Chapter 5 of Break away…
'Cages…'
Disclaimer: I don't own the LOTR but that's ok I own my own stuff sniffles at the thought of not owning the great work of the Lord of the rings
They walked down the stairs of the brown tavern. When they reached the fresh air. They enjoyed it. It was now a little dark out side. The sun was almost to the bottom of the earth leaving a little light in the sky. " I'm sorry for bringing you out here, I just want to be friends," he said trying to break the silence. He looked at her sadly for a second. If they hadn't been there maybe she wouldn't have lost her love.
" what did he ask you to do? Marry me? Love me? Make me happy? Hmm? I would sure like to know how much he loved me! It would answer my question on how much he loved me, if he told you to take me as your wife, then its obvious that he didn't love me!" she said angrily. He didn't say anything, he didn't know what to say. So she walked off leaving him there.
She walked down a road that had brown leaves upon the ground. It was the time of year when the leaves would scatter from the trees to finally meet the longing ground. The road was lit up with a orange golden light, signifying the greeting of the night. The golden rays was carried by a stirring wind that blew the leaves around her feet. " He said to protect you, to make sure nothing ever happened to you, IF he died!" he yelled running up to her; the cool wind caressing his blond elf hair.
He was surprised to see a face full of tears when he turned her around. He placed her in his arms and told her every thing would be ok. He apologized profusely. He held her up as she kept trying to fall to the floor. She cried and cried into his shoulder. She didn't understand why she was out here, and why she was letting him hold her. She needed to be cared for and noticed at the moment any ways.
He herd hoof beats but didn't understand were they were coming from. He couldn't see any one riding up. " we need to get out of the road," he said dragging her out of the road. " I try not to think about what might have been, cause that was then, and we cant go back again, and there is no way to know what might have been," she cried. " Those might have been the best days you might have ever known. So try not to think about what have might have been and what had happened, cause that was then, and you cant go back again, I know it might hurt, but I don't know what else to tell you. He is gone and you are right, you need to move on," Legolas said watching the road. " You have the same look in his eyes. I know I should just say good bye and walk away from his memory, and try not to think what might have been. I cant go back again, and your right, I really cant, he is gone, and ill never know what might have been or what could have been," she said looking at the ground. She was breathing through her nose which was hard. But she stopped crying. He was still holding her though.
She began to hear the horse beats. It was kind of hard, the trees were singing with the wind as they were moving back and forth. She started to cry a little but stopped. They had bigger problems. The horse beats were coming closer. Before they knew it, they herd the horse beats run in front of them, they fell to the ground. She blinked and saw the riders and the invisible horses. One looked over and saw them. He raised his sword and came at them. She screamed and gabbed a the closest big thick branch close to them. As the invisible man came running she held it up and hit the man off. The horse then was visible. The man fell to the ground and Legolas jumped at what had happened. The villagers then began to scream. There places caught fire and the men slaughtered.
Aragorn ran to the window to see people being killed by the air. Marion ran to his side as well. She watched the men and young boys being slaughtered, and the place be burned to the floor. They herd screams down bellow them. " Hide, now, over here," he said opening the window and looking up to the sky. He grabbed on to a bar and swung around the bar and onto the roof. He held his hand down took Marion's hand and pulled her up. He then took Gimli's and pulled him to the top of the roof as well. They took off the bar he used to climb to the roof.
When they saw a flame go onto a house they would shoot arrows around it. They brought down a bunch of invisible men. The woman grabbed there children and ran to the lake and got on there little boats and swam far out to watch there village burn.
" GET THE GIRL!" a voice roared. " Which girl?" another voice boomed out. " the elfin girl, the girl who got out of the orphanage, she isn't protected no more!" he yelled back to them. " Oh no they want Sestina!" Marion whispered a yell.
Sestina closed her eyes quickly since she was scared. A whole bunch of things ran through her head. Like when she was a kid, and all her memories, and of who these guys were. She didn't even know she knew. " Get every one out!" she yelled. " What?" Legolas asked ready to fight. " there Saginaw's. I don't know what there here for, but they obviously want some one," she said looking at all the men still running to the village. " they most be extremely powerful," she said in aw. " why?" he asked still on the grown shielding her. " because there is thousands of them," she said scared. Another man looked over at them. He got the ones next to him to look.
