Greenwood's Queen
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Greenwood's Queen
Seven: Trolls & Packs
Billa rolled her eyes when Fili and Kili were chuckling she knew they were trying to scare her when she heard the wargs. She didn't expect it would anger someone though.
"You think that's funny?"Billa turned to Thorin. "You think a night Orc raid is a joke?"
"We didn't mean anything by it." Kili told him.
"No you didn't, you know nothing of the world." He told them walking away. Billa looked at him leaving before Balin came forward to make the boys feel better.
"Don't mind him laddie, Thorin most of all has cause than most to hate Orcs." Balin said. They turned to look at Thorin leave "After the dragon took the Lonely Mountain, King Thror tried to reclaim the ancient Dwarf Kingdom of Moria, but our enemy had gotten there first, Moria had been taken by legions of Orcs, led by the most bile of all their race, Azog the Defiler, the Giant gone to battle sworn to wipe out the line of Durin, he began by be-heading the King, Thrain, Thorin's Father was driven mad by grief, he went missing taken prisoner or killed we do not know, we were leaderless, defeat and death were upon us, that is when I saw him." Balin said with a smile and they all turned to Thorin.
"A young Dwarf Prince, facing down the Pale Orc, he stood alone against this terrible foe, his armor went wielding nothing but an Oaken branch as a shield…Azog the Defiler learned that day that the line of Durin would not be easily broken." Balin told them and Billa smiled. "Our forces rallied and drove the Orcs back, our enemy had been defeated but there was no feast or song that night for our dead were beyond the count of grief, we few had survive and I thought to myself than, there is one who I could follow, there is one I could call King."
Billa saw the respect the other Dwarves had for Thorin. But she had one question since she knew that even with the ring
"The Pale Orc what happened to him?"
"The Slug went back into the hole from hence he came, that filth died from his wounds long ago." Thorin answered her. Billa looked at Balin and Gandalf who shared a look.
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Billa was surprised and she looked at the place wondering where Gandalf was since he had disappeared after getting angry at Thorin.
"He's been gone a long time." Billa told them.
"Who?" Bofur told her.
"Gandalf."
"He's a wizard he does as he chooses." Bofur said. "Here do us a favor and take this to the lads." Bofur said giving her two plates for Fili and Kili who pretty much had been grounded by Thorin to take care of the ponies. She took the plates to see them standing there.
"What's the matter?"
'We're supposed to be looking after the ponies." Kili told her.
"Only we've encountered a slight problem." Fili said.
"We had sixteen."
"Now there's fourteen." Kili finished.
They began to look for the horses and Billa looked at them.
"Shouldn't we tell Thorin?" Billa asked.
"No let's not worry him." Fili said. "As our official burglar we thought you might want to look into it."
'Well, look something big uprooted these trees." Billa told them.
"That was our thinking." Kili told them.
"Something very big and possible quite dangerous."
"Wait, there's a light." Fili said. They went to look and Billa couldn't make it out.
"What is it?"
"Trolls." Kili said and Billa worried she had seen some in her travels it had not been pretty. She knew they must be the remaining after the destruction of Mordor. They were all running and saw that they had taken other ponies.
"We have to do something." She told them.
"Yes, you should." Kili told her. "Mountain Trolls are slow and stupid and you're so small they'll never see you."
"No…no."
"We'll be right behind you." Kili told her.
"If you run into trouble hoot twice like barn owl, once like a brown owl." Fili told her pushing her in.
"I don't think this is a good idea." But she had to go they had Myrtle and she had been a present for her.
"Mouton yesterday, Mouton today and blimey if it don't look like Mouton again tomorrow." She heard one of the Trolls says.
"Quit your whining these aren't sheep." The other Troll tells him.
"I've never like horse, I never have not enough fat on them." The other troll said.
"Better than the farmer all skin and bone he was." One of the Trolls said. "Still picking him out of my teeth."
"Achoo."
"Lovely that is, a floater just what we need."
"There more where that came from."
"Oh no you don't." Billa saw one of the Trolls stick his fingers up the others nose and she had to get her knife from inside her jacket.
"Shhh." Billa breathed in and went to get her knife before letting one of them off from the back.
"Everything tastes the same, like chicken…." Billa let another one off silently and they hadn't moved but she had to freeze when Tom she believed the Troll was moved and scratched his bottom, she looked away. Before she was going to the other horse's fence when something grabbed her.
"Ah! Ah!" And then Billa was covered in boggers. "Blimey, Bert, Bert! Look what's come out of me hooter, it's got arms and legs and everything."
"What is it?" Bert said.
"I don't know, but I don't like the way it wriggles around." Tom said.
"What are you then? An oversized squirrel?" William asked.
"I'm a burglar-hobbit." Billa said.
"A burglar hobbit?" Tom asked.
"Can we cook him?" William asked.
"We can try." Tom said.
"He wouldn't make any more than a mouthful. Not when skinned and boned." Bert said and Billa was worried.
"Perhaps there are more burglar hobbits around these parts. Might be enough for a pie." Billa began to run for it.
"Grab her?"
"She's too quick."
"Right come here, you little-." She was caught.
"Gotcha." They told her holding her upside down.
"Are they anymore of you little fellas hiding where you shouldn't?"
"No." Billa answered.
"He's lying."
"No, I'm not."
"Hold her toes over the fire, make her squeal." At that moment the Troll was hit and Billa heard a voice.
