A/N:
Wow, almost a year, I'm a horrible writer! Sorry guys for not posting sooner or quicker or anything! I know I told a lot of people that I would post soon or in the past couple or weeks, but everything has been so hectic with school and now my internship in the U.S. Trying to get a visa is a pain in the ass, I can tell you that!
Okay, so I went to The Hobbit Marathon on the 9/10th of December. Yes people, I've already seen the Battle of Five Armies and I can still cry by just thinking about it. Now we wont get any more movies with our beloved company and hobbit, but we are still die-hard fans and we will not just disappear!
But anyways… I got inspiration to finish this again. I've had this chapter for a long looong time, I just couldn't make up and ending. Now I know the ending of this chapter can suck, but I watched three Hobbit movies in a row, had three hours of sleep and went to school again until like 4 pm so I am exhausted!
Forgive me if it sucks.
Okay, so, I don't even know if people are still following this, but if you still follow this or read this. I beg of you, let me know what you think. I need reactions for my characters, couple moments for the couple and what not else. I might have my inspiration a bit back, but if I try to crack my brain for ideas and crap, then it's going to take a very very long time for the next post. Hopefully not, but please bare with me if I don't post at least once a week. I'll try.
At least I got past this block, right?!
Anyways, follow or favorite if you haven't already and please write reviews, even if it's just a word. It is thanks to reviews and PMs that I finished this (also a bit the BoFA movie, but let's forget that for a moment) so don't fear to PM me as well.
Okay, this A/N has been long enough, so enjoy the chapter and let me know what you thought :3
Oh one more thought, maybe it's smart to read the last chapter again, just to remind you of what had happened. I know I had to do it X3
XxX Kneeling Angel.
"That fucking bastard! Those no good son of a- Ow!" Jessica yelped when a boot hit her head. "What the hell was that for?!"
"Shut the fuck up!" Simone snarled and pulled on her shoe again. Jessica ignored the blond and kept on growling, but silently. Simone herself was still cursing a certain blond dwarf prince in her mind. She was also ignoring his whispers; she didn't care what he said. She was not going to break so easily. She would not forgive him.
"Jessy." Febe groaned in the cell next to them when Jessica started cursing louder. "As you're queen I demand you to shut the fuck up or I will break this door down and strangle you. Don't make me come over there!" She threatened.
"Mi mi mi mi mi!" Jessica mimicked and leaned against the cell, looking at Febe's direction, but the shorthaired was just out of sight. "I don't know if you know this Fibi, but you're not the boss over me! You won't be queen unless you actually manage to officially marry Thorin, which won't happen because he's grumpy! I still can't understand how we actually managed to trick those pointy-eared bastards! AND THAT GINGER ELF TOO! I'm going to kill her-! OW!"
"I said; SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Simone snapped after tossing her boot for the second time. "Don't make me beat your mouth shut!"
Febe rolled her eyes in her own cell. Not long after Thorin's and her chat, Thranduil had ordered them to be taken to the cells, different cells. Even through Jessica's grumbling Febe could still feel Thorin's warm grip on her wrist. She hid her face in her hands when she felt a blush come up. Oh, if the others saw her now. They would be able to read her like a love story title… She might have a tiny crush on the King under the Mountain, but she wasn't going to tell anyone that!
"This is stupid!" Jessica huffed and dropped herself on the ground. "What time is it?!"
"I'd wager that the sun is on the rise." Bofur muffled voice came from his cell. "Must be nearly dawn." He sounded like he was a miserable drunk.
"We're never going to reach the mountain are we?" Ori asked.
"Not stuck in here you're not."
Everybody jumped up and the familiar voice of a certain Hobbit. There was a sound of clinging keys and everybody flew towards their cell doors.
"Bilbo!" Everybody cheered loudly, when they saw the said hobbit standing as he was trying to open the cells as quickly as possible.
"Shh!" Bilbo hissed. "There are guards nearby!" He opened all the cells quickly. First Thorin then Balin and the rest. When he opened Jessica and Simone's cell, Dwalin and Dori had to hold back Jessica as she was about to attack Kili, who was suddenly hiding behind his brother. Simone, once again, shut the dark-haired girl up by throwing a boot at her head.
"Hey, what about me?!" Febe hissed when everybody was about to follow Bilbo down the stairs instead of up, which was weird enough. "What happened to counting numbers before we leave?!"
