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Things were crazy at Edoras. Theóden was shouting orders to every men he saw. As for Lessien she just stood at a corner watching with a smile.
'We are going to another battle. We are going to help Frodo and Sam.' She was excited. It was another chance to prove that she was capable of watching herself.
So immersed in her thoughts she didn't noticed that another elf had approached her.
"What is on your mind?" his soft voice asked.
"Legolas." Lessien sighed. "A lot but mostly the upcoming battle." At the mention of what was coming his expression became harder.
"You don't have to do it."
"Mankoi?(Why?)." He looked surprised at her question.
"Mani? (What?)"
"Why do you keep telling me not to fight?" she asked this very calmly but inside she was burning. "I have the same right as you to fight and protect the ones I love."
"Lessien we already had this discussion."
"Did you see what I did in Helm's Deep? I can protect myself Legolas!" she was now shouting.
"I'm not saying that!" A crowd had gathered around them in the Golden Hall. "Lessien... Neshan sina. (Stop this.)"
The crowd was getting bigger. Aragorn and Gimli were looking at them with concern.
"Uum n' nyar amin mani nae uum (Do not tell me what to do)." she said with gritted teeth. Turning around and pushing trough the crowd she made her way to the stables.
Fingolfin was there, ready for the trip.
"These are hard times mellonamin (my friend)" he snorted and she laughed. For a while Lessien stayed there petting him.
"Lessien?" a familiar voice asked.
"Yes Merry?"
"Time to go."
"I'll be there" she said with a smile.
At Edoras entrance, the King was making his speech. Lessien mounted her horse without even glancing at Legolas.
"You need to talk to him." Aragorn was next to her.
"We are going to battle Aragorn."
"Yes we are and that is the reason why you have to. We both know what can happen. He is just trying to protect you."
She looked down with shame. "I know." Aragorn looked at her before making his horse move forward. She looked around to see Legolas staring at her. With a nod at him she made the same as Aragorn.
"I am sorry." he said as they rode together.
"I am too." He gave her a small smile and she looked into his blue eyes. 'I could get lost in those.' She noticed Aragorn wearing a smug look. Pippin was ridding with Éowyn and was telling her about the Shire.
Later that day they arrived at DunHarrow. There were thousands of horses and man at the encampment.
"They are not enough." Lessien said.
"No they are not." Legolas answered her. Gimli was behind him in the horse. They saw Aragorn talking with Theóden and by the looks of it the Ranger was telling the King that they didn't have enough men.
Lessien followed Éowyn to their tent dropping Pippin with some soldiers.
"Éowyn?" she asked as they both restrained their horses.
"Yes?"
"Are you going to battle with us?"
The lady of Rohan looked startled. "No... of course... not. It's tradition to women to be in encampments."
Lessien started laughing. "Oh you can't fool me Éowyn and you can't fool Aragorn either."
"My Lady!" she asked shocked which only made Lessien laughed harder.
"Do not worry. I will not tell anyone of your plans. Not even your uncle." Éowyn smiled grateful. Suddenly Pippin entered the tent.
"Can you help me? I want to fight." he asked both.
"Of course we can Pip." the elleth answered with a smile. When they were finished, Éowyn was smiling.
"There! A true Esquire of Rohan." Pippin looked excited and terrified at the same time. He took his sword but is wasn't even sharped. The halfling looked disappointed.
"Well, that's no good. You won't kill many orcs with a blunt blade. Come on." he followed the two ladies outside.
"To the smithy. Go!" Éowyn said laughing along with Lessien when he started running. Éomer looked at them.
"You should not encourage him." Lessien looked angrily at him. 'And why is that?'.
Éowyn answered him before the elleth had the chance. " I you should not doubt him." 'Tell him Éowyn!'
"I do not doubt his heart... Just the reach of his arm." The other soldiers laughed and Éowyn looked abou to explode.
"Why should Merry be left behind? He has as much cause to go to war as you." she then said something to herself and went after the hobbit. Lessien watched her go. 'She is a very strong woman.'.
The soldiers were watching her. She gave them a last look and turned around. It was a beautiful night. Lessien did not want to waist it by going to her tent. Instead she walked around the encampment until she reached it's entrance. A hooded figure mounted in a horse was reaching them. Positioning herself in a rock she drew her bow with an arrow ready.
"Who comes there? Show yourself!" The horse stopped in front of her and the person in top on it, took his hood of. It was a person Lessien never dreamed of seeing at that moment.
"Ada?!" Lord Elrond of Rivendell looked down at his youngest daughter with a smile.
"Amin tinu. Nae saian luume'. (My daughter. It has been too long.)"
"Uma. It has." Her father was already in the ground embracing her. After a moment, Elrond stepped back and looked into her daughter grey eyes.
"Take me to Theóden." She nod, seriousness returning to her face. She was glad to see her father before she went to battle and was even more glad to see that he wasn't mad at her for running.
"Sut naa Arwen? (How is Arwen?) Did she already made the journey?" she asked as they walked to the King's tent. Her father guiding the horse.
Elrond continued walking without answering his daughter. "Ada?"
"That is the business I have come to discuss." Lessien looked surprised but did not questioned him.
"We wish to talk with the King." she said as they approached the guard in the tent. He nodded and let them trough.
Theóden was lining in a table studying a map. His head raised and a look of surprised appeared in his face.
