[IC] The Hobbit/LOTR: Another Age of Evil Beginnings { Elven & Angel }

[The Elvenqueen]

Mel's head turned sharply towards the Mountain as the rumbling began over again, and a feeling of dread settled into her heart. This would not be good. The dragon was still alive, and not only that, but it was awake.
"We need to get out of here." the elf spoke urgently to those who were left in the house. "Now."

When he was clear of the entrance to the mountain, Smaug leapt into the air, the gold not yet dried and so easily shaken off his body as he turned in a quick circle, before swooping down towards the town where the Lakemen made their home.
"I am fire, I am...death." he growled to himself.

[AngelBites15]

Maleficent, as she was watching Kili, perked her head up when she heard the rumbling. She knew that noise anywhere. The noise of a dragon, and she knew that Thorin would awaken the dragon sooner. Hearing Mel, the fae walked quickly to the house's entrance and looked upon the Lonely Mountain. "What is it?", she heard Fili at her side as they gazed at the figure in the distance. It was huge, and it had wings. One thing that would be, is a dragon. Not just any dragon, but Smaug. "Mel's right", the fae agreed, coming back inside in fear. "It's Smaug, he's coming this way", she told them with dread.

[The Elvenqueen]

"Then we have no time, we have to leave." Mel quickly grabbed one of the coats off the hooks on the wall and helped Tilda, the youngest of Bard's daughters, to put it on. "He will be here soon. Get him up." she added to Maleficent and Fili, nodding in Kili's direction.
"I'm fine, I can walk!" the young dark-haired dwarf attempted to protest with annoyance in his voice. He didn't like how they were all babying him just because he'd been injured. However, as he tried to stand on his own his leg collapsed again.

Bilbo ran out after Smaug, collapsing onto one of the piles of rubble as he stared in horror towards Laketown. They were all doomed to a horrific death of dragon fire, and it was all their fault.
"What have we done...?" he gasped, though none of the dwarves were close enough to hear.

[AngelBites15]

Fili ran to his brother and tried to help him stand, but the youngest did indeed collapse, which grabbed Maleficent's attention fast. Kneeling down to help the young dwarf, the fae carefully used her full strength to pick him up completely, holding him like she would hold a child, against her chest. "We’re not leaving, not without our father!", Bain protested during their retreat. "If we stay, your sisters will die. Is that what your father would want?", the fae told him as she and Mel lead the way out of the home.

At the jail, Bard tries to break free from his cell. "Open this door! Do you hear me!", he demanded to the guards, still with nothing to get their attention.

[The Elvenqueen]

"We just have to hope that your father can keep himself safe." Mel told Bard's children as she and the fae ushered them quickly to an empty boat that they could leave the town on. Smaug had now reached Laketown, and with a ferocious roar he let loose a jet of rippling orange flame, catching an entire row of houses alight.

[AngelBites15]

As the Master tries to escape the town with his treasure, the rope that Bard set down out his cell window, gets tangled with him, helping Bard break away the prison cell wall. As soon as the bargeman escapes, he finds a bow and some arrows in the armory before climbing and running along the rooftops towards the bell tower.

[The Elvenqueen]

"Stay down." Mel murmured softly to Sigrid and Tilda as the boat passed under the foundations of another house, the buildings around them crumbling and burning as they floated down the lake.

[AngelBites15]

The fire blares around the town surrounding him as Bard climbed onto the bell tower. Spotting Smaug flying about, he grabbed his first arrow and fired. However, they were having no effect on the dragon's hide. Frustrated, he continued to fire many arrows, although there was no injury on the beast each time.

Clearly getting worried for the bargeman, Maleficent looked up at Bard in the belltower as he struggled; the arrows made no impact upon the Fyredrake.

[The Elvenqueen]

(I can't really remember who was playing as who either tbh, I think I was playing Kili though...?)

Kili straightened up suddenly and shouted out, excitement in his voice. "He hit it!" the dwarf shouted out, pointing up into the air as Smaug began to circle back around towards the bell tower, roaring again. "He hit the dragon!"
Mel didn't look convinced, shaking her head.
"No, he couldn't have..."
"He did!" Kili insisted, adament that Bard had hit Smaug with one of the arrows. "He hit his mark, I saw!"

[AngelBites15]

((You were Smaug, Kili, Tauriel, Thranduil, and a few other canons I don't know))

"His arrows cannot pierce the dragon's hide", Saeril spoke up as she watched the dragon blow another gust of fire. "I fear nothing will", she sadly added. What she didn't realize was that Bain suddenly grabbed a hook, and swinged off the boat. "Bain!", one of the sisters cried. "Bain!"

[The Elvenqueen]

(Awesome, thanks XD)

"Leave him!" Mel called after the sisters, her arm shooting out to hold back the oldest of the two sisters before she tried to lunge out of the boat to go after Bain. "We can't go back for him, it's too dangerous!"

[AngelBites15]

At the belltower, Bard hesitated when he took his last arrow. He allowed it to launch, but as he expected, it does nothing to the Firedrake's hide. It was over, nothing could kill the beast now. But what he didn't expect was his son showing up. "Dad!", he cried. "Bain, what are you doing? Why didn’t you leave? You were supposed to leave!", he was deeply afraid for his son's safety, especially at a time like this. "I came to help you..." "No! Nothing can stop it now", it was true despair for the townspeople if the beast continued to lay havoc. "This might", Bain declared as he held up the black arrow. "You go back. You get out of here now", his father desperately told him, oblivious to what was happening around them.

