Disclaimer: J.R.R. Tolkien owns LOTR. I DO NOT. Nor do I claim the Happy Gilmore line as my own.
Author's Note: At long last, I have updated! I hope you enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 12
Rion fired round after round and mowed them down by the dozens but they still kept coming. Would they ever stop? Whenever they struck one down two more would take her place and so on and so forth.
Just when it got hopeless help arrived…
Rion screamed as the girls slowly advanced on them despite the fact they had knocked out at least 100 Rabid Ones. It was almost like they were experiencing a very modern day Helms Deep…only it was two to two thousand.
A thundering war cry sounded behind them and two more additions dove into their trench. Okay, make that FOUR to two thousand.
"Luis? MOM! What are you doing here!"
Luis looked sheepish and shrugged his shoulders in defeat.
"She did the whole freaky SAURON impression and even threatened to imitate Gollum if I didn't tell her where you were. Sorry buddy."
Luis and his mother had both come with tranquilizer guns so hopefully they would defeat the EVIL MENACES before they ran out of ammo. Oh, they would owe Rodriguez after this one. IF they got out of this one alive.
Elrond finally got the hang of shooting the tranquilizer gun after shooting down five birds, two squirrels, and that poor tabby cat. Now they had even better odds when Elrond actually began hitting rabid fan girls. The first few that he hit, the Elf Healer grimaced. He trusted Rion in that no harm was coming to them but to see bodies start to pile up in a heaping hill with arms and legs bent at odd angles made him shudder.
Kacy had a bandanna tied around her head keeping her long hair out of her face and she stood up out of the trench looking in many respects like a commando. She was wearing her camouflage styled nursing scrubs.
"EAT TRANQ YOU SLEAZY BIZ-NITCHES!"
Kacy went into her 'Terminator' mode and turned her gun on automatic before aiding her son in mowing down wave after wave.
They were finally pushing the sea of Rabid Fan Girls back and gained a few yards. Elrond even got into it after a while and started screaming elvish battle cries in their direction. But apparently Elrond's tranquilizer gun jammed up and a few rabid fan girls advanced until they were only a few feet away from Elrond. Luis, Kacy, and Rion were occupied keeping the Rabid Ones from circling around them with heavy supressive fire, so could not aid Elrond.
Elrond frowned and began to panic as three, Rabid, salivating fan girls slowly circled around him like ravenous wolves. Elrond dropped his gun and faced them sending the girls his infamous death glare (as seen in The Fellowship of the Ring when Merry and Pippin invade the council). They lunged at him screaming incomprehensible gibberish. One girl made it over to Elrond and the other two tripped over each other and then began to cat fight trying to figure out who would make it to Elrond second. Elrond with quick elven reflexes side stepped the Rabid One's lunge.
Elrond grabbed her from behind and sent a powerful surge of his healing energy.
"GO TO SLEEP!" Elrond yelled.
The Rabid One fell over snoring and muttering something about her one true love. Elrond picked up his gun and found out it finally un-jammed after he had dropped it. He shot the two quarreling fan girls behind him before returning his full attention to the front lines.
Rion thought of something and told his mom his idea. She was skeptical at first and didn't think it would work. But then again it just might do it.
She speed dialed her friend on her cell phone while shooting with one hand. She sighed with relief when the phone was picked up after the first two rings.
"Kacy, it is SO good to hear from you again! What are you up to?"
"Oh, just playing a war game with my son and a friend at the park."
"Is that SCREAMING in the background? It sounds like someone is dying. Is something wrong?"
"NO! Nothing is wrong. We're fine!"
"Then what is making that unearthly racket!"
"Uh…it's just a bunch of girls."
"Doing what! Chasing Orlando Bloom?" Her friend sarcastically jested.
"Um…" Kacy thought fast trying to come up with a good excuse. Telling her best friend that she was in the company of a fictional character, Elrond from Lord of the Rings no less, would not be the wisest thing to tell her. Chances were that her dear, SANE friend would become like those she was currently fighting against. Her best friend would not be able to resist temptation and would sadly become an official member of the Rabid Fan Girl club.
