-right so this came from a dream I had that made me wake up feeling upset, but it was so vivid I can still remember every detail. So here it is. i'm going to make a call and say this is set after the pony insident and thorin is still alittle peeved with them so he sent them searching for a place to rest; however, the babies being the babies, soon find themselves in a lot more trouble._
It was beginning to get dark, the sun was painting the sky magnificent shades of purple and orange, contrasting with the still azure lingering just above the horizon and the deep greens of the trees filling in the space below it. Arda was perfect at this exact moment; or so Fili thought, because he wouldn't want to be any where else then here, with his little brother. He was watching Kili stalk the shadows beneath the giant firs and oaks and pines in the forest, much like a wolf or perhaps a large bird of prey and it was entertaining. He smiled to himself as they pressed on, their boots making little to no noise on the packed earth despite it being littered with broken branches, twigs, leafs and other such things.
They were to be looking for shelter for the company. Punishment Thorin had called it and if he meant to kill them by boredom alone Fili thought it was indeed a perfect way to do it. He was still a little upset that they were in fact being punished; so they hadn't been watching the ponies all that well; they'd been distracted and yes they had sent Bilbo in after them because they were afraid to tell Thorin but they did go to him after they sent Bilbo in. so really they had corrected their mistake...and then Kili had bolted after Mertyl because she had bolted only to be pulled into a fiercely rushing river and Fili had dived in after him because this was his baby brother and really what else could he have done? Both of them had nearly died, Kili had passed out and for a few minutes or so and Fili had panicked thinking he had died and then Thorin had started yelling once Kili had come too.
It was uncalled for but they knew Thorin was worried. Deep deep down on some foreign piece of there uncles heart he cared. Maybe not at the moment though.
"do you 'spose we'll find anything before nightfall?"Kili asked, turning empathetic brown eyes to meet intelligent blue ones. His fly away black hair getting caught in the light breeze. Fili smiled softly,the braids in his mustache raising with his lips and he wrapped an arm over his brothers shoulders.
"well, I don't reckon we'll be getting a very warm welcome if we return empty handed."
Fili stated and he sighed internally because it was getting dark fast and soon they'd have no light by which to navigate, he noted that Kili was getting annoyed with their lack of progress, even if they were in his much beloved woods, and by the fact that all they had heard for the past few days was Thorin's yelling.
"Kee, we will find something okay? Lets keep going until we run out of light, then we can stop.' he offered up a smirk as he pulled Kili in his wake, releasing his shoulders as they trudged into the dense woods,the trees more packed and leaving narrower trails to follow.
Kili had to smirk, he loved how his big brother was always so optimistic even when they had near no chances of finishing something. He tugged on a braid behind Fili's ear gently, gold,and a stark contrast to his own but that was just another thing to enjoy.
They had continued on for about another hour, joking quietly and just enjoying the cool night air. Until they came to a small path leading into a circular flattened clearing which in turn led to the mouth of a cave.
They met each others eyes in disbelief and smiled evenly before both began to chuckle in relief. Kili beamed out right before throwing himself into Fili's arms and hugged him tight and Fili laughed gently hugging him back, because he knew Kili was relieved that they could now quail their uncles anger at least a little bit. He knew Kili disliked it, his brother only ever wanted Thorin's approval, both of them did and if they could make him a little happy they would.
"okay ya big oaf, let go." Fili laughed and pushed his brother off playfully. Kili gave a toothy grin and looked back at the cave.
It wasn't a huge cave, probably used to belong to a bear or maybe at one time was used as a way station by the men of old but still, it could suit its purpose if empty.
"should we check it out then?" Kili asked as he made his way to the entrance, Fili following close behind and on alert now that they might be in danger.
The interior of the cave was dark and smelt of wet stone, earthy and faintly of dirt. The persistent dripping sound letting them know there was a channel of water close by, giving off moisture and the multitude of bones littering the floor and scent of decay the tell tell signs of a troll.
Now, cave trolls are dumb. Not like mountain trolls like they had run into in the Forrest. Mountain trolls were capable of talking and learning. Cave trolls are capable of brutality and destruction so when Fili heard and angry roar to his right he pushed Kili back and drew his twin swords in a flurry of cold steal and flowing braids.
He heard the distinct sound of Kili readying his bow and setting an arrow loosing it with a snap and watching it hit its target in the shoulder. This only angered the troll more. It charged forward clumsily on trunk like legs. Its body leathery looking with warts and webbed feet. In proportion its head was small for its body, its head much like a rock, in that it was not the place to hit whilst attacking. Its fingers and nails as one and more like shovels to forage. It gave a bellowing roar and lifted up a wooden club that was more or less a tree trunk roughly made to look like a weapon. Fili bolted out of range as did Kili as a split second later the club met the ground with a crashing sound that reverberated through out the small space. Kili loosed a few more arrows all embedding themselves in the trolls hide but it didn't so much as flinch as they did charged back in while the troll regained himself; he moved swiftly and gracefully as he landed blow after blow on the trolls legs, didging in and out of heavy handed swings and swipes. Kili had joined him once he ran out of arrows, swiftly laying in jabs and swings of his own. They worked well as a team, fili quick andd percise, kili more agile and tactile in his movments. They had deffinetly slowed the beast down but he had gotten more ruthless and angry as he weakened. Fili was wearing out and kili was too. It was getting harder to predict the trolls movements, harder to figure out where he was going to hit.