Thorin came into view and quickly opened her cell door with a smirk. "How dare they leave the queen?"
"Don't make me slap your mouth shut."
"Come on." He said and grabbed Febe's hand. "Let's get out of this foul place."
XxX
"This way." Bilbo whispered and led everybody down the stairs towards the cellars. Febe, Jessica and Simone were walking in the back, but that didn't make them any less confused when Bilbo led the group of dwarves towards the cellars.
"It's not making any sense." Febe whispered as she tiptoed down the wooden stairs. "Where the hell is he going?"
"I don't know." Simone whispered. "I don't get it. He's supposed to lead us away from here… Not to a place we could get trapped!"
"Maybe he's working with the elves." Jessica stated. "…Don't look at me like that." She said when her friends send her idiotic looks. "I'm just talking nonsense like you."
"Shut up, Jessica." Simone and Febe said in union as the walked past the dark-haired. They kept on walking until they suddenly stopped in confusion.
They were in the cellars.
Two drunken elves were passed out on the tabletop, so no one would notice them and weird enough there were empty barrels stacked on top of each other.
"Everybody, please climb into the barrels." Bilbo said and pointed at the wooden barrels.
"Are you mad?" Dwalin questioned the hobbit. "They'll find us!"
"No, no, no!" Bilbo whispered. "They won't, I promise. Please, please, you must trust me."
"Is he crazy?!" Febe hissed at her friend before turning to Thorin who seemed to be considering the option. "Thorin, you can't be serious-"
"Do as he says." Thorin ordered everyone.
The other quickly climbed into the stacked up barrels, but when the girls were about to climb in the noticed that there were no empty barrels anymore. The three of them shot a glare at the hobbit, but before they could start to argue Thorin grabbed all three of them and stuffed them in a giant barrel and hit put a lid on it.
Febe, Jessica and Simone immediately started to panic. "Thorin!" Febe shouted. "What the hell?! Let us out!"
"Shut up!" Thorin hissed and hit his fist against the lid. "I don't want your friends to kill my nephews."
"What does that have to do with me?!" Febe hissed back from in the pitch-black barrel.
"You are being loud, now shut up!"
"Look who's talking…" She grumbled before trying to get in a comfortable position. The three girls were squeezed together. Their legs, their arms, their bodies, they could barely move a single inch. The only thing they could basically move a bit were their heads, but every time they turned their heads they would almost touch noses. They were that close.
Simone was starting to hyperventilate. The small space wasn't helping her claustrophobia. She was slowly starting to panic and the other two tried to get away from her as far as possible, which was only about an inch. They didn't want to be anywhere near Simone if she was having a panic attack.
"S-Simone… Calm down…" Febe tried, but it was no use.
"LET ME OUT!" Simone started flaring and kicking around the best she could, bruising her friends. "LET ME GO! LET ME OUT! GET ME OUT OF HERE! I DON'T WANT TO DIE! I DON'T WANT TO DIE-AAARGH!"
The barrel started to roll and dropped. The three girls screamed and when the barrel hit the water, their heads clashed together, giving them a horrible headache. Simone immediately started to panic again.
"We're gonna die! We're gonna die!" Simone panted. "I should have stayed home! I miss my cat! I never should have gone on the plane! I'm gonna die! I'm dead! We never should have gone with them! This only leads to nothing but misery! I WANT TO GO HOME! LET ME OUT!"
"Simone, calm down!"
"DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN!" Simone snapped towards Febe. "WE ARE IN A PITCH BLACK BARREL, ALL CRAMPED UP AND FLOATING IN WATER! WE ARE NEVER GOING TO SURVIVE THIS-"
Jessica hit Simone against her temple, hitting the blond knock out. Febe couldn't see her friends, but she did hear the hit and as soon as Simone stopped talking Febe send Jessica a glare in the darkness.
"What?!" Jessica asked, noticing the tense aura in the barrel. "She asked for it and you know it!"
"DID YOU REALLY HAVE TO KNOCK HER OUT-ARGH!" Febe and Jessica screamed as the barrel dropped again and started rocking violently. They hit against a wall as the barrel followed the stream. There was a trumpet sound and the barrel suddenly stopped.
"Why did we stop?" Jessica asked. "Are we there already?"
"I don't think so…" Febe mumbled. "THORIN?! WHAT'S GOING ON?!" She shouted and slammed her fist against the wooden walls. "Thorin!" Her answers were screams and shouts, splashes and poundings.
