A Somewhat true Tale of Helms Deep Chapter 5.....
By Liz ©2004
Disclaimer: um well I like don't own anything but like my cute ROTK poster holds it up and grins and like, I really don't have any money, and like, like, like so ya know? sigh I don't even own Samwe, she owns me in all rights....
AN: none at the moment, but trust me... I'll think of something for you to read...
Meanings: there are none, Remember, Everything is a test and nothing is what it seems......
Chapter 5: Hope lost then hope regained. Or, Yeah! The Elves are here!
Back at the armory, all is quite and empty but for one man donning his gear. Then a voice rings out from the door, "We have trusted you this far, Mellon nin, and yet you lead us not astray. Forgive me, Aragorn. It was wrong of me to despair."
The one man only clasped his sword to his side.
"Aragorn?" The elf's tone had a touch of worry in it.
Aragorn turned to him and clapped his elven friends shoulder, "Legolas, there is nothing to forgive."
Legolas sighed, "Hannon le—"
A voice yelled from a back room, interrupting the Prince, "Would someone help me with this blasted armor!!"
They looked toward the back door from where the request came from.
And Aragorn bust out laughing, Legolas soon to follow in his light carefree tenor.
Gimli stood there taking it with out changing his facial expression.
"Now, if you two laddies are done laughing at the dwarf, would you be so kind as to help 'im?"
"Haldir, my feet are killing me... are we almost there?" the same elf asked the same question for the tenth time this half hour. The other elves had chosen him to bother the strict and stern Lothlórien Captain for this trip.
Haldir rolled his eyes, "Yes, Verdaina we are almost there, only a mile more."
Verdaina smiled when he saw the shadows move on the Captains face form the torch light. He has finally got the Captain to roll his eyes, not bad, yesterday it took him till almost from sunup to night to get him to smile at one of his jibs, questions or jokes.
The elves were all walking in formation, but their hoods of their cloaks were down. And all but the ones assigned with look-out duty and of course the Captain, Haldir, were laughing and talking amongst them selves.
Verdaina turned slightly to the elf on his right, "Score," He whispered so that Haldir wouldn't hear, "You get my watch duty on the way back!"
The other elf grimaced, "Get lost, 'Daina. Go collets debts some other place."
Verdaina just laughed and turned to the elf on his left, accepting and giving a low fiver.
During this confrontation, Haldir meanwhile had slowed down considerable. He then halted completely, raising his arm up calling the entire army to a silent halt.
WAHM!!
Haldir turned to look at the elf that had run into him and had fallen on to the ground, "Verdaina, come with me. The rest of you; be quite and on your guard." Haldir turned and begin to walk away from the company, Verdaina managed to get up and after him before he disappeared past the torch light.
"Haldir?" He whispered. Where was the Captain?
"This way, 'Daina." "Yes sir."
They then started walking around a hill. They lost sight of the elven army, and then they went all the way around the hill. Back to where they had started.
"That's strange." Muttered Haldir.
"Haldir?" "Nothing. Lets go back. And 'Daina?"
"Yes?" "Captain is for when we must fight. Haldir is for when we are home."
"Yes, Captain." Verdaina grinned, saluted Haldir smartly and went back to his place in the line.
Haldir looked over his charges; he knew all of their names and more. Some, like Daina, were good friends. A feeling came over him, but he just pushed it away, just like he did every day in Lothlorien, the stone that grips every commander that leads his friends to battle, worry.
"Hoods up. Quit now" The command was only loud enough to reach every elf, no softer, and no louder the needed.
He turned and began to lead, marching silently toward their destination.
"Gimli, it would be best if you go without." Legolas picked up about two feet of extra mail at the dwarf's feet.
"Gawh, if we had more time I'd get this adjusted. Maybe you're right; it is a little tight across the chest.
Aragorn came back in at the moment holding a bundle of mail in his hands, "Here, Gimli, this one use to belong to some fat page, its large enough, and not to long."
Aragorn dropped the mail on the ground and helped with Legolas, pull off the mail Gimli had on at the moment.
That done, Aragorn picked up the other mail and slipped it over the Dwarf's head, Gimli settled it over his arms, shacking it a bit to straighten out the chains. "It fits!"
Aragorn smiled as the Elf replied with, "Perfectly."
Just then, a horn sounded in the background.
Legolas leap from off his knees, "That is no Orc horn, Mello nin"
He exchanged glances with the kneeling Ranger, and then led the trio in the bolt out the door to the battlements.
Ganad called to another guard at the Gate, "Quick send for the king. Open the gates!!"
