Title: The Children In Middle Earth
Author: Knife Hand
Feedback: Constructive feedback appreciated, flames unappreciated
Spoilers: Spoilers up till the eleventh Angel in Eva, no event spoilers for LotR.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Lord of The Rings or Neon Genesis Evangelion. I would buy them but I am broke.
Summary: The Eva pilots are transported into the world of Middle Earth and are looking for a way home, but some things have changed.
AN: Just to clarify in this I am ignoring the whole 'Rei is a clone' thing. She is the original and she bears no relation to Shinji whatsoever.
AN2: Another clarification, the events in this story occur between the great birthday party of Bilbo and Frodo and the beginning of the actual quest, when Frodo leaves the Shire, as described in The Fellowship of the Ring book, a period of 17 years. The Children arrive in ME three years after the party.
AN3: Hey, what's going on people? Seriously of the lacking in the Review department. Come on. I need encouragement. Plus I'm already working on the sequel so I got to know if this is good.
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"Lose!" Rei called out.
A rain of arrows arched through the evening sky towards the collum of Orcs. As the deadly missiles flew, Shinji, Rei and the other archers nocked new arrows to their bowstrings and loosed another volley of arrows as the first descended.
The Orcish collum broke at the surprise attack and ran for the trees on the far side of the road and safety. Or so they thought. Just as they reached the trees, Asuka and Faramir lead their troops out of the trees, their swords cutting through the Orcs. As the offensive drove back the surprised Orcs, Shinji and Rei lead their archers out of the trees on their side of the road.
The archers had switched from their bows to their melee weapons and they charged into the back of the Orcs. Shinji stayed near Rei, his fiancé, calmly moving through the forms with his Katana, Orcs falling with the slash of his blade. Rei danced, a deadly dance as she cut, blocked and dodged using her knives, her movements graceful and almost soothing to watch.
The warriors of Gondor gained the upper hand fairly quickly, despite the fact that they were still outnumbered. The Orcs, shocked at the brutal destruction of their comrades felt demoralised and defeated, thus many broke and ran from the battle. While many ran, a fair number of the Orcs did not. In the confusion of battle, it is sometimes funny what one notices, Shinji for one noticed that one of the Orcs that had cut and ran had stoped, it had its bow drawn and an arrow ready to loose.
Shinji tracked the path that the arrow would take and it lead to Rei, who was facing another direction fighting two Orcs, and winning. Shinji, who was slightly separated from Rei, began to fight his way towards her, hacking through Orcs. As the arrow was loosed time seemed to slow for Shinji and he kept track of the arrow, knowing that he must stop it before it hit Rei. Running through a final Orc, Shinji took one more step, brining him face to face with Rei, who had just turned around.
Shinji smiled, knowing he had beaten the arrow, and for a second Rei smiled back, then her eyes drifted down and Shinji felt a sharp pain in his chest. The force of the arrow caused Shinji to spin to his left, as it had entered his right side. An archer had also seen to Orc and had taken it down with an arrow to the throat.
Shinji dropped to his knees, he knew that people were talking to him but all he could hear was a buzz. He felt a sharp pain in the wound and realised that someone had broken off the arrow, and then he was eased backwards into what seemed to be someone's lap. Looking up he saw crimson red eyes and pale, ice blue hair and knew it was Rei. Her mouth was moving but he could not hear the words but she seemed to be saying 'Don't leave me." Strangely no one seemed to be fighting, Shinji guessed that the battle must be over and idly wonder if they won before he was claimed by the darkness of unconsciousness.
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Rei trust her knife into the neck of the Orc, severing its artery and causing it to bleed to death, like its fellow lying beside it. Hearing something moving behind her, she turned and came face to face with a smiling Shinji. Instinctively she smiled back at her beloved, and then she noticed an arrow had punctured his light chain mail armour on his right side, causing him to spin around and drop to his knees.
She looked around quickly, seeing the offending Orc fall, Asuka and Faramir were killing the last of the remaining Orcs. Rei dropped to he knees and examined the wound, luckily the arrow had missed his lungs and other vital organs.
"Hold on, Shinji. This will hurt." She said to him before snapping of the back of the arrow.
"Asuka, Get over here. Shinji's hurt." Rei called, lowering him into her lap and looking into his blue eyes.
Rei whispered reassurances to Shinji even after his eyes closed.
"What happened?" Asuka asked when she reached them.
"He took an arrow for me." Rei sobbed.
Asuka, seeing that Rei would be of no real help at the moment, took charge. Using the glowing embers of a stick, from the fire they had made to burn the Orc bodies, Asuka cauterised the wound after pulling the arrow out of Shinji.
Sending Shinji, Rei and another soldier back to Minas Tirith on the horses of the two messengers who had arrived in the last forty-eight hours, Rei and Shinji riding double so that she could support him, Asuka and Faramir broke the rest of the troops into small groups to head back to a hideout.
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"I don't understand. Why not?" Faramir asked heatedly.
Asuka and Faramir were in a secluded area of the hideout, away from the other troops.
