It took the company over a week before they managed to find the bridge the wizard had mentioned they would need to cross over in order to stay on the correct path. How they were going to cross it was another story. Bella, Bilbo and Bofur approached the end of the bridge and stared down at the stream below. " Ooh. We could try and swim it." Bofur suggested.

"You're joking right?" Bella asked tiredly.

"Well, how do you suggest we get to the other side, lass?" Bofur retorted.

"Definitely not by swimming through that." The young woman growled. The dwarf waved her off not in the mood to argue with her. He would leave that up to their brooding leader. Bella glanced to her side to see the hobbit slowly starting to lean towards the stream and she had to yank him back away from the edge.

" We have to swim it. What choice do we have?" Bofur protested.

"Didn't you hear what the wizard told us? A dark magic lies upon this forest. The waters of this stream are enchanted. We must find another way to cross it." Thorin ordered, finding it difficult to keep his eyes open. They felt heavier then normal. Even with rest the night before, it felt like he hadn't slept in days.

"Doesn't look very enchanting to me." Bofur trailed off.

"These vines look strong enough." Kili spoke up, tugging on the nearest vine. The rest of them came up behind the young Dwarf prince to check it out and saw they could climb their way across. Kili was about to be the first one to go when Thorin stopped him.

"Kili! We send the lightest first." Thorin declared. All their heads looked in Bilbo's direction who was not looking at all pleased about this.

"Really? You're going to send the hobbit across?" Bella protested, grabbing hold of a nearby vine, gripping it tightly when she felt herself wobble from the dizziness she felt.

"He's the lightest Bella, now get away from there. You could fall." Thorin barked.

Shrugging her shoulders, the young woman climbed onto the first vine. Kili and Fili tried to grab her, but she was out of their reach.

"Bella be careful!" Fili warned. Thorin gritted his teeth in anger, this woman really knew how to push his buttons. The leader walked over to stand by his nephews, watching the half-breed struggle her way across.

"Bella are you doing alright?" Kili asked, watching with concerned eyes as she continued to make her way across.

"I'm super." She said back, her breathing heavy from the exhaustion she already felt. Bella suddenly slipped on a slimy spot of the vine, letting out a surprised shriek as she caught herself and the Dwarf king lunged onto the first vine and followed the same path as the woman took. Bella awkwardly jumped and managed to land on the stone platform, on her hands and knees. She crawled a few inches and sat down. The air suddenly seemed even more heavier, unbreathable almost. "Something's not right." she hissed to herself. " Something's not right at all. Stay where you are! Oh..."

Bella was to late to warn the others. They were all coming at once, behind their leader. The woman just sat there, lost in thought when Thorin landed near her. She got up and didn't fail to notice the glare forming on his face. "What?"

"Is it that hard for you to follow an order?" He growled lowly at her.

"I made it across didn't I?" She retorted.

Thorin came even closer to her, his face just inches from hers and he grabbed her arm in a way that wasn't firm. " Bella, when I give an order everyone is to follow it, that includes you as well."

"Or you'll do what? You don't command me."

Before the Dwarf king could scold her on her ignorance, both of them heard the sound of snapping twigs and their heads turned in the direction ahead of them. Out came a white stag. Thorin had let go of Bella's arm and drew his bow with an arrow at the ready.

"What are you doing?" Bilbo asked quietly, now standing between Bella and Thorin. Neither of them had heard the hobbit even make it across yet. Thorin's eyes never left the stags when he shot the arrow and it missed the animal. "Shouldn't have done that. It's bad luck." he added.

"I don't believe in luck. We make our own luck." He hissed in a tired voice. Suddenly their was a loud splash and all three of them see that Bombur had fallen into the enchanted stream and was now in a deep sleep.

"What do you call that?" She challenged. Thorin stomped away, brooding as usual and finally told the others to go find anything they could use to make some sort of bed to carry the poor sleeping Dwarf.

The company wandered around the forest for another week. Unaware they had been going around in circles. Sometimes they would find things they lost days ago and think their were other Dwarves, besides themselves in this cursed forest. Another week went by and they felt like they were clawing for air. They couldn't even remember what day it was anymore and they were out of food. If they didn't figure out how to get out of this accursed forest soon, they would most likely die of starvation if something didn't get them before that happen.

Thorin declared they all take a quick rest and then they needed to get back to looking for the path. They had to get back on the path. Bella sank down beside the leader on the fallen log. Her head was spinning, just trying to think, hurt her head too much. Minutes went by and the few that were able to pull themselves up from the ground, began the search once more for the path. They returned but with no clues as to where the path had disappeared to.

Bilbo was off by himself, looking at the tree's curiously. They were layered in thick sticky webs but what he noticed more then anything was how quiet it was and the fact that their seemed to be no sign of animals of any sorts since they saw that white stag over a week ago all their was trees. Trees and more trees. The woman rubbed her eyes, stretching her face, even slapped herself a few times just trying to keep herself awake. Thorin suddenly got up, clearly seeing something.

"There." The leader murmured as he shoved his way through the others. "This way!"

"But Gandalf said-" Oin tried.

"Move! Do as I say! Follow me!" Thorin commanded. The others started stumbling behind their king, while Bella and Bilbo stayed put.

"Wait! Stop! Come back!" Bella shouted.

