Gasping for breath turned around slowly gaping at Smaug's corpse laying in the hot gold. Slowly Hadrian walked towards Smaug's corpse with a sense of disbelief. Slowly the other dwarfs crept towards Hadrian beaming grins on their faces.
Once Thorin reached Hadrian he declared in a loud voice, "in thanks to Hadrian dragon slayer for freeing the line of Durin form the greatest calamity of the age I pledge to personally insure that all elven artefacts, book's, jewellery and anything else of elven heritage in any of the dwarven kingdoms is returned to the elves"
Smiling softly Hadrian nodded in thanks to Thorin before saying, "Where is Bilbo?" blinking in surprise the dwarfs spun around looking or Bilbo until a small voice called out, "I'm coming" turning to the source of the voice Hadrian spotted Bilbo clambering up one of the huge piles of gold.
As bilbo drew closer Hadrian shivered slightly as a sence of malevolence and anger emanated from Bilbo's pocket. As Bilbo walked towards them a familiar light began to spark in Thorin's eyes. Shivering Hadrian remembered the last time he had seen that light was in the eyes of Thror.
Turning to Thorin Hadrian asked, "if it is not too much of a hassle would you please locate the library of Erebor for me as I have long suspected that the artefact, I have been searching for is in one of the Dwarven library's" nodding absently Thorin turned to head deeper into the mountain as he replied, "of course and if you find the Arkenstone will you bring it straight to me?" nodding to Thorin Hadrian was pleased to see that the further away from bilbo Thorin was the smaller the crazy light in his eyes got.
Quickly walking over to Bilbo Hadrian grabbed Bilbos shoulder and lead him of in the opposite direction from Thorn. Startled by Hadrian's abrupt action Bilbo went to protest Hadrian dragging him of when a sharp look from Hadrian silenced him.
Once Hadrian had dragged bilbo of into a secluded guard room of off the treasury he turned to Bilbo and asked, "can I see your ring?" as soon as the question had left Hadrian's mouth bilbo had plucked the ring out of his pocket holding it tightly to his chest and began looking for a way out of the room.
Recognising the symptoms of being affected by a powerful magical artefact Hadrian forcefully removed the ring from Bilbo's hand and slipped it into the mithril blood rune box the three elven rings of power and the four Dwarven rings of power glinting darkly for moment before the simple golden ring slipped into the box and the lid slammed shut with crack.
As soon as the lid shut Hadrian gasped as the prevalent call to the sea that whispered in the back of every elf's mind faded into a soft whisper that unless Hadrian listened for could barley be heard. Gasping bilbo stepped backwards looking up at Hadrian in horror.
Shacking violently Bilbo asked "what just happened?" smiling sadly down at Bilbo Hadrian explained, "you were in possession of the one ring and when I decided to place in in the mithril blood rune box it knew that its chances of returning to Sauron would drastically shrink. So, in a last-ditch attempt to escape it tried to take control and twist your mind."
Pushing Bilbo forward Hadrian continued saying "don't tell anyone of this and go get a hot drink from Bofur" nodding Bilbo shakily wandered back to where the dwarfs where setting up a camp. Talking a deep breath Hadrian marvelled at how much brighter the world seemed to be with the one ring's power safely locked away.
As Hadrian wandered through the piles of Gold, he came upon a familiar chest slowly opening the lid Hadrian gazed down at the starlight gems with a fond smile before closing the lid and carrying the chest back to the camp.
Upon reaching the camp Hadrian was pleased to see that the dwarfs had cleared an area of ground enabling for everyone to sleep on a flat surface rather than trying to compete with the bumpy coins and sharp gems of the treasury.
Setting the chest down besides his bed roll Hadrian was surprised when Fili came up to him and said, "uncle wants to see you in the library." After quickly peaking over his shoulder at bilbo to ensure that the little hobbit was holding up Hadrian followed Fili into the library.
Entering the library Hadrian was surprised that the library was in such good condition rows upon rows of books written in Khuzdul lay in giant stone bookcases that stretched from the floor to the ceiling which was at least 15 feet tall. Every inch of the gigantic book cases were filled with books and the occasional pile of scrolls.
As Hadrian followed Fili into the labyrinth that the Dwarfs called a library the sounds of Thorin and Kilis voices began drifting towards them.
As Hadrian rounded around the corner, he heard Kili ask Thorin, "why would the greatest treasure the dwarfs ever took from the elves be an old roll of parchment with gibberish scribbled on it." Shaking his head Thorin replied, "over 20 elves gave their life to try and prevent this parchment from leaving elven hands." Pausing for a moment Thorin ran his hand over the parchment before continuing to say, "the parchment is probably enchanted preventing any non-elf from reading it as a last-ditch security measure."
Picking up the parchment Kili pulled it open revealing the title the Map of the three hidden Elven cities. Gasping in shock Hadrian rushed forwards gently prying the map from Kili's hand's while softly muttering, "I can't belive it really survived" with great reverence Hadrian lay the map on the old stone table and unravelled it revealing a map of Arda.
Gazing down at the map Hadrian's eye was immediately drawn to Gondolin a amazingly detailed depiction of the white city rested Gondolin sat right in the middle of the southern end of the blue mountains, Then further west lay Nargothrond and to the south lay Menegroth in southern end of the green woods.
Quickly rolling the map back up Hadrian herd Kili and Fili ask Thorin, "Why is Hadrian so excited about a roll of parchment?" turning to his nephews Thorin replied "because Hadrian can access the information on the scroll without going mad."