Chapter 25: Attack of the Uruk-Hai, the Fellowship is broken
As Frodo began jogging away, Lee and Aragorn walked toward these creatures. They were all painted with Saruman's white hand. Aragorn and Lee lifted their swords to their heads, in a saluting position.
'The sword called Sting,' thought Lee, 'glows blue as Orcs approach, Frodo said. But these, aren't ordinary Orcs, they look different. Unharmed by sunlight, and marked by the White Hand of Saruman, these creatures are undoubtedly Saruman's crossbred product of Orcs and Goblins… the Uruk-Hai.'
The Uruks were ready Lee attack. And then… the two fighters, Aragorn and Lee, began to fight the creatures…
Somewhere, in the forest… Sam, Duck, Clementine, and Ben, separated from the Fellowship, call out for Frodo frantically…
"Mr. Frodo!" called out Sam.
"Hey," Duck called, "Frodo!"
"Frodo," Called out Clementine.
"Frodo," Ben called out his name.
Then they hear, from a distance, intensive fighting from afar…
Aragorn cuts several down, but they forced him up the stairs of the seat. Lee fought the creatures on the ground. He then swung up his sword, sending a gust of wind at the Uruks, lifting the creatures high in the air.
The Uruk leader orders his troops, "FIND THE HALFLING! Yaagh! FIND THE HALFLING!"
Frodo continued running, as the Uruks continued their relentless pursuit of him…
Aragorn jumped from the structure.
"Elendil!" he cried out.
He and Lee landed onto the Uruks. Suddenly… Legolas, Doug, Kenny, Larry, and Gimli joined in.
"Aragorn, go!" cried out Legolas to Aragorn.
"Lee, go!" cried out Doug to Lee
Legolas and Doug stuck arrows into an incoming Uruk's heads and then mounted it on their bow and shot two Uruks. Gimli threw one of his axes at the creatures, while Kenny stuck his dagger into the Uruk's face. Kenny even use his sword to behead the Uruk's head.
Larry swing his sword and behead the Uruk's Head.
Frodo found a tree to hide under. Not too far from him, Merry, Carley, Katjaa, and Pippin were in a space under some fallen tree trunks. They see Frodo and call to him…
"Frodo," Merry called silently. Frodo looks to his side and sees them.
"Hide here," called Pippin, "quick!"
"Come on, Frodo," said Katjaa. Frodo, however, was in anguish and didn't move a muscle.
"Come hide with us," asked Carley.
"…What's he doing?" asked Pippin. Frodo shakes his head at them, unwilling to go to them…
"…He's leaving," Merry realized, solemnly. Pippin wasn't too pleased to hear this.
Moments later… Carley fumed at Frodo, "…come on!"
"No!" said Pippin.
He and Katjaa start to run towards Frodo, but Merry stopped them. "Pippin, Katjaa…" he said.
They were interrupted when the Uruk-hai showed up on the hill. They all started to go down the hill, heading in their direction.
"Mark, Pippin," said Katjaa, "…we have to let Frodo go."
"But Katjaa…" said Carley.
"She's right,..." said Merry
"…We have no choice, Carley," interjected Pippin in realization. Carley reluctantly agreed.
Merry turned to Frodo, "run, Frodo, go."
Then Merry faced the Uruks and waved to them, providing a distraction.
"Hey you, over here!" he cried.
"Hey!" cried Pippin.
"Over here!" cried Merry again.
"Come and get us, you creeps!" cried Carley also.
"This way!" cried Pippin.
The quintet ran away from Frodo, allowing him to escape. Carley wasn't still not too happy about Frodo.
'Frodo, you,' thought Carley, angrily, 'you're beginning to be just like Lee. You're trying to put everything on your shoulders now.'
Either way… she, Katjaa, and the Hobbits got the Uruks' attention, as Frodo continued to make his escape.
"Its working," said Pippin.
"I know," replied Merry, "its working, run!"
The other Fellowship members continue to be occupied with fighting the Uruks. Legolas, Larry, Doug, Lee, and Gimli continued to wield their weapons.
Lee continued jumping around the Uruks, surprising them with attacks from the air and from behind the creatures. Aragorn stabbed an Uruk behind his back, while Kenny did a leg sweep at an incoming Uruk… and gave an uppercut punch to the creature's head. Gimli countered one of the Uruks' swords with his axe and parried it. He then hacked the Uruk in the stomach.
Kenny continued using his sword, waiting for the chance to pulverize more Uruks. Then… an Uruk took Kenny by surprise, tackling him. Kenny struggled with the creature… and then an arrow shoots the Uruk in the back.
