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"Not so high and mighty now are you?" I smirked as I kept my arrow trained on the Goblin King. I was trying to buy us some time while I thought of a plan! "You're…going to let us leave now." I tried saying it authoritatively, but it wasn't as strong as I'd hoped. I heard movement behind me, panicking momentarily, but then I was flanked by the rest of the dwarves, all now equipped with their weapons. I relaxed a little but kept watch of the King.
"Why would I do that? You'll be overcome by my sons before you find a way out of my kingdom."
"You'll do that because if you don't I'll shoot this arrow right through your eye." I warned.
He sat staring at me with such anger I thought he might burn a hole through me with his eyes. "Fine!" He shouted. "Go now." He groaned. I almost questioned it. He'd given in far too easily. But instead I felt a tug on my sleeve.
"Oh no, you're going to kindly escort us to the exit. Just so I know you won't try and trick us."
His chin shook as he let out an enraged roar and stood from his throne.
"Keep on him, Eska." Thorin told me, he sounded as untrusting of the Goblin King as I was. I walked back slowly, doing as Thorin said, never taking my eyes off of The King who took slow heavy steps after us, keeping about 10 foot behind. We made it halfway down the platform when my foot caught something, I momentarily looked down, but apparently that was enough. In that spilt second the King had ducked out of my line of fire and another small Goblin had jumped at my firing arm, crunching his teeth down into my skin. I screamed as Kili tore the monster from my arm, dropping it to the floor and stabbing it in the stomach. It shrieked and squirmed in pain.
"Ready yourselves!" Thorin shouted as the creature was still wailing. The others all raised their weapons as I stared, horrified at the large bite in my forearm. Where his teeth had sunken in, the skin was torn and ripped, deep pools of blood forming in the bite holes. I saw drips of blood land on the floor from the bite cuts on the underside of my arm. It stung too, it was so painful I wouldn't be surprised if the bites went through to the bone. A pair of hands were suddenly rubbing the undamaged part of my arm soothingly.
I looked up at Kili who was staring at my wound, his pale face. His eyes found mine and he forced a weak smile. His hands suddenly on my cheeks, as if he wanted to hold my gaze.
"You're going to be alright." He seemed to be assuring himself as well as me.
"Yeah…" I muttered, wondering why the Goblins hadn't set about killing us yet. It was then that a sudden burst of light from ahead blinded us all momentarily. A gust of wind pushed at us and I stumbled into Kili who gripped my arms, the parts that weren't bitten and gory. As I blinked I could still see the bright light behind my eyelids, but the Goblins seemed far worse affected than any of the Dwarves.
"Take up arms!" A familiar voice shouted over the fearful Goblin cries. "Fight!"
I scrambled to my feet and pulled my sword, now that my bow holding arm was pretty much useless I had to go for second best. I blinked repeatedly towards the source of the light and found the silhouette of a familiar Wizard hat and cloak. I felt a slight sense of relief rush over me, knowing that Gandalf was here brought back that flicker of hope I'd lost when the Goblins caught us.
The Goblins recovered and started jumping at us, pouncing angrily but we were quick. I followed the group as they cut, slashed and stabbed their way off the platform, I hadn't yet come across a Goblin that needed to be killed as the others were making such a fine job of it. I rushed forward, Gandalf and Oin behind me, the others in front as we rushed through the maze-like tunnels.
But all too soon the gnarled creatures were jumping down from other levels and climbing up from the rest. One jumped at me, but I slashed its belly and it fell to the ground, screeching. Then another and another, I don't know quite how I killed all of the Goblins that came to attack me but I did. I couldn't keep track of what was happening ahead with the others. But be sure it wasn't pretty as they hacked, sliced, punched, chopped at the persistent monsters.
Gandalf had somehow moved his way up the group and was now nearer the front, running just in front of Thorin. Ori too had moved further ahead but was only just in front of me, he kept checking back to make sure I was keeping up and not dead or over thrown by Goblins.
"Eska!" Ori shouted from in front. I looked up quickly and stopped for a second, looking down I realised he was warning me about the make-shift bridge one of the others had made with a ladder.
