Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of either Digimon: Tamers or The Hobbit, only how the story goes. The characters of Digimon: Tamers belongs to their creators and The Hobbit belongs to J.R.R. Tolkien and the studios that helped make the movies. The only thing that I do own are the OC's of the story. I apologize for any errors in grammar and/or if I was not accurate in reference to something.
A/N: I plan to have some action soon, both for the Digimon and the Company. I can't wait to write them, but I will.
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Chapter Eight: A Legend for the Digimon
It was an hour or two in the night as things were still peaceful. Except for the loud snoring coming from the Dwarves and Guilmon. A few moths were fluttering over a sleeping Bombur, and every time that the Dwarf took in a breath they would be sucked into his mouth. The Dwarf didn't seem to mind when he exhaled and the moths came fluttering back out. Not too far from the Dwarf, Bilbo was having a hard time sleeping with all the snoring, and being a few feet from the snoring Guilmon was enough to make the Hobbit get up. Rika sat with Fili and Kili by the fire while Renamon sat on a tall rock not too far from them. The yellow fox Digimon had her eyes closed in meditation but kept an ear out. It would occasionally twitch at a new sound, but she could tell that it wasn't threatening. Gandalf also remained awake to keep a watch for danger.
Bilbo walked past the sleeping Dwarves, children and Digimon to the ponies and horses. Coming up to his mount, Bilbo looked about before reaching into his pocket and pulled out an apple. Petting the pony's mane she said, "Hello, girl. Who's a good girl?"
He looked back to the group before handing the pony the apple. The pony graciously took it while Bilbo said, "It's our little secret here, Myrtle."
"Why would it need to be a secret?" A voice said from behind, startling Bilbo. He turned and looked around but didn't see anyone. Then looking down, he saw Calumon standing by his feet. Bilbo then said with a shrug, "Oh, just being friendly with the ponies."
"That's nice." Calumon said. His and the other Digimon's ears raised up when the sound of screeching came from the distance. Guilmon's eyes opened up and were cat like as the pupils were thin. Rising up from beside Takato, the red dinosaur Digimon walked over to the cliffside while starting to growl. This caused the some of other Tamers and the Dwarves to rouse as well. Takato got up and asked, "What is it, boy?"
"I hear and smell something. They're close." Guilmon said before he resumed growling. Renamon narrowed her eyes and said while rising onto her feet, "It sounds like what we heard the other day?"
"When you and the others had to split up?" Rika asked, curious to know. Renamon looked to her Tamer and nodded. Another screech rang out and it caused more tension in the Digimon. Bilbo walked over and asked, "What was that? What's out there?"
"Those were Orcs." Kili said as he looked about in the distance. The word didn't seem to sit well with the Hobbit as he came closer and asked, "Orcs?"
Hearing the word 'Orcs' caused Thorin to jolt awake and look about. Fili then said, "They're throat-cutters. There'll be dozens of them out there."
"How did you guys avoid them?" Takato asked between Guilmon and Renamon. Guilmon seemed to calm down enough and looked to his Tamer and he said, "Mostly because of being on the move."
"And when we nearly ran into them, we caused a diversion to get away." Renamon answered. A voice made them all look to Impmon, "And you're welcome for that."
"Let me guess…" Rika started. The purple imp Digimon chuckled and said, "Right. A few good Bada-Booms was enough to make those things go nuts for a little while."
"And then we run for a little while before trying to take a rest." Guilmon said. Renamon then said, "It's a good thing that Cyberdramon is leading his team."
"So, instead of being Monodramon, he's Cyberdramon instead?" Rika asked. Renamon once again nodded. Rika then asked, "How far away are the Orcs?"
"A little ways away." Renamon said as she looked to the distance. Gandalf looked to the brothers when Kili said, "For sure, the lone-lands are crawling with them." The raven-haired Dwarf then said, "They strike in the wee small hours just when everyone's asleep. Quick and very quiet, no screams. Just lots of blood."
"Hey, remember that there are a few children here." Impmon reminded. He opened an eye and looked to the two Dwarves and said, "Don't be givin' 'em nightmares."
Bilbo started to get a little nervous as he, Takato and Guilmon looked out from the cliff. Fili and Kili look to each other before they start chuckling to themselves. Rika looked to them and was about to say something. But one in the Company was not amused at all when Thorin questioned, "You two think that that's funny?"
