Chapter 10 finally!
Start of recap...
With Bilbo...
Bilbo invisibly walks through the wine cellar. He sees elves moving around wine barrels and speaking.
Once drinks from a large flagon; Bilbo sees the ring of dungeon keys in his hand.
[Elf] "...we're running out of drink."
[Elf] "These empty barrels should have been sent back to Esgarrouth hours ago. The bargeman will be waiting for them."
[Elf] "Say what you like about our ill-tempered king, but he has excellent taste in wine. Come, Elros, try it."
He is speaking to an elf with a bunch of keys.
[Elros] "I have the dwarves in my charge."
The other elf takes the keys and hangs them on a hook in the wall.
[Elf] "They're locked up; where can they go?"
The elves laugh; Bilbo takes note of the hanging keys.
[Bofur] "I'll wager the sun's on the rise. It must be nearly dawn."
[Ori] "We're never going to reach the mountain, are we?"
Bilbo suddenly appears, holding up the ring of keys.
[Bilbo] "Not stuck in here, you're not!"
End of recap...
Third person pov...
Calen woke with a start, oh no! She leaped carefully from her bed trying to not wake up the two elfs next to her.
She quietly grabbed her things and kissed Tauriel and legolas on their cheeks
"thank you for looking after me" she whispered to the two elfs who hadn't woken up.
Calen sighs and opens the door looking back once more at the two elfs, she left closing the door slowly closed.
She then ran to the cellars to catch up with the Dwarves and bilbo.
Time skip...
Bilbo proceeds lead the dwarves through the Woodland Realm, and they whisper indistinctly.
They sneak through the halls of the Woodland Realm, and eventually find themselves in the wine cellar from before.
The elves there are sound asleep around a table, with several empty bottles of wine in front of them. Bilbo leads the dwarves further in.
[Bilbo] "This way."
[Kili] "I don't believe it; we're in the cellars!"
The dwarves are getting mad at Bilbo.
[Bofur] "You were supposed to be leading us out, not further in!"
[Bilbo] "I know what I'm doing!"
[Bofur] "Shhh!"
[Bilbo] "This way."
They sneak into a large room in which several barrels are stacked sideways down the middle of the room. All the barrels have one end open.
Calen hears the guards in the dungeon, "shit" she exclaimed and ran faster.
[Bilbo] "Everyone, climb into the barrels, quickly!"
[Dwalin] "Are you mad?! They'll find us!"
[Bilbo] "No, no, they won't, I promise you. Please, please, you MUST trust me!"
The dwarves mill around, as they try to decide. They hear a commotion in the distance.
[Thorin] "Do as he says!"
Each of the dwarves climbs into a barrel. Bilbo walks along, counting to make sure all the dwarves have been accounted for.
[Bofur] "What do we do now?"
All the dwarves stick their heads out of their barrels and watch Bilbo as he walks toward a lever in the ground.
[Bilbo] "Hold your breath."
[Bofur] "Hold my breath? What do you mean?"
Bilbo pulls the lever, and the part of the floor that the barrels were on tilts downward into an opening; the barrels roll out the opening and fall several feet into a river that runs beneath the Woodland Realm.
The dwarves yell as they fall, and the barrels make loud thumping noises. The elves sleeping around the table stir and begin to wake up.
Bilbo triumphantly looks around, then realizes that he forgot to get out himself, and that the trap door has closed.
With Tauriel and legolas...
Tauriel awoke with a Stert as she hears the commotion outside she nugges legolas who falls ungratefully on the floor with a thump.
Groaning he shot awake they looked at each other and ran out of the door grabbing their things as they went.
Tauriel strides up to the empty cells and address the other elven guards.
[Tauriel] "Where is the keeper of the keys?"
In the cellar, Bilbo frantically runs back and forth and stomps on the ground, trying to make the floor tip again. Tauriel and her elves run toward the cellar.
[Tauriel] "Tolo hi!" (Come now!]
Just as Tauriel and the guards get to the cellar, the floor tips and Bilbo falls into the river, yelling.
He surfaces and grabs onto Nori's barrel. Thorin and the company, still in their barrels, have been waiting for him.
Calen huffs and puffs as she made it to the cellar before Tauriel, she stomped on the floor as bilbo fell down.
She gulped and walked to the end just as she fell through she caught a glimpse of Tauriel.
"Ahhhhhh *splash*" screaming Calen fell and landed in the river, she coughed up water and began to swim with the current trying to keep up with the Dwarves.
The dwarves, Bilbo, and the barrels plunge through the rapids, then float swiftly down the raging river.
Legolas, followed by other elves, emerges from a gateway and sees them floating away.
[Legolas] "Holo in-annon!" [Shut the gate!]
An elf with him blows on a horn; as the dwarves round a corner in the river, they see a guardpost built above the river.
The heavily armored elves standing guard there hear the horn and come to attention; one of them pulls a lever, causing a heavy metal sluice gate to block the river.
The dwarves in their barrels come to a stop at the gate, unable to float further.
Calen who is still far away sees them stop, 'oh no' she thought, she knows what happens next.
[Thorin] "No!"
The barrels pile into each other; the elven guards draw their swords, but one is suddenly shot in the back with a black arrow.
Several growling orcs swarm over the guardpost, killing the elves. Multitudes of orcs run in from the bushes, with Bolg.
"fuck there's Orcs" swore Calen holding her sword tightly.
[Bofur] "Watch out! Those are orcs!"
[Bolg] "Gorid! Zib! Goridug!" [ Slay them all!]
The orcs begin throwing themselves at the dwarves in their barrels; Bilbo manages to kill one with Sting, and Dwalin elbows another in the face.
Kili looks up and sees the lever the elven guard had pulled earlier.
He manages to get out of his barrel and runs up the stairs toward the lever. Unarmed, he ducks as an swings at him.
[Dwalin] "Kili!"
"Ki" whispered Calen as Kili fell to the floor.
To be continued...
I'm getting back into writing these chapters now!
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