Chapter 15:
Chapter 15: Battle for Helm's Deep.
(In the forest of Fangorn Lana turns away from her fellow Ents and approaches the hobbits. Zach looks up and sees her coming.)
Zach: Rust!
(Rusty turns from pacing and hurries over as Lana stops in front of them.)
Lana: (to Zach and Rusty) We have just agreed-
(Lana's eyes close. Rusty and Zach exchange a confused look as they wait for her to continue. Lana remains motionless.)
Rusty: Yes?
(Lana says nothing. Her breathing is slow and relaxed.)
Ent# 1: (behind Lana) Is she asleep?
Ent #2: (chuckles) I think she is. Well, she is oldest thing in Middle Earth.
(Skippy taps her on the shoulder.)
Skippy: Hey, wake up.
Lana: (wakes up) Pudding?
Rusty: Your decision?
(Lana looks around before remembering what she was saying)
Lana: Oh right, I have told your names to the Entmoot… and we have just agreed, you are not orcs.
(Behind her, the other Ents nod their heads.)
Zach: (blinks) Well…that's good news.
Rusty: (pointedly) And what about Lucy? Have you guys come to a decision about her yet?
Lana: Don't be hasty, Rust man.
(Impatient, Rusty steps closer to the Ent.)
Rusty: Hasty? Our friends are out there. Risking life and limb . They need help. They may be the best heroes in film history, but they can't fight this war on their own.
(Lana nods her head in a very sage like manner.)
Lana: War? Yeah, that affects us all. Trees, roots, twigs…
(Lana leans closer to the Hobbits.)
Lana: …But you got to understand, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish…and we never say anything, unless it's worth taking a long time to say.
…
(The battle for Helm's Deep rages on. Uruks continue scaling up the siege ladders braced against the wall. On the wall, Lynn stands between two of the ladders and hits Uruks on both as they climb up.)
Lynn: Seventeen! Eighteen! Nineteen! Twenty! Twenty one!
(On the Causeway, Uruks advance on the gate, they move up in a big group holding their shields before them and over their heads . Rocks and projectiles rain down on them from the Rohirrim above. They get closer to the gate. Luna looks over and sees them.)
Luna: (to the elves) Causeway! Aim for the causeway!
(The elves redirect their aim and open fire towards the causeway. Uruks cry out in pain as they are shot and fall off to the ground below. Above, Hector looks over at the successful defense and smirks.)
Hector: Is this it? Is this all you got, Lucy?
(Down on the ground, Uruks move in lugging large spike ball vessels, filled with the blasting powder Lucy made. They pile it into the small culvert at the base of the fortress before hurrying away. From the mass of Uruk-hai, a lone berserker charges to the drain holding a torch. The other Uruk-hai cheer him on.)
(Up on the wall, Luna continues to battle the Uruks swarm. She looks down and sees the Berserker with the torch.)
Luna: (to herself) Now that's odd, why would he be running towards the drain with a lit torch like that? Unless…
(Luna begins to panic as she realizes the Uruks plan.)
Luna: Blimey! (to Leni) Leni! (points out the Uruk) Him! Shoot him before he blows us sky high!
(Leni pulls back on her bow and fires and arrow into his shoulder. The Uruk stumbles before righting himself and continues running.)
Luna: Kill him! Kill him!
(Leni shoots again and an arrow sprouts from the Uruks other shoulder, weaking him even more. The other Uruks keep cheering as the Berserker makes it and throws himself and the torch into the drain.)
(The wall goes up in a explosion of stone and fire as the blasting powder is ignited. Chunks of wall are thrown into the air, as screams from Elves and Uruks who didn't get out of the way in time are heard. Luna is thrown off to the ground below. Pieces of the wall and thrown bodies crash into the Uruks army. On the wall, Lynn and several Elves are thrown to the floor and shield their heads as smaller pieces of stone rain down on them. Luna lays senseless where she had landed. Hector looks over in shock at the gapping hole in the wall with the Uruks charging to get in. Unable to believe the wall had been breached.)
Hector: Dios!
