*Author's note*

Okay so not much of an author's note here cause I wanna make it different from my tumblr one so just know this chapter's gonna get crazy cause as the title suggests, this is the Barrels on Bond scene. So I'll let you all get on with it and enjoy the chapter.

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Once again the days blended together. It must've been at least a week since the Dwarves were brought in, or it could've only been a few days. All I do know is throughout that time, one by one each of them were brought before Thranduil and interrogated to tell him why they were in his realm and what did they want.

Even I was forced to try and talk but I kept my mouth shut before Thranduil. Since he (like my older siblings) could tell when I was lying, I refused to even utter a single word to him. The dwarves were no different, although they had a few uhh—colorful choices of words to say to Thranduil (except for Balin, he kept his resistance more passive aggressive).

But also in that time whenever Tauriel would be in charge of keeping us in her charge, she would come to me with letters, spare paper and a pen so that we could keep communication with each other. She really has become a good friend (even though she was supposed to not talk to me).

We would share stories with one another and other girl talk if the need arose. She admitted that as she cleaned my wounds when she and Legolas found me, she saw Haldir's engagement bracelet and asked about it. So I told her of Haldir and our affections for one another and how he was waiting for my response back in Lórien but also my doubts in thinking I'm good enough for him.

Being the last of my kind also puts those around me at risk, and I know Haldir could handle himself but—I feared what if there comes a time when it's an enemy he could not fight against and I would lose him forever.

Tauriel provided that comfort in her recent letter that she just gave me by telling me that I should still accept his courtship. For it is better to have Haldir at my side in matrimony than to keep him waiting for a response until he's at death's door and would never know what my answer would've been.

"I'll wager the sun is on the rise. Must be nearly dawn." Bofur said in a bored, blunt tone.

"We're never gonna reach the mountain are we?" Ori's voice rang our sadly. I could feel the despair and hopelessness of the company when suddenly a new voice spoke up.

"Not stuck in here, you're not." I went up to my door and I heard Balin exclaim out one name.

"Bilbo!" that soon aroused the dwarves out of their despair as they all exclaimed in joy but Bilbo quickly silenced their cheering by shushing them.

"Shh! There are guards nearby!" the first cell he unlocked was Thorin's, followed by Balin's, then Dwalin. As Bilbo unlocked the rest of our cages Thorin told everyone to close the doors to buy us more time. When Bilbo came to my cell, he did a double take before saying my name.

"Hela?!"

"Hello Master Hobbit." I greeted.

"We-I-I'd feared that you'd....."

"Takes a lot more to kill the Celestial of Death Bilbo." He unlocked my cell and opened the door. Quickly doing a light snap of my fingers, I burnt Tauriel's letters and with a wave of my finger, I sent an air current through the cell to blow the ashes down to the abyss below.

Once everyone was out of their cells, they all began to head up the stairs but Bilbo told us to go downward. He skipped down the stairs and I turned to the company and told them.

"He knows best. Come on." I followed behind Bilbo and the Dwarves followed behind me. Soon we reached the bottom level, the cellars.

All around us were shelves upon shelves of Elvish wine, and to my left I saw three Elvish guards passed out asleep, drunk off of their wine. Barrels both filled with wine but also some empty barrels stacked on top of one another in the middle of what looked like a lever. Oh you clever little hobbit.

"This way." Bilbo whispered as he walked ahead guiding us along. I followed closely behind him but I could see the Dwarves weren't too happy about this plan.

"I don't believe it we're in their cellars!" Kili whispered harshly.

"You were supposed to be leading us out, not further in." Bofur hissed at Bilbo.

"I know what I'm doing." Bilbo replied only to be shushed by Bofur. Bilbo continued to guide us towards the empty barrels that stood between two shelves filled with wine. The dwarves inspected the barrels just as Bilbo said. "Everyone climb into the barrels quickly."

"Are you mad? They'll find us!" Dwalin hissed as he marched towards Bilbo.

"No, no they won't, I promise you please. Please. You must trust me." The dwarves murmured amongst themselves. They must realize the longer they debate about this, the quicker it'll be before the guards realize we've escaped our cells, if they hadn't already.

"Do as he says." Thorin whispered in a commanding way. With that, the Dwarves all climbed into the barrels one by one. Helping those that were getting on the upper barrels and getting as comfortable as they could.

"Everyone's in Bilbo." I told him. He nodded and walked over to the lever just as Bofur asked.

"What do we do now?" each of the dwarves poked their heads out from the barrels and Bilbo responded.

"Hold your breath."

