We reached the forest very soon, faster than the rest of our group. I slipped back until I reached the end of the pony and jumped down behind it. I walked around it, wrapped my arms around Kyra and lifted her off the pony. She took off the horse bridle and gave the pony an apple.

" I can see the others", I informed her.

" Congratulations", she replied. " I look forward to see Dori first. He is my favorite dwarf!"

I laughed. " I believe you, Kyra. May I say that to him next time!"

" If you really do this, I'll slap you!"

Gandalf reached us first, climbed off his horse and walked into the forest. Thorin discussed with Balin about our next steps, but we didn't recognized it, because we were not interested in their personal problems. Kyra gave our pony a last stroke on the neck, then we had to send them back to Beorn.

When Fili wanted to took off the horse bridle on Gandalfs horse, Gandalf left the forest.

" Not my horse! I need it!"

We lifted our heads and looked at him.

" You're leaving us?" asked Bilbo and followed Gandalf, who moved ahead to his horse.

" I wouldn't do it if I didn't have to" answered Gandalf. " Don't go into the mountain without me. Wait for me!"

He gave us a last gaze, then jumped on his horse and rode away.

" He left us again. That is the second time during this journey!" told Thorin pissed.

" He may have a good reason to do this" said Kyra calmly. " He would never leave us without a reason!"

" Whatever" continued Thorin. " We'll go into the forest. I'll be the first."

" Maybe the kids should walk in the middle of the group" suggested Balin. " They'll be safe there!"

" Did he said 'kids'?", I asked Kyra. She shrugged her shoulders.

" I think it is our own decision on what place we'll walk", I said loudly, ignoring Kyras gaze completely.

Thorin looked at me. " And I believe that this isn't your decision. It is my duty to keep you safe!"

" I remember that he was saying otherwise at the beginning of this journey", Kyra whispered annoyed.

" I'll keep an eye on Kyra" offered Dwalin.

" But you'll walk at the front with Thorin..." said Balin.

" That's right" continued Dwalin. " In that case, she will walk at the front too."

" And what's with Marcel?" asked Kyra.

" He can walk with me" said Ori and smiled.

" All right" whispered Kyra in my ear. " You can enjoy the trip with Ori and I have to listen to Thorin in front of me!"

" Hey", I disagreed. " This was not my decision!"

We followed our leader, when he entered the forest. Suddenly the atmosphere changed. There was something in the air that manipulated our minds. I could barely open my eyes and all I could see was fog. Fog everywhere. When the fog disappeared, I saw hallucinations. In other cases it would be really funny to discover this forest, because everything seemed so old and mystical. Completely different to the forest near Rivendell. Nothing was alive and I couldn't imagine that animals lived here. But the trip wasn't that bad, because of Ori behind me. He was always in happy mood and he told us funny stories from home. That helped me to focus on the way in front of me. I hoped that Thorin would be so clever and stay on this way. Gandalf said that, if we would leave this way, we would never came out of this forest. Kyra and I knew that this wasn't completely the truth and that everything will end completely different, but I hoped that we could change our destiny.

" Hey Kyra", I shouted. " How is the air around you?"

" Not much better than around you, my friend" was the answer. " Your royal highness?"

I started laughing. Thorin was really concerned this morning about Kyras action with the water bucket and he had a long discussion with her about her so called bad behavior. After that conversation Kyra continued teasing him with his royal status and Thorin couldn't do anything about that. Maybe he could be more friendly, but I didn't believe that he was able to act friendly longer than an hour.

" How much longer will it take?" asked Kyra.

" Stop screaming through the forest and move forward!" screamed Dori from behind.

Aha, no screaming! Of course, Dori! Control your emotions, my young student!

Kyra groaned loudly to show Dori how annoyed she was about his statement. I rolled my eyes and continued talking with Ori.

We still walked through this forest and found no exit. Every minute was more straining and exhausting and the air turned thin. I couldn't barely breathe. I stumbled against Ori, who felt down on the ground. Dwalin looked disoriented and grabbed Thorins arm to stand still, but Thorin wasn't a help either. Bombur managed to fall into a black river with magic water. After that he felt asleep for one day and at least three dwarves needed to carry him.

Our only motivation was the fresh air behind this forest and our aim: reaching the Lonely Mountain alive!

We must keep moving forward, no matter what happened next.

But it was stupid to think that dwarves were able to keep moving without falling down and observing one single way in front of us. After two days Thorin left the way without recognizing it and we all followed.

" We lost our way!" said Bilbo. " We're stuck in this damn forest!"

Now Thorin was completely angry about himself, but he turned his anger against us. Kyra and I left the company to avoid a fight with us in the middle. Bilbo had the clever idea to climb on a tree and observe the forest from above. We agreed to follow him and waited in the treetops for him to came back.

Suddenly it was completely silent around us. Bilbo was still above our heads and enjoyed the fresh air, when Kyra and I shared worried gazes. The silent meant nothing good. Instead of looking what happened, we waited in the tree. We were not scared, but we weren't interested in being catched by huge spiders. In the movie the dwarves were catched first, then followed Bilbo. If Kyra and I would be catched too we couldn't rescue Bilbo to rescue the dwarves.

Kyra grabbed my wrist and dragged me with her, while she climbed off the tree slowly. I was carefully avoiding any noise. I jumped down the last meters and hide behind a bush. Kyra joined me and slipped into the middle of the bush. Right at that moment we heard Bilbo asking after us, but we couldn't answer him, no matter how hard it was. The destiny agreed with this decision, because at that moment, I heard a crack behind us. Kyra was startled and grabbed my hand. I lifted one finger to my mouth and signalized her to be silent. She nodded and tried to calm her breathing.

