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Post by FaPingMulan on Sept 27, 2014 21:17:34 GMT -5
Eldarion made his way towards Grace in the royal library. He cleared his throat and knocked lightly on a book shelf to announce his presence to her knowing that being half elf meant he walked more silently than other races and those other races couldn't always hear an elf approach which tend to scare them quite a bit.
"I'm sorry about what happened earlier. Jackal was a jerk and he had no right to do that to you or any woman for that matter." He spoke sympathetically sitting down beside her looking down at the book in her hands. "Lord of the Rings. Bit of a dark read, don't you think?' He added to her. He of course knew the tale of the One Ring, most everyone did and he recognized the name Bilbo having heard it once from his grandfather, Lord Elrond of Rivendell who made a point on being one of the chief educators to he and his sister. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Arowen, have you seen your brother?" Arwen asked her daughter.
"No. What do I look like his babysitter?" Arowen replied grouchily. She didn't mean to be so cross with her mother but the mention of her brother only reminded her how upset she was with him at the moment.
"Did you two have another fight?" Arwen asked her not seeming to be bothered by her daughter's tone.
"Yes! It's like he doesn't want to tell me anything anymore! Why doesn't he trust me anymore?" Arowen ranted wanting to confide in someone.
"He trusts you, Arowen. He just is probably going through a rough time and needs some time to figure it out for himself. It is nothing against you, Im sure. He's your brother and he loves you, you know that." Arwen comforted her daughter with a hug.
"I'll go find him and talk to him, okay?" She promised her kissing her daughter on the forehead before heading off to find Eldarion finding him surprisingly alone in the royal library talking to Grace. A small smile came across her face seeing the two of them together. Could Eldarion perhaps be developing feeling for young Princess Grace? How sweet. Surely now with the two of them together, Angel could finally be convinced that just because her children were twins that they were not evil. Her brothers were twins and weren't evil after all so there was no reason why her children shouldn't be any different.
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Post by True Love's Kiss on Sept 27, 2014 22:42:07 GMT -5
Grace try not to acted all surprised when Eldarion had sneaked inside of the royal library where she was at. "Let's not talk about him no more. I'm over it!" She told the elfling in his mind, but was only just saying that to be avoiding the subject about the cruel party crasher dwarf. She had been lost in thought trying to figure out who this Bilbo character was. She had thought about asking Eldarion about him perhaps, but maybe it would of been the wiser choice to be asking the wizard Gandalf for knew he more and had been around the longest outta all of them.
Grace set the book down on the small table that was next to her and gazed over to Eldarion. "It's nice having friends like you and the others." She tells him kindly putting her hand on top of his hand. "I'm very lucky." She added, but then got up and gave Eldarion a surprised hug.
They didn't seem to catch Eldarion's mother Arwen watching them, but it was Grace's own mother Angel who came in walking in at the wrong time at the wrong moment. "Arwen, have you seen--" She began asking, but stop when she caught her daughter hugging Eldarion; an elfling. If she had truly wanted to see her child hooked up with a half human/half elf male, it would of been the son of Emily and Legolas. But since he was not there, Angel was not going to allowed for their friendship to changed into something far more serious. "GRACE! STOP HUGGING ELDARION THIS INSTANT!" The hobbit/wizard queen order right away, pointing her hand out if ever she should had to used her magical powers to stop what they were doing.
But her furious anger notch up too high, that she accidentally shot a blast, only to be missing her target and the aiming of it blasted at the ceiling, burning the small chandelier danging up above to a roast crisp.
"MOM! We're in a library!" Grace cried. Her mother would had known better to be using her magical powers indoors; especially when they were inside of the royal library.
"GRACE! OUTSIDE, NOW!!" Angel demanded pointing a finger to the doorway out. Grace was confused; what wrong had she committed that would get her mother so angry? She had much expect this type of behavior coming from her father Frodo when it came to be boys, but not her own mother Angel. "But we weren't doing anything. We were just talking!!" Grace replies, honestly telling her the truth.
But Angel went in, grabbing the book Grace left on the table, and whack Eldarion with it. "You are NOT to step a foot close to my daughter, do you hear me?!!?" She yelled at him. "I watch her heart get broken tonight, and I don't want to see that happening again!" Angel yelled at Eldarion some more and gave the poor elfling another big smack with the book.
Grace groaned frustratedly. It was supposed to be the most perfect night of her life, but things were just getting far more worst with her folks just not accepting her being around guys. It had been far too stressful as it was, so Grace took the book away from Angel's hands and ran out of the library with mixed emotions of confused anger and sadness boiling up inside of her.
"Remember who you are dealing with Prince Eldarion!" Angel warned the elfling coldly. "I have far more greater powers I can used to tear you to pieces if I choose to!!!"
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Post by FaPingMulan on Sept 27, 2014 23:07:32 GMT -5
"Yes... of course... We're always there you Grace. That's what friends are for." Eldarion had replied back to her before being taken aback by the surprise hug feeling himself flush before taking a moment to hug her back.