"Hold me breath? What do you mean?" he asked just as Bilbo pulled the lever. And with a tip of the floor, the barrels soon rolled downward and the dwarves all yelled as they fell down towards the running river below that would lead to our escape. When the last barrel rolled down, the floor closed up and I said.

"Brilliant plan Bilbo."

"Thank you I—oh no." he at first praised my thanks but then trailed off.

"What?"

"Maybe I didn't think this all the way through." I looked to see there was no barrels for either him or for myself. And I could hear the commotion of the guards, they knew! Bilbo began scattering about like a cornered mouse and hid back behind the shelves.

The commotion with the barrels and screaming dwarves must've aroused the drunken Elves because they were starting to come down from their hungover state. Groaning and rubbing their drowsy eyes.

I held onto Bilbo and looked at the lever and came up with a plan of my own. I moved Bilbo to the center of the floor and said.

"Stay there."

"Hela what are you....." I ran to the lever and waited. I listened and could hear Tauriel's voice ringing out.

"Hela? Hela!" Bilbo tried to call out for me as quietly as he could.

"Tell the others to go on. I'll meet you at the gates." I then pulled the lever and the floor opened back up and Bilbo slid on his feet before falling into the river himself.

"Hela. Hela no wa-woooaaah!!!" I heard him land with a splash and the door closed just as Tauriel and the rest of the guards came down. My eyes glowed pure gold as I used Druig's full power to tell everyone but Tauriel to sleep.

She nocked an arrow into her bow and aimed it right at me. I held my hands up in surrender and said to her.

"You don't want to do this Tauriel."

"Helping our prisoners escape, associating yourself with Dwarves, you've done nothing but lie and deceive me all this time." I sighed heavily.

"Not all of it was a lie. I had no idea of our escape until it was happening, but I took a vow by Celestial blood. And as I'm sure you've read in the stories that when a Celestial makes a vow in blood,"

"It must be seen through till the end." She finished. However she kept her aim steady and firm on me.

"You have a choice Tauriel. You've said it yourself, Thranduil may think what he's doing is what's best for his people, but an evil will soon come that he cannot ignore. I may not have been as close with him as my brother Ikaris was, but he was my friend for a time. And he was not always like this. You can reason with him, Legolas too."

"They will not take word from a lowly Silvan Elf like me. Even if I am a Captain of his guard."

"You maybe a Silvan elf but you are the only one with the clearest head. Even Legolas has allowed his father to cloud his judgement. The cold, harsh eyes. Those were not the eyes of the Elfling I once looked at. And his mother would not have wanted that for him. You know this."

I could see her arm slightly shaking, not from the time she was holding her arrow back, but from doubt. I could see the debate through her eyes and I thought it best to leave now.

"Just think about it Tauriel. But if you want to arrest me, arrest me. You'll find me along the river." My uniform then shifted to Makkari's and with a flash of light, I ran out of the palace and ran towards the river, stopping at halfway to the gates.

Already I could see the barrels of the company trailing down the rapids of the water.

"HELA!!" I heard Fili exclaim as I saw him, Kili, Thorin and Bombur were the first dwarves ahead of everyone else. I ran along the rocks to follow them just as I heard an elf horn blow from the palace. Up ahead the guards at the gate heard the call and began to shut the gate.

I dove in the water and allowed the current to take me, but just before I could hold the gate open it shut up on me.

"DAMN!"

"No!" Thorin exclaimed. I tried to use Gilgamesh's strength but suddenly a piercing headache split my head and I cried out in pain gripping the side of my head.

"Hela?" The dwarves soon began to pile up at the gate's entrance, Fili's barrel floated right next to me and he grabbed my hands, allowing me to hang along the side of his barrel. "Are you alright?"

"I-I AHHH!!!" another piercing headache struck my head. It felt like someone was using my very skull as a forger's plank, striking the hot iron with a large forging hammer. Fili kept me above the water so that I wouldn't drown but we had more pressing matters. I could hear the Elven guards take out their swords and get into fighting position.

However I then heard the pained grunt of one of the guards and the snarl of a creature that I knew all too well, in fact we all knew it.

Orcs.

The elf's body fell into the water with a splash and soon orcs began to surround us as Bofur cried out.

"Watch out! There's orcs!" they came over the river with their weapons ready to strike. One orc was just about to strike Nori dead when Bilbo popped out from the water with his sword (which glowed blue) and stabbed the orc in the chest, it's corpse falling into the water.

We fought off the orcs and that's when I heard a familiar voice say in Black speech.

"Slay them all!" I turned around and there he stood. My eyes narrowed as I saw the tallest Gundabad orc there ever lived. 7 maybe 8ft tall, a spiked armor stuck out along his very body, and his left eye a milky white curtesy of yours truly.

