Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings that's all Peter Jackson and J.R.R. Tolkien. I do however own anything added and my two OCs Lucy and Tony.
Probably going to post another chapter when I get home ^_^
In Erebor, everything was quiet and dark. The dwarves emerged out of a tunnel and approach a stone bridge over a chasm. Thorin raised his hand and quieted the group.
"Shh. Shh."
"Quiet." Dori said. They neared the foot of the bridge and Thorin peered around the edge of the tunnel, looking for any sign of Smaug. They all whispered. "We've given him the slip."
"No, he's too cunning for that." Dwalin said.
"So where to now?" Bilbo asked.
"The western guardroom. There may be a way out." Thorin said.
"It's too high. There's no chance that way." Balin said.
"It's our only chance. We have to try." Thorin said. Quietly, they tiptoed across the bridge, looking all about. Suddenly, a coin fell to the floor right in front of Bilbo and rang loudly. They all froze and looked at Bilbo, who frantically checked his jacket to see if some coin had been stuck in a fold. Hearing another coin fall, they looked up and saw Smaug crawling just above them, looking for them. Tony's mouth opened wide in a silent gasp. The dragon hadn't seen them. The coins that fell came from his chest and arms, where several coins and gems had embedded themselves after years of him sleeping on them. Thorin motioned for them to keep moving.
At Bard's house, Tauriel bound Kili's leg with a clean cloth. Kili laid on the table with his head in a basket of walnuts while Lucy stroked his hair. Oin and Fili were in the kitchen, watching a pot of water boil.
"I've heard tell of the wonders of elvish medicine. That was a privilege to witness." Oin said. Kili slightly opened his eyes and looked at Tauriel.
"Tauriel."
"Lie still." She told him.
"How are you here?"
"Never mind that now. Just rest."
"Where's Lucy?" He asked.
"Right here, sweetie." He turned his head and smiled when he saw her. Kili slowly raised his hand and entwined his fingers with hers. She moved to sit on the edge of the table and something slipped out of her pocket and hit the ground with a thunk. Tauriel frowned and picked it up.
"Where did you get this?" She asked holding up the vial Lucy had received from Thranduil.
"I forgot I had that." Lucy said blinking at it. "Uh, your king gave it to me." Tauriel, as well as the others in the room, looked confused.
"Why would he give you this?" Tauriel asked.
"I don't even know what it does." Lucy said with a shrug.
"It is a sleeping potion. A simple drop in someone's drink will make them fall asleep almost instantly."
"He told me it would heal someone." Lucy scoffed. "How long does it make someone sleep for?"
"He was partly telling the truth: They'll be asleep just as long as anyone should but in their sleep they'd heal from sickness or injury." She explained. "Why would he give this to you?"
"I promised him I would return something to him. Something in the mountain."
"The white gems of Lasgalen?"
"Yeah. I figured I'd find them, pretend I didn't know what they were, then bring them to him… somehow."
"Why?" Tauriel asked with a curious frown.
"I dunno. I thought if I promised to return what was his he'd let us go at the time. I was wrong."
"You were wrong so why do you still wish to return the gems?"
"They seemed important to him and I made a promise." Lucy said as if it were obvious. "I don't break my promises." Tauriel smiled.
In Erebor, the Company ran through a hall and emerged in the western guardroom.
"Stay close." Thorin said. They all stopped abruptly when they saw that the guardroom was full of rotted, dust- and cobweb-covered corpses.
"That's it, then. There's no way out." Dwalin said. It seemed like a landslide or something had blocked the exit, trapping the dwarves in the past in the room to die.
"The last of our kin." Balin said. "They must have come here, hoping beyond hope. We could try to reach the Mines. We might last a few days." Thorin took a few steps forward.
"No. I will not die like this. Cowering, clawing for breath." He turned around. "We make for the forges." Thorin said.
"He'll see us, sure as death." Dwalin said.
"Not if we split up." Thorin said.
"Thorin, we'll never make it." Balin said.
"Some of us might. Lead him to the forges. We kill the dragon. If this is to end in fire, then we will all burn together." Thorin said. He looked at Tony who was visibly scared. "Tony, you stay close to me. Do you understand?" Tony nodded stiffly. "I promised your sister I would keep you safe. I intend to return you to her alive."
Thorin, Bilbo, Tony and Balin ran out onto the bridge from earlier.
"This way!" Thorin shouted. A booming sound came from nearby, and Smaug appeared.
"Flee, flee! Run for your lives! There is nowhere to hide." He roared. Smaug went at the four, but he turned at another sound. Dori, Ori, and Bombur were running on another bridge and yelling to distract Smaug.