"is that the one?" he asked. " I think so," he said. " get her, and kill the elf man." he said. She herd every word they said and so did Legolas surprisingly. " did you hear that?" she asked him. " yeah," he said. " How?" she asked. " Elf ears, we hear better then you of men kind," he said holding his sword up. He left his bow in his room. " I'm elven as well. I'm scared, why do they want me?" she asked. " really you're an elf? don't be scared," he said watching the ground shake as the men jumped off there horses. The horses became visible.
" I can see them now, how come?" he asked. " because you know who they are. When there name is placed into a persons head, they can see them," she said knowing this stuff miraculously. " Oh no, Marion," she said getting up to help her friend. " How do you know this?" he asked. " I don't? good question," she said. " Ok, ill take you to Marion, but stay close," he said grabbing her and putting her behind him. The men ran after them. The other thousand of men stopped as well, watching Sestina carefully. " there staring at me," she said nervously. " Come with us, are prince awaits you!" a man on the largest horse came riding up to the two men about to attack them and cutting there heads off.
She gasped and put her head behind Legolas. She didn't like blood. The horse seemed to want to run up to her. The large black horse getting excited. But his rider wouldn't let him move. " I, I, I don't, I don't know you," she shivered, she was frightened. If Legolas was killed who would protect her? She didn't know how to defend herself. At least not against the thousands of large men in front of her. " My lady, but you should, I'm Slog. The master is pleased that you have ran from the hide away of Trichina, she has denied you to us from the day you were born," he said evilly in a way. " I'm sorry, but even if she didn't deny me, I wouldn't have wanted you to have me, you big brute." she said hiding behind him still.
He could tell she was frightened. She was gripping into his sides pretty tight. You and the prince were meant to be together from day one. You two could rule, you must come. If you don't we'll kill you. As for being a brute, that would be why I was born," he said grinning evilly again. " ill come if you let him live," she said feeling she owed Legolas for every thing he did. " No," Legolas said holding her there.
" Your not going to take her, she doesn't want to come," he said putting an arm behind him to protect her.
" No she is coming, she has no choice," he said holding out his sword. " You're going to marry the dark prince, whether or whether not you want," he said shifting the horse. " Well, I say she has no choice as well, she isn't going to go," he said looking back at her letting her know that she has to stay. " I'm staying," she said strongly but shakily. " why? I wont let you," he said angrily. " Because me and her are getting married," Legolas lied giving her angry eyes a 'sorry' look. " You lie, and I don't care," he said his eyes filling with frustration. She then turned him and kissed him.
She knew that would make him mad, and she was right. He charged at her. She shrieked and Legolas looked at her for a second then turned around. She pushed Legolas out of the way and barely missed his sword. The horse reared and the man went flying off.
The horse trotted to her, she jumped as it licked her face. Then laid down for her to get on. The man yelled angrily and the others kicked there horses to get them and grab the horse. The two of them got on the horse. He lifted up and carried the two easily. They trotted the opposite way of the men. They managed to make it back to the village. She then yelled what the monsters name was. Then out of no were some one knocked her off her horse. Legolas went to grab her but they smacked the horses rear sending the jet black horse down the way a little. There stood a man of about twenty. She looked up at him and gasped.
He was really handsome. The front of his jet black hair came down to his chin, and the back was short. His piercing blue eyes, were cold and stone like, his skin was a tan yet pale color. His voice was young but seemed to be wise at the same time. " My lady, I thought you would have been more beautiful?" he said looking down at Sestina who was plain looking. She got mad really fast. " How rude! You don't know me! So get away before I scream," she yelled at him. " If you scream nothing much will happen, your friend will still be dead by then," he said looking over to were Legolas was held captive.
"Please no, don't hurt him, what ever you want, please I have very few friends," she said sadly.
