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Chapter Two: Training
When she came back to the palace, it was just before breakfast, so going to her room, she found her knives, and donned a cloak then walked the halls until she found Legolas' room. She was quite angry at her mother for dumping such a responsibility on her like that and any servants that saw her did not hinder her as the look on Celebfaer's face said that any who crossed her would see the other end of her knives. So, she thought that the best thing to do would be to work her anger out by practicing her knives and Legolas was the only person in the castle that would practice with her.
Knowing he would be sleeping she walked into his room as quietly as she could, standing above his bed watching him sleep for a few moments. She debated with herself about waking him as he looked so peaceful lying there and seeing that look on his face, smoothed her anger away. But she had come to practice her knives, so silently, she drew one of her knives.
But before she could think about playing a prank on him, Legolas had jumped from the bed, one of his own knives in his hands and twisted her around, holding the arm with her knife in it behind her back, while his own knife was millimeters away from her neck. She had not thought he had been awake, or that he slept with his knives, but obviously he did. Elves slept with their eyes open, so she had thought that he had just been asleep.
"You will die for this." Legolas whispered in her ear, so she spoke before his knife got any closer to her neck and started to draw blood.
"Legolas, do you wish to kill me?"
Shock creped into his body and he let her go, so she turned around to look at him.
"Celebfaer." He said, unimpressed and she laughed.
"I merely wanted to know if you wanted to practice. My fighting abilities will worsen if I do not practice them." She said and Legolas laughed then pulled her close to him.
"Melamin, you know I will beat you. And your fighting skills have already weakened." He said softly, talking into her ear as he nuzzled it lightly.
"Legolas..." She started but he leaned down and kissed her, stopping her from saying what she had wanted to say.
"Speaking of us.." He started and she looked up at him, wondering where he had gotten that topic from. "We are wedded yet we are not allowed to share the same room." He added already starting an argument that they had several times a day since they had arrived in the Realm and Celebfaer laughed.
"Legolas we are wedded according to Elvish lore. But we are not wedded in the eyes of the Fairies and it is not proper for us to bed together unless we are."
"But I am an Elf and Elves tend to act rather strange when they are kept from their rights as a husband." Legolas said trying to be serious, but she saw straight through it and she laughed.
"But I do not keep you from your rights as a husband Legolas. You protect me and please me in every way possible.." She started with a grin and Legolas leaned down and kissed her.
"Melamin would you allow me the pleasure of...." He started once they broke off, mumbling the rest of what he was going to say in her ear, but she did not hear it, as she had heard a noise outside the room. So, she stopped him by putting a finger to his lips, wondering why his hearing had not picked it up too.
"Shhh..." She started, then she coked her head to the side, listening for any more noises that could be coming from outside of the room. Smiling she nodded to the door then looked up at Legolas. "Come, let us practice, for the day is getting old and I need all the practice I can get." She said loudly.
"If you would allow me to fetch my knives, we can be going." Legolas said in response, kissing her quickly as he pulled on some clothes.
When he was done, she looked at him then smiled. "You are delectable." She said softly, then flapped her wings, rising up so that she could kiss him lightly on the nose before she took his hand in hers and he picked up his knives on the way out.
"Mildred?" Celebfaer said when she walked out, seeing him walking down the hallway, away from Legolas' door. He was already halfway, but when he turned around to face her, she caught a look on his face that said he had been listening at the door. "What are you doing on this side of the palace?"
"Looking for one of my men." He replied gruffly and Celebfaer smiled then Mildred disappeared around a corner.
"Come Legolas, we shall have to be more careful. There are spies about." Celebfaer said looking at the spot where Mildred had disappeared, then turning and leading Legolas in the opposite direction but towards the training grounds.
Once out in the training yards, they both drew their two knives.
"Celebfaer I will not fight you as I normally would." Legolas said, he did not think it was proper for him to be fighting his own wife with knives.
"Do not hold back Legolas, because if you do I shall not stop my blade from biting into your flesh." She said and the look in her eyes scared him a little.
"Melamin is this really necessary?" He asked her and she looked at him.
