Me and Kili are stood at the door, listening to the roaring of the dragon in the distance as the somehow comforting breeze danced through my hair. I crossed my arms over my chest and rested my head on Kili's shoulder, the strength of the wind building as the dragon flew over the village. "What are we going to do? The dragon will burn the whole of Lake-Town." I felt numb, knowing that there is no escape from this nightmare. I heard Kili sigh "I don't know." is all he could say. He couldn't even lie to me.
I could see the town people below. Some had planned their escape as they loaded small rowing boots with the essentials, some hid their children but some had accepted it and watched the shadow of the dragon fly through the late night sky like one final show before the great finale. Everyone was terrified but there is no where to go for them, so all they can do was wait until the dragon reaches them and it is heartbreaking to watch. And we were with them.
"We must leave." Tauriel was gathering the children inside, rounding them up and wiping the tears from the youngest's eyes as she sobbed. "We aren't leaving without our father." Bain tried to reason with the elf, but she was having none of it. "If you stay here, your sisters will die. Is that what your father would want?" Bain didn't say anything else, how could a teenager boy answer a question like that.
Tauriel had brought us down to the docks where we found an abandoned boat. "Everyone get on."
She stood with one foot up on a wood stump, standing like a leader, as we all passed and hopped onto the boat. Fili reached out his hand and helped me get on, I tried to keep my balance when the boat rocked. I could hear the screaming of the people and the dragon flying above us yet it wasn't in our view yet. Screams. The dragon had already began its plague of death upon this village.
As the others helped each other onto the boat, I sit and rested my head in my hands. I felt a hand grab my shoulder as Fili wrapped his arm around me and pulled me towards him "We're gonna make it out." He assured me as he released me. "My father is in that mountain," I whispered, like I was afraid of my own words "He's either dead, or watching Lake-Town burn to the ground, with us in it." I wanted Bilbo, and I wanted to be home; the Shire.
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We sailed through the village and watched as the dragon skimmed the roofs of the buildings, I could hear the dragon tear its claws into the wood of each home it passed. Bofur and Fili were rowing the boat, the children held onto each other, Tauriel was at the head of the boat and Kili and I were huddled into each other, trembling in the cold winter night.
I could see the dragon in the sky. It had teeth as sharp as swords and claws like spears. It's wings like a hurricane, they were powerful and its body was covered with strong, protective scales. It was my worst nightmare. Smaugs stomach glowed an orange colour which made my stomach plummet. Fire. It soared down toward the village and breathed fire to the buildings too close to us. Kili covered my head as I ducked into his chest; an immediate wave of heat hit my face.
The whole village was in flames and Lake-Town had nearly fallen to the ground. We came out from under a bridge and werecautious as we were in plain sight to Smaug, the dragon. "Da!" Sigrid pointed to Bard who was on top of the bell tower in the centre of Lake-Town with a simple bow and arrows in his arms. "Da!" Tilda was waving her arms but there was no way he could hear or see us.
He released his third arrow and it hit the dragons side. "He hit the dragon! He hit it, I saw it!" Kili turned to Tauriel thinking Bard pierced the dragon. "No. His arrows cannot pierce it's hide, I fear nothing will." She turned back in disappointment and tried to lead us out of Lake-Town. He can't be killed.
"Bain! No!" Bain suddenly jumped out boat, I tried to grab him but I missed and now he was sprinting down the dock. "We cannot go back." Tauriel just accepted it and turned back, she showed no emotion whilst Sigrid and Tilda were screaming for their brother. My blood boiled for her not caring that Bain had run off to his certain death but I stopped myself; we couldn't go turning on each other at the worst moment.
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After what seemed like an eternity of sailing through the incinerated town, the constant screaming and blazing of fire became unbearable to hear any longer. Suddenly, the boat rocked, nearly capsizing as a roaring scream from the sky by the clock tower. We all turned our heads to see the dragon fall from the sky and his body disappeared into the water, never to be seen again. Everything went silent. Silence like the earth was empty. Waves from the impact of the dead dragon flew out into the open water and our boat slightly rocked from the ripples.
I sucked in a breath as we all turned to it. "The dragon is dead!" A village ran cheered from the dock aside from us, the remainder of villages erupted into a victorious cheer and I'd never felt more relieved in my entire short existence. "The dragon is dead!" All the members of our boat cheered as the horror disappeared from our bodies. A relieved smile spread across my face as I grabbed both Kili and Fili's arms as I pulled them towards me. "We did it." Fili exhaled, like this was the first breath he'd taken in hours. "I didn't think we'd all make it." Kili wrapped his arm around my torso and placed a kiss on my head as the worst seemed to finally be behind us. Next step was reclaiming that mountain.
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A Journey I'll Always Remember (Kili x Reader)
Fantasy(Y/N) is the daughter of Bilbo Baggins, she is a curious, kind and loyal young lady who has always wondered what life is like outside of the Shire. One evening unexpected guests show up on their door step, they are known as the company of Thorin Oa...
