The Great Dragon Smaug
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"You want me to find a jewel?" Bilbo asked Balin as the two walked down the corridor alone before stopping just around the corner.
"A large, white jewel." Balin answered.
"That's it? Only, I imagine there's quite a few down there." Bilbo told him.
"There is only one Arkenstone. You'll know it when you see it, trust me." Balin said walking off and Bilbo followed before the old Dwarf stopped and sighed deeply. "In truth lad, I do not know what you will find down there. You needn't go if you don't want to. There's no dishonour in turning back."
"No, Balin. I promised I would do this, and I think I must try," Bilbo said and Balin looked at him before he chuckled.
"It never ceases to amaze me."
"What?" Bilbo asked as Balin smiled warmly.
"The courage of Hobbits. Go now, and with as much luck as you can muster." He told the Hobbit who nodded and began walking down some more steps. "Oh, and Bilbo," the Hobbit looked back at the now nervous Dwarf. "If there is in face a live dragon down there…don't waken it." Bilbo nodded and took two more steps before turning to ask Balin something only to see him already back down the corridor and he sighed.
"Brilliant spot of bother you've got yourself into this time Bilbo," he muttered to himself, he felt a hand on his shoulder and jumped before his mouth was covered by a hand and he saw it was Daisuke who grinned.
"Jumpy, aren't we?" she teased before she got serious. "Listen, I know you can probably get out of any danger you end up in down there, but something's not sitting well with me. If you're not back in fifteen minutes or somehow let us know how you're doing I'll be coming in after you." She told him.
"Are the others ok with that?" Bilbo whispered.
"You think Thorin would stop me?" Daisuke asked with a smile and Bilbo shuddered.
"Now I see why women most women are feared," he thought as he walked off while Daisuke headed back to the others.
"Good luck Bilbo," she thought. Bilbo continued walking through the secret passage and stepped out onto a walkway.
"Hello?" he whispered and heard no reply, he then knocked twice on the wall before the knocks echoed and he stepped back into the passage and waited to see if something happened but nothing did and he sighed. "He's not at home. That's good, very good," he muttered walking out of the passage to some stairs leading down to lower levels before his eyes widened as he saw the almost ocean of gold, silver and fine gems below him. "How am I going to find a single white gem in that? And my share is going to overflow Bag-End, I'm gonna need another Hobbit Hole."
He walked down the stairs and began climbing his way through the treasure, trying his best not to slip and disturb anything in case the sound woke the dragon. "Arkenstone, a large, white jewel." He whispered as he began looking through a pile of white gems of various sizes and cuts before he tossed one away and it hit a gold chalice and he tensed at the sound it made.
He continued searching for the Arkenstone as he moved a gold plate which trigged a small avalanche of gold coins and he slowly looked up nervously, he gasped upon seeing the closed eye of Smaug and hid behind a pillar. He cautiously peeked around the pillar as Smaug exhaled blowing some treasure away. "Time to go," he thought taking a step before he saw another avalanche of gold and saw part of Smaug's tail. "How long is he?" taking a deep breath as he waited for the gold to settle and he stepped down the mountain of treasure when Smaug's head moved and he stopped and held his head. "How do I get myself into these situations?" he thought ducking behind a large mountain of gold just before Smaug's eye opened and his head emerged from the treasure and he sniffed the air.
"Well now, thief, I know you are there. I can smell you, I can hear your breath, I feel your air. Where are you?" Smaug asked as the rest of him shook off the treasure. "Come now, don't be shy. Step into the light."
Back outside the mountain the rest of the company waited for Bilbo to return, Daisuke sat on a boulder and sighed. "It's been too long, what if something happened to him." She said.
"Have faith in him lass, you can't always be there to save the rest of us." Dwalin told her gently.
"This is different, Bilbo is alone in there with a live dragon that can wake up at any moment. If something happens to him then this whole quest will have been for nothing since I doubt anyone here would go into Erebor to find the Arkenstone themselves." Daisuke said.
"We cannot jeopardise everything for one burglar," Thorin told her calmly and Daisuke frowned.
"Bilbo, his name is Bilbo. And he's worth a lot more than some fancy white gem." She whispered before she turned to Veemon. "Stay here buddy, we can't risk Smaug picking up your scent."
"Alright, be safe. I'll keep an eye on these guys." Veemon said winking and Daisuke nodded and kissed his forehead before she walked down the secret passage alone.
"Stubborn as a Dwarf that one," Balin muttered.
