Chapter 10

Hello everyone, I am back, and man let me tell you this chapter was a pain. Took me 3 weeks to get even half way down with it only to find I hated it and started all over from scratch and to tell you the truth I am still not happy with it but I wanted to update for you guys really bad that I cut this chapter short. I hope you guys like it and don't worry we will see more action in the next chapter.

AnimeA55Kicker I am happy you like what I am doing with Mill-err, I mean Shirley. You be seeing her a lot in the story. Mostly becomes she is fun to play around with. I mean when you have a mix between Shirley, Milly and Oberyn you more are less got at complete psychotic love-sick girl who will run Lelouch in to the ground lol.

TryonPlays I know my grammar sucks and I don't really care anymore. I do my best, but it still sucks

TheGamer24 I do hate Suzaku. I hate him on the same level I hate Sasuke from Naruto.

To those who are wondering a lot of what happens with Daenerys will not change. Mostly becomes as it stands she has no us to Lelouch. That will change as he moves to help her gain power becomes lets face it Lelouch will not stop with taking over Westeros lol.

TBM10 to answer your question Lelouch's martial prowess is higher than your average knight and can kill even someone like Jaime Lannister becomes Jaime is a fool and would not take Lelouch seriously. He would now ever be no match for Ser Barristan Selmy or even his own brothers. Lelouch's style is defense and end it fast.

For all you who are wondering about Sansa and if she is straight, bi or gay. The answer is I have no ideal. For now, she will have a sting of relationships and I will go with whatever you guys like most. Maybe.

Oh late thing I love Jon and Daenerys with each other but sadly for some of you she will end up with Lelouch. Not so much out of love as so much for political and military reasons. Will she come to love Lelouch who knows? Most likely but don't know now.

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-Kings Landing late 296AC-

Sitting in his office in the tower of the hand one Jon Arryn looked over his paper work with a worried face. The Seven Kingdoms was changing, and, in a way, no one saw coming. It started off with better ways of farming in the North and they're of potatoes and cabbage. Such a simple thing really but one that saw the North move away from the need to buy food from the other kingdoms. Then came the new steel or as the people came to call it wolf steel. This steel was cheaper to make than any other but stronger as well and that is where the problem started. At first Jon was happy the North was seeing such prosperity but then in a move completely unlike his old ward Ned had ordered the knowledge of how to make the steel kept in the North.

It was a complete surprise to Jon that Ned would do such a thing. Ever sense Ned was a young boy he never cared for gold or riches but only his honor and the honor of his family. However, in true Ned fashion however, he sold it at more than far prices and only as tools. No doubt Ned would have thought it a bad idea to sell it as arms and armor, least one of the houses start buying in order to rebel against the crown.

The shock Jon got from Ned for keeping the secret of now to make the steel in the North was nothing compare to now shaken the whole of the kingdom felt when it was found out that the steel was made by Ned's own son Lelouch. It was unbelievable that a boy of not even 10 could do make something like this but the fact remained that he did and to top it off it was also young Lelouch's ideas on farming that lead to the increase in the Norths yearly harvest.

At first much like Robert, Jon felt happy for Ned to have such a find child and hope that when Robin got older he would do him proud just like Lelouch did his father. Then, however the boy Lelouch reach out to other subjects of intrigue. Glassmaking, drink making, he improved windmill design and came up with what he called a river mill that used the power of a river to make flour. His mind even went to small things like better saws for wood cutting, better jewelry, and wood working tools. It was like Lelouch had taken the North in this hand and was reshaping it at his will, with in turn reshape the Seven Kingdoms as well. In truth if was very frightening that such a young boy could come up with all that at such a young age.

As frightful as this was it didn't really worry Jon to much seeing as all it really did was make the North richer and contrast make the whole of the kingdom richer. No, the worry would come later with the fall of the now fallen house Bolton and the creation of the now Norther army.

The North had always fielded a powerful army no matter what size it was, and the thought of a fully trained professional standing army was frightening to think about. True the purpose of this army was the defend the North from wildling raids and to be called upon in times of need to defend the kingdom, but the fact was that none of the other lands were doing this and in fact they couldn't do this. All the other great houses and their vassals, including his own, were far too greedy and power hungry to give up any power they had without a fight. Only the North could and would willing give up some power for the benefit of keeping their home land safe. Such was their belief in honor and loyalty to their home land.

