Legolas awoke groggily and became aware of the muffled snickers that could be heard around him. Opening his eyes quickly, the elf noticed he was surrounded by a small group of elves that lived in the palace.

"Oh. You're awake." Said one of the elves standing closest to him.

"What!?" Legolas exclaimed, then noticing his rather interesting positioning with Estel, he yanked his arm away sliding farther down the bench, a look of horror on his face. Estel, having now nobody to lean against, fell to the side of the bench and almost hit his head. Luckily, the human woke up before that happened. A startled yelp escaped his lips and he righted himself, looking around in a confused manner. The surrounding elves tried not to laugh.

"Did you and the human have a little too much wine last night, Legolas?" One elf asked.

Legolas glared, noticing the bottle of Dorwinion in his hand; "That is Prince Legolas to you." He growled, "And exactly how long were you watching-" Legolas flickered his gaze to Estel, "-us!?"

"Not too long, Prince Legolas." Replied another elf.

"Why was I not woken!?" Demanded the very embarrassed and angry Legolas. Nobody replied. He snarled. Elladan, Elrohir. This is taking it way to far! He though.

"Where are the lords Elladan and Elrohir!?" Legolas asked tersely.

"In their rooms last I heard." Replied someone in the back.

"Great." Legolas said flatly, "C'mon Estel." Estel looked up tensely and sprang from the bench, following Legolas inside as the prince fumed.

On their way in, Legolas' clothes snagged on a branch and he uncharacteristically toppled forward, falling. A chorus of laughter broke out behind them and Legolas sighed, rolling his eyes as he got up, ignoring Estel who had offered him a hand up.

"The twins are going to pay for that." Legolas grumbled.

"We will make sure they do." Estel replied bitterly.

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Despite the hole in their wall, the twins were both in Elladan's room. Mainly because they were experimenting with different traps and trip wires and measuring the floor which required them to be in the same room. They both looked up at the knock on the door. The twins got up from where they were sitting and opened the door. Standing in the doorway were Legolas and Estel, both were looking very dishevelled. Legolas held the bottle of Dorwinion and Estel held a large cup full of wine.

"Good morning Estel, Legolas." Elrohir said cheerfully.

"Yes. Good morning." Estel said. With that, he took the cup he was holding and splashed the contents all over the twins. Obviously, they were surprised, and taking advantage of that, Legolas pushed them over and began to empty the entire bottle of wine onto their heads.

"Would you like to explain to us what's so good about this morning?" Legolas asked mockingly, "Well I'm not going to let you." With all the wine in the bottle emptied, Legolas dropped it to the floor between their heads and marched off, Estel in tow.

"Does that count as-" Elladan began before they were out of sight,

"No." Estel said turning, "That does not count as our revenge prank." He and Legolas disappeared down the hallway.

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Back in Legolas' room, the two were back where they were a day earlier; scheming. Although, in truth, they weren't so much scheming as they were simply ranting.

"Our clothes are ruined-" Estel stated,

"-Our reputations are sabotaged-" Legolas continued,

"-The twins are too pleased for my liking-"

"-and once again, I have no ideas for revenge!" Legolas exclaimed. He was pacing around his room. The ripped piece of his robe snagged once again, this time on his bed post, and he hurriedly took it off leaving only his tunic and pants underneath.

"I am going to have to have this cleaned." He sighed to himself, studying the large wine stain on the cloth, "but first, I'll have to fix this…" Calming down by the minute, he laid the robe on his bed, examining it. "Estel, could you get me a needle and thread from the drawer over there?" He asked without looking up.

Annoyed at being used as a servant, Estel opened the drawer in question and found two spools of thread and three needles. There was black thread and an almost transparent silvery white thread.

"What's this thread used for?" Estel asked, looking at the silvery thread. Legolas got up and looked over Estel's shoulder.

"That is water soluble thread. It dissolves in water." Legolas stated.

Estel gave a mischievous "Hmm…"

"So if a clothing's thread was replaced with this…?" Estel questioned,

"It would hold the cloth together normally unless the garment became wet, in which case the clothing would fall apart and-" Legolas stopped when Estel turned to face him,

"You see where I'm going with this right?" Estel asked,

"Definitely." Legolas answered, "And this is perfect because they are sure to wear their formal robes and tunics tonight. There is a banquet in the dining hall. I'm afraid I will have to break my promise to my father about not pulling any more pranks inside the palace."

"Great. So what do we do?" Estel asked,

"I say we replace the thread on their formal clothes with the soluble thread and 'spill' some water on them at the banquet." Legolas suggested.

"That would be interesting, but there's so much more that I we could do." Estel replied, "I got it! I just need you to distract the twins for a few minutes."

"And I just had an idea of how to do that. What do you need a few minutes to do?" Legolas said,

"Oh. I was just planning on writing or drawing some choice words and images in ink on their clothes that are unbefitting elf lords." Estel replied innocently.

The look on Legolas' face showed he loved the idea. "Perfect. So here is what we do…"

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As soon as Legolas and Estel had changed into clean clothes, they set to work. Stealing the twins' formal clothes from their rooms once they left was the easy part. They then spent the next two hours painstakingly replacing all the thread in the robes, tunics, and pants with their water soluble thread. The clothes were replaced in the twins' closets without a problem. Legolas set up his distraction, and all was set. The next stage of the plan was to be completed a few minutes before the banquet that evening.

