The sun shined though the widows when she woke up, this was the first night in over a hundred years she had not had a nightmare. Accepting her past had finally given her peace. She heard noises from the other room, she got up and walked there. The dwarves were sitting around a very large table, she began to giggle they looked like children. "What are you laughing at?" Kili asked "Nothing" she responded still smiling, she sat down next to Kili "Come on tell me" "you would not think it is funny" "Yes I would" "Against this table you all looked like children" Gandalf stated to laugh as she said that, Kili shot Gandalf and angry look but that only made Gandalf laugh more. "So when will be leaving?" She asked Gandalf when he had stopped laughing "As soon as we have packed our things, we will be traveling on horseback Beorn has kindly let us borrow his ponies"
They rode until they reached an entrance into the forest. She had heard of this forest, heard of the darkness and foul creatures lured inside of it. "Is there no way around it?" Bilbo asked he must also have felt the dark presence of the forest "No this is the only way to reach Erebor in time" Gandalf said. They began to release their ponies "No stop I will be needing a pony" Gandalf said before the last pony was set free. "Are you not coming with us?" Bilbo asked "No I have urgent matters some were else" Gandalf was just about to leave when he turned around and added " Stay on the path if you lose it you won't find it again"
When Gandalf had left they cautiously entered the forest. The air was thick, she felt dark magic roaming around inside the forest. They had been fowling the path for what felt like hours when soundly one of them shouts "We have lost the path" panic grows in her, she just wanted to get out of here the forest made her feel sick. They were searching for the path but could not find it. She started to hear hissing, she told herself that the sound was not real. But the sound was growing louder she looked up and saw a huge spider, she was just about to warn the others when it stung her. She passed out.
She woke as she hit the ground, she was covered in spider webs. She heard a thud and looked to her left and saw Thorin also covered in webs. She struggled to get out of the webs, when she was finally out she saw spiders coming towards them. The dwarves fought them of as well as they could but there were too many. An arrow suddenly shoot past her and hit one of the spiders. She looked to were the arrow came from and saw an elf. The elf had long blond hair and piercing blue eyes. As soon as the spiders were driven of the arrows was aimed at them. "What are dwarves and a woman doing in these forests?" the blond elf asked. None of the dwarves answered. The blond elf smirked and said "Bind their hands we will be taking them to the king".
They were being taken to the kingdom. She presumed that they were being escorted to the dungeons. The guards suddenly stopped and grabbed Thorin out of the line, they began escorting him down the corridor when the blond elf said "Wait, bring the girl with you I believe the king would want to meet her" The guards grabbed her escorted her down the corridor. They were escorted to a large arch, two guards stood by each side of the arch. They were lead though the arch. At the end of the room was a throne made of vines and antlers, on the throne sat an elf with a crown of twigs and berries. The elf had long silver blond hair and ice blue eyes. Silver knew who this elf was, he was the elven king Thranduil, the elf who Thorin hated. She quickly looked down, she did not want to meet his icy gaze. "Thorin Oakenshield I was told you were leading a company of dwarves though my land without my permission" Thranduil said and stepped down of his throne. "why have you brought a woman on your quest?" he said. She felt the kings gaze on her "What is your name?" he asked and approached her. "My name is Silver" She said and meet his eyes. She saw a shock in his eyes when she meet his gaze "I have heard tales about you long ago, the first silver wizard on a thousand years who was to marry the king" he said and looked at her with a fascinated gaze "I shocked to see you here in front of me when it is said that you died many years ago" She felt Thorins gaze on her "Thorin since you probably don't know anything about wizards I better explain that the wizards immortality is the same as the elves" Thranduil said and slightly smirked at Thorin. Thorin gave Thranduil an angry gaze, but Thranduil paid him no attention "So Silver how did you escape the fire?" "What fire?" Thorin said and looked at her "So she has not told you what happened to the kingdom of wizards?" Thranduil said with an amused smirk "Once long ago there was a kingdom of wizards , one day the dragon Smaug came and burnt the kingdom to the ground" Thorin looked at her with shocked eyes. "You can have a place in my kingdom if you tell me about Thorins quest" Thranduil said. She remained quiet "Well then, escort her to the dungeons" Thranduil said and guards grabbed her and escorted her to the dungeon and locked her into a cell. She saw the other dwarves in the cells opposite to her. She sat down on the floor of the cell and pulled her legs close to her and buried her face in her hands. She knew that Thorin would feel betrayed because she did not tell him about Smaug. She was relieved that Thranduil did not know that Smaug was the wizard king, if he had and had told Thorin she would never be able to gain Thorin trust back.
She sat there when she heard the door to her cell open, she looked up and saw a guard push Thorin inside the cell. Throin looked at her with sad eyes, after the guard left he said "Why did you not tell me?" Before she could answer Bilbo appeared outside the cell door, he unlocked the door. "We will talk later" Thorin said and stated to help Bilbo unlock the other cells. It would take time to unlock the cells with only one key and guards could appear any second, so she decided that it was time test her magic, over the last days she had started to feel closer to her magic before Smaug had burnt the kingdom to ashes she had felt like one with her magic and back then she was powerful. She walk down to Kilis cell, she knew that if she failed that he would not laugh at her. "I'm going to try to unlock the door" She whispered to him, he gave her a smile and backed away a lite from the door. She laid her hand on the lock and focused on unlocking it. She doubted it would work and she was correct. She remembered when she was younger she never doubted her magic, she realized that she would have to believe in herself to be able to control her magic. She thought back when she as a child had accidentally made some flower grow as high as a house, then she focused on the lock with a new faith in herself. She heard the door unlocking and Kili came out of his cell "I knew you could do it" he said and smiled at her, she noticed that everyone was out of their cells "Thanks for unlocking my cell" Fili said "What I only unlocked Kilis cell" "No you opened all that was still locked" "I did?" "Yes, did you not know that?" "Nope" She said still very shocked "I guess you are more powerful than you thought" Kili laughed.
They all followed Bilbo down some stairs to a wine cellar "Are you trying to get us caught?" Thorin said angrily to Bilbo "No I have a plan, get into the barrels" Bilbo said and pointed to some barrels. They all got into the barrels "What do we do know?" She asked "Hold on tight" Bilbo said and pulled a lever and they all rolled into a river.
She screamed as she hit the cold water, she pushed her hair out of her eyes and saw that a stone bridge with elves on it in front of them. The elves yelled something to each other and pulled a lever that closed to their way out of the kingdom. Suddenly an arrow hits one of the elves and orcs appears. She saw Kili get out of his barrel and tried to get to the lever, an arrow hits his leg but he manages to get to the lever and the gate opens. She falls down a waterfall and hits the water again. She saw elves and orcs running at each side of the river. She saw an orc aiming an arrow at Thorin "NOOOOO" she shouted when the orc released the arrow she felt terror run through her body, but the arrow did not hit Thorin it stopped a few inches from him and drop into the water. She had just saved his life, she felt so relieved that the arrow did not hit him. Why did she care so much if he was hurt she wondered. She felt a shock run through her as she realized that she had started to have feelings for him.