I panicked for a moment before psyching myself up and hurrying over the bridge. As I was about to step over the last rung a Goblin jumped down onto the edge of the ledge, facing me. It stared at me for a moment with its small soulless eyes, almost smiling if it were even possible for a Goblin as I stood frozen, unable to reach out and stab at it and not clever enough to turn back.
"Such a shame for such a pretty thing to die." It mocked in a scratchy voice. He let out a gross chuckle before kicking the ladder off the ledge. I noticed Ori behind the Goblin, looking back at me just seconds too late his look of fear mirroring my own as he rushed forward.
"Eska!" He yelled fearfully, disappearing from my view. Everything then slowed down, it all seemed to stop as my feet lost contact with the ladder and I started to fall. I tried my hardest to reach out for the ledge but it was just out of my grasp. My heart stopped for a moment then sped up so fast I could barely breathe. I screamed out, it was the only thing I could do in my helpless state as I continued my fall down, into the darkness, to the bottom of the mountain. I dropped my sword as I fell with the ladder, staring up at the others with fear.
My chest stung with an odd heat, my eyes blurred with tears, my arm throbbed in agony and the cuts and gashes across my hands had re-opened and were painfully whipped by the wind.
"No!" My eyes found Kili's as he stared down at me, he almost looked like he was going to jump down after me but someone pulled him away from the edge as they all carried on, the rest of them either not noticing I'd fallen or knowing there was no hope trying to save me.
'This was it. I'm going to die.'
They were my last thoughts as the lights from above faded out and I hit the ground with a painful thud.
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Kili's POV
I heard a scream and dreaded looking round, it sounded far off and my chest pulled at the sound of it. I knew it from earlier when she'd been bitten. It was Eska. Hearing the sound of someone you care about in pain is not something you forget easily.
I slashed at two more Goblins, killing them both in the single blow before spinning around, looking down the line for Eska. A cold sweat broke out and my body froze when I couldn't find her face, only seeing Ori looking down over the ledge behind. He turned back and looked at me with sorrowful eyes.
"No..." I whispered to myself. "No!" I hurried to the edge just in time to see her, her small frame falling further and further down into the darkness below as she screamed. She stopped and seemed to reach out for me as she stared back. A realisation took over her beautiful face as her dark hair whipped around it. She knew what was coming and that killed me more than anything. She disappeared from sight, dragging my pain filled heart with her. I'd failed to save her again.
I heard the clang of her blade hitting the rocky ground and then a thud. She'd hit the bottom. I felt sick just thinking about what could have happened to her on impact. I was about to jump after her, madly follow after the girl that had quickly stolen my thoughts, and occupied my mind to the point where I barely thought about anything else. I jumped to the edge but someone yanked me back.
"No!" I shouted down to her, staring at the spot she'd vanished into the darkness. "No! Eska!"
"Kili, don't be stupid!" Thorin growled angrily. I looked round at his face as he dragged me away, the others still fighting the mass of ungodly creatures.
"Eska fell! I can't leave her!" I shouted back pulling free and stabbing angrily at the Goblins. Thorin turned around to shout in my face.
"If she survived then you are no use to her dead!" He roared, hitting my shoulder before turning and killing another Goblin.
I carried on with the others, knowing he was right, taking my anger, frustration and fear out on the Goblins. She could be dying and I had no way of getting to her without endangering myself! I stabbed again, killing another. I didn't even get a chance to tell her my feelings! I reached out and slashed the bellies of 3 more. She may never know! She could be lying there dying in pain and on her own!
My anger grew with every thought and every kill. Anger at myself and these fucking Goblins!
I couldn't stop myself killing them if I tried. I'd never felt so fuelled by hatred in my life, my blood rushed as I beheaded another one, kicking it's lifeless body off the ledge and into the darkness. Occasionally firing bows when we were on a broken bridge that swung us to the other side of the cave. Firing an arrows through the neck of one Goblin and another threw another ones groin. I hate these creatures.
I caught sight of Fili who gave me a concerned look as we came to another large bridge. We started crossing when that revolting excuse of a King burst up through it, landing in front of Gandalf. We were closed in on but the Goblins stopped their attack as the King spoke. My heart was beating a mile a minute as we stopped for a short moment.
