Nuts in Middle Earth by TRMJ and Elf+Nut
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______________ Nuts in Middle Earth Chapter 5__________________
As the loud thumping of the drums grew louder and louder, the Fellowship also heard the sound of hundreds of feet and the clashing of metal coming closer to the tomb.
Frodo drew Sting out of it's scabbard, the blade was shining brightly blue.
"Orcs" he said as he stood together with Sam, Merry and Pippin, all with drawn swords.
Meanwhile, Gimli stood on the grave and Legolas and Aragorn collected some of the weapons left on the floor. Boromir got to the open door, to see the enemy approaching .... as he peered out of the door, an arrow flew close to his handsome face and was stuck in the wood.
He hurried to close the door. He had a resigned and incredulous look as he acidly commented "And they have a cave troll!!!"
Boromir and Aragorn reinforced the wooden door with long axes and then positioned themselves, ready to battle, waiting for the orcs arrival.
Debora stood next to Claudia, both with their lightsabers lit and ready again to do what they could to survive the battle.
Boromir looked to Debora and smiled at her, while Legolas also sent an encouraging look towards Claudia. Debora looked at Claudia, seeing her own fear mirrored in her friends' eyes.
She was not sure she should tell her friend what she was about to tell, but she had to. She couldn't keep it a secret. Claudia would find out sooner or later. Better sooner than later.
"Claudia, Gandalf just told me that we are not going back."
Claudia's eyes rounded, and she opened her mouth slightly in shock. "You mean..."
"Yeah, we are trapped in Middle Earth. We are not going back home."
Before someone could say anything else, the orcs arrived. As the thumping against the doors made the wooden planks start to tremble, all turned their attention towards the entrance.
As the first crack of the door opened, Legolas began his merciless shooting of arrow after arrow, each shot answered by pain cries and grunts from the mass of orcs attacking the room.
Aragorn joined him, and as the door broke to let the flow of hideous creatures in, all hell broke loose.
The hobbits were huddled in an corner, trying to stay out of the reach of the orcs. Gandalf was fighting with his sword, the same as Boromir and Aragorn. Gimli was slashing with his axe through the storming orcs, with yells of vengeance for his lost cousin.
Claudia and Debora stood each one to either side of the grave, not letting the orcs enter further into the tomb and come closer to the hobbits. The blades of their lightsabers flashed as they cut through flesh, metal and leather. The smell of burnt flesh was making both sick. They were was fighting down the urge to throw up at the sight of the slashed orcs as their smell reached our nostrils.
"They never tell about the smell and the ghastly sights in the Star Wars-novels, Deb!!! This is gross!!" said Claudia.
Debora said: "Well at least they say how to use this things, they don't have a handbook you know?" as she made a full circle slashing her way through the orcs.
Both felt pretty out of place but knew they could not afford the luxury of starting to think and become sensitive on the matter. It was to kill or be killed. Strange growling noises were heard from outside the tomb, as a huge beast entered the room, taking half of the entrance's wall with him. This must be the cave troll.
Both women stood speechless for a moment. It was in that exact moment that the troll hit with his huge maze the tomb where Gimli was standing, who barely could jump to the side. Debora and Claudia were thrown to either side of the room by the force of the blow and the pieces of stone that sprang from under the maze. All took turns attacking the troll, who fended the Fellowship off as if they where flies. Legolas was able to shoot a dozen of arrows into the monster, but to no avail. The troll followed Frodo, as if he knew the hobbit carried what Sauron wanted.
Debora and Claudia knew at once only they could do some real damage to the troll with their lightsabers. They turned towards the beast, as they heard Sams outcry. Frodo had been run through by the troll with a spear.
Claudia ran to Frodo’s side, slashing blindly at the orcs around her and trying to lure the troll away from the hobbits. Debora, on the other side of the room, noticed the chain attached to the Troll's neck, and decided that pulling at it might be an effective way of attracting his attention towards her way. Debora looked around for help. Boromir was just to left side of her, slashing some orcs like HE was the one fighting with a lightsaber and not an iron sword.
"Boromir! Can you give me a hand here?" Debora yelled, while cutting through the neck of one orc who had dared to approach her. Boromir quickly and efficiently killed the last few orcs around him, and ran to Debora's side. "How?"
"Do you see this chain?" Debora pointed to the chain attached to the troll's neck, who was still dealing with Aragorn at the other side of the room, close to Frodo.
Boromir's eyes enlightened with understanding. He put his sharp sword into its sheath, and enclosing the chain with his hands, pulled at it. The troll's head barely moved under Boromir's strengh. It would take an army to move such a monstrous beast. But the desired effect was attained. The troll turned towards Debora and Boromir Debora turned her lightsaber, which had been momentarily turned off, on again. The blue blade attracted the beast attention, and it cornered her. As the beast lowered his head at Debora, she let a small grin appear on her mouth. If the troll got near enough, she would be able to cut through his neck, just below the collar at the beast's neck to which the chain was attached. Debora raised her lightsaber, and slashed it at the troll's neck. But her lightsaber blade had barely connected with the collar when it flickered for a moment and turned off.