"We've rubbed off on her," Dwalin said in agreement with his brother, Thorin grunted and looked away with his arms crossed.
Meanwhile back in the mountain, Bilbo continued to hide from Smaug and when the dragon was looking away from him he took his chance and ran down the mountain of treasure as fast as he could to find a new place to hide, Smaug turned and slithered down the mountain after him.
Daisuke ran out of the secret passage and gasped at the sight of the treasure of Erebor. "Oh my…gosh, how were they expecting Bilbo to find a single gem in all this?" she thought before she saw Smaug and gulped. "And he's awake, better find Bilbo so we can get out of here to rethink our plan." She took out the ring from her pocket and slipped it on her finger and turned invisible and she ran down the stairs and began running across the treasure which caused Smaug to stop his pursuit of Bilbo and investigate the new intruder.
"Another thief? But this one I cannot see." He spoke as Daisuke hid behind another pillar and noticed Bilbo had found a new place to hide. "There is something about you." Smaug said as he slowly moved around the pillar. "Something you carry. Something made of gold." He looked directly at Daisuke who backed up against the pillar. "But far more…precious." Smaug hissed and Daisuke began hearing a voice coming from the ring.
"Precious! Precious!" the voice said repeatedly before she saw the eye of flame again and gasped and found herself holding the ring in her hand and now visible to Smaug who narrowed his eye.
"There you are, my little thief in the shadows." He growled.
"I...I didn't come to steal from you. O Smaug, the Immeasurably Wealthy. I merely wanted to gaze upon your magnificence. To see if you were really as great as the old tales said you were." Daisuke said softly causing Smaug to snarl. "I did not believe them." this caused the dragon to move away from her and soon stand to his full height showing his grandeur to both her and Bilbo.
"And do you believe them now!?" he bellowed arrogantly.
"Truly, the tales and songs, fall utterly short of your enormity. O Smaug the Stupendous." Daisuke said humbly.
"Do you think flattery will keep you and your accomplice alive?" Smaug asked.
"Um….no," Daisuke answered and Smaug growled.
"No indeed. You seem familiar with my name, but I don't remember smelling your friend's kind before, and you are a female with a strange skin colour. Are you a Haradrim, or an Easterling?" he asked moving closer to her, she gulped before her eyes laid on a white gem that shone brightly and she gasped.
"The Arkenstone," she thought, she looked over to Bilbo who looked at her and she nudged her head slightly towards the stone and he blinked before he too saw the stone and his eyes widened before he nodded.
"I come from across the sea and the land of the rising sun." Daisuke told Smaug as he continued walking around her and she stayed perfectly still to not give him a reason to eat her. "Through desert, and forest and field I have travelled. Through the air I am she who walks unseen, the keenest eyed I elude with ease."
"Impressive. What else do you claim to be?" Smaug asked his face mere feet from her as he showed her his fangs.
"Miracle Maker, Golden One, Ring-Bearer." Daisuke answered resisting the urge to gag from the stench of Smaug's pungent breath.
"Lovely titles, go on." Smaug insisted.
"Um…Barrel Rider." She said.
"Barrel Rider, now that is interesting. But what of your Dwarf friends?" Smaug asked with a snarl.
"Um Dwarves? Uh nope…no Dwarves here," she answered.
"Do not play games with me!" Smaug bellowed slamming his tail into a pillar causing it to topple. "I know the scent and taste of Dwarf, you both reek of it. They sent you both in here to do their dirty work, while they skulk about outside." Daisuke carefully inched her way towards the Arkenstone while Smaug was looking elsewhere as Bilbo stepped out of hiding to distract him.
"Truly, you are mistaken. O Smaug, Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities." He said and Smaug looked at him and growled.
"You both seem to have nice manners, for thieves and liars." Daisuke took her chance and grabbed the Arkenstone which hummed with warmth in her hands before she pocketed it. "I know Dwarves better than most. It is the gold! They are drawn to it like flies to dead flesh!" he growled slamming his foot down near her and she was sent rolling down a hill of treasure.
"Sounds familiar," she thought thinking of how Smaug described the Dwarves and it sounded like himself being drawn to the treasure of Erebor.
"Did you both think I would not know this day would come!? That a pack of canting Dwarves would come crawling back to the mountain!?" Smaug shouted knocking another pillar over which caused the ground to shake and if was even felt in Lake-town.
"This was their home, of course they'd come to take it back!" Daisuke shouted at the dragon.
