Note: Hello everyone! Shoutout to those of you who've liked and followed my story! For some, Eruanna might come off as a bit prideful in this chapter but she's Thranduil's granddaughter, not just Elrond's, LOL. He's got some of his genes in her. Eruanna isn't perfect, she can be flawed too. We're heading to Imladris next and I'm really excited about that.

Also, for those of you worried that this is going to be exactly like the movies: this fanfic has its own scenes in them and I've changed up some things as well. The second installment will have more original stuff so stay tuned for that. It's undergoing major editing now but hopefully I'll have it up by the beginning of August.

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Chapter V

The company started out early in the morning. Eruanna saw the ponies and she took Gandalf by the hand. "Can I use my dragons? I love horses but flying has ruined horseback riding for me", she whispered. "No. Now is not the time to reveal them. They should stay hidden", Gandalf said. "Tell me at least where we are going", Eruanna insisted. "As far as we can", Gandalf responded.

Eruanna noticed the dwarves chattering and holding pouches of coins. One of the dwarves, Oin, noticed her. He considered asking if she wanted to do a bet with them but Thorin's words to the dwarves earlier rang in his head as he watched the Dragon Princess walk to her horse.

"She is not to be trusted. Do not speak to her. Do not show her any friendliness. She is not one of us and she never will be. I want her to know that. I don't care what the wizard says. Should she betray us, even Gandalf will not be able to protect her from me."

"WAIT", came a shout. Bilbo came running in with a signed contract. "I signed it", he said, handing it to Balin. Eruanna looked at him surprised. "It appears all is in order. Welcome Master Baggins to the company of Thorin Oakenshield", Balin said. "Give him a pony", Thorin said grumpily.

"No, no, that won't be necessary, I'm sure I can keep up on foot. I've done my fair share of walking holidays, you know. I even got as far as Frogmorton- AH!", Bilbo screeched as two dwarves pulled him up onto a pony. Eruanna rolled her eyes, urging her horse forward. Just then Thorin cut her off.

"I must warn you, elf", Thorin said.

"It's Eruanna", Eruanna responded, gripping the coarse reins of her horse and resisitng the overwhelming urge to slap the dwarf.

"It doesn't matter who you are", Thorin growled. "Here, you are just a member of the company. A company under my command. Now listen, I cannot guarantee your safety. Nor will I be responsible for your fate."

Eruanna scoffed. "Don't act as if you're concerned with my safety or my fate. That is my problem. I'm just here to help you and I'm doing this for the wizard", she responded icily.

"Good", Thorin said. "Gandalf tells me that you know a lot about dragons. What does an elf do with so much knowledge on those serpents?", suspicion laced his voice.

"I was curious about dragons so I read about them. I couldn't let so much lore go to waste", responded Eruanna. "You'd be surprised by how much the Elven historians know. Did you know that not all dragons are evil? The Valar made their own dragons - good dragons - who fought for our people at the end of the First Age. Dwarves, men and elves."

"The elemental dragons, you mean", Thorin nodded, uninterested. "My apologies, Eruanna, but they died out over a century ago."

Eruanna inwardly smirked, imagining Thorin's face when he would finally see her elemental dragons. What a sight it would be to see a Dwarf Prince be forced to swallow his words.

"Don't act like you know everything, Oakenshield", Eruanna said. "Because you don't. None of us do."

They put up in a cave shortly after leaving the Shire for night was upon them. The dwarves gathered around a fire and Eruanna stuck next to Gandalf. She looked off into the distance, thinking about her home. She missed her family, her uncles' jokes and pranks, her father's archery lessons, her mother's kisses, everything. She missed her loyal golden knight; Glorfindel had offered to come on the mission to protect her but Gandalf wished for secrecy and Glorfindel was simply too powerful to go unnoticed by dark forces. She watched Bilbo offer an apple to one of the horses and smiled lightly for she recalled doing the same in the stables of Imladris.

She saw that her dragons had practically clung to her. She could see the mistrust in their eyes, especially Naurion's and Sûlion's. Naurion and Sûlion weren't quick to trust anyone who wasn't an elf. They had stayed hidden inside her cloak, yet she knew they were inching to fly around.

Eruanna walked a few feet away from the Company. "Where are you goin' lass?", Bofur asked. She looked at the sky for a moment before responding. "I'll just be alone for a bit. I'll be back soon", Eruanna said. She then jumped into the trees and looked up to see the stars of Varda.

