Chapter Four
Aragorn heard an orc screech in pain, he stopped running, looked back, and was horrified to see Legolas standing there, shooting arrows at the orcs, not yet noticing his bleeding wound at the side.
"Legolas!" Aragorn shouted.
"What in Valar's name do you think you're doing?! Come on! Run!" Legolas turned back, stared at Aragorn, and a moment later, turned back to the orcs. Aragorn stood, shocked at the response, Legolas didn't need to say anything, his eyes had already done all the explaining. In those blue orbs that once held happiness and joy, had now clouded over, full of despair and acceptance of his chosen fate.
"Go on, Estel! Remember what I said! The fellowship needs you! You are their leader, I am not, and I am expendable! Go, Estel! Saes!" (Please) Legolas yelled back. But Aragorn would hear nothing of it.
'I will definitely NOT leave him here by himself! Legolas is already weak and injured from the previous battle...there are still people who depend on Legolas! I will not abandon him, he wouldn't abandon me.' Aragorn thought to himself.
Then, he ran to Frodo, telling him what Legolas had told him to do once they were out of the tunnel. Frodo protested at first, but ended up taking the other hobbits along with him as well. Aragorn watched as the hobbits ran further down to the end of the tunnel, then he turned to Gimli and Boromir.
"You can go if you want, but I'm going back to help Legolas." Aragorn said and started to run back to Legolas, followed shortly by Gimli and Boromir. Notching his own arrows, Aragorn started to shoot at the orcs as well, as he ran closer to Legolas, he stopped and frowned, noticing blood seeping through the side of Legolas' tunic just beside the quiver. Legolas noticed the extra arrows and looked back to see Aragorn, he was shocked, but partly relieved.
"You are hurt! Did you get shot by one of their arrows? We should leave now, while we still have a chance, there may be poison in your wound!" Aragorn said as he walked beside Legolas.
"I will not run, Strider, besides, I am fine! I feel no pain!" Legolas sighed.
"Estel, I told you to run! You will die here! You should've just left me! I told you, you are needed! You run!" Legolas said, a bit angry. Then, Legolas noticed Boromir and Gimli run up as well, and his face softened.
"You just couldn't help it, could you?" Aragorn chuckled.
"Of course I couldn't abandon you, Legolas! You mean too much to me and all of us!" Legolas said nothing, only smiled.
"Come on! Stop shootin' at 'em and let 'em come taste the cold steel of my axe!" Gimli exclaimed wildly. Legolas only laughed.
"Patience, dear Gimli, you will be able to kill many, many of these monsters, my arrows are starting to run out!" Gimli laughed.
"Good!"
A few minutes later, both Aragorn's and Legolas' arrows had run out, so they immediately unsheathed their blades.
"Elendil!" Aragorn shouted and charged at the oncoming orcs fiercely, followed by Legolas, Boromir, and Gimli.
'Valar help us all...' Legolas thought, and the battle started.
The four hobbits had finally reached the end of the tunnel, after their first steps out of the dark, they started to yell loudly, running around the boarders of Lorien.
"Help! We need your help! Mister Haldir! Anybody not evil! They are in trouble! Help!" Sure enough, a second later, dozens of elves jumped out from the trees, arrows drawn, pointing to the hobbits. Then, another elf approached Frodo and the hobbits.
"I am Haldir of Lorien, we were informed of your arrival, young masters, the Lady is waiting, but you must stay here while we help the rest of your fellowship. Two of my soldiers will stay with you here." Haldir stated calmly, signaled two guards to stay, bowed slightly, and then ran into the tunnel, followed by an uncountable number of elven soldiers.
Legolas collapsed onto his knees, gasping for breath, a second arrow had been shot into his back, and during the battle, an orc had fallen on him, breaking most of the wooden shaft, and leaving the rest embedded in his back. Legolas' stomach wound had been teared open again, and the arrow wound in his side was still bleeding. Legolas felt weak and weary, black dots filled his vision as the battle was still going on all around him, he inhaled deeply, got up, and started to slay orcs again but with much difficulty.
