Chapter 5: Birth of Dragons
From the bay outside Kingslanding the people can see the changes to the Red Keep, the once lightly colored has been replaced with that of a darker stone, the structure larger than it once was, with a new design not quite valyrian as it's missing the fabled petruding points, and shocking to all was the expansion into the sea. Behind what used to be the castle was an extension of the throne room, far grander in size, and further still was a large platform ornately decorated as if it was meant for large gatherings. Underneath such a large platform is what shocked most, a grandly engraved set of pillars, each with a different design, and signifying each great house, and what shocked all was 1 signifying the Targeryens.
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It's been a few weeks since that day, Varys had informed him Illyrio's eggs were being transported from Pentos, and should have only taken a few weeks. Good news was he was right, bad news Illyrio over delivered, and now he's got 2 silver headed dragons on his hands.
"Right this way my lord. There it is, 'The Blonde Lady'." Varys spoke as he spotted and pointed to the large cargo ship coming to port, with the wave of a silver flag the ship steered to the port he was on, but then he saw it. 2 hooded people, Arthur wanted to swear, and he did.
"I'm going to fucking kill Illyrio!" Arthur growled catching Varys off guard until he noticed it too, and suddenly it clicked. "What the fuck?"
As the ship docked Arthur stepped aboard with Lucerous and Varys by his side, his smile twitching in anger yet the idea of giving Viserys a golden crown made his smile genuine, and then he called out. Lucerous' platoon had filled the dock.
"Where are they? Both the eggs and the people." His words echoed across the deck, sadly he heard it, and he nearly killed the man out of anger just from the voice.
Viserys practically screamed when the crew grabbed the box of dragon eggs, they were his, he found them... on the ship, he was surtain they were his, and he wouldn't surrender them to anyone not even Daenerys. He was the dragon afterall.
"Those aren't yours, their mine, and no one opposes the Dragon and lives." His voice high pitched like a little girl, filled with false bravado, and showing his stupidity.
"Quiet! Another word out of you and I'll slit your throat... better yet I'll just gift you to my torturer, I bet he'd love to have some fun with a 'Dragon'." Arthur shouted, his anger boiling over with just a few words.
*sigh* "Now? The eggs first." He said calming himself, showing his ability to reign in his emotions. As the eggs were presented he smiled, a black, green, and a bronze petrified dragon eggs. "Good, the ones in Braavos can wait, Varys, where are we on the Hightower eggs?" He asked his emotional state improved remarkably.
"They'll arrive within the day, the Hidden Ones are handling the transport." Varys replied which caused an even brighter smile to cross Arthur's face. "Alright, now Daenerys? Please step forward." Arthur called out.
"No, you will bow to your rightful King, the princess does not meat with mere merchants, and spend thri-" as Viserys began his 'I am the King' speech Arthur walked up, and punched him in the face so hard Viserys hit the ground like a sack of potatoes even losing a few teeth.
"I... said... quiet... you're only alive right now because of your sister, and the fact that you're alive after all you've done to her is a miracle on my part." Arthur spoke as Viserys hit the deck. Then the sound of light steps walked calmly across the deck, Arthur looked up and over, and his gaze brightened.
She was a young spitting image of the original actress, her hair soft and flowing, a shy blush across her face from meeting a man without having bathed first.
"You need not worry princess. To address myself, I am Prince Arthur Baratheon, sone of King Robert Baratheon, and I intend to make you an offer." Arthur spoke while giving a deep bow as he introduced himself to the girl.
"The userper's bastard dares touch me? I'll ha-" once again Viserys begins his tirade of psychosis only to be kicked in his face, getting pressed into the deck by Lucerous' boot, and finding himself knocked out.
"Daenerys, I will restrain myself as best I can, but if your brother continues to insult me I really will give him to the castles torturer." Arthur spoke his expression visually drowning his anger, and yet his gaze magically stayed kind as he continued to look upon the girl.
Surprisingly she didn't ask for Lucerous to release him first, rather she broke out in a giggle, a mix of pain and actual entertainment combining to enchant Arthur, and in return he laughed with her. Despite remembering all the knowledge, music, and fiction from his last life, aside from emotional instinct leading him to act older, all memory of the person he was in his last life were wiped, and all that remains is the memory of a name and the feeling of lonliness that consumed him.
It's that feeling of lonliness and the emotions connected to characters he watched that led to his desire to build a harem, to surround himself with women he believed would truly care for him in a way that mattered, and just as he suspected. Even without love yet, he already felt that feeling fade more, and it only reassured him to marry this bright girl.
"Okay, please enough, can you ask your guard to release him?" Daenerys said her smile genuine as she meats the first person to knock her brother down, while she does love her brother, his treatment of her, and the insults he hurls have made her dislike his personality.
"Lucerous. Would you like to bathe first or hear my proposal?" Arthur asks his smile still there, as he gestures her towards the dock, and says "Lucerous have the men bring the box... and the lizard there." Finishing as he starts to lead Daenerys off the ship only to be stopped.
