Chapter 8: Estel's Discovery

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Author notes: Hi everyone! Thanks for all the reviews I received for last chapter. Here is chapter 8; I hope that you will enjoy it! And please excuse any spelling mistakes.

The twins ran forward. There lay Legolas, unconscious, and bleeding.

"Legolas, mellon-nín, wake up. Saes Legolas" Elladan said, shaking gently his friend.

Legolas just lay there unmoving. "'Dan, he needs a healer, our Ada. We didn't bring any supplies. I'll call the horses" Elrohir went for the horses while Elladan tried gain to bring Legolas to wake up. It never worked.

Rochmith came running and nudge gently Legolas on the side of his head, but Legolas just remained there. Rochmith gave a low whiny, but still nothing happened. Elladan looked sadly at his friend as he started cutting his own cloak in strips of cloth to bandage Legolas' wounds, as he had already lost too much blood.

Elrohir was seeing that the horses were fine for making the trip back to their home. Or rather, his and his brother's horse, as Rochmith had ran to see Legolas. Oh, well, Legolas was more like his horse than what he thought, both were stubborn. Really stubborn.

He heard a little creaking noise, like a little branch. Suddenly, it was all very quiet, and he could tell Elladan was bandaging Legolas, as he could hear the cloth being ripped apart, and Rochmith's distressed whinnies.

All was silent, but he thought it odd that Rochmith was distressed after seeing that Legolas was found. He then felt it, something was there, something evil, but not orcs or wargs. It was another thing but he couldn't put his finger on what it was.

Then he felt it, a hard blow aimed at his head. He opened his mouth to give a cry, but his captor was ready, and no sound could escape his mouth as he was gagged.

His vision went black, and both horses that were with him neigh in alarm as they were spooked. Someone tied his arms behind his back, as well as his feet, and he saw someone he had believed lost a long time ago.

Elladan just heard some leaves rustle in the floor. Otherwise it was all quiet. Then his horse and Elrohir's came bolting forward, quite spooked about something.

Luckily he had already finished bandaging Legolas back and wrists. His back he had discovered was covered in whipping marks, and some were recent, while others were old. He had lost a lot of blood, and he also had an arrow wound in the back, near his shoulder.

He could only wonder what had befallen his friend this time, with Legolas no one really knew.

He stoond up and wait for his horse. It was nervous, but not as Elrohir's. That one was really frantic, neighing, and pushing him forward, as if wanting something.

Elladan tried to calm them down. It had been his brother's task, and where was Elrohir?

He went to the place where Elrohir's horse was pushing him, and there he saw someone from his past, someone that had escaped his sorrows by escaping all that he had left behind.

"You!" Elladan said.

"Yes, me. You didn't expect me. Did you? Neither did your father, or your friend for that matter"

The stranger gave the signal, and Elladan, unprepared as he was, found himself with the weight of two humans. He tried to shake them off, and succeeded, only to pinned down. He kept struggling with the two humans, and after a time they succeeded, but only his hands, then his feet, and at last they gagged him, while the stranger took the opportunity to blindfold him, haunting his dreams.

Estel kept riding his little pony, going behind his brothers as not to attract too much attention. He needed to find them and find his friend.

After he had met Legolas two years ago, he had been kind to him, and they had become quick friends. Legolas helped him to pay the twins for all the pranks that they played on him, and he would play with him, and tell him stories.

His brothers had stopped, and left the horses behind. He wondered what hey had found, maybe they had found Legolas!

He halted his pony, and tried to hide. He could see that Rochmith had ran away, not obeying the twins order to stay behind. Elrohir now was going for the horses, and someone had hit Elrohir, and bound him.

Estel couldn't believe what he saw. His brother first was hit, then bound, and taken away. He grew frantic, who were those who had hurt his brother, and the most important thing, why?

There was Elladan, and he ended just as his twin. Estel start whimpering. He was just a boy, and there were this evil strangers hurting his brothers, and leading them away.

At least, Estel thought, Legolas is fine as he didn't saw him. However, this was what he thought, but his heart was shattered when he saw a stranger, the one who had help take his brothers, carrying Legolas slung across one shoulder like some kind of bag.

Estel couldn't believe it. Legolas didn't move, and was covered in something sticky and red…blood, Estel realized with horror.

He saw that the middle of Legolas was wrapped in strips of Elladan's black cloak.

The sound of hooves was heard, and he saw the tallest stranger carrying Elladan before him, while one of the others carried 'Ro, slumped in front of him, and the third one carried Legolas once again and seated him in front of him in the horse.

He sat beside the nearest tree, sobbing, with his knees drawn up and his head over his crossed shoulders. This was just too much for him to take, his best friend and his brothers were taken by that evil stranger. And what was worst of all, he was just a small child, and carry no weapons; he could no nothing to help them.

He sat like that several minutes. The strangers had also taken the horses of his brothers, and Legolas. He only had his little pony, Corusador who right now was nudging him, trying to see his hidden face.

"Daro, saes" he whispered. But the insistent pony kept doing it. After a while Estel stopped sobbing, and looked up to see his pony.

"You are right, we must go after them" and with that he mount the pony and rode as fast as he could, following the horses' prints in the soil.

Duirellon knew someone was coming nearer. After tying his prisoners – the twins to the wall while Legolas to the column- he went outside to receive his guest.

TBC…

Translations:

Mellon-nín: my friend

Saes: please

Daro: stop

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Author's notes: Please read and review, tell me what you think of it. More is coming soon!