Fíli, Kíli, Bofur, and Óin climb up the Lonely Mountain. As they approach the gates, they stop in shock and fear as they saw the destruction that was caused by Smaug as he smashed through the front gate to fly out of the mountain and burb Esgaroth to the bottom of the lake. They look at each other, and run into the halls of Erebor. Bofur calls out, his voice echoing in the silence.]

"Hello!" Bofur calls out, causing his voice to echo in the silence of the kingdom. "Bombur? Bifur? Anybody?"

The four dwarves clamber through the halls, looking for their kin. As they run down a staircase, Bilbo runs up toward them from another part of the city.

"WAIT!" Bilbo called out to them. WAIT!"

"It's Bilbo!" Óin shouted in happiness. He's alive!"

"Stop! Stop! Stop!" Bilbo exclaimed.

They meet each other in a corridor.

"You need to leave." Bilbo breathed for air. "We all need to leave."

"We only just got here!" Bofur claimed.

"I have tried talking to him, but he won't listen." Bilbo said.

"What do you mean, laddie?" Óin asked, giving Bilbo a concerned look on his face.

"It's Thórin... he's been out there for hours." Bilbo explained. "He doesn't sleep. He barely eats. He's not been himself - not at all. It's this - It's this place. I think a sickness lies on it."

As Bilbo had recently spoke to them, Fíli looks past him and sees something that causes him to wrinkle his face in consternation.

"Sickness? What kind of sickness?" Kíli asked, wanting to know.

Fíli walks past the group and starts heading further down into Erebor, looking at something. Bilbo and the others run after him, trying to stop him.

"Fíli. Fíli. Fíli!" Bilbo called as he ran down to chase the dwarf.

As they continue heading down, a golden light begins to be visible on the walls. They round a corner, and stop short at the sight of Smaug's treasure, heaped so high over the floor of the cavern that the ground is barely visible. As they stare, they see Thórin, dressed in ornate robes and covered in jewelry, stride slowly out of a doorway.

"Gold - Gold beyond measure." Thórin spoke softly to himself. "Beyond sorrow and grief."

Thórin looks a bit strange, and the four dwarves look at him in surprise. He looks up to look at them and Bilbo. "Behold - the great treasure hoard of Thrór." He then flings giant bloodred jewel high into the air to where the dwarves are standing on a stairwell landing, and Fíli catches it with both his hands. "Welcome, my sister's sons, to the kingdom of EREBOR."

The newly-come dwarves enter the room where the other dwarves are, and they greet each other warmly with massive hugs. All the dwarves comb through the piles of treasure, searching for the Arkenstone.

"Any sign of it?" Thórin called.

"Nothing yet!" Dwálin replied loudly.

"Nothing here." Nóri said.

"Keep searching!" Thórin ordered in a loud tone.

"That jewel could be anywhere!" Óin called as he searched through the piles.

"The Arkenstone is in these halls - find it!" Thórin

"You heard him - Keep looking!" Dwálin barked.

"All of you - No one rests until it is found!" Thórin shouted across the vast hallway.

"Thórin." Bálin said as he approached him. "It will take days for the Arkenstone to be found."

"Not unless we have a lot more dwarves." Thórin answered.

"That it is why I received a message from one of the ravens." Bálin added.

"What's the news?" Thórin demanded.

"A colony of 5000 Dwarves that had taken refuge in the Grey Mountains are coming right now." Bálin reported.

"Good." Thórin whispered, sounding a bit happy and proud. "Make sure you lead them inside." He looks at Bálin. "We have a lot of work to do."

Meanwhile, Bilbo walks out onto the ramparts of the front gates, near the hole Smaug made in the wall. He paces back and forth for a while. Then, after looking around to see that no one is watching, he sits down. He thinks back to his encounter with Smaug, when he is standing near the Arkenstone and Smaug was speaking to him about Thórin. Once more checking than no one is watching, he reaches into his tunic and pulls out the Arkenstone. He stares at it, as it glows with patterns of light from within.

Suddenly, he looks at the distance, and sees a colony of Dwarves that were walking towards the entrance of the mountain. Bilbo quickly puts the Arkenstone back into his tunic. Bilbo didn't know what to do. Should he give Thórin the Arkenstone or not?