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The Diary of an Orc - Continued
*~*~*
I saw the light..then pain..pain so strong..what has happened?
*~*~* Nameless Child *~*~*
The one whose body is false has been hurt, I can see it now. One of those evil creatures has hurt her...somehow..I cannot see as clearly as I would like.
*~*~* Legolas *~*~*
Most of the Uruks have fled, and those who remain are killed. I think some of them have accepted their fate, and wait to be killed by the sword of their enemy, though some have chosen to die by their own sword.
Ariel is nowhere to be seen. Haldir told me that she wouldn't listen, but I was to preoccupied to check that she heeded our warning. She didn't.
She has gone from the hall.
I saw a long child walking among the fallen, checking the faces, and covering the dead with their cloaks.
"Child!" I called; she shouldn't have been there. "Go back to your family! It is unsafe here!"
The child just looked at me with innocent cornflower blue eyes and shook her head. She then continued to search through the bodies.
*~*~* Gimli *~*~*
I have to admire that kid. She is doing perhaps the worst thing in the world, checking the dead, as if searching for a father or brother.
She completely ignored Legolas when he told her to go inside, so I decided to go and take her myself, to see that she got back safely and no half-dead Uruk killed her at the last moment.
"Hey!" I called to her, running towards where she was. She was leaned over the body of a blonde-haired elf that had fallen.
"What do you seek?" I asked her as she ran her hands around the neck of the dead elf.
"I seek the one who is not what she seems." The child replied quietly. Clearly unhappy with the dead elf, she moved on to the next.
"Who do you seek?" I asked, watching as she bent over the next elf, one that had been speared by the awful weapons of the Uruk-Hai.
"A friend of yours." She said shortly, stopping to stare me in the eye. "You should leave."
I was angry. The cheek! This child spoke riddles, and then dismissed me as the King would a lowly servant.
*~*~* Aragorn *~*~*
Legolas has informed me that Ariel is nowhere to be seen. Legolas and Haldir have searched the Keep for any sign of her, but they have seen nothing.
They told me that they asked her to stay behind from our last battle against the Uruk-Hai, and I know at once that that was a mistake.
I am afraid that I have to ask them to search for her among the dead.
*~*~* Nameless Child *~*~*
They don't understand! None of them understand! She must be unmasked...must be shown to the darkened world!
She travelled with them..the travellers that accompanied the Ring of Power to its destruction. But something happened, the travellers split, one life was lost.
She is nowhere among the dead I have searched. I will find her though, I will know when I find her, her falseness will shine out to me.
*~*~* Gandalf *~*~*
I am told that our Ariel has gone missing. It concerns me to hear this, because although I know she can certainly take care of herself, some foul Uruk may have got a lucky hit.
Thanks to the help of the Rohirrim, Helm's Deep still stands. The grounds that stretch before the outer gate are strewn with bodies. Most of them being Uruks.
The Keep is now flooded with weeping women and frightened children. It was a victory indeed, but a bitter one. Many, many families will mourn the loss of fathers and brothers today.
*~*~* Haldir *~*~*
We cannot find Ariel anywhere! We have searched and searched. Legolas and I looked everywhere we could to find nothing.
I hope she has not been killed! My heart aches at the thought. No! No foul creature could fell a proud Lady of Altariel.
The thought of her death brings me to the thought of taking this news back to Lothlorien, back to my Lord and Lady. Lady Galadriels anguished face hangs in my thoughts, it is enough to bring me to tears. She cannot have died!
*~*~* Nameless child *~*~*
Yes! I can see her now...she is but four bodies away from me. I cannot approach now; the elves who both love her are too close. They watch me closely, like a hawk watching its meal. It is irritating, I could reveal her! But only to my eyes. I must know.
*****
Legolas of Mirkwood watching closely as the child with the clear blue eyes bent over another elf, this time, with a manic look in her eyes.
She reached down and felt around the elf's neck and pulled a necklace into view. The child giggled softly to herself and pulled on the necklace, looking for the unseen clasp.
*****
Ariel struggled through waves of pain to consciousness. When she did finally wake, waves of white-hot pain seared through her head and through her chest. She opened her eyes, wincing at the bright morning light, to see a child pulling on her amulet, trying to find the clasp.
Ariel reached up a shaking arm, whimpering in pain as she pulled the amulet from the chills grasp.
"No..." She croaked, holding the amulet tightly. "This is mine, I must keep it."
She closed her eyes, tears welling up under swollen eyelids. The pain the shot through her head with every word was unbelievable. Opening her eyes again, she ignored the hovering child and looked down at her left side.
She gasped, and choked on the air, panic filling her eyes. The left side of her battered body was a bloody mess, her armour was bent and bloodied and a spear stuck out of her, the tip pierced deep into her rib cage.
Her shaking hands dropped the amulet, and the child grabbed at it eagerly, knocking the spear in the process.
Pain jolted through Ariel's tortured body; she threw back her head and screamed as the child ripped the amulet from her throat.
*****
Legolas' head whipped around at the sound of the scream and saw the child holding the necklace of the elf, but a screaming Orc lay at the feet of the child.
