Hi! So I am writing this with a couple of people and it has this title because Fili and Kili have a little sister, but that is not the only twist and this first chapter kinda explains this. The first few will be a prologue and then we'll skip to real time where Fili, Kili and Kara will be off on the quest with their uncle Thorin!
Chapter one and two you'll be thinking, huh? But, you know, it's a twist and introduces some key characters for after the quest or during it.
Hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN THE HOBBIT OR ANY OF ITS AMAZING CHARACTERS!
No miraculous item out there compares to the phoenix stone. Powered by a drop of blood from each race, situated in the hilt of its very own sword, it traps your soul and you land in a world of your own pain and nightmares. You are hunted if born with the trait in beings that this weapon desires to capture more so; two red eyes. Born not cursed, the cure to this dreadful disease lies in the hands of the wizards and has yet to be created, but if this doesn't occur the evil inside of these unfortunate souls will take its toll and all goodness will be overthrown by the power of orc and the evil kin of the good side. The other item hath magic to produce more malevolence - a cloning device, created by the magic a being possessed. One only of each item remain for they were created by an all powerful yet deceased enchantress. They lie in the hands of true wicked; a child, beautiful of face but vile and black of heart. Not everything does she possess - the phoenix sword with a gap where said stone awaits inserting rests in the hands of a king in exile who lived in a village with his kin, and a cottage with his two nephews, his brother in law and his sister who lay restless, impatiently awaiting a baby.
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Thorin Oakenshield had seen this door before. It was a familiar door that on a daily basis he could swing open and stroll in with a sense of pride, but today he had never been more nervous to enter the room. Slowly and cautiously, he turned the handle before letting go as though it had burnt his fingers when he heard another scream of agony echo from inside.
"Uncle? Is the baby in there?"
"The child isn't born yet, Fili." Thorin answered as he spun around and locked eyes with blue orbs, very much like his own. Fili was only five, but he wasn't new to waiting for delivery. He remembered the birth of his little brother as clear as day and it was the best thing that he had ever witnessed, but secretly he hoped for this baby to be different. A small part of him longed for a little sister. It would be a whole new level.
"What babwy?" Kili asked, cocking his head in confusion at his older brother.
"Our new sibling, Kili!" Fili told him for about the hundredth time.
"What other sibwing?"
"I don't know." Fili answered, lacing his brow together in slight annoyance.
Kili slid down the wall and wrapped his arms around his knees, before gasping in excitement as realisation struck him. "We're having a sibling?"
"Oh, lad." Thorin chuckled as he embraced the distraction that both little dwarflings offered him. "There's no helping you, is there?"
"Can we buiwd a forwt later?" The brunette then questioned with no more than innocence, peering up through his messy, russet bangs.
Thorin laughed as Fili closed his eyes in exasperation.
This is why I want a sister.
At that moment the door slowly opened and Oin exited, Fili and Kili's father (who went by the name of Karan) trailing after him, both wearing an identical stricken expression.
Thorin snapped his head up, eyes demanding an explanation. "What's going on?"
"Come in." Oin told him, looking to the boys. "Er..."
"I've got it." Karan spoke up, hurrying over to his sons and dragging their protesting figures down the hall.
"What is it?!" Thorin immediately interrogated again as Oin shut the door behind them and sauntered over to the bed where Dis lay, cradling a bundle in her arms whilst she wept. "Dis?"
The woman in dam looked up with glassy eyes and he glanced at the child in confusion, wondering why a moment to be admired was being unfortunately downplayed. "It's a girl, Thorin." She whispered, staring at her baby awestruck.
Thorin found a smile playing on his lips. He had a niece. This was a whole new experience for him; the probabilities were endless, but he supposed a girl would be easier to handle than another boy.
"So why do you look like you're about to cry?" He questioned in confusion as he perched on the end of the bed.
Dis shook her head. "Her eye..." The exiled princess watched Thorin's countenance evolve into that of a frown and knew that his reaction would be the opposite of what she wanted. "One of them is red."
Realisation hit Thorin then. He realised why everyone was so distressed and immediately shook his head frantically as Dis tried to protest. "No, Dis, no, we can't!"