"Ai Valar, what have I gotten myself into?", she groaned. "I should've stayed out of this when I had the chance", she placed her head in her hands. She thought back to when Gandalf had approached her for help. Should she have refused?

"Broken ties", she spat. "The wizard is ridiculous. Dwarves and elves have been feuding with each other since the dawn of time. The dwarves already resent me. What reconciliation will come out of this?", she ranted to herself.

The Dragoness sighed and sat back against the tree. "I don't know what I should do", she admitted to herself. Rolling her eyes, she gracefully leapt down from the tree.

She made her way back to the camp to find all 13 dwarves staring at her. "What?", she asked in a threatening tone. She noticed Thorin had something golden in his hands and her eyes widened.

"Where did you get this?", she hissed, snatching it. It was a talisman that had belonged to her paternal grandmother and had been passed down to her. Eruanna wore it around her neck.

"Found it in your satchel", Thorin explained. She growled at him. This was too far.

"Not too admirable of you to rummage through my things", she hissed. "This talisman is an heirloom of my father's house. You would be better off not meddling in my business. Do you have any morals?"

"Watch your tone elf", Dwalin snapped. "You are beneath him."

Eruanna's temper ignited with a fiery rage. "How dare you say that? We, elves, are the beloved first born children of Eru himself. I will never be beneath you. If I am not treated as an equal, I swear by the Valar I will burn you all alive!"

"Why does your sword have a dragon head for a pommel? What dark forces do you serve?", Thorin hissed right back.

"Oh you are quite observant", Eruanna said, sarcastically. "For your information, I don't serve the dark forces! I serve the elves, my people! The pommel of my sword is a dragon head because I wanted it so. How Angoruinë was made is none of your concern."

"Angoruinë", Dwalin murmured.

"It means 'dragon fire' in Quenyan, one of the elvish languages", Gandalf spoke up.

Thorin glared at Eruanna as she turned around. The previous insults came flooding back to her mind and her heart hardened. "You don't need to know anything about me. I don't care to know anything about any of you. Goodnight", with that, she went off to sleep in the trees.

Days later, they came to an abandoned farmhouse. Eruanna allowed her dragons to fly for a bit as long as they steered clear from the dwarves' sight and leaned against one of the broken walls. "We'll camp here for the night", Thorin said. "Fili, Kili, look after the ponies. Make sure you stay with them."

"A farmer and his family used to live here", Gandalf said. Eruanna stood silent as she heard Thorin giving orders. "Oin, Gloin, get a fire going", he commanded.

"I think it would be wiser to move on. We could make for the Hidden Valley", Gandalf. Her eyes shot up and her blood ran cold. No.

"I have told you already, I will not go near that place", Thorin said, roughly. Eruanna narrowed her eyes. "Why not?", Gandalf protested. "The elves could help us! We could get food, rest, advice." "I do not need their advice", Thorin spat out.

"We have a map we cannot read", Gandalf pointed out. "Lord Elrond could help us."

"No, no, no", Eruanna thought frantically. "It will reveal more of my identity", she tried to make up an excuse but no words came out. Yet the thought of seeing her kin again allured her. She was thoroughly annoyed by the dwarves already.

"Help? A dragon attacks Erebor, what help came from the elves? Orcs plunder Moria, desecrate our sacred halls, the elves looked on and did nothing. You ask me to seek out the very people who betrayed my grandfather, betrayed my father", Thorin said. Eruanna Úlumiel rolled her eyes.

"It was not their place to meddle in the affairs of dwarves", she muttered lowly. "Don't you dare try to defend them", Thorin hissed. "It's not my problem that your kin are weak."

"Honestly, it's a miracle, a miracle, that I haven't killed you yet", the Dragoness roared, making everyone look at them. "Do not slander my kin who were trying to defend themselves. They would have been powerless against the dragon!."

"They were weak", Thorin shouted.

"I have warned you countless times, Thorin Oakenshield!", Eruanna snapped. "Do not dare slander the names of my kin or I'll burn you alive along with your company!", with that she stormed off, seething with rage.

"Valar, I could use my mother, father, grandfathers, great-grandparents or maybe my uncles!", Eruanna spat, once she was alone. She heard noises behind her and saw her dragons emerge and come to her. She sighed, seeing their concerned faces.

"What did I get us into?", she asked them. "The elves were justified with their decisions, but just why?", Eruanna sat down on a rock with tears in her eyes. "Why do I have to take these blows? Why must that cursed dwarf leader slander my kin?"

