[IC] The Hobbit/LOTR: Another Age of Evil Beginnings { Elven & Angel }

[The Elvenqueen]

"Here, lean on me." Kili murmured to Maleficent as the dwarf tried to put his shoulder underneath her and wrap an arm around her the best he could, to try and support the fae. Fili rushed over to help as the two young dwarves had gotten rather attached to Maleficent and the last thing they were going to do was leave her outside while they were all safe in the cave.

"Right, let's get a fire started!" announced Gloin as he rubbed his hands together though Thorin quickly cut him off.
"No, no fires. Not in this place."

[AngelBites15]

Maleficent appreciated the help that she needed from the twins, and she herself, has been seeing them as her own children. She promised Fili during the early part of the journey, that she would protect his younger brother whenever she could, and keep their family together. Now, she was already seeing them as her children, and they were already becoming attached to her, like children staying close to their parent. She grew fond of them, and that was when she realized that she had family. Managing to get into the cave, she winced as she was carefully placed back down onto the ground. She didn't have anything that would treat her injury, and she doubted that the company had anything to help her. All she could do now, was rest.

"Get some sleep, we start at first light", she heard Thorin say, glad that he decided to let them have a break, and allow herself to heal. "We were to wait in the mountains until Gandalf joined us. That was the plan", Balin pointed out. "Plans change. Bofur, take the first watch", he told his comrade.

A bedroll was all that Maleficent could lay on at the moment, and she let Fili and Kili stay with her, so she slept between them, only for the youngest to snuggle against her chest, like a young child needing warmth.

[The Elvenqueen]

Kili had been rather upset that there was no healing that the company could offer Maleficent and at first he had argued with Oin for a time, the only dwarf in the company who had knowledge of healing, but it was quickly established that they did not have the needed supplies here for him to do anything and that all she could do was rest it and hope it would heal on it's own.

Bofur nodded as Thorin ordered him to keep watch and took up a spot against the cave wall where he could see both the entrance and into the back of the cave in case anything came from either end to harm the company.

Bilbo had laid down himself and pretended to sleep until he was sure the rest of the dwarves had settled down, quietly and carefully getting up, he tried to creep to the entrance without Bofur seeing him.
"Where are you going?!" it hadn't worked, as the dwarf soon saw him and whispered sharply as he noticed it was Bilbo trying to leave.
"Back to Rivendell." the hobbit sighed. "Thorin's right, I don't belong here."

[AngelBites15]

"No, no, no. You can’t turn back. You’re part of the company. You’re one of us", Bofur tried to reassure. "I’m not though, am I? Thorin said I should never have come, and he was right. I’m not a Took, I’m a Baggins, I don’t know what I was thinking. I should’ve never run out the door", Bilbo was thoroughly guilty about making such a mistake. He was a hobbit, not a dwarf. "You’re homesick, I understand" "No, you don’t! You don’t understand, none of you do, you’re dwarves! You’re used to-to this life, to living on the road, never settling in one place, not belonging anywhere!", now that was a mistake he couldn't take back. "I’m sorry. I didn’t..." "No, you’re right. We don’t belong anywhere", Bofur looked around at the other dwarves sleeping. Unknown to them, Thorin was listening from his sleeping place. "I wish you all the luck in the world. I really do", Bofur pats Bilbo on the shoulder, and as the hobbit turns to leave, the dwarf noticed Bilbo’s sword glowing. "What’s that?", he asked curiously. The hobbit took his sword out and sees that it is indeed glowing blue.

At the same time, Thorin notices the floor of the cave beginning to crack. "Wake up. Wake up!", he shouted to everyone, but it was too late for them to be prepared. The last thing Maleficent saw, was that she and everyone were falling into a cavern. Stopping, she was glad that she wasn't in the pile of them, but what she didn't want to see was figures of goblins before her. "Incoming!", she called to the others as she moved out of the way, but she soon felt regret while dwarves were not moving, only to be attacked.

[The Elvenqueen]

The goblins rushed upon the company faster than any of the dwarves could react, pushing them roughly along the rickety wooden walkway as they scrambled to bind their hands with ropes at the same time.

Being much smaller than the dwarves, Bilbo was soon unnoticed by the goblins and so the hobbit ducked down low to the ground and watched the goblins scurry away ahead with the dwarves forced to stumble along with them. Keeping his sword drawn, he took a step to follow the dwarves with the intention of trying to free them, but it was then that another goblin jumped at him from the ceiling, and in the struggle, they both fell off the edge of the walkway and into the chasm below. Luckily, Bilbo landed on a pile of what looked to be some sort of mushroom, so he didn't break or injure anything. Though he wasn't sure how he was going to get back up to the others.