'This is it. Time to tell her your feelings for her.' He thought to himself with his mind closed but the moment was interrupted when he heard Angel come in and start to address his mother and the next thing he knew she was shouting at him. He let go of Grace in surprise though out of instinct had gripped the handle on his sword that hung from his belt to defend himself as Angel raised her hand threatening to blast him with magic before firing up at the chandelier instead.
"You've got it all wrong, Your Majesty I was just-" He started to explain himself before being hit on the shoulder with the large thick book. He winced but did not flinch from the strike.
"HOW DARE YOU?!" He then heard his mother shout with the most anger he could ever remember hearing from her. "You have no right to threaten my child and if you so much as raise one more hand against him, I will make sure you suffer for it." She threatened Angel. Normally she had nothing against the queen and would consider her a friend but Eldarion was her child and wasn't about to stand by and let Angel hurt and threaten him.
"Nanaeth please let me handle this." Eldarion spoke to his mother rubbing his sore shoulder which was now incredibly sore and he was sure a giant bruise was forming from the force of the impact as well.
"Leave now, Eldarion, let me handle this." She told her son sternly.
"Nanaeth-"
"Now, Eldarion!"
Eldarion sighed before bowing to Angel dismissing himself before leaving the room to find Grace.
"What have you got against my son besides the fact that he was born as a twin to his sister?! Just because your twin was evil doesn't mean all are, Angel! My brothers are not evil nor is my father whom you may like to know was also born as a twin." She told the queen sternly. "I am sorry for what happened to your daughter earlier but my son did not cause that and was raised far better than that, perhaps if you took the time to get to know him without prejudice you will see what a perfect man he will be for your daughter." She finished before leaving the room.
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Post by True Love's Kiss on Sept 28, 2014 1:00:48 GMT -5
"The perfect man? What is she saying? That her son has strong feelings for my daughter?! Angel thought in shocked after Arwen had given her the big news about their might be some type of love connection for the two of their children. "NO! No, I will NOT let this happened and Frodo won't let it either! She had had her heart set up too much for her daughter to be with Emily's son, but what if it would never happened? The only way for that to work out if it they would find a way down to Narnia to meet up with Legolas and Emily's child, but she never had left Middle-Earth before even if she were to know the way out. She had never even left the kingdom up until now when the curse took place on her those years ago, only for her to be meeting up with Frodo, falling in love with him, and also baring their child Grace out of wedlock and last but not least, setting down as king and queen.
Her husband had the right to know, and if Arwen was going to brag out it to Aragorn, especially if their son Eldarion came crawling over to his twin sister Arowen about it, she had to filled in the news to Frodo about it too.
Meanwhile, Grace had return back into the ballroom sharing to her friends Goldie, Tom and her cousins Amir and Kassie about what happened in the library as she still was holding closely to the book she held in her arms.
"Don't feel bad Gracie." Goldie spoken gently, tapping her hand lightly on the tall princess' lap. "It may look bad now, but your mom and dad love you."
"Yeah, it's not like they can keep you away from whom you can and can't hang out with. Look at us!" Tom mention, referring to all of theirselves. The hobbit had known their friend better than any royal person can the most, mostly cause Tom and Goldie had spend their entire childhood growing up with Grace since moving into her kingdom.
"Do you remember the time when we were kids, we were baking a cake for your dad's birthday and we blew up the kitchen?" Goldie reminded her of that old unforgotten time. Partically, it was Grace's idea back then from their young childhood to be surprising Frodo with that special treat and to think she had require the baking skills, but she was not very professional. Thinking of that old memory back then gave out great moments of those old days; it may of been the most special time when she and Frodo were much more closer other than reading her bedtime stories every night. "Heh, how can I forget?" Grace says smiling.
"Frodo, Frodo!" Angel calls, racing back to the ballroom to see if she can still find her hobbit husband. Luckily for her, she had whom happened to be chit-chatting with Sam. "Frodo!!" She gasps, running out of breathe, but finally let that caught up to her. "Frodo, I got news to tell you!"
"Is it about what went on in the library?" Sam can't help but asked. "What?!!? Now do you know that?" Angel asks in a surprised tone. How did they knew so quickly, but more importantly, how did even Sam knew too? "We overheard about it from Aragorn and Arwen's kids!" Frodo answered, yet as predicted already, he was already not pleased. "Don't say you were SPYING on them were you?" Angel asks. It was just so rude and she thought maybe her husband should of heard about it from her own words and not from the twin children that Angel couldn't stand being nearby to. She sighed sadly and shake her head. "First a dwarf ruins a party, and now this! Can this night be anymore terrible?!?!"
All of a sudden, a sudden quick earthquake rumble the entire castle frightening all of the scared guests inside. But then it stop. The candles everywhere indoors flicker out quickly when the shadowy figure appear, flying by the windows with an evil sounding laughed. Angel had feared this moment would come true. "It can't be!" She whispers.
