Disclaimer: I do not own LOTR.
Unfortunately, Louie had decided that these men could help him and ran out of his hiding spot toward them. They spotted him and started to walk toward him, almost too casually in Leslie's eyes.
"There planning something." Leslie muttered to herself. She stood stock still as they approached, not wanting to give away her position. Louie was starting to think that he had done a mistake when he noticed a gleam in there eyes. Just as he was having second thoughts, he was bound and gagged. Leslie growled gaining attention but the couldn't see her.
"Where is that coming from?"
"Over there!" The second one said pointing at where Leslie used to be; she had moved to another tree by the time they pinpointed where the growl had come from.
"Foolish mortals! Leave my forest at once! You have disturbed my hunt for that human which you captured! Leave my forest or you will be killed!" Leslie shouted not bothering to change her voice because of the tone she had used. They were shaking head to toe and ran out of the forest dropping all there weapons in the process. Once they were out of sight, Leslie jumped down from the tree and went up to Louie. It took Leslie half an hour to calm and assure Louie that she wasn't going to eat him then two minutes to untie him.
After that incident, Louie and Leslie sat down under a tree (Fk306: Think of the Hobbits in the Fellowship of the Ring, where they hide when they first encounter the black riders) so that they stayed out of sight from any unwelcome strangers. They got comfortable and started to whisper about there situation.
"Do you know how to use a sword? Or maybe archery?" Leslie asked Louie.
"Not much with the sword but I am ok with archery, not great but not bad either." Louie answered.
"First things first. We might stay here for the night so we should go hunting for food, find water, and start a small fire. Since you know some archery, you can go hunting, and I will look for water. Which ever one of us gets back first will start the fire." Leslie said and they both went in separate directions. After a bit, Leslie came into a familiar place. She was standing in front of the tree that she had run into when she first met Haldir.
"This is the Golden Wood, but where the hell is Haldir!" Leslie said. Her vocabulary had increased to swearing and such during the age of 15. Leslie was going to continue her search for water but stopped in time to avoid getting an arrow through her head.
"Hallo, Haldir. Good to see ya again." Leslie said smiling. She had no idea why she called him that.
"Who are you and how do you know my name?" Haldir asked suspiciously.
"You mean I got your name right? Wow, do I win anything? How are Patricia and Brittany doing?" Leslie answered acting as though she didn't have an arrow pointed at her forehead.
"What is your name?" Haldir asked getting annoyed with Leslie.
"Is that a worm?" Leslie asked pointing at a twig. Haldir growled under his breath but Leslie just smiled at him then continued to stare at the worm-like stick.
"That is a stick, now who are you?" Haldir said.
"Bye!" Leslie shouted and ran off without a word. Haldir tried to keep up with her but soon lost her. Leslie had run as fast as possible when she said bye. Then continued on her hunt for water.
After a bit of walking, Leslie found some water and Leslie was, starting to wonder why she had ran off. She sighed sadly not wanting to be here at all and wishing that she were back on earth. She sighed again when she reached the spot and started to work on the fire seeing that Louie was not yet there. She started the fire with ease and then sat down under one of the trees then placed her head in her lap. She was fast asleep in an instant.
Leslie looked around in the strange yet familiar purple room.
"Do you remember this place Leslie?" Somebody asked. Leslie turned around to find somebody identical to her.
"Who are you?" Leslie asked uncertain.
"My, you don't remember me?" The girl asked.
"Shadow Killer." Leslie said with a surprised look.
"Yes. And to answer your unasked question. This is your old room from Earth before you lost your memory. It's been four years since you've last been in Middle Earth and thus, making you forget about things that were once obvious. You remembered couldn't remember Haldir, but once you saw him, you instantly placed his face with a name." Shadow Killer said looking at Leslie with a calm face.
"If I knew him, then shouldn't he have known me?" Leslie asked with a raised eyebrow.
"It's been 5 years, since he last saw you, Leslie. You've grown, and changed, of course he wouldn't recognize you instantly." Shadow Killer answered. Leslie stayed quiet for a moment then remembered something.
"Who is Patricia, and Brittany? I mentioned them but I don't remember who they are." Leslie asked frowning.
"They are your friends. Don't worry about them, they found there place in Middle Earth and are living a happy life." Shadow Killer answered.
"Why is it that I was able to return now after so many years?" Leslie asked. She just couldn't stop asking all these questions.
"You lost contact with the one preventing you to come. Tell me, who have you lost contact with?" Shadow Killer said when she sat down on the queen-sized bed that once belonged to Leslie. Leslie was still standing by where the door should have been if Shadow Killer had allowed there to be a door.
"I lost contact with Alex. But why would he not want me to come back?" Leslie asked now even more confused. Getting tired of standing, she pushed a few dolls aside and sat on the beanbag.
"I don't know. Was he the only person you lost contact with?" Shadow Killer asked. Leslie nodded and got a blank face, like she often did when she thought.
"The important thing is that your back and you are now old enough to become queen instead of princess." Shadow Killer said. Leslie looked up at these words and in her face was nothing but horror.
"What! I can't be a queen; do you not remember how I reacted to being a princess?" Leslie asked.
"You have to, don't worry, you won't become a princess right away. You have to mate first." Shadow Killer answered and Leslie visibly paled.