[AngelBites15]

It was goblin town, Maleficent thought as she watched from behind a rock, seeing the dwarves being taken to huge cavern that was swarming with goblins. Taking flight, she made sure to not be seen by them as she flew above the pack.

"Who would be so bold as to come armed into my kingdom? Spies?! Thieves?! Assassins?!", the huge king demanded as he stepped down from his throne. "Dwarves, your Malevolence", one of the commoners answered him. "Dwarves?!" "We found them on the front porch" "Well don’t just stand there, search them! Every crack, every crevice!", he demanded while the fae kept herself out of sight while watching from above. "What are you doing in these parts? Speak!", they didn't say a word, just stared. "Very well, if they will not talk, we’ll make them squawk! Bring up the mangler, bring up the bone breaker! Start with the youngest", he pointed at Ori.

[The Elvenqueen]

"Wait!!!" Thorin bellowed out as he stepped past the others to the front of the group.
"Ahh, Thorin, son of Thrain, son of Thror. King under the Mountain." the Great Goblin king bowed over exaggeratedly at the dwarf, then looked up at him and sneered. "But I'm forgetting, that you don't have a Mountain! And you're not a King, which makes you...well, nobody really."
The goblins all sniggered at this comment and their king began to nod to himself, grinning viciously at Thorin. "I know someone who would pay a pretty price for your head. Just the head, hee hee," he cackled under his breath, "nothing attached! Perhaps you know of whom I speak; a Pale Orc, astride a White Warg."

[AngelBites15]

"Azog the Defiler was destroyed. He was slain in battle long ago", Thorin boldly told the goblin, not standing down. "So, you think his defiling days are done, do you? He he he", he chuckled as he turned to the goblin scribe. "Send word to the pale orc, tell him I have found his prize", the scribe was sent away as Maleficent continued to watch. Please don't do anything stupid, she pleaded.

"Bones will be shattered, necks will be wrung, and you’ll be beaten and battered, from racks you’ll be hung. You will die down here...", he trailed off, only for another voice to finish for him "...and never be found, down in the deep of Goblin town", a stern female voice sounded as she wasn't really singing, but mocking the words in anger. Maleficent was hovering towards them with her arms folded. "Disappointing, isn't it, oh goblin king?", she was really acting, pretending to still side with the pale orc, as she used to command the goblin king. She winked to the twins, and Thorin, letting them know that was trying to make the creature vulnerable. "Azog is not happy, nor am I, the great commander of the Orc!", she declared to him.

[The Elvenqueen]

"What are you doing?!" Kili had hissed under his breath to Maleficent in surprise, having known nothing of the fae's past and being under Sauron's control for a time. For a moment the young dwarf felt betrayed, until he detected the very slight hint of disgust in her voice as she spoke to the goblin, and realised that she was trying to free them, so went quiet, as did Thorin.

[AngelBites15]

"These dwarves, are nothing to the Defiler. But he...", she pointed at Thorin. "Slayed him by his own hand", the fae finished in a foreboding voice. "For me, he's dishonest. It's really the honest ones you need to watch out for, oh great king", she informed him while strolling herself towards the dwarves' weapons before them. "Because you can never predict that they could do something incredibly...", Maleficent trailed off before looking at Thorin. "...stupid", she finished as she suddenly striked the nearest goblin and decapitated him in one smooth movement, causing fear and panic around its compatriots. She looked at Kili as she spoke. "This Defiler is obsessed, with having to slay the Durin line, and he's been a little too honest with you, my king", she slowly turned to face the great goblin. "Every. Single. Word", she added slowly before grabbing the Orcist at her feet, and pointed it at the King.

"I know that sword! It is the Goblin-cleaver! The Biter! The blade that sliced a thousand necks!", he fearfully announced. "Slash them, beat them, peel them, kill them all! Cut off his head!"

[The Elvenqueen]

"Thorin!" Kili shouted as he tried to push through the crowd to get to his uncle as Thorin was thrown to the ground by one of the goblin subjects, who was lining up his foul blade to cleave the dwarf prince's head off.

But at that very moment, a bright white light burst forth from behind the group and engulfed them all, making the goblins scream and drop to the floor, stunned. As the dwarves blinked and looked about them, dazed, and the light cleared, they saw Gandalf standing there.
"Take up arms!" the wizard instructed, raising his voice to shout loudly. "Fight! FIGHT!"

[AngelBites15]

Scrambling for their weapons, the dwarves fought their way through the caves of goblin town. One by one, a goblin junped at then here and there as the Fae followed them while taking flight ahead of them, clearing the bridges by violently colliding into the small goblins off the side. Allowing them a safe passage, the last thing they wanted to see, was the king again. In the way he was, he mocked them. "What are you going to do now, wizard?", Maleficent angrily swiped out her dagger and suddenly stabbed the goblin king through the head. "That'll do it", with him dead, his weight caused the bridge to collapse.

