Author's Note:Hello Hobbit Fans! I really wanted to give you guys another chapter! Because, well...I'm sure the chapter title says it all! Welcome to Mirkwood! But is it a nice welcome? Or will it be just...chaotic? Read and find out. I welcome you to Mirkwood and there will be surprises all around! Any grammar errors that I have overlooked I do hope that you forgive me. But thank you all for the comments, follows and votes!

Disclaimer: I do not The Hobbit, all rights belong to J.R.R. Tolkien and Peter Jackson. Anything you notice from the movie or the book belongs to those wonderful men that bought Middle Earth to life!

'Italics' are the elves speaking in Sindarin.

Again forgive any grammar mistakes I have missed, I will be sure to correct them once I return! Enjoy enjoy!

(Bilbo's P.O.V)

"What good are you elf if you've led us in circles!" Thorin lashed out at Bellethiel, his voice echoing throughout the forest.

"I warned you that these were not the woods I was accustomed to, the forest has become sick, but I am still leading you to the best of my abilities, even if I am in the dark!" Bellethiel growled pushing past Thorin, walking toward one of the trees.

"Where are you going?" Thorin growled up, quickly catching up to Bellethiel and reached out to grab a hold of her wrists, forcing her to turn around.

"I am going up there to check where we are!" Bellethiel said, forcefully yanking back her arm and pointed up toward the trees. "I can figure out where we are and lead us in that direction you blasted dwarf."

Belle had reached her breaking point, I could tell. From the moment we stepped foot into this sickly forest she would tense at every sound...it didn't help her mood when she was listening to the company complain all the time about her. Even I tried to stick up for her at some point, but I was quickly shot down and yelled at for doing so.

"I have had just about enough of you dwarves for the time being. Grumbling, complaining, lashing out at me every chance you get, thinking I could not hear." I heard her grumble under her breath as she began to climb up a nearby tree, disappearing through the leaves.

"That was, uncalled for." I pipped in, earning a glare from Thorin.

"She has led us in circles!" Dori growled out, gritting his teeth.

"Belle has tried her best!" I growled out, glaring at the company. "She never to come here in the first place, but she came in because of you, and all you have been is ungrateful!"

The company began to argue among themselves as I sighed when I noticed they had suddenly stopped paying attention to me.

"We keep heading East, how could we be lost." Thorin growled out.

"But which way is East? We've lost the sun!" Bofur called out.

"How long is that elf going to be..." Dwalin grumbled.

"The sun..." I mumbled, glancing up toward the sky seeing light break through the small opening in the leaves. "We have to find the sun..."

I started to think, tuning out the loud voices from the company, tapping my forehead.

"Up there...we need to..." I stated to the company, looking up just in time to see the group had began pushing and shoving at each other, arguing even louder.

"Enough! Quiet! All of you!" Thorin yelled out, the company ceasing their shoving. "We're being watched."

"We need to find the sun." I pipped in, bringing the attention to myself. "We climb the trees, find out where we are and we can head in that direction just as Belle had said."

The company began looking expectantly at me as I looked around and sighed, knowing what they were now expecting of me.

I began to climb one of the trees with much difficulty, trying to avoid the webs spun on the branches and making my way higher up about to break through the leaves at the top of the tree.

Once I breached the top the wind hit me full on and I was able to breathe, the suffocating feeling the woods had given now gone. I sighed in relief as I saw blue butterflies flutter away past my face watching happily at the beautiful creatures, admiring the colorful scenery and began laughing gleefully.

"I...I can see a lake! And...a river!" I yelled down to the company before pushing leaves out of my view. "And the Lonely Mountain! Ha, we're almost there!"

When no one answered back, I turned to call down to them once more.

"Can you hear me? I know which way to go!" I heard the snapping of twigs and branches bellow me and looked down. "Hello?"

The snapping began to grow louder as I squinted in the distance to see something headed fast toward us.

"Hello..." I called quietly, suddenly ducking low under the leaves.

