Fan Fiction ❯ An Angel's blade ❯ enter Esha ( Chapter 2 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
Middle earth after elronds council
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"the road to which the fellowship shall tread is a hard one Gandalf".
"No one said it would be anything else milord". Lord Elrond of the half elven walked with his long time friend and ally speaking of the things to come."Frodo and the rest of the fellowship must be ready for what is to come".Gandolf put his hand on the elf lord's shoulder. "Nothing can truly prepare them for this journey old friend,nothing can soften the burden they will all bare". The wizards age seemed to deepen even as the twinkle in his eye's were lost. Gandolf gripped his staff.

"All we can do now is pray and hope the Valar hears us".Elrond nodded and continued to walk.Both he and Gandalf walked together down the hall away from the council grounds.Elrond sighed and tried to distract himself from the dread that gripped his heart.The world he had come to love was slowly becoming torn apart.Alas no musing over frivolous matters could quill his unease.

Suddenly a wisper in the wind caught his attention,"this is the storm that lives inside".Abruptly ,roaring thunder filled the sky."What in the name of Eru-",but Elrond was cut off by flashes of lightening.Images of two silloueted figures appeared infront of them.One was a small girl with a round face and big laughing dark brown eye's.The other was a tall curvacious woman with icy blue eye's that reflected the indifferent way she looked at them.

Elrond focused his attention on the younger of the two.'This girl is human',he noted.She could be no more than four to five summers of age. The girl was tall for her age with strange thin clothing.But what really captured his interest was color of the girl's skin.It greatly resembled hardened copper or parched earth in its redish brown tone.Never in all his years had Elrond seen such a skin tone on any creature without fur.Her hair was just as strange with its thick looking texture and brightly colored but flexiable barret.

Gandalf studied the other just as intently.The woman before him had darker skin than her companion.But her skin though dark seemed to glow with hints of gold and forest green.She wore similar attire to the child next to her only her's was black.Resting lazily across her lap was a curved blade.It's steel glinted menacingly at them.This woman was anything but innocent calm,yes,powerful,definantly,but never innocent.Hot water began to coat the land of the last homely house.Fat droplets fell down to the earth as if the Valar itself was crying.

Elrond was the first to break the spell of silence."Who are you?".And as suddenly as the storm had come it was now gone.The image of the younger girl solitified completely before them while the other disappeared with the storm.The girl blinked rapidly in confusion and looked at her sorrounding untill her gaze met the elf lord's.

"Esha", then she fainted.