Bring On The Wonder[Thorin Oakenshield]

Chapter Fifteen: The Miraculous Escape

"Hmm, what shall we do to pass the time" The goblin king thought to himself as he looked at his hungry men with a smirk. The giant goblin still had the woman by the hair and Thorin had been shoved back into the group with the others. The beast tossed the woman onto the platform, grunting as her face came to rest against the hard, rough wood. Before Bella even had a chance of escaping back into the safety of the bunched up dwarves two goblin minions came at her and yanked her up from the ground and held her firmly before their master as he thought about what would be her final fate. The king glanced up when he saw more of his people coming across the bridge, bringing various torture weapons. "Tie her to the rack." He suddenly ordered. The woman immediately struggled against her captives as they dragged her towards the device. "Were going to play a little game." He declared with an evil chuckle as he watched the dwarves trying to fight to get free.

"The rules are very simple." The goblin began, as he searched through the companies pile of weapons, until he got his grubby fingers on one of Fili's daggers and then looked directly at the dwarves when speaking. "If none of you wish to see harm to this young woman. Then you will tell me what I want to know." The beast demanded as he walked right over to Bella, with the dagger pointed right at her, causing her to look at the goblin in fear. " Fail to, and this pretty little face will get rearranged." He warned as he cut the half-breed's cheek. She gasped at the sudden burning sensation she felt on her face, as the goblin sliced her skin. "Now, we shall see how much these dwarves value your life." He hissed at her. The dwarves shouted their protest's at the hideous being. Thorin had locked eyes with Bella. He could see that she was trying so hard, to hide the fact that she was scared. " Now, let's start with something easy." He rumbled. "What's your name?"

"The woman swallowed, before turning away from Thorin to look at the monster only inches from her. "B-Bella."

"Bella." He mocked. "Pretty name, for a pretty girl." He sneered as he rubbed the tip of the dagger against her bare skin and knowing that it was useless, the woman still tried to squirm away from it, feeling violated as he continued to trail the blade over, every inch of her. The dwarves continued to spout out insults and curses at the beast in front of them.

"Now! What is your purpose!?" He roared again. The company remained increasingly silent and the king only grew more impatient with these idiots. " What about you, you little wench. These dwarves obviously don't think you're life is precious enough to save, so tell me the truth and I'll spare your life and they will die a quick death." He smirked, waiting for her decision.

The half-breed looked at the dwarf prince, and then looked at the swine that was only inches from her, twirling the dagger in his hand. "You will not get anything from me, you foul beast! Nothing you do to me will make me speak!" Bella shouted.

"Oh is that what you think?" He retorted, eyeing the company before letting out another rumble of laughter. "Well then, I think it's only fair that they watch you die first....But it will be a slow....painful one for you." With one quick wave of his hand he sliced the other side of her cheek. " Have at it boys! Make sure she suffers!" The minions wasted no time, pulling out their own knives and began cutting the woman's flesh and she let out painful screams as they continued to attack her.

The company began struggling against the minions that had a hold of them to help Bella, seeing her blood begin to drip down from her fresh wounds. Fili and Kili yelled at the giant goblin to stop this, but their begging only made him laugh harder as the woman began began to slowly faint from the loss of blood she was losing. The goblins that had been guarding the dwarves had been decreasing as they ran to have their turn at the half-breed. Thorin had been cursing himself since they tied Bella to the rack. He should have never let it get this far. She didn't deserve this, and he felt like such a coward for letting this go on. " Who's going to look at your hideous face now!?" The king taunted with a smirk at the work his minions had inflicted. Bella could barely keep her eyes open when all of a sudden, the sound of goblins screamed in pain as they were being cut down by Thorin and they saw the weapon he wield and they backed away, screeching.

"I know that sword! It is the goblin cleaver! The biter! The blade that sliced a thousand necks!" The goblin bellowed from his throne. The prince went to cut the knots when the minions began slashing at the dwarves, knocking them to the ground. " Kill them! Kill them all! Cut off his head!" Thorin struggled to get the goblins off of him that held him down. Bella could faintly see Dwalin coming towards her and he began untying the rope. Once she was free, he wrapped an arm around her waist to support her when the two of them were knocked to the ground. Bella landed not to far from Thorin. The dwarf shoved the filth's off of him and crawled over to the half-breed, when a flash of light came through the cavern with a shockwave and knocked everyone to the ground.

Light slowly returned to the area once the dust settled. A figure began to emerge into the light, carrying a wooden staff. Thorin slowly got up and looked to his side to see Bella struggling, trying to get up. "Take up arms. Fight. Fight!" The wizard shouted, as he began to take out the oncoming goblins. Thorin grabbed his sword and ran over to the woman.

"Bella come on get up!" Thorin ordered, pulling the half-breed up to her feet and he wrapped an arm around her waist to support her.

"Thorin! Look out!" Bofur yelled, both Bella and Thorin looked up to see the goblin king charging at them when the dwarf swung with his right arm at the beast, slicing his arm and caused him to stumble backwards off the platform, taking out a few of his people with him.

"Follow me." Gandalf commanded as he began running along another wooden bridge. "Quickly!" The dwarves began following the wizard. Fili staying along side his uncle who still had a hold of Bella until she insisted she was fine and she began running on her own. Fili tossed Bella her sword, so she had something to defend herself with.

As they continued down the numerous bridges to escape the dozens of goblins coming after them. Bella was quickly growing exhausted from the amount of blood she had already lost. Dwalin had to yank her back to the middle of the bridge a few times when he saw her starting to veer off towards the edge. The dwarves had just gotten off the swinging bridge to another section of the pathway and were just running around the corner when the half-breed's legs gave out on her and she crashed to the ground. Most of the company had already ran passed her, except for Thorin and he grabbed her by the arm and pulled her up and yanked her with him, when he saw the minions quickly catching up to them. They were all just about across the bridge when the goblin king broke through it from underneath it and the company came to a screeching stop.

"Did you think you could escape me." The goblin bellowed as he swung his mace at the wizard, nearly taking him out as he stumbled backwards. " What are you going to do now, wizard?" Saying nothing, the old man poked the beast right in the eye and he cried in pain and then sliced the goblins stomach, making him fall to his knees and then he finished him by cutting his throat and his body crashed to the platform. Unfortunately the section of the bridge they were on, began to shake and Bella instantly held onto Thorin as they began to slide down the cave wall, with the company yelling and screaming as they tried to hang onto something. The platform started to lose speed and for a second it completely stopped and then hit the bottom of the cave, sending everyone to the ground, buried in debris.

The dwarves barely had anytime to get out from underneath the debris when they saw the goblin kings people charging down the wall towards them. Thorin looked around frantically, when he couldn't find the woman. " Where's Bella!?" He yelled, as he and Dwalin began shoving pieces of wood out of the way.

"There!" Dwalin pointed to seeing a hand emerging from the debris. Thorin dashed over and tossed the planks off of her, and pulled her to her feet.

"Quick! This way! Only one thing will save us: Daylight!" The wizard informed them and they all began running through the tunnel, one by one out into the light and they began to descend down the mountain side. The dwarf prince hadn't released the woman until they were finally a good distance down and he got her to sit down on a rock. The wizard began counting off the company as they ran passed him and to his dismay they appeared to be one short.

"Where is Bilbo? Where is our hobbit?!"