Kenny wondered what happened suddenly… and saw that it was Doug who shot the arrows. He began to use the bow given to him by Legolas and Galadriel. The spiky-haired fighter smiled brightly at Doug and continued fighting.
Carley, Katjaa, Merry, and Pippin continued to run from the Uruks across an old stone bridge. At its far end, they stop and see the Uruks running toward them….
The Uruks were closing in, both from in front and behind them. An Uruk ran up to them, raising his battle axe and were cornered by another incoming Uruk with an axe. Suddenly, out of nowhere…
Boromir quickly… and valiantly ran up to the Uruk…
…And held it back, killing it with its own weapon.
"Boromir!" cried Katjaa.
"We can save the gratitude for later Katjaa, run!" said Boromir.
Merry and Pippin fight as they ran with their swords. Carley and Katjaa also fight as they ran with their weapons. Boromir then throws a knife at another Uruk.
The rest of the fighters continued their assault against the Uruk-Hai. Legolas shoots down the incoming Uruks, one by one. Doug continued using his bow to swiftly shoot down pairs of Uruk-Hai with arrows, also provided by Galadriel. Larry threw a pair of daggers at Uruks.
Lee used his sword to slash the creatures. Kenny continued to throw daggers at the enemies. Aragorn had trouble with an Uruk, but fortunately for him, Legolas shot at it as well.
Suddenly…
VRRRROOOOOOOMMM!
…A horn began to blow. Legolas turned around, in the direction of the blowing horn.
"The Horn of Gondor," said Legolas.
Aragorn raced forward, "Boromir!"
Lee raced forward also, helping Aragorn fight more of the Uruks. While this was going on…
More Uruks went down the forests…
To where Boromir, Katjaa, Carley, and the Hobbits were continuing their fight of the Uruk-Hai. Boromir fought one legion of Uruks… while Carley and Katjaa fought another legion of them. Boromir then blew his horn again…
VVVVRROOOMMM! VRROOOOMMM!
"Run!" Boromir cried out and the Hobbits ran.
Aragorn continued to fight madly to get to Boromir, as he jumped over a downed Uruk and fought a few more of them. He picked up one of the Uruk's weapons… and used it to slash the throat of one of the Uruks.
Lee went up against a pack of incoming Uruk-Hai. Lee into the foul creatures and used more of his quick sword attacks with his unkilling sword, Hope. One by one, Lee knocked them all down.
Boromir continued to fight… and kill two more Uruk-Hai.
Merry, Pippin, Katjaa, and Carley, with a great vestige of spirit… jumped onto a few Uruks and used their swords to forcibly stab the Uruks through their chests..
As the Uruk-Hai kept coming in force…
The Uruk leader stepped into the battle with a bow and arrow…
Boromir continued their valiant fight with the Uruk-Hai as Merry, Pippin, Katjaa, and Carley picked some stones to throw at the Uruks…
The Uruk leader mounted an arrow on the bow and took aim…
Boromir was unaware of the threat of the Uruk archer. Suddenly… the archer fired the arrow…
SWOOP…!
…And it hit Boromir!
After Boromir was hit, Katjaa, Carley, Merry, and Pippin see their comrade in great shock as he slowly fell to his knees…
'Oh no, Boromir,' thought Katjaa. The Uruk growled in satisfaction.
Boromir then continued to fight, despite his condition. Katjaa wanted to save him, she has her healing cordial to cure Boromir, but more Uruks poured in. The leader, with his bow, walked closer and closer…
SWOOP…!
And shot another arrow at Boromir. He started to collapse again, gasping for breath. The Uruk leader roared again…
Boromir looked up, panting at Merry, Pippin, Katjaa, and Carley, who were shocked to see him like this…
He now felt that he can't do any more to help them, but then, just looking at Merry and Pippin... he remembered that he has to protect the Hobbits, even if it costs him his life... and resumed to fight the Uruks, roaring out his battle cries.
Boromir continued fighting in his wounded condition... and killed more Uruks, roaring and crying as he went...
Katjaa wasn't too happy to see Boromir still fighting. "Boromir!" she cried out, "…no!"
The injured warrior, unwilling to surrender, continued to yell out his battle cries... actually killing more Uruks... one by one. But then...
SWOOP!
Boromir was hit again with a third arrow… and began to slump. Katjaa watched helplessly at Boromir's increased number of wounds, continuing to fight more Uruks. Merry, Pippin, Katjaa, and Carley, saddened about what happened to Boromir, grabbed their weapons and charged at the Uruks, crying out for their blood.
but they were picked up by the Uruks and taken prisoner.
since they had Katjaa, Carley, and the Hobbits and completed their mission…
And so…
Boromir awaited the final blow from the Uruk leader's arrow. The Uruk leader took aim at Boromir, ready to shoot at the afflicted warrior…
As he did…
Aragorn came out of nowhere… and takes the creature by surprise, letting the arrow fly off harmlessly.
