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Chapter 6
The battle rages
Litavia sat on the steps realigning her arrows and then polishing her swords. She looked up when a group stood in front of her.
"Lady Litavia, this is Haldir of Lorien," Aragorn said.
"It is a pleasure," Haldir said taking her hand as she stood up and kissing it. Litavia raised an eyebrow and looked at Legolas who seemed a little distracted.
"As it is for me," she replied bowing her head slightly. Haldir looked at her armour.
"A strange armour you wear, where is it you were able to get it?" Haldir asked.
"I was given it by a close friend," Litavia replied.
"It looks familiar," Haldir said.
"Aragorn prepare your men," Théoden called. They looked at each other and then hurried out to the Fortress walls. Litavia, Legolas and Gimli lined up with the Elves. Gimli stood just short of the top of the wall and was grumbling profusely under his breath.
"Gimli, what are you grumbling about?" Litavia asked.
"You two should have chosen a better spot, I can't see a thing," he said jumping up to try and see over the battlements. Aragorn appeared behind them.
"Luck has run your way so far lad, let's hope it lasts the night," Gimli said. Lightning struck above them.
"Your friends are with you Aragorn," Legolas said.
"Let's hope they last the night," Gimli replied. Aragorn smiled and walked back down the other end. Litavia shivered and looked out over the hill.
"Here they come," she whispered. They saw the torch lights appearing over the hill and, the roaring noise they made sent a chill down the wall defence.
"Do not show them any mercy." Aragorn shouted to the Elves. "For you shall receive none." The Urak-Hai marched until they were about one hundred metres away from the wall.
They then stopped and began to stomp and roar. Théoden's soldiers began taking aim at the Urak-Hai and waited for the word from Théoden.
"What is going on?" Gimli asked trying to jump up and see what was happening.
"Would you like me to describe it to you?" Legolas asked.
"Or would you rather we found you a box?" Litavia said looking down on him. Gimli looked up at her, his eyes narrowed. Legolas looked at her with a look of anticipation. She smiled and Gimli laughed.
Suddenly one of Théoden's men let an arrow fly by mistake. It hit an Urak- Hai in the neck, slipping inside the armour.
"Hold!" Aragorn shouted. An old farmer looked anxiously at Aragorn and then at the fallen Urak-Hai. The roaring and stomping stopped as they looked from the dead Urak-Hai to the Keep, and then roaring began again and this time with pure anger and hatred. Litavia's head began to throb from the noise. She put a hand to her head.
"Are you alright lassie?" Gimli asked looking at her in concern. Her eyes glassed over as they had in the Keep.
"And so it begins, Sauron's war has started to roll," Litavia said quietly. She shook her head and looked at the Urak-Hai. The Urak-Hai leader roared and they charged the Deep.
"On my word!" Aragorn shouted as he took out his sword.
"They're armour is weak around the neck and beneath the arms," Legolas said as he, Litavia and the Elves took aim.
"Fire!" The Elves along the wall took aim and fired into the incoming surge of Urak-Hai. Many of the first rows fell, but their places were taken by those behind it.
As Legolas fired at the charging monsters he noticed Litavia's form as she shot at the Urak-Hai. She did not bring her head to the bow as most Men did; she brought her bow to her eyes, keeping her body straight. Every shot was on target and with effective force. Aragorn ordered the Elves behind the wall to fire; Litavia and Legolas felt the wind of their arrows as they flew past, just inches from their heads. Several Elves fell from around them, but they managed to dodge any incoming spears and arrows.
"Ladders!" Aragorn shouted as several ladders appeared amongst the Urak- Hai. Litavia shot at several Urak-Hai on top of the ladders.
"Leave me some!" Gimli shouted gruffly.
"Well, here they come, Gimli!" Litavia shouted stepping back several steps so as not to be the first to be pounced on. Gimli hit one as it jumped off the ladder, and then struck it once more to make sure it was dead. Litavia continued to shoot at them as they appeared over the walls as did Legolas.
