A Brothers Bond

Chapter III

Things had got worse for Kili and Esmerelda as the other dwarflings wouldn't leave them be. They both got bullied together, Kili was a little taller than Fili and Esmerelda was also just a few inches than them both.

Esmerelda and Kili were both ten now, Thorin bought Kili and Fili ponies and bought Esmerelda a pure white Andalusian, with a long grey mane and tail and black socks. He taught them how to ride, and Esmerelda got the hang of it but Kili and Fili was finding it hard to control their ponies.

Their ponies bolt off and Thorin shouts "Boys pull on the reins"

Then Esmerelda went cantering after them, she caught up with Fili, she leant over and managed to pull Fillies reins, Kilis pony was continuing to gallop and into the river, Esmerelda rode her horse into the river spray splashing up at her and her steed.

Kili was panicking, she willed her mare to swim towards her brother and when she was close enough to the whinnying pony, she grabbed her brother reins and pulled him onto the back of her horse, she then reached for the panicking ponies reins but it snatched the reins from Esmerelda and they got wrapped around her wrist, she was wrenched off her horses back.

Esmerelda was dragged down stream, and she was hit against rocks, she went under for a few minutes, Kili and Fili watched anxiously till finally she came back up, Esmerelda reached for the knife in her boot and cut the reins allowing the pony to carry on being dragged down the river, she swam over to the banks and collapsed on to the wet mud on her back panting, Fili and Kili had dismounted their steeds and ran over to her.

"Are you okay?" Fili asked collapsing to his knees and Kili helped his sister up.

"Yeah" she nodded spitting water out, her clothes were soaked through and she looked like a drowned rat. Thorin came over and had a smile on his face and you could tell he was trying to hold back a laugh at the young shapeshifter.

"What you did was brave" he told her resting his hand on her wet shoulder. Thorin just began to laugh as the water dripped off her clothes.

"Do you guys want to try again and maybe not ride your ponies and horses into the river" he suggested.

"Uncle Thorin I think my wrist is broken" Esmerelda said showing him her wrist which was bruised and she didn't dare move it.

"I'll go and fetch some herbs from the healer in town" Thorin told her. Kili and Fili helped her back to the house, she sat in the living room while the boys went and rode out on their ponies.

Her wrist didn't hurt as her adrenaline was stopping it, but in the mean time Dis had bandaged it and tried to keep it in one position, Thorin returned with in a hour and he had to mix the herbs with boiling water and she had to drink it, but it smelt revolting and Esmerelda refused.

"Young lady if you don't drink it..." he got cut off by Fili and Kili running in as they heard his shouts.

"You need to drink it, to heal your wrist so you can come and ride your horse with us" Fili encouraged. She looked at him and he nodded reassuringly and she drank it she made a face as the liquid slid down her throat, she thought that she was going to
throw up but she managed to keep it down.

It made her feel a bit drowsy and she soon fell asleep on the arm chair, Thorin picked her up and carried her to her room but she was beginning to get a little too big and heavy to be carried, he laid her down in her bed, he shut the door quietly and then returned outside, where Dis watched them riding on their ponies as they kept them under control this time.

Thorin said goodbye to the boys and Dis before heading to the halls of the mountain to discuss the matters of the kingdom. Soon the blue mountains were cloaked in darkness, Dis hushed her two energetic sons in from being outside.

She went and checked on Esmerelda who slept peacefully, but regrettably had to wake her because she needed to eat. Esmerelda rubbed her eyes and moaned she didn't want to get up, but finally she joined her brothers and had some food even if she didn't want it.

Then both dwarflings and the shapeshifter settled in the living room in front of the fire listening to their mother reading them a story of great adventures of famous warriors unaware that one day they would be following in their footsteps.

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