Disclaimer : I do not own The Lord of the Rings nor do I own any recogniseable characters. There are a few own characters along with a new city all of my own but I can assure you that this is for my pleasure and hopefully the audience's aswell.
Eistheria
They draped the white robes about her milk coloured shoulders, pale form the darkness, and dead from the moon.
They drew the blades from the rich velvet sack laying on the pedestal and hid them from view. She was so young, not yet a woman, She gave herself for this purpose, her life for the lives of others.
" Take me, Take my sould and spare the lives of the families. My life is a curse, take it away " she hummed, the words flew from her lips with ease, as if she had been waiting for this moment her entire life.
Standing up they slashed her hair off with a blade, throwing the midnight black locks to the flames. Watching them burn needlessly was a torment not usualy given to one so beautiful. The old Queen, old for her status. She had brought death to the city, because of her the plague had come, she must die to vanquish it.
They stood her upright in front of the crowds, completely silent. thousands watched, waiting to be cured from her pestilence.
The priest stood behind her, she looked forward, at the sun she had never seen before, at the people she had never known.
As quick as lightening he drew down the blade through her back direct to the heart.
She screamed, louder than a bell, it almost shattered the glass of the windows and awoke all who were sleeping.
" Father " Eldarion shot awake, His father was sleeping next to him and he worried to what the deathly noise was that he heard.
Aragorn rolled over, his face groggy and tired.
" what my son, what is wrong " It was the midnight hour but Eldarion could not sleep after that noise
" Father did you hear that, It was the scream of a girl "
Eldarion stood up and placed his head in his hands.
Aragorn could not decipher what his son was talking about so like every other tired man he fell asleep.
They were camped just outside the black gates, or what used to be the black gates.
What they had found shocked them, Mordor was filled with creatures, they were not orcs. They looked human, or as human as could possible be for these creatures.
Aragorn had not yet attempted to make peace with them. He saw them building little huts and growing on the land. Growing on mordor soil. this was un heard of.
In the Morning Aragorn and Faramir rode through the gates to the little towns newly created.
" We come seeking peace, who and what do you claim to be?" Aragorn anounced regally and proudly bearing the white tree of gondor on his banner.
The man who looked like the leader of this tribal race stood forward.
" We are the nothing men, we serve no one and we live no where " He declared.
The men of Gondor sniggered.
" Well obviously you do live somewhere, you are living on the plains of Mordor. " Aragorn told them half smiling.
" What do you want here " He added speaking louder yet somewhat scared of the answer. The leader swicked his feathery headdress into his hands
" We only want to survive, If you do not want us living here, we shall move, if you do not care for us to do anything, we will stay. This land is futile and safe "
Aragorn looked around the previous rocky plain but it looked now like a rainforest with trees everywhere and lakes interspersed, the ruins of Barad-dur lay still on the ground, only surrounded by a barren area.
Aragorn rode back to his encampment. Faramir was un certain of these men.
" How do we know they are not evil?" Faramir asked speaking on behalf of the men.
Aragorn simply looked at him, then at Mordor, Than back at his steward.
" We do not know, we can only hope, I hope and I beleive that they are good, Simple men only looking to survive, If that is so, our mission is finished. We have found what we came for, we shall set up treaties, then return.
Faramir nodded his head but they were both unaware of the hooded figures creeping into Eldarion's bedchamber, stealing him away in the dead of night.
A/N I know it is a tad weird, but all will be told if you keep reading.