"Behind you!" Dori shouted. Smaug looked at them, then lunged toward them. They turned and ran. "Come on!" As Smaug chased the second group , the first group continued across the bridge. Suddenly, the third group, Dwalin and Nori, ran across another bridge and yelled to distract Smaug.
"Hey you! Here!" Dwalin shouted. Smaug turned and jumped at them. They ran off the bridge and into a tunnel just before Smaug's claw landed where they were. The fourth group, Gloin and Bifur, used this chance to run across a bridge and make it into a tunnel as well. Angrily, Smaug blew fire after them. He blew rapidly in an arc all around him, into all the tunnels. His fire caused the stones beneath Gloin and Bifur to glow in heat. They reached a cliff and leaped into the air, landing in large troughs which they slid down. They landed in the buckets of a large hanging conveyor belt system used in the past for mining.
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Thorin, Balin,Tony, and Bilbo ran through a large hallway. Balin turned into a side tunnel, but Thorin continued forward with Bilbo and Tony at his heels.
"It's this way! This way! Come on!" Balin said. Bilbo stopped by the tunnel, and called out to Thorin who was still ahead as Tony ran back to Balin.
"Thorin!" Bilbo shouted. Thorin turned and began to go back to them, but stopped suddenly. They all saw Smaug at the end of the hallway.
"Follow Balin!" Thorin yelled at Bilbo.
"Thorin!" Bilbo shouted.
"Come on!" Balin shouted. He pulled Bilbo into the side tunnel just as Smaug's chest glowed orange and he unleashed his fire throughout the hall. Thorin ran the other way and leaped into the air, falling into a deep pit. He caught onto a chain with a bucket at the end of it, and it began descending just as Smaug leaped into the pit as well. Smaug clawed his way down the tunnel, snapping at Thorin on the chain. Dwalin ran up to the mouth of the pit.
"Thorin!" He shouted. Dwalin smashed his axe into the machinery holding the chain Thorin was holding on to, and the chain stopped descending abruptly. "Hold on!" Beside Dwalin, a heavy holding bucket on the other end of the same chain began descending rapidly, causing Thorin's chain to fly upward. Thorin soared upward, narrowly missing Smaug's head. Smaug turned and managed to grab the end of Thorin's chain, stopping its movement. Smaug pulled down at the machinery holding the chain at the top of the pit breaks free of its moorings and fell into the pit. His chain slack, Thorin fell and landed right on the tip of Smaug's closed mouth. He stood on Smaug's top lip as Smaug growled and opened his mouth; fire was visibly rising up his neck. Just as Smaug snapped closed his mouth to eat Thorin, Thorin leaped to the side and grabbed another chain. Smaug turned to bite him, but the falling machinery struck him in the face. Nori, at the top of the pit, hit another machine, and its gears spun rapidly, pulling Thorin on his chain rapidly upward. Smaug roared and blew firey smoke straight up the pit after Thorin. Thorin managed to reach the top and threw himself on a ledge just as the fire erupted beside him. He stumbled over to Nori.
"Go! Go!" He shouted. Thorin and Nori ran through narrow slits between tall, stone pillars and join the other dwarves, Tony and Bilbo. They were standing in front of several massive dwarf furnaces, each at least 10 yards high.
"The plan's not going to work. These furnaces are stone cold." Dwalin said.
"He's right; there's no fire hot enough to set them ablaze." Balin said. The furnaces were all dark, with no sign of fire within. Thorin turned back toward the pit.
"Have we not?" He asked in a whisper before walking over to where Smaug was climbing up. "I did not look to see you so easily outwitted!" Smaug's claw emerged from the pit, his body following it. Thorin continued taunting him. "You have grown slow and fat in your dotage." Smaug snarled at Thorin in anger. "Slug." As Smaug snarled and advanced, Thorin got behind a pillar and yelled to the others to do the same while grabbing Tony and pulling him to his chest, his arm around his head protectively. "Take cover. Go!"
They all rushed behind pillars just as Smaug unleashed his flame at them. The fire went past the pillars and reached all the way to the furnaces. The dwarves, Tony and Bilbo, though not in the direct path of the fire, yelled from the pain, heat, and pressure. As Smaug stopped, fire suddenly came out of the bottoms of the furnaces, and they began glowing and working. Smaug growled in confusion and anger. The dwarves ran from the pillars as Smaug began battering at them with his head. They were immensely strong, like a latticework of metal, but they began to bend under Smaug's tremendous strength.
"Bombur! Get those bellows working. Go!" Thorin shouted.
"Alright!" Bombur ran and leaped onto a chain next to a forge. The chain slid down with his weight, and he landed on the handle of a massive bellows. The bellows compressed and blasted air into the furnace, which exhumed bright blue flames. On top of the furnaces was a massive pile of unrefined gold, at least 10 yards in diameter. Thorin turned and saw the latticework continued to bend from Smaug's bashing.
