A Priestess For Middle Earth

Chapter 26 Dragon Sickness

Kagome was suffocating. The minute her Fili, Kili Bofur and Oin entered the Mountain it felt like she couldn't get enough air. The sickness was all around choking her trying to creep into her very heart and into her soul. Bilbo comes running towards them.

"Stop, stop you need to leave, we all need to leave." Bofur gave him a confused look. "We only just got here."

Bilbo went on. "I've tried talking to him but he won't listen."

Oin pushed his trumpet further into his ear to see if he heard right, "What do you mean Laddie."

Bilbo sighed in frustration, "Thorin, Thorin. He has been down there for days. He doesn't sleep, he barely eats. He's not been himself, not at all. I think a sickness lies on it."

Kili moves closer to Bilbo, "Sickness, what kind of sickness?"

Just then Fili made a dash for the stairs but Kagome caught his arm before he could go any further. With Kili's help they were able to restrain Fili. Kagome looked at Bilbo.

"It's this place, Bilbo the sickness is all around us. I felt it the minute we walked in here. Don't you guys feel it?!"

Bilbo and the Dwarves gave her a confused look. Kagome rolled her eyes.

"Oh come on don't you feel the heaviness in the air? Don't you feel like you're struggling to breathe, a choking sensation?" Kagome says.

Come to think of it they could feel that, it was beginning to become unbearable. They nodded their heads yes.

"Alright outside all of you, now!" Kagome ordered.

Without a word the Dwarves that had traveled to the mountain from laketown obeyed her command along with Bilbo. Once outside Bilbo and the Dwarves could breathe a lot easier.

"What was that about, Kagome?" Kili asked as he gasped for air.

"That dear Kili, is Smaug." Kagome said in a serious tone as she lowered her yellow pack to the ground and began rifling through it.

"But Kagome, Smaug is dead I saw him fall into the lake." Bilbo says to his friend as he knelt down beside her. She glanced up at him before continuing to look through her pack.

"His body may have been destroyed but his spirit came straight back to the mountain and waited for Thorin." Kagome tells them with in a grave tone.

Fili comes closer now. "What do you mean, Kagome?"

She looks up into Fili's eyes, those eyes that remind her of Thorin. Her eyes soften, placing a hand on his shoulder she tells him.

"Your Uncle is not mad." Bilbo is about to protest, but Kagome holds up her hand, "Thorin is not mad, he has been possessed by the spirit of Smaug."

Bilbo and the Dwarves are in disbelief. Could it be their leader and King was possessed by the spirit of that slimy slug? But how were they going to fight against a spirit to free their King? All eyes turned to Kagome, their priestess and future Queen.

"What are we going to do, Kagome? We can't fight evil spirits!" Oin exclaims.

"Maybe you can't but I can, it's what I do, who I am, ah ha" She suddenly exclaims as she finally found what she was looking for.

"What are those things, Kagome?" Bofur asks.

In her hand she has several beaded bracelets with strange writing on them.

"These are charms that you wear around your wrists, they were blessed by a very powerful monk I used to know in my world. Put them on and keep them on, DO NOT take them off no matter what. They'll keep you safe from Smaug's possession. Because make no mistake, he is trying to possess all of you. Especially you two." Kagome says pointing at Fili and Kili. "Now let's go save your Uncle."