The happy reunion was cut short when a Orc horn sounded in the distance. It was still pretty far away so it gave the others time to get to their stations. Haldir and Aragorn yelled for the elves positioning at the outer wall. Autheil, Legolas, and Haldir walked as Aragorn and Gimli followed behind.
"Oh before I forget." Autheil said and hit Haldir on the back of the head.
"Ow what-" he rubbed his head and was going to ask the reasoning behind the hit but Autheil cut him off "That is for leaving without a goodbye." she said. Legolas smirked and Haldir mumbled something about it not being that bad.
Everyone was in position Legolas, Gimli and Haldir were positioned not to far from each other. Autheil was running around the outer wall putting up the protection spell. She mentally thanked herself for already putting up a protection spell and concealment spell to hide the entrance of the Glittering Caves. Of course she left a torch next to the hidden entrance so they remembered where it was. Autheil had just finished putting up the protection spell on the outer wall, she passed Haldir who stopped her.
"Be careful, my sister." she said. "You as well, brother." He said. They then let their foreheads touch symbolizing family. Autheil smiled at him and then walked off to join Legolas and Gimli.
"You could have picked a better spot." Gimli grumbled as he was to short to see over the ledge. Autheil and Legolas smiled in amusement. Aragorn then came up behind them. "Autheil do you want to take command, they are after all your people?" Aragorn asked. Autheil smiled but shook her head "I already have to take care of the protection spell, I don't think they need their captain fainting on them. I will sound off your commands but you need to do it." she told him. She placed a hand on his shoulder "You can do it." she told him. Aragorn nodded and turned back to see the Uraka-hai army not that far.
"Well whatever luck you live by, lets hope it last the night." Gimli said.
"You're friends are with you, Aragorn." Legolas reassured him.
"Let's hope they last the night." Gimli said. Autheil punches him in shoulder, making him wince. "We'll she's ready to fight." Gimli mumbles as he rubs his shoulder.
Aragorn walks away from the trio and in between the lines of elves. Legolas pulls Autheil in for a kiss "Don't go to far." he tells her. "You be careful too." she answered with a smirk as they turned their attention back to the army approaching them.
Just then lightening flashes through the sky followed by the rumbles of thunder. The rain then starts to come down but the army of Helm's Deep stands unfazed.
Autheil spots the Uruk captain as he climbs up on a large boulder.
"Show them no mercy for you shall receive none!" Aragorn shout as he walks by.
The Uruk Captain raises his hand and yells, making the army come to a halt. The Uruks grunt and growl at them. Gimli then start to jump up and down.
"What's happening out there?" he ask.
"Shall I descirbe it to you?" Legolas ask and then looks down at the dwarf "Or would you like me to find you a box?" the Elf asks. Gimli to everyone surprise just laughs while Autheil chuckles.
The Uruks then start to hit their spears on the ground in unison as well as they bang on their chest.
Aragorn takes out his sword and there is a type of silence as each side waits for the first move. Just then a arrow flies down out of now where and hits a Uruk in the neck. "Hold!" Aragorn orders as the Orc that got shot falls to the ground face first.
"Well at least the guy killed it." Autheil commented referring to the man from the archers near the King's volley. Legolas and Gimli both nodded at the comment.
The other Uruks whoever were outraged and started to growl in fury. "Well we didn't come here for tea." Autheil thought. The Uruk Captain thrust forward and shouted orders. The Uruk-hai army now advancing on Helm's Deep.
"Prepare to fire!" Aragorn ordered. The elves loaded their bows and aimed their arrows. Autheil only hoped that her protection spell worked on both ends.
"Their armor is weak at the neck and under the arm!" Legolas told them.
"Release arrows." Aragorn yelled. The elves hit their mark, wiping out the first row of Orcs. The elves continued to fire but soon the Orcs reached the invisible force field. Each time a orc ran into it, the orc would fall back into the others behind him. Aragorn continued to shout commands as they tried to take out as many as possible. The ocrs then pulled out their own arrows and tried to shoot them but the arrow would rebound on them when it hit the spell. Autheil could see the spell starting to weaken as army of orcs tried to bust through.
