Chapter 7: the Battle of Halms Deep Begins
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Ana
They got closer and closer to us, my heart beaded hard and fast that it felt as though it was thudding against my chest. "Show them no mercy…for you shall receive none!" Aragorn yelled to us. With a yell from their leader the Orcs stopped just before the wall leaving a gap between us and them. Gimli hopped again trying to see over his spot of wall. "What's happening out there?" Gimli asked. "Shall I describe it to you? Or would you like me to find you a box?" Legolas asked looking at him. Gimli laughed, a small smile crept onto my face. The Orcs began to hit their swords against their shields making a rhythmic battle sound.
We all readied our bows and aimed at the enemy forces as they continued their banging. Suddenly an arrow flew out and hit one of the front line Orcs killing it. "Hold!" Aragorn yelled. The Orcs yelled out and then they charged the wall. "Prepare to fire!" Aragorn ordered, we pulled the bows back "Their armor is weak at the neck…and beneath their arms." Legolas called to us. I adjusted my aim and waited the order. "Release Arrows!" Aragorn ordered and I let it fly into the Orcs and started firing into them. "Did they hit anything?" Gimli asked. Legolas ignored him and I repressed the need to roll my eyes.
"Come on send them to me!" Gimli demanded. A small sigh came from my lips. I looked over and saw ladders being to be set up along the wall. "Looks like your about to get your request Gimli." I said. "Ladders!" Aragorn yelled. "Good!" Gimli said. I continued to fire into the bottom of the ladders trying to slow down the flow of Orcs. "Swords! Swords!" Aragorn yelled out. I threw my bow down and started to engage into close combat with the enemy.
Soon we were surrounded by Orcs and we were all fighting in close combat, when I hear. "Legolas 2 already!" Gimli yell over to Legolas. "I'm on 17!" Legolas replied. I spared a glance over at the pair before turning back to fighting. "I'll have no pointy-ear out scoring me!" Gimli yelled. "19" Legolas yelled back. I tried to ignore Gimli's counting as I fought Orcs. "Causeway!" Aragorn yelled as I pushed a ladder down. Then suddenly I heard Aragorn shout. "Bring him down Legolas!" I looked down and saw a massive Orc carrying a torch. "Kill him!" Aragorn Ordered when Legolas's first arrow did nothing, another went in. "Kill him!" I yelled panicked because I could smell powder coming from some were. I felt something hit me in the back and turned, killing on coming Orcs then the wall blew out. I was thrown into the air and knocked out. When I came too I saw Orcs and Uku-Hai storm in through the whole in the wall. "Aragorn!" I yelled looking around for him, I saw him lying on the ground out cold. "Aragorn, wake up!" I yelled, he stirred. "Aragorn! Damn it! Get up!" I screamed at him as I fended off two Orcs at the same time. A sword came over my shoulder and went through one Orcs throat spraying me with its black, thick blood. I quickly killed the other one and looked over and saw that it was Aragorn who killed the first Orc. I whipped the blood from my face and eyes. "Aragorn! Ana!" Gimli yelled from the top of the right side of the wall. We looked up to see Gimli jump off and into the water. "Gimli!" Aragorn and I yelled as he popped up and started fighting.
He was soon pushed back into the water, Aragorn ordered a volley and then we charged into the water. Then when I pulled Gimli from the water I felt enormous pain in my leg and torso as I handed Gimli over to Aragorn and sliced the head off an oncoming Orc. I felt something warm run down the inside of my armor. I knew I had somehow reopened my old wound from Moria. I looked over and saw Legolas coming down the stairs on a shield shooting Orcs and killing one with the shield as he jumped off it and onto the ground.
"Aragorn! I can't move, my leg hurts and I've reopened my wound from Moria!" I yelled to him as I fought and killed more Orcs. I heard splashing coming from behind me. I looked over and saw Legolas standing there. "I've got you." "No, no, my brother needs you more than I do. I'll get there soon." I told him, he ignored me and picked me up and carried me out of the water. I watching as more men and Orcs die on the battle field. Soon I was passed to another elf. And I was taken towards the keep. "Aragorn!" the king yelled, Aragorn looked up. "Fall back to the keep!" he ordered. And then I was inside the keep. Then I was in the medical area and I knew I wasn't going back into battle. "My lady, your leg is badly injured and that wound is too deep, you cannot fight any longer. You're going to go down into the caves to be looked after." They told me. I shook my head. "There's no safe way to get me to the caves, it's safer to keep me here." I told them. And they agreed.