"The King Under the Mountain is dead! I took his throne, I ate his people like a wolf among sheep!" Smaug told them both cruelly as both ran down a flight of steps. "I kill when I wish, and go wherever I wish. My armor is iron." He said as he glided down the slope of treasure after them as they took refuge under a platform. "No blade can pierce me."
"What about Bilbo, and Daisuke?" Ori asked worried as he and the others continued to wait outside the entrance.
"Give them more time." Thorin said.
"To do what? To be killed?" Veemon asked him. "That's my best friend in there, we can't just let Smaug kill them both. Besides would this be all worth it in the end? A sickness lies upon that treasure in there Thorin, and it drove your grandfather mad."
"I am not my grandfather, you'd do well to remember that." Thorin told the digimon.
"You're not yourself. The Thorin we all know wouldn't hesitate to go in there to help those he cared about. And before you say you won't risk the quest for the lives of two people, I'll remind you that if it weren't for them we'd probably still be stuck in Mirkwood locked up, or we'd be eaten by those spiders, heck we may not have even survived our first encounter with Azog if not for them. Thorin ask yourself this, what's more important…your friends or an insignificant white gem. I know what I'd choose." Veemon said walking away from Thorin who looked at him them at Balin who was silent but he saw what Balin thought in his eyes alone.
"It's Oakenshield!" Smaug shouted as he moved around the treasure horde. "He sent you in here to reclaim the Arkenstone, didn't he?"
"No he didn't. We've got no idea what you're talking about," Bilbo said.
"Don't deny it. I guessed his true purpose some time ago. But Oakenshield's quest will fail. A darkness is coming, soon it shall spread to every corner of Middle-Earth." Smaug said causing Bilbo and Daisuke to share a worried look.
"A darkness, do you mean the Orcs?" Daisuke asked making Smaug chuckle.
"It is not the pawns you need to fear, but the one who moves them on the chessboard, the great eye shall soon gaze upon all and pierce mountain, forest, home and flesh." He answered cryptically.
"That doesn't sound good." Bilbo whispered.
"No kidding, let's move we gotta get out of here." Daisuke said and as soon as Smaug was far away from them they ran back towards the passage. As they ran up the stairs they soon Thorin run out of the passage and he looked around him at all the treasure and Daisuke saw his expression change slightly. "Thorin we gotta get out of here." she told him as they reached him.
"Did you find the Arkenstone?" he asked them quickly.
"Let's talk about this later, when we don't have a dragon about to kill us!" Daisuke shouted, her eyes widened as Smaug appeared and glared at them as he and Thorin locked eyes just before the rest of the company ran out of the passageway.
"You will all burn!" Smaug roared running towards them.
"Jump!" Daisuke shouted jumping down a hill of treasure with the others following just before Smaug breathed fire at them, he then roared and breathed more flame at the roof of the mountain sending waves of flame down around him and Thorin pushed Daisuke down a hallway before the fire hit his coat and set it on fire and he rolled into the room the others were in and he took the burning coat off.
"Come on," he said running off with the others after him.
"Veemon think you could use that arrow against Smaug?" Daisuke asked her partner.
"If you find a weak spot then I can turn into Ex-Veemon and ram it into him." He answered.
"Shush." Thorin whispered as they stopped just short of a long walkway as they all listened for Smaug.
"Did we give him the slip?" Dori asked.
"No. He's too cunning for that," Dwalin answered.
"Where to now?" Bilbo asked.
"The western guardroom, there may be a way out." Thorin answered.
"It's too high, there's no chance," Balin whispered.
"It's our only chance." Thorin replied.
"Can't we somehow trap him in an unused part of the mountain? Like an abandoned mine shaft?" Daisuke asked.
"We'd never make it that far down without him catching us." Thorin answered as they began walking silently across the walkway when a coin hit the ground and everyone tensed and looked at Daisuke and Bilbo who were looking up and they too looked to see Smaug above them with coins dropping from his scales. Thorin silently motioned for them to continue and they walked off while keeping an eye on Smaug, soon they found the western guardroom but were shocked at what they saw.
"No…" Daisuke whispered horrified, dozens of bodies laid everywhere of all ages both male and female. "They must have come here looking for a way out but found themselves trapped." Kili wrapped his arms around her and pulled her in for comfort as they all bowed their heads in sadness.
"We might make it to the mines, we could last a few days." Balin suggested.
"No. I will not die like this. Cowering. Clawing for breath." Thorin whispered. "Make for the forges, we will kill the dragon."