"Drop her."
"You. What?" the Troll asked him.
"I said…drop her." Kili said and Billa was thrown toward her.
The fight began and the others came as well, fighting and Billa got up and went to take the ponies out. Which she was able to do, finally before she was grabbed.
"Lay down your arms or we'll rip her in half." The Trolls told the Dwarves. Billa looked at them and wondered if they would actually do it. Thorin looked at the Hobbit and he was not happy. He laid down his sword causing the others to do so.
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They were in sacks, not only that but some were being turned to be cooked. Billa was trying to remember about Trolls. When she heard William tell the others that they couldn't be out all night, she even heard him they get turned to stone in daylight. She just had to distract them she was sure it was close to morning.
"Wait! You are making a terrible mistake." she said getting up. The Dwarves in the pit were telling her something but she ignored them jumping.
"I mean with the seasoning."
'What about the seasoning?" Bert asked her.
"We'll have you smelled them, you are going to need more than a lot of sage to eat this lot up." she told them.
'What do you know about cooking Dwarves?" William asked.
"Shut-up." Bert said. "I want to hear what the flurburglarhobbit talk."
"The secret to cooking Dwarf is…."
"Yes."
"Yes-it's um." She said trying to think of something. "The secret is to…skin them first." She began to hear all the Dwarves panic and throw insults at her.
"Tom, give me filleting knife." Bert said.
"What a load of rubbish, I've eaten plenty with their skins on." William said. Billa was looking when she saw Gandalf.
"There nothing wrong with raw Dwarf." Tom said picking up Bombur and about to eat him.
"Not that one-he's-he infected."
"You what?"
"He's got worms in his tubes, in-fact all of them are-their infested with parasites, nasty business I wouldn't risk it, I really wouldn't." She said and when the Dwarves began she rolled her eyes did they want to be eaten. She heard a kick and the Dwarves began to change their tune.
"What would you have us do then, let them all go." William said before poking her. "Don't think I don't know what you're trying to do, this little ferret is taking us for fools."
"Ferret." Billa said before she heard.
"The dawn will take you all!" she looked up to see Gandalf breaking the rock and letting the light of the sun shine turning them to stone.
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"No thanks to your burglar." Thorin told Gandalf.
"She had the sense to buy time." Gandalf told him.
"I didn't know Trolls traveled far this south." Thorin told him.
"We must have destroyed the last ones." Gandalf said because he knew they had gone hunting them down, just like Orcs and Goblins they weren't that many. "They couldn't have travelled by daylight."
"That means there must a Troll hoard near."
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Billa was waiting for the rest to arrive when she heard Gandalf come outside and he stood in-front of her.
"Billa."
"Yes."
"Here, this is about your size."
"Gandalf I have my bow and arrows." She told him.
"Which you can run out off and I know you are capable of handling a sword." Gandalf said knowing very well that Thranduil would have thought his mate his weapon of choice. "Plus this is of elfish made that means it will glow blue when Orcs or Goblins are nearby."
"But…"
"Remember Billa, true courage is not knowing when to take a life but when to spear one." Gandalf told her.
"Thank-you." Billa said.
"Something's coming!" Thorin said. Billa got the sword out and went with the others wondering who it might be.
"Radagast." Gandalf said. "Radagast the Brown."
"I was looking for you Gandalf, something is wrong, very wrong."
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"Someone is gathering the Orc's together in Dol Guldur."
"What, but the old fortress is abandon."
"No, Gandalf it's not, I saw Orcs being grown there I did not see the person but it is dark I have not seen this many Orc since the Ring was destroyed truly and Mordor fell." Before he could say anything more, they heard a noise.
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"Those aren't wolves." Billa said getting her bow and Arrows ready.
"I know lass." Bofur told her. They turned and saw a Warg, both her and Kili shot one that was coking.
"Warg Scouts, this means there isn't an Orc Pack right behind."
"Orc Pack."
"Who did you tell about your quest beside your kin?" Gandalf asked Thorin.
"No one."
"Who did you tell?"
"No one, I swear." Thorin said. "What in Durin's name is going on?"
"You are being hunted."
"We have to get out of here." Dwalin said.
"We can't, we have no ponies they bolted."
"I draw them away."
"These are Gundabar Wargs they will out-run you." Gandalf said.
"These are Rhosgobel rabbits I like to see them try." Radagst told him.
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The run began and everyone was moving, hiding from the Orcs and seeing that Radagast was drawing them off.
"Where are you leading us?" Thorin asked Gandalf but he didn't answer they just moved.
Billa on the other hand noticed where she was, but Gandalf wouldn't take them there. Kili shot one of the Wargs and the others took care of the Orc. They heard them coming and Billa had her arrows ready as they began to run again.
"This way quickly." Gandalf yelled at them.
"There's more coming." Kili said.
"Kili, Half-ling shoot them." Thorin said. Kili and Billa began to shoot arrows at Wargs.
"We're surrounded." Fili said.
"Kili, Half-ling run!" Kili and Billa did and as then went down, Billa heard a familiar horn. When the Orc dropped down she knew.
"Elves."
"I cannot see were the path leads do we follow it or not?" Dwalin asked.
"Follow it of course." Bofur said and everyone began to walk.
"That would be wise." Gandalf said and Billa looked at him, she knew where they had just arrived, which would be a little bit harder to hide. But she would get to see her friends.
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