This one took a bit, because I had no idea where to continue. Skip the whole Goblin city scene and continue afterwards. But I decided to put some new scene in it, because if you watch the Goblin city scene with lots of attention, you notice that you hardly ever see Fili!
I also didn't know when to stop, but I thought I try to be mean and stop at a bad point.
Lastly I want to thank you for reading, following and favoriting :3
The next minutes went by really fast. Sliding down a stony channel and then landing in some sort of cage with no way to escape as the goblins came rushing in from the front - the only open way out.
Fili looked to his brother. Kili had landed right next to him, he also looked at him. Both stood at the very edge of cage as the goblins came rushing in, pulling the dwarves apart and towards that only way out. The dwarves tried to defend themselves, but there were too many goblins, they couldn't move without fearing to hurt a friend. Also they were still shaken up from the slide down that long stony channel. Even if surprisingly no one got hurt.
The goblins slowly made their way towards Fili and Kili, the older thinking hard about what to do, of any way to get his brother out of here. But there was no way, just a very deep abyss behind them.
Well if Fili had to be honest, jumping down and dying because of blood loss due to several wounds from hitting the rock walls still sounded better than being tortured to death by goblins. Or worse if that could be possible.
But Fili couldn't make this decision for Kili and so he stood there and watched the oncoming creatures. He noticed his uncle a few feet in front of him, as he struggled through the bundle of goblins and dwarves towards his nephews. When he was about to grab both of them, he was dragged away suddenly, the goblins having reached him.
Fili instinctly reached out for his uncle, but was dragged and pushed by goblins just seconds later. The only thing he managed to do was sticking as close as possible to Kili. It went on and on until he could see some sort of big platform in the big cave where they seemed to go to.
"Kili."
Fili tried to grab his brother, but couldn't reach him. He just had…
"Kili!"
This time his brother heard him and turned his head.
Fili looked at him. "Stick as close to uncle as you can, got it?"
Kili frowned. The blond knew what the other thought. Wondering why he should stick with their uncle instead to his brother. Kili nodded either way.
Fili looked relieved toward the platform again.
He never reached the platform with the others thought. The stupid goblins gagged him and kept him behind the others. Between him, his captors and the others interposed goblins and he was cut off. Not able to speak. Not that it would have made a difference with them being captured and all.
He only got a short look at the goblin king, a big and ugly creature and that thing… his… chin perhaps, was really creepy. It moved when he did, when he spoke or even when he just moved his eyes.
Fili was forced down to knee on the floor and could only hear the others and the goblin king talking.
"… which makes you nobody, really."
"And nobody you really are. We could deal you more damage than you'd even realize."
"You better not hurt one of us.", Fili heard his uncle growl.
"Or what, king under the mountain?"
Fili didn't know if his uncle didn't answered or if he simply didn't hear anything because of the hit to his face that came so unexpected - as unexpected as possible when captured by the enemy, really - he couldn't dodge it.
It didn't know him out or to the floor, the next hit did though. The goblins put him back into the kneeing position. Fili was awaiting the next hit, but it seemed to be put on hold again. He then heard the voices from the others again.
"Why are you doing this?", one of them shouted, sounds like Dori.
"We won't be put down by you.", another said, most likely Gloin.
Dwalin just grumbled: "Wait till I get my weapons back."
The goblin king started laughing and Fili imagined that fat thing of a chin wobbling around.
"Maybe we should give you all some pain."
Fili managed to move and avoid the next hit, another following shortly to his head this time. He barely noticed the struggling going on in front of him, most likely the goblins attacking the dwarves and the latter trying to resist in any way possible without weapons.
A loud sound, a flash of light and a heavy shock wave. They were pushed to the ground. Goblins, dwarves, all the same.
"Take up arms. Fight! … FIGHT!"
Fili recognized the wizard's voice and struggled a bit trying to get up, hit and kicked the goblins around him to stay away. He'd not get captured again, managed to jump through the goblin "wall", that had him separated from the others earlier, which was still half down on the ground.
He saw his swords being thrown through the air and jumped in time to catch them. The weapons in his hands brought back a bit of fighting spirit instantly.
The way out of the cave was a marathon, maybe triathlon would fit better. Running, dodging, fighting. They jumped over goblins, down on other paths, different platforms, slashing at goblins, shoving a huge rock - Gandalf had magically detached from a wall - in front of them and running through channels and more of that.
In the end they came to stop on another platform and the goblin king appeared in front of them again. This creature was even uglier than Fili had thought at first. No, ugly didn't even describe it.
Gandalf slashed at him several times and then it cracked. The dwarves knew instantly what that noise was. The platform they stood on made itself independent and they fell. Standing or laying on the platform, trying to hold onto anything, but still falling down nonetheless.
Fili grabbed for Kili's arm and pushed him down to hold onto the platform or what was left of it, while it got smaller - splintering wood flying off, grinded off from the rock walls, because the platform just fit in between the rock walls to the left and right.
They landed with a loud crash on the ground - finally ground, because all this walking on bridges and platforms out of wood above a really deep abyss was surely nothing Fili would like to do again so soon while not being able to move properly with goblins all around him - more or less they were shaken up.
"Well, that could have been worse.", Bofur was always quite the optimistic guy, no matter the situation.
Just as he said that, the fat goblin king fell down on them, squashing them and the platform together, what was left of it to be more precise.
Dwalin with his sturdy body said:"You've gotta be joking." And if it wouldn't be for this situation, this would have made Fili laugh, because Dwalin barely ever complained about anything.
They tried to free themselves of the wood and mud around them, before Kili's voice got their attention.
"Gandalf!", he shouted and the dwarves and wizard looked up the rock walls to see the goblins coming down after them, climbing down walls like spiders.
"Only one thing can save us. Daylight! RUN!"
Fili had trouble to get up, the hits to his head finally showed effects. Thorin appeared at his side and grabbed his arm to pull him up.
They ran as fast as they could, trying to get out of the cave and as far away as possible from the goblins. With Gandalf leading it didn't take long to get out. How that wizard always knew such stuff or how he got into the middle of the goblin city without being noticed, Fili had no idea. But he knew, that having the wizard on their side was for the best.
His hurting head had stopped for the moment, maybe he was just busy with running, but was glad it stopped either way.
When they paused to catch up on breathing and Fili had a moment to relax and take a deep breath, the pain instantly came back. It overcame him so hard, that everything went black.
