Chapter Ten

Author's Note- Sorry for the wait, I hope you are going to enjoy this Chapter.

"About time I found you Diggery!" Lyra said with a large smile and a laugh of relief at the sight of the dirty Hufflepuff.

It was a great surprise to run into him on the way to the mountain, the witch had thought she would have to begin her search for Cedric after she assisted the Dwarfs with the Dragon issue ( assuming she survived), but seeing him here was a great surprise and it gave her a sense of hope. That she would be able to go home, it seemed that Fate was right she did come across Cedric on the way to Erebor.

While it made her happy at the idea of returning home, it also made her sad because it would be that the quest was nearing a closure and she didn't even know if she would be able to find a way back once she left.

"Miss Evans, just who is boy," Thorin voice demanded (it seemed that her earlier comments really didn't do anything to him)

"Great Observation Thorin. No one was able to tell that Cedric was a boy. Quite the genius you're becoming." Lyra said sarcastically.

Cedric stared at the possible fight that was close to breaking out between Lyra and this midget man called Thorin. He was more wondering why Lyra was with them in the first place, from how she was acting it seemed that she had recently snapped at them. But this Thorin doesn't seem to know when he's fighting a losing battle. At Hogwarts everyone (even the students from the visiting schools) knew not to mess with Lyra Potter after she had exploded.

"Miss Evans, Thorin! Enough of your pointless biggering. In case you have forgotten the Misty mountains are home to goblins. Which will be upon us once the sun sets so let us get a move on before we are overrun with goblins." Gandalf shouted at the two resulting in Lyra giving a huff in reluctance as she surrendered the fight and Thorin gave Gandalf a glare, clearly still pissed at what Lyra told him earlier.

But shortly after Gandalf yelling at them a howl echoed through the mountains. Everyone hearing the howl began to look around.

"Right out of the frying pan," Thorin trailed

"And into the fire. Run! RUN!" Gandalf shouted resulting in them running.

"Lyra what the bloody hell is that!" Cedric yelled just as several wargs leaped out of the woods and nearly took a bite out of him before nearly eating Bilbo, but the Hobbit was quick on his feet and was able to duck behind a rock.

"You mean to tell the whole time you have been on this mountain you never ran into Wargs! You lucky bastard." Lyra shouted at the older teen as the giant wolves chased them to a cliff that had a few trees on it.

"That's why I'm asking"

They had managed to take down a few of the wargs but they were quickly overrun by their sheer numbers, Lyra had the sneaking feeling that something big and bag was coming. What or who it was she had no one thing she was for sure, she had no intention of facing it. As they approached the edge of the cliff.

"Into the trees! Climb you fools" Gandalf shouted at the company which resulted in them climbing the few three that seemed to have grown a good bit away from the others trees of the mountain's forest, as odd as it was they all took advantage of it so they could escape the jaws of the wargs, and the blades of the orcs.

Lyra didn't know why but it seemed to her that these Orcs were more determined to kill them than the ones she faced near Rivendell, a more important goal. She really wasn't liking this.

The witch's eyes sharpen as the wargs seem to back off as a much large warg, a white one came out of the trees, which on top of this warg was a white Orc. A much tougher looking one at that, heavily scarred and armed. He was the leader of the Orcs that were after them, that much she could tell.

"Azog!?" Thorin said from his branch on the tree in what could only be called total shock at the appearance of the white orc.

The name sounded rather familiar to Lyra but she really couldn't place where she heard it before, she had heard so many stories from the dwarfs. He was an old enemy, that much she was sure of. Maybe they thought he died in battle or something.

Hearing some sort of comments in the orcs language from Azog she felt a chill go down her spine. This guy was bad news. she could help but find herself holding on tightly to the tree she was in and was glad that she was on the three closest to the cliff.

She really couldn't explain why she was feeling so scared, she faced Orcs before but it was something about this one that scared her, she wasn't sure how but she felt a strong darkness on him almost like Voldemort but much more fouler and darker.

Before she's realized it the three closest to the edge of the clift was the only one standing and there was a fire barrier formed by the fallen trees and what looked like pinecones.

"Lyra just what is that white creature." Cedric asked shakily motioning to Azog.

"Azog, an old enemy of Thorin's. Shortly after losing their home to Smaug, a giant greedy dragon, they went to their ancestors homeland in search for a new home but if had been in the orcs grasp for some time. There was a war, a lot of their kin died, and Azog was the Orcs leader and killed Thorin grandfather the former king of the Dwarfs and drove his father mad or something like that." Lyra said stopping several times to try to remember Balin's story about the Dwarfs' war for their home land.

"So Thorin hates this guy because he killed his grandfather."

"Yeah, I think Thorin fought him back then and thought he killed him or something."

"So he's trying to finish what he started?" Cedric questioned while pointing to Thorin who looked ready to murder the Orc.

"That Bloody-" Lyra began to shout just as the roots in the tree began to give way resulting a very forceful motion and her nearly falling out of the tree which with her luck that she was dangling over the cliff and her arm was grabbed by Cedric as he hands began to lose their grip on the branch she had been on.

"Hang on I got you Lyra" Cedric yelled just as the Thorin ran to charge at the white orc.

"Thank you Cedric, I really owe you one." Lyra nearly cried, this day was just one mishap after another, hearing the yells of the others she knew that Thorin had began his battle with Azog.

She didn't need to see Thorin's fight to know that he was pretty much getting a beat down. from her spot on the tree she could faintly see that she wasn't the only one hanging on the edge of death. She could faintly see Dori and Ori hanging for dear life.

Soon the other dwarves began to leave the tree and fight the orcs and their wargs. Thankfully she was distracted by the fact she was hanging. Another jerk from the tree's root giving way and Cedric was the one hanging on the tree by his free hand.

Hearing a semi familiar screech she saw giant eagles flinging their attackers about and off the cliff. Both the witch and wizard were feeling panic, not really knowing if the eagles would head for them and the company next. But seeing the birds pick up some of the company and dumping on the backs of other eagles.

"Looks like they are here to help us" Lyra said watching the dwarfs ride away on them as she decided to do the stupidest thing she would ever do and let go of Cedric's hand who soon followed.

It was only moments of free falling (and screaming) when she saw the familiar black pegasus swooping under her as Cedric was caught by one of the eagles.

"You damned horse please don't run off like that!" Lyra shouted at her stead as she wrapped her arms around her Pegasus's neck.

Ruby gave what the witch was going to consider a Pegasus 's way of agreeing with what she said.

She found herself passing the eagle that had Thorin and saw that he was knocked out as well as injured pretty bad, pulling the bag to her lap she began to dig through it to find the smaller pouch that had her potions were in.

She may not like the bastard but the dwarfs needed him, plus she couldn't just let someone die. She had the possible means to help so help she would.

After finding the pouch she began to look for any potions that would help his wounds, blood cleaner potion, a blood replenishing, and a pain reliever. They would be needed after Oin had patched him up.

Looking up at she saw the eagles were descending towards a large rock, she would needed to explain to the Company Healer what the potions would do.

Author's Note- Sorry for the late update. I hope you enjoyed this chapter.

The Final Results for Lyra's Pairing in the Lord of the Rings.

Glorifindel-25

Legolas-23

Soon Beron and Mirkwood is coming up,I would like to know if you people have any request on Lyra's dealings with them.