~*~ Last Time on So Far Away ~*~
"Let this be the hour where we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath. Now for Ruin. And a red dawn!" Theoden cried as he put on his helmet and kicked the sides of his horse and galloped out of the opened doors along with what is left of the army.
"FORTH EORLINGAS!" Theoden cried out.
Hope began to fall from his eyes when he saw there was no White Wizard with the Rohirrum, no help to come to save them from this nightmare. And then a loud neigh and Aragorn's eyes widened as he watched Gandalf arrive in full gallop to stop at the edge, Shadowfax rearing upwards in his splendid glory."Gandalf.." Aragorn whispered relief washing over his form. Ainawen looked up and smiled when she saw her old friend and then when Eomer's horse strode up to stand next to Gandalf, her eyes widened."Yes!" she shouted happily and continued to slice at the Uruks around her and her horse.
"Rohirrim!"
The shout from Eomer brought the rest of the riders to come forth. Theoden looked up and grinned."Eomer."
Eomer charged towards the battle below his sword drawn, followed by the rest of the Rohirrim and the White Rider. Half of the uruk-hai army turned to squeal in shock and held their spears up to face the challenge. As the Rohirric army galloped closer, the sun raised fully behind them. Momentarily the creatures raised their arms to shield the blinding light, putting their guard down slightly. Then the riders crash into the spears and shields, their swords and spears drawn to engage in a bloody battle.
Ainawen screamed in pain as a spear was thrown into her right shoulder, falling off her horse she gets trampled on by the fighting uruks. Pulling out the spear she gets up and picks up her daggers and continues to fight despite her injury.
What was left of the Dark army raced towards Fangorn Forest, that had some how appeared during the battle, trying to escape the wrath of the Men. Legolas runs forward to stop the Rohirrim."Stay out of the forest! Keep away from the trees!" the elf shouted.
Gandalf, Aragorn, Eomer ad his riders watch the trees of Fangorn obliterate the last of the Uruk-hai army. Legolas had rode back to the battlefield to find Ainawen. his eyes widened as he found her fallen body amongst the corpses of the slain Isengard trash."Ainawen!" Legolas cried and got off his horse and ran towards her.
Sailor Saturn gasped and ran towards her princess and placed her hands over the large wound. Legolas watched in shock as his love's injury began to mend. And soon Ainawen's eyes opened, she smiled and caressed Legolas's cheek gently and looked over at Saturn and nodded her thanks. Helping her up, Legolas got his horse and put Ainawen atop of him and began to head back to the Hornburg.
As the soldiers enter the gates the women and children rush out to welcome the returning warriors. It wasn't long before the Rohan soldiers began to gather the dead bodies and began to burn them. Legolas had strided up to Gimli who was sitting atop a dead Uruk."Final count, 42." he said proudly fingering his bow, with triumph. Gimli had as hocked look upon his face and it was soon replaced with amusement. Ainawen walked up to hear this, with Freda on his hip, and chuckled at her lover and the dwarf."42! Not bad for a pointy-eared, elvish prince! I myself is sitting on pretty 43." Gimli grinned, watching Legolas's ego deflat within mere seconds.
Looking down at the ground Legolas sighed and then saw the uruk that Gimli was sitting on began to twitch. Nocking his bow with an arrow, Gimli's eyes widening in shock at this, and shot the creature in the neck, inches away from Gimli's member."43!" Legolas smirked, his pride slowly returning.
"He was already dead." Gimli growled.
"He was twitching!"
"He was twitching because he's got my axe embedded in his nervous system!" Gimli argued moving his axe to show Legolas. Ainawen stood next to Legolas and put Freda down and told the little girl to run off and play with her brother."Well, while you two men killed 42 to 43 Uruk-hai," Ainawen smirked and continued."I killed 57." she finished and watched Legolas and Gimli's jaws drop. Ainawen laughed and gave Legolas a wink and began to walk away swinging her hips back and forth, knowing fully well her mate would be watching. Legolas watched his love as she walked away and quickly excused hisself.
Meanwhile, upon the slope just outside of Helm's Deep Aragorn, Gandalf, Theoden, and Eomer sat upon their horses looking towards the Mountain of Fire in this distance.
"Sauron's wrath will be terrible, his retribution swift. The battle of Helm's Deep is over, the battle for Middle-Earth is about to begin. All our hopes now lie with two little hobbits. Somewhere in the wilderness..." Gandalf whispered.