Chapter 26: Forth Eorlings! The ride of Rohirrim
Helm's Deep suffered a crushing defeat after a night of fighting…
The Uruk-Hai armies have taken over the fortress, waving up their banners of the White Hand of Saruman high in the air from the battlements. As morning approaches, the Uruks brought up a battering ram and began to break the door down…
BASH!
Aragorn, Kenny and the others were in the main hall of the keep. King Théoden, filled with great dread, stood in the middle of the keep forlornly because of their retreat. Larry, Legolas, Doug along with the other soldiers brought up tables, or anything made of wood and stood at the door, using their strength to barricade the door, trying to keep the Uruks out.
"Well," said Larry to Doug, "looks like this could be it, Doug."
"Perhaps Larry," said Doug, "but I'm not ready to give up just yet."
"Me neither," Larry agreed firmly, "not until I'm sure that the enemy is defeated."
"The fortress is taken," Théoden called out tiredly, looking bleak despite everyone's best efforts to block the -doors, "it is over."
Kenny and Aragorn walked from the door from the soldiers and turned angrily at the king.
"Théoden, not to sound all disrespectful," contradicted Kenny, "but whenever I fight tough battles like these, I don't usually give up that easily. And I'm prepared to go all out in order to win."
"Kenny has a point!" cried Aragorn in agreement to Kenny, "you said this fortress would never fall while your men defend it!"
Aragorn then gestured to the men at the door, adding reproachfully, "they still defend it! They have died defending it!"
"Yeah, Théoden," retorted Kenny, "are you now saying that everything you were boasting earlier about being able to defend this place… was all just a bunch of talk?!"
Théoden was still unfazed, even by Kenny's insults…
BASH!
As the Uruk-Hai kept battering down the door to the keep… the women and children in the Glittering Caves began to cry in fear as they hear the resounding, but bashing sounds of the battering ram upon the main door.
"They are breaking in!" a woman cried out, "they're past the door!"
In response to this threat, the children went to their mothers… and cried within their arms and embraces. One of the women went over to Éowyn and embraced her. Some of the women tried to calm their children… while other women cried hysterically with their children, sharing their deep despair…
Aragorn and Kenny instantly heard the women and children's plight from where they were.
"It doesn't look good, Aragorn," said Kenny, "if the Uruks break through, they'll get the women and children too."
Aragorn nodded gravely in agreement.
'…And I can only hope… that Éowyn will be ready to fend off against the Uruks if even we can't hold them off,' thought Kenng of Éowyn, remembering that he gave her a sword to be a secondary line of defense for the children.
Aragorn turned to Théoden and asked, "is there no other way for the women and children to get out of the caves?"
…But the king seemed unable to respond, struck by a great loss of heart…
"Well, Théoden?" added Kenny… but Théoden still made no reply, being filled with the possibility of defeat for all of Rohan.
"Is there no other way?" Aragorn asked, turning to Gamling.
A pause…
"…There is one passage," answered Gamling, "it leads into the mountains. But they will not get far, the Uruk-hai are too many."
BASH!
The Uruks still battered at the door. Larry, Legolas, and Doug were starting to lose their hold on the door because the Uruks' battering ram had begun to weaken it slowly.
"It'll have to do Gamling," resolved Kenny, "we'll just have to hold these creeps off somehow, so that you people will have enough time to evacuate."
"Kenny's right, we'll just have to manage," said Aragorn, then ordered to Gamling, "send word for the women and children to make for the mountain pass, and barricade the entrance!"
"So much death," Théoden interjected, stunned with despair, "…what can men do against such reckless hate?"
The Uruks have nearly broken down the door, as the defenders kept finding more material they could use to keep the door from being shattered…
Aragorn paused for a moment, "…Ride out with me," he said, answering for Théoden's forlorn question.
Théoden turned to Aragorn, filled with confusion and despair.
"…Ride out and meet them," Aragorn added firmly to the king.
Kenny thought for a moment, before he brightly interjected, "…hey Aragorn… don't think that you'll be riding out anywhere without me… you hear?"