"Thorin, please?"
"No!"
"Please?"
"No! What if she tries to hurt Fili or Kili? What if she tries to hurt one of us, Dis? There is no way that you can keep that child!"
"So we raise her not to!" Dis interrupted whatever he was about to say next. "It's only one eye, brother. It's never happened before, it's always two and you know it."
"The orcs will be after her. It's too dangerous, you know they want to make more!"
"We'll find a wizard." She whispered, noticing the old healer sneaking out of the room from the corner of her eye, feeling as though he was standing where he shouldn't. "A wizard can do anything."
"If you've gone through life with that attitude then you should be dead." Thorin hissed.
"Please?" Thorin stared into his sister's brown pools. Everything was hazy in that moment, and out of guilt, sympathy and the slightest bit of hope he found himself nodding. Dis breathed in utter relief and pulled her child closer, feeling herself choke up slightly. "Thank you."
Thorin inhaled a shaky breath and watched her pull the blankets off of his niece. It wasn't the dramatic reveal that he had for some reason expected; it was just a baby. A beautiful, breath-taking baby that grinned up at him with bright green eyes. When Dis said one was red one had assumed she meant the whole thing, but only a trace of red was visible in the top of her left one and it mixed in with the green like a piece of admirable artwork. She only had a couple of strands of wispy baby hair. Her chubby arms reached up, tiny hands flailing in the air to try and reach him. He choked slightly, reaching a hand of his own forward and he pressed his against hers; it was barely the size of his finger.
"Mum!" Fili ran into the room, Karan chasing after him for he had wriggled out of his father's strong grip, desperate to see the new sibling. However, when the father looked up and saw both Thorin and Dis smiling over at him he stopped trying to grab Fili who excitedly skipped over to the elders, placing his hands on the side of the bed as he stood in his tiptoes to try and see the newborn in the bundle for Dis was now hiding her face.
"Fili, remember the promise you made about your brother?" Dis questioned, smiling at the clear giddiness that shone brightly through his young blue eyes that already held so much wisdom and love. He nodded eagerly so the dam continued. "Will you protect this child for as long as you both live for?"
"Of course I will, mama!"
Dis moved her hands to unfold the blanket and reveal the baby's beautiful face when suddenly...
"Boo!"
She swore that she jumped out of her skin in that moment.
The mother whipped her head to the left, eyeing her youngest son in shock. "How did you get there?!"
Kili jumped onto his mother's legs from on top of the duvet on all fours as Dis held the baby closer to her chest in worry that the jostling of the mattress would awaken the poor child. "I've been pwactising my sneaking skills."
Thorin and Dis locked eyes, shaking their heads. "There is a child in my arms, Kili. You could have woken her up."
Kili gasped and rolled sideways off of the bed, landing with a thud on the floor. "Ow." Karen slapped a hand to his forehead as Thorin shut his eyes and shook his head. Fili barely had to reach down to help him up though because he was back on his feet in a second and stood next to his brother, impatiently fiddling with his fingers in anticipation to see his new little sister.
Dis found herself chuckling quietly at the sudden change in demeanor and pulled away the blankets. The siblings gazed at the baby in complete admiration. Karen smiled from behind them as Thorin walked to stand next to him. "I can tell you now that this trio will never break."
Karen nodded in agreement, observing the three uniting for the first time. He watched the faces of both of his sons, noticing that Kili especially seemed to adore her in the way his manner was suddenly relaxed, which never ever happened. He noted the way Fili's lips kept twitching into a grin and wondered if it was because secretly the blonde had longed for a sister to care for.
"Whats her name?!" they asked in unison.
Dis and Karen gazed thoughtfully at one another until he dipped his head, indicating that she say what they had earlier discussed before the child had been born.
"Kara." She announced proudly as everyone in the room made noises of agreement. "Her name is Kara."
5 years later
"The wizard is coming." Dis told Thorin in excitement. "His name is Gandalf the Grey. Have you heard of him?"
Thorin frowned and shook his head. "No. But Dis she's five years old and nothing has happened to raise alarm. Do you really still think it to be necessary?"
