Chapter 10 Orc Attack!

We were woken up early that morning and I woke up easily out of habit but Merry groaned and pulled his blanket over his head.

We ate a quick breakfast of apples and lembas. We drew sticks to see who would scout ahead.

Of course Handir and I were chosen.

We mounted and rode ahead of everyone else. Handir declared he would look to the right and I would look to the left. He rode off to the right until I couldn't see him, good.

I just rode enjoying the sunrise soaking in it's bright rays. Just looking at it I felt like I was in the Shire. The purple and pink blended together with the orange and red and in the middle was the bright red ball of fire.

I was not really paying attention to anything else but a shout caught my ears.

"Orch! Na in annĂșn!" 'Orcs! To the west!" Handir's shout rang through my head as I turned Elenril around and galloped back to the other men and elves.

"Orch!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. Then realizing lot of the men didn't speak elvish.

"Orcs!" I yelled again. Now a wave of fear ran through the men. The elves pulled out their bows and told me to get mine while Elenril was trotting over to Merry's pony.

"Hit them when they come over the hill." Legolas told me. I placed a reassuring hand on Merry's shoulder.



The orcs came over the hill on the strangest looking animals I had ever seen. They looked like a cross between a wolf and a bear.

"Wargs." Legolas moaned, he hates wargs. Trin fired first and brought one of the monsters down. It fell with a scream falling over and crushing it's rider. I fired and hit one of the wargs in it's leg.

Merry raised his eyebrows and said "Good shot." I smiled and reloaded my bow bringing down another.

Soon all the elves were shooting down the orcs and wargs. There were more than we expected. We thought there would be twenty. There were about thirty racing to us.

When the wargs were brought down we heard a shout as a warg had jumped down from the cliff above us and had attacked one of the Rohan soldiers.

Snarling it advanced followed by at least fifty more, they had surrounded us!

I yanked out my sword the same time Merry pulled his out.

I noticed he still had the blade that Strider had given us at Weathertop. I nudged Elenril and she began galloping at full speed to the rushing wargs.

The other elves were already fighting. I slashed at a wargs face and it fell to the ground, dead. I swung my blade and chopped the head off the orc rider. Merry was riding next to me and had just stuck his knife in a orc's chest.

All I could hear was the screams of the orcs and men as they died. I was so involved in killing an orc I didn't see the warg until it was too late. I was shoved off Elenril who screamed and shot away. I hit the ground hard pain racing through my left arm.

The warg growled and leaned closer to me it's horrid breath making my eyes water. It's heavy paw was pushing on my throat making yellow spots dance before my eyes. It growled and pushed harder.

Then everything went black.

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