- Take up arms.
"Ugh. What?"
When the light explosion disappears, my whole body feels numb. I can see that I am lying on the ground with the beheaded Goblin underneath me and Fili on top of me. I shake my head trying to clear it while I start to feel my body again. I almost wish that I could continue not to feel it, at least until it stops to hurt.
I look towards the Goblin throne and when I see who have spoken, I feel that I have a smile on my face. That smile quickly turns to a weird grimace as the wound on my arm makes itself reminded.
I look down on my arm and sighs as I see that it is a really nasty wound with a lot of blood around it.
- Nasty Goblins.
I growl as I lay my hand onto it. And with some help with my powers, I heal the wound temporally. Because of that the claw shaped finger that made the cut, I guess that it was filled with infections that made it almost impossible for my powers to heal the wound fully. I'm gonna need Oin's medical skills to heal this wound.
- Fight! Fight!
"Huh? Oh, right."
With the help of Fili, I stand up and when the Goblins come charging at us, we grab our weapons and meet them with screams of anger.
I twist my knife to a sword and thrust it through the stomach of one of the charging Goblins. He stares at me and I can see his life disappears through his eyes.
I feel horrible to kill something even if it means that I protect myself from it. I have to look away from it and squeeze my eyes shut hoping that my tears will not fall.
Looking towards the throne I see Gandalf tap his staff on one Goblin and the head falls off. I laugh as I drag out my sword from one of the many Goblins I have killed for a short time. I guess that I stopped thinking of the killing part after I killed 5 Goblins. I kill with both my sword or knife as I twist and turn it to make it to a knife or sword for the situation. I also use my powers to help the others when they need it.
By snatching my hand that is not holding the knife and doing some sort of hand gesture, and then point the hand towards the Goblin I choose to hurt, I can get them to fall of the platform, and by using my mind I can get some of them to attack each other, or make them to think that they can't breathe or that they are on fire. It is really exhausting to use it so much and also that I have to use the sword in the same time is not helping the exhausting either.
- He wields the Foe-Hammer, the Feather, bright as daylight.
"Thanks for the information of Glamdring!"
- Thorin!
I scream as I throw him his sword, which he uses to hit the Great Goblin of the platform.
- Follow me! Quick! Run!
"We're already running Gandalf!"
Shaking my head, I run after him and the rest of the company along the pathways in Goblin-Town.
But these damn Goblins can climb on the mountain and they are everywhere! They are underneath, over, on the sides and right in front of us.
As we fight, we split up in smaller groups, I guess we did it without thinking. That is something that happens a lot in this group. For now, I'm running with Kili, Thorin, Oin, Bofur, Dwalin, Balin, Nori and Gandalf.
- Post!
Comes from Dwalin.
He, Nori and Bofur cut the ropes to one of the posts and use it to push away some Goblins in our way. And then we of again.
Kili is running beside me and while he is fighting Goblins with one hand, he is holding my hand with the other.
I may have stumbled a few times earlier and I guess he don't want me to fall of the pathway. I know of experience that I can't do anything to get him to let go of my hand, so I just let him guide me on the pathway while I focus on not to fall or get cut by any Goblin.
Suddenly, he stops, and I don't get the chance to stop before I run into him.
Looking past him, I quickly hide behind him again as arrows comes flying around us. Kili deflects some arrows as we start to back.
- Use the ladder Kili!
I say and points at the ladder that is hanging on the left of us.
He nods, and we take it down. With some help from the other Dwarves, we charge towards the Goblins. I can barely hold the ladder for they are running so fast that I have to focus more on the running part then holding the ladder.
- Come on!
Kili screams as the ladder falls down to become like a bridge over a missing part of path. We all run over with me the last one. Dwalin reach out his hand and drags me over the last bit before he kicks the ladder to fall down into the dark.
Thorin grabs my arm and push me forwards. Only that, he grabbed my wounded arm and his hand gets covered in blood. He gives me a questioned look.
~ It just a cut from one of the Goblins. Oin can help me when we have gotten out of here. You better start to run again uncle if we should succeed with that part.
Thorin nods before he starts to run again, grabbing my hand in the process. I roll my eyes and smiles as I follow him along the path.
Gandalf use his staff to get a rock to fall down in front of us, and as we push it, it squashes the Goblins in the way.
After that we have been running, jumping, ducking and killing Goblins, we run onto a bridge.
- You thought you could escape me?
We all pause as the Great Goblin jumps up from under the bridge.
I look around only to realize that we are surrounded of thousands of Goblins on both sides of us. They are even underneath and over us.
"We're not getting out of here alive."
I think with a sigh as I clutch the wound as it has begun to hurt as much as the wound in the ribs did. Actually, this one hurts even more. And I don't think I can count on any help from my father now.
- What are you going to do now, Wizard?
The Great Goblin swings his mace, forcing Gandalf backwards onto us. He stumbles but gets help from some of the Dwarves to stand up again. With the help of that push, Gandalf leaps forwards and strikes his staff in the eye of the Great Goblin.
- Ow! Ow! Ow!