Dis nodded. "I want to be sure. And we've had orcs attack because they are looking for her to make more evil as word has reached the ears of beings further than our kin by now; they are looking. We can't let that happen, Thorin."
He nodded in agreement, smiling over at his nephews and niece. "I know." He thought about them deeply for a moment; Fili had grown a fair amount and was maturing a lot which wasn't expected at his age, and a protective streak permanently rested somewhere inside of him, but he would never miss out on the opportunity to play with his two mischievous little siblings. Kili was that of an idiot and always got his little sister and quite often older brother tied up in some reckless scheme, but Thorin admired how he would take the blame for everything, even on the rare occasion when something wasn't his fault, and how he would always succeed in lightening the mood, sometimes just by walking into a room. And then there was his little niece - he loved her to bits, and she reminded himself of him for there was a fiery, fierce area inside of her whilst she was also soft and lovely and Thorin had no doubt in his mind that she would become a lethal warrior in her future years. In all honesty he had no doubt about that when it came to any of them.
Kara was running through the kitchen at this moment, dragging a wheelbarrow behind her full of plastic balls that were falling all over the floor because as she ran she was laughing hysterically and jostling it with her jumping. Fili was behind her chasing her a lot slower that he could go to make her feel faster and also give her a game, just like he knew she loved and he was giggling at her excitement. She was about to round the corner when her other brother jumped out and she squealed in exhilaration, abruptly halting in her tracks.
"Kili!"
The brunette squatted down and she jumped into him, knocking both onto the floor. She attempted to tackle him and he let her knock him onto his back, pinning him down where he then threw his hands in the air. "I surrender!" he exclaimed with a grin as Kara grinned victoriously and rolled off of him, Fili coming over to join them with a smile glued on his countenance.
Dis then cleared her throat and so the three whipped their heads around and ended their play for a moment, understanding that this meant pay attention. They reminded Thorin of soldiers in an army, reinforcing how he knew they would be perfect in war some day. "Me and your father have to go and visit somebody who resides in Bree at this moment." She announced. "Thorin has agreed to watch you until then. Can you be good for him?"
"Of course." The ten year old blonde answered.
"Who is it, mama?" Kara questioned.
She shrugged at her daughter. "You will see if he agrees to come here."
"Is it a pirate?" Kili questioned. "Tell me its a pirate."
"Or a hunter." Fili offered.
"None of the above." Dis chuckled. "You will see."
It was the sound of a door being kicked that awoke Kara.
She slowly shifted in her bed and sat up, eyes flying open. The girl considered waking up her brothers or uncle and decided to do so. She slowly turned the handle to her uncle's room and clambered onto the bed, prodding his legs but he didn't shift. "Uncle?" She asked and began to shake him. "Uncle?!"
The four year old's eyes widened and she slid numbly off of the bed, saddened by the thought that he didn't care enough to wake up for her. The princess startled at another loud thud and dashed into the room that her brothers shared before bounding onto one of the beds like a dog, shaking Fili hastily. He, however, wouldn't awaken. She began to panic. "Kili?" She said loudly, switching beds and tugging on the dark mane of her youngest brother who too didn't jump up to help her.
She exited the room frantically in concern that something had been done to he family and crept through the kitchen when the noise continued and stepped outside, sneaking to one of the garage doors where she knew it was coming from.
It was pitch black outside and she could feel the chill of the night air creeping up her spine as she crept on her tiptoes, wondering about what to do next. She longed for her uncle to be by her side at this moment, especially when she knelt down and peered round the corner where the wooden door was vibrating because of some force behind it.
She was about to turn and flee when it finally plummeted to the floor under the pressure, causing a shockwave of dust to emit into the air. Through the dust, however, she could make out the silhouette of the largest figure that she had ever seen in her life. He looked black though and she could detect no colour, though she supposed it was because of how dark it was outside.
She began to move back with a small yelp of terror when the face of the figure whipped in her direction and made almost a growling sound, one that she had never heard before in her small life. He continued towards her so she in turn moved further and further back until her spine was pressed against a tree and he was able to close the distance between them with minimal effort.