Autheil put away her bow and took out her wand and started to reapply the spell. She could feel the spell start to drain her. Her eyes widen as she saw the Orcs bring in the ladders. They banged one by one against the force field and Autheil knew she wouldn't be able to hold the spell for much longer. The orcs that had retired all at once again to bring the ladders back up. With that, the force of the orcs trying to ram through the protection spell and Autheil's strength waning, she could no longer hold the spell. With a war cry Autheil's arm dropped as she tumbled into Legolas and Gimli who caught her with ease.
"Wow there lassy." Gimli said. Legolas held Autheil in his arms and pulled out her energy potion, he genitally poured it down her throat. "I'm okay, I'm okay." Autheil said as she felt her strength return.
Legolas helped Autheil stand up. Just then the protection spell was broken.
"Swords! Swords!" Aragorn cried. Autheil however grabbed her bow and started to shoot down the Orcs climbing up the ladders. But then like the rest of the
"Legolas two already." Gimli said.
"I'm on seventeen." Legolas said.
"What? I'll have no point-ear out scoring me!" Gimli said as Autheil rolled her eyes at the two.
"Nineteen." Legolas said a few seconds later.
"Really boys?" she asked as she shot down three more Orcs but neither replied.
Autheil pulled out her knives and began to concentrate on killing the Orcs around her as she made her way to the nearest ladder. Once she got there Legolas met her there. Together they pushed the ladder backwards sending it back into the crowd of Orcs below. Autheil sees form the corner of her eye Aragorn doing the same.
Gimli then stands on top of the wall in between two ladders and starts to count his kills out loud as he swings his ax. "Seventeen! Eighteen! Nineteen! Twenty! Twenty-one!"
Gimli's boasting starts to annoy Autheil so she starts to count out loud "Thirty! Thirty-one! Thirty-two!"
"Aw shut it!" Gimli yells to her. Autheil smirks "You see how annoying it is?" she said.
Autheil then looked to the causeway as she saw Orcs started to walk up. "Causeway!" she shouted to the archers and the hear Aragorn yell the same command. Auhteil takes out her bow and shot two arrows towards the causeway with her kin. Autheil felt a presence lurking behind her so she pulled out her dagger and quickly stabbed the Orc in the stomach, spun out of the way as the blow was about to come down on her and she grabbed her other dagger and slit the orcs throat. "Thirty-five." she whispered to her self before retrieving her daggers.
Autheil looked down at the wall as she saw two orcs carry huge metal spiked balls and placed them beneath the wall. The part of Autheil that was Hermione knew what it was...it was a bomb. Autheil saw as an Orc ran their was with a torch confirming her suspicions. "Aragorn!" she yelled. Aragorn saw what she was talking about and shouted for Legolas. "Bring him down, Legolas!" Autheil two pulled out her bow and shot an arrow in the Orc's left shoulder just as Legolas had shot an arrow into his right.
"Kill him! Kill him!" Aragorn shouts. Legolas sends one more arrow into the Orc's heart killing him. But then a different Orc grabs the torch and runs with it into the sulice.
The bomb explodes sending the orcs, elves and rock into the sky. Autheil is thrown back a bit onto the ground from the impact of the explosion. She groans in pain but gets up and looks around frantically for her companions. She finds Legolas and Hadlir fighting off Orcs near each other with worried looks but calm down a bit when they see her. Autheil runs towards the gap to see orcs run through. Gimli is under the water and Aragorn shout orders at the Elves behind him. They release their arrows and then start to charge.
Autheil pulls out her bow and start to shoot the orcs holding the spears in the first row from above, killing several. Legolas soon joins her side, before he grabs a Uruk shield and throws it on the ground in front of him, he jumps on it and slides down the stairs as he shoots arrows into the on coming Orcs. Autheil sees all this and smirks as Legolas releases the shield and sends it up flying into an Uruk's chest. Autheil grabs the nearest Uruk shield and repeats the same moves as Legolas who just smiles at her as she reaches his side.
"Aragorn pull back to the keep!" Get your men out of their!" Théoden yelled from their spot on the watch tower. Autheil hears this and runs back up the stairs near Haldir and starts to yell out the King's order.