"Shit!" Debora yelled. "What a nice place to find cortosis ore!" She thumbed her lightsaber on again, hoping to at least fend off the troll, but the beast was quicker than her. He slammed a full fist on the right side of her head, making her fly towards the closest wall, where she collapsed and fell to the floor.
"DEBORA!" Boromir yelled. Claudia turned around in time to see Debora thrown like a rag doll against the wall. Se felt her heart stand still and managed to scream. "DEB!!! Noooooo!!!"
Boromir's eyes turned to slits of anger. He slashed at the Troll's stomach with all his might.
The troll stumbled for a moment, just long enough for Legolas to hit its head with a few more arrows. Boromir raised his sword once again, and cut through the beast's neck, towards its skull. The troll lost his balance for the last time and fell to the floor. But even before it could reach the floor, Claudia and Boromir had reached Debora's limp form at the wall. All the other orcs had been defeated. Claudia almost threw Boromir to the side when she reached her unconscious friend. But that didn’t stop him from demanding an explanation.
"What happened? She was about to slash that beast when her sword vanished!"
Claudia had to strain her brain into thinking, but she managed to answer Boromir’s question.
"Our blades consists of a light beam running from a crystal, and the troll’s collar was made of cortosis ore, which is a metal not very common, but that can cut the light beam of our swords."
Claudia was trying to remember all she had ever learnt about First Aid and accidents … yes, be careful with the neck and the head and … damn, Debora was the one supposed to know about this things, med-student and all.
"Do not touch her Boromir, please. Let me do it!" she said softly to Boromir. But Boromir wasn’t listening. The sight of Debora’s limp body made him feel dead inside. He wanted to take her in his arms, that she might wake up, look into her beautiful brown eyes again and sink deep into the warm feeling she gave him whenever she was near. He knew now what he wanted: her. In his bed, in his life and in his mind, to keep all the insanity at bay. He hardly noticed as Claudia shoved him away, not letting him gather Debora in his arms.
"Legolas, keep him away, I have to see to Debora,"said Claudia to the elf as she gently was trying to find out if Debora’s neck or back were broken by the blow. Thank God they weren’t. Her breathing was shallow but even. She would probably be very sore when she woke up, but somehow not even a finger was broken.
'Lucky Nut' thought Claudia to herself 'almost killed me with the scare.'
Boromir was fighting against Legolas and Aragorn who held him away from the women on the floor. "By the gods, let me loose! I have to go to her , let me go, damn you!!" Boromir finally was able to free himself from Legolas and Aragorn, who didn't try to hold him back again when they saw that Claudia was standing up.
She turned to Boromir, and said, "She has no broken bones or large bruises from what I could assess. She appears to be fine, except for the fact that she is unconscious."
A shadow crossed Claudia's face as she remembered something. "But if she has an internal bleeding, we'll only know when it's too late."
Boromir kneeled besides Debora, and checked for her breathing, even though Claudia already had. When he leaned his head to press his right ear against her ribcage and check her heartbeat, he smelled her sweet scent and almost lost himself on it. But now was not the time. They had to leave before other orcs arrived.
Taking Debora into his arms, Boromir moved to the Chamber’s entrance and said, "Come on, we’ve got to get out of here." They left the chamber in a run, before more orcs arrived.
Claudia glanced at Debora’s limp body being held tightly by Boromir’s strong arms and felt the cold shiver of fear creeping up her spine. Up until now, she had been thoroughly enjoying herself. True, she missed her family, but on the other hand, she was in Middle-Earth, being part of THE Fellowship of the Ring, slashing wolves and orcs, and helping Frodo to get the Ring to Mordor. And she got to be near Legolas. But now... first the news about not going back home, making her realize that she would have to spent the rest of her life at Middle Earth, not just some time, as one might do in a vacation. And then... Debora got hurt.She might not even make it out of there alive.
Claudia could feel despair and fear trying to engulf her. She glanced at Legolas, who was eyeing her worriedly. He reached out to her hand and squeezed it.
"Are you well?"
Claudia looked for a moment into Legolas’ eyes, and gently squeezed his hand back, "No time for that now."
At that moment, Legolas heard the noise of hundreds of hurrying feet and growls around them. He looked, and what his ears had already registered, his eyes also did. Battle was pending upon them. Legolas got his bow ready just as the Fellowship was being forced to slow down and finally stop. He kept close to Claudia, worried by her grim expression. Claudia turned her lightsaber on, and reached inside her jacket to get Debora’s lightsaber, which she had retrieved from the chamber’s floor, and also turned it on. She knew that battling with both lightsabers increased the risk of getting her hand cut by mishandling of them, but she didn’t care. They were completely surrounded by the orcs now. The orcs were crawling from the ceiling, on the walls, coming out from everywhere. There was no escape.
The Fellowship’s members turned their backs to one another and made a circle, with the hobbits and Boromir standing in the middle. Boromir was holding Debora’s body, and wondering what to do. He couldn’t fight, but his sword was sorely needed.
