Journey to Mordor (By SUV)

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Chapter Forty: March on the Black Gate

Aragorn led the group of Riders from both Rohan and Gondor. He was followed closely behind by Legolas, Gimli, Gandalf, Eomer and others. The closer the group of Riders came to the Black Gate the more he wished that he had said good-bye to Tess. He should have let her come too, but he knew that he was probably going to die in this battle and he didn't want her to see that happen. And Tess wouldn't be able to stop his death. Which would make it worse for her. Legolas then rode up alongside Aragorn, into his line of sight, which shattered his thoughts.

"I sure hope this plan works right or else I'm a dead man for sure," groaned Aragorn. "One way or another…"

"But you already are a walking dead man! Wearing that outfit is just asking for it! Whoo!" said Legolas, laughing so hard that he almost rolled off the horse on top of Gimli.

"Oh will you just give it up already?!"

"Why?"

"I'm not even going to reply to that question."

"Why?"

Aragorn just smiled and said nothing as he urged Brego to go a bit faster. Leoglas kept asking the same question but never got so much as a word out of Aragorn. It was a quiet ride for the rest of the trip to the Black Gate. Which meant that Aragorn was left all alone with his thoughts. All he could do was hope that he might survive the battle and be able to return to his daughter and eventually Arwen. Have hope! It was like a joke seeing as Elrond used to call him Estel, the Elvish word for hope. But Elrond and hope was a joke. Elrond had no hope for no one other than himself. It was a joke!

Tess quickly saddled ES Brego and hopped on. Mary saddled her own horse and swung on. Emily just floated alongside the two riders. Tess murmured some quick words in Elvish in Brego's ears and he took off through the many levels of Minas Tirith, speeding towards the Black Gate of Mordor. Mary managed to stay pretty close to the speeding horse and rider. Fear drove Tess and Brego to run full out after the rest of the group of riders following Aragorn to the Black Gate. Finally the three girls caught up to the group and ride through them to the front.

"Ada," Tess whispered as she pulled up alongside her father, Mary behind her and Emily with Mary.

"What are you doing here? Do you want to get yourself killed? I thought I said for you to stay behind!"

"You did! But does it look like I listened? Nooo…."

"Why did you disobey me?"

"I had a vision ada, a vision of you and the others. Something bad was going to happen unless I was here to help. I had to come."

"So that meant it was alright to come after I told you not to?"

"Well, hell yeah!"

"I should send you back to Minas Tirith!"

"If you do ada, I will hate you forever…"

"If anything happens to you, I will never forgive myself."

"Nothing will happen to me, ada. This I promise."

Aragorn and Tess both knew that there was no way that the promise could be kept. They could try their best but that didn't mean that it could be kept. No matter, Aragorn gave in.

"You can stay…"

"Thanks ada!" cried Tess.

Aragorn nodded as he rode up to the Black Gate with Tess at his side. Legolas, Gimli, Mary, Emily, and Gandalf rode right behind them. Aragorn stopped at the gate and spoke loudly.

"Let the Lord of the Black Land come forth! Let justice be done upon him!" yelled Aragorn as the Black Gate began to open. "Fall back! Fall back!"

The group followed Aragorn and Tess back to the formation. Armies of Mordor came marching out of the gate after them and surrounded the small army of Men. The Men were surrounded in a circle, bunched together like sardines in a can.

"Do you think there could be anymore Orcs coming out of there if they tried?" Tess questioned.

"I don't think we really want to know the answer to that, now do we?" answered Mary.

"Good point."

"Hold your ground! Hold your ground!" cried Aragorn as they arrived back and the others joined the formation.

Aragorn began to ride back and forth in front of the bunch, calling out as he rode, "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!"

Everyone drew their swords. They are outnumbered badly and they know it. But they will still meet them in battle. Emily pulls out her flamethrower and laughs like a maniac. Tess and Mary rolled their eyes at her. Then everyone dismounted and lines were formed. Aragorn and Tess were at the very front with their close friends close behind.

"Never thought that my end would come standing beside a wig wearer," said Gimli to Legolas.

"Hey! I'm not a fucking wig wearer!"

"Okay, an Elf then. Geesh!"

"Fine!"

The Eye of Sauron turned to rest, focused on Aragorn. And Sauron's voice came out and said to him, "Aragorn…Elessar…"

Aragorn stood motionless and stared off at the Eye of Sauron off in the distance while lowering his sword. Tess looked at him in shock. Then he turned to the army behind them.

"For our friends…" he said softly. "For everything that we hold dear…"

Then he ran towards the Orcs, Tess and the others close behind. He met the Orcs head on and disappeared. As the battle raged, Tess drifted off from the others. Emily was having a little too much fun lighting Orcs on fire and Mary was in an angry mood and taking it out on the Orcs and the Rohan people. She even killed one of the Riders of Rohan. Not that anyone really cared. Aragorn managed to have the battle calm down enough around him for a moment to look around for Tess.

"Tess!" he cried as he saw her about to be stabbed by a troll. He raced towards her as she spun around to block the attack.

But her block was a little too slow. The troll's weapon sliced her left upper arm, making it bleed. Tess let out a gasp but quickly blocked a second attack, while staggering on her feet, almost losing her balance. Aragorn rushed over towards her to help her out. He took her place in battle with the troll as she stumbled backwards, clutching her arm. Then an Orc came out of nowhere and attacked her. She parried and then killed it then turned to find her father.

