Escape to Lake-town!
I don't own Digimon or the Hobbit
"Damn. Should have kept my ring on," Daisuke thought as she glared at the Elf who stood in the way of her escape.
"I'll ask again human, what are you doing here and how did you get in here?" she asked.
"Through the front door, the guards you Elves have are rather poor at their job," Daisuke answered with a smirk. "And as to what I am doing in here, I'm getting the weapons for my friends and we're then getting the hell out of this place."
"I would like to see you try, but you're not going anywhere so come with me." The elf said grabbing Daisuke's arm.
"Not on your life." She replied kicking the elf in the leg hard before headbutting her and she heard a crunch and looked up to see blood gushing from her nose, the elf held her nose before looking at the blood and she opened her mouth to shout but Daisuke tackled her to the ground. "Also shut up." Daisuke hissed punching the elf in the face hard and she was knocked out. "Too close, now we really need to get out of here." she thought grabbing the sack of the other's weapons and she slipped the ring on and both she and the sack turned invisible and she ran off to the dungeons.
"I'll wager the sun is on the rise, it must be nearly dawn." Bofur said sitting against the wall in his cell.
"We're never going to reach the mountain, are we?" Ori asked in hopelessness, the company all slumped in defeat.
"Not stuck in here, you're not." Daisuke whispered appearing in front of Thorin's cell and she held up the keys with a grin causing Thorin to look at her in surprise as she quickly pocketed the ring before anyone saw it.
"Daisuke!" Balin exclaimed making the others all stand up and look through the bars of their cell and begin to cheer.
"Quiet! There are guards nearby!" she whispered loudly before unlocking Thorin's cell and she smiled before running over to let the others out starting with Balin.
"You are full of surprises lass," the old Dwarf said.
"Eh, I'm nothing that special," she replied.
"Quick close the doors it'll buy us some more time before they know we're gone." Thorin whispered as Daisuke let the others out and was hugged by Veemon.
"I was so worried," he mumbled into her chest.
"I'm fine buddy, now let's get out of here." Daisuke whispered as she walked over to Kili's cell and frowned before she opened the door and Kili grinned before she punched him in the gut. "Next time don't flirt with the people keeping you locked up, it only makes you look more stupid then you already are," she hissed before walking off.
"What the heck was that for?" he asked Fili who sighed and helped his brother up.
"She has a point brother, flirting with one of the Elves who captured us really wasn't that clever," he answered.
"But I don't see why she was angry about that," Kili replied making his brother facepalm and mumble something under his breath.
"Enough talking, follow me," Daisuke whispered heading down to the wine cellar.
"Uncle you explain to Kili why Daisuke is mad with him," Fili whispered.
"She's just mad that I talked to an Elf, why would Uncle need to explain?" Kili asked.
"He really doesn't get it, does he?" Veemon asked Bilbo who shook his head in reply. "Then again Dwarves are stubborn so perhaps they can't tell a girl likes them unless someone tells them."
"Even then it might take more than just telling them," Bilbo replied as they headed down to the cellars. "The cellars?" he whispered.
"You're supposed to be leading us out not further in," Bofur whispered to Daisuke.
"I know what I'm doing," Daisuke whispered back.
"Shush," Bofur replied and Daisuke's eye twitched as she looked at the sleeping Elves and the several empty bottles of wine around them.
"Oh, before I forget," she whispered grabbing the sack of weapons she left in the cellar so she wouldn't drop it. "I managed to get your gear," she told the company opening the sack who all shared a look.
"You've got guts lass," Dwalin whispered grabbing his weapons.
"Nah, these Elves are just really lax with their security." Daisuke said intentionally leaving out the fact she beat up the female Elf and left her in the armoury where anyone could find her. "Oh, and Kili I couldn't find your arrows so I had to settle for elvish ones, hope that is ok since these are better crafted then yours."
"I'll manage," he replied giving his uncle a look. "Why is she mad at me, did I do something wrong beside talking to the Elf?"
"I think she is upset because she feels you do not care for her feelings," Thorin whispered confusing his nephew further.
"What feelings?" he asked.
"Now is not the time, we should focus on escaping," Thorin answered as Daisuke walked towards the barrels that were stacked up.
"Quick everyone in the barrels," she whispered.
"Are you mad? They'll find us," Dwalin hissed.
"No, they won't. Trust me please, you have to do as I say," Daisuke replied and the others looked at her and began muttering to each other and Daisuke looked at Thorin.
"Do as she says," he whispered and the company sighed and began climbing into the barrels with their weapons.
"Now what?" Bofur asked sticking his head out his barrel.
"Hold your breath." Daisuke answered as she pulled the lever and the floor beneath the barrels began to move sending the barrels rolling down into the water below and she jumped down before the floor closed and she landed in the water and was pulled up by Nori.
