When the cave floor opened up under them, everyone woke up immediately. Everyone fell down a slide like tunnel and Harry shifted back to human form, while falling. The company fell a long ways, though it felt like it didn't take a long time. Uh-oh, isn't this where the goblin town and goblin king is? When the company of dwarves, one hobbit and one wizard came to a stop, it was to a wooden path. Harry slowly got up and looked around; there were goblins everywhere!
Just as everyone was getting up, the group was swarmed by goblins and herded toward what Harry presumed was the middle of their encampment. Harry, meanwhile, was busy looking for the exit and planning an escape. Once they were urged to a stop by the goblins, they were in front of what was suppose to be the goblin king and his throne. The goblin king was giant and a couple of feet taller than Harry was and very ugly.
Harry quietly whispered to the dwarves around him to be ready to flee, fight and to follow him to the exit. As the goblin king asked the group why they were here, Harry crouched onto his knees and cast a big shielding charm around the group, excluding any goblins. The minute after he did that, the goblins tried to get through to grab the dwarves's weapons, but they made surprised sounds when they couldn't even touch the dwarves. Kili and Fili chuckled at them in impish glee. Making sure that the dwarves were ready, Harry shot out a big blasting spell in a circle around the dwarves. The spell knocked the goblins that were around the company a couple of feet back and unconscious. It was one of the biggest blasting spells that Harry had done in his life.
"Now!" he shouted out, "follow me." Harry promptly released the shield spell, because it would have stayed in place.
All of the dwarves immediately pulled their weapons and started to fight their way toward Harry, who cast a point-me spell toward the exit. As they were running through the goblin invested paths, Harry cast a large light spell to light the way.
Finally, Harry led the dwarves out into the open sky and the sun, hoping that the goblins would not follow because they disliked the sun. The group ran a mile once outside the goblin cavern, putting as much distance between them as possible. After a couple of minutes, Harry slowed down and indicated to all of dwarves to take a breather. As soon as every dwarf slowed down, Harry did a quick head count.
"Where are Fili and Kili?" Thorin shouted, alarmed.
Harry quickly looked around, but he could see no sign of the two dwarves. All of the dwarves were growing anxious and Thorin looked like he would have charged right back into the goblin cavern just to go rescue his nephews. "I'll go find them. I can do it quickly enough. Thorin, stay here!"
"Gandalf will be here soon enough and I'll be back!" Harry added, he had sensed Gandalf's magic on their way out. Harry started to run back the way the way they came and shifted to his wolf form mid run, as he was faster on four legs and apparating into the goblin cave seemed like a bad idea. Also, Fili and Kili would recognize him in this form. Letting loose a loud howl, he picked up speed and galloped into the goblin lair.
If Harry had looked back, he would have seen Thorin and Dwalin look startled. They all knew that wolf! It seemed that there was more to this wizard than they had seen.
Once Harry entered the goblin lair, he quickly cast a notice-me-not spell on himself, as he didn't want any disruptions between him and Kili and Fili. Maybe I should retrieve our packs? Walking over to a corner in one of the smaller caves, he pictured the dwarven packs in his mind and whispered a summoning spell. He shifted back into his human form and pulled out his bag(which was similar to Hermione's when they had gone searching for the horcruxes) and grabbed each pack as they came to him and stuffed them in his he was finished with that, he put it on his back, then shifted back to his wolf form.
As he ran further in, he heard yelling and shouting. Figuring that those yells would be the dwarves, he ran toward the noise. It seemed to be coming from the "throne room" that they had escaped from. Slowing down as he drew nearer, Harry took in the layout of the goblins.
He saw Kili and Fili tied up near the throne with a group of goblins chattering to their king about how they had caught the Thorin's nephews. The two dwarves looked worse for wear, bruised and bloody and dazed. They looked like they had been knocked out earlier and were just coming awake, though not at all silently. Crawling in and around the flood of goblins, still not noticed by them, Harry slowly inched his way toward the dwarves that had very quickly wormed their way into his heart.
Lifting the notice-me-not spell once he was in front of Fili and Kili, he started to growl and cast another shield spell in front of him. "That's our wolf!" exclaimed Kili, "We didn't think we would ever see you again!" The two looked very glad to see Harry again(not that they knew it was Harry).
Harry used his magic to untie the two and then kneeled next to the two of them, like he had that day near Ered Luin. His growl turned into a howl as the goblins tried to come close to them.
"You want us to climb onto your back, again?" Fili asked, "But we aren't as small as we were, though?"
Harry chanced turning his head around to nod in reply and then returned his gaze toward the goblins who were still creeping towards them. Still growling at the goblins, he cast a feather-light spell on both of the dwarves without looking. He felt one of the dwarves climb onto his back and then the other climb on and then Harry slowly got up.
"Ready? Hold on!" Harry spoke to Fili and Kili. A couple of seconds passed without either of them getting a grip on his fur, so he glanced back at them. They looked stunned...
"Harry? That's you?" Kili and Fili said in unison. I forgot, my mind voice sounds like my usual voice. I guess the wolf's out of the bag!
"Yep, it's me. You two want to grab ahold of my fur, so that we can get out of here? I don't want your uncle getting more and more nervous out there." Once Harry felt them both grab some of his fur, he threw a stunning spell at all of the goblins ahead of them. Harry had created a stunning spell that effected many people at the same time a couple of years ago that Harry had to release and hadn't had a chance to use it until now.
It worked spectacularly; every goblin within ten feet was now stunned and Harry wasn't planning on releasing the spell until the three of them got out of the cave safely. Though Harry did put a notice-me-not spell on the two dwarves and himself, just in case. Harry trotted through the pile of stunned goblins and retraced the company's path toward the exit.