Her eyes widened and her breaths grew rapid as he knelt down in front of her and held onto her wrist. "Come with me, little one." The voice was deep, rumbly and completely unfamiliar, but the sound of it alone terrified her and she couldn't even make out what he looked like in the dark. Without thinking, she found herself nodding for the thought of putting up a fight and ending up with a slit throat made her stomach whirl at her young age.
He lead her by the wrist through the pitch black, tied her to what felt like a large dog and lead them away from home.
Thorin, meanwhile, was frantic. What in mahal's name were Dis and Karan going to think when he explained that he had lost their daughter in the middle of the night and he had no idea how, where she was and who was responsible?! He hadn't felt well when he had woken up this morning, having felt a throbbing migraine and it had been a lot later than he thought. He had gone to awaken his niece who he had found gone, and was now running hastily to his nephews room.
He shook Fili who stirred slightly and cracked open his eyelids, vision seeming hazy for a moment until he realised he had just woken up from a slumber.
"Uncle?" He asked Thorin who was shaking Kili who did much the same as his brother. "What time is it?"
"After lunch." The exiled king answered, gesturing for them both to hurry up.
"Is Kara awake?" Kili asked.
"I don't know where she is. Did you see her last night?"
"She's missing?" Fili asked in alarm, throwing the duvet over him and standing up on shaky legs. "And why are we up so late?"
"I have no idea." Thorin answered. "Get dressed."
He then ran down the stairs and began to search the bottom of the house, yelling for his niece. "Kara, this isn't funny!" A tiny part of him hoped she was going to dive out of the cupboards and announce that it had been a prank, but to his deepest dismay, this wish did not come true.
He noticed a piece of paper on the table and frowned, pointing to it and muttering to himself that it wasn't usually there. He picked it up and read it, stomach flipping upside down when he got to the end.
Dollhouse
Bring Phoenix sword
Thorin stared at it for a moment longer before tossing it to the side in absolute anger, knowing what the stupid orc was planning to do there. A plan clicked into place and he decided to call for backup to a couple of dwarves and hope that he could find a babysitter for the boys. He knew it would take him at least about a week to get to where he needed to go on foot, so he planned to ready his pony and ride out as soon as possible, to fix what he let happen.
Kara awoke on a bed. It was nothing interesting; a plain white bed surrounded by white walls, a white ceiling and a white floor, the only hint of decoration the cracks or the splashes of mud and these weren't even intentional.
She crawled towards the white door in terror and drew herself up onto her shaky legs before banging on the entrance as hard as she could. "Hello? Hello?! Uncle? Fili? Kili?!"
The door was swung open by a being who didn't look to be the size of the figure that she remembered seeing last night; rather he was smaller and didn't look to be the race of an orc. He was more of a man and had short hair which was unheard of in dwarves so at her young age the educated guess would be to suppose he was a man, and he had lines of what looked like paint all over his face as though he was trying to create some sort of mask to compel her, or to feel more savage...she had no idea what that was all about.
"Hello Kara." He greeted in a deep, rumbling voice. "Naomi will see you now. She's very very excited to meet you."
"Naomi?" Kara asked.
"No questions." he hissed. "The rules around here are simple; listen to what I say, follow my instructions without complaint and you will survive. I'm sure yer family has taught you how to use good manners?"
"I guess." She mumbled in a squeaky voice.
"Come."
She followed Flux left and down a long corridor with many different doors on either side of the only two walls that seemed to be in the place until they made it to the room near the very end; it appeared to be the only one with the door open and she could already see the vibrant colours of the carpet and walls.
She entered cautiously and looked around, but there was nothing present aside from a bunch of toys scattered messily all over the floor. She smiled at a cute sheep plushie and bent down to pick it up, brushing the cobwebs off of its ear. It looked so alone.
I miss my uncle. She thought to herself. I miss Fili and Kili, and mama and papa. When are they coming?
The girl was terrified and slumped to the floor, hugging the toy close to her chest until a high pitched laugh from behind her startled her.
"Heehee. Hello Kara. My name's Naomi."
