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Why did he have to be allergic to orcs?
Out of all things, it just had to be orcs. Haldir thought darkly as he quickly sliced away another snarling uruk-hai.
It had been a relatively mild weathered night as both elves and humans (plus one dwarf) waited on the walls of Helm's Deep for the Enemy to come to them. Until, the sudden downpour of relentless rain. To make matters worse, the approaching army was entirely made up of uruk-hai. The kind of orc that Haldir most hated, since it was them that caused him to go into massive fits of sneezing at random times.
ACHOO!
Haldir, preoccupied with hisunexpected sneeze, narrowly missed the downward slash of a sword and quickly retaliated, catching his opponent by surprised by his speed.
ACHOO!
If these multitudes of filthy uruk-hai don't kill me, then perhaps this allergy will. thought Haldir as he continued along the wall, trying his best to get rid of as many of the Enemy as possible.
ACHOO!
With another sweep of his sword, Haldir cut down yet another one of the stronger cousins of orcs. Distantly, through his emerging headache, he wondered, elves are immortal so they are immune to any type of sickness. Why on Middle-Earth did the Valar not also grant to the First Born immunity to allergies?
"Na Barad! Na Baraad! Haldir, na Barad! (To the Keep! Pull back to the Keep! Haldir, to the Keep!)" yelled Aragorn, informing Haldir of the change of plans.
Nodding to indicate he had heard, Haldir gave the command to return to the Keep to the surrounding elves who were too busy to hear Aragorn's warning.
"Na Barad!"
On the way while retreating, Haldir met another one of those foul creatures in his path. Quickly cutting it down, he failed to see another as it scored a slash on his arm. Choking with sudden pain, Haldir barely managed to kill that one as well.
In a sudden daze, Haldir looked around at his surroundings, oblivious to the danger coming from behind him.
Suddenly, one of his unpredictable sneezing fits started, making Haldir double over, fighting for breath. The uruk-hai that had aimed its weapon at Haldir's head missed and was pushed back from the elf's sudden backward movement from the force of his sneezes.
By the time Haldir recovered, the unfortunate uruk-hai had been trampled to death by the sneezing elf.
Never to know how close he came to Death, Haldir quickly retreated as ordered to the Keep, to join up once again with his friends, to fight another day.
Perhaps, allergies in elves were actually blessings in disguise from the Valar…
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AN: OK! Done with another chapter. Hope you like this one. Can't talk much have to finish project and study for multiple tests. Talk to all of ya later!