Astrid's POV
Gandalf and Radaghast walked away from the group to talk in private. Suddenly a howl filled the air. "Was that a wolf? Are there--are there wolves out there?" Bilbo asks.
"Wolves?" Bofur says.
"No that wasn't a wolf Bilbo" I tell him grabbing my axe. From behind a nearby crag, a Warg appears; it leaps into the midst of the Company, knocking down one of the dwarves. Thorin strikes and kills it using his new sword. Another Warg attacks from the other side; Kili shoots it with an arrow, bringing it down. However, it gets back up, only to be killed by me.
"Warg-Scouts!" Thorin states.
"Which means an Orc pack is not far behind" I state taking my axe out of the warg.
"Orc pack?" Bilbo asks.
"Who did you tell about your quest, beyond your kin?" Gandalf asks Thorin.
"No one" he replies.
"Who did you tell?" Gandalf demands.
"No one, I swear. What in Durin's name is going on?" Thorin asks.
"You are being hunted" Gandalf states.
"We have to get out of here" Dwalin states.
"We can't! We have no ponies; they bolted" Ori tells us.
"I'll draw them off" Radaghast states.
"These are Gundabad Wargs; they will outrun you" Gandalf tells him.
"These are Rhosgobel Rabbits; I'd like to see them try" Radaghast says. Gandalf watches from behind a rock as Radagast and the Wargs disappear in the distance.
"Come on" he tells us. We rushed across a rocky plain. In the distance, Radagast is being chased by the Wargs. One of them crashes while trying to catch him. As we run across the plain, we see the Wargs not too far from us, so we hide behind the rocks. "Stay together" Gandalf orders.
"Move" Thorin says. As we run, Radagast drives his sled beneath an overhanging projection of rock; he ducks, but the Orc on the Warg behind him gets knocked off. As the chase continues, Thorin stops behind a rock so that he is not seen by the Wargs. Ori starts to run out of the cover. "Ori, no! Come back" Thorin says pulling back behind the rock with us.
"Come on! Quick" Gandalf says. As the dwarves continue running, Thorin turns to Gandalf. Asking where was he taking us. But Gandalf doesn't answer as we follow the others.
As the Warg scouts chase Radagast, one of them stops and scents the air. The dwarves and us two hobbits take cover behind an outcropping of rock. The scout and his Warg appear on top of the outcropping, scenting the air. Thorin looks at Kili and nods; readying an arrow, Kili quickly steps out and shoots the Warg. The Warg and the orc on it fall near the dwarves, and the dwarves kill them. The sounds of their fight carry quite far; the other Wargs and Orcs stop chasing Radagast as they hear roars and screams from behind the rocks.
"The Dwarf-scum are over there! After them!" the orc leader shouts. The Warg scouts howl as they stop pursuing Radagast and begin pursuing us. We run through a grassy plain; Wargs begin to surround them from all sides. run for a while longer, then halt in a clearing as they see Wargs on all sides. We start to kill them when Gandalf disappears.
Gandalf suddenly pops up from a crack in the rock. "This way, you fools" he calls.
"Come on, move! Quickly, all of you! Go, go, go" Thorin tells us. As the Wargs approach, the dwarves, Bilbo and I reach the crack. I make Bilbo slide down first then follow him as Gandalf begins to count us. Soon we're all safely in the crack, Thorin being last one down.
A horn suddenly sounds outside the crack and it doesn't sound like any horn I've heard before. We listen to the conflict from inside the crack. One of the orcs, shot by an arrow, falls into the cave. Thorin plucks out the arrow and examines its make. "Elves" he says in disgust dropping the arrow.
There is a pathway at the end of the cave, leading away and we end up following it. It is quite narrow, and it is a crack between two tall cliffs. At times, the dwarves have difficulty going through. The pathway eventually opens out into an open area; there is a valley below, and in that valley is the city of Rivendell. "The Valley of Imraldis. In the Common Tongue, it's known by a another name" Gandalf says.
"Rivendell" Bilbo and I say in awe of the beautiful valley and city. We walk across a bridge and enters Rivendell. After Thorin and Gandalf had another minnie fight.
A/N
Picture above of Radaghast the Brown.
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