Chapter 11
Escape
Fili's POV. I barely caught Bell as she collapsed in my arms. Oin was at my side at once.
"Bell." I said as she mumbled something I couldn't understand. I pressed a kiss to her forehead. She was safe in my arms now, but hurt and it was my fault.
"The wound is deep. I need my medical bag in order to wrap it up. We'll have to wait till she's out of here. She'll have to be carried." Oin said. I nod that I understood as I scooped her up in my arms, bridal style as the Goblins started pushing and shoving us as the Goblin King started to sing. I could see torture things heading our way as the Goblins went through our weapons at the same time.
"Bones will be shattered, necks will be wrung! You'll be beaten and battered, from racks you'll be hung. You will lie down here and never be found, down in the deep of Goblin-Town." The Great Goblin sang. He wasn't that good of a singer. A Goblin's screech came and I looked to see them drop Thorin's sword on the platform. I swore in dwarvish. The great Goblin runs to his throne, trampling many goblins on his way. He points to the sword as he talks, "I know that sword! It is the Goblin Cleaver, the Biter, the blade that sliced a thousand necks." Great Goblin said. Goblins began to whip us and I bent over to protect Bell as I grunt as a whip hits me in the back. I gasp in horror as Goblins tackle Thorin to the ground. "Slash them! Beat them! Kill them all! Cut off his head!" Dwalin and Kili start pushing to get to Thorin as one of the Goblins holds up a knife to cut off his head. I hand Bell over to Bifur, who takes her and rushes to help, but a bright light comes knocking all of us, including all the Goblins to the ground. I look up to see a figure with a large pointy hat come out of the dust as the light vanishes. We all look at Gandalf in amazement.
"Gandalf." I said.
"Take up arms. Fight. Fight!" Gandalf yelled. I scrambled to my feet and ran to the pile of weapons. I grab mine along with Bell's. I pulled out my twin swords and slash at a Goblin that came my way. I saw Bifur shift Bell so she was on his shoulders so that he could fight and carry her. I trusted him with her. Swords and weapons were getting tossed left and right. The Great Goblin sees Gandalf's sword and points his way.
"He wields the Foe-Hammer, the Beater, bright as daylight!" Great Goblin yelled. Kili and I were fighting back to back, killing Goblin after Goblin, keeping close to Bifur and Bell to protect Bell. Oin grabs his hearing trumpet along with his medical bag. Nori lands on the floor and the Great Goblin runs at him, swinging his mace.
"Nori!" I yell. Thorin jumps forward and deflects the Great Goblin's blow causing the Great Goblin to stumble backward and fall off the edge of the platform. We fought sword to sword and took Goblins as if they were standing still.
"Follow me. Quick! Run!" Gandalf said.
"Bifur. I'll carry her." I said. Bifur handed Bell over to me as I put away one of my swords and Kili helped me adjust her so that she was on my shoulders and I can hold her with one hand and fight with the other. We cut down goblins around them as we run along a pathway leading away from the Goblin's throne room. We kept running through the suspended passageways of GoblinTown, with Goblins running after us.
"Quickly!" Gandalf called from the front.
"Faster!" Dwalin yelled. Bofur was behind me with Gloin in front.
"Post!" Dwalin yelled. Some of the dwarves that were in the front cut a guardrail from the side of the path and hold it out in front of them like a spear. "Charge!" My friends charge the coming goblins and sweep them away with the rail. They drop the rail and Dwalin pulls out his axes and begins to knock aside the goblins. I shift Bell so she was still on my shoulders. She grumbled and I knew she was still out or she would have made me put her down by now. I elbow a goblin that comes for Bell and it falls into the darkness below.
"Cut the ropes!" Thorin yelled. I saw goblins swinging at us on ropes. Thorin, Gloin, and I cut the ropes holding a raised platform in place. The platform falls outward, entagling the goblins on the ropes.
