Chapter 5
Troll Horde Love Maybe, and on the Run

The dwarves were freed from their bonds and they quickly got dressed. Nori came rushing over and took my arms, gently.

"Are you alright?" Nori asked.

"I'm fine." I said, looking up into his gray eyes. I saw Thorin and Gandalf talking near the stone trolls.

"You could have been hurt. You should have stayed back at camp." Nori said.

"Gandalf told me to come with and I came with. I wasn't. Just got the wind knocked out of me." I said. Nori opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted.

"Come. We're going to the Troll Horde" Thorin called. We gathered our things from the campsite and followed Thorin towards where the cave was.

"What's that stench." Nori called. I put my hand over my nose as the smell hit my nose.

"I think I'm going to be sick." I said, moving away with Fili, Kili, and Bilbo as the others go into the cave. Fili and Kili smoked their pipes. Nori came out and went back in with a shovel. I raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything. They all came out. I saw that Nori was avoiding me.

"What were you going to say when we were interrupted by the brothers?" I ask.

"Its nothing." Nori said.

"Nori." I said.

"Just leave it." Nori said. I stepped back at his voice. I was about to say something when...

"Something's coming!" Thorin yelled.

"Stay together! Hurry now. Arm yourselves." Gandalf called. I pulled out my sword as we all run off into the woods. I heard something coming through the trees. Nori suddenly came in front of me as to defend me from what was coming. A man on a sled that was led by rabbits came bursting through the clearing and near us.

"Thieves! Fire! Murder!" The man yelled. I raised an eyebrow at the guy. He was crazy.

"Radagast! Radagast the Brown. What on earth are you doing here?" Gandalf asked, coming up to the Brown Wizard. I lowered my weapon.

"I was looking for you, Gandalf. something's wrong. Something's terribly wrong." Radagast said.

"Yes?" Gandalf said. Radagast opens his mouth, but shuts it. He opens it again, but closes it. Fili, Kili, and I shared looks.

"Just give me a minute. Oh, I had a thought, and now I've lost it. It was right there, on the tip of my tongue." Radagast said. He opens his mouth and curls his tongue. "Oh, it's not the thought at all, it's just a little..." Gandalf pulls out a stick insect out of the other wizards mouth. "Stick insect." I shook my head as Gandalf and Radagast go off to talk. Nori seemed to be avoiding me again.

"What's wrong?" I ask.

"I care about you, more than a friend, Ella, but you don't deserve a man like me. Your family would never approve." Nori said, not looking at me.

"A man like you? Nori. What are you talking about?" I ask.

"I'm a thief, Ella. You don't deserve a man like me." Nori said.

"Nori. I don't care. I..." A warg's howl interupted me and Nori grabbed my arm gently, pulling me behind him.

"Was that a wolf? Are there wolves out there?" Bilbo asked. Bofur stood with his weapon in his hand.

"Wolves? No that is not a wolf." Bofur said. A warg leaps into the middle of the company, knocking down Gloin. Thorin kills the warg with an elvish blade. Another warg appear and comes to attack. I pulled an arrow fast and shot it, bringing it down. Dwalin brings down his axe on it as it goes to stand up. Radagast and Gandalf came back.

"Warg-Scouts! Which menas an Orc pack is not far behind." Thorin said.

"Orc pack?" Bilbo asked.

"Who did you tell about your quest, beyond your kin?" Gandalf said, storming up to Thorin.

"No one." Thorin said.

"Who did you tell?" Gandalf asked.

"No one, I swear. What in Durin's name is going on?" Thorin asked.

"You are being hunted." I said. Gandalf nodded in agreement.

"We have to get out of here." Gandalf said.

"We can't! We have no ponies, they bolted." Ori said. I hoped Midnight was alright and got out of there.

"I'll draw them off." Radagast said.

"These are Gundobad Wargs, they will outrun you." Gandalf said.

