Author: Alasia Moonstalker
Legalese: I don't own anything LOTR, but I do own the three girls.
Genre: Action/Adventure/Humor
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Three insane girls fall through the History Class floor into Middle Earth. One has an unbreakable guitar, the second a multitude of cigarette lighters and is a disorganized pack rat, and the third is sarcastic and has no respect for authority.
Author's Note: Okay, the long awaited battle of Helm's Deep.^_^ I've been a bit timid to write this chap, as it's an extreem thing to write and I've no idea what I want to happen here - so, what you see is what you get.
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Chapter Ten:
It took Haley the better part of the next hour to find a good spot on the wall. She found herself next to Legolas and Gimli as she watched the Orc army come closer and closer, their torches sining dimly in the dark. Rain pounded down in them, making noises on metal armor as Gimli jumped up and down a little, trying to see over the wall.
"What's happening?!" Gimli demanded.
"Would you like me to describe it to you," Legolas asked, glancing down at the dwarf. "Or would you like me to get you a box?"
Gimli let out a roar of laughter as Aragorn appeared. "Let's hope this uncanny luck of your's lasts the night."
"Do not fear Aragorn, your friends are with you." Legolas said.
"Let's hope they last the night." Gimli grunted.
Haley looked at them out of the corner of her eyes before she shook her head and turned back to the vision before her. She grinned a little a hummed to a song in her head as she waited for Aragorns signal. She was briefly aware of Legolas speaking in Elvish as the Archers readied their arrows. There was a moment where no one dared to breathe, until it was broken as an arrow was released early and Aragorn yelled for the archers to hold their fire.
The Uruk that had been shot fell forward flat on it's face, and for a moment those around it stood, then one roared, and then another and all hell broke loose. They ran forward, yelling in the black speech as Elven arrows flew at them. Haley watched for her vantage point as the ladders were raised.
"Ladders!" Aragorn yelled in Elvish.
"Good!" Came Gimli's reply as Haley finally drew her sword and readied herself for anything.
Legolas took out one of the ladders and it fell back, crising dozens as another landed next to Gimli. Orcs began pouring over the wall as the archers on the wall pulled out their swords. The battle began for Haley then, as she brandished her sword and killed her first orc of the night, colouring the blade with black blood.
Parry, thrust, block, stab. It became a pattern as she stabbled, slashed, kicked and punched her way through the ranks, slowly making her way farther and farther away from Gimli and Legolas. Haley turned back the way she'd come in time to miss a sword in the back as she brought her guarded arm up to block. The orc's sword lodged in the leather and sliced into the skin of her arm as she whipped it away, the sword flying off the wall as she ran the orc through and backed up to avoid being landed on. She ran straight into someone.
Haley spun, coming face to face with Haldir. She grinned lightly, aware that he was staring at her. She had a split lip, and a cut through her right eyebrow, her face splattered with blood and grime. Her right wrist stung like hell and bled profusely. She was thankful the sword had impacted the top of her wrist, and not the underside where the viens were prominent. She turned back to the fight, grateful for the elf at her back as the protected each other while killing orcs.
She felt a jerk on her leg and she stumped slightly and turned to find the orc she'd run through rising, gripping her leg and pulling her off her feet. It roared something and hit Haldir, forcing the elf back as the Uruk lifted Haley and threw her. She let out a very shrill scream as she flew over the wall and fell into a crowd of Uruks. Somehow she'd managed to keep her grip on her sword as she struggled to her feet just in time to see an orc running at her with a torch. She turned to see the wall's grate piled high with explosives. She turned back around the see two arrows she briefly recognized as Legolas' before she dove out of the way. The orc jumped and the wall exploded, throwing Haley out, peices of rock imbedded in her right leg.
When she landed she was briefly aware that she was much closer to the gate of the keep than she had been before. SHe looked down and noted her now lamed leg before she pulled a long, sharp shard of the wall from it and ripped her tee around the middle and bound the wound in her leg. She rose painfully and limped along the wall to where the gate was and started climbing the rock face to reach the path to the gate.
She hauled herself up onto it just in time to see the gate cave. She gasped as long spears were used through door toward Theoden's men. She threw herself into the fray and took out spear wielding orcs while trying to get to the door. She made it and came face to face with Theoden before she spun around and brought up her sword in a defensive position, most of her weight now resting on her left leg as Theoden realised her intentions and nodded a little.
For a long moment Haley was sure she'd heard Aragorn's voice, but she tuned it out as she looked back at the orcs marching up the ramp. They were in turtled formation, with big door shields over their heads and on the edges. It was effective as nothing thrown from overhead would touch them. She took a deep breath, readying herself for her death and suddenly, the orcs scattered.
She heard a yell and Gimli and Aragorn appeared out of nowhere and she gaped before turning and crawling through the hole in the door as Theoden's men began to reinforce it. She emerged from the scramble and handed her sword to Gamling before resting her hands on her knees and taking deep breaths. She looked extreemly pale.
"Are you well, Lady Haley?" Theoden asked her. She looked up with a grin.
"As well as can be expected when faced with one's death, my Lord." She replied as she straightened and took back her sword.
She finished rising and took off up the stairs onto the walkway as another ladder landed and she went back into action. She blocked a sword intended for a boy about twelve and manuvered herself in front of him as she took the boy's sword and ran the orc through before handing it back to him. He was staring at her with wide eyes.
"To the keep!!"
She turned back to the boy. "You heard the man, get inside kid!"
Then she pulled the knife from her boot, spun and thrust it into the neck of an orc. It made a funny squelching sound before she pulled it out and headed for the keep. She passed Legolas as she went and shot her friend a grin before ducking into the inner part of the keep and dashing into the main door while it was still open, football tackling an orc headed straight for Theoden. She lifted herself, stradling the orc before cutting it's throat with her knife and heaving herself to her feet. The large wooden doors banged shut behind her.
The remaining men moved back and forth, using anything they could to barricade the door as Theoden stood in shock. Haley watched as Aragorn ran by her to talk to Theoden, followed by Gimli. Legolas appeared at her side.
"Are you well, Haley?" The Elf asked. She turned green eyes on him.
"Nothing a little morphine can't cure." She said with a grin, gesturing her leg with her sword. He looked down and winced.
"What happened?"
"I got thrown off the wall into the path of that suicidal orc just before the wall blew. A huge shard of it landed in my leg as I was thrown toward the gate. I'm gonna be a huge mass of bruised ribs and muscles by tomorrow." Haley replied.
"Ride out with me!" Aragorn was heard yelling and Haley and Legolas turned.
"For death and glory?" Theoden asked, looking to Aragorn.
"For Rohan!" Aragorn said.
Haley grinned and cleaned and sheathed her knife before heading off to find Edaen as she intended to ride out with them. She returned shortly after with the tall red gelding. Other horses were in the room as well. Legolas upon Arod as the sound of a bugle sounded. Haley mounted Edaen and raised her sword to the ready as she prepaired for the doors to give and the charge to be led.
The doors did give, and Theoden and Aragorn led the charge as those who could ride followed, cutting down as many orcs as they could. Haley was no exception to that rule as she turned in her saddle and stabbed and slashed her way forward. They made it out the gate and down the ramp when she finally realized what Aragorn had planned.
Gandalf had left them at Edoras, and he'd told Aragorn to look to the east for his coming at dawn on the fifth day. Her head turned and she grinned, there, on a high slope sat Gandalf astride Shadowfax, behind him rode Eomer and three thousand Rohirrim. She grinned and felt a new burst of energy as Gandalf and the Rohirrim charged and the tide of the battle turned, and the orcs began to flee.