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Let the Battle Begin

Aragorn then began to pace between the rows of soldiers, speaking loudly and clearly. "A Eruchîn, ú-dano i faelas a hyn an uben tanatha le faelas."

From somewhere below the orc caption yelled to his immense army and they began to beat their spears against their shields, marked with the white hand of Saruman. The banging noise was very unnerving.

Beside Aradel Gimli was hopping, trying to see over the stone ledge. She laughed quietly. "What's happening out there?" he asked in a gruff voice.

"Shall I describe it to you, or would you like me to find you a box?" Legolas replied with a small smile.

Gimli chuckled. It had now begun to rain, hard and heavy. Somewhere behind the three Aragorn drew his sword and the Elven archers drew their bows tight, ready to fire at the word. As they did the orcs below beat faster and faster on their shields, building up suspense in most of the men and one woman.

Somewhere to the right of the wall on a small tower like protrusion a random archer lost his arrow. She suspected it to be an old man with shaky fingers as it soared through the air and embedded itself in the neck of an orc in the first row.

"Dartho!" Aragorn shouted to the rest who hadn't lost control of their motor skills.

It gave a low grunt and fell to the ground, dead. For a moment the rest grew silent then began screaming in outrage. The orc captain gave a signal and the vast army charged forward with amazing force.

"Tangado a chadad!" Aragorn shouted and behind him rows of Elves who had not already, drew their bows.

A dwarf away Legolas muttered something to himself and anyone who was listening. "Faeg I-varv din na lanc a nu ranc."

She smiled. Just another practice target. Except these targets could kill her and everyone around her if she missed, no pressure.

"Hado i phillin!" Aragorn cried and as they did an entire row of orcs went down.

Beside her Gimli, still struggling to see, ask, "Did they hit anything?"

Theoden gave a command and many others fired their bows and many more orcs went down, the ones that were still alive trampling over them. Behind her Aragorn looked down at the Elves who were position just below the wall. "Hado ribed!" They began to fire at will and so did the rest of them. Aradel shot and shot and shot randomly, for now, into the huge mass of black evil hoping she hit something. To be honest she was very calm in an eerie kind of way.

"Send them to me, come on!" Gimli shouted. The orcs drew ever closer to the stone wall that protected them all. A couple of orcs were now armed with crossbows and were shooting back up at them. Their aim was true and several nameless soldiers, both Elven and human fell.

"Pendraith!" Aragorn warned loudly. Aradel peeked over the wall and saw that, as he said, several orcs were carrying ladders with many orcs already piled on. Beside her Gimli shouted, "Good!"

The orcs were up to the wall and leaned the ladders upon it, they pounced on the soldiers who were busy with their archery, killed them and moved on to other victims.

"Swords, swords!"

One by one, as if in a wave, they drew their curved blades, squinting through the pounding rain. Gimli hacked at an orc coming at him off of a ladder with his axe. He impaired many orcs but before he could slay them Aragorn finished them off with a stab threw the belly. He then slid through the legs of one and stabbed it roughly in the back. It fell to the ground and he finished it off with a heavy blow to the head.

Legolas was shooting so many orcs Aradel didn't have time to count. He was letting arrow after arrow fly both long and short range. His face had an expression of half-great concentration and half-great amusement.

"Legolas! Two already!" Gimli called from feet away.

"I'm on seventeen!"

"I'm on twenty one!" Aradel called from behind them both. They glared at her for a second before returning to their slaying.

"Eh? I'll have no pointy ear outscoring me and certainly not a woman!" Gimli called back.

She mentally stuck her tongue at him. She hacked the head off a nearby orc then turned to block an attack from one behind her before stabbing it through its abdomen.

"Nineteen!" she heard Legolas call ostentatiously to Gimli somewhere behind her.

In front of her Aragorn killed another one and kicked a ladder down, probably killing many but he wasn't in the game. For that one three more ladders were raised and hundreds of orcs piled onto the wall.

Aradel was being forced to back towards the two competitive males by about three ladders that were lined up directly in front of her. She bumped into something and whirled around her sword raised ready to slice down on another snarling orc. Instead she found Legolas' head. They fought back to back, slicing and cutting, chopping and hacking, stabbing and thrusting.

A crossbow arrow flew through the air narrowly missing Legolas head.

"Watch out!" she called to him with a very obvious hint of annoyance. In that moment of distraction another came and hit her squarely in the shoulder.

"Aradel, are you OK?" he yelled back.

"Yea, why wouldn't I be?" She kept on fighting, oblivious to the fact that an arrow was sticking out of her shoulder. Or so it seemed to most people who were not busy trying to stay alive through the thick vale of orc.

He hesitated in answering. "Uh…no reason." He ducked an assault and slit its throat then maneuvered to stab another in the back.

"Hey, Legolas?" she asked.

"Yes?"

"Would you mind pulling this arrow out of my shoulder?" He hesitated again and as she raised her arm to bring her weapon down on the head of an unsuspecting orc he ducked under it, reached behind his, grabbed and pulled the arrow and they ended up on opposite sides that they had been a second earlier.

"Thanks." She said almost gleefully. Then she disappeared into the mass of black pouring rain. He stuck out one sword in front of him stabbing an orc in the middle and stuck the other back behind him doing the same to another behind him.