Poison. The troll had poisoned her. She was dizzy. She wanted to collapse but she knew she had to stay awake. She had to get help. She had to tell her father. But where was he?

Aragorn had been knocked down to the ground by the troll and was being held down by the troll's foot. Anduril was lying just out of his reach. He grabbed his dagger and stabbed the troll in the foot but nothing happened. The troll was unmoved by the damage Aragorn had done to it's foot. And the troll was brining its weapon down towards Aragorn's chest.

"Away you ugly bastard!" cried Tess, racing towards them.

She gripped her sword in her left hand and grabbed Anduril in her right hand. Wielding both swords she faced the troll, blocking it from killing Aragorn. The troll recognized her and gave an evil smile as he brought his weapon towards her. A lightening fast block and counter attack from Tess caused the troll's sword to break. Anduril and Tess's fury were no match for the troll.

"I said to get away, you ugly bastard! Leave my ada alone! Your quarry is with me! Bastard!"

The troll attacked again and Tess finished the blade off and knocked the hilt out of the troll's hands. It swung its arms at her and she sliced them off before stabbing the troll in the chest, killing it. The troll crashed to the ground to the ground and Aragorn was freed from underneath its foot.

The pain was unbearable. The poison was killing her. She was slowing dying. She couldn't stay awake any longer. Pain…

Aragorn crawled away from the dead troll and headed towards his daughter who dropped her sword and fainted. Anduril fell out of her head as she lay still on the ground. He crawled towards her and something caught his attention midway there. Mount Doom was exploding. The Ring was being destroyed. His eyes turned towards Sauron.

Emily had floated her way up to Sauron's Eye. She was laughing and cried "Poke!" as she poked the Eye repeatedly.

"Stop it!" cried the Eye. "That hurts! Stop!"

"Poke! Poke! Poke the Eye! Poke! Poke!"

"Ahhh!!!!!" cried the Eye as it rolled off the top of the tower as it came crashing down.

Emily let out some insane laughter as it fell and then she went, "Oops!" and floated off.

The SUV was climbing towards Mount Doom. Dolly was cursing the whole way to the top of Mount Doom. She drove straight into the inside of the mountain and right up to the edge. Then the three climbed out and walked to the edge, looking down.

"Okay Frodo, jump in!" cried Dolly as she pushed him towards the edge.

"Nooo! I'm too young to die!" he cried.

"You must die! Argh!" cried Dolly as she tossed Frodo over the edge. Frodo managed to grab the edge and Sam went to help his friend.

"Don't you dare help him Sam or I'm tossing you both over the edge!"

"Good-bye, Mr. Frodo," said Sam with an evil smile as he pulled Frodo's fingers from the edge and Frodo fell to his death.

"My precious!" cried Gollum as he jumped into the lava after Frodo and the Ring. But he just went kersplat on the hardened lava and then died. Frodo burned to death as the Ring was destroyed.

"Let's get out of here before it blows!" cried Dolly as she raced for the SUV. Sam followed her. Then Dolly floored it for the entrance and drove right to the battle of the Black Gate as everything around her disappeared. The SUV raced towards Aragorn and screeched to a halt in front of him.

"Eeek!" he cried as he covered his eyes.

Dolly hopped out of the SUV and ran towards Aragorn and Tess as the others came over, the battle having ended.

"What happened to her?" asked Mary, arriving first. "Did she take a hit from the troll?"

"Huh?" asked Aragorn, uncovering his eyes.

"Tess you asshole!" cried Mary smacking Aragorn in the head.

"Ouch! That hurt!" he said, glaring at Mary as he rubbed his head.

Mary rolled her eyes and looked at Tess's shoulder. "She's needs help from a healer. She needs to get to Minas Tirith fast. Her wound is very similar to that of Faramir's. She'll die if we don't hurry."

"What?"

"She was poisoned!"

"Really?"

"Yes, really!"

"Stick her in the SUV. We can get her back to Minas whatever faster that way," said Dolly.

"Great idea! Aragorn!"

Aragorn nodded to show that he understood and sheathed Anduril and then picked up Tess's limp body and loaded it into the trunk of the SUV that almost smushed him. Dolly and Sam climbed in the front and Aragorn rode in the back with Tess's body.

"Great! Now I feel like an ambulance driver!" moaned Dolly as she floored the gas pedal and zoomed towards Minas Tirith as fast as the SUV would go.

Author's Notes:

Very long chapter! Sorry it took so long to type! I hope to post another chapter tomorrow but it depends how I'm feeling. I have to put to sleep and have a camera shoved down my throat. So we'll see. If not tomorrow, then Friday, October 15th will be the next update down to a three day camping trip.

Reviewers!

A Darker Side of Light – Yes you are! Combustion, sounds like so much fun! Not! I have this feeling that all computers are evil, but that's just me. And sure you're not obsessed… Just like I'm not obsessed with Aragorn and LotR… Sure…

rose-eye-blonde91 – Oh that sounds like fun! We have a really good goalie though and I preferred just to chase people up and down the field with a field hockey stick. I have a tendency to whack people in the shins with my stick harder than necessary when I'm going after the ball. Glad you liked the chapter!

Jak – You poked the Eye! And Kate, if she ever reads this, will probably kill me. Oh well! Glad you got a kick out of that!