THE DAYSTAR BY: GABRIELLA THE FAIR Chapter 27 POWERS FORETOLD

"What was she like, how would you explain her?" With a faraway smile, he looked up to the sky and answered, "She was the Daystar, lighting up the day during our darkest hour, warming the earth with her love." "She is as clear as the moon, as fair as the sun, and as glorious as an army under one banner"

To most she was a loving friend, her fairness lighting up the world, no matter what the weather. To some a companion, and one a lover and dream. Yet, many feared her dignity in her footsteps, power in her stride, and authority in her eyes. This is her story.

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"Ouch."

Raquel lifted her head, though put it back down as it throbbed. She heard a heavy breathing over her.

"What just happened?" she thought, and she strained her memory, until she remembered. "That would explain this arrow." she looked at her shoulder and saw an arrow, a black tailed one. She reached to pull it out, wincing at the pain to come, but something moved quickly above her. She lifted her head and focused on the ground below her until she could see them clearly. She then looked around.

"Boromir!" she said, getting up, but stumbling back to her feet. Her feet had been tied together with a strange looking metal. She brought her hands up and noticed they were also bound. The Orc stood far at a distance, sneering at her, but he only stood there for a second and he turned his attention back to Boromir, who kneeled on the ground, three arrows stuck in his chest. "Boromir, no!" Raquel said, as the Orc pointed his bow to Boromir's face. Raquel closed her eyes, an anger overthrowing her calm nature. She screamed and ripped the metal from her arms, just like it were a flimsy piece of rope. She grabbed Sunstone in her good hand and ran at the Orc, he took a knife and threw it at her. She dropped Sunstone and put a hand up. The knife stopped in midair, and she dropped her hand, the knife followed her movement. The Orc screamed in rage and took switched his aim over to her, shooting at her. She again put her hand up, put this time when it stopped, she brought her hand in and pushed outward, turning the arrow back in the Orcs direction. He moved to the left just in time, but Aragorn jumped on him.

"Aragorn!" she said, not knowing earlier that he had come. She watched them fight, in a daze, until she heard Boromir give a heave. She quickly pulled the arrow out of her.

"O, Boromir, I am sorry." she stumbled over to him and sank to her knees in front of him. She reached for an arrow.

"No, go away, I do not deserve your kindness. I have been so naive. I am sorry."

"No, Boromir, do not be." she said.

"Why do you forgive me?" he asked, his eyes lighting up, "I told you, I do not deserve this!"

"Boromir, everyone needs a second chance. Also, I pledged my allegiance to this Company, I will not let my companions fall without a fight. You will not fall, Boromir!" she reached for an arrow again.

"No, leave it be." he said, moving her hand.

"But, Boromir, I can do something, I can heal you!" she said, "Were you never taught to except help when needed?"

"Raquel, my time is up." he looked up at her wearily, death in his glance. "I am sorry, Raquel, I am sorry for everything I said to you. I am a fool. Legolas is right." he stopped and closed his eyes. "Raquel, please."

"What?" she said, her eyes anxious, "What is it Boromir?"

"Please, I ask you, though it is now in vain, but will you bless me?" he opened his eyes, a tear falling down his cheek. "You blessed the others and they live."

"Boromir, that means nothing." she said, her voice shaking.

"Please, Raquel, I only ask out of my heart." he squeezed his eyes shut.

She laid a shaking hand on his head and spoke in Elvish, ignoring the battle going on behind her. She finally finished and opened her eyes, only to find Boromir smiling.

"Thank you, Lady." he reached out and took her hand, she dropped her head and cried.

"Raquel." Aragorn came beside her, placing a hand on her shoulder. He was bleeding and had signs of battle all over him, but his face was sad and grim. "Let me talk to Boromir." she nodded and moved, letting Aragorn sit in front of him.

"They took the little ones." Boromir said, his voice shaking under his will to speak.

"Stay still." Aragorn moved his body over to rest against a tree.

"Frodo. Where is Frodo?" Boromir asked.

"I let Frodo go." Aragorn said quietly.

"Then you did what I could not. I tried to take the Ring from him."

"The ring is beyond our reach now." Aragorn looked at Raquel as she cried at his side. She still held Boromir's hand.

"Forgive me. I did not see it. I have failed you all." Boromir said, looking to Raquel, "Be happy, Raquel, go and fight." he squeezed her hand and let go.

"Goodbye, Boromir." she leaned over and kissed his forehead.

"Wait, Raquel, take this." he opened his hand and a jewel sat in it. It was shaped as a tree of a bluish-green colour. She took it in her hand and bowed her head.

