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"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Blackspeech"

Kori had her hood up and was easily walking on the mountain trail. The wind had picked up once they entered the mountain pass. And now the sound of rumbling thunder rolled around the air. She really did not like the feel of the earth beneath her feet, it was silent.

"Keep moving!" The command floated down from the front of their procession.

They all continued along the winding path till the sound of thunder and rumbling grew louder. Till they came around a corner and a form moved above them in the dark. "Oh my." Dori exclaimed as he got a good look at the form. "The rumors are true, Giants, Stone Giants."

Kori watched as large giants made of stone battled each other. She checked with her earth sensing to see what she could see, but just as before, she saw nothing through her feet. "I can't sense them, they are made of earth."

"Well that's a shame." Fili said as he walked ahead of her. They all froze as the ground and wall beside them shifted. "Kori?"

"Don't have to earth-bend to know we are on a giant." Kori said as she urged him forward. They all stumbled as the giant moved more. "Hang on!" Kori shouted as she tried bending the stone, but this was not pure stone, it was a living thing, and she had never bent something like this before. Kori held onto the stone giant as others did the same. Kori watched as a boulder crashed into the head of the giant they were on, knocking it's head off and sending it crashing back towards the cliff. Kori locked her feet onto the ground before letting go of the giant and focusing on the cliff coming at them.

Thorin watched as part of their company fell towards the side of the cliff. "NO!" He cried out as they crashed into the stone. "Fili! Kili!" He called out as he made his way towards the rubble that had been created from the collision.

"Uncle!" Thorin let out a breath of relief as Kili climbed down from the small pile of rubble. "We're fine, but Kori got knocked out."

"I'll get her." Dwalin said as he pulled the young dwarf down. "The rest of you get over here!" He shouted as everyone else that was on the giant climbed over the rubble. Dwalin climbed over and easily found the young lady laying on the ground with her eyes closed. He tossed her over his shoulder, surprised by how light she felt, and made his way back to the rest of the company.

"Is that everyone?" Thorin called out to the company. He could see everyone was still among them, even their hobbit. "Then let's move. There's a cavern up ahead we can rest at till dawn." The company began moving towards the cave Nori had scouted out earlier.

Once inside the cave, they scouted around the inside of it, making sure there was nothing living in it. Dwalin laid the Avatar down on a piece of flat ground before allowing Oin to check her over for injuries. "What knocked her out?" Dwalin asked looking over at the two princes.

"A rock fell down on top of her head." Fili said as he dropped his hand on top of his own. "We honestly thought we were goners. But Kori just pushed towards the cliff, it bent and softened our landing. Bits of rock still fell, but they were really just pebbles. The largest hit Kori."

"And it doesn't look like it did much other than send her off to dream land." Oin said as he turned the girl over onto her side to rest her head on her arm. "She's lucky."

"We all were." Fili said as he sat back against the cave wall, ready for a good rest before they continued on in the morning.

Kori woke to a pounding in her head. 'Wha- oh right, I got knocked out by a rock.' Kori sighed as she stretched out her senses. She frowned as she felt nothing beyond the two inches of stone beneath her. Then she felt a soft shaking and sand sliding against the stone. 'Not good.' Kori pushed herself up as the floor dropped beneath her as Thorin shouted to the rest of the company.

Kori tried to catch herself on the stone as she fell, but there weren't any good hand holds. She finally crashed to a stop on a wooden floor. She grumbled as a few dwarves landed on top of her. "And here I thought rocks were heavy."

"Try picking up a troll." someone grumbled from above Kori as she tried to get out from under the pile of moving bodies. They all froze as the sound of scrapping and screeching was heard. "Lass, stay behind us."

Kori let out a surprised yelp as something tugged on her foot. "Like I have a choice-" Another tug pulled her off of the wood and onto stone once more. And now she was surrounded by ugly, deformed creatures. Kori was pulled to her feet and pushed down a path along with the rest of the dwarves.

They all came to a stop on a large platform in front of a throne. A larger creature sat atop a wooden throne as his minions cheered and screeched around him.

Kori stared at the creature, she had never seen anything like it, not even in the spirit world. She continued to stare as the large creature looked at her and the company. "And who are these trespassers? Thieves? Assassins?" He asked as he waved a large staff at them.

"Dwarves, your malevolence." A small creature spoke to the large King. "And a woman."

"Dwarves and a woman?" The Goblin King eyed the group and could easily find the human woman among all of the dwarves. "Well search them. Every nook and cranny."