"Lord, there's another for you." Varys says as he sees a boy only a year older than Arthur, the kid wears a grin, as his silver hair sways in the wind, and he watches on with his purple eyes. The boy stands and slowly walks towards Arthur, just a few meters away he smiles so wide his eyes close before speaking arrogantly, "What a show, I'm Aegon, Aegon Targaryen the tru-"
As soon as Arthur saw him he knew what he was looking at, his smile turned lethal and he walked towards him, but just as the kid smiled Arthur summoned a valyrian steel sword from thin air. Approaching Aegon swiftly as he spoke, "Filthy Blackfyre daring to take the name of a dead baby," he thrust in a single motion piercing through the kids skull, "Varys is the only Blackfyre I like so fuck right off.", he finishes before pulling the blade out in an upward motion that splits Aegon's skull open, and turns to Varys. "If you have anymore schemes like that 1, trim the branches, because if I learn of it first you'll cease to be the only Blackfyre I like."
As he stores the sword away he returns to a frightened Daenerys' side, escorting her off the ship, but Varys stands in place trying to remember every plot he put into place to see if he forgot any. "Well, looks like I've gotta kill a few unlucky people." He sighed to himself.
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In a wooden castle far to the north a burly man is shocked beyond his imagination, people arriving as if he'd been assigned 'Warden of the North', he'd read the messages, but this was more than he'd expected. This man? Is Ser Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.
A month earlier Arthur had sent troops and builders to begin improving the fortifications at the wall, the Castle Black was far from ready to receive the number of people that it would soon accept, but it could be with the help of Arthur's builders.
Mormont was slightly shocked when he first read the letters, thinking it was a joke at first, but slowly as he received news about the new enlistments he began to realize. The kingdom had not abandoned them, nor were they to lose more funding, and the best news was his ranks would fill once more.
As he stood there blankly still unbelieving, the builders got to work, expanding the wall outward, at the same time they also started tearing down the old wall, and it shocked the other Night's Watch. Then came the guards by the builder's sides, they marched forward their own carts continuing inside the old castle, and then a man stepped forward.
Mormont was shocked once more, as a man younger than his son stood at the front of a troop, his armor gleaming with a crystalline design, but Mormont could feel the power beneath the mans stance.
"I am Fredrick Crain, Knight of the Rounds, I hereby release into your custody, the new rations and equipment of the Night's Watch." The man spoke causing the carts to stop, men opening the backs to reveal bundles of preserved foods, not just salted fish or jerky, but insulated barrels of fruits and vegetables. As well as drinking water and even a few barrels of spiced wine. Then came the carts filled with fine steel swords, fresh armor, and warmer black fur and leather coats.
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Hours passed before Arthur saw Daenerys again, this time in a section of the reconstructed castle, they had agreed to meet after she was allowed to bathe, but while she was given a guest room Viserys found himself in a cell. Not being tortured or mistreated, just being kept where he couldn't bud in, but Arthur gave her his word she could visit him whenever.
They walked through the halls even those still under construction, showing her the 'Dragon Platform' behind the throne room, where she was shocked by the scale and intricate design of small pillars at the edges, but what really shacked her was the tunnel leading to the dragon pits.
As they arrived Daenerys was shocked at the changes, she had heard stories from Viserys so she knew they had been altered, the design now strickly Valyrian, but what shocked her more was at the end of their walk into the depths.
40 men stood bound, gagged and blindfolded, and placed on a pire. These were the criminals that refused to take the black whose crimes included rape, murder, and most unforgivable to Arthur whose victims were children. Arthur was adamant about establishing his new law, where anyone who murdered or raped a child would be put to death, and it would be a painful death.
"What is this Arthur?" Daenerys asked shock in her voice.
"These are rapists and murders, they refused to take the black, and honestly I wouldn't allow them to even if they now wished. The Night's Watch has already been reinforced with rations and equipment, even their castles will be reconstructed, and these scum don't deserve such a good life." Arthur replied disdain for the men obvious.
"Ok? But why are they here?" She asked again beginning to fear Arthur might be as mad as her father was rumored to be.
"They'll burn and be of use in their last moments... Varys place the eggs in the center... Daen- May I call you Dany?" He suddenly asked after saying such words.
Reluctant now as she found her fears manifesting before her she replied stiffly "Sure."
Hahaha "Don't fear Dany, I'm not mad, but I can see the resemblance. The difference between genius and madness are but an intention apart. What I'm about to do will change Westeros and even Essos." Arthur spoke before walking forward.
He summoned a blade from thin air before everyone, yet only shocking Varys and Dany, he cut his palm dripping his blood on the eggs, and then with the use of his power given by the Lord of Light. He set the pire ablaze, the fire engulfed him in an instant, the cries and screams of grown men echoed out of the flames, but not once did the sound of the 9-year-old boy screaming reach their ears.