"Mate!" Leslie shouted with horror.
"Yes, mate. Leslie, don't worry, you have already chosen in your heart who to mate." Shadow Killer answered. A picture of Hopper appeared in her mind and Leslie growled.
"Don't do that!" Leslie hissed.
"Don't do what?" Shadow Killer asked innocently.
"Don't act innocent! I know you put that image of Hopper in my mind!" Leslie said and turned to look at her old books. They were a bunch of vampire books, to Leslie's disappointment, none were from Anne Rice, except for The Mummy, but that was about Ramses the Damned, and he wasn't a vampire, he was just immortal, even if he was mentioned in The Vampire Lestat when Marius was talking to Lestat. Leslie gasped in her surprise as she started to shake.
"Don't worry; someone is just shaking you awake. It will take a little getting used to but you will get used to it." Shadow Killer answered and everything faded out.
Leslie woke up with a start and with her eyes closed; she growled at the person who woke her. Only it wasn't a person that woke her up. She looked at the dog like creature and she felt as if she knew it.
'Well, you gonna stand there all day or are you going to say hello?' Leslie heard in her mind and jumped in surprise.
"Are you talking to me?" Leslie asked uncertain.
'No, I'm talking to the girl up in that tree.' It answered in a sarcastic tone. Leslie smiled at the tone remembering suddenly who this was.
"Good, to see you again Light." Leslie said with a small laugh. She got up and hugged Lightning Cloud. Lightning Cloud threw her…. Paws around Leslie to hug her back.
'Good to see you remember me. I was starting to worry.' Lightning Cloud said.
"Um, where is Louie?" Leslie asked starting to look around with a guilty expression.
"I'm here, and what the heck are you talking to?" Louie said from behind her. Leslie turned around then turned back to Lightning Cloud only to find that she was no longer there.
"No one… You know how I like to talk to myself. You should be used to it by now." Leslie said rolling her eyes and walking up to him to see what he had brought. Two rabbits and a bird, Leslie, by instinct, grabbed one of the rabbits and started to prepare it to cook in the fire. When she reached for the water, she noticed that Louie was staring at her.
"What is it?" She asked.
"I didn't know that you could do that." Louie said still staring at the now cooking rabbit.
"Yeah, I used to do this a lot 5 years ago." Leslie answered absently. She blinked when she saw something blue and black buried in the ground. She gets up and starts to dig slowly as her curiosity takes over. Once she had dug enough, she pulled and out came a bag that she remembered rather well. It was her backpack, and it was still full. She opened it and found everything she had left inside of it but it had all gotten dirty from being underground and the books couldn't be read. Leslie reached deeper into her bag and took out a bag of chips.
"Ew." Leslie said and threw them aside. Once she had gone through everything in the bag, she went back to the rabbit that Louie was making sure that it didn't get burned. Leslie turned to the second rabbit and started to work on it.
Once they had finished there rabbits, they started to prepare to find a comfortable spot to sleep for the night. Leslie had chosen to sleep on a branch knowing that she wouldn't fall off. Louie unsure if he was going to fall off the branch decided to sleep on the ground where he was safer of breaking his neck. He would have felt safer if Leslie would just stop meowing and barking and howling like a wolf.
"Would you stop it!" Louie finally shouted angrily only to have Leslie sniggering in response.
"I'm sorry but it's just hilarious to see your response to all the animal noises." Leslie responded but decided to keep quiet and tried to get to sleep. Leslie grinned and closed her eyes.
"Back already?" Shadow Killer asked when she saw Leslie appear.
"Oh shut up." Leslie growled.
"Whoa, don't bite my head off." Shadow Killer said raising her hands for self-defense.
"Sorry. Didn't mean it. Just got in one of my random bad moods." Leslie said.
"Tis alright. We all have the right to our bad days." Shadow Killer said with a grin.
"I found my backpack. It was in pretty bad shape." Leslie murmured as she lay down on the queen-sized bed.
"What's wrong Leslie?" Shadow Killer said placing her hand on Leslie's forehead. Her head was warm but only by a little. Shadow Killer removed her hand, left the room later to come back with some ice, and placed it on Leslie's forehead.
"Grr. How could I have gotten sick in the short time that I had left here?" Leslie moaned or whined whichever you prefer.
"I am wondering as well." Shadow Killer mumbled more to herself than to Leslie.
"Is it even possible for me to be tended to in my dreams and wake up as if I had had a healer look after me?" Leslie asked.
"For normal people, no. For you, yes." Shadow Killer answered shifting the ice slightly on Leslie's forehead.
"Are you calling me weird?" Leslie asked her eyes narrowing.
"Yes, yes I am." Shadow Killer said. Leslie tried to respond to that but couldn't think of anything so she just remained quiet.
When Leslie woke up, she was feeling a lot better grudgingly thanked Shadow Killer for her help. Leslie looked down from her branch and saw that Louie was still sleeping soundly. Leslie blinked confused then noticed that only the tip of the sun was up and thus it was too early in Louie's internal clock for him to wake up. She sighed and jumped down so that she could go find some food.
A/N: I hope you enjoyed this chapter and its five pages long. Sorry I couldn't make it longer but that's cause I had writers block for a while and I've been busy at least its longer than what you normally get and I will try harder not to take so long.