"Kili." I yell, seeing him getting shot at with arrows. He grabs a ladder and uses it as a shield to catch the arrows. He drops it on the oncoming goblins. I chuckle at my brother. Him and other dwarves run forward, pushing the ladder and the goblins it has trapped in frotn of them. We approach a missing area of the path. The goblins fall down into the darkness and we use the ladder as a bridge to cross. I was the last to cross and I kicked it down into the darkness.
"Quickly!" Gandalf yells. We run through the maze like paths. I continued to fight the goblins off as they came my way. Kili was fighting at my back. Bell was still situated on my shoulders. We came to a path that was suspended by ropes above. Thorin and Dwalin cut the ropes and the pathway swings away from the rest of the path, approaching another one.
"Jump!" Thorin yelled. Several of the dwarves manage to jump. I was one of the few that stayed with Gandalf as the path swings back to the other path and goblins jump on. We swing back to the path that the other dwarves were on and we jump on the path. I sliced the ropes causing the swinging path to fall into the darkness taking the goblins with continue to run along the path. Gandalf strikes a rock above us with his staff, causing the rock to fall down and begin rolling in front of us, squashing goblins on th wya. We approach a bridge between two walls of the cavern.
"Hold on, love, we're almost out." I said, as we cross the path. The Great Goblin suddenly breaks through from underneath the bridge and pulls himself up onto the bridge in front of us. We stop as hundreds of goblins approach us from all sides.
"You thought you could escape me?" Great Goblin said. He swings his mace twice, causing Gandalf to stumble back, but Thorin and Dwalin catch him before he falls. "What are you going to do now, wizard?" I take Bell quickly into my arms and hold her close. Gandalf leaps forward and strikes the Great Goblin in the eye with his staff. The Great Goblin drops his mace and screams in pain as he clutches his face. Gandalf steps forward and slices the Great Goblin in the belly, causing him to fall to his knees, clutching his belly. "That'll do it." Gandalf slices his sword at the Great Goblin's neck, causing him to fall down dead. I sigh in relief.
The relief was short lived as the bridge starts shaking. The section of the bridge of which we stood on breaks away from the rest of the bridge and starts sliding down the side of the cavern. I hold Bell close as I hold on. My yells join my friends yells as we speed down the cavern's wall, demolishing everything in its way. It slows down and lands at the base of the cavern. Bell falls out of my arms and onto the ground. Gandalf gets up from the pile, checking on Bell and picks her up. I struggle to get loose as Gandalf turns to look at us.
"Well, that could have been worse." Bofur said. Suddenly a huge weight falls right on top of us and I saw it was the Great Goblin's corpse as I groan in pain.
"You've got to be joking." Dwalin said. I free myself and hurry up to Gandalf, who hands me Bell right away. I kiss her check, happy that she wasn't more injured from the fall.
"Gandalf!" Kili yelled. I look up to see thousands of goblins running towards us.
"There's too many! We can't fight them." Dwalin said.
"Only one thing will save us: daylight! Come on! Here, on your feet!" Gandalf said. The dwarves help free themselves and we run off, following Gandalf. We run and found an exit from the cave. We ran into daylight and down a hill. I come to a stop near a stone and set Bell on the ground. Oin joins me as Gandalf counts all of us.
"Get the shirt a bit off the shoulder, lad." Oin said. I did what I was told and Oin sighed in relief. "Its not to deep and not infected. She's one lucky lass that the blade wasn't poisoned." Oin wraps her shoulder up. She was starting to awake. Her beautiful green eyes came open and I smile.
"Hello, beautiful." I said as Oin finishes and I gather her in my arms.
"Hello, handsome. Are we out of the GoblinTown?" I ask.
"We are. Your safe." I said, leaning down and capturing her lips with mine and we kissed.
"Where's our Hobbit?!" Gandalf yelled, making us pull apart. We look around. Everyone was here, but Bilbo was missing.
AN: There's the new chapter. Almost done with the first movie. I got major plans for this story coming up. Till next time.