"Nice work Daisuke," Thorin said and she grinned. "Come on let's go." He told the company and they began to swim in the barrels until they fell down a waterfall. "Hold on!" he shouted.
"Well at least we all won't need a bath after this," Veemon said with a laugh before they heard a horn blow.
"Looks like they finally found out their prisoners are missing," Bilbo said, Daisuke grabbed onto a ledge and pulled herself up and began running alongside the company.
"Veemon let's go!" she shouted and her partner nodded jumping out of his barrel as Daisuke took out her D-3 and D-Terminal. "Digi-Armour Energise!" she shouted and Veemon began glowing blue and he transformed into Raidramon and Daisuke jumped onto his back and he ran off towards the gate at the end of the river. "We'll stop the Elves from closing the gate, you guys focus on staying alive." She shouted to the others.
"You'd better do the same thing!" Dwalin shouted, Daisuke nodded and Raidramon shot off towards the gate as an Elf pulled a lever causing the gate under the bridge to close just before the company made it through.
"Things never go according to plan," Daisuke grumbled drawing her sword before an arrow struck an Elf from behind and both she and her partner saw Orcs begin to climb onto the bridge and attack the guards.
"Orcs?" Raidramon asked in shock.
"Oh great, now we have to deal with those guys too." Daisuke replied.
"Blue Thunder!" Raidramon shouted firing blue electricity from the three spikes on his back at two Orcs electrocuting them. "Good thing you found everyone's weapons, otherwise we'd have a tough fight on our hands." He said as some Orcs attacked the others but were easily dispatched by the Dwarves and Bilbo.
"Less talk more fighting for now buddy," Daisuke said as she swung her sword cutting the head off an Orc, she then saw more Orcs on the other side of the river fighting a few Elves who had arrived. "Let's hope we can get away while the Elves and Orcs are fighting." She said and her partner nodded as he jumped over an Orc while Daisuke stabbed it.
Bilbo looked up at the lever that opened and closed the gate and saw it was now unguarded and he climbed out of his barrel and ran up to it. He stepped back as an Orc attacked him before Kili fired an arrow killing it and it fell into the water, Bilbo ran up the steps and stabbed another Orc and as he reached the lever he was struck in the knee by an arrow and he fell to the ground.
"Bilbo!" Daisuke shouted in worry, she stabbed another Orc as Raidramon ran over to the Hobbit who managed to pull himself up and he pulled the lever opening the gate before he fell into an empty barrel below and the arrow snapped off and he winced in pain.
"He'll be fine for now!" Fili told her as the barrels began falling down the waterfall, Raidramon jumped over the wall and continued to follow the others as they passed through rapids.
"He better be," Daisuke thought trying to find Bilbo's barrel in the water.
"He's a strong guy Dai, we can worry about him once we get away from here." Raidramon reassured her jumping over a gap in the path.
"Good point, come on keep up." Daisuke told him as she stabbed another Orc as they ran past it, she looked back and saw several Elves following them but they were focusing on fighting the Orcs which made her sigh in relief. "It seems we're not the immediate concern for the Elves."
"No but the Orcs are still a problem," Raidramon said firing another electric blast at a group of Orcs as they blocked the way.
"Cut the log!" Thorin shouted as he and the others headed towards a tree that had fallen over the river with several Orcs gathering there and they hit it with their weapons as they past sending the Orcs into the water when the tree split in half, an Orc jumped onto Bombur's barrel and stabbed it with a spear but he hit it with his weapon knocking it off and the spear hit a rock sending the large Dwarf out of the water and onto the ground and he began rolling downhill crushing any Orc that got in his way.
"Now that's what I call bowling for Orcs," Raidramon said making Daisuke laugh, Bombur's barrel came to a stop but he kicked the bottom out and stood up and began spinning like a top hitting several orcs knocking them down before the barrel broke under the stress and he jumped back into another free barrel in the water beside Nori and Ori who helped steady the large Dwarf.
"Come on we have to be losing them by now," Daisuke said as she swung her sword cutting another Orc's head off before Raidramon jumped across the river and crushed an Orc beneath his feet as he ran off, she looked back to see the Elves had stopped pursuing them but the Orcs had not. "On my signal jump into the river Raidramon…now!" she shouted and Raidramon jumped into the river as he turned back to Veemon and both were grabbed by Fili and Kili and they held onto the barrels tight as they rode downstream.
"Excellent escape plan, but we could have down without the Orcs chasing us," Fili said with a grin earning a slap on the head from Daisuke.
"Oh, shut up, just be glad I wasn't caught so I could come rescues you lot," she replied with a smile before she looked at Kili with a frown.
"I'm uh…sorry if I offended you in anyway," he apologised.
"Don't worry about it, just in future don't chat up the enemy otherwise the next thing I punch won't be something you recover from quickly." Daisuke replied with a grin and Veemon and Fili chuckled.
