Love Can Fight Any Battle (Legolas/Hermione Love Story

Chapter 16: The Battle of Amon Hen

"Legolas, Gimli you two go together and search for Frodo. Autheil you come with me. Sam, Merry, Pippin, you may search but don't dally to far from the river. If anything should happen you are to hide until you see one of us." Aragorn ordered them. Everyone nodded in agreement and set off.

Aragorn and Autheil searched for about five minutes until they came upon old ruins. They both watched from a short distance as Frodo feel from the second floor of the ruins and onto his back. They both made their way over to frodo who was still on his back, looking around frantically.

"Frodo?" Aragorn asked?

Frodo spun to look at the Ranger "It has taken Boromir." he informed the two.

Autheil's eyes widened "Where is the Ring?" Aragorn asked and walked over to him.

"Stay away!" Frodo said and moved to get away.

"Frodo, we swore to protect you." Autheil said.

"Can you protect me from yourselves?" he asked them he looked down at the Ring in his hand and then held it out to them. "Would one of you destroy it?" he asked.

Immediately Autheil shook her head "I can't Frodo. It's not my path." she said softly as she heard the Ring softly call her name.

Frodo then looked to Aragorn who was staring at the Ring. Aragorn the Ring whispered several times as Aragorn walked slowly over to Frodo. Aragorn knelt and stuck his hand out but instead of taking the Ring like Autheil feared he closed Frodo's hand ans placed it against his chest. "I would have gone with you to the end. Into the very fires of Mordor." Aragorn said and took his hands away. "As would have I." Autheil said from behind them. Autheil then heard something coming in the distance. And moved to look carefully behind the nearest pillar.

"I know. Look after the others. Especially Sam, he will not understand." Frodo said, Aragorn nodded with sad eyes at the Hobbit.

"Aragorn Orcs." Autheil said urgently and pulled a arrow into her bow. Aragorn jumped to his feet and pulled out his sword. "Go Frodo." he said. Frodo looked to Autheil as she nodded "We'll cover you. Now run." she said. The hobbit didn't need to be told twice and dashed off through the trees for the shore.

Autheil stood hidden behind the pillar while Aragorn walked up to the Ors with no fear. Autheil spotted the what she though was the leader as he snared at Aragorn. Aragorn raised his sword in front of his as the first Orc charged him. Aragorn ducked the blow and swung his sword at the ocr's stomach killing him and the fought off another. Autheil shot arrows from her spot giving Aragorn cover and killing anything that tried to sneek up on him.

"Find the Halfing and the She-Elf! Find the Halfing and the She-Elf!" the leader of the Orcs yelled and headed to follow the others in to opposite direction. Autheil's heart pounded, they were already looking for her. Autheil came out of her hiding place as she saw the leader leave shooting down several Orcs.

Legolas not far from the scene heard the sound of clashing swords raced to aid whoever it was he looked over in the direction it came from and saw Aragorn and Autheil fighting off the Orcs. His heart beated even faster as he heard the order shouted from the Urak-hai. His feet found a new pace as he raced to her.

Aragorn and Autheil were pushed up the stairs as they began to get over run. Autheil slashed at an Orc and kicked him over sending him tumbling into the Orcs behind them. Aragorn and Autheil reached the top, Orcs still on their tail. Aragorn killed a few more before he jumped of the ruin yelling "Elendi!" landing on some other Orcs as he spotted some orcs going after frodo. Autheil killed the rest of the Orcs using her knives before she re-sheathed them and pulled her bow back out. She shot on Orc running towards Aragorn but at the same time another arrow hit the same Orc from the front. Autheil smirked as she saw Legolas and Gimli run into the fight.

Legolas killed another Orc before he spotted Autheil firing arrows from above them. "Aragorn go!" Legolas ordered as shot a Orc at point blank range sending the arrow past his head and into the Orc behind him. Autheil shot at anything and everything that tried to follow Aragorn until she couldn't get a shoot because of the trees. This caused the Orcs to be cut off in their attempt to follow Frodo.

The orcs soon spotted Autheil on the ruins and moved to either seize her or kill her she didn't know. She pulled out her knives again just as Legolas had. He crossed his knives and slit the throat of the Orc at the bottom of the stairs before he spun, dodging another blow and stabbing another Orc. Autheil ducked the sword begin swung at her head and crossed her blades, slicing open the Orcs stomach. She kicked the legs out from beneath the next orcs, sending him to the ground before she stabbed him in the chest. She then side steped the next orc and dragged her knife all the way up his side. Autheil put away one of her knives and then turned back to look over the ledge. Gimli and Aragorn were doing fine as fine could be.

Her eyes then searched for the blond elf, she found him right below her spot fighting off two Orcs as one sneaked up behind him. He killed one and was about to kill the other. Autheil saw the other orc go for an attack, knowing he would not turn in time, she threw her knife in hand into the neck of the other orc just as Legolas killed the other. He turned and saw Autheil knife in the dead corpse. Legolas pulled out the knife "Autheil!" he called and threw it back up handle first at her genitally so she could catch it easily. She caught the knife and turned around swing and removing the head of the Orc who tried to sneak up on her.

The fight started to move away from the ruin and down the hill. Autheil joined the others down there and watched for a brief moment as Aragorn and Gimli cut down some Orcs. Autheil spotted Legolas shooting in one direction as the orcs came into view. Autheil ran to him and stood back to back with him as she shot in the other direction, in the backs of running Orcs. The horn of Gondor then sounded drawing everyone's attention. "The horn of Gondor." Legolas stated. "Boromir." Aragorn said and ran swiftly past the two elves almost knocking them over. The four of them, including Gimli ran down the hill, slashing at anything that tried to stop them from getting to Boromir. Autheil pulled out her wand, sending hexes and stunners at the enemy forgetting that they were looking for her.

"Found her!" one orc said as he grabbed Autheil from behind. Autheil struggled "No!" she yelled and pulled out her mother's dagger at her waist and slammed into his thigh making him drop her. Legolas caught sight of Autheil and sent an arrow into the orc's back. Autheil grabbed her dagger and nodded at Legolas who mirrored her action before returning back to the fight. Autheil returned her wand to her holster finding that it would give her away. Aragorn was far beyond the group and she could only hope that he made it to Boromir.

They continued to fight off the rest of the Orcs as they ran, Autheil was blind sighted as a large orc charged her from the side. The orc pushed her against the tree, knocking her head against it as she dropped her bow. Authiel punched the orc in the face giving her enough time to spin out of the situation. Her brain was a little fuzzy from the hit the orc kicked her in the side making her fall over. She got back up quick and grabbed out her knives from her back. she didn't know how but she felt the orc slash across her fore arm making her cry out before he pushed back against a tree even harder than the last time. Auhteil knew this time she would faint, she fell to her knees pulling out her curved hunting knife. Legolas thought he felt his heart stop as he heard Autheil cry out in pain. He turned as he saw the orc throw Autheil against a tree. In anger Legolas drew his bow and shot two arrows into the orcs back before he could do any more to her. At the same time Autheil slammed her hunting knife into the Orcs stomach with the little strength she could muster before she blacked out.