Chapter 9: 09
The visit to the North did not end well for the crown, Robert's behavior in the end was not very well received by the North, and this time Jon Arryn and Tywin Lannister could not help him. The customs of each kingdom had to be respected; not even the king could do or say something even if he did not like those customs; the Starks were caretakers of the North, which meant that they were in charge of imposing justice on people who abandoned their guard. A man had abandoned his guard, shouting to the seven winds that the white walkers had returned; of course, that was only the beginning of the conflict. As the law of the North dictated, if a man abandoned his guard, he had to be killed, regardless of the reason why he abandoned the wall, the lord of House Stark listened to the pleas and the reason why the man abandoned his guard, but the law had to be respected. Robert, as king, tried to change that, listening to the boy's pleas, took it as a joke, and wanted to hire him to be his personal jester; not many people could make him laugh. But his word was of no use, and the man was devoured by Harry's wolves.
That was the beginning of the biggest conflict, since Robert, in his delusions of grandeur and fever, tried to shake Artemisia, the sister of the Lord of House Stark; of course, he was rejected by the Persian, who not only rejected him with words that hit his pride. As expected, Robert did everything; the fact that he had lost a fight with a woman and, of course, a woman rejected him, made him ask for the execution of the woman. When that happened not even Jon Arryn who was the king's hand or Tywin Lannister himself who had a cordial relationship with Harry Stark as an alliance in the middle, could say a single word when that reached the ear of the Lord of House Stark. Harry Stark not only humiliated Robert, he practically destroyed him and forced Robert to apologize to his sister, which of course he had to do, at Jon's request since the North was a fundamental ally for the crown at this time. Jon realized that it was better to be on Harry's good side, and for the moment he was going to play the ally game. But Robert did something much worse, the king of the seven kingdoms, tried to rape Lyanna Stark, the younger sister of the Lord of the North.
On his penultimate day in the North, Harry tried to forget any past conflict at his mother's request, he held a farewell banquet, where Robert took everything he wanted, and in his state, he did the biggest stupidity that a king could do by going to Lyanna's room. She did not participate in the party because the next day she was going hunting with her brother, who would think that a drunk Robert was going to go to the room because the little girl reminded him so much of his beloved flower of the North. Lyanna's screams were heard throughout the castle, and when Harry arrived at the scene and saw that Robert was with his pants down trying to desecrate his sister, things got worse. Harry not only kicked the king out of the castle, but he made him go through the greatest humiliation any man had ever seen. The next morning, when everyone was out, everyone witnessed Harry dragging a naked Robert Baratheon until they reached the outside of the city of Winterfell. Everyone saw it, the Northerners were not going to hide their laughter, and the worst of all was that no one could do anything to save the king, because if someone said a word, they would all be executed instantly.
That fact spread throughout the kingdom, many no longer considered Robert as a King, nor did the man care about that, but for Jon, this was very bad, because he had to get rid of Robert. When he arrived he began to investigate the children of his pupil, and Harry Stark was right, Cersei's children were not Robert's. As an intelligent man, he did not accuse her without solid evidence and began to watch her, until the Cersei fell into the trap. In one of Robert's many escapes to a brothel, Cersei met her lover, pleasantly it was not a surprise for Jon to know that Cersei's lover was her own brother. Seeing Joffrey, the relationship with Jaime was noticeable, but without consistent proof, it could only be speculation until he saw it with his own eyes, of course, that was only the beginning of the war in King's Landing between Cersei Lannister and Jon Arryn since the king's hand spread the rumor of incest between Jaime and Cersei, which brought with it a negative point to the crown, since the mockery towards Robert was not long in coming, but it also brought a plus to Jon who was knowing that the house of the golden lion was not perfect.
