Chapter 5: A New Adventure Brews
She started to toy with her brown hair nervously. She walked slowly up to Legolas, Gimli, and the hobbits. She looked up into the eyes of each one.
"I need to ask you for another favor. See, I was just chosen to go back to the West and give back the pendant. I don't think Delegar and I would be strong enough to go alone. So, what I'm asking is can you please come with us?"
They all looked at each other and then looked back at Lora.
"We will join you but first we have to see the king of Gondor, Aragorn." Merry said back.
"Ok, I think that would be fine. Tomorrow we'll get up bright and early and we'll fly to Gondor."
"Fly?" They asked confused.
"Yes, fly. We can take the eagles! Though you will have to leave your ponies here."
They agreed and went to their rooms. Night came and went and the Sun was just waking up. Everyone was up early and Delegar was let out of the elves care. They boarded the eagles and were off to Gondor.
The group started to hear shrieks coming from the eagle. Lora could understand and talked back.
"It's ok. We can walk a little ways to Gondor. Do you think you could wait for us? I have something else I want you to help me with." Once the eagle shrieked again Lora gave him thanks. Lora looked back her following team. They all were stunned. Lora smiled nervously and looked back at the land ahead of them. The eagle shrieked and Lora looked down over the side. She shouted back, "Look everyone! It's the Field of Celebrant!" Everyone looked over in excitement. The lands were filed with green and young elves working. Lora looked down in the front of the eagle. She saw herlums coming toward the elves. They were like a black storm. She to the back and shouted to the elves,
"HERLUMS! HERLUMS ARE COMING!!!" The young elves looked up at the small girl and then looked ahead at the herlums charging toward them. They shot arrows at them but the arrows just weren't strong enough. The herlums tore in and started to massacre one small elf after another. Lora fell to her knees watching the gruesome fight and started to cry. She heard something flying toward them and snapped her head back to the front of the eagle and there he was, Zarkof. He was riding a black eagle. When an eagle turns black, it means he betrayed his flock and they gradually get more and more furious. The two eagles started to screech at each other. Zarkof looked at all of them on the eagle and noticed Lora. He stared into her eyes and flew his eagle closer to her. Lora started to walk back slowly. She never took her eyes off of the Herlum's. She then felt the edge get closer. She looked down behind her and then looked back up at the herlum. She gave him one last evil grin. The herlum growled, "Give us it." Lora lifted her chin confidently.
"You're just going to have to catch me first." She quickly turned around and jumped off eagle. The herlum squealed and the whole fellowship standing on the eagle was shocked and couldn't believe it.