"So it begins." Elizabeth said, finally pulling the trigger on the rifle.
The front line of Uruk-Hai rushed toward the wall. Elizabeth takes her marks and shoots them down one by one. Down below at the Battlement, Aragorn is shouting orders to the elven army. The archers release their arrows and they find their marks. With every Uruk-Hai that falls, another's replace them. Elizabeth takes care of any extras that get too close to the wall, while figuring out how to destroy the bombs.
Another order is passed to the men, and the arrows fly. Many more Uruk-Hai are felled but the advance continues. The Uruk-Hai continue advancing on Helm's Deep. Volley after volley of arrows are launched into the fray, felling the front line over and over, but the advance cannot be halted… Uruk-Hai launched arrows from crossbows into the alliance… elves and men fall to their doom among the approaching throng…
The Uruk-Hai produce ladders and mount them against the wall. Ladders with Uruk-Hai riders are raised against the wall. The elves draw their swords and prepare for close combat. The first Uruk-Hai comes over the wall and Gimli is the first to make contact. The Uruk-Hai begin pouring over the wall… The men and elves battle against them. The battle rages on… more and more siege ladders are raised against Helm's Deep… more and more Uruk-Hai flood in.
Elizabeth knew something was going to happen, while they could hold them back… Elizabeth could sense there was more to come, then she saw it. Two Uruk-Hai carry a spiked ball towards the Sluice Gate of Helm's Deep… but before they place it within the gate Elizabeth cuts a line near her to swing herself off the tower, grab two of her grenades and throw them at the spiked ball. She landed on the Battlement as the explosion went off knocking her, many elves and men down. Legolas caught her before she went over the wall but they were all thrown to the ground from the explosion. The explosion killed a good portion of Uruk-Hai and destroyed some of their ladders but they were still relentless.
Elizabeth didn't hear the second bomb go off… She ran to the edge and saw two more Uruk-Hai running to place the second spiked ball within the gate… The Uruk-Hai makes a clear path for another Uruk-Hai, armed with a sparkling torch, to make a clear run for the Sluice Gate.
"Fuck!"
Aragorn heard Elizabeth and saw the approaching Uruk-Hai. He yells to Legloas. "Togo hon dad, Legolas!" Legolas fires several arrows at the Uruk-Hai, but he continues to run.
Aragorn desperately points to the berserker. "Dago hon! Dago hon!"
The Uruk reaches the spiked ball by jumping into the gate. Another explosion went off, while it didn't fully destroy an entire section of the wall, it did throw men and Uruks in its wake! Théoden turns to the second explosion, for the first time feeling the fear of the battle. Aragorn, Elizabeth, Legolas, and Gimli are all thrown to the ground once more from the explosion. Massive chunks of the wall come down and flatten portions of the Uruk-Hai army. The wall still holds but with enough pressure it can come down.
"Holy shit!"
The Uruk-Hai rush threw the semi-destroyed section of the Deeping Wall trying to get through, it was tight fit but they were determined to destroy themselves to get through the wall.
Elizabeth gets off Legolas again, she looks over the wall to see the damage. The Wall isn't completely destroyed but the possibility is great. Elizabeth quickly grabs a shield and throws it in front of her, using it to slide down the steps, to the small gap and gets a few other soldiers to help her close it before any more damage is done. A band of Uruk-Hai runs a Battering Ram into the semi-destroy wall to get into the Keep. Water flows out of the breach. Making it difficult to place beams of support against the drain and Uruk-Hai.
"We need something heavier to hold it back!" Elizabeth shouted as she was shooting the Uruk-Hai killing them left and right but she was running out of ammo quickly. She quickly switches to her katana to save her bullets for later. "Bloody hell! Just die already!" She was able to cut down the Uruk-Hai that were squishing themselves to get through. Just as Elizabeth was about to decapitate another Uruk-Hai she got an insane idea to seal the wall. She got the soldiers to look for something sticky and flammable to block the gap, all of them gave her a bewither look and thought she was mad but followed her orders.
At the same time Théoden was dealing with a large team of Uruk-Hai who shield themselves like a turtle and make their way up the causeway to the main gate. Arrows bounce off the shields. The Elvish Archers turn and fire at the Uruk-Hai on the causeway on Aragorn's orders. The Uruk-Hai on the sides of the turtle formation fall but the turtle keeps advancing and slowly makes its way to the gate. The front shields of the turtle peel back to reveal another battering ram buried within. The Uruk-Hai gets ready to break the gate.