Aragorn fared better, he had no serious injuries so far, but the bruise on his chest was stinging. Aragorn looked around.
'Ai, Elberath! There are so many!' Aragorn thought, then started to look for his three other companions.
He saw Gimli, and almost laughed at how Gimli was acting against the orcs, even though, Aragorn knew that Gimli was very exhausted, his fury still flared in his eyes. Gimli's helmet had been turned to the side, his beard was sticking in different directions, sweat beaded down his face, a somewhat sadistic grin on his face as he yelled in triumph every time he killed an orc.
Then, Aragorn saw Boromir, he was okay, only had a cut along his face, a black eye, and he was slightly limping here and there. His shield had been thrown aside, his sword covered with black blood, and from the looks of it, Boromir was actually having fun...in a twisted sort of way. Aragorn grinned and started to look for Legolas.
At first, he couldn't find Legolas anywhere, but soon, he saw Legolas' blonde hair swishing around orcs, killing as much as he could. Just then, Legolas was hit over the head, he collapsed, panting, trying to fight the dizziness and nausea. Aragorn's eyes widened when he saw a wooden shaft sticking out from Legolas' back, and when he saw Legolas start to vomit, he panicked and wanted to run and help his friend.
At this moment, an orc took the chance to sneak up behind Aragorn and raised its schmitar, ready to strike and slaughter the man. Aragorn sensed someone behind him, turned around, and his eyes widened even more as he saw the blade of his doom fall. He shut his eyes and waited for the pain, he waited...a few seconds later, Aragorn opened his eyes to see the orc at his feet, dead, an arrow sticking out from its neck.
Then, Aragorn saw Haldir behind him, a bow in his hand, accompanied by a huge grin on his face, and Aragorn laughed.
"You came, Haldir! We're glad! As you can see, we aren't fairing so well...especially with these numbers!" Suddenly, Aragorn whipped out a small dagger from one of the sheaths in his arm pocket and threw it behind Haldir. He turned back to see that the blade had just killed an oncoming orc, who wanted to kill Haldir. He chuckled lightly and shook his head, then, he removed the small dagger from the orc's neck, and handed it back to Aragorn.
"It has been long, young Estel, yet you are not so young now, are you." Aragorn laughed.
"Aye, only physically though!" Haldir laughed.
"So, the others are safe? The hobbits, I mean." Aragorn asked anxiously.
"You didn't accidentally kill one or something, right?" Aragorn joked, and Haldir's expression suddenly turned serious, and guilty-looking. Aragorn studied Haldir, trying to find at least some kind of mirth on his friend's guilty appearance.
"Haldir, no! You didn't!" Then, Aragorn sighed sadly.
"Which of the four?" Haldir kept a straight face.
"I believe the one named Frodo Baggins." Aragorn turned around and quickly stabbed an orc.
"WHAT?!" Then, Haldir couldn't do it anymore, and his expression broke into a huge grin, and Aragorn knew he had fallen for his friend's somewhat humorous joke.
"Haldir, that was NOT funny at all." Haldir laughed.
"Aye, but you should've seen your face, absolutely priceless! I apologize, Estel, I just couldn't resist! Give me some credit, I would not kill anyone for absolutely no reason at all, much less something as small and innocent as a hobbit. Lady Galadriel had informed us of your arrival already, only she did not anticipate that you would get...side-tracked..." Aragorn nodded in understanding, but then he remembered something.
"Legolas..." Aragorn whispered in remembrance.
"What about him?"
"The last time I saw him, he was injured! More than just a little! We must find him quickly and get him out of here!" Haldir grimly nodded and followed Aragorn through the crowds of battling orcs and elves.
Presently, Legolas was being overtaken by three orcs, he was cornered, seriously injured, extremely weak and weary, he had no chance. The first orc charged at Legolas, a hidden dagger in hand, Legolas moved instantly, twirled around, and stabbed the orc in the back. But before it died, it stabbed Legolas deep the leg, then died, he cried out in pain and shock, dropped his twin blades down, and moved to take out the dagger.