"Thank you, Boromir, it is beautiful." She got up and turned, but ended up not moving. She stared and cried hard, her body shaking under its wrath.

"No, Boromir. You fought bravely. You have kept your honor." Aragorn said. He reached to pull out an arrow, but Raquel turned to him.

"No, Aragorn leave it." she said. Boromir pushed away Aragorn's hand.

"Raquel. What has happened?" Legolas came up from behind, looking on with wonder. (yes, you all know that look in the movie, the one where he looks REALLY hott!) She turned to him and shook her head.

"He is going to die, the Orc.curse that orc!" she said, angry tears now coming. "I hate you, I hate you!" she said to nobody in particular, but Legolas grabbed her.

"Raquel, please calm down." he stopped and stared at her shoulder

"You are wounded!" he whispered, staring at the arrow mark surprisingly. She fell silent, letting herself cry again. He hugged her and she cried even harder. Gimli came and watched the scene.

"Listen to her, Aragorn. Leave it. It's over. The world of men will fail. All will fall into darkness, and my city to ruin."

"I know not what strength lies in my blood, but I swear to you I will not let the White City fall, nor our people fail." he looked sternly at Boromir.

"Our people. Our people." Boromir whispered as Aragorn handed him his sword, positioning it on his chest. "Take care of Raquel, do not let her fail, she will be great. Tell Legolas this." he said more quietly.

"I will." Aragorn said.

"I would have followed you, my brother, my captain, my king." Boromir smiled vaguely, Raquel cried even harder.

"Boromir." she looked up, but her vision was blurred from her tears. she stard for a few moments, speechless.

"Raquel.It is over." Legolas said shakily. "He is dead."

Raquel looked at him again. He said not another word, and laid there peacefully.

"Be at peace, son of Gondor." Aragorn kissed his head and sat and stared at his face.

Raquel closed her eyes again, letting weariness, pain, and grief take hold of her.

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"Please, let her rest, she is grieved and tired."

"She has a deep wound, it must be treated. I hope that arrow did not have poison on it."

Raquel opened her eyes to find Aragorn and Legolas sitting down together at their old campsite, Gimli was standing next to them. She got up and her shoulder ached.

"How long have I slept?" she asked, her eyes adjusting to the light.

"For about a half hour." Gimli said, his gruff voice unusually soft.

"What about Boromir? We must give him a proper burial." she said, looking to each of them.

"Before we do that, you must treat your own wounds, Glinromen." Aragonr said, but regretted it after he saw the homesick face on Raquel. She sighed.

She looked down at her clothes. They were tattered and dirty, blood of her own and of Orc spread across it. On her shoulder was her wound. It was open and still bleeding though only a little. She got up stiffly and sat down at the Man's feet. Legolas turned quickly and got up, running to the edge of the River.

"Frodo and Sam have reached the eastern shore! Let us follow them!" he said, though he looked at both Raquel and Aragorn thoughtfully. Aragorn buckled on Boromir's bracers, looking across the River. Raquel got up and went to look on.

"You mean not to follow them." Legolas said quietly, walking to Aragorn.

"Frodo's fate no longer rests in our hands." Aragorn said.

"He will not fail, there is no need to worry." Raquel said. She turned to Aragorn.

"Then it was all in vain. The Fellowship has failed." Gimli said, coming between Raquel and Aragorn. Aragorn placed his hands on Legolas and Gimli, though he looked to Raquel.

"Not as long as we remain true to each other. We will not abandon Merry and Pippin to torment and death. Not while we have strength left. Leave all that can be spared behind, we travel light. Let us hunt some orc." He turned and placed his knife back in his sheath.

"Yes!" Gimli said, running after Aragorn. Raquel and Legolas looked to each other. Raquel winked and smiled at him, taking off and laughing childishly, running after the dwarf and easily overtaking him. Legolas followed her.

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"Goodbye."

Raquel bent over Boromir and kissed his forehead again. She took the jewel he had given her and put in her pocket. She sat by the boat and made no sign of moving. They had decided to bury Boromir by boat. They had lifted him into the last boat and arranged his weapons while Raquel had washed out her wound. She then came over and put a crown of leaves on his head, arraying his hair upon his shoulders.

"Raquel."

She struggled to get up, but found no strength or will to do so, her body and mind grieved and pained. She closed her eyes as tears threatened to emerge again, but she opened them, finding she felt as though she could not look away.

"Raquel, you owe him nothing, please get up." Legolas took her good arm and lifted her up, she turned on him, throwing his arm away.