[The Elvenqueen]

With shouts of surprise, the dwarves clamoured to keep hold as the entire bridge that they were standing on plummetted far below, they all landed in a pile at the bottom, with the planks of wood all on top of them. Groaning loudly, they tried to get up and brush off the debris.
"Well, that could have been worse." declared Bofur matter-of-factly and trying to make something cheerful of the matter. At least they were free of the goblins now.

However, no sooner had the dwarf said it, than the goblin king's corpse collapsed directly on top of them.
"Oh, you have got to be joking!!!" Dwalin hollered angrily as the dwarves squirmed out from underneath the body.

It was then that Kili looked back behind them as he heard the scurrying of thousands of feet heading towards them, and saw a mass of snarling, hissing goblins heading directly for them.
"Um...Gandalf...!!" he yelled to the wizard.

[AngelBites15]

As the bridge was falling, Maleficent did lose her wind current and fell along with everyone else, but landed a few feet from the wreckage. Seeing the corpse drop, she gave a wince at the sight of them being crushed. Helping them out, she lifted some parts of the bridge that was on top of them, in order to help the squirming be easier. As she was about to move the piece that was above Kili, she couldn't but look up at the thousands of goblins running after them. "Time to go", she quickly said in a small voice as she managed to get the young dwarf out.

[The Elvenqueen]

"Go? What do you mean 'go'?!" Kili repeated Maleficent's instructions back at her, though ran as she had nudged him to.
"There's only one thing that will save us now," Gandalf clarified with an explanation, ushering the other dwarves towards the exit also. "daylight! Run, all of you!"

[AngelBites15]

Ushering them through the caves, Maleficent felt relieved as she finally felt the sun upon her. Running down the mountainside, she still by Kili's side, relieved that they both managed to stay through the predicament.

"Five, six, seven, eight. Bifur, Bofur, that’s ten. Fili, Ki­li, Maleficent, that’s thirteen. And Bombur, that makes fourteen. Where’s Bilbo? Where is our hobbit? Where is our hobbit?!", Gandalf shouted over them as they finally came to a stop.

[The Elvenqueen]

The dwarves all looked to and fro in surprise, as if they had all only just realised that the hobbit wasn't with them.
"Well, I thought he was with Dori!" cried one of the dwarves. Though at that shout Dori looked rather offended.
"Don't blame me, I'm not his babysitter!" he protested.

Meanwhile, Bilbo had just managed to escape Gollum and the goblins by turning invisible when wearing the ring he had found on the floor in Gollum's cave.

[AngelBites15]

"What happened exactly? Tell me!", the wizard demanded. "I’ll tell you what happened", Thorin stepped up. "Master Baggins saw his chance and he took it! He’s thought of nothing but his soft bed and his warm hearth since first he stepped out of his door. We will not be seeing our hobbit again, he is long gone", Bilbo slips off his ring and steps out from behind the tree he was hiding behind. "No, he isn’t", hearing this, the dwarves are surprised and look glad to see him. "Bilbo Baggins. I’ve never been so glad to see anyone in my life", Gandalf felt relieved at seeing the hobbit, alive and well.

[The Elvenqueen]

"But how on earth did you get past the goblins?!" Kili asked, astounded that the hobbit had managed to escape the tunnels alone.
"How indeed!" Dwalin echoed, wanting to know just as badly.
"Yes, well..." Bilbo cleared his throat awkwardly and slipped the ring subtly back into his pocket, hoping they wouldn't notice.

Gandalf however it seemed had noticed, though he didn't say anything and simply shook his head.
"That doesn't matter now, what matters is he is back, and all in one piece!"
"It matters!" Thorin insisted in a growl, stepping forward. "I want to know!" turning to face the hobbit he asked. "Why did you come back?"

[AngelBites15]

"Look, I know you doubt me. I know...I know you always have. And you’re right, I often think of Bag End. I miss my books, and my arm chair, and my garden. See, that’s where I belong. That’s home. And that’s why I came back, cause...you don’t have one. A home. It was taken from you, but I will help you take it back if I can", Bilbo explained calmly to the group, and the fae couldn't help but curl a smile on her lips.

Azog and his warg army show up, seeing the group down the mountainside. "Run them down! Tear them to pieces!", he yelled in Black Speech to which Maleficent understood perfectly. A couple of wargs come running down the mountain, howling.

Maleficent's smile dissappeared when she saw the wargs coming. "Run. Run!", she started small until she raised her voice for them to hear. "Run with them, I'll catch up", she told the twins.