Suddenly, another orc rushed at Legolas, and successfully punched him in the stomach, he gasped in pain as his wound was teared open even more, then he fell down onto the ground, tears of pain falling from his eyes as the two orcs started to kick Legolas violently. He was starting to lose consciousness, but then, the kicking stopped, and Legolas wearily looked up with half closed eyes, and smiled slightly when he saw Aragorn and Haldir stabbing the hell out of the two orcs.
Then, Aragorn knelt down to check on Legolas, his heart raced in panic as he examined his bloody body.
"Estel...are yo-you al...alright?" Legolas asked slowly. Aragorn sighed and shook his head.
"Legolas, you should be asking yourself that exact question...we need to get you help...right now..." Legolas opened his mouth, planning to protest, but all that came out was a cry of pain, as Aragorn picked him up. Aragorn's eyes widened and was about to apologize, only to find that Legolas had fallen unconscious, then he looked to Haldir.
"Haldir, I need to you help me clear a path, Legolas needs medical attention, and he can't have that in this tunnel filled with orcs who want his blood." Haldir nodded and started to clear a path out of the tunnel with three other elven soldiers.
A few minutes later, Aragorn finally ran out of the dark tunnel, he stopped for a few seconds to adjust to the bright light, then he ran to a tree, and gently put Legolas down. Then, Aragorn ran to the hobbits, took his medical pack back from Pippin, and ran back to Legolas.
"Legolas...come on, wake up...look at the sun, the trees...listen to the birds, they are all calling to you...please, mellon nin, wake up..." (my friend) Aragorn pleaded to Legolas as he tried to stop the wounds on Legolas to stop bleeding.
After another few minutes, the elven soldiers from Lorien, Gimli, and Boromir had slain all the orcs and now emerged from the tunnel. Aragorn had just gotten Legolas' wounds to stop bleeding, but he was still unconscious, Aragorn gently picked Legolas up, and headed into the forest, led by Haldir, while the surviving soldiers and the rest of the fellowship followed closely behind.
A/N: Well that's a wrap! For this chapter, I mean. I'm sorry for the delay, my computer crashed and I had to go out and try to find a new one! But since.three days ago, my hunt was over and I finally got a better computer! No matter, thanks for reading my story so far, please review more!!! Also, in this story, I am planning to include both alternatives, meaning that first, I'm going to post up the first alternative, which will be the last few chapters where Legolas survives the fight. Then afterwards, I'm would post up the second alternative, which will be the last few chapters where Legolas dies in the fight. But I'm still considering if I'm going to do that. Please give your opinion on this as well! =D
*Gwyn*: No, you didn't "dash my confidence", and really, thanks a lot, I mean for the constructive criticism, because I was really wanting to know how I was REALLY doing on my chapters. And although I do really appreciate all the other reviews, I was waiting for someone to come along and tell me what I did right and wrong and stuff like that. On the topic of the beta reader, I'm not really sure how to go out and get one, because I never had a beta reader for any of my other stories, and yea.I don't know how to get one, so could you tell me how? Like, instruct me and stuff like that? Also about the female wizard, I purposely added it in there because I wanted to create the sense that someone good is always out there, looking after the fellowship and always trying to help if any one of them (in this case, Legolas) was to fall into darkness. And thanks for telling me about not to use the net-slang in my author notes cause I just see other people writing net-slang sometimes, and I just get influenced, I guess. Even now, I keep 'back-spacing' cause I'm so used to the slang. Thanks for pointing that out to me, I'll keep in mind about all this, thank you so much for telling me this, I appreciate it!
*Star-Stallion*: Thanks for reviewing my story so far and thanks for the website!
Special thanks to these people who reviewed my story so far: Lady Lere, Joanne, Star-Stallion, Gwyn, Melliaithwen-ElvenMaiden, Deana, Ayva Trance, Fenris5000, Wynjara, wolf-sister, SilverWolf7, Ash49, Roper, Sylvester1, Cheysuli
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Aragorn heard an orc screech in pain, he stopped running, looked back, and was horrified to see Legolas standing there, shooting arrows at the orcs, not yet noticing his bleeding wound at the side.