Kara stared at her for a moment; she was extremely small and wore a green daisy flower headband over her long dark brown locks that reminded her a lot of Kili, had bright blue orbs, dark eyebrows and her outfit was a black and white stripy top with black tights and a black skirt underneath.
"Hello." Kara whispered, almost inaudibly as the girl in front of her laughed.
"You're so cute!"
Kara decided the best take on the situation that confused her to no end was to use good manners and be polite, like her mother had always taught her. "You are too; I like your headband."
Naomi laughed that creepy, high pitched laugh again that for some reason sent a shiver up Kara's spine. "Fluxy boo, she is so, so cute! Can I keep her for me? Please, Fluxy boo, please?"
"Of course. You can have anything you want."
"Um, keep me?" Kara asked in confusion. "I'm my own person, I'm not a doll or anything. We can be friends but, I mean..."
"I'm so happy you're here!" Naomi interrupted with an excited squeal as she reached a hand forward to curl one of Kara's locks in her finger, making her feel slightly unnerved. "I think we're going to be really best friends."
Kara frowned. "But I need to get back to my other family."
Naomi tilted her head. "But you're other family left you. They didn't wake up when you needed them; if you go back it will be the same when you're older. You'll be dead in the space of thirty minutes."
"I don't think that's true!" Kara argued. "Fili and Kili love me; they're the best siblings I could ask for, if you're my new sister then you can come back to the cottage and meet them."
Naomi squeakily giggled. "Oh Kara. Silly little Kara. Tell me more; I want to hear everything about your brothers."
"Ok." Kara smiled at the topic. "Fili has blonde hair and bright blue eyes and he takes care of me all of the time, best big brother I could ask for! He stops me from dying most of the time. Kili is older than me but younger than Fili and It's my favourite thing ever when we play, even though one of us always gets hurt. He has dark hair and brown eyes. I love them both to bits Naomi, and I promise if you come and meet them you would love them too!"
Naomi laughed. "I will never meet them."
Kara furrowed her brow. "Why?"
"Because they will never come here and I'm not leaving my home! Now play with me and you will get dinner tonight. Remember, you're my favourite Kara."
The girl swallowed the tears that she knew were coming and nodded. Something in the back of her mind told her not to anger this child. "Ok. What do you want to do?"
"Look around." Came the answer. "Find us a plushie."
Kara shakily dipped her head and began to rummage through the draws, pulling out many different random items and throwing them onto the floor in a pile. She pulled out a ring with a bunch of keys on and frowned, showing them to Naomi who's head fired up.
"Leave them alone, sissy." She bit out. Kara raised her hands defensively and put them back in that draw before kicking them all closed, not saying anything more of the matter. The next two items that made her frown were the only two things in the bottom draw. One was a beautiful red stone; she ran a finger over it, admiring its beauty as Naomi watched her intently. She then observed the other one - it looked like a glue gun base with a needle sticking out of the end.
"What are these?" She questioned, seating herself in front of the girl with her legs crossed.
Naomi reached forward and grabbed at the stone. "This belongs in a sword. It's supposed to torture people." She whispered, cocking her head in admiration before drawing her eyes up creepily to meet Kara's who gulped.
"Oh." Came the small response.
"And this is a device. My mummy gave it to me - she was the witch that made it and I've been trying to find the right person to try it out on first. If it works I'll have a clone of someone who is my favourite. I'll have more toys!"
Kara swallowed, remembering Naomi's earlier words. Remember, you're my favourite Kara.
Oh, she wanted her mama.
"That person isn't me, right?" She was honestly scared to ask.
"Of course not, silly!" Came the conformation as Kara sighed in relief. "But we can do it on someone else in case you get bored of staying here."
"But I'm not staying here! My family are going to come and get me."
"You're choosing them over me?"
"I love them!" She blurted. "And I met you about an hour ago!"
Naomi's temper flared. "Flux!" She screamed, Kara slamming a hand over her ears at the surprisingly loud sound.