"Legolas you are the only person in the whole Realm skilled enough to fight me with the knives and Haldir said that I should practice as often as I can." She said with a smile and Legolas sighed.
"Okay, then let us begin." He replied, giving in.
The two were out in the training yards alone for a few hours before the kingdom got wind of what they were doing and before they knew it, they were surrounded by people of the City all watching them and wondering why Celebfaer was training with weapons.
'Melamin, it appears we have an audience.' Celebfaer sent to Legolas and he smiled at her.
'Then we had better put on a good show.' He replied in her head as he had realized that she was a lot better than he had first thought, so he had needed to use all of his skill to try and better her.
They trained still under the gaze of the people of the City, but it appeared to the other Fairies that neither Legolas nor Celebfaer noticed that they were being watched. They fought as though the other was a foe and neither had an advantage over the other. When it looked like one of them had the upper hand, the other would do something unpredictable and so they would continue to fight, changing from attacking to defending every few minutes. Never tiring, but concentrating on trying to win.
It was mid afternoon when Mildred heard of what was happening and he raced down to the training fields to see that it was indeed true. Celebfaer was fighting Legolas the Elf, with real blades and neither seemed to be winning.
Looking around at the crowd, Mildred saw several of the guard watching the fight, but a cloaked figure watching the pair intently caught his eye. Looking a little closer at the figure, Mildred realized it was Sabin.
'Sabin, we must stop this.' Mildred sent to Sabin, shielding his thoughts from all but Sabin, and Sabin just turned to look straight at Mildred, as though he was not surprised to see the Head of the Queen's guard there.
'She is angry at something, though I do not think it is him.' Sabin sent back, turning to look at the battle once more. 'And they are training, not fighting.'
'But we must stop it. If she is to be Queen, then this is no way to act in front of her subjects.'
'They love her for it. She pushes all the boundaries Mildred and they love her for it. She's the one. She will lead us back into Middle Earth.'
'I am going to stop this now before he hurts her..' Mildred started ignoring what Sabin had just said, though he heard Sabin's laughter in his head as well as his response that cut him off.
'He would not hurt a hair on her head Mildred. He is so in control of his weapons that he would stop them before they touched her flesh. He moves as though they were connected to his body and he has complete control. Watch for a while and you may learn a few things.'
'I do not care, this cannot continue.' Mildred sent angrily, ignoring Sabin's last comment, which was the cause for some of his anger. Then Mildred strode onto the field, heading for where they were training.
Celebfaer sensed someone approaching behind her, so as a final effort, she lunged at Legolas and because his concentration flickered slightly to look at who was approaching, his knife fell from his hand. Celebfaer did not waste time concentrating on Legolas, she had turned to face whoever approached her, ready to do battle and anger in her eyes, which only flared more when she saw it was Mildred.
"It seems you have won Celebfaer." Mildred said and she looked over to where Legolas was standing, suspicion on his face as he looked at Mildred, but she did not drop her weapon.
'Why were you spying on Legolas?' She sent to Mildred and he looked at her, then dropped his gaze in shame. 'Do you know the penalty for spying Mildred?'
Mildred nodded. 'Death.' He replied then he looked up at her, lifting his chin, slightly. 'But if I am to die for treason, then I would wish it to be you that killed me.' He sent, his chin still raised inviting her to carry out the penalty there, with her blades, but she shook her head.
'I will not kill you, but I do not want to see you spying on Legolas ever again.' She sent and Mildred nodded. So she lowered her weapon, then turned around to Legolas and bowed. "It was an honor to fight such a great warrior." She said and Legolas smiled then bowed back.
"The honor was mine, melamin." He said then he switched to Elvish. "But I let you win." He said then he offered his arm to her and she smiled.
"I doubt that my prince." She said also in Elvish, sheathing her knives then taking his arm as she did.
"If you will allow me the pleasure of proving it Celebfaer, I would be all to happy to show you why I let you win, though we would need to go somewhere more private." He said in Elvish once more and she laughed as they walked from the training field, receiving applause from the people of the City.
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That night at dinner, Legolas and Celebfaer arrived a little after everyone else and they walked into the room oblivious of everyone else except each other. Elysa snorted when she saw them.