The power of the crown was faltering, but they did not realize that small detail, many no longer saw Robert Baratheon as the true king, nor did they see Tywin as a person to fear after all the events, he was respected, but he was not a figure of authority as he was less than a week ago. The figure to fear right now was Harry Stark, he was the main person responsible for this debacle in the crown, not being punished for the actions he had against the king was a main point in all this, the hand of the king and the great golden lion did nothing to stop such humiliation, nor did they dictate a punishment, the power that Harry had was so great that if Robert returned to the North he would be castrated. The king could not even enter one of his kingdoms, and nobody said absolutely anything, and that was dangerous for the other kingdoms that had the crown as an ally and the North as an enemy. If the crown itself does nothing against the North, who else will do it? That was dangerous, as dangerous as the fact that no one knew anything about the North, although the crown made a visit, no one could leave Winterfell and everyone followed orders.
And this for people like Varys or Petyr Baelish was bad news, because it implied that the crown was weak, and the other kingdoms would eventually rise in rebellion, an example was Oberyn who showed his rebellion when he found out what happened in the North, and sent an expedition to the Stormlands, it was practically a declaration of rebellion since those lands did not belong to Dorne, therefore an expedition of a thousand soldiers was more of a declaration of war than a simple expedition. And that was not without punishment either, it was just a small wake-up call, which was ignored by Oberyn Martell, even the crown's messenger did not return from his trip, which meant that he was killed by the man in question who also gave a small warning to the crown. The worst thing was that the Martells and the Starks had a very powerful alliance, both are extremely dangerous kingdoms, if it weren't for the Targaryen dragons they would never have knelt. And now why were they going to follow a weak king, that was going to cause division in the kingdoms and no one who had uncertain plans for the future wanted that, because the kingdoms were divided, it would be impossible to reconquer them without dragons, or a maritime navy like the one in the North.
Winterfell
Past events left the Northerners eager for rebellion, and they had the power to do so, the North possessed ten dragons that were on the verge of becoming adults, so they began the breeding process. With the dragons they had to wait much longer than with the other animals that the North had at its disposal, it was going to be very harmful to them, feeding ten dragons required large amounts of food per day, and it required a daily feeding of 600 kilos of meat for each Dragon, distributed by stage, each stage consisted of 100 kilos of meat for each one. That made the dragons huge, they were not in captivity and had absolute freedom in the North, luckily magic helped a lot in the domestication of these animals, each Dragon had armor, which did not serve as protection, but a way to make the animals loyal. And since they were now in the process of reproduction, the expenses were going to be higher, although an estimate was already had. There were five females and five males, and three of those females were already incubating their eggs, which luckily were two each, it was a good number, I just hoped that the remaining ones would not lay much more than two, because that would require more hiring and not many were trained to raise magical animals, especially dragons.
The revolution was stopped by Ashara who, although she was upset by the attempted rape of her daughter, managed to calm the Lords and Ladies of the North, as well as her son who was the hardest to calm, since humiliating Robert was not enough for him. He wanted his head hung on his throne, and his crushing balls, of course, his mother managed to calm him down so that he would not rebel yet, but that does not mean that the desire to cut off Robert's head was not lacking at all. Thanks to that little incident, the North was in danger, during the stay of the crown, Robert's death was obviously planned, he was incompetent after all, but if he died right now, people would point to the North, mainly Harry. Of course, that was something that Harry did not care about at all, but it was something that would upset the other lords of the North. The North had power, and the Northerners were very vengeful, "the North never forgets" was not just a phrase. 300 years had passed since the last King of the North had bowed to the Targaryens, 300 years since they had lost their freedom, and that had passed from generation to generation, and now they had the power to take revenge.
-"My lord, you are sure of this?" – Lady Mormont, a faithful believer at this time that the North had to get rid of the Southerners and then move on to more important matters such as the White Walkers who were already making their moves – "I do not believe it is safe to send Artemis and Mya to Essos."-
Mya was about to kill Robert, and Artemisia wanted to go south to bombard King's Landing – He was angry, but he had to think like a ruler, plans can be modified, at first Daenerys and Jon were going to Essos with a few soldiers, now that changed, they were going to be accompanied by Mya and Artemisia, and two dragons, and three eggs that were previously petrified – "The two need to be busy... besides, I know that Daenerys and Jon will need their cousins."-
-"But the Silent Mary is the insignia of the north." – Lady Mormont was not so convinced that Artemisia should take the Silent Mary, although she trusted her lord as she always did, she had her doubts about the idea of letting such a sea monster go – She does not think that she should give him another ship.
