This one is super long because of the battle... I let my mind loose on this one xD.. I hope you enjoy it, and I hope you like my little spin on it.

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Later, as dark fell, we were standing at our posts at the all, the sounds of the marching enemy growing louder. I had been hearing it for hours, but now that they were almost here, the sounds was almost deafening to me. I was stood with Legolas on my left, Haldir on my right. Gimli was on Legolas' left. I looked over to see Gimli straining to look over the wall. "You could have picked a better spot!" he grumbled.

Legolas and I just shared a smirk between us at the dwarf's antics. Aragorn joined us, and stood just behind me, as if to say that he would be looking out for me. I didn't need the protection, but I just assumed that Legolas had been talking to him again. Men! They never believe that women can be just as good fighters.

"Well lad, whatever luck you live by, let's hope it lasts us the night." Gimli told Aragorn. Just after he spoke, there was a flash of lightening, showing us the true extent of the army gathered below.

"Your friends are with you, Aragorn." Legolas promised him.

"Let's hope they last the night." Gimli finished, sounding less than enthusiastic about the battle.

"I must go and give the orders. I will be back shortly." Was all Aragorn said before he started walking behind the Elf ranks. "A Eruchîn, ú-dano i faelas a hyn an uben tanatha le faelas!"

(Show them no mercy! For you shall receive none!)

I saw the Uruk-Hai leader thrust his sword up into the sky and bellow. This seemed to rally the rest of the Uruk-Hai, and their shouts and growls intensified.

"What's happening out there?" Gimli questioned, once again trying to see over the wall.

"Would you like me to describe it to you? Or would you like me to find you a box?" Legolas asked him, with a grin on his face. Gimli's response was to burst into laughter. Well at least his spirits had been lifted from the sour grump not 2 minutes ago.

All of a sudden, an arrow from our ranks shot towards the Uruks, planting itself in the thick neck of one stood at the front of the ranks.

"Shit." I whispered. It would not have mattered if Aragorn had given the order to loose the arrows, but he had not. Someone had lost their mettle and let go of the bow string.

"Tangado halad!" Aragorn roared.

(Prepare to fire!)

"Faeg i-varv dîn na lanc a nu ranc!" Both Legolas and I shouted to the Lórien soldiers.

(Their armour is weak at the neck, and beneath the arms!)

"Leithio i philinn!"

(Release the arrows!)

I let my bow string go. It had been laden with four arrows, all had been a perfect hit, straight in the neck of four orcs stood in a line. I smirked. This was where I could really show off my skills.

In the dark, I saw Legolas' eyes widen. "So you have been practicing?" he asked, after clearing his throat.

"I certainly have. I never miss." I told him, confident in my abilities. He was just shocked that I may be a better archer than him.

"Did they hit anything? Damn not being able to see a bloody thing!" Gimli griped.

"Well master dwarf," I began. "It shall please you that I hit all four of my targets." I winked at him. "The game is afoot boys. May the best woman win." I laughed.

The order came for a volley, so once again, I nocked 4 arrows and let them loose, watching as 3 more orcs fell. One with an arrow protruding from either side of its neck.

No matter how fast we were sending the arrows, the orcs just kept coming, then I spotted the ladders. "Get ready Gimli, here they come." I told him.

"Pendraid!" Aragorn shouted, warning the army of the ladders that were coming.

(Ladders!)

"Swords!" I roared, being jostled left to right as the Elves around me swapped their bows for their blades.

I vaguely heard Gimli shouting something, but the roaring of the orcs was too loud for me to hear much else. As the ladders came closer to the wall, I aimed my arrows to the orcs at the bottom who were pushing the ladders up against the wall. I managed to knock down two of the ladders before they had reached the wall, also gaining some orcs for easy pickings.

"Legolas, two already!" I heard Gimli shout out.

"I'm on seventeen!" Was his reply.

I joined in on their little competition. "Only seventeen Legolas? My you are slipping! I'm on 25 myself!" I shouted to him with a wink. Gimli's face seemed to drop

"Argh! I'll have no pointy-ear out scoring me!" Legolas and I laughed at his resolute-ness and turned back to the battle.

"Nineteen now!" I heard Legolas call.

This battle was going well. So far at least.

When I next looked around, searching for my friends, I saw Gimli stood up on the wall, hacking orcs as they made their way to the top of the ladder.

"Seventeen! Eighteen! Nineteen! Twenty! Twenty-one! Twenty-two!" I heard his gruff voice calling gleefully as he made each kill. I shook my head in amusement. 38 were my total kills for the night so far, but I wasn't going to spoil it for the dwarf, who seemed to be having a lot of fun.

