Bring On The Wonder[Thorin Oakenshield]

Chapter Fourteen: Trouble In Goblin Town

The ride down the dark hole was not at all thrilling. The company was sliding down too fast for any of them to get a sturdy enough grip on anything to prevent them from falling down even further until they shot out of a hole one by one and landed on one another in a rotten looking cage. Bella lucky, was one of the ones to land on top of the group. The young woman was knocked off the struggling pile of dwarves, onto the bottom of the rotted-out cage and before she could even pull out her sword, over a dozen filthy creatures came charging at them. Bella screamed as the goblins climbed all over her, disarming her in a matter of seconds and yanking her by her clothing and hair away from the others. The dwarves fought with all their might to keep the nasty beings off of them, but their was too many of them and soon enough all of them were weaponless and being dragged across the wooden bridge. 

They had no idea how long the goblins had been dragging the dwarves through the darkness but it felt like hours. For the longest time the only thing in front of them they saw was the shadows flickering on the walls from the torches the odd horrid creature carried. For awhile the half-breed struggled against the firm grasp of the two goblins that had her and despite their smallness, these beast were quite stronger then her and she found it no use to waste her strength. The darkness finally came to an end as they came around the corner to massive cavern, lit up with numerous torches and hundreds of goblins that covered every inch of the walls, cackling and cheering as they saw the prisoners their brothers had captured. The woman froze at the sight of them all. 'How were they supposed to escape this lot?' she wondered to herself. She nearly lost her footing when she shoved by a goblin behind her to keep going. The company continued to be forest across the wobble bridge towards a giant platform. A raspy voice begun to sing a vile song about what treatment their unexpected intruders shall receive during their time here. 

The dwarves and the young woman were shoved together in front of the biggest, hideous goblin they had ever seen. The beast finally came to the end of his horrendous tune and smirked at some of the disgusted and even some of the fearful looks he got from the younger dwarves before returning to sit on his throne. " Who dares to enter my domain?" The goblin king thundered from his chair, waving his staff in the air as he glared at his audience. 

"Dwarves your malevolence." A goblin answered, looking at his master.

"Dwarves?" The king hissed as he heaved himself off his chair, crushing a few of his people that didn't get out of his way in time. The company was forced to back a few paces so they wouldn't be crushed. Fili and Kili stood in front of Bella so she wouldn't be discovered by the monster. They could only imagine the things, the king would do to her, if he were to find out they had a woman traveling with them and just the thought of it made them sick. "Well what are you all waiting for! Search them you fools! Every crack! Every crevice!" He shouted at his men, waving his staff around at them. His people wasted no time in following their master's command and swarmed the company. Thorin fought against them the hardest, making sure they would not discover the key or the map. Without those, they would never get into the mountain if they should escape this terrible place. The goblins tossed anything they found in a pile to the side and the king continued to speak when he saw the dwarves were no longer a threat. " What are you doing in these parts?" 

Not wanting to risk the goblin king unleashing his wrath upon his men or the woman. Thorin was about to step forward and reveal everything when Oin stopped him and stepped forward instead. " Don't worry lads. I'll handle this." The old dwarf stated. Bella raised an eyebrow at that thought. 

"Now, no tricks eh? I want the truth. Warts and all." The king hissed, giving the medic a suspiciously look as he waited for him to continue. 

"You're going to have to speak up. Your boys flattened my trumpet." The dwarf complained, holding his instrument up for the king to see.