I took a step forward, my foot stuck on the branch I was on and looked down to see my foot was trapped in the sticky web that coated the branch I was on and began to fall forward.

"Oh, come on..." I said in disbelief as I fell off my branch and hit a bunch of them on my way down, falling and getting trapped in one of the webs.

My arm was caught and I tried to struggle against the thing that kept me suspended, but the more I struggled the more trapped I got.

Movement from my right caught my attention as I looked through the web to see something inching closer to me, pushing past the webs revealing many legs, many eyes, and large fangs.

'No...' I thought, irritated.

It let out a frightening howl, scaring me as I suddenly got loose and fell straight toward the ground once more, halting as I fell atop a sticky, springy substance. I desperately struggled to get free as the same monstrous spider came scuttling down toward me and began spinning me around.

I felt a sudden pain edge itself in me, things started to suddenly begin to fade into darkness, and I slowly began to lose consciousness.

(Bellethiel's P.O.V)

'Where could they have gone...' I thought, urgently looking around, looking at the drag marks on the ground. 'Something dragged them away...I have to find them quickly.'

I jumped up onto the lowest branch and began making my way up, tracking the drag marks on the ground and the disturbance of the webs in the trees, stopping just for a bit to look for any more clues.

'What will I find once I reach where I am headed...bodies? Alive? Or...cold corpses.' I thought gritting my teeth in irritation. 'I should not have left them alone. Thorin...where are you?'

Movement from my right caught my attention, and I swiftly took cover behind one of the trunks of the trees. I peaked out just a bit to catch a glimpse of fast-moving green blurs heading in the same direction I was headed. Through the blurs I could see a mixture of dark brown and red colors as well.

'It is what I feared would happen,' I thought now quietly coming out of my hiding spot and following a bit behind to keep from being noticed. 'we could not have avoided it...'

I gritted my teeth when I began to hear the yells and commotion going on up ahead, in the distance I could see the company, covered in webs fighting off and wrestling with enormous, hideous spiders.

"We're clear!" I heard Thorin yell out as I saw another spider drop down in front of them blocking their way of escape.

'Thorin!' I thought in a panic, about to jump in to intervene when their attention was averted not on the spider but from up above.

I looked up to see a blonde blur jump onto the web that was attached to the end of the one of the spiders. Swiftly, the unknown person jumped onto the spiders back, riding it down the slope, before sliding among the dead leaves beneath the spider blocking the company's path. The person took out one of his knives and sliced an opening beneath the spider and came to a sliding halt in front of the company, and in a blink of an eye, took out one of the bows held in their quiver and aimed it at Thorin.

'Elves...' I thought watching as more appeared, surrounding the company.

I quickly jumped out of my hiding spot and ran straight for the blonde elf, my weapon already drawn.

"Do not think I won't kill you dwarf. It would be my pleasure." I heard him speak.

"Drop your bow Legolas..." I stated coming to a halt behind him, my sword placed close to his neck.

Stunned by the sound of my voice, Legolas turned around quickly, shocked at seeing me standing right behind him before he looked around.

"Lower your weapons!" Legolas ordered as the other elves stared at me as well, the strings on their bow loosening their slack. "What are you doing here Bellethiel? You should not be here!"

"I..."

I was cut off when I heard someone scream with a call for help and I immediately looked in the direction it had come from.

"Kili!" Fili yelled in fear, searching for his brother.

I pushed past some of the elves that were blocking that direction, most swiftly moving out-of-the-way as I got over one of the hills and saw Kili pinned down by one of the few remaining spiders.

I reached to one of my pockets and threw one of my throwing knives, my weapon embedding itself deep into the skull of the spider.

"Up you go Kili," I said, reaching down to grab the furred collar of his coat before an arrow came flying past my head, lodging itself between the eyes of a spider that was headed straight for us.

I took out my sword and sliced away at more that was coming closer, fighting back to back with the elf that had intervened and assisted in another kill.

"Throw me your dagger!" I heard Kili call out. I looked behind me and saw another spider emerging from the dark forest in front of him and I knew I would not get there in time for I was already occupied with two that had blocked my path from the disarmed prince. "Quick!"

