Nuts in Middle Earth by TRMJ and Elf+Nut
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______________ Nuts in Middle Earth Chapter 11__________________
Frodo had strayed away from his friends, feeling the need to sort out his thoughts about the One Ring and what was expected of him alone. He was so troubled by his thoughts that he almost didn't hear when someone stepped over a fallen branch, breaking it. Frodo spun around, only to find Debora a few meters away from him.
"Frodo, I need your help."
The little hobbit eyed her suspiciously. He had known that Boromir wanted to use the One Ring to help Gondor's defenses against Mordor, but surely he hadn't asked Debora to help him convince Frodo to do so, had he?
"I'm not going to Gondor," Frodo said, raising his hand as if to protect the Ring dangling from the chain placed around his neck.
"And who said anything about going to Gondor? I just want you to lend me the One Ring for a few minutes..."
Debora noticed that Frodo was moving away from her. She needed to convince him of her loyal intents, and fast.
"Just long enough to prevent a death. I will give it back to you, I promise."
"No, I can't and won't give you the Ring," answered Frodo.
"Stupid hobbit," Debora mumbled under her breath. "GIMME THAT!" she yelled and jumped upon Frodo. But before she could get hold of him, a pair of strong arms held her in place as the hobbit disappeared in thin air. Debora struggled against Boromir's hold on her.
"Stupid, STUPID Hobbit! Let me go, Boromir. I need to get the One Ring from Frodo before..." she gulped and looked up at his eyes. "The One Ring is our...my only hope now. It's the only solution I could come up with." Boromir set his jaw tightly closed.
After a few minutes, he continued. "You told me days ago that the One Ring is not the answer. And it isn't. It's too much of a cursed thing to do us any good, how it could be used to do any good to others?"
Tears started to stain Debora's face. "You don't understand. The Ring...it's my...our...your only hope of surviving!"
Boromir furrowed his brow. "What are you talking about?"
Debora hesitated, but only for a second. She couldn't keep this secret to herself any longer.
"You are going to die today, Boromir, unless I get the One Ring to prevent that."
Boromir's arms froze around her, and his eyes darkened.
"Debora! DEBORA! Where are you?" Claudia could be heard near them, interrupting Boromir and Debora's conversation. And her voice was loud enough to jolt Debora back to her senses.
Debora shook her head, trying to clear it of the One Ring's twisted arguments for her to take the Ring from Frodo.
"Oh my God...What have I done?"
But she never had the time to answer that question. By the time Claudia had entered their clearing, Debora heard the first howl of an orc nearby. She glanced over her shoulder.
Uruk-hai warriors. The worst and more merciless orcs ever to wander Middle-Earth's surface. Boromir's time had come. Debora grabbed her lightsaber and, spinning around to face the orcs, ignited it. She wouldn't give up without fighting. She had to prevent Boromir from dying.
Boromir snapped out of his numbness the moment he saw an orc coming towards Debora. He quickly sprung into action and cut the orc in two halves. Soon, the three of them were slashing as many orcs as they could manage. Debora was keeping an eye out to any new Uruk-Hai warrior that joined their fight, especially if they were carrying bows or quivers. She had to prevent Boromir's death. Next thing she knew, the moment she had been dreading the most arrived.
The Uruk-Hai captain appeared and aimed an arrow at Boromir's chest. Debora raised her lightsaber high above her head to stop the arrow from hitting its target, and at the same time reached out to the Force to try and knock the Uruk Hai's Captain with a branch from a tree nearby hard on his head.
'No, don't try. There is no try. Do or do not.' Yoda's wise words came to Debora's mind, as if the tiny Jedi Master was watching her. She closed her eyes, isolating her mind from the heat of the battle around her and concentrated on the branch, but instinctively reached with her left arm behind her, to be sure that Boromir was safely away from their enemy's aim. When she opened her eyes, she saw that she had succeeded. Claudia tried to approach Boromir, to shield him as well, but the orcs interposed themselves between her and her friends.
Claudia wanted Debora to know that she was not alone in the fight, and send to her through the Force, 'Hang in there, nut.'
Boromir was an impressive warrior to behold. Orcs and Uruk-Hai fell to either side of him, felled by his sword. As he saw that the hobbits had fled but the hordes of Uruk-Hai surrounding them were increasing, he lifted the Horn of Gondor and blew in it to call for help.
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Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas didn't waste any time when Claudia had noticed that Frodo, Boromir and Debora were missing, going after them just as Claudia had. While Aragorn entered the woods immediately, going to the opposite direction that Claudia had, the dwarf and the elf looked along the shore for their friends. Merry and Pippin were left with their travel gear to look after it.
Aragorn entered the woods cursing himself for being so careless as to not notice that Frodo had strayed away from them. He was afraid that Boromir would try to take the Ring from Frodo, now that he was alone, to use it against Mordor, just like he had proposed in Elrond's Council. Aragorn only hoped that if this was indeed Boromir's intent, that Debora had gone after Boromir to stop him doing so. When he heard the Horn of Gondor, though, Aragorn pushed all thoughts of treason aside. The sound reverberating through the woods meant that Boromir was in trouble and needed help.
