The Lionheart (The Hobbit)

Chapter 8: hunted

Tygr POV

We watched as Radagast rode away and Gandalf looked to me. "Tygr...do you think you can distract them along with Radagast?" Gandalf asked. I nodded. "No! I will not allow her to risk her life like that!" Thorin said. I squeezed Thorin's wrist, "trust me, I've ran away from worse than orcs." I said. I smiled at him then formed into my second largest size. "Go Tygr." Gandalf said. I jumped over the bush hiding us and sprinted in the direction of the Orc pack, racing past them they stopped and followed me. I looked to my right to see one actually catching up. I howled as a Warg managed to clamp down on my tail with it's teeth. I growled and formed into my fighting form and dive under the warg kicking it over me with my hind legs, sending the Orc with it. I jumped back up and saw the dwarves running and hid behind a rock. I squinted and saw a warg climb on top of the rock. I instantly sprinted for the rock. As I ran up the back to tackle him I bit through the orcs body and tackled it to the ground. I howled in pain as I felt something in my shoulder. I turned back into a human, I was completely naked and realized I had one of Kili's arrows in my shoulder. I felt someone cover me in a jacked and scoop me up. "Are you okay?!?" I saw Thorin looking at me concerned. "Tygr I'm so sorry! I didn't know you where going to jump out!" Kili said. "You can talk later! We need to move!" Gandalf yelled. As soon as we started running Thorin held onto me tightly. I looked and saw Orcs chasing us. We ran and stopped lookin for Gandalf. "Where's Gandalf?!" Ori shouted. "He's abandoned us!" Dwalin yelled. I grabbed Thorin's dagger out of his belt and jumped out of his arms before swinging swinging around and jamming it into an orcs eye behind him. I screamed in pain and dropped the dagger holding onto my shoulder. "This way you fools!" Gandalf yelled. I ran to the entrance of a tunnel and slid down, the arrow snapped half way out of my arm. I screamed and curled up on the ground. "Tygr!" Kili ran to me. "I'm so sorry!!!" He said hugging me. "It's fine! Just please pull it out!!!" I cried. Kili went to pull it out however Thorin stopped him. "No! If you pull it out the blood will be free to flow out and she'll go into shock." He said. He gently picked me up and held me close. "There's a tunnel, should we follow it or no?" Dwalin said. "Follow it of course!" Bofur yelled. Suddenly we all stopped hearing a horn. Soon enough a dead Orc was shot into the cave. Thorin picked up the arrow in it's head. "Elves." Thorin growled then looked at me. He had a look of concern. He hugged me tighter and carried me through the tunnel. I felt myself losing lots of blood even with the arrow in my arm, it was pooling out. I watched my vision blurr and soon 12 dwarves turned to 27 or so. "W-why are there so many dwarves?" I slurred as I vision started to become spotty and I felt light headed. "What? Oh mahal! Hurry! She's losing lots of blood!" Thorin barked. The opened opened up to a large valley...."is that...?" I slurred squinting my eyes. Bilbo stood next to me. "Rivendell..." He said.

Thorin turned and glared at Gandalf. "Was this your plan all along? To seek refuge with our enemy?" He asked angry. "You have no enemies here Thorin Oakenshield. Besides, I think Tygr needs help!" Gandalf said forcefully. Thorin sighed and looked down at me, I felt my body go hot and cold and swear on my foorhead and Thorin noticed a pool of blood below us. "Okay...let's go." He said as he pushed to the front of the company and walked faster than them. I felt him press his lips to my forehead, "please don't let me lose you..." He whispered.