She's a witch

"Damn!" She said as she watched the archer look at his arm. The arrow only grazed him. It wasn't even enough to slow him down. She crawled over to her friend who was lying motionless on the groun. She looked at the arrow through Ariel's back and then placed a hand on it. Tears ran down her cheek; she couldn't do it, she couldn't bring herself to pull the arrow out. She knew that the arrow was the last weapon she had to use, but she still couldn't do it. She pulled her friend into her arms and rested her head on Ariel's. Ariel was limp in her arms, her head laid back and her arms hung loosely at her side. The three men ran towards the two girls but stopped short a few feet from where they were sitting.

Kathy looked up at them with tears running down her mud-streaked and blood-soaked face. "What are you waiting for?! Go ahead, kill me!! Get it over with!!" She screamed over and over again. The tall man and the archer walked over to the girls. The tall man bent down to place two fingers on the fallen girl's neck, but before he could touch her, Kathy quickly pulled Ariel away. The man looked up at the archer and then back at the girls. "There is no need to fear us, young one, we will not hurt you," the man said. Kathy ignored his offer and only tightened her grip on her friend.
The man looked up at the archer and said something she could not understand. Then the archer moved closer, knelt down beside Kathy and looked intensely at her friend. Within seconds the archer stood up and then shook his head. Kathy didn't have to know what he meant; she already knew that her friend was gone. Fear and exhaustion clouded her mind and the world around her began to spin and grow dark. "How...how could this have happened?" She said over and over again in her mind, till the words ran together and Kathy felt sick.

She suddenly got up and ran to the nearest bush. There she collapsed on the ground and began vomiting until her stomach went numb. She stood up and then looked at the three men staring at her. She suddenly felt faint again. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head and the pain took over "Oh, shit," Was all she could get out before she went unconscious and fell to the ground.
Kathy woke up feeling horrible. Her head was spinning and her side was killing her. Suddenly remembering what had happened, she shot up, screaming for Ariel. The tall man walked up to her. "Please, you are injured. You must sit back down." He said while placing a hand on her shoulder. Kathy took a step back, not wanting him to touch her "No, I'm not doing anything until someone tells me what's going on here and where my friend is!!" Kathy yelled. The tall man took a step back to give the young girl space. "Please sit and I will explain what I know to you." He said while sitting cross-legged on the ground in front of her. Kathy took a few more steps back and then sat on the ground. It caused her pain to move like that but she did her best to brush it off.

"I'm sorry to say that your friend did not survive the attack from the orcs. She was fatally wounded and there was nothing Legolas nor I could do for her. When you are feeling better, perhaps Legolas or myself could show you where she was laid to rest." Kathy could feel the tears spilling over from her eyes; she still couldn't believe that Ariel was dead. Just like that, her best friend all her life, her only family, was now gone. "W- w-where am I?" Was all she could get out between sobs. "You are in open planes out side Rohon," The man replied as he watched the girl intently. "Rohon? Where is that? Somewhere in LA?" The man looked at her with complete confusion. "I do not know where this 'LA' is, but Rohon lies in the lands of Middle Earth." Kathy straightened her back and looked the man in the eyes. "You're telling me I'm not in America anymore...not even on Earth?" The tall man tilted his head and then gave a steady, "No, I don't think so."

Kathy slumped back down and then started to mumble something. The man looked at how lost the girl seemed to be. "What is your name?" He asked, trying to help ease the tension. Kathy looked up at him and then at the two men standing off in the distance. "Kathy." She said while wiping a sleeve across her face. "I am called Strider, or Aragorn. The dwarf over there is Gimli and the elf is Legolas." Kathy looked at all of them with confused red and puffy eyes. 'Elf? Dwarf? You have got to be kidding me,' She thought while putting a hand on her now throbbing side. Legolas and Gimli approached Kathy to introduce themselves. Kathy then yawned and Gimli raised his ax at what he saw. "The lass is a witch!!"