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Thrid Person POV
Westeros, 296 AC.
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The men of the Night's Watch had been quite restless i days, as Lord ander Mormont received reports from the south, with a number of men ing north to search for Artica.
He didn't know what to think as the king demanded men from the order to apany the troops going beyond the wall, which was a bad thing, but he also couldn't say it was bad, after all, with the troops, new prisoo ehe order with food and resources ing from the great houses to help the wall.
'Although it is something unique, after all, they finally called for the Night's Watch...' ander Mormont could not help but ent internally, since he never received much help from the south, while only the northern houses did that.
But things were not very lively among his men, with everyone knowing that there is a fleet of 200 ships beyond the wall with an army capable of devastating one of the main cities of the seven kingdoms aroying many more ships than the ironborn could destroy in their rebellion, putting the seven kingdoms in a difficult position.
Jeor Mormont khat these more than 10,000 men starting to be brought to the north were men fated to die and he had no choice but to send sers to share their same fate. He could not stop thinking that these men serving the watch was a much better option.
And they at this moment, after all the wildlings were getting desperate to e south... Mormont did not know why, but it did not seem that Ned's son was the reason for those men's fear.
He tried to find Artica many times with requests to try to find Arya since she left and as he also felt responsible for the girl passing through the wall under his nose, he sent some men, but the wildlings never let them go far beyond the initial region, which made them never find this mysterious pce, many believe it does , but Jon Artica did not pull all that out of nowhere... he has an army, ships, resources impossible to get in these wild nds and he is sure that more and more wildlings are joining him.
Jeor did not fail to look out the window as he saw his men having cautious gnces as he was going to patrol, while a group ehe elevator to go up from the wall.
They went up until they finally arrived with some men already on standby looking at nothing, while they wondered if it would be another b day freezing their balls on this frozen wall. The first rays of sun began to appear, while a cloud was on the wall, but there was still a view from the bottom with everything calm without any movement even from the animals.
"Hey, Jif." A man from the patrol called one of the new men ing up. "You have a worried face, are you afraid of entering the army of giants ing to knock down the wall today?" He mocked.
"Shut up, idiot..." Jif muttered. "They 't knock down the wall." The man spoke despite not sounding so fident in his tone.
"Don't worry, Jif. The south is sending 100,000 men, from what I've heard. They're going to destroy the wildlings." This man showed his teeth as he ughed, with some of them missing.
"You say that because you didn't see the Artis who came here a few years ago. You would shit yourself with fear if that were the case." Jif spoke cautiously.
"I've been here only 2 years... so I haven't seen, but I've heard good things, some guys said they are thinking of running away, because now the wildlings live a much better life than the nobles below the wall, believe it? I wouldn't mind sleeping in a warm bed fug a wildling every day." He spoke.
"You talk of betrayal, have you fotten our vows?!" Jif mocked.
"Fuck our vows, Jif. You o..." He was going to tinue, but was interrupted.
"SHUT UP!!!" Jif excimed urgently.
"Hm? What now..." The man did not stop mog even more.
"JUST BE QUIET...." Jif growled. "Aren't you listening?!" He spoke making the man about to curse, look quiet while trying to use his ears for whatever Jif was listening to.
So they began to hear a sound of wiing, w where it came from, with a low cloud over the wall that m obstrug their view.
"What is that? A giant bird or something?" The man murmured skeptically, looking up.
"We 't see with this cloud..." Jif murmured as the sound grew louder than ever.
"Is it here?!" The man excimed, scared as he felt something pass over them, and it was immense, seeing a shadow passing by.
Eragon passed close to the wall quickly while heading south, hiding in the middle of the cloud there. As he ehe preseory, he began to gain altitude, as the clouds began to lessen, and he rose in the air to not attrauch attention, flying just 200 meters from the ground, ging that altitude to 10,000 feet from the ground.
