An Experiment Gone Wrong

Chapter 13 - Mirkwood (part 2)

Mara ran forward, pushing the blond elf to the side, and shouting the name of her old companion but was stopped short when a guard leaned forward and wrapped their arm around her waist trying to stop her. 

"Let go of me," she cried out looking up at the Dark Elf she would never not recognize. She HAD to get to her, she was the reason they were there and maybe she knew how to get home as well. "Lillith!" She struggled against the guard who was joined by another person grabbing her other side. The blond elf had to hold back Thorin and Dwalin who were trying to be set free and yelling phrases along the lines of "get your filthy hands off of her".

Mara had enough of this shit. She was not going to let anything or anyone get in her way of finding her best friend and comrade again. She was family and she was a little piece of home in this foreign and hellish world. Mara put her head down to lure the guards on her arms into a false sense of security, but when the opportunity arose she shouted, "Mul..."

'Is she?' 

"Qah" Mara continued.

"Oh Divines, she is..." 

"Diiv!" Mara shouted, a full body of dragon armor encompassing her body making her take on the full look of a walking dragon. Bone looking spikes reached out of her arms which she used to throw the elves off of her. "Lillith!" She cried leaving behind shocked elvish men and Dwarfs alike. 

Lillith's POV

I watched as she used her Thu'um. I watched as she unknowingly proved herself to the elves around her and proved my word true as to what I have been talking about. I watched as the woman I have been trying to find and hoped was alive walked into the forest I have grown to know and love over the past year and a half with a full group of strange looking men. 

I watched as she took on Dragon aspects. I watched as the rowdy Dwarves stopped and watched her in awe, have they not seen her use her Thu'um before? I laughed to myself at the thought considering the woman I knew relied on her shouts and couldn't wait to learn another one. 

I turned just in time to hear the words "Wuld Nah Kest" and she was right next to me in a split second. 

"Lillith," she smiled to me but I had to do what Lord Thranduil wants me to. As soon as she came in for a hug I wrapped my hand around her mouth and whispered, "I'm sorry" before stabbing her thigh with an arrow that was poisoned with a paralysis poison. 

Nodding my head at a nearby guard to come pick her up, I looked at Legolas's face sadly and turned to start walking back to the Woodland Realm I had come to call home. I didn't want to do this, but Lord Thranduil told me I could use his Kingdom to find a way back home in exchange for my service and I couldn't turn that down. 

Third Pov

"Mara!" Thorin shouted out, watching with a red tint to everything as this woman Mara seemed to love and trust stabbed her with an arrow and Mara fell. He tried to run to her but she was out of sight before he could even get to her. Thorin turned to Legolas and growled, "What have you done to her?" 

Legolas pushed forwards with the dwarves and other elves and said only one thing, "you will see her again dwarf."

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Mara woke up and sucked in a deep breath of air. It took a second for her vision to stop spinning but when it did she was able to slowly stand up and take a big look around. She was in a cell, to a small one, but it was empty and she was alone. She sighed and slid down the wall trying to remember what happened and how she was here. Surely Lillith hadn't been the one to cause her to go down, but there were only two elves she knew that could make a paralyzing poison to not kill their enemy but slow down their heart enough to incapacitate them.