lure

Middle Earth Story

We are mortal, Legolas, we will die, sooner or later.

No, Mello, no…

Let me do this, Legolas, that is my density, not yours.

“Ok, if you do not tell us your name, then I will force you to !”           

Gimli put up his axes, the blue wizard smile slightly, pull her weapon out from behind.

“A whip?! Haha! Poor man, I am gonna win you easily!”

Gimli smirking, then he lunged at the blue wizard, but he suddenly stops, causes the whip nearly knocked off his helmet.

The wizard’s move made everyone raise their arms. Legolas point the blue wizard with his arrow and Argon raise his sword.

“It is easy to take you down.” The blue wizard says.

“you little……”

“Low your weapon! ” Argon says loudly.

“Or ?”

“Or we will take you down,” Legolas says.

“Very well……” the blue wizard hold her whip tightly, prepare for the fight. 

However, Gandalf suddenly shows himself and stop this fight.

“Stop! ALL OF YOU !” Gandalf yelled, “she is not our enemy, she is lures,  the blue wizard !”

“Gandalf.” Lures remove the hood, greeting with a smile.

“Lures, what are you doing here? Wandering on the Middle Earth.” Gandalf asks Lures with the suspect.

“Carry out  my duty, just like you, my friend.” Lures put her whip back, walk to Gandalf.

“We need to talk.”

A few far away from the others, Lures and Gandalf have a secret conversation.

Glimi sits on a rock.

“Oh my, I cannot believe I was beaten by a little girl! A witch !”

“Gimli, she is not a little girl, just look like it.”Argon sits beside Gimli and smoking.

Legolas stand up and watch two wizards talk.

He had a feeling, their conversation had something to do with him. Is something happen in Mirkwood?

Lures and Gandalf

“Gandalf, there is an army approaching the Mirkwood realm, almost half of the Mordor army, if we cannot do something Mirkwood will fall.” Lures say.

“That is why you here, to find someone to help Thranduil.”

“yes, and you know the Mirkwood is close by the lonely mountain, if Mirkwood fall, then nothing can defend the Mordor army, the Middle Earth will fall back to the dark again.”

“my friend, I do know it, but I am sorry there is no other strength can help you, if you do not want the middle earth fall then Thranduil must face this situation alone this time.”

“Gandalf……”

“I'm truly sorry, you must deal with it on your own. And our journey has been delay long enough.”

“yes, I know. We have our responsibilities. take care of yourself, Gandalf.”

“As to you, my friend.”

“and someone asked me to bring Legolas a message.”

“who then?”

“Tauriel……and Thranduil, they wanted to know if he was fine, and they are waiting for him to go home.”

“Alright, I will tell Legolas.”

“maybe no, we’ve got a lot of bad news, why add another one? Don’t tell him, let him concentrate on his task.”

“well, maybe he should decide this on his own.”

“maybe. but If he worries about it, then tell him I will stay with them and protect them until I die.”

"I will my friend, now go! We are running out of time!”Gandalf urging Lures to leave.

Lures nodded and rolled over onto her horse.

“Goodbye, Gandalf. Wish you good luck!”

“you too, my little girl.”Gandalf sees her off and back to his team.

“what's going on? Why did she leave such a hurry?”Legolas asked urging and full of worry.

“she has her duty to do, so do we. come on, I hope this conversation wouldn't take our journey so long.”

Lures ride two days to return to the Mirkwood and meet Thranduil immediately.

“so, there is no one come to help us?”

“I am sorry, my lord, darkness has already upon our land, we must do it on our own.”Lures feel sorry

“and how is Legolas? “Thranduil didn’t blame her, turn his attention to Legolas.

“He is fine. A little tired but fine indeed. They are going to Gordon, to finish their task.”

“very well, then we shall support him to finish it,” Thranduil speak loudly.

“Tauriel, send my orders, strengthen border patrol, expansion of the army, accentuation training, this battle, we must win!”

“yes, my load!”Tauriel leaves the throne room to give the king’s order.

“Lures, we don’t need you here anymore, go and leave. I will face this on my own.”

“my lord! I cannot leave. Please, let me stay and help you to protect your kingdom.”

“Well then, as you wish.”

“thank you, my lord!”

“what? There is an army approaching Mirkwood?!!”Legolas speaks loudly and terrifying.

“yes, Legolas, I am afraid so.”

Legolas wanted to ask Lures why she had not found a support force, but he knew in his heart that it was impossible to have additional troops to help his homeland in this situation. Argon patted him on the shoulder.

“I am sorry, Mellon.”

"That's why we need to focus on our task to destroy the ring,” Gandalf says seriously and gently.