[The Elvenqueen]

While Bard was distracted with talking to Bain, Smaug swooped down and smashed through the roof of the belltower with his talons and his tail. It collapsed on top of Bard and Bain, knocking the boy off the edge.

Meanwhile in the boat, Mel and Saeril had to steer carefully through, trying to head for the open water while avoiding all the burning debris that fell from the houses above them.

[AngelBites15]

Bard did not see the dragon coming, and the last thing he saw was Bain going over the edge. "Bain!", he shouted as he hurried over to the edge, where his son dangled. Using the strength he had, Bard managed to pull him out of the face of danger: the fires below.

Saeril looked around as debris fell from the huts of Laketown's homes, and it pained her to see such tragedy. She wondered what Thorin's intentions were at the mountain. Keeping Fili and Kili close from the flames, she allowed the boat to move.

[The Elvenqueen]

It was another few hours before the survivors of the devastation in Laketown reached the shore once more. Many of them were badly wounded or dying, and others still had already been lost to their wounds or shock. Bard's two girls immediately left the little boat they had travelled in with Mel, Saeril, Kili, Fili and Bofur and began weaving through the crowd searching for their brother and father and calling out to them. Mel, who could see a little better over the other people's heads, searched too, though there was no sign of either Bard or Bain to be had. She exchanged a worried glance with Saeril.

[AngelBites15]

With the shore in a yard's distance, Saeril jumped out of the boat, into the water, and used the strength she had to push the boat to the upcoming shoreline. Looking around at the number of casualties surrounding them, the she-elf felt that she had to immediately talk to Thorin once they get to the mountain, if they still intended to. He would absolutely not be that careless to put his own nephews in harm's way, especially in the event of a Firedrake.

Finally managing to remove her horned headdress, Saeril let her hair flow free in the wind, as she glanced around at the surviving people. Knowing that Mel had her eyes on her, she didn't bother look back at her. Again, it's that anger she felt inside. "What were they thinking?", she said softly to herself, with a hint of a building up snarl, as she gazed out at the burnt and demolished town in the distance. It was enough for Mel to hear, as well as the others.

Allowing her wings to miraculously transform back into her cloak, the she-elf turned her attention back over to her dwarven companions trying to the push the boat back into the water, even though they just got to land. There was an inner battle inside her heart as soon as she looked upon the twins in the distance. "Kili?", she called to the youngest, as she stood at least three away from him, "Come here", she called again, only a tad bit sadly.

[The Elvenqueen]

Kili paused, turning to look at the she-elf. He frowned for a moment but left his brother and stepped back from the shore, walking back to Saeril. "What is it? We have to go, we have to leave now. Get to the mountain, back to the others."

Mel slowly approached the pair, looking out over the lake towards Erebor in the distance. "Is that wise...?" the Mirkwood elf asked warily. "Thorin was willing to sacrifice all of Laketown for whatever they found in there...how do we know they won't turn on us?"

[AngelBites15]

Saeril kept her glance on Kili when he was asking her these questions. No sad smile was made, nor was there a grateful one. It was just a stone-like expression upon her elvish features, almost an inner dissapointment at something invisible. Looking back at him, "Not 'we', just you", she finally said. If he was dissapointed, she hoped he would understand. But for them to already be bonded, it was going to be a difficult for the both of them. "I am staying to tend to the damage of Laketown's people", she added before explaining. "I know you want me to go with you, and that we have promised each other to reach the mountain together, but for this result of Thorin's decision, I can't leave these people astray", the she-elf explained to him as she kept her gaze upon him.

Hearing Mel near them, Saeril finally looked at her. "We won't. That mountain is what will drive the king into a fate that we cannot see. For us, we don't know whether if he will resist it or not", the she-elf explained to her friend before looking back at Kili. "Kili! We're leaving", Fili called after the boat was just about back in the water. "They are your people, Kili, you must go", she said before just about to walk off passed him.

[The Elvenqueen]

Kili looked hurt that Saeril refused to go with him. She had promised, that's what the plan had been all along, they were going to finish this together. "So...so you're just leaving us?!" the dwarven prince hissed.

Mel nodded her head slowly, looking across to the two twins and Bofur before looking back at Saeril. She remembered that she had meant to go with them, to find the Elvenqueen's necklace for her uncle, but she couldn't let these people suffer for the blind greed of Thorin Oakenshield. "I will stay with you, Saeril."

[AngelBites15]

Hearing such a demand made the she-elf stop in her tracks. She didn't expect his response to be so hostile. Obviously, he was hurt, and ironically, she felt the same: sadness and dissapointment. Taking a heartbreaking exhale, the fae turned around to face him, looking down at him in guilt.

Hearing Mel say that she will stay, the fae gave her a nod of confirmation before bending down to one knee to meet Kili's eye-level. Saeril kept her calm composure. "I wouldn't do this to us, if I had no other choice that would interfere with said promise. Look around you, Kili, your uncle did this to innocent people; people who just suffered from the curse of the mountain. If that curse was on either me or you, wouldn't we plead for help?", she explained to him with slight anger and hurt. Giving a sigh to her rambling, her hands cupped the sides of his head in a reassuring manner, shuffling his dark ebony hair a little in the process.

"I can make you another promise", she whispered to him with a sad smile forming. Letting go of him for a moment to reach for her boot, she presented her curved dagger to him, giving him the sign to take it. "I will return for you at the mountain. That, I can promise", the she-elf added before cupping the side of his head again, and leaned it towards her, so she could plant a kiss to his forehead.