"Wow! He's fast," Elladan said with wide eyes as Maedhros and Aragorn clashed their swords into each other.

"Yes. Maedhros is one of the best swordsmen I have seen." Fingon said as he stood with Elladan and his twin watching the two. Maedhros moved fast to one side and dodged to one side as Aragorn attacked him. He did another fast side step and slapped the sword out of Aragorn's hand sending it into the ground a few feet away. 

"Not bad," Maedhros said moving some hair out of his face with his hand. 

"You are incredible," Aragorn said. "I have never seen any elf move like that," 

"It comes with training and a tenacity that's not easily found," He replied. 

Aragorn nodded and as he went to retrieve his sword he heard a cheery voice shout, "Estel!" He looked up and was met with Legolas walking over to him wearing his normal grin. Gimli walked by the blond elf's side as he walked over to Aragorn. 

"Legolas? Gimli? What brings you two here?" He asked looking at his two friends. 

"We came here to visit you," Legolas said. He looked at him and titled his head to one side. "Estel? What are you doing?" 

"Well I am training with-" He began but when Legolas looked up he gasped in shock. Maedhros winced a bit and was preparing himself for the normal shock of an elf meeting a kinslayer. Yet the blond-haired elf walked over and said, "You are Maedhros the Tall! A prince of the Noldor, A former high king of the noldor, and lord Himring!" 

"Uh. Yes?" Maedhros said raising an eyebrow. 

"It's an honor to meet you!" Legolas said half bowing and half jumping a bit. He turned quickly to the dwarf with him and said, "Gimli! This is." Yet that was the only coherent thing heard before a quick bunch of jumbles came out of his mouth. Aragorn gave a light laugh clearly used to the young elf's antics. Maedhros just stood there a bit surprised and Fingon was holding his stomach laughing. 

Maedhros shook his head and looked at Gimli and asked in Khuzdul, "I take it he's always like this?" 

Gimli looked at Maedhros in shock as he spoke the dwarvish language. "You speak, Khuzdul?" He asked.

"I do, I once a good friend of a dwarf by the name Azagha, King of the Broadbeam Dwarves." He replied. The two spoke a bit more in the language and Legolas looked confused as he looked between the two. Elladan leaned over to Fingon and asked, "Do you have any idea what they are saying." 

"Uh...no," Fingon said after a moment. Maedhros said one more thing causing Gimli to laugh Fingon looked at Maedhros and asked, "What did you talk to him about?" 

"Nothing that important," He replied. Legolas looked back at the two elves and looked at Fingon and went into a similar thing he did with Maedhros in getting excited. Fingon greeted the young elf with a smile and shook his hand. 

~~~

It was later in the day and Fingon and Maedhros were speaking with Legolas, Gimli, Aragorn, and the twins. Aragorn quickly explained what they were doing here, Legolas attacked the two elves with questions about Valinor and the time of trees.

Eventually, Fingon got enough of the elf's questions answered for them to move on. The conversation continued and eventually began talking about the war of the ring and the gs that transpired. "Wait," Maedhros said. "You have one of the Palantiri here?"

"Yes, why?" Aragorn asked. 

"My father made those stones for my brothers and I to keep in contact with one and another. It is possible that Maglor still has his." He said. 

"Aren't they dangers to use if you do not know who else has them?" Legolas asked. 

"They could be," Maedhors replied. "Yet, I know how to avoid them and how to keep this side locked so in case someone else is watching they will not see anything." 

"You can do that with the Palantiri?" Aragorn asked. 

"You can do a lot of things with it," He replied. "My father went a bit overboard when creating it." 

"Or when Curufin tried to fix his," Added Fingon. 

"Yes, or that," Maedhros said wincing slightly at the memory. 

"How did he try to fix it?" Asked Elladan. 

"Well not fix but add," Maedhros said. "He tried to add sound so two people can talk and not use visions and just use the stones." 

"And did it work?" Elrohir asked. 

"It did for two of them," Maedhros said. "Yet it did not last long before-well never mind the rest of the story does not matter. Yet, is it possible I can see it?" 

"Yes, of course," Aragorn said. 

Maedhros nodded his thanks and stood up with Aragorn and followed him out. Yet, before he left he turned to Fingon and said, "Do not finish that story." 

"I know well enough not to," Fingon replied as he turned to the others and they started talking about other things. 

Maedhros just followed Aragorn through the halls and said, "It is strange...you have a lot of Elros in you." 

"What?" Aragorn asked turning to him. 

"Elros. There is a lot of him I see in you, mostly his strength and honor." Maedhros said. 

Aragorn smiled and said, "Thank you but I am nothing like those stories of Elros Tar-Minyatur," 

"You forget I knew him personally," He said. "There are aspects that are very similar," 

"Well. I guess I should thank you for the comparison." Aragorn said. Maedhros just nodded and was brought into the room where the seeing stone was. He walked up to it and said, "Oh. This is Caranthir's." 

"You can tell who it belonged too?" Aragorn asked. 

"Well, his I can spot from the rest of them. Since he was slightly damaged after he-after he threw it out a window." He said. 

"Why did he throw it out a window?" Aragorn asked. 

"Let me give you some advice. There are things in this world that should be left unsaid and forgotten." He said facing him before turning back to the stone. He breathed shortly and put his hand over it and closed his eyes. After a few moments, he pulled away with a small gasp. He looked at the stone and breathed deeply. 

"Are you alright?" Aragorn asked as he moved to the tall elf's side. 

"Yes...I am fine. I just need to speak with Fingon." He said. 