The person being called entered the room and grabbed the startled princess by the arm before dragging her out. Kara had a moment to glimpse around the place - there was a long corridor yet she could see the end, and could also see many doors along both walls but looking the other way there was generally nothing. The end door was the front door, she supposed. It was nothing new from what she had seen earlier. There were also pictures along the wall but there only seemed to be two styles; one was Naomi staring up at the camera in her usual black and white top and the other was a different girl with the same flower headband as Naomi but her hair was bright blonde and her eyes were bright blue. In all honesty, she looked a lot more pleasant than Naomi.
The sound of a heavy door crashing open entered her ears and she peered up, wriggling in his grip as she watched the heavy, thick door slowly close by itself. She was dragged down about seven steps until the sound of a metal door banging open also came and she was on some sort of freezing cold floor in the space of a second, wearily watching Flux storm up the steps and out of the door.
She blinked. What the...
"Hey, I'm Raven." A voice interrupted her and she jumped, spinning to her left where through the bars she could see a little dwarfling, about her age, in another cage. Realisation hit her and her eyes began to dart around the place, realising that there was a whole row of cages, two rows (there were some above, on top of the ones the bottom) each one containing a child. Raven frowned at her when she stayed silent. "Did you make Naomi mad too? She didn't like it when I wouldn't play with her so she put me in here, but I don't like it in here. I want to go back to the orphanage!"
Kara spun to him and observed the little lad. He had dark raven hair so she supposed the name fit, and two bright red eyes that made her grimace slightly. "You came from an orphanage?"
"I did." He confirmed.
"Why did they bring you here?"
"They think I'm evil. Everyone in here has red eyes. Except Lana, of course."
"How do we get out of here?"
"We've tried so many things. It never works. Our families never came. I'm sorry, but you're stuck here."
"My family will come." Kara snapped, a tiny part of her doubting what she had just said. Did they really love her? Was Naomi right? Maybe this is what they wanted for her; maybe she deserved to be trapped in this filthy place. It truly was disgusting; looking out she could see cobwebs in practically every inch of the room along with a bunch of boxes dumped messily in random places and she wondered why nobody would clean them, unless this was their idea of decoration because there was nothing else in here except an eerie dead silence, and misery.
"I'm sorry for my snapping." She whispered. "You didn't do anything. You're stuck here too." She then twirled around and faced the other cell where a little girl sat with long blonde hair and a flower headband. She noticed at this moment that everybody she had met so far appeared to be a dwarf, but they all looked so un-dwarfy, just like she did, but then again she was only the tiny age of five and her brothers always told her that she had a lot of growing to do. It made her feel better that Kili didn't looked very dwarf like either.
"I, hello, I know you, how do I know you, where do I know you from?" She frowned as she tried to remember until the remembrance eventually struck her. "Wait no, you are from those pictures upstairs! You know Naomi!"
"You must be new here." The girl answered. Kara could tell by her size and the shape of her ears that she was a dwarf, but almost looked to be a mix of something else too. "Naomi gets tired of her toys very quickly. But mummy brings us bread every day. You'll get used to it."
"Wait, I...I'm a but confused. Why are you down here? Are you Naomi's sister?"
"I'm her big sister, Lana. But she was very jealous of me. We used to live in a big house but one night Naomi set the whole place on fire and we ran away because our mum and dad died in the flames, and we met an orc on the run who took us, noticing that Naomi had two red eyes so she was evil and he liked her evilness so he got Flux to find more and trap them down here whilst Naomi kept the cloning device safe. She's a very smart child is my little sister. He also wants the phoenix sword which Thorin Oakenshield has so he can add the stone and trap the Durin Line in it to beat Azog who just wants to kill them."
"I'm Thorin's niece!" Kara exclaimed.
"You are?" She asked in surprise.
"Me and my brothers live at home but I think they think I'm evil because I have a little red in my eye and I guess that's why Garluk brought me down here because he thinks I'm like you guys but I'm not evil, I'm good, you know what I mean?"
"Maybe they're just using you as bait to lure Thorin here and trade you for the phoenix sword." Raven suggested as the realisation hit her at the truth of that statement.
"Maybe you're right! We can't...no, we can't stand for this! We can't let them bully us, I am going to get all of you out of here, just wait!"
"Shh." Lana hissed suddenly. "Flux is coming."
