Chapter 19 reviews:

Elven Kitten: I know! Why do I torture him so! Anyways, thanks for the review!

KyLaaa: Yes, an update! After almost a week, I finally updated! To answer you question, no, he doesn't. In fact, not many remembered that it was the princes's birthday. Most just think of it as the anniversary of his death. How sad.

Rebell: Now that I think about, having the twins in charge of Rivendell is a scary thought. I can't even imagine them ruling! Yes, it happened on his birthday. Lets all pity Legolas for a moment. "Dying" on your birthday must be horrible.

Kel: Hmm, you have a point. Lets make Elrond worry some more! Well, maybe not for a few chapters or something. And yes, that is depressing.

TheAmazingTecnoColorRingWraith: Glad you think my chapter was good. I liked too! True. Tough elves are harder to kill. And it will give the elves plenty of time to think of new ways to kill evil creatures!

Yavie Aelinel: Thank you! Glad to know that you still love my story. And I will update, maybe not as soon as some of yall would like, but I will still update! Can't keep my fans waiting forever, right?

Silverkonekotsukari: Aww, thank you! Hope you enjoy the rest of the story!

Crapoholics: Yes sir, or mam! I can't tell...

Cvn: Well, I'll try to get my language back up. I was thinking of making Legolas arrive home on his birthday. Won't that be fun?

Arialas: He would, if he knew that Legolas was still alive and headed towards Lothlorien. But since he doesn't, he can't go. Poor Thranduil.

Redleef: Yes, green water means bad water. Remember people, if you ever see green water, never drink it, unless you put food coloring in it yourself, or if its Kool-aid. Mmm, Kool-aid.

IwishChan: Ok, I will, and I'll make sure you're the first person I tell when I make my discovery! They're not the kings of pranks for no reason. And the poor victims won't be able to do anything because Elrond's not there to lecture his sons. Wouldn't you do what he did if you were walking for what seemed like forever without a break and no sleep for like two (I think) days? I know I would! Yes, cheer-up Thranduil, you will get a surprise!

Yavie Aelinel: I know, I am not the best in grammar and spelling, let me tell you! We think the same? Awesome! That is sooooo cool, in my opinion. You're the only one to notice that. I didn't notice that it was like anime until you pointed that out! How cool.

Crecy: You really want to know? Well, I can't tell you! It would ruin the story and it won't make it any more fun to read. And that's not fun.

Chapter 20

The sun rose the next day and the sky was clear, with only a few clouds. Everything was peaceful. The sounds of birds flying overhead and the fresh breeze that was blowing made the day seem almost perfect. It was days like this that made many believe that nothing could go wrong.

Raindul and the others had already packed up camp and were continuing on their way. This time, though, they were not riding the horses. They had all decided that the day was to good for riding and that the horses would like a day without being ridden.

The horses were all walking around, but they never strayed to far from the group walking. They were loyal.

Estel stretched his arms above his head, then put them behind his head. "It feels good to be walking again."

Elrohir, who was walking next to him, chuckled. "Aye. With all that riding, I was beginning to forget how it felt to walk."

Legolas raised an eyebrow from were he was. He was walking in front of Estel, next to Elladan, and behind Raindul. "But don't you walk every morning? How else would you get to your horse. And don't forget that you walk when you go in search of firewood. And when you have to help pickup the camp. And-"

"Ok, ok! I get it!" Elrohir said, resisting the urge to push Legolas. "I was just saying! Anyways, besides all of that stuff that we have to do, when do we ever get to walk on this journey. We're always riding the horses the whole day."

Elladan smiled. That's true. "I'm sure that the horses are all happy that they don't have to carry us today. And my legs were beginning to stiffen from riding day in and day out." He turned his head to look at the scenery.

Now that they were getting closer to Lothlorien, they had passed a few tress. Ahead of them were some more trees, but not enough to count as a wood. It was more as patches of tress. Some where by themselves while others were in groups of about two to five, but they were all spread out. In the distance the sound of running water could be heard. Well, it could only be heard by the elves.

They had left the plains yesterday, to the happiness of everyone.

"Hey Raindul!" Estel called. When the captain looked behind and spotted Estel, he continued. "How long till we reach the Golden Woods?"

Raindul looked out into the distance, as if he was able to judge the distance just from looking at it, which wasn't so far from the truth. "I would say that we should reach our destination by tomorrow, around late afternoon."

