The Dragon (Book Five in the Aerlinniel's Secret Series)

Chapter 1: Sting

Bilbo POV

I get back down and go to climb down the tree when I fall. I finally catch myself, when a giant spider comes out from from behind a web. I just look at it. Then it roars.

"AAAHHHHHHHH!"

I fall down the tree again and land on my back in a spiderweb. I am stuck to it and I try to get up but I can't. I watch as the spider comes closer and closer to me. I am struggling to get free when it wraps me up tightly in a web.

I wake up to the spider dragging me. I manage to swing my sword through the web, and into the spider. I then fling it over the edge of the branch.

I rip myself out of the web that the spider wrapped around me. Looking up, I see the Dwarves wrapped up in spiderwebs and hanging from branches. I hear a spider and hide behind a tree trunk as a it climbs up the other side of the tree.

I reach into my pocket and pull out the Ring I found and slip it on my finger. I know that it makes me invisible, but I can now also understand what the spiders are saying.

I hear a spider hiss, "Kiilll theemm. Kiill theemm."

"Eat them now."

"Their hide is tough. There is good juice inside."

"Stick it again! Stick it again! Finish it off!"

I watch as the spiders surround one of the wrapped Dwarfs. I cannot tell which Dwarf it is though. The Dwarf kicks, but he can't do much because he is wrapped up so tightly in the spiderweb.

The spider yells, "Ahh! The meat's alive and kicking!"

"Kill them, kill them now. Let us feast."

All of the spiders start to chant, "Feast! Feast!"

I approach the spiders, holding my sword out in front of me. I duck just in time as a spider crawls along the branch above me, going toward the Dwarves and the Elves. I need to distract them.

I grab a piece of wood and throw it away from where the Dwarves and Elves are. All of the spiders start to rush after the noise.

"What is it? What is it? Kill it! Feast! Feast!"

One of the spiders stays behind though and it's about to eat, what I know, is Bombur. Bombur is squirming.

"Fat and juicy. Just a little taste."

The spider drops Bombur onto a branch and prepares to eat him. I'm not going to let that happen. I sneak up behind the spider and strike it on its rear with my sword. The spider spins around and hisses, but it can't see me. I keep slicing at it, slicing away a leg and part of its head.

"Curses! Where is it? Where is it?!"

I pull off the ring, revealing myself to the spider.

I give a small smile before I say, "Here!"

I then thrust my sword directly into the spider's head.

"It stings! Stings!" The spider shrieks.

I pull out my sword from it's head and the spider, now dead, crashes to the ground. I look at my sword.

"Sting. That's a good name." I say to myself as I look up toward where the Dwarves and the Elves are still tied up. "Sting."

I use my sword, Sting, to cut down all the Dwarves and the Elves. They land on the forest floor and unwrap themselves, the Dwarves yelling and grumbling the entire time.

"Where's Bilbo?"

"Bilbo!"

"I'm up here!" I shout down to them.

Then, a spider jumps at me from underneath the branch I am standing on, and pins me underneath it. I manage to put my sword in front of him just in time, stabbing it through the belly.

As the spider falls off the branch, I fall with it, entangled in it's legs. The ring slips off my finger and falls to the ground. I get up and begin stumbling toward where I saw the Ring fall.

Aerlinniel POV

I finally free myself from the web that was wrapped around me. I start helping the Dwarves get out of the spiderwebs. I hear the spiders surrounding us. I pull out my daggers and start to fight against the spiders.

"Grab a leg!" I hear one of the Dwarves yell.

"Pull!"

I listen to what sound like something being ripped apart. The Dwarves must have ripped apart a spider. I hear a spider coming towards me and stab it with my daggers.

I listen to make sure that everyone is here. I can hear everyone's heartbeat but Bilbo's. I need to find them. I could get lost in this forest, but Bilbo is more important then me getting lost.

"Mallory! Imryll!" I call out for them. I hear them run toward me.

"What? What is it?" Mallory asks.

"Bilbo's not here. Can you help me find him? Please?" I plead.

"Sure." Imryll says.

We head in the direction we came from hoping he's around there.

"Kili!" I hear one of the Dwarves yell and I stop walking.

Come on, Aerlinniel. The Dwarves will be fine, you need to find Bilbo. You can help the Dwarves after you find Bilbo. I'm about to take off when I hear a familiar voice.

"Do not think I won't kill you, Dwarf. It would be my pleasure."

Legolas!

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YAY! It's the first chapter of my fifth book! :D And Legolas is in it! ^~^ You will see more of him in the next chapter. I really hope that you liked this chapter. I will be updating again within the next few days. :)

Love you my elves from the realm of llamas,

~Ellethwen <3