"How could you say that?" her eyes blazed, but sealed inside was her hurt, "What did he ever do to you, My Lord?"

Legolas flinched at her words, she spoke his title in a mock respect, "Raquel, do you know what he said of you? He called you a witch and." Legolas looked up at her, but quickly regretted his words.

"And what Legolas? Let me see, a betrayer, or maybe a weak maiden wishing to be a man? Certainly you do not believe these do you?" she asked, looking at him, his eyes froze on hers, a tremor ran through his body.

"No, of course not." he muttered.

"Then why do you regard them?" she looked at him, a sound of pain and hurt in her voice, "I heard everything he said, I am not naïve, and yes, they hurt. His words stung, I will never forget them" she looked away, "But that is no reason not to forgive someone. You must learn to forgive and forget the past, Legolas." he closed his eyes in shame.

"How does she know this?" he thought.

"I know more than you can imagine, Legolas." she looked at him swiftly, and for a fleeting moment, he saw a wisdom and knowledge that made even the greatest look like children, weak and uneducated.

"You can read thoughts?" he asked in amazement.

"No, that is one gift I do not possess, though, for some odd reason," a small smile crept into her face, her brow raised slightly, "I have gotten better and better at reading yours."

They turned in time to see Aragorn push the boat off, they both watched as it drifted further down the River. Aragorn sang softly, followed by Legolas, both their voices filled with sorrow and sadness, but were silent afterward. Raquel then sang, and instead of the sad and grieved voice they expected to hear, her voice was joyful and almost happy.

"From the Gate of Kings the North Wind rides, and past the roaring falls; And clear and cold about the tower its loud horn calls. 'What news of Boromir the Bold? For he is long away' 'Beneath Amon Hen I heard his cry. There many foes he fought. His cloven shield, his broken sword, they to the water bought. His head so proud, his face so fair, his limbs they laid to rest; And Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, bore him upon its breast.' 'O Boromir! The Tower guard shall ever northward gaze To Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, until the end of days."

She sang, sweet and loving her voice was. It lifted the hearts of those around, but as she stopped, the heavy reality of this day dawned again. They were to begin they're travels that afternoon.

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so, that's the end of the fellowship of the ring! wow, that's like really weird! im already done with this book, only two more to go! lol, well im not sure what im gonna do, I definitely want to write more, but I have to think on it. Maybe ill just.wait, im not sure. I have some ideas of what I want to do, but I have to do some thinking. with the movie it was a lot easier, but now im basing this all on the book, so heres a real challenge guys! anywho, next chapter-the fellowship, I mean, aragorn, legolas, raquel, and our o so loved gimli r startin to go get merry and pippin! sry for the long wait. ova and out, cya guys!

*~*~*Gabi*~*~* PS- before u read anything else, I fixed up all the chapters (that's why its been taking so long!) ive reuploaded all the chapters with the correct Elvish puncuation. (ex, I said, Glinromen, when it's really, Glînrómen) So, go check it out if you like!

Mija- hehe, thanx for taken the time to read it, anyways! Hope you enjoyed most of it!

Lunan Starbright- yessssssssss! I did stop! I am so evil! *sniggers* I'm hurrying, I'm hurrying! *looks over at the fic hungry reviewers, swallows* and thanx, ill need all the luck I can get. Help! ^_^

Leigha- I won't end the story there, though, like I said, it would be really funny! evilness, yes I am pure evil! anywho, I don't know who I am scaring at the apparent moment. to be honest, I know what is going to happen in the movie, like new characters are going to be put in the battles.(coughtheyarekillinghaldirinthebattleofhelmsdeep,whichextremelyticks meoffcough) and another thing my fellow arwen haters might also get ticked at is I hear Arwen is going to be put in some battles! anywho, this is suppose to be a reply! thanx, I hope u keep reading! namaarie!

Borders- who are you? tell me! I want to know! I owe you big! thanx so much! im using it in the next chapter!!!!!!

A-mon Andne- thanx for reviewin! hope you enjoyed it.

Isabella- Raquel is ok, like you saw in this chapter, but will not be in the future! why?, you ask. Well, keep readin to find out! *evilness!* thanx for reviewing!

Princess Myra- yes, I updated and am updating as soon as I can. I like long chapters too, though they take a long time to write! I know, I am so evil when it comes to cliffhangers! keep reading! namaarie!

asdfgh- how do you say that? anywho, thanx, I like it too! lol ^_^

Elena- I'm glad you like it! I'll keep going! cya!

mermaid- hey, thanx for reviewing again! I hoped you liked! this was one of my favorite scenes too, other than the rest of the movie. hope you continue reading!