Elladan turned so that he was facing Legolas. "Hey Legolas, I have an idea. How about, when we reach Lothlorien, we ask Galadriel if you could look into her magic bowl."

Legolas looked a bit surprised. "What?" Now he just looked confused.

"Yeah! That's a great idea!" Elrohir said. "Her bowl lets others see their pass and what could happen in the future. You could see what your ada looked like so that when you meet him, you'll be able to recognize him!"

Legolas had stopped walking, making the others stop. Raindul and the other Mirkwood elves were giving them questioning looks, as if asking 'what's wrong'?

"Wait." Legolas then looked at the twins. "What?"

"Don't you get it Legolas?" Estel asked. "What they're trying to say is if Lady Galadriel lets you look into her magic bowl, you can finally find out some answers about your pass! I'm sure that you have some questions about your pass that you want answers for, right?"

Legolas, after starring at the three brothers for about a minute, finally nodded his head. "I have been curios about my pass ever since Raindul said I was a prince." I wonder why I don't remember anything about my pass though. Maybe something happened to make me forget? Legolas shook his head to rid himself of those thoughts.

Raindul walked up to the group. "Are you guys alright?" He was answered with nods from each of them. "Well then, lets get going! Lothlorien won't get any closer if we, or should I say you all, just stand here." That being said, he turned around and continued walking.

"Wow, it sure got dark really fast, didn't it?" Estel asked as he looked up at the sky.

The sky, which had been clear earlier, was now covered with dark clouds, telling the group on the ground that a storm was approaching.

"I didn't think that it could get that dark so fast. Usually one would be able to tell if a storm was approaching." Elladan said as he turned his gaze to look at the clouds.

"Well, flash storms are different." Raindul said. "They don't happen often, but when they do, you don't have any warning that they're on there way until they're right above you."

"At least it isn't raining!" Legolas said in an oddly cheerful way.

Now everybody knows that you shouldn't say things like that. Cause if you do, whatever you said will happen, and everyone will be mad at you for saying whatever it was that you said.

And this happens to be true for our elven friend too. Almost as soon as those words left his lips, the clouds opened up and it started raining. And now the others were glaring at Legolas. Even the horses looked as if they were glaring at him.

"Nice going Legolas." Elrohir said, in a sarcastic way.

"At least we got the trees for shelter." Estel said as he made his way to a tree, but was stopped short when Elladan grabbed his arm.

"Never go under a tree when its raining. Lightning could strike it at any minute. Did you forget that Estel?" Elladan asked looking at Estel as if he was dumb.

Estel rubbed the back of his neck. "Oh yeah, I forgot about that."

"Don't worry guys! A little rain never killed anybody." Legolas said in a cheerful way, despite the fact that he was still being glared at.

"That's true. I haven't heard of anyone being killed just because it rained." Elrohir said, after he stopped glaring at Legolas.

"Besides," Legolas stated, "it could be worse. I mean it could start thundering and lightning could start lighting the sky, threatening to strike us down where we stand."

Not long after he said this, thunder could be heard. Everyone, even the horses, looked up and sure enough, they saw lightning lighting the sky. Now everyone was glaring at Legolas twice as hard as last time.

Legolas gave a sheepish smile. "What do you know! Its thundering and there's lightning." Here he gave a nervous chuckle.

Raindul let out a slow breathe. "Come on, we should go see if we can find a cave to wait out this storm."

After grabbing the rein of their horse, the small group slowly made there way, looking for anything that could provide shelter.

Suddenly Raindul stopped, causing the others to stop as well.

"Hey Raindul, why did you stop?" Estel asked. He didn't want to be in the rain longer than he had to.

"Quiet!" Raindul hissed, causing Estel to back up a little. "Listen."

At that, all the members of the small party went on instant alert. They didn't move. Even the horses were on alert. The area was completely silent, the only sounds being the rain when it hit the ground and the thunder.

Legolas, who's senses were more sensitive, due to years spent in the wild, slowly turned to the right, then to the left. When he turned to the left, however, alarm bells rang in his head when lightning lit the sky and he caught the sight of something shinny coming from between two tress. It didn't take long for him to recognize what that shinny thing was.

Legolas did the first thing that came to mind. He grabbed the closes one to him, which happened to be Amarid, and yanked him to the ground, at the same time yelling, "Get down!" He had just managed to pull Amarid down, when an arrow flew right above his head, embedding itself on a tree trunk on the opposite side.

