Still not quite sure on where I want to end this. What do you all think? Until I do figure it out, it will follow exactly along the movie. I am literally watching, pausing, rewinding, and fast forwarding on iTunes while I write this.

I am currently in a writing frenzy. I'm posting this much earlier than I normally would. I'm also hoping to win over some new reviewers.

This was supposed to be the Goblin Town chapter but the giant battle just went much longer than I expected it to. My fingers took on a life of their own as I typed.

Enjoy.

Kili loved the rain. Growing up in Ered Luin, he could remember many times as a young dwarfling when he played in it. Much to the chagrin of his uncle and mother. It was always so liberating and free.

At the moment however, Kili hated the rain.

Really, really hated it.

"Steady! Hold on!" Thorin yelled over the clash of the thunder from up ahead. The dwarf led the company along the mountain path. The rain drenching everyone heavily without mercy.

The whole situation reminded Kili of the downpour when they had been leaving The Shire. Gandalf had been asked if there was something he could do about it. The wizards response had been to find another wizard if they wanted the weather changed.

Much to Kili's somewhat surprise, no one asked Endymion about changing the weather when this started. Gandalf did saw to find another wizard...

Then again, they would have likely gotten a similar answer anyway.

The Man had taken to the company quite well. He was quiet most of the time but was very friendly and polite, not as much as Bilbo always was though. Bofur would occasionally talk to him, Ori, Bilbo and Balin too as well. Thorin and Dwalin tended to avoid him for some reason.

Kili was only kinda somewhat eavesdropping when he found out how Bilbo knew him. The Hobbit had ran into him back in Rivendell. Bilbo had no idea he was a wizard until his display on the open road, he merely assumed him to be another traveler resting in the elven sanctuary.

Endymion was not a wizard like Gandalf, both physically and in behavior. The new wizard in their group looked younger, much younger, than Gandalf. Kili could not say he was an expert on the age of Men but if he had to guess, Endymion was only in his thirties. He was also much warmer and open than the gray beard was. Gandalf was friendly too but he sometimes seemed a bit distant at times. As if he knew some great secret no one else was privy to. Perhaps distant was not quite the right word but Kili was unsure how else to describe it.

"Ahh!" Bilbo's sudden cry snapped Kili's attention back to their path.

"Bilbo!" A piece of stone beneath the Hobbit's foot had given way, almost sending the Halfling to his doom. It was Bofur and Dwalin that caught him before he could fall.

Kili let out a relieved breath. That was too close.

"We must find shelter!" Thorin yelled over his shoulder. If he noticed Bilbo's near death, it did not show.

"Look out!" Dwalin was the one who shouted this time. The entire company looked up just in time to see a huge boulder hurling toward the mountain above them. It shattered on impact, sending much smaller, but equally deadly stones showering all over them.

"Look out, brother!" Almost everyone was shouting, to whom Kili could not tell.

Beside Kili, his brother Fili stepped back to dodge a falling rock but his foot slipped on the wet stone beneath their feet.

"Look out!" Kili's hand shot out to grab his brother's arm before he lost his balance.

"This is no thunderstorm!" Balin began. "It's a thunder-battle! Look!"

Following where Balin was pointing, Kili saw it. The thing was massive, not surprising considering it was the mountain itself rising. The humanoid shape slowly rose from the mountain ahead of them, ripping a chunk free in its hands.

"Well, bless me. The legends are true! Giants! Stone-giants!" Bofur yelled in wonder as the giant he was looking at hurled its boulder toward them. It sailed over their heads to strike another giant that had arisen behind them.

"Take cover, you fool!" Thorin screamed at Bofur. The dwarf in question was still standing at the edge of the cliff watching the battle over their heads. Kili grabbed Bofur by the shoulder and pulled him back closer to the cliff face.

"Hold on!" Dwalin roared. All around them the mountain shook. The path they were walking on began to crumble away, narrowing their space to stand.

Then to Kili's horror, the mountain split in two, diving the company in half.

"Fili, grab my hand!" Kili urged his brother as the space widened. Only it was too late, by the time Fili saw what was happening the brothers were out of reach.

Above them, another giant rose to its feet. The two halves of the company were standing on its rocky knees.

In an instant, another giant came forth and brought its face in for a headbutt to the one they were on. It was so like a dwarven greeting the Kili would have found it funny were it any other time. Apparently stone-giants had greetings similar to dwarves. He would have to remember that one for later.

Unfortunately the act threw their giant off balance and made it fall heavily into the nearby mountainside.

"Go, go, go!" Thorin shouted as they came within reach of another ledge not part of a giant. At least Kili hoped it was not.

"Run! Get off! Get off!" Balin urged them all until they were to the relative safety of the new ledge. It did not help make Kili feel any better since his brother was still back on the giant's other leg.

Above them the giants continued their fight.

"Look out!" Kili did not know who said it but he looked up in time to see a huge stony fist strike the spot above them. They once again had to huddle close to the cliffside to avoid the falling stones.

Just then a third giant arrived just as their giant finished off the other one. A boulder thrown from the newcomer struck it to its head and knocked it clean off. Much like the fist from moments before, it struck the rock above them. Once more showering them in the deadly shrapnel.

The other half of the company flew by them for a fleeting moment as the giant they were on fell backward, sending its knee into the rock in front of them.

With the rest of the company still on it.

