaniac - Thank you for the tip :) I've been working on my details in the next story I've started out of boredom :P and I hope I'm doing better XP lol I'm glad you're enjoying it though :)
sielge - lol, yesh... he survived... :P I hope you enjoyed the chapter :P
Karriya - lol, it was a question in a quote in your last review :) Yes :) lol. That was in the first one I wrote which I must say was absolutely horrible XPXPXPXP lol. Cha, Ranger's rock:P lol, SHE will be introduced next chapter :) and the snow thing was also in a previous fic. lol :)
Pippin the hobbit-elf - lol! But then all grade eights are ebil aren't they:P lol, not just you, many people are plagued by the ebil little grade eights :P
Nora - I have to say it's amusing but not odd to find that you've used your couple seconds to bug your friend :P lol
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Lol, sadly... very little scares me anymore... wait... would that be sad? It's actually probably a good thing... lol, the snow monster was a short flashback in a previous fic... it basically invovled Estel having a ton of snow dumped on him and it freaked the twins out and they still havn't figured out it was him... yeah... XP blah. lol, anywho, wow... it's pretty bad when your friend's start making you wish for your sisters! O.O... ph34rs lol, #'s is fun :) Luved the review :P:P:P Made me laugh :P lol
BregoBeauty - I'm glad you liked it! But of course Aragorn would do that... anything to get himself into trouble:P lol
Kalayna - lol! Hyperness IS good:) lol, I hope you liked the chapter :P
E.K.: ph34r to you all! MUSH AND FLUFF NEXT CHAPTER! Consider this your pre-warning! (Since you who read my one-shot know I'm horrbile at it:P lol) Namarie:P
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