Jon followed with a firm gaze, beginning to pass by Last Hearth, the house of the Umbers, as it appeared just a small structure in the middle of that nd, with a town ected to the castle.
Further south, Eragon passed over the ke in the middle of the north, tinuing towards the heart of the North. Jon mounted on his back, had no other desire but to head for Winterfell, whio longer seemed so far away, with the castle beginning to appear as a small dot on the horizon with Wiown.
That m, ook the only time in his day where he could be more at ease, as he went to the main hall of Winterfell to eat with his family, while his children all ate quietly, his wife also not talking much at this moment. He looked at her for a moment, as both no longer even seemed to feel the love they had for each other, while Catelyn turned her face as she y in bed as far from Ned as possible without wanting his touch, after their endless fights every day.
Everything seemed calm as he prepared for another day, but he k would not remain calm, due to all the anization from the south sending thousands of soldiers to the north, with him having to keep in touch with the Night's Watd the noble houses.
Ned also had to answer his friend and his foster father because he refused to send soldiers beyond the wall. And even with the dissatisfa of Robert and Jon Arryn, Ned refused to send forces to hunt his sons. He stayed in the sor until mid-m, while his door suddenly opened.
"Lord Stark..." Jory Cassel opehe door at this moment as Ned set his scroll aside.
"Yes?" He asked.
"There's been an occurren the courtyard... Ser Rodrik said your sons are fighting..." He said, and Ned raised an eyebrow before beginning to rise to see what was happening.
He went out with his guard and headed straight to the courtyard, arriving there, while seeing Ser Rodrik speaking with Theon and Rob, with a quite severe tone, as Bran held his arm that seemed injured, while he saw his daughter Sansa looking distant with her friends.
"What is happening here?" He quickly demanded as he approached.
"Just a bit hotter battle than usual... Lord Stark." Theon said as he seemed a bit cautious.
But Bran excimed at that moment angrily. "You were provoking me by speaking ill of Jon!" He said as he returo his father with a somewhat lost look. "He just keeps talking bad about Jon, says Jon is a bastard criminal and cruel, provoking me all the time. Rob might aetimes, but doesn't seem to care most of the time." Ned heard his son speak.
He raised an eyebrow, sing his gaze from his son to Theon. "Is that true?" He looked at the children, as Theon lowered his head in shame, but Rob seemed quite stubborn.
"Isn't it true?" He questioned Ned.
"Is that what you think?" Ned asked, a bit surprised.
"Didn't he attack a city in the south and kill unarmed Septons, Maesters? Didn't he destroy thousands of ships with thousands of lives beiroyed?" Rob openly questioned his father.
"You may think so, but I don't believe Jon did it by ce, after all, he had peaceful dealings with Dorne and the Reach before initiating the attack. So things may not be exactly as we hear from the south," Ned spoke.
But Rob didn't seem vi all, so he just sighed. "I want you to go to css with Maester Luwin, you also o have that injury looked at, uand?" He said at the end, as the three began to walk towards the castle.
Ser Rodrik, seeing this, looked to his lord, alongside his nephew, Jory. "There's a lot of jealousy and anger among the children."
"I know, but Rob has to learn that he 't be like Jon. I uand the envy Rob harbors for Jon, after all, Jon at the same age is known throughout the kingdom, but he should at least be grateful, after all, Jon won't do anything his mother said, Jon has his own kingdom and doesn't want Winterfell... He even helped this house the st time he was here..." Ned spoke.
"But Rob tio fear John, Theon always tells him that Jon will take Winterfell iure and he won't be able to do anything about it..." Ser Rodrik spoke while Ned frow this.
"I'll have a serious talk with Theon then and ask why his i in undermining the retionship of my sons," Ned spoke in a serious tone.
Ned was ready to return to the castle after that, along with his guard as he bid farewell to Rodrik. However, he heard a strong sound ing and everyone immediately looked back, above the castle.