“and Lures asked me to tell you that she will stay with your homeland and protect it until she dies.”

Legolas looks at Gandalf in shock.

“your father and Tauriel are waiting for you to go home, Legolas. They have faith, so do we.”

After listening, Legolas calmed down and made up his mind to finish the task.

The War has to begin

The elves scuffled with the orcs, the borders of the forest are covered with bodies, the goblins' blood was mixed with the elves' blood, and there was a creek in the meadow.

Thranduil is killing the enemy, and his robe is dyed red, and his face is covered in blood, and he has no idea what day it is, but there is some exhaustion between the eyes of Thranduil, but his blade has not lost his accuracy, and the enemy in front of him is going down, one by one, and behind him is Tauriel.

Tauriel had run out of arrows, she was fighting with her two knives, she did not know how many enemies she had killed, now she was fighting by instinct.

Suddenly, an orc pounced on her from the side, but she was fighting the orc in front of her, and it was too late for her to notice. In a moment of crisis, a slender whip swung over, rolled the goblin's head, and tore off.

“Tauriel, watch out !”Lures shouted in the distance. 

Tauriel turned around and see a large crowd of goblins rushing in, they are like the undead, and their numbers are not reduced.

Thranduil and Tauriel were surrounded by a new wave of orcs, and they became increasingly overwhelmed, and since the war began, they've never had a break, no food, no water, and the number of elves is dwindling, and the enemy has not. If they go on like this, they will run out of energy and die.

Lures watched the king and captain drown to the enemy, anxious as she tried to split a path with her whip to help them. But soon her whip was taken from her, and lures, without weapons, were a lamb to be killed.

“Lures!!”Tauriel noticed the unarmed lures and shouted with concern, wanting to rush past, But there were too many enemies ahead of her.

She heard Thranduil anguished groans, Gabriel's horrified head turned and saw Thranduil get stabbed in the abdomen by orcs.

“My lord!!”Tauriel moved quickly, brandishing her knife, as she approached Thranduil to save her king. But more orcs poured in, blocking her view, and the absence of Thranduil made Tauriel even more anxious.

“Thranduil!!”Tauriel shouted,Then a flash of bright light shook the orc to the ground, and Tauriel saw Thranduil kneeling on one knee, covering his wounds and looking miserable.

“My lord! Are you alright ?”Tauriel asked.

“I'm fine.”Thranduil quickly turns back into an uncaring, haughty look, Stood up.

“my lord, you need to see the healer,” Tauriel said worriedly.

“I'm fine. We don’t have time to hesitate, there are more orcs to come.”

“my lord, you must see the healer, I can handle this.”Lures Run to come over and say.

“Lures, are you crazy?!! You can’t hunt them down on your own!” Tauriel suddenly stopped. This sentence reminded her of Legolas, She began to worry about his situation. The Mirkwood battles were so menacing, not to mention the fact that he confronted Mordor's army.

"I can, and I must. I gave my promise to Legolas that I will protect your and the kingdom until I die, I can't contradict my oath.”

“Lures, you don’t have to do this…”Thranduil says with painful.

“I couldn't find reinforcements. It was my fault. The king didn't blame me. I'm grateful. Now go! I will hold them as long as I can!”Lures run up and fight the enemy.

Tauriel looked at lures' lone figure, bit his lower lip, gritted his heart, and took Thranduil to the camp.

Hold on, Mellon!

Soon arrived at the camp, Tauriel immediately called in the healers, made sure the remaining fighters protected the king's safety, regained some weapons and went to war.

The healer chamber

“Just give me quick care and I'm going back to war,” Thranduil ordered.

“but my lord, Your wound is too deep…”

“DO WHAT I SAID !!”Thranduil shout.

“yes, my lord!”

 

“Lures!!” with a loud shout, Tauriel jump out of the air and thrust a knife into the spider's head, A whirl, shooting several orcs in the air. Tauriel resolves the orcs insight with a dagger and shoots enemies from a distance around Lures.

Lures wield the staff to bring down the enemy, but not to death. She had no time to get a weapon. A fierce wind suddenly swept over her ears, lures eyes, a sword in her right side of the orc chest. She pulled out the sword and went back to deal with the enemy behind her. In the distance, Tauriel solved one of her enemies and smiled at Lures.

With a sword, lures have confidence and strength, She cut down the enemy's strength, and hold them on the ground.

“you cannot go further, Here will be your burial place!”Lures yells, cut off one enemy’s head.

Suddenly, there was a horn. Tauriel looked back and saw the king coming with the remaining soldiers on horseback, Knock out a piece of the orc. 

“My lord!!”

