1st Shard of the Queen
Hello, mother.
Hello, dearest.
My orders?
Go to this village and make a life for yourself there. Soon you shall meet your one Noel...
Noel wandered across the forrest and soon arrived at a hobbit village. They were small beings.
"Hello", Noel greeted with a poker face but the hobbit in front of him noticed how kind his smile was.
"Hello, can I help you with anything", the nice hobbit asked.
"Yes, actually I was searching for a place to live in. You see, I just left my home. It is a tradition within my family to leave your home and build your own home in another place. I was just wondering if there was any abandoned hobbit home or something. Because this place does feel very warm and kind", he said still with a poker face.
"Well, there isn't any place such as an abandoned hobbit house and although I supposed you could build one I think that it would be a better idea to stay a few days in the village and see if this small community is for you. Don't you think so?".
"Yes! that is a very clever idea mister... sorry I did not catch your name?".
"Ah, right I forgot, didn't I. Bilbo Baggins but simply call me Bilbo. If you wish you can stay with me".
"That would be lovely".
Noel stayed with Bilbo and at the first night he introduced Bilbo to the delicious dishes from his mother's memory. The ingredients came from a world of which he and his siblings called "Farm world". It was a realm that his mother had created simply because she could. When Bilbo entered the realm he was stunned to see the vast amount of land and also the truck. A carriage made out of metal and could drive on its own without horses dragging it. Of course Bilbo was fashinated. Noel explained that the car used the sun rays to gain power to drive forward. It was the strangest thing Bilbo had ever seen so of course he would spend more time in the realm when he could as he practiced driving this strange thing.
They opened up a restaurant business thatbecame quickly popular but because Bilbo and Noel had no ideas of expandning the business it was simply kept within the hobbit village. The hobbits did not mind the business being small, in fact they were very happy with the outcome since they didn't want to share the delicious food with everyone else that might get strange thoughts to covet the recipes.
Noel became quickly a friend of the villagers and one night he would become a hero of another race.
It happened during one summer night in the hobbit village. Everything was quiet and nothing seemed to be different. Bilbo stayed up late to think some things through while Noel was sleeping in his bedroom. Suddenly the doorbell rang and it made no sense for other hobbits to come over at this time of the night. Bilbo not thinking it could be anyone else opened it wide open and saw a stranger stand. He was a dwarf and the said dwarf walked inside shamelessly. Soon other dwarves arrived and eventually Gandalf did too. Bilbo never got the explanation he wanted as to why everyone was at his house. He also struggled with trying to tell them not hurt his plates and things left by his mother. It was only when a bigger dwarf than the others turned up. His name was Thorin and he was also the dwarves' prince. Thorin was thinking of embarking on a quest to retrieve his kingdom, Erebor and Gandalf had recommended him to become the 14th member of companion. The reason was because that Bilbo had a burglars skill when stealing. In other words he could sneak behind the enemy's back.
"There is no way I'm going", Bilbo said.
"He's right, Gandalf", Thorin agreed. "He's not competent enough to be travelling with us".
Bilbo was very insulted even if it was true what he said.
"The point is that I can't just leave my home-".
"Who is leaving?", a tired Noel stood behind him.
Bilbo turned around and froze on the spot as he watched Noel rub his eye with his finger. He was half naked. His black hair stood out everywhere on his head. The robe he wore was open so you could see the pale white skin that seemed as smooth as a baby's. His body was clearly slim and his golden eyes were hazy, having just woke up. Bilbo walked towards him and closed the robe.
"There is nothing to see", Bilbo told the rest but everyone had already seen everything.
"Bilbo are you leaving?", Noel tilted his head adorably.
"No, they asked me to join their quest to reclaim Erebor but I turned their offer down".
"Is Erebor their home?", he looked at Thorin and suddenly something clicked.
"Yes", Thorin smiled sadly.
"Then Bilbo you should help them as it has a huge importance to them", Noel said.
"But you know that I'm not a fighter and there will be many danger. Besides who will take care of you?", Bilbo looked at his friend.
"Then I'll come with you on your journey or better yet. I'll help you retrieve Erebor right now", Noel stated.
"The dragon Smaug is there guarding the mountain. There is no way you can simply retrieve it", one of the dwarves said.
"Child you have such imagination", Thorin chuckled and couldn't help but find the boy cute but appreciated his valiance..
Before anyone knew it the boy had walked outside as they all felt a cold compared to the summer night. Soon light glowed outside and when they all gathered they saw a huge snow blizzard that seemed endless. You couldn't see anything at all. Then it stopped and in front of them stood a huge ice-dragon. Everything about the dragon was made out of ice and it was alive. A dragon which the mysterious boy patted on the head. The boy turned towards them.
"Thorin, Gandalf and I will ride the dragon towards Erebor. Bilbo and the rest shall take the sleigh", the boy said while everyone were too stunned to even hear a word that came out.
While Thorin hesitated to get up on the dragon Gandalf was like a child and eagerly hopped on.
"Let's go!", the boy shouted out and the ice-dragon flapped its wings and began flying.
