Chapter 39 ~ That'll Leave a Mark

Chapter 39

That'll Leave a Mark

I heard Aragorn shout something at me behind me but I was to busy fighting. 

I swung my sword at the Orc closest to me and it chopped his head off. Another one came up and swung at my chest. I jumped back and then stabbed it in the chest. He crumpled to the ground. I backed up and attacked the next Orc. 

He swung at my head and I ducked. I swung at his chest but he blocked my strike. He swung at my feet and I jumped over his blade. Another Orc decide to join us. I swung at the first one and managed to not only chop his arm off, but his head too. Most of it, at least. I turned around and stabbed the Orc in the stomach. I backed up and looked around. 

Most of the others were fighting the remaining Orcs. I was about to go help the hobbits when this giant cave-troll burst through the door and parts of the wall. Legolas fired an arrow just as I ran up to it. I stabbed it in the leg, as I got closer. It tried to smash Sam but he went through its legs. It went to go step on Sam. I ran up and started hacking at it’s leg, just as Aragorn and Boromir pulled its chain. It turned around. 

It whipped the chain (with Boromir attached) at the wall successfully whipping at the wall. He fell crumpled to the floor.

I ran at the approaching Orc and kicked its legs from underneath it. I stabbed it twice before moving on. The cave troll and lodged its chain in the wall and I watched in horror as Legolas climbed on its head. I ran at the cave troll trying to distract it. 

It worked. It lunged at me and swung the large club it had. I jumped backwards to avoid it. It stepped forwards and swung again, I stepped backwards but not enough. His club caught my chest and whipped me at the wall. The force was astronomic and the hitting the wall was close to being under a boulder

All the breath left me as I hit the wall. I fell ten feet to the ground. 

“Alana!!!” I heard Legolas shout.

I couldn’t move. I couldn’t draw breath. I was in a lot of pain. My vision swam in front of me. I closed my eyes and tried to draw breath. 

A sharp stabbing pain pierced my ribs. I took little wheezing breaths and tried to regain my breath. My chest ached as I drew a deeper breath each time to get to normal breathing. I let out a strangled breath. I opened my eyes and black dots swam in front of me that seemed to grow larger. I closed my eyes. 

I faintly heard someone drop to their knees beside me and shake me. Pain ricocheted through my chest. I let out a small moan.

“Alana!” Legolas exclaimed. I shifted my head to look at him. He looked blurry above me with a few black spots here and there.

“I’m alright. Go fight.” I managed to whisper. He heard me and left. I moved my arms and felt another sharp pain in my left wrist. Luckily, not my sword hand. I pushed myself into a sitting position with my right arm. Everybody had finished fighting. I shook my head and slowly stood up.