Chapter 13
Goblins and the Escape
I watch as Goblins came running towards us. I saw Fili take Stacia from Bofur and hid her in his coat. I sent him a smile of thanks before getting dragged out of the cage with the rest of the company. Thorin was in front of me as we were led through pathways. Anna was fighting along with the others and Thorin was protecting me from the Goblins as we came to the platform where the Great Goblin sat on his throne with a mace that had a scull on top of it. He stepped down from the throne, squashing goblins as he stepped down.
"Who would be so bold as to come armed into my kingdom? Spies? Thieves? Assassins?" Great Goblin said.
"Dwarves your Malevolence." Grinnah said.
"Along with these human girls." Another Goblin said, shoving Anna and me forward and making us go on our knees.
"Human girls and dwarves?" The Great Goblin said.
"We found them on the front porch." Grinnah said.
"Well, don't just stand there, search them! Every crack, every crevice." The Great Goblin said. I heard a squeal and tried to get up, but was shoved down.
"We found this one among them. Looks like a daughter of one of these girls." A Goblin said, bringing over a squirming Stacia.
"Let go of me!" Stacia yelled, kicking the Goblin right where it hurt. The Goblin screamed in pain and dropped Stacia. Stacia ran into my arms and I brought her close holding her to me. She burried her face in my chest. The Goblin raised a hand to the girl, but I grabbed it and squeezed.
"Don't you dare. Lay a hand on my daughter." I said, feeling the bone snap and the Goblin runs off. I saw pride in Thorin's eyes as I held our daughter close to me.
"What are you doing in these parts? Speak!" The Great Goblin said. None of us responded and Stacia clutched my tunic. "Well then, if they will not talk, we'll make them squak! Bring out the Mangler! Bring out the Bone Breaker! Start with that child." The Great Goblin said, pointing at Stacia. I shielded Stacia with my body as Goblins came towards us.
"WAIT! Don't you lay a hand on my daughter." Thorin said, stepping forward.
"Well. Well. Well. Lokk who it is. Thorin, son of Thrain, son of Thror, King under the Mountain." The Great Goblin said, doing a fake bow. Thorin didn't look amuzed at what the Great Goblin said. "Oh, but I'm forgetting, you don't have a mountain. And you're not a king. Which makes you nobody really. I see you've been busy seeing you have a daughter and a wife. I know a courting braid when I see it, but the girl looks more like your wife then you. I know someone who would pay a pretty price for your head. Just the head, nothing attached and I'm sure he wouldn't mind to have your family as servants either." My eyes widen at his words as I clutched Stacia even close to me. "Perhaps you know of whom I speak, an old enemy of yours. A Pale Orc astride a White Warg." Thorin looked up in surprise and disbelief.
"Azog the Defiler was destroyed. He was slain in battle long ago." Thorin said. I heard hear and anger in his voice.
"So you think his defiling days are done, do you?" The Great Goblin laughs as he turns to another Goblin. "Send word to the Pale Orc, tell him I have found his prize along with a couple of gifts." The Goblin wrote it down and disappeared on the rope. The Great Goblin turns and looks at Anna and I, who held a shaking Stacia in my arms. "Send them back to the group." We were pulled to our feet and pushed to our friends. Fili took Anna in his arms and held her close as Thorin pulled me close. Stacia burried her face in my neck, crying.
"Ssh. Stacia. I won't let them take you." Thorin said, rubbing her back. He kissed my temple. "Are you alright, my love?" Thorin asked as the Goblins brought out the torture devices.
"I'm scared. What will happen if Azog comes?" I ask, looking in Thorin's eyes as he pulled me close.
"I won't let him take both of you. I promise." Thorin said. We started getting pushed around. I kept close to Thorin and held Stacia close to me as the Great Goblin started singing while the Goblins looked at the weapons that had been taken from us.
"Bones will be shattered, necks will be rung! You'll be beaten and battered, from racks you'll be hung. You will ie down here and never be found, down in the deep of Goblin Town." The Great Goblin sang. I watched as Grinnich picked up Thorin's sword and unsheathed it and squeals as he drops it, reconizing the sword. There were shrieks as the Great Goblin ran to his throne climbing up on it.
"I know that sword! It is the Goblin-Cleaver, the Biter, the blade that sliced a thousand necks." The Great Goblin said. I was yanked from Thorin's side and cried out as a whip hit my back. I saw Thorin try to reach me as I bent to shield Stacia hiding her face in my chest so she didn't get hit. I saw Thorin throw off a Goblin and get tackled to the ground.
"NO!" I cry out, trying to get to Thorin.
"Slash them! Beat them! Kill them! Kill them all! Cut off his head." The Great Goblin yelled.
"DADDY!" Stacia screamed.
"THORIN!" Fili, Kili, and I yelled. A burst of light came and I landed on my back, shielding Stacia as everyone was knocked down. I picked up my head as did the others to see a man approaching us with a staff and a pointy hat.