"Brace the Gate!" Théoden called out.
With every kill there was, two more in its place. No one could figure out time… the clouds were dark, rain was pouring and it was a never ending sea of Uruk-Hai. So far their saving grace was the wall did not fall to the bombs. Thanks to Elizabeth's quick thinking, they were able to patch the wall with the dead bodies of Uruk-Hai, tar and honey. The Uruk-Hai has been using the battering ram on the main gate and dented wall. While they haven't made progress with the wall, the main gate was taking a lot of heat from the battering ram.
"Watch out!" Aragorn heard behind him and ducked out of the way as Elizabeth shot down two Uruk-Hai dead with a single bullet.
Aragorn stabs another that was too close to Elizabeth for his comfort but knows something is amiss if she is back on top of the wall. "Elizabeth! How goes the dent in the wall?"
She cuts a wire holding a ladder making it fall, killing more beneath it. "Stable for now but ask me again in a few hours, a different answer may occur."
Finally they get some room to breathe before another wave of Uruk-Hai tries to climb the wall.
"I can't tell if that is promising or not."
"Hell if I know. I will feel better when the bloody wizard gets here with reinforcements!" The second she said that, a ladder is mounted to the wall. "Fuck! Again!" Elizabeth and Aragorn stood back to back protecting each other and killing the group.
"Just hold them off for as long as you can!"
She blew the hair out of her eyes as one of the elven archers' arrows hit the wire holding the ladder but a few Uruk-Hai jumped and faced Elizabeth head on. "Easier said than done! Although I'm a bit worried about that gate because it looks like it will break!"
Aragorn took a second to look at the gate and saw she was right. "Merde…"
Elizabeth stopped her fight and gave an astonished look to Aragorn with a hit of a smirk gracing her face. "Oh wow, he finally curses in my language."
"Liz!" Aragorn scolded her. She rolled her eyes as she beheaded another Uruk-Hai as Aragorn told her his plan. "Legolas, Gimli and I are going to help with the gate and give them time to secure the gate. You stay here with Haldir and the Elven Soldiers, lead them well!"
"Got it. Give them hell."
"As you wish. Be careful."
"Same to you."
Elizabeth covered his back as he ran across the battlement to find their friends. Shooting at the enemy for daring to get in their way as she makes her way to Haldir and thinking up a plan to get rid of the ladders.
Legolas and Gimli are still atop the wall fighting off the Uruk-Hai coming up through the ladders. While yelling numbers at one another.
"Twenty-seven, Pointy Ears!"
"Legolas! Gimli!" Aragorn finally found them as they were luckily near the keep.
"Aragorn! How is Elizabeth?" Legolas asked.
Aragorn stabbed an Uruk as he answered his friend, "She's fine and probably will have more fun than we will."
"How so?" Legolas hit three Uruk-Hai with the same arrow while cutting a ladder from reaching the keep at the same time.
"We're going to help the king. Elizabeth can take care of the Wall with Haldir. We need to go."
Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli fight their way up a steep outside stairway into the keep and the King. Théoden is worried for the gate as it smashes under the onslaught of the battering ram. A soldier is impaled on the ram's jagged end. The soldiers and Uruks exchange arrow fire.
Théoden draws his sword. "To the gate. Draw your swords!" They depart for battle.
Théoden and his soldiers work desperately to hold the gate against impossible odds. An Uruk starts to get the better of Gamling, but Théoden rescues him. Seizing this advantage, another Uruk stabs Théoden in the shoulder with his lance. Wounded but undeterred, Théoden returns the blow, but more lethally. He falls into Gamling's arms. Gamling quickly pulls him out of the area.
"Make way for the king!" The fighting continues at the gate. Gamling carries Théoden away from the battle and rests him against the wall. "We cannot hold much longer." The gate begins to give way under the strength of the Uruk-Hai. The men work fiercely to hold it. Théoden looks momentarily discouraged until Aragorn runs through and begins hacking at the Uruk-Hai. He appears at the King's side and touches Théoden's arm and joins in the fighting at the Gate.
"Hold them!"
Aragorn turns to Théoden and asks, "How long do you need?"
Théoden takes his sword in hand. "As long as you can give me."