"Alright boys hop on", Bilbo said as the dwarfs still hadn't entered the sleigh and instead inspected. "Hurry let's go before we won't be able to catch up". Hearing those words finally brought some sense to dwarves and Bilbo smiled because now he could finally begin to ride. "Go Batman, go Luke, Zeus and Aries... Buddha, Krishna, Vader and Harry!".
The sleigh went off into the sky and caught up with the dragon. The ride didn't even take three hours and they soon finally arrived at Erebor. Before they arrived Noel brought the dragon closer to the sleigh so that Gandallf and Thorin could jump to it. The reason was because Noel thought that it was best for the two dragons to fight outside then inside. At the same time the sleigh could get close enough to the balcony on the mountain enough so that Thorin and his gang could sneak inside.
When Noel saw that they were inside the mountain he told the ice-dragon to fulfill his duties before leaving. The ice-dragon gave out a roar that could be heard all the way to Mirkwood. It woke the sleeping dragon, Smaug at least. The dragon must have felt a rival and became as aggressive as possible. Ice and fire danced on the sky as the two dragons fought. Meanwhile Gandalf looked at the seen from the balcony as the sky was filled with all sorts of colours. Many humans from the town nearby saw it too and started preparing to leave it since it was no longer safe regardless of which dragon won.
Smaug fought with all he could as he blew out fire after fire and clawed at the ice-dragon. It didn't speak so he couldn't negotiate. Why was a brother fight another? Although Smaug had been confident about his chances of winning from the beginning all that hope disappeared as the ice-dragon shot out ice-spears that was aimed at his weak spot. They got through him and his heart stopped.
Everyone saw Smaug falling from the Sky and the ice-dragon roared once again before exploding into snow. Thorin, Gandalf and the rest were just about to go down and celebrate when the orcs suddenly came towards them. Bilbo was ready to save his friend when all of a sudden the reindeers wouldn't move. They explained to him that their master had commanded them to stay put. Everyone watched as the orcs closed in to the gate of the mountains. The only obstacle that was in their way didn't exist anymore. So they could simply wals into Erebor now or so they thought.
Noel simply watched the orcs. They looked interesting.
"Hello", he greeted the orcs.
"Hello, human or should I say goodbye", one of the orcs walked towards him and was just about to kill him with his axe.
Although Noel stopped the axe with his finger that barely got a scratch. The touch on the blade covered it in ice along with the orc. Noel hit the frozen orc and it broke in several pieces. Azog saw one of his most trusted men shatter and commanded his men to immediately kill the boy but alas it was no use...
A few minutes afterwards Thorin and Gandalf looked upon the view of which Noel had created. Every orc and warg was either frozen or shattered in pieces. Gravity was really humans' best friend in reality. After eliminating the orcs on the battle-slaughter field Noel turned around to enter Erebor. He was very interested in the patterns on the metal gate. The sleigh went down and Bilbo hugged Noel as he said that he had been very worried about him.
"When we come home we seriously need to celebrate with pizza", Bilbo said.
"Yes, how about celebrating inside Erebor. I'm getting hungry anyway", Noel said.
Since Noel had a great sense of direction he found the kitchens quickly as he started a fire and took out the ingredients. Meanwhile Bilbo was getting ready a huge table and all. Tonight there was gonna be a feast and Noel was certainly gonna display his true power. The power of drowning any being with his food in ecstasy.
Although Gandalf and the rest had been so shocked that they only reacted when Bilbo started setting up the tables as he asked for some helped of which Kilin was more than happy to help with.
Dish after dish was placed on the table as the dwarves waited eagerly.
"It has only been like five hours or less since you guys last ate", Bilbo reminded to nobody but himself.
Thorin was still in shock because the quest of which he had predicted to take months to finish simply ended just like that.
"Bilbo who is Noel exactly?", Gandalf was very curious now.
"To be honest, I don't know. All I know was that he needed a place to stay at and I offered my place. We built a restaurant and became partners in business", Bilbo simply said.
"Well your friend doesn't seem to simply be a boy you have met. Where did his powers come from?".
"Probably his mother. His mother seems to be a very great person by the way. She seems to be able to create worlds within in worlds. The ingredients that Noel used for the food. They came from the world which he calls "Farm World". My best guess is that his mother is a Valar or perhaps someone even higher".
"Impossible, i've never heard of a Valar with such powers that the boy displayed", Gandalf said.
"Well, Noel is Noel no matter what. He is a sweet young boy", the hobbit simply said.
Thorin who had listened to the conversation was very intrigued by the mysterious boy named Noel.
"Oh, there isn't a seat for me?", Noel tilted his head.
"Sorry, Noel I'll get a chair for you", Bilbo was getting up from his seat.
"No, need to do that. I'll simply use...", he jumped up on Thorins lap. "I'll simply sit here".
Everyone froze at what they did. A simple human used the new dwarf king's as his sitting place? Thorin's look was dark but he didn't throw the human off. Instead he leaned closer and used the human's neck as place for him to rest his chin on. Was he smelling the boy's hair? Since when were these two this close? Nobody knew that from then on that they would become even closer.
When the dawn came and the sun was rising Thorin and Noel stood on the balcony and looked at the people who had gathered at the gate. They were humans who had seen the dragon go down and they knew that the dwarves had returned soon things would begin to prosper again.