Chapter 10: Please Wake Up!

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The twins remained talking in hushed whispers until Duirellon entered the hut.

"Oh, I see that the elflings are awake" he said.

"Leave us alone Duirellon" Elladan said in an icy tone.

"Oh, after the loss I suffered because of your fault and your father's, why should I leave you alone?" he said.

"Because it is not our fault, nor our father's" Elrohir was the one who replied this time. His headache was momentarily forgotten as his anger returned.

He saw that Duirellon's right ear was still slashed at the top, just as he remembered. But why was he back? He had been gone from Rivendell for several years, so why return now? He didn't understand.

He then gazed at Legolas. Why was his friend here? What he could possibly have done to Duirellon?

Duirellon caught him. "Oh, in case you didn't know, this is the little princeling of Mirkwood." He smiled cruelly at the twins. "But, oh yes, you know him, he is your friend. Took all those beatings because he didn't tell me where you were, but I used him as bait, which worked out splendid" He said.

The twins just glared at him. "Leave him alone!" Elladan said,

"He has done nothing to you!"

"Let him go!"

"You had no right to harm him!"

"SHUT UP!" Duirellon yelled. Really, those twins were driving him crazy.

"Why do you have him?" Elladan asked through gritted teeth, as his anger was too much. Legolas was badly wounded, and this elf in front of him was responsible for it.

"My servants mistook him for one of you, after misreading a map"

"Who would mistake a map Duirellon?" Elrohir sneered.

"Don't laugh! It was written in our tongue, if you want to know, and really old. The letters are all faded, and my servants do not know how to read and write it. They thought they were close to Rivendell, and they took the first Elf that they saw, which happened to see your friend"

"Release him, you monster!" Elladan said.

"Oh, the little elfling is scared!" Duirellon mocked him. "Of course I won't release him!" and with that, he kicked Elrohir in the chest.

Elrohir wasn't prepared for that, and gave a little wince.

"Oh, it hurts?" He said as he kicked him once again.

"Let it be a warning for you to keep shut when you need to" he said before leaving them alone again.

Duirellon was really angry. Surely those elflings had not changed at all. And there was also the problem that he still felt that he was being watched.

"Salion! Nebegon!" he bellowed.

The two brothers came in. "Yes master?" Nebegon answered.

"I want you two to go and scout the area. I know there is something there, he was following us earlier. I need you to bring him to me. Whatever it is you find, Elf or human, bring him to me" He said.

And with that he dismissed them.

"'Ro? I am sorry if you're hurt. I shouldn't have spoken like that. It only got us in more trouble than we already were" Elladan was worried about his brother.

"It's okay 'Dan. Don't blame yourself for this. It wasn't your fault and neither was it mine, nor Adar's. No matter what Duirellon thinks"

"Thanks gwador nin are you sure that you are okay. I mean, he kicked you with quite some force"

"Yes, I am fine. Do not worry over me." Elrohir tried to reassure his brother.

"And what about your head? It was a nasty blow you took to the head"

"Yes, but I am sure that it will only leave a bruise, I am more worried for Legolas though"

Legolas lay there, tied to the column, unconscious. He was far too pale, and the remains of his clothes were bloody and shredded. Thankfully his midsection was bound by pieces of Elladan's cloak to stop the bleeding.

"Legolas?" Elladan tried to wake up his friend.

"Legolas, can you hear us mellon-nín?" Elrohir tried.

Legolas just lay there, with no signs of waking up soon.

"Legolas, come on, mellon nín, please wake up"

Legolas felt awful. The welts in his back still hurt, but someone was bothering him. He tried to fall asleep again, but to no avail. Those insistent voices kept calling him over and over again!

He groaned. The voices were still there, and they kept on calling him, but they were rare in some way, he knew those voices. They belonged to two of his closest friends, Elladan and Elrohir, and they were telling him to wake up!

He tried to open his eyes, but his eyelids were too heavy, so he tried again. He opened his eyes, and saw the floor below him. His head had been hanging limply while he was unconscious.

He slowly looked up, and he saw the two anxious faces of his friends.

"'Dan? 'Ro? What are you doing here?" Legolas asked in a weak voice.

"Well, we got captured as well" Elladan said.

"Are you all right?" Elrohir asked.

"Yes, just a little scratched" Legolas responded.

"Just a little?" Elladan asked.

"Yeah. What's wrong with it. I am all right. I am fine" Legolas stated, a little stronger this time.

"Really Legolas, you are not fine, you are bleeding. Thankfully Elladan managed to bind your back before he too got captured"

"How did you endhere? With this Elf?"

Just at that moment, the door leading to the other room opened, and Duirellon stepped in.

TBC…

Translations

Mellon nín: my friend

Adar: dad

Gwador nin: my brother

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