However, what no one expected was a snow explosion emerging at that moment, Ned quickly opened his eyes while he swore he saw a giant creature flying, bringing that storm that caught them the sed c all visibility of the m.
Immediately, screams were heard all over the pce with the snow beginning to expand, as the Sun was obscured by that strange phenomenon c Winterfell.
"What is this?" Ser Rodrik excimed in fear.
"Where did this e from?!" Jory o Ned excimed as the guards training iraining yard began to run by their side to anywhere with the iion of proteg themselves, while shouting w what was happening there.
Ned quickly with his hands proteg his fad seeing the situation, excimed. "Take everyoo a safe pce, a snowstorm has hit us! Find a safe ptil it passes and light any fire to warm up!!!" He gave his orders, despite not uanding where it was ing from.
Snowstorms were quite rare in the middle of summer, but that wasn't evera part, as nothing indicated something like this ing, while the m only appeared with a few clouds in the sky.
People all over the castle began to get scared at this moment, while the more fortunate, were ihe castle, like most of the servants, with Ned's children there, as Sansa quickly entered with her friends, he entrance, and Catelyn was trapped ihe Sept looking scared at the windows of the temple along with the Septa.
"For the Seven, what is this?!" Catelyn excimed in fear, never having seen something like this since she came to Winterfell.
"Quick, we o pray!" Septa Mordane immediately excimed.
"But my children!!" She excimed.
"They'll be fine... just pray!" The septa insisted and Cat did exactly that.
People ran all over the pce, taking shelter anywhere, with shadows running bad forth within all that snow, hitting their faces and many starting to feel the enormous cold, due to not being prepared for something like this, and the snow piled up on the ground c any nd there.
Meanwhile, the people of Wiown, were outside of it iown, but they all looked scared, seeing the entire castle suddenly envelop in a white snow hurrie around it, spinning at high speed, w what was happening there, eveioning if the old gods were enraged with the Starks.
As Ned ran and began to ehe castle, he suddenly felt something nd in the middle of the courtyard, with everything shaking a bit. "What was that?!" He murmured o Jory looking back, but without visibility due to the strong wind and the snow accumuting all over the pce.
Jory raised his sword, looking fearfully at the snow as he trembled. "Jo inside, you could die of hypothermia!" Ned excimed, noting the man was beginning to turn blue, as he wasn't wearing warm clothes.
Jory, somewhat relut, eventually obeyed after a stern look from Ned. Ned, aced to wearing a cloak even in the middle of summer, mao withstand the icy wier along with his Stark blood.
He saw people running bad forth, returning inside, shouting almost inprehensible things due to the sound of the event. Then, in the midst of the darkness as he approached the sound ing from the middle of the courtyard, he saw someone walking, someone he reized the moment he saw him, staring dazedly. "Jon...?" Ned murmured, seeing his nephew walking calmly through that chaos as if he were a ghost.
Ned immediately gave up on the courtyard and began to run after him, w if it was some kind of illusion.
Jon had only ohing on his mind since he had found out who his real mother was. He quickly created a storm explosion as he approached the castle, while Eragon began to glow. His dragoed a snowstorm much more powerful than the one he had made at the great Weirwood, quickly c the entire castle, making the whole pce darken into shadow and ice. Then, without a sed thought after flying over the area a bit and nding in the courtyard, he dismounted fron a straight to the Crypts with a desire to see his mother as she truly was and not as an aunt who died unjustly.
He quickly ehe crypt as if all the sound and chaos outside had disappeared, giving way to the sinister silence he still remembered having wheering this pce.
It didn't take him long to find her, after all, the old geion of Starks had been buried on the first floor, as he walked up to her statue, Lyanna Stark.
Jon stopped and looked at it for a few moments and couldn't help but feel tears ing out of his eyes at this moment as he stared at the statue, w if it really was molded to be, with her emerald eyes looking at him hypnotically.
He stared at her, remembering the horrible days here in this castle, the days when he cried like a lost child, seeking the warmth of his unknown mother, but only hunger and cold were the answer almost every day.
