The King Under the Mountain

Raven's Hill

Jaune reached the top of the hill and found Ironwood, and Yatsuhashi fighting off goblins. He pulled off the ring and ran up to them cutting the head off of one of the goblin.

"Ironwood!" yelled Jaune

"Mr. Arc." said Ironwood

"Jaune, what are you doing here?" asked Yatsuhashi

Jaune came up to them.

"Where are Sun and Neptune? We have to get out of here, Azog has a second army coming from the north. They will be here soon." explained Jaune

"Yatsuhashi, go get them. We will live to fight another day." said Ironwood to Yatsuhashi

Suddenly the towers of the abandoned fortress light up and Azog came out holding Neptune by the neck with his metallic hand. The three warriors saw what was happening and then they saw Azog stab Neptune from the back.

After that Azog let go of Neptune and they all saw the body fall to the ground. Suddenly, Sun came out of hiding and began to make his way to where Azog and his forces were. Ironwood saw this and began running to save his nephew, Yatsuhashi and Jaune were about to follow when they spotted a group of orcs followed by giant bats. Jaune and Yatsuhashi began fighting the orcs unable to go help Ironwood.

Ironwood made his way through the orcs and soon enough he was standing face to face with Azog. They clashed with their swords trying to settle their old score.

As their battle kept on Tauriel and Legolass arrived to the fortress and began fighting off the orcs. Tauriel went on to find Sun, and Legolass went to help Ironwood who was being surrounded by orcs. Legolass used his arrows to kill the orcs from the top of the abandoned tower.

Tauriel went up to the open part of the fortress and found Sun fighting an orc who was covered with metal edges and had a massive sword. Tauriel used her swords to help Sun kill the orc, but it seemed like all of their attacks were little to nothing for the massive beast. The orc then slapped Tauriel back. This made Sun jump at the orc and hold him by the neck to try and strangle him. Sadly it wasn't enough, the orc went back to the wall and slammed Sun on it, the orc then grabbed his sword and stabbed Sun with it. Tauriel could only watch as Sun died by the hand of this monster. She then grabbed hold of the orc and with all her strength she pushed it down the cliff. That left the creature to fall near where Azog and Ironwood were fighting.

As Ironwood fought against Azog he was also dealing with other orcs that were distracting him, or were trying to kill him. Though for some reason some orcs were struck by arrows, and then Ironwood saw Legolass with his bow and arrow. Suddenly Azog used his metal hand to shatter Ironwood's sword leaving him with barely a small knife. Ironwood used what was left of his sword to fight back some of the orcs but he was pushed back by an orc.

Suddenly as Legolass was about to shoot another arrow he realized he was out of arrows. Legolass then noticed a massive beast that had wrecking balls for arms near the base of the tower. He jumped off to the head of the monster and then used his twin blades to stab his brain to lead the beast to the tower and rammed it in. He made the beast ram the tower again and then the tower fell on top of some of the orcs.

Legolass then spotted Ironwood about to be killed, and without thinking Legolass throws Ironwood the Silver Phenix killing the orc.

Jaune and Yatsuhashi were just finishing the last of the orcs when they spotted the invading orc army coming from the north.

"We need to get out of here now." said Jaune

"Let's get James and then we will leave." said Yatsuhashi

The two warriors made their way to where Azog and Ironwood were fighting.

Ironwood held the Silver Phenix with his right hand as he charged at Azog who was now wielding a huge block of iron with a chain. The orc ran up to Ironwood swinging the iron block. They moved trying to avoid each other's attacks. Ironwood used his speed as his only advantage against the massive monster. The attacks of the monster began cracking the ice beneath them. Ironwood took notice of this and kept moving in order to make Azog's attacks follow his plan.

Jaune and Yatsuhashi arrived but before they could do anything they noticed that the ice was cracking.

"We need to help Ironwood." said Jaune

"No. This is his fight." said Yatsuhashi

Ironwood and Azog kept fighting each other. Suddenly a loud crack was heard. The block of ice that they were standing on began to move slightly. Ironwood took this as his chance, he threw his sword to firm ground, and then he picked up and threw the iron block at Azog. He then jumped back to firm ice. This made the ice block to tilt and suddenly the block of ice turned drowning the monster.

Ironwood took a few deep breaths and picked up his sword. He turned to face Beacon, then suddenly a blade came from the ice piercing his foot. The two warriors took notice of this. Suddenly Azog came out from the freezing waters.

Jaune and Yatsuhashi went up to Azog and engaged him. Azog quickly recognized Jaune and charged at him. Jaune parried Azog's attack with his sword and shield keeping Azog away from Ironwood. Jaune then ducked and slashed the orc's leg. Azog screamed in pain and then stared at Jaune with hate.

"Looks like you are finally becoming someone worthy of being a leader. Things are really getting good." said Cinder

Jaune kept his guard up as Ironwood and Yatsuhashi rallied behind him. Suddenly Azog's look of hate turned into a look of fear. Behind the three warriors an army of eagles. Riding the eagles were Gandalf, Radagast, and Tucson. They charged at the arriving orc army desolating it. Tucson even transformed into a giant Ursa and began tearing apart the army.

The victory for the hunters seemed to be within their grasp. Azog then charged at the three warriors, but Ironwood ran towards the orc and began fighting it. The two were fighting with everything they had. Suddenly in a split second Ironwood was thrown off by Azog's metal arm. Ironwood then used his sword to stab Azog's stomach. The orc then used his blade to do the same to Ironwood. This made Ironwood back up, but then he charged at the orc. Azog ran up to Ironwood. They clashed one more time before Ironwood pierced the body of the orc killing it.

Azog fell down dead. Ironwood tripped back but was caught by Jaune and Yatsuhashi.

"Please get me my sword." said Ironwood

Jaune went and grabbed the sword and gave it to Ironwood.

"Look James, the eagles are here. Look, we won." said Jaune

"Mr. Arc, I am sorry for all that I did." said Ironwood

"You don't need to apologize." said Jaune

"If more people valued home over gold, there would be no war." said Ironwood

"I know I should be saying something funny, but even I can understand an honorable final moment. Learn what you can from him Jaune, you will need it." said Cinder disappearing in a shadow

Soon enough James Ironwood had passed away.