"…Of course Kenny," nodded Aragorn.
"…Why should we ride out?" asked a skeptical Théoden, "…for death and glory?"
"For Rohan," Aragorn answered again, staunchly, as he approached the king, "…for your people."
"You do want to protect them," added Kenny, "…don't you, your majesty?"
Théoden's eyes then met Kenny's… with a light of determination beginning to dawn upon him…
"…The sun is rising," Gimli stated, glancing up at one of the high easterly windows…
The others then looked up that window… and see a faint, but shining light streaming through. Aragorn, Kenny, and the rest then remembered what Gandalf had said… what seemed a lifetime ago…
Look to our coming, at first light on the fifth day…
At dawn…
Look to the East.
…You got it, Kenny…?
Kenny remembered what Lee said to him before he left with Gandalf.
'…Lee,' thought Kenny as he looked on his back, remembering the reverse-blade sword that Les left with him.
Kenny then turned to Théoden, "well, what do you say, Théoden… one last ride for your people?"
Théoden's light of determination grew gradually, regaining his warriors spirit…
"…Yes," answered Théoden with a strong… yet enthusiastic nod, "…yes! The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep… one last time!"
"Yes!" Gimli cried in agreement as he left to blow the horn.
BASH!
The Uruk-Hai had nearly breached the door, weakening even more…
Larry smirked, "one last time, eh? Well, it looks like the king's ready to go and die fighting after all. I've absolutely no objections to that. And it seems that I might not get to meet Sauron after all. What do you say to that?"
Doug paused before he answered, "…I'm always ready to go down fighting, Larry."
"I most heartily agree, Doug," added Legolas in enthusiasm.
Doug turned to face Legolas. "…Thank you Legolas," he grinned…
Théoden went up to Aragorn and Kenny, saying firmly to them both, "…let this be the hour when we draw swords… and cross fists together."
Aragorn and Kenny felt greatly honored to fight with the warrior king of Rohan…
Gimli continued to climb up the stairs… and reached the horn, setting aside his axe to prepare to blow the horn…
Théoden, Kenny, Aragorn, Legolas, Doug, and Larry… along with some of the Rohan soldiers mounted on their horses…
"…Fell deeds awake!" Theoden snarled…
BASH!
Everyone then drew swords for battle…
"Now for wrath, now for ruin, and a red dawn!" Theoden sounded fiercely as he put on his helmet.
"YEAH!" Kenny added his roar… as he slammed his fists together…
VVRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM!
Gimli blew the horn with gusto… as the sound of the horn… rumbled throughout Helm's Deep…
SMASH!
The doors caved in… and the Uruk-hai poured vastly… into the hall…
Théoden then drew his sword and roared out, "FORTH EORLINGAS…!"
"CHAAARRRRRRRGGGGGE!" the company yelled out…
And Théoden spurred his horse forward, with Larry, Kenny, Legolas, Doug, Aragorn and some of the soldiers behind him, beginning a full charge against the enemy, riding down upon them like a storm out of the mountains, through the doors, with the banners of Rohan waving in the air. They cut a swath through the hosts of Isengard as a wind among grass, slaying the enemy as they went…
Kenny came up to one of the Uruks and plunged his dagger into its helmet.
"Take this, you creep!" Kenny yelled out.
Larry sliced through the Uruks, sometimes with a attack.
"…COME ON!" Larry roared as he sliced one of the Uruks…
"…WHAT ARE YOU WAITING!" Larry roared again, slicing another Uruk…
"…FOR!" Larry roared a third time, killing more Uruks.
Larry loved his sense of justice ever since Lee fought him in the revolution. This was the way that the motel have always fought the walkers with…
Dougand Legolas rode together, killing their fair share of Uruk-Hai, while Aragorn rode side by side with Kenny. Aragorn sliced more of the Uruks as Kenny continued to sliced more punches…
VVVRROOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!
