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The dwarves, Alenia and Bilbo had awoken at dawn, and left promptly, as urged by Gandalf.

"The White Council knows you're here, and their leader, Sauruman the White, will try and stop you. You must move ahead, while I distract them here, in Rivendell. I will rejoin you in the Misty Mountains, wait for me there." Gandalf said. He then patted Thorin on the shoulder, before walking back into the city, as if he had no inkling of what was happening behind him, and hadn't deliberately warned them to leave early.

The dwarves and Bilbo turned and started the trek towards the mountains, with Alenia lagging behind. She turned and got one last look at her home of ten years, before she started after the dwarves.

"Be on your guard; we're about to step over the edge of the Wild. Balin, you know these paths; lead on." Thorin said.

"Aye," Balin declared, making his way to the front.

Bilbo turned and shot a longing glance at Rivendell. Alenia noticed him lagging behind.

"You know, after this whole journey is done, if you wanted to live with the elves, I'm sure they would welcome you."

Bilbo smiled softly, thinking about the idea.

"Master Baggins, Lady Alenia, I suggest you keep up." Thorin called back.

The pair exchanged glances, before the half-elf linked arms with the hobbit. "Come on, let's go annoy Fee and Kee."

"You like him, then?" the hobbit asked, quietly.

Alenia hesitated. "I guess. I've never fancied anyone before, so I'm not sure."

Bilbo chuckled. "Does your heart feel like it's going to burst out of your chest when you look at him?"

Alenia heaved in a breath, before nodding.

"That's what it feels like." the hobbit moved forward, leaving the half-elf to stare after him in astonishment.

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The rain was pouring down on them, as the Company entered the Misty Mountains. The path they followed, was little more than a narrow outcropping on the mountainside. The rocky landscape shook with every boom of the thunder, with every brilliant crack of lightning.

"Hold on!" Thorin yelled.

The part of the path that Bilbo was on crumbled away, causing the Hobbit to fall, before Alenia grabbed him and hauled him back.

"We must find shelter!" Alenia yelled to their leader. Thorin nodded in agreement.

"Look out!" Dwalin bellowed, as a boulder was hurled through the air towards their side of the mountain. The giant rock broke apart, causing the Company to press against the wall, avoiding the rubble that came crashing down.

"This is no thunderstorm; it's a thunder battle. Look!" Balin yelled.

A giant made of stone stood from the mountainside, as it ripped a boulder from it's mountain.

"Well bless me, the legends are true. Giants; stone giants!" Bofur exclaimed fearfully.

"Take cover! You'll fall!" Thorin yelled, pulling the hatted dwarf back.

"What's happening?" Kili asked.

The giant threw the boulder far in the air as another stone giant, appeared from behind the Company, and it was hit in the head. The dwarves yelled at each other to brace and hold on, and the rocks beneath their feet began to give way from all the vibrations and from the impact of the falling rocks. The ground between some of the Company members split; and left part of the group is on one side, and part on the other.

"Fili! Ally! Grab my hand!" Kili yelled, as his brother and friend (What were he and Alenia? he thought. Friends with crushes? Lovers? Just total awkwardness? Yes, that's the one.) were dragged away from him.

As the two stone giants fought with their fists, the dwarves held on tight as they are flung around. Kili and Thorin's group managed to jump to a different, unmoving spot on the mountain path, when a third stone giant appeared, and it threw a boulder at the head of one of the first two. That one fell forward, it's knee where the other group stood, clinging to the rockface, moving towards the mountain side.

Bilbo grabbed Alenia's hand as the mountain side rushed towards them.

"Holy shit!" the half elf yelled, as she closed her eyes, expecting death, before they hit the path, Alenia didn't realize when Bilbo's hand was ripped out of her own, as they rolled to a stop, unharmed.

"Fili! Ally!" Kili yelled, running to where he's sure their dead bodies would be sprawled out on the mountain path.

Kili almost fainted with relief when he saw that they were okay. He rushed to Alenia and wrapped her in the biggest hug ever.

"Oh yeah, hug yer crush. I see how it is. I'm only yer brother." Fili joked in his brother's ear.

"Shut up, Fee." Kili blushed, before turning and wrapping his arms around his older brother.

"Shit! Where's Bilbo?" Alenia yelled, realizing the hobbit was not with them anymore.

"There!" Ori yelled, pointing to where poor Bilbo was dangling from his fingertips off the cliff ledge.

"Get him!" Dwalin cried.

Ori dove forward, reaching for the hobbit's hand, but the area of rock Bilbo had been holding onto crumbled, causing him to drop a few more inches, before he latched onto another handhold, though still barely hanging on.

