The Last Great War

[Beren One-Hand]

"Fire now, men of Gondor! Fire Now," Beren shouted as he stood up. All the Gondoroians on that side of the river stood up, and fired.

[Drake]

"Ah, finally after a long journey, it is good to see Minas Tirith again." said Bao son of Drake, King of Rhun.
"My lord, what is that in the distance." one of Bao's calvarymen said.
"It looks like battle, shall we go to help my lord?"Ru son of Bao asked.
"We go to Gondor's aid." Bao said."Let the world know the power of the Rhun calvary!"
As the king of Rhun said this, his men cheered."Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

[Beren One-Hand]

Beren was standing a few feet from the river. He noticed one of the corsair captains standing on the deck. He drew an arrow, fit it to the string, took aim and fired. the captain fell dead with an arrow struck in his chest. "Don't stop men of Gondor, Rain your arrows down on them." Then an arrow slammed right into his shoulder, but his thick Numenorean armor kept the arrow from going deep. He reached up and pulled it out.
Just then one of his men shouted, "Look! To the northeast, yet another army approaches."
Beren turned and shouted, "What is this, that is no Gondorian army." When he turned back he noticed something, it lookd to be like red and black cloth slowly creeping across the deck. As he gazed at it, another arrow bounced of his helm. Then he realised what it was. He shouted, "Take cover. There are Haradrim. Their arrows will not so readily miss. Take cover!" But it was to late the poisened arrows of the Haradrim cut them down. Only a handful safely made it to cover.

[orithil]

Durial swung around and called his men back "haradrim approach keep your head down and ride for cover, go!!" as the rohhirim rode arrows rained down upon them very few made it out of arrow range and they began riding for minis tirith.

[Drake]

"We are here to aid you Beren," Bao said,"we will protect you while you fall back to Minas Tirith. Men let us show the enemy the might of our mounted archers."
As the Rhun calvary mounted archers fired upon the enemy the rest of the calvary escorted Beren and what was left of his men back to Minas Tirith.

[mighty_half-elf]

OOC: ok guys, this is Rubeus, except this mighty_half-elf was what my name used to be and then I forgot it and made a new account under Rubeus. Anyway, I just remembered my old info, so I'm gonna use it instead...so you guys can figure out a classy way to kill Rubeus and then I'll introduce Albus into the story..

[Beren One-Hand]

Beren was walking to Minas Tirith. All around him were women, children, and other soldiers. He felt that he had failed them all. He was looking at all the faces, "Where is Rubeus," he suddenly asked. Nobody stopped or said anything. Beren ran to one of Drake's men, and said, "Give me your horse."
The man just looked at him. "Give me your horse," he said again. Still no reply. Beren got angry, He reached up and pushed him of his horse, quickly jumped on, and rode away.
As he rode away he searched for Rubeus. It wasn't long untill you could hear the corsairs again. As he neared the scene he noticed something, it was a single figure, a Dunedan, standing alone between all the corsairs and thirty or so young children. It was Rubeus. He was losing his life to save the lives of the children. Beren rode harder now in the hopes of saving Rubeus, but just as he was nearing a corsair shot an arrow right into his chest. Rubeus stopped fighting, his sword fell to the ground, the corsiars were motionless waiting to see if another arrow would be needed. Rubeus fell to the ground. A very big corsair walked to Rubeus, and drew a giant sword, lifted it up ready to strike the Dunedan. Just as the sword was coming down Beren brought a single stroke across the corsair's chest that slew him. The other corsairs seeing their mightiest fall, and thinking Beren to be accompanied by a large army, all fled. Beren looked down on Rubeus.
Rubeus asked, "Are the children safe?"
"Yes," answered Beren, and with that the dunedan passed away. Beren lifted Rubeus' body on to the horse, and lead the children away to safety.

[mighty_half-elf]

OOC: That was a great ending...thanks buddy

All of a sudden, a man on a horse came riding up to the remains of the battle. As he slid off of his horse, he shouted at the men, "Men of Gondor! Where is your captain? For I much wish to speak with him."

[Drake]

"Who is the man who comes to speak to the Gondorian captain?" Ru asked Bao.
"He is known as Albus, he is strong willed and is a freind of mine and your grandad my son." said Bao as he went to greet his old friend.
The Rhun soldiers dismounted and bowed to Albus, for to them he was considered a higher rank, and they were taught to show respect to their superiors.
"It has been a long time since we've seen each other Albus." Bao said stoping three feet from his friend.

[Beren One-Hand]

As Beren was approaching, he heard a voice he didn't know shouting, "Where is the Captain of Gondor?"
Beren asked, "What service do you require from the Captain," as he turned to meet him.