"Are either of you injured?" he asked, while trotting out. When he had looked them over first, he hadn't seen any injuries, but he hadn't looked too closely.
"No, at least, I don't think so. Kili, are you injured?" Fili asked.
"Uh, the goblin that knocked me out hit me quite well on the ribs." Kili replied in a shaky voice.
"I can tend to that once we get back to the company." Harry said.
"Those goblins should not have been able to get the drop on us." Fili said, "So you are the wolf that came and rescued us when we were children."
"Ah, yes and I was the wolf that fought with your uncle at the Battle of Moria. This seemed like a good time to reveal my secret." Harry replied, as they finally left the goblin cavern.
Once the three of them got back to Harry kneeled again, letting the two dwarves off of his back and then shifted back to his human form. "Fili, Kili!" Thorin shouted and gathered the two in a hug. While the three dwarves were hugging, Harry noticed that Gandalf had arrived and had a worried expression on his face.
Once Thorin was done hugging his nephews, he stood up and glanced at Harry appreciatively. "Thank you, yet again, for saving those dear to me."
Dwalin and Balin were gazing at Harry with new respect in their eyes.
"So you were the wolf that fought with us that day. You fought well." Dwalin said, with a pleased look on his face.
"Yes, I am. The wolf is another one of my forms that I can shift into." Harry replied and then walked over to talk with Gandalf.
"Gandalf, something the matter?" he asked.
"Have you seen Bilbo?" the other wizard asked, "Has anyone seen Bilbo?"
"I thought he had stayed here with the dwarves." Harry muttered and then looked around, confirming that there was no hobbit.
"He probably turned back. He was saying so last night." Thorin said unhappily, "I doubt we'll see the hobbit again."
"No, I didn't," Bilbo responded.
All of the dwarves and two wizards turned around at that. Bilbo looked a bit harried, but otherwise fine. He had lost the buttons on his waistcoat, though.
"Bilbo, you're back! How did you get past the goblins?" Kili exclaimed.
"I... uh..." Bilbo stuttered and brought one hand to one of his pockets. Harry saw Gandalf zero in on that one movement. "Gandalf, what is it?"
"Nothing, Harry. Though, well, it's nothing."
"Well, why does that matter? He's back!" Gandalf said.
"Of course it matters. I want to know, why did you come back?" Thorin asked, gazing at the hobbit.
"Look, I know you doubt me, I know you always have. And you're right... I often think of Bag End. I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. See, that's where I belong, that's home. That's why I came back... 'cause you don't have one, a home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can," Bilbo replied and with that the dwarves cheered, while Thorin looked on with a content look.
However, right at that moment, there were howls on the nearest cliff.
"Out of the frying pan..." Thorin murmured.
"...And into the fire." Gandalf finished, "Run!"
The company, one hobbit, and two wizards ran. However, they ran right up to the edge of a cliff, with a big long drop off of it.
"Up the trees, hurry!" Gandalf yelled and with that all of the dwarves ran up into the trees around them. Harry assisted Kili, who was walking unevenly and then Fili helped him the rest of the way up. Harry looked around for Bilbo, as he wouldn't go up into the tree until everyone else did. He made sure that all of the dwarves were in trees and located the hobbit, who was going up a tree.
With everyone up in a tree, Harry climbed up into the same tree with Kili and Fili and then watched as the wargs ran up to them and growled up into the trees.
Harry watched as Bilbo stood in front of Thorin protectively, who had fallen to Azog's mace and warg. He shot a shielding spell onto the hobbit and then watched as Kili and Fili joined the fight and with that, Harry shot off the tree and shifted into his wolf form. He charged right at a warg that was about attack Bilbo and grabbed its neck in his mouth and snapped it.
"Gandalf, what's your plan?"
Oh, I hear eagles! Excellent plan! Harry took a minute to shift back to human form and glance at the sky. Ah, here they are! The eagles had arrived and started to pick up the wargs and drop them off the cliff. As soon as the eagles started to do this, the wargs ran off and retreated. Harry walked over to where Bilbo was still standing guard over Thorin's unconscious body. He could see the hobbit quivering, though. Probably exhausted, I know everyone else is. The eagles were starting to pick up dwarves, now. Harry waved down an eagle, who flew over.
"Be careful with this one," Harry pointed at Thorin, "he's injured." The eagle flew over and gently scooped up Thorin in its talons and then flew off. Harry saw Azog glaring at him from afar. Yeah, yeah, you wanted revenge. Well, you can get it over my dead body! Smirking at the great white orc and warg, Harry then ran over toward Kili and Fili and shifted into another one of his forms, a great giant eagle.
"Fili, Kili, get on!" Harry said to them. He walked a bit closer to the two dwarves, giving a small kree to get them to move. Fili and Kili glanced at Harry, having to raise their heads in order to do so.
"Whoa, you can also shift into a great eagle? How are we suppose to get on?" Kili asked.
"Well, if you're okay with me using magic, I can levitate you onto my back." Harry replied.
"Okay." Fili said.
Casting a levitation spell on the both of them, Harry guided the two up and onto his back. "This will not be like being on my back when I'm a wolf, though. I'll cast a sticking charm on you two, okay? I don't want you to fall off, though feel free to grab ahold of my feathers. I don't mind." Casting the aforementioned spell, Harry took off. He slowly circled the battle zone, wanting to make sure all the dwarves had been picked up eagles already.
"Harry, look down there! It's uncles' oakenshield. Can you get it?" Fili asked.
"I'll see what I can do," Harry glanced where Fili pointed. Harry cast a summoning spell and reeled it in, grabbing it with his talons. "I've got it."
"Let's join the others."
