Goblin Town
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Veemon grumbled to himself as he and the Dwarves were being pushed along a path by dozens of Goblins. "Why can't we just kill these freaks and get out of here?" he whispered before growling at one Goblin who thought it smart to push him along.
"There are too many, we won't make it out of here alive if we fight them," Dwalin answered quietly. "Where did the Hobbit and your friend go?" he asked making Veemon look around to realise Daisuke and Bilbo weren't with the group.
"I don't know. They were right behind us when we went down the tunnel. Maybe they ended up in another part of this place?" he suggested hopefully.
"Hope so lad, and let's hope they don't run into any Goblins." Dwalin muttered. The company continued as they were lead to a makeshift throne and they saw a rather large, fat, multiple chinned and one ugly Goblin with a crown on his ugly head. The Goblins began pounding a beat and the Goblin opened his mouth to sing.
"Clap, snap, the black crack
Grip, grab, pinch, and nab
Batter and beat
Make 'em stammer and squeak!
Pound pound, far underground
Down, down, down in Goblin Town
The company and Veemon all frowned in disgust as the Goblins followed their king in song.
With a swish and smack
And a whip and a crack
Everybody talks when they're on my rack
Pound pound, far underground
Down, down, down to Goblin Town
Hammer and tongs, get out your knockers and gongs
You won't last long on the end of my prongs
Clash, crash, crush and smish
Bang, break, shiver and shake
Veemon winced as without warning the Goblin King stabbed one of his subjects with his sceptre and tossed him away before beginning the next verse.
You can yammer and yelp
But there ain't no help
Pound pound, far underground
Down, down, down in Goblin Town."
The Goblin King spun around his arms outstretched making the company duck when his sceptre went over them as the Goblins cheered on their King before he tapped his sceptre and made his way back onto his throne. "What did you think? Catchy isn't it, I wrote the lyrics myself."
"That's not a song. That's an abomination!" Balin shouted and the Goblin King smirked as the Goblins removed all the weapons from the company and dropped them in front of the king.
"You'll find plenty of abominations down here in my realm, now tell me who you are, and why you come so heavily armed into my kingdom? Spies, thieves, assassins?"
"Dwarves, Your Malevolence. We found them on the front porch." One Goblin answered.
"Well don't just stand there, search them, every crack and crevice!" The Goblin King ordered, the Goblins began searching the company with one of them grabbing Oin's hearing trumpet and they stomped on it. "What're you all doing here in these parts?" The Goblin King asked but the company remained silent. "Very well, if you talk, we'll make them squawk. Bring up the mangler, bring up the bone breaker. Start with the youngest." He said pointing to Ori as the Goblins roared in approval.
"Wait!" Veemon shouted pushing his way out of the company and he stood in front of the Goblin King who looked down at the blue dragon.
"Well, well, you're not what I was expecting to be travelling with Dwarves. What're you supposed to be? A dragon? Some sort of orc from Moria?" he asked.
"The name's Veemon. But you can just call me Veemon. And anyway, we were just passing through the mountains to visit the kin of these Dwarves in the Iron Hills." Veemon explained and the Dwarves nodded muttering agreements.
"Silence!" the Goblin King shouted at them before glaring at Veemon. "Am I to believe that these Dwarves were going to the Iron Hills through my kingdom instead of taking a safer path?"
"Well this was the quickest way," Veemon answered. "Besides we didn't even know about this place until your guys brought us here. So, if anything bad happens, it's on your head."
"Are you threatening me!?" the Goblin King demanded standing up as several Goblins grabbed Veemon forcing him to his knees. "You will be the first to die you pest."
"Wait!" Thorin shouted and everyone looked at him as he walked out of the Dwarves and the Goblin King chuckled.
"Well, well, well, look who it is. Thorin, Son of Thrain, Son of Thror, King Under the Mountain." He said bowing mockingly to Thorin as some Goblins snickered. "Oh, but I'm forgetting. You don't have a mountain. And you're not a king, which makes you a nobody, really."