"Oh Legolas! Two already!" Gimli shouted motioning with his fingers.
"I'm on seventeen!" Legolas shouted back, turning from a falling Urak-Hai.
"What? There's no way I'm letting no pointy eared Elf beat me!" Gimli shouted hitting another.
"Well then, how about you Lady Ranger?" Legolas asked as he shot several more Urak-Hai.
"Twenty- six, twenty seven, twenty eight."
"What?" Gimli shouted watching her. Litavia continued to count. Suddenly, she found she was caught in the middle of several Urak-Hai.
"Uh-oh," she said looking around. She ducked several blades and slit a few throats, but still she remained surrounded. Suddenly, two fell from her right and four from her left. She looked to her right and Gimli was laughing as he chopped up two more that were running towards him. To her left Legolas was standing, his bow ready.
"Get down," he said, Litavia ducked just as he shot the arrow. It zoomed over her head, cutting the band that held her hair. Her hair fell across her eyes as she turned to see a rather large Urak-Hai fall down, an arrow through its head. Litavia looked back up at Legolas who nodded towards her and then turned to fire at more Urak-Hai. She too turned to face the battle again.
She hung her bow on her back and took out her swords; she swung and spun, catching several Urak-Hai at once. One grabbed her from behind, it had no weapon and instead went to squeeze her; Aragorn, Haldir, Legolas and Gimli all ran to rescue her. They were quite surprised when she flipped her self over its head and stabbed it through its back. She kicked it aside and caught another Urak-Hai's blade with her own, stopping its swing above her head and kicked it before slicing away its head. She turned around and saw Gimli standing between two ladders and counting as he struck from each ladder. Litavia looked to the causeway up to the Deep's gates.
"The causeway, all focus on the causeway!" Aragorn shouted to the Elves still firing their arrows from a top the wall. Litavia took several arrows and laid them in her bow. She shot them all at once at the causeway, taking out several Urak-Hai at once.
She saw two large metallic balls being carried by four large Urak-Hai, and also that several large ladders were being prepared to be pulled up the wall. She shot at one, but was knocked down before she could aim at the other.
"Legolas, the ladder!" she shouted getting up and fighting away Urak-Hai. He turned and shot down the other ladder, it fell onto the Urak-Hai with a sickening crunch. As Litavia fought away Urak-Hai she saw a large, well armoured Urak-Hai running through the Army.
"Take him down Legolas!" Aragorn shouted. Legolas took aim and shot him twice, but could not bring him down.
"Kill him! Kill him!" Aragorn shouted. Litavia took out a whip she kept under her cloak; she unravelled it and took out one sword. She stabbed an Urak-Hai before securing the end of the whip to a ladder the Urak-Hai had secured and then swung down.
"Litavia!" Legolas shouted as he saw her jump from the wall. She let go and before she landed on the large Urak-Hai took out her second sword. She forced them downwards into the Urak-Hai; it froze and dropped the torch. Litavia stood up and fought away Urak-Hai as she made her way towards the torch. She was not quick enough; another Urak-Hai picked it up and ran into the drain. She fought off Urak-Hai as she tried to make her way away, realising what the metallic balls had been.
It exploded, making her fall to the ground. She struggled up and looked up to a gaping hole in the wall. She fought her way to the gap in the wall where the Urak-Hai were now trying to splash their way through. She saw Aragorn on the ground; he was struggling to get up and would not be up by the time the Urak-Hai had charged their way through to him.
"Aragorn!" Litavia heard someone shout as she slashed at Urak-Hai. She saw a small, tubby figure jump off the wall and into the charging Urak-Hai. It was Gimli.
"Gimli!" Litavia shouted running through the Urak-Hai, which were now confused because she was running back through them to get past. She slashed at a few more and heard Aragorn shout.
"Charge!" he picked up his sword and ran down to meet them. He knocked away several spears and slashed at the Urak-Hai. Legolas was still on the wall and Aragorn was now helping Gimli. Litavia sprinted up the stairs to where Captain Haldir was fighting; she stopped an Urak-Hai from stabbing him in the back. He spun around and almost hit her. She blocked him.
