I'm sure that if any of you read my little notes, I feel absolutely horrid, and the ridicule and everything else I've faced is shameful to say the least. My hearts goes out to those victims of that dreaded Hurricane. My name is just so bad, and do you know what it means? TO purify, how horrible, and they keep calling it Killer Katrina, and Chaos of Katrina, with all this evil music, its absolutely horrid. I know how it feels to loose everything, Charley literally ripped our little city apart. On the fourth after Charley I remember almost everyone Neighbors we never spoke too, news reporters who were just mere observers were cruel, and you felt as if no one was there to help you. Stupid FEMA director he took too long for those rescue efforts, so many died and I can't imagine having to leave, we stayed at a shelter too, for two days, we were inside our house when it hit, it went from a CAT 2 to CAT 4 in 2 hours, and we couldn't leave and we lost the roof, over my room, the bathroom, the whole left side of the house, our garage door bent in, and swung up the kitchen door, we had to have everyone under a bed. The next day we got into our battered car and went to a shelter, I stayed home because I couldn't imagine leaving my darling Sammy (family dog) or Orgie (my baby ferret) behind. They eventually four days later told us our first home would be ripped down, most if not all our family pictures were lost. I've never seen my mother spirit broken until that day, and my grandfather that jackass who lives in FT. Lauderdale wouldn't even let us come to stay with him, and you have to remember have those people who are in the effected areas, were too poor to evacuate and neither could we. I know how it feels, I refused to leave my home until my mother went into hysterical panics, and even then we camped out in our car on the road near a shelter, because they wouldn't let us bring our pets in. Orgie went into a frenzy, I had to take him to an emergency clinic or tent thingy and Sammy our dog broke his leg during the duration of the storm, when our kitchen door flew open, and he was hit with an item. Natural Darwinism at its finest, my heart goes out to them, and I hope every reader has reached deep inside them and given something back to the community, which exists under the barrier of diseased water and floating bodies. I beg you all to limit your resources, we have already experienced gas shortages, power outages, and even water shortages because of the storm, even then my government class was able to come up with 1,200 alone just by contributions from the students in that class, we can help them, don't let there sanity break give them hope.
Chapter 18 Broken Battles
She falls into the water, and sits up with a grunt as shockwave of numbing pain runs throughout her back, might've broken a bone there, "ouch my ass!" Turning to rub it, she then turns and watches as an orc, jumps on top of her, and she stabs him, his body falls on top of her, "oh god, umpf" Her body slowly sank into the mud, and water surrounded her body as she gasps a sickening collapsing feeling echo's in her chest.
She tries to pry herself loose, and then turns too see Legolas surfing down the stairs on a shield letting his arrows fly, and then he jumps off the shield lands into the neck of an approaching orc, his body lands on top of the other orc. She sinks down a little farther,
"little help, please!" she screamed her voice barely above an audible whisper.
Legolas stabs another orc in face with an arrow and then pulls it out and hits another orc. He runs towards her, as the fourth body falls on top of her.
"OH GOD!"
