I did a picture for the each of the last two chapters… ye (see bio) I hope there will be one for every chapter from now on… Just for fun.
Just came back from vacation. Did not have access to the internet soooo…
Here is a longer chapter… enjoy and thanks for all those who reviewed… --hugs—
I write my story chapter by chapter…write one post one, I'm really quite lazy… :) did not have the whole story lied out yet, but I have a faint idea.
A New Adventure – Beginning
Five years had already passed since that fateful day that have bought him here – to this strange place, a world of both old and new and of good and evil. Everything is different yet still the same. People had changed their fashion, their technology, their way of life, everything. Yet deep down inside they're still the same, struggling with the battle of darkness and light.
This new world was filled with new wonders that he has yet to see, new things yet to discover, and new experiences yet to be felt.
He remembered clearly the feeling of awe, of astonishment, of happiness mixed with great sadness when his first came upon the new civilizations of men.
The new world was filled with strange things and happening he do not understand and could not comprehend.
Life is Different here.
He thought back to the early days of his arrival, of all the fear and of all the confusion he has felt…
It is a cold starless November night, the pouring rain that has started two nights ago has slowed down to a dribble. This is a small residential area on the outskirt of London, not close enough to the heart of the city to be a very wealthy neighborhood, but still not far enough to be called country side.
By now it's already two hours pass midnight, the streets are deserted, the houses are dark, and the animals are quite, even the wind had stop playing with the leaves and rushing between houses. Everything seems to be asleep, nothing disturbs the peace and quite of the night.
Suddenly there was movement, a flicker of fabric and a figure appeared as if out of thin air. It moved in the shadows, graceful and soundless. Even if someone would look out the window, they would only see the darkness of the starless night.
The figure in the shad moved, making no sound as it gracefully moved from shadow to shadow. Its steps light as it passes, almost as if it was floating above ground.
The face was hidden behind raised hoods, bow and arrows strapped on the person's back, and in the elegant hands, long slender fingers held two knives with white bone handle and curved blades.
The figure wondered around aimlessly, sometimes stopping in front of a car or house and stand there for a few moments as if studying them, pale fingertips glazed across the surface.
Hours later the figure finally stopped. He lifted his head; weak lights illumined a pale face with a pair of beautiful blue eyes.
It's near dawn the sky begins to lighten at the horizon. The figure retreated, fading into the darkness of an alley way.
On the next few days people carried on with their businesses, nothing seems out of the ordinary. Only the weather seems to be getting better, the sun has come out, and the wind was slow.
What they don't know is that there is someone that is watching their every move, somewhere in a dark alley, a shady wood, or just right behind them, there is a pair of eyes taking in its surroundings and eager to learn more.
Lanaya was driving home, it's quite late, almost nine o'clock, the sun was long gone and none of its warmth remained. The small Jewelry store she work at closed late tonight, because of her model behavior she was pre-paid two month of salary.
'Click, Clark, BOME." The car slides to a stop. Lanaya look out of the window, there is not a person in sight; she carefully got out off the car to check. One of the back tires was flat, something must have pierced it.
"Oh, no!" she pick up her cell phone to call for help, but the battery was out.
"Err, I must have forgotten to charge it yesterday.
Lanaya looked out on the empty road. On the side of the road was a small wood, the road runs along the edge of it. 'This is like the beginning of a horror movie' she thought 'young, innocent, girl driving home by herself, at night and an empty road by the forest, something just bound to happen.'
The nearest way to her home is through the woods, it would take about ten to twenty minutes, but the way around it would take almost two hours.
Lanaya waited on the car, see if someone might pass by, ten minutes passed, fifteen…twenty…
Lanaya shivered she didn't know that she's gonna be back late and she didn't bought a coat and the old car doesn't help much at keeping the cold air outside from coming in.
"I can't take this any more, I have to go home."
'I have three choice' she thought 'one, stay here and freeze to death –tomorrow's headline 21st century woman freeze to death by the road; two, taking the long way around, risking g meeting thief, robbers (losing her salary), kidnappers (sold), murders (shivers); or three taking the short cut through the wood, could: getting lost, something horrific happens like in a horror movie, finding half bury corpuses… Ok, maybe not' rolled her eyes. She really should start to control her over active imaginations.
Weighting her options, the third one might be better, she can ran through the woods as fast as she can, so that it'll take just a few minute, the other two doesn't seems so likable either. So with that decided Lanaya got out and locked the car.
"I'll just have to get it tomorrow." Hugging herself and pulling her thin sweater tighter around herself, one hand grabbed her bag, the other with a stick from the ground. 'For self defense, if necessary.'
She cautiously walked into the wood.
This is the tenth day of his 'new' life, on the first two days Legolas had hided inside woods and forests, trying to come in terms of what has really happened. Hiding from any human contact, slowly begins to understand that he is no longer in Middle Earth. There maybe no more of his kindred in this strange new world, his home is gone, as is his family and even his friends, mortal or not are no longer with him. He is in a different world, different history that he did not know, different cultures he has never heard of, and even different races. Legolas wonders the forest floor, lost and confused.
'I must not give up on hope, I have to discover how and why that I was bought here. I could not just hide in the forest forever.' Even though the forest provide him every necessaryties for a live in the treetops, he could not let himself live a life like this, there must be someway that can get him back to Middle Earth.
Legolas watched the human's daily life, carefully observing their every move, learning about the new environment.
.A loud bang alerted him to the presence at the edge of the forest. Legolas sneaked closer. A red headed woman around twenty years of age was just getting out of a machine they use for transportation -a car, that's what they call it; supposedly it's like a lifeless horse. He watched as Lanaya got out of the car, have a look around and then got inside and just sits there for quite sometime. Finally getting out of the car picking up a stick from the ground and cautiously coming closer to where Legolas is hiding about.
Lanaya walked for a few minutes, shivering from the cold mist in the forest. Constantly turning her head at every little sound, hoping that nothing would happen so she could get home safely and have nice, warn bath. Minutes passed by, Lanaya becomes worried she should have seen the other side by now, but looking around there just seems to be endless trees in every direction. And to add to her problems there trees in this wood are evergreen trees with flourishing green leaves that block the view of the stars. Lanaya couldn't even determine if she is in the right direction. She began running after some moment, then she stopped, now really starting of panic.
"What am I to do?" She sits down beside a tree, her back against the rough bark, cold and scared.
"Ok, I 'm lost. Relax, I have to think clearly, what must I do?" biting her lips, thinking hard. Lanaya hugs her legs her chin rest upon her kneecap, shivering and tired she somehow fell into an uneasy sleep.
Legolas watched the young woman wonders in the woods, he has seen her before, a few days back. She must have trying to get back her house on the other side of the wood. But she was walking in the wrong direction. 'She must have been lost' Legolas thought 'How can I help her with out revealing myself?'
"AH" Legolas pinched a little bit of white powder from a little pouch that also contain some dry athelas leaves. The white powder was a strong sedative for wounded patients. But the effect was short, so he'll have to do it fast. He came behind her, carefully blow the powder under her nose. Her head dropped as she fell asleep, he carried her through the wood and caringly laid her down at the house's doorstep. Taking another last look around then he's gone.
Lanaya woke up, sitting up abruptly, a wild look in her eyes then slowly turning into confusion. She grabbed her handbag. Clearly relax as she checked that the money is till there. Standing on her feet, one hand still clenching to the long stick now used as a cane, looking around and sway nothing. Lanaya shook her head turning to open the door murmuring "I am never ever going into that creepy wood ever again."
Somewhere at the edge of the forest an elf smiled at those particular words.
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