"Fili, Kili tie up the ponies" Thorin pointed to a wooded area off to the left.

"Wouldn't it be better to tie them up over here" Cheyenne pointed to their right, please listen to me we can just avoid the trolls. Cheyenne knew that the trolls would be coming in from their left and if they didn't see the ponies then maybe they wouldn't see the dwarves.

Thorin eyes her for a moment "I said tie them up!" he ordered Fili and Kili, he clearly ignored her suggestion.

Cheyenne crossed her arms obviously irritated by being written off so quickly. She saw Thorin and Gandalf talking; well she knew that they were arguing. She climbed off the pony well more like almost fell off. She brushed off her pants, grabbed her bag and adjusted her glasses.

"Save me from the stubbornness of dwarves" she huffed but at the same time as Gandalf, he looked at her for a moment curiously before huffing off.

Gandalf marched passed "wait where are you going?" Bilbo stammered.

"To seek the company of the only one around here with any sense"

"Who's that?"

"Myself Mr. Baggins and Cheyenne" he turned to her "If you would join me, I feel we have matters to discuss." She nodded, she tried not to seem intimidated but an angry Gandalf was scarier than all the Orcs in Middle Earth. Fili and Kili looked at her as she walked away with Gandalf; she gave them a small half smile.

They walked for a few minutes in complete silence until they were in a small clearing probably a mile away from where the dwarves had made camp. "So, what do we need to discuss?" Cheyenne was nervous she had an idea of what it was about but she didn't want to say anything until she was sure.

"Your being here, I never caught your last name?"

"Gordon"

"Miss Gordon, I know that there is more to you being here than you let on" he sat down on a rock; Cheyenne couldn't believe how good of shape he was in.

She stuck her hand in her bag and felt the book, sighed and pulled it out slowly. "This is a book called The Hobbit and I was brought here because of it."

"A book about hobbits is why you are here?" he raised an eyebrow

"No it's a book about this journey and in the end-"

"Do not tell me the end, I cannot know"

"Why not?"

Gandalf looked very serious "because knowing someone's fate is a very heavy burden and I take it that I am in it, therefore I cannot know the fate of me or the company. However you were brought here to change the ending that my dear is your burden, but I will help you if I can."

Somehow his words made her burden feel even heavier, she had hoped that she could tell him what she had to do so that he could help her. "Do you think I will survive?" she blurted out feeling so overwhelmed that she might cry.

Gandalf sighed and gave her a small smile "that my dear I do not know but if Aulë sent you here then he must think you can."

"Somehow that doesn't make me feel any better" she put 'The Hobbit' back in her bag and slung it across her chest. She put her hand on the hilt of the sword that Fili had given her; she didn't have a sheath so she tucked it into her leather belt.

Gandalf had built a fire and was puffing away at his pipe making small smoke rings that floated up into the night sky. It was dark now and Cheyenne was trying to think about what the dwarves where doing at this time. She figured it was about now that Fili and Kili were noticing that the ponies were missing and asking Bilbo to go look for them.

"Are you alright my dear?" Gandalf noticed the worried look on her face

"We need to go back" she blurted out, jumping up from her spot on the rock, she didn't even wait for Gandalf to reply. She knew that everything would be okay like it was in the book but only if Gandalf got back in time to get the trolls to turn to stone. Cheyenne was not the fastest runner but she knew if she didn't get faster she would die in Middle Earth, no question about it. She wasn't in shape any doubt about it every quarter mile or so she took a quick breather and puffed on her inhaler. Man I wish I did more in gym class, when she got to the rocks which over looked where the trolls were, her lungs burned beyond belief. She was wheezing and trying not to have an asthma attack. She peered through the bushes and rocks to see that the trolls had indeed captured the company and Bilbo was trying his hardest to convince the trolls not to eat them. It's all going according to plan she reassured herself no need to get involved Gandalf will save the day. She looked around but didn't see Gandalf, maybe he didn't leave when I did but he will be here.

That's when things didn't go according to plan, one of the trolls picked up Bilbo which was defiantly not what happened in the book. Sheer panic flooded her; this wasn't what happened in the book it was different. That moment was the moment that crushed all her hopes of the journey going according to the book, what if everything from here out was different? But she didn't have time to think about that now, Bilbo was about to be eaten and Gandalf couldn't be found. So she mustered up courage she never even knew she had, she pulled the sword out of her belt and stood up. "Hey big and stupid" she shouted trying not to make her voice as scared as she really was.

