Author's Note: Happy Holidays to my friends, family and worshippers!!!! Before you read this I just want you to understand that Amaris has forgotten everything about being an elf including speaking Elvish. Well happy reading.
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Chapter 9: The Journey
When the rain stopped, Legolas and I stood up and gradually made our way to the entrance to the stables. We walked outside and noticed that mud puddles covered ninety percent of what we were supposed to walk on. But surprisingly luck was on our side and I didn't even come close to the puddles.
The rest of the night and the next day passed uneventful. All we did the next day was spend more time together with him telling me more about our life together. Like the day before we took Gypsy and Ahearn (Legolas' horse) riding (minus the rain). He said the reason being was to make sure that the horses legs were stretched out good for the following day.
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When I woke on the following morning I was being gently nudged on my shoulder. I looked up through the mass of my dark hair at the intruder and was pleased to see Legolas standing there. The night before I kinda made him mad at me, (I know I'm just awful!!) when I said that if he didn't stop picking on me I was going to go and marry Hasufel. I was joking of course but he took offense and stalked off (And yes I did apologize) and I haven't seen him since.
"What are you doing here?" I asked.
"Waking you up of course." He gently smiled at me brushed some of my hair out of my eyes.
"Why though?"
"Because today is the day of the journey," He answered.
"I know that. But why did YOU come and wake my up? Aren't you still mad at me?" I asked curiously.
"Never," He turned away from me. "I was just stressed out yesterday because of today's journey. Well get up and get ready. We will be leaving soon." With that he walked to the door, opened it, and stepped out into the hallway.
Now that was strange, I thought. He never usually acts like that. I bet he's still mad at me, maybe he's just trying to make it where there will be no tension between us during the trip. I rose up from the bed and quickly climbed into the waiting bath in the bathroom. This was going to be the last time to take a bath for a long while. Ewww, I thought, I'm gonna be dirty for weeks. I won't be able to take a bath until I get to Rivendell. I'm gonna be dirty like Aragorn.
I quickly stripped and stepped into the tub. The warm water incased me into it's heat and I instantly became relaxed. I let all the worries of the trip slip away and just cleansed myself of all the unease I had felt since I had been here.
I remembered all the things of my world and how this lifestyle was so different. It still escaped me as to how I could have dreamt all of my life. How did I lose all since of where I was? How did my subconscious create imaginary people with so much character? Hopefully Elrond will be able to solve my questions.
I ducked my head under the water a couple more times. I raised up out of the water inspecting to make sure that I had all soap off of my body. I grabbed the closest towel and dried off swiftly, realizing that I didn't have much time left before we left. I raced down the stairs to the dinning room after putting on clean clothes.
I took my seat next an almost finished eating Legolas and immediately started cramming food into my mouth. Legolas looked at me and cocked one of his eyebrows at my sudden hurry in eating. I didn't really care if he saw me eating like a starved hog, but when everyone else began looking my way I stopped with a fork of food at my mouth. I calmly put the food in my mouth and then laid my fork on my near empty plate.
I gazed out over all of the nobles staring at me and with a duh-uh look on my face I said, "What?"
Out of the corner of my eye Legolas stifled a snort. I looked over at him and shot him a glare. After seeing that he and everyone else resumed eating. Now I know who really rules, I thought with a smirk.
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After breakfast I went to my room and made sure that I had everything I needed for the trip. When I had made sure that I had everything I walked outside into the crisp morning fall air. For this being early fall it felt like winter. I wrapped my cloak around me tighter as I walked to the stables.
When I saw Gypsy she neighed a welcome to me in response. I walked inside her stall and began rubbing her down with a body brush and talking to her softly. "So are you ready for a trip girl?" I asked. She nodded her head in response. "Gosh I can't see how they can stand the cold." I said to her while looking at the volunteer male elves that were to accompany us. The group included Legolas, Aragorn, Arielond, and Hasufel. "Do you like the cold?" I asked Gypsy and she answered with a shake of her head. "Good then I'm not the only one. Maybe it's just a girl thing." She nodded her head and I bust out laughing. "You and me Gypsy are going to make a great team." I finished brushing her down to make sure that nothing would irritate her while we were riding.