"Look at her, she looks like a puppy following it's master and begging to be fed something nice. And looking at an Elf like that! She will ruin the family name." Elysa hissed and Sabin turned to look at her.
"Elysa my love, do you not remember when we were first wedded we were like that also?" He asked.
"Not by choice." Elysa muttered under her breath and Sabin looked at her in shock.
"Are you saying you do not love me Elysa?" He asked, appearing shocked, though he knew the truth. He was no fool and it did not take him long to work out where Elysa went when she needed 'time alone' as she called it.
Elysa looked up in shock as though she was just realizing that she had spoken out loud. "Of course I do Sabin." Elysa replied smiling up at him, battering her eyelids but the love that should have been in her eyes was just not there and he could sense her worry about something, though he knew what it was.
That was when Legolas and Celebfaer finally made it to the table.
"Sorry we were late mother." Celebfaer said, bowing to the Queen. "Legolas got carried away with the story he was telling me of the battle at Helm's Deep." She added, looking to Legolas under her eyelashes as he quickly stole a sidelong glance in her direction and the Queen looked at Celebfaer then nodded.
"It is alright daughter, though you could have asked a maid to have your meal sent to you so that Legolas was not disturbed in his tale." The Queen said knowing perfectly well that he had not been telling her about Helm's Deep, but Sabin looked at him in surprise.
"You were in the battle at Helm's Deep? I have heard that they were out numbered almost five to one."
"We were." Legolas said. "But the King of Rohan was very noble indeed as are all of the Riders of Rohan. We were there because we were delayed in a quest and told to help where we were needed."
"We? Were you there also Celebfaer?" Sabin asked, his eyes flickering to look at her and she shook her head.
"Nay, I was not."
"When I say 'we' I mean Aragorn, son of Arathorn, King of Gondor and of Men and Gimli son of Gloin of the Dwarven race." Legolas said looking at Sabin. "They are my closest friends."
"You must have seen some great battles to have been friends with Aragorn. It is said that he led an army of ghosts off to war to defeat Sauron."
"They were not ghosts exactly. Just oath breakers that were sworn to come back when the heir of Numenor was in great need. I was there also."
"The war of the ring? You were there and survived, surely you must be a great warrior."
"My love, do not ruin dinner with talk of foul things. There is no war that threatens the Fairies and there never will be." Elysa said then looking up at Sabin, flashes of anger in her eyes.
"Legolas, you are upsetting my sister, so I'm afraid we shall have to finish our conversation after dinner." Celebfaer said then, looking only at Legolas and he nodded.
"Indeed we shall." He replied with a hint of a smile, which Celebfaer ignored then turned to her sister's husband.
"Sabin, you are more than welcome to join us if you wish and Legolas will tell you more of his travels with Lord Aragorn and Master Gimli." Celebfaer said.
But before Sabin could answer, Elysa but in once again. "My husband cannot I'm sorry, tonight is the night that we spend walking through the gardens." She said glaring at Celebfaer.
"Very well, maybe some other time Sabin."
"Yes." He replied looking at his plate.
The Queen watched the exchange with keen interest. Seeing Elysa glare at Celebfaer was just another sign that she would never be able to rule the Realm properly. A Queen was not supposed to show emotions to any, except for her husband. Anger was the worst emotion that a Queen could display, for her enemies saw it as a weakness.
So they ate dinner with little chatter and once it was over, Celebfaer faked a yawn.
"Our training today must have been harder than I first thought Legolas." She said, then she turned to her mother. "If you will excuse me mother, but I am rather tired." Celebfaer added, standing up.
"I shall escort you to your room, Celebfaer." Legolas said, standing also and excusing himself from the table.
Taking the arm that he offered, Celebfaer allowed herself to be led from the room. But Legolas led her towards his room, not her own.
"I assume we will be able to finish our conversation Celebfaer, if you are not too tired that is." He said and she smiled at him, then nodded.
"I believe I can stay awake a little longer." She said and Legolas smiled also.
