Along the west bank, the riders of Rohan, to the right flank the
Witches Lighters and on foot warriors, to the aft march the towering
Ents, their large strides had them hall into position quickly, "Piper?"
Paige ask, turning around to see what the noise behind her was, "Why
are the trees walking?" turning around to address the ludicrous
statement of the youngest.
"I…am no Tree!" came a bellowing echo from above,
"My mistake," she said laughing nervously "looks like a tree!"
"Are those eagle?" asked Phoebe as several squadrons in a V formation
flew over them and began a reconnaissance run along the enemy lines,
moving to out flank them at either corner, while the main assault would
met head on. Gandalf rode in from the east to join finally join them as
he made last minute checks to assure that the battle would favor them.
"40 Ents, 10 Eagles; not enough to break the lines of Mordor," from the
skies settling to the right, huge dragons, green on scale and wings as
white as the feather dove, its body frail thin but strong and light in
the sky. They heads long and sleek with flay of white fin. Brown rope
surrounded the head, the leases head by a Valkyrie who sat on the
shoulders of these giants, perched in a saddle and shielded by armor.
"Yet still outnumbered."
Laughter broke out among the front lines, where the Charmed and the
Fellowship stood they heard it among their company, a light giggle
roared into a sadistic cackle, what raised every hair and sent blood
cold with an icy chill. Phoebe lungs heaved as she couldn't control her
outburst of hilarity. Stumbling across the ground, as if drunken,
powers of empathy running amok with her emotions and mind. "They're…all
scared," she said with great difficulty, mustering words without a
gasps of breath, "They are petrified of dying," some would assume it
was good news that she addressed this revelation to the army if it were
not for the change in view, "You're all gonna die," it was not the fear
she felt from the Armies of Mordor but their mocking, "This is no
legion to stand against us, Witches, men and Lighter all your bloods
will stain this land," Horror and the realization swept through the
lines of forces. The enemy knew no fear for they marched against lambs
to the slaughter. A left hook from Piper and Phoebe was slapped into
sense. At the last minute before they made the charged she had to
destroy all thoughts of hope and courage with her outburst, and she
felt that anger from her sister. How to recover from this, how to
ignore that outrage of her uncontrollable powers, why?
"Piper," Gandalf came behind, "The soldier's strengths of characters wanes, a shadow of doubt has been cast upon them,"
"She is right,"
"That is not true,"
"We can't win,"
"Address the armies,"
"And say what, nothing will make them think we'll win,"
"Courage is your best defense, we can prevail from this."
One step forward, then two, away from her forces and closer to meeting the enemy. She turned to face them, her army, her friends, and the perhaps the last faces she will see before dying. Faces for dispair, and no hope in their eyes, a death march of Uruk's drew closer and the darkness like a cloud of ashe filled the horizon.
"Stand your ground, stand your ground!" she didn't know whether she
started on a good note but it was a start nevertheless on the speech
which would hype them up ready for battle, "None of us, None of us!
Haven't fought till we nearly dead, work till our finger bled, just to
die and have our bodies stomped into the marsh land! Dark have been
these days of late, not any more, this far and no further, fell deeds
have woken, now for wrath and the scythe weilding reaper til vengence
is sought!"
And under the might sound of the horn, the armies of the west charged
with the same fury and anger as Helm Hammerhand and with the iron fist
of the wicca they took the battle for their own. The witches and
lighters, each armed with the elven falx or the sword from the smithy
of Rohan and shield broad enough to take the might of a Dwarves axe
charged as a great host in defence of this world. Pikes and Spears
would meet them along the line of black armour, the jaw of flesh eating
teeth welcomed the arrival of their feast, and their yellow eye
widened. Piper lead 5 feet ahead of her host and with a swift hand she
blew the enemy before her into shards of metal and flesh and with her
falx cut through those who attacked her. The two great armies clashed,
in perhaps the last stand of the Alliance as each battled for their
lives and fought for a grain of hope. The crowd emmersed themselves in
the chaos and carnage, cry of rage and screams of pain as the battle
slowly fell in favour of the enemy, the relentless nature of the flesh
eating orcs gave fear to those to fending off the animals of the Dark
Land. The red blood drained from the bodies of flesh which lied limp on
the ground and battered under the mighty feet of the Uruk Hai, and pain
and despair in their eyes, the depiction of their final moments. The
sky rained with blood of fell beast, eagle and dragons, as with great
speed of wind these creatures fought each other when they didn't
descend their talons into the enemy lines. Ent against Troll, no match
did the Olog Hai have against the Elders of Fanghorn and their towering
might, until the flames were lit and the balance of power was equal.
And the burned they did, people trees and bird, they fought their
hardest till the last possible chance of retreat til the enemy had them
surround and no escape did they have for their doomed as signalled by
the black march. Without concerns of the enemy that could be behind the
warriors of the Alliance pressed force without hinderence temperance or
restraint for their fury.
A fell beast flew overhead, Piper noticed this one more than the other
for his steal crown of blades, and a mighty mace, he soared above and
headed only a few miles away to the complex, they were heading to HQ.
"Paige" the blonde witch looked up the sky and understood instantly,
"Phoebe hold the line" she called back to her sister before grabbing
Paige's hand for the Orb. Appearing in the dark tunnels, they sprinted
to the vault, a named dubbed to the unsecure room with more locks than
the others, only to find the door in splinters and the last Shard gone,
and like a deep dark beat of the drum, he stalked them from behind. The
Witch King of Angmar. Before his sword could fall onto the head of the
Witch, Phoebe drew hers in their defence. Wounded he fell to his kness
before stumbling back onto them. "I told you hold the line"
"Got a premonition off a Nazgul you can at least be thankful,"
"Thanks," and with three last stabs, one from each sister the Lord of
the Nazgul was killed not by a living man, but from three living
witches. Searching the heap of black robes and chrome armour they found
not the Shard but heard the footsteps of another Ulairi hurried away.