The Great Goblin screams as he falls to his knees, clutching his face in pain.
Gandalf takes the opportunity to leap forward again and this time he uses his sword to cut the Great Goblin in his stomach.
- That'll do it.
The Great Goblin says as he holds his hand over his stomach.
One more strike with the sword, this time to the neck, and the Great Goblin falls forwards dead.
However. His weight makes the bridge we are standing on to shake and make weird noises. Suddenly it breaks, and we slide down into the darkness of Misty Mountain.
And we are not sliding slow, no, no. We are sliding down really fast. I guess that we should be lucky that the bridge didn't demolished with us on it as it did to everything in its path all the way down. When it does stop, I am very lucky that I am already lying down for I would have been crushed by the whole thing if I would have been standing up.
- Well, that could have been worse.
Bofur says.
Of course, just after he said that. The now dead Great Goblin comes smashing on top of the bridge.
The air I had in my lungs disappears and I think for a second that I will not be able to get out of this thing with him on top of it.
- You've got to be joking!
I laugh when I hear Dwalin as I start to crawl out from the demolished bridge. Just as I start to crawl, I almost cut myself with my knife that is some millimeters away from my eyes.
"I am very happy that I was smart enough for not holding it closer to me. And also, that I haven't pierced anyone else with it. Or that it got stuck in anything for that part."
- Gandalf!
Screams Kili, just as I manage to get out of the bridge.
I look at him and sees that he is staring in terror and shock upwards. With a confused expression I look up and quickly realize why he had that face.
Thousands and thousands of Goblins comes running down on the mountain side towards us.
- There's too many! We can't fight them!
Dwalin says as he helps Ori up.
- Only one thing can save us: daylight! Come on! Here, on your feet!
Gandalf says as he helps Oin up from the demolished bridge.
I help those I can before we all run after Gandalf again.
As we run out of the mountain and into the light, I don't think I have been this happy to see the sun again.
We run down for a time and as we stop, I walk over to Oin.
- Do you think you can help me with this Oin?
I say as I take of my light brown jacket, so he can see the wound.
Oin give it a quick glance and start to unpack some stuff he will need. Then he mentions for me to sit down and to take of the jacket completely.
As he works on the wound, I use my knife to bend up his hearing trumpet, so he can hear anything again. It not the easiest to do when one of your hands need to be still but I manage to get it open without moving too much.
- Where's Bilbo?
"Huh? What now?"
- Where's our Hobbit? Where's our Hobbit!
- Curse the Halfling! Now his lost?
- Dwalin! Can you stop be mean for once?! Ouch, Oin!
I look at Oin, but I quickly look away for the anger I got from Oin.
~ Be still. It won't heal if you're not still.
~ If you say so.
- I think I saw him slip away, when they first collared us.
I say, earning a glance of disbelief from Gandalf.
- What happened exactly? Tell me!
- I'll tell you what happened! Master Baggins saw his chance and he took it! He's thought of nothing but his soft bed and his warm hearth since first he stepped out of his door! We will not see our Hobbit again. He is long gone.
While Thorin says that. I get the feeling that there is a present amongst us that we can't see. I can't even see it with my magic.
"I think I know who it is."
- No, he isn't.
I can't help but to smile when I see Bilbo standing beside the trees behind Dwalin.
The relief I get from Gandalf and the others is so funny and I have to pinch myself not to laugh. By this time Oin have finished working on the wound and I have returned his hearing trumpet. I am now standing beside Bofur who was closes to where me and Oin was.
Then I get the feeling from Thorin that takes away the happiness for a brief second. The same feeling my mother felt every time she saw father. The feeling of love. Now I am sure of it. Uncle have feelings for Bilbo. And not brotherly love. No, this is the feeling you get when you are in love with someone.
Believe it or not, I can feel that the same feeling is coming from Bilbo when he sees Thorin. Oh, I got to get them to understand that they are in love with each other. But how?
- Bilbo Baggins! I've never been so glad to see anyone in my life!
- How on Earth did you get past the Goblins?
Fili asks.
- How indeed.
There is an awkward silence for some time. Bilbo laugh nervously and lays his hand in his pocket. His mind is arguing over if he should tell us about it or not.
"Tell us about what?"
But he is smart enough not to say what he is thinking to show.
"I have trained you well Bilbo Baggins. Maybe too well?"
- Well, what does it matter? He's back!
- It matters! I want to know. Why did you come back?
Thorin asks.
Bilbo look at him and I can hear how something klicks inside his head, as he realizes he has feelings for Thorin. I have to force myself not to smile wider.
- Look, I know you doubt me, I know you always have. And it's not because that Ratcha helped me with that, I understood that myself. But you're right, I often think of Bag End. I miss my books. And my armchair. And my garden. See, that's where I belong. That's home. And that's why I came back, because you don't have one. A home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can.
The smile I had before comes back when he says that. After some time, when the words have sunken in, everyone starts to cheer, but it quickly goes silent as the sound of a howling Warg reach us.
- Out of the frying pan...
- … and into the fire. Run! RUN!
And off we go again.