17)Heading and Entering Mirkwood(3)

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'telepathic'
'Valar'
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In the distance, trees move haphazardly under the weight of something approaching. The movement is coming straight toward Bilbo and the dwarves, Esmeralda, and Luna. Worriedly, Bilbo climbs down a bit and peers around. He steps forward, only to trip over a spiderweb and fall several feet, bouncing painfully off branches, and yelling in pain and shock the entire time.

He catches himself on a branch, then watches in horror as a web parts to reveal a massive spider. As the spider opens its fangs and hisses at him, Bilbo yells and falls again, landing on his back in an even bigger spiderweb. He is stuck to it and is thus unable to resist as the spider wraps him up tightly.

All of the dwarves except for Esmeralda and Luna have also been captured by giant spiders, the spiders have hung them upside down from tree branches. 'Where is Esme and Luna?,' Bilbo wondered, worrying for his friends.

A spider tows a web encased Bilbo toward the dwarves, then reaches for him with its jaws, presumably to administer its poison. Bilbo wakes up and realizes what is happening, just as the spider bends toward him, he manages to swing his sword, which he had been holding, straight up from his body, through the web, and into the spider. He guts it and flings it over the edge of the branch he had been lying on, sending it crashing to the forest floor.

 Bilbo quickly rips off the cocoon of the web he has been wrapped in. Looking up, he sees the dwarves wrapped up and hanging from branches, he hides behind a tree trunk as a spider climbs up the other side of the trunk.

A hand covers his mouth as he panics, but stops when he hears a familiar melodious, firm, and gentle voice.

"Bilbo, I have surrounded your mind with a powerful shield that the One Ring cannot break through. Nor can it harm your heart and soul. You will put it on and try to rescue the others. Me and Luna will try to distract them away from you," Esmeralda instructed.

Bilbo trusts Esmeralda and Luna, as he take the ring and slips it on his finger. In addition to becoming invisible, he enters the Ring's "other dimension," and he can suddenly understand what the spiders are saying one by one.

"Kiilll theemm. Kiill theemm."

"Eat them now, and runny"

"Their hide is tough. There is good juice inside."

"Stick it again! Stick it again! Finish it off!"

They said as they either hang from their web or on the trees near the dwarves. Esmeralda moves stealthy and not being heard or sensed by the spiders. Luna moved to the opposite so they could attack from a different direction.

The spiders surround one wrapped dwarf, the dwarf kicks, but can't do much when wrapped up so tightly.

"Ahh! The meat's alive and kicking!" one of the spiders informed.

"Kill them, kill them now. Let us feast," the other spoke.

The rest of the spiders take up the chant, "Feast! Feast!"

Bilbo, holding his sword in front of him, approaches the spiders. He ducks just in time as a spider crawls along a branch above him, going toward the dwarves. Bilbo throws a piece of wood away and to the side, causing all the spiders to rush after the source of noise.

Esmeralda cuts one by one that Bilbo threw a wood at her direction. Luna moved fast and elegantly to help her sister.

Meanwhile with Bilbo and some of the spiders left with him. Three spiders stay behind and prepare to eat a wrapped and squirming Bombur, Bofur, and Ori.

"Fat and juicy. Just a little taste," one said while the others hiss in agreement.

The spider drops Bombur to the tree trunk and prepares to eat him. Bilbo sneaks up and strikes it on its rear with his sword. The spider spins around and hisses, but Bilbo is invisible to it. Bilbo keeps slicing at it, slicing away a leg and part of its head.

The other spiders were alert and tried to see where the attacker was so they could feast on them.

"Curses! Where is it? Where is it?!" the spider hissed in anger.

Bilbo pulls off his ring, revealing himself to the spider. He gives a little smile before he speaks.

"Here!" Bilbo mocked.

Bilbo thrust his sword directly into the spider's head.

"It stings! Stings!" the spider roared.

Bilbo pulls out his sword and the spider, dead, crashes to the ground. Bilbo looks at his sword.

"Sting. That's a good name," Bilbo comment.

He looks toward where the dwarves are still wrapped and tied up. Then looks at the spiders and said.

"Sting," Bilbo grins.

Bilbo cut the other two spiders with sting and then moved to cut the webs to free the dwarves

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Bilbo cut the other two spiders with sting and then moved to cut the webs to free the dwarves. They land on the forest floor and proceed to rip off their wrappings, cursing and yelling the entire time.

"Where's Bilbo?," Bofur asked.

"Bilbo! Esmeralda! Luna!," the dwarves called out.

They look up to see a falling spider and on top of the dead spider is Esmeralda with a sword stabbed into the chest of the spider. The spider hissed and Esmeralda took the sword out and slice off it's head.

Luna came out of hiding from up top like Esmeralda turning her sword into her bracelet she had on the entire journey. The dwarves gap at the two as they walk like female knights instead of Noble Ladies.

"I'm up here!," they hear Bilbo.

They looked up to see him and saw a spider. They shouted multiple of "Look out" in different ways of saying it.

Bilbo, he manages to put his sword in front of him just in time, stabbing the spider through the belly, when it attacked him from underneath the branch he was on. As the spider falls off the branch, Bilbo, entangled in its legs, falls with it.

As the pair smashes against branches on their way down, Bilbo's ring falls off his finger and lands some distance away from where Bilbo lands. Bilbo gets up and begins stumbling toward where the Ring fell.

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