"Gandalf." Anna said from my side.
"Take up arms. Fight. Fight!" Gandalf yelled. I set Stacia down, who was scooped up onto Fili's back as we rushed to grab out weapons.
"Mariah!" Thorin yelled. I tossed him Orcist as I grabbed my weapons. I swung my sword hard and killed a Goblin that was coming at me to my back. Thorin pulled me to my feet and kissed me hard. We pulled apart and started fighting. Anna was guarding Fili's back as he fought, protecting him and Stacia from the Goblins.
"Stay on Fili's back, sweetheart." I said. Stacia nodded.
"He wields the Foe-Hammer, the Beater, bright as Daylight!" The Great Goblin yelled from where he laid, pointing at Gandalf.
"Get off me you bastards." I said, yanking goblins off my back and throwing them over the edge. Oin grabs his hearing trumpet that was squashed from getting stepped on. Nori falls to the floor and the Great Goblin runs to him, swinging his mace.
"NORI!" Ori yelled. Thorin jumps forward and deflects the Great Goblin's blow, causing the Great Goblin to stumble back and yell as he falls off the edge of the platform and into the depths below as we all continue to fight.
"Follow me. Quick! Run!" Gandalf yelled. I stayed behind Fili to make sure my daughter wasn't hurt as we ran down the pathway leading out of the throne room, cutting down goblins as we ran, hundreds of goblins following us as ran. "Quickly." Dwalin and some others cut a guard rail from the path and holds it out in front of them.
"Charge!" Dwalin yelled as I grab on and we all ran, knocking dwarves off with the guard rail as we ran. We dropped the rail and cut down more goblins as we ran. I spun in place, killing five goblins and continue running. Thorin running at my side. I look up as I hear snarls to see Goblins swinging on ropes.
"Cut the ropes!" Thorin yelled. Thorin, Fili, Balin, and I cut the ropes and they did like a pin wheel motion on a piece of wood and got tangled up. Anna and I let out a laugh.
"Nice one." Anna said. Kili grabbed a ladder as arrows were shot at him. He used it as a shield. "Seriously Kili." Anna and I helped him bring down the ladder and we ran with Goblins trapped. We saw a missing area in the pathway and bring down the ladder to use it, dropping the goblins that were trapped into the abyss below. We ran.
"Quickly." Gandalf said as we ran down the pathways. I saw Stacia holding onto Fili for dear life and cheering him on as he fought. We came to a pathway suspended by ropes from above and jumped on it. Fili and I sliced the ropes and the pathway swings to the rest of the path.
"Jump." Thorin yells. Thorin and several of the dwarves jump off. Fili, Anna, Stacia, Gandalf, Kili, Bombur, and I stayed on the path as it swung back and Goblins jumped on. I shot a few with my bow and then we jumped off. Fili and Anna cutting the ropes and the pathway falls. We came to a bridge soon after that was between two walls of the cavern. The Great Goblin breaks through from underneath the bridge as we try to cross and pulls himself up onto the bridge. I took Stacia from Fili and kept my sword in my hand as Goblins approach us from all sides.
"You thought you could escape me?" The great Goblin swings his mace twice and Gandalf stumbles back, almost falling, but Thorin and Dwalin catch him before he does. "What are you going to do now, Wizard?" Dwalin and Thorin push him forward and Gandalf hits the Great Goblin in the eye. The Great Goblin drops the mace and cries out in pain as he clutches his eye. Gandalf steps forward and slices the Great Goblin in the Belly causing the Great Goblin to fall to his knees, clutching his belly. "That'll do it." Gandalf swings his sword and slices the Great Goblin's neck, causing him to fall down dead.
"Mommy!" Stacia said as the bridge cracked.
"Thorin." I said, reaching for him and he pulled me close with Stacia in my arms and the bridge falls. Stacia clung on as the bridge falls. Stacia's screams were the loudest of us all. I clung to Thorin and held onto Stacia with my other. We fell down and landed at the base of the cavern. Stacia falls from my arms and out of the debris as Thorin lands on top of me.
"You ok?" Thorin asked as Gandalf got out.
"Yes." I said, kissing him gently.
"Well, that could have been worse." Bofur said. The corpse of the Great Goblin fell on us and I gasped for air as Thorin was pressed to me.
"You've got to be joking." Dwalin said.
"Bofur. Really?" Anna yelled.
"Can we do that again! PLEASE!" Stacia said, jumping up and down as Thorin pulled me out.
"I think I lost my stomach back there." I said. Thorin chuckled and scooped up Stacia, kissing her check, earning a giggle from her.
"Gandalf!" Kili yelled. We looked to see maybe thousands of goblins heading our way.
"There's too many! We can't fight them." Dwalin said.
"Only one thing can save us. Daylight! Come on! Here, on your feet!" Gandalf said, helping some to their feet. We all ran to get out of there. This quest was getting more interesting by the minute.
AN: There's that chapter and a long one. LOL. Hope you all enjoyed. :)