"He's more of a king then you'll ever be you ugly son of a bitch!" Veemon shouted before he was struck by one Goblin's whip and he growled as the Goblin King ignored him and smirked at Thorin.
"I know someone who would pay a pretty price for your head. Just the head, nothing attached. Perhaps you know of whom I speak, an old enemy of yours. A certain pale Orc, astride a white Warg." He said and Thorin looked at him with a scowl.
"Azog the Defiler was destroyed. He was slain in battle long ago."
"So you think his defiling days are done, do you?" The Goblin King asked before turning to a Goblin that was nearby. "Send word to the Pale Orc, I have found his prize." He told the Goblin who nodded writing down the message before running off.
Meanwhile Daisuke and Bilbo were carefully sneaking through the mountain making sure to avoid all Goblins if they saw any. "We're almost at the exit I think." Bilbo whispered looking at Daisuke who was leaning against a wall holding her shoulder. "Do you want to stop?" he asked.
"I'll be fine," she answered stumbling a bit before Bilbo caught her and he looked at the bite wound from Gollum.
"Let's get that thing taken care of first before we move on ok?" he asked and Daisuke reluctantly nodded and sat down and Bilbo rummaged around in his pockets before he pulled out some bandages and a small jar of healing ointment he was given by Oin. "This might sting," he told her and he applied the ointment to the wound and Daisuke hissed in pain.
"It's fine, hurry up so we can find the others and avoid Gollum." She whispered and he nodded before wrapping some bandages around her arm and shoulder.
"I'm no expert, but I think that might work until we get back to the others." Bilbo said.
"Why do you want to go back now? I thought you wanted to go home to Bag End." Daisuke said and he sighed.
"At first yes, I miss Bag End and the Shire, I miss my books, my garden and my armchair. But, maybe it was something you said to me before we ended up down here. But I've changed my mind about leaving." Daisuke smiled and nodded.
"Glad to hear it Bilbo. Now come on let's go," she stood up and moved her arm around a bit and smiled when she didn't feel any pain. "Let's move quietly." As they continued sneaking around they heard a noise from behind them and gulped.
"Do you think?" Bilbo whispered before Daisuke pushed him behind a rock to hide as she drew her sword, as she did so she slipped her hand into her pocket and accidently slipped on the ring causing her to vanish from sight but Bilbo didn't see that bit so he thought she had just hidden somewhere else.
Daisuke however was still standing where she had been when she put the ring on and was looking around surprised and what had happened, everything appeared to be normal, only damp, distorted, dark and gloomy. "What is going on?" she thought.
She looked at the golden ring on her finger before hearing footsteps and she moved to the side and saw Gollum skulking nearby. "Filthy girlses, she steals the precious froms us. But we'll find her, and when we do we'll kill her and take the precious from her." he hissed and Daisuke glared at Gollum as he walked past without looking at her before he crawled into another narrow gap between the rocks.
Once Gollum was out of sight and after Bilbo waited to make sure he didn't come back, he walked out from behind his hiding place and looked around for Daisuke. "Daisuke, where are you?" he asked as Daisuke stood behind him and removed the ring and pocketed it.
"I'm here. That was too close," she said and Bilbo turned around.
"Where did you come from?" he asked.
"Does it matter, come on we need to get going." Bilbo nodded and both ran off as they heard someone singing.
"Bones will be shattered and necks will be wrung.
You'll be beaten and battered and then you'll be hung
From racks you'll be hung, you will die down here
And never be found. Down in the deep of Goblin Town." Both looked down and saw the Goblin King singing and they also saw the others all being pushed around by the Goblins until one picked up Orcrist and pulled it out of the scabbard and shrieked tossing it to the ground making the Goblin King stop singing and back onto his throne in fear. "I know that sword! It is the Goblin-Cleaver! the Biter! The blade that sliced a thousand necks! Slash them! Beat them! Kill them!" he bellowed as the Goblins began hitting the Dwarves and Veemon with their fists and whips, the Dwarves and Veemon began fighting back as Thorin was pinned down by several Goblins. "Cut off his head!" the Goblin King shouted before there was a flash of light and everyone was blown off their feet as the torches went out briefly.
