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A/N- Thanks for bearing with me, during this time that I could not post. Here's the promised chapter, once again Thanks!
Chapter 7: The fight for hope.
Aragorn sat on his horse wondering if his friend would make it through the night. "Aragorn, what do you say?" Aragorn hadn't realized someone was talking to him, "What?" "What do you say to stopping for the night?" Elledan asked. "We, musn't stop, Legolas needs us." "But, Ada said he needed to tend to your wounds, you may not know it, but you look half-dead." Elrohir stated.
"I feel fine, Ada can tend to my wounds later, Legolas needs help." Aragorn did'nt understand what his brothers was saying, why would they want to stop when their friend was out there dying?
"You are right Estel, but we will have to stop soon, I do not know how long Ada will believe that you don't need help, or rest, for that matter." Elrohir said. "Of course, but we are almost there, we can stop when we get Legolas out of the cave."
Elrohir and Elladen knew alot about that cave, it was filled with deception and greed. It used to belong to a wizard that was very nice. He used to visit the elves, hobbits, and any other creature, He got ahold of one of the rings of power and it corrupted his mind with evil thoughts. He used his skills for bad not good, as Gandalf does. He could convince anybody to do anything he wished, just through his greed, deception, and lying.
He soon was band from all the villages, it pained them all so, but they could not afford to have a meddling wizard in their towns. Gandalf recided him to live in that cave, until he died. He went mad not to long after that and poisened himself, but his spirit sometimes ventures back into the cave.
Elledan and Elrohir only hoped that Legolas has not given up hope yet, they prayed that their friend would be okay, and able to help him when they got there.
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"Give up elf-ling, your friends do not care for you, they want to leave you here dead, have you not noticed that they have not returned for you?" "Show yourself, enemy of I and my kin, tell me who you are!" The young elf shouted trying to see who was intimadating him.
"If they truly cared for you, they would be here by now, and you know that as well as I do." Legolas looked up at his Nan-neth, "Nan-neth, I'm sorry, he speaks the truth, I should just give up." "Goreneth, be gone from my son, you foul beast, penneth, listen to me, do not give up hope, you shall be safe, just do not give up, sleep my son, I shall take care of you, fear not."
"Why, Lady Greenleaf, stop filling your son's mind with
false hope, for he holds none, not in the lives of his friends, surely you do not believe they will make it."Goreneth said, walking over to the two. "Goreneth, you foul creature, be gone, stop filling my son's mind with deception and greed, you foul beast!" Legolas' Nan-neth yelled.
"Why, Lady Greenleaf, you under-estimate me. I can not stop something that has already begun, now if I could just get rid of you then I can finish my plan." Goreneth said and pulled out his sword. "Now Goreneth, you under-estimate me, you should remember that I am very skilled with my sword, and if you lay a finger on my son, you will know the meaning of 'death'."
"Ariana, you surely do not challenge me to a dule?" Goreneth approached Legolas' mother. "Legolas stays out of the fight, it is between me and you." Ariana pulled out her sword and approached Goreneth. "Ariana, ever since that good-for-nothing-wizard sent me out to this cave, I have skilled myself in my sword." Goreneth said. "You still can not beat me, Goreneth, you filth!" Anaria knocked Goreneth's sword from his hand and grabbed it, "Now it looks like I have beaten you, so be gone!"
"I shall return Lady Greenleaf, you may have won this time, but I shall return!" Goreneth said, seeing as he had been defeated, he left.
Anaria got on the floor beside her son, "Do not give up, have faith in Estel and the others, do not believe what he told you penneth, fight the pain, it is not your time." She whispered and stroke her sleeping son's hair.
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Is Anaria Greenleaf's spirit really protecting Legolas? Is Goreneth the wizard going to return? Will Ariana always be able to help her son? Are Aragorn and the others going to make it to Legolas in time? Find out in the next chapter!