The Hobbit: Book One

Chapter Five

I open my eyes not realizing I fell asleep, I look over seeing the company sitting around a fire, Bombur cooking like usual. I see Bofur hand Bilbo two bowls and he skulks off into the forest, I follow from above. I look down and see Fili, Kili and Bilbo looking at the ponies "what's the matter?" I hear Bilbos faint voice. I look at the ponies and I count them. Fourteen, there were sixteen. I swing off the branch I was on and I land between Bilbo and Kili "why are there ponies missing?" I ask them "we were just asking ourselves that question" Fili says. I sigh, I look up and jump, I grab the branch and swing up. I jump from the tree to the next tree, I see a faint fire and I pick up pace.

I get to the fire from the trees and I see three trolls, I groan quietly. I sit on the branch and watch them. They start complaining about food when I see Bilbo sneak in "Bilbo what are you doing?" I mutter. I sneak around the trees until I get a better view, I hear one of them sneeze and I look towards them "oh, that's lovely, that is; a floater" one of them says. I giggle "oh, that might improve the flavor!" The other exclaims. "Ah! There's more where that came from" I laugh quietly and I look over seeing Bilbo attempt to free the ponies. I roll my eyes, I watch as he hides when a troll looks over. When the trolls bicker about Bilbo looks over and sees something and he sneaks over to the trolls, disappearing behind one of them.

The troll goes to pick, something, up and the other troll gets mad "there, that's my grog" the other troll falters and puts it down "uhh, uhh, sorry" the troll hits the other troll with a ladle and he falls over, I giggle at how dumb these trolls are. I look around for Bilbo but I don't see him, I start having 'what ifs'. One of the trolls gets ready to sneeze and he reaches around his back and grabs a rag and sneezes, I look closely seeing Bilbo "Argh!!! Blimey! Bert! Bert! Look what's come out of me 'ooter! Its got arms and legs and everything." I make a face if disgust, the trolls gather around looking at Bilbo "what is it?" "I don't know, but I don't like the way it wriggles around!" The troll says shaking and dropping Bilbo "what are you then? And oversized squirrel?" I giggle at how he says Squirrel "I'm a burglar-- uhh, Hobbit" Bilbo says, I mentally face palm "a Burgla-Hobbit?" I shake my head "can we cook 'im?" A troll asks "we can try" a troll tries to grab Bilbo but Bilbo runs between his legs, the trolls start bickering on how he's to fast and they can't catch him.

They finally get him "Gotcha! Are there anymore of you little fellas 'iding where you shouldn't" I shake my head "don't say anything" I whisper "nope" he says "he's lying" a troll says "no I'm not!" He argues "Hold Hus toes over the fire. Make him squeal" I go to charge but Kili beats me to it "drop him" he says, sword raised "you what?" The troll asks "I said, drop him" the troll throws down Bilbo down and he lands on Kili, they both fall down. All the dwarves charge out and attack the trolls, until everything takes a turn when the trolls grab Bilbo "Bilbo!" Kili yells, he goes forward put Thorin stops him "No!" Thorin yells at his nephew "lay down your arms, or we'll rip his off" I sigh. They drop their arms and soon enough all of them are in sacks.

The trolls starts complaining and I see Kili whispering to Thorin. Thorin looks in my direction and he glares "hold on king" I mutter sarcastically. "Wait! You're making a terrible mistake" Bilbo says managing to stand up. "You can't reason with them, they're half-wits" "half-wits? What does that make us?" I chuckle. Bilbo falters over his words saying about the seasoning, the dwarves complain and the trolls tell him otherwise. A troll picks up Bombur and goes to eat him "not--not that one, he's--he's infected!" Bilbo says, I raise a brow. "You what?" "Yeah, he's got worms, in his...tubes" I choke a bit and the troll throws Bombur back on the pile in disgust. Bilbo goes on explaining they all have parasites and the dwarves complain, until Thorin hit Kili and then they all agree to it.

I pull out my bow and aim for one of the trolls, I release and it bounces off the trolls head. He rubs his head and looks my direction "what the" the dwarves shut up and look around. I jump to the different tree and shoot again "stop that" the troll says. I go to jump again but a troll grabs my hair, I yelp in pain "found ya" the troll says "put me down you filth" the troll looks at me "ah, you're an elf" I growl and he holds me in his hand crushing me. I yell in pain "Drop her!" A dwarf yelled. I don't pay attention, I start seeing black dots and I pray that dawn comes faster. I see a person along the rocks, "put....me...down" I growl trying to escape "The Dawn Will Take You All!" I hear. I look through my blurry vision seeing Gandalf "who's that?" A troll asks "no idea" another troll says "can we eat 'im too?" I grunt and Gandalf breaks the rock in half "No!" I yell. It was too late, the trolls turn to stone, me being in the hands of one. I gasp for air "any help?" I ask through breaths, "get her down" I hear Thorin "Good luck!" I say "what do you mean?" I roll my eyes trying to pry myself out "I mean, trolls that are stone don't necessarily break easily" I explain. One of the dwarves throws a hammer (battle Hammer :)) and it cracks "well then" I mutter. I look down seeing Gandalf "this is your fault!" I joke "my apologizes m'lady" I chuckle. They throw the hammer again and pieces of the stone fall "Come on" I growl. My vision clears, and I sigh in relief. They do it again and it breaks completely, I fall to the ground landing on my side. I groan in pain "are you ok?" I hear Bilbo "just grand" I reply sarcastically.

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Whew! Aoibheann almost died!
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~A.C.~