Walking In Starlight

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They all start running down the mountain as fast as they can. The Wargs follow them rapidly, the sun quickly setting, and soon the foremost Warg catches up to the group and leaps at Bilbo, who ducks behind a rock and the Warg’s jaws snap in the air over his head. The Warg lands in front of him, growling, it charges at him, which causes Bilbo to pull out his sword and holds it in front of him, the charging Warg impales itself in the head on the sword and falls down dead. Bilbo looks on in surprise, a few more Wargs catch up to the fleeing dwarves, but they are quickly dispatched, the Company reaches a large outcropping of land with a few trees growing on it, they are trapped there, as there is no way off the outcropping besides a great fall down the mountain,

"Up into the trees, all of you!" Gandalf ordered "come on, climb! Bilbo, climb!"

Bifur throws an axe, killing a Warg which was approaching him, Bofur jumps off a rock and grabs a tree branch, using Dwalin’s head as a stepping stone to the tree, the other dwarves begin climbing into the trees as well. Bilbo tries to pull his sword out of the dead Warg’s head, but it is stuck firmly, causing him to continue his attempts. Ryneela, jumping up to a branch, grabs a firm hold of it and pulls herself up, allowing her body to swing to another firm branch, pulling herself further up,

"They’re coming!" Thorin shouted

Gandalf climbs to the top of the furthest tree, Dwalin boosts Balin up, Thorin, Bombur, and the rest climb up trees too, the main body of Wargs and Warg Riders approach. Bilbo finally manages to pull his sword out of the Warg, looking up to see several more Wargs running at him, causing him to quickly clamber up a tree as the Wargs rush below him. Dozens of Wargs circle the trees in which the Company members are perched, Ryneela cups her hand around her mouth, making a high pitched bird call. Holding out her arm, Nix landed, Ryneela looking into the owl's eyes, watching as they turned the same shade of blue as Ryneela's, giving her master a small hoot, and flying away. The Wargs cease their growling and turn as the White Warg, with Azog on its back, approaches slowly, Thorin looks at Azog in shock

"Azog" Thorin said

"Nuzdigid?" Azog asked "Nuzdi gast? Ganzilig-i unarug obod nauzdanish, Torin undag Train-ob."
Do you smell it? The scent of fear? I remember your father reeked of it, Thorin son of Thrain.

Thorin looks stricken with pain and grief, realizing that Azog had captured his father,

"It cannot be" Thorin said in disbelief

"Kod, Toragid biriz" Azog said to his Wargs and Riders "Worori-da!"
That one is mine. Kill the others!

At his command, the Wargs leap forward and try to climb the trees, jumping as high as they can, scrabbling at the tree trunks and breaking apart branches in their jaws in their efforts. The trees shake violently at the assault, and the dwarves struggle to hold on,

"Sho gad adol!" Azog shouted  
Drink their blood!

With the weight of the Wargs climbing it, the furthest tree from the edge of the cliff, which Bilbo and several other dwarves are in, gets uprooted from the ground and begins leaning wildly. As more Wargs grab onto it, the tree tips over and lands on the next tree, the dwarves and Bilbo jump from the falling tree to the next. However, this tree as well tips over, like a domino effect, all the trees begin falling over, all the dwarves, Bilbo, Ryneela and Gandalf manage to jump onto the last tree, on the very edge of the cliff. This tree doesn’t fall over, Azog laughs. Looking around in desperation, Gandalf spies a pinecone, grabbing it and uses his staff to set the pinecone on fire, then throws it down amid the Wargs, who retreat in fear of the fire. Azog is startled and angry at the unexpected resistance, Gandalf lights two more pinecones and throws one down to Fili,