There really didn't seem to be any hope of curing them. They were just too far gone. Kacy was forever grateful that it wasn't LEGOLAS that had dropped into their world. If it had been Legolas and NOT Elrond that had come to her house she would be foaming and as rabid, and as relentless, and as mindless as the Rabid Ones she was resisting. No doubt about it. She was not going to be a Boromir…she would resist temptation of the Evil Ones just as Aragorn, Frodo, and Galadriel (even though she almost failed), resisted against the One Ring. Her son needed her. Her friend's urgent tone brought her out of her reverie.
"We are playing capture the Elf, kind of like capture the flag only you take a hostage. They are losing and are pretty mad about it."
"Wow. Games sure do get sophisticated over time."
"Yeah they sure do," Kacy put her phone down as a fan girl dove at her screeching like a psycho.
"DIE!" The Rabid girl practically screamed and spit in her face.
Kacy smirked and casually shot her in the leg and watched in satisfaction as the FORMER Rabid Fan Girl fell flat on her face, lost to unconsciousness.
"YOU FIRST, SLEAZE BAG!" Kacy crowed in elation.
Another one attempted the same thing and Kacy's eyes glinted dangerously. She figured she would throw a Happy Gilmore line at the creep since it really did fit at the present moment.
She screamed, "DO YOU LIKE THAT!" right before she tranquilized three more in the gut in rapid successions.
Now Kacy could truly appreciate her son's love for paintball and lazer-tag now. I mean, tranquilizer guns were similar, weren't they? All the wasted years! Kacy retrieved her phone and had to reassure her friend once more that all was well.
"Do you still have your husband's Legolas costume from Halloween last year?"
"Sure, why?"
"Do you mind if we borrow it? I promise I will return it," Kacy had to bite back a snort. Yeah, return it in a million pieces if my plan works…
"I guess so. He won't care. He wants to be Aragorn this year."
"Can you drop it off at my place in like five minutes?"
"Sure, no problem! Have fun with your game! Tell your son I said hi!"
"I will! Bye!"
Kacy slammed her phone shut before crouching back into the ditch.
She had the boys promise to keep Elrond safe from the clutches from the wicked beasts before running back home. She got back to the house and begged one of her co-workers to do her a favor. He quickly agreed after she started to cry on the phone. Ten minutes later, her friend was dressed up as Legolas. He was very tall and had a slim, muscular build. If his natural blonde hair was longer he could almost pass for the real deal. From a distance, he looked like the REAL Legolas.
He also had an authenticated Mirkwood Bow that he got off of an online fan store for a hefty price. He wasn't that big of a LOTR fan but he did appreciate the weaponry.
She dragged him along with her until they neared the ditch and the war occurring there.
"Now, if it gets too dangerous, set this life size model of Elrond up and run for your life!"
"Okay, I really don't see what the big deal is all about. I mean they are just a bunch of elementary girl's right?"
"Wait here until I signal for you to come into view!"
Kacy slid back into the ditch and took up her position. The stupid twits had gained a few yards, in her absence. Oh, they would PAY! She and the others did their best to drive them back again but the four were tiring out and running dangerously low in ammunition.
"NOW!" Kacy shouted before blowing on a whistle tied to her wrist.
Her friend entered the far side of the park within view of the fan girls. Kacy piped in to make it more real.
"LOOK! IT'S LEGOLAS!"
At least half of the sea of Rabid Fan Girls stampeded towards her co-worker. He yelled in fear and began running for his life. The poor guy…Kacy began to feel guilty about recruiting him as a back up plan. Hopefully he would escape the swarming mass of mauling freaks and avoid capture. It was more of a fear of what they would do to him once they found out that he WASN'T Legolas OR Orlando Bloom that had her really worried.
At least it was working and at least their odds had greatly improved. Kacy smacked herself for thinking it. Unbeknownst to her, she just made the same fatal mistake that her son had made only an hour ago.
Luis was keeping up a heavy barrage of fire but some of the Rabid One's started to grow a brain. One of them climbed a nearby tree and actually thought of throwing a rock at his head. The rock impacted with his forehead and he cried out before accidentally throwing his gun in a stunned reflex action. It landed a few feet away and skidded to a halt. Oh man! Rodriguez is going to kill me! Why did I let Rion talk me into this!
To his despair one of the Rabid One's picked up his fallen weapon and grinned quite evilly. Man, if you added a mask and some gnarly, rotten, fake teeth, you would have a complete replica of an Orc. But truth be told, the whole Rabid Fan Girl complexion was terrifying enough in itself. She aimed the gun at his chest just to scare him a bit before she aimed it at an unsuspecting Elrond. None of the others had noticed the mishap with his gun and did not know that the enemy was now in possession of one. Crap!