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Chapter Two: Training
When she came back to the palace, it was just before breakfast, so going to her room, she found her knives, and donned a cloak then walked the halls until she found Legolas' room. She was quite angry at her mother for dumping such a responsibility on her like that and any servants that saw her did not hinder her as the look on Celebfaer's face said that any who crossed her would see the other end of her knives. So, she thought that the best thing to do would be to work her anger out by practicing her knives and Legolas was the only person in the castle that would practice with her.
Knowing he would be sleeping she walked into his room as quietly as she could, standing above his bed watching him sleep for a few moments. She debated with herself about waking him as he looked so peaceful lying there and seeing that look on his face, smoothed her anger away. But she had come to practice her knives, so silently, she drew one of her knives.
But before she could think about playing a prank on him, Legolas had jumped from the bed, one of his own knives in his hands and twisted her around, holding the arm with her knife in it behind her back, while his own knife was millimeters away from her neck. She had not thought he had been awake, or that he slept with his knives, but obviously he did. Elves slept with their eyes open, so she had thought that he had just been asleep.
"You will die for this." Legolas whispered in her ear, so she spoke before his knife got any closer to her neck and started to draw blood.
"Legolas, do you wish to kill me?"
Shock creped into his body and he let her go, so she turned around to look at him.
"Celebfaer." He said, unimpressed and she laughed.
"I merely wanted to know if you wanted to practice. My fighting abilities will worsen if I do not practice them." She said and Legolas laughed then pulled her close to him.
"Melamin, you know I will beat you. And your fighting skills have already weakened." He said softly, talking into her ear as he nuzzled it lightly.
"Legolas..." She started but he leaned down and kissed her, stopping her from saying what she had wanted to say.
"Speaking of us.." He started and she looked up at him, wondering where he had gotten that topic from. "We are wedded yet we are not allowed to share the same room." He added already starting an argument that they had several times a day since they had arrived in the Realm and Celebfaer laughed.
"Legolas we are wedded according to Elvish lore. But we are not wedded in the eyes of the Fairies and it is not proper for us to bed together unless we are."
"But I am an Elf and Elves tend to act rather strange when they are kept from their rights as a husband." Legolas said trying to be serious, but she saw straight through it and she laughed.
"But I do not keep you from your rights as a husband Legolas. You protect me and please me in every way possible.." She started with a grin and Legolas leaned down and kissed her.
"Melamin would you allow me the pleasure of...." He started once they broke off, mumbling the rest of what he was going to say in her ear, but she did not hear it, as she had heard a noise outside the room. So, she stopped him by putting a finger to his lips, wondering why his hearing had not picked it up too.
"Shhh..." She started, then she coked her head to the side, listening for any more noises that could be coming from outside of the room. Smiling she nodded to the door then looked up at Legolas. "Come, let us practice, for the day is getting old and I need all the practice I can get." She said loudly.
"If you would allow me to fetch my knives, we can be going." Legolas said in response, kissing her quickly as he pulled on some clothes.
When he was done, she looked at him then smiled. "You are delectable." She said softly, then flapped her wings, rising up so that she could kiss him lightly on the nose before she took his hand in hers and he picked up his knives on the way out.
"Mildred?" Celebfaer said when she walked out, seeing him walking down the hallway, away from Legolas' door. He was already halfway, but when he turned around to face her, she caught a look on his face that said he had been listening at the door. "What are you doing on this side of the palace?"
"Looking for one of my men." He replied gruffly and Celebfaer smiled then Mildred disappeared around a corner.
"Come Legolas, we shall have to be more careful. There are spies about." Celebfaer said looking at the spot where Mildred had disappeared, then turning and leading Legolas in the opposite direction but towards the training grounds.
Once out in the training yards, they both drew their two knives.
"Celebfaer I will not fight you as I normally would." Legolas said, he did not think it was proper for him to be fighting his own wife with knives.
"Do not hold back Legolas, because if you do I shall not stop my blade from biting into your flesh." She said and the look in her eyes scared him a little.
"Melamin is this really necessary?" He asked her and she looked at him.
"Legolas you are the only person in the whole Realm skilled enough to fight me with the knives and Haldir said that I should practice as often as I can." She said with a smile and Legolas sighed.