One minute later a huge black spider passed our way and we crouched deeper into the bush. I followed its movements with my eyes and observed how the spider climbed up the tree. We waited some seconds, when Kyra grabbed my hand and dragged me behind her. We ran some meters and jumped behind a big root of a tree. The same spider passed our way again, but now we could see Bilbo between its legs. Kyra frowned and we shared a disgusted look.

Now came the important part. With our aim in front of us, we were able to concentrate on this task. We must find the spider web with our friends. We followed the spider in distance to its web. There we could see the dwarves; they were all asleep. Even Bilbo didn't open his eyes. In the movie he would open his eyes and rescue the dwarves, but the spider came back to him and he was still asleep.

" Come on, Bilbo" whispered Kyra nervously. " Wake up, please!"

The spider stood above him and reached for his moveless body.

" Oh, come on" said Kyra louder and stood up.

" What do you want to do?", I asked and grabbed her hand to drag her down again. She wiggled my hand off.

" I knew that something would happened" she murmured. " You' ll go and rescue the dwarves."

" And what will you do?"

" Something really stupid", she replied and sighed. " I'll play Tarzan!"

With these words, she jumped on the root and screamed: " Hey, huge spiders! Come and catch me!"

The spiders looked up and watched Kyra, who jumped off the root and ran deeper into the forest. I crouched close to the root, so they couldn't see me, when they jumped over the root too and followed Kyra. I didn't hesitate, climbed over the root and ran to Bilbo. He opened his eyes slowly when I touched his shoulders and shook them.

" What time is it?" asked Bilbo confused.

" That's not our actual problem, Bilbo", I said. " Stood up! We have to rescue the dwarves."

He blinked and his mind cleared visible. Swiftly, he stood up and walked over to the dwarves.

" Where is Kyra?"

" She is distracting the spiders", I replied. " I hope she'll found us again."

" She will!" said Bilbo and helped Thorin out of the web. I climbed on the trees, took my sword and cut them off the branches. They glided down safely and Bilbo catched them on the ground. When I finished my work, I grabbed a web and glided down on an elegant way.

" Where is Kyra?" asked Kili.

I opened my mouth for answering, when we heard a scream behind us. We turned around and saw Kyra in the trees, how she jumped from branch to branch to escape from the spiders, which were still behind her.

" Kyra!", I screamed and lifted my sword. We waited for her to came back to us with the spiders, so we could fight them, but she didn't came back. Nothing happened! It was silent around us!

" Look who we got there!", I heard a voice behind me and startled. We lifted our arms and turned around. Nobody else than Legolas himself stood in front of us with his long blonde hair and hos Robin-Hood-clothing. He lifted his bow and focussed us.

" Don't believe I wouldn't kill you dwarf" said Legolas with his soft voice. " It would be a pleasure!"

They frisked us for our arms. I gave an Elf my sword and opened my jacket so they could search for other harming things.

Thorin and Fili grumbled behind me. They were not happy with this situation. Of course, Elves and dwarves were enemies for years and Thorin hated them because of his past. When the Lonely Mountain was attacked by Smaug and they had to leave Erebor, Thranduil, Legolas father, didn't came to help them. After this day Thorin hated Elves. Only Elrond had his respect, because he helped us.

So we had two situations, that made it worse for us to be catched. Firstly, the thing that Elves found us and secondly, the thing that Legolas, Son of Thranduil, found us. Above all, Thorin couldn't do anything against it. He could only let it happen.

They tied our hands together with a long rope. Legolas moved forward and dragged Thorin with him. The Elves pushed us over a bridge without a railing. Like the bridge in Rivendell. I had the impression that Elves didn't like railings on bridges. They maybe liked the thrill and the challenge not to fall down into the water and die.

We were pushed into their….I would call it house but it was more a castle. Thorin was separated of our group. While he walked upstairs, we were pushed downstairs. We landed into the prison. One prison cell for every dwarf...and me. It looked like the situation that the director only built enough cells for every dwarf. But Kyra and Thorin were still missing. They closed my door and I sat down on the floor. Most of the dwarves, escpecially Dwalin and Fili jumped against the cell doors with their whole body strenght to open it, but it had no effect. We were stuck in this cells and could only wait for rescue. And I was the only person down here, who knew, how this help would look like.

Thorin was brought to Thranduil,the highest Elf of all high Elves in this world, and had a conversation with him.

Kyra was still lost into the forest. Hopefully she wasn't killed by the spiders. Maybe they found her, but that wouldn't be that good for us! I hoped that Bilbo found her first, so she could help him rescue us.

I still sat on the ground and drew pictures into the dirt. The dwarves were discussion again, who's fault it was that we were stuck down here. I didn't say anything about that topic.

After half an hour they stopped fighting and I played stone-threwing with Dwalin. It was really boring, but definitely better than drawing pictures.

Suddenly during the hours, we heard a noise above us and Thorin was pushed down to us. I pressed my body against the cell door to watch the situation. The Elves opened Oris cell door, dragged him out and pushed Thorin in. Ori was brought to his older brother Nori. I lauhed about the situation. Kyra and I caused the problem that the Elves had not enough cells. The number of cells was an idea of the director and these poor Elves didn't have any idea why they had not enough cells. They didn't knew that there was a person, who had the power over them all.

Right at that moment I could hear a voice, I knew for years. Then I saw another Elf with Kyra between his hands. She fought against his strenght, but she had no choice. He was too strong. They brought here down to us and took her into a cell with Thorin.

Oh, that would cause a huge discussion! But I was so happy that she was still alive and no spider food.