"He'll see us, sure as daylight." Dwalin told him.
"Not if we split up." He replied.
"We'll never make it," Fili told his uncle.
"Some of us might. Lead him to the forges. If this is to end in fire, then we will all burn together." Thorin said.
"Leave it to us," Daisuke said. "Veemon think Raidramon can outrun that worm?" she asked her partner who grinned.
"Oh yeah, let's do it." he said as they ran off with the others as Daisuke took out her D-Terminal which began glowing blue as did Veemon before he transformed into Raidramon and Daisuke jumped on her partner as he ran down a walkway.
"Flee! Run for your lives. There is nowhere to hide!" Smaug told them as he emerged from a cave in the wall.
"Who said we're hiding from ya?" Daisuke asked him.
"Blue Thunder!" Raidramon roared firing blue lightning from his three spikes at the dragon hitting him in the jaw, Smaug growled and roared as Raidramon ran off.
"Now I know why I smelt the scent of my kin on you as well girl. You think that runt can usurp me!?" he bellowed chasing after them.
"Nope, but he's a lot faster than you are!" Daisuke answered as Raidramon jumped over a chasm and landed on another walkway and ran off.
"Hey you, here!" Dwalin shouted on another walkway with Nori causing Smaug to turn his attention to them and chase them.
"Behind you worm!" Dori shouted from behind Smaug with Ori and Bombur and Smaug growled and went after them instead.
"Over here ugly!" Kili shouted as he and his brother ran down another walkway and just barely made it inside a building before Smaug slammed his tail down causing the walkway to crumble, Bifur and Gloin ran down another walkway and Smaug growled and chased them and breathed fire at them causing the rock around them to begin heating up as they jumped down two chutes and fell into buckets on a line.
"This way! It's this way!" Balin shouted as he and Bilbo stopped by a door as Thorin kept running.
"Thorin!" Bilbo shouted causing him to stop, he turned around only to see Smaug had found them.
"Follow Balin, go!" he shouted running off as Bilbo and Balin ran through the door, Thorin ran from Smaug as he breathed more fire and he jumped off the floor and grabbed a one-person lift for mining the shaft and he began heading down.
"Thorin!" Dwalin shouted as he watched on as the dragon chased at Thorin, he swung one of his axes and hit a level causing the lift to stop as the counterweight dropped. "Hold on!" he shouted, Thorin began moving up and passed Smaug just by his eye before he was stopped as the dragon snapped his chairs on the rope beneath the lift and pulled causing the mechanism that operated the lift to be ripped from its mounting and fall down the shaft. Thorin found himself standing precariously on Smaug's snout and as the dragon opened his mouth to try and eat Thorin he jumped onto another lift as Nori struck another lever causing Thorin to shoot up the shaft as the mechanism hit Smaug knocking him further down the shaft.
"Thorin!" Nori shouted grabbing Thorin's hand as he jumped off the lift just before Smaug breathed fire up the shaft trying to burn the exiled king, both ran off and made it to the forges and found the rest of the company there.
"The plans not going to work. These furnaces are stone cold." Dwalin told him.
"He's right, we've no fire hot enough to set them ablaze." Balin added as Smaug roared and Daisuke smirked.
"I think we do." She said walking to the large gate that separated the forges from the shaft Smaug was climbing up. "Ya know Smaug. My buddy can fly better than you, you call that breath of fire terrible, then you need to smell my cat's breath. You think you're scary to look at? Than you haven't seen my sister in the morning with makeup, now that's terrifying."
"Has she gone mad!?" Kili asked Veemon.
"Trust me, she does this all the time." he answered. "Though we might want to take cover." He answered nervously.
"Your mother was a gecko, you giant lizard! You call yourself a dragon. Please I'm more dragon when I'm mad than you ever have or will be. You're all smoke, no fire. You must be great at cook outs. You know even without you breathing fire at me. Your breath may kill me. You know, you'll make a great couple of coats, boots and gloves. On the other hand, I don't think you'll make great boots. Man, you sure know how to put the drag in dragon." Daisuke continued to insult Smaug as he finally emerged from the shaft and glared at her and roared as Kili pulled her behind one of the large bars of the gate as the others took cover just as Smaug breathed fire at them all and it hit the forges and they began igniting one by one.
"Next time, warn us when you're gonna do that." Kili told her as she chuckled sheepishly.
"It worked, didn't it?" she asked as they ran from the gate as Smaug began breaking it down.