Thorin was yelling something but Kili could not hear it. All he could think about was the fact that his brother had been on that ledge.

As the rock pulled away, the giant fell into the yawning abyss below.

"No!" Thorin was yelling at the top of his lungs as he rushed to where they all saw the company hit. The only thing that gave Kili any hope was seeing the rock ledge empty when the giant fell. If fortune was on their side then their kin would still be alive ahead of them. They could have jumped off before being crushed.

It was a distant hope but Kili did not care.

"Kili!" Thorin's yell took Kili off guard until he realized what was happening. Thorin did not see that it was Fili who was pulled away. With the rain clouding all of their vision, then add the shifting rocks beneath their feet, it was a miracle they could tell people were missing at all.

"It's all right! They're alive!" Gloin called out over the din of the storm.

Kili felt the greatest relief when they rushed forward to find everyone completely unharmed. Were there not a whole company of dwarves and a narrow mountain path blocking his way, Kili would have given his brother the tightest embrace ever seen in Middle-Earth.

"Where's Bilbo?" That feeling was abruptly cut short with Bofur's question. The Halfling was nowhere in sight. "Where's the Hobbit?"

Kili looked around frantically. Surely he could not have fallen from the edge during the chaos of the giant's battle.

"There!" Bofur screamed.

Kili followed the motion to where Bilbo was. He was clutching the side of the ledge, having fallen from it at some point.

"Get him!" Thorin roared.

It was Ori that got there first, right alongside Bofur. The two dwarves tried their best to reach for the Halfling but he was too far out of their reach.

"Bilbo!"

"Grab my hand!"

If someone did not do something soon, Bilbo was going to fall to his death before they could reach him. Kili was moments from pushing past some of the others to do something really crazy, Fili lecture be damned, but Thorin did it first.

Kili watched in awe as his uncle dove over the edge of the cliff to grasp hold right beside Bilbo. He snatched the Halfling by the wrist and hauled him up into the reach of the others.

Just then, before Thorin could haul himself back up his grip slipped on the wet rock. He would have fallen if Dwalin had not caught his hand. The old warrior lifted him up with a grunt of exertion.

Once everyone was back up to the relative safety of the ledge, Kili let out the breath he did not realize he was holding.

"I thought we lost our burglar." Dwalin panted in relief.

"He's been lost ever since he left home." Thorin all but snarled. "He should never have come. He has no place amongst us."

Kili stared at the retreating form of his uncle. That had been more than a little unnecessarily cruel to the Halfling. Alright, yes he almost got Thorin killed but it was not his fault he fell over the edge.

By Durin, it was a wonder that more of them had not fallen!

Bilbo leaned against the cliff face, his expression blank. He remained that way until Endymion patted him lightly on the shoulder.

"Dwalin!" Thorin called for the grizzled dwarf as he made his way into a nearby cave mouth. The two dwarves led the way into the dry cave.

"Looks safe enough." Dwalin mumbled as he looked over it.

"Search to the back. Caves in the mountains are seldom unoccupied." Thorin urged the warrior as he made way for the rest of the company to enter.

As Dwalin searched the cave, everyone else piled in. They were all happy to be out of the storm that continued to rage outside.

Every step of the way, Kili stayed close to his brother. The brush with death nowhere near being forgotten. If Fili noticed the way his younger brother hovered, he said nothing.

"There's nothin' here." Dwalin called out as he came back to the front, lantern in hand.

"Right, then, Let's get a fire started." Gloin spoke with glee as he dropped the dry wood on the cave floor and rubbed his hands together.

Kili had to admit, after the rainy nightmare they endured outside, a fire would be wonderful right about now. Unfortunately Thorin dashed that hope almost instantly.

"No. No fires. Not in this place." Thorin started. "Get some sleep. We start at first light." What Thorin had against a fire right about now, Kili had not the slightest clue.

"We were to wait in the mountain until Gandalf joined us." Balin challenged. "That was the plan."

Thorin looked at the white bearded dwarf. "Plans changed." Thorin dismissed the older dwarf coldly. Perhaps Thorin's dismissal of Gandalf's plan had something to do with the other wizard now in their company.

Endymion had come in with the rest of them. He was now sitting with his legs crossed off to the side near the entrance of the cave. His coat was somehow already bone dry.

Kili really needed to ask him how he did that.

"Bofur, take the first watch." Thorin said to the dwarf in question. Bofur only nodded in response.

While everyone was setting up their bedrolls, Kili noticed something. Bilbo was unusually nervous. It was like there was something bugging the Halfling to no end.

More than likely it was the words Thorin said shortly before they found this cave. Kili winced slightly as he remembered them. Were he in his shoes, Kili would be feeling no better.

Kili honestly hoped that Bilbo got the chance to really prove himself to his uncle. Thorin was a hard dwarf to win over, unless you were a dwarf already yourself. Bilbo could do it though, the Halfling had it in him.

If Thorin could tolerate him, a beardless, tall, and bow wielding dwarf, nephew or not, than Bilbo should be able to easily worm his way into Thorin's good graces. All the Hobbit needed was a chance.

Hope you all liked it, as I said I was not expecting this to be a chapter on its own but here we are.

Also let me know how I'm doing with Kili's character. If you have not already figured it out, he is one of my absolute favorites. His view will be a major one in this story.

Review please.