Tears In Heaven
Chapter Eleven: Home Agian
(Author: Alasia)
"When will I see you again Daddy?"
"I don't know sweetie."
"Promise to come back?"
"Of course."
"Tell Mommy I love her okay."
"I will."
"I love you Daddy."
"I love you too Rhia."
Boromir stood from the edge of his daughters bed and left the room, quietly closling the door partway behind him before striking off down the hallway toward the Council Chamber. He knew Reighn was in trouble, he could feel the pain she felt. She was fighting for her life - and if they didn't hurry she would die, and their world would fall. He stepped up next to Legolas and Jairah and spoke, "Let's go. I will wait no longer. Reighn needs me."
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Reighn groaned and rolled to her feet, shaking shards of glass off of her clothing. Cuts and bruises rained her skin and the fog that loomed over the San Francisco Bay area was not helping in locating the Shadow. It was obvious that it was a higher level Shadow, or Reighn would have felt it enter the vecinity, much less her home. She was sick of this. Sick of all of this pain and madness that came with fighting the Shadows and their leader. Sometimes she just wanted to sit down and let all of it pass her by... But she couldn't, she wouldn't let herself do so. And so she fought on, praying against all hope that they would succeed.
It wasn't long until the Shadow attacked again, throwing spears of ice at her. She dodged as best she could, but a few still managed to hit her. She was weaponless, so they would have to duke it out the old fashioned way - with magic. She focused her energy, glowing green a began to hurl balls of greem electricity at the Shadow. She struck a lampole, it shook, then flickered and then fell, taking the entire block's lighting out with it. Reighn groaned and created multiple mage-lights, sending them out over the battlefeild so that she could see. It wasn't long until the two opponents began to exchange fire again. The Shadow traded between ice and water, Reighn ranged all over the scale and back again, throwing everything from blades of grass to metal beams at the Shadow. She was determined to win. No choice. She was going to see her family again.
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Across the street a bluish portal opened in the park and five figures stepped through just in time to see the power go out and watch the area plunge into darkness. They gazed around as Boromir ignited a mage-light and Gandalf lit his staff.Pale green mage-lights began to appear from somewhere to their left, floating out to certain sopts along the street and pak and stopping to light their designated areas.Boromir quickly tracked the source and sighed in relief to find that it was his lover.
"This way."
He went off at a jog, allowing the others to stay close. He crossed
the street and ran up onto the lawn, barely noticing the hole in his front
window or the glass sprinkling all around. He turned the corner and came
to an abrupt halt, blinking. He heard Jairah gasp in shock and Gandalf
intake a sharp breath. Reighn stood there, covered in her own blood hurling
random objects at a tall black Shadow. She was alternating between heavy,
modern objects and magic to keep her energy supply up in hopes that one
of the others - one of the ones that hadn't gone into hiding would sense
the battle. Boromir made hand motions to David while quietly drawing his
sword. The Scottish Celt grinned and pulled the huge double-bladed, battleaxe
off his back before the two began a wide circle in the shadows to approach
the Shadow from two sides. Legolas drew his bow and aimed, ready to help
if it was needed. A huge flash of silver-green light came from Reighn as
she hurled a huge bolt of mage energy at the Shadow. It took the hit, staggering
and then hurling an attack back at her inresponse.
Reighn didn't have the energy to move. She stared with wide green eyes
as the fatal attack approached her when suddenly something impacted her
side. She was hurled to the ground, a heavy object following. She heard
shouts in Gaelic - one she vaguely thought was Boromir's and - and the
shriek of a Shadow as it died. She looked up to see Jairah hunched over
her and her eyes widened, "You came."
Jairah looked down at her and smiled only slightly, "Yes."
"REIGHN!"
Jairah jumped back as Boromir ran over and fell to his knees, gathering
Reighn into his arms, "David, bring the others and a change of clothes
for me. I'm taking Reighn to the hospital."
David nodded and pulled out his car keys, "Take my car."
The red-head pointed to a blue Ford Explorer and Boromir nodded, tossing
his sheathed sword to David in return before gathering Reighn into his
arms, placing her into the back seat of the car and peeling out in a screech
of wheels.