"If you think I am giving you a weapon, dwarf, you are mistaken!" The she-elf called as I heard a weapon slicing through the air and hitting the target, the spider screaming in pain as it fell to the ground with a loud thud...dead.

I finished off the two I was occupied with and looked toward the elf who looked vaguely familiar.

"Tauriel?" I smiled as she looked at me in shock.

"My word, what are you doing here!" She called out, stepping toward me, her eyes widening in by the second. "You should not be here captain..."

"So I have been told..." I replied as we both smiled sadly.

"It is wonderful to see you again..." Tauriel said as we both walked side by side back toward the rest of the group.

"Search them." I heard Legolas order out, as I watched the company become swarmed with elves who began patting them down, confiscating their weapons.

"You should not be here Bellethiel..." Legolas called sadly as soon as I came to stand beside him. None of the elves bothered to pat me down, most even avoided looking at me after hearing who I was.

"You can always let us go, Legolas." I stated as he reached into Gloin's coat pocket.

"You know I can't do that..." Legolas mumbled quietly.

"Give that back, that's private!" Gloin called out as Legolas took out a silver picture frame.

"Who is this...your brother?" Legolas questioned.

"That is my wife." Gloin replied angrily.

"And what is this horrid creature? A goblin mutant?" Legolas questioned, now looking at the other side of the frame.

"That's my wee lad, Gimli." Gloin replied, looking at the picture frame fondly.

"A picture frame would not cause a threat, Legolas." I stated, quickly snatching back the frame and handing it back to Gloin. "Let him keep it."

Legolas turned away from me before addressing the person behind us.

"Gyrth in yngyl bain (Are the spiders dead)?" Legolas questioned.

"Ennorner gwanod in yngyl na nyryn (Yes, but more will come)." I heard Tauriel reply, before quietly whispering to Legolas. "Engain nar (They're growing bolder)."

I watched silently as an elf handed Legolas Thorin's sword, Ocrist, as he began inspecting it.

"Echannen i vegil hen vin Gondolin. Magannen nan Gelydh (This is an ancient Elvish blade. Forged by my Kin.)." Legolas stated, seeing the glint the sword gave off. "Where did you get this?"

"It was given to me." Thorin mumbled as Legolas turned to glare at the dwarf king before pointing the tip of the sword at Thorin causing everyone, including me to tense at the sudden threat.

"Not just a thief, but a liar as well." Legolas replied.

I took a step between Thorin and the sword, pushing the blade away before I stared straight into Legolas's blue eyes.

"Would I be a liar as well, if I had told you it was the truth Legolas..." I stated, causing his jaw to clench as he quickly lowered the blade.

"Tauriel." Legolas called, beckoning Tauriel to come forth. "Search her."

"I'm sorry, Bellethiel..." Tauriel said sadly as I shook my head.

"I know the drill, Tauriel." I stated, quickly disarming myself and allowing her to see for herself if I had given her everything.

"Enwenno hain (Take them)!" Legolas called out as I walked between Legolas and Tauriel.

"Thorin, where's Bilbo?" I heard Bofur question quietly as I began to discretely looking around for the little hobbit that was not apart of the group.

"Bellethiel..." Legolas said after a couple of minutes of silence.

"A lot has changed." I stated before he could continue.

"A lot has changed." Tauriel agreed. "These spiders made their home here, began infecting these wood, and no matter how much we kill...there are always more that spawn."

"Who...who took over as the Captain of the Guards when I left?" I questioned.

"Tauriel." Legolas answered, smiling slightly.

"A good choice." I smiled looking proudly over to Tauriel. "Congratulations is in order."

"If only this was on better terms...then we would be celebrating." Tauriel mumbled sadly.

"You two look at me with such sad eyes." I stated. "There is no reason for such pity."

"I cannot protect you from my father's wrath, no matter how much I want to Bellethiel..." Legolas stated sternly.

"I do not expect you to do so, nor do I expect you to go up against your father." I stated.