"Sorry," he said as he hit away another Urak-Hai. She turned to slash at more and heard him cough. She turned around; he had been slashed on the arm and stomach. She saw another appear behind him, ready to finish him.
"No!" she shouted and threw her sword; it threw back the Urak-Hai and killed it. She fought her way over to the Urak-Hai and retrieved her sword. She stopped and turned to the Captain, he was badly injured.
"Litavia, Legolas, Haldir! Return to the Keep!" Aragorn shouted from behind the wall. Litavia nodded. She threw Captain Haldir onto her shoulder and then flung an Urak-Hai shield onto the ground. She jumped on it as it slid away and then down the stairs. As she approached the bottom she drew a sword and let the shield slide out from beneath them; hitting an Urak-Hai. Legolas soon joined her and helped her fight her way from the Urak-Hai and back into the Keep.
Litavia and Legolas led the Captain into the caves with the women. Litavia checked him again, he had blacked out.
"Come, we must return," Legolas said reaching down to help her up.
"I will heal the Captain first, you go and I'll return shortly," she said wiping a tiny slit of blood from beneath her eye. He looked at her before running out to rejoin the battle. He ran to the Keep wall, above the causeway where they were trying to hold back the Urak-Hai from breaking through. He shot at several of them, before shooting at several trying to climb a ladder further down the wall. He saw Litavia run out and fight off several Urak-Hai trying to make their way into the Keep.
"Legolas? What is happening?" Litavia asked firing an arrow at a couple of Urak-Hai climbing a ladder to her right.
"They are trying to break through the gate," Legolas said. Litavia looked out over the wall. Sure enough there was a huge battalion of Urak-Hai attempting to shield themselves from the arrows. A few were battering the gate with a battering ram. Litavia heard a smash and they broke through the gate.
"Push them back!" Théoden shouted as he and his men turned to help hold the gate. Litavia saw some of the small boys that had been forced to fight gathering rocks to throw at the Urak-Hai below and had an idea. She took off her cloak and went over to speak with them. Legolas saw her run over, slashing at an Urak-Hai that was getting too close to the boys. When she returned she had the young boys, each was carrying a segment of her cloak which was filled with rocks.
"Ready? On three," she said as she and one of the stronger lads positioned themselves by the wall. Legolas set about keeping Urak-Hai away from them. "1, 2, 3!" She and the strong boy dropped their end onto the heads of the Urak-Hai. They dropped the front of the battering ram and fell from the causeway. The boys cheered as Litavia whipped her cloak back on and started firing arrows again. Then she noticed something shining behind the wall next to the causeway. She looked closely and recognised Aragorn's sword.
"Legolas get some rope," Litavia said. When he looked at her funny she pointed to the wall. As he turned to look Aragorn flung Gimli across to the causeway before jumping himself.
"Gimli told no one to toss him," Legolas said with a smile.
"Then he must have let Aragorn throw him," she said as a small boy handed her a rope.
"Aragorn! Get yourself out of there," Théoden shouted through the now re- shored door. Litavia threw down one end of the rope.
"Aragorn!" Legolas shouted. Aragorn grabbed the end of the rope and then grabbed Gimli. Litavia and Legolas pulled them up with help from the young boys. When they reached the top Legolas pulled up Gimli, while Litavia reached down to help Aragorn. As she was pulling him up a spear flew towards her, she tried to dodge it but it hit her right arm. She pulled Aragorn up and then lent against the wall.
"Litavia, are you alright?" he asked kneeling next to her. She pulled the spear out and grasped at her arm.
"I will be fine," she said picking her self up from the ground. She pulled out her swords and continued to fight away the Urak-Hai. Finally, Théoden called for them to fall back. As Litavia was retreating she was treated to a small slash across her cheek from a departing Urak-Hai. They returned to the main room of the Keep before the caves.