The third body sends her under the water, mud covering her face, she tries feebly to push the bodies off her. Legolas then ran to her, his heart began to sank as he threw the bodies off her, and then he saw, he pulled her out of the water, she gasps and the coughs up some water. He lingers for a moment, and then puts his hand on her face, and she looks into his eyes, he steps in closer, she then pushes him away, and pulls out her axe and shoves it into an orc. Her eyes follow him, he walks towards her again. This time he is pulled away by an attacking orc, then by another. He then turns towards to where Dawn once stood, and she is no longer there. He looks for her frantically she is on the steps, engaged in battle with an orc, he watched as the orc, threw down her sword, it fell into the mud, he then ran towards her, she raised her fists, and then punched him, sending him down a couple of stairs. She pulled out a dagger from her shirt, and stabbed him, and then jumped down from the stairs, and picked up her sword, she bent down and quickly rinsed the dagger in the water and slid it down her shirt again. She turns to face Legolas smiling, and then they both move at the same time, extending their swords over each others shoulders each stabbing an orc. Legolas is close to her now, and he looks at her even in battle, covered in blood, soaked in muddy water, she is still beautiful. Dawn looks into his eyes, she does not move and then his eyes, his perfect brown eyes meet hers. His face
Was beaded with sweat, as his golden hair remained completely intact unlike Dawn mud masked one. His eyes were full of full of desire and passion. But she turns her head, remembering what he had said to her,
"we never had…love" She stepped back yanking her sword out of the orc and turned away from him to fight the constantly numerous approaching orcs. She turns to look for Legolas he is gone. She turns back and a spear is shoved into her shoulder. The orc stops and growl then shoves it in farther, she felt herself collapse slowly, as it splintered into her bones, a velvety blood curled out through nooks of the cracked spear, she winced slightly knowing what she had to do, as she had seen in too many gruesome war movies or in Buffy fights, fixing her hand firmly on the end of the spear, she shut her eyes in complete focus her jaw shaking with the thought of the sound her body would make as it groaned in protest at the sudden movement of the angle, then yanked it out, and put Galadriel's necklace towards it quickly the bleeding stopped, and she ran after the orc, pissing her off wasn't the exactly the best thing to do. She ran after him, distracted when she saw Legolas pull out two swords and scream with anger as he took down another orc, she screamed his name, as another orc approached him
"LEGOLAS!"
She ran towards him, then it happened two orcs grabbed her and threw her on the ground, throwing off all of her weapons.
"Its her!" They roared in pleasant glee as if the battled had been won the moment they lay eyes upon her, and then they lifted her up as she began to struggle against them, Legolas turned to look where Dawn had been, he then saw her being lifted on the shoulder on an orc.
"DAWN!" He screamed as he frantically runs towards her, she struggled until she fell off the orc. She began to crawl, towards him and she finally stood. To hear Aragorn screaming "To the keep!"
She stopped as she saw the orc who had stabbed her, hit Haldir, he bent over and then continued to fight,
"NO, HALDIR!" She screamed and then it happened she lost, and the power came in, her eyes blackened as she sobbed, the orcs grabbed her. Then began to tie her, she looked at them and then with the simple wave of her hand, her sword came flying into her hands. Legolas watched in disbelief, as she swung her sword making her way, towards the keep killing at least ten orcs with one raise of her sword. She turned towards him as he and another grabbed Gimli hauling him up the stairs. Legolas then turned to look back at her, she was surrounded encircled, and then a tiny boom shook, it was like a ripple effect, and a green light sparked and Dawn continued to fight. Legolas was now in the keep, running along the wall shouting her name,
"DAWN! DAWN!"
He moved back to the stairs, but there stood more orcs, he tried to kill them. She had no power, and then she heard it, that laugh, that voice,
"Come to me, come to me!"
"NO!" she screamed and fell down, the orcs hit her with a rock, she passed out.
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She awoke, she stood not far from the keep, her hands were being wrapped with a rope, and she screamed for Legolas. Legolas looked frantically for her, where was she? He slaughtered the orcs, and then ran along the wall, until he saw her limp body being carried away.
"ARAGORN!"
Aragorn looked at Legolas and followed his gaze, there he saw it, a beautiful blue light, slowly fading into the crowd of orcs. Aragorn took a ladder and then jumped on it as it fell down towards the ground. He ran trying to look for the light. He then heard the causeway door break open. He fought off more orcs, there was no possible way he could get to her, not now, he fell back to the keep. Dawn tried to move, but her body, it would not move, she was being thrown of an orcs shoulder, a small part of orcs were leading her away from the battle.
"NO!" she screamed and tried to break free, but she could not her body it as like it was frozen.
"LEGOLAS!" she screamed as she watched the fortress slowly disappear.
Meanwhile………………..
Gimli was being tossed across a bridge followed by Aragorn. They fought trying to make sure no orcs slipped passed them into the breeched door. It was then they heard Theoden scream for them to get themselves out. As rope like claws were now being launched onto the walls of the keep. Legolas screams at Aragorn and tosses him a rope, and then Aragorn grabs Gimli and firmly grips the rope as Legolas pulls them over. He looks at Aragorn,
"Dawn? She is gone?"