" Let me see, I can tell your not lying about that one, and you do, wait you don't have anything for that man besides gratitude and friendship. So he is no threat to me then?" he said looking down at the frightened girl. " Of course he is no threat to you, look he is held captive, he is only one man, and at the moment, your what a good couple thousand. Besides to your little "I'm ugly" thing, I have never been the barby doll type," she said scared. " yes I'm sure, I don't care about looks any ways, your both royal, and are of use to me," he said with a laugh. " I'm not royal, I'm from an orphanage," she said hoping he had the wrong girl. " Yes I know, and I can tell you hope you're the wrong girl, all I can say is you better hope you're the right girl, cause if not, ill torture you for your dis respect you had shown," he said coming face to face with her.
She wasn't sure whether let him get that close to her face, or to spit on him, or stab him in the eyes. " I would let me get this close to your face with out doing anything if I were you," he said laughing. He looked over at Legolas who was struggling to get to her. He read his mind then kissed Sestina. She screamed then smacked him. He was going to smack her back, be he looked over to Legolas. " that's ok, I like a challenge," he said angrily, but convincing every one that he wasn't with the tone of his voice. She knew exactly how to control him. He could only read what she wanted him to read in her mind. " What, is it that you cant find love were you live, so your trying to make me your wife, or partner or what ever," she said trying to make him mad again. " What makes you think I'm doing this for love, and not for power, or for lust, or for both," he said trying to make her mad. She just gave a scared look then tried to scare her fear away.
The men then walked down with Aragorn and the others. They were struggling but decided to stop. " Well this one is a pretty one," he said walking to Marion as if to make Sestina jealous. " How but you leave her alone," she said angrily. " What are you jealous?" he asked. " Jealous? Me? No, its more, like she is my best friend, and I wont let her go with some one like you," she said smiling at her comeback. " Ah, were being smart now are we," he said sarcastically, then he slams his fist into Legolas's jaw.
She cried as she saw it happen. Marion closed her eyes. " Please, ill go, please, don't hurt them, let them go," she cried. " I knew it, you have feelings for one of these men," he said signaling the guards. " If you kill any of them, I swear, you can kiss power and lust good bye," she said with her head in her hands. He laughed then nodded. Suddenly he wasn't so cute to her no more, he was harsh and cruel. " Put them in the dungeon, and if Sestina acts up, give the blond girl to the men, then if she acts up again kill the blond elf, the after kill another every time she acts up," he said signaling to his men.
Sestina looked at all the dead bodies and burning places. She looked at the lake behind the burning village and saw all the crying people in there boats. She began to cry as they lifted her up. They caught the strong black horse who now would no longer listen to them. This horse seemed to be the tallest of horses.
" Her, she can ride with me," he said walking his horse to her. They placed the crying girl up there. She wished she was being whipped by sestina right now, or by Darien. Instead of the safety, well not safety, but the orphanage, she was with a dark prince who hurts people. She shivered as he jumped up behind her.
" I'm so happy you left the orphanage," he said nuzzling her neck from behind. She nodded slightly, she was afraid to do anything less or more. " Talk to me, I know you can talk. What's your problem? I spared your friends, I'm letting you live, at least you wont have to live lonely, you'll be with me," he said looking at her. " So much for my happy ending," she said sadly. " Lets talk this over, was it something I did, was it something I said?" he asked as the horse began to walk. " No, yes, no, yes and no, its every thing. What you did to those poor innocent people," she cried. " I did it for you, I remember when we first met," he began to say. " we met before?" she asked cutting him off. " Yes, you were fifty, I was seven," he said smiling remember. " what do you mean? I'm only sixteen," she said nervously. " No, in the world you were in, it seemed like that. It was a spell, Trichina put on the place, so each time it felt like a year. It was a promise your mortal/fairy mother made Trichina make and keep," he said putting his hand upon her waist.
