Time: Echoes
Disclaimer: Nothing to do with LOTR is mine…but Holly and Rae are.
They group walked down the small path, speaking little unless necessary. Already, Rachel had to replace the batteries in her flashlight twice and they were beginning to flicker once again. Hitting it forcefully, she sighed.
"Damnit," she whispered. She threw the dead batteries into her pocket and grabbed new ones from her pack with some difficulty, not able to shut it again.
"Will you shut that?" she said to Legolas who was trailing a little bit behind her. They were the last in the line because Rachel had slowed down to get her flashlight working again. He reached towards her back and gently closed the zipper on her pack. She thanked him and ran forward so they wouldn't loose the rest of the Fellowship and Holly.
They didn't have to go far because everyone was still in front of them. Gandalf lifted his staff and illuminated the great hall in front of them. Even Rachel took a step backwards at the site.
"Their Great Halls of Stone," Gandalf whispered to them. Gimli seemed to be most mystified. Actually, Holly and Gimli were tied in the glaze of their eyes. Holly actually fell backwards and into Boromir who caught her.
"Thanks," she whispered, not bothering to look back at her catcher. Boromir nodded as they walked forward cautiously. A light to the right caught Gimli's eye and he yelled.
"Gimli!" Gandalf snapped as the dwarf ran towards the open door. Everyone followed suit and watched as Gimli grieved over his cousin's grave.
"We must go on. We cannot linger!" Legolas said to Aragorn who only nodded in response. Holly approached Gimli and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Here lies Barlin, son of Fundin, Lord of Moria," Holly read aloud from the stone coffin. Most of the Fellowship stared at her and she had a double-take moment.
"What?" she asked.
"We thought you were from another world!" Aragorn yelled. Rachel stepped forward as the men ganged up on Holly.
"We are. Holly has learned Dwarven through the books of Tolkein and I've learned Elvish. They weren't that hard to figure out and learn," she stated. Legolas stepped forward with Aragorn as Gandalf looked through a record book in a skeleton's hand.
"Not difficult? It takes years to master Elvish!" Aragorn said angrily. Rachel told him to calm down in Elvish and he and Legolas backed off immediately.
"Holly, not including Dwarven, is fluent in four languages and I, without Elvish, am fluent in six. I've been learning new dialects since I was two so excuse me for finding any language you set for me to be simple," she snapped. Holly nodded her head from behind Rachel and, without looking, caught the gun she threw at her face and the extra clip that followed.
"I thought you knew five languages!" Holly said to Rachel. She shook her head and walked towards Gandalf with Holly close behind.
"I had to learn Arabic six months after you left. Remember that vacation?"
"Yeah?"
"I had to lead the corps into enemy territory underground to capture Osama Bin Laden (A/N: Obviously this isn't true and it's about two years in the future.). I would have told you, honest!" Rachel explained, a smile on her face. Holly nodded and teased her quietly, but their smiles were soon wiped clean.
"They are coming," Gandalf finished. Everyone was as silent as possible and Pippin, from fear, backed up and to the edge of a well. Touching an arrow, he sent a bucket and an armored dwarf skeleton with chains down the well, clanking, clattering, and banging all the way to the dwarves' deepest mines. All were deathly still and barely breathed, listening intently. Rachel and Holly knew what came next, they loaded their guns and Rachel made sure her daggers were reachable. Holly got out her switchblade, then turned to Rachel.
"Can I borrow yours?" she asked loudly. Rachel nodded, grabbed her small knife, and threw it at her friend. The Fellowship stared at them in terror. Rachel looked at them with concern.
"We're going into action! Live fire! Gear up!" she yelled as if it were plain as day. They stared at her and Holly sighed.
"Get your weapons ready! We're gonna fight!" she yelled as drums began to beat and goblin cries could be heard coming at them. Boromir ran to the door and was nearly skewered by an arrow.
"They have a cave troll," he said irritably. Aragorn and Legolas barred the door and returned to the coffin, holding their arrows. Rachel and Holly knelt in front of them, below their bows. Gimli yelled in anger and jumped atop his cousin's tomb.