Haldir, who was closer to the child than Legolas, unsheathed his sword and ran towards the child, yelling at her to get away from the Orc.
The child began to laugh, the sound bursting forth from her small lungs.
Haldir gathered the child up in his arms and turned to Legolas. A look passed between him and Legolas nodded curtly.
He plucked an arrow from his quiver and strung his bow, aiming an arrow of the Galadhrim at the withering Orc.
At the last moment, the Orc turned to Legolas, its face contorted in pain. Its lips were moving, but Legolas didn't hear.
The arrow was released, flying for the creature's heart.
"Legolas!" The Orc screamed, in a voice he knew all too well.
******
Ariel nearly laughed at the situation. This was how they met. Legolas had shot Ariel, mistaking her for an orc. Now she lay here, defenseless and yet another arrow was speeding towards her. She managed to raise one shaking hand, and as the arrow pierced her, there was no sound for her pain.
Blackness flooded her head, and her weak arm dropped, the arrow embedded in her hand.
******
The child was satisfied with what had happened. Now her dreams would stop, now the story could end. The future would no longer visit her during her dreams, now that she had shown the unknown dream sender who the elf really was. She kneeled down beside the unconscious form and placed the amulet back around her neck.
The scarred orc skin was instantly replaced with pale, smooth elf-skin.
******
Legolas dropped his bow, not caring if he would never find it again. He had just killed Ariel.
The child was gone now, and all that was left was the limp, pale form of Ariel.
Legolas dropped to his knees and pulled Ariel into his lap. He smoothed back her hair from her face and looked desperately for any signs of life. When he saw her chest rise a little, and heard the shallow gasp of breath, he nearly cried in relief.
Knowing that she would mend, slowly, but surely, he worked the arrow carefully out of her hand, thanking the Valar that she had stopped the arrow in time.
When he saw the spear in her side, he drew in a sharp breath, but left it alone. He would leave that to the healers.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'm afraid this will be the last chapter for this fic! I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I have enjoyed writing it! When ROTK comes out, I'm sure I'll be able to start a sequel to it. Thank you for your time and thanks to all my reviewers for pointing out my mistakes and for keeping me going when I felt like stopping!
Thanks to Queen Serendipity for pointing out that I misspelt Galadriels sindarin name! Sorry!
And to SBR, I'm sure there will be enough room for romance in the sequel. I did want some romance, but unfortunately, I suck at writing romance.
Thank you all for reading and I hope to get a sequel started when ROTK comes out!
The Diary of an Orc - Continued
*~*~*
I saw the light..then pain..pain so strong..what has happened?
*~*~* Nameless Child *~*~*
The one whose body is false has been hurt, I can see it now. One of those evil creatures has hurt her...somehow..I cannot see as clearly as I would like.
*~*~* Legolas *~*~*
Most of the Uruks have fled, and those who remain are killed. I think some of them have accepted their fate, and wait to be killed by the sword of their enemy, though some have chosen to die by their own sword.
Ariel is nowhere to be seen. Haldir told me that she wouldn't listen, but I was to preoccupied to check that she heeded our warning. She didn't.
She has gone from the hall.
I saw a long child walking among the fallen, checking the faces, and covering the dead with their cloaks.
"Child!" I called; she shouldn't have been there. "Go back to your family! It is unsafe here!"
The child just looked at me with innocent cornflower blue eyes and shook her head. She then continued to search through the bodies.
*~*~* Gimli *~*~*
I have to admire that kid. She is doing perhaps the worst thing in the world, checking the dead, as if searching for a father or brother.
She completely ignored Legolas when he told her to go inside, so I decided to go and take her myself, to see that she got back safely and no half-dead Uruk killed her at the last moment.
"Hey!" I called to her, running towards where she was. She was leaned over the body of a blonde-haired elf that had fallen.
"What do you seek?" I asked her as she ran her hands around the neck of the dead elf.
"I seek the one who is not what she seems." The child replied quietly. Clearly unhappy with the dead elf, she moved on to the next.
"Who do you seek?" I asked, watching as she bent over the next elf, one that had been speared by the awful weapons of the Uruk-Hai.
"A friend of yours." She said shortly, stopping to stare me in the eye. "You should leave."
I was angry. The cheek! This child spoke riddles, and then dismissed me as the King would a lowly servant.
*~*~* Aragorn *~*~*
Legolas has informed me that Ariel is nowhere to be seen. Legolas and Haldir have searched the Keep for any sign of her, but they have seen nothing.
They told me that they asked her to stay behind from our last battle against the Uruk-Hai, and I know at once that that was a mistake.
I am afraid that I have to ask them to search for her among the dead.
*~*~* Nameless Child *~*~*
They don't understand! None of them understand! She must be unmasked...must be shown to the darkened world!
She travelled with them..the travellers that accompanied the Ring of Power to its destruction. But something happened, the travellers split, one life was lost.
She is nowhere among the dead I have searched. I will find her though, I will know when I find her, her falseness will shine out to me.