On the other side of the wall Aradel, still slashing and killing, noticed that a couple of orcs were bringing round spiked balls up to the base of the wall. They looked like oversized ends of a mace. From where she was standing she could see where exactly but whatever it was wasn't good.

Then another orc came running with a brightly flaming torch. At that moment she realized what they were and winced mentally. Somewhere to her left she heard Aragorn shouting.

"Togo hon dad, Legolas!" he said pointing. Legolas' eyes focused and aimed. He let loose an arrow and it hit him in the right shoulder. Then another let fly and hit him in the left shoulder but he didn't stop running.

"Dago han! Dago han! " Aragorn yelled in desperation.

He was to close now to matter what he would ignite the explosives. Then the orc tripped over his own feet and with one last ounce of energy threw the torch onto the spiked balls.

A blast came forth from the base of the wall that temporarily deafened everyone within a fifty-mile radius. The rock flew apart like Styrofoam under a firecracker killing several Elves, men and orcs. Unfortunately she had been standing close to the explosion and was thrown back with such force it made her head spin like a top. She landed on the hard rock with a thud and a wince. Spots appeared before her eyes and for a millisecond she passed out. Before she could hit the ground her brain, protected by a very thick skull, woke up and was on full blast.

But the wall was breached, that was bad. Very bad.

"Brace the gate!" Aradel heard Theoden's feint yell from somewhere unseen. She took a step forward and gave a slight yelp as she fell again to the ground. Annoyed she looked at the limp body lying on the ground at her feet.

"Aragorn!" she stumbled up to him and put her fingers on his neck to check for a pulse. There was one. And it was pretty strong, he'd wake up soon. Right now she had the wall of orc charging towards her to deal with.

Above her to the right she saw a line of orcs marching three by three banging the strong wooden doors with a large hard log. Arrows and few stones were being thrown at them but they persisted.

Shaking herself mentally she turned her attention to the orcs coming. Her sword connected with that of the orc directly in front of her. It sliced from the side, she blocked and stabbed, penetrating its armour. It coughed up black, vile blood and fell to the ground. She then went on to the next, and the next.

From above Gimli gave a shout and jumped from the wall, landing on a group of orcs attacking them all fiercely in the muddy puddle she now realized she was standing in. Aragorn got up as he was knocked down by an orc and was immersed by the cloudy water.

"Hado I phillin! " Aragorn shouted, then he watched with angst as a barrage of arrow flew down from above and slew a fair amount of the evil creatures.

"Herio! " he shouted and did so along with all the Elves with their swords drawn. The ones who didn't quickly put their bows and arrows away and joined the crowd and Aradel, fighting. Aragorn, after slashing a few orcs, picked Gimli up from the puddle and brought him to his feet, his beard dripping.

She noticed that Legolas had somehow found his way down from the wall and was helping the Lorien elves in slaying every orc there. He hacked at one at almost he exact same time as Gimli chopped one with his mighty axe.

Above them Theoden looked down on them. "Aragorn! Fall back to the keep! Get your men out of there!" He shouted.

"Nan barad! Nan barad! " he looked up at Haldir, also slicing away, "Haldir! Nan barad!" Haldir looked down and nodded in acknowledgment. Aragorn turned and sliced an orc through the belly then yelled at all the Elves to go back to the keep.

Two Elves had to take Gimli by the arms and drag him back, for his lust for slaughter was to great to extinguish with a simple command. "What are you doing?! Stop it!" he shouted as he was pulled back.

"Haldir!" Aragorn's shout directed Aradel's attention to the top of the wall where only Haldir's head could be seen. He was ghostly white, his eyes wide, he fell back and out of sight as Aragorn climbed the stairs with great haste and raced to his friend's side.

A/N: Oh, no Haldir's dying. For people who are going by the books, ya i'm not because i haven't read two towers in the longest time and i saw the movie about a week ago. And i have the script at my disposal. By the way i want to extend my thanks to for supplying me with scripts and other useful information. Thanks! Well i suppose i should translate all the elvish for you. Sigh. Nehoo, bye-bye!:D A Eruchîn, ú-dano i faelas a hyn an uben tanatha le faelas-Show them no mercy for you shall revieve none.
Dartho-Hold Tangado a chadad: Prepare to fire Faeg i-varv dîn na lanc a nu ranc! Their armour is weak at the neck and beneath the arm. Hado ribed!Hurl to flow
Pendraith! Ladders! Na fennas! Causeway! Togo hon dad, Legolas!Bring him down, Legolas
Hado i philinn! Hurl the arrows
Herio! Charge! Nan barad! Nan barad! Haldir! Nan barad!To the keep! To the keep! Haldir! To the keep
Well i think that's it at least, tell me if i missed anything.

Arein: Ah, sort of like how i keep saying dumbass. I'm not supposed to say it at all but i do anyway and now my brother says it and even my mom says it. But not in front of dad, he'll murder us all! No i'm just kidding but he would ground all of us. My brother is the most annoying thing on this planet and right now i'm plotting how i would beat him to death. Anyhoo, thanks :D

Elven Script: Hee hee, the Haldir part was a part that i didn't know was there until like four pages after i had writen it. Crazy i think it was one of the voices in my head. :D