“Tauriel, Push them off the border!” The presence of Thranduil, which is encouraging, the rest of the soldiers continue to kill the orcs and slowly forces the enemy out of the country.

They held the border and killed all the enemies who tried to cross it.

As the enemy prepared for a new attack, the earth suddenly shook and there was a loud bang from the far east. Everyone looked east. It is Mordor's stronghold, something happened there.

“I can feel the evil power is reducing… they succeeded !”Lures shout with joy. “they destroy the ring!!” 

“Legolas…” Tauriel says. She worried about him.

As if to verify lures, the orcs begin to pull back and give up the attack, they run away.

“Hunt them down! Do not let them leave this land!!”Thranduil shout, give his first order to kill the enemy out of his kingdom. 

Tauriel looks at him in shock and joy. 

My lord…

All the elves rushed out of the forest and beheaded the fleeing enemy, The war was finally over.

When Legolas return to his homeland with Gimli and Gandalf, he is afraid to hear some bad news.

“Legolas, we are here with you,” Gandalf says gently. 

Legolas nodded, walk to the palace.

“Prince Legolas has returned!!” The guard stands in front of the gate shout.

Guards open the gate to welcome their Prince to his home.

When they reached the stairs, Legolas hear someone running this way.

“Legolas!”

“Tauriel!”

Tauriel threw herself into Legolas arms and held him tightly, and Legolas also held her hard.

Gimli's eyes and mouth were wide open, and he looked at the hugging couple in surprise, while Gandalf looked at them with a pleased smile.

Taruiel left his arms, dark green eyes gazing lovingly at Legolas.

“Welcome home, Mellon.”

Legolas smiled at Tauriel, his heart filled with joy and happiness.

“yes, I am at home.”

“Your father is waiting for you,” Tauriel says. She accompanies them to meet the king.

On throne room

Thranduil sits his throne with his coolness face, but when he sees Legolas, a smile upon on his ice face.

“Legolas.”

“Father.”

“Welcome home, my son.”

“thank you, father.”

“Thranduil, my lord.”Gandalf greeting, and Gimli as well.

“father, Gimli is my friend, he saved my life on the war.”Legolas fearing that his father would not welcome Gimli, so he introduced him.

“you’re all welcome here. Tonight there will be a grand banquet to celebrate victory and reunion. now, go and rest, my son and my guests.”

On the banquet

Everyone’s face full of joy and happiness, they defeated the darkness and protect their homeland, they deserve to this. 

Legolas finds Lures, she is with Gandalf and Gimli.

“your highness.” Lures bow to Legolas.

“Mellon, don’t be. It is me should bow to you. Thank you for protecting my homeland and my love.”

They were looking at Tauriel not far away.

“You don't have to thank me. It's my responsibility.”

Legolas smiles.

“I have a question, why don’t you propose to her, after all this?”Lures ask him with playful.

Legolas wide his eyes, look at her in shock. His face teased Gimli, Gandalf and Lures.

“I will, soon,” Legolas said, looking back at the cheerful girl who has his heart.

The story of the blue wizard

Gimli cannot stand to sit here, he offers a challenge to Legolas, another a drinking game, but Legolas refused.

“My friend, have you not learn something on last game?”

“haha, lad! You afraid of me !” Gimli laughs loudly enough to draw others attention to him and Legolas.

“Truly I am not.”

“Master dwarf, I believe we have an unfinished fight if I remember correctly, how about we finish it tonight?” Lures suddenly speak.

“OH, yes, I remember that! Agree !” 

Soon, the match drew a large audience, they stood in an open field. The dwarf lifted his battle-axe, and the blue wizard pulled out her whip.

“I won't let you off the hook this time, little wizard.”

“I'm looking forward to.”

Suddenly the dwarves rushed forward with astonishing speed, Avoid the wizard's whip, quickly approach the wizard in front, jump up and cut down the wizard, The blue wizard turned away from the attack and wrapped the whip around the dwarf. With a strong pull, the dwarf spins and falls to the ground, All the elves watching were clapping their hands.

Gimli got up and rushed at the witch, Lures swung her whip around the tomahawk at the Gimli and tried to whip out a weapon, But Gimli yanked the wizard over, Another tomahawk chopped at lures, which released the whip to escape the attack. 

“Haha, now you have no whip!”Gimli laughed and attacked again.

Suddenly, lures pulled out two short knives from the side of the waist, As you can see from the tattoo of the knife, it was made by elf.

Lures used a short knife to block the attack of Gimli, and soon the situation changed. Lures' short sword made it very fast, and it was very difficult for Gimli to block.

“that is not fair! You use an elf weapon!”Gimli yelled.