I put her bridal in her mouth which she accepted fairly easily and brushed some of her hair out of her eyes. I placed the blanket on her back and then as lightly as I could I put a saddle on her back and fastened it on the other side. After making sure that everything was connected the right way I attached some saddle bags that I had filled with my own personal items the day before. When the task of getting Gypsy ready was finished I walked back out of her stall and over to our group.
"Are you ready princess?" One of the males asked.
"Yes, I am," I answered felling slightly uncomfortable with all of the eyes on me.
Aragorn stepped up noticing my unease and said, "Well lets get on our way then shall we?"
"Lets hit the road," I said and turned around and walked back to where I had left Gypsy. I climbed up on top of Gypsy and turned to make sure that everyone was doing the same…
They weren't.
"What are ya'll doing just standing there for? Get your lazy buns on your horses and lets go. The sooner we get there the sooner I can take a bath. And ya'll won't like me if I don't have my baths. I get very irritable." And finally after many strange looks we were on our way.
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The days were spent riding and the nights were spent (for me) huddling against the fire trying to stay warm. It was like below freezing and it seemed the guys weren't even fazed. But of course that is how guys are. They are just soooooo insecure with being thought of as weak.
I didn't care if I was being whiny or not. I was cold. And hungry. And in need of a definite bath cause I smelled bad. I probably smelled as bad (or as good) as Aragorn did after being washed the first time he took a bath. Oh well I wasn't going to complain…much.
Looking out at our huge group of ten people. The other five I hadn't really talked to because they can't speak a lick of English and I can't speak but a little Elvish (I know ain't I helpless?). But me being the loving person that I am I dubbed them all with names I created myself Bob, Bill, Henry, James, and Stuart. They of course understood who I was talking to when I said their names because I had Legolas explain it to them. They agreed to it because they knew that their own names weren't exactly the easiest to say with my limited vocabulary.
So anyways like I was saying nothing happened while being out on our trip. We did the same thing everyday and actually it was getting very, very boring. Even when we crossed the Misty Mountains it was boring. So considering me being bored for about two weeks I of course, being the smart one that I am, I decided to play a game me and my friends did to annoy people at school. We would begin to say something and then leave off the rest.
"Ok this is what were going to do," I said talking loudly enough so that everyone heard me. "I thought of a game I liked to play back home. It's called…" I drifted off and began to stare off into space.
"What?" Aragorn asked.
I looked at him with a look of confusion on my face. "What do you mean by what?"
"You just said 'I thought of a game I liked to play back home. It's called…'. What were you going to say?" He finished.
"What?" I asked.
Aragorn turned away feeling probably like he wanted to strangle me. Legolas, seeing this, turned to me and smiled "Amaris, are you alright?" He asked.
"Yes, I'm fine thank you for asking. You are always so sweet to me." I glanced out of the corner of my eye at Hasufel and noticed that he was looking at us. "Hasufel?" I asked him and he turned fully around to look at me.
"Yes, my dear," He answered. He smiled at me and that smile sent shivers up my spine, but of course not in the nice way that Legolas did. He made me very uncomfortable, like he was filled with some sort of evil spirit. Or maybe it's because I don't take well to strangers.
"What made you want to come with us?" I asked as sweetly as I could. I knew that Legolas wouldn't have wanted him here and would have tried anything to get out of him coming with us.
"Well, my dear, I have a brother who lives here and I was invited to join him on a nice little hunting trip. And since you were leaving near the time I needed to I decided to join you. I hope that you don't mind, princess." He kept smiling that same creepy smile.
"Never," I said closing the conversation and turning back to Legolas to finish our conversation.
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After a week more of traveling we reached Rivendell and was welcomed with open arms by Elrond and Arwen.
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Author's Note: Sorry if my time passage is off I didn't have my map of Middle Earth with me when I wrote this. If it's wrong than tell me and I'll fix it.
Just to let you know I am proud of my loyal fans who update for every single chapter I make. Maybe (hopefully) I'll have 100 reviews by the time I get to chapter 10!! But this would probably not happen because I only received four reviews last time.
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Ahearn- Lord of the Horses