His worries didn't end here for there was also the cooling of relations between the North and the Westerlands. Jon didn't know what had happen between House Stark and House Lannister to make the North so pissed off at them but what even it was he was sure it was Lord Tywin doing. Such was the North's anger towards the Westerlands that they had cut of the selling of their goods by increasing the prices to such exorbitant levels that even they could not hope to pay for them. In turn the houses of the Westerlands went to the king demanding he make the North lower their prices but Robert had just laugh it off and told them to deal with it themselves. They had look to do just that by going to the Reach or the Riverlands to buy said goods but quickly learned that they could only get second hand goods at best for the North had made it clear to any trader that if you did business with them they too would find themselves cut you off as well. Jon could feel it was only a matter of time before the two houses came to blows over this.

This brought him to his last and if not biggest worry with was the upcoming marriage of Lelouch Stark to Princess Shirley Martell of Dorne. On the surface most would think this would be a good thing and that the marriage would put a stop between the bad blood between Dorne and the crown, but Jon was not foolish enough to believe that. With this marriage came the message to Lord Tywin that if you started a fight with the North you would have to deal with Dorne as well. A fight Dorne would take great joy seeing as they would no doubt think of it as great opportunity to get back at the Tywin for what he had done to Princess Elia Martell and her children.

It was a bold move and a crafty one at that. Jon knew right away that Ned was not the type to think of such a move or go through with it even if he did. He would see it as disgraceful and lacking honor. That would mean that someone else put this marriage together and the only one that came to mind was the boy Lelouch. There were rumors that the idea of the Northern army was his and if that was true then him setting up a marriage between Dorne and the North was not so unbelievable. If that was turn then this boy was casting a big shadow over the whole of the kingdom and was holding the fate of it in his hands for a war between the North and the Westerlands would no doubt grow in to a full out civil war between the whole of the kingdom.

As he thinks of this his squire Hugh comes in to the room. "Milord hand a message has come for you from the North."

Taking the letter for his loyal squire Jon opens it and starts to read it and his eyes go wide.

-Office of the Master of Coin-

Jon Arryn was not the only one worried about what was happing around the Seven Kingdoms for at the same time in a different part of the Red Keep in the office of the master of coin one could find Petyr Baelish setting down with a unhappy look on his face that. This reasons for his unhappiness was becomes the game was spiraling out of his control. His plan of putting the crown into a huge debt and then moving it into a war of his own design was quickly going right out the window. Sure, the part of putting the crown in debt was going wonderfully but it was the latter that was getting out of hand.

The reason for this was of course the North and its growing power. They were becoming so powerful that if they were not stop soon they would be impossible to go against down the line. If his estimates were right the total wealth the North made last year was somewhere around 5,000,000 gold dragons and would most likely double at the end of this year. If you considered that the steel trade alone was making them at least 2,000,000 gold a year and that they spent little on lavish goods, then you had a frightful amount of money at their use.

Then there was the fact that it had become a black void to him. His informants were disappearing and the whores he had placed there were dying or not getting any useful information. Whoever the spy master for the North was he was good and even though it angered him he could not help but be impressed by the persons work. This man was so good that he was but a shadow in the night to any that went looking for him. He was unseen and unheard of to the point that Petyr often wondered if the man existed at all. After all who was to say that is was not the black wolf himself that was fully running things but then even with that boy's intelligence he doubted he could run a spy network as well as come up with his inventions. He would have to dictate some things to other people even if he wished not to.

The thought of the black wolf bought a somewhat fond smile to Petyr face. If the boy were to die tomorrow his place in history would still be set for all he had done in such a short amount of time. Petyr often wondered if Cat had only fallen in love with him how much more brilliant he would have been. Sadly, the boy was starting to get in the way and would have to be dealt with soon. He would have to move slowly however for this boy knew how to play the game and play it well and if he was not careful it would be him who was dealt with.

It was with this thought on his mind when one of his birds came walking in to the room. "Milord I have news for you."

Looking at the man he asks, "What is it you have for me."

The man starts to speak and what Petyr hears he does not like.

-In the Queens chambers-

If one was to walk in the queen's chambers now, one would find a very pissed off Queen Cersei setting at her dressing table. Why was she pissed will of course it had to do with that boy in the North, that so called black wolf. Once more she had to sit in the throne room and hear all about the young heir to Winterfell. Oh, how she hated it when Robert would point out how wonderful and brilliant his dear friend Ned's son was. It would not be so bad if it was not for the fact that he kept berating poor Joffrey for not being a great as he was. It was like he believed that her perfect lion could never be a good as that Northern bastard and just to add salt to the wound many were saying the same behind her and Joffrey's back.