"You should never have come!" Legolas growled out. "You know the punishment of returning...why?"

I turned to take a glance back at the company who seemed to be silently listening in on our quiet conversation, even if we were speaking our own tongue.

"For them? For these...dwarves!" Legolas growled out angrily, turning to stop in front of me. "Why!"

"They asked me to assist them as their guide to visit their kin in the Iron Hills." I stated.

"And you could not have just simply denied their request!" Legolas angrily gritted his teeth. "I do not know what my father would do! Did you not hear your punishment should you return?"

"I heard very well what would happen to me if I were to return!" I growled out, causing Legolas to avert his eyes from me. "And even so...I took their request because they needed my help. Through the forest of Greenwood is where they needed to go and I could not tell them otherwise."

"Could you not have gone around, Bellethiel?" Tauriel said sadly. "You could have avoided this!"

"It was a much faster path." I stated plainly.

"You taught us everything...I don't think I can watch as..." Legolas stated.

I placed a hand on his shoulder, smiling reassuringly.

"I will take whatever your father decides is my punishment. Whether it is what he threatened to do...or not. Again, I do not expect you to go against your father and speak up for me." I stated, squeezing his shoulder. "Who knows...maybe we caught your father in his better moods."

"I'm sorry, Bellethiel..." Legolas stated as he turned and began walking in the same direction we were headed.

I sighed before following the two right behind.

"What does he mean Belle?" I heard Bombur question.

"What would you do, Thorin. If someone you trusted the most betrayed you?" I questioned, not fully answering Bombur's question.

"What?" I heard Thorin question, feeling his eyes staring right at my back.

"What would you do if someone you trusted most as a King betrayed you." I questioned once more.

"They would be banished from my kingdom." Thorin answered without hesitation.

"And what would their punishment be should they return?" I questioned.

When Thorin did not answer I turned to look over my shoulder to see him staring up at me, his eyes wide at the sudden realization.

"What would my punishment be, Thorin..." I stated, waiting for him to say it out loud.

"Death..." Thorin quietly muttered, causing most of the company to stare at me in shock.

"I was afraid of coming back here...but I made a promise. It was my reason for getting upset when I had been told later where we were intended to go." I stated.

"That is Bellethiel's punishment." Legolas called back. "For returning to Greenwood...you were all basically walking her to her death, dwarves."

"Enough, Legolas." I commanded as we were coming close to the kingdom.

"Open the gates!" Legolas commanded as we got closer. "We will meet with my father..."

The guards at the front where about to open the gates until their attention was averted toward myself.

"Captain!" The two called out, completely coming to attention. Straightening their posture with their heads held high.

"I am not your captain any more." I stated, dismissing them. "At ease you two."

Legolas chuckled quietly besides me as the rest of the company and myself began to follow through the opened gates.

"Holo in ennyn (Close the gate)!" Legolas called out, hurrying to walk along side me.

"It is nice to know there are some who still remember me here as I was..." I mumbled, now walking through with my head held high.

"There are still those here who talk about you, good things I assure." Legolas mumbled.

"Those who still hold you with such high respect, even if you went against our Lord." Tauriel added in. "I have some duties to attend to, good luck Bellethiel."

I nodded to her as Legolas led us further into the kingdom, and from up ahead I could see a figure lounging in the throne room. The figure was clothed in fine silver garments and robes, sitting up top a large throne of intertwined wood and elk antlers. I could see blonde hair with a branched out crown on top his head the closer we got..

"Adar (Father)." Legolas addressed, bowing from the waist down. "We found these trespassers wondering our woods close to our realm."

The elf stood up, dropping his robe onto his throne chair before walking down the spiral steps toward us. His eyes were solely fixed upon the dwarves behind me, thinking I was just another of his guards I assumed for he avoided looking at me.

"And what business do you have, that have you trespassing through my woods so close to my realm." The Elven King addressed, his icy glare staring down at the dwarf king standing in front of the company.

He began circling the group, assessing the company before once again standing so close to Thorin.