A Somewhat true Tale of Helms Deep

or

A Story of Helms Deep. Kinda.

Chapter 6.....

By Liz © 2004

Disclaimer:

Warning: AU, everybody sorta OOC, and I couldn't do it so I'm not going to kill who you think I'm going to kill....

Meanings: -Telepathic massages-

AN: um, this chapter is rated R for violence.

Rated R for violence.

Chapter 6: Burnt to a Crisp.

It was the sign. A dragon, but Samwe's sign nonetheless.

-I am Eerandgel, prepare to meet your destiny!- The uruk-hai came at the dragon all at once.

Snap, snap, snap. Slash, crunch. Yells of misery and pain came from the Uruk-hai as their bodies were broken. Roars of triumph came from Eerandgel.

Aragorn yelled in to the archers on the wall and in the court yard below.

"This is it! Prepare to fire!!"

The all the elves notched their arrows and started to take aim.

-No, not yet. Let me destroy more of this filth!-

Aragorn head the voice in his head and realizing where it came from, he commanded all to hold. To fire their arrows on his order only.

The Rohanians watched in amazement as the dragon clawed its way through dozens of orcs and wild men at a time.

Leaving a path of dead and maimed bodies that was quickly filling up with more of the enemy. The dragon was rapidly surrounded by mainly fearless Uruk-hai that stabbed, cut and sliced at its belly and wings when they found an open, unprotected spot. The element of surprise was wearing off and the dragon, though big, strong, and powerful. It was soon outnumbered by close fighters and archers, shooting from a safe distance. Eerandgel was quickly losing blood and the fight.

She, for the dragon was a she and only a few of the elves had the experience to understand and see the difference between the two sexes of dragon, crouched low, and swung her tail in a wide swipe, creating a ninety foot barrier between her and the Uruk-hai for a few seconds.

Then she shot up in to the air thirty yards, forcing Uruk-hai into the ground from the force of her wing stroke. As the still concise ones pulled them selves from the dirt and blood floor of the field Eerandgel took a deep lung filling breath, she prepared her fire lung and then held it in to make it five times hotter then it was healthy for her.

The Wild Men close to her, seeing what she was about to do, turned tail and began to run, only to be chopped down by the Uruk-hai, whose minds did not have retreat programmed into them.

Her throat starting to burn from the fire, she quickly filled her fire lung with acid from her stomachs.

-Easy Eerandgel, you don't have to win this with one breath-

Samwes voice filled her head. –Don't hold it much longer, or we will both live to regret it-

Eerandgel let her acid laced fire out, efficiently crisp-a-fi-ing a hundred of the enemy, badly burning more and destroying some of their wooden equipment. She then turned her body and soared over to the wall, looking Aragorn in the face for a brief nanosecond before sailing up and over the wall to the compound behind and below.

-Now!- No one, not even the humans were spared the mind shout the dragon sent out

Aragorn recovered from his glance into the oldest looking eyes he had ever seen, and yelled to the already shooting archers, "Release the arrows!"

The arrows rained down on the Uruk-hai and wild mean below, killing many that had not been touched by the flame.

Gimli jumped up trying to see over the wall, "Did they hit anything, Legolas?" Then he ducked swiftly when he felt an arrow go over his head.

"Give them a volley." Théoden's voice had a hard edge to it.

Gamling nodded and yelled to the men, "Fire!"

-Samwe, I am tired.-

-I know 'Randgel, put you must get some of this iron out of you-

Eerandgel had landed near the ground enforcement of elves. She was wobbling slightly to one side, and then corrected herself, the elves continue to fire around her.

She began to pull the Uruk-hai's weapons out of her, sighing gently in pain as each came out. There were many small weapons her claws couldn't grasp, so she left them where they were. And she tried to concentrating on the more deadly of her wounds. But she felt herself fading from time to time.

Her mind felt a being approach her. She recognized it as Haldir.

It was Haldir who had approached her and he started pulling out the swords, arrows and pike staff she couldn't grasp to get. Two other elves joined him. Her body, covered in her and the enemy's blood, shuddered as a practically deep broken staff was pulled out.

Haldir tried to sooth Eerandgel with telepathy –The pain will go away, but we must move you to the caves so you can heal- Haldir knew somewhat of dragons and their healing abilities. It did not tale them long, a few days at most. But they had to start immediately and rest often.

Eerandgel brought her head around to face him from where she was gnawing on an arrow in the fleshy part of her right paw.

-No, stand back elf- this was a much different voice they had heard from her earlier, it sounded, demonic almost. –I have to change-

Haldir jumped back, not from his own free will, but of the fiery magic will of the dragon. –Change? We must get you to the caves!-

-I said- "STAND BACK!" The last part came out of the dragon's mouth as a snarl. Everyone on the ground and wall heard it. The three elves complied and walked a ways away.

Eerandgel inhaled, and exhaled, steam rolled off of her, she begin falling forward, her purple and yellow cat eyes rolling up into her head. The Dragon never hit the ground.

An old man with a missing eye yelled again to the human archers, "Fire!"

The glow around the kneeling naked figure disappeared. Haldir ran up to the person, it was a badly wounded human female. Her long hair was like a mantle, hiding her face and body from sight. Her blood was everywhere. She looks up at him and said his name and then fainted. Haldir caught her before her head hit the ground.

More arrows are released. But the Uruk-hai army keep advancing, with more replacing those who had fallen. An elf here, a human their, was shot down by the uruk-hai archers.

Aragorn stood still as arrows flew around his head from behind.

Gimli muttered impatiently, "Send them to me! C'mon!"

The Uruk-hai started to load the un-burnt ladders onto the walls, pushing them up with long spears.

Aragorn rushed to the wall, "Pendraid!"

Haldir nodded to the force of elves behind him. One of them stops firing and runs to him.

"Verdaina, I am taking her inside, have faith and keep shooting!" Haldir turns and jogs toward the keep, pulling the wounded female closer.

Verdaina looked grim and ran back to his spot and between each arrow he fired; he told what Haldir had gone to do.

Aragorn calls out to the line of elves. "Swords! Swords!"

The elves on the wall draw their blades in preparation for combat. The first ladders are almost reaching the walls with big nasty Uruk Berserkers riding them to the top.

The blood thirsty dwarf grunts, "Good!"

Close combat begins as Uruk-hai continue to climb over the wall.

Gimli laughs as he hacks off the head of Uruk only to parry a blow from another and roll around him and swing his axe into its exposed spinal column at the hips. The Uruk went down screaming.

Gimli held up two fingers to Legolas, "Hey Legolas, two already!"

Legolas grinned and yelled back whiled gracefully dodging a Uruk sword then plunging his own blades deep into the neck of the beast, "I'm on seventeen!"

Outraged, Gimli shouted to nobody in particularly, "Argh! I'll have no pointy-ear outscoring me!"

He turned just in time to see a Uruk climbing over the wall, he brought the axe back then forward ,whacking it in the groin and killing it as it falls to his feet.

Legolas whipped out his bow and fired two arrows then pulled his blades out of the dead Uruk at his feet, "Nineteen."

Legolas looked up as he heard Gimli counting out loud, "Seventeen! Eighteen! Nineteen!"

Legolas seemed to be every where at once, killing and maiming, while Gimli stood on the wall between two ladders, hacking away at Uruk-hai as they came up.

"Twenty! Twenty-one! Twenty-two!"

End chapter 6...

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