Aragorn nods and looks around. "Gimli!" Aragorn slips out a side exit as the men rush the gate to hold it.
The men surge forward to the gate and Théoden shouts to them, "Timbers! Brace the gate!"
Elizabeth found Haldir just in time as an Uruk-Hai was about to stab him in the back. She pulled out her pistol and pulled the trigger. The Uruk-Hai fell back and Haldir was saved.
"Thank you." Haldir is grateful because he knew if she wasn't there in time he was done for.
"Can't have you dying on me now." She raised her eyebrows making her appear softer while covered in blood, gun powered, sweat and mud.
Haldir smirked but wiped it away as he ready his sword for another wave.
"Any ideas my lady?"
She shrugged, "Just one…" Waving her gun at a peculiar location.
Haldir sighed, "I'm not going to like it, am I?"
"No."
There are many words to describe Elizabeth Swann… Beautiful, fearless, brave, clever, intelligent, hard-worker, depressed, loner, rude, outspoken, loyal, kind, cold but those are the qualities she showed like a mask… The ones she also have are cruel, calculating, ambitious, selfish, humble, ruthless, cunning but she doesn't show them because they are not needed or at least that's what she thought.
Coming to Middle-Earth has given her a routine to hide away and not go near the sea. It's unfamiliar but comfortable. Elizabeth Swann does not do, comfortable… After all, she ran away from that type of lifestyle and never looked back. Freedom has given her many titles such as a fighter, widow, writer, reader, swordsman, sailor, ranger, captain, lady, Abyss, King…
While it is believed that Elizabeth Swann can control the most crazy, mad, dysfunctional, out of control people in the world with a single word… There are those who forget one simple fact… Elizabeth Swann is the same, not only that… She is their Pirate King. She is just as snarling, selfish, blood-thirsty, sea-hungry as any pirate. Obsessed with treasure of all kinds. Chasing freedom, her lover, war, and the world. She will hold someone at gunpoint to get what she wants. Use the names of legends as her own without question. She had led armies in her long life as if it were her birthright. She had betrayed those closest to her to escape death. Elizabeth never apologizes for the lives she takes or the lies she tells because what else could she be... She is the Pirate King.
Isengard declared war, so she will take all they offer and more. Saruman and Isengard will not be safe from her wrath.
Haldir went over the plan in his head: it's not foolproof to acquire the Uruk-Hai weapons and use them against them while at the same time destroying the weapons so they can no longer be used again. And meeting them head on… But, Elizabeth has a point. They can not give the Uruks another chance to destroy the Wall, better to protect its weak spot at the source and get rid of the enemies and the battle ram they are using. Instead of fighting in a wide line like they have been, fight the way down to the center and break the line. Destroy the weapons before they even have a chance to use them again. Luckily they don't need to do this for very long, maybe one hour or two because it's almost dawn. Elizabeth believes if Gandalf makes it back in time with an army all will be right. Haldir had one of his men deliver a message to Aragorn and the King. Hopefully they will agree to it.
"Explain it again to me."
"...Fine! A group of us are going to meet them head on to protect the weak spot and break their lines from the center, while destroying their ladders and battle ram. We only need to hold it for one hour. The archers will be above us for further protection and will have a rope on hand to pull us out of there if the ladders no longer work. We are only there to destroy and misdirect so the gate will have some breathing room. Aragorn is going to convince the King to ride out and meet them. Hopefully by then Gandalf will be back by first light. If any of it doesn't happen in time… I have one more trick up my sleeve but I need to be down there to set it up. If you or your men don't feel up to it, tell me now."
"We are here to honor the alliance. We will follow you." Haldir bowed his head to her and quickly took hold of the note she carried for Aragorn and handed it to one of his men, who he knows is fast and will make sure it's given to the right person. "Gaerhel! Give this to either Legolas or Aragorn and make haste!"
"Yes, my lord!"
Elizabeth gave a quick glance at the men in front of her for a second she feels like she's back. Wind in her hair, cannons going off and rain falling. "Alright, let's get it done."
Elizabeth led the group of fifthteen, six elves and five men, and got four archers to watch their back from the wall. She found a ladder that was in the middle, it was a little off from where the drain was but it will make due. Elizabeth cut down the Uruk near the top and grabbed the body to shield herself all the way down.
