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KerowynGreenleaf: Yeah, Legolas is starting to remember something's, and he meets his ada! I should be nice to Glorfindel and make Erestor stop teasing and torturing him. And the computer is finally fixed!

Emily: I'm glad that you enjoyed the chapter. Don't worry, you'll see the reaction from Mirkwood in this chapter. Hope it doesn't disappoint you!

Jule Johnson: No, I didn't make it up. It is in other stories that deal with Legolas and his ada. Wish I did make it up though.

Darklink123: You need to stop getting yourself banned. About that drool thing. Yeah, that wasn't suppose to be there, but glad you liked it.

Holiday-sap: Aww, well I'm glad that you liked the way that I ended this chapter. I thought it was sweet as well. And your welcome.

Redleef: Hey, you don't have to wait till January anymore! Here is the next chapter for all of you guys!

Rebell: Correct! I don't think that his luck was present in that chapter and I don't think that it's going to be present in this chapter either. I hooked you? Hurray! Don't worry, I have another story that I plan to write. Merry belated Christmas and a happy new years!

LOTR Lover 24 and 7: I will finish it soon, but I don't think that I will write a sequel to it. I have no idea what the sequel will be about.

Moonlight Butterfly: I feel sorry for Glorfindel, but what's done is done. Glad that you thought this chapter was funny!

Inwe Nolatari: Oh! I know that story that your talking about! I haven't read that story in so long, cause to be honest, I forgot about it. I don't remember what it was called, but I do know what your talking about. See? Now I feel so bad about not being able to help you. I'm going to go cry in a corner now.

Kim: I know what you mean. That ruined everything! It wasn't even suppose to be in the story! I was talking to a friend while I was writing that chapter and we were talking about our friend, who drools when she sleeps, and I guess I wrote this. Oh the horror!

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IwishChan: Well, Legolas doesn't know anything about behaving like a prince, so I'm sure that he would do something like that. I don't know what Elrond will do to his boys, probably look them in a cell or something. Lets take this time to pity Glory.

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Chapter 39

The twins, Estel, Raindul, Elrond, and Talan were in the king's study. They, except Talan, had come here when Legolas shooed them out of Thranduil's room. Now they were all waiting for Legolas to come back so that they could find out what happened.

Elrond had taken Talan to a corner and was giving the advisor a lecture. Talan had his head down, looking very ashamed of himself.

The other four were either standing around or were sitting on the floor, since they didn't want to get any of the chairs dirty. They hadn't cleaned up yet.

Estel sighed as he continued to pluck at the rug he was sitting next to. It was more entertaining then just sitting there and staring at the door, which was what Elladan was doing.

Elladan just sat on the floor a few feet away form Estel, staring at the door. He was hopping that at any moment, the door would fly open with Legolas on the other side.

Raindul wasn't do much better, except for the fact that he was standing instead of sitting. He just continued to look in the direction the door was in, but his eyes were clouded, telling everyone in the room that he was lost in though at the moment.

Elrohir was leaning against the wall opposite of the door, looking at everyone and everything in the room. He was bored! Not to mention, he felt dirty.

Estel stopped plucking at the rug long enough to ask a question. "Do you guys have a place where I can wash?"

The others jumped at the sound of the voice. Raindul tore his gaze from the door to look at Estel. Now that Estel mentioned it, he felt dirty as well. He looked down at himself and frowned. The blood on his tunic had dried, making the shirt had and uncomfortable to wear. He sighed. "I think that we could all do with a bath."

Elrohir pushed himself away from the wall. "I was just about to suggest the same thing!" He stretched his arms above his head as he made his way to the door. "So, where is the nearest washroom?"

Glorfindel groaned as the sunlight hit his eyes. He put his head under his pillow and pulled the covers over that, leaving him in blessed darkness. He was just about to go back to sleep when the door to his room was thrown open, banging into the wall. The sound caused Glorfindel's head to throb with pain and he hissed.