"Retreat! Pull back to the Keep!" Aragorn yelled to the others. Aragorn saw both Autheil and Haldir still up on the battlements fighting.
"Haldir!" he yelled "Pull to the Keep!" he ordered. Hadlir nodded and yelled the same orders at the others. Legolas and another Elf grabbed Gimli carrying him up to the Keep. Haldir soon caught Autheil's attention and ordered her to do the same. Autheil was killing an orc as she waited for her kinsmen to get clear. Haldir wasn't going to leave without her. Two Orcs charged Haldir, Haldir blocked the first Orc and stabbed him in the stomach but the second orc drove his ax into Haldir's side. Halidr stumbles as he clenches his stomach but does not feel the attack coming from behind him.
Autheil watched as the orc in front of five feet in front of her raised his arms and brought his ax into the back of Haldir.
"Haldir!" Autheil screamed. She killed the orc on front of her and the grabbed the knives and decapitated the the Orc behind Haldir who was now on his knees looking at his dead kinsmen.
"Haldir!" Autheil said as she grabbed him by the shoulders to cradle his back.
Haldir looked up at her as his neck fell against her arm. "Fight Autheil. It's not the end nor is this goodbye." he said as he cupped her face with one hand. "Haldir." she said. "I love you sister." and with that Haldir's hand fell from her face and he drew his last breath. Aragorn came and knelled next to her. He saw Haldir lay limp in her arms and knew it was too late. Aragorn place his hand to his heart and then to Haldir's in a final farewell. The tears fell from Autheil's eyes as she heard the orcs coming up the side.
All both Autheil and Aragorn saw was red. Autheil gentaly laid Haldir's body down and then stood up facing the orcs advancing on her. She pulled out her wand and sent sectumsempra spells against them. She didn't want to use the killing spell because not only did she not like it because it was a Unforgivable curse but also because she felt that at the moment the Orcs deserved to bleed out, they deserved a painful death.
With one knife in one hand and her wand in the other both her and Aragorn fought with fury. Autheil spun and defended herself and Aragorn with her knife while she threw spells at her attackers. Aragorn starts to drag Autheil up the stairs to the Keep but Autheil pushes him off. "Go! I'm right behind you!" she said. Aragorn runs up the steps Autheil fighting off the Uruks but follows behind him. Aragorn makes for the Keep but Autheil returns to the battlements where she knows Legolas is at. As she runs arrows coming flying past her hitting the Uruks behind her. Autheil looks up and sees Legolas with two other elves covering her. Autheil runs right into Legolas's arms.
"Are you okay? I felt your pain." he asked frantically. "Haldir's gone." was all she could say before they were attacked. Legolas watched form the corner of his eye as Autheil fought with a fury he had never seen before. She threw spell, hexes and stunners and sliced at anything that wasn't on their side. She was not a Elf to be messed with during grief. Legolas finally understood her words from when they were in Lothloiren when she said that they could do whatever to her but if they touch the people she cares for they would regret it. Legolas was watching the consequences of the Uruks actions as he felt the fury that burned inside her.
Autheil caught eye of Aragorn and Gimli fighting alone in the causeway. Autheil quickly found some leather of a dead solider and conjured it into rope. "Legolas, get them out of there." she ordered. Legolas nodded and stood up on the wall and called for Aragorn. Autheil shot the Orc in the back trying to hold on to Aragorn and Gimli. She covered them in just enough time for them to grab on to the rope. She then covered Legolas and the two other Elves as they hauled up her friends to safety.
Autheil watches as the men start to fall back. Suddenly the Uruks break through the gate at the causeway.
"They have broken through! The castle is breached! Retreat!" Théoden cries as Gambling yells orders for everyone to fall back. The men start to fall back as ordered.
"Hurry! Inside! Get them inside!" Aragorn yells. Legolas grabs autheils' shoulder and pulls her along with him. Once inside Autheil and Legolas stand in front of the open door shooting down Orcs as the others make their way inside until the doors shut, trapping them inside the over-runned fortress.
The men quickly start to barricade the door as the Orcs try to bang on it from the other side.