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Chapter 6
The battle rages
Litavia sat on the steps realigning her arrows and then polishing her swords. She looked up when a group stood in front of her.
"Lady Litavia, this is Haldir of Lorien," Aragorn said.
"It is a pleasure," Haldir said taking her hand as she stood up and kissing it. Litavia raised an eyebrow and looked at Legolas who seemed a little distracted.
"As it is for me," she replied bowing her head slightly. Haldir looked at her armour.
"A strange armour you wear, where is it you were able to get it?" Haldir asked.
"I was given it by a close friend," Litavia replied.
"It looks familiar," Haldir said.
"Aragorn prepare your men," Théoden called. They looked at each other and then hurried out to the Fortress walls. Litavia, Legolas and Gimli lined up with the Elves. Gimli stood just short of the top of the wall and was grumbling profusely under his breath.
"Gimli, what are you grumbling about?" Litavia asked.
"You two should have chosen a better spot, I can't see a thing," he said jumping up to try and see over the battlements. Aragorn appeared behind them.
"Luck has run your way so far lad, let's hope it lasts the night," Gimli said. Lightning struck above them.
"Your friends are with you Aragorn," Legolas said.
"Let's hope they last the night," Gimli replied. Aragorn smiled and walked back down the other end. Litavia shivered and looked out over the hill.
"Here they come," she whispered. They saw the torch lights appearing over the hill and, the roaring noise they made sent a chill down the wall defence.
"Do not show them any mercy." Aragorn shouted to the Elves. "For you shall receive none." The Urak-Hai marched until they were about one hundred metres away from the wall.
They then stopped and began to stomp and roar. Théoden's soldiers began taking aim at the Urak-Hai and waited for the word from Théoden.
"What is going on?" Gimli asked trying to jump up and see what was happening.
"Would you like me to describe it to you?" Legolas asked.
"Or would you rather we found you a box?" Litavia said looking down on him. Gimli looked up at her, his eyes narrowed. Legolas looked at her with a look of anticipation. She smiled and Gimli laughed.
Suddenly one of Théoden's men let an arrow fly by mistake. It hit an Urak- Hai in the neck, slipping inside the armour.
"Hold!" Aragorn shouted. An old farmer looked anxiously at Aragorn and then at the fallen Urak-Hai. The roaring and stomping stopped as they looked from the dead Urak-Hai to the Keep, and then roaring began again and this time with pure anger and hatred. Litavia's head began to throb from the noise. She put a hand to her head.
"Are you alright lassie?" Gimli asked looking at her in concern. Her eyes glassed over as they had in the Keep.
"And so it begins, Sauron's war has started to roll," Litavia said quietly. She shook her head and looked at the Urak-Hai. The Urak-Hai leader roared and they charged the Deep.
"On my word!" Aragorn shouted as he took out his sword.
"They're armour is weak around the neck and beneath the arms," Legolas said as he, Litavia and the Elves took aim.
"Fire!" The Elves along the wall took aim and fired into the incoming surge of Urak-Hai. Many of the first rows fell, but their places were taken by those behind it.
As Legolas fired at the charging monsters he noticed Litavia's form as she shot at the Urak-Hai. She did not bring her head to the bow as most Men did; she brought her bow to her eyes, keeping her body straight. Every shot was on target and with effective force. Aragorn ordered the Elves behind the wall to fire; Litavia and Legolas felt the wind of their arrows as they flew past, just inches from their heads. Several Elves fell from around them, but they managed to dodge any incoming spears and arrows.
"Ladders!" Aragorn shouted as several ladders appeared amongst the Urak- Hai. Litavia shot at several Urak-Hai on top of the ladders.
"Leave me some!" Gimli shouted gruffly.
"Well, here they come, Gimli!" Litavia shouted stepping back several steps so as not to be the first to be pounced on. Gimli hit one as it jumped off the ladder, and then struck it once more to make sure it was dead. Litavia continued to shoot at them as they appeared over the walls as did Legolas.