Kori smiled as they didn't find any weapons on her. Then a larger goblin grabbed her arm and pulled her away from the dwarves. "Get your hands off me!" She kicked the goblin in the knee, knocking it over and off the platform. Then two more grabbed her and forced her to her knees.

"You're a feisty one." Kori sent a glare at the goblin king. "Must say, don't see many women as brave as you. Most beg for mercy at the sight of us." He chuckled as he looked over the female. "Do dwarves enjoy exotic over beauty?" He chuckled more as the dwarves began yelling at him. "Because I don't see the appeal. Small breast and hips. Although the clothes cover up quite a bit."

"No wonder all the women beg for mercy." Kori gave the goblin a smirk. "Death would be more entertaining than you." She held her tongue as a hand struck her cheek, not letting them hear her scream.

The Goblin King laughed, the woman was certainly entertaining. He turned his attention back to the dwarves. "So, what are you doing in my mountain?" He looked around as all of the dwarves kept quiet. "You won't talk? Fine, then we'll make you squawk. Bring the mangler! Bring the bone crusher! We'll start with the youngest!" The goblin king pointed towards one of the dwarves with a short beard. "Then we'll try something with the girl-"

"Wait!" Thorin stepped forward, glaring at the massive goblin.

"If it isn't Thorin, son of Thrain, son of Thror, King Under The Mountain." The Goblin King began. "But wait, I forgot, you don't have a mountain. So I guess that makes you...no one." He laughed along with the rest of the goblins around him. "I know someone who would pay a pretty price for your head...just the head, nothing attached. I believe you know him quite well. A certain pale orc, astride a white warg."

Thorin stared at the goblin. "Azog died of his wounds long ago."

"You think his defiling days are over?" The King laughed as he made his way over to a messenger. "Send a message to the pale orc. Tell him we have his prize." He sent the messenger off before returning to his quarry. A screech from another goblin drew his attention to a glowing, elvish blade. The king jumped onto his throne in fear. "It's the Goblin Cleaver, the blade that has cut off a thousand heads. Kill them all!" He bellowed towards the guards. "Cut off their heads!"

A bright light stopped everything and everyone. Then a strong push knocked the two torture contraptions off of the platform along with most of the goblins. Kori looked at the light and smiled as she saw the tall figure of Gandalf. "Arm yourselves! FIGHT!" The wizard called to the company as he began attacking goblins.

Kori got up and sent gusts of air at the goblins around her, knocking them off of the platform. She uncapped her water pouch and made herself two blades of ice. She had learned early on that knowing how to fight as a non-bender was always useful. And making her way to the company was easy, the goblins weren't that strong.

"MOVE!" Gandalf called out as he led them down wooden paths through the goblin town.

Kori was right at the back of the group. But she didn't mind, it gave her a clear shot at the goblins. She was forced to melt her blades and use her water as she normally did. Slicing through skin and knocking against heads. "I don't like goblins." Kori said as she ducked under a swing as she followed behind the company.

"No one does." Nori said as he ran beside the Avatar. Cutting down goblins as he kept up with his brothers and the rest of the company. But their path was cut off when the floor dropped beneath them and they tumbled onto a lower walkway.

Kori picked Nori and Bofur up as Gloin picked himself up. They all kept moving as goblins followed after them. "It's about to get hot in here." Kori called out as she placed a hand on the rock wall beside her. Goblins screamed at her as she dragged her hand across the rock, melting it into lava. "Have fun, uglies." Kori pulled lava out of the rift she had created and threw it across the path as more lava poured out of the wall. She turned and ran after the dwarves, easily catching up with them.

"What did you do?" Nori asked as he watched flames come up behind them. He hadn't seen flames come from the avatar, and she could have just sent fire at the goblins while he wasn't looking.

"Lava-bending." Kori said as she pulled out a wall of stone to block the goblin's path. "Should slow them down."

"Lava!? You mean you made molten rock?!" Gloin called out from the front of their little group. He got a nod from the Avatar before she turned and pushed her hands at the stone behind them. The stone turned bright red and bubbled. "Thank Mahal you are with us." He breathed out as they picked up their pace, goblins were climbing down from the rocks above them.

Kori chuckled a bit as they ran. She noticed their path came to a cross road ahead, one that the rest of their company was running past. When the path took a turn to follow the cliff face, Kori ran straight and jumped the gap to the next walkway. She landed on a goblin and stood before a group of goblins. "Hello there." She spoke before placing her hands flat in front of her and pushing down, dropping the ground the goblins where standing on. She lunged forward, creating a new bridge for them to cross over.