Unaware of the peril the company just went through, Gandalf who was accompanied by Radagast stood beside a dead tree and old statue that was nothing but rubble now at the foot of The High Fells. "I don't understand how the Nine Ringwraiths escaped Gandalf, the Necromancer should not be able to summon the dead, he is a human." Radagast said worried.
"Who said it was a human? You know the Nine Ringwraiths answer to only one master. We've been blind, Radagast. And in our blindness, the enemy has returned." Gandalf said making Radagast grow even more worried. "He is summoning his servants. Azog the Defiler, is no ordinary hunter. He is a commander. A commander of legions. The Enemy is preparing for war. It will begin in the East. His eye is set on that mountain." He finished walking past Radagast.
"Where are you going?" he asked.
"To re-join the others. They are in grave danger, Daisuke most of all. He somehow summoned her to this world, I sent them on this quest, I cannot forsake them." Gandalf answered looking back at him.
"But if what you say is true, then the world is in great danger." Radagast informed him gently." The power in that fortress will only grow stronger."
"You want me to forsake my friends?" Gandalf asked him and Radagast sadly nodded. Meanwhile the Company had lost the Orcs, but for how long they didn't know and the current had slowed so now they would be sitting ducks if the Orcs caught up to them.
"I think we've lost them," Balin said as he and the others continued to slowly float down the river.
"Make for the shore," Thorin ordered and everyone began swimming to the shore.
"Ugh, well that could have been worse," Bofur said as he climbed out of his barrel.
"Whenever you say that we always end up in more trouble, need I remind you of when we were in Goblin Town?" Daisuke asked him as she wrung her hair as dry as she could, she saw Bilbo try to walk before he fell to his knees and hissed. "You alright, that looks bad," she said to the Hobbit.
"I'll be fine for now, just give me a minute." He replied with a shaky smile.
"We need to keep moving," Thorin said before Daisuke glared at him. "After you bind his leg, you have two minutes."
"We're close to Erebor, we probably could make it." Veemon said.
"But there is a lake between us and that mountain, we've no way to cross it." Balin informed him.
"And we can't go around, the Orcs will run us down sure as daylight. Even with our weapons we'd be outnumbered." Dwalin added.
"So, in other words we're screwed?" Daisuke asked crossing her arms.
"Pretty much." Fili answered, Daisuke sighed and walked off as everyone began to try and dry their clothes as best they could, Ori took off his boot and emptied the water in it back into the river as someone approached the company from behind with a bow and arrow in hand, but before he could fire the arrow he felt a sword press against his back.
"I'd not do that if I were you stranger," Daisuke told him making the rest of the company turn to look at the newcomer who was a tall man with black hair and a tattered coat. "You weren't thinking of killing sixteen strangers who have done nothing to you were you?" she asked.
"You're armed, and you are pressing your sword in my back," the man answered.
"A precaution." Daisuke said before she noticed a barge further downriver. "That barge over there, is it for hire by any chance?" she asked winking at the company as she stepped back from the stranger and soon he was moving the barrels onto his barge.
"Why do you think that I'd help you?" the man whose name the company learned was Bard asked looking at Daisuke.
"Your clothes have seen better days, and I bet you've got some hungry mouths to feed, right?" she asked and he looked at her. "How many kids?"
"A boy and two girls," he answered moving the last two barrels onto his barge.
"And their mother?" Daisuke asked and Bard tensed and she winced. "I'm sorry, she must have been beautiful."
"Aye, she was." Bard replied.
"Enough of the niceties," Dwalin grumbled only to be elbowed in the thigh by Veemon.
"Let Daisuke handle this, trust me she knows how to get what she wants if she tries." he whispered.
"Strange for a young lass and Halfling to be travelling with a group of Dwarves," Bard said.
"They're our…protection. You see we have always dreamed of exploring the world but we know it's dangerous so we hired these fine Dwarves to escort us around Middle Earth before we headed back to the Shire once our journey was complete." Daisuke lied smoothly and Bard looked at her then the Company.
"I see." He said looking at the barrels. "I know where these barrels came from, I assume you had a run in with the Elves and it didn't end well for you. No one enters Lake-Town but by leave of the Master. All his wealth comes from trade with the Woodland Realm. He would see you all in irons then risk the wrath of King Thranduil." Bard said as he began untying his barge from the dock.
"We'll pay you double if you can smuggle us into Lake-Town," Daisuke blurted out making the Bargemen stop and look at her. "Half now and half if you get us there."
"And how do I know you'll honour that?" Bard asked and Daisuke held her hand out and Balin handed her a pouch of gold and she handed it to Bard who opened it and checked the weight of the pouch. "We have a deal then." He said shaking Daisuke's hand.
"Thank you." She replied smiling at the others who smiled back. "Everyone get into the barrels so we can leave."
The end of the chapter
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