"Oh Legolas! Two already!" Gimli shouted motioning with his fingers.
"I'm on seventeen!" Legolas shouted back, turning from a falling Urak-Hai.
"What? There's no way I'm letting no pointy eared Elf beat me!" Gimli shouted hitting another.
"Well then, how about you Lady Ranger?" Legolas asked as he shot several more Urak-Hai.
"Twenty- six, twenty seven, twenty eight."
"What?" Gimli shouted watching her. Litavia continued to count. Suddenly, she found she was caught in the middle of several Urak-Hai.
"Uh-oh," she said looking around. She ducked several blades and slit a few throats, but still she remained surrounded. Suddenly, two fell from her right and four from her left. She looked to her right and Gimli was laughing as he chopped up two more that were running towards him. To her left Legolas was standing, his bow ready.
"Get down," he said, Litavia ducked just as he shot the arrow. It zoomed over her head, cutting the band that held her hair. Her hair fell across her eyes as she turned to see a rather large Urak-Hai fall down, an arrow through its head. Litavia looked back up at Legolas who nodded towards her and then turned to fire at more Urak-Hai. She too turned to face the battle again.
She hung her bow on her back and took out her swords; she swung and spun, catching several Urak-Hai at once. One grabbed her from behind, it had no weapon and instead went to squeeze her; Aragorn, Haldir, Legolas and Gimli all ran to rescue her. They were quite surprised when she flipped her self over its head and stabbed it through its back. She kicked it aside and caught another Urak-Hai's blade with her own, stopping its swing above her head and kicked it before slicing away its head. She turned around and saw Gimli standing between two ladders and counting as he struck from each ladder. Litavia looked to the causeway up to the Deep's gates.
"The causeway, all focus on the causeway!" Aragorn shouted to the Elves still firing their arrows from a top the wall. Litavia took several arrows and laid them in her bow. She shot them all at once at the causeway, taking out several Urak-Hai at once.
She saw two large metallic balls being carried by four large Urak-Hai, and also that several large ladders were being prepared to be pulled up the wall. She shot at one, but was knocked down before she could aim at the other.
"Legolas, the ladder!" she shouted getting up and fighting away Urak-Hai. He turned and shot down the other ladder, it fell onto the Urak-Hai with a sickening crunch. As Litavia fought away Urak-Hai she saw a large, well armoured Urak-Hai running through the Army.
"Take him down Legolas!" Aragorn shouted. Legolas took aim and shot him twice, but could not bring him down.
"Kill him! Kill him!" Aragorn shouted. Litavia took out a whip she kept under her cloak; she unravelled it and took out one sword. She stabbed an Urak-Hai before securing the end of the whip to a ladder the Urak-Hai had secured and then swung down.
"Litavia!" Legolas shouted as he saw her jump from the wall. She let go and before she landed on the large Urak-Hai took out her second sword. She forced them downwards into the Urak-Hai; it froze and dropped the torch. Litavia stood up and fought away Urak-Hai as she made her way towards the torch. She was not quick enough; another Urak-Hai picked it up and ran into the drain. She fought off Urak-Hai as she tried to make her way away, realising what the metallic balls had been.
It exploded, making her fall to the ground. She struggled up and looked up to a gaping hole in the wall. She fought her way to the gap in the wall where the Urak-Hai were now trying to splash their way through. She saw Aragorn on the ground; he was struggling to get up and would not be up by the time the Urak-Hai had charged their way through to him.
"Aragorn!" Litavia heard someone shout as she slashed at Urak-Hai. She saw a small, tubby figure jump off the wall and into the charging Urak-Hai. It was Gimli.
"Gimli!" Litavia shouted running through the Urak-Hai, which were now confused because she was running back through them to get past. She slashed at a few more and heard Aragorn shout.
"Charge!" he picked up his sword and ran down to meet them. He knocked away several spears and slashed at the Urak-Hai. Legolas was still on the wall and Aragorn was now helping Gimli. Litavia sprinted up the stairs to where Captain Haldir was fighting; she stopped an Urak-Hai from stabbing him in the back. He spun around and almost hit her. She blocked him.