"Let them come! There is one Morian Warrior who still draws breath!" he yelled holding out his battle-axe. Goblins began to beat down the door and Legolas let the first arrow fly.
Soon they were trampling down the door and even Legolas wasn't fast enough to shoot at them. Rachel and Holly sat patiently as the hideous creatures ran at them.
"Rachel!"
"Wait."
"Rachel!" Holly yelled, itching to shoot the hell out of their opponents. Rachel aimed and waited until they were nearly on top of the ex- Marines.
"Fire and Hold!" she yelled. Holly shot one blast and it shot straight through three goblins. Rachel did the same. Holly wasn't expecting as much force and was nearly shocked by the backfire of her friend's guns. Rachel laughed, waiting for the next batch of critters (they were also stunned).
"What make are these?" Holly yelled in surprise. Rachel smiled.
"New! They're protocol now! They can shoot through concrete blocks! Fire and Hold!" she yelled back. Holly was ready and killed four goblins in one shot yet again. A goblin came at Holly from the side, but she saw him. Rachel covered her comrade and herself, which meant taking the gun from Holly, and shooting at her next six targets (three for each gun). Shifting sideways, Holly threw a switchblade at the goblin on her close right and hit him in the forehead with her left hand.
"That was my bad hand! Not too shabby!" Holly congratulated herself. Rachel laughed again and stood up. She threw the guns back into her pack and grabbed a broad sword for Holly.
"Yo, Firebird! Catch!" Rachel yelled. Holly spun and caught the sword effortlessly.
"Thanks, Scales!" she yelled back. Just as Rachel armed herself with her two daggers, the cave troll barged in, nearly crushing one of the hobbits. Gimli chopped at its stomach with his axe, but only helped it rid itself of a few goblins. The grizzly troll saw Holly and Aragorn side-by- side beheading goblins left and right. Neither noticed it raise its mace, but Rachel did.
"Hey, Blondie! Duck!" Rachel yelled at Holly. Her friend found the word "blonde" or "Blondie" to be very offensive because she was a genius. She was an expert in espionage and nobody called her blonde.
"I'll kick your ass!" she yelled, pulling Aragorn to the floor. Rachel threw a dagger at the troll's arm and it stepped back in shock. Its mace still swung down, but instead of slicing Holly and Aragorn in half, it only grazed Holly's shoulder.
"Ouch!" she yelled, standing up. She looked at her torn shirt and bleeding slice and then looking at her hair, which was wet with blood on the tips.
"Son of a bitch!" she yelled, getting really mad. Rachel couldn't really fight without her other dagger, so she used what she remembered from Kung Fu the year before. She had to go through an extensive course with the corps before they could proceed with a mission in Nagasaki, Japan.
"Are you al right?" Aragorn yelled at Holly. She nodded and watched as Legolas climbed on the troll back and shot and arrow in the back of its neck, grabbing Rachel's other dagger as he jumped down.
"Woohoo! Way to go, Leggo!" Holly cheered. She ducked as a goblin swung a sword over her head and hacked its legs off.
"Rachel!" Legolas yelled. Rachel turned and caught the dagger the elf threw to her. as she did so, a goblin came behind her. Holly glanced at it before she realized anything. The loss of blood was getting to her.
"Look behind you!" she yelled, terrified. As Rachel turned, the goblin sliced her side deeply. Rachel spun around and fell to the floor. Holly ran to her and got out Rachel's switchblade, looking the goblin straight in the face.
"Die, bitch!" she yelled, throwing the blade into its throat. Rachel sat up and looked at Holly and smiled. "You good?"
"SNAFU," Rachel replied (Situation Normal: All fucked up). Holly nodded and ran back to the fight. Rachel stood up and watched Aragorn get knocked against a pillar by the cave troll. Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin huddled in a corner.
"Aragorn!" Frodo cried. The other three hobbits ran toward Legolas and Boromir while Frodo went to Aragorn's side. The ranger was out cold. The troll grabbed at the makeshift spear Aragorn had pierced him with and tried to shishkabob Frodo, finally pinning him to the wall.
