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Third Person POV
Skellige.
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"Lord Madara Uchiha..." A voice called as he was talking with the others, Zoltan, Dandelion, and Geralt, about any subject, while killing time with that place already prepared to receive its guests. Since the servants were leaving the place in a hurry as soon as they finished.
Madara looked back as soon as he heard his name and found a man with a cloak bearing the symbol of Sodden.
"And you would be?" Madara asked, as everyone turned their attention to this man.
"Marquis Nicolau Bruny, Lord Madara. I am here on behalf of Sodden, as you can see. On behalf of King Thorne directly." Said the marquis, while Madara raised an eyebrow.
"I thought Thorne would come personally after yesterday's declaration." Madara said, since this man was not among Sodden's guests.
"Yes, I came here to pass along some information and also to check things for my king. It is not very safe for a king to go so far from his kingdom, even with portals." Said the man, while Madara nodded.
"And how can I help you?" He asked.
"Well, King Thorne is already preparing to come with his family. At the same time, he will wish you good graces for your wedding and also give you something special as a wedding gift, to strengthen Sodden and Cintra. Since my king is convinced that you have retaken the kingdom of Cintra once again and will drive those damned southerners from the North." He said with anger in his voice in his last words, while Madara nodded.
"Very well. Well, I do not dislike the idea of seeing Thorne again. So whatever he wants to give me, his presence alone is already welcome." Said Madara. He did not expect much. He doubted that anything could really catch his attention as a wedding gift.
"Then I will take my leave, I will leave you. I will be going back to Sodden again with the sorcerer who brought me here, to speak with my king. Farewell, Lord Uchiha. It was a pleasure to meet you." He said, leaving them.
Some people began to enter the place after that.
"Ah, here is the groom!" Said someone, whom Madara had no idea who it was. As the person approached, he sighed, having to deal with this kind of people. This was a noble from Kovir.
With no choice, he began to listen to the man, while accompanied by the other three, answering questions here and there without revealing anything.
He was about to ask the clones scattered throughout the castle to do something, but Mousesack appeared at that moment.
"Well, you all seem to be enjoying yourselves. But I would like to speak in private with the groom. So, if you will excuse us..." Mousesack appeared in the group, while asking Madara to follow him, doing exactly that.
"You seemed to be in trouble there..." Said Mousesack.
"You can imagine..." Madara grumbled as they walked away to be alone.
He didn't really have a choice but to attend to the people in the group who ended up approaching him. Even with Geralt being quite convincing in making most of the witchers disperse with his face and his expression, Madara still had to deal with some who overcame the fear and disgust they felt for Geralt in search of making friends or gaining favor with the man who would marry the princess of Cintra — and would be the official king of Cintra.
Since having a queen was something very rare; hardly ever did a woman take the crown among the kingdoms. So, it was believed that Madara would take the crown of Cintra and be the real king.
"Thank you for getting me away from those people." Said Madara, while the old druid gave him a small smile.
"Obviously I will help you with that kind of people." He said, laughing like a grandfather. Before returning with a sidelong look at Madara.
"Well, you seem confident. It may be that the wedding will be quite prosperous." Said Mousesack, as they stopped at another view of the sea. Geralt and the other two still remained in the same place, but the nobles didn't seem to pay them much attention, and with that, they began to dissipate, talking among themselves.
"Who invited these people?" Madara couldn't help but comment, looking around the place.
"I can't say they are the most suitable people for here, but there were many that King Bran could not dismiss. His connections must still be strong." The druid commented.
"Well, so be it. This wedding is no secret to anyone anymore." Said Madara, shrugging at the end.
"Either way, you look elegant. And I will conduct the wedding. I would be honored to do such a thing." Said Moses.
"You've known us since we were children. There shouldn't be anyone better." Madara replied.
"I feel happy that you two grew up to unite, you know..." He replied, before a large crowd began to come out through the castle doors, while King Bran moved forward, along with his family and other members of the Skellige and the Legion.
"It looks like one of our lucky ones is already here." Said Bran, spotting Madara with Mousesack, as he approached.
"Well, you seem ready. Where is your future wife?" Said King Bran.
"She will only come when we start the ceremony, my king, after all no one can see the bride until then, especially her husband. And we will begin the ceremony soon." Said Mousesack.
And Madara could see from the corner of his eye, Geralt being approached by Yennefer, who pulled him inside the castle, which meant he was already going to prepare to lead Ciri to the altar. Mousesack noticed this as well.
"Well, it seems that things are about to begin. We just have to wait for everyone to arrive now." Said the druid, while the place began to fill with more and more people.
Among them, a woman appeared in an elegant dress. While some men from Skellige greeted her, already recognizing her, she spotted Madara and went to him.
"It is good to see you. You look very well." Said Eleonor, who had received a direct invitation from the couple after speaking with Madara and Ciri yesterday, after successfully eliminating Vilgefortz.
"You weren't at the banquet yesterday." Said Madara, while King Bran moved away to speak with his wife, who was scowling as always, and his son, who looked a little lost.
"I wasn't in the mood for parties." Said Eleonor. "After I had my revenge, I wanted to relax. I just wanted to have a quiet night, after all I managed to avenge my daughter just as I did with the vampire who killed my ex-husband." She said, while Madara nodded.
"I understand." He replied calmly, before more people — some even familiar — came to him.
Crach an Craite made a point of approaching, along with his children. Cerys wore a dress; she looked more feminine than she usually showed herself to be, while her brother Hjalmar didn't seem to want to keep up appearances, wearing barbarian clothing.
"Hello, Madara. I heard you got into conflicts on the island." Said Crach.
"We had to deal with some things." Madara replied calmly, while feeling Cerys's gaze on him.