"Cheyenne run!" Fili yelled trying to wiggle out of his sack but to no avail.

Burt the troll looked at her for a second before dropping the sack that held Bilbo and picking up Fili's sack. "This one sure likes to move; I think I will eat you first" he completely ignored the fact she was there though his cohorts were in the process of preparing to climb up and capture her.

"DROP HIM!" she screamed much louder than she imagined she could, she was starting to shake she was seriously scared. Burt lifted Fili up to his mouth "I said drop him!" that's when Cheyenne jumped, but jumping down to the trolls trying to grab her but to Burt. Before she even really realized she was doing it she had run full force using a bolder to catapult herself onto Burt's back.

"Get off!"…stab…Cheyenne had plunged her sword as hard as she could into his neck. He stumbled dropping Fili in the process and jerked his body causing her to be slung. Cheyenne hit the stone wall full force and the last thing she felt as her spine hit the rock was pure terror and unimaginable pain.

"Lassie!"

"Cheyenne" she was being shook but by whom she did not know it sounded like Bilbo's voice followed by Fili and Kili.

"Don't shake her laddie, she may have hurt her back" good ole Balin always knowing how to handle the situation.

There alive, I'm alive her eyes flickered open and she saw that she was surrounded by dwarves and a very concerned hobbit. "Did Gandalf come back?" not the first thing that you would expect someone to ask.

"I did and a good thing too otherwise you would be troll supper" Gandalf emerged from the back of the company.

Cheyenne tried to smile but her head hurt so much she was almost blinded by the pain, she tried to sit up but screamed from the pain in her back. "Don't strain yourself lassie you took quite a beating" Balin always the voice of reason.

"What were you thinking?" Kili yelled obviously unhappy by her recklessness.

"I was thinking that I would have no one to marry if blondie over there got eaten" she chuckled a little and managed to sit up. Okay good my back isn't broken thank goodness.

A few members of the company chuckled and gave a good laugh especially Kili and his heart stopping laugh. "Your hurt and still making jokes" he smiled helping her up "at least you're in good spirits."

"My head is killing me" she put a pale hand to the back of her head and felt hot sticky blood.

"That's a pretty nasty wound, better take care of it before it gets infected" Oin suggested he was after all the Company doctor if you could call it that.

"Thank you" Cheyenne replied as she began to patch up her head

"Don't ever do that again" Fili walked up seeming angry but mostly relieved that she was okay.

"Well if I hadn't have don't that then you would be troll food"

"You have never even used a sword or seen a troll before today! You can't just go attacking things when you don't know what you're doing! You could have been hurt worse or killed, did you not even think about that?" he was getting worked up.

"Well I didn't die, someone had to do something I couldn't just let you all get eaten like popcorn" she was getting slightly upset at this point her face turning red.

"You just jumped off a ledge and stabbed a troll in the neck just think about that"

That's when she took a moment to think about what had just happened, she had done all that and this was the first time she was really realizing that. It hit her like a train, she really could have been killed and she was already hurt, she could have died she almost did. Her face got very red and when she noticed her broken glasses laying a few feet from her she lost it. She started to have a panic attack while trying not to cry. "Don't take it personally, you were very brave, my brother just is worried about you, we all are" Kili tried to comfort her while she puffed on her inhaler.

"I don't know if I can do this" she breathed heavily trying to calm herself but it wasn't working.

"At this point you really don't have a choice" Thorin said sternly before turning away.

Cheyenne spotted Gandalf talking with Bilbo and walked over to him the best she could with the splitting pain in her head. "It wasn't supposed to happen like that" Gandalf raised an eyebrow, Cheyenne took a breath and whispered "in the book it didn't happen like that, it changed before I intervened."

Gandalf lit his pipe with his fingers and gave it a puff "you are not supposed to be here either, isn't that right? That isn't in the book is it? By you just being in Middle Earth things are already starting to change."

Cheyenne groaned please let this end well

"Gandalf what are trolls doing this far south?" Thorin interrupted

"They must have come down from the mountains" he blew smoke "but how did they move in the daylight?"

"There must be a cave nearby"

"Let's go have a look"