Here is chapter 11. It's a short one, I know. Next one I'll try to make longer. Please review and say what you think about it.

This chapter is based on a few fanfics I've read about Bilibo being captured by Azog and Thorin to the rescue and a fanfic where Bilbo fell in the water and Thorin saved him. Sorry but I don't their titles anymore, so if you see something and think "Hey that looks like my story", you know that maybe I've based my story on that.

PS: at some point, I've accidentally putted a horizontal line in the story that doesn't belong there. Please ignore that.

Thorin paced around. He tried to sit down but immediately stood back up and started to pace again.

He heard how Balin sighed. 'Thorin, I'm sure Maddie is fine.'

'Then why has she not yet returned?' Thorin asked. 'I'm not leaving without her.'

Three hours had passed since Kili and Fili had returned with the message that Maddie was following a trail of a wild boar and would return soon.

Three hours had passed since then and there was still no sign of her. Thorin worried about his friend. Checking whether a dangerous animal was still around couldn't take this long. What if the wild boar had attacked Maddie by surprise?

A few bushes cracked.

Thorin turned around to see that Dwalin, Fili and Kili had returned. About half an hour ago he had ordered them to search for Maddie. 'Well?' Thorin asked.

'We found her tracks… ,' Kili started. '…and we followed them until they disappeared near the river,' Fili continued. 'She wasn't there, but we found a…'. Fili, Kili and Dwalin exchanged worried looks.

'What did you find?' Thorin asked, afraid of the answer.

After a few more moments of silence, Dwalin answered: 'A dead Orc.'

Maddie tried to open her eyes, but shut them again when a wave of pain was sent through her head. She tried to remember what had happened.

She had been following the trail of a wild boar until she had come across the river. And then an Orc had appeared out of nowhere.

Maddie opened her eyes (this time successfully) and tried to move. She had to warn Thorin and the others that the Orcs had caught up them. The sky around her was pitch-black.

She wanted to get up, but noticed her hands were bound to her chest with a silver chain. The chain had been decorated with several runes.

Maddie summoned a spell in order to release herself, but it didn't work. In fact, the chain became even tighter, like someone had removed a few rings of the chain.

Then, a voice laughed behind. 'Magic won't save you now, little Warlock.'

Maddie turned her head and looked right in the eyes of Azog the Defiler. He was sitting on a trunk next to a fire with a dozen other Orcs around him. Further away from her were two other fires with Orcs around it.

Azog stood up and walked towards her. 'My scout told me how you had managed to kill Bruclmad, so I took the necessary precautions,' Azog continued in Black Speech. Maddie understood everything he said.

Azog stopped walking after reaching her and smiled sickly. 'You see, if you try to use a spell, it won't work and it will only make it more difficult for you to breath.'

Merlin had once told Maddie he had been captured by Morgause and had been bound by chains that shrank every time you used a spell. It seemed Azog possessed a same sort of chain.

Without a warning, Azog kicked Maddie in her stomach. Maddie would have screamed, if the air hadn't abandoned her lungs with Azog's kick.

'Tell me where Thorin Oakenshield is!'

Maddie shook her head. 'I'll never tell you.'

Azog just smiled. 'Stubborn. Just like your father.'

Maddie stared at Azog in shock. 'My father?' she asked in confusion. Azog knew her father?'

Azog nodded. 'Yes. I managed to kill him thanks to his stubbornness. And because of his dead, your mother died too of grief, leaving you and your brother as orphans. I just took your father by his hear and chopped his head off.'

Maddie didn't know her past. She didn't know a thing about her parents. But still, hearing Azog tell how he killed her father, made her angry. She managed to kick azog with her legs and also tried to conjure a few spells, with no result, except that the chain became even tighter.

Azog didn't feel any pain of Maddie's kick. But Maddie's boldness did make him furious. He grabbed Maddie by her throat and lifted her up.

Maddie struggled in Azog grab, but he didn't let go of her. Instead, his hand squeezed her throat shut. Maddie couldn't breath and slowly dark spots appeared before her eyes.

Suddenly, Azog screamed and let go of Maddie.

Maddie fell down on the ground. She gasped for breath and looked up.

An arrow with yellow feathers stuck out of Azog's arm.

Thorin sat impatiently behind a few bushes. He saw how Azog and a few of his men were sitting around a campfire. He had noticed Maddie lying a few metres away from the Orcs, unconscious and tied up in chains.

Thorin really wanted to rush out, kill Azog and save Maddie, but he knew that wouldn't do any good. He would most likely be killed before he could say Azog's name. So he sat behind his bushes alongside Fili, Kili and Dwalin, waiting for Gandalf's sign to attack.