"Bilbo! Tony! Up there, on my mark, pull that lever." He pointed toward a lever high up on a mound, and Bilbo and Tony ran toward it.
"Come on, Tony!" The dwarves ran toward the forges as the latticework began to break. Thorin grabbed Balin. "Balin, can you still make some flash-flame?"
"Aye. It'll only take a jiffy." Balin grabbed some of the other dwarves to help him. "Come on!" As Balin ran off, Dwalin looked at the latticework, which was bending dangerously from Smaug's blows.
"We don't have a jiffy." Under the force of Smaug's onslaught, the latticework finally gave way and fell to the ground. Smaug stormed into the furnace room. He looked about, growling.
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In a storage room nearby, Balin and some other dwarves frantically mixed together various powders into jars to make flash-flame bombs.
"Where's the sulfur?" Balin asked.
"You sure you know what you're doing?" Dori asked. Balin chuckled as he poured a vial of powder into empty jars. "Come on!" Dori urged. Balin dropped some small ball into each jar.
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Bilbo and Tony clambered up some steps and reached the lever mounted high on a tower; Smaug began walking toward them. Smaug raised his head to look at them, then looked to the side and saw Thorin standing there. Smaug turned and snarled at Thorin, and Thorin yelled to the two.
"Now!" Bilbo and Tony jumped into the air and pulled down on the lever just as Smaug lunged toward Thorin. Huge jets of water burst out of carved faces in the wall behind Bilbo and Tony and slammed into Smaug, knocking him off balance and quenching the flames he was beginning to blow at Thorin. Smaug slid into the side of a furnace from the force of the water, and the glow in his chest disappeared. Roaring in rage, Smaug flapped into the air and began thrashing about madly. The jets of water caused a watermill to begin turning some gears, which caused the various rope conveyor belts to begin operating. Some of them were full of heavy chunks of rock and ore.
Bombur continued going up and down on his chain, pumping the bellows and turning the furnace fire blue. Atop the furnaces, the solid impure gold began to glow and melt. Smaug began crawling toward Thorin again. Above him, Gloin and Bifur had arrived on the bucket conveyor belt. As Bilbo and Tony began to climb down, Smaug approached Thorin. Suddenly, there was a flash of blue light on the side of his head. Balin, Ori, and Dori were throwing flash-flame bombs at Smaug. However, Smaug was not at all fazed by them and continued toward Thorin. Above Smaug, Gloin raised his axe and cut the rope of the conveyor belt full of heavy rocks below him, dropping tons of rocks on Smaug and making him fall to the ground, roaring.
The gold atop the furnaces was completely melted. Thorin ran over to a furnace and pulled on a chain, opening a gate which allowed the molten gold to flow out of the furnaces and through troughs built into the ground.
Smaug, tangled in the ropes of the conveyor belt, thrashed about and hit the rope of the conveyor belt Gloin and Bifur were in, breaking it and knocking it to the floor.
"Noo! Ahhh!" Gloin yelled. They miraculously landed on the ground unhurt. Beneath Smaug, rivers of molten gold flowed through the troughs on the floor. Thorin turned and began running, shouting back at the dwarves.
"Lead him to the Gallery of the Kings!" Thorin shouted. As Smaug thrashed about, one of the heavy metal buckets tangled on him went flying toward Bilbo and Tony on top of the mound. Bilbo yelled and ducked, pulling Tony with him, and the bucket missed them but took large chunks out of the wall.
Thorin grabbed a wheelbarrow and ran while pushing it, dodging Smaug's thrashing limbs. Smaug's tail smashed into the base of the mound, cracking it and worrying Bilbo and Tony. Thorin threw the wheelbarrow into a channel of gold and leaped into the wheelbarrow; it floated on the gold and was carried along. Seeing this, Smaug roared and whipped his head around, finally getting rid of the ropes and buckets tangled around him. He stomped over to a small entrance at the base of the mound where all the troughs of liquid gold join and lead out of the room. Before he could get to Thorin, Thorin on his wheelbarrow floated through the entrance, just as the mound collapsed and Bilbo and Tony fell. They managed to hit the ground rolling. Smaug saw Bilbo and Tony and snarled. Thorin turned his head back and his eyes widened.
"Keep going, Bilbo! Tony! Run!" He shouted. The two off running with Smaug in pursuit; they leaped onto a large stone slide before Smaug can grab them, and Smaug slid after them, demolishing all the stone structures nearby with his wings. The trough Thorin was floating in ended at a drop; as his wheelbarrow went over the edge, Thorin leaped from it and grabbed onto a chain. The molten gold dropped into a large stone mold.
