~Chapter 15~
"The loud clanging of bells jolts you from your light nap. "Get Kili up we must leave now." You say hurriedly as you help wake Kili. The youngest daughter stares to fill her small bag with her belongings but her sister makes no move to pack hers. "We are not leaving. Not without father." Stated Tilda, the eldest daughter. You come over look her sternly in the eyes. "If you stay here your sister will die. Would your father want that?" she quickly shakes her head no and helps her sister finish packing. Quickly you prepare Bards small boat and then return inside. "Quickly into the boat," you say pushing the girls out the boat. Looking back, you see the others struggling to carry Kili, who can't walk with his bad leg yet. Quickly you pick him up with little struggle, carry him out the door, and place him in the back of the boat. Once everyone is in you push off and stand at the boat head guiding them through the burning town. You watch as Smaug the dragon swoop over the town breathing fire inferno on everything in his path. He makes more and more passes over the town breathing fire endlessly. Without a second thought, you sit down in the boat and take off your vest and shirt. "Icarus what are you doing?" Fili questions frighten, fully knowing what you intend to do. You hand Kili your notebook and wrap your scarf around Fili's shoulders. You touch foreheads with both princes, "Listen, I love you two deeply and I love Thorin and Dwalin too. I am going to distract the dragon as much as I can to help people get out of town. Please get these girls back to their father and brother safely."Carefully you step out of the boat onto the burning dock with bear feet not caring if they burn a little. Opening your wings fully, one good full force flap shoots you into the smoke filled sky. With each movement of powerful wings, you climbed higher into the night sky, feathers emerging quickly over your chest and arms. Once high, enough in the sky you puff out your chest and empty your lung with a horrific loud screech. Smaug halted his endless fire and turned his evil scaled head in your direction.
"I thought I smelled you some where bird man. Your snooping only gave way to more curiosity, I see." Hissed Smaug as his turned toward you fully. Following his head, his body followed and faced you. Quickly you dive around his head and barely get out of the way of his snapping jaws. Smaug chuckles and takes off following you up into the clouds. Once above the low hanging clouds you sift fully into a giant white owl. "Yes, my curiosity has always driven me. Now I'm curious about you again, you fat lizard. You should be grateful I don't just want you dead." You say in the hollow voice of the great winged beast. Diving forward once again, you reach your talons out and snatch at his snout and eyes. A great roar of anger and frustration comes from him as he breathed a great wall of fire after your tail feathers. Smaug chases you around the clouds trying your best to keep from swooping too low to the town or the shore of town refuges.
As the fight ensues, you can tell Smaug is growing board of the cat and mouse. You take more and more risks when you dive towards him until your luck finial runs short. He breaths fire and the flames lick your tail feathers catching them on fire. Panic floods your mind as you try to stop the smoldering tail. You dive down hard into the freezing cold water to put out the embers. Your wings break the surface beating furiously trying to get your head above the water. Slowly you calm down until your body floats gently on the surface. Relief coming over you as the freezing water cools the burns and claw marks. Smaug had landed on the smoldering town and seemed to be talking to someone on the top of the bell tower. With great difficulty, you take off from the water and fly around towards the town. You watch as the dragon charges at the bell tower and the man and his son, whom you had met only a few hours ago, fire a huge black arrow into the loss scale opening in his chest. A great land shaking bellow comes from the monster as he is impaled. Taking the rare opportunity of weakness, you dive into him, sending him reeling backward. Smaug takes off into the sky grasping at the air and smoke like a drowning animal. Following him up into the sky, you latch your talons onto his chest, pushing the black arrow deeper into his heart. The heat from his inferno chest is fading quickly. As a last ditch effort he grabs on to you, his cold claws trapping you against him as he dies. As you fall, you try to shift back into your smaller human self to escape but to no avail. The dragon's dead body lands hard on the town trapping you beneath it. Your head smacks hard against one of the buildings and your vision goes black.