(Hector looks back down at the Uruks marching up the causeway and sees they have reached the door. The front separates with several Uruks being hit with arrows, spears and rocks from the Rohirrim. Several Uruks holding a battering ram rush at the gate.)
Hector: Brace the gate!
(Inside the fortress, Rohirrim stationed inside the walls hurry to the door, and brace it with their bodies. The battering ram collides with the door, throwing them backwards. The Rohirrim shake it off and throw themselves against the gate once more. The Uruks back up to try again.)
(Above, Rohirrim and children drop rocks down on the Uruks. A Rohirrim throws a spear into a Uruk, then reaches for another. Instead of a spear he pulls up a golden statuette, he briefly looks surprised. But then shrugs and throws it. The statue hits an Uruk and drops him. He weakly raises his head as he notices something familiar about the Rohirrim.)
Uruk: (dazed awe) Wait, isn't that Peter Jackson?
(The Uruk-hai holding the battering ram continue smashing it against the door. Cj, Girl Jorden, Pirate kid and Stella join the Rohirrim above the gate throwing rocks upon the Uruks . Cj throws one and knocks an Uruk to the ground.)
Girl Jorden: Great shot!
Hector: Hold them! Stand firm!
(Over at the hole in the Deeping wall, Uruk-hai start to storm in. On the ground, Luna starts to recover and slowly lifts her head to see the tide of Uruks flooding in. She looks just as shocked as Hector that the wall is destroyed. On the remaining wall, Lynn looks down and sees Luna I about to be overwhelmed.)
Lynn: Luna!
(Luna looks up at her shout. Lynn clambers to her feet and charges the edge of the wall. Lynn reaches the edge and throws herself screaming into the Uruk-hai below, knocking several down into a large, deep puddle of rain water that pooled behind the wall.)
Luna: (worried) Lynn?!
(Lynn resurfaces and starts chopping into the Uruks in front of her with her ax. She smacks one in face , then hacks a second in the stomach ,before a third runs up and back hands her, knocking her into the water. Luna looks back at the Elves that had been behind the wall and therefore avoided the blast.)
Luna: (elvish) Don't just stand there! Fire!
(The elves open fire on the Uruks clustering around Lynn. Scoring direct hits. Luna raises her sword.)
Luna: (elvish) Charge!
(Luna charges towards the Uruks, the elves draw their swords and follow. The two groups meet. Luna knocks the pikes in front aside, while several elves are skewered. The elves and Uruks start hacking at each other. Luna blocks and Uruks shield and swings her sword at him, chopping his head clean off.)
Uruk: (awed) The blade! So sharp it took his head off!
Leni: (on the wall) Hey you guys! Don't start up again, without me!
(Leni grabs a discarded Uruk shield and slides it across the stone before leaping on it and riding it down the steps. Leni fires away at the Uruks in and around the steps. Then just before it can hit the ground, Leni leaps off , sending the shield flying to impale and Uruk in the chest. On the wall, the elves still holding , Carol among them, watch and shake their heads.)
Carol: (exasperated) Show off.
(Leni pulls an arrow from her quiver and quickly stabs and Uruk in the face. Lynn finally manages to raise her head above the water. Luna helps her to her feet and the two join Leni and the elves in fighting back the Uruks.)
…
(Rusty and Zach now stand in the midst of the Ents. Lana looks down on them and shakes her head.)
Lana: (grim) We Ents, can not hold back this storm. We have to weather this as we always have.
Rusty: (upset) How can that be your decision!?
Skippy: (defensive) Hey don't look at me. I voted that we did fight. I got Rowan trees to avenge.
Lana: (to Skippy) Quiet Skip. (to the hobbits) This is not our war.
Rusty: (yells) But you're part of this world! (looks pleadingly at the Ents) Aren't you?
(Above the hobbits, the Ents look back and forth between themselves.)
Rusty: You gotta help! You can't just hang out, in the woods doing nothing.
Ent #1: Why not? Worked during the last bunch of wars.
Rusty: You must do something.
(The Ents remain silent. Lana looks back and forth between yhem before looking down on the hobbits.)
Lana: You got a lot of guts little hobbits, and your young. But your part in this tale is over. Go back to your home.
