The sixteen-year old Lyanna Stark scrutinizes the odd-looking scarlet fruit in her hand.
I wonder what kind of fruit is this, She thinks as she took a sniff at the plum fruit.
It smells sweet, and the fruit looks like pomegranate as well. Shemuses while she inspects the scarlet fruit once more.
It's edible enough, I think. She decides before finally taking a bite from the fruit.
Lyanna Stark swallows it down, not knowing that her entire life is about to change from then on.
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It is already night when Lyanna Stark becomes aware of her surroundings once more. She is still in the Wolfswood and lying down at the foot of the strange tree when she hears people calling her name.
"LADY LYANNA!"
"MILADY!"
"LYANNA!"
She hears them call her, and Lyanna can see the torch lights they carry as they move through the woods. Lyanna can also hear the barking of dogs as the search party looks for her.
She doesn't know how long she has lost consciousness after consuming the fruit, but it must have been more than half a day for her family to get worried and send out search parties for her.
Lyanna slowly stands up from the ground, and feels like her head is about to explode for some unknown reason. She sways on her feet and blinks the strange vision before her. She is seeing some blue lines running in the trees, the shrubs, the small animals fleeting amongst the branches, and even within the torch-bearing people who is moving closely towards her location.
She tries to blink the strange sight before her but it only seems to worsen for she can see through the night rather clearly.
She raises her hands to touch her temples and feels a wave of worry goes through her when she senses the veins protruding beneath her skin.
"LYANNA!"
"LADY LYANNA!"
"LYA!"
She continues to hear the people calling out to her as they drew nearer towards her location.
"HERE! I'M HERE!" Lyanna calls back and her shout is answered by the barking of dogs and shouting of people as they hurried towards the direction of her voice.
"LYA!"
She hears her brother Brandon shouts as he comes bursting through the bushes and low-lying trees.
"Brandon!" Lyanna says the moment she sees her brother running towards her.
"Lyanna, you got us all worried!" Brandon says as he immediately hugs her. "You've been gone for nearly half a day. We thought something must have happened to you!"
"I'm fine, brother." Lyanna answered, hugging him right back, closing her eyes to stop herself from seeing the weird lines again running within her brother's figure. "I simply fell asleep after eating a fruit."
"A fruit? What fruit?"
She hears the voice of her Lord Father and Lyanna opens her eyes with great trepidation.
"Just a fruit I saw up in this tree, father." Lyanna replies, her vision still not functioning normally, not while Lyanna can still clearly see the blue raging lines that flows in every living and non-living things all around her. The search parties have arrived to congregate around her in silence, with their torches raise which made Lyanna close her eyes at the sight of the light.
It seems her eyes has become sensitive to the glare of fire.
"What's wrong with your eyes, Lyanna?" Brandon suddenly asks as he wrapped a cloak around her form. His large hands move to touch Lyanna's face and feels the protruding veins in her cheeks.
"I don't know. It's like that since I woke up." She responds, blinking her eyes to try to see normally, but she can't.
"Father, I think we must bring her to the Maester." Brandon says, "There is something wrong with her eyes. I can feel the veins beneath her skin."
"Then, we must make haste for the Winterfell Castle." Lyanna's father says, "I shall call back the other search parties while you bring your sister to the Maester, son."
"Alright, father," comes Brandon's reply while he begins to lead Lyanna forward.
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"Good God!"is the first thing the Maester says when he discovers the third eye in the middle of Lyanna's forehead.
"What's wrong?!" Ned and Brandon asks at the same time, worry coloring their voices as they walk to stand in front of Lyanna, who tries to cover her forehead with her left hand.
Her face paling when she can feel eyelids in the middle of her forehead that hides her third eye. She begins to breathe rapidly, panicking almost at once at what this can mean to her.
"The Lady has a third eye in her forehead!" The Maester exclaims, stepping away from her, looking quite frightened.
"What nonsense are you talking about, Maester Halder?!" Brandon asks laughing, albeit uncertainly. "My sister doesn't have a third eye on her forehead!"
"But she does, my lord! I just saw it with my own two eyes!" Maester Halder says, "You can see it for yourselves!"
Both Ned and Brandon turn to look at Lyanna right that moment.
"Let us see your forehead, little sister," Brandon says coaxingly.
However, Lyanna simply covers her forehead and shakes her head, a sob rising from the back of her throat.
"Lyanna," Ned begins, "We just want to see your forehead."
"No," Lyanna says, tears spilling from the corners of her eyes as she looks at her brother. "Both of you will think of me a monster if you see it. The Maester is right, I have a third eye on my forehead."
Ned and Brandon seems to freeze at her words while they glance at each other.
"Are you certain of this, Lyanna?" Ned asks, looking quite pale.
"Yes," She replies as she slowly takes the hand away that covers her forehead.
"What – how – what happen to you in the Wolfswood, Lya?" Brandon inquires as he sits down next to her cot in the Maester's tower.
"I ate a fruit, Brandon," comes Lyanna's reply. "And then, I lost consciousness thereafter. The next thing I know I woke up to the sound of my name being called by the search parties. That's all I remember."
"Then, this must be something to do with the fruit you ate, sister." Brandon says, "The fruit must have given you the third eye, right Ned? And you are no monster, Lya. You are still our dear little sister, even if you have a third eye."
"Yes, Brandon is right," is Ned's response. "We do not think of you as a monster, Lya. You need not concern yourself of that, right Maester?"
Lyanna sees the Maester gulp as her brothers focus their glare on the old man, who says, "Yes, my Lords."
"Now, that we have that settled, may we see your third eye Lyanna?" is Brandon's requests, looking into Lyanna's eyes.
"Oh, alright." Lyanna says after wiping the tears from her eyes. "You may open the eyelids in my forehead, Brandon."
Brandon does what Lyanna asks of him, and when he does, he stares at the single eye staring back at him from Lyanna's forehead.
"That's – that's an odd-looking eye, Lya." Ned says when he sees the red color of the eye and the three rings that surround the iris.
Then, both Ned and Brandon watch curiously when the dark circles on the rings begin to spin wildly.
"Close it!" Lyanna says hurriedly, to which Brandon close the eyelid almost as fast.
"So," Brandon starts, still staring at Lyanna's forehead. "What are we going to say to father now?"
"The truth," Lyanna replies before covering her face with her hands.
Author's Note: I want to explore this story where Lyanna Stark ate the God fruit and regains the power of the Rabbit Goddess like that of Kaguya Ootsutsuki.