" What? My mom is just mortal, she is not a fairy, they don't exist," she said moving forward a little. " That's why your so important, because a few still do exist. I remember we were young and I kissed you. But since your so much older then me, in a way. You see I knew id be dead by the time you reached sixteen in mortal years, and I had a curse put on me, so I live as long as elf's do," he said scooting towards her. She felt very uncomfortable.
" I don't remember, did I like you?" she asked turning towards him in shock. " well don't look to shocked. You cried when I had to leave. Then my father did some research on you, and found out how powerful you could possibly be, Sestina, we were meant for each other," he said looking at her. " But, but," she got nervous when he started to kiss her neck. She pulled away. " creepy, keep offy thank you…" she added. " Creepy? I'm not creepy, besides I know that when you first saw me you were attracted," he said winking. " You might not be creepy, but I don't want you putting your lips on me, and I don't want you touching me, you might not be creepy, but your icky, at first I was attracted but that changed," she was mad now.
He let out a laugh. " I don't care how you look, why should you care about how I look. You will love me, or at least you will marry me," he said giving the horse a kick as the horse broke into a run. Sestina wasn't ready for that and almost fell, but he caught her then laughed, since he did that on purpose. She snorted angrily then turned around. He sat there smiling as the horse snorted as he ran carrying the pare.
They finally reached the castle they were suppose to live in. when he walked in he had to dragging her along. She struggled a little not wanting them to give her friend to the men. His father walked up escorted by two woman. They looked at her sadly. His father was slow and old. From tons of spells keeping him alive. The woman were dressed as if to be his wives. "But how many could he have?" she asked her self.
" As many as he wanted," he whispered into her ear. " but don't worry, I only want you," he whispered in her ear again. She looked at him then to the ground again. It was nice for him to say that, but his cold eyes gave her the chills. " Father I would like to present Sestina of Loriliean of the fairies and of the race of man and Daienear the son of Ethneer king of the Donanien Elf's in the lost islands," he bowed to his old father and his two wife's. " Hello, its nice to meet you," the two woman said. " Are you sure, she is really dirty, she looks like she is a slave or something," the king said looking her up and down. " a rather nice body though," he added. " Yes father, could you please be a little more nicer to the future princess of Mordor," The prince said. " Mordor?" she asked. " yes Mordor," he said. " But how, the evil Sauron was destroyed?" she asked.
" Yes he was, but that little monster Pilfer (stole) this place from my father, they were suppose to work there evil plans together. So when he was destroyed we took are place back, and made are own village and are own armies," Her future husband said looking at her interestedly. " But why, why do you choose to be evil?" she asked. " I wont be evil," she added. " you don't have to, you just have to be my wife," he said. " we will take the girl and clean her up," the other kings first wife said. She was pretty compared to Sestina who was plain looking. She never wore hair pieces, or make up like Marion did. Sestina quickly left with her. The other wife came with them. The first had brown curls like Sestina, only Sestina had long, long hair. The girl had soft brown eyes, and smooth skin. The other one had long strawberry blond hair, and pretty green eyes, with super tan skin.
" Who are you?" The second wife of the king asked. " what is your waist size? What is your breast size? What is well let me see my self, its to make you a dress, and find you one until the new one is made," the other wife of the king said. " My name is Sestina, what are your names?" she asked the woman. " Mine I Sillya," the First wife said. " My name is Malaya," the curious second wife said. " The prince has taken me and my friend's captive. He says that I am suppose to marry him, that me and him will be powerful," she said sadly. " Your heart was already taken wasn't it?" Malaya asked. Malaya looked about twenty. " Yes, he died, so I cant get it back," she said sadly. " I thought so, cause any one who has seen the young prince has fallen madly in love with him, he is so dreamy," she said her strawberry blond hair waving in the breeze.