"Go!" Kori saw Gandalf running up behind her. She ran ahead and stopped at a turn in the path. She turned to the wall and jabbed her hands into the rock. "We don't have time-" Gandalf began to speak, but stopped. The girl had pulled a large boulder out of the wall and sent it rolling down the path before them, knocking goblins out of their path.

"Come on!" Kori shouted as she followed the large rolling stone. It lodged itself into a doorway, so they took the other path.

But the large form of the Goblin King stopped them. "You think you can enter my mountain and then just leave?" The King sneered at the woman and wizard as the dwarves came up behind them. "What are you going to do now, wizard?" Gandalf lunged at the king, jabbing his staff into his eye and slicing his gut open. The king fell to his knees with a stunned look. "That'll do it." With that said the wizard slit his throat and his corpse fell onto the wooden bridge they were standing on.

Kori tried to brace herself, but there was nothing stable around them. They slid down the cliff and were slowed when the wooden structure was wedged between two large rocks. "Can we not do that again?" Kori asked as she rolled off the wood and onto the stone floor.

"At least it can't get any worse." One of the dwarves spoke. But it did get worse, the corpse of the goblin king then fell on top of them.

"You have got to be joking!" Dwalin yelled as he tried to free himself from the now heavier rubble that trapped him.

Kori helped to pull others out as quickly as she could. "Gandalf!" Kori looked up as Kili shouted. A large hoard of goblins was running down the cliff towards them.

"Only daylight will save us now." Gandalf shouted as he ushered the dwarves towards the exit. He made sure they were all running before he himself began to run.

Kori was once again bringing up the rear of the company. She didn't mind, it meant she could just throw things behind her as she ran. As daylight exploded around her she felt her muscles relax, they were safe, for now. They finally stopped running downhill from the cave in a small clearing. Kori collapsed onto the ground as she caught her breath.

"I didn't know lava was an element." Gloin sat down beside Kori.

"It's not, but it falls under a bendable element." Kori stated as she caught her breath. "It falls between fire and earth, but since it is molten rock, it's part of earth-bending. There aren't many earth-benders that can lava bend though. Just like metal-bending or lightning-bending, rare, but possible."

"Where is our hobbit?" Gandalf called out to the company. "Who was watching him?"

Nori meekly lifted his hand. "I saw him. Back when the goblins first rounded us up. He just crouched down and they all just moved by him."

"So he is still in there?" Kori eyed the mountain behind them. She really did not want to go back in there, but Bilbo was still somewhere in there.

"I'm sure he got out." Balin stated firmly. "He's probably on his way to us now."

"No." Thorin spoke as he looked away from the mountain. "He's not coming back. He saw his chance to leave, and he took it. He is probably long gone by now."

Everyone was silent. "No, he isn't." Bilbo said from his spot standing atop a rock. Everyone greeted him happily, except for Thorin and Gandalf who looked at him suspiciously, he had appeared out of nowhere.

"How did you get past the Goblins?" Bofur asked curiously. Wanting to hear how their burglar made it past the hoard of goblins.

Gandalf had a twinkle in his eye as he caught sight of Bilbo reaching into his pocket. "What does it matter? He's back."

"It matters." Thorin spoke as he made his way through the company to stand before the hobbit. "Why did you com back?"

Bilbo took a deep breath and looked at his feet before looking back at the company leader. "Look, I know you doubt me. I doubt me. And you're right. I miss my home. I miss my books and my garden. That's where I belong. That's home. But you don't have a home. It was taken from you. So I am going to help you get it back."

Kori smiled at the sweet scene that was taking place. She shivered as a cold blew through her. 'Raava?'

'Yes, darkness is coming.' The ancient spirit spoke as Kori looked around the sunny clearing towards the sun that was setting. A howl drew everyone's attention. 'Run Kori.' Kori followed the rest of the company, not having heard Gandalf, but following Raava's warning.

Kori easily pulled herself into a tree and helped a few of the other dwarves climb higher up as the howling grew louder. Soon there were wolf like creatures barking at them and trying to get into the tree. "Well you're nasty." Kori scrunched her face up as the creatures tried to jump at them.

"Those are wargs lass. Nasty beasties." Bofur said as he spit on one of the wargs.

The tree began to grown and creak as it tilted to the side. "Not good." Kori whispered to herself as she tried to stabilize the tree with the earth beneath it, but it wasn't doing much. "Jump." She told the others as they neared another tree, but their tree knocked down that tree as well. And so they traveled until they all ended up on one tree. It was much larger and sturdier than the others, but it was on the edge of a very tall cliff. "Wonderful." Kori said as she watched wargs continued to bark and jump at the tree.

