The Archdemon crashes hard into Ravenhill in the north, crashing hard through the ice and into the water. The dragon was still alive but could no longer use its wings anymore, unable to fly now it must revert to seek out help. The Darkspawn will get contact from the Archdemon, getting new orders. The orders are to come to the Archdemon, protect it while it recovers from the attack Duncan just did to it.
Inside the city of Dale, both Bard and Mhairi was teaming up with twenty men behind them, charging through the streets and crashing through the Darkspawn in the north side, trying to escape the city by going through the northern bridge. The Darkspawn were waiting for them and they clash hard against them, trying to push through so they could go after the Archdemon.
Leliana was running over to them while staying by Nathaniel's side, she soon stops when seeing some Darkspawn running towards her on her left. She and Nathaniel let loose arrows towards them, taking them out quickly before they could go after the Archdemon.
"You the dragon fell right?" Nathaniel asks Leliana while looking forward and moving down the street with an arrow on his bow
"I saw it." Leliana follows him from behind. She will look back to watch their backs, looking back to Nathaniel to ask something "What happen to Riordan?"
"I think I saw him in the town square, he will try to hold off against the Darkspawn while we try to take care of the dragon."
"I just hope the ones who went to Erebor are alright."
Speaking of the ones in Erebor, the four of us were struggling to escape after what the Archdemon just did and after what Duncan did. We could not mourn from the death of Duncan, knowing that he failed to kill the dragon; we are on our own to fight the Darkspawn. We were still inside Erebor but closer to the exit, fighting off against a handful of Darkspawn that shows they are all scattered across this wide hallway, all charging towards us to stop us from escaping. They were trying to swarm over us, stopping us from going anywhere.
We were in a line while fighting against the Darkspawn, luckily for us the ones outside do not know what is happening and are not coming back to Erebor. We kept fighting against them, not showing our weakness against them but we cannot do this all day long, we need to stop or else we will get tired of fighting so many waves of Darkspawn.
I stabbed through a Darkspawn in front of me then I kicked it back against the one behind it, sending the two collapsing on the ground while I look around. I stop and notice that there is a doorway on the right side of the hallway, seeing that this could be a shot of getting out of the wide area.
"Alistair!" I called to him when turning my head towards him, seeing him stabbing a Darkspawn in the chest then uses his shield to push it back out. "There's a doorway over there!" I said when he looks towards me. I aim my sword towards the doorway, showing him where it is.
Alistair looks back at me then towards Thorin and Kili "This way!" He looks forward and quickly clashes against another Darkspawn, hitting his shield but he ran his sword through the chest of it then kicks it back to the floor.
We all made a run for it towards the doorway, striking down Darkspawn that got too close to us but we kept moving. We ran in a diagonal way as we watch the Darkspawn and watch the door, keeping our guards up when we rush inside that room. I stayed back and allowed them to run through, I defend Kili as he was second to last to go through the door. I notice some Darkspawn with bows were ready to fire, trying to kill us but I block them with my sword before I go running through the doorway.
"Where does this lead to?" Alistair asks when running through the hallway
"I don't know." Thorin said as he was behind him "We'll find out."
Back in the north side of the city of Dale, the team of Bard and Mhairi took care of the Darkspawn on the bridge; they quickly make a run towards the dragon, taking nine men with them and hope that it is enough. Leliana and Nathaniel would notice them leaving, seeing that they are going after the dragon.
"We should go after them." Leliana said when running past Nathaniel as he keeps running but slower
Nathaniel kept moving but when he looks to his left, seeing an ogre lifting up a piece of a building. He pushes Leliana forward to send her collapsing on the floor, causing Nathaniel to stop when looking towards the ogre, taking the hit from that attack. Leliana would look back and saw It on time, seeing the piece of a building, smashing through Nathaniel and crushing him on all of that weight.
"Nathaniel!" She calls to him when getting up, running to the wreckage, getting a slightly look through and seeing Nathaniel lying there with his eyes opened, killed on impact.
Leliana looks back to the ogre as it starts moving towards her with several Darkspawn behind it, since she cannot defeat them all alone, she is force to make a run for it. She leaves Nathaniel there then goes after Bard and the others, knowing that the Darkspawn will either go after her or go somewhere else to fight against the Easterlings and Gondor. Leliana would look back to see if they are still following her, which they were, chasing after her down this small narrow bridge. She looks straight ahead to ignore them for now, seeing Bard and Mhairi made it to the long stairway, clashing against some of the Darkspawn there while the men who are with them stays behind them.
The team kept moving through while the men at the back would notice they have company, seeing Leliana coming over and bringing the Darkspawn to them. Four of the Gondorian soldiers were wielding spears and shields forward, once Leliana was close, the four throw their spears over her head, hitting the ogre in the chest, seeing three of the spears made through. Leliana turns back with her bow ready, armed with two arrows then fired, hitting the face of the ogre and finally sending it falling back, crushing all the grunts behind it.
Leliana sighs relieved "Thank the maker…." She looks back to the Gondorian soldiers "And thank you, men of Gondor."
"Come on!" Bard calls to them, getting them to look back to him as he stood there with his bloodied sword in the air, signalling them to follow "Let's go!" He then looks forward and joins Mhairi on fighting several more Darkspawn up ahead.
"Were right behind you!" Leliana calls back to him, drawing another arrow and watching their back as they press on through the pathway that leads to the top of Ravenhill.