"Okay, then let us begin." He replied, giving in.
The two were out in the training yards alone for a few hours before the kingdom got wind of what they were doing and before they knew it, they were surrounded by people of the City all watching them and wondering why Celebfaer was training with weapons.
'Melamin, it appears we have an audience.' Celebfaer sent to Legolas and he smiled at her.
'Then we had better put on a good show.' He replied in her head as he had realized that she was a lot better than he had first thought, so he had needed to use all of his skill to try and better her.
They trained still under the gaze of the people of the City, but it appeared to the other Fairies that neither Legolas nor Celebfaer noticed that they were being watched. They fought as though the other was a foe and neither had an advantage over the other. When it looked like one of them had the upper hand, the other would do something unpredictable and so they would continue to fight, changing from attacking to defending every few minutes. Never tiring, but concentrating on trying to win.
It was mid afternoon when Mildred heard of what was happening and he raced down to the training fields to see that it was indeed true. Celebfaer was fighting Legolas the Elf, with real blades and neither seemed to be winning.
Looking around at the crowd, Mildred saw several of the guard watching the fight, but a cloaked figure watching the pair intently caught his eye. Looking a little closer at the figure, Mildred realized it was Sabin.
'Sabin, we must stop this.' Mildred sent to Sabin, shielding his thoughts from all but Sabin, and Sabin just turned to look straight at Mildred, as though he was not surprised to see the Head of the Queen's guard there.
'She is angry at something, though I do not think it is him.' Sabin sent back, turning to look at the battle once more. 'And they are training, not fighting.'
'But we must stop it. If she is to be Queen, then this is no way to act in front of her subjects.'
'They love her for it. She pushes all the boundaries Mildred and they love her for it. She's the one. She will lead us back into Middle Earth.'
'I am going to stop this now before he hurts her..' Mildred started ignoring what Sabin had just said, though he heard Sabin's laughter in his head as well as his response that cut him off.
'He would not hurt a hair on her head Mildred. He is so in control of his weapons that he would stop them before they touched her flesh. He moves as though they were connected to his body and he has complete control. Watch for a while and you may learn a few things.'
'I do not care, this cannot continue.' Mildred sent angrily, ignoring Sabin's last comment, which was the cause for some of his anger. Then Mildred strode onto the field, heading for where they were training.
Celebfaer sensed someone approaching behind her, so as a final effort, she lunged at Legolas and because his concentration flickered slightly to look at who was approaching, his knife fell from his hand. Celebfaer did not waste time concentrating on Legolas, she had turned to face whoever approached her, ready to do battle and anger in her eyes, which only flared more when she saw it was Mildred.
"It seems you have won Celebfaer." Mildred said and she looked over to where Legolas was standing, suspicion on his face as he looked at Mildred, but she did not drop her weapon.
'Why were you spying on Legolas?' She sent to Mildred and he looked at her, then dropped his gaze in shame. 'Do you know the penalty for spying Mildred?'
Mildred nodded. 'Death.' He replied then he looked up at her, lifting his chin, slightly. 'But if I am to die for treason, then I would wish it to be you that killed me.' He sent, his chin still raised inviting her to carry out the penalty there, with her blades, but she shook her head.
'I will not kill you, but I do not want to see you spying on Legolas ever again.' She sent and Mildred nodded. So she lowered her weapon, then turned around to Legolas and bowed. "It was an honor to fight such a great warrior." She said and Legolas smiled then bowed back.
"The honor was mine, melamin." He said then he switched to Elvish. "But I let you win." He said then he offered his arm to her and she smiled.
"I doubt that my prince." She said also in Elvish, sheathing her knives then taking his arm as she did.
"If you will allow me the pleasure of proving it Celebfaer, I would be all to happy to show you why I let you win, though we would need to go somewhere more private." He said in Elvish once more and she laughed as they walked from the training field, receiving applause from the people of the City.
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That night at dinner, Legolas and Celebfaer arrived a little after everyone else and they walked into the room oblivious of everyone else except each other. Elysa snorted when she saw them.
