No one's pov

Angrily, Smaug breathes fire in all directions. Thorin, the last one in the door, is pushed in by the force of the flames. He runs into the room at the other end of the tunnel with the back of his coat on fire, and he throws himself on the ground and rolls to extinguish the flames. He jumps back up. "Come on." He ordered, not seeming to be affected by it. With Smaug roaring in the background, they run.

The company emerge out of a tunnel and approach a stone bridge over a chasm. "Dwalin?.." ash asks, her lips blackened from whatever was leaking out of her mouth and slowly burning the dwarfs skin. "Yes las ?.." he asks. "If I die.. punch my brother in the face.." she says. "What? Why?" He asks me. "It'll make you feel better... he's the short blonde one that never smiles.." she replied. Dwalin held back a chuckle. Suddenly Thorin raises his hand and quiets the group.

They're near the foot of the bridge and Thorin peers around the edge of the tunnel, looking for any sign of Smaug. They all whisper. "We've given him the slip." Dori says. "No, he's too cunning for that." Dwalin comments as he helps ash to her feet as she pushes herself out of his arms. "So where to now?" Bilbo asks. "The western guardroom. There may be a way out." Thorin says, pointing in the direction of the area he was referring to. "It's too high. There's no chance that way." Balin says bluntly. "It's our only chance. We have to try." Thorin tells him.

Meanwhile ash tightens the leather garment around her waist and her swords sheath to keep her standing. She spits out a lot of the black liquid into her hand and wipes it off onto the wall.

Quietly, they tiptoe across the bridge, looking all about. Suddenly, a coin falls to the floor right in front of Bilbo and rings loudly. They all freeze and look at Bilbo, who frantically checks his jacket to see if some coin had been stuck in a fold. Hearing another coin fall, they look up and see Smaug crawling just above them, looking for them. He hasn't seen them. The coins that fell came from his chest and arms, where several coins and gems have embedded themselves after years of him sleeping on them. Thorin motions for them to keep moving.

They finally arrive in the western guardroom, thorin ordering them to "Stay close.".They all stop abruptly when they see that the guardroom is full of rotted, dust- and cobweb-covered corpses. Ash looks at her saddened friends and sighs. She could no longer lie to herself that everyone escaped..

"That's it, then. There's no way out." Balin said hopeless. It seems like a landslide or something has blocked the exit, trapping the dwarves in the past in the room to die. "The last of our kin. They must have come here, hoping beyond hope. We could try to reach the Mines. We might last a few days." Balin says. "No. I will not die like this. Cowering, clawing for breath. We make for the forges." Thorin said, a second blow of confidence entering his lungs. "He'll see us, sure as death." Dwalin told him bluntly. They could hear the click of claws in the distance. "Not if we split up." Thorin said. "I'm sorry but are you inside ?.." ash asked him. "Thorin, we'll never make it." Balin told him. "Some of us might. Lead him to the forges. We kill the dragon. If this is to end in fire, then we will all burn together." Thorin said. They group up and go their separate ways.

Thorin, Bilbo, ash and Balin run out onto the bridge from earlier. "This way!" Thorin yelled, making sure Smaug would hear him. A booming sound comes from nearby, and Smaug appears. "Flee, flee! Run for your lives! There is nowhere to hide." Smaug yelled. He goes at the four, but he turns at another sound. Dori, Ori, and Bombur are running on another bridge and yelling to distract Smaug. "Behind you!" Dori screams.  Smaug looks at them, then lunges toward them. They turn and run.

As Smaug chases the second group, the first group continue across the bridge. Suddenly, the third group, Dwalin and Nori, run across another bridge and yell to distract Smaug. "Hey you! Here!" Dwalin yells. Smaug turns and jumps at them. They run off the bridge and into a tunnel just before Smaug's claw lands where they were. The fourth group, Gloin and Bifur, use this chance to run across a bridge and make it into a tunnel as well. Angrily, Smaug blows fire after them. He blows rapidly in an arc all around him, into all the tunnels. His fire causes the stones beneath Gloin and Bifur to glow in heat. They reach a cliff and leap into the air, landing in large troughs which they slide down. They land in the buckets of a large hanging conveyor belt system used in the past for mining.

