Fan Fiction ❯ Crossed Bows ❯ A Child ( Chapter 1 )

Crossed Bows

By: Tasha

Disclaimers: I don't own Lord of the Rings. It belongs to J.R.R. Tolken.

Author's note: anything written inside two asterisks (* words*) is what a person is thinking. And anything written inside two arrows (>words<) is spoken in the elves language. Enjoy J

Chapter 1: A Child

~Long ago~

Lynina held her tiny bundle close to her pounding heart as she ran though the crowded streets of the burning city. She knew that on foot she had no chance of escape from the foe that followed her. Yet, she ran not knowing where she could be safe from the danger that was in pursuit close behind. Through the crumbling gates and out onto the flowing fields beyond the place she had called home for so long. Into the mystic forest that stood many thousands of years old. She ran and ran until her heart felt as if it would bust from her ribcage and she could continue no further.

She looked down upon the tiny life in her arms and smiled down on it. Somehow, she knew this would be the last time she looked upon her only ray of happiness. As she held it close, she could her the creatures coming to end her life.

She rocked the child back and forth singing a song and letting her tears fall onto the tiny child's perfect face. As she continued her singing, the creatures gathered around her and snapped their jaws together in anticipation. Pacing around her they snarled and waited for the leader to give the command.

Lynina leaned forward and whispered her last words into her daughters ear, >By the grace that has been given to me, live on my child, live on and succeed where I have failed.<

With her last words she tucked her last hope under her body and covered the child completely with her own limbs. And with a screech the creatures rushed forward on their leader's command with their claws prepared to strike the huddled body on the beaten ground. A deafening thud rang through the ancient trees as the creatures' claws sank into the flesh of the now screaming women on the ground. Blood seeped onto the forest floor, staining it in its rich color.

After the creatures felt their work was done they pulled away from the pile of clothing and skin, and left the woods. Little did they know that their target still had life, even as small as it was.

With the last of her strength she pulled the child out from under her tattered body and with the very last of her power she summoned the animals of the forest to her frail life that was slowly dying. Out of the shadows, eyes appeared and the forms of a pack of wolves emerged out of their hiding places along the bushes. They made a circle around her and out of the circle, the leader came forward and stood in front her limp figure.

Slowly she looked up into the yellow eyes of the she-wolf now glaring down on her. Unable to speak, she simply pushed her tiny child out before the feet of the wolf. And with this action complete, the strength she had found was gone, her finger went cold, and Lynina's eyes closed as her spirit walked through death's door.

The she-wolf bowed its head and her pack did the same in respect for the dead figure before them and then let out a slow howl to show their remorse. Then, gently, the she-wolf took up the bundle that had been placed before her into her teeth and motioned for her companions to lift the lifeless mother and bring her with them.

Into the deep woods they trekked till they arrived at a cave set deep into the ground in the very heart of the forest. Next to the cave they dug a hole in the soft earth and in it they placed Lynina's body and covered it up, placing flowers upon it. And deep in the darkness of the cave, the she-wolf placed the baby down and decided to raise this child as a pup among the wolves of this land. And so the tiny baby girl became part of the Seshoni Wolves and was given the name Lynxinonia.