-"They are going to conquer Essos, not on a trip." – Harry had already given the order, they were not going to play at being friends with anyone, they were going to conquer, that's why Mya and Artemisia were carrying their dragons, after the first attack Mya's dragon was going to lay her eggs and they were going to wait a while to attack the next city – "Seven years... that's what they'll need... I hope they don't disappoint me."-
-"Don't worry brother," – Mya was happy with this, she was a little bored of not being able to do anything, the last time she had action was when the Greyjoys rebelled, from that moment on she only spent time training and couldn't measure her skills with anyone.
-"Seven years is more than enough." – Artemisia was going to follow her brother's orders, it wasn't in the primary plans for her to go on this mission so to speak, but the plans changed and she wasn't going to refuse a request like that – "When we return, Essos will be from the North... anyone who tries to stop it will die."-
-"Her arrival in Essos must be as silent as it is destructive." – Harry saw how the ships made the corresponding signal that everything Harry asked to get on the six ships was on board – "Barbossa, use the gem on your sword to communicate with me…" – The man nodded, he was going to be the captain in this, he was the most suitable after all – "I wish you a good trip."-
The Domain
Olenna Tyrell was more than surprised by the visit of her granddaughter, it had been a while since she had seen her, but the fact of just seeing her was undoubtedly something that not only surprised her but also scared her. She always knew that her granddaughter was going to be the person who would take her place when she was no longer there for the Tyrells, but she never expected this change. Her beauty was incomparable, when she set foot in Highgarden all eyes were directed towards her person, something that never changed, what changed was her way of manipulation, it became more effective and much more ruthless. The one before her that was once a small flower in her eyes, became a power-hungry wolf and that made her afraid; because she understood perfectly several things with the presence of her granddaughter in this place. The first one was that she was not confined in the North, many times she tried to go to the North, but she was rejected and when she invited her she did not come. She always thought that Harry did not allow her to go out, but she was wrong, it was Margaery herself who did not want to come to what was previously her home.
-"It is surprising how she changed," – Olenna turned her head to see her other guest, her granddaughter did not come alone, she came with her mother-in-law, Ashara wanted to see Olenna Tyrell, who in these years became a headache in the political part for her, not very dangerous but a nuisance, and now she took advantage of the trip to meet her – "previously, she was a beautiful rose in a beautiful garden... now this beautiful garden is very small for her."-
-"I see where Harry took the ruthless from." – Olenna looked at Ashara who only gave a small smile and a denial, she was aware of the acid words given by the queen of roses, who in her eyes was more like a snake – "The status of princess was always small for Margaery…"-
-"So we made her queen." – Ashara enjoyed saying that, the beautiful Tyrell garden was beautiful, even with a beautiful view of the sea, but that amazement at seeing this landscape was only something once, very different from what happened in the north, where every day there was something new to see – "I think you understood the reason for our visit."-
-"The fact that my granddaughter and her daughter were not here already gave me an indication that this was a threat." – Olenna looked at Ashara who only poured herself another cup of tea, under the penetrating gaze of the queen of roses, who did not hide her displeasure – "Perhaps the bloodthirsty wolf is afraid of an old and decrepit old woman."-
-"Not at all Lady Olenna, but the Starks and the Tyrells are united, and you tried to betray us."- Ashara looked intensely at Olenna who was not intimidated, both women were ruthless politicians, the big difference was that Ashara was infected by her late husband and sometimes she liked to attack head on as at this moment - "You more than anything, know that sooner or later, the North will start a rebellion... and there will be no one to stop my son from conquering the six remaining kingdoms."-
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