The Tower of Sorcery
"Men! I know all of you would like to avoid this conflict, a combat to which we risk our lives. However, if we succeed in our attack then we shall achieve our goal! We may not need to starve our families from the evacuation nor the need for unnecessary lost of the fathers of children, so stand with me gondorians, stand to defeat the darkness!" A gondorian sergeant shouted at the top of his lungs whilst holding his longsword as the wall of defenders marched quickly onto the enemies.
"Swordsmen spread out across the city, take out the orcs which have managed escape from the main line!" The captain ordered, with no doubt that there will be stragglers.
"Archers, bombard the orcs! Defenders raise your shields from the retaliating arrows!" He moved his hands to the lines of the archers then pointed at the main army of Mordor.
"Forward, men! Promptly execute any living orc you may see that have slipped through our shield wall, show no mercy!" The gondorian sergeant said while raising his palm towards the enemy.
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On the outskirts of Minas Ithil, close to the walls.....
"What had happened here...?" A gondorian knight asked among his compatriots, about the destroyed camp.
"It would likely be traitors of orcs, no gondorian corpse in sight." Aragorn answered as they were moving fairly slowly to recover their horse's stamina somewhat for their charge.
"There it is...." Elessar said, while looking at the ruined city with smoke rising from parts of it.
"Men! Minas Ithil had been attacked, but fear not as our gondorian brothers would not fall so easily! Our soldiers hold the inner city still, while an army is marching towards the large group of orcs. Now it is time we share their burden onto ours, for an apology we need not to say in words at our late timing. Now, charge!" Aragorn raised his sword to torso level and pointed it towards the orcs.
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"You maggots! The lot of you useless bigots led us all to be killed!" An orc captain shouted at another.
"Like you could've done any better!" An orc archer spoke out of line.
"What was that?!" The orc captain called out.
"I've had enough of following your orders and so have the others, now we will lead the army!" The archer shouted as multiple orcs faced him, the archers aimed at him while the swordsmen pointed at him.
"Dammit! Kill the manfilth first before attacking me, you maggots!" The captain tried to reason with them.
"No.. You-" The archer was cut off as many orcs were sent flying.
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"Elendil!" Aragorn cried out as the horses hit the orc soldiers and sent most of them flying.
Some knights had been minorly wounded but no casualties were sustained, mostly thanks to the Caragor riders sending the pikemen into disarray.
Aragorn dismounted his horse and motioned it to retreat as he began fighting.
An orc charged at him, sword raised but Elessar simply ducked and dodged to the orcs' right side whilst he sliced off the leg of the orc.
He turned around to the crawling one legged orc and stabbed Anduril into his head.
Three orcs chose to focus on him, seeing him to be a special man.
An orc charged at him while the others went along with him.
Aragorn dodged to the left from the leading orc's charge and rolled on the ground to dodge the second ones'.
The final orc swung his blade downwards at the crouching Aragorn but he blocked it in time and diverted the swing.
He punched the orc to the ground and executed him by putting his weight on stabbing the orc on the ground.
He was suddenly sent to the ground with a hard shoulder bash from a captain.
"You manfilth, I will show you how useless your reinforcements are! RAGHH!" The captain cried out and charged at Aragorn once again.
He rolled to the side and aimed for the leg once again, unfortunately this orc was armored and so it didn't deal much.
Seeing that, he quickly stood up before the captain could turn to him.
The orc turned around to face him and grabbed a tomahawk on his back, to which he threw to Aragorn.
He barely managed to deflect it by the blade of his sword, but when he let his block down, he saw the same orc charge at him.
Once he spotted the charge, he sidestepped to the side and gripped Anduril from the blade.
It does however draw blood from his hand due to how sharp it is, nonetheless he persevered and used the guard of Anduril to destroy the orcs' head.
"Ha... Ha..." He panted, quickly recovering his breath and looked around to see most orcs dead with some corpses which may be alive have been stabbed by defenders.
"Are you alright?" A gondorian captain asked while reaching out his hand.
Aragorn took it, "Yes, not much wounds sustained, just exhausted." He responded.
"Now if you'll excuse me..." He said and walked slowly, sword in hand to the location of the majority of gondorians.
"Men of the West! We stand united against the forces of evil, it is the time to push them ba-" Aragorn raised his sword and delivered a speech but was interrupted by the sound of dark magics.
The sky had darkened, and the former tower of Minas Ithil was ingulfed in a green light reaching the skies.
"No..." Aragorn looked in horror, seeing their defence failed.
"Retreat! We shall fight again another day!" He quickly ordered as some knights and other gondorians rode the few living horses.
They had rode up to the gate but were alerted by groans.
A gigantic horde of feral orcs had blocked out their path with a man at the front.
"To think that you would fail, even when you learned about the future. How disappointing." He taunted with a smile on his face.
"No matter, you all are of no use to me either than to be part of my horde. Don't worry, king. I won't kill you, yet." He told Aragorn.
'So he was the one responsible for those zombie-like orcs? I'm not sure if I'm able to kill him due to the army behind him...' Aragorn thought, having little to no hope about escaping this encounter.
'Wait, what about Talion? Where is he?' He questioned in his mind, unsure if he survived.
"Men, prepare to fight through!" He took a stance while holding Anduril with both hands and his sword to the side.
They were quiet when a metallic noise happened, however.
They saw a hulking giant clad in black armor, holding a mace atleast the size of a man.
"You... How...." Aragorn was utterly confused and terrified, how was this possible? Sauron couldn't have had received the ring this early.
Some men dropped their weapons and kneeled on the ground, some stood firm though very shaky and some look terrified that they began peeing themselves, while in their armor.
Two Nazgûl suddenly appeared, each holding a person.
Aragorn's eyes widened, seeing Idril and Baranor captured as he began questioning what happened to Talion.
Elessar gritted his teeth and finally steeled himself.
"Men! This may be our lives darkest hour, but fret not for our wills indomitable that they may not destroy it, merely weaken but never gone! Many of our people will die here, but even a few will survive, so stand with me in our final battle! Our last stand!" Aragorn spoke out, encouraging the army albeit slightly. However the ones who had given up, chose to die in battle and prepared for it.
Having decided that, those facing Sauron stood their ground to fill the others blindspots, while those facing the infected charged.
"Futile." Alex simply said as he ran towards Aragorn who looked unprepared and grabbed his neck, he then leaped to another place quickly into a cave.
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Meanwhile....
Talion was on his way to Cirith Ungol but suddenly....
"Arghh!" He cried out pain as he dropped his sword, and knelt to the ground.
"Celebrimbor.... what is.... happening to me..?" He questioned while in pain whilst holding his chest.
"I do not seem to know either Talion, best we should regenerate your body." He suggested.
"I-I can't.... something is preventing me... Urgh!" He cried out once more in pain.
"What!? This seems far more severe than I thought, then use the ring to clear it out!" He suggested again.
The ring glowed and a blue light ingulfed his body, but nothing happened.
"Dam..mit!" He cursed.
"I will locate what it is in your body then, endure until then." As he said that, he merged with Talion while he cried and cried out in pain.