"Good morning Glory!" Erestor practically yelled form the doorway. "Did you have a good night?"

Glorfindel poked his head out from beneath both the pillow and cover and glared at Erestor, hoping that the advisor would have a nasty accident later on in the day. The pounding in his head wasn't helping his mood either.

Erestor ignored the glare and walked over to stand next to the bed. He looked down at the figure on the bed and couldn't keep a grin off his face as last night repeated itself in his head. "I hope that you feel fine this morning."

Glorfindel just sighed and laid his head on the pillow, hoping that it would stop the pain in his head. "My head hurts." He said in a soft voice.

Erestor just nodded. "I know." Glorfindel threw him a surprised, but suspicious, look. "Trust me Glory, you don't want to know." Erestor answered the unasked question.

Glorfindel just nodded his head and pulled the covers over it. "What do you want?"

Erestor lifted the edge of the covers up a bit, so that he was able to see Glorfindel's face. "I was going to tell you to get up and work, since it is passed midday, but I don't-" Erestor was cut off.

"Midday! How long was I asleep?" Glorfindel cried as he jumped out of bed, making his head feel as if it was going to crack in two. He sank to the floor, clutching onto his head. Erestor kneeled next to him and patted his shoulder.

"Why don't you just stay in bed today, or at least until your headache, coughhangovercough, goes away?" Erestor asked.

Glorfindel just gave him a strange look, and did he just say hangover?

"Uh, yeah." Glorfindel said as he got back in bed, hoping that the pounding in his head would disappear soon.

"Great!" Erestor said as he made his way to the door. "And I don't want to see you up until you feel like your old self!" Erestor called back as he shut the door and left Glorfindel lying in bed, wondering if the advisor had lost a bit of his sanity.

After getting cleaned and dressing in clean clothes, the three brothers and Raindul returned to the king's study, finding both Talan and Elrond sitting in some of the chairs in the room.

"Has Legolas come back?" Raindul asked as soon as he made himself comfortable against the wall.

"No." Talan answered. "I don't even think that he has left the room." He sighed, still finding it a bit hard to believe that the prince that he thought was dead was in fact alive and well.

"Perhaps Thranduil is still out. He did suffer from quite a shock earlier." Elrond said from his position.

Elrohir mumbled something under his breath. "I think that the king would had woken up by now."

Elladan sighed. "He probable did, and he probable fainted again once he saw Legolas." He said.

Talan ran a hand over his face. "If his earlier reaction is anything to go by, then I'm afraid that Elladan is right."

And so they sat there, or stood there, for several minutes. Soon, those minutes turned into half and hour, and that turned into an hour. As you can imagine, standing or sitting in the same spot doing absolutely nothing can make peopled very irritated.

"Oh for the love of the Valar! This is taking waaay to long!" Elrohir cried as he stood up and made his way to the door.

Estel jumped up from his spot to quickly follow his brother, followed by the rest in the room.

"Elrohir, where are you going?" Estel said as he caught up to his brother.

"I'm going to find out what's taking so damn long!" Elrohir replied. He quickened his pace when he got closer to Thranduil's room. The others followed as well, standing a bit behind the irritated elf, just incase something happens.

Just as Elrohir was about to reach for the handle, he stopped. The others threw each other glances before going to see what it was that made Elrohir pause. When they got closer, they understood what caused the younger twin to pause. They could hear voices! They couldn't make out what was being said, but they did hear voices on the other side on the door. Two voices to be exact. Then that must mean that Thranduil was awake!

Talan made his way to the door and slowly opened it, peeking his head inside to see. The others looked at each other before sticking their heads in to see. Estel was at the bottom, Raindul above him, followed by Talan, then by the twins, and finally Elrond, who was at the very top. (Imagine the 7 dwarfs when they were checking to see if the "monster" had come out)

What they saw made them all smile.