"You were here all along and I never greeted you, mother," he murmured with a voice den with sadness. "It's so good to see you and reize you now..." He began as tears fell like a waterfall, once he had told his then father that he no longer wao know who his mother was, that he had given up, but knowing, being in front of her grave, he couldn't help but have his feelings overflowing. "...I wish you were here, to see what I've bee, what I've built beyond the Wall. I wonder if you would be proud of me..." Jon murmured, as tears streamed from his eyes and filled a small puddle at his feet.
He heard footsteps ing at this moment, and the sadness quickly turo anger, knowing his uncle was following him, one of the st people he wao see at this moment, interrupting his only and first moment he had with his true mother.
Ned desded the stairs of the crypt and saw Jon in the distah a tor his hand; he seemed quite scared of everything here, w what was happening and if it really was Jon there and how he ended up here in the midst of this chaos. There were so many questions in his mind, but seeing him in front of Lyanna's statue as he saw some tears falling made him even more cautious.
"You always avoided talking much about her," Jon began, while Ned furrowed his brow just a few meters from him. "I never found that strange. I thought it was a wound from your past, after all, no one would like to talk about a sister who died after such a tragid."
Ned looked carefully, but couldn't utter a word as his son tinued.
"But now I uand what you were trying to hide, hide that my life was a lie as far back as I remember, that my mother, whom you always deelling me about, was buried here all along, wasn't she, Uned?" Jon said, expressing his anger even as he spoke slowly.
"How did you find out?" Ned was staggered at this moment, trying to prehend how Jon had discovered such a thing, a secret he inteo take to his grave. He didn't even bother to deny it upon hearing all this from Jon.
"When I attacked the Citadel, I looted many books, and among them was the personal diary of the Septon who died in the sack of King's Landing. He wrote that he had anhe marriage of Elia of House Martell with Rhaegar Targaryen and after that, he married the prio Lyanna of House Stark, naming her Lyanna Targaryen, future queen of the Realm," Jon said, as hinking he could not be more shocked, looked at Jon with his mouth and eyes slightly open.
Jon saw no response from his uncle and tinued. "Funny, isn't it? I always had some suspi, but never really iigated, always avoided that possibility..." Jon knew he had something to do with the Targaryens when he had a kind of bond with those he entered on his path.
"When I discovered this, my first thought was that I am a Targaryen bastard, but in fact, I am a legitimate son and eveo the Iron Throne as my birthright... Funny that, isn't it, Eddard Stark?" Jon spoke, not even looking at his uncle behind him. "I wonder what name she gave me, the diary said that Rhaegar wanted me to be Visenya if I were born a woman... but my mother was uain about many names..." He said in a calm tone, but still overflowing with anger.
"Aegon," Ned spoke suddenly for the first time, as Jon just listened. "Aegon Targaryen... she named you that, although she didn't know you were a legitimate son..." Ned had to admit, there was no more hiding it.
"Aegon Targaryen..." Jon murmured, but still with his gaze fixed on his mn his uncle.
"Jon..." arted to approach him and, as soon as he touched his shoulder, Jon quickly turned around, grabbing his hand tightly causing Ned pain and before he could react, his neck was gripped by Jon's other hand and started to be pulled back.
"Don't touch me, you bastard!" Jon immediately growled, walking with his hand on his uncle's o the other side of the wall, strangling him strongly. Being able to easily lift him with his strength, Jon tio look at Ned with almost hatred. "You lied to me all my life. I was o a life of ostracism by your wife and everyone in this castle, thanks to your lie. And even if you wao hide me, you could have pced me in another house, but you kept me here even knowing what I went through within these walls." Jon growled as ruggled to breathe, looking fearfully at Jon.
"If I did that, it was to protect you," Ned spoke with difficulty, as Jon looked at him mogly.