~~~

"You know where he is?" Fingon asked as walked into Maedhros's room after he shut the door. 

"Was recently or still is I do not know," He said shaking his head. 

"Where?" Fingon asked. "What did you see?" 

Maedhros was quiet as he sat down on the bed. He looked up and said, "I saw the home we stayed in with Elrond and Elros when they were young and we were trying to retrieve the silmarils. Finno, the place was in ruin and falling apart. I could practically smell it from here if he is living there then his state is not good." 

"We should head there as quickly a possible then," He said. 

"I know," Maedhros replied. 

"Nelyo? Is there something else?" Fingon asked. 

"Yes," He said after a moment. "Finno. I saw some blood staining the floor, what if-" 

"Hey. Do not think like that," Fingon said kneeling quickly by his side. "We are going to find him and he's going to be fine." 

"But what if. What if he's very hurt or unwell...it'll be all my fault." He said. "All my fault for leaving him alone."

Fingon looked at his cousin and asked, "Was it your fault when Kano broke his leg after falling from his horse for the first time?" 

"What?" He asked. 

"I know you heard me, is it your fault if Kano broke his leg after riding his horse for the first time. Was that your fault?" Fingon asked. 

"No," Maedhros replied. 

"Was it your fault that Morgoth stole the silmarils?" He then asked. 

"Of course not," Maedhros replied. 

"Then how let's say Kano is hurt, how is your fault? You can not control things that happen to him. It was not your fault that the silmarils were stolen by Morgoth which lead him to this point, so none of this is your fault. Besides, if you were here then both of you would have been a wreck. Nelyo. Ninya malo, You can't blame yourself for what has happened to him. If you do you may as well blame yourself for a cat getting stuck in a tree or every bad thing that happens." Fingon said. 

Maedhros brushes a few tears away from his eyes and looks at Fingon and said, "You know...my brothers can be helpful at times." 

Fingon smiled and stood up and said, "Of course they can, they had you as a role model." 

Maedhros rolled his eyes at Fingon's comment but accepted it. He hugged his cousin and said, "hanta, ninya malo." 

"illume," Fingon replied as Maedhros let go. "Come. We should tell others about the good news we know where to look." 

"Right," Maedhros replied as he followed Fingon out of the room and down the stairs. They got to the main room where everyone was talking. 

Elrond stood up instantly and asked, "Is everything all right?" 

"Yes. We have a clear idea of where to start looking and given what you told us we should be able to find him very soon." Maedhros replied. 

"That's great," The twins said as they stood up. "We'll go get our stuff then."

Yet, before anyone could answer or say anything more the door burst open and a guard came running in. "My king. I am sorry but I have urgent news," He said. 

"What?" Aragorn asked. "What is wrong?" 

"A village not too far from here...it was attacked...orcs but there was something else there. The few survive claim what was there was a...a...a balrog."  The guard said. 

Glossary:
Quenya

Ninya malo - My friend

hanta, ninya malo - Thanks, my friend

illume - always