The flame blazed for nearly 5 minutes, the screams had died, Varys and Dany were shell shocked wondering why Arthur committed suicide in such a way, but then they saw it. Shadows moving behind the flames, then a figure walked forward stepping out of the flames, still in his unusual outfit, yet the leather had no damage, but then they saw a change in the figure. What was once pitch black hair was now a dazzling platinum-silver, his eyes now a mystical burning green that seemed to flicker like flames, and the greatest shock was the figures of 6 baby dragons perched on him.
While Arthur was within the flames, as soon as the first egg hatched, he received another mental message, and he found himself shocked. *You have been blessed by Melregard the Draconic God. Receiving an awakening to your dormant draconic blood, giving improved strength, improved fire & blood magic, controlled Dragon Dreams, and an evolution to your heart causing it to generate mana endlessly just like a dragon.*
After a few minutes of intigrating this new blessing, he awoke to find all 6 dragons latched onto him, their burning gazes fixed curiously on him, and in return a connection was formed. Though it stronger than Daenerys' in the books, it wasn't enough for Arthur, and he used his Beast Monarch power establishing a true connection. Able to communicate through thought and at any distance.
"I give you the birth of dragons." Arthur spoke as he was stared at by the 2, Varys had known of Arthur's ambitions to bring dragons back but he had no idea how he would achieve it, and as for Dany? She just got here, the same day she arrived in Westeros, dragons were reborn, and she couldn't help but look at Arthur as if he were a god.
"Congratulations my Lord, it seems the world may just bow to dragons once more." Varys spoke his face filled with shock for the first time in over a decade, he looked upon the future King feeling the realm would be stable for centuries to come, but what scared him was his Targeryen blood yearning to possess a dragon of his own.
Daenerys on the other had didn't hesitate, approaching with cautious steps, before asking if she could pet them. "Go ahead, while I may be the Father of Dragons, you will be the mother." He said softly to the girl only slightly older than himself.
She didn't wait a second after getting permission, stroking the head of 1 of the largest ones, which just so happened to be Drogon in another life, and then to her shock it climbed into her arms. She looked at Arthur to find a smile on his face as though he had just gifted it to her.
"This will be Rhaegal named after your brother, he is yours now." Arthur said as he used his abilities to open a connection between the 2, the usefulness of his new magic already coming into play, and he watched as they felt a powerful connection form allowing mental communication between them.
Arthur placed the other 5 on the ground as he gave each a full gaze, Rhaegal being the 3rd largest of them is black with hints of red, the largest is a female her scales white with hints of gold streaking along her sides like rivers, he decides to name her Venus causing a happy chirp to come from her. The second largest is a male, his scales a deep dark blue yet his eyes shines with a near cyan glow, the look unlike any other dragon, yet Arthur could see it in his eyes this dragon would thrive on war, and thus he named him Mars. Once again a happy chirp sounded.
Then came the 4th, a female only slightly smaller than Rhaegal, her scales red as wine, her eyes a bright glowing red with the look of a predator, it could be seen she would likely grow larger than even Mars in the future, thus he named her Diana, and received another happy chirp. Then came the 5th, a green dragon that once would have been Daenerys', his eyes that of an ordinary dragon but still fierce, and he named him Leshy but he only received an exceptant chirp. Then came the last dragon, smaller than the rest with bronze scales nearly matching it's eyes, Arthur nearly felt stumped on a name, his desire to name each dragon after a god from his old world nearly faltered when he remembered, Talos and in return he got a slighly happy chirp from the little bronze beast.
"So Daenerys, what do you think of my offer? Will you be my Queen?" Arthur asked his voice and gaze confident.
Daenerys took a while to respond as she weighed her options and thoughts, her mind racing with worries and flustering imagination, but ultimately she replied "Yes, I will be your Queen." Her final thought was of how he had given her the dragon before even asking the question, and it warmed her heart tipping the scale ever more towards yes.
"Great, now what do you say we feed these dragons? He asked with a playful smile on his face.
Arthur then began spawning cows before the little dragons, using his fire magic he burned them, and offered them to the dragons that swiftly began swarming the corpses. Then in a moment of brilliance using a modpack, Arthur began spawning Elephants, and repeated the previous prossess. Yet while the dragons ate he did not neglect Dany, setting up a picnic blanket, and summoning food feom his creative menu.
The array of fresh dishes made her mouth salivate, new flavors she'd never experienced bringing a delightful smile to the girl, and in return Arthur was happy. It was his desire to make the most of this day, as he would be lost entertaining the Starks when they arrive tomorrow, but for now he only wished to focus on Dany.
They spent the rest of the day eating, chatting, and playing with the dragons. Varys watched on and for the first time in over a year remembered that Arthur was just a kid, and he surprised himself with a smile as he saw that part of the future king.
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Author's Note: Please do let me know your thoughts, I'm new to this and could use help in making sure my writing improves, and all I ask is decent or at least constructive reviews so I can improve.
Expect slower updating to 2 or 3 chapters a week as this is a work in progress story.