A few of the candles lightened their selves back, but not all of them did. And the ghostly figure of her late evil twin sister Scarla pop by, making her first full appearance back at home since the untimely death from the battle. "Ooh what's this? A celebration party? How thoughtful! Why was I not invited?" Scarla says sarcastically, pretending why the big let down for her happened. "Ohh that's right; your husband KILLED ME!" The older deadly twin shouted at her younger twin, blaming mostly for Frodo's part. "Now look where he is; the first filthy commoner of Middle-Earth to rule an powerful kingdom; This kingdom BELONGS TO ME!"
"It was never your right to rule!" Frodo spoken sternly at his deceased ghostly sister-in-law standing up out of the throne. "Your turn your back against your family; the very flesh and blood you have!" He reminded her.
Kassie can feel her knees trembling in fear. "I think we should go now." She warned the others, for the best thing they could do is run while there was still a chance too. Scarla overheard the teens talking in the back, and turn around.
"Yep, definitely run now!!" Tom quickly agreed with the female hobbit and the others scram back with the other guests. All expect for Grace who stood frozen in fear. She had not forgotten about her late aunt for the last time she saw her was in her bedroom long ago when she was just a little girl and was still sound asleep til she was awoken up by the starling surprise of her ghostly aunt showing up, but had flee away when her parents bolted inside of the room when they overheard her screams. Still, that memory had been stuck in Grace's mind a few times up until now.
Scarla can easily read from the look on her niece's face. "Well if it isn't my not-so-little niece. You haven't forgotten about me!" She says with an evil smirk.
"GRACE, RUN! RUN!!!" Angel orders while she was still there. Grace followed her commands and try to race back to her parents, but she was no match to outrun the ghost. She was fast for a deadly spirit who can fly. But that scene just gotten much more horrible when the ghost of Scarla took her biggest shot by shooting herself straight into Grace's body, by the sudden force impact knocking her down on the floor. Her soul on the inside was struggling, but she had lost when Scarla was now in control of her niece's body.
"GRACE!!!" Frodo cried loudly. He ran after her, but halted to a complete stop when Scarla used her old reuseable powers into Grace's body to try and blast Frodo with her magic, but missed and only hit the floor where Frodo lost his balance and fell down. "Nice try Frodo Baggins!" It was Scarla's voice that had speaken.
"How do you know my--" As he stood back up to his feet, Frodo asked how Scarla was able to pick up his name so fast when she never got to learned when she used to be living. "I KNOW EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT YOU!" She yelled. "From the grave!!" She added, lifting up the arms of her niece she summoned with her magical powers, a dark and mighty clouded above the hands showing a flashback of bolting lightning and fiery colors of red and orange. And there it had show the one ring. "Your past may be in the past, but you will still be known as the ring bearer!!"
Frodo flopped down back onto the ground with his crown fallen off from his head, wincing in horrid pain. He can still hear those piercing screams of those that stab him in the shoulder with the blade that used to be owned by the Nazgul. "The blade....I'd--I can still feel it's blade!!" He groaned in pain.
"SCARLA ENOUGH!!" Angel demanded, and shot a blast of her own magical powers through the cloud, dissolving it's evilness. Frodo retreat back to the throne by crawling cowardly back to it, breathing heavily.
"Frodo, are you alright?" Sam asks worriedly placing his hand on his friend's back. Frodo's arms were shaken as he kept gasping to get his air back, but then got very woozy and winded up passing out for just merely a second. "FRODO!!" Sam cries, but quickly got caught his friend in his arms. "Frodo? Frodo speak to me!!" He begged. Frodo had woken up to show that he was alive, but he was okay.
"Get out of my daughter's body!!" Angel demanded her older twin sister. She did not want to harm Grace if it meant having to fight her while she was taken under control of it. Anger by it, Scarla pick up Angel by grabbing her from the wrist tightly, and slowly was turning it into solid metal again. "Let me go, let me go!!" Angel begged as she try to struggle out of her sister's powers.
Scarla did let go of Angel by purposely dropping her down on the floor. The short curse was only temporarily and the queen's skin was back to normal. "All of you have very little time left!" Scarla announced to everyone by warning them all that were listening. "I will be back to claim what is rightfully mine; and this time, the waiting is less!"
Scarla release her spirit out of Grace's body and flew off into the light, laughing evilly and leaving her niece's body laying unconsciousness on the floor. "GRACE!!" Frodo exclaimed, and rushes over to her by her side. "Grace? Grace!!" Frodo hoped for a sigh, praying hard if she was okay. A cough was broken out, and Grace's eyes slowly open. "Daddy?" She says in a soft weak voice.
"Quinn, help me get her up!" Frodo called over to the royal adviser. Quinn picked up her and carried her for him and Frodo let the way to take his daughter to her bedroom where she can rest up. After Frodo and Quinn were gone to take Grace to sleep it off, Angel got back up on her feet, staring down at her wrist running her hand on it slowly. She glance up wondering what was there now to do. But it was Aragorn and Arwen's direction that she glance over to.
"Now are you satisfied? Your children now know the truth!!" She told them, but her tone and reaction had hurt and guilt show that was very easily to see. "The party's over! Everyone return back to your homes!!" She announced as she left the scenery and went to her bedroom, slamming the door shut.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Sept 28, 2014 1:26:53 GMT -5
Eldarion had followed Grace out to the ballroom and was not surprised to find his mother and father whispering to each other in elvish a couple feet away from the guests. Obviously his mother was telling his father what had occurred moments before between he and Queen Angel.