Immediately everyone pulled out their weapons just as orcs came running out from behind trees.

Pretty soon, the sound of metal on metal sounded through the air. The horses had ran off so that they wouldn't be in the way and to stay clear of any danger.

"How did they get so close without us knowing?" Elladan asked as he cut the head off of an orc who had his back to the elf.

Elrohir, who was fighting close to his twin, quickly moved out of the way as an orc swung its sword where Elrohir stood a few moments ago. "They probably followed us from the plain and didn't get close until the storm broke out!"

Estel was fighting his own battle, not to far from the twins. He shoved one of the orcs when he saw an opening and the orc, not being graceful and the wet grass making it hard to keep ones balance without stumbling, fell backwards into a group of its partners, making all the others fall to the ground as well.

He allowed a smile to touch his mouth as he watched the orcs try to get back up, without much success. Being raised by elves has some advantages. It wouldn't have taken me this long to get back up. Quickly he ran off to help others.

Raindul was further off, meaning that more orcs came after him, thinking that he would be an easier kill. But Raindul was a trained pro, skilled in fighting, and he often had to go out into the woods of Mirkwood to keep the dark creatures away. To bad the orcs didn't know that.

He quickly cut down the small group that was attacking him before nimbly moving off to take care of the other orcs that had appeared.

Legolas was fighting his own battles as well. He was using the twin knives that he kept on his back instead of his bow and arrows. The rain might ruin the bow string and the orcs were to close for the bow to be of any real use.

He was also used to fighting in the rain, so it didn't really bother him. He wasn't worried about the other, knowing that they probable had professional teachers to teach them how to fight.

So he concentrated on his own battle. He blocked and avoided the strikes that the orc threw until he found the perfect opening, then he made his own move. After being stabbed in the chest and face, at the same time, the orc died and Legolas turned to face his newest opponent.

Elladan and Elrohir, who were know fighting back to back, quickly took down any orc that got to close.

"Hey Elladan." Elrohir said as he took the arm off of an orc, then watched as said orc cried out in pain, holding his new stump.

"Yeah?" Elladan answered as he blocked two orcs at the same time. He then pulled out a small knife from his belt and threw it into the face of one of the orcs while swinging in an up stroke slashing the other orc.

"I know I probably shouldn't be saying this, but I got to admit, I'm having fun." Elrohir said as he plunged his sword into the gut of an oncoming orc. Elladan just chuckled.

Slowly, the battle began to die down, as the remaining orcs began to flee or were quickly killed by one of the elves. At this time, the horses began to make their way back from wherever they were and cut off the orcs escape. They lashed out with their hooves and smashed the bones of whatever orcs happened to get to close.

Soon the battle was over and the horses walked to their owners to be rewarded with pats and words of praise.

Raindul looked around and soon found out that none of his men had been killed. Some had a few cuts and such, but he was just glad that no one had a serious injury.

Estel was leaning against a tree, and his brothers, thinking that he might be injured, quickly rushed to him.

"Estel, are you ok? Are you injured?" Elladan asked, concern filling his voice.

Estel waved at them. "I'm fine, just a bit tired. This was my first real battle, you know?"

Elrohir chuckled and gave Estel a hug. "You did very good, too. I'm proud of you."

Estel felt himself blushing and Elladan broke out into a laugh. "Aw, look what you did Elrohir. You made him blush!" Estel threw his a glare, but something at the corner of his eye caught his attention.

What is that? He thought to himself as he saw the tip of something dark. He followed until he saw something that reminded him of a crossbow. A crossbow? But that means-! He quickly followed to where the bolt was pointed at and saw Legolas, who was busy patting Shadow and praising his horse.

Estel quickly jumped up. The twins, who were surprised when their little brother jumped up, looked at him and saw the panic that was clearly showing on his face. "Legolas!"

Legolas, who was too busy with Shadow to be paying attention to his surroundings, turned around when he heard his name called out. When he saw Estel, he opened his mouth to say something, but he never got the chance.

Time seemed to slow down as Estel heard the thwack that signaled that the bolt was fired. He watched as it flew and hit Legolas in the chest. He also watched as Legolas's eyes opened wide with shock and pain before he fell to his knees, clutching the bolt that now stuck out from his chest.

"LEGOLAS!"

Wow, I can be so cruel to Legolas, huh?

For those of you who don't know what a flash storm is, it's a storm that can appear out of almost nowhere without any warning.