"What the heck was that?" Daisuke whispered as she and Bilbo saw a figure approaching the platform.
"Gandalf," Bilbo said relieved.
"Take up arms. Fight. Fight!" the wizard shouted to the Dwarves who regained their composure and began grabbing their weapons. Gandalf knocked a Goblin aside with his staff before stabbing Glamdring through another.
"He wields the Foehammer! The Beater! Bright as Daylight!" the Goblin King shouted in terror. Bombur used his stomach and hit one Goblin sending it flying off the platform before Gandalf sliced another Goblin in the throat and knocked his head off with his staff and the rest of the Goblin slumped down.
"Vee-Headbutt!" Veemon shouted jumping into the air as the Goblin King charged and he rammed his head into the fat Goblin knocking him into his throne and both it and the Goblin fell off the platform.
"Follow me, quick! Run!" Gandalf shouted and the group ran off with the Goblins chasing them.
"That's our cue, come on," Daisuke said drawing her sword and Bilbo drew Sting and both ran off after the others. Daisuke cut through several Goblins when they attacked her with Bilbo also stabbing a few with Sting. "Bilbo help me with this!" she shouted grabbing a post and the Hobbit nodded and both charged some Goblins knocking them aside clearing the way for them.
They continued running until they made it to a fork in the path. "Which way?" Bilbo asked before he and Daisuke looked behind to several Goblins chasing them.
"This way!" Daisuke shouted running down the right path with Bilbo following before he cut a rope that was connected to the walkway they ran over and it collapsed taking several Goblins with it. Both jumped down to a lower level and saw Thorin cutting his way through Goblins behind them almost as if he was dancing since the movements were so graceful.
"Where the hell have you been!?" Veemon shouted as he ran over to them holding one of the Dwarves hammers before he slammed it into a Goblin that charged him crushing its head.
"Never mind that, let's get out of here!" Daisuke shouted running off with the others following her. "You sure took your time getting here Gandalf!" she told the Wizard as she cut through two Goblins before kicking another one off the pathway.
"A Wizard arrives only when he is meant to Daisuke," he replied hitting a Goblin with his staff knocking it off the path.
"Does that include when we're about to be killed by Goblins?" Veemon asked knocking another Goblin off the path as they ran.
"We can discuss this later, preferably when we're not being running for our lives," Bilbo said stabbing another Goblin as Bombur used his weight and smashed through two walkways crushing a few goblins along the way.
"For once we agree burglar," Thorin said as he cut another Goblin's head off, Kili blocked a few arrows from some archers and grabbed a ladder and used it to block a few more arrows before he and Bofur used the ladder to trap a few Goblins by their necks and push them out of the way.
"Mind telling us where you two have been?" Fili asked Bilbo and Daisuke as they ran.
"Now is not the time!" Daisuke shouted punching a Goblin before stabbing it, she then grabbed another goblin and threw it off the platform. "Veemon battering ram!" she shouted and her partner nodded and tossed the hammer to her before he charged a group of goblins and ran through them sending them flying.
Gandalf used his magic and knocked a large boulder loose and Dwalin and Gloin pushed it downhill and it crushed several goblins who tried to run away before it rolled off the edge. They ran across a bridge only for the Goblin King to burst up through it blocked their way.
"What your backs!" Nori shouted as goblins gathered behind them.
"You thought you could escape me?" the Goblin King asked swinging his sceptre at Daisuke and Gandalf who backed up into the others before Ori and Oin pushed them onto their feet. "What're you going to do now?" he asked before Gandalf poked him in the eye with his staff making the goblin yelp in pain before Daisuke slashed him in the stomach and he fell to his knees. "Oh…that'll do it," Daisuke nodded and she sliced the Goblin King's neck and he fell forward and the bridge gave way and it fell with the company holding on before it came to a stop with everyone buried in the debris.