Elizabeth and Haldir got hold of an enormous crossbow with a grappling hook before it fired up to the Upper Battlements where currently Aragorn tosses Gimli across the span and into the throng of Uruk-hai, taking them by complete surprise. Aragorn jumps the distance himself and fights alongside Gimli. Aragorn and Gimli successfully delay the advance of the never-ending supply of Uruk-hai, hacking them off the edges of the narrow causeway as quickly as they can advance.
Elizabeth saw them and shot it towards another weapon. It was a pulley to pull great siege ladders laden with Uruk-hai to the upper battlements. They destroyed them before the ladders hook themselves on contact.
Elizabeth and her group worked tirelessly but somehow they were able to destroy all the Uruk-hai's weapons, that was the good news… The bad news: They were stuck on the ground without any way to get back on the wall. So they defended the weak spot, not letting the Uruk-hai get close to it.
Luckily the soldiers on the wall had some rope that was long enough. An elven soldier calls to them from the top of the battlements. "Haldir!" Dropping a rope over the edge, Haldir grabs the rope in one hand.
Elizabeth took more of the heat off him and shouted, "Go! Start climbing!" Haldir nodded and quickly climbed the wall. Elizabeth got the others on the rope to climb.
No later than thirty minutes later Elizabeth finally got on the rope but half way through the sound of the horn of the Helm Hammerhand was heard all over Helm's Deep.
"Finally." Elizabeth felt a relief go through her when the Hornburg Wall Gate opened. "They did it." Elizabeth smirked just a bit. "Took them long enough."
"Areth!" Haldir called out to her and was about to pull Elizabeth up the wall but she stopped him because she was close enough to jump on a horse.
"Hold it tight!" Elizabeth shouted, Haldir nodded and no later Elizabeth released the rope a little and jumped…
Back on Hornburg Wall, Aragorn and Gimli continue holding off the onslaught on the Causeway. Théoden's face appears in the crack in the gate telling them to get out of there. A final board is put in place to seal off the crack.
Legolas, seeing their plight, throws a rope down to them from on top of the Hornburg Wall, "Aragorn! Grab hold!" Aragorn grabs hold of it, and with his other arm holds onto Gimli. Legolas and a soldier pull up the rope, they drag them over the wall. Aragorn and Gimli reach the top of the wall… Legolas and some soldiers pull them to safety.
"Were we successful?" Aragorn asked once he got his footing.
"To a degree… The king had to be taken to the back to check on a head injury." Legolas was a bit distracted by the note in his hand.
Aragorn noticed, "What is it?"
"Elizabeth. I do believe she founded herself." Aragorn raised an eyebrow. Legolas smiled and handed him the note. "Here."
Aragorn took a second to read it and his eyebrows were high up, almost touching his hairline, "...Is she mad?" then release a small chuckle.
"If she wasn't that wouldn't have worked." Legolas shrugged.
"What is she doing?"
"Taking the fight to them." They smirked at one another before taking off.
Aragorn ran with Legolas to find the king and saw the soldiers carry more barricades to the gate, "You said this fortress would never fall while your men defend it. They still defend it. They have died defending it. My sister is down there defending it."
Théoden dreamily, "So much death." Aragorn and Gamling look at him quizzically. "What can Men do against such reckless hate?"
The Uruk-hai ram the gate again. Aragorn pauses to think, Elizabeth's note felt heavy in his hand and knew, once again, she's right. "Ride out with me." Théoden turns to look at him. "Ride out and meet them."
"For death and glory."
"For Rohan. For your people."
A light creases Legolas making him look up, "The sun is rising."
Aragorn looks to the window. He hears Gandalf's voice, "Look to my coming at first light on the fifth day. At dawn... Look to the east."
Théoden nodded, slowly coming back to his senses, "Yes...Yes...The horn of Helm Hammerhand... Shall sound in the Deep... One last time."
"Yes!"
Théoden placed his hand on Aragorn's shoulder, "Let this be the hour when we draw swords together."
Gimli leaves to blow the horn of the Helm Hammerhand.
As it sounds Théoden speaks, "Fell deeds, awake. Now for wrath... Now for ruin and a red dawn."
Aragorn draws his sword. Théoden puts on his helmet. Gimli blows the horn. Théoden, mounted on his horse, next to Aragorn and Legolas raises his sword in the air.
"Forth Eorlingas!"
