Hogarth's fears were realised when the uruks restarted their savagery. They fought like wild beasts, and took many of the elvs and rangers by surprise by their ferocity. Hogarth managed to kill a few before he came face to face with a huge monster of an uruk. Kurgh was his name, but the ranger did not care. It was just another orc to slay.
The fight with this giant uruk-hai was hard, almost impossible, but Hogarth drew on all his experience from his years as a ranger.
The uruk used his brute strength which was immense and Hogarth barely managed to keep avoiding him, trying to use the monster's great strength against him. Then he remembered the dagger that Celeb had dropped in the field before she was killed, he remembered hearing that she had stopped kurgh with it before and fortunately Hogarth had recovered that dagger and it was right here inside his vest. He was pinned against the tree by kurgh and just as the foul orc was about to deliver the mortal blow, Hogarth lashed out and sank the dagger deep in the chest of the uruk. The dagger contained magicks that spread like poison through it's evil blood and it fell backward dead. Hogarth let out a deep sigh of relief but all was not well yet as a shrill cry reminded him.
Looking around, Hogarth saw scenes of brutal violence all around him, there was no sign of Aman or Lindir, and Elenna was using a spell on herself. Aduchil and Glorfindel fought valiantly as did every elf and man against the orcs. Hogarth focused onto the source of the scream and suddenly saw Azruk, and he was carrying a small body that wriggled and struggled against his grip.
The ranger gave chase and tackled the uruk-hai leader. All of them fell to the ground and Hogarth recieved a heavy boot to the head for his trouble. Rosa screamed and got slapped by Azruk, she cried as blood trickled out of her lip. Hogarth jumped on top of Azruk and punched him repeatedly in the face but the monster just grinned and threw him off. Hogarth wished he had Celebmundoiel's dagger of the sun, but it was buried deep inside Kurgh. Yet he had another dagger in his boot. But before he could react three arrows hit him from the back and he fell forward.
Blood spurted out of his mouth and his eyes rolled in his head, he heard Rosa scream and Azruk laugh and saw the uruk pick up the hobbit as she looked pleadingly at him, and walk away. His sight blurred, then everything got dim.... an intense burning sensation overtook him, his breath failed him, his body tensed and spasmed... and didn't move anymore.
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Ooc - Hogarth is dead, sorry to do a Boromir. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
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Thorgrim Odinson
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