<Gamling and Hamá ride to the front. Legolas watches them as they pass.>
Gamling: What is it? Háma?
<Their horses become restless.>
Háma: <Looking around> I’m not sure.
<A warg scout appears on a slope above and charges at them. The warg attacks Háma and kills him.>
Gamling: Wargs!
<Just as it starts to turn on Gamling, Legolas runs over and kills the warg with an arrow. He then draws his knife and kills the Orc.>
Legolas: Argh! <Shouts to Aragorn> A scout!
Théoden: What is it? What do you see?
Aragorn: <Running back to Théoden> Wargs! We are under attack!
<Hearing the alarm, the villagers begin to cry and panic.>
Aragorn: Get them out of here!
Théoden: All riders to the head of the column!
Gimli: <Trying to mount Arod> Come on, get me up here, I’m a rider! Argh!
<Gimli gets onto the horse with some help. Legolas gazes into the distance and sees many warg-riders coming fast towards them, kicking up dust trails as they go.>
Théoden: <To Éowyn> You must lead the people to Helm’s Deep. And make haste!
Éowyn: I can fight!
Théoden: No! You must do this... for me.
<Éowyn holds Théoden’s gaze for a moment and then turn to attend to the villagers.>
Théoden: <To his men> Follow me! Yah!
Gimli: <Tries to get Arod to move> Forward. I mean, charge forward! March forward! <Arod moves off with Gimli seated rather unsteadily.> That’s it! Go on!
Éowyn: <To the villagers> Make for the lower ground! Stick together!
<She looks back at the Rohirrim and sees Aragorn on Hasufel. They hold each other’s gaze for a moment before Aragorn turns to join Théoden. Éowyn departs with the villagers in the opposite direction.>
<Legolas takes aim at the distant target and fells a warg rider. He draws another arrow and kills another. Just as he reaches for a third arrow, he sees Théoden and company approaching. He quickly runs and mounts Arod with a smooth leap and joins in the fray with Gimli behind him on horseback.>
Warg-riders: Argh!!
Théoden: CHARGE!!
<The Rohirrim and warg riders crash head on and the battle begins. Théoden and company hack away at the warg riders. In the midst of fighting, Gimli falls off Arod. He turns to find a warg growling at him.>
Gimli: Bring your pretty face to my axe!
<Just as the warg leaps at Gimli, Legolas kills it with one shot.>
Gimli: <Jumping back as the warg falls, outraged> Argh! That one counts as mine!
<As Gimli swings his axe at another warg, it dies and falls onto Gimli, pinning him under.>
Gimli: Argh! Stinking creature. Argh!
<As he tries to lift the warg off him, an Orc leans over them both. Gimli kills him quickly, twisting his neck, and it lands on him also. Gimli sniffs at the Orc and makes a face. He tries to lift both the warg and Orc off him. Just then, another warg comes upon him and bares its teeth, ready to strike. >
Gimli: <Eyes widening> Ooh..!
<Aragorn plucks a spear as he passes on horseback and throws it at the warg. It dies, landing on Gimli and adding to the pile on top of him.>
Gimli: <As the warg lands on him> Oooh!!
<Théoden stabs at a warg rider. Aragorn is knocked off Hasufel and attacked by Sharku. Aragorn tries to kill the warg rider but Sharku blocks his attempt and grabs Aragorn by the neck, while the latter is half-dragged by the warg. In the struggle, Sharku is thrown off and he rips the Evenstar pendant from Aragorn’s neck as he falls. Aragorn tries to let go of the warg but finds his wrist tangled with the saddle straps. He tries unsuccessfully to disentangle himself and is dragged closer and closer to the edge of a cliff at great speed. The warg runs right off the cliff and they both disappear over the edge. The battle is winding down as the Rohirrim finish off the last few wargs and Orcs.>
Legolas: <Looking around> Aragorn!
Gimli: Aragorn?
<They come near to the cliff and hear Sharku wheezing and laughing>
Gimli: <Standing over the dying Orc> Tell me what happened and I will ease your passing.
Sharku: He’s <cough> dead. <Laughs evilly> Took a little tumble off the cliff.
Legolas: <Looks towards the edge of the cliff, and grabs Sharku> You lie!
<Sharku chortles and dies. Legolas looks down at Sharku’s fist and finds the Evenstar pendant. He takes it, runs to the edge of the cliff and looks down to see the great drop and rushing waters below, with no sign of Aragorn. Gimli comes to stand beside him.>
Théoden: <To his men> Get the wounded on horses. The wolves of Isengard will return. Leave the dead.
<Legolas turns to Théoden, an expression of perplexed anger on his face.>
Théoden: <Puts a hand on Legolas' shoulder> Come.
<He leaves Legolas and Gimli to stare down at the river.>
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