He did not look to meet their gaze though he could feel them watching him as he made his way through the crowd to speak with Grace. He was stopped when he felt someone grab his arm around the shoulder causing him to hiss with pain.
He turned to see it was his sister who at first looked angry and about to have some more harsh words with him before her green gazed reflected only concern. "What happened?" She asked him seriously.
"Just a little misunderstanding." Eldarion replied.
"With?" Arowen question though she braced herself for her brother to either ignore her question or tell her to butt out once again. However this time he leaned towards her and whispered "Angel. She saw Grace and I hugging- it wasn't anything. I was merely trying to comfort her- but she jumped to conclusions, hit me with a large book and threatened to kill me should I try anything with Grace- not that I would mind you but nevertheless she did."
"What?! She threatened you?! First the cold shoulder for years and now death threats? That woman's crown is far too tight for her head and she needs to be brought down a notch from her pedastal." Arowen hissed angrily.
"Don't. Nanaeth already went too far with it so please if you care about me you will not get involved."
"But-" Arowen tried to argue but the stern look her brother gave her silenced her for the moment and just in time too as the ground began to shake and the lights went out.
Eldarion had tried to rush to Grace's aid but he was unable to push his way through the panicking and scattering crowd until the aftermath was over and he was met with Queen Angel's gaze once more as he stood alongside his sister and parents. This time, for the first time he could remember, it was not a look of cold hatred towards he and his sister but rather a look of guilt.
"We aren't going to abandon you in this moment of crisis, Frodo." Aragorn spoke after Angel had stormed out of the room remaining calm for the sake of everyone who were all shaken up and rightly so.
"I propose Frodo Baggins, Angel, Aragorn, Arwen, Merry, Pippin, Sam, Quinn, and I all retire to the Council Chambers to discuss the next course of action. Rosie and your guards will stay and protect the children." Gandalf advised while Amir hurried over to his cousin and friends. "Are you guys okay?" He asked them though he was mostly focused on Grace.
Eldarion hesitated before joining the group with his sister only pausing as he heard the words 'The time has come' being spoken in his mind though he could not place who had spoken it or what they had meant. Did they mean the trouble Scarla promised to bring or something else, he wondered.
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Post by Renton on Sept 28, 2014 21:53:34 GMT -5
It wasn't long before Gandalf would come around to pinch both hobbits on the ears as punishment for the firework incident. "Ah, yes...definitely like old times," remarked Merry, groaning at the pain of being pulled by the ear.
With that incident out of the way, the party went on as normal as Merry and Pippin socialized with the other guests until they witnessed Jackal make the cake drop on Grace. There was certainly nothing funny about that mean prank; it wasn't even the type of prank that was up to their standards. "The bastard," said Pippin, shocked at the misfortune Grace had gone through. After Frodo kicked the dwarf out of the party, the two hobbits were glad that Jackal was gone.
"I hope we never see his jerk face ever again," said Merry.
"I'd rather see him banished from the kingdom after what he did to poor Grace," Pippin remarked, taking such pity on the young princess.
Hoping the rest of the party wouldn't go wrong the rest of the evening, things took a turn for the worse as Scarla made her return and wanting revenge. Merry and Pippin were just as frightened to see her as the rest of the crowd was.
"Scarla! She's back!" Merry pointed out.
Chaos ensued with Scarla possessing Grace's body briefly. The two hobbits would have stepped forth to try and stop her, yet there was no telling what she might do to them if she decided to retaliate and fight back, so they held off in fighting back and remained with the crowd until it was all over and Angel announced to have everyone return to their homes.
"Well, party's over," Pippin shrugged. "Maybe we'll have better luck next year."
Joining up with Frodo and the others, they agreed to tag along and go to the Council Chambers to decide on what to do next.
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Post by True Love's Kiss on Sept 28, 2014 23:03:13 GMT -5
With Grace having to rest up in her bedroom, Goldie had seem to be the only one to watch her dad and the rest of the other adults leaving to head out to the Council Chambers to discuss the next upcoming plan of action. While her brother and the rests were most deeply concern for poor Grace, Goldie had to see what the grown-ups were going to plan out, but she knew she couldn't go in alone. "Psst, Tom! Come with me!" She whispers to her brother, sneaking off unnoticed by their hobbit and elfling friends. "To where?" He whispers back while following closely behind her. However, it had already started earlier without them before the two Gamgee siblings can catch up to eavesdrops on them.
"So what's our next course of action, Mr. Frodo?" Sam asks his best friend. "You're the king! There's gotta be something you have for us!" "Yes Sam, I know!!" Frodo agreed with a nod, but had to stop and think what they can do. "I don't know how we can defeat a ghost, but if my sister-in-law does return with a war rage on us, then a war it will be!" The hobbit king announced immediately. "We MUST keep Grace and the other children safe; take them far away from here as possible!!"