Balin, Thorin, Ash, and Bilbo run through a large hallway. Balin turns into a side tunnel, but Thorin continues forward with Bilbo at his heels. Balin hides them but Bilbo stops by the tunnel, and calls out to Thorin, who is still ahead. Thorin turns and begins to go back to Bilbo, Ash and Balin, but stops suddenly. They all see Smaug at the end of the hallway. Thorin yells at Bilbo. "Follow Balin!" He says. Bilbo yells for him again but balin and ash pull Bilbo into the side tunnel just as Smaug's chest glows orange and he unleashes his fire throughout the hall. Thorin runs the other way and leaps into the air, falling into a deep pit. He catches onto a chain with a bucket at the end of it, and it begins descending just as Smaug leaps into the pit as well.

Smaug claws his way down the tunnel, snapping at Thorin on the chain. Dwalin runs up to the mouth of the pit. He yells thorin's name and in a panic smashes his axe into the machinery holding the chain Thorin is holding on to, and the chain stops descending abruptly. Beside Dwalin, a heavy holding bucket on the other end of the same chain begins descending rapidly, causing Thorin's chain to fly upward. Thorin soars upward, narrowly missing Smaug's head. Smaug turns and manages to grab the end of Thorin's chain, stopping its movement. Smaug pulls down, at the machinery holding the chain at the top of the pit breaks free of its moorings and falls into the pit. Hit chain slack, Thorin falls and lands right on the tip of Smaug's closed mouth.

He stands on Smaug's top lip as Smaug growls and opens his mouth; fire is visibly rising up his neck. Just as Smaug snaps closed his mouth to eat Thorin, Thorin leaps to the side and grabs another chain. Smaug turns to bite him, but the falling machinery strikes him in the face. Nori, at the top of the pit, hits another machine, and its gears spin rapidly, pulling Thorin on his chain rapidly upward. Smaug roars and blows smoke straight up the pit after Thorin. Thorin manages to reach the top and throw himself on a ledge just as the fire erupts beside him. He stumbles over to Nori. He yells at everyone to keep going.

Thorin and Nori run through narrow slits between tall, stone pillars and join the other dwarves and Bilbo. They are standing in front of several massive dwarf furnaces, each at least 10 yards high. "The plan's not going to work. These furnaces are stone cold." Dwalin explains. "He's right; there's no fire hot enough to set them ablaze." Balin agreed with his brother. The furnaces are all dark, with no sign of fire within, almost as if they'd been frozen. Thorin turns back toward the pit. He nods at ash. She somehow understands his plan and smirks slightly.

"Have we not?.." thorin began. He leans through the large iron bards. "I did not look to see you so easily outwitted!" He yells. Smaug's claw emerges from the pit, his body following it. Thorin continues taunting him. "You have grown slow and fat in your dotage." Thorin continues. Smaug snarls at Thorin in anger. Ash leans out beside her friend. "Slug." She says. As Smaug snarls and advances, Thorin gets behind a pillar and yells to the others to do the same.

They all rush behind pillars just as Smaug unleashes his flame at them. The fire goes past the pillars and reaches all the way to the furnaces. The dwarves, ash and Bilbo, though not in the direct path of the fire, yell from the pain, heat, and pressure. As Smaug stops, fire suddenly comes out of the bottoms of the furnaces, and they begin glowing and working. Smaug growls in confusion and anger. The dwarves run from the pillars as Smaug begins battering at them with his head. They are immensely strong, like a latticework of metal, but they begin to bend under Smaug's tremendous strength.

"Bombur! Get those bellows working. Go!" Thorin orders. Bombur obeys and leaps onto a chain next to a forge. The chain slides down with his weight, and he lands on the handle of a massive bellows. The bellows compress and blast air into the furnace, which exhumes bright blue flames. On top of the furnaces is a massive pile of unrefined gold, at least 10 yards in diameter.Thorin turns and sees the latticework continue to bend from Smaug's bashing. "Bilbo! Up there, on my mark, pull that lever, ash follow him so he doesn't frown" thorin orders as he points Bilbo toward a lever high up on a mound, and Bilbo runs toward it. Ash looks confused at him for a minute but obeys.

