An Unexpected Journey: Fanfiction

Wargs, Orcs, and Darkness

I stayed hidden in the trees for a long time. I watched the door and sighed. It was silent, but not for long. Wargs howled and orcs shouted orders in black speech. I knew it www before long that the wargs would smell me and sniff me out. Not 5 minutes later it happened. Dozens of wargs leaped at the tree in the directions. It was so sudden that I yelped a little.

"What is this?" An orc rider laughed in black speech. "An elf stuck in a tree?"

"What do you want?" I hissed back in the black tongue.

"You have been traveling with the dwarves," he answered. "You may be more useful than you think. Come down and maybe I won't have the wargs kill you."

I jumped down and stood straight. "If you want me you will have to kill me," I answered and drew my sword. The orc smiled but so did I.

"Kill the she-elf," he whispered to the riders behind him.

"That was not our orders," one of the said in a hushed voice. "Capture the girl then us her a bait, that is what he said."

"Well then use my dead body as the bait if you will," I yelled to them in common tongue, "but you will not take me alive!"

The lead orc nodded and the wargs circled me. They growled and drooled and there were too many of them. I could not take on so many. I prepared my magic and my sword. I cut down one, then two, then five, then soon the warg numbers were cut in half. Then, while I held one warg off with my sword and another with my dagger, another came up behind my and sunk my teeth into my leg. I yelled out in pain. The orcs laughed but I grew angry.

An uncontrollable energy and urge grew inside me, an urge to kill everyone there. I closed my eyes and the energy grew. It grew until I could no longer control it. I opened my eyes and the energy went lose. A black light emitted from my body and vaporized all of the wargs, orcs, and trees. There was nothing but dust and charred earth for a mile in every direction.

I knelt down. My energy was gone. I had used too much. I looked around and my breathing picked up. Had I done this? I looked at the earth and gasped. Nothing could grow there any more not with what I had done.

"It is a good thing I did not have my men kill you," a rough voice shouted for behind me in black speech. "The darkness within you will be most useful."

I did not need to turn around to know who was talking. It was the same orc who had killed my mentor. The same orc who had killed Thror. Azog the Defiler. I stood up and clenched my fists. As much as I hated to admit it, he was right. There was darkness within me or I would not have done what I did and I did not have the strength to deny it.

I heard a low growl behind me and the hot breath of Azog's white warg. It prickled my neck and sent a shiver down my spine. "What do you want?!" I said calmly in black speech.

"Only for you to lure the dwarves out and then we will take you to Dolgul Dor," he answered.

"And what if should refuse?" I growled. The sun was rising and the sky was pink but the mountains blocked it.

"You have not choice," he laughed. He was right and he knew it. But I would not go so easily.

I smiled and mustered all the energy I could. I sprinted a good 20 feet away and kneeled down. I waved my hand and willed a flower to grow. If I had the time or the energy to make something better, I would have, but I could hear the white warg near me. To my surprise, Athelas grew and started to spread. I stood and smiled and watched it grow. It was draining my energy but it was beautiful.

"Don't do that again!" Azog growled in black speech and pulled me off the ground by my hair.

I spat in his face. He wiped it off slowly with the make of his hand then looked at me. He raised his fake forked hand and dragged it slowly across my back. It burned and i clenched my teeth. He smiled after he had left three scratches in my back from one end to the other.

"Go to hell!" I shouted at him. He just smiled and held out his hand. Another orc put his own club in it and Azog raised it above his head. When the club came into contact with my head, I lost all consciousness.

"Kiti!" I heard someone yell. My ears rang and my vision was spotted. Someone was clutching my hair. Then, very quickly, I was dragged from wear I was sitting.

I yelled and gribbed the hand holding me. I clenched my eyes shut for a moment and then opened them to see an unwelcome sight. All 13 dwarves, a wizard, and a hobbit were all stuck in one tree. That tree however was falling off the cliff.

"Kiti!" Fili yelled and tried to move but the tree started to fall more. I looked at him a shook my head as best I could.

Azog laughed and threw my in front of him. I landed on my bad leg and clenched my teeth and breathed out of my mouth. Azog did not take away my weapons but left them on.

"Come and help her, Thorin Oakensheild," Azog laughed in black speech, ", before the wolves eat her."

"No, Thorin! Don't! It's a trap!" I yelled and looked at the dwarf. I look my head and blood ran into my eye. My upper eye must have been bleeding.

Azog nodded and a large brown warg walked over to me from the group. I looked up at it and it growled and drooled. "Begin," Azog said in black speech and the warg bite me. It sunk its teeth into my arm and ribs.
I yelled out in pain and it shook me once then twice. I yelled and it threw me to the side.

"Enough!" I heard someone yell. I looked up and saw Thorin. He was wielding Orcist, the sword he found in the trolls' hoard.

"No," I breathed.

He approached Azog and swung his sword. The white warg swerved to miss the blade and Thorin swung again. He missed and the warg took its chance. It sunk its teeth just over his oaken shield and into his arm. He gasped for air. The warg threw him so he landed not 5 feet away from me.

"Thorin!" I yelled when he landed. He looked at me but could not do anything.

Azog and one other rider came up. "Bring me his head," Azog ordered, "and bring the elf to me." The rider nodded and dismounted. He went first to Thorin and what happened was remarkable.

The orc stood on Thorin's chest and raised his bone sword. Before his blow could fall, however, a small creature, Bilbo came running and attacked the orc. It fell over with the hobbit on top of it and Bilbo stabbed it again. It squealed just before it died.

Bilbo jumped off it and stood in between Thorin and I. I smiled with proudness but when I looked over to Thorin, he was unconscious. Bilbo held his sword like he did not know what to do with it. Azog laughed and nodded for the others to finish him off.

Before any of the orcs could dismount, several more small beings, Fili and Kili among them, jumped top them and killed the orcs. But just as it all seemed lost again, it was saved but the most unlikely of beings.