Chapter Twelve: Decisions

(I am just going to skip ahead to the part of Azog and Thorin at the end of the first movie)

Zena and Thorin were more distant from each other, it was obvious to everyone in the Company that something happened between them, but anytime something was asked about it to one of them, they would just say that nothing happened and they were fine.

Zena stalked ahead of everyone in her Saber Form, she no longer held herself like she used to, Bilbo could see that. Thorin had become closed off more than before and would only speak to Dwalin, Balin, or Gandalf.

It was getting dark but no one felt like stopping, they all just wanted to close more distance between them and the Lonely Mountain. Zena froze in her spot and perked her ears up, she turned them in different directions before everyone saw her fur rise and her growls reached their ears.

"Zena, what do you sense?" Gandalf asked as he walked closer to her. She shifted to answer him, but a bone chilling howl ripped through the air.

"Wargs and their Orc riders." Zena said before the howls grew closer. Everyone took out their weapons and pushed Bilbo and Zena into the middle of the circle they formed, Zena growled loudly.

"I am not a child that needs protecting!" She hissed and shifted into her medium form, she jumped over them and onto an Orc and it's Warg. She killed the Orc instantly before fighting with the Warg.

Wargs and Orcs spilled from the treeline and the Dwarves and Gandalf fought them, Zena attacked more and let out yowls of anger here and there. The Wargs and Orcs pushed everyone back to a cliff, they had no choice but to climb up the trees that were there. Zena had no time to shift, she was about to claw her way up a tree when a hand grabbed her by the scruff of her neck. She yowled and swiped her paws back at whoever had her.

"Looks like we found our toy and she has yet to be tainted by the Dwarven scum." He said in Black Speech. He threw Zena down onto the ground and she shifted, she held her side at the force of the impact. The other Orcs only chuckled darkly. Azog bent down and grabbed her by her throat, he lifted her up off the ground. She gasped and clawed at his wrist and hand,

"G-Go back to the Hellhole you c-crawled out of." She hissed in Black Speech. Azog laughed,

"I see being with the Dwarven scum has made you more feisty... yet so weak." He said switching to English. She snraled and swiped her hand at his face, he held her further away from him and watched in amusement as she tried to claw at his face. Sadly his arms were longer than hers.

"Do not call them that, you are the scum and you are the weak one." She growled. Azog ignored her and turned to the tree Thorin was on,

"Oakenshield, I have your heart in my hand." Azog said darkly and squeezed Zena's neck more, her yelp was strangled as she clawed at his hand. His hand bleed from her nails scratching his skin, "Come down and face me and I will let her go. Or-" He took Zena's dagger out of her belt, "-watch as she dies slowly."

"D-Don't l-listen to him, Thorin." Zena said strangled as her vision started to blacken.

"Which is it, Oakenshield? Fight or cower and run like the weakling you are while your heart dies." Azog taunted as he ran the tip of the blade down Zena's side.

(I need a little help here, what should Thorin's next move be or what should Azog's next word/move be?)

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