The dragons had enlarged themselves a bit. Helegiel and Faroniel came and wrapped their wings around her mistress. They were the most compassionate out of the dragons. The dragons were truly like siblings to Eruanna as she never had blood siblings. She was an only child, the last descendant, thus her family did everything in their power to protect her up until her majority came when she wasn't so sheltered. Eruanna dearly appreciated and loved them.

"What do we do? If Thorin finds out my identity, he will kill me", Eruanna muttered. Ceveniel nuzzled her and Naurion laid his head on her lap. Sûlion nestled himself in her arms. Faroniel and Helegiel embraced her.

"I've got to be more secretive", Eruanna thought to herself. "Nothing can happen to the dragons."

That night, Eruanna returned to the company to sleep. Just then, Fili woke her up. "Sorry lassie, but Bilbo's been captured by trolls along with some horses."

"What!?!", she gasped, shooting awake. "What the hell happened!?!"

"Bad stuff", he said. Eruanna grabbed her weapons and they left. "Valar, you can't even protect a hobbit", she grumbled. She left behind her slumbering dragons.

When the company came to the troll's area, Kili was already taking them on. The dwarves and Eruanna leapt into action and Bilbo went to free the horses whom the trolls had captured. Suddenly the trolls acted fast and they grabbed Bilbo. "Lay down your arms", one of them said. "Or we will rip his off", another threatened.

Thorin threw down his sword with a grunt of frustration. The rest of them followed suit. Quick as a flash the trolls tied them all up. All of a sudden Bilbo jumped up. "You can't eat them!", he cried out. "You are going wrong with the seasoning! Have you smelt them!?! It will take more than salt to do the trick!." The dwarfs loudly shouted their protests and Eruanna had to stop herself from giggling.

"The secret is... to skin them first!", Bilbo managed to get out. The dwarves protested even louder.

"What a load of rubbish!", the troll cried. One of them lifted up the dwarf, Gloin. "Why don't we eat this one first? Nice and crunchy", the troll said. "You can not eat him! He has parasites. In fact... they all do. I would not risk it, I really wouldn't", Bilbo said.

"WE DON'T HAVE PARASITES YOU HAVE PARASITES", Kili shouted. Eruanna looked at Thorin. The duo knew what Bilbo was doing. Thorin kicked all the dwarves and they finally started cooperating, telling the trolls how riddled they supposedly were. Suddenly, they heard a shout. "The dawn will take you all!", Gandalf appeared. He broke a huge rock and revealed the sun which turned the dwarves to stone.

The company went into the troll's cave and saw several elven blades along with other things. Thorin took one of the blades. "Forged by the high elves", Gandalf said. "You will never find a finer blade." Eruanna had gotten her weapons back from the trolls. They were about to leave but something came up.

Out of the woods, a bunch of rabbits dash out pulling a carriage with a man on it. "Radagast the Brown", Gandalf said. "What on Middle-Earth are you doing here?" "Something is wrong, Gandalf, something is terribly wrong", said the other wizard. He led Gandalf away where they began to speak. Just then, Eruanna heard something. She looked up to see a warg. The dwarves noticed too and killed it.

"We are being hunted by cursed orcs!", Eruanna hissed. She bore great resentment towards orcs, as they killed one of her grandmothers and tortured the other who sailed for Valinor before she was born.

"I'll distract them", Radagast said. He left the area and before the company knew it, he was being chased by orcs. She looked around at her surroundings and Gandalf looked at her.

"The hidden pass is nearby", she realized.

The group ran across and found orcs surrounding them. "Run you idiots!", she shouted. The howling of orcs and wargs filled the lands. She shot them down with her bow and arrow, as many as she could.

As the orcs pursued them, Gandalf grabbed her arm. "We will meet at Rivendell, take your dragons and go", he said. Eruanna was going to protest but the look in his eyes told her she had to comply. So she didn't protest and raced off. Eruanna went behind a small hill and ran into her five dragons who'd just awoken from their long slumber.

Eruanna looked at their relieved and slightly annoyed faces with sympathy. They'd woken up in a panic when they hadn't seen her and it showed. She mentally kicked herself for leaving them behind.

"We ride for Imladris", she told them.

Naurion and Sûlion seemed to want to get in on the action unfolding between the dwarves and orcs. Eruanna smiled. "No time for that now, boys."

Though her dragons couldn't speak, they understood her every word. Naurion let out a cheer as they enlarged themselves. Eruanna climbed onto Ceveniel's back and they flew off.