"She has been take captive, hurry now we may still have time to catch her."
It was then did Legolas hear, Dawn's scream, he stopped and looked to see a band of 32 Uruk-Hai, running away from the battle, in the middle, of this group he saw Dawn. He leaned over the wall, as if intending to jump down, and kill all the orcs, and rescue her, when Aragorn placed his hand on his shoulder, stopping him, from jumping. Hundred of Uruk-hai climb onto super-ladders as they are pulled up towards the walls, these ladders locking onto the edge of the battlements with their steel grips. Legolas takes aim as another super-ladder is being pulled up and he shoots away one of the ropes. The ladder falls back onto the Uruk-hai army below, taking out many of them. Theoden tells them to retreat, as they fall back, Legolas shoots the orcs, but his hope is all but lost, for they had taken Dawn. The few remaining men and elves, are barring the door, Legolas mind is focused upon Dawn, and Aragorn speaks Theoden who looks defeated.
"The fortress is taken. Its over."
As he and Legolas lift a table, he says,
"You said this fortress would never fall while your men defend it! They still defend it! They have died defending it!"
Aragorn stopped and he looked at Theoden he was a broken man, his thoughts turned towards the women and children he looked again at Theoden,
"Is there no other way for the women and children to get out of the caves?"
Theoden stood silently
"Is there no other way?" He said louder and angrier
It was Gamling who turned and said, "There is one passage. It leads into the mountains. But they will not get far. The Uruk-hai are too many."
"Send word for the women and children to make for the mountain pass. And barricade the entrance."
Theoden looked at him and then turned his head
"So much death. What can men do against such reckless hate?"
Aragorn then paused for a moment and looked at the men that at Theoden .
"Ride out with me. Ride out and meet them."
Theoden eyes begin to show hope, "For death and glory."
Aragorn then looked at him and walked forward, "for Rohan….for your people."
Gimli then said, "The sun is rising."
Aragorn remembered what Gandalf had said before he left Rohan, the sunlight begin to trickle into the room, "Yes. Yes! The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the Deep one last time!"
Gimli growled in approval and then ran up the staircases, as Theoden sat on his horse,
"Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath! Now for ruin! And a red dawn!" He puts his helmet on, the horn sounds and then he screams, "FORTH EORLINGAS!"
They ride out into the causeway slaying the orcs as they came too them followed by Aragorn and the flag of Rohan. All the horseman ride out trampling orcs, killing them as they go. Aragorn lifts his head to see a white horse rearing on a hilltop, and then behind him comes Éomer, and then a scream is heard,
"ROHIRRIM!" Suddenly hundreds of men appear and they charge down the hill the orcs turn to meet them. Suddenly stopping their attack, and they raise their spears. Gandalf can be seen in the front on his white horse. The sun rises, blinding them as they approach all the orcs are at last slaughtered.
Dawn awoke she sat in a room, she wore a black dress. Uh wait a second she didn't remembering getting changed, she tried to put her hand on her necklace, but her hand would not move, she looked down to the necklace was gone. She began to look around some more she lay on a bed. A bed an actual bed with covers and pillows and everything, she hadn't seen it as luxury item before, but now she adored it. But in the present situation Dawn gut twisted in question and fear. She tried to sit up but her body was numb. She gazed around again and to her disgust did she see, the greasy little bastard.
"YOU!"
"Calm yourself my dear, I was only watching you sleep…" He approached her, she tried desperately to move as he put his hands on her.
"Take your filthy hands off me!"
He smiled as he leaned closer,
Dawn awoke she sat in a room, she wore a black dress. Uh wait a second she didn't remembering getting changed, she tried to put her hand on her necklace, but her hand would not move, she looked down to the necklace was gone. She began to look around some more she lay on a bed. A bed an actual bed with covers and pillows and everything, she hadn't seen it as luxury item before, but now she adored it. But in the present situation Dawn gut twisted in question and fear. She tried to sit up but her body was numb. She gazed around again and to her disgust did she see, the greasy little bastard.