Aragorn
I took Gimli to the outside of the tower just beside the causeway. "Come on, we can take them." Gimli said. "It's a long way." I tell him, he looks over and down then looks back at me, then looked down at his feet. "Toss me." He said. I paused not sure if I heard him right. "What?" I asked. "I cannot jump the distance! You'll have to toss me!" Gimli said understandably embarrassed. I nodded and put my arms around him getting ready to toss him over the gap. "Don't tell the Elf, or your sister." He said "Not a word." I swore, then I tossed him over the gap and onto the causeway then jumped after him. "Shore up the door." Théoden ordered the men behind the door. Gimli and I fought back to back. "Aragorn!" the king yelled, I looked over. "Get out of there!" he ordered as the last piece of wood filled in the gap.
We were grabbed from behind, we turned and fought off the Orcs while I tried to think of way to get back to the keep. "Aragorn!" Legolas called, I looked up and watched as he threw down a rope. I grabbed onto Gimli then onto the rope and Legolas pulled us up. "Hurry! Inside, Get them inside!" I yelled.
Ana
I watched as men ran inside. "What's happening?!" I yelled. I got no answer as they rushed in. then Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas came in with the King. "They've broken in!" the King announced. They started to barricade the door to the keep. Pounding started on the door from the outside, the men continued to put benches and tables against the door. Gimli helped the healers move the wounded out of the way farther from the door, deeper into the keep. "The fortress is taken. It is over." The king said. Gimli bumped my leg and I screamed. "Sorry!" he said alarmed as he was forced to help bandage me up. "You said this fortress would never fall while your men defended it. They still defend it. They've died defending it!" Aragorn stopping his work in suring up the door, Legolas continued it.
Tears fell down my eyes, Gimli wrapped his arms around me and rocked me back and forth in a calming motion. "Is there no other for the women and children to get out of the caves?" Aragorn asked walking towards the wall. "Is there no other way?!" he demanded when he didn't get an answer the first time. "There is one passage, it leads to the mountains. But they will not get far. The Uruk-hai are too many." The Kings Captain said.
"Tell the women and children to make for the mountain pass. And barricade the entrance!" Aragorn told a young man, who nodded and ran off down a short cut to the Caves that I never noticed before, I also noticed that Aragorn hasn't ordered anyone to take me down to the caves and out to the mountain pass. "So much death. What can men do against such reckless hate?" asked the king.
"Ride out with me." Aragorn answered him. Théoden looked at him. "Ride out and meet them." "For death and glory." The king said. "For Rohan. For your people." Aragorn added. Gimli let me go and waited, he could feel the change in the king just as I did. "The sun is rising." He said. "Yes, yes. The horn of Helm Hamer hand…Shall sound in the deep…one last time." Théoden said. "Yes!" Gimli said then he ran off some were. I watched as they got ready. Aragorn walked over to me and kiss my forehead then walked to the horses. Legolas came to me and kneeled down to my level. "Legolas, I…I love you, please, please come back to me alive." I whispered more tears spilling from my eyes now understanding my feelings for him. I felt my head being lifted and lips cover mine. "I love you Ana, do not fret, I shall return to you alive and with your brother." Legolas said, before getting up and walking to the horses. "Let this be the hour when we draw swords together." Théoden said to Aragorn, as they mounted their horses.
"Fell deeds awake…Now for wrath…now for ruin and a red dawn!" Théoden said, the doors broke down. "Forth Eorlingas!" Théoden yelled. I watched as they rode out the door killing Uruk-hai's that blocked their way. The last thing I saw before I was pulled into blackness was my healers armed with swords in front of me, protecting me from death should it come to take me. I came to again to a familiar voice. "Ana, you must wake up now, my magic has healed you, you are safe now." I opened my eyes and saw Gandalf and smiled. I lunched myself at him. "We won! We're Alive!" I yelled happily and was rewarded with the sound of my brother's and Gandalf's laughter.