Both Legolas and Thranduil were sitting on the bed. Thranduil had a smile on his face and he radiated happiness. Legolas was speaking, most likely telling his ada everything that has happened to him during his journey. His eyes shone with happiness as well.

Thranduil caught them peeking in and held up his hand, telling Legolas to stop talking. Legolas looked over to where his ada was looking and raised his eyebrows when he saw six heads peeking through the door.

"You do know that its rude to eavesdrop on people, don't you?" Thranduil asked.

The six at the door once again cast each other glances before stepping into the room.

"Sorry about that, my King." Talan said as he and Raindul bowed.

"Yeah, we were just wondering what happened to Legolas, since he was taking his sweet time and all." Elrohir said. Estel elbowed him in the side.

Elrond looked between Thranduil and Legolas before nodding his head. "I believe that its safe to say that you two know who each of you are?" He asked.

Both Thranduil and Legolas smiled and nodded their heads.

Talan clapped his hands together. "Wonderful!" He cleared his throat. "Now, let us get down to business." He turned to face Raindul. "Did you find out where those arrows came from?"

Raindul shook his head. "No. They said that they haven't been anywhere near Mirkwood." He sighed. "I don't know who did it, but I don't think that we will ever find out."

Legolas turned to look at Raindul. "Arrows? What arrows?"

Raindul left and came back several minutes later holding the two arrows that had started the whole thing. He handed them to Legolas, who looked at them for a minute before smiling and handing them back to Raindul. "Oh, I shot those." He said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

The others in the room blinked. Then they blinked again. Elladan cleaned his ears.

"What did you say?" Estel asked.

Legolas looked at him before he began to speak, slowly, as if to a child. "I said that I shot both of those arrows. Do you understand?"

If it wasn't for the fact that his ada and Legolas's ada were there, Estel would have happily tackled the elf and strangle the life out of him.

"You could have told us that in the first place!" Elladan cried out, thinking of all the time that was wasted traveling to Lothlorien and then to Mirkwood.

"Yeah, well, none of you guys ever asked." Legolas shot back. Honestly, it wasn't his fault if none of them were smart enough to ask!

Later that day, Legolas once again found himself looking at himself through a mirror. He was wearing a golden colored silk tunic that had silver designs sewed into it. His hair was braided into the style used by royalty, which was three small braids at the front, which were then tied together in the back, then tied into another braid. Instead of the black leggings he had on earlier, he was now wearing a light brown-gold color legging. He also had brown leather boots on.

"I look like a freak." Legolas said as he continued to look at himself. "This makes me look either to dark, or to light." He turns to look at his ada, who was standing behind him rubbing his temples. "Ada! I don't want to wear this. Can I try something else?"

Thranduil sighed as the looked over at the bed, were a large pile of clothes laid, all the clothes that Legolas said he didn't like. He looked over at the pile that was slowly building and sighed again. How hard was it to find something to wear!

"Legolas," Thranduil began. "How long does it take to find a pair of clothes?"

Legolas sat on the ground and tugged both of the boots off. "Until I find something that I like." He answered.

Thranduil's eye twitched. This was getting ridicules! "Legolas, just pick something!" He said.

Legolas looked back to his ada before sighing and standing up. "I will, as soon as I find something I like." He looked at the pile on the bed and frowned. "Who's clothes were these? They sure had bad taste." Legolas said as he picked up a light red, almost pick, tunic with yellow swirls on them.

Oh, for the love of-! Thranduil stalked over to the closet, which was almost completely empty, dug through the clothes that was on the floor of the carpet, before pulling out a dark blue tunic that had a small light blue design near the sleeves. He held them out to Legolas, and after starring at it a while, Legolas smiled and took it. Thranduil turned around so that Legolas could have his privacy as he changed.

"This is much better!" Legolas said as soon as he had the tunic on. It wasn't as fancy as the others, not that he cared, but he thought it was perfect. Besides, he didn't like fancy clothes, they made him feel odd and a little misplaced. "Now all I have to do is find some leggings to go with this." Behind him, Thranduil groaned.