"YOU!"
"Calm yourself my dear, I was only watching you sleep…" He approached her, she tried desperately to move as he put his hands on her.
"Take your filthy hands off me!"
He smiled as he leaned closer,
"Does it hurt? You cannot move….does it hurt? Éowyn was beautiful but you…you my dear are the surpassed beauty of every woman on this earth."
His hand stroked her cheek, Dawn stomache twisted in sick confirmation, as trail of regurgitated food sent a burning sensation up her throat, the mini-puke slide back down into hiding.
"Éowyn would never love you, you are a sick man!"
"What do you know? Our love is beyond anyone's knowledge."
He got off the bed and then began to walk around, he turned back towards her,
"Éowyn, had great strength, but yours in unsurpassed. Its hard to believe that in your body there is the power to control all the dimensions."
He sat closer to her, eyeing her body with hunger. Oh god he had undressed her. He leaned towards her face. She tried to move, but her body it would not let her. His face was less than an inch way, she began to cry,
"Legolas" she whispered. The door flew open, in stepped a man cloaked in white.
"Saruman!" she heard herself whisper
"Grima Wormtongue, take your filthy hands off her!" She turned her eyes to meet his. He walked forward Grima jumped off the bed, and scurried away like a mouse would from a cat. He approached her and then moved his hand, in a upward movement
"Up!" her arms clasped to her sides, her neck flew into a stiff position, as she flew into a 90 angle.
Her body was lifted so that she stood standing, she shivered at his touch, on her bare shoulder.
"Aèrindil, Aèrindil, at last you come home to me." he purred affectionately, that voice it was him. He was the man who kept her so far from the world, he was the one always inside her head. It was him, he had been the one to whisper the seeds of doubt in her mind.
He then took her hair and pushed it behind her shoulders, and then began to caress them. She felt tears rolling down her cheeks, this is wrong, I don't want this, she tried again to move, in vain, she couldn't even turn her head the slightest bit. It was then a she heard noises, he walked away, and then her body fell to the floor. Whatever it was, that had stopped her before it wasn't working now, she felt so weak, never in her whole life had she felt so weak. She began to look for the door, and began to inch towards it, as Saruman, gazed out the window. She heard a voice outside,
"Break the dam!" She looked to see Grima inching behind Saruman.
She began to pull herself towards the open door. Her legs still felt like they were frozen, she pulled herself out of the door, and looked into the circular like hall, she dragged herself to the next open room. She stopped and then felt her body go numb as Grima followed her into the hall. He grabbed her arm, and dragged her back to the chamber.
"NO! STOP!" she pleaded to what she hoped would be what little humanity remained in Grima.
She tried to wriggle free, feeling her body getting number with every passing second. It was then Saruman came back into the tower. He looked troubled, but when he saw her, he stretched his hand out, and her body went numb. She was put back on the bed, where Saruman began to pace to and fro. Dawn now focused on moving and she first tried to move her whole body, but then concentrated completely on moving just one foot, one finger, anything. It was then Saruman sat like a broken man, but his eyes fell on her,
"You! You can make all this stop, you can make me, the most powerful creature on earth," he grabbed her violently and dragged her towards another room and threw her onto a chair. He covered a ball like thing. He stood and he twiddled his hands, and then calmly said,
"My dear all you have to do to free yourself is tell me how to use you."
Dawn glared at him and opened her mouth to speak, but could not move, he looked and then said
"ah yes, your body its frozen under my control and Sauron's as well, as long as you are in this tower, or near me, your body will remain this way. Until I take this little spell off."
He snaps his finger and then she feels her mouth loosen.
"HELP!" He runs to her and slaps her hard. Grima who sits in the corner shudders.
Merry looked up, he heard the scream,
"Pip, did you hear that?"
Pippin looked up from his plate.
"No, was I suppose to?"
"Someone screamed, inside that tower Pip, it was a girl."
There eyes both went towards the tower of Orthanc.