The dwarves run toward the forges as the latticework begins to break. Thorin grabs Balin. "Balin, can you still make some flash-flame?" He asks. "Aye. It'll only take a jiffy." Balin says rather calmly as he grabs some of the other dwarves to help him. As Balin runs off, Dwalin looks at the latticework, which is bending dangerously from Smaug's blows. "We don't have a jiffy." He mutters.

Under the force of Smaug's onslaught, the latticework finally gives way and falls to the ground. Smaug storms into the furnace room. He looks about, growling. Bilbo clambers up some steps and reaches the lever mounted high on a tower; Smaug begins walking toward him and ash. Ash stands tall beside him, smiling at him. She says "I won't let him harm you my friend". Meanwhile Balin chuckles as he pours a vial of powder into empty jars. "Come on!" Dori yells at him.

Smaug raises his head to look at Bilbo and the elfling, then looks to the side and sees Thorin standing there. Smaug turns and snarls at Thorin, and Thorin yells to Bilbo "Now!". Bilbo jumps into the air and pulls down on the lever just as Thorin lunges toward Thorin. Huge jets of water burst out of carved faces in the wall behind Bilbo and slam into Smaug, knocking him off balance and quenching the flames he was beginning to blow at Thorin. Smaug slides into the side of a furnace from the force of the water, and the glow in his chest disappears. Roaring in rage, Smaug flaps into the air and begins thrashing about madly. The jets of water cause a watermill to begin turning some gears, which causes the various rope conveyor belts to begin operating. Some of them are full of heavy chunks of rock and ore.

Bombur continues going up and down on his chain, pumping the bellows and turning the furnace fire blue. Atop the furnaces, the solid impure gold begins to glow and melt. Smaug begins crawling toward Thorin again. Above him, Gloin and Bifur have arrived on the bucket conveyor belt. As Bilbo and Ash begin to climb down the mound, Smaug approaches Thorin. Suddenly, there is a flash of blue light on the side of his head. Balin, Ori, and Dori are throwing flash-flame bombs at Smaug. However, Smaug is not at all fazed by them and continues toward Thorin. Above Smaug, Gloin raises his axe and cuts the rope of the conveyor belt full of heavy rocks below him, dropping tons of rocks on Smaug and making him fall to the ground, roaring.

The gold atop the furnaces is completely melted now. Thorin runs over to a furnace and pulls on a chain, opening a gate which allows the molten gold to flow out of the furnaces and through troughs built into the ground. Smaug, tangled in the ropes of the conveyor belt, thrashes about and hits the rope of the conveyor belt Gloin and Bifur are in, breaking it and knocking it to the floor. They miraculously land on the ground unhurt. Beneath Smaug, rivers of molten gold flow through the troughs on the floor. Thorin turns and begins running, shouting back at the dwarves. "Lead him to the Gallery of the Kings!" He orders. As Smaug thrashes about, one of the heavy metal buckets tangled on him goes flying toward Bilbo on top of the mound. Bilbo yells and ducks, and the bucket misses him but takes large chunks out of the wall.

Thorin grabs a wheelbarrow and runs while pushing it, dodging Smaug's thrashing limbs. Smaug's tail smashes into the base of the mound, cracking it and worrying Bilbo. Thorin throws the wheelbarrow into a channel of gold and leaps into the wheelbarrow; it floats on the gold and is carried along. Seeing this, Smaug roars and whips his head around, finally getting rid of the ropes and buckets tangled around him. He stomps over to a small entrance at the base of the mound where all the troughs of liquid gold join and lead out of the room. Before he can get to Thorin, Thorin on his wheelbarrow floats through the entrance, just as the mound collapses and Bilbo falls. He manages to hit the ground rolling. Smaug sees Bilbo and snarls. Thorin turns his head back and yells "Keep going, Bilbo! Run!". Ash comes out of the death and pulls her friend to his feet and they take off running with Smaug in pursuit; he leaps onto a large stone slide before Smaug can grab him, and Smaug slides after him, demolishing all the stone structures nearby with his wings.

