WARNING: CONTAINS OOC LEGOLAS AND SLIGHTLY OOC THRANDUIL
Immediately after hearing the statement about his hair, Legolas became very alarmed and all trace of logic or thought process escaped his mind. Not caring the least anymore about the pies on the floor, he broke free in a second from the ropes and landed face first into the array of pies. The filling splattered everywhere, covering Legolas as he struggled to stand up and rushed to the mirror, stepping in and exploding many pies on the way there. Now, if he wasn't so concerned with the nature of his hair, he would have seen, after looking in the mirror, a very foolish looking elf covered in cream pie.
However, as he was extremely concerned about his hair, all he saw was the short style that his hair had been unwillingly cut to. He just about screamed, but stopping himself just in time and instead uttered the longest string of curse words he had ever said in his life. Once he had exhausted every curse word he knew (Even some in dwarvish, which he wasn't at all proud to know), he sank to his knees in a splatter of pie filling.
"Nooooooooo!" He wailed, "My beautiful, wonderful, perfect golden hair! Why me!? Why me of all elves!? Why!? Please! Tell me this isn't real! My hair!"
The elf closed his fists around the air and brought them down beside him in miserable agony, closing his eyes and hanging his head forward as he kneeled in the middle of the pie strewn floor. Legolas stayed like that a little while longer, mourning his hair, when Estel spoke up;
"Legolas?"
"Yes?" Legolas said softly, still very upset about his hair.
"Could you get me down please?"
"Get down yourself." Legolas snapped, "I'm mourning my hair."
Estel wasn't sure if he should be angry, sympathetic, or concerned for the fact that Legolas was mourning his hair.
"Fine." Estel said. After a few minutes of struggling, the young man managed to wiggle out of the ropes and swing down, slipping only a bit. For the first time, Estel had managed to escape a prank-trap cleaner than Legolas.
Trying to push aside pies as he walked, Estel made his way to his despairing friend, still kneeled on the floor.
"Legolas?" He asked again, "Are you alright?"
"I can assure you with the most definite part of my being that no. I am certainly not alright." Replied the elf.
"We will make them pay." Estel promised.
"But what's the point, now that my hair can't be there to see me avenge it?" Legolas asked in dead serious misery. Again, Estel wasn't sure whether he should be sympathetic or concerned.
"Um…" Estel started, "Legolas, usually, if you have to avenge someone, they're not around to see you do it."
"My hair was." Legolas retorted. Estel really didn't have a response to that.
After a few seconds of silence, Legolas spoke;
"They will pay…" his voice started low, "They will pay for this dearly until they surrender this war." As he spoke, it climbed in volume, making a determined vow of vengeance, "This is one casualty of war too many, and if the twins think they can get away with this, they are wrong! I will get my revenge! I will avenge my hair if I have to personally throw them into the fires of Mordor! They will pay with every inch of-" Legolas paused, "-um-" The elf stopped and thought for a second, "They will pay with every inch of stuff they have! Be it their will, their soul, or their shoes! I will make sure they know that they have crossed. The. Line." By now, Legolas was standing, and would have look quite heroic if he had not been making a vow to avenge a series of inanimate strands and if he wasn't covered still in pie filling.
"Um. Okay Legolas." Estel said, "Just remember that my father will most likely prefer to not get them back in pieces."
"Noted." Legolas said.
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Two hours later, Legolas' floor was clean of pies and he had changed. He had re-cut his hair so it was still short, but wasn't as horrible as the twins had cut it. They were both in Estel's room this time as Legolas had insisted it "Brought back too many painful memories" to be in his own room.
"So do you actually have any ideas?" Estel asked after watching Legolas think silently for a few minutes.
"No." Legolas replied, "None that are revenge-y enough. None that have the magnitude that I want."
"What have you thought of?"
"Nothing! Okay!? Nothing!" Legolas exclaimed, suddenly exasperated. Calming down, he whispered something to Estel which made the human's eyes widen,
"But you never do that kind of thing!" Estel pointed out.
"I know." Legolas said, "Now if you'll excuse me, I have something to attend to." With that, he left the room, leaving Estel utterly with nothing to say or think.
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"Can you believe this, Dan?" Elrohir gaped at the peace of paper in his hands. It was a letter from Legolas, reading;
Because of my hair, I am too embarrassed to go out in public. I am moving into the wild part of Mirkwood's forest and will be staying there as a hermit until my hair grows back. I guess this means you two win.
-Legolas.
Elladan read it over, didn't believe it, read it over again, and shook his head speechlessly.
"I don't believe it." Elladan said, "This has to be a prank."
Just then, Estel approached them as they were standing in the hallway. He held a piece of parchment in his hand as well and looked shocked.
"Have you seen this?" Estel asked, holding out the paper. The twins quickly read it and determined that is said basically the same thing as theirs had: That Legolas was leaving.
"How did this happen?" They asked in unison.
"I don't know." Estel answered, "We were scheming and then he told me he was going to spend some time thinking alone for a while. Legolas said he had some things to attend do and he left. I had no idea…"
"Neither did we." Elrohir said, "It was Elladan's idea, by the way. Just in case Thranduil decides to punish someone…"
"Hey!" Elladan glared at his twin.
"Well it was." Elrohir said defensively.
"Does Thranduil even know about this?" Estel asked. Right on cue, the Elvenking came walking down the hall.
"What is the meaning of this?" Thranduil asked, waving a letter in their faces. They didn't need to read it, but it said the same as theirs' and Estel's. "My son has decided to live as a short-haired hermit!?"
"That is what it looks like, yes." Elladan answered timidly to Thranduil's death glare.
