"Where'd they go?" Dori asked.
They stood in a crowded street and had lost the three fangirls out of sight.
"There they are!" Balin said pointing to the other side of the street.
The dwarves and Bilbo could see the girls walking around the corner.
"Come on!" Kili said and he crossed the street without even looking.
Remarkably he made it without hitting any car, bicycle or any other object on the road. Bilbo wanted to point out how dangerous that was, but all the other dwarves were already halfway across the street.
"What...what are you doing...that's very very dangerous..." He muttered but no one heard him. "Ooh why didn't I stay in my hobbit hole?"
He took a deep breath and crossed the street.
"Aaaah!" "Hooo..."
After nearly being killed by a car and run over by a bicycle, he was on the other side.
"Hurry hobbit!" Dwalin said as the other dwarves had already moved on.
They found the others not too far away, standing in front of a house.
"They went in here." Nori said. "But how do we get in?"
"That is going to be tricky..." Bilbo muttered.
"Oooh come on guys, what if those monsters are planning on eating Fili and uncle?" Kili said weary.
He couldn't be more wrong, but let's not get ahead of things.
"Isn't there a back door, just like the Lonely Mountain?" Bombur asked suddenly.
"Bombur, that's brilliant!" Balin said.
The dwarves and Bilbo quietly walked to the side of the house and walked into the garden.
"Beautiful flowers here." Dori said while looking at some roses. "They don't seem like dwarf eating monsters."
"Don't be deceived by their appearance, elves usually have pretty flowers and stuff." Kili said fierce.
Finally they found a small green door at the back of the house. It wasn't locked.
"Who goes first?" Balin asked.
"Mister Baggins, he's the burglar." Kili said.
"All the sudden you seem a lot like your uncle." Bilbo said irritated.
But the good hobbit as he was, he accepted the task.
The green door led to a small kitchen. It smelled very nice and it remembered Bilbo of his own famous raspberry pies he used to make in his own kitchen.
Wait a minute... Bilbo thought. They aren't really planning on eating Fili and Thorin?!
Bilbo immediately tried to locate the smell. It came from an oven. He ran to it and just wanted to open it when he heard footsteps. As quickly and silent as a professional burglar, the hobbit hid behind the fridge.
"...should be done by now."
A teenage girl with light brown hair in a ponytail walked into the kitchen and looked through the oven's window.
"No almost ready, our guests have to wait a little longer on the pie!"
She walked out of the kitchen. Bilbo carefully walked back to the oven. He knew his next step, but it wasn't an easy one. He had to follow that girl. But before he could, the back door opened a little.
"And, have you found them?" Balin whispered.
"Not yet, but come with me!" Bilbo whispered back.
All the dwarves, now including Bofur, Ori and Gloin who had been fetched by Nori, came in.
"So this is where Thorin and Fili are been kept prison?" Ori asked.
"Yes, but come on, best not stay here." Bilbo whispered.
The twelve of them made their way through the corridor and that's where they stopped.
"Which way should we go?" Oin asked. "Upstairs or to the other rooms here?"
"I think we should split up." Bilbo said. "Ori, Bifur, Bombur, Oin, Gloin, Kili, you stay down, the others come with me upstairs."
"I want to lead the first group!" Kili said but still quite silent for him.
Everyone looked at him. "Okay...you do that." Bilbo said confused.
And so the first group with Kili at front disappeared into the nearest room while the second group lead by Bilbo went upstairs. They weren't even all the way up when they heard voices.
"...like some more tea?"
Some laughter was heard.
"Careful now..." Dori whispered as they walked up the corridor, their weapons tightly in arm.
"I'll make sure those lassies will never want to come near a dwarf again..." Dwalin growled.
"Calm down now, we don't even know if those girls meant any harm!" Bilbo said.
"They're in here!" Bofur, who had move on while the others were in their discussion, said.
The others quickly gathered around the door.
"How are we going to do this?" Balin asked.
Dwalin immediately kicked the door open and charged into the room. The others quickly followed his example. But after a few steps they were stopped by Dwalin, who stood still in the middle of the room.
There, in one of the corners were Fili and Thorin. They were chained to a chair with what seemed two necklaces. But that was not all, they were dressed in a pink and a purple dress.
"Oh finally get us out of here!" Fili yelled.
"They'll laugh at us first, you know that..." Thorin sighed.
Thorin was right, all the other dwarves and Bilbo had tears in their eyes from laughing except Dwalin who had an inner conflict on either to laugh or feel sorry for his dear friend. After a few seconds he chose to laugh as hard as everybody else.
And through all this, the three teenage girls looked bewildered as all of their heroes now stood in front of them. They started to yell again and this alerted the hobbit and dwarf.
"Let them go witches!" Nori screamed.
The free dwarves immediately charged the girls who screamed, but still laughed, and threw dolls at them. Bilbo ran to the chair and tried to free Fili and Thorin. He succeeded and Thorin reclaimed his leadership by announcing their departure. The eight of them ran down the stairs as quick as they could, screaming for the others to leave the house. The two groups met at the hallway.
"Uncle, Fili good to see...you..."
Kili looked with big eyes at his uncle and older brother.
"No time for that, run!" Bilbo said while he grabbed Kili's shirt and dragged him to the backdoor.
The now complete company ran into the garden and hid behind some big bushes. Not long after that, the three girls came outside, calling for the dwarves and hobbit. Disappointed they went inside. Thorin and Fili quickly got out of their dresses and kicked them into the ground.
"That was horrible..." Fili muttered.
"What happened?" Gloin asked with a grin on his face.
"Those girls dressed us, braided our hair and fed us all kinds of pastries." Fili said while he and Thorin plucked pink beads out of their hair.
Kili laughed so hard he fell on the ground. But after a few seconds he looked dead serious.
"Want me to braid your hair back to as it was?"
It was Dis, Thorin's sister and Fili and Kili's mother who had braid their hair before they went on their journey to reclaim Erebor and it was a very sensitive thing for dwarves to be braided by their own family.
"Yes please." Fili said with a smile.
Thorin just nodded. "But first we have to get as far as we can from this mad place."