A few of the other dwarves reached for the burglar, but were unsuccessful.

Alenia leaped over the edge, snapping an arm up to grab onto the wall, as she gripped the hobbit and lifted him upwards with her other arm. As Bilbo was lifted to safety, Dwalin reached down to help the half-elf up, but failed, as Alenia started to fall. Dwalin grabbed hold of her again at the last second, and hauled her up.

"Geez," Alenia said, peering down into the ravine where the fallen stone giant's body laid. "That could've been bad. Thanks, Dwalin."

Dwalin grunted, before he said, "I thought we'd lost our burglar."

"He's been lost ever since he left home. He should never have come. He has no place amongst us," Thorin spat, before moving on. "Dwalin!"

As the company followed after their leader, their burglar sidled up to Alenia.

"Thank you," He murmured softly.

Alenia smiled and looked down at the halfling. "Don't listen to Thorin. You'll have a role to play in all of this before long."

"I'm beginning to doubt that the further I go." Bilbo muttered darkly.

"Hey," Alenia said. "You're okay. I'm okay. We're all okay. Granted, we may be stuck in a downpour in the middle of a place I would rather not be, after what happened last time-" The half-elf's eyes widened, as she realized what she was saying, and abruptly stopped talking.

"Why? What happened last time?" Kili asked, having heard their conversation from behind the half-elf.

Alenia was saved from answering as Thorin and Dwalin entered a cave ahead of them.

"It looks safe enough," Dwalin declared.

"Search to the back; caves in mountains, are seldom unoccupied." Thorin said.

"Especially the Misties." Alenia muttered.

Bilbo and Kili exchanged glances.

Dwalin came back, holding the lantern aloft, and declared, "There's nothing here." Thorin nodded.

"Right, let's get a fire started." Gloin said, dropping a bundle of firewood on the cave floor.

"No, no fires, not in this place. Get some sleep. We start at first light." Thorin said, waving his hand.

"We were to wait in the mountains until Gandalf joined us. That was the plan." Balin said.

"Plans change. Bofur, take the first watch."

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"Wake up!" A voice shouted, jolting Alenia out of sleep.

"Shit!" Alenia yelled, as she saw the cracks forming in the sandy ground of the cave.

"Wake up!" Thorin yelled again, just before the floor opened up, sending the entire company down into the shaft.

The company fell through the hole. Alenia yelled out, as her shoulder smashed into a little tooth of rock sticking out of the ground, causing Kili to grab her hand, and pull her into his chest, as they rolled, and fell some more, further and further into the mountain, before coming to a halt, as they dropped into a wooden cage. Kili let out a groan, as Alenia looked down at him with wide eyes.

"I think you just fell for me." Kili mumbled, as he cracked an eye open, and smirked up at the half-elf.

Alenia groaned, but smiled. "You can flirt with me later, Kee. We can't be here."

Everyone's heads turned as the ugly forms of goblins came into view, and charged at the group.

"Not again!" Alenia shouted, as the beasts swarmed over the group and started dragging them away.

The goblins grabbed hold of everyone, and pulled their weapons off of the company as they were hustled off. The dwarves and Alenia fought, and kicked, and yelled, but were purely outnumbered, and thusly, were dragged further and further into the ugly wooden "city" of the goblins, crossing over rickety bridges, and platforms that looked almost ready to collapse due to termites and rot.

Kili grabbed Alenia's arm and dragged her closer to him, as they were hustled along. "You've been here before." He accused harshly.

Alenia nodded as she pulled up her hood to hide her face, "My sister died here."

The group suddenly stopped in front of a horrid, fat creature, with oozing sores and welts all over it's blob of a chin.

"The Goblin King." Alenia muttered, glaring under her hood at the large, ugly goblin.

The smaller goblins moved through the company snatching weapons before throwing them into a pile, as the Great Goblin moved forward and spoke, "Who would be so bold as to come armed into my kingdom? Spies? Thieves? Assassins?"

"Dwarves, Your Malevolence." A smaller goblin announced, bowing low.

"Dwarves?" The Great Goblin asked.

The last of the goblins moved towards Kili and Alenia for weapons. It disarmed Kili, before reaching for Alenia's sword. It pulled the hilt just a bit, before Alenia smacked his hand and drew it to point at it's neck.

"Hands off, asshole." She growled.

"And a female, sir." A voice crowed from behind her, just before she was tackled to the ground, and her sword was snatched away.

"Bring her forward." The Great Goblin snarled.

The dwarves yelled, as Alenia was dragged forward. One goblin pulled her hood back, as two others pinned her arms behind her back.

