Journey to Mordor (By SUV)
Disclaimer: I do not own anything to do with Lord of the Rings besides owning a copy of the DVDs and books. So do not even think about suing me! I'll sue you first! I only claim rights to the idea of this story and my plot lines. And I own Tess. Emily, Dolly, and Kate are all being used with permission. And I borrowed the Suburban from my Aunt Debbie.
Chapter Twenty-five: Preparing for War
Aragorn and Tess were sitting outside in Rohan. Suddenly they saw the beacons of Minas Tirith light from across the mountains. They both jumped up and raced full speed for the Golden Hall.
"The beacons of Minas Tirith! The beacons are lit! Gondor calls for aid!" cried Aragorn as they ran into the Golden Hall and came to a halt.
"And Rohan will answer that call! Muster the Riders!" ordered Theoden.
Aragorn and Tess exchanged a smile before leaving the hall in separate ways. Aragorn was going to stables to see to the horses because being a Ranger, Aragorn was always already packed. Tess was closed to being packed and really had very little to do but she wanted to talk to her friends. So Tess went to the room that she shared with her two best friends and found Kate already there, busy packing.
Kate had been the first person to leave the Golden Hall after Theoden's announcement. Therefore, she was the first girl back to the room. She was rushing through packing when Tess entered because she wasn't sure how soon they would have to leave. Kate glanced up when Tess passed her to gather her own things together. If Tess hadn't passed her line of sight, Kate wouldn't have known that the girl was there. Kate said to Tess, without taking her eyes off of her packing, "So Dolly tells me you are Aragorn's daughter."
"Yes I am," said Tess trying to keep the surprise at the question out of her voice.
"She also tells me that you aren't coming home with us. She says that you are staying here, in Middle-earth to be with Aragorn."
"I have a choice to make but it has not been made official yet. There is still time for it to change. But yes, I have seriously considered remaining here with my family."
"But you'd never see your family and friends again if you decided to stay here!"
"Family? What 'family'? Those people are by no means my family! My family is Aragorn and Arwen, my parents. My parents, Kate! I've finally found my parents! You have no clue as to how much this means to me, to find them and the world that I was meant to be in!"
"Do you really belong here though? Is this really your home? Don't you miss your home just a little bit?"
"Home? What home? I've been in so many homes, I don't know which one is mine anymore. And always, the people living there trying to make me feel like part of the family. But it never feels right. This does."
"What about this could feel right?"
"I feel a stronger connection with this world than I ever felt in any other place in my whole life. It's like a wonderful dream and I have this fear that if I even consider leaving it that it'll fade and I'll be stuck in the awful, cramped world that we are from. I don't want to lose this place, Kate! I want to stay here! I want to with my parents!"
"And you are willing to give up your friends to do so? To stay with your parents in this strange world?"
"It's only strange because you don't understand it!"
"And what about our world? Do you understand that?"
"I do and because I understand it I hate it! Middle-earth is like what I always wanted home to be. Free from this crazy skyscrapers, roads, pollution, drunk drivers, and cars, all of the city stuff! I just wanted the country to be the way it used to be. It's that way here."
"But what about your friends?"
"What about them?"
"By staying here, you will be losing Dolly, Emily, and I. But you already knew that, didn't you? You know that it's impossible to communicate between worlds."
"But I always thought that you'd visit me and I'd visit you! What's wrong with that?"
"But that's not going to work well. We have no clue as to whether or not we can even get home, let alone visit! Besides what about Brego? After all of the hard you did to get him you're what? Just going to give him up? You can't bring him to Middle-earth."
"But ada said I could get my stuff and then come back. I'm sure he'd have no problem with me getting Brego and bringing Brego back!"
"Will you just give it up already? Aragorn is lying to you! He's just stringing you along! Why can't you see that? He's not going to do anything he says. Everyone knows that you can't trust a Ranger!"
"My ada is not just a Ranger! He is Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and he is the lost King of Gondor!"
"Stop with the fairly tales already! Aragorn is no more a King than I am!"
"It is not for you to decide to deny the return of the King!" cried Tess as she turned around and raced from the room.
"What have I done?" whispered Kate as she sunk down into the floor. "What was I thinking?" She had only been trying to convince Tess to go home with them but instead she seemed to have turned her friend against her even more. And Kate couldn't blame anyone other than herself for doing that. It was all her fault! She should have left it all alone. But she just had to try to make it better and end up making it so much worse.
Faramir, Mary and the Rangers had returned to Osgiliath. They had been told to defend the city at all costs. No matter what, the city that Boromir had reclaimed for Gondor must hold. There would be no giving in to the Orcs or any other foul creatures that tried to take the city.
It wasn't long after their return before some Orcs invaded the shores. The Rangers all hid behind pillars of stone to wait for Faramir's signal. Upon his signal, they were all to begin attacking the marauding Orcs. This would hopefully give the Rangers the element of surprise and with that an upper hand in the battle.
The Orcs rushed passed them in waves and when Faramir was ready, he raised his hand and yelled, "Now!" and the Rangers attacked. The Orcs were surprised and many were killed with in minutes. But then everything changed and the Rangers began to lose. It had turned within minutes from an Orc slaughter into a Ranger slaughter. Faramir knew that it was time to pull back so he gave the order calling, "Horses! Get to the horses! To Minas Tirith!" as he headed for the horses. The Rangers quickly mounted their horses and galloped to Minas Tirith.