"Bombur get those bellows working." Thorin told the large Dwarf who nodded and jumped onto a large chain and began pumping giant bellows that caused the forges flames to turn blue with each blow. "Bilbo, on my mark pull that lever over there." He instructed the Hobbit pointing to a lever and Bilbo nodded running off. "Balin, can you still make a flash-flame?"
"Aye, it'll only take a jiffy." Balin answered running off with some of the others.
"We don't have a jiffy." Dwalin whispered as Smaug continued to smash the gate before he ripped it open and everyone ran off.
"You sure this is gonna work, how long has it been since these machines have moved?" Daisuke asked.
"They'll work as they were built to, the Elves may be better craftsman, but we Dwarves can build to last." Thorin answered as they ran past the forges and Bilbo who had reached the lever.
"Incoming!" Veemon shouted as Smaug came around the forges and growled and prepared to burn all three of them.
"Now!" Thorin told Bilbo who jumped and grabbed the lever and torrents of water gushed from several mouths in the wall and hit Smaug snuffing out his fire and he roared and jumped back as he tried to dry himself. The water slowed to a more controlled pour and began spinning waterwheels which caused the rest of the machinery in the forges to begin moving again.
"And what now?" Daisuke asked, she and the others backed away from Smaug when flashes of blue flame began hitting Smaug and they saw Dori and Ori throwing the flash-flames Balin had made at the dragon, a line of carts above Smaug suddenly fell and slammed into him tying him up in them and he roared.
"Lead him to the Gallery of the Kings!" Thorin told them and Dwalin as he ran to a chain and pulled it and from the great forges, rivers of pure molten gold flowed down channels in the ground all flowing to one place, Thorin grabbed a wheelbarrow and jumped onto it as he threw it into the gold river.
"Bilbo let's go!" Daisuke shouted as Smaug slammed his tail into the platform Bilbo was standing and it began collapsing but thankfully he rolled off it and he ran off with Daisuke as they slid down a slope with Smaug right behind them.
Both ran off and entered the Gallery of the Kings just as Smaug smashed through the wall behind them and a large banner fell on top of them as the dragon stepped over them. "Do you think you have deceived me girl!? You have come from Lake-Town. This is some sordid scheme between these filthy Dwarves and miserable tub-trading Lakemen. Those snivelling cowards, with their long bows and Black Arrows." He growled as Daisuke saw a bent scale, exactly where Bard's son said it would be.
"An arrow did hit," she whispered to Bilbo who saw the same thing and Daisuke stood up. "Smaug!" she shouted stopping the dragon who growled at her. "You think you're so mighty, you're nothing more than a filthy worm who cares about nothing but gold! You speak of the people of Lake-town as if they are nothing, but I know you fear they have one last Black Arrow left, Girion the Lord of Dale hit you the day you stole Erebor from the Dwarves, didn't he? You know your impervious armor has a chink in it."
"Do you think I fear what some weak and sickly vermin can do to me? I will snuff their lives out in an instant of dragon fire before they even have a chance to consider fighting back." Smaug told her as he walked to the collapsed entrance of Erebor.
"Hey you witless worm!" Thorin shouted making Smaug stop and look back at him as he stood upon a statue at the end of the hall.
"You!" the dragon snarled in disgust.
"I am taking back what you stole from us." Thorin said.
"You will take nothing from me. I laid low your warriors of old. I instilled terror in the hearts of Men. I am King Under the Mountain." Smaug said walking towards Thorin and he stood on his hind legs.
"These are not your lands, these are Dwarven halls and Dwarven gold. We will have our revenge!" Thorin told him before shouting in Khuzdul and he pulled a rope causing some of the statue to crack, the rest of the company who stood behind the statue pulled hard on chains causing the rest of the statue to crack and fall apart revealing a golden statue inside and Smaug gazed upon it transfixed.
"Oh, I hope this works," Daisuke whispered watching with baited breath as did Bilbo. The gold statue suddenly began melting and washed over Smaug knocking him over and it filled the chamber and covered him completely.
Before anyone could celebrate however, Smaug burst out of the pool of gold and roared. "Revenge!? Revenge!? I will show you revenge!" he screamed smashing through the collapsed entrance to Erebor and he jumped into the air and took flight spinning around to rid himself of the molten gold, he then flew off with his sight set of Lake-Town. "I am fire. I am…death!" he hissed as Daisuke and Bilbo ran out of the entrance and saw him flying away.
"What have we done?" Bilbo whispered in horror.
The End of the Chapter
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