"KILI!"
Fili's voice froze the girls in the barrel. Slowly Jessica started to panic. What had happened to Kili? Why did it feel like her heart was breaking? In her panicked state, she tried to push the lid off of their barrel, but it was screwed on too tight. "KILI!" She shouted. "Febe, help me!"
The girls, except for Simone who was still knocked out, tried to push the lid off, but it was still no use. Jessica somehow managed to get herself turned upside down, lying on top of a softly cursing Febe and a passed out Simone, and placed her feet against the lid. She was about to kick the lid, but when she pulled her foot back for the blast, the barrel moved and went downward, causing the barrel to tip forwards and started spinning.
Febe and Jessica yelped as rolled around in the cramped up space.
The barrel hit boulders and dunked under water completely. Water dripped through the cracks, but when they hit an unexpected rock in the middle of the stream, creating a hole in the wood.
Simone jolted awake when the water hit her face and hit her head against the lid that still refused to budge. She tried to move, but found herself tangled in her friends. "What the hell is going on?!"
"As if we know that!" Febe, who had somehow ended at the bottom of the barrel, shouted. She lifted her head a little and spit some water out. "All I know is that I'm half drowning over here! Get the fucking lid off!"
"I'm doing my best!" Jessica shouted as she tried to kick open the lid with her untangled leg.
The barrel crashed against a rock again, creating another hole in the wood, and not before long, Febe couldn't keep her face out of water anymore. "Guys… Not to… make you worry… or… anything…" Febe managed to say between gasps of air and coughing fits. "But… I can't breathe…!"
"Simone, help!" Jessica growled between gritted teeth and kicked anything that could break. If the lid wouldn't bust then maybe the barrel walls would. Simone and Jessica both kicked at the crack where the barrel was broken open, making more and more water to flood in. Febe took a deep breath and hope that they would break loos before she would drown.
After three more kicks and a barrel full of water, the girls could finally get out of the barrel, but the current on the was to strong as they swam up, separating the three of them.
"Simone!" Simone tried to turn around as the water dragged her along. Trying to breathe and go under every five seconds, she could barely make out Nori's star shaped hair. He reached out to her and as soon as Nori's hand grabbed around the girl's arm, he pulled her into his barrel. "Are you alright?" He asked her, water dripping from his auburn hair.
Simone coughed the water out of her lungs and nodded. "W-we have to find Jess and Febe." She said with chattering teeth. "I-I lost them in the stream."
Nori shot the girl a worried look, but nodded anyways. "We'll find them." He said and grabbed hold of her shoulder. "Don't worry."
Simone nodded and looked around, shocked as she saw how many orcs were standing on the sideline, becoming smaller, wishing that they could catch them. "How much did we miss?" She asked him.
"All of it." Nori smirked as the barrel followed the stream, behind all the others.
Simone raised a brow at the weird haired dwarf, but then saw Jessica swimming in the water over his shoulder. "Jess!" She beamed. "Nori, look! It's Jessica! Jess!"
Jessica did her best to keep on swimming, but her body was starting to get to exhausted and she started to get out of breath.
Trying to "pedal" their way towards Jessica, Nori and Simone reached out towards the dark hair, but when they almost reached her Jessica was cut by an arrow on her shoulder. Nobody had seen the orc that had still been aiming on them from the far distance.
Jessica let out a painful cry and Simone called out for her before jumping out of the barrel and into the water. She quickly swam toward her friend and held Jessica in a position that kept her from drowning.
"Jess, are you okay?" Simone asked in a panic, sitting out some water, trying not to get herself drowned either.
Jessica did her best to keep herself up as well, but her shoulder was burning with pain. "I'm-" A wave of water cut her off as it hit the girls in the faces. "Okay." She coughed. "Where's Febe?"
"Don't… Know." Simone panted, short on breath. Nori and the other barrels had gotten too far ahead, but if she managed to look far enough she could see the currents slowing in the distance. "She didn't drown, did she?"
Simone didn't know what to say, but she hoped not.
A couple of yards in the distance, Febe was trying to gasp for air instead of lungs full of water. The waves kept crashing over her and she wasn't the best swimmer around, especially not in the panicked state she was now.
She started kicking her legs around underwater, trying to keep herself up, but just as she did, the water got just a bit faster and she didn't see the rock she was about to crash into. She hit her head against the hard, grey surface before everything went black.
To be continued…