"Look, I love you. I love you more that I have ever loved anything in my entire life, but I can't. Not the way things are." Asuka replied.
"What's wrong with how things are?"
"Don't you get it?" Asuka demanded. "I'm not from here, and one day I'm going to have to go home, or the world I come from will be totally destroyed. What I face there is more dangerous than the entire of Mordor and only Shinji, Rei and myself can face it. I love you so much, but I can not and will not bring myself to leave the man I marry, so I either marry you and let a world die, or I don't hand have the chance to save it."
"I think I understand."
"No. I don't think you do. If I marry you, my heart won't let me go and my pride won't let me stay. No matter what I do, it'll kill me. This way I'll survive. It will hurt like hell losing you, but I will survive." Asuka said, before leaving Faramir alone with his thoughts.
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Rei's eyes lifted from the book she was reading, and moved to Shinji, laying on the bed. He was covered to the shoulders with a white sheet and his exposed skin was slightly pale, but he was quickly recovering. Despite the battlefield treatment that Asuka had performed, cauterising the wound, Shinji had still gotten an infection, which was subsiding now, after five days.
Rei's eyes flittered over the window, showing a breathtaking view of the city, before she went back to reading. Rei was surrounded by books; some which now lay abandoned were novels of adventures, which she could not get into because of her worry for Shinji. The book she was currently reading was research on how to get home, something that they had practically abandoned two years prior.
Rei ignored everything except the book and Shinji, not noticing when the healers came to check on him. As the sun began to set, exhausted from spending the day worrying, Rei laid down the book and crawled into the bed, next to Shinji. Curling up next to him, Rei felt his body relax a little. She felt safe and carefree lying next to him and she drifted quickly off to sleep. Subsequently she missed the trumpet call that sounded a few minutes later as a collum of weary soldiers entered the city, lead by a fiery redheaded woman and the youngest son of the Steward of Gondor.
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Shinji awoke to feel a pressure on his chest. His injury was healing, as was the infection that had accompanied it, but he was still feeling weak. Looking down, he saw Rei, her head on the uninjured side of his chest, looking amazingly beautiful as she slept. Looking around he saw that he was back in his, their, room in Minas Tirith. Feeling Rei stir, Shinji looked down and saw her soulful red eyes open.
"Morning sleepyhead." He joked.
"You're awake." She said with schoolgirl enthusiasm.
Shinji simply nodded, looking into her eyes and Rei smiled.
'Maybe everything will be ok. I know it will, as long as I have Rei.' Shinji thought before they both dropped back off to sleep.
TBC
Author: Knife Hand
Feedback: Constructive feedback appreciated, flames unappreciated
Spoilers: Spoilers up till the eleventh Angel in Eva, no event spoilers for LotR.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Lord of The Rings or Neon Genesis Evangelion. I would buy them but I am broke.
Summary: The Eva pilots are transported into the world of Middle Earth and are looking for a way home, but some things have changed.
AN: Just to clarify in this I am ignoring the whole 'Rei is a clone' thing. She is the original and she bears no relation to Shinji whatsoever.
AN2: Another clarification, the events in this story occur between the great birthday party of Bilbo and Frodo and the beginning of the actual quest, when Frodo leaves the Shire, as described in The Fellowship of the Ring book, a period of 17 years. The Children arrive in ME three years after the party.
AN3: Hey, what's going on people? Seriously of the lacking in the Review department. Come on. I need encouragement. Plus I'm already working on the sequel so I got to know if this is good.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Lose!" Rei called out.
A rain of arrows arched through the evening sky towards the collum of Orcs. As the deadly missiles flew, Shinji, Rei and the other archers nocked new arrows to their bowstrings and loosed another volley of arrows as the first descended.
The Orcish collum broke at the surprise attack and ran for the trees on the far side of the road and safety. Or so they thought. Just as they reached the trees, Asuka and Faramir lead their troops out of the trees, their swords cutting through the Orcs. As the offensive drove back the surprised Orcs, Shinji and Rei lead their archers out of the trees on their side of the road.
The archers had switched from their bows to their melee weapons and they charged into the back of the Orcs. Shinji stayed near Rei, his fiancé, calmly moving through the forms with his Katana, Orcs falling with the slash of his blade. Rei danced, a deadly dance as she cut, blocked and dodged using her knives, her movements graceful and almost soothing to watch.
The warriors of Gondor gained the upper hand fairly quickly, despite the fact that they were still outnumbered. The Orcs, shocked at the brutal destruction of their comrades felt demoralised and defeated, thus many broke and ran from the battle. While many ran, a fair number of the Orcs did not. In the confusion of battle, it is sometimes funny what one notices, Shinji for one noticed that one of the Orcs that had cut and ran had stoped, it had its bow drawn and an arrow ready to loose.
Shinji tracked the path that the arrow would take and it lead to Rei, who was facing another direction fighting two Orcs, and winning. Shinji, who was slightly separated from Rei, began to fight his way towards her, hacking through Orcs. As the arrow was loosed time seemed to slow for Shinji and he kept track of the arrow, knowing that he must stop it before it hit Rei. Running through a final Orc, Shinji took one more step, brining him face to face with Rei, who had just turned around.