Suddenly a ball of fire flew out of the tree and hit one of the wargs. The company looked up to see Gandalf lighting pinecones on fire and tossing them. Kori soon joined in by throwing balls of fire and lighting pinecones on fire for others to toss. Soon the wargs were backed away form the trees.

"I smell you all." A raspy voice drew everyone's attention from the crackling fire to a large pale creature riding atop a white warg. "You smell of fear, Thorin, son of Thrain, son of Thror. Your grandfather also stunk of it." Kori watched the pale orc and froze as his cold eyes met her's. "And you, little spirit, I shall taint you with darkness."

'Raava?' Kori could feel something cold and dark claw at her soul. 'What is this thing?'

'This is what those of this earth call an Orc.' Raava explained as she soothed the Avatar. 'And it seems Vaatu has chosen his champion.' Kori stared as a dark glowing shape appeared behind the pale Orc for a moment. 'He is still weak though. We have time to prepare before you have to face him.'

'Do I have to?' Kori looked away from the pale creature. 'I don't want to face this monster.'

"Kill them all, but Oakenshield and the woman are mine." Azog growled to his troops as they approached the burning cliff side.

Kori glared at Azog. "Not happening." She growled as she stepped out of the tree and landed on the ground. She heard the tree begin to fall behind her and slowed it's fall, stabilizing it over the edge of the cliff. 'This is why trees and fire don't mix.' She turned her attention back to the wargs and orcs that were inching closer to her. "Try to pass me." She challenged as she coaxed the fire around her.

"Azog is mine to deal with." Kori looked beside her to see Thorin walk past her. She let the dwarf do as he wished, it was one less thing to worry about.

Kori stepped back into her fighting stance as wargs growled around her. She jabbed at the first one, sending a fireball it's way. The next was met with a kick that engulfed it in fire. After that she created a pair of fire daggers that shot out of the end of her fists. She didn't notice a smile on her face as she fought, this was something her soul had missed, but also scared her. She was suppose to bring peace, not be a war machine.

"Thorin!" The cry from the fallen tree pulled Kori out of her battle mode. She noticed the dwarf king laying on the ground, a warg slowly advancing on his downed form.

Kori launched herself into the air with a blast of fire, landed on the warg and stabbed it with her daggers, drying it's lungs. She stood up from the dead warg and stared at Azog and his soldiers. "Who's next?" She increased the temperature of her flames till they burned blue.

"You think I fear you, little spirit?" Azog laughed. "You should fear me. And this time, chaos shall rule."

"Over my dead body." Kori growled as she stepped back into her fighting stance. Wargs and orcs were surrounding her and Thorin. But they didn't attack her, they were attacked by the rest of the company. Kori smiled as she jumped back into the fray of battle. Keeping an eye on Thorin so no enemy would get to him.

'Vaatu is weak.' Kori looked over at Azog. Vaatu's faint form behind him was small. 'If you can kill him now then Vaatu will be forced to return to our world. Harmonic Convergence will not occur and Order shall rule until you return.'

Kori nodded as she let her flames die and began focusing. It started with a low hum, but soon the air was crackling around her. Kori began the steps of her lightning attack. One hand up and one hand down, two fingers extended. Bring them both to her chest, then push them out, one in front and one behind. Sparks crackled along her arms and down her legs. Kori took another breath as she waited for an opening. When one appeared she stepped forward, thrusting the hand behind her forward as the other one went up. An arch of lighting shot off of her fingers, hitting Azog's white warg between the eyes. "...no..." Kori whispered in defeat.

Azog laughed as he got off of his dead mount. "A neat trick, little spirit." He chuckled as he picked up a mace. "But it seems you are nothing more than a child when it comes to fighting."

Kori stared at the large Orc that walked towards her. She faintly wondered what happened to the dwarfs around her. The screech of an eagle drew her gaze to the horizon. She looked back at Azog and Vaatu. "I am a fighter. And you will not win." With that said she turned and ran off of the cliff, leaping off with air-bending.

Kori loved the feel of free falling, but she normally had her glider with her. And she didn't have it this time. "Ah-" She called out as those thoughts came to her mind. But her landing on a feather covered surface stopped her. Kori looked around and noticed she was indeed on the back of a giant eagle. "Okay, this works." She laid back with a sigh. "Looks like I can't get away from this fight." She looked down at her hand and clenched it in a fist. "I won't miss next time."

Yay! Bending is awesome! Although I totally don't know what type of bending I would have. They are just all so awesome!

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