"Now, Caleniel, what did you plan?"

"Well..."

(Bre's POV)

I sat up, yawning and waking from my sleep. I looked around for Caleniel, but she hadn't returned yet. I saw Legolas glaring at Kili's cell from the level above, and Tauriel walked away with a wide smile. She disappeared down the hall, and Legolas walked away.

There was a long moment of silence as I walked toward my prison door. "Kili."

"What charm I have." Kili let out a small laugh. "How unfortunate for her that my heart cannot belong to her entirely." He looked at me.

I raised a brow. "What are you going on about?"

"What indeed," Thorin asked from across our prison. "Are you charming that Elf maid for nothing more than to free us?"

Kili stayed silent. I let out a small laugh and waved to Thorin. Thorin simply raised a hand to me to show awknowledgement.

"It be best if we start shutting our eyes," Bofur called. "It's getting dark."

"We're never gonna reach the mountain, are we," Ori asked.

"Not stuck in here you're not." Bilbo held up the keys in front of Thorin's cell.

I grinned widely. "Bilbo."

"Bilbo!" Balin pressed himself against his prison door.

"Our hobbit!" Fili smiled.

"Shhh!" Bilbo frowned. "There are guards nearby." He began openning our prison cells.

We all lined up and Thorin began to lead us.

"No. That way! That way!" Bilbo ran down the stairs, and we followed him. We followed him down a staircase. He paused as we entered a hall with three other pathways. He placed a finger on his chin and looked at all three halls.

Thorin frowned. "Have you forgotten the way out?"

"I know the way." Bilbo looked down all three and choose the one on the left. "This way. Come on. Quickly." We reached a bridge that was actually a tree root downward to a stone tunnel. We entered what looked like a wine cellar with much wine and wooden furniture.

I stared at the sleeping Elves with wide eyes.

"It's all right," Caleniel whispered as she stepped forward. "You must all be quick."

Bilbo nodded. "This way," he whisper-yelled, gesturing with one finger for us to follow him. "Come on, quickly!" 

Kili turned around with crashed brows. "We're in the cellars!"

"You're supposed to be leading us out not further in!" Bofur looked at Bilbo with furrowed brows as he walked past Bilbo.

"Just listen to him." Caleniel walked to the other side of the room. "This is the quickest way."

"I know what I'm doing!" Bilbo's brows crashed.

Bofur frowned. "Shh!" He held one finger over his lips.

"Go this way! This way!"  Bilbo gestured for us to go to some barrels. "Quickly, hide! Into the barrels, quickly!"

Thorin turned to Caleniel. "Where have you been? I thought you were to reason with the king. You never returned."

"I was moved to another cellar," Caleniel said. "I freed myself and shall explain the rest later. We must leave."

I raised a brow, turning away from Caleniel to the hobbit.

Dwalin ran to him. "Are you mad!? They'll find us."

Bilbo shook his head. "No, no. They won't. I promise you. Please, please, you must trust me." He looked at the Dwarves as they talked amoung themselves. I looked at Thorin as Bilbo and Caleniel did. 

Thorin looked at the Dwarves. "Do as he says."

They nodded and began hiding in the barrels. Kili and Fili smiled at me. "Allow us to help." They lifted me into a barrel and hid in their own. Bilbo and Caleniel walked down the aisle and counted the barrels. They walked back to the beginning of the row.

Bofur stuck his head out. "What do we do now?"

I turned in my barrel and stuck my head out like everyone else.

Bilbo looked at Bofur. "Hold your breath."

"Hold my breath?" Bofur raised a brow.

Bilbo pulled on some sort of lever I didn't see before. 

"What do you mean?!" Bofur's barrel began to shake. Caleniel waved at me as we slid down the trapped door Bilbo opened.

My eyes widened as my barrel began to roll and I saw water below us all. I gasped as I placed my arms over the top of my barreland pulled myself up.

