Legolas meanwhile is firing arrows from a long distance at the Wargs. He sees the horses coming up behind him. Quickly he turns, and grabs the strapping round Arod, and swiftly swings himself up into the saddle.
The wargs and riders clash and a battle commences. As Legolas rides through the wargs, firing arrows, Gimli slides from the horse. He picks up his axe and sees a Warg feeding on a dead man
GIMLI: Bring your pretty face to my axe.
The warg runs towards Gimli. Just as it pounces Legolas rides up beside it and kills it
GIMLI: That one counts as mine! (he turns to face another warg about to attack him. He swings his axe at it and kills it. It falls.... on top of him) Stinking creature.
The fighting continues. As Gimli tries to lift the warg off him, and orc appears from behind it. Gimli swiftly breaks his neck and the orc too falls on top of the warg on top of Gimli. He slowly lifts them both, and as he does a warg comes crawling over the top of the heap bearing his teeth. Aragorn, spotting the warg, rides over, grabs a spear and throws it at the warg killing it. This too falls on top of the heap. Gimli groans.
Theoden and Aragorn continue to fight and kill the orcs and the wargs. Suddenly a warg pounces on Aragorn, and pushes him off his horse. He jumps to his feet, just as an orc, riding a warg races past. He grabs the saddlery of the warg and pulls himself up behind the orc. They fight together as the warg continues to race along. Aragorn looses his seating, but holds on to the warg, reaching up and stabbing the orc. The orc falls off the warg, but Aragorn finds his hand caught in the warg's strapping. The warg is racing towards a cliff top, and shows no signs of slowing. He falls over the cliff taking Aragorn with him.
The battle is almost over. Gimli kills a warg. Theoden is looking around at the field of dead men and orcs. Legolas is walking around looking for Aragorn.
LEGOLAS: Aragorn!
GIMLI: Aragorn?
Theoden scans the field. Legolas walks towards the cliff top. He pauses to examine something on the ground and hears an orc laughing. The orc is dying
GIMLI: (raising his axe) Tell me what happened and I will ease your passing.
SHARKU: He's......dead. He took a little tumble off the cliff.
LEGOLAS: (kneeling down and grabbing Sharku) You lie.
Sharku dies. Legolas looks down at Sharku's hands and find the Evenstar in them. He looks worried, and runs to the edge of the cliff, where Theoden is already standing looking over the edge. They see a fast flowing river below and no sign of any bodies. Gimli joins them
Gamling walks up, and Theoden turns to him
THEODEN: Get the wounded on horses. The wolves of lsengard will return. Leave the dead.
Legolas looks at him disbelievingly. Theoden places a hand on his shoulder
THEODEN: Come.
He walks away, leaving Legolas, grasping the Evenstar, and Gimli, staring into the river.