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At long last, another chapter is here!

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It had been hours since the fight with the Wargs, and had become dark at the time when Eotheod woke up. He sat up and looked around him in wonder.

~Where am I?~

He sat there awhile thinking, for it was too painful for him to stand. Eotheod looked into a distant field and saw a horse grazing. Soon recognizing the horse as his, he whistled and called,

"Arrow! Arrow!"

Several times he tried to stand, just to fall down again in agony. He called many times for the horse to come, and what seemed to him as an hour, the horse came. The horse strode up to him and rubbed his face against Eotheod's.

"Come on boy, help me up."

After a a short period of time, the horse knelt down and he was able to get on.

"Go on Arrow! Take me to Helm's Deep!" Eotheod spoke gasping.

As if the horse understood him, they went off at a canter. They went on for another hour or so before Eotheod heard hoof beats in the distant.

Whispering he said, "Whoa boy! Slow down now."

When the sound seemed only a few yards away, Eotheod said, "Who is there?"

Out of the dark he heard a familiar voice.

"It is I, Aragorn." said the stranger, weakly.

"Aragorn! I am overjoyed to find you!"

"Now I ask, who are you?"

"I am Eotheod. Do you remember me?"

"Yes, I do."

Both speaking at the same time they asked each other "Are you hurt?"

Eotheod replied first, "I have two wounds. I reopened the one from the Great Hall, and I have a Arrow stuck in my other arm."

"Sounds terrible." said Aragorn, "I myself, am not doing that well. I have a deep gash near my shoulder, and a aching, bruised head."

"Let us go with speed, for I have seen a great army approaching."

They rode of not speaking to one another, through the night and into the morning, till they reached Helm's Deep.

"Open the gates!" yelled one of the guards.

Aragorn and he rode into the great fortress, and stabled there horses. Aragorn then spoke to Eotheod,

"Go into the healing house and have them remove that arrow and bind those wounds. It is the small building to your left."

"What about you? You are also injured!"

"I will be fine. Now off with you!"

Not wishing to argue any longer, Eotheod did as Aragorn told him.

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"YOWCH! That hurts!"

With Eotheods twisting and turning, the servants were having trouble binding his wounds, causing him greater pain then he already received.

"Please stop!"

"Lie still and it will not hurt as much!" barked the head servant.

Shutting up, Eotheod endured the remaining pain, and was soon permitted to leave the building.

~I hate that place! I never want to go back there again!~

Eotheod traveled aimlessly around the great fortress, half looking for Frealaf or his family. This way he frittered away his remaining time before the battle and it soon became dark once more. He ate supper and was walking around until he heard a loud horn in the distance and a voice screaming,

"OPEN THE GATES! OPEN THE GATES!"

Eotheod ran as fast he could through all the people trying to get to the gate before anyone else. He bumped into this one soldier and he said,

"Hey, watch where you are going!"

"I am terribly sorry."

"Eotheod, is that you?"

"Frealaf!"

"Eotheod! We all thought you were dead!"

"I had been wounded." spoke Eotheod.

"Look Eotheod, the Elves have come to help us!"

The friends had been reunited and were talking until a soldier came through telling them all where they were to be stationed.

"It is not fair!" said Frealaf, "We have just found each other and now we must be separated once again!"

"I know we shall meet at the end of this battle, for better or for worse." Eotheod encouraged his friend.

They both embraced and then went there separate ways, even Heorl was stationed somewhere else then both of them. Eotheod took his place on the wall, watching the approaching Uruk-Hai.

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HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I DID IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CLIFFY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Chill everyone,

Eothain