A/N: MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE ELSE! And if you're atheist then I hope you are having a good day. My brother and I both love chocolate and reviews so feel free to review about what you hate, love, and think I can do better! Enjoy!
Chapter 6: How are spiders and elves alike?
The next morning as we were walking, Thorin called me up to the front," Tell me what you make of this," he said simply, handing me his sword. I lifted it and tested its weight, balance, and length.
" It's well-balanced, light, and a good length. Made by the elves so it won't get rusty or dull easily. Not many nicks or scratches either, so I'd say it's a very good blade," I replied smoothly, handing it back to Thorin. He have me a weird look, and I shrugged, walking back to my twin.
My brother smirked," Clueless," he whispered, making me punch his arm. He rubbed his arm and shut up as we kept walking through the darkness of Mirkwood," Why is it so creepy here?" Nick asked quietly. I punched his arm and pointed at some huge spiderwebs. He gulped nervously and nodded," Oh, that would explain it," he whispered.
I rolled my eyes and tried not to think about the giant spiders that live in Mirkwood. The giant arachnids were always my least favorite part of the book, mostly because they could talk, and spiders were creepy enough without being able to talk.
Later that day, we came across a dark river," Well, this is just perfect. How are we gonna cross?" Nick snapped, already irritable from an empty stomach. I squinted to where I could see a boat on the far shore and pointed it out to the others. After several minutes of arguing, we began trying random ideas to get the boat over to our side.
Eventually, Nick got bored and had to "relieve his bladder" then dragged me off into the bushes. I just glared him down for several minutes while he tried to find some sort of food in the pockets of his black leather coat," You do realize that if they wander off without us, I'm going to kill you and leave your corpse for the spiders, right?" he nodded slowly the whipped my one true weakness. Ghirardelli caramel chocolate squares. Never in my life, had I been so glad to see chocolate," Nick, hand over the chocolate, and no one gets hurt," I threatened, slowly extending my hand to take the deliciousness that my twin was holding.
Nick grinned and set the chocolates down on my upturned palm," Wise decision my twin. You shall live to see another day," I said calmly, stuffing the small box into my pocket," Now, let's go find the others!" I laughed, racing back to where we had left the dwarves and Bilbo to find no one there. I knelt to the ground and noticed lots of boot prints in the dirt, all of them headed for the bushes. " Well, looks like we have to hunt them down. C'mon Nick!" I sighed, charging into the bushes and following the tracks.
After tracking the dwarves for what seemed like hours, their tracks suddenly shifted and became those of a monster only seen in my nightmares," The giant spiders have them. We need to hurry so we can help Bilbo face the horrid monsters!" I said, turning to my brother who was wheezing from all the running.
" Can you please not run so much or at least not so fast?" Nick gasped, looking a lot like a fish on dry land.
I shook my head and took off in pursuit of the giant spiders and my short friends. Suddenly, the sounds of very angry spiders came from up ahead," Look!" I hissed, grabbing Nick's shoulder and pointing to where I saw Bilbo fighting his hardest against some giant spiders. I drew my sword and charged forward as I heard Bilbo cry," I shall call you Sting!" and begin fighting off the spiders with great enthusiasm. I leapt over a fallen log and sliced a spider in half right before it could bite Bilbo. He looked up at me then grinned. I gave him a crazy smile and began slashing at spiders as Nick stumbled into the clearing," This one has a sting as well!" a spider hissed, probably looking at me.
" That I do ugly!" I shouted, stabbing it in its ugly face. I whirled around and slashed another spider across its eyes then ducked as Nick hurled a rock at my head," What the hell?" I yelped, ducking as he launched another stone at my face," What are you doing?" I yelled at my twin.
He pointed behind me," Spider behind you!" I whirled around, sword gleaming in the dim light and heard the soft snick of the blade cutting a spider in half.
I grinned at my brother as the last spider fell," Next time, just yell spider," I sighed. Bilbo, Nick, and I then began freeing the dwarves from their spiderweb cacoons. As soon as I freed Thorin, I swear there was something in the venom from the spider that had stung him because he kissed me hard on the mouth then let me go and stumbled over to where his sword was lying on the ground.
I shakily stumbled over to my brother and grabbed his shoulders firmly," Did that really just happen?" I asked before promptly passing out in my brother's arms. It was then that the elves of Mirkwood decided to promptly kidnap us all and toss us all in separate jail cells. When I woke up, I was alone, weaponless, and sitting in the dark with my hands tied in front of me. I pushed myself to my feet, stumbled over to the door of my cell, and looked out at the rather handsome elf who was guarding me. I smiled as sweetly as I could and called out to him," Hey," he looked at me," Where am I?" I asked calmly.
The elf glared at me," In prison, where you belong," he growled.
I gave him a look that said " yeah, I can see that stupid" and asked," Where am I? Other than in prison."
The elf glared me down," In King Thranduil's palace."