"Even if we might not make it at the end?" Sam asks with uncertainly. He was not one to be in the middle of giant battles. Quite frankly, he was glad he didn't got to be in it all when the other Fellowship members fought while he was the only hobbit who went with Frodo to go to Mount Doom in Morder to destroy the ring, but now sticking around to a battle? Definitely not something the hobbit would wanted to become a part of.
Frodo found himself in complete surprise to hear his old gardener buddy say such a ridiculous question, but who was he to judge? He avoided answering Sam's question, but try to keep his courage together. "Sam, you must believe we can survive this." He tells him gently. "I feared death too, but we will come out of this alive...I hope!"
"I know, but...it's not just me, but I can't be the only one thinking how Grace can get magic powers when she was under control by that evil twin sister of Angel's. I thought she wasn't born with them!" Sam admitted rather than keeping that unanswer thought of it to himself.
"I thought so too! Unless..." Angel started saying, but came to stopping herself when reflecting back of the last battle she had with Scarla. The queen had recall still carrying her unborn child inside of her when it was the power of Scarla's icy cold dagger that struck her in the heart when she had risked her life saving Frodo's life from Scarla. It was a very chilly and unshakeable feeling she could not get outta her mind. How much it's coldness drop her body temperature to a low and effected every part inside of her body; how she was strictly freezing to death and was able to walk or even take a step.
"Of course! It all makes sense now!!" Angel replied, reacting quite shockingly. "I was still pregnant with Grace when Scarla almost had me killed, that means...." She frowned sadly, realizing the horror she had created. "Oh no...I did this! I cause Grace not to get her powers on time! It's my fault!"
Seeing how upset the mistake she caused for their daughter, Frodo eased her gently by putting his hand on her shoulder. "It was not your fault Angel. I would not be here alive if it wasn't for you."
"On time? None of it makes sense!" Sam doubted the queen. "No Mr. Samwise, don't you see? Grace does have powers, but they're block in some way." Angel explained, hoping some of that could make any sense.
"Then how do we unblock it for her?" He asks if there was any way to help the late bloomer. "I'm afraid we can't. The only thing we can do is wait! Her powers will come when the time is ready." Angel answered, but was strictly worried for her daughter. She didn't know what to do because it was the first time having to deal with a late bloomer happening in her family. "I just hope she can be able to learn how to control them when they do come. I've heard the dangers it can affect to them after they received it late, if it's not properly managed well and that's the only part it worries me!" Angel added.
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Post by Renton on Sept 28, 2014 23:15:11 GMT -5
"Well, as a concerned father, I say we need to take the children to a place where we know they will be perfectly safe and away from harm," Merry suggested. "The Shire's a possibility."
Pippin couldn't agree more. "Oh, yes, the Shire! Lots of hobbits that we know and trust and could keep the children company. Let's go with that."
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Post by FaPingMulan on Sept 28, 2014 23:25:35 GMT -5
"War is an inevitability. I have no doubt that Scarla's revenge will be swift and hard which means we must be ready when the attack comes." Aragorn spoke up.
"And who is to say, Scarla will not strike out at the kingdoms of those who help in opposing her? We cannot abandon any of our kingdoms and people, they need us but I do believe Merry and Pippin are right about the children. We cannot let them get involved and risk their lives. If you all agree that the Shire will be the best place for them and that they will all be watched and looked after properly, then I do as well." Arwen added.
"The children will be fine in the Shire but we must leave no later than within the hour of dawn and no one can know where it is they are going under any circumstances outside of this room. We will have more enemies than Scarla before this is over mark my words." Gandalf cautioned. "I will go with the children to the Shire and I volunteer Merry and Pippin to come along with us. They will be the least recognized and noticed out of any of us assembled here."
"And if you two wanted to be remain hidden in order to spy, I suggest you learn to be far more quiet and not wear colors that bring out your exact hiding spot. Making sure you have no shadow may be a good tip too." Aragorn added towards Goldie and Tom's hiding spot clearly having spotted the two hobbits hiding and judging by Gandalf's non amused question he had noticed them too. "Come out of there."
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Post by True Love's Kiss on Sept 29, 2014 0:26:02 GMT -5
"I'm coming with you too Mister Gandalf cause I--" Sam volunteer too, so Merry and Pippin wouldn't have to be the only two hobbits left alone with the wizard to help him keep an eye on all of their children, when he then stop, looking over at the direction where his kids were hiding when Aragorn had spotted them.
"Psst, I think they saw us!" Tom whispers to his older sister which had gone easily heard by from the adults, but he ended up getting a smack across the head by the whack of Goldie's hand. "You think?!!?" Goldie hissed at him grumpy.
But the two of them gave up and came out of their hiding spot. Clearly, the two of them had picked up the failing eavesdropping all too much from their father. "What are you two doing in here, coming in spying on us?!!?" Sam speaks to them,crossing his arms waiting for an explanation from them.
"Can we help it if we're curious Pop?" Tom asks with a shameful fake grin. "Is it true Papa? Are we going to see The Shire again at last?!" Goldie asks anxiously happy to hear where they were going.