"Lord Elrond?" he stood up to great the elf.
"Theóden of Rohan." Both man and elf shook hands. Theóden made a signal to a chair next to his which Elrond took. Lessien was behind him her hands resting in the back of it.
"What is the reason for your visit?"
"The heir of Isildur." Lessien gasped but Theóden simply nodded.
"I will call him." He then left the tent to go tell a guard to call Aragorn leaving Elrond with Lessien. He stood from the chair.
"Ada, why do you need Aragorn?" the elleth questioned but in that moment Theóden returned and looked at both elves. Elrond put his hood again and Aragorn entered the tent looking confused.
"I'll take my leave." the King said bowing slightly at Elrond and shooting Aragorn a strange look.
Aragorn turned his eyes to Lessien looking more confused than she had ever seen him. Elrond then took the hood.
"My lord Elrond." the ranger said.
"I come on behalf of one whom I love."
'Arwen?' Lessien watched in slow motion as her father's face twitched in pain.
"Arwen is dying." 'Oh no.'
"Seler...(Sister). No..." Without realizing, her strengths were gone and Lessien was on the floor.
"Lessien!" Both her father and Aragorn shouted. Elrond was closed and helped her sit in the chair he had previously occupied.
"Arwen... Ada... No." He kissed her forehead before turning to Aragorn.
"She stayed?"
"She will not long survive the evil that now spreads from Mordor." Lessien let a strangled cry out of her throat. Elrond gave her a sad look and turned to Aragorn again.
"The light of the Evenstar is failing. As Sauron's power grows, her strength wanes. Arwen's life is now tied to the fate of the Ring. The Shadow is upon us, Aragorn, the end has come."
"No Ada! We will win." Lessien was up in a second looking at her father with terror. "You can not give up hope."
"It will not be our end, but his." Aragorn said simply.
"You ride to war, but not to victory. Sauron's armies march on Minas Tirith - this you know - but in secret he sends another force which will attack from the river..."
Aragorn and Lessien looked shocked. 'From the river?'
"A fleet of Corsair ships sails from the South. They will be in the city in two days... You're out-numbered, Aragorn. You need more men."
"There are none."
Elrond made an expression that was familiar to Lessien although she only knew him for a year or so.
"The ones who are cursed." she said softly. Elrond stared at her and nod.
"There are the ones that dwell in the mountain." As he said this a sudden wind rushed trough the tent and Lessien had to hold her cloak with her hands keeping it from flying.
"Murderers, traitors, you would call upon them to fight? They believe in nothing. They answer to no-one."
"They will answer to the King of Gondor." In a blink Elrond was holding in his hands the sword Lessien heard about all her life.
"Anduril, flame of the West. Forged in the shards of Narsil." The heir of Isildur takes it, looking at it with wonder.
"Sauron will not have forgotten the sword of Elendil..." 'Good words.'
"The heir of Isildur...has returned." Lessien said with a calm voice. Elrond gave her a small smile.
"The blade that was broken shall return to Minas Tirith."
"The man who can wield the power of this sword can summon to him an army more deadly than any that walks this earth." Aragorn looked at the elf with worry and insecurity.
"Put aside the Ranger - become who you were born to be. Take the Dimhplt Road." Lessien felt a shiver at the intensity of Aragorn's eyes.
"Onen I-estel Edain (I gave hope to Men)" Elrond said.
"U-chebin estel anim. (But I keep none for myself)." Lessien and Aragorn finished at the same time.
They exchanged a look before Aragorn bowed at Elrond.
"Amin nauva feith ette. (I will wait outside.)" and he was gone.
Elrond turned to his daughter.
"I know it is not the best moment to do this but... I want you to return with me Lessien. However i will give you a choice." He was in pain again. 'Two daughters. One dying and the other putting her life in dangerous every minute. No wonder.'
"Ada..." She put her hand in his face. Her father closed his eyes. "Amin liy llie leha Amin ant nae shan. (I love you but I need to go)".
"Go." He said gaving her one last hug. "We shall meet again." She nod before leaving the tent.
Éowyn was walking to her.
"You are also going aren't you?" she said. with tears in her eyes. 'Aragorn... You already talked to him.'
"Éowyn..." Lessien tried but with no use.
"We need you both! And you are a women! Why can you go and I can't?". Lessien was speechless. She never saw Éowyn angry.
"Éowyn I..."
"Just stay alive!" And with that she was gone. The elleth shook her head and went running after Aragorn, after getting Fingolfin. Legolas and Gimli were already there.
"Aragorn." he looked upset.
"Not you too!" Lessien stopped walking and stared at him.
"What does that mean?"
"Llie naan n' tulien. (You are not coming.)" she started laughing. Her three friends just watched her.
"Ent ron naa? (And they are?)" she was not laughing anymore. She was deadly serious.
"Aragorn. Let her go." said a voice she never expect to hear.
"Legolas..." The men looked tired but still nodded. As for Lessien she looked so surprised at what happened that she was frozen in her place.
"Hey! Lassie. Are you coming or not?" Gimli shouted from Legolas horse. She mounted Fingolfin and with a smiled she was next to Legolas. He smiled at her.
"Together?"
"Together." she answered with a grin. Both of them pretend they didn't hear Gimli murmuring under his breath something about "Lame elves."
A hard chapter to write. Until the next time (: and please REVIEW.