"Na fennas!" Aragorn suddenly roared, and my eyes swung to the Causeway leading up to the Keep. A group of Uruks were advancing in tortoise formation towards the gate.

I ran to get to a better spot so I would have more chance of killing something. Once I had reached a gap in the wall, I drew my bow and nocked three arrows and loosing them almost straight away. Taking pleasure when I saw three Uruks collapse and fall off the Causeway. I stayed there, releasing arrow after arrow at the group, watching them fall off one by one, that I was too busy to notice the two orcs with the bombs. It wasn't until I heard Aragorn shout for Legolas that I realised I was in deep trouble.

The Uruk with the flame was running towards the wall. It just so happened that I was standing just above where the bombs had been placed. I had only seconds before the piece of wall I was stood on would be reduced to rubble. I ran along the wall, gaining as much speed as I could, before jumping onto the other wall that was inside the keep.

I made it just as the bombs exploded, the place where I had been shooting the Uruks from, nothing but a big pile of dust and rubble now.

As the orcs piled through what was left of the wall, I made my way towards Haldir, using my dagger to slice the throats of orcs as I ran past them.

I heard Gamling make the call to fall back, which Aragorn repeated for the Elves.

"Na Barad! Na Barad! Haldir, na Barad!" He roared to be heard over the sounds of battle. This was it. I only had a few minutes to carry out my plan. I wasn't going to let a dear friend die when I could prevent his death.

I saw an Elf pick up Gimli and carry him to the Keep, the dwarf struggling and shouting as they went.

I had finally reached Haldir, taking up my spot to watch his back. And there was absolutely no way that I was moving. An orc would have to kill me first.

I saw the Uruk that would kill Haldir if my plan didn't succeed and I closed my eyes. I focused my mind into creating a small flame in the middle of my palm. The more I concentrated, the bigger it got, until it was about the size of a bowling ball. I looked into the eyes of the orc, its' eyes widened as it took in what I was doing. With a flick of my wrist, I sent the fireball sailing through the group of orcs, getting larger as it sailed through the air.

As it barrelled through the orcs, it was catching on the oil they had used on their skin, making an excellent fuel for the fire ball. Many orcs ran off of the wall screaming in pain as the fire was burning them alive. I turned to Haldir and nodded towards the door to the Keep.

"We'd better get inside." I said to him.

His reply was to drag me by the arm through the door as the others were getting ready to start barricading it.

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As soon as we got in, safely out of the way of the orcs, I spoke to Shadow, being too preoccupied with the battle to have spoken yet. 'I did it Shadow. I managed to save him.' I felt drained. I shouldn't have used so much power behind that fireball.

'I am pleased little one. You have come a long way in a few short weeks.' His voice sounded like that of a proud father.

'Thank you Shadow. I wish I hadn't used too much energy now though. I am so tired, and the battle isn't even half over yet. We still have to last the night before Gandalf gets here.' I sighed.

'I will lend you some of my energy little one. The soul bond we have allows me to do this, and you need it more than me.' At that, I felt myself become a little more awake so to say. The fact that this could happen made me grateful for soul bonds, and what they could do.

As we barricaded the door, Aragorn was stabbing the orcs that were trying to get through.

"Make way! We cannot hold for much longer!" Gamling shouted.

"Hold them!" Théoden ordered.

"Brace the gate!" Gamling cried out.

"Gimli, Selene!" Aragorn called us to him. We slipped out through the side door and came out on a ledge within jumping distance of the main Causeway.

"Come on, we can take them!" Gimli said, eager to spill some more blood.

"It's a long way," Aragorn replied.

"We'll make it you two. Even if I have to toss you over myself!" I grinned at my two companions.

I heard Gimli grumble at that statement and then mumbled something.

"What?" Aragorn asked, not hearing what Gimli had said.

"I cannot jump the distance! You will have to toss me!" He sounded upset at the fact he could not jump as far as us. Aragorn turned and held his hand out for Gimli's arm.

"Oh! And there'll be no telling Legolas either!" fixing me with a stern look.

I made an action as if I was sealing my lips. "My lips are glued shut master dwarf." A small smile on my face. Aragorn tossed Gimli over onto the Causeway, and then followed him. I in turn leapt over, and joined in on the fray. As we were fighting the Uruks at the gate, Théoden and the others were trying to make a better barricade.

I saw the orcs bring forward larger ladders than what they had first used, ones that hooked over the battlements of the keep. I saw Legolas shooting arrows at the orcs who were pushing the ladders up, trying to stop them.

"Aragorn, Gimli, Selene! Get out of there!" Théoden called to us through a gap in the gate.