"Are you all right, Bre," Thorin asked.

I smiled. "Yup." 

"Good. Where is Master Baggins and the Elf?" 

"Very good." Kili grinned at me. 

I blushed and looked down. Bilbo let out a small scream as he and Caleniel fell down into the water.

"Well done, Master Baggins. Well done," Thorin smiled as he tried to push himself back.

Bilbo sort of shrugged as he resurfaced and held onto Nori's barrel.

"Everyone row! Go!" Dwalin lowered his arms back into his barrel.

I used my arms to push myself forward like the others. "My eyes widened as I heard echoes of voices. "Thorin!"

"I heard them. Quickly!" Thorin pushed his barrel into the sunlight of the cave. "Hold on!"

I grinned as I saw the small waterfall and gripped the edge of my barrel tightly. I closed my eyes as my barrel went down the waterfall and under the water for a moment. I gasped as I resurfaced and caught my breath. I looked around for the Dwarves and the others so I could follow them. I wiped my eyes and saw Legolas come out of the cave. Tauriel followed closely behind with another Elf. He glared and ordered Tauriel in Elvish. They went back into the cave. An Elf sounded a horn, and our heads whirled forward on the watery path we were floating on.

"They are going to seal the gate!" Caleniel jumped on the edges of the top of her barrel. "Move quickly!" She took out her bow and arrow.

My eyes widened as I saw an Elf run to a lever. I looked down at the tunnel to our freedom, but an iron gate was sealing it.

"No!" Thorin grabbed the gate as if to keep it open himself. But the gate was closed, and his arms were the only things that could touch the other side. My barrel lightly hit his barrel as we all became trapped. I heard the sounds of swords being unsheathed. I looked up at the armed Elves, and my eyes widened as an elf fell from above between Kili and me. An arrow had pierced the Elf's back. I looked up as I heard the growling of an Orc, but I could only see the bottom of the stone bridge.

"Thorin..."

"They followed us," Thorin said lowly.

There was more growling and howling. An Orc jumped into the water. I gasped as the Orc resurfaced in front of me. Thorin wrapped an arm around me, pulling my barrel and me close to him, and stabbed the Orc's neck. I watched the others finish killing the Orc, and I turned to Thorin. He turned his attention back to the gate. I stared at him with wide eyes until Dwalin pushed past me, moving out from under the bridge. I looked around at the battle around me.

Dwalin hacked the Orc behind me. "Die!" He slahsed at the Orc again.

"Kili!" Fili moved himself away from the gate. 

I looked up and paused as I saw an arrow in Kili's leg. "No!" I climbed out of my barrel and tried my best balance to find a way to Kili. I stepped on Bofur's shoulder and began moving from the edge of a barrel to another to get to Kili. "Kili."

"Bre," Thorin called. "Bre!"

Kili stumbled back, and we both froze as an arrow whirled past us. I saw Tauriel shoot another arrow, and I ran to Kili.

"Help me up."

I nodded and did as Kili said. Together we pulled down the lever of the gate, opening it. An Orc spoke loudly. Caleniel shot an orc dead, stopping it from walking towards me.

"Bre," Thorin called.

I looked at Kili, and he nodded. I pushed him off the edge first, aiming at his barrel. He grunted as he fell into his barrel and the arrow snapped while still in his leg. I made sure he was out of the way and I jumped down. There was no barrel. I opened my eyes as I swirled around under the water of the waterfall. Everything was dark, foamy, and unclear.

I stretched my arms up, feeling air, but then a hand grabbed hold of me.

"Bre," Thorin yelled.

Caleniel smiled as she pulled me up and carried me on her back. "Hold on, Bre. The tides will get stronger in a moment." She moved her arrows onto her side and placed me inside the barrel. She dove into the water and began to swim using the tide and pushing herself closer to the middle of our company with strong pushes against rocks. She laughed. "It's like jumping through trees but more difficult." An arrow flew past us, and she kicked me out of it's way.

