Arbiter, Bilbo, and the dwarves went ahead, "Be on your guard, we're about to step over the edge of the wild. You know this path, Balin, lead us," Thorin made a reminder to everyone.
"Aye," Balin confirmed.
Arbiter along with the dwarves went ahead without looking back except for Bilbo.
"Master Baggins, I suggest you keep up," Thorin said to the hobbit.
The Elite, the hobbit, and the dwarves traveled miles along the mountains into the High Pass. When they reached the mountain pass, it was thunderstorm.
"Hold on!" Thorin ordered.
"Don't look down!" Arbiter added.
Bilbo slipped and nearly fell. Arbiter and Bofur grabbed him preventing the hobbit from falling off.
"We must find shelter!" Thorin shouted.
"LOOK OUT!" Dwalin shouted as a boulder was flying towards the mountain the alien, the hobbit, and the dwarves were. The projectile landed right above the group causing a rock slide. Everybody leaned against the wall avoiding the rocks.
"This is no thunderstorm! It's a thunder battle!" Balin shouted.
"The mountain is coming to life!" Arbiter shouted.
"Bless me! The legends are true! Giants! Stone giants!" Bofur shouted as a giant hurled a boulder at another giant.
"Take cover you fools!" Thorin shouted.
"HOLD ON!" Dwalin shouted.
"Now we're caught in a cross fire!" Arbiter shouted.
Arbiter, Bilbo, and the dwarves found themselves on the knees of another stone giant. Arbiter, Bilbo, Dwalin, Bofur, Bombur, Fili, and Ori were separated from the others. The giant that the group was in was rammed by another giant. Once the giant was knocked to the one side of the mountain; "Go! Go! Go!" Thorin ordered as he, Kili, Oin, Gloin, Bifur, Dori, Nori, and Balin hurried to get off from the giant. The giant that the alien, the hobbit, and the other dwarves were in dodged a punch from another giant. It then uppercut its opponent but was struck in the head by a boulder hurled by the third giant. As the headless body was falling, the leg parts were tumbling towards to the mountain wall.
"NOOOOOOO!" Thorin shouted as Arbiter, Bilbo, Bofur, Bombur, Fili, and Ori were presumed dead. The dead body began falling away from the wall. "No! Fili!" Thorin shouted.
Thorin and his group were relieved finding Arbiter, Bofur, Bombur, Fili, and Ori. "They're alright! They're alive!" Gloin shouted.
"Where's Bilbo? Where's the hobbit?" Bofur asked as the hobbit was not with them.
"There he is," Arbiter saw Bilbo hanging onto the edge of the cliff. The alien hurried and grabbed the hobbit's wrist with both of his hands just in time. "Don't you let go!" Bilbo tried reaching out with his other hand. Thorin got down to help out and grabbed the hobbit's other hand then pushed him up as the alien and the other dwarves pulled Bilbo up.
"Grab on!" The dwarf prince nearly fell off and Dwalin grabbed his wrist with both of his hands. Dwalin and Bofur managed to pull their leader back up.
"I thought we lost our burglar," said Dwalin.
"He's been lost ever since he left home. He should never have come. He has no place amongst us," Thorin spoke bitterly about Bilbo.
"Wait a minute. He hasn't been proved his worth. How could you be that hasty," Arbiter stood up for the hobbit.
"What about you? Do you have a home? At what grounds can you say such a thing," the dwarf prince argued.
"I've been far away from home since Human-Covenant War. The Flood and the Prophets were eliminated; now the SPARTAN and I are stuck here in this underdeveloped planet," the Arbiter argued.
"Dwalin," Thorin ended the debate as they went into a cave.
"Don't mind him, you'll show him," the Elite turned to Bilbo.
"Looks safe enough," Dwalin commented on the emptiness of the cave.
"Search the back, caves in the mountain are seldom occupied," Thorin ordered.
"There's nothing here," said Dwalin after a search.
"Great then, let's get a fire started," Gloin dropped the firewood.
"No, no fires, not in this place. Get some sleep, we start at first light," Thorin ordered.
"We are to wait in the mountains until Gandalf joins us. That was the plan," Balin reminded the dwarf prince.
"Don't forget the SPARTAN," said Arbiter.
"Plan is changed. Bofur take the first watch," Thorin ordered as 12 dwarves, Bilbo, and Arbiter rested.