Gimli continued to blow the horn, with the sounds ever echoing in the hills…
Without pause… the king and his companions rode through the outer fortress sweeping fiercely… out of the main gates, to do battle with the Uruk-Hai upon the causeway, cloving a path from the gate to the valley below, scattering the many Uruk-Hai that were on the causeway. No Uruk was able to withstand their might. However, the great Dike was still crawling with Saruman's hordes…
The company stopped in the heart of the host of Saruman, slicing and punching away at the enemy troops. In the midst of battle… a battle that they could not hope to win, Aragorn and Kenny glanced up to the brightening sky in the east…
…And saw two riders halting their horses at a ridge against the rising sun. One of the riders was white, while the other had black short hair and was on a brown horse…
"…Gandalf," Aragorn said to himself…
"…Lee," Kenny said to himself…
…The riders were Gandalf and Lee! They have returned!
It instantly caught the attention of the Uruk-Hai army that was at the bottom of the very steep ridge. The Uruks turned to face Lee and Gandalf's direction. The riders within the Dike also stopped and gazed up to see what was happening and saw Lee and Gandalf…
"Mithrandir," gasped Legolas brightly.
"Lee has returned," said Doug silently, filled with hope…
Lee and Gandalf were still on the hill, preparing to make their move…
"…Theoden-king stands alone," Gandalf said… watching the battle below. Then…
Another rider came behind Gandalf and Lee, almost in between. It was Eomer…
"Not alone," Éomer said firmly.
Lee turned to Gandalf, and smiled, "Éomer is most certainly right, Gandalf, that he is."
Éomer looked at Lee, replying in determination, "…indeed Lee."
Then… Éomer drew his sword. "ROHIRRIM!" he called out…
And a force of thousand of riders moved up behind Éomer, Lee, and Gandalf. The ridge top was now full of horsemen…
Larry smirked, "looks like Lee got his own private little army."
"Eomer!" Théoden exclaimed hopefully…
"To the king!" Eomer loudly called out his order, gesturing his sword down to the enemy.
"TO THE KING!" the soldiers relayed the cry…
And began to charge down the hills, with Gandalf, Lee and Éomer in the lead, in front of a tide of thousands of the angry Rohirrim horsemen that poured fiercely down the steep ridge, waving their axes and spears as they went…
Seeing this… Kenny reached behind him and took off Lee's reverse-blade sword, Hope, from his back… and led his own charge, through the enemy.
"Kenny!" Aragorn called out.
The Rohirrim continued to charge down the ridge as the Uruk-Hai came towards the bottom of the ridge to face this new enemy…
Kenny continued to ride, holding Hope in his hand for Lee…
The Uruks, facing the challenge, growled defiantly, as they bore their spears down towards the riders, bracing their pole-arms…
As the Rohirrim drew closer… nearing the bottom of the ridge…
FLASH!
The sun rose behind the riders, cresting the ridge. The creatures of the dark were blinded, causing them to raise their hands and spears in order to shield their eyes, leaving them wide open for the incoming Rohirrim attack…
"YAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Gandalf and Lee cried out…
And…
The riders crashed fiercely… and courageously… plowing right through the dark army of Saruman and engaged them in battle, wounding the Uruk-Hai and cloving their heads asunder. Gandalf used his staff to beat away the Uruks that surrounded him and Shadowfax. Lee, without his sword continued to plow through the Uruk-Hai and jump onto many of them.
Then…
"LEE!" A shout was heard… it was Kenny, holding Lee's sword.
"Kenny!" Lee muttered his cry, as he saw Kenny riding on his horse, coming towards him.
"…HERE YOU GO!" Kenny cried out… as he threw Hope into the air…
And Lee caught it, then began his sword attacks while on top of his horse. The warriors on the causeway joined in the fight with their fellow Rohirrim riders, along with Doug, Aragorn, Legolas, and Larry.
"Let's get this… over with!" Lee cried out his attack that sent Uruks flying into the air, making the Uruks fearful of him.
The tables have now turned on the Uruk-Hai, as they were still blinded a little by the light of the sun, being constantly overrun… by the Rohirrim…
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Section two is almost coming to an end, people, so be prepared for Section 3. As I said before, I now have the extended version of Return of the King and have begun the editing for my new chapters. Please read and review.