So, what if the boy made better steel then the hold kingdom, so what if he was making the North a prosperous land. Her young lion was better than him not matter what that little shit did. All anyone should be talking about was Joffrey, but no all they talk about was the black wolf this and the black wolf that. It pissed her off to no end and now the kingdom was only talking about the upcoming wedding between him and that Dornish bitch.

She had met Princess Shirley Martell once before a few years ago at one of the many tourneys her fool of a husband threw and just like with the black wolf she hated her right from the get go. Wherever the girl went all would stop what they were doing to just look at her. Like she was so goddess come to life who came down for the heavens to grace them with her presence. Never has she commanded that kind of attention from the people around her and to make it worst the Dornish bitch was not the only one for there was also the Tyrell slut Euphemia as well. Cersei would have her revenge for these slights or yes she would have it.

Knocking on the queen's door before entering is one Grand Maester Pycelle. "Your highness I have some news you may like to here."

Looking over at the old fool Pycelle, Cersei asks coldly. "What is it Pycelle."

"Your highness world from the North. It would seem Lelouch Stark is coming to Kings Landing." Pycelle says nervously for he knows how much she hates the young boy.

With her eyes narrowing she says just one world "What!"

-Winterfell Great Hall-

If you were to walk into the great hall of Winterfell you would see a very unusual site, for you would find a handful of young and old men standing around looking at Lelouch two newest invention. Among these men was Qyburn a formal maester who had made his way to Winterfell in hopes of finding a more open-minded lord to serve. After being kick out of the order for what they called unethical and illegal human experimentation he had walk the land looking for a new place continue his studies. He had found it when he had come to the North and met his new lord Lelouch Stark. The boy was far more open minded then any man he had ever met and found that while Lelouch didn't agree with how he came to possess said knowledge he had understood it and accepted it. He was warned however if he did live human experimentation again he would find himself without his head.

Up till this moment Qyburn question if he had made the right chose in agreeing to work for young Lelouch after he was given that warning but what he saw before him changed that way of thinking. These new inventions his lord had come up with would change not only the kingdom but the known world. Just thinking of the changes these things would bring made him nearly fall to his knees in awe.

The first one of these great inventions was a humongous wooden contraption with some metal part tossed in. At first look it seemed like a useless thing but once you understood what it was meant to do one would see it as the revolutionary contraption it was. With this single machine one man can do what a 100 maesters could not do in a month and that was the copying of books. The printing press his lord called it, what an amazing thing it was. With this the sharing of ideas and thoughts would open up for not only Westeros but the whole of the known world. It was truly impossible to see what changes this one machine would bring but like a great storm that was head towards land it could not be stop.

The 2nd invention was just as important as the first but more so for his field of study. It was a small thing but then his lord had told him when they first met that even the smallest mort insignificant thing can change the world. His lord called this thing a microscope and what it let you do was look in to a world that one could not see with the naked eye. At what his lord told him was 400 times magnification he could see what his lord call blood cells and bacteria. Small little things that were in the human body that no one know about. It was both scaring and magnificent to see for Qyburn. This little invention would change the world of medicine in such a way that everything Qyburn had learned till now would seem small and meaningless.

Looking over from where he sat Lelouch smiled at the men's shock and awed faces. With these two inventions he wouldn't just help the world change but make it. This stagnant world needed to change, it was begging for change and Lelouch would see it happen. In Lelouch's eyes those old fools at the Citadel were one of the main reasons for why this world had came to a stop. Becomes of that he would strip them of their title as the most learned men in the world and toss them to the back of history where they belonged.

Standing up from his sit Lelouch says "My follow intellectuals I am sure you all can see what these two instruments of learning means for the world. So, what I wish for you all to do is to go out and find all the books for importance you can find so as to copy. Once we have all the copies we need we will start to sell them at reasonable prices to the whole of the known world."

"Milord why don't just give the plans for the printing press to the Citadel, so they can make their own copies." Says one plan looking man.

Qyburn looks at the man like he is the biggest fool there ever was and answers for his lord. "Fool do you not think our lord has not thought to do that. If he were to give out the plans on now to make these two inventions, then the Citadel will just claim them as their own and say we stole them. Those fools at the Citadel would never stand to have their status as the most learned men challenged in such a big way."

"But Lord Lelouch has already came up with mean great discoveries before now and the Citadel has said nothing." Says the other man.