"Yes it's true, but I'm only coming with Merry, Pippin and Gandalf with you to make sure the both of you are safe in our care! And the rest of their kids too!" Sam told them. It was too bad he couldn't just ask his wife Rosie to come along for this important mission, but it was not a vacation and he knew that his wife would be in good hands staying in the castle where she can be safe with Angel and the others, hopefully if no harm ever came to her.
"YES! I have been waiting YEARS to revisit the Shire again!" Goldie says excitedly. "Ohh I can't wait to see our old homeland again!" She added, letting out a calm sighed.
"Forget our old home, I want to spend time with the ladies!!" Tom smirked with amusement, but Goldie smack hard on the arm with her fist. "Can't you think of other things rather than your own self Tom?!!?" She shouted at her younger brother. The two siblings started getting theirselves in a fight over something so little that was so stupid and not a big deal, that their dad had to get up outta his seat from where he was sitting at the table, to only get in the middle of it to break up their squabbling. "HEY, HEY HEY! KNOCK IT OFF! BOTH OF YOU!" He scolded, pushing Goldie apart from Tom one way while getting Tom away from Goldie at the other end. "You promised me you'd be on your best behavior when we came here, didn't you?!!?"
"Sorry dad!!!" Tom and Goldie apologized at the same time guilt ridden. Sam groaned in such a frustrated sigh. "UGH! You are very much lucky you have only one child, Mr. Frodo!" The hobbit said directly to the king.
"EXCUSE ME?! What on earth is THAT supposed to mean?!" Frodo cried out bitterly angry at Sam, finding that most offensive to he would so much share such an uncalling thing in front of their old friends and companions. "Well I'd uhh--" Sam stammered nervously.
"Grace would of been happy to be a big sister, if not for the---" Frodo spoken sternly, but purposely stop from going over any further and simply look away trying to hide away the sad inner pain that he mourn of. He refused to tell the others why, but when Grace was still just a small little girl, long ago the couple were expecting a second child when Angel had gotten pregnant again and the news broke out around at their kingdom. Frodo originally had made plans for a big celebration party in honor for his upcoming new child once it had been born, but fate took away what could of been the best thing in their lives.
Angel had been 8 months pregnant, but had gone onto labor very early to deliver their baby, but they had tragically had lost it after it had been born. But though the two of them never got to see the body, they believed it had passed away as a stillborn. They still mourn for their upsetting loss whenever it came to them in thought, but still wish they could of knew what the gender of their child was for they never knew if it got to be a boy or another girl. They didn't tell it to no one expect for Sam, Merry, Pippin and Rosie.
Sam quickly pick up those signals from the upsetting king. He didn't mean for it to bring it up. "Ohh...I'm sorry Mr. Frodo." He said sympathetically. "I'd--I forgot about the--"
"It's fine! I don't want to talk about it!" Frodo accepted the apology, but try to resisted without simply telling him to just drop it while Angel was also trying to hide away her pain over it too.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Sept 29, 2014 0:55:23 GMT -5
"Never mind all that, Goldie Tom, you both may as well go and tell the other kids what is going on. Your parents will pack all of your bags." Gandalf told them.
'Im sorry Angel. Aragorn and I know how you feel.' Arwen thought in Angel's mind. Though she felt still irritable to what Angel had done with her son earlier she still felt bad for given everything else that was happening.
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Post by True Love's Kiss on Sept 29, 2014 22:42:01 GMT -5
"I should be the one to go and tell Grace. She has to hear it from me!" Frodo insisted. It would of been for the better while Goldie and Tom told Amir, Kassie, Arowen and Eldarion about what they heard.
"Uncle Frodo, are you sure that's what you want to do?" Goldie asks him a bit unease with that idea. "I'm not trying to criticize your option, but you and Gracie have been arguing since I can remember."
"She's right!" Tom agreed. He also felt doubtful because Grace had gone through too much on her failed up birthday party, and getting her stress out would just lead things more worst. "Do the two of you ever see eye to eye on anything?"
"Do as you were told!" Frodo told them, which also included the other parents to be packing their children's bags. The others left the room all expect for Angel who wanted to speak to Aragorn and Arwen privately alone real quickly while they still had their chance by theirselves. "Aragorn...Arwen..." She began saying, looking for the best way to apologize for her actions earlier at the library about their son. "If we don't come out of this war alive, I want to say I'm sorry....for....what I did." Angel apologized for the king and queen of Gondor. It was brought up to her attention that Aragorn had know how over what his wife Arwen told them between Grace and Eldarion.
"I'm sure your children are nice, but...I'm sorry, I can NOT be around near twins, or ANYONE's twins if I were to try. What Scarla had done to me ruined my life! She killed my mother and left me traumatized. Even a certain person born of mixed races such as yours or like my daughter can still have high chances of baring twin children of their own!" From the way she saw it through her own eyes, the hobbit/wizard queen still can find twins to be pure of evil just like her own evil twin. "I didn't want your daughter and son to found out about her this way!" She added sadly, stricken with guilt that Arowen and Eldarion had learn the awful truth why for years Angel had given them the cold shoulder for so long.