Kara smiled at the opportunity and ran to the door, gripping the bars with two little hands. "Hello Flux, I need to talk to you because there must be some sort of mistake or something going on as I didn't mean to make Naomi sad or mad or anything. I just thought my uncle was going to come and I wanted to see him. You have to understand that, but I'll do whatever it takes to make things right again between me and Naomi, I promise, I promise to be good if you just let me out of here, please Flux!" She begged.
"I need to ask Naomi, but she seems to have taken a particular liking to you."
"I really really love Naomi too, that is why this is so upsetting for me, Flux, to be down here I thought me and Naomi were really good friends, and you know what? She is like a sister to me too, she really really is."
Flux nodded and opened her cage, throwing her some bread before doing the same to the other cages and then departing.
"Ok, listen to my plan everybody, Flux will go upstairs and tell Naomi I love her which I promise is a lie but we need to lie to get out and then when she lets me out I will come down here when everyone is asleep and help you all get out. I think I know where the keys are."
The kids all cheered as Lana sighed. "We've tried so many times to escape; it's impossible. But thank you for wanting to try. Oh shh, I think Flux is coming back."
"Kara!" The man called, swinging open her cage. "Come with me."
"Coming Flux, I'm coming!" She called as she stepped out of the open door.
"Good luck." one of the boys murmured as she tilted her head at him. Now he was definitely a man. "I'm Bain by the way."
She smiled at him, liking the look of his curly locks before jolting back to reality. She didn't think she had ever seen other breeds before. "I promise I'll be back for you." She whispered before running up the stairs after him. "Naomi." She entered the familiar bright room and stared at the little girl who had her arms crossed, staring Kara dead in the eyes. "Hello."
She did her creepy little laugh and tilted her head. "That guy you think is coming, he is your uncle?"
"Yes, that was my uncle his name is Thorin and he was the king of Erebor and my mummy's name is Dis and daddy is called Karan, and then I have my brothers Fili and Kili who are my best...uh, no, you're my best friend Naomi, you."
"But if you're really my sister then you shouldn't have your own mummy and daddy and siblings."
"But they're my family." She replied with a frown. "I mean, I can't really change that..."
"If you want to be my sister you need to say goodbye to all of them."
"But how can I do that if you won't let me see them again?"
She did her giggle and shook her head. "Oh, Kara, you need to write them a letter and tell them that you have found a new family and never want to see them again. They left you, wouldn't even wake up when you needed them. They don't love you."
"How do you know that?" She spat before realising that her plan wasn't going to work if she argued. "I mean, ok Naomi I'll go write the letter straight away."
She plodded away in sadness. Even if she was right, Kara was determined to see her family again and ask them herself.
Meanwhile, in the darkness outside, Thorin continued to ride his pony with his companions following along behind. He knew the orc who was responsible, having watched him and Azog fight which was rare - orc and orc as enemies was unheard of. Then Thorin himself killed Azog so he wondered what still made the orc so mad. Why would he want to destroy his kin if he only wanted to to beat Azog who died? Then again, Thorin supposed, he was an orc.
Dwalin and Balin rode behind, Fili and Kili asleep in Balin's arms. A part of Thorin had worried that the orcs would attack whilst he wasn't there and take his nephews too, and without the time to think of a plan he had reluctantly brought them along for the ride.
Bofur, Nori, Gloin, Bifur and Oin also rode with them nearer to the back. Thorin was thankful for the amount of loyalty and kindness his friends truly showed him.
Even in the midst of crisis, they had each other.
Ummmm, yeah!
So Naomi is a lil bit of a psycho as you can probably tell, as are Flux and the darn orc but, ya know, that's the point! There are multiple reasons for the babies being captured to be honest, because they want to clone them and Garlek wants to keep Naomi working for him by satisfying her with many toys whilst he creates his little army of weapons, we could call them.
And about the oc's - the ones we meet, which will only be like three, might show up again in the future but the rest are just there with red eyes but otherwise that no apparent reason. They aren't all dwarves, some of them are men and there's one or two elves, but that doesn't really matter. And yes, you saw the name Bain in there ;)
Hope you enjoyed! :)