Meanwhile, Legolas and Gimli wandered for a while on the beach before deciding to go into the trees as well. But before they did, Legolas stopped for a moment, looking intently to the other side of the river.
"What is it, Master Elf?" Gimli asked. "I sense foul in the air. Danger is coming upon us."
He looked down at Gimli. "But there aren't any orcs at the other side of the river." Gimli looked at Legolas for a moment, confused, but soon it dawned on him. "You think...?"
Legolas nodded gloomily. "Go and alert the little ones. I'm going inside the woods to try and alert the others." They quickly parted. Before he reached the hobbits, Gimli heard the Horn of Gondor. He hesitated only for a moment before following the sound into the woods, and wishing fervently that the hobbits would do exactly the same thing.
Merry and Pippin had been setting up their dinner when they heard it. Their food lay forgotten as they ran into the woods.
Legolas had been walking through the trees for a while, his thoughts on Claudia and the possibility of any harm that could happen to her, when he heard it too. The Horn of Gondor. Boromir's cry for help.
Legolas ran.
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The moment Boromir had stopped to call for help had been long enough for a hidden Uruk-Hai archer to strung up an arrow and shoot it. The arrow hit its target. Boromir lost his balance for a second, but the glint of an orc's axe behind Debora was enough to make him regain it and stifle any cry of pain. Boromir swiftly killed the offending orc, before he could hit Debora from behind. Debora was so worried by Boromir, so intended on keeping all the axes that appeared close away from him, so focused on the orcs around them, that she didn't noticed that Boromir had been hit. And she didn't see an arrow that the Uruk-Hai Captain had aimed at her back after regaining his consciousness either. But Boromir had. He quickly moved in between the Uruk-Hai and Debora, his shield held in front of his chest to protect them.
At this exact moment, two other orcs were throwing themselves at them, and Boromir had to use his shield to protect Debora from a spear, while she slashed the other orc with her lightsaber. The second the spear touched the shield, Boromir felt a second arrow piercing through his chest. Debora felt rather then heard the loud 'thump' as the arrow hit Boromir's chest and he fell against her. She turned around and it was as if the arrow had pierced her own heart.
She screamed in desperation when she saw both arrows sticking from Boromir's chest. "Boromir, NOOO."
Help finally arrived in the form of Legolas, shooting arrows faster than the eye could follow, and giving Debora and Boromir some cover. But it was too late. Boromir coughed. Blood started dripping from his mouth, and he fell to his knees for a moment. Debora started to cry. At the sight of tears in her eyes and streaking down her face, Boromir's heart started to ache.
Mustering all the willpower he had, Boromir got up and continued to fight, even if slower.
Merry and Pippin ran into the clearing, forcing Claudia to leave her position. She reached out to Debora through their Force-bond. 'I will cover the hobbits retreat. But I won't be far away,' as she shouted to the hobbits. "Run for the camp, little ones get help!"
Claudia started to cover the hobbits retreat with short slashes of her purple lightsaber, while eyeing worriedly over to Debora and Boromir. Seeing Boromir still up and fighting had given Debora some strength, and she had turned back to the battle around them, knowing that she was as good as dead if she didn't fight. Debora was feeling desperate with the nagging thought that the next arrow, the next blow dealt towards Boromir could be the fateful one. And she knew that every step, every blow he gave was a heavy tool upon his strength and his life.
Neither saw the last arrow aimed at Boromir's chest. Debora's vision was blurred by tears, and Boromir was moving too slowly to be able to see all his attackers. The third and final arrow pierced Boromir. He slowly slid down to his knees, while still blocking the sword-blows and thrusting against the attackers. Debora turned around and at the sight of Boromir, she also fell to her knees next to him, oblivious of the orcs closing in. She didn't care if they killed her now. She wanted to die with her lover.
Claudia had just come closer to them to find this scene, and she couldn't let the orcs get near her friend. She screamed after Legolas and jumped towards Boromir lying on the ground, with Debora holding him in her lap, her eyes wide open, full of tears. Claudia had to protect them.
Boromir tried to speak, but no sound left his mouth. Debora put her forefinger on his pale lips.
"Shh. Don't say anything. You'll only..." uncontrollable sobs prevented her from finishing the sentence. Boromir smiled sadly. He knew he was dying, but he had to tell Debora something before it was too late. "I...love...you," he whispered, his voice so low that she barely heard him.
Debora felt her eyes filling up with even more tears. She took Boromir's pale face in her hands, and whispered in his mouth, "I love you, too." She pressed her lips against his, but Boromir's cold lips didn't answer her. She yelled in anguish and pain, and pulled against his clothes.
"Boromir, BOROMIR, answer me! Please, don't die, please...this isn't fair..."
Claudia was still standing over them, defending the pair on the ground with her lightsaber. Aragorn and Gimli finally arrived and joined in their battle.
As they helped Legolas finish off the orcs, Claudia whispered, with tears on her eyes.
"We have failed."
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