Not long after, Legolas settled with some black leggings that were a bit lose on him and black leather boots. The bed was completely covered by clothes at that time and Thranduil had never been more happy to leave a room before.

Earlier in the day, since it was almost sunset, Thranduil had told everyone that he had an announcement to make, which was suppose to happen soon. Of course, this had everyone buzzing with curiosity.

They were both walking down the hall, Talan and Elrond joining them after a while. Legolas couldn't help but wonder where the others were, so he asked.

"Raindul went home to get ready, as well as have dinner with his family." Talan said.

"As for my sons, they are probably trying to find something to wear. It shouldn't take to long, seeing as they can get ready in five minutes if they want." Elrond said. Legolas nodded his head.

Talan turned to Thranduil. "What do you plan to say?" He asked.

Thranduil scratched his head. "Well, I was thinking of talking about the past for a bit before I introduce Legolas. Just incase." He said as he thought about what he might say.

Legolas began to grow a bit nervous. Talan had told him what was going to take place shortly. His ada was going to introduce him to the other Mirkwood elves as their prince, who had survived and had finally returned home. He still wasn't comfortable about the idea of being a prince, but he figure that he will give it a try before deciding whether he was going to stay or leave.

Before too long, they stood at the doorway to a large balcony that allowed everyone below, which was pretty much all of Mirkwood, to see the speaker. Talan turned to Legolas. "Now my prince, listen to what I have to say. Your adar is going to make a small speech before he introduces you. All you have to do is go out there and accept the Crown of the Prince, which he will put on your head. If you want, you can say something as well, but I think that the crowd will be to loud and excited for you to actually say anything." Legolas nodded his head when Talan finished. He was so nervous! Talan patted his shoulder. "Don't worry to much."

Thranduil walked out into the balcony, to the cheers and cries from the crowd below. He waited a moment before holding his hand out, silently telling the crowd to fall silent. And fall silent they did. Thranduil cleared his throat before beginning. "Many years ago, my wife and child, your queen and prince, left to visit the realm of Lord Elrond. They were returning on my child's birthday, but they never reached home. They were attacked in the woods as they made their way back. My wife was found, but my child was not. We feared that he was taken away." He paused, reliving all that he had felt when he thought that the creatures of the woods had taken his son and done god knows what to him. He swallowed a small lump before he continued. "We feared that he was taken from us, never to know what life he could have had." Another pause.

Below him, the crowd had begun to whisper to each other, most of them remembering how devastated the king had been when he received the news that his wife and child were dead, as well as all the elves that were protecting them.

"All was not lost, however." Thranduil continued. He smiled as he looked behind him and beaconed Legolas to come and stand next to him.

Legolas looked over to Talan and Elrond, who both nodded their heads. Legolas took a deep breath before stepping out and making his way over to stand next to his ada. He heard several elves gasp when they saw him and he heard several more whisper rapidly to each other. He looked down at the crowd and saw the twins and Estel, along with Raindul and his sister, standing next to each other, near the front. He gave them a nervous smile.

Thranduil put his hand on Legolas's shoulder. "I would like to introduce my son, Legolas, who has finally returned to us." As soon as he finished, the crowd, after a moment of silence, erupted into cheers. Thranduil grabbed a small, thin crown, which was more of a circlet, from a pillar that was next to him and held it up. Legolas, unsure of what to do, gave him a confused look. "Lower your head." Thranduil whispered lowly so that only Legolas could hear, not that it mattered to much with all the noise from the crowd.

Legolas lowered his head and Thranduil put the crown on his head. The he turned back to the crowd. "Your prince has returned!"

Yeah, well, I think that I'm just going to stop right there. The next chapter is going to be the last one, then yall can tell me if you guys want an epilog or not. After that, I'm going to get started on my LOTR x FE crossover.

My daddy fixed the computer! Yes! You guys are soo luck yall don't have to wait till January for the next update!

Well, I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter.