Yes I know, it's a short chapter, they get longer though out the story! This chapter is just meant to introduce the characters and begin the plot. (A/N). Light Elves live in a city in the misty mountains called Aowna (A-own-ah) same disclaimer as from the prologue.

chapter 1

The Living Years

The stars were beginning to disappear as morning sun arose. The sun was starting to peer over the balcony and splash the room with its brilliant color. The city of Aowna was beginning to glisten in the morning light.

"Ohh, just look at her. Isn't she beautiful?" Cossidlor said turning to face his wife, Laurelin. Cossidlor had deep, dark brown hair that hung down straight and just went past his shoulders. His eyes were the only thing that was strangely unusual about him. Well other then his ears, but he being an elf of course, this was perfectly normal, his eyes how ever, were not. His eyes reminded one of the sky after a treacherous rain storm. The very outer ring was a deep purple that then blended into an indigo, then green, then a golden color, like straw, with a bit of a reddish-orange flecks near the pupal. His eyes were the only way that he or any of his heirs and decedents could be distinguished as royalty among the Light elves. All of Cossidlor's ancestors had the same eyes since the founding of the city Aowna. They were the only people in all of Middle Earth that had these unusual eyes.

"Yes, she looks just like you: same eyes, same hair, same face. I must be in there somewhere." replied Laurelin with a smile, smoothing out her daughters hair.

"But you are, she seems to already have your fiery spirit." Laurelin looked down at the little bundle in her arms. The child squirmed and held up her hand, gabbing the thin air toward her mother. She looked up smiling at her husband, which he returned He leaned forward and kissed her. The child, who no longer being fawned over, reached up and grabbed her mother's hair with a tug. It was as if she was trying to let them that she was still there to. Lauelin smiled and rubbed her thumb over her forhead.

"You know we still have to name her."

"How about . . . . Faereth."

"Faereth" he repeated the name softly, letting it roll off his tongue. "Its perfect, and fits her well."

"Yes it does. She has such spirit already in her." Lauelin gently handed the squirming child over to her husband. He was so entranced by his daughter that he didn't notice the figure lurking outside the window. It was figure cloaked in black, with the hood pulled up over his head, casting a dark shadow over half of his face so that only his lips and jaw were visible. He had an evil grin plastered on his face before turning and jumping out of the tree that he had be perched on just outside the window.

Cossidlor continued to rock his little girl, when he noticed his exhausted wife was finally sleeping peacefully on the bed. He gently stood up as to not wake her, and carried daughter to the balcony. He just stood there with her watching the sun rise, feeling the happiest he had ever been in his life. He notice that she began to look drowsy and he smiled.

"You will always be my little araniel, to me." he whispered to his yawning daughter. (princess) He look back up to the beautiful pink sky, as Faereth finally gave in to sleep. Everything thing was peaceful in the city, and they were completely unaware of the danger lurking on their door step.

Preview for Chapter 2: A Shadow Falls:

"Leave Sauron, you are not welcome here." Cossidlor seethed.

"Im afraid I cant do that, you see I've come for something." His eyes fell on Faereth who had just entered with her mother, and was now clinging to her. "or someone."

"I am afraid that there is no way that you will be able to stop him. There is not hope left for you in Middle Earth."

"We cannot simply wait here for Sauron to come and take her!" Cossidlor roared at Gandalf.

Cossidlor shouts to his wife in a forest "Take her. Go quickly. He's coming!" resting Faereth in his wife's arms. "Just go. . . get to the portal and go and . . . and don't look back." He had a deep sadness in his knowing eyes, knowing that he wouldn't come out of this alive.

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