"I order you to go after him." Thranduil commanded, "If you don't, you will face much harsher punishments than having toads tossed in your faces." He said seriously.
"Of course!" Elladan said,
"We were going to go after him anyway!" Elrohir said,
"Come on!" Estel said to his brothers, "Let's hope we find him before dark."
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All three of them walked in the dark forest, carrying their swords, naturally. Estel took the lead.
"So," Estel began out of the blue, "You two are twins."
"And you just noticed this?" They said in unison.
"No. I was just thinking. It's hard to tell you apart."
"Again, you just noticed this?"
"Well most of the time you dress the same." Estel said, "Like now, for instance."
They looked at each other, "We do not dress the same always." Elrohir pointed out, "But why does this matter?"
"You also fight with the same weapon." Estel continued,
"So do you." Elladan said, referring to the sword.
"Well yes." Estel admitted, stopping and turning to them, "But your swords are almost identical."
"If you looked closely-" Elrohir started,
"-You would see that the only similarities our swords share are their sheaths and shapes." Elladan finished.
"Really?" Estel asked, suspiciously interested now.
"Yes." They said in exasperated unison.
"Now can we keep moving please?" Elrohir asked.
"Can I see your swords for a second?" Estel asked, not moving, but blocking their path.
"Why…?" They asked suspiciously.
"Please?"
"Fine." They said in unison. In a mirror image, they both unsheathed their swords and handed them to Estel.
"Thanks…" Estel said, looking at the swords.
Quickly, before the twins could react, he ran forward and pushed them backwards into a bush.
"NOW!" Estel shouted. Legolas, hiding in a tree above, pulled a rope and a net closed in around the twins, having been cleverly hidden in the bush before it was set into action. They reached for their swords to cut open the net and free themselves, but Estel stood triumphant, holding their swords out of reach.
"Legolas!?" They exclaimed, "You're not a hermit!?"
"No, I am a hermit." Legolas said sarcastically, looking down on them from the tree, "No! Of course I'm not a hermit! My father was in on the prank. Such a brilliant actor, he is."
"Oh." Said Elladan.
"Do you know what I am, though?" Legolas asked sweetly,
"What?"
"Full of the need to avenge my hair!" From the tree's branches, Legolas pulled out a small sack and proceeded to open it. Once it was open, he dumped the contents, which turned out to be tiny spiders, onto the twins. They tried to struggle, but the net kept them from escaping the spiders.
"Where do you get all these spiders!?" Elrohir demanded.
"I have my sources." Legolas grinned evilly, "Don't you know? Spiders are the new dye for me."
"Always trust a wood elf to drench you in spiders!" Elladan exclaimed.
"Do you surrender?" Legolas asked,
"No!"
"Fine then." Legolas said, "Estel, go ahead."
"With pleasure." Estel said. He reached behind him and pulled out a bucket, hidden in the bush behind him, that was filled with sap. He opened the lid and dumped it all over the twins.
"Do you surrender now?" Legolas asked, as the spiders now swam all over them in the sticky sap.
"Never!"
"Fine then." Legolas said, "Come on Estel, let us go inside and wait for them to reconsider."
Estel smiled, "That sounds like a great idea." The two skipped off.
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The twins finally managed to get out of the net and grumbled to their rooms. However, both of them found, the moment they opened the door, that here was a large tarp tied to the edges of their doorframe. On top of that, sandwiched between the tarp and the door, was a lot of flour. When they opened the door, the four fell out onto them. Now they were covered in flour, sap, and spiders.
"Do you surrender now?" Legolas asked, peeking out from behind a pillar where he and Estel were hiding. They didn't notice that Legolas was for some reason carrying his bow and arrows inside.
"No!" Elrohir exclaimed.
"Have you two forgotten that we still have your swords?" Estel taunted and ran with Legolas behind him.
"Do me a favor?" Elladan asked Elrohir before chasing after Legolas and Estel.
"What?"
"When we catch them, don't hold me back from getting them to beg for mercy."
"I wouldn't dare." Elrohir said. The twins then raced down the hall that Legolas and Estel had just escaped by. Still covered in flour and spider-sap, the twins followed Legolas and Estel to a large room with a chandelier hanging from the ceiling. There was a long rope which hung down from the chandelier and Legolas and Estel were climbing it. They reached the chandelier just as the twins ran into the room. Legolas and Estel sat atop the chandelier tying the twins' swords to the candlesticks.
"We're getting them down the hard way." Elladan decided, grabbing the rope. Legolas and Estel acted scared as the twins climbed the rope. But at the last second, Legolas fired an arrow at the ceiling and a rope fell down just in front of him and Estel. The two friends grabbed hold of the rope and slid down just as the twins got to the top of the chandelier. As Estel and Legolas slid down the rope, they also pulled on it, activating what was most likely the most complex net they had ever woven. Some of the ropes had been wrapped around the chandelier to look like they were part of it, but now, they untwisted and slid down each other, locking into a net and dropping about a meter so the twins were hanging in a net off the chandelier. Their swords hung beside the net, just out of reach unless they swung.
"Just so you know, there is to be a gathering here in an hour." Legolas stated, "If you surrender now, I'll let you down gently. So, do you surrender?"
(Ynnealay)
First of all, I must say that OOC Legolas is funner (Yes that's a word) to write than In Character Legolas. What do you think?
Second of all, thank you all for your input on Seriya Silvermist's prank idea. Good news! Riellebay has agreed to write it :D In a few chapters, it will be an optionally read bonus chapter.
Fun Fact: I finished this chapter faster than any other chapter I've written :P
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