Meanwhile as the parents were getting their bags ready while Goldie and Tom were given orders to tell Kassie, Amir, Eldarion and Arowen about the plans their folks had in store for them, Frodo made his way over down to the halls til he reach to Grace's bedroom still resting sound asleep. Quietly did he enter in her room. So much memorable moments in the princess' room made the hobbit king thought about all of the happy times they used to share such as playing and telling tall tales. Frodo took a seat at a chair and sat down next to her daughter where he gently brush the side of hair away from her face.
Slowly did she finally came around to waking up again. "Dad?" Grace spoken "Shhh. Yes Grace, it's me." Frodo replied softly. Grace moaned, rubbing off the tiredness outta her face and sat up from the bed straight. "The ghost...I've seen her face before once. Who was she dad? And why does she look so much like mom?"
Frodo resisted answering the question, wondering if it was for the best if she should learn about the truth coming from him, but he had decided to revealed it. "She was your aunt!"
"MY AUNT!?!?" Grace commented in shock. She had never knew that she had an aunt before in her life, or used to. "Yes." Frodo nodded. "She was the late sister of your mother." He said, looking up to meet his daughter's gaze. "I never knew Mom had a twin. What happened to her?" Grace asks.
"It was long ago." Frodo began. "One day, your aunt turn evil and try to take over our kingdom. No one could stop her, but then...." The hobbit stopped before he could explain to go any further. "That was when I met your mother; she needed my help!"
"This...this all sounds very familiar to me. Where have I heard it before?" Grace pondered. The tale of how her folks met sounded strangely as but of a reminder she had heard before in the past, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.
Frodo got up from the seat and went over to the bookself that was just over next to the window and look through all of them to find the one book that would make everything all clear to his daughter. "Do you remember the book I wrote for you one day for your birthday when you were smaller?" He asks, but quickly found the book he needed.
"The one about the hobbit who rescued the princess?" Grace asks, not sure why that would be brought up now at this time. "What about it?"
Frodo flipped the pages of the book and one found chapter that had a drawing of a group of characters walking to their noble journey to complete a missionary quest. Then, he handed it over to her. "Look at this page and tell me what you see."
Grace studied the image quite carefully. "I see...a wizard, four hobbits, an elf, a dwarf and a..." She was saying, but then looking at it harder had she realized the picture of the group was very much like the ones she knew about her parents, Sam, Aragorn and even Gandalf. "This is real!!" She says in shock. "This story is real? Everything?"
"Everything expect for the ending." Frodo said. Grace scan through all of the other pages til she read the final note out loud of that last chapter. "And then they lived happily ever after?" What she had found was that the page also mention that after the couple had wed, years later they were parents to a lovely daughter. "I don't understand. How is this ending different? What did you changed in it?"
"Grace, I have not been very honest about you; You were not born after our marriage....you were born before we were married." Her father revealed.
First Grace had discovered she had a aunt she never knew about it, and now her own father, the king who came from a commoner life, was telling her right there that he and her own mother had bared their child out of wedlock? The poor princess didn't know what to say. She felt shocked. "So...what am I to you? Just a...baring mistake?!?"
Frodo sighed and shook his head. "You have no idea!" He remarked without thinking clearly when she had heard from him out loud. "NO WAIT! That's not what I meant!!"
She threw the book down on the bed in anger. "Save your excuses dad! I don't EVER want to speak to you again! I HATE YOU!!" Grace yelled angrily and ran off crying. Frodo stood quietly alone realizing the horrible mistake he had did and now he was hated forever, by his own daughter. "What have I done?" He mumbled to himself grief stricken what he had did.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Sept 29, 2014 23:16:51 GMT -5
"It was an overreaction Im sure and though I can understand that your sister may have destroyed your view of twins forever please understand that the children are friends and it is wrong to change that. Not all twins are evil, Angel, someday when this is all over, I know you'll see it but in case we don't survive this, know that we forgive your actions and it is our hope Eldarion and Arowen will as well." Aragorn was the one who spoke while Arwen nodded in agreement.
It was clear like all the rest of the parents that their thoughts were now focusing on the task at hand as they all separated to begin packing their children's belongings.
"Is it true? You're sending us away?!" Arowen demanded from her parents as she made her way into the room with her brother right behind her.
"Arowen, calm down. This is all for your own good. You will all be safe and well looked after in the Shire until things blow over." Aragorn told his daughter.
"But we can fight too! You trained us! Let us help!" This time it was Eldarion who spoke up.
Aragorn sighed as he stopped packing and turned to face his son putting his hand on his shoulder. "Eldarion, you both are my children. You both mean everything to your Mother and I and we will not risk your lives."
"But you'll gladly risk your own." Arowen replied bitterly as her eyes glazed up and tears began to form.
"No tears Ion-Nin. Your Father and I will come back and so will you. We'll be back before you know it." Arwen promised her as she hugged her and then hugged her son.
"Promise me, you'll look after each other." She whispered in Eldarion's ear before pulling away out of the hug.
"I will Nanaeth." Eldarion replied his voice choking up a bit.
