This story was requested by a friend of mine. I do not own anything that belongs to Tolkien.


It was a nice sunny day in the shire. The wind blew through the green grass and over the rolling hills. The market was busy as usual with hobbits selling and buying what they needed or just sitting around chatting under the party tree. In Hobbitan on one of the hills was a hobbit hole that Hobbits called Bag-End home of Bungo and Belladona Baggins. Bungo was the head of the Baggins clan while Belladona was the daughter of the Thain, head of the Took clan. The baggins' were known to be highly respectable while the Tooks where known for running off on adventures. It wasn't long after Bungo and Belladona were married that they had their first child, Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo often caused trouble in the market by playing a prank or asking too many questions about the outside world. This is why Bilbo spent most of his time with his Took cousins. They would go in the old forest and pretend they were on a great adventure. It was one of these times that Bilbo made two unexpected friends.

Bilbo and his cousins where playing 'The Battle of Green Fields' when out of nowhere three wolves came out from under some bushes. All of his cousins ran back to where they had built a tree house not but two months ago, but Bilbo stood in awe over such fierce creatures. The wolves started to advance toward the young hobbit before getting hit with some stones that seemed to be falling from the sky before a young human looking boy stepped out from behind a tree. This new comer was big, huge even. He wore a sleeveless tunic made of animal fur and slacks. The only weapon he carried was an axe for chopping wood. The wolves sized up the boy and charged. Without hesitating the boy swung his axe into the head of one wolf and into the neck of another while the third ran off.

"Are you ok?" the boy asked Bilbo.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Bilbo Baggins and your service, by the way," Bilbo said with a bow.

"Beorn the skin changer at yours master Baggins," Beorn said with a hint of laughter in his voice.

"Please, just call me Bilbo."

Both boys where soon laughing at stories they were telling while picking and eating berries down by a river. During one of Bilbo's tales he dropped a berry on the ground and went to pick it up when he was met with a pair of eyes. Bilbo leaped back knocking Beorn down. Beorn just laughed when a small mouse came cautiously out from the bush.

"If I didn't know any better I would say that you are a bunny Bilbo," Beorn laughed.

"I'm not a bunny," Bilbo said with a scowl.

"Are you sure young one," a new voice cut in.

Turning around Beorn and Bilbo saw six men all wearing black everything from their cloaks to their boots. Each of them had a sword drawn and pointing at the two boys in front of them.

"What do you think that we should do with them boys," the obvious leader of the men said.

"I don't know we could have some sport with the human lad and sell the tot as a slave,"

"That is probably the most brilliant plan that you've come up with Gurney," the leader said and the men advanced.


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