Luis feeling bold stood up and in what seemed like slow motion ran for Elrond's position. He screamed a long drawn out "NOOOOO" as she fired the tranquilizer. He swore he saw the stupid thing spinning through the air in a superimposed slow motion clip. He leapt through the air, and took the intended shot for Elrond. Elrond in shock looked down to see Luis laying face up with a tranquilizer dart sticking out of his side, his gaze unseeing.
Kacy and Rion both noticed what had happened and in a rage turned both their guns on the girl and shot her down. Unfortunately, she released the trigger again before they completely incapacitated her and a tranquilizer dart struck its intended target.
Elrond looked down at the tranquilizer embedded in his shoulder before an all out grin spread across his ageless face. Rion and Kacy were bewildered and stared at him with their eyes nearly popping out of their heads.
"You should be unconscious right now! No one on this planet has ever withstood a tranquilizer of that magnitude!" Kacy pointed a disbelieving finger at what she was witnessing.
"They must never have heard of elven stamina when it comes to sleeping herbs," Elrond shrugged casually.
"But aren't you half human?" Rion gawked.
Elrond got the strangest look on his face as he plucked the tranquilizer out of his shoulder and stared at it in wonder.
"Aye, Elbereth!" Elrond's eyes shut and he slid down the side of the ditches' embankment, the tranq dart still clutched within his grasp as the drug took full effect.
"CRAP!" Kacy cried in shock. She thought for a moment that Elrond was truly immune to the drug. Not anymore he wasn't! Now his unconscious state left him more vulnerable and helpless than ever.
"Rion, guard Luis and hold them off while I get Elrond home!"
"I will mom! I will avenge our fallen comrades!"
Rion picked up Elrond's fallen gun.
"YOU WANT HIM? THEN YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH ME! BRING IT ON!"
In a rage, he took out a very large fraction of the remaining Fan Girl force single handedly. A few began to retreat in fear at this newfound display of fearlessness. Rion blocked their view of Elrond and walked boldly towards them firing as he went. His angry expression nearly rivaled that of the Elf Lord himself!
Had he remembered that one of the tranquilizer guns was still in the Fan Girls' possession, he would have recovered it before history repeated itself. But alas, he had forgotten in his blind rage. He glanced behind him and caught sight of his mother, with Elrond slung over her shoulder commando style.
Pure adrenaline was keeping them going and it was that rush that gave his mother the strength to lift the Elf Lord. But in all actuality, the Elf was rather light in weight compared to a man. So it was not as difficult as Kacy thought to carry him. As soon as his mother and Elrond were safely out of sight, Rion resumed his attack.
Kacy got home without incident and set Elrond upon the couch. She turned on the alarm system before leaving the house to fetch her son and his unconscious friend. Hopefully she would get there in time.
Just as Kacy was completing that thought, her son ran into trouble. He was on a firing spree when he heard an audible Click-Clack.
"Oh no!" Rion shook his gun in the hopes that he heard wrong and that his gun was still operational. But no…it was true. He was OUT of ammunition. The Rabid Ones' noticed his predicament and evil as always, they advanced upon him. He really didn't understand why they were after HIM now of all reasons but he knew it wasn't good. He turned to run and made it three feet before a sharp pain hit his buttocks.
How low and dirty was that! Rion growled and fought the swirling blackness in vain before falling beside his friend's prone form. It was then that he remembered no more.
Ten minutes after Kacy secured Elrond back at the house she ran back to where the boys were. All of the Rabid Fan Girls were gone! She ran down to the ditch and spotted Luis. An anguished cry instantly followed crushing the joy she had felt only moments ago.
Rion, her beloved son, was gone…
TO BE CONTINUED!
A/N: I know…evil cliff hanger again. Sorry bout that but I really need to get to bed cause it is late and I have a TON of studying to do for quizzes, tests, exams, you know, the usual college thing. Please review!
Thanks to my reviewers: elfgirl1616, Potterfan2006, Lilandriel, Nelarun, Elwing-Evenstar, childofthking, werecanigeteyeslikethose, and Psalm136 for reviewing!
