For want of an arrow...

These two scenes follow the one I posted two weeks back, a continuation of the divergent events that open this AU. (That is, Legolas puts a couple of arrows into Bolg that in the canon storyline went into orcs attacking Thorin, and left his post to aid Tauriel a minute or two earlier.)

As is typical with UFFs, this hasn't been beta's yet, so C&C on both plot & grammar would be accepted with good grace.

( To be fair, it hadn't been a full hundred goblins attacking; the real number was closer to fifty or sixty. Dwalin remembers thinking that if it was fifty or sixty <i>orcs,</i> with only Thorin at his side, he would have been concerned – worried, even – but that mercenaries of such a pitiful caliber could be taken out by a single blow from his axe. He'd been amused at the time. )

I'm pretty sure that in the extended edition of Five Armies we're going to to see cut scenes of Dwalin fighting Azog and disarming him of that mace before being thrown over the side of Ravenhill. It would explain why Azog didn't have the mace and had to use a scavenged weapon during his fight with Thorin, and why we didn't see Dwalin anywhere during that fight or after Bilbo woke up: Dwalin was climbing back up the side of the mountain during Thorin and Azog's face-off. The above scenes paraphrase THAT theory of events.

I'm considering this one six days late instead of one day early, as I hope to have something else to post tomorrow.

World: Naruto.
This are scenes from one possible future in my LNU universe. Maybe it will happen there, maybe it won't, but it happens somewhere. I'm nick-naming the sequence "Ourobourous." Gaps in the order of events to be filled later.
Warning: character death, and generally being pretty f&*%ing depressing.
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...for the last month and a half.

Typical disclaimer of both a) not owning the copyrighted characters and material and b) these being in-progress works.

"And one on the Wind," the story I was posting as a serial in my first few UFF posts, now with a few extra pages tacked on.

Also, Part One and a chunk of Part Two for an earlier story, Breccia. Breccia is a tale set in the past, told in journal form, the wraparound being Sakura reading it in year 16 during my story "The Jagged Edges," and is focal on an original character. If you feel like submitting yourself to that.