Ivy began to train with Haldir two days after she and her sisters had their visions. He worked with the young maiden for two hundred years and had become attached to her as a little sister or a daughter. But by now Chleo and Aara had grown antsy with anticipation as time went on, but it was Chleo who seemed to be getting closer to her time, as for Aara her time was still a ways away. Ivy was getting closer every day to her future as a warden; it was only two week until she would be accepted into the Galadhrim as an archer.

Aara sat looking into the pond that she had played by around as a young elfling. Memories came flooding back to her, when Chleo was old enough to walk she followed her here. And of course Ivy some how found her way to the spot and curled up amongst the roots of a tree. This was where Chleo broke her arm by tripping over a root, and where Ivy broke her leg trying to climb the tree. 'So many memories,' she thought to herself. 'It shall be hard to leave.'

"Aara?" Chleo asked touching her sisters shoulder gently. "Are you sad to be leaving?"

"Yes, it is hard to leave you and Ivy and the home and our parents. And most of all, the place I've known for so long."

"I know the feeling I fear for Ivy. She is to become a warden. She will have no real famine influences as us. Is there any way we may help her?"

"No, you can not change the future of another," Aara said with a sigh. "She is in good hands with the Lady of the Light."

Soon after Ivy showed up with a quiver full of arrows and her bow on her back, she carried a sword at her side as well. She had grown into a lovely teenaged girl, be she had did not quiet have the charms or curvy body of a female, no she almost blended in with the soldiers. "Are you leaving already?"

"No," Aara said with a smile, "We are going to watch our little sister join the Galadhrim!" She said with such excitement.

"Thank you," Ivy said going to give Aara a hug.

"No," She laughed nervously, "you are all sweaty and I wish not to ruin my dress."

"Oh," She said lowering her head, "I guess I'll see you later then."

"Where are you going?" Chleo asked.

"To Haldir's," Ivy smiled.

"Why?" Aara asked puzzled.

"For a job well done, I've gotten the first part of my task done, I am almost there."

"Be careful, I wouldn't trust Haldir."

"Why, because he is to be a warden soon?" She asked mockingly.

Aara and Chleo looked at each other, "What's gotten into her?" Chleo asked confused.

"I'm not sure, but she has surly changed over two hundred years," Aara was shocked at her sisters behavior.

A hundred years later

"Be safe Chleo," Aara said hugging her sister tightly. "And take care of her Ivy," she said in almost disbelief that both her sisters had changed so much.

"Of course Aara," Chleo said sweetly.

"You know me," Ivy said, "We'll be back in a month." She smiled and looked up to see their parents watching. Ivy waved at them, "Come we have to get this message delivered soon."

Ivy mounted her honey colored horse and Chleo mounted hers. Both took off at a gallop and soon they left the city gates and disappeared into the trees. They rode half way for two days before making camp.

"So why did they give you this message?"

"I'm not sure, maybe it's a test. You know to see how reliable I am. Haldir said that he had to do something like this, but his was for Mirkwood."

"You trust Haldir?"

"I do, he is like my older brother. He's taught me everything I know about fighting."

"Are you sure he hasn't taught you more than that?"

"I might act like a guy but I would never let any male lay a hand upon me!" She yelled before storming off.

"Ivy, I am sorry. I should have known better. But I just don't trust Haldir, that's all."

"No but you trust him to save your life when it needs saving?"

"Because that is what he does best."

"That is true, so why not trust him as I do?"

"Because my trust is not so easily gained," She said turning around and wiping Ivy across the face with her braid.

"You know Galadriel was right!"

"Excuse me?" She asked now getting angry.

"I am different from you and Aara, I am not conceded! I think of others well being before my own! That is why I am to be a warden!"

"I am not conceded!"

"Fine! Find your own way to Rivendell," She said walking off into the woods.

"Ivy stop playing at this game!" She yelled not daring to follow her sister into the darkening woods. "Please Ivy, I need you."

"Funny how when people think that hope is lost and one person can help them, they turn all nice and willing to do anything for that person," Ivy said hanging upside down from a tree branch that hung over the small camp.

"Ivy get your sorry ass down here and take me to Rivendell!"

"You get your sorry ass up here and make me get down," She said smiling. "I much like hanging like a bat. You know these woods have tons of creatures-"

"IVY!" She shrieked.

"Yes Chleo?" Ivy turned her self so she could sit on the branch. "Or should I be saying milady?"

"Stop playing and get down here and protect me. You're my sister!"

"See you only trust people when you need them. I prove my point." Ivy climbed down and curled up in her bedroll. "Get some sleep, your going to need it."

"What about the creatures?"

"Don't worry; if you don't hurt them they won't hurt you." And with that Ivy fell silent and so did Chleo.

Meanwhile back in Lothlorien Aara was having her own troubles.

"Aara, I love you."

"Bowen, I don't love you. You were a childhood friend."

"But we are meant to be together. Why else would we have grown so close, Please marry me."

"It would never work," she said turning away from him. "Please understand, I beg of you understand." And with that she walked away from him. Suddenly she was hit with a strange feeling, like the day when she saw what the future held for her. And so she ran to the edge of the wood and looked out over the horizon. She saw the tower in great detail and the man inside, now about the age of twenty-five. Her time had come.

Chleo woke with a strange feeling in her gut, she looked around. Dawn was just breaking and Ivy was still in her bedroll. So Chleo climbed the tree and when she reached the top she looked out over the sea of trees. She saw Rivendell and the elf. He was of high birth for his clothes showed it. And Chleo's time had come.