Claudia turned to him and smiled sadly. "Stay with her. And don’t let them take her alive."
In a couple of seconds, as the orcs were ready to strike, a loud screech was heard from afar.
Soon, steps that almost made the gigantic hall tremble followed, and it seemed as a huge fire was entering the halls. The orcs fled. The Fellowship turned towards the monstrous steps and the fire-shadow appearing in the other end of the Halls.
Boromir was the first to speak. "What's this new devilry?"
Gandalf ‘s face was ashen, and he seemed exhausted as he curtly said, "It’s a Balrog."
Legolas was swallowing hard as he explained." A demon from the ancient times".
Gandalf shook his head and ordered,"Run, we can’t stand here and wait for it, run!!!" Boromir held Debora close to his heart and ran, followed by the hobbits, Gimli, Legolas, who was pulling Claudia’s hand, Aragorn and Gandalf.
Gandalf said, "Swords are no match for the Balrog. I will face him. Take them to Lothlorien, Aragorn." Aragorn tried to say something but he didn’t as he saw the resigned look in his friend’s eyes. He just squeezed the wizard’s arm gently and left him, taking over the lead from the fellowship running towards the bridge of Khazad-Dhum. They could already see the slim stone bridge, but they had to cross gigantic stairs, that were severed in the middle, and began to fall apart as the Balrog approached and the ground shook under his steps.
Legolas was the first to reach the end of the stairs and turned to help Claudia, but she shook her head and signaled him to jump, "I will help the hobbits, Legs, go!!"
Legolas looked at her and she forced a smile. ‘Don’t let them know you have panic of heights; don’t tell a word!’ she told herself, as she held on to Merry and Pippin. The elf jumped and after him jumped Boromir, carrying Debora. Claudia tossed Merry towards Legolas, and then Pippin. She wanted to help Gimli, but the dwarf warned her off.
"Nobody tosses a dwarf!" and jumped. He nearly fell of the edge of the stairs, but was held back by Legolas, who gripped his beard.
Claudia took Sam’s hand, and was going to toss him, as Sam held to her arm and looked up to her, "I can’t jump, I am afraid of heights!"
Claudia felt the stairs shaking under her feet so she rapidly lifted Sam off the ground and jumped, closing her eyes and praying that Legolas would catch them. It felt like a whole lifetime, and she thought they were falling into the abyss, as strong hands held her arms and helped her steadying her feet, that had amazingly somehow reached the stairs where Boromir, Legolas, Pippin and Merry stood.
The next to jump was Gandalf. The last of the Fellowship standing on the other side were Frodo and Aragorn, and as Aragorn held the hobbit and prepared to jump, the column that supported the stairs they stood upon began swaying and breaking apart. Aragorn balanced his and Frodos weight so, that the stairs fell towards the other half of remaining stairs where the others stood. They jumped barely in time before the stone fell apart and the Balrog appeared. They wanted to run but could not. They were hypnotized by the sight of the gigantic Demon. It was black, with a shape that resembled a dragon and seemed to be made out darkness and fire.
Gandalf had to scream again." Run for your lives, NOW!!!!!"
The hobbits jumped the stairs down towards the bridge. Boromir followed, holding his precious cargo close to him, not looking back, since arrows had started to rain on them, from orcs posted on the heights. Gimli ran after them and Legolas turned to look for Claudia as he saw her talking to Gandalf while running.
"You had no right to bring us on a one way ticket trip, wizard!" she said furious, but felt bad as she saw his kind and sad eyes. They both knew what was going to happen.
"Don’t lose hope, my friend, you never know … and do not change the events!!!" Gandalf told her. She just said, "See you later, Mithrandir, if we make it!!!"
Gandalf gave her a little smile, but Claudia didn’t see it. They had reached the bridge of Khazad-Dhum, and the Balrog was at their heels. "Over the bridge! Fly!" As soon as the Fellowship had crossed the bridge, Gandalf turned around and stood to the demon.
Gandalf held his staff and faced the Balrog. "You cannot pass!"
The fellowship stopped and turned to the bridge, were Gandalf was menacing the fire-demon with his lit staff. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor! The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun!"
The Balrog lashed out to Gandalf with his firewhip, but the wizard didn’t take a single step back. "Go back to the shadow!!" They could almost see him growing as her nailed his staff into the bridge screaming, "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!"
The bridge broke in two, causing the Balrog to fall. Gandalf sighed, and turned around, but the whip of Balrog catch his ankle, and he was pulled down into the dark abyss. His staff broke when it collapsed against the bridge, and the upper part of it rolled towards Claudia and Aragorn standing at the end of the stone ledge. Claudia picked it up while running to help the wizard. Aragorn grabbed Frodo, to stop him from running back to the bridge.
Gandalf grabbed onto the edge of the ledge, but he could not keep his grip.
Frodo started kicking and fighting. "No! Gandalf!!!"
The wizard looked at them for a last time before the weight of the demon dragged him into the darkness.
"Fly, you fools!"
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