They had been on the road for the better part of a few weeks, but Selene didn't mind it, and the Dwarfs would tell stories, sing, and were rather jolly almost all the time. In fact it was a pleasant trip as long as you didn't mind sleeping on hard rocky ground, saddle sores, and the weather. Today was one of those grim and rainy days, no one not even Gandalf was in a good mood. "Gandalf! Can't you do something about this accursed rain?" Dori half yelled.
"It is raining master Dori, and it will continue to rain until the rain is done. If you wish to changed the worlds weather find you're self another wizard." He said.
At that moment most of the dwarfs turned to Amble, who simply smiled and started his little spell. Selene turned to Gandalf. "Are there? Well any other wizards besides your, and sunshine over there." Selene asked.
"Yes." He started "There is…"
Gandalf was interrupted by the sudden change of weather he turned to look at Amble. "Well good news is the rain stopped." Amble said.
Sadly Amble couldn't fix his spell, and so it hailed for the rest of the day. Luckily however by night fall it had stopped. They had set up camp on the side of a cliff. That's when Selene herd some strange sound from the other side. "What was that?" She asked backing away from the side.
"Orcs." Fili said. "The low lands are full of them."
"They come in the wee hours of the night when everyone's asleep, and slit your throat. No screams just a lot of blood."Kili followed with.
Selene turned her head back over to the darkness; a cold shiver went down her spine. Kili and Fili smiled at each other. "You think Orc raids are a joke?" Thorin deep voice called from the side.
"We didn't mean anything by it." Kili said looking down.
"Of course not, you know nothing of the world." Thorin said walking over to the edge.
That's when Balin stepped in, and told us of Thorin's story. Selene wanted nothing more than to hug the dwarf and tell him it would be okay, but she was a bit afraid of Thorin, and didn't wish to give herself away. The rest of the night was quiet, and it seemed as though dawn came faster than ever. A quick breakfast and then they were to move. However Amble was the hardest to awake in the morning. He'd turn over, or say something along the lines of a curse. He was an interesting wizard, not the brightest, but still entertaining. "He won't wake up." Ori called.
"Allow me." Selene said.
She looked under nearby stones till she found a small bug, gently placing it on the yellow wizard. "Amble, There is a spider under your blanket!" She yelled in his ear.
Amble jumped up flipping everything off, screaming bloody murder. Lashing out all over to rid himself of the spider, the dwarfs laughed at his reaction. "Guys, don't do that." He said.
Amble turned to Selene. "If you ever do that again, I'll kill you."
Selene smiled and handed him a plate of food. "Let's go or we'll leave without you."
It was another long day, and rather quiet. Thorin decided to stop at what looked to be an old burned down farm. "I think it best we move on." Gandalf said.
With that comment Thorin and Gandalf were at it again, Selene paid no attention to them, her mind was still on the story of last night. The sight of Gandalf walking off woke her from her daze. "Gandalf where are you going?" She asked.
"To seek the company of someone intelligent." He said.
"Who's that?" She asked.
"Myself, I've had enough of dwarfs for one day." With that he was gone.
"Fili Kili you look after the ponies." Thorin said.
It was another quiet night, but the dwarfs didn't seem to care about Gandalf's absence. "When do you think he'll be back?" She asked Bofur.
"When he's ready to, now go take these to the lads will ya." He said handing her two bowls of soup.
She went off towards Fili and Kili. "Here you go." She said offering them the food upon her arrival. "Well? Is something wrong?" She asked.
"We were supposed to be looking after the ponies." Fili said
"Okay, and?" She asked.
"There are two missing." Kili said.
"And as our official burglar we thought you might like to investigate." Fili said.
The two lead her over to a tree that was toppled over. "Well I'd say something big, and dangerous did this."
"Our thoughts exactly." Kili said.
"Shouldn't we go tell Thorin?" She asked.
"No best not to worry him." Fili said.
They followed the tracks for a bit. "Wait." She said.
"What?" Asked Fili.
"You said you were supposed to be watching the ponies. So what were you doing?" she asked.
The two looked at each other, Kili slightly blushed a bit. "Just answer the call of nature." Fili said.
"Answering?" She looked at them questioningly.
"Look over there I see a light." Fili said quickly.
Before she could say any thing else, they were off hiding behind tress. "Trolls." Kili said.
They both looked over to her a smile on their face. "Oh, no."
"There mountain trolls, they are so slow. And you're fast." Kili said. "Besides we'll be right behind you."
"And if you get into trouble hoot twice like a barn owl and once like a brown owl." Fili said as they took the soup from her hands and shoved her off.
She turned around "I don't…know about this." She said realizing they were gone. "Those little bitches."
She sighed and started for the trolls sitting by a camp fire. She tried to stay in the dark as best she could, keeping an eye on the trolls talking to one another. She was going to try and save the ponies, but she remembered something her cousin told her once. 'Trolls pockets are always full of treasures.' A smirk crept upon her lips at that. Her goals quickly turned to stealing some treasure. She waited and tried, tried and waited, but the troll kept moving. Then finally just when she got her chance the troll grabbed her along with his nose rag and sneezed on her. She had to stop herself from almost gagging. "Oi, look what came out of me nose. It's got limbs attached and everything." The troll said.
"What are you?" They asked once she had wiggled her way free.
" I'm a burglar…err I mean hobbit."