" Malaya please, you're the kings wife, and she is prince Dominion's woman, get over your self," Sillya said softly writing down Sestina's size. " he might not want her," she said flipping her long hair concededly. " Please, why when he has this one. I can see what he likes in her that you don't have," she said finishing up her work and looking up. " what does she have that I don't, I have the looks, at least that's what your husband say's every time we have are nights together," she said with a gross look on her face. "she has his heart ( Sillya giggles at Malaya's mad expression) She has passion, she has a fire to her, you can see it in her eyes, she has a heart, which you don't. About the little husband thing. He tells you that now, while your young, but when you reach my age, he wont be so loving. And I stopped caring about what he said, when he married you and the other girls, I don't love him any more, I wanted to die, and he made me stay alive for his pleasure with his little witch craft and evilness. But now he is cursed with oldness and ugliness while I get to keep my looks and youth, since I have no choice to stay old and live. So I hope you and his royal ness live happily ever after, while I hope she takes that evil grip that king Radnor has on his son," she said taking the paper over to the post and grabbing a dress from her closet.
" The prince is so rude though. I mean really, I don't want to help your prince. I don't want anything to do with him. He is horrible, and rude and he is like his father. He is creepy and gross. Cute but gross," Sestina said to the girls. " here were this, it might be a little big on you though, I wore it when I was a month pregnant with Dominion," she said handing her a beautiful red dress with beautiful jewels on it. " Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to say any of that stuff, its just, its just," she didn't know what to say. She was talking about Sillya's son in front of her.
" Don't, It is fine, I know what my son has become," she said sadly looking out the window. " I'm sorry, I don't know what to say. He was probably a good boy before his father got to him," she said feeling bad. " Yes you are right about that. My husband wanted him to be evil like him, he told me to stay out of it, that I have no right to decide on how to raise my own son. I have no right, ha, I cant believe him. My own son, I didn't know this," She said watching the sad new village being created. The villagers were sad.
" Wow you look so young, what are you looking at?" Sestina asked being nosey again.
" My people, my new people. There sad because of that evil man," she said to the girl walking next to her. Malaya walked next to them to watch as well. " why are they sad, and why did they come here any ways?" Sestina asked. " Because, my husband had his men steal the woman and children of other villages and placed them here. The wall makes it so they cant leave. They are given money and other stuff to create the place how they want it to be created," she said sadly. " Well why are we just standing here? Why don't we help create the place?" Sestina said coming up with an idea. " You mean be a part of my husbands bad schemes no thank you," she said looking sadly at the people who were being given freely to her husbands men as there wives. Even after they were grieving from there husbands already being killed. " No lets retaliate. He wants people to call him king right, but if he isn't the one helping there not going to help. Besides if they have to stay lets make it cozy for them," she said happily. " Sestina I think you are right, lets do it," she said smiling at her future daughter in law.
" Do I get to help?" Malaya asked. " yes but you have to stop trying to steal my future daughter in laws husband," Sillya said smiling at Sestina. " But…" Malaya didn't want to stop trying to get him. " She can have him, I just want to help the people and you guys," she said smiling. " Ok," Sillya said shrugging her shoulders.
They smiled then agreed to go to dinner together. When the two girls were done putting make up and all kinds of stuff on Sestina they did her hair. For once she didn't look plain she looked pretty. She waited for a while for them to come in and get her again. She sat there waiting for Sillya to return for her. Mean while once again Malaya was flirting with Dominion. He smiled at her a little. " Could you please get Sestina, you're my fathers wife," he said gritting his teeth. He felt bad for his young mother. His cold blue eyes stared the room down waiting for her. He moved his long black bangs out of his eyes. He had finally cut them so that they were in the middle of his cheeks.
Sillya finally came into the room and grabbed Sestina. " he wants to see you," she smiled. They then walked out of the room together. She felt really nervous, she didn't want him to want to talk to her. She walked into the room he was in. He turned around to see his mother and Sestina. He smiled then stood up.
" Mother," he said kissing his mom Sillya's hand. " Son," she said bowing. " I have a question," Sestina said looking at the floor. " Mother could we have a minute please," he said trying to be as polite as possible around Sestina. She nodded then smiled at him as she bit her lip. Then she shut the door behind them.
