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Chapter 14- Azog the Defiler
Daisy stumbled on a rock, but didn't lose her pace. She saw Anne run near to her, Fili just behind her. Her friend sent her a smile and she returned it weakly. Her heart was still racing from moments before, when she and Kili had...she pushed the THING from her mind as they ran into a clearing. Gandalf did a head-count as they all came to a halt.
"Dori, Ori, Bifur, Gloin and Bombur...that makes 15..."
Anne had stopped next to Daisy. Fili was to her left. Kili was on the other side of the group and Anne's eyebrows rose as he stared at Daisy. She was looking down at her feet. All attention turned to Gandalf.
"Where's Bilbo?"
"Oh no..."
The girls cast a glance to each other, then back up where they'd run from.
"WHERE IS OUR HOBBIT."
Nori, from his place next to Daisy and Bifur, turned.
"I think I saw him slip away when they first collared us..."
"What happened?!"
Thorin marched forward and glared round the group.
"I'll tell you what happened...Master Baggin's saw his chance and he took it. He's complained of nothing but his warm bed since he's first stepped out of his door. We won't be seeing our hobbit again. He is long gone."
Anne stepped forward to say something, but Fili stopped her. Daisy glared at Thorin.
"No...he isn't."
Bilbo stepped out from behind a stone and put his hands in his pockets. Anne saw a flash of gold and glanced over to her friend. Daisy nodded...the ring. Gandalf heaved a sigh of relief.
"Bilbo Baggins...I have never been so glad to see anyone in my life."
Anne ran over and hugged the hobbit.
"Knew you'd come back."
Daisy made a move to go to the hobbit, but stopped when Kili went and hugged him. She crossed her hands over herself. Anne looked back and forth between the pair confused.
"We'd nearly given up on you."
Fili smiled as Anne walked back to him and looked to Bilbo.
"How did you get pass the goblins?"
Dwalin folded his arms and nodded.
"How indeed?"
Bilbo waved his arms and chuckled.
"What does it matter...he's back."
Thorin looked sharply at Gandalf.
"It matters."
Daisy looked to Thorin.
"Does it really though...so long as he's back and alive?"
"Yes Daisy...it does. I want to know. Why did you come back?"
Bilbo sighed and looked at the dwarf-king.
"Look I know you doubt me. I know...I know you always have..."
Thorin looked down and Bilbo smiled warmly.
"And you're right I often think of BagEnd. I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. You see that's where I belong. That's home. And that's why I came back because..."
He looked round the group.
"You don't have one...a home. It was taken, but I will help you take it back if I can."
Thorin let the grateful smile grace his lips and nodded. Daisy noticed Dori and Gloin wiping tears from their eyes. She walked over to Ori and hugged him tightly. Anne looped her arm round Fili's waist. The dwarf stiffened at this, but soon relaxed and rested his head on hers. Everyone was silent and Gandalf smiled warmly at Bilbo. Then a lone howl sounded and everyone looked to the clifftop. A white warg stood surrounded by many more. Orc were astride the beasts and everyone moaned.
"Out of the frying pan..."
"And into the fire...run. RUN!"
Daisy ran and spotted Bilbo being dragged by Kili. Anne and Fili raced past her and she nearly laughed when Ori swung his warhammer behind his head and smashed a warg. Wargs started passing her as she ran. Anne glanced back and saw Daisy slice a warg that nearly jumped at her.
"Thanks Days!"
Her friend was just about to reply when a warg came behind her and she turned to stab the beast. Anne shook her head and ran on. Fili spotted her and grabbed her hand. Gandalf skidded to a halt.
"Into the trees!"
He jumped and began to scale the branch.
"He's like a ninja!"
Daisy raced past her friend, jumped off a large boulder and jumped into the branches.
"Not the time nor the place Anne!"
Fili grabbed Anne's waist.
"Fee what the...?!"
"Dwalin catch!"
He tossed her up into the warriors arms, then he grabbed a branch and climbed up. Daisy looked to her left and saw Kili perched near her. He gave her a smile. She nodded and the faintest of grins graced her face. Wargs snarled and jumped at the branches. They clawed at the trees and dug to the roots. Daisy felt Kili's arm on hers.