Everyone looked to Thorin as he rose from his spot and he looked back to his nephews. Thorin looked very upset when he questioned, "Do you think that a night raid by Orcs is a joke?"
"We didn't mean anything by it." Kili said as the boys' faces fell at angering their uncle. Bilbo, Gandalf, the awake Tamers and Digimon could see that the subject was greatly heavy on them. Thorin walked away while angrily saying, "No, you didn't. You know nothing of the world."
Gandalf watched as Thorin passed by him and stopped next to the cliff. Balin rose from his spot and walked over to the brothers. He then said, "Don't mind him, laddie." With a sigh he said, "Thorin has more cause than most to hate Orcs."
"Why is that?" Rika asked. They all looked to the prince as Balin said, "After the dragon Smaug took the Lonely Mountain, King Thror tried to reclaim the ancient Dwarf kingdom of Moria."
The old Dwarf shook his head as he remembered, "But our enemy had gotten there first…"
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(Flashback)
Long ago, the Dwarves of Erebor had long left the Lonely Mountain and came to a mountain range where the kingdom of Moria was. But they were met by a large army of Orcs. Dwarves fought against Orcs outside a large set of gates. Swords clashed, hammers bashed, axes slashed and souls on both sides fell under one from the other side. Thror, Thrain, Thorin, a younger Balin, Dwalin and many Dwarves stood their ground against the Orcs.
"Moria had been taken by legions of Orcs…" Balin continued the story. A large pale Orc charged through the ranks of Dwarves and knocked many away with his large mace. The Dwarves he knocked aside were sent flying before crashing to the ground, "led by the most vile of all their race: Azog the Defiler."
Thror and Azog locked eyes on each other before moving to engage. Azog said something in Black Speech and raised his mace. Azog brought his mace down and it clashed with Thror's shield and the Orc continued trying to defeat the Dwarf king, "The giant Gundabad Orc had sworn to wipe out the line of Durin."
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"Sounds like he was pretty nasty." Rika commented. Bilbo, Takato and Guilmon looked to Thorin but didn't say anything. Balin nodded and continued, "Aye was lass. And he began by beheading the king."
A good number of eyes widened from it in shock.
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(Flashback continues)
Azog roared in victory as he raised the king's severed head from the body. Thorin looked up in disbelief at the sight. With no remorse or guilt, Azog tossed the severed head to the ground. Thorin watched with wide eyes as the head hit the ground and tumbled. Thorin shouted, "No!"
Thorin then looked up the Orc who killed his grandfather before raising his sword.
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"That's horrible." Takato said, feeling truly sorry for the Dwarf prince. Some of the others started to waken from their sleep as well. Balin then said, "Thrain, Thorin's father, had been driven mad with grief." With a shake of his head, he said, "He went missing. Taken prisoner or killed we did not know.
"We were leaderless." He said, as if feeling the despair of losing Thror and the battle once more.
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(Flashback continues)
"Defeat and death were upon us." The Orcs started killing off Dwarves by either cutting them down with their weapons or throwing them from high spots. The Orcs were truly overrunning the Dwarves and it seemed like victory was at hand for the Orcs.
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Bilbo and the Tamers and their Digimon looked to Balin as a proud smile adorned his face. He remembered when hope came again, "That is when, I saw him."
They turned their attention to Thorin once again. Balin nodded, "A young Dwarf prince facing down the pale Orc."
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(Flashback continues)
Thorin glared at the large Orc as Azog came at the Dwarf prince. Azog growled as he started spinning towards Thorin with his mace outstretched. The blow might not have hit Thorin, but it did disarm him of his shield. He moved to block another swing from Azog, but the Gundabad Orc disarmed him of his weapon as well, "He stood alone against this terrible foe."
Azog then roared again while Thorin tumbled down a small hill. When he stopped, Thorin looked up to his foe and his eyes widened when the pale Orc came after him. Thorin backed away and looked for something that he could defend himself with. An Oaken branch sat on the ground until Thorin grabbed it. The Dwarf moved out of the way when Azog brought his mace down. Thorin used the branch to deflect the mace when it was swung at him, "His armor rent, wielding nothing but an oaken branch as a shield."