Bard continues moving forward while he keeps striking down one Darkspawn after another, taking more kills than what Mhairi has done, seeing that his vengeance is still flowing through his body, and knowing that he wants to be the one to end this. After he took down the Darkspawn in front of him, he was the first to go running up the stairs quickly, having Mhairi the others to follow. Leliana would be the last as she continues watching their back, seeing some Darkspawn are climbing up here and getting her to start shooting them dead.
The Archdemon has suffered deeply after what Duncan did to it as it rises out of the icy water and goes moving to the north, moving on the main land while the Darkspawn are unable to get to it. The crash causes a serious problem due to the water shattering the ice and causing the icy waterfall to come alive, making the water splash out and break what is left of the ice, sending the water straight down to the bottom. The Darkspawn will be stuck on the ruin buildings, they will watch as their dragon gets on mainland, moving away so it could recover.
Bard and his team made it to the ruins and caught the Darkspawn by surprise, striking down the Darkspawn before they could defend themselves. Bard and the rest of the team scatter over the ruins, striking down the Darkspawn. Bard would keep pressing through and striking down all Darkspawn in his way, soon to stop when he got the sight of the Archdemon in the distance.
"There you are…." Bard said then looks towards Leliana "Come on, let's go!"
"Give the rest of them a minute." Leliana said when drawing an arrow, ready to fire
"That's a minute we do not have." Bard looks forward "It's right there…."
"I know that you want the Archdemon gone." She moves closer to him while checking her surroundings "But we are only humans after all."
"If we don't take out that dragon…"
"I know." She looks out over the water and towards the other ruins, avoiding an arrow that came flying past her. She took aim and fired, taking out one of the Darkspawn archers.
"Come on." Mhairi appeared on higher ground above them, looking out at the Darkspawn and blocking their arrows with her shield. She took two arrows to the shield before she lowers it, looking down at them then looks towards the Archdemon "We got to move up the hill."
Leliana sighs when looking up the hill "Oh I knew I would regret doing this."
Bard looks back out to the men in the ruins "We move up the hill, we move to kill the dragon!"
Bard and everyone made their move over the hill where they will reach at the top, looking out and seeing the Archdemon standing there, letting off a roar and flame upon the sky, asking for help. Bard will make his way down the hill, sliding down there and so will everyone else behind him, reaching to the bottom and getting the dragons attention. The Archdemon will turn towards them when they made it there; it lets off a roar before it ready itself to fight them.
The Archdemon attacks first by letting loose fire towards them, Bard and the others moved out of the way but those who just came down from the hill did not have time to avoid it, the flames killed only four men. Mhairi was still up there and slides down last, making it down there and running towards the dragon while the others move around it to attack it. The dragon will turn around to use its tail to swing it around, knocking down only two men while Bard got close to stab his sword through the leg. Leliana will just move to the side while continue firing while Mhairi backs up Bard, striking the same leg he hit then backs away when the dragon starts moving. The dragon will jump back and starts letting off some fireballs at them, firing four of them and taking out only two soldiers almost Leliana but she moved out of the way, jumping back but collapses on the ground. Mhairi will block the other fireball with her shield, pushing her back but she goes running towards the dragon.
"Keep it up!" Bard said when running to the right side of the dragon, seeing it looking towards him and lets loose another fireball, only to miss when he rolled out of the way. "Keep going!"
One of the soldiers was close enough to swing his sword through the left claw of the dragon, piercing through and causing the dragon to yell in pain. Mhairi will deliver a fatal blow as well, stabbing her sword through the left belly of the dragon, Leliana will also help by firing an arrow towards the face of the dragon, hitting through the top mouth. Bard will stay back and watch the dragons head, seeing it soon lowering its head down thanks to Leliana. He quickly make a run towards it while holding his sword with two hands, he will use one of the soldiers who was crouching down as a lift, spring boarding right up in the air and slicing through the bottom neck, sending the blood spilling down. Bard got out of the way before the blood spills; he will look back and watches as the dragon soon lowers its head right onto the ground, seeing it is close for him to deliver the final blow.
"This ends now." Mhairi said when pulling her sword out of the dragon then runs towards the head of it
"NO!" Bard calls to her, causing her to stop when he aims his hand towards her "This dragon is mine…" He looks back to the dragon then moves his sword in front of his face "This… Is for my family."
Bard charges over to the dragon before it starts lifting its head up, getting him to strike again at the neck to send it back down then raise his sword up in the air with two hands to it, striking down through the head of the Archdemon. The moment he delivered the final blow, a bright light appears when he stabbed the dragon, the bright light that consumed Bard and cause everyone else to look away, unable to see.
The bright light fired into the sky and through the clouds, triggering the Darkspawn to hold position and everyone look up at the sky, towards Ravenhill. The dragon's spirit would do as predicted, go inside Bard as the new host but the host could not survive the power of the Archdemon, this will surely kill Bard. Bard always wanted to go down like this, ending the war against the Darkspawn and there he will leave it all up to us now while he could finally return to his beloved wife and his children, seeing their faces once again before he closes his eyes and falls to the ground.
I got the look of the bright light when we escaped Erebor, making our way back outside through the secret passageway, giving the Darkspawn the slip. We stood on the edge of the cliff when looking towards the light, seeing the Darkspawn begun to flee, leaving the city of Dale and going straight inside he city of Erebor. We were relieved that the dragon was no more; all that is left now is to take back Erebor.