Suddenly, Maddie started to move. Thorin heard how Azog laughed and said something to her.

Then Azog stood up, walked towards her and kicked Maddie in her stomach. Thorin tightened his grip around his sword.

Azog asked Maddie something, but she shook her head.

A few minutes later, Maddie kicked Azog and shouted some spells at him. Thorin watched in amazement. Maddie was really a brave one, he thought. She was still trying to fight, even when she was chained and captured by a group of Orcs.

But Thorin's amazement soon turned into fear as he saw how Azog grabbed Maddie by her throat and lifted her up.

He just turned his head towards Kili to tell him to grab his bow and try to shoot Azog, when he saw that Kili had already done it. A yellow-feathered arrow stuck out of Azog's arm.

It had no use hiding anymore, for the Orcs had now been alerted about their presence, so Thorin jumped out of his bushes and attacked. He heard how Kili, Fili, Dwalin and the others who had been hiding elsewhere, followed his example.

Thorin stabbed the first Orc on his path and the second one he beheaded.

Then he heard Gandalf shouting his name. Thorin looked up and saw him fighting at other end of the camp. 'Thorin, get Maddie out of here!' Gandalf shouted and turned around, for an Orc was about to stab him in the back.

Thorin looked back to the place where he had last seen Maddie. She was still lying there, but her eyes were closed and she wasn't moving.

He quickly rushed to her sight, ignoring his fear and telling himself that she was alive.

When he dropped to his knees beside her, Thorin noticed that Maddie's chains were very tight around her. Quickly he used his sword to break the chain and pulled it from her.

Maddie didn't move for another few seconds, but then her eyes fluttered open and she gasped for breath. Thorin felt incredibly relieved to see Maddie was still alive.

He then grabbed her arm and pulled her up. 'Run,' he said. 'We need to run.'

Maddie opened her eyes and saw Thorin stare down upon her. he seemed relieved.

He then pulled her up by her arm. Maddie stumbled a bit, but then found her balance again.

'Run,' Thorin said. 'We need to run.' He then grabbed her by her hand and pulled her away from the fight, into the forest.

'What about the others?' Maddie asked.

'They'll be fine. We need to get you of here first,' Thorin answered, but Maddie knew he would rather fight with his men, than leave them to their fate.

Suddenly they heard growling and screaming behind them. Maddie and Thorin turned around. Two Orcs were following them on their Wargs.

Maddie raised her hands and shouted: 'Flamare'.

Fire appeared in front of them and the Wargs backed away, scared of being burned.

Maddie grabbed Thorin's hand again and said: 'Come on. The fire won't hold them off for long.'

And so they ran again through the forest. Maddie head hurt, but she didn't say anything about it. She just hoped that Thorin knew where they were going.

That hope was proven false, for after a few minutes, they stumbled upon a cliff. Maddie could see a river floating in the deep.

She and Thorin wanted to go back into the forest and run into another direction, but out of the bushes appeared the two Orcs.

Maddie watched the Orcs on Wargs and quickly realized that this was a fight they could not win. She didn't have any weapons and was weakened, and Thorin couldn't handle two Orcs and two Wargs all by himself.

Maddie glanced back down the cliff again. There was only one way to go. 'Do you trust me?' she asked Thorin.

After a small hesitation, Thorin nodded.

Then, Maddie pushed Thorin off the cliff and jumped after him.

It felt like hours before she reached the water, but when she finally did, she gasped because the water was ice-cold.

Maddie heard how the Orcs screamed above her in their defeat. She started to swim towards the shore. But then she realized she didn't see Thorin.

Panicked she shouted his name and looked around her. No answer or sight of him.

Maddie then dived in the water, desperately hoping she would find him. No result.

She tried again. But her hope was fading. It was dark underwater and the need for air became stronger.

Just when she was about to give up, her hand touched a body.

Quickly she grabbed it, and swam to the surface. She then saw that it was indeed Thorin in her arms.

She pulled his unconscious body above her, so he wouldn't swallow any water again, and then started to swim towards the shore, using mostly her legs.

She dragged Thorin's body on the dry land. There, she pulled him in a sitting position and slapped a few times on his back.

After a moment, life came back to Thorin and he started to cough up water.

Angry he looked at her. 'Why did you do that, pushing me off that cliff?' he asked. 'Dwarves can't swim. They don't like water.'

'I'm sorry,' Maddie apologized. She truly hadn't known that Dwarves couldn't swim. 'It was the only way to escape.'

After a few moments, Thorin agreed. 'Let's go and find the others he said.'

Two hours later, they caught up with the rest of the company, who had managed to escape the Orcs as well. Together they kept running through the night, hoping they would outrun the Orcs.