"Jump!"
Everyone in that tree jumped into the next, then into the next as the trees began to collapse onto each other. Daisy landed heavily on a branch and was helped up by her friend.
"Thanks Kili."
He nodded and kept a hand on her back. Anne was perched next to Dwalin, Oin and Fili, just above her, near the bottom of the tree. The wargs just couldn't reach them, but the began to shake the tree as it perched near the abyss below. Gandalf mumbled to a pinecone and it caught alight.
"Fili!"
He threw it to the blonde prince and they started light pinecones and throwing them at the wargs. The beasts recoiled and hissed with pain. The company cheered, but then the tree started to fall. It landed on it's side and everyone clung for dear life. Anne felt Dwalin gripping her shirt, she glanced around and spotted everyone. Her heart froze when she saw Dori and Ori clinging for all they were worth.
"Mister Gandalf!"
The dwarf slipped and Daisy cried out, Gandalf caught the pair with his staff. Kili sighed with relief, but then the branch below him cracked and he shot out into the air. Daisy fell with him and caught the tree with her hand and Kili with the other. The pair dangled...Nori shouted to them, but couldn't reach.
"Hold on Kee."
"Daisy it won't hold us."
"You dare let go you ass and I will kill you!"
He chuckled, but didn't let go, the branch cracked and didn't tear off. Thorin looked away from his nephew and glared. A white orc, the largest Anne had ever seen, approached menacingly.
"Azog!"
Anne breathed. He was worst than she'd envisioned. The orc spat something in a language that no one understood. The only words that she could make out were the names of Thorin and his father. The dwarf-king shook his head.
"It cannot be."
The flames consumed the sight of Azog's grin and a hatred blazed within Thorin's tree creaked and groaned under the strain. It wobbled and Daisy felt her hand slip a little. Splinters dug into her palm and she gritted her teeth.
"Daisy let me go!"
"NO! Kili I am not letting you go!"
The dwarf tried to wriggle his hand out of hers.
"I don't want you to fall!"
"Well I don't want to be the one who drops you!"
She dug her nails into his hand and he stopped moving his arm. Her arm was becoming heavy. Nori edged over to them, but the tree slid and he froze.
"Daisy hang on!"
"What do you think we're doing?!"
Azog growled and met Thorin's glare with a harsh one of his own. The dwarf stood slowly and drew out his sword. He began to walk towards the orc who raised his chin with challenge in his eyes. Anne tried to grab Thorin's boot.
"Are you crazy? Thorin? THORIN?!"
He didn't listen, but only sped up. Raising his shield, Thorin charged at the orc. Azog grinned and swung his mace and struck Thorin down and he ran. Dwalin yelled and tried to help, he only slipped and caused the tree to groan. Bilbo gasped and started to move. Thorin lay flat on his back and screamed in agony as the white warg grabbed him in it's mouth.
"NO THORIN..."
The sound of Balin's cry was unheard as the dwarf-king yelled in pain as he was tossed onto a rock by the warg. He was barely breathing and tried to reach for Orcrist. Azog sneered at another orc who approached the dwarf slowly upon it's warg. A cry turned it's head and suddenly Bilbo and Anne ran at the wargs. Bilbo stabbed the oncoming beast while Anne had jumped at Azog and pushed him off his warg. The orc growled and pinned the girl to a tree. She kicked his stomach and ran to where Fili, Dwalin, Gloin and Oin, were stabbing at orcs and wargs alike. Bilbo yelled again and held his ground in front of Thorin. Azog stood and glared at the hobbit, he spoke with pure hatred and evil and an orc ran to the hobbit. A swoosh, a cry and a pair of large talons took it from it's path.
"Eagles! The eagles!"
Anne beamed through the flames towards Fili as a large bird swooped low and scooped up some wargs. He ducked and chuckled a little. Dori and Ori cried out as the older dwarf lost his grip and they both fell onto the back of one of the eagles. Daisy gritted her teeth as her arm went numb. An eagle grabbed Balin off a branch and shook the tree. The branch gave way and Daisy and Kili fell through the air. There was no eagle to break their fall.