The trough Thorin is floating in ends at a drop; as his wheelbarrow goes over the edge, Thorin leaps from it and grabs onto a chain. The molten gold drops into a large stone mold. Bilbo & Ash, running from Smaug, runs through a doorway and into a massive hall adorned with banners hundreds of feet tall.

Just as he runs in, the wall above the doorway explodes as Smaug jumps through it. Bilbo runs frantically from the flying rocks, but is caught beneath the cloth of a falling banner and knocked to the floor. Ash hides with him as they make themselves look like lumps. Smaug leaps to the floor and shouts angrily "You think you could deceive me, Barrel-rider?!". Bilbo peaks out from the edge of the banner. "You have come from Laketown. There is- is some sort of scheme hatched between these filthy dwarves and those miserable cup-trading Lakemen. Those sniveling cowards with their longbows and black arrows!" Smaug is talking to himself, and his voice breaks in both anger and fear when he mentions the black arrows. "Perhaps it is time I paid them a visit." He said, suddenly he turns in the direction to Laketown.

"Oh no.." ash mutters and Bilbo gasps. He scrambles out from under the banner and yells at Smaug "This isn't their fault! Wait! You cannot go to Laketown.". Ash tries to grab the hobbits ankle before he is out but she doesn't have a chance. Hearing this, Smaug stops for a moment, then turns toward Bilbo, who is running after him. "You care about them, do you? Good. Then you can watch them die." Smaug said. He then turns and strides off down the hall. Suddenly, a voice sounds from one end of the hall, where there is a massive stone structure that looks roughly like a dwarf. The voice is Thorin's; he is standing atop the structure.

"Here, you witless worm!" He yells. Smaug stops in his track, snarling and squinting in anger. He then turns toward Thorin. "You." He says, his voice laced with venom.  "I am taking back what you stole." Thorin tells him as the beast slowly approaches. "You would take nothing from me, Dwarf. I laid low your warriors of old. I instilled terror in the hearts of men. I am King under the Mountain." Smaug tells him, he is at head level with Thorin now; Bilbo watches from an adjoining hall, ash now standing beside him, getting read to grab him and run, but she was almost white as paper at this point.

"This is not your kingdom. These are dwarf lands, this is dwarf gold, and we will have our revenge." Thorin tells Smaug. As Thorin speaks, Smaug's chest and neck glow with fire, and Thorin slowly reaches up toward a rope above him. Just as Smaug opens his mouth, Thorin yells a dwarvish battle cry and yanks on the rope. A pin behind the stone falls out, releasing heavy wooden bands and chains that had been wrapped tightly around the stone. Smaug rears his head in confusion. The other dwarves pull mightily on their chains, and more pins similar to the first are pulled out of the stone. The stone structure, which is now revealed to be the mold into which the liquid gold from earlier poured into, falls apart and reveals a massive statue of a dwarf king, made entirely out of solid gold. Thorin swings away on a rope to escape the falling rocks. Smaug looks at the golden statue, which is even larger than him, in awe and desire. As he approaches it, his mouth opens slightly in greed.

Suddenly, the gold around the statue's eyes warps and then explodes into liquid; the gold in the statue had not yet fully solidified, and the entire statue collapses and explodes into burning hot liquid. Smaug roars in anger as the statue melts, and scrabbles backward to escape the gold. However, he cannot move fast enough and the tidal wave of gold hits him and knocks him over. As he roars, he is entirely smothered and drowned in the gold, which fills the entire hall in a layer several feet deep. Ash slowly walks over to the pool of gold and brushes the top layer with her sword and asks in a weak voice, "is he dead ?..".

Hey guys! Hope you enjoy the extra long chapter, I am writing this at like 1 am and I need to sleep for school so I hope I don't screw this up.

Lil'nightfury