"Thesse are Rhosgobel Rabbits. I'd like to see them try." Radagast said. Gandalf nodded and Radagast got on the sled. We head out behind a rock as Radagast burst out of the forest with the Wargs and Orcs right on his tail. Radagast laughed as he rode.

"Come and get me." Radagast called. We watched as they disappeared in the distance.

"Come on!" Gandalf said. WE rushed across the rocky plain. We come to a stop as we see the Wargs not to far from us and we hide behind rocks. "Stay together."

"Move!" Thorin yelled. I felt my hand get grabbed and saw it was Nori.

"Stay close." Nori said. I nodded and we ran. We come to a stop behind a rock to not be seen by the wargs. Ori starts to run out of the cover. Thorin grabs him and pulls him back.

"Ori, no!" Thorin said.

"Come on! Quick!" Gandalf said. The dwarves pass, but I stay with Gandalf and Thorin.

"Were are you leading us?" Thorin asked. Gandalf and I shared looks. I knew where he was leading us, but I knew Gandalf didn't want to tell Thorin yet. We ran for a while and we took cover behind an outcropping of a rock. I caught my breath as I stood between Nori and Ori. I saw a shadow of a warg and its rider ontop of the rock. I saw Kili step out and shoot the warg. The warg and the rider fell down, but it was making too much noise. I swore in elvish as the dwarves attack the warg and orc and killed it.

"AFTER THEM!" I heard an orc yell in the black speach.

"MOVE!" I yell. We run through a grassy plain. Wargs begin to surround us from all sides.

"There they are!" Gloin yelled.

"This way! Quickly!" Gandalf said. We run for a while until we came to a clearing and see the wargs on all sides.

"There's more coming!" Kili yelled.

"Kili! Shoot them!" Thorin yelled. I was close to Ori as I stood with my weapon in my hand.

"We're surrounded." Fili called as Kili shot the wargs.

"Where is Gandalf?" Kili asked.

"He has abandoned us!" Dwalin said.

"No." I said. I knew where he went. Ori used his slingshot and shot a rock at a warg and it hit the warg in the head. I saw a warg getting ready to pounce at Ori. "NO!" I cry out, running at Ori as the Warg pounced. I shoved Ori out-of-the-way and the warg knocked me to the ground. I scream out in pain as the claws rip at my back.

"ELLA!" Nori yelled. I saw black as a heavy weight fell on me with the dwarves yelling my name.

Nori's POV. I saw Kili shoot the warg and it fell right on top of Ella. I ran fast and Ori and I shoved the warg off her.

"Ella." I said. She didn't respond and I saw blood seeping through her tunic and saw claw marks.

"This way you fools!" Gandalf yelled. I picked up Ella gingerly and ran towards the rocks with her in my arms and Ori right behind me. I slid down the steep ground, clutching Ella close and I stood.

"She saved my life." Ori said as Dori and Oin came over as the other dwarves came down.

"The lass is lucky to be alive." Oin said, examining the claw marks. A horn sounded and I looked towards the opening. Fighting sounds came and an orc fell down the hole and into the cave. An arrow was sticking out of its chest. Thorin pulled the arrow out.

"Elves." Thorin said.

"I cannot see where the pathway leads. Do we follow it or no?" Dwalin said.

"Follow it, of course!" Bofur said. I quickly follow the others and we head down the path. I was able to get through while carrying Ella. She was getting paler by the minute. We came out to see a valley below where there was a city.

"The Valley of Imraldis. In the Common Tongue, it's known by another name." Gandalf said.

"Rivendell." Bilbo said.

"Here lies the last Homely House east of the sea." Gandalf said. We were now at a house of the elves. I had a feeling that Thorin wouldn't be happy, but they were Ella's kin. Maybe they could help her with her injuries.

AN: NO KILLING THE WRITER. I plan on them staying in Rivendell longer then what the movie had. Yeah. Nori admitted the feelings, but is afraid of her family and what they will think of him. I'll update soon. :)