Shinji smiled, knowing he had beaten the arrow, and for a second Rei smiled back, then her eyes drifted down and Shinji felt a sharp pain in his chest. The force of the arrow caused Shinji to spin to his left, as it had entered his right side. An archer had also seen to Orc and had taken it down with an arrow to the throat.
Shinji dropped to his knees, he knew that people were talking to him but all he could hear was a buzz. He felt a sharp pain in the wound and realised that someone had broken off the arrow, and then he was eased backwards into what seemed to be someone's lap. Looking up he saw crimson red eyes and pale, ice blue hair and knew it was Rei. Her mouth was moving but he could not hear the words but she seemed to be saying 'Don't leave me." Strangely no one seemed to be fighting, Shinji guessed that the battle must be over and idly wonder if they won before he was claimed by the darkness of unconsciousness.
********
Rei trust her knife into the neck of the Orc, severing its artery and causing it to bleed to death, like its fellow lying beside it. Hearing something moving behind her, she turned and came face to face with a smiling Shinji. Instinctively she smiled back at her beloved, and then she noticed an arrow had punctured his light chain mail armour on his right side, causing him to spin around and drop to his knees.
She looked around quickly, seeing the offending Orc fall, Asuka and Faramir were killing the last of the remaining Orcs. Rei dropped to he knees and examined the wound, luckily the arrow had missed his lungs and other vital organs.
"Hold on, Shinji. This will hurt." She said to him before snapping of the back of the arrow.
"Asuka, Get over here. Shinji's hurt." Rei called, lowering him into her lap and looking into his blue eyes.
Rei whispered reassurances to Shinji even after his eyes closed.
"What happened?" Asuka asked when she reached them.
"He took an arrow for me." Rei sobbed.
Asuka, seeing that Rei would be of no real help at the moment, took charge. Using the glowing embers of a stick, from the fire they had made to burn the Orc bodies, Asuka cauterised the wound after pulling the arrow out of Shinji.
Sending Shinji, Rei and another soldier back to Minas Tirith on the horses of the two messengers who had arrived in the last forty-eight hours, Rei and Shinji riding double so that she could support him, Asuka and Faramir broke the rest of the troops into small groups to head back to a hideout.
********
"I don't understand. Why not?" Faramir asked heatedly.
Asuka and Faramir were in a secluded area of the hideout, away from the other troops.
"Look, I love you. I love you more that I have ever loved anything in my entire life, but I can't. Not the way things are." Asuka replied.
"What's wrong with how things are?"
"Don't you get it?" Asuka demanded. "I'm not from here, and one day I'm going to have to go home, or the world I come from will be totally destroyed. What I face there is more dangerous than the entire of Mordor and only Shinji, Rei and myself can face it. I love you so much, but I can not and will not bring myself to leave the man I marry, so I either marry you and let a world die, or I don't hand have the chance to save it."
"I think I understand."
"No. I don't think you do. If I marry you, my heart won't let me go and my pride won't let me stay. No matter what I do, it'll kill me. This way I'll survive. It will hurt like hell losing you, but I will survive." Asuka said, before leaving Faramir alone with his thoughts.
********
Rei's eyes lifted from the book she was reading, and moved to Shinji, laying on the bed. He was covered to the shoulders with a white sheet and his exposed skin was slightly pale, but he was quickly recovering. Despite the battlefield treatment that Asuka had performed, cauterising the wound, Shinji had still gotten an infection, which was subsiding now, after five days.
Rei's eyes flittered over the window, showing a breathtaking view of the city, before she went back to reading. Rei was surrounded by books; some which now lay abandoned were novels of adventures, which she could not get into because of her worry for Shinji. The book she was currently reading was research on how to get home, something that they had practically abandoned two years prior.
Rei ignored everything except the book and Shinji, not noticing when the healers came to check on him. As the sun began to set, exhausted from spending the day worrying, Rei laid down the book and crawled into the bed, next to Shinji. Curling up next to him, Rei felt his body relax a little. She felt safe and carefree lying next to him and she drifted quickly off to sleep. Subsequently she missed the trumpet call that sounded a few minutes later as a collum of weary soldiers entered the city, lead by a fiery redheaded woman and the youngest son of the Steward of Gondor.
********
Shinji awoke to feel a pressure on his chest. His injury was healing, as was the infection that had accompanied it, but he was still feeling weak. Looking down, he saw Rei, her head on the uninjured side of his chest, looking amazingly beautiful as she slept. Looking around he saw that he was back in his, their, room in Minas Tirith. Feeling Rei stir, Shinji looked down and saw her soulful red eyes open.
"Morning sleepyhead." He joked.
"You're awake." She said with schoolgirl enthusiasm.
Shinji simply nodded, looking into her eyes and Rei smiled.
'Maybe everything will be ok. I know it will, as long as I have Rei.' Shinji thought before they both dropped back off to sleep.
TBC