I only own Heather and I have Kate's permission to use her. Sorry it took me SO BLOODY LONG TO UPDATE! I had to finish school and then do summer school and get ready to graduate early and do stuff for college. Bleh. Anyways. I'm going to skip a little bit ahead from the last chapter so we can get the story going again.

Heather's POV

Gandalf was still talking to Radagast and I was still sitting and staring at my new sword. It had engravings on the side that were elvish. It read 'Night Flame', whatever the hell that means. I looked back at the group to see them all talking to Gandalf and Radagast. I stayed where I was.

I heard rustling from the trees above me and I looked up to see a huge wolf-like monster poised to attack the group. Without thinking I knocked an arrow into my bow and took aim. The beast saw me but it was too late, I had fired and hit it spot on in the throat. Its body rolled down the hillside and landed by the group. They all jumped back with screams and looked at me oddly. I had another arrow ready and was aiming at the body. I looked back at them and shrugged.

"What?" I asked. Kate looked at me as if I was stupid.

"You couldn't tell us that there was a two ton beast behind us?!" she yelled. I shrugged again.

"You would have freaked out and it probably would have attacked immediately. I just thought I'd take it down when I had the chance instead of waiting to take aim when it was ripping someone's esophagus out!" I snapped. She threw her hands up defensively and backed up.

"Okay, okay. I'm sorry. Geez." She whispered. I looked at Gandalf to see him and Radagast arguing over something. Finally Gandalf hung his head and Radagast was on his sleigh.

"When I race out of here, you all run as fast as you can. Got it?" he said. We all shook our heads and he smiled at me. "You are braver than you think. I can tell." He whispered and then he took off. I watched as he left and then turned and sprinted off in the opposite direction.

As soon as we got out of the cover of the trees we saw orcs riding wargs. They were chasing Radagast around and he was just leaving them in the dust. We ran until we were out of breath and had to hide behind rocks. I had never run so far in my life! I swear I was about to pass out. We were hiding behind this particularly big rock when I saw Thorin elbow Kili and look up. I looked up slightly and saw a distinct shadow above our heads. Within two seconds Kili was shooting at it. He took the warg down first and before anyone could move I swung my battle axe down and finished the orc off. I had never killed something that so much resembled a human being before… I wanted to throw up, and even more than that, I wanted to go home.

Before I knew what was happening I was being dragged along by Bifur and we were running for some trees. They were scattered and didn't provide enough shelter but we ran for them anyway. There was a large rock in the middle of the clearing and I saw Gandalf head for it. We were fighting off orcs so it was a little hard for us to devise a plan, especially with Thorin over on the side shouting like a woman in labor. I was about to send an arrow his way just to shut him up.

I noticed Gandalf was gone and I turned to see some of the others had noticed too. Some of them were shouting that he had abandoned us while others were looking around frantically. I saw a certain gray-headed man pop up out of the ground by the large rock and shout for us all to run to him.

The men and Kate all ran toward him while Kili and I stayed back shooting arrows at the orcs. When everyone was inside Thorin called to Kili and I. We turned and ran as fast as we could toward him. Kili made it safely and I was almost there. Suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my leg and I dropped to the ground screaming. I turned to see a warg rider right behind me. Kili had shot up from the hole and was making his way toward me but the warg reached me first and latched onto my arm. I screamed as I felt his teeth tearing into my flesh. I couldn't tell but I knew that I was crying.

The warg began shaking his head trying to detach my arm from my body. I heard the orc laughing and not only did that terrify me but I was beginning to get extremely pissed off at the amount of luck I was having on this trip. I pulled my new sword out of its sheath and stabbed the warg in the snout. It released my arm and before it could attack again I stabbed it in the throat. As it died the orc was trying to unlatch himself from the saddle. I swung my sword up and in one quick movement I had detached his head from his body. I felt disgusted again and so homesick I could just curl up into a ball and die.

Kili had stopped to watch the scene but quickly regained himself and grabbed a hold of my good arm and dragged me to safety. Once I got there I realized I still had an arrow in my leg. New tears were streaming down my face at this point and Kate was at my side in a heartbeat. The last thing I remembered as I passed into unconsciousness is Kili and Kate's faces hanging above me.