Bilbo and Tony, running from Smaug, ran through a doorway and into a massive hall adorned with banners hundreds of feet tall. Just as they ran in, the wall above the doorway exploded as Smaug jumped through it. The two ran frantically from the flying rocks, but were caught beneath the cloth of a falling banner and knocked to the floor. Smaug leaped to the floor and shouted angrily.
"You think you could deceive me, Barrel-rider?" He shouted at Bilbo. Tony gave Bilbo a weird look as they peeked out from the edge of the banner. "You have come from Laketown. There is- is some sort of scheme hatched between these filthy dwarves and those miserable tub-trading Lakemen. Those sniveling cowards with their longbows and black arrows!" Smaug was talking to himself, and his voice broke in both anger and fear when he mentioned the black arrows. "Perhaps it is time I paid them a visit." Smaug turned to go to Laketown, and Bilbo and Tony 's eyes widened.
"Oh, no." Bilbo gasped. They scrambled out from under the banner.
"No!" Tony screamed.
"This isn't their fault! Wait! You cannot go to Laketown!" Bilbo said. Hearing this, Smaug stopped for a moment, then turned toward Bilbo and Tony, who were running after him.
"You care about them, do you? Good. Then you can watch them die." Smaug turned and strode off down the hall. Suddenly, a voice sounded from one end of the hall, where there was a massive stone structure that looked roughly like a dwarf. The voice was Thorin's; he was standing atop the structure.
"Here, you witless worm!" He shouted. Smaug stopped in his track, snarling and squinting in anger. He then turned toward Thorin.
"You."
"I am taking back what you stole." Smaug slowly stalked toward Thorin.
"You would take nothing from me, Dwarf. I laid low your warriors of old. I instilled terror in the hearts of men. I am King under the Mountain." His head was level with Thorin now; Bilbo and Tony watched from an adjoining hall.
"This is not your kingdom. These are dwarf lands, this is dwarf gold, and we will have our revenge." Unseen by Smaug, there were chains attached to various places on the back of the stone dwarf structure Thorin was standing on, and the ends of these chains were held by the other dwarves. As Thorin spoke, Smaug's chest and neck glowed with fire, and Thorin slowly reached up toward a rope above him. Just as Smaug opened his mouth, Thorin yelled something in Khuzdul.
Thorin yanked on the rope, and a pin behind the stone fell out, releasing heavy wooden bands and chains that had been wrapped tightly around the stone. Smaug reared his head in confusion. The other dwarves pulled mightily on their chains, and more pins similar to the first were pulled out of the stone. The stone structure, which was now revealed to be the mold into which the liquid gold from earlier poured into, fell apart and revealed a massive statue of a dwarf king, made entirely out of solid gold. Thorin swung away on a rope to escape the falling rocks. Smaug looked at the golden statue, which was even larger than him, in awe and desire. As he approached it, his mouth opened slightly in greed.
Suddenly, the gold around the statue's eyes warped and then exploded into liquid; the gold in the statue had not yet fully solidified, and the entire statue collapsed and exploded into burning hot liquid. Smaug roared in anger as the statue melted, and scrabbled backward to escape the gold. However, he could not move fast enough and the tidal wave of gold hit him and knocked him over. As he roared, he was entirely smothered and drowned in the gold, which filled the entire hall in a layer several feet deep.
The gold settled, and no sign of Smaug was seen. The dwarves began to smile in joy, but suddenly, the surface of the golden lake exploded as Smaug leaped out. He was entirely covered in gold, and he screamed in anger and pain.
"Ahh! Revenge?! Revenge! I will show you REVENGE!" As the dwarves, Tony and Bilbo look on in shock, Smaug moved down the hallway.
Outside the mountain, it was night; the great doors of Erebor closed and shut. Suddenly, the side of the mountain broke as an enraged Smaug smashed his way out. He flapped his wing and lifted off into the sky, spinning and causing the remaining gold on him to fall off in a golden shimmer. He swooped off toward Laketown.
In Laketown, people saw the fire and light coming from the previously closed gates of Erebor, and they shouted and cowered in fear. Bard grabbed the bars of his cell in shock. In Bard's house, the dwarves, children, and Tauriel looked about in fear.
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Bilbo and Tony ran out of the destroyed gates of Erebor and climbed up some ruins, looking after the flying Smaug. They fell to their knees. Watching him fly away Bilbo despairingly panted and looked on in shock.
"What have we done?" Bilbo whispered but his voice was drowned out by Tony who suddenly screamed, his voice full of fear and cracking as he started to sob.
"Lucy!"