"Are you okay?" Mary asked Faramir.
"Yeah, I'm just surprised that my plan did work. It should have worked! If Boromir had done it, then it would have worked…" said Faramir.
"There's no proof of that!"
"But that's what father would say."
"Faramir, your father is an insane psycho freak who is more worried about Boromir than you! He just never liked you Faramir so stop trying to do what he wants because he'll never be happy with you, no matter what you do."
"That may be true but I don't care."
Mary gave up trying to talk sense into Faramir as Fell beasts attacked the fleeing Rangers from the air. Many of the horses and Rangers were knocked to the ground, killed by slashes from the beast's powerful claws. Faramir and Mary were the only two who managed to survive the attack and that was because of Mary.
Mary saw a Fell beast aiming for Faramir and rode in front of him so that she could take the worst of the blow. She was left winded and fell off her horse but kept Faramir from serious harm. Faramir too fell off his horse and they were both dragged to Minas Tirith.
When they were first brought in, everyone who saw them thought that they were dead. Everyone but Pippin the Hobbit that is. Pippin tried to tell them that it was probably just an act and that they were alive but everyone ignored him. Denethor was soon told of two Rangers being dragged into Minas Tirith. Denethor ordered that a pyre be built for Faramir and to just leave Mary off to the side to be dealt with later. Denethor was going to commit suicide upon the pyre. The pyre was built and Denethor stood on it with guards waiting to light the pyre on fire upon his command. The guards were very eager to kill the crazy steward but they were very sorry that Faramir had to be involved.
Mary woke up, as the guards were about to set the pyre on fire. She quickly stole a torch from a nearby guard and began to chase Denethor around the tombs. Denethor screamed like a girl and acted like one too.
"How dare you try to burn Faramir alive? How dare you?" yelled Mary as she chased the Steward around with a crazy look on her face.
"He's not alive! Faramir is dead, as are you! Please, spirit, have mercy on me! I only wish to die with my son at my side!"
"He is alive! What part of that don't you get? The he, the is, or the alive?"
"No he's not!"
"He's just sick! And you are the cause of that! You are the reason that my Faramir is hurt! I will kill you now!"
Denethor opened the doors and ran out to the citadel. Mary followed him, yelling, "Do you have any idea as to how much pain you have caused for my beloved Faramir?"
"He is in no pain!"
"Yes he is! You hated him for being who he was! You always wanted him to be more like Boromir. Well look what happened to Boromir! He was all brawn and no brains and that's what got him killed!"
"But Boromir knew what to do to win battles! Faramir is a softy and has no clue how to win any sort of battle!"
"That's no excuse!"
"So?"
"So you ruined your son's life! I love Faramir and I will no longer stand for you treatment of him!"
Mary lit the Steward who was doused with oil on fire with her torch. The crazy Steward screamed and began to run. Mary chased him and made sure that he ran right over the cliff. She watched him burn as he flew through the air and then landed on two Orcs, killing them. Denethor, the Steward of Gondor, was no more.
Mary tossed her torch off the cliff before she ran back to see Faramir. He was still alive but clearly very ill.
"Get Pippin! Get the short stack called a Hobbit! And also get a healer!" cried Mary as she grabbed Faramir's hand. "Valar, I will not stand by and watch him die! He can't die! He's too perfect to die and too young! Don't you dare die Faramir!"
"Mr. Frodo, why are you still crying over Gandalf's death?" asked Sam.
"Because he was the only one who understood! And we loved each other!" sobbed Frodo as he clutched his frilly pink apron.
"But you still have your Sam with you. And you love your Sam too, don't you Mr. Frodo?"
"No! Now go away Sam! Go away and leave me with my sorrow! Besides, I know you want my Ring but you wouldn't be getting it!"
"I hope you crawl in a hole and die Mr. Frodo! You don't deserve to live!" cried Sam as he stalked off and left Frodo all by himself with Smeagol/Gollum. Frodo was quite glad to be rid of Sam, but he tried not to show it.
Author's Notes:
I worked really hard to write this chapter for you guys! Do you like it? I hope you do cause it's late and I'm tried and today was my birthday and I have also hit the 100th review mark! Yay! I will hopefully, if time allows for it, post a double some time this weekend. I have the chapters written, it's just typing them up that takes time. Expect next update: Saturday, September 11th.
Reviewers!
Ari Moon – You got to love that song! You sing it all the time! By the way, my fellow classmates and me go to school in an old mental hospital. Gee, I wonder why they picked that building? And we got locked in a cage!
Dark Borg Drone - That's good. I'll have to find some time to read it when you post. I don't get much time to read fan fiction anymore cause of school.
Laer4572 – Even I don't know! And I'm writing the story! I have an idea, but whether or not the SUV gets there, well that's for the SUV to decide.
A Darker Side of Light – Well you get plenty of chapter to yourself this time and you get to talk! Well it rained and stormed all three days so I was glad to not be going this week. We are trying for October now.
musical geek – You got to love that Gandalf song! I wrote it for my first LotR fic, which was deleted by And my friends can't stop singing it! Ahh! Well, maybe that'll shut them up, and Jak, if you are reading this, yes there will be breadsticks tomorrow! So you can stop asking!