Each swing seemed to push Thorin down each time while Azog was relishing in his foe's torment. One final swing of his mace caused Thorin to fall onto his back. Azog spun around before raising his mace high into the air. But as he brought it down, Thorin grabbed a Dwarvish sword and swung up with a yell. The blade cleanly sliced through Azog's arm at the elbow. The Defiler roared in pain and humiliation at the loss of his limb. The other Orcs looked to their leader and it cost a few of them their lives, "Azog the Defiler learned on that day that the line of Durin would not be so easily broken."
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The other Dwarves and Tamers had been awakened by the story and were looking to Balin while he was telling the story. And though he didn't look back, Thorin too was thinking about that day.
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(Flashback continues)
Thorin yelled something in Dwarvish while pointing his sword at gates of Moria. Azog was being pulled into the Dwarf kingdom by a pair of Orcs so they could treat his grave wound. The other Dwarves rallied behind their prince as he ordered them to follow him in Dwarvish. Thorin and the other Dwarves ran forward and clashed the remaining Orcs outside the gates. Both sides gave war cries as they drew closer to each other. The battle went differently this time as the Dwarves were able to cut down their Orcish foes. Though some Dwarves fell, the others were able to stand and fight against the Orcs. Thorin ducked under a swing from an Orc before slashing his foe's legs and then bringing his sword down on the Orc. He turned and fought another Orc off, "Our forces rallied and we drove the Orcs back."
A younger Balin was able to bash one Orc in face while a mohawked Dwalin cut another down his axes. Thorin continued fighting off one Orc after another, "And our enemy had been defeated."
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Both Balin and Dwalin were shaking their heads at the memories, knowing that the battle did not entirely go well. The Tamers and the Digimon felt very sad for the two as did a few others in the Company. Balin then said, "But there was no feast nor song that night…"
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(Flashback continues)
"For our dead were beyond the count of grief." The surviving Dwarves of Thror's army looked amongst the dead Dwarves and Orcs. A good deal of them were sad for their loss. Some of the Dwarves hugged their loved ones in sorrow, "We few had survived."
But as they began to collect their dead, a weeping Balin looked up to see a sight he would never forget. Thorin stood a top a hill still holding his sword and oaken branch. The light shining down on the prince, making him look like a true Dwarf king, "And I thought to myself then, there is one whom I could follow."
(End of flashback)
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"There is one," Balin said with a nod as he looked over to the Dwarf prince, "who I could call king."
Thorin then turned away from the cliff and back to the Company. He found everyone; Dwarf, child, Digimon, Hobbit and Wizard looking at him. Thorin didn't say a word as he walked back to them. Something wasn't sitting well on Bilbo's mind as he looked to Balin and asked, "And the Pale Orc?"
Balin looked to the Hobbit when Bilbo asked, "What happened to him?"
"He slunk back into the hole from whence he came from." Thorin bitterly said as he walked past the others. Sounding confident he said, "That filth died of his wounds a long time ago."
Gandalf, Balin, some of the Tamers and the Digimon looked to each other as if they were all thinking the same thing. They were feeling uneasy if the Orc was truly dead or not. Balin looked to the children and the Digimon and said, "You lot try to get some sleep. It's time for someone else to keep watch."
"Okay." Rika said as she moved to go lay down. Renamon came down from the rock. She joined Rika by sitting against a tree. Guilmon and Takato laid back down while Henry coaxed his sister and the siblings to lay back down as well. The other Tamers, Digimon and Bilbo were soon sleeping again. Balin looked to the brothers and said, "You lads go and get some rest. I'll keep watch now."
"And I'll help out." Dwalin said as he walked over to the firepit. Balin nodded in agreement to this. Thorin also stayed awake for a little while longer.
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Across the ridge on another cliffside, the Company was being watched from afar. Riding on the back of a large wolflike creature, an Orc wearing a crude set of Orcish armor, held a spear in his left hand. Looking to a subordinate, the Orc, by the name of Yazneg, commanded in Black Speech, "(Send word to the Master, we have found the Dwarf-scum. And the Digimon pets have found their human whelps as well.)"
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Author's Note: That's weird right, how do they now that the Digimon have partners? A lot more will becoming to add to the mystery. I plan to have the next chapter as a montage before getting back to the main story. Plus, I plan for those of the Company who don't know to witness what some of the Digimon can do. I look forward to reading your reviews. Be sure to leave a comment either about if I've done something wrong or if you want something specifically to happen. See you next time.