"Aragorn!" Legolas shouted down from the battlements. We looked up, and he had thrown a rope down for us. I quickly grabbed my bow and sent 3 arrows at the wall, spaced far enough apart so I could use them the climb the wall. I saw Aragorn and Gimli get pulled up by a few of the Rohan soldiers, while I made my own way up to the top of the battlement.

"Pull everybody back!" Came the order from Théoden. "They're broken through! The castle is breached! Retreat!"

As we ran into the keep, Legolas and I were still firing arrows into the orc army, killing as many as we could.

We had made it into the Keep, safe from the orcs for now, but their constant battering of the gate kept us wary of battle.

'Come to me Shadow. Soon we will be riding out.' I told him, just as Aragorn and Théoden were talking about riding out to meet the orcs head on.

"You said this fortress would never fall while your men defend it! They still defend it! They will die defending it!" Aragorn cried out in anger. "Is there no other way out for the women and children?"

"There is one passage. It leads into the mountains. But they will not get far. The Uruks are too many." Gamling told him.

"Send word for the women and children to make for the pass. And barricade the entrance." Aragorn ordered.

"So much death," Théoden despaired. "What can men do against such reckless hate?"

"Ride out with me! Ride out and meet them dead on!" Aragorn suggested.

I felt a new air of determination around the king. "For death and for glory."

"For Rohan, for your people." Aragorn encouraged.

"The sun is rising." Gimli told us, remembering what Gandalf had told us.

"Look to my coming at first light on the fifth day. At dawn, look to the east." The wizard had told us before leaving with Shadowfax to go and find Éomer.

"Yes! Yes! The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound from the Deep one last time!" Gimli ran to the horn, and started to blow into it. Its deep thrumming sounding out throughout the deep. "Let this be the hour when we draw swords together! Fell deeds awake! Now for wrath! Now for ruin! And a red dawn!" the king shouted as he mounted his horse. I and many others were already sitting atop their horses, ready for the call to ride out.

"FORTH EORLINGAS!"

'Finally, a bit of action!' I heard Shadow in my head, glad to finally see some of battle. I threw my head back and laughed as we rode down the Causeway. I had my longer dagger with me, much lighter than my sword, and more useful for horseback combat. Aragorn, Legolas and I looked to the top of the hill to the East, where the sun was just rising over the crest. A white rider stood, then a man on a brown horse joined him.

"Rohirrim!" He shouted, calling his soldiers to him. "To the king!"

And so it resumed. The Rohirrim made their way down the hill towards us, racing faster as they reached the bottom. An orc called for pikes to move to the front of the ranks. But clever Gandalf. As the horses reached the bottom of the hill, they were no longer blocking the light of the sun, and so the bright light blinded the orcs so that they could not see.

As the riders made their way down the hill, they drew swords, ready to hack at the orcs below. I myself had drawn my sword to join in the fray once again. I was still on Shadow, he was weaving left and right so that I could hack at the orcs as we went.

With the last few orcs being slain by the soldiers on foot, it was over. The battle for Helm's Deep had been won.

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As we were gathering any arrows that we could use again, Legolas and I turned to see Gimli sat on an orc.

"Final count, fifty-one." Legolas announced to us. I smirked, knowing that I had beaten his by a lot.

"Fifty-one? That's not bad for a pointy-eared Elvish princeling." Gimli said, I had to hold in my laughter at what he had called Legolas. "I myself am sitting pretty on fifty-three." He smirked.

"Oh boys," I sighed. "You have much to learn! My last count was seventy eight." I winked at their shocked faces. Legolas coughed and spluttered at my count, obviously shocked that not only had Gimli beaten him (even if it was only by two kills) but I had beaten him also.

"Don't worry sweetheart," I wrapped my arm around his. "It's your fault for training me so well!" I giggled. He looked down at me and scowled, which made Gimli laugh even more.

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Woo! Well now that's over!
There was absolutely no way I could let Haldir die.. I love him too much! Plus with my ideas, he's integral to my story line ^^. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, as always please review, and here's a preview of the next chapter! Selene gets a bit of a shock! (It's also a lot shorter, and the last of my written up chapters, so updates will be slower)

Gimli gave me a look as if to tell me that I was crazy. Well, in a way I was. Legolas took my hand into his.
"Just breathe love. I'm sure everything is okay."
"Okay?" I shouted. "No everything is not okay! He's supposed to be holed up in his coucil room talking to grandmama not coming here to give me grief! Oh lord give me strength!"

OOO. Hands up who knows who is making an appearance in the next chapter!

I'll put it up when I get home, which is in about 7 hours.

Peace, love and happiness
Emma