" what is it?" he asked holding her hand and pulling her into the room. " I want to see my friends. If I don't, ill kill myself, I know you wouldn't care, but I'm sure that your mother would," she said quickly and nervously. " I do care, and you can go see them," he said his jaw muscle tightening in his fine shaped jaw. " Really?" she said happily. " yes," he said nodding. " thank you," she said jumping on him. He looked up from the ground in shock then put his arms around her to return the hug. When they finished hugging he called in a guard to escort her down there. " Make sure nothing happens," he said not trusting his feeling on letting her go. The Guard nodded then showed her the way.
She ran to the cage they were in. " Sestina?" Marion said climbing up from the floor were she was sleeping. " Oh god Marion," she said grabbing her friends face. She was crying at her friend who looked starved and looked like she had been beaten. " when was she last fed and what happened?" she asked with angry tears forming in her eyes. " they just got here a while ago why? There meals should be here soon. There fed every other night as for what happened they acted up trying to attempt an escape," he said looking at the meal person walking down the stares. She looked at the food brought to them. It was green and mushy. She wanted to puke looking at it. It smelt just as horrible. " What is that?" she asked plugging her nose. " well its what ever is left over from the weeks before," the guard said. " Its ok Marion, ill get you some real food later on tonight, or ill die trying," she said holding her friends face. Marion nodded then laid back to sleep leaving the rotten food by her cage door.
Sestina cried then walked down looking at the starving faces. She finally saw a blond haired man she remembered. " there you are," she whispered. This was all her fault. She knew that tonight, she would negotiate with Dominion to let them go after they eat a well meal. he looked up at her. " Sestina?" he asked looking at her then jumping up. She shook her head yes and cried. She got onto her knees. He stuck his hand through the bars and wiped her tear away. " Don't cry, ill get out of here, and ill find you," he said looking at the bars.
" No you wont, ill get him to let you out. I'm going to make a deal with him tonight, I'm already doomed to live this life, I might as well face it now," she cried moving away from his hand feeling bad.
" this is my fault, I don't deserve your friendship," she said sadly. " Its not your fault, nothing that has happened is your fault," he said looking at her. " I wish that was true. But if I didn't come back to the village they wouldn't have found us, and we could have secretly saved the other three," she said trying to think. " you know that's lie, and if you don't know that then you should. We would have gotten caught if we had tried to secretly save the others we still would have been caught, or we would have left them there and they would have died. Aragorn and the others are down there talk to them, there lonely," he said to her nicely. Then he let the people give him there food. When they opened the gate a little he managed to hit the man in the head with his fist then the next few who came he knocked out. " Come on," he said grabbing her hand after he grabbed the keys from the guard. He ran to Aragorn and Gimli he secretly handed Sestina the keys so that she could get the credit. He wanted them to help him save her. She looked at him for a second then opened there cages. " Thank you," Gimli said hugging her. " Yes thank you," Aragorn said to the two of them. She hugged him as well.
Desperate for changing, starving for truth, I'm closer were I started I'm chasing after you, I'm falling even more in love with you, letting go of all I held on to, I'm standing here until you make me move, I'm hanging by a moment here with you.
Forgetting all I'm liking, completely incomplete, ill take you're invitation, if you take all of me,
(chorus: I'm falling even more in love with you, letting go of all I held onto I'm standing here until you make me move, I'm hanging by a moment here with you, I'm living for the only thing I know, I'm running until I crash until you go, I don't know what I'm tapping into, just hanging by a moment here with you.
There's nothing else to loose
There's nothing else to find
There's nothing in the world that could change my mine
There is nothing else, there is nothing else, there is nothing else
Desperate for changing, starving for truth, I'm closer were I started I'm chasing after you, I'm falling even more in love with you, letting go of all I held on to, I'm standing here until you make me move, I'm hanging by a moment here with you. I'm living for the only thing I know I'm running until I crash until you go, I don't know what I'm tapping into, just hanging by a moment here with you
Just hanging by a moment, just hanging by a moment, just hanging by a moment here with you…
Well what did you think? Did it work out like I hoped? Well I hope you like the newest member of this story, well the couple of them. Mostly Dominion and his mother and father… lol, oh and the song I featured on here was from Switch foot!!!! They rock!!!