Before Qyburn can say anything back Lelouch is the one to answer the man. "That is only becomes I took something that was already there and improved it. In their minds the fact that I didn't share my knowledge so far is not really such big thing seeing as they believe given enough time they will figure it out sooner or later. With they are right about for a change but these two things are something completely new. Something they had not even dreamed could be possible and that is a threat to their power."

All the men in the room could not help but agree. Many of them were exmaesters themselves who were kick out or left becomes they felt the order was not looking to move pursue greater knowledge. They knew how that place work and now much they hated it when they were challenged on anything. "We understand milord but why make people pay for the books. Would it not be better for the whole of the kingdom to just give them away?" Ask other plan looking man.

Qyburn can't help but feel like he is surrounded by halfwits right now. "Becomes my friend our lord wishes to make the North the greatest learning place in all the known world. To do this we will money. Money that unlike the Citadel we will not just be given."

Looking at each other every man there can understand that. If their lord wishes to match the Citadel, then money would be need for the studies they wish to do. One man speaks up "Milord what book should we print first then. No doubt it has to be one of great importance for this historic moment"

Lelouch smiles and just says. "One that will be a gift to both my soon to be good father and my father's vessels."

-Winterfell training yard some time later-

The clanging of swords could be heard throughout the yard as two people trained. One of them was Jeremiah and the other was Lelouch himself. Long ago Lelouch understood the need to better himself with the sword and there was no one better to teach him then Jeremiah. The man had kept all his old skill from this pass life and even got to keep most of the benefits he had when he was a cyborg. This made Jeremiah the fast and strongest man in the whole world. It was to bad he didn't get to keep the durability his old body gave him but one can't have it all.

In other to better himself Lelouch told Jeremiah that at the very least every day they would train with each other. Lelouch did like having to do this but it really couldn't be help. Plus, there was the fact that one day he would have to wield Ice his family's heirloom one day. It was a big and cumbersome thing that he would have prefer to give to Robb or Jon, but once again he had little chosen in this matter. For over four hundred years the head of the Stark family carried it and used it in battle. If the other lords of the North saw him not take it up after his father passed away then they would most likely see it as disrespectful and may not follow him when the time called for them to do so becomes of it

So, residing himself to his to the training he keeps on going but still he could do without all the laughing he could hear coming from his oh so loving siblings. "My dear siblings laugh it up why you can. I well get you all back in do time." Lelouch thinks to himself as he hits the ground once more.

The loudest one was of course coming for Robb, Jon and Theon. To them it was great to see Lelouch get put down with such ease. On most days Robb and Jon can beat Lelouch but it took time and a lot of effort. Theon himself won a lot as well against Lelouch but not as easily or as much as the others. The fact however remained that that Lelouch saw the lost coming and if this was a real fight they know there was a very good changes of them losing.

"Find something funny baby brothers?" Lelouch questions as he gets back to his feet.

"Well ya Lelouch we do. I mean it's not every day we get to see you get your ass kick." Robb says with a big smile on his face as the others laugh.

"Ya I bet we could do better then you Lelouch." Jon says with a lot of confidence in his voice.

Lelouch raise an eye brow and looks at Jeremiah. "Jeremiah, I believe by younger brothers and their friend have just challenge your skill. Do be a good friend to them and teach them some humility."

Looking at the boys with half smile that promises pain and lots of it Jeremiah says. "It will be my pleasure milord."

All three become pale at this and start to back away. "You know we have already done our training for the morning." Robb says as he gets ready to run.

"Oh, I don't think so milord. After all lord Lelouch has made it clear that I am to help you learn so humility and I don't plan to fail in this task he has given me." Jeremiah signals the guards to surround the young men.

Now one would think these men would obey Robb or Jon over Jeremiah, but they knew what would happen to them if they didn't obey Jeremiah and that was they would have to take their place. Their loyalty to the young lords didn't go nearly so far as to suffer for them.

As his younger brothers and Theon got their lesson Lelouch went to go sit down. Taking a glass of wine in hand he started to think about what needs be done in the upcoming year. He would be leaving for Kings Landing after the harvest feast and things need to be ready before he took off. Materials, men and money need to be gathered for shipping to Seagard by the start of the next year. He knew the king one he heard of this project would jump on board and would wish to start right away so they need to get a head start now. If king Robert was anything it was predictable and Lelouch knew he would happy join his father in whatever it was he wish to do.

"I see you have not change at all milord sense I have been away. Still picking on you siblings and saying it is for their own good." John Andre says as he walks up to his lord and bows.

Looking up at his spy master