The troll was hunched over in a charging position and fili was readying himself to move when all of a sudden fili was knocked over as the beast ran heavy footed ly forward. Fili landed on his back in a daze the trolls bellow of rage bouncing in his skull along with an all to familiar yell.
The world slowed down around him.
He sat up quickly; looking around in a daze as he spoted the stood tall and proud, a fist raised and in it was the familiar form of kili. The younger dwarf held tightly in that malformed fist; struggling futilly and whimpering in an agonized pain.
Fili ran forward. Swords at the ready to kill; the dark sceanary passed to slowly for him, even as he knew he approached he seemed not to move as he witnessed his baby brother being squuezed to death by this malevolent giant before him. He turned side ways in a deadly fashion rotating once in a deadly way weilding his doule axes as he stabed in to the beasts stomach with all his strength. The growl of pain leaving the beast was nothing to his ears; nothing like the sight before him at the least.
He watched in sheer terror as the troll, blindly threw his unconcious brother like a rag doll. Kilis body arked gracefully in the air in slow motion the silence shattered once he hit the cave wall to filis left with a sickening crunch. He didnt move.
Fili felt his heart stop, felt his lungs collapse and his world fall away into a blind panic and rage that boiled in his veins like lava. His vision blurred into red and nothing existed except him and the prey that was the troll. He didnt bother to dodge attcks fully, if the club grazed him he recovered swiftly and attacked ruthlessly and with more rage then he knew he had.
All that fazed his mind was the thought of spilling this things blood and kili. Kili had to be okay. Kill kill kill kill kill. His baby brother was just knocked out, he was fine. Kill kill kill kill kill kill. Kili was to stubborn to die. Right? Kill kill kill kill kill. He slid under neath the troll, rolling behind him and jumping up to stab wildly at the beasts knees causing the creature to stumble. It swung its arm, knocking fili onto his back, winding him and tacking its chance to grab him and hold him upside down.
Fili dropped his swords and roared angrily at the creature it was swingling back its other arm, ready to bash his heaad in; however, fili swiftly pulled the knife from his jacket, stabbed it into the trolls hand and dropped to the ground, retreaving his swords he took his chance at the perfect opening. He swung himself onto the trols back, landing ungracfully on the creatues shoulders and clumsily drawing both swords in to its exposed throats to sever its windpipe. He jumped off of the trolls back and watched as it finally fell to its death in the middle of the cave floor, blood spilling from its jugular and painting the dark stone black.
He didnt care. He had one priority.
Fili ran blindly to his brother fear tightining in his chest. Kili had awoken at some point during his battle with the troll and was sitting against the wall curled in on himself, arms around his knees and chin on his knees like a child who was scared. Fili collapsed next to him, cupping his cheeks to make their eyes meet and kilis widend in fear, brown eyes wide and innocent and tearing up.
"FILI!" he cried and scuttled into filis lap clinging in pain and in a moment of weakness, in uncertainty and just to have a body warm and near. He cried into filis shoulder, face burrowing in to the fur lining and fili immediately responded, wraping him in closer and protectivly holding him.
"im here kee. Its over." he whispered because he didnt trust himself to talk louder; kili had just realized he wasnt invincable. He had just nearly been killed and had nearly lost fili. And like wise for fili. Kili nuzzled in closer and fili did the same, placing a kiss to the crown of kilis head . They stayed like that for some time, fili alowing kili to calm down and kili just relishing filis closeness. It had begun to rain outside and fili sighed lightly as the sound was both comforting and harrowing at the same time and he woundered if the others would find them before their tracks were washed away.
But realization wasnt a fair others wouldnt find them. They had to find the others.
Fili sighed, he had checked kili over as well as he could, seeing as the younger dwarf was reluctant to let fili look him over. He now sported several cracked , if not broken ribs, several deep cuts and dislocated shoulder. Not to mention a very bad concussion, and maybe a broken ankle. And thats all fili could fins himself.
He wasn't much better. He knew he was bruised, and beaten but he haad to focus on getting kili to saftey.
He got up and pulled kili up , wrapping an arm around him as gently as he could, trying to soothe out his brothers half broken sobs as his body began to be tormented by movement. But this was unavoidable, they needed to get back to the others. Oin needed to look kili over and piece him back together and thorin needed to be their uncle now...
He could only hope the others found them, or they found the others before anything else did.
_right so...what do you think? good? bad? suggestions? tell me whats up and i'll fix things or continue on how I am. umm favorite or follow and hey i'll love you lots..or don't. I'm going to continue writing anyway._