"Let's not do that again," Daisuke groaned getting to her feet and she helped Gandalf up.
"Well that could have been worse," Bofur said cheerfully before the Goblin King's body landed on top of the others and they all cried out in disbelief and discomfort.
"You've got to be joking," Dwalin growled trying to free himself as Kili looked up to see thousands of Goblins heading towards them from above.
"Gandalf!" he shouted making the wizard look up.
"There's too many, we can't fight them," Daisuke said as she helped the others out of the debris.
"Only one thing will save us. Daylight, quickly on your feet." Gandalf shouted and everyone followed him. Soon they found an exit and ran out of the mountain and down a hill as the sun was still in the sky thankfully forcing the goblins to screech when it burned their skin and forced them back into the mountain. "Five, six, seven, eight, Bifur and Bofur makes ten, Fili and Kili, that's twelve. And Bombur, Daisuke, Veemon and Bilbo. Thank the Valar, we're all here." Gandalf said relived once they had stopped running at the bottom of the hill.
"One of us should not be," Thorin said looking at Bilbo making Daisuke, Veemon and Gandalf glare at him. "Why did you come back, I heard what you said earlier. You wanted to go home, you said you should have never left the Shire, yet here you are." He said to the Hobbit.
"Oh, for goodness sake, not this crap again," Daisuke said making Thorin glare at her. "He's here, isn't that good enough?"
"Not when he's thought of nothing but his soft bed and warm hearth since we began our journey. I want to know why he is back." Thorin said, Bilbo sighed and looked at Daisuke who smiled and nodded.
"Look I know you've doubted me, ever since we left. And you're right I often do think of Bag End. I miss my books, and my armchair and my garden. That's where I belong, that's home. But that's why I came back. Because…you don't have a home." He said looking at the company. "It was taken from you. And I will help you get it back if I can."
"And as for me, I've dealt with a lot of evil people, I know what it is like, to feel like all is lost and that nothing will work. But I never gave up, I know you guys won't give up either. So, I'm staying, and I'm going to help you guys take Erebor back from Smaug or whatever evil inhabits the mountain if he's gone." Daisuke said making the Dwarves look at both with somewhat new-found respect.
"Same here." Veemon said standing beside Daisuke.
"Good to hear. But on another note how did you two get past all the Goblins without being caught until you managed to reach us?" Fili asked and Gandalf saw Daisuke's hand in her pocket and he looked her in the eyes carefully.
"Just lucky I guess. We did fall down another tunnel, so maybe that is why." Daisuke answered avoiding the Wizards gaze. She then heard something and looked at Gandalf. "I thought you said those things wouldn't follow us into the daylight?" she asked before suddenly Gollum jumped off a rock behind her and tackled Daisuke to the ground much to the shock of everyone.
"Thief! Give us back our precious!" he screamed hitting Daisuke with his fists before Veemon tackled him off his partner and Bilbo swung Sting again cutting into Gollum this time on his back and he screeched before quickly making another retreat.
"What was that!?" Balin asked in shock as he helped Daisuke to her feet.
"We ran into that thing in the mountain when we came out of the other tunnel. He's been chasing us ever since," Bilbo answered.
"But why would that blasted creature be chasing you?" Dwalin asked before seeing the bandages on her arm. "Did that thing hurt you?" he asked as the rest of the group noticed the bandages as well.
"It's fine, Bilbo used some bandages and some ointment Oin had given him earlier. It's not that bad now," Daisuke answered but the Dwarves, Veemon and Gandalf were not convinced.
"Oin check on her now," Thorin ordered the medic of the group, but before he could they all heard the howls of Wargs. "Out of the frying pan."
"And into the fire. Run!" Gandalf shouted.
The end of the chapter
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