Disclaimer: Nothing to do with LOTR is mine…but Holly and Rae are.
They group walked down the small path, speaking little unless necessary. Already, Rachel had to replace the batteries in her flashlight twice and they were beginning to flicker once again. Hitting it forcefully, she sighed.
"Damnit," she whispered. She threw the dead batteries into her pocket and grabbed new ones from her pack with some difficulty, not able to shut it again.
"Will you shut that?" she said to Legolas who was trailing a little bit behind her. They were the last in the line because Rachel had slowed down to get her flashlight working again. He reached towards her back and gently closed the zipper on her pack. She thanked him and ran forward so they wouldn't loose the rest of the Fellowship and Holly.
They didn't have to go far because everyone was still in front of them. Gandalf lifted his staff and illuminated the great hall in front of them. Even Rachel took a step backwards at the site.
"Their Great Halls of Stone," Gandalf whispered to them. Gimli seemed to be most mystified. Actually, Holly and Gimli were tied in the glaze of their eyes. Holly actually fell backwards and into Boromir who caught her.
"Thanks," she whispered, not bothering to look back at her catcher. Boromir nodded as they walked forward cautiously. A light to the right caught Gimli's eye and he yelled.
"Gimli!" Gandalf snapped as the dwarf ran towards the open door. Everyone followed suit and watched as Gimli grieved over his cousin's grave.
"We must go on. We cannot linger!" Legolas said to Aragorn who only nodded in response. Holly approached Gimli and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Here lies Barlin, son of Fundin, Lord of Moria," Holly read aloud from the stone coffin. Most of the Fellowship stared at her and she had a double-take moment.
"What?" she asked.
"We thought you were from another world!" Aragorn yelled. Rachel stepped forward as the men ganged up on Holly.
"We are. Holly has learned Dwarven through the books of Tolkein and I've learned Elvish. They weren't that hard to figure out and learn," she stated. Legolas stepped forward with Aragorn as Gandalf looked through a record book in a skeleton's hand.
"Not difficult? It takes years to master Elvish!" Aragorn said angrily. Rachel told him to calm down in Elvish and he and Legolas backed off immediately.
"Holly, not including Dwarven, is fluent in four languages and I, without Elvish, am fluent in six. I've been learning new dialects since I was two so excuse me for finding any language you set for me to be simple," she snapped. Holly nodded her head from behind Rachel and, without looking, caught the gun she threw at her face and the extra clip that followed.
"I thought you knew five languages!" Holly said to Rachel. She shook her head and walked towards Gandalf with Holly close behind.
"I had to learn Arabic six months after you left. Remember that vacation?"
"Yeah?"
"I had to lead the corps into enemy territory underground to capture Osama Bin Laden (A/N: Obviously this isn't true and it's about two years in the future.). I would have told you, honest!" Rachel explained, a smile on her face. Holly nodded and teased her quietly, but their smiles were soon wiped clean.
"They are coming," Gandalf finished. Everyone was as silent as possible and Pippin, from fear, backed up and to the edge of a well. Touching an arrow, he sent a bucket and an armored dwarf skeleton with chains down the well, clanking, clattering, and banging all the way to the dwarves' deepest mines. All were deathly still and barely breathed, listening intently. Rachel and Holly knew what came next, they loaded their guns and Rachel made sure her daggers were reachable. Holly got out her switchblade, then turned to Rachel.
"Can I borrow yours?" she asked loudly. Rachel nodded, grabbed her small knife, and threw it at her friend. The Fellowship stared at them in terror. Rachel looked at them with concern.
"We're going into action! Live fire! Gear up!" she yelled as if it were plain as day. They stared at her and Holly sighed.
"Get your weapons ready! We're gonna fight!" she yelled as drums began to beat and goblin cries could be heard coming at them. Boromir ran to the door and was nearly skewered by an arrow.
"They have a cave troll," he said irritably. Aragorn and Legolas barred the door and returned to the coffin, holding their arrows. Rachel and Holly knelt in front of them, below their bows. Gimli yelled in anger and jumped atop his cousin's tomb.