"You look so elegant. I've never seen clothes like that. Damn Ciri, she snatched such a nice guy." Said Cerys, while Madara was left speechless by the frankness of that woman. Her brother, however, seemed more excited.
"I heard you fought in the Undvik arena with Ciri. They said it was the greatest fight Undvik has ever seen. They say the bards will sing about the visit of the princess of Cintra and Madara Uchiha for dozens of years.
"It was a sailor who told us about what you did in Undvik." Cerys intervened. "They speak of a young man who runs faster than the wind, walking across the island, solving all kinds of problems, killing monsters, investigating any mystery and bringing solutions. He appears without warning, takes missions from the notice boards, asks for information and disappears, when he returns, he has already solved the problem always bringing the head of a monster with him. He asks for nothing, he has spiky black hair, his eyes sometimes turn red." She said with an accusing smile.
"That's so cool! I didn't know you were such a strong guy!" Hjalmar had a totally different attitude from their first meeting, and began to speak as if Madara were amazing.
They were only talking about a clone he had left in Undvik to do the missions. It should have been active long enough for people to start spreading rumors about him.
And his clone should already be at the end of the missions. It had been more than two days... The island wasn't that big, but since there were many villages scattered around, and his performance in carrying out tasks was extremely fast, the rumors naturally grew.
Madara shrugged at the siblings' comments, while a commotion began at the entrance. King Bran went to the spot and then returned. Eleonor stood beside Madara, along with Crach and his two children. Soon Zoltan and Dandelion joined them after circulating around the place, and a herald appeared at the entrance with King Bran saying nothing.
There hadn't been any herald to announce the entrance of nobles until then, which could only mean one thing: the arrival of a king.
"I am here to announce the entrance of King Thorne of Sodden, who is here personally to witness the marriage between Lord Madara Uchiha and Princess Cirila of Cintra." Said the herald.
In the next moment, the doors opened, and a man with a crown entered holding the arm of a woman also wearing a crown, with some children and guards bearing Sodden's symbol accompanying them on the sides. Even the marquis who had spoken with Madara earlier was present behind the king, along with some nobles who had not only been at the banquet the previous night but also others whom Madara recognized from the war — high-status men of Sodden who had fought alongside the king.
Thorne spotted Madara before greeting King Bran with a friendly handshake and a public declaration, without either of the two kings kneeling before the other.
"See this. Let everyone remember that Skellige also has friends in Sodden!" Declared King Bran, while the nobles began whispering and many applauded.
Perhaps an alliance between Sodden, Cintra, and Skellige? Cintra had always had strong ties with Skellige, so people were not surprised. But Sodden would certainly draw attention, even more considering that, in recent history, Thorne's father, the late King Edrin, had attempted a coup in Cintra — which caused a war in the eastern part of the kingdom between the two realms, with Calanthe personally leading her men on the battlefield.
In the end, Sodden had lost the war. And thanks to none other than Madara Uchiha, who created the perfect strategy to counter Sodden's advance. And yet, the king of Sodden — the son of the man who died after the failed campaign against Cintra — was there, before a new royal rise among the kingdoms, which could change the political landscape of the North and perhaps even of the continent.
No one had any idea that it was Madara who had helped Thorne secure the throne, besides having saved all the Northerners against Nilfgaard at the moment he advanced alone against 150,000 Nilfgaardians.
Thorne followed King Bran, who led him to Madara, still standing in a corner with his acquaintances.
People looked cautiously at that unknown king. Other than Madara, no one there knew him so well. Perhaps Madara knew him better than the very nobles who accompanied him.
Madara saw Thorne approaching with a calm look at the king, who kept a steady yet friendly gaze upon him.
"Hello, Thorne. It has been quite some time since I last saw you." Said Madara cordially, while Thorne displayed a friendly smile.
"That's true. How have you been? It has been years, since the events on the border between Sodden and Cintra, and at the same time beneath the mountains of Sodden Hill. I heard that you were, in fact, all these years on the continent..." He spoke each word calmly, while he and Madara exchanged a look of mutual recognition.
"Yes, you are right. It has been more than 3 years since that day, and you have grown more bearded." Said Madara, while Thorne laughed.
"And you still don't have a hair on your face." Thorne replied, still laughing.
King Thorne was still young in a way. Thorne was about 7 years older. The king then turned his attention to the woman at his side and to his children.
"Well, let me introduce them. This is my wife, Monique of House Scutt of Sodden, and these are my children. This is my heir, Edric Sodden." Thorne replied, while the rest of his family stared at Madara.
On the faces of the children and the wife, there was fear, suspicion, and even curiosity. The boy who was heir to Sodden was no more than 7 years old.
Among Thorne's children, nothing escaped Madara's gaze before he turned to the woman. She was the sister of Lara Scutt, Thorne's former fiancée and the woman he loved more than anything, devastated when he learned of her death, which he later discovered had been orchestrated by his own father, the former king, seeking a better marriage.
Madara had met Lord Scutt when he began his journey in Sodden after the border war, in an attempt to overthrow the king for what he had tried to do with Cintra — and even to help Thorne take the throne.
He had initiated a series of events in Sodden for six months. In the end, the king had been killed, and his son, Thorne Sodden, assumed the throne.
Justice had been served for Lord Scutt, who personally thanked Madara before he left the kingdom.
This was never a conversation that became public — after all, Madara wanted to keep things calm in Cintra, when he still lived in the capital.
In any case, they couldn't talk much, as people began running to King Bran, whispering to him.
"Everyone, take your places, the bride is ready to appear, so Mousesack, it is with you now." He declared, and everyone began to move to the benches.
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