Hama was already opening the gates, "Soldier! Help me!"
The army of Lothlórien Elves marched up the causeway into the Hornburg. Silent and deadly.
The Rohirrim soldiers looked on delight as they pass. Many had never seen an elf before, much less a whole army of them.
Théoden, finally having out run the bunnies, looked at Haldir in shock, "How is all this possible? I have made no allegiances with elvs"
Haldir announced to him as an explanation,
"I bring word from Elrond of Rivendell. An alliance once existed between Elves and men. Long ago we fought and died together." He looked up the stairs to see Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli running down to them, and he smiled, "We come to honor that allegiance."
Aragorn reaches Haldir first, bowing he greated him, "Mae govannen, Haldir." Then he surprises the elf by grabbing him in a huge embrace. After a second, Haldir hugs him back lightly.
Haldir laughs slightly as Legolas walks up and gives him a more subdue elven greatting of clasping shoulders, "You are most welcome! Haldir of Lothlorien!"
Haldir turns to Théoden, "We are proud to fight alongside men, once more."
"Yes, I know of which hill you speak of, I thought I had sensed something when we passed it. What about it?"
Haldir had put his second, Adriel, in command while he talked to Aragorn. In the meanwhile, Legolas was introducing Gimli to the elvs. And showing that an elf could be friends with a dwarf, and vice versa.
"Well, Haldir, do you remember the traveling companion I had at one point? Her name was Samwe."
"Samwe...Samwe.... oh, the same Samwe that dragged you into Lothlorien after that ambush orc attack?"
"Yeah, same Samwe. She was the one out on that hill, she has some sort of plan. For some reason, she knew that you were going to come because she said, "Make sure 'Al' knows what I'm up to." is that an often used nickname?"
Haldir ran his hand over his sword, "Ah, no. It's more of a code name we came up with. To use when you got yourself in trouble."
"You're kiddin... wait, your not. Gosh, I didn't know that you guys spent that much time thinking about me."
Aragorn dodged the swat from the elf. "We don't human, quite flattering yourself. Now what did Samwe have to say?"
"She wants us to hold fire until she gives the signal, whatever that may be. She said we would know what it was when we saw it."
Gimli grumbled, "You could have picked a better spot."
Legolas just smirked at him, as Aragorn approached and stood beside them.
Together they look out at the thousands of torches, marching toward them.
"Well lad," Gimli says to Aragorn, "whatever luck it is you live by, let's hope it lasts the night.
Thunder sounds and a blot of lightning flashes near, revealing the sea of approaching Uruk-hai.
Legolas face shows anticipation to the fight, "Your friends are with you, Aragorn."
Gimli mutters, "Let's hope they last the night."
The marching torches come closer and the nose of the uruk-hai gets louder. Lightning flashes again and it begins to rain. While the Uruk-hai army continues to march toward the fortress, an Uruk-hai leader steps on a rock outcrop. The Uruk-hai leader raises his sword and commands his army to stop with a terrifying animal like cry. The Uruks stop and growl in anticipation of the upcoming battle and slaughter.
Then everything falls silent.
Aragorn begins giving commands to the Elven warriors "A Eruchîn, ú-dano i faelas a hyn an uben tanatha le faelas!
Gimli starts jumping and straining to see over the wall, "What's happening out there?" He demands.
Legolas looks out at the uruk-hai and says, "Shall I describe it to you?," he then looks over at Gimli with a grin, "Or would you like me to find you a box?"
Gimli laughs good-naturedly, "Hehehehe!!"
The Uruk leader then cries out once, encouraging the Uruk-hai to start roaring and thumping their spears furiously. Unoticed by the uruk-hai a gray mist is seen in the torch light then it just disappears, and a loud rushing is heard above the roar of that of the Uruk-hai.
The army of helms Deep go pale. What devilment did Saruman have in store for them?
Then, the whole Uruk-hai army goes quite. And the rushing noise gets louder, and louder, shrill whistles of outrage and rasping sounds are heard. They get so loud, both armies become disturbed.
The noises stop.
One moment passes, then another.
The Army of Helms Deep loses sight of about a quarter of the touches in the middle of the ten thousand Uruk-hai, like they had been snuffed out like a single candle
Then a bright yellow flash of light blinds every one for a moment. And they all tremble as they hear a long, gigantic roar.
Aragorn looks in wonder at the sign Samwe had promised them. Where did she summon this, this....dragon?
"You are here", a greeting of sorts.
Show them no mercy! For you shall receive none!