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Half an hour before the banquet…

Elrohir returned to his room to prepare for the feast that would soon happen. He opened his closet cautiously just to make sure there were no pranks. There weren't, only his clothes. Picking out his formal clothing, Elrohir dressed into them as Elladan did the same in the room beside his. However, as soon as he was dresses, he noticed a note tied with red string to his bedpost;

Do you find you're missing something?

You had better reclaim what I took,

For you are no match for my cunning,

To find it, the hallway outside you must look.

*L*

L? That had to be Legolas. Elrohir looked around, to his glance he could see nothing missing, but Legolas had obviously taken something.

"Elladan?" He asked, going to the hole in the wall,

"Yes?" Answered his twin. Then, after a pause, Elladan spoke again, "Did you just find a note tied to your bedpost? Saying that Legolas stole something?"

"Yes." Elrohir answered, "Come, meet me in the hallway outside our rooms."

They met in the hallway shortly and started to walk down it. Almost immediately, they spotted a red string tied around one of the lamps on the wall. Peering behind it, they found another note;

So the merry hunt begins, you two?

Look for it where you prepared the Soga-en-Iaew.

*L*

That was the kitchens. So the twins headed there. It was very bright, with the cooks bustling around and getting all the food ready for the banquet.

"Lords Elladan and Elrohir!" They both turned to see Calminaion coming towards them.

"Prince Legolas left this for you two. He said you would turn up." With that, the chef handed Elladan a folded piece of parchment and hurried off. Elladan opened the parchment, but before he could read it though, a cook hurried past him with a dark red sauce and spilled a bit of the sauce onto the bottom of Elladan's robes.

"Oh, I am very sorry." He apologized and promptly left.

Not wanting to ruin their robes further, the twins left the kitchen and read the note in the hallway outside;

Where has my thievery led you?

I say I'm doing quite fine.

Where shall my merry note path lead you next?

Look in the place where we store all our wine.

*L*

So the wine cellar it was. The twins headed to the wine cellar and promptly found a wine barrel with a long red string tied around its middle. Opening the barrel, they when very surprised when millions of tiny spiders crawled out and immediately started to crawl all over them. Elrohir, who had been the one to open the barrel, jumped away, dropping the barrel lid and shaking out his limbs in a very foolish looking manner to try and get the spiders off him. He even took to beating himself with the barrel lid. Doing what looked like an erratic dance, the elder twin jumped around.

"Get them off! Get them off!" He exclaimed.

"Elrohir! Stop!" Elladan exclaimed, and his twin dropped the lid.

"Are they gone!?" Elrohir asked, spinning around.

"Yes. For the most part. Come over here." Elladan replied.

At the bottom of the barrel was another note, and this one led outside.

Suffice to say that after following and finding nine more notes and spending twenty more minutes, the twins had been scratched by thorn bushes, had almost fallen out of trees, had walked through a spider web, and had been mistaken for escaping prisoners in the dungeons (Which they escaped from after clearing the misconception up in a very unconventional way). The note they had presently led them to the top floor of the laundry room.

The laundry room was a large space that was always hot. The bottom floor had various very large tubs used for dying clothes, washing clothes, rinsing clothes and everything in between. This level was always busy with many elves. Today, luckily for Legolas and unluckily for the twins, there happened to be a good number of dignitaries from Rivendell present in the laundry rooms. The top floor was nothing but a small perimeter of walking pathways with many lengthy clothes lines strung in between so that from the bottom floor, one would look up to see stripes of wire from which clothes hung to dry.

The twins climbed the ladders to the top floor and looked out over the expanse of clothes lines. Standing in the middle of the expanse, balanced on one of the clothes lines, was Legolas holding a small sack which presumably held what he had stolen. Without wasting a second, Elrohir leapt onto the clothes line and walked over to Legolas with Elladan following him.

"Alright Legolas, enough of your childish note game." Elrohir said, "Return our things."

"Yes, do hand it over or we will be forced to take extreme measures." Elladan added.

"You want your things back?" Legolas asked smirking when he noticed that their formal robes were already ruined enough by a stain, scratches, sap, and spider webs.

"Yes. Give them to us." Elrohir replied.

"All yours." Legolas said, tossing over the sack, which Elladan caught. It was surprisingly light. However, when he opened the bag, there was nothing in it. Elladan looked up;

"If there is nothing in here…" He started,

"…What did you take from us?" Elrohir finished.

Legolas chuckled evilly as he stepped forward, "Your dignity." With that, the elven prince pushed the sons of Elrond off the clothes wires and they fell, toppling down into a large laundry pool down below. Legolas quickly descended the ladder and swiftly made his way to the laundry pool he had pushed the twins into. As they climbed out, his water soluble thread did its work and the clothing on the twins fell apart in the water leaving the twins with nothing to wear. Granted, the twins were in the middle of a laundry pool with soaked dresses…

Legolas burst out laughing and before the twins could properly lunge at him, he sprinted from the laundry room, down the hall, past the dining hall, around a surprised Thranduil, and towards the twins' rooms where Estel was just leaving.

"Estel!" Legolas said between bouts of laughter, "Did you accomplish what you wanted to do?"

"Yes…" Estel said in a slightly confused way, "What have you done to make you so amused?"

Legolas explained what he had done for his distraction to which Estel was slightly annoyed because he had not seen it for himself.

"Sorry." Legolas apologized,

"It doesn't matter. I got my part done. Every piece of clothing they own has been defaced by my clever ink."

"Excellent. We had best get going before they return. Plus, the banquet should be starting soon." Legolas said.

Happily, the two friends walked off.


Again, ideas please!
I came up with this one on my own, but I still need help. I need ideas!

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