"Stop! We can't leave the path! We must stay on the path!" Bilbo pressed, but they were gone. Bella and Bilbo stood there alone, the woman looked around the eerie forest and suddenly felt a bad feeling. The two of them ran to catch up to the others.

By the time they caught up. Thorin and other Dwarves were standing around trying to figure out what way to go next. " Lost again?" Bella spoke from behind them.

"I'm not lost!" Thorin growled at her. " We need to keep heading East."

"But which way is East? We've lost the sun!" Oin told them, looking towards what little light came from the cracks in the branches, which wasn't much.

"Sun. We have to find the sun." Bilbo muttered to himself as the dwarves began bickering back and forth at each other. Seeing he wasn't going to get anywhere with the others he began to climb up the tree. Thorin was still, listening to his men bickering at one another, until he heard another voice...more like voices.

"Enough! Quiet! All of you!" Thorin yelled, gaining their attention. "We're being watched." Bella furrowed her brows at that. The Dwarf King had to be hearing things. She didn't hear any other "voices" except for theirs. She was about to demand what gave him the idea that he thought they were being watched when the Dwarves one by one, began getting snatched by something in the trees. The woman pulled out her sword, only getting a few yards down the path when she screamed and she blacked out completely.

Bella wasn't sure how she was still breathing. All she remembered was seeing this giant, ugly thing coming towards her and she felt a sickly darkness go through her. She was sure she was dead, but then if she were dead. Why could she hear the shouts and shrieks of her companions around her? A better question was: why couldn't she seem to open her eyes? Or move around? Bella could feel she was in a confined space.

"Bella? Bella! Come on open you're eyes lass!" Dwalin's voice shouted at her, shaking her. She could feel the violent shakes and Dwalin's voice echoing in her head and finally her eyes shot open. The warrior didn't give her time to even look at the sticky stuff she was covered in, as he yanked her up on her feet. Bella spotted her sword and ran over to it and picked it up and made her way back into the bunch when she heard a roar coming from behind them and she stopped to look.

It was spiders. Giant spiders! Why did it have to be spiders? Was all Bella could think of. Give her Orcs, Wargs.. even Goblins. Give her anything but giant spiders! Thorin saw the woman had froze at the sight of the dozen that were coming at them and he had to yank her by the arm to get her to run. More were coming from all sides, forcing the dwarves to fight if they wanted to survive. The woman swung her blade, letting out a battle cry as she sliced through the beast, as it fell down in front of her.

Thorin was fighting off two spiders of his own. He killed the first one, it's guts spilling out everywhere. He whirled around to kill the second when it knocked him down to the ground and his sword, Orcrist landing a few feet from him. The dwarf began backing away, towards his sword, when the arachnid pulled him by the leg away from his weapon. Thorin tried to grab onto anything he slid by to yank himself out of the creatures hold when Bella came yelling towards them and sliced the legs that held the dwarf king. The spider retreat backwards, screeching in pain. The woman went to finish it off when it caught the end of the blade in it's grasps. Thorin made hast for his sword as the spider flung the woman around violently as she held onto her sword. The leader stuck his blade into the spiders body and it collapsed right on top of Bella who let a groan as she tried to push the dead weight off of her. "A little help over here!" Bella yelled. Thorin ran over to her and pulled her by her arms out from under the beast. " You couldn't have killed by not letting it land on me?" She hissed. The king rolled his eyes and the two of them ran to catch up to the others.

"Come on, keep up!" Dwalin shouted, as they continued running through the forest. Thorin was back in lead of the group, seeing that they appeared to be clear for the time being when Thorin came to an abrupt halt as another hideous monster showed itself. Thorin held his sword at the ready, when something with silver hair running through the treetops caught his attention.

And Elf had quickly descended down the spiders webbing, with more of his kin backing him up. Leaping from branch to branch to interfere. The dwarves gripped their swords and axes tightly, not even getting a chance to make a move when the elven soldiers aimed arrows right at their heads, from all directions.

"Do not thing I won't kill you, Dwarf. It would be my pleasure." The Elf sneered. Thorin glared at the prince. The elves moved in to begin disarming the dwarves. Bella was still fighting off a spider that had approached her. She was going to strike it down when an arrow came flying through the air, killing it instantly. The woman turned around to see who had killed the creature and her eyes widen to see her companions surrounded by elves. She didn't get more then two steps when an arm wrapped around her throat, putting her in a choke hold. Her hands immediately dropped her sword and grabbed his arm trying to remove the threat but she found it useless and she did the only thing possible and bit him in the arm.

"Ow!" The elf yelled, removing his arm and grabbing hold of the woman by her clothing and dragged her over to the others. "This one bit me!" He hissed tossing her before their prince. Legolas placed the tip of Orcrist, under her chin forcing her to look up at him on her knees. The elf prince narrowed his eyes at her when he realized it was a woman, under all the spiders blood.

"What are you looking at princess!?" Bella snarled. Legolas glared down at her, the blade just touching her throat now. Thorin tensed and looked from Bella to the elf. Legolas took a moment to calm down and removed the sword from the half-breed and shouted some sort of order in elvish to his men. The soldiers each took a dwarf, wrapping elvish rope around their wrists. Thorin turned to look at Bella.

"You bit him?" He questioned, sounding surprised.

"What else was I supposed to do?" She replied bluntly, still on her knees when Legolas yanked her up from the ground.

"Thorin where's Bilbo?" Bofur whispered in passing as the elves began leading them to their kingdom.