"Legolas!" Aragorn shouted.
"What in Valar's name do you think you're doing?! Come on! Run!" Legolas turned back, stared at Aragorn, and a moment later, turned back to the orcs. Aragorn stood, shocked at the response, Legolas didn't need to say anything, his eyes had already done all the explaining. In those blue orbs that once held happiness and joy, had now clouded over, full of despair and acceptance of his chosen fate.
"Go on, Estel! Remember what I said! The fellowship needs you! You are their leader, I am not, and I am expendable! Go, Estel! Saes!" (Please) Legolas yelled back. But Aragorn would hear nothing of it.
'I will definitely NOT leave him here by himself! Legolas is already weak and injured from the previous battle...there are still people who depend on Legolas! I will not abandon him, he wouldn't abandon me.' Aragorn thought to himself.
Then, he ran to Frodo, telling him what Legolas had told him to do once they were out of the tunnel. Frodo protested at first, but ended up taking the other hobbits along with him as well. Aragorn watched as the hobbits ran further down to the end of the tunnel, then he turned to Gimli and Boromir.
"You can go if you want, but I'm going back to help Legolas." Aragorn said and started to run back to Legolas, followed shortly by Gimli and Boromir. Notching his own arrows, Aragorn started to shoot at the orcs as well, as he ran closer to Legolas, he stopped and frowned, noticing blood seeping through the side of Legolas' tunic just beside the quiver. Legolas noticed the extra arrows and looked back to see Aragorn, he was shocked, but partly relieved.
"You are hurt! Did you get shot by one of their arrows? We should leave now, while we still have a chance, there may be poison in your wound!" Aragorn said as he walked beside Legolas.
"I will not run, Strider, besides, I am fine! I feel no pain!" Legolas sighed.
"Estel, I told you to run! You will die here! You should've just left me! I told you, you are needed! You run!" Legolas said, a bit angry. Then, Legolas noticed Boromir and Gimli run up as well, and his face softened.
"You just couldn't help it, could you?" Aragorn chuckled.
"Of course I couldn't abandon you, Legolas! You mean too much to me and all of us!" Legolas said nothing, only smiled.
"Come on! Stop shootin' at 'em and let 'em come taste the cold steel of my axe!" Gimli exclaimed wildly. Legolas only laughed.
"Patience, dear Gimli, you will be able to kill many, many of these monsters, my arrows are starting to run out!" Gimli laughed.
"Good!"
A few minutes later, both Aragorn's and Legolas' arrows had run out, so they immediately unsheathed their blades.
"Elendil!" Aragorn shouted and charged at the oncoming orcs fiercely, followed by Legolas, Boromir, and Gimli.
'Valar help us all...' Legolas thought, and the battle started.
The four hobbits had finally reached the end of the tunnel, after their first steps out of the dark, they started to yell loudly, running around the boarders of Lorien.
"Help! We need your help! Mister Haldir! Anybody not evil! They are in trouble! Help!" Sure enough, a second later, dozens of elves jumped out from the trees, arrows drawn, pointing to the hobbits. Then, another elf approached Frodo and the hobbits.
"I am Haldir of Lorien, we were informed of your arrival, young masters, the Lady is waiting, but you must stay here while we help the rest of your fellowship. Two of my soldiers will stay with you here." Haldir stated calmly, signaled two guards to stay, bowed slightly, and then ran into the tunnel, followed by an uncountable number of elven soldiers.
Legolas collapsed onto his knees, gasping for breath, a second arrow had been shot into his back, and during the battle, an orc had fallen on him, breaking most of the wooden shaft, and leaving the rest embedded in his back. Legolas' stomach wound had been teared open again, and the arrow wound in his side was still bleeding. Legolas felt weak and weary, black dots filled his vision as the battle was still going on all around him, he inhaled deeply, got up, and started to slay orcs again but with much difficulty.