[mighty_half-elf]

"Aye Bao, it has been too long." Turning to Beren, he said, "Tell your captain that I have ridden from the far North to aid you in your conflict against the Shadow that has sprung in the deep South."

[orithil]

The riders of Rohan rode up towards the soldiers of rhun and dismounted Durial put and hand to his chest and bowed "many thanks for your cover" he then turned to Beren "I have more soldiers coming from Rohan in order to strength'n Gondors security it would be a honor to fight along side gondorians once again"

[Beren One-Hand]

Turning to Albus, Beren said, "I am the Captain of Gondor," he reached out and shakes his hand, "Thank you tor your aid."
Then a rider of the Riddermark galloped up and said, "I have more soldiers coming from Rohan in order to strength'n Gondors security it would be a honor to fight along side gondorians once again"
Beren answered, "The honor is mine, but we all must hasten to The White City. I fear she will be next on the Barbarians list."
Just then, on the road to Minas Tirith, they could see black smoke rising ahead of them. Beren quickly turned to a Gondorian soldier and said, "You must lead all these women and children through the hidden paths to safety," then turning to the rest of the company, "Come," Beren said as he started to run.

[mighty_half-elf]

As the soldiers began to lead the people out of the city, Albus turned to run with the captain and began to tell him how his people had been living peacefully in the North and then a band of orcs had attacked the village and burned it to the ground and had killed all of the children and raped and killed all of the women and then had proceeded to hang the men from trees. "I was out scouting the surrounding areas and when I came back, the village was gone, and I saw all of the dead bodies scattered across the ground. It was at that moment when the orcs jumped from the trees and began to encircle me. I fought them off one-by-one. And then I decided to journey south to the land of my ancestry, Gondor.

[Drake]

"Beron, If we can get these people to my land in the north they will be safe Minas Tirith is open for an all out siege if we stay to defend it, it would be possible to protect the city, but it would cost us dearly.If we head to Rhun we can build up our forces and then strike when we have the man power. If your king picks the first strategy we will have to attack under cover of darkness,and gain the element of suprise." Bao said.
At that moment ru rode upand rreported,"Orcs have been spotted heading to Minas Tirith from the north east out of the Dead Marshes. the scout count maybe 50,000."

[orithil]

"Orcs, I see, I will send a scout back to tell the rohhirim to head for rhun or we can wait and lead a flank attack later in the battle" "what is your council Beren?"

[Beren One-Hand]

"This is The White City, I see no way we can abandon it. It is filled with thousands of women and children. Which will not be able to flee in time. The White City itself is worth more than all the rest of Gondor combined, and it is a good stronghold the men of the Army of the West defended it, so can we.
However, I, being the Prince and son of the King, will ask my father, in case there is some wisdom in this move that I will not see. I'd like the three of you to acompany me."
Beren then took his three companians Through all of the White City, as he rode he would look sadly at the people of the city, as the people tossed roses and flowers at the feet of the four riders. An elderly women walked to Beren, took his hand, and thanked him, but when she noticed he didn't smile, she asked, "Why don't you smile Prince of Gondor?"
Beren answered, "Because I am starting to see the wisdom in this move." She didn't understand, but Beren rode away at a gallop untill he finally reached the halls. There he, the King, and all the advisers debated for some time. After a while they had Beren and the other three leave the building. When they had finally made their decision the king's standard bearer walked out of the building and shouted, "Send word, we leave for Rhun."

[Drake]

"Men we are to gather the men,women,and children of Minas Tirith and tell them to bring only the essentials,anyone who brings more than this can not be guarded thus their fate is in the enemies hands." Bao said to his calvary.

Beren then said "but lord Bao these are innocent people, you can not just throw away their lives."

Bao then replied "That is the price of war but if we can avoid it we will. If we go over the mountains we will have a better view of the route we must take and where enemies lie on the route."

[orithil]

"I will ride to Rohan and gather i mighty host of riders we shall arrive in seven days until then your defences must hold, Beren, Bao," he turned to them nodded then turned and rode off.

[Beren One-Hand]

Beren pulled out a map:
We are right here at point X, Minas Tirith, The army that just took over Pelargir is right here, about three days away for such a large army, the goblin army is here, they'll be here tomorow, here way of in Nurn in the south of Mordor, There is a massive army that my scouts report are planning to attack Minas Tirith in precisely eight days. Now on the other hand we have the Rohirric army coming in a week, we must hold off for exactly one week, then get out of here in exactly one day. Any questions?