An hour before dawn, the group all covered in dark cloaks all stood out in the courtyard prepared to leave.
'It begins...' Eldarion heard the whisper in his mind once more as he watched everyone else saying one last final goodbye to the adults who were staying behind. He forced himself to keep his head up and be positive but in his heart he only felt grave worry and sadness as he met his mother and father's gaze. 'Please do not let this be the last time we see each other...' He prayed desperately in his mind.
He and his sister had never been away from their parents before and were naturally taking it very hard and though their parents put on a brave face, Eldarion did not mistake the single silent tear falling from his mother's cheek or his father's glazed eyes as they waved goodbye and set off with Gandalf leading the way.
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Post by True Love's Kiss on Sept 30, 2014 0:02:08 GMT -5
Grace had not spoken a single word to her father Frodo since last night and when she had learn she was going with her friends to The Shire to be kept safe away from the war that will soon be coming by her aunt. Thankfully, they had Sam, Merry, and Pippin along to help watch over them other than Gandalf. She wasn't one to be holding grudges, but since yesterday how could she ever forgive her father for what he had said? She felt like she was not loved anymore. Grace didn't want to be send away either, but the only good thing that was coming out of this was maybe she would come at last to be seeking out the action and adventure she long fully dream of having.
A lot of their parents didn't want to send their children off, but what choice were they given to even if they may or may not survive the battle that would soon be coming? Tom and Goldie also bid their mother Rosie farewell with a goodbye hug also. They knew they would be fine with their father Sam long as he stick around with them and the rest.
"Be sure to always listen to Gandalf, your father's cousins and your uncle Sam. And try to stay out of trouble okay?" Angel reminded her daughter, getting a bit choked up.
"Yes mom, I will." Grace reply with a little nod and two of them hugged each other. Frodo stood quietly behind in the back away from everyone in silence. He dismissed himself quickly to return back inside to fetch something he needed to give to his daughter. With everyone all packed up and ready on their horses, Frodo return back carrying a small gifted wrapped present for the princess.
"Grace!" Frodo called, stopping her before she can get on her horse. "Grace, wait!" "WHAT?!?" Grace snapped. He had been had some excuse why before she can even go to leave. "Here, take this!" Frodo said, holding up the gift. "It's for you."
It was the very last birthday present Grace never had gotten to opened. "For me?" She asks, taking the present looking at it without even opening it. "I wonder what's in it." She thought curiously. Being a bit distracted by it, Grace was going to take her opportunity when Frodo surprised her himself by hugging her tightly.
It was a bit awkward for she didn't see it coming. The princess used one free hand to gently patted her father's back gently before making him break out of that hug. "Be safe!" It was all that Frodo tells her.
"Yeah err...sure! Well then...goodbye dad!" Grace spoken and quickly retreating back to follow the others as they set off. Goldie was a bit surprised to see that Grace didn't give her father a proper goodbye, but didn't bother her about it because it was none of her business. "What did he gave you?" The hobbit asks her, referring to the present Grace was still carrying.
Grace shrugged her shoulders, staring down at the gift in her hands. "I don't know." She took off the ribbon and rip off the paper. The gift had then reveal a little small black jewelry box. Grace opened it and found inside a beautiful golden heart shaped locket. But that wasn't the only thing she found inside, but also a small note.
"To our gracious princess on her special day; Happy Birthday. We love you! From Mom and Dad." She read the note out loud. "Ohhh that was so thoughtful of them." She says, swelling up with happy tears in her eyes.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Sept 30, 2014 0:17:12 GMT -5
"It's a beautiful gift." Arowen commented as she rode alongside the two girls over at the locket in Grace's hand.
Eldarion rode alongside of Gandalf lost in his own thoughts until hearing the old wizard talk to him managed to snap him out of them. "You have no need to be worried. Your parents survived several wars, this one will be no different." He told Eldarion as if he could guess the young half elfling prince's thoughts.
"You're sure?" He asked him letting himself feel a bit of hope flitter inside his chest. Surely if Gandalf had said it was so, then it would be right?
Gandalf didn't answer him however as he called to Grace over his shoulder "You must remember to leave your name behind you, Gracious Baggins. It would not be wise if anyone knew your real name and the same goes for you, Eldarion. Those names will draw too much attention to yourselves."
"So what should I call myself then?" Eldarion asked though he didn't look too pleased about having to change his name. "Choose what you will but remember to choose wisely." The wizard told them.
"Hey I know! You can call yourself Henry or Bill or Jack or Arthur." Amir gave Eldarion suggestions for his name change along with several other ones to which Eldarion shook his head. "Thanks Amir but I'd rather not be called Bob." Eldarion replied begrudgingly before taking a moment to think of a name.
"Hmm...call me...Aramis..Yea. Aramis I guess." He added with a shrug.
"Aramis? That's going to take some time to get used to. Do I have to call you it all the time?" Arowen replied.
"Only when you are in the company of others or hearing distance of others. Behind closed doors of Bag End, you should be fine." Gandalf told them.
"What are you going to name yourself Gracie?" Amir asked his cousin.
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