A Hobbit and A Dwarf

III: I Get Myself a Journey

I've been staying in Hobbitton for three months. No quest nor journey through the three months. My last journey had cost me an old friend, a great friend he was. It's not that i don't want to go, i haven't find one just yet.

I sit myself on the outside bench. I see someone walking near the bridge. Who is it? It continues to walk. It's heading to Bag End. Maybe Bilbo invited his ifriends. Just before it knocks on the door, another one shows up. It's shorter than the one before. It's heading to Bag End as well. I didn't noticed his white beard. Dwarf. I keep my eyes on him and follow him. Once he enters Bag End i let myself in. Bilbo is me cousin, my favorite one. I see the two dwarves drinking and Bilbo looks confused and mad.

"Who are they?" I ask.

"I don't know. They just knocked, introduced them self and let their self in." He answers.

As i open my mouth there's a knock on the door. Bilbo walks to open the door while muttering something under his breath. "Fìli. And Kìli. At your service!" It came from the door. Fìli's here? I can hear the door closes and opens again. Fìli walks in while giving Bilbo his weapons. While Kìli, being him, clean his boots on Belladonna's box.

"Fìli, Kìli." I greet them. "What brings you here?"

"Nili! So good to see you. A quest, uncle said to go to a marked house in Hobbitton." Fìli answers. We hug, i exhale to his ear shocking him.

Then the white bearded dwarf greets him. I walk to Bilbo, he looks depressed. There's another knock on the door. A bunch of dwarves fall on the floor. When they walk in and invade the food storage, Gandalf appears. I should've known he's behind all of this. I leave them alone and go to the dining room. I'm not surprised at all to see the table already full with food. They sit around the table while throwing and eating the food. A few minutes later Fìli walks on the table holding two glass of ale. Offering one glass. Then they clean all the mess they made, they are throwing plates and bowls to each other. A hatted dwarf plays a flute while the others sing and clean. I help them by throwing some more plates. Bilbo is panicking, worried that his plates might broke. We're done as someone knocks the door.

"He's here." Says Gandalf.

We all walk to the door and Gandalf opens the door. Revealing a black haired dwarf. He turns around and smiled. Thorin Oakenshield.

"I thought you said this house was easy to find. I lost my way, twice." He says with a serious face. Though i can hear a little humor in his voice.

He walks in and Gandalf introduce Thorin to Bilbo and the other way around. He's studying Bilbo and says that he doesn't belong in the wild. I can agree to that but growing up with him will give you a different point of view. The dining room is quiet. He starts to talk about dragon, Erebor, arkenstone, etc. A map gets my attention. I study it.

"If there is a key. There must be a door." Someone said. I'm pretty sure it was Fìli.

Thorin stares at the map. It only shows a secret entrance, no description on how to get in the entrance.

"The answer lies hidden somewhere in this map and i do not have the skill to find it." Gandalf said.

"Hidden rune. It's somewhere at the bottom." I said.

I'm so curious about the map and the runes i didn't realize that Bilbo fainted. The dwarfs discuss the quest more. Then at one point Fìli says, "Lets have Nili in this. I'm sure we'll need her skills."

"Yes uncle, we're going to need every help we can get." Kìli adds.

Thorin is silent as the other dwarfs reasons to Thorin that i'm a girl. "Very well then. Give her the contract Balin."

"No need for contracts. I'll just be a volunteer."

That night the dwarfs sing a song. It's like a spell to me. The next morning i cook the dwarfs breakfast and we're on the go. We settled on our ponnies, two extras for our bags and in case Bilbo changes his mind. They're betting on will Bilbo come or not. I simply bet that Bilbo will come for twenty coins. We were just riding for twenty minutes when Bilbo comes running. He gives the contract to Balin. Fìli and Kìli put him on his pony and the dwarfs are throwing sacks of coins to the bet winners. Thorin grumpily throws two sacks at me.

We stop near a cliff to rest. I couldn't sleep so keep Fìli and Kìli accompany on their guard shift. Bilbo wakes up and walks to his pony, Myrtle i think. I found myself moving closer near Fìli when the orc's sound fills the air.

"Scared?"

"No, just cold."

The next day it rains. A dwarf asks Gandalf if he could stop the rain. We're all soaked wet. The cold almost makes me reveal my true eyes. That could get me in to trouble with Thorin, and probably Gandalf since he didn't know.

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