"Well, well, Alenia Damenor. Back for more, eh?" The Great Goblin said, smiling evilly.

The half-elf glared up at him in response, struggling against her captors.

"What are you doing in these parts?" The Great Goblin asked.

Alenia stayed silent.

"Speak!" He shouted, swinging his club at the half-elf, smashing it into her face, snapping it sideways.

Alenia glared at the cave wall she was facing for a moment, before slowly turning her head back around, glaring as she spat on the ground at his feet.

"Go to hell."

"I ought to kill you for what you did to my son." The Goblin King yelled. "You killed him."

"And he killed my sister!" Alenia screamed, straining at the goblins' arms and shaking, tears falling from her eyes. "She was just protecting me- and your bastard son slaughtered her."

The Goblin King smashed his club into Alenia's body, killing his subjects and tossing her aside, as the dwarves yelled foul words at the Goblin King

"Leave her alone!" Kili shouted, struggling against the goblins.

Alenia rose to her feet slowly, her nose bleeding, and a gash across her forehead. The Goblin King grabbed her hair, and held a sword to her throat, before turning her to face the dwarves.

"You have one chance to answer me, before she gets hurt." the Great Goblin growled.

Alenia shook her head, and the dwarves stayed silent.

"Well then, if they will not talk, we'll make them squawk! Bring out the Mangler! Bring out the Bone Breaker! Start with her."

Alenia made eye contact with Thorin in the group of dwarves, and frantically shook her head. "Don't you dare." She mouthed.

Thorin stepped forward. "Wait."

Alenia groaned.

"Well, well, well, look who it is. Thorin son of Thrain, son of Thror; King under the Mountain." The Great Goblin said, as he bowed mockingly to the dwarf.

"Oh, but I'm forgetting, you don't have a mountain. And you're not a king. Which makes you nobody, really. I know someone who would pay a pretty price for your head. For both of your heads," he clarified, smirking over at the struggling Alenia. "Just the heads, nothing attached. Perhaps you know of whom I speak, an old enemy of yours. A Pale Orc astride a White Warg."

Thorin looked up in surprise, while Alenia's eyes widened in fear.

"Azog the Defiler was destroyed. He was slain in battle long ago." Thorin said.

"So you think his defiling days are done, do you?" The Goblin King said.

He laughed, before turning to a tiny goblin perched on a seat hanging from a wire. "Send word to the Pale Orc; tell him I have his prizes."

The messenger cackled as he wrote it down, before pulling a lever on his seat, and sending himself zipping down the wire to send the message.

"What could Azog possibly want with you, Damenor?" Alenia cringed, as the Great Goblin stroked her head.

"It must have been something horrible." The Great Goblin continued.

"Or an unfinished job, that'd he'd like to complete." He said, causing Alenia clenched her fists in anger.

"Didn't he kill your parents?"

"That's it." Alenia growled, before she shoved the Goblin King's arm that was holding the sword away quickly, dove for the weapon pile, and pulled a random sword out.

She drew it swiftly as goblins came at her, and the sword glowed blue.

The goblins came to a halt, and screeched in fear. The Great Goblin backed away, and pointed a shaking finger at the half-elf's weapon. "I know that sword! It is the Goblin-Cleaver, the Biter, the blade that sliced a thousand necks!"

The other goblins recovered from their fear and closed in around Alenia and the dwarves.

"Slash them! Beat them! Kill them! Kill them all! Cut off their heads!" The Great Goblin cried.

Alenia cut at the goblins, killing them, and trying to protect the dwarves, before she was overwhelmed and knocked to the ground, Orcrist falling to the ground. Goblins swarmed her and Thorin and held them down, as two goblins pulled knives and prepared to behead them, while the rest of the beasts pushed the other dwarves back, as they yelled.

Suddenly, there was a massive explosion of bright light; the sound muted as a shockwave ripped through the area, flinging goblins in the air and destroying the torturing machines that had been brought in earlier, and everyone was knocked down, including the Great Goblin. When the force of the explosion passed, most of the lights in the area had been snuffed out, before Gandalf walked up, holding his staff and his sword, Glamdring. Light slowly returned to the area as the goblins and the Company slowly looked up, recovering from the shock. They all stared at Gandalf, and Alenia and Thorin shared a relieved glance.

"Take up arms. Fight. Fight!" Gandalf yelled, slashing at the goblins that rushed at him.

The dwarves rushed towards the beasts, knocking them away, as Kili and Fili pulled Thorin and Alenia up.

"He wields the Foe-Hammer, the Beater, bright as daylight!" The Great Goblin yelled, pointing at the wizard, as he saw the sword.