"No, you didn't. You did it on purpose to see me suffer. You knew very well many things that happeo me. You did exactly what you expected would happen: Maybe it's out of anger for my parents, I don't know. But you took pleasure in seeing me, a child, suffer, Lord Stark?" Jon growled with a rage he had never felt before, much less for the mahought was his father.
"That's not true, I never wanted any harm for you... I always wao protect you..." Ned spoke with difficulty, trying to deny it, while Jon was hanging by a thread from exploding that man's head while he released the hand he had caught earlier and puhe wall o Ned's head, causing the stoo immediately crack, with the man being even more frightened by the strength of his nephew.
"You seem not to uand what happened in this pce, but let me refresh your memory, Uned." Jon began, as he had straio divert that punch to not hit his uncle's head.
"I ersecuted by your wife the eime. She turned all the staff in this house against me. I had the worst room, the worst food, the worst clothing, I lived worse than the servants. And you seem like a fool who didn't even know about it, or, as I said, you seemed to take pleasure in seeing me in that state..." Jon growled.
"Then your beloved wife started to get even worse, seemingly not satisfied with just making a child suffer, she began to bme me. Everything your son, the heir, did wrong with that fish, I was your scapegoat... The st mess that my name circuted in this castle, was about her acg me of that theft that forced me to fess that I was, while your son and that squid had dohe entire crime, your damn wife was even threatening to y hand. And believe me, Lord Stark, I rethink it every day in Artica, about ten times before deg, to send tens of thousands of Arti soldiers to march to this castle and turn it into ruins to hunt down all those who spired against me. And now I must think a thousand times before doing that, disc that not even your cruelties are justifiable." He spoke each wrowling like a true dragon, making Ned even start to lose the color of his skin, with his sciousness beginning to fade.
He looked at his nephew, not knowing what to say to that, but was finally released as Jon simply grabbed him and threw him to the side, making him fall several meters, rolling across the crypt floor. Jon looked o time at the statue of his mother. "Sorry you had to see this," he murmured. "But your brother made me live through all this,"
After that, he started to leave through the crypt stairs, leaving his uncle behind before he did something foolish. Ned, still all bruised and coughing with ck of air, saw Jon leaving and quickly started to get up. "Wait, Jon!" he shouted as he followed dowairs.
He quickly left the crypt, still with the snowstorm c all of Winterfell, and quickly tried to look for his nephew amid that chaos. Until he saw his shadow moving towards the courtyard while disappearing and started to run after him. "Wait, Jon, talk to me!" He pleaded desperately, trying to have a ce to speak after hearing all that.
However, as they approached where Jon was, two blue eyes began to emerge from the middle of the snow, as they began to rise, f the figure of a huge head, but without Ned saying what that thing was.
This immediately made op walking as his feet hit the accumuted snow on the ground, making him falter backward instead of tinuing to follow. The blue eyes in the middle of that snow seemed to stare at him furiously, making Ned ask, what is that.
The eyes were at least 20 meters off the ground, staring at Ned, until suddenly they moved a little forward instantly and a huge roar emerged from the snow, making it all advaowards Ned, who excimed in fright, falling backward as the entire sound of the roar made all of Winterfell tremble, and desperate screams being heard on all sides in fear of that sound.
"What was that?" Even the people of Wiown, outside that snow hurrie, looked frighte the sound of a monster emerging there in the midst of the white hurrie.
Ned fell to the ground while looking scared, seeing two huge shadows, like wings, rising before l, with a huge creature beginning to fly into the sky, only seeing its shadow, but keeping his gaze mesmerized at that, while the storm finally began to calm down.
Ned did not know how loayed there, still, looking at where the creature had left, but finally, the Sun began to rise again and the people of Winterfell began to e out of their hideouts, looking at all the snow accumuted around the castle, until some guards saw their lord there, frozen on the ground, looking up, as they approached to help him trying to talk to him, but Ned did not hear anyone, having his own thoughts about what he had just seen.
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