"Look at her, she looks like a puppy following it's master and begging to be fed something nice. And looking at an Elf like that! She will ruin the family name." Elysa hissed and Sabin turned to look at her.
"Elysa my love, do you not remember when we were first wedded we were like that also?" He asked.
"Not by choice." Elysa muttered under her breath and Sabin looked at her in shock.
"Are you saying you do not love me Elysa?" He asked, appearing shocked, though he knew the truth. He was no fool and it did not take him long to work out where Elysa went when she needed 'time alone' as she called it.
Elysa looked up in shock as though she was just realizing that she had spoken out loud. "Of course I do Sabin." Elysa replied smiling up at him, battering her eyelids but the love that should have been in her eyes was just not there and he could sense her worry about something, though he knew what it was.
That was when Legolas and Celebfaer finally made it to the table.
"Sorry we were late mother." Celebfaer said, bowing to the Queen. "Legolas got carried away with the story he was telling me of the battle at Helm's Deep." She added, looking to Legolas under her eyelashes as he quickly stole a sidelong glance in her direction and the Queen looked at Celebfaer then nodded.
"It is alright daughter, though you could have asked a maid to have your meal sent to you so that Legolas was not disturbed in his tale." The Queen said knowing perfectly well that he had not been telling her about Helm's Deep, but Sabin looked at him in surprise.
"You were in the battle at Helm's Deep? I have heard that they were out numbered almost five to one."
"We were." Legolas said. "But the King of Rohan was very noble indeed as are all of the Riders of Rohan. We were there because we were delayed in a quest and told to help where we were needed."
"We? Were you there also Celebfaer?" Sabin asked, his eyes flickering to look at her and she shook her head.
"Nay, I was not."
"When I say 'we' I mean Aragorn, son of Arathorn, King of Gondor and of Men and Gimli son of Gloin of the Dwarven race." Legolas said looking at Sabin. "They are my closest friends."
"You must have seen some great battles to have been friends with Aragorn. It is said that he led an army of ghosts off to war to defeat Sauron."
"They were not ghosts exactly. Just oath breakers that were sworn to come back when the heir of Numenor was in great need. I was there also."
"The war of the ring? You were there and survived, surely you must be a great warrior."
"My love, do not ruin dinner with talk of foul things. There is no war that threatens the Fairies and there never will be." Elysa said then looking up at Sabin, flashes of anger in her eyes.
"Legolas, you are upsetting my sister, so I'm afraid we shall have to finish our conversation after dinner." Celebfaer said then, looking only at Legolas and he nodded.
"Indeed we shall." He replied with a hint of a smile, which Celebfaer ignored then turned to her sister's husband.
"Sabin, you are more than welcome to join us if you wish and Legolas will tell you more of his travels with Lord Aragorn and Master Gimli." Celebfaer said.
But before Sabin could answer, Elysa but in once again. "My husband cannot I'm sorry, tonight is the night that we spend walking through the gardens." She said glaring at Celebfaer.
"Very well, maybe some other time Sabin."
"Yes." He replied looking at his plate.
The Queen watched the exchange with keen interest. Seeing Elysa glare at Celebfaer was just another sign that she would never be able to rule the Realm properly. A Queen was not supposed to show emotions to any, except for her husband. Anger was the worst emotion that a Queen could display, for her enemies saw it as a weakness.
So they ate dinner with little chatter and once it was over, Celebfaer faked a yawn.
"Our training today must have been harder than I first thought Legolas." She said, then she turned to her mother. "If you will excuse me mother, but I am rather tired." Celebfaer added, standing up.
"I shall escort you to your room, Celebfaer." Legolas said, standing also and excusing himself from the table.
Taking the arm that he offered, Celebfaer allowed herself to be led from the room. But Legolas led her towards his room, not her own.
"I assume we will be able to finish our conversation Celebfaer, if you are not too tired that is." He said and she smiled at him, then nodded.
"I believe I can stay awake a little longer." She said and Legolas smiled also.
A/N: That's the first two chapters, so please leave me a review to tell me what you think. Even if you hated it, tell me what was wrong with it too, all reviews are accepted.
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