"Bolg." I sneered lowly. As the orcs continued to surround us, I saw how Kili was looking up towards the gate. I was about to call out to him when an orc suddenly gripped my hair and I let out a yelp before raising my hand to water-whip him across the face. Then I froze the whip into an icy spear stabbing him right through the face.

I let go of Fili's barrel and watched as Kili was walking up the steps, all the while battling orc after orc trying to reach the lever to open the gate. Dwalin threw Kili an orc sword to make the fighting easier for him and with great skill and ferocity, Kili fought his way through the orcs.

However I saw Bolg nocking an arrow to his bow. I knew all Gundabad orcs poisoned their arrows with Morgul shafts. The very weapon used by Angmar himself. I swam to the edge of the river and pulled myself up and just as Bolg released the arrow, my eyes glowed gold and extended my arm out using Druig's telepathic powers at full power, stopping the arrow just before it hit his leg.

Kili turned to me and I shot the arrow back towards Bolg who blocked it with his club. I then shifted to Kingo's uniform and allowed his Celestial projection energy to form around my hands like protective gloves.

I fired one large Celestial projectile between the heads of two orcs while I kicked an orc closest to me. I fired another shot at an orc about a yard away from me which pierced it right through it's chest and dropped dead.

I fought off against any orc that dare come close to me with hand to hand combat, spinning myself around them to avoid their weapons before using my own strength against them.

"The Celestial! Bring her down! She is mine to finish off!" Bolg commanded in Black speech. As I was taking down one orc, two more grabbed me from behind pinning my arms behind me. However just before I could kick their legs out from under them, an arrow appeared right at the center of one of their foreheads. It's hands releasing me and allowing me to take down the other orc.

I twisted it's head till I heard it's neck crack and I turned to see Tauriel coming forth. She fired another arrow and much like I did, she used her light Elvish momentum to spin around the orcs before using her daggers to either behead or slay any orc on sight.

"Kill her! Kill the She-elf!" Bolg commanded as more orcs came around us. But soon more of Thranduil's archers, including his own son Legolas joined in the fight. A battle soon raged out as both orcs and elves were slaughtered on sight.

"Kili! The lever! Pull the lever!" I exclaimed as I took down another orc before firing an arrow-sized Celestial energy projectile at an orc that was coming for Kili. He snapped out of his daze and pulled the lever which soon sent the company down the waterfall and into the more dangerous rapids of the river.

One by one each of them fell down before disappearing beneath the rapids for a second before resurfacing. I heard Bolg give the command to the other orcs that I had a feeling were hiding in the woods along the river to go after the dwarves.

"Hela!" Kili cried out to me.

"Just go!" I cried out as an orc gripped me in its deadly embrace, it's foul breath breathing down my neck. I snapped my head back as hard as I could before taking its own weapon and beheading it. "GO!!" I said in my booming Celestial voice.

With that booming command, Kili didn't argue as he hopped back into his empty barrel and he and his brother along with the rest of the company floated downstream. I fought my way up the gates till I jumped over the wall and began racing along the side of the river, following the Company.

That's when my eyes were set on Bolg. My eyes narrowed and I quickly shifted into Cersei's uniform to give myself a little boost to the other side where he was. Once I landed and took care of a few orcs with some good old water bending, I turned my attention to Bolg.

Now shifting to Makkari's uniform I picked up enough speed to catch up to him. However my head was really starting to feel more and more like a forger's plank but I couldn't let it deter my focus from Bolg so I pushed on.

Feeling the charge of what almost felt like a sonic boom burning within me, I lunged like a wolf to it's prey and tackled Bolg from behind onto the ground, his face skidding across the grass and soil. I sent rapid punches all over his face, head and body. Even as he turned, I dodged his feeble attempts at a counter-attack and sent a hard kick to his chest.

He grabbed his club and I could read from his lips.

"Long have I waited for you Celestial-witch!" I smirked smugly at him getting into a fighting stance with my fists up and my feet shoulder width apart and firm on the ground. He charged at me but I quickly ran behind him and ran past him giving him a hard punch to the shoulder blade, forcing him to his knees. Before he could recover, I came at him again full speed and gave him an uppercut on the left side of his face.

Back and forth this game continued until I grabbed hold of him and faster than he could possibly imagine, the world zipped past us as we continued to lay our punches at each other until we came at a semi-mountain structure from the boulders that lay across the river.

I slammed Bolg into the rocks and kept sending punch after punch across his chest when suddenly my head felt like it was splitting open. I gripped my head and that proved to be my last mistake.