"Let them come! There is one Morian Warrior who still draws breath!" he yelled holding out his battle-axe. Goblins began to beat down the door and Legolas let the first arrow fly.
Soon they were trampling down the door and even Legolas wasn't fast enough to shoot at them. Rachel and Holly sat patiently as the hideous creatures ran at them.
"Rachel!"
"Wait."
"Rachel!" Holly yelled, itching to shoot the hell out of their opponents. Rachel aimed and waited until they were nearly on top of the ex- Marines.
"Fire and Hold!" she yelled. Holly shot one blast and it shot straight through three goblins. Rachel did the same. Holly wasn't expecting as much force and was nearly shocked by the backfire of her friend's guns. Rachel laughed, waiting for the next batch of critters (they were also stunned).
"What make are these?" Holly yelled in surprise. Rachel smiled.
"New! They're protocol now! They can shoot through concrete blocks! Fire and Hold!" she yelled back. Holly was ready and killed four goblins in one shot yet again. A goblin came at Holly from the side, but she saw him. Rachel covered her comrade and herself, which meant taking the gun from Holly, and shooting at her next six targets (three for each gun). Shifting sideways, Holly threw a switchblade at the goblin on her close right and hit him in the forehead with her left hand.
"That was my bad hand! Not too shabby!" Holly congratulated herself. Rachel laughed again and stood up. She threw the guns back into her pack and grabbed a broad sword for Holly.
"Yo, Firebird! Catch!" Rachel yelled. Holly spun and caught the sword effortlessly.
"Thanks, Scales!" she yelled back. Just as Rachel armed herself with her two daggers, the cave troll barged in, nearly crushing one of the hobbits. Gimli chopped at its stomach with his axe, but only helped it rid itself of a few goblins. The grizzly troll saw Holly and Aragorn side-by- side beheading goblins left and right. Neither noticed it raise its mace, but Rachel did.
"Hey, Blondie! Duck!" Rachel yelled at Holly. Her friend found the word "blonde" or "Blondie" to be very offensive because she was a genius. She was an expert in espionage and nobody called her blonde.
"I'll kick your ass!" she yelled, pulling Aragorn to the floor. Rachel threw a dagger at the troll's arm and it stepped back in shock. Its mace still swung down, but instead of slicing Holly and Aragorn in half, it only grazed Holly's shoulder.
"Ouch!" she yelled, standing up. She looked at her torn shirt and bleeding slice and then looking at her hair, which was wet with blood on the tips.
"Son of a bitch!" she yelled, getting really mad. Rachel couldn't really fight without her other dagger, so she used what she remembered from Kung Fu the year before. She had to go through an extensive course with the corps before they could proceed with a mission in Nagasaki, Japan.
"Are you al right?" Aragorn yelled at Holly. She nodded and watched as Legolas climbed on the troll back and shot and arrow in the back of its neck, grabbing Rachel's other dagger as he jumped down.
"Woohoo! Way to go, Leggo!" Holly cheered. She ducked as a goblin swung a sword over her head and hacked its legs off.
"Rachel!" Legolas yelled. Rachel turned and caught the dagger the elf threw to her. as she did so, a goblin came behind her. Holly glanced at it before she realized anything. The loss of blood was getting to her.
"Look behind you!" she yelled, terrified. As Rachel turned, the goblin sliced her side deeply. Rachel spun around and fell to the floor. Holly ran to her and got out Rachel's switchblade, looking the goblin straight in the face.
"Die, bitch!" she yelled, throwing the blade into its throat. Rachel sat up and looked at Holly and smiled. "You good?"
"SNAFU," Rachel replied (Situation Normal: All fucked up). Holly nodded and ran back to the fight. Rachel stood up and watched Aragorn get knocked against a pillar by the cave troll. Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin huddled in a corner.
"Aragorn!" Frodo cried. The other three hobbits ran toward Legolas and Boromir while Frodo went to Aragorn's side. The ranger was out cold. The troll grabbed at the makeshift spear Aragorn had pierced him with and tried to shishkabob Frodo, finally pinning him to the wall.