We fell down another water fall, but Caleniel went under water as I stayed over the surface of the water.

"Bre!"

"Thorin!"

Thorin cut the Orc that jumped in front of him. Caleniel moved away in a half-spiral.

"Bre!" Thorin looked around.

Caleniel's head surfaced, and she spat out water. "She's right here."

I smiled at Thorin. "Got another axe?"

Thorin blocked an arrow aimed at me with his sword. "If I kill another Orc."

Caleniel swiveled to the side as an arrow hit the water next to her.

"Caleniel!" Legolas ran beside us on the mountain and shot an Orc in front of him. "Caleniel, come home! Return," he shot an Orc on the other side of the river, "and you shall recieve mercy!"

Caleniel's brows furrowed, and she swam under water. I stuck my tongue out at Legolas as Caleniel moved away from an arrow. She swam like a mermaid would on a bumpy river path. She took a big breath and swam under the water.

I glared at Legolas. "She's with us!"

"Bre, get down!" Thorin threw an axe, and I ducked. The axe perfectly pierced the neck of Orc to a tree branch.

I looked at Thorin, and he smiled as he pulled out the axe. "Dwalin!" He threw the axe to Nori, and I grabbed the axe the dead Orc dropped. 

Nori passed the axe on. "Here!"

"Thorin, you'll need this," I passed him the axe.

Thorin caught the axe.

Caleniel surfaced for air. "How many more are left?" 

"More than a handful," Thorin replied, and my eyes widened. 

He spoke to her!

Caleniel shot an orc and went underwater again to avoid an arrow.

I looked ahead and saw Orcs standing on a wooden branch. Thorin raised his axe and hacked the same thick branch. Dwalin slammed his axe into the blow Thorin delivered, and the branch broke in half, taking several Orcs down into the water. An Orc jumped at Bombur's barrel, and Bombur's axe struck the Orc, getting stuck in the Orc.

"Oh shit."

The Orc's back hit a rock, and Bombur flipped into the air in his barrel. My brows furrowed as Bombur and his barrel rolled his way through the Orcs, knocking them down. He hit a rock and flew to the other side of the river and knocked those Orcs down, rolling his way through the bumpy terain. I slowly nodded as I saw him rolling ahead, coming toward the river again, but he flew to the other side and knocked those Orcs down, bumping, bouncing, and rolling his way through them. He stopped rolling as his barrel hit the mountain side.

I looked at Thorin with a raised brow, but he just shook his head. I looked ahead, only spotting a few Orcs, and I looked back, smiling that Bombur had jumped back into a barrel. Caleniel surfaced to take a small breath, and I saw her feet moving faster to swim more rapidly.

"Caleniel!" Legolas stepped onto Dwalin's and Dori's shoulders. My eye widened as he aimed towards me.

Thorin glared back at Legolas.

"Caleniel, move!" I looked back, but Legolas fired at the Orcs ahead and on the side of the river. Caleniel surfaced and shot an Orc by Legolas. I noticed she had tied her arrows together and slid them in her belt. I realized she seemed to prepared for this.

Legolas jumped to the other side of the river and slayed the Orcs there. He then used the Dwarves behind Thorin and me to jump our way. But again he jumped to the other side. He slayed an Orc and was busy killing another as one snuck up behind him. My eyes widened, but I froze as an axe flew from behind me into the Orc's chest, saving Legolas. Legolas killed an Orc that was following us and stared at us, not even flinching to follow. Thorin stared at Legolas as we floated away from the Elf prince.

I whirled around to Thorin, and he stared at me for a moment.

"It makes us even," Thorin said. "For not aiming to kill any one of us."

I blinked, not knowing what to say, and looked at Legolas. The Elf lowered his eyes and shook his head slightly. I looked back at Thorin. "Thorin..."

"We must speak later. Right now, Orcs on our trail."