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Chapter 25
The Key!
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How am I suppose to find the entrance when I don´t know how it looks like? For two days now we have all gone to different directions from the camp to look for the entrance. We all came back with sad news, no one had found anything. We had moved the camp up through a valley, I had just finished my meal when Fíli came running down a path that went directly up the mountain. I´ve been looking at that for a while, but never thought it would interest me.
"I we´ve found it," Fíli said to us all. I stood up.
"Who is we?" Kili asked.
"Bilbo and I," Fíli said and turned seeing Bilbo come slowly down from the mountain. "I think the entrance is up there." He pointed up towards the mountain, it went almost straight up.
"Are you sure?" Thorin asked.
"There is a old and hidden path going up there, we haven´t find anything like it," Fíli said. How in the world did they get up there in the first place? Not all of us can climb.
"All right, let´s move," he said to them all. "Let´s tie a rope around us and we´ll get us up." We tied the rope around our waists and moved on to the mountain wall. Thorin went first and then I after him, the Dwarves then got after us. Bombur definitely did not want to go, he said he was fat and flying Dwarf is not a pretty sight. So he stay on the ground with Nori so they could lift up the food and everything. Nori was the last one who came up, but Bombur still did not come with.
"What do we do with him?" I asked Thorin.
"He can look after the ponies," Thorin said to me, as he was about to continue the small path up the mountain.
"What about Smaug, he can come out after him," I said worried. Thorin looked at me.
"He will not do much, he will not make any noises. Of all the Dwarves you should know him the best," Thorin said and they all continued up, still having the ropes around our waists. Yeah… He will fall asleep! We kept walking for just about few minutes when Thorin stopped and looked at the mountain.
"This is it," Fíli said and they who were closest looked at the entrance. It was no door, stone door or any kind of what could look like a door, no whole or key whole or anything that could look like the entrance. Though it looked like it have been moved this special entrance. Thorin, Dwalin and I tried to push it, use different Dwarven spell to open it and Thorin could not find anywhere the key could be in. The day turned into night and we all sat close to the entrance. It could look like we tried to find out the way in, but… I saw how they looked like. Their hopes had left their eyes again. And then suddenly Bilbo stood up right next to me, almost scaring me as he haven´t talked at all this night. He shouted at everyone to come near as he was telling everyone what he found out. It did made sense after the map, and then the moon came forth and a small light came towards the entrance. A thrush began knocking on the stone wall and then I heard a loud noise. A piece of the wall broke and fell down making a small hole in the wall.
"The key!" I almost screamed. A whole to the key.
"Where´s Thorin?" Bilbo asked as we all began pushing the door, not wanted it to slip away from us. Thorin took forth the key that he got from Gandalf in Bag End what seemed so long ago and placed it in the whole. I could hear a click and then he turned the key, making what we pushed on move and open. The door opened without a sound and we all could see darkness, a long path into the mountain that went down. We found the entrance! We found it! I looked at the Dwarves and Bilbo that all looked quite stunned and surprised, some got happy tears in their eyes we then heard a loud roar. It sounded like a earthquake.
"Was that a earthquake?" Bofur asked.
"That my lad," Balin said and turned to us. "Was a dragon."