They gallop through the masses of the soldiers through the hall, moving past those in their path. Gimli sounds the horn again, as they leave Helms Deep and ride onto the causeway where thousands of Uruk-hai still crowd.
Elizabeth was able to call out to a certain elf, "Legolas!"
Legolals looked up, "Elizabeth!"
Elizabeth jumped and Legolas caught her and got her safely on the back of his horse.
"Good thing you showed up when you did. I was about to set this place on fire." Elizabeth said as she decapitated an Uruk-hai.
"...Do I want to know?" Legolas used his long knives to kill the Uruks.
"No."
"Okay."
Suddenly Elizabeth is drawn to a white light and looks up. Gandalf appears on top of the hill top next to Helm's Deep riding Shadowfax who rears.
"Gandalf…"
Gandalf looking down on Helm's Deep. Théoden pauses and looks up. "Théoden King stands alone."
Eomer riding up behind him, "Not alone." He raises his sword high, "Rohirrim!" The Rohirrim ride up behind Eomer. The Uruk-hai stop fighting and look up.
"Eomer…" Théoden whispered as if a prayer had been answered.
"To the king!"
Eomer, Gandalf and the Rohirrim ride down the steep hill towards the Uruks who surge forward holding their spears in front of them. As Gandalf nears the Uruks he sends out a bright white light from his staff, blinding the Uruk-Hai. They ride over the Uruk-Hai and into their masses, killing and fighting.
The Uruk-Hai are fleeing from Helm's Deep, Théoden, Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas ride after them. They run to where a forest of trees has suddenly appeared.
Eomer suddenly rides out in front of the men, "Stay out of the forest! Keep away from the trees!"
They stand and watch as the Uruk-hai flee into the trees. The trees begin to move and screams are heard from the Uruk-Hai as the trees apparently kill them.
Back in Helm's Deep, Aragorn walks up to Eowyn who is very pleased to see him, holds his face and hugs him. Men were piling up the dead Uruk-Hai. Gimli sits on a Uruk-hai smoking his pipe.
Legolas walks up to him, stroking his bow, "Final count...42."
"Forty-two? That's not bad for a pointy-eared Elvish princeling. I myself am sitting pretty on 43."
Legolas swiftly draws an arrow and shoots it between Gimli's legs at the Uruk-hai he is sitting on and smirks. "Forty-three."
"He was already dead."
"He was twitching."
"He was twitching...because he's got my axe," he grabs his axe which is embedded in the Uruks head and moves it so that the dead Uruk moves too, "embedded in his nervous system!"
Elizabeth watches them and lets out a small huff of a laugh. Legolas heard her and made his way towards her.
"Is it my imagination or did you lie?"
"I don't know what you're talking about my lady." Legolas got close to where he could touch her but made sure she had room if she was uncomfortable.
"Right…" She purposely spoke a little louder, "Just so you know I'm standing quite high on a 87." She smirked at the coughing Gimli and bewitched Legolas and started walking towards the horses. And she'll deny the little skip in her steps and swaying of her hips.
Gandalf rides to the top of the hill at the side of Helm's Deep with Eomer, Théoden, Legolas, Gimli, Elizabeth, Aragorn and Gamling, all on horseback.
"Sauron's wrath will be terrible, his retribution swift."
They look to the other side of the hill on Mordor. Thunder and lightning erupt and the darkening sky turns red.
"The battle for Helm's Deep is over. The battle for Middle-earth is about to begin."
Aragorn looks at Gandalf who looks back at him with a grim look on his face.
Gandalf looked back out to Mordor, "All our hopes now lie with two little Hobbits…" Gandalf looks out to see Frodo and Sam are walking through the woods, following Gollum. "...somewhere in the wilderness."
"Have faith in our little friends. Hobbits are known to be resilient." Elizabeth looked at the horizon ready for what's to come. "Besides we have our own horizon to deal with and a certain wizard…" A menacing grin appeared on her face that looked freighting with the blood covering the right side of her face and neck.
Opposed to the blood-thristy look on her… This is the first time she was showing her true colors and becoming the Pirate King right before their eyes. For some reason the Silver Prince thought she never looked more beautiful than she does now.
Aragorn
Togo hon dad, Legolas! - Bring him down, Legolas!
Dago hon! Dago hon! - Kill him! Kill him!
Merde… - Fuck…