I was gripped by the back of my neck and felt a punch straight into my gut before feeling Bolg's hand grip my hair and slamming my face into the rocks five, maybe even seven times before throwing me down to the ground.

My ears were ringing and my vision was going blurry. This was not good, without my sight to help me I was practically defenseless against Bolg. I felt his foot slam on top of my head and his club touching my forehead. I knew he was getting ready for the kill strike, ready to end my life.

But the strike did not come. In fact his foot was suddenly removed from my head. I switched back to my own Celestial garb and shook my head trying to get my vision back. That's when I saw Tauriel, Legolas and a few other elves battling against the spawn of Azog.

"Go Hela! We'll hold him off!" Tauriel cried out to me in Elvish. I slowly raised myself off the ground, watching as these elves fight off against Bolg. As she sliced her blade through Bolg's arm (even though it had no effect on him), she urged me again. "NOW!!" I nodded in gratitude for her and got up on my feet and raced towards the boulders and leapt off of them into the rushing rapids below.

The current forced me to stay down for about 3 minutes before I was finally able to resurface only to feel myself go down a waterfall. I spat and coughed out the water was came into my mouth and tried to swim with the current. All the while trying to keep an eye open for any barrel in sight and my company.

Up and down, under and above the water was all I really remember. Seeing arrows flash from across the river and from above along the tree branches and logs that hung over the river. I kept on pushing through until I felt my very body burning with exhaustion (even for a Celestial. And trust me, it takes a lot to burn us out).

Just before I could feel myself going under, a hand grabbed from behind my collar. I was about to fight back with whatever strength I had left, but I was greeted with a familiar face.

"Fili."

"I thought you said it was only to be Kili and I who were to worry over throughout this quest?" I chuckled softly and gripped onto his barrel tightly.

"Decided that I couldn't just let you two have all the fun." He shook his head at me chuckling as well.

"Hang on tight namad." I nodded and adjusted my grip onto the side of his barrel and I summoned up Kingo's celestial projectiles and fired at any orc I could manage to see. I then began to notice how Legolas was using the heads of my company as a pathway across the river to kill any orc he could lay his eyes on. Much like Kingo and Ikaris, it's like he wants to show off his fancy-foot work.

As I saw him land on top of a cliff's edge and fight off against two orcs at once, he was blind to the third orc coming up behind him. Not wanting the same mistake to happen to me again twice. I fired off the biggest projectile, the size of Aeglos and fired it right at the orc which struck it through the chest and it fell dead on the ground.

His attention turned towards me as Fili and I had went over a bigger waterfall and followed the others down the river (the rapids now calmer than before but the current was still strong enough to pull us downstream). I leaned my head against my arms which still gripped Fili's barrel finally feeling my body drained of almost all it's energy, but my eyes kept right on Legolas as he kicked an orc over the edge of the cliff into the water and fired an arrow into another orc, killing it instantly.

'For your mother.' I spoke telepathically. I don't know if he could hear it or if it managed to get to him at all, but I hope now he realizes that even though I'm helping the Dwarves of Erebor, my promise to his mother will always linger in my heart.

*Legolas' POV*

There was no use now. The dwarves were too far gone, even if we were to go after them further down the river, my father wouldn't dare allow us to venture too far from our realm. I then heard a voice inside my head say.

'For your mother.' It was the Celestial's voice, Hela. I looked at her and saw her direct her head telling me to turn around. I turned to see an orc with a Celestial projectile spear sticking through its chest. I turned back to her perplexed.

All I did for her was imprison her, barely acknowledged her existence in my realm after her refusal to help heal our home, and yet she willingly saved my life. She claims it was for my mother but—why?

I saw the flash of an arrow deflect an orc arrow and I saw as Tauriel leapt in and took down the orc that tried to end my life. She disarmed it quickly and efficiently and held her daggers to its neck ready to relieve it of its head.

"Tauriel, Dartho! This one we keep alive." I told her in Elvish. The orc snarled at me as my attention turned back to the orc leader that commanded the rest of the orcs to follow the dwarves and the Celestial down the river. I counted about 30 possibly even more orcs, but for now they weren't our concern anymore.

I walked towards Tauriel and the orc and I said to the orc.

"You will tell us all that you know. Take him to the king." Tauriel along with Lindros took the orc prisoner to be interrogated by the king. Elros came up to me and I told him, "Gather up the wounded and get them to the healing wing. Bury the dead." He bowed his head and gave the command to the remaining elves we had from the fight.

First the spiders, then orcs, what's next? And just what did these orcs want with both Thorin Oakenshield and the Celestial? That foul creature better give us the answers we seek less he wishes to join with his other fallen spawns.