Dori, Ori and Gloin reached the weapon pile and started tossing swords and weapons behind them. Alenia and Kili snatched their weapons out of the air, before turning to fight the goblins behind them.

Nori struggled against a goblin, before killing it and falling to the floor. The Great Goblin had risen at this point and was stalking toward the dwarf.

"Nori!" Thorin cried, as he jumped forward to deflect the oncoming blow, which caused the Great Goblin to stumble back and fall over the edge of the platform, into the depths below.

"Follow me. Quick! Run!" Gandalf yelled, motioning for the Company to follow them.

Kili grabbed Alenia's hand, as the Company charged after the wizard, and moved through the wooden walkways of Goblin Town.

"Are you alright?" He yelled, slashing at a goblin that popped up from under the bridge, causing it to fall.

"I'm fine." Alenia said, stabbing another goblin.

"Quickly!" Gandalf called back.

"Faster!" Balin yelled, as he glanced back to see the sheer mass of goblins chasing after them.

Dwalin and three of the other dwarves, ran past the Company, carrying a post from the wooden guardrail, screaming their heads off, as the dwarves swept the goblins off the walkway ahead of them.

As the dwarves raced over a bridge, Thorin yelled, "Cut the ropes!"

Gloin, Fili and Thorin chop the ropes holding the platform up, causing it, and the goblins that were on it, to fall down into the depths of the mountain.

Alenia and Kili dodged a sword from a goblin, and veered off from the main path and away from the rest of the Company, as a goblin archer took aim.

Alenia's eyes widened as the arrow came flying, before she deflected a shot with her sword. Then a second arrow came, and she chopped that one out of the air as well.

"Oh, that was badass." Kili hooted, as he dropped a ladder on to the goblins' shoulders and pushed them over the edge.

Alenia turned, leaned down, and smashed her lips against his. Kili's eyes widened, before closing, as he pulled her closer to him.

Fili pushed in between them, as he shouted, "We don't have time for this! Fight now, snog later!"

Kili and Alenia smiled at each other, before laughing and following after him, as the trio rejoined the group.

"I knew it." Dwalin whispered in Alenia's ear.

Alenia turned and smiled at him, before she whipped her head around, as the Great Goblin broke through the wooden planks from below, and pulled himself onto the platform.

"You thought you could escape me?" He roared, swinging his mace at Gandalf, who stumbled backwards.

"What are you going to do now, wizard?" He taunted.

An arrow embedded itself into the Goblin King's head, as the Company turned to see Alenia drop her shaking arm holding her bow, before wiping her tears away.

"That'll do." Kili commented, as he wrapped an arm around the half-elf's quivering shoulders, as the dwarves watched the hideous goblin's body collapse on the wooden platform.

The sudden extra weight of the body caused the bridge supports to unexpectedly collapse, sending the wooden platform sliding down to the bottom of the mountain. As the mountain floor came rushing up to meet them, the remainder of the support posts caught on the narrowing cavern wall, and slowed the wooden structure to a halt, right before it hit the ground.

"Well, that could have been worse." Bofur said.

That's when the Great Goblin's heavy corpse dropped down on top of them.

"You've got to be joking me." Dwalin growled, wriggling around, and pulling himself out.

Alenia scrambled out of the wooden wreckage, before turning and holding a pile of wood up, allowing Kili and Fili to scrabble out. Kili looked up, and saw the thousands of goblins rushing for them down the sides of the cave.

"Gandalf!" He yelled, alerting the Company to the goblins' threat.

"There's too many! We can't fight them!" Alenia yelled, dragging Kili and Fili away, down the mountain passageway. "Only one thing can save us. Daylight! C'mon."

"Here, on your feet!" Gandalf echoed, before he lead the other dwarves after the trio.

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a/n: 

i'm so sorry for missing two updating days now! i've had schoolwork, and this past weekend i had a soccer tournament (we won!!). i've also started OUAT and i've kinda been bingeing and not managing my time very well.

so my current plan is to post this chapter now, finish the last chapter (or maybe last two chapters) tomorrow and update for yesterday's update that i missed. once i update the last chapter of book one (whether that's tmrw or next tuesday), i think i'm going to take a week or two to come up with an idea of what i want to do for and then start work on book two. hopefully, that won't take too long.

vote/comment if you want, and i'll post the next chapter later tonight or tmrw (probs tmrw). see you then <33

- ash xx

ps: all of y'all probs know this, but orcrist is the name of thorin's sword, just in case someone didn't know that when alenia was using it up there^^. kay, bye.