On they marched closer toward the Lonely Mountain. In the air sounded a hawk in search for a decent meal. Bilbo paused briefly to stare up at the sky and hawk.
A two days journey brought them in sight of the ruined city of Dale. The hearts of the dwarves sang in elation to be much closer to their homeland. At long last they were returning home.
Bilbo's heart sang another or rather several tunes. He was glad and relieved that this journey was nearly over, meaning he was closer to returning to his home. However, there was an emptiness and sadness as he'd come to enjoy his time amongst his companions and the thrill of action in this quest. By completing the quest meant saying farewell to those whom he befriended and possibly never see them again. Not something he enjoyed.
With all these emotions coursing through him, one stood out the most as he was focused on the present. Apprehension. There was a dragon inside that mountain! Seriously, what were they supposed to do about that?! Just go in there and kindly ask it to leave? Dragon, a deadly, fierce, savage, fire breathing, horrendous DRAGON! And they were just going to waltz right in to reclaim the mountain . . . What had he been thinking when he signed the paper!? Thirteen dwarves with a hobbit against one ginormous dragon . . .
"Isn't Gandalf supposed to meet us here?" Bilbo asked nervously. "He told us to meet him at this point. And what of Misteth?" He searched for signs of a gray pointy hat or for the elf maiden. None.
The dwarves by now had begun to move. Thorin turned to answer Bilbo.
"Do you see them?" Bilbo shook his head. "We can not wait for wizard or elf, Master Baggins. Time is running out. We must hurry to the secret passage before the last light of Durin's Day fades away."
Bilbo watched everyone trudge toward the mountain. His head turning to his comrades then switching to where they had come, searching for Gandalf or Misteth. He remained there indecisive a good bit until the last dwarf was almost out of sight.
"Oh, they better hurry up with whatever their doing!"
He ran after the dwarves.
Next chapter should be posted in few days, hopefully. I really wanted to post up two today but just didn't work out.
You know, this is getting close to the end of 2nd Hobbit movie. 29 chapters. Just kinda surprised when realizing this. Have an tiny feeling this story will end with 50 chapters or little over. *sighs* My shorts tend to be longer than expected. The prequel ended with 19 chapters and this has 29 with more to come.
For little fun if want and out of my own curiosity, shall we start guessing how many chapters this story will have?