"Anne! Bilbo watch out!"
Anne turned her head as she saw Dwalin's arm scoop her up and put her onto the same eagle. Bilbo started shouting as an eagle looped it's claws round Bilbo. Another of the graceful birds gently picked up the unconscious dwarf and they were all carried off.
...
"Oh god..high very high so very high!"
Dwalin rested a hand on her head and whispered.
"It'll be alright lass, ye winnae fall."
"I'm gonna die...oh god feelings of fear and vertigo and..."
Dwalin clamped a hand over her mouth and looked at her.
"Anne I promise ye yer not gonna fall..."
She stared at him and he chuckled.
"See there's a landing."
Soon all the eagles had placed their riders onto the eerie and Gandalf ran forward to Thorin. He kneeled and muttered something in elvish. Anne's legs felt like jelly, but she tried to smile at Fili who was watching his uncle. No one had yet noticed the absence of two members. Thorin gasped and opened his eyes. Sighs of relief were made by all.
"Tha Halfling?"
"It's alright Bilbo is right here...quite safe..."
Dwalin helped Thorin to his feet and the dwarf staggered forward to the hobbit. Bilbo fiddled with his hands. Nori now looked around the group for Daisy.
"You! What did you think you were doing? Do you know that you could've gotten yourself killed?"
Anne put a hand on his shoulder.
"Thorin..."
"No...did I not say that you would be a burden. That you would not survive in the wild...That you had no place amongst us..."
Bilbo looked down disheartened.
"I have never been wrong in my entire life."
The dwarf-king marched forward and embraced the hobbit in a tight hug. Bilbo, stunned, returned it.
"I am sorry I doubted you..."
Nori whispered to Dori, who nudged Gloin...and soon a minor panic had spread through the company. Nori nudged Thorin's arm, but the dwarf was watching Biblo.
"No I would've doubted me too...I'm not a warrior...not even a burglar..."
"Urgh...what is it Nori?!"
The thief had tears rolling down his face. Half the company looked heart-broken. Anne was weeping into Fili's chest and the pair had Dwalin's arms encased round them.
"Kili...Daisy...they..."
Thorin's heart froze and Bilbo stared wildly.
"They what?! Where is my nephew?! NORI TELL ME!"
The thief choked on a sob. He looked completely broken. Gandalf even was on the verge, he spoke sadly.
"They fell...I'm sorry Thorin."
A thrush flew overhead and Oin muttered.
"The birds are returning to the mountain...yet no joy can be felt this moment."
Thorin felt his heart tear a little and he ran to his elder nephew. The company was quiet as the king sobbed. It was a short while later when he stood and turned to look at the shadow of the Lonely Mountain.
"We must finish this...for them both..."
The company nodded, tears flowing freely and looked to the mountain.
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Kili rolled onto his back, stones grinding against the ground as he moved. He cracked open an eye and squinted as a bright light appeared in his face. He blinked a couple of times and saw the top of the cliff and the fallen tree.
"I'm alive...Oh Mahal I'm alive!"
He laughed and ran a hand over his face. He felt a bit bruised, but as he sat up he saw that he'd landed on a large pile of fallen leaves. He moved his legs, but felt a weight on them. He moved the leaves covering them and saw a mop of blonde hair and a small unmoving body.
"DAISY?!"
She was lying face down and didn't react to his shout. He scrambled over to her and looked around. There was no sign of life anywhere. He put his hand on her neck and felt for her pulse, he tried to ignore the large gash on her forehead and the splinters digging into her palm. A steady pulse was there. He breather with relief. It was short lived as a howl sounded. Kili jumped.
"Wargs?!"
The prince scooped up the unconscious girl and staggered away from the bottom of the cliff. He hid them in the cover of some bushes just as Azog and his riders ran past. He waited for silence before he moved again. Kili brushed some hair from Daisy's face.
"What do I do now?"
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