[1] Mesmerized - The Elvish Ranger In The Company (Legolas)

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"Tauriel!"  I call out after my friend. As she sees me, she only grins and we start pursuing the orcs.

We come to a rocky promontory at the end of the river and at at the banks of the lake. Far across the lake, Laketown is visible. On the rocks are pieces of a deer that the orcs had previously shot and ripped apart. 

   Hearing something, we turn our heads slightly and reaches for something at her side. We whip around and come to a crouch with an arrow nocked to our bows. Several yards behind us is Legolas, also with his bow drawn.

 "I thought you were an Orc," Tauriel says, relieved.

"If I were an Orc, you would be dead." Legolas states. We all lower our bows.  "Tauriel, you cannot hunt thirty orcs on your own."

"But I'm not on my own." She grins at me.

Legolas smiles,"You knew I would come."

Tauriel smiles.

"The king is angry, Tauriel. For 600 years, my father has protected you, favored you. You defied his orders; you betrayed his trust." He pauses. "Come back with me...he will forgive you,"

"But I will not. If I go back, I will not forgive myself," Tauriel replies. "The king has never let orc-filth from our lands, yet he would let this orc-pack cross our borders and kill our prisoners."

Legolas retorts, "It is not our fight."

"It is our fight. It will not end here. With every victory, this evil will grow. If your father has his way, we will do nothing. You will hide within you walls, live your lives away from the light, and let darkness descend. Are we not part of this world?" I interject.

 "Tell me, mellon, when did we let evil become stronger than us?" Tauriel asks. Legolas looks conflicted.

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In the house, the girls scream as an Orc flips over the table they were hiding under. Another Orc leaps to the balcony in front of the house, but suddenly, I appear and stab it in the throat with my knife. I pull out her my other knife as well, and begins killing the Orcs in the house. Legolas jumps in through one of the holes in the roof. He too begins killing Orcs. An Orc approaches Kili and grabs him by the wounded leg. As Kili screams in pain, Tauriel throws her knife and it plunges into the Orc's throat. Legolas, Tauriel and I slay Orcs left and right. As an Orc runs at them, Fili grabs Bain and forces him down.

 "Get down!"Fili yells.

 I kill the Orc, then turns to kill another one. Kili stabs the Orc as well with the knife Tauriel had thrown earlier, and they together kill the Orc. But then, Kili falls over onto the floor, howling in pain, and Tauriel looks at him in worry.

An Orc, Bolg's lieutenant, flees from the house and jumps over the balcony, landing in a boat in the water below. He yells to Bolg, who is striding toward the house. "Oakenshield has gone!"

"Fall back! Regroup at the bridge!" The remaining Orcs join him.

In the house, Legolas stabs an Orc and trips it, and it falls backward over the balcony railing and lands in the boat below. The boat acts like a seesaw and sends Bolg's lieutenant orc, who had jumped into the boat earlier, flying up into the air, where Legolas slices off its head with his knives. As the orc's body falls into the water below, its head still looks at Legolas. Legolas releases the head and it falls. Legolas looks and sees the remaining Orcs running through Laketown after Bolg.

Bofur dazedly gets up and sees the Kingsfoil lying in front of him.

Bain looks at me in awe, "You killed them all!" I smile at the sweet boy.

"There are others. Tauriel, Arneth, come." Legolas strides toward the door. Tauriel, who had been looking after Kili, looks up. Kili is on the ground, and Oin examines him.

 "We're losing him!" Tauriel, looking shocked, looks at Kili, then at Legolas, who is waiting at the door.

I touch Kili's forehead softly and close my eyes. White light appears around me, and Kili's pain slowly calms. I gasp a little when finish. Everyone looks at me in amazement.

"Tauriel." Legolas calls.

Legolas looks at her for a moment and then walks out the door. Tauriel remains standing. 

"Take care of him. I have to go," I tell her. She nods. "My healing can only stop so much pain. You need Athelas to stop the poisoning,"

Legolas jumps over the balcony and onto a bridge, then begins running. I follow after, twirling my twin daggers in my hands. Legolas catches up to the Orcs and shoots one at point blank; the arrow goes all the way through its head and into the wood planking behind. I shoot a orc that snuck up behind him.

 Bolg steps into a long alley just as Legolas and I enter it from the other side. We glare at each other, and Legolas whips out Orcrist, which he has been carrying at his hip, while I whip out Gladius. Holding it in both hands, he advances toward Bolg, and I follow.

   As we walk toward each other, the other two Orcs appear out of hiding spots on either side of the alley and attack Us. Legolas knocks the two of them down just in time to deflect a blow from Bolg. 

  Legolas and I fight all three Orcs at once, and when he has knocked down the two again, he stabs at Bolg's stomach, but Bolg drops his weapon and catches Legolas's sword between his arm and ribs. He pulls Legolas closer to him using the sword and then throws him against a wooden pillar. Legolas drops the sword. Before he can get up, Bolg grabs him and throws him again, this time into a wall. 

  Bolg strides over and kicks at Legolas, but I manage to grab Bolg's leg and knock him off balance and into the wall behind him. Legolas leaps in the air and delivers a flying punch to Bolg's face. 

 I grab Bolg and smash his head repeatedly into the wooden post. I throw Bolg against a wall, but Bolg rebound from the wall and grabs Legolas in a crushing embrace against his chest. 

  He squeezes Legolas and Legolas strains in pain, then jerks his head back into Bolg's face, forcing him to release him. Legolas manages to pull out a knife and slice Bolg lightly on the stomach, but Bolg grabs him and throws him toward the other two Orcs, who have gotten back up. As Legolas fights the two of them with his knife, Bolg strides away, limping.

   Legolas dispatches the two Orcs and runs over to where Orcrist is lying on the ground, and he picks it up. As he stands, he falls back against a wall in pain, breathing heavily. His eyes open wide in shock and he raises his hand to his nose. 

It comes away with blood, and he is shocked. He looks to the side and sees Bolg on a Warg, heading out of the town. I place my hand on his arm and his injury heals. He nods in thanks.

Bolg rides across the bridge on his Warg; close behind him, we follow on white horses we obtained nearby.

Outside the mountain, it is night; we see the great doors of Erebor closed and shut. Suddenly, the side of the mountain breaks as an enraged Smaug smashes his way out. He flaps his wing and lifts off into the sky, spinning and causing the remaining gold on him to fall off in a golden shimmer. He swoops off toward Laketown.

  In Laketown, people see the fire and light coming from the previously closed gates of Erebor, and they shout and cower in fear. Bard grabs the bars of his cell in shock. In Bard's house, the dwarves, children, and Tauriel look about in fear.

My eyes widen in fear and horror as I look at the sky. "Oh no..." Legolas looks up to where I was staring before and his blue orbs flicker in pure terror. Smaug is alive and ready to kill.