"Sorry," he said as he hit away another Urak-Hai. She turned to slash at more and heard him cough. She turned around; he had been slashed on the arm and stomach. She saw another appear behind him, ready to finish him.
"No!" she shouted and threw her sword; it threw back the Urak-Hai and killed it. She fought her way over to the Urak-Hai and retrieved her sword. She stopped and turned to the Captain, he was badly injured.
"Litavia, Legolas, Haldir! Return to the Keep!" Aragorn shouted from behind the wall. Litavia nodded. She threw Captain Haldir onto her shoulder and then flung an Urak-Hai shield onto the ground. She jumped on it as it slid away and then down the stairs. As she approached the bottom she drew a sword and let the shield slide out from beneath them; hitting an Urak-Hai. Legolas soon joined her and helped her fight her way from the Urak-Hai and back into the Keep.
Litavia and Legolas led the Captain into the caves with the women. Litavia checked him again, he had blacked out.
"Come, we must return," Legolas said reaching down to help her up.
"I will heal the Captain first, you go and I'll return shortly," she said wiping a tiny slit of blood from beneath her eye. He looked at her before running out to rejoin the battle. He ran to the Keep wall, above the causeway where they were trying to hold back the Urak-Hai from breaking through. He shot at several of them, before shooting at several trying to climb a ladder further down the wall. He saw Litavia run out and fight off several Urak-Hai trying to make their way into the Keep.
"Legolas? What is happening?" Litavia asked firing an arrow at a couple of Urak-Hai climbing a ladder to her right.
"They are trying to break through the gate," Legolas said. Litavia looked out over the wall. Sure enough there was a huge battalion of Urak-Hai attempting to shield themselves from the arrows. A few were battering the gate with a battering ram. Litavia heard a smash and they broke through the gate.
"Push them back!" Théoden shouted as he and his men turned to help hold the gate. Litavia saw some of the small boys that had been forced to fight gathering rocks to throw at the Urak-Hai below and had an idea. She took off her cloak and went over to speak with them. Legolas saw her run over, slashing at an Urak-Hai that was getting too close to the boys. When she returned she had the young boys, each was carrying a segment of her cloak which was filled with rocks.
"Ready? On three," she said as she and one of the stronger lads positioned themselves by the wall. Legolas set about keeping Urak-Hai away from them. "1, 2, 3!" She and the strong boy dropped their end onto the heads of the Urak-Hai. They dropped the front of the battering ram and fell from the causeway. The boys cheered as Litavia whipped her cloak back on and started firing arrows again. Then she noticed something shining behind the wall next to the causeway. She looked closely and recognised Aragorn's sword.
"Legolas get some rope," Litavia said. When he looked at her funny she pointed to the wall. As he turned to look Aragorn flung Gimli across to the causeway before jumping himself.
"Gimli told no one to toss him," Legolas said with a smile.
"Then he must have let Aragorn throw him," she said as a small boy handed her a rope.
"Aragorn! Get yourself out of there," Théoden shouted through the now re- shored door. Litavia threw down one end of the rope.
"Aragorn!" Legolas shouted. Aragorn grabbed the end of the rope and then grabbed Gimli. Litavia and Legolas pulled them up with help from the young boys. When they reached the top Legolas pulled up Gimli, while Litavia reached down to help Aragorn. As she was pulling him up a spear flew towards her, she tried to dodge it but it hit her right arm. She pulled Aragorn up and then lent against the wall.
"Litavia, are you alright?" he asked kneeling next to her. She pulled the spear out and grasped at her arm.
"I will be fine," she said picking her self up from the ground. She pulled out her swords and continued to fight away the Urak-Hai. Finally, Théoden called for them to fall back. As Litavia was retreating she was treated to a small slash across her cheek from a departing Urak-Hai. They returned to the main room of the Keep before the caves.
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