*~*~* Gandalf *~*~*
I am told that our Ariel has gone missing. It concerns me to hear this, because although I know she can certainly take care of herself, some foul Uruk may have got a lucky hit.
Thanks to the help of the Rohirrim, Helm's Deep still stands. The grounds that stretch before the outer gate are strewn with bodies. Most of them being Uruks.
The Keep is now flooded with weeping women and frightened children. It was a victory indeed, but a bitter one. Many, many families will mourn the loss of fathers and brothers today.
*~*~* Haldir *~*~*
We cannot find Ariel anywhere! We have searched and searched. Legolas and I looked everywhere we could to find nothing.
I hope she has not been killed! My heart aches at the thought. No! No foul creature could fell a proud Lady of Altariel.
The thought of her death brings me to the thought of taking this news back to Lothlorien, back to my Lord and Lady. Lady Galadriels anguished face hangs in my thoughts, it is enough to bring me to tears. She cannot have died!
*~*~* Nameless child *~*~*
Yes! I can see her now...she is but four bodies away from me. I cannot approach now; the elves who both love her are too close. They watch me closely, like a hawk watching its meal. It is irritating, I could reveal her! But only to my eyes. I must know.
*****
Legolas of Mirkwood watching closely as the child with the clear blue eyes bent over another elf, this time, with a manic look in her eyes.
She reached down and felt around the elf's neck and pulled a necklace into view. The child giggled softly to herself and pulled on the necklace, looking for the unseen clasp.
*****
Ariel struggled through waves of pain to consciousness. When she did finally wake, waves of white-hot pain seared through her head and through her chest. She opened her eyes, wincing at the bright morning light, to see a child pulling on her amulet, trying to find the clasp.
Ariel reached up a shaking arm, whimpering in pain as she pulled the amulet from the chills grasp.
"No..." She croaked, holding the amulet tightly. "This is mine, I must keep it."
She closed her eyes, tears welling up under swollen eyelids. The pain the shot through her head with every word was unbelievable. Opening her eyes again, she ignored the hovering child and looked down at her left side.
She gasped, and choked on the air, panic filling her eyes. The left side of her battered body was a bloody mess, her armour was bent and bloodied and a spear stuck out of her, the tip pierced deep into her rib cage.
Her shaking hands dropped the amulet, and the child grabbed at it eagerly, knocking the spear in the process.
Pain jolted through Ariel's tortured body; she threw back her head and screamed as the child ripped the amulet from her throat.
*****
Legolas' head whipped around at the sound of the scream and saw the child holding the necklace of the elf, but a screaming Orc lay at the feet of the child.
Haldir, who was closer to the child than Legolas, unsheathed his sword and ran towards the child, yelling at her to get away from the Orc.
The child began to laugh, the sound bursting forth from her small lungs.
Haldir gathered the child up in his arms and turned to Legolas. A look passed between him and Legolas nodded curtly.
He plucked an arrow from his quiver and strung his bow, aiming an arrow of the Galadhrim at the withering Orc.
At the last moment, the Orc turned to Legolas, its face contorted in pain. Its lips were moving, but Legolas didn't hear.
The arrow was released, flying for the creature's heart.
"Legolas!" The Orc screamed, in a voice he knew all too well.
******
Ariel nearly laughed at the situation. This was how they met. Legolas had shot Ariel, mistaking her for an orc. Now she lay here, defenseless and yet another arrow was speeding towards her. She managed to raise one shaking hand, and as the arrow pierced her, there was no sound for her pain.
Blackness flooded her head, and her weak arm dropped, the arrow embedded in her hand.
******
The child was satisfied with what had happened. Now her dreams would stop, now the story could end. The future would no longer visit her during her dreams, now that she had shown the unknown dream sender who the elf really was. She kneeled down beside the unconscious form and placed the amulet back around her neck.
The scarred orc skin was instantly replaced with pale, smooth elf-skin.
******
Legolas dropped his bow, not caring if he would never find it again. He had just killed Ariel.
The child was gone now, and all that was left was the limp, pale form of Ariel.
Legolas dropped to his knees and pulled Ariel into his lap. He smoothed back her hair from her face and looked desperately for any signs of life. When he saw her chest rise a little, and heard the shallow gasp of breath, he nearly cried in relief.
Knowing that she would mend, slowly, but surely, he worked the arrow carefully out of her hand, thanking the Valar that she had stopped the arrow in time.
When he saw the spear in her side, he drew in a sharp breath, but left it alone. He would leave that to the healers.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'm afraid this will be the last chapter for this fic! I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I have enjoyed writing it! When ROTK comes out, I'm sure I'll be able to start a sequel to it. Thank you for your time and thanks to all my reviewers for pointing out my mistakes and for keeping me going when I felt like stopping!
Thanks to Queen Serendipity for pointing out that I misspelt Galadriels sindarin name! Sorry!
And to SBR, I'm sure there will be enough room for romance in the sequel. I did want some romance, but unfortunately, I suck at writing romance.
Thank you all for reading and I hope to get a sequel started when ROTK comes out!