(-)Chapter 21(-)

Arwen laughed as they reached the stables, "They're going to have some rather nasty headaches..."

Elladan smirked, "Indeed, I'll tell ada to send someone out to get them."

They had left them unconscious, hanging upside-down from trees around their camp.

Sardyn glanced at Aragorn just before they reached the doors of the house, "May."

"What?" Aragorn blinked in confusion.

"It's in May."

Aragorn grinned, "See? That wasn't so hard! One year... wow."

Sardyn blinked then grinned, "Actually... it's this May... not next."

Aragorn froze, "But that's next month!"

"I know."

"Ai..." Aragorn winced, "and I have to think of something to get them..."

Legolas stood in shock, "So soon..."

Arwen was smiling brightly, "It's so exciting!" she laughed, running indoors to find Sindiyen.

Aragorn shook his head, "That was unexpected."

"Very much so," Elladan blinked.

Elrohir nodded, "They're probably already planning," he laughed slightly.

Aragorn blinked, "Why are we standing outside?"

"I know not," Legolas muttered.

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Aragorn sighed slightly as he and Legolas walked towards the practicing fields. They were both very bored.

The twins had taken off, though they didn't say why, and weren't expected back for over a week. Glorfindel, Elrond and Erestor were making preperations, having the entire house cleaned from top to bottom and putting up the minor decorations and making room for the major ones. Sardyn and Sindiyen were obviously busy. Even Arwen was busy, eagerly helping the two with any desisions they weren't sure of.

The two that weren't busy were simply wandering about, well... being shoved about and pushed out of the way, so they decided to head outside and try to best each other, while trying to decide what they would get the two for their wedding.

The two paused and smiled at the sight that greeted them; the two elves were sitting next to each other, obviously making some desisions as Sardyn had a notepad in his lap... while Sindiyen had Khelekmeril in hers.

Aragorn grinned at them and shook his head, "Come on, we can do the archery first if we don't want to disturb them, though I'm sure it wouldn't bother them."

Legolas shrugged, "What's the difference? The archery field is only on their other side."

"It is quieter though," he laughed.

The elf grinned, "Sure."

They silently made their way around the three and started firing at the small targets on the other end of the field. Each shot five arrows. Ten arrows hit the targets. Legolas' were all grouped tightly in the centre, Aragorn's were in the centre but were much more spread out in comparison to the elf's.

Legolas smirked, "Not surprising."

Aragorn rolled his eyes good-naturedly, "No, I'll admit it's not. A lot better than last time though."

"Very much so! Finally decided to practice?"

"Legolas..."

"Nice shot," came the surprised voice of Sardyn.

The two glanced over and smiled.

"Sorry if we're bothering you," Aragorn laughed, then turned back to Legolas, "Let's try this one more time before heading to the other field."

Legolas shrugged, "Alright."

The two quickly retrieved their arrows and re-shot them. The results were much the same though Aragorn did do better than the time before.

Legolas grinned.

Aragorn rolled his eyes, "You see, though, I have room to improve you perfectionist."

Legolas laughed, "Oh you have lot's of room to improve mellon-nin."

Aragorn glared at him, "Im turdringo lle or italf," he grinned then and wandered over to where he had left his sword and picked it up, "ná lle na nin?" /I can beat you on the field, are you with me/

"Lle ista im," Legolas laughed slightly. /You know I (am)/

Sardyn smiled softly at the language, he was still happy he was simply hearing it.

Legolas quickly followed his friend, picking up his knives on the way and laying his bow down carefully.

The two automatically knew when the other was ready and silently circled each other, watching the other's moves carefully.

Neither wanted to attack first but eventually Aragorn put in the first attack.

Legolas wasn't startled in the least, reading his friend's body language before he even brought his sword up. He locked the blade between his knives and spun him away, bringing them up immediately to block the next attack. The elf was on the defensive for quite a while before he finally got an opening to throw his own attack at the human.

Aragorn blocked the first blade and jumped to the side to avoid the second. After a few minutes it became unclear who was on the defensive at any given time. The human knew he would tire before the elf so he let himself fall to the defensive and used the easiest moves he could to block the elf's attacks, forcing his friend to use more energy and move faster in order to keep his offensive attacks going.

Aragorn laughed as he ducked when the elf brought one of his knives to the side. He pushed himself forward instead of back and knocked the elf over, he jumped to his feet at the same time as the elf.

Legolas blinked, "Well, that was unexpected I must admit."

"Hannon lle," the ranger laughed before suddenly going on the offensive and throwing a handful of attacks at the elf, each being blocked methodically.

"Well, if I've gotten better at archery," he paused to block an attack, "then you've definately improved on hand-to-hand fights."

Legolas smiled slightly, "I suppose I have to thank you now?"

"No, but it would be nice."

The elf laughed and shrugged, "Hannon lle san." /then/

Aragorn just smiled and blinked, bringing his sword up just in time to block his next attack, he frowned slightly in concentration, knowing he'd have to pick up the pace if he was going to block the next couple attacks now.

The flurry of attacks were barely blocked and the man leaped to the side to give him a moment to catch up.

Aragorn grinned when the elf spun around only to have the man's blade pointed in his face.

Legolas sighed, "Alright... you win... this time."

"This time? I don't think you've beaten me yet mellon-nin," he panted slightly.

The elf just shrugged and fell back onto the grass.

Aragorn quickly did the same with a slight laugh.

Sardyn walked up and stared down at them, "That was amazing," he said in surprise, then laughed, "'t was like watching a brown and blond tornado."

Aragorn laughed, "Interesting," he muttered.

Legolas sighed, "I was so close that time... you're getting faster."

"Hannon lle... again," he grinned, "and you managed to get me worried this time!"

Legolas turned his head and stared at him blankly, "Dirty human."

"Prissy elf," he muttered flatly, then grinned.

Legolas laughed and sat up, glancing up at the amused silver-haired elf, "Did you want something?"

"No," he shrugged.

"I see," Aragorn muttered, pushing himself up to his feet.

The elfling that had been watching from the side-lines suddenly ran up to them, her eyes wide, "That was so... incredible! I wanna learn to fight like that!"

Sardyn laughed, "See what you've started?" he joked and picked the child up, "When you're older little one."

She sighed, "Okay," she leaned against him and smiled, "can I see you fight?"

Sardyn blinked, "Me? Why me?"

"I dunno... I haven't seen you fight, are you good?"

"Not really..."

"Oh come now Sar," Aragorn laughed, "I'm sure you are."

"I refuse to follow that," he laughed, "I'd look like a snail."

"You never know how fast you can go until you're pushed to your limits," he smiled, glancing over at his friend.

Legolas nodded in agreement.

"Perhaps some other time," the elf laughed slightly.

Aragorn shrugged.

Sindiyen joined them with a smile, "I haven't seen you two spar like that in a while now."

Legolas laughed slightly, "We haven't had the chance."

"How are the preperations going?" Aragorn asked, walking over to pick up his bow.

"Really well actually, we just finished."

Aragorn smiled, "That's great."

A/N

Elven Kitten: Sorry for posting late this week, I've been sick the last few days. Luckily teh ebilness is going away XP but I can't go to school until next week. Which is kinda annoying because we're doing reviews and stuff and something tells me I'm going to wish I hadn't missed them XP anywho, I gotta finish this quick before my headache comes back XP. I hope you all enjoyed the chapter XP

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