Aragorn fared better, he had no serious injuries so far, but the bruise on his chest was stinging. Aragorn looked around.
'Ai, Elberath! There are so many!' Aragorn thought, then started to look for his three other companions.
He saw Gimli, and almost laughed at how Gimli was acting against the orcs, even though, Aragorn knew that Gimli was very exhausted, his fury still flared in his eyes. Gimli's helmet had been turned to the side, his beard was sticking in different directions, sweat beaded down his face, a somewhat sadistic grin on his face as he yelled in triumph every time he killed an orc.
Then, Aragorn saw Boromir, he was okay, only had a cut along his face, a black eye, and he was slightly limping here and there. His shield had been thrown aside, his sword covered with black blood, and from the looks of it, Boromir was actually having fun...in a twisted sort of way. Aragorn grinned and started to look for Legolas.
At first, he couldn't find Legolas anywhere, but soon, he saw Legolas' blonde hair swishing around orcs, killing as much as he could. Just then, Legolas was hit over the head, he collapsed, panting, trying to fight the dizziness and nausea. Aragorn's eyes widened when he saw a wooden shaft sticking out from Legolas' back, and when he saw Legolas start to vomit, he panicked and wanted to run and help his friend.
At this moment, an orc took the chance to sneak up behind Aragorn and raised its schmitar, ready to strike and slaughter the man. Aragorn sensed someone behind him, turned around, and his eyes widened even more as he saw the blade of his doom fall. He shut his eyes and waited for the pain, he waited...a few seconds later, Aragorn opened his eyes to see the orc at his feet, dead, an arrow sticking out from its neck.
Then, Aragorn saw Haldir behind him, a bow in his hand, accompanied by a huge grin on his face, and Aragorn laughed.
"You came, Haldir! We're glad! As you can see, we aren't fairing so well...especially with these numbers!" Suddenly, Aragorn whipped out a small dagger from one of the sheaths in his arm pocket and threw it behind Haldir. He turned back to see that the blade had just killed an oncoming orc, who wanted to kill Haldir. He chuckled lightly and shook his head, then, he removed the small dagger from the orc's neck, and handed it back to Aragorn.
"It has been long, young Estel, yet you are not so young now, are you." Aragorn laughed.
"Aye, only physically though!" Haldir laughed.
"So, the others are safe? The hobbits, I mean." Aragorn asked anxiously.
"You didn't accidentally kill one or something, right?" Aragorn joked, and Haldir's expression suddenly turned serious, and guilty-looking. Aragorn studied Haldir, trying to find at least some kind of mirth on his friend's guilty appearance.
"Haldir, no! You didn't!" Then, Aragorn sighed sadly.
"Which of the four?" Haldir kept a straight face.
"I believe the one named Frodo Baggins." Aragorn turned around and quickly stabbed an orc.
"WHAT?!" Then, Haldir couldn't do it anymore, and his expression broke into a huge grin, and Aragorn knew he had fallen for his friend's somewhat humorous joke.
"Haldir, that was NOT funny at all." Haldir laughed.
"Aye, but you should've seen your face, absolutely priceless! I apologize, Estel, I just couldn't resist! Give me some credit, I would not kill anyone for absolutely no reason at all, much less something as small and innocent as a hobbit. Lady Galadriel had informed us of your arrival already, only she did not anticipate that you would get...side-tracked..." Aragorn nodded in understanding, but then he remembered something.
"Legolas..." Aragorn whispered in remembrance.
"What about him?"
"The last time I saw him, he was injured! More than just a little! We must find him quickly and get him out of here!" Haldir grimly nodded and followed Aragorn through the crowds of battling orcs and elves.
Presently, Legolas was being overtaken by three orcs, he was cornered, seriously injured, extremely weak and weary, he had no chance. The first orc charged at Legolas, a hidden dagger in hand, Legolas moved instantly, twirled around, and stabbed the orc in the back. But before it died, it stabbed Legolas deep the leg, then died, he cried out in pain and shock, dropped his twin blades down, and moved to take out the dagger.
