Spirit Bound

Wizards and Elves

Disclaimer: I do not own The Hobbit or any of its characters. Everything belongs to J.R.R. Tolkien and Peter Jackson. However I do own Ashlynn and her story.

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I still have to do all my Christmas shopping so I won't be updating as much.

                  Chapter 8 

Recap
Jo and I highfived each other, grinning wildly. The smiles drop from our faces when we hear that something's coming with our enhanced hearing.

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Gandalf yells "Stay together. Hurry now. Arm yourselves"

A man bursts into the clearing on a sled that's being pulled by rabbits.

"Thieves! Fire! Murder!"the strange man yells.

"Radagast. Radagast the Brown."greets Gandalf.

'Ohh so this is Radagast'

"What are you doing here" Gandalf asks.

"I was looking for you Gandalf. Something's terribly wrong" replies Radagast.

"Yes. What do you mean? pushes Gandalf.

Radagast gets distracted by Jo an I. It's probably because we're the only two human girls, with weapons, among thirteen dwarves.

"Who are these young maidens?" asks Radagast.

"This is Ash and this is her cousin Jo. They call themselves The Celtic Warriors" Gandalf replies.

'Huh? When did Gandalf think of that name for us?'

Jo an I wave shyly at Radagast and sit down to play with his pet rabbits.

Radagst looks like he forgot what he was about to say and looks frustrated.

"Oh, just give me a minute. I had a thought and now I've lost it. It was right there on the tip of my tongue. Oh, it's not a thought at all, it's just a silly old stick insect" says Radagast surprised.

I turn away and try not to puke when Gandalf pulls a bug out of Radagasts' mouth. I look at Jo, who looks green, like she's going to throw up too.

Gandalf pulls Rasagast aside to talk to him alone. I glance back at the two wizards, who were smoking, most likely because Radagast looks because he looks a bit freaked out.

'Did Gandalf seriously just give Radagast drugs?'

There's a howl close by and all the dwarves start to look nervous.

"Was that a wolf? Are there wolves out there?" questions Bilbo.

"Wolf. No, that's not a wolf" replies Bofur.

Suddenly a warg appears behind us and jumps into the middle of the Company, knocking some of the dwarves down. Thorin kills the warg with his new elvish blade as soon as another one attacks. Kili shoots the warg but doesn't kill it. The warg just gets up with an arrow in its neck only to be killed by Dwalin.

"Warg-scouts. Which means an orc pack isn't far behind" yells Thorin.

"Orc pack?" Bilbo yelps in disbelief.

"Who did you tell about your quest, beyond your kin?" Gandalf angrily questions Thorin.

"No one"

"Who did you tell?"

"No one, I swear. What in Durin's name is going on?"

"You're being hunted"

I quickly whistle for Kalayo and Jo does the same with Alya. Apparently our birds are called war birds in Middle-Earth. Our birds appear almost instantly and settle on our shoulders. Since our ponies had run off, we had no quick way of getting out of here.