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The Black Gates of Mordor slowly creaked open, revealing tens of thousands of orcs marching towards the army.
"Fall back." ordered Aragorn turning around his horse. "Fall back."
As Aragorn and his companions rode back swiftly, the men making up the rest of the army, started to get nervous. Many took a step backward, daunted by the sight of menacing orcs approaching them with each collective step forward.
Suddenly, Aragorn's voice rang out as he met up with the rest of the army.
"Hold your ground!" He yelled. "Hold your ground!"
"Men of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers!" ,continued the Future King of Gondor directing his horse left and right in front of the men, as the entire army stepped forward instinctively at the commanding tone of their leader.
"I see in your eyes, the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day! An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down. But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!" shouted Aragorn as he raised his sword and whirled his horse to face the approaching orc army.
In response to the uplifting speech, the air sounded with men raising their swords in unison in a pledge to fight with all their strength and ability.
Growling and snarling, the Enemy rapidly surrounded the army led by Aragorn, leaving no chance for escape.
"Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with an Elf." admitted Gimlí grudgingly to his best friend beside him.
With a small smile, Legolas answered, "What about side by side with a friend?"
"Aye, I could do that." Gimli softly replied.
"Aragorn…" whispered Sauron to his greatest enemy.
Mesmerized and drawn to the fiery Eye of Sauron, Aragorn slowly took a step forward, dropping his raised sword in the process.
"Elessar…"
Breaking free of the hypnotizing gaze, Aragorn slowly turned around, facing the worried faces of his close friends. With a small smile, Aragorn softly spoke two words that reassured his friends that he was alright and spurred the rest of the army into the Battle at the Black Gates.
"For Frodo."
Turning around and raising his sword once again, Aragorn charged forward at the Enemy, his face determined and his black and red cape flapping behind him. With a courageous shout, Meriadoc Brandybuck and Perigrin Took followed their friend charging forward, with the rest of the army following them.
Unfortunately, en route, Aragorn suddenly stepped on his rich cape while simultaneously kicking a raised part of the rocky ground, causing him to put down his sword and jerking to an abrupt stop. Trying to regain his fragile balance, Aragorn failed to notice the two charging hobbits behind him who also unfortunately didn't pay close attention to the human obstacle before them.
Crashing into Aragorn, the three of them instantly went down in a heap on the ground, creating a barricade in the middle of the path towards the army of orcs. With a crunch, everything instantly went into chaos.
Men charging blindly tripped on the three figures on the ground and going down themselves, added to the rapidly increasing problem.
Within a minute, the situation escalated into one where most of the army under Aragorn became on top of the squashed human.
The orcs on the opposing side, took this opportunity to charge at the small hill of humans, confident that they have been given an easy victory. The eight remaining Nazgúl screeched as they arrived prepared for a tremendous battle. However, the sight that met them took them immediately by surprised so that they failed to notice the approaching eagles.
With fearsome strength the eagles plummeted the Nazgúl in the air and soon dead flying beasts and Nazgúl fell down from the sky right onto the advancing orc army.
At that point, Sauron gave a tremendous roar of rage and with a crack; Barad-Dur broke and dropped toward the earth. The flaming Eye imploded and sent out a powerful shockwave, destroying the surrounding structures and broke apart the land of Mordor, revealing endless abyss down below.
The enemy army, seeing the impending danger, instantly forgot all intentions of finishing off the piled humans and ran for their lives.
The eagles, seeing that they had won, relaxed and started surveying the dizzy humans as they swayed to and fro from tripping on each other.
Stupid humans…
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AN: Hey! How was everyone's week? Today I went to this Odyssey of the Mind competition… Whew! Finally got THAT out of the way… Anyway, thanks very much for the reviews!
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