Chapter 4
About another three hours later Aragorn stopped his horse right behind Legolas. The elf smiled and looked to the man, "Let's make camp here!"
Aragorn listened around him, it seemed fine. The mortal nodded and began to climb off his horse.
As he reached the ground he stopped dead in his tracks, something was wrong.
The woods were now totally silent. Nothing but their own breaths could be heard. Aragorn turned his worried silver eyes upon Legolas. The elf smiled at him but Estel's face did not change, he only stared in the direction that Legolas was.
For behind the elven prince, what he did not see, was a huge ugly towering beast. It carried a sledgehammer like device in one hand and nothing in the other. He was beastly and his little black eyes were on Legolas.
The troll began to raise the hammer, and a odd look came over it's face. One of pure enjoyment on what he was about to do.
There was no time, Aragorn ran forward trying to make Legolas understand, but the elf prince did not. Estel quickly decided their was only one thing he could do. He reached his legs as far as they would go and raced forward. Each breath felt like forever, each step felt as quick as light.
Before the Greenleaf could comprehend what was happening, Aragorn pushed his lithe form away and as he did, the troll swept the hammer across.
A new pain connected with Aragorn's whole right side. It burnt and broke, it felt as if he had just been put beneath a dwarven machine and it had slammed down on him. He cried out softly as what little air he had was pressed out of his lungs and he was flung into a tree. His body slowly slid to the ground and he could not move. He felt paralyzed in his place. He could not help Legolas anymore.
He could only whimper as all the bones in his right side and some on his left screamed at him. He whispered elvish softly to calm himself but not even the tongue of elves could come to him right then.
"Estel!!!!" the elven prince could not understand what had just happened, all he could think about was what the man had done. He forgot about the troll and only stood glued on his spot.
'He saved me……he gave himself for me.' his mind told him as a loud roar pierced the cold air.
He turned to see the beast starting to swing at him, he quickly rolled over as the hammer smashed down into the earth. He then jumped to his feet and took out his bow and one fine arrow. He quickly strung the nock onto the string and pulled back. Aiming for the one area that would kill the beast.
He aimed and let it fly, the arrow whizzed through the air, his aim fataly accurate. The troll swayed and roared once more, this time weakly and began to fall. The elven prince jumped out of the way as it crashed to the ground in one heap. It was dead.
He stood up gracefully, but his face held no smile. Speedily he ran to the man's side, tears were streaming down his face, and he was breathing harshly.
"Estel?" Legolas whispered softly wondering how he was going to get him back to the palace.
Legolas did not need to think before he spoke. "Nin mellon. [My friend] Why did you do that?"
The elven prince tried to pick Estel up but the boy cried out each time. Finally he found his somewhat sluggish tongue.
"Because….Legolas……you are my friend…..I would….d-die.. for you." he whispered as consciousness began to leave. "I am sorry I could not help you." he whispered his last words as he fell into the comforting darkness.
"You already did nin mellon, I am sorry I doubted your friendship." The elf whispered as he carefully lifted Aragorn and held him close. Legolas knew what he had to do, but he did not know if they would make it.
Author's Note: Ok, well that was kind of a cliffy, and sorry for the quick killing of Mr. Troll…..but I am not good at fight scenes. Oh, now Legolas trusts Aragorn a lot more, but he will talk more about it in the next chapter. Again sorry it was so short. Gotta go!!!! Please R&R!!!!! Oh and there is another chapter coming up of course. It may be the last.