AN: sorry about the long wait people. School was starting to take over my life with endless amounts of homework. Well, anyways, I'm writing now so here you go.

Chapter 7

Elrohir made it back inside a little late. Quickly going through the way that he left, he made it to his ada's study room only to find it empty.

"Nice to see you, son."

Sitting in the chair behind his desk, Elrond gave Elrohir the famous death-glare.

Elrohir cringed inward. He didn't like the looks of the conversation, and it only just started!

"My dear son, you know that you missed the guest, don't you?"

Elrohir lowered his eyes to the ground. "Yes ada."

Elrond raised an eyebrow. "I'm sorry, I didn't catch that. You were mumbling."

"Yes ada." Elrohir lifted his line of sight from the floor to his ada's eyes. He knew full well that his ada heard him the first time.

Elrond let out a sigh and stood up. He walked over to his child and wrapped an arm around his shoulders. "Son, where were you?"

"I was outside," Elrohir answered sheepishly. "I had one thing left to do, it just took more time then I thought it would take."

Under normal circumstances, Elrond would have given his son a lecture, but he had too much to think about, with the arrows and the thing that Glorfindel saw in the woods. That reminds me, he thought, I have to ask if they saw anything following them.

He turned his son to the door and herded him out. "Very well, go look for your brothers. They could tell you what happened since they were both here."

With that, he shut the door, leaving Elrohir to stand in the hall and stare at the shut door confused.

Shrugging his shoulders, Elrohir made his way to Elladan's room. That would be the most likely place that his brothers would be.

At least he managed to get out of trouble without having to go through a lecture about being late and what-not. That thought put a smile on his face.

Elladan looked at his twin brother. "So, what happened?"

Estel was leaning against the wall next to Elladan, who was sitting in a chair near a window.

Elrohir had went to his older brothers room, like his ada suggested, and sure enough, both of his brothers were waiting for him to get back.

Elrohir was sitting on the floor with his back resting on the side of Elladan's bed. "Nothing much happened."

Estel raised an eyebrow. "Nothing? Hmm... did Legolas say anything we should know?"

"Not really." Elrohir shook his head. "He did say that he was going to wait for a while since we had guess and all."

Elladan looked surprised. "So he knew that they were coming?"

"No, he said that he heard them coming and took a peak. Nothing else though." Elrohir let out a yawn. "I'm tired. Don't know why, but I am."

Estel moved from his spot on the wall and walked over to his brother. "Why don't you go take a nap? It will make you feel better."

Elrohir nodded and stood up. As he headed for the door, his twin brothers voice made him stop.

"Wait! Did you run into ada?" When Elrohir nodded, Elladan gave a small smile. "And? Did you get in trouble or something?"

"No. Ada let me go without a lecture or anything. Maybe just a warning or something like that, if you wish to know."

Elladan jumped off his chair. "That's it? No lecture or anything? That's not fair! Every time I do something, ada ALWAYS gives me a lecture or finds some other way to punish me!"

Estel bursted out laughing. He quickly got his breath back long enough to talk. "What did you expect? You are the oldest and you might rule the realm one day. He has to be a bit rougher with you then with us." Then he began cracking up all over again.

Elladan glared at his adopted brother. "It is not that funny Estel." Then he switched his sight to his twin, who was trying not to laugh out loud. "Don't you dare make a sound!"

Elrohir just nodded his head and left the room. When the door shut, both Estel and Elladan could hear him laughing on his way to his room.

Instead of having a regular dinner that evening, a large feast was held for the Mirkwood elves. The cooks were busy making just about every single thing that they could think of so that there was enough food for all,

There was music playing in the room and many elves were enjoying themselfs. Dancing was taking place in the middle of the large dinning room and you could hear much talking and laughing as the elves exchanged stories from there realm.

It was a wonderful evening for all. The twins and Estel were talking and laughing with Raindul and a group of soldiers, Erestor and Glorfindel were arguing about different matters while the elves around them laughed.

Elrond and Talan were with others and were discussing the state of the realm and giving each other hints to help make the realm a better place.

Nobody wanted to talk about the mysterious things that were going on. Tonight was a time for fun and relaxing.

The feast was more of a buffet. Anyone could get food whenever they wanted so that they wouldn't have to what for the next course or sit at a table when they wanted to go do something else.

There was also wine and water to drink. Since elves don't really get drunk, they had nothing to worry about, but the twins made sure that Este didn't drink to much, seeing as he wasn't a elf.

In the practice area, some of the younger elves were having a little tournament to see who was stronger. They had different competitions such as sword using, archery, and use of long knives.

The feast lasted long into the night, way pass the normal time that any sane person would had gone to bed and even pass the time when someone who was working late into the night would have called it quits and gone to bed.

But the music, dancing, talking, and laughing continued on through the night.

And somewhere in the surrounding woods, and elf was annoyed and tired.

Legolas groaned and he heard the music, even from where he was. He got up slowly and started looking for a more peaceful area to sleep, well away from all the noise. "Man, I'm just glad that I'm not royal and have to attend things like this when they should have gone to bed hours ago."

Walking towards the lake where the three brothers were the day he meet them, Legolas found a comfortable spot at the base of the large tree Estel jumped from. Almost immediately, he fell asleep.

AN: I know this chapter is short, but give me a break. I'm falling a little behind in my school work and don't have that much time to write. If I'm lucky, I might be able to post another chapter tomorrow. Hopefully, I will and maybe I'll catch up with my school work.

One can only hope.