"Where's Bilbo? Where's our Hobbit?" Gandalf asked quickly.
"Curse the halfling." Dwalin muttered.
"Where's Bilbo?!" Gandalf asked a little more forcefully.
"Last I saw he was with Dori!" Someone said.
"Oi! Don't blame me!" Dori yelled.
"I think I saw him slip away when they first cornered us!" Nori told Gandalf.
"Tell me what happened!" Gandalf yelled to him.
"I'll tell you what happened. Master Baggins saw his chance and he took it. He is long gone." Thorin said angrily.
"No, he isn't," Bilbo said, walking out from behind a tree.
"Bilbo! We'd given you up!" Kili yelled.
"How on earth did you get past the goblins?" Fili asked questioningly.
"How indeed." Dwalin asked curiously.
"What does it matter? He is here now!" Gandalf said happily.
"It matters, why did you come back?" Thorin asked quickly.
"Look, I know you all doubt me. I…I know you always have. You're right, I often think of Bag-End. I miss my books, my arm chair, and my garden. You see, that's where I belong, my home. That's why I came back, because you dont have one. A home. It was taken from you. But I promise to help you take it back if I can." Bilbo said. It made me smile and forget about the terrible pain radiating from my back and ribs for a split second. The happiness was short lived, however, when we heard growling and Orc calls.
"Out of the frying pan!" Thorin yelled.
"And into the fire!" Gandalf finished. "Run!" I faintly recall Kili grabbing my hand and pulling me forwards in fast motion. We ran until we could run no more, for there was only a cliff. The wargs were gaining on us quickly.
"Up!" I yelled, motioning to the trees.
"In the trees! All of you!" Gandalf yelled and I found myself being lifted up to the first branch of a tree. I climbed up and helped pull Fili and Kili up after me.
The wargs came down to us and then I saw him, and apparently so did Thorin.
"Azog." He whispered, seeing the pale orc astride a white warg.
Azog gave the order for the wargs to take down the trees and we began jumping from tree to tree, until we were all on the very last tree.
"Fili!" Gandalf yelled, dropping a flaming pine cone to him. I grabbed a pine cone and lit mine on fire from his, and we began throwing them down, successfully starting large blazes.
Just as we all looked triumphant, the tree began cracking and soon enough the tree was falling over the edge of the cliff. I screamed, but I seemed to be on the right side of the tree. Dori and Ori weren't so lucky, seeing as they were about to fall only holding on to Gandalf's staff.
In a second, I saw Thorin standing from the tree, taking out Orcrist and running off the end of it, directly towards Azog, yelling a battle cry.
I screamed as I watched the white warg clutch Thorin in his jaws and toss him to the side. Azog said something to another in black speech and the other went to up to Thorin and laid his sword upon his neck. He raised it to strike, and out of nowhere, Bilbo came running past me and jumped on the orc before he could behead Thorin.
Despite the protests of Fili and Kili, I got up as fast as I could and ran out there with Bilbo, defending Thorin from these vile creatures as he laid on the ground unconscious.
I felt something bubbling up inside of me as I stood in front of Thorin's unconscious body, watching as Azog and his white warg started walking up to me.
"I am a daughter of the Valar! You will not touch my family, you filth!" I screamed in a different language, one I didn't know I could speak, and felt a light emanating from me as the others came off the tree, fighting the Orcs. I was only focused on Azog who was getting closer when I plunged both of my daggers into the ground, feeling the strange force leaving me, throwing the enemy backwards but not touching any dwarves.
Whatever I did made me fall to my knees, my vision getting blurry as I saw the eagles arriving.
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"Lili! Thorin!" Fili yelled as the company flew through the skies towards the Carrock, Lili and Thorin both being clutched in the talons of two eagles, unconscious. No one said a word about what they witnessed, or what they heard. It was a language that none could speak, but everyone could understand. The language of the Valar.
As the eagles finally made it to the Carrock, they set down the two unconscious carefully before flying away. Gandalf immediately flew to Lili's side, laying his hand over her face, muttering something.
He looked up to Fili and Kili, who were kneeling beside her. "She will wake soon." He said before rushing over to Thorin's side, doing the same thing.
Thorin woke with a gasp. "The halfling? Lili?" He asked quickly.
"It's alright, Bilbo is fine." Gandalf said, helping the king to his feet.
"You! What were you thinking? You could have gotten yourself killed!" Thorin yelled at the unsuspecting hobbit. "Did I not say that you would be a burden, that you should not have come, that you do not belong?" Thorin then walked up to Bilbo, wrapping his arms around the hobbit unexpectedly. "I have never been more wrong, in all my life. I should not have doubted you."
"No, I would have doubted me too, I'm not brave, I'm not a warrior, not even a burglar." Bilbo said as he stood in shock.
Thorin then looked over to where Lili was laying in Fili's arms, and rushed over to them.
"What happened?!" Thorin asked loudly.
"She was defending you, and she started glowing and yelling at Azog in another language before she plunged her daggers into the ground and there was a force a green light, it threw the enemy at least ten meters, long enough for the eagles to get us."Kili explained to him. "As soon as it happened, she passed out."
"What language did she speak?" Thorin asked quickly. It was Gandalf who replied.
"She spoke in the one tongue that no one knows, yet everyone understands." Gandalf told him.
"She spoke Valarin? What did she say?" Thorin asked, looking around. It was Fili who spoke.
"She said, 'I am the daughter of the Valar, you will not touch my family, you filth.'." Fili told Thorin who looked to Gandalf for answers.
"It is not my place to share with you what young Lili learned from Lady Galadriel on our last day in Rivendell. I will, however, tell you that she is a very special girl." Gandalf told them all, only making the confusion worse. As if on cue, the girl's eyes started fluttering open.
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