“I am the protector of Mirkwood. Isn't it normal that the king gave me a pair of short knives as a gift?” Lures says, “ Besides, I never said the whip was my only weapon.”

“You crafty wizard!!”

“Lures' short knife technique is really good, It 's no worse than us,” Legolas said with surprise.

“of course she did, she is a worrier.” Gandalf smokes.

“a worrier?” Tauriel repeated.

“yes, just like you, my lady. Although we have a small number, there is a clear division of labour, and the blue wizard is a warrior among us.”

Tauriel stares at Lures, see how her attack Gimli with confidence.

But Gandalf sigh.

“what it is, Gandalf?”Legolas asks

“Though the blue wizard is a warrior among us, still lures she is more of a warrior than a wizard.”

“Why?”

“Because she lost her family, mona, another blue wizard, killed by orcs. Although they are separated on the middle earth, their relationship is so strong that it generates telepathy, a form of communication that only belongs to them, even if separated by tens of thousands of miles, they can feel each other's presence. Until that day, Sauron led the army of the orcs to invade middle-earth, and lures lost the connection to mona, and after the war, lures discovered that mona's body was hung on a high wall. Since then, I have never seen lures, and I knew that her hatred of the orcs grew stronger every day.”

“these foul creatures!！！” Legolas said with resentment

“what about mona？did she had a second live？” Tauriel ask

“oh yes。”

“ where is she now？”

“She was born again for a noble female elf, married to a majestic king, gave birth to a child for him, but unfortunately died in the battle of gondolas, killed by orcs again,” Gandalf said, looking at Legolas.

“my mother?”Legolas wide his eyes with shock.

“yes, my friend.”

He looked incredulously at lures, and she had just finished the match with Gimli, which she won. Everyone was clapping for her, and Legolas noticed his father looking for lures, a smile on his lips, a look of pride.he had rarely seen such a smile from his father, did she remind his mother to him?

“Legolas?” Tauriel asked with concern.

“Does she like her? My mother?” Legolas asks Gandalf.

“Her face had changed, but her memory had not. She was still the best fighter in middle-earth. Your father loves her and only her, and she loves you, Legolas, more than anything.”Gandalf whispered.

“Why didn't they told me?”

“because it hurt so much, and she didn't want to interrupt your life.”

“that's why she became the protector of Mirkwood,” Tauriel said

Gandalf didn't answer, he looks behind them, Legolas and Tauriel look back, they see lures

Stand behind them and stared at them.

“well, looks like Gandalf told a story about me.”

“Well, Isn't storytelling the most important thing at the party? Everyone wants to hear stories from the past.”

“Then you should tell the story of your destruction of the ring, not the story of a trifling blue wizard.” Lures speak loudly,” and I believe that is the story which everyone wants to hearing.”

“yes, indeed! Legolas, why don't you tell us about your conquest, about how your fellowship destroyed the ring?” Thranduil agrees with lures' speak, urged Legolas to talk about his story.

Everyone clapped their hands and waiting for their prince to do the storytelling.

God knows that Legolas has no interest in telling stories at this time. His eyes follow lures, and he has many things to ask her.

“Your highness, your people are waiting for you.”Lures said, Legolas had to calm his mood, laughing to the crowd, Tauriel saw him leave, turned to find lures, but she has gone.

Tauriel found lures. She was sitting at a waterfall, staring out into the water.

“I know you here, come, Tauriel.”

Tauriel sat quietly next to her. She wanted to ask, but she didn't know where.

"What's she like?”

“She…well, I don't know, I haven't mentioned she to anyone for a very long time, and sometimes I even think I've forgotten what she looks like because we don't see each other very often. All I can remember now is what she looked like when she left me.”

“I'm sorry, it must be hurt.”

“yes, it is.”

“How can you bear it? you lost her twice, and if I lost my family twice I will die for a heartbreak immediately.”

“I have my duty. To protect the world that she gave her first life, and to protect her kingdom and the people she loved in her second life.”

“and now it is all over if she knows she will be very pleased.”

“yes, she will.”

“…did she will have third live?”

“I don't know, but if she has, I will know.” Lures cover her heart with one hand.

“will you leave with Gandalf? Travel around the world again.”

“yes, I will. I am a wizard, Tauriel, not an elf. the ring has been destroyed and the world is safe now, I will stay here until you married Legolas, to be the queen of Mirkwood.” the last sentence lures says with playful.

“lures!”

“what! Don't tell me you do not want to marry him.”

“I didn't say that.”

“if you worried about Thranduil, I will talk to him. remember, your fate is bond with each other. You are my friend, and I won't lie to you, trust me. Follow your heart, Mellon.”

“thank you, Mellon.”