The leader and Aragorn fight, pushing with their swords. The leader pushed Aragorn into a tree… and then threw its two-pronged shield at him… catching him by the neck. The Uruk went in for the kill but Aragorn slipped beneath the shield and dodges the blow.
Aragorn pulls out a knife and stabs the captain on the leg. The Uruk roars as it picked up Aragorn off the ground as he head-butted… and punched him onto the ground. The leader then pulled out the knife, licking the blood from it, and threw it at Aragorn…
SWING…!
But Aragorn has found his sword and used it to bat the knife away. The Uruk roared in fury and picked up a sword. Aragorn closed in on the Uruk in a sword battle…
And in a flurry of swordplay… within moments…
Aragorn sliced off the Uruk's arm, and stabbed it in the chest. The resilient Uruk captain pulled himself up further into the sword, closer… and closer to Aragorn, snarling defiantly. Truly, this was a creature that knew no fear or pain as Saruman said it would. Aragorn grimaced and, with a last vestige of strength…
Pulled his sword out of the injured warrior, swings it wide…
SWING…!
And hacked off the Uruk-Hai's head, killing it.
Aragorn looked over to his side and sees the afflicted Boromir and raced over to him.
"No," he said silently.
Lee arrived soon after and saw the injured Boromir.
'…Boromir,' he thought with shock.
Boromir, bloodied and paled, lay on his back near a tree. Aragorn kneeled near Boromir.
"They took the little ones, Katjaa and Carley," said Boromir, panting.
"Hold still," instructed Aragorn.
"They had have them," Boromir told him.
"…And Frodo," said the injured, panting Boromir, "…where's Frodo?"
Aragorn let a few moments pass before answering, "…I let Frodo go."
"Then you did what I could not… I tried to take the ring from him."
Aragorn grimaced for a moment… but calmed himself.
"The ring is beyond our reach now," he said.
"Forgive me… I did not see it… I have failed you all," Boromir said in great sorrow and regret.
"No, Boromir, you fought bravely… you have kept your honor," Aragorn reassured Boromir.
Aragorn then reached out, trying to pull the arrows out of Boromir… but Boromir stopped him.
"Leave it," he said, "…it is over."
"No, Boromir," interjected Lee, "there has to be another way if you live."
"I mean it Lee," Boromir resolved in agony, "…it's over for me. The world of men will fall. And all will come to darkness… and my city to ruin."
Lee silently disagreed with him as he slowly lowered his head a little.
Boromir went on stuttering to Lee, "…you always talk like you know everything. Besides… I told you before Lee… that I didn't think that I have the will or strength to live. But I believe… that Aragorn has that strength to live… "
Boromir puts his hand on Aragorn's shoulder, confirming his belief.
"…I don't know what strength is in my blood," said Aragorn, "but I swear to you I will not let the White City fall… nor our people fail."
"…Our people…" stuttered Boromir, "…our people."
Lee solemnly interjected, "…you also have my oath that I won't allow your beautiful White City, nor Gondor for that matter… to fall at the hands of Sauron either, Boromir, that you do."
Boromir slowly turned to Lee and stuttered again, "…thank you… Lee."
Boromir then reached for his sword, which Aragorn puts in his hand, and helped place it upon his chest…
Legolas and Doug walk into the scene and see the afflicted Boromir… and look with sadness…
'…Boromir,' Doug sadly thought, '…it appears that we've lost another comrade.'
"…I would've followed you my brother," Boromir said to Aragorn…
"…My captain…
"…My king…
With those last words, Boromir breathed his last…
…And died.
Lee solemnly closed his eyes, saddened over Boromir's passing…
Moments later… Aragorn gently placed both his hands on Boromir's face and silently said a small lament, "…be at peace… Son of Gondor."
Aragorn softly and gently kissed Boromir's forehead…
…Gimli and Kenny also walked in as well to see Boromir's death. Larry stood against a tree, smoking a cigarette… merely pitying the warrior's demise…
"Where's my wife?," cried Kenny.
"They've took Merry, Pippin, Katjaa, and Carley," asked Lee
Aragorn slowly stood up… with his eyes and tears… filled with grief…
…Lee's eyes were filled with tears and grief as well.
Disclaimer: The Lord of the Rings and Telltale Series The Walking Dead are not mine. They belong to their authors, respectively J.R.R. Tolkien and Darrell Rodriguez. This fanfiction is created just for fun, not for any commercial purposes.
A/n: I'm almost done with Section one folks, just one more chapter. Please… read and review.
Special note to Rogue Solus:
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