Suddenly, another orc rushed at Legolas, and successfully punched him in the stomach, he gasped in pain as his wound was teared open even more, then he fell down onto the ground, tears of pain falling from his eyes as the two orcs started to kick Legolas violently. He was starting to lose consciousness, but then, the kicking stopped, and Legolas wearily looked up with half closed eyes, and smiled slightly when he saw Aragorn and Haldir stabbing the hell out of the two orcs.
Then, Aragorn knelt down to check on Legolas, his heart raced in panic as he examined his bloody body.
"Estel...are yo-you al...alright?" Legolas asked slowly. Aragorn sighed and shook his head.
"Legolas, you should be asking yourself that exact question...we need to get you help...right now..." Legolas opened his mouth, planning to protest, but all that came out was a cry of pain, as Aragorn picked him up. Aragorn's eyes widened and was about to apologize, only to find that Legolas had fallen unconscious, then he looked to Haldir.
"Haldir, I need to you help me clear a path, Legolas needs medical attention, and he can't have that in this tunnel filled with orcs who want his blood." Haldir nodded and started to clear a path out of the tunnel with three other elven soldiers.
A few minutes later, Aragorn finally ran out of the dark tunnel, he stopped for a few seconds to adjust to the bright light, then he ran to a tree, and gently put Legolas down. Then, Aragorn ran to the hobbits, took his medical pack back from Pippin, and ran back to Legolas.
"Legolas...come on, wake up...look at the sun, the trees...listen to the birds, they are all calling to you...please, mellon nin, wake up..." (my friend) Aragorn pleaded to Legolas as he tried to stop the wounds on Legolas to stop bleeding.
After another few minutes, the elven soldiers from Lorien, Gimli, and Boromir had slain all the orcs and now emerged from the tunnel. Aragorn had just gotten Legolas' wounds to stop bleeding, but he was still unconscious, Aragorn gently picked Legolas up, and headed into the forest, led by Haldir, while the surviving soldiers and the rest of the fellowship followed closely behind.
A/N: Well that's a wrap! For this chapter, I mean. I'm sorry for the delay, my computer crashed and I had to go out and try to find a new one! But since.three days ago, my hunt was over and I finally got a better computer! No matter, thanks for reading my story so far, please review more!!! Also, in this story, I am planning to include both alternatives, meaning that first, I'm going to post up the first alternative, which will be the last few chapters where Legolas survives the fight. Then afterwards, I'm would post up the second alternative, which will be the last few chapters where Legolas dies in the fight. But I'm still considering if I'm going to do that. Please give your opinion on this as well! =D
*Gwyn*: No, you didn't "dash my confidence", and really, thanks a lot, I mean for the constructive criticism, because I was really wanting to know how I was REALLY doing on my chapters. And although I do really appreciate all the other reviews, I was waiting for someone to come along and tell me what I did right and wrong and stuff like that. On the topic of the beta reader, I'm not really sure how to go out and get one, because I never had a beta reader for any of my other stories, and yea.I don't know how to get one, so could you tell me how? Like, instruct me and stuff like that? Also about the female wizard, I purposely added it in there because I wanted to create the sense that someone good is always out there, looking after the fellowship and always trying to help if any one of them (in this case, Legolas) was to fall into darkness. And thanks for telling me about not to use the net-slang in my author notes cause I just see other people writing net-slang sometimes, and I just get influenced, I guess. Even now, I keep 'back-spacing' cause I'm so used to the slang. Thanks for pointing that out to me, I'll keep in mind about all this, thank you so much for telling me this, I appreciate it!
*Star-Stallion*: Thanks for reviewing my story so far and thanks for the website!
Special thanks to these people who reviewed my story so far: Lady Lere, Joanne, Star-Stallion, Gwyn, Melliaithwen-ElvenMaiden, Deana, Ayva Trance, Fenris5000, Wynjara, wolf-sister, SilverWolf7, Ash49, Roper, Sylvester1, Cheysuli
Thank you SO much for reviewing my story so far and please continue to review them! =D