"Whats a Burglarerhobbit." They asked each other.
"Can we eat it?" One asked.
"One ill hard make a mouthful." They said picking her up by her feet.
"Are there anymore of you where you should be?" The rougher looking one asked.
"No just me." She said.
"Hold its toes over the fire, make it talk." The half witted one said.
Just then Kili came charging in. "Put him down!" He yelled mid attack.
"What?" The rough one asked.
"I said Put him down."
The troll tossed her towards the dwarf. Just as Kili and Selene fell to the ground the rest of the gang hopped out of the woods and fought the trolls, each covering the others weakness working together to hit both high and low. Selene slipped over to the ponies and untied the rope, it was only then she realized how dumb that move was. Amble was standing behind the dwarfs. When they stopped to see a hobbit being held up by two of the trolls. "Lay down your arms or well rip 'is off." The trolls demanded.
Thorin had never looked so pissed as he shoved his sword into the ground. Amble and all the others were put into sacks. "Nice job!" amble whispered.
"Shut it!" Selene said back.
She was thinking of how to work around this. "Only a hobbit would happen to get captured by trolls, couldn't you have at least waited till it was closer to dawn? I mean really who is that dumb."
"That's it." Selene said.
"What is?" Amble asked.
"Just play along." She said.
She got up. "You're wrong. " She busted out at the trolls.
They looked at her. "About the spices." She said.
"Traitor!" Thorin yelled.
"And what do you know about spices?" The rougher one asked.
"Well there dwarfs for starters. Have you smelled them? You're gonna need a hell of a lot more than sage." She said.
"Oh yeah, sage isn't enough." Amble joined in.
"And you're not even cooking them right I mean come on, everyone knows the secrete to cooking dwarfs." She went on.
Amble nodded his head.
"Well what is it?" The troll asked.
"You...um…skin them first!" She said.
"Skin us?!" Some of the Dwarfs cried out.
"I'll get you for that." Dwalin said.
"That is rubbish I've eaten plenty with their skins on." The rough troll said.
"Yes, your right. However I'd …cut… off their beards first. After all who knows what things are caught in them." Selene said.
"Yeah, I know a dwarf that used to keep dung, and …other stuff in his." Amble joined.
The dwarfs were getting pissed, after all one should never mess with a dwarfs beard ever.
"I say we just eat them whole, nothing wrong with a bit of raw dwarf, nice and crunchy." He said picking up Bombur.
"Wait! I wouldn't eat that one, if I were you." She said.
"And why not?" the troll asked.
"He, well do you see the size of him? He's a lot bigger than the other dwarfs." She said.
"So?" The troll replied.
"So I bet he's got…..worms!" Amble said.
"Yes! Worms blocking his…. tubes, it's not much longer till they kill him." Selene said.
"You know from blocking him tubes and stuff." Amble jumped in.
the troll tossed him away. "I wouldn't risk it. In…fact I'd bet they all have parasites and such."
"I don't have Parasites!" Kili called.
Thorin quickly kicked Kili, and finally the dwarfs had caught on. "I've got parasites as big as me arms." Gloin called.
"Mine! I've got the biggest Parasites!" Kili called.
With that all the dwarfs joined in.
"You, don't think I don't know what you're doing. You take us for fools." The rough one said.
Selene was trying to think of what to say next but couldn't, luckily Gandalf had just appeared on top of the boulder above them "Dawn take you all!" he yelled raising his staff.
"Who's that?" The rougher one asked.
"I don't know." One said.
"Can we eat him to?" The smaller one asked.
Just then Gandalf Hit the rock with his staff and cracked it in half. The sun light filled from behind the rock kissing the Tolls skin, and turning their flesh into stone . After all of them had gotten out of the sacks. Thorin started to blame Selene for what happened, but Gandalf wouldn't allow their talk went on and Selene ignored them, after all it wasn't like Thorin was a big help. After awhile and a long discussion, they set out to find the trolls cave. Which smelled horrid, but it did have treasure all over. The dwarfs buried it, Selene waited outside she had gotten all she needed a small handful of gold coins. Gandalf handed her a small blade, and told her that it was elfish make, and would glow blue if orcs, or goblins where near. Just as they were about to leave an elf come from behind a tree, slowly and gracefully truing his head to face us. "Gandalf." He said with a slight bow of his head.
"Ah, Neurion I thought Lady Galadriel might send you."
"I would have helped sooner Gandalf, but I saw that you had everything under control." Neurion said.
Thorin was beyond pissed at this point, everything about him said he was about to kill something. Luckily for the elf, one of the dwarfs called out. "Something's coming."
Selene got shoved back, and the elf gracefully pulled out his bow aimed for what might be coming. "Murder!" A voice yelled.
"Radagast what are you doing way out here?" Gandalf asked.
Selene rolled her eyes as yet another talk was in order. She kept an eye on the elf that had joined it seemed as if his every move had to graceful. Just when things seemed slow and dull, two worg attacked them. The fight did not last long seeing as they had thirteen dwarfs, two wizards, and the elf. Gandalf said something to Radagast which Selene had not caught, but she did hear. "These are Rhosgobel Rabbits; I'd like to see them try."
With that they had started what might be the longest run of their lives.
(And that is where chapter two ends lovelies. Please review, tell me what you think. Hope it's not too hard to follow. And yes I was hinting at Kili/Fili.)