(Lana turns away from the hobbits. Rusty looks like he wants to argue, but says nothing. He heads to the tree, he left his coat on, and slips into it. Zach follows him. Noticing how sad Rusty looks, Zach tries to console him.)
Zach: Maybe Lana has a point. Maybe it's for the best. We don't belong here , Rust. It's too big for us, and not just cause we're hobbits. I mean look at us, we're just comic relief. And what can comic relief do in the end? (smiles) Least we got the Shire. Maybe we should go home.
Rusty: (faces away)You think the fires of Isengard will just stop here? They'll spread, they'll come to the Shire …(sad) and the woods of Tuckborough and Buckland will burn…and…(turns to Zach) And all that we love, all that was once green and good in this world will be gone.
(Rusty puts his hand on Zach.)
Rusty: There won't be a Shire, Zach. No more Loud end, party's…No more Flipee's .
(Rusty walks off, Zach takes in what he said and gets afraid.)
Zach: (aghast) No more Flipee's?
…
(At Helms Deep, the battle goes badly. The Uruks with the battering ram continue to hammer away at the gate. From his spot above the gate, Hector looks over at the hole in the Deeping wall and sees Luna and her forces are fighting as hard as they can. But it isn't enough to stem the oncoming horde.)
(Leni draws her duel knives and slashes at the Uruks in front of her. Lynn blocks another's attack before knocking him down and burying her ax in his chest. Luna, looking exhausted, blocks and slices at the endless Uruks. Over the battle, she hears Mr. Nakamura.)
Mr. Nakamura: Lunagorn! (she looks up at him) Fall back! Back to the Keep! Get your people out of there!
Luna: (in elvish) To the Keep, My people!
(An Uruk charges her to catch her off guard. Luna blocks him, and swipes her sword across his chest.)
Luna: Pull back to the Keep!
(All around her, Elves and Uruks fight as her orders are getting underway. Luna blocks another Uruk, before looking up at the wall. Carol is still fighting along with what's left of the elves on top of the wall.)
Luna: Carol!
(There's a break in the onslaught, allowing Carol to look over at Luna 's call.)
Luna: We're pulling back to the Keep, Dude!
Carol: (nods, to her guys) Back to the Keep!
(On the ground, Leni and another Elf pull a protesting Lynn towards the path to the Keep.)
Lynn: (struggling) What are you doing? What are you stopping for? I was just getting started!
(Back on the wall, Carol keeps calling for the other elves to fall back to the keep. Several other elves run past her, being closely pursued by Uruks.)
Carol: (elvish) Back to the Keep! Retreat!
(Carol looks behind her just as an Uruk lunges for an attack, Carol blocks his weapon and slashes open his gut. As Carol withdraws her sword, another Uruk pushes forward and stabs her in the stomach. Carol gasps with pain, but fights through it and stabs him in the chest. Carol pulls a hand from her wound to look at the blood, then turns to see the other elves heading for the keep. While others still on the wall get cut down by the Uruk-hai.)
(Carol struggles to remain standing until a third Uruk comes up behind her and brings his Scimitar down across her back. Carol gasps weakly and falls to her knees. Luna sees her fall and hurries to aid her.)
Luna: (echoes in Carol's ears) Carol!
(Luna charges up the steps to where Carol was, and Uruk prepares to attack, bit Luna knocks him aside and presses on, not even bothering to finish him off.
(Carol now looks very weak as she is bleeding out. Wearily she looks around at the corpses of her fellow Elves and Uruks that surrounded her. Carol falls backwards.)
(Luna catches her before she completely fell. Unfortunately as Luna gathers her in her arms, she sees she is to late. Carol is gone. Luna bows her head sadly as she holds her hand against the elf's chest in the proper farewell. Luna looks up and sees Uruks rushing towards her. Her sadness is instantly replaced by vengeance. She quickly but gently lays Carol down and charges to meet them. She ducks ones swing and runs to a ladder.)
(Luna punches the Uruk about to scale over in the face, sending him plummeting down. Then she grips the ladder and pushes off with her attached. Just before she and the ladder can collide with the ground. Luna let's go and drops into the horde below.)
Luna: Rock and roll!
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