[1] Mesmerized - The Elvish Ranger In The Company (Legolas)

☘︎︎ ℝ𝕦𝕟𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝔸𝕨𝕒𝕪 ☘︎︎

I wake up with a gasp. I sigh in relief as I find that my wound is take care of. Tauriel comes in hearing me.

"You're awake," 

"Eh... as far as I know," I reply grinning. "What happend?"

"You had a poisoned arrow stuck in you back,"

"Huh, I've got quite a streak going on,"

"What do you mean?"

"Don't worry about it," I say and take up my weapons.

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Legolas and Tauriel have brought their captured orc to Thranduil's throneroom. As Legolas stands with his knife pressed to the orc's neck, Thranduil and I pace around it.

  "Such is the nature of evil. Out there in the vast ignorance of the world it festers and spreads, a shadow that grows in the dark. A sleepless malice as black as the oncoming wall of night. So it ever was; so will it always be. In time, all foul things come forth."  Thranduil states.

 "You were tracking a company of thirteen dwarves. Why?" Legolas asks.

  "Not thirteen; not any more. The young one, the black-haired archer, we stuck him with a Morgul shaft." The orc says as I scowl. The orc speaks this while facing Tauriel; she looks worried. "The poison's is in his blood. He'll be choking on it soon."

"Answer the question, filth." I order.

"I do not answer to dogs, She-Elf!"

Legolas pushes the orc a bit as Tauriel whips out her knife. "I would not antagonize them," Legolas sneers.

 "You like killing things, orc? You like death? Then let me give it to you!" Tauriel rushes forward with her knife, but Thranduil speaks.

"Enough! Tauriel, leave! Go now,"  The orc snarls at her, but Tauriel manages to regain her composure and leaves.

 "I do not care about one dead dwarf. Answer the question. You have nothing to fear. Tell us what you know and I will set you free." Thranduil asks once again.

"You had orders to kill them - Why? What is Thorin Oakenshield to you?" Legolas asks.

"The dwarf runt will never be king." The orc sates.

  "King? There is no king under the mountain nor will there ever be. None would dare enter Erebor, whilst the dragon lives."

"You know nothing! Your world will burn!"

 "What are you talking about? Speak!" Legolas orders.

"Our time has come again. My master serves the One. Do you understand now, Elfling? Death is upon you. The flames of war are upon you-" My eyes widen in horror.

  Thranduil, whose eyes have widened upon hearing about "the One," suddenly whips out his sword and beheads the orc, leaving the orc's head in Legolas's hand.

    "Why did you do that? You promised to set him free." Legolas asks.

   "And I did. I freed his wretched head from his miserable shoulders." The orc's body, although separated from its head, shakes violently. Thranduil stomps on its leg to stop the shaking.

"There was more the orc could tell us." Legolas says.

"There was nothing more he could tell me." Thranduil turns and walks away, sheathing his sword.

"What did he mean by the 'flames of war'?" Legolas asks.

"It means they intend to unleash a weapon so great it will destroy all before it." I answer. "It's happening all over again, isn't it?" I say as I walk towards Thranduil.

 "Don't talk about what you don't know," Thranduil states harshly.

 "Don't talk to me about what I know and do not know. My parents died protecting people who they barely knew and if you are going to sit here and do nothing while the world burns, you might as well and do so but I won't allow it," I storm outside the halls of Greenwood and leave, as I already know Tauriel has.

  Legolas watches in horror thinking that Thranduil would let his anger get the best of him and imprison Arneth but his father simply  sighs and addresses the elven guards. He still is in confusion of what Arneth said. What was she meaning by my parents died? Lord Elrond is still alive! Unless she isn't his daughter...

  "I want the watch doubled at all our borders. All roads, all rivers. Nothing moves but I hear of it. No one enters this kingdom, and no one leaves it." Thranduil orders.

Legolas approaches the elves guarding the entrance to the Woodland Realm. "Close the gate! Keep it sealed by order of the King."

Legolas turns to walk away, but one of the guards calls out. "What about Tauriel and Arneth?"

Legolas stops short. "What about them?"

"Tauriel went into the forest armed with her bow and blade. She has not returned. Arneth soon followed, she was storming out of the castle,"

As Legolas walks toward the gate, the guard points out toward the forest in the direction Tauriel and Arneth went. Legolas looks anxious.