"You thought you could escape me?" He questioned, his greasy hair hanging over his milky yellow eyes as he spoke. They narrowed slightly as he searched over the group. "My, now where is that little she-dwarf of yours?"
A few of the others looked around our group at his words. I clenched the hilt of my sword tighter and gritted my teeth pressing them together to hold in my rage.
"It appears she's been lost." The bastard smirked as he spoke about her. "Such a pity I had such plans for her." He grinned wickedly and I couldn't contain myself as I rushed forward.
"Don't you dare talk about her like that!" I shouted, being pulled back by Thorin and Dwalin.
"Stop Kili!" Thorin hissed angrily.
"Oh! It would appear she'd found her prince!" He clapped his hands. "A prince who was useless in saving his poor damsel in distress." He mocked, his fat chin wobbling as the other Goblins sniggered around him. My blood boiled. Thorin pulled me back as Gandalf lowered himself to me.
"Calm yourself, Kili. She's alive." He whispered. I frowned at him while I fought against Thorin's hold. There was something in the old Wizards eyes that told me to trust him, to believe that he knew she was alive, that he wasn't just saying it to calm me.
"You know?" I tried to control my temper in my voice but I couldn't.
"I do." He nodded slightly, putting a hand on my shoulder a sort of magic followed through me and calmed my rage, slowly my heart beat and relaxing me a little.
Gandalf turned around and stepped forward to the Goblin King.
"What are you going to do, Wizard?" He asked, spitting out the last word.
Gandalf suddenly whirled his sword, jabbing the large Goblin in the eye then twisted it round and cut a large deep wound across his huge round stomach. The Goblin howled in pain before looking back up at Gandalf with dying eyes.
"Well, that'll do it." He commented, at that Gandalf raised his sword again and slashed the Kings throat. He stepped back as the giant creature fell dead onto the bridge.
Before any of the dumbstruck Goblins could react the bridge under our feet groaned and creaked, cracking at the sudden dead weight of the king.
It buckled and we all started falling with it, down into the dark depths. It scraped against the wall as we all shouted in fear. I looked to my brother, he nodded to me as if this could be it for us. We kept falling, the cave walls grew closer together near the bottom, slowing the bridge and our descent a lot before stopping it completely a few meters from the ground.
There a lot of groans and sighs as we'd landed on one another between layers of the wrecked bridge.
"Well." Bofur puffed. "That could have been worse."
With that said the Goblin Kings dead body fell from the remains of the bridge above, landing upon us with a painful thud. Earning more groans and moans as we all tried to wriggle out from the weight. I pulled myself free and looked out at my surroundings. I could guess which way Eska would have fallen in, I looked back at the others and started in the direction I should find her in.
"Kili!" Fili shouted, I turned back as he jogged to catch up.
"I'm going to find her. She fell and Gandalf said she's still alive."
"Kili she fell that far." He said sounding regretful.
"So did we and look at how we faired!" I pointed back at the others, all bruised and cut up a little. But alive at the same time.
"Kili-"
"I'm going whether you approve or not." I said finally. Looking at my brother in a way I'd never done before. We did everything together, we never questioned each other or defied the other. This was completely new. He looked back at me.
"Well." He started whacking a hand against my arm. "I can't let you go alone." He smiled and started walking in the direction I had been heading in.
"Gandalf!" Balin shouted from behind me. I looked back at the others who were all now free of the bridge, I followed their eyes up to the Goblin Town and saw an army of them madly running down the cliff side towards the rest of the company. Thorin was suddenly running at me.
"Go now, we'll keep them distracted. Keep vigilant and for Durin's sake come back alive. We'll meet you on the eastern side of the mountains." He nodded at me before turning back and running with the others as they decided trying to find a way out was safer than trying to fight there way through the Goblin horde.
I snuck back into the dark tunnel Fili had gone in and started running with him silently.
Now to find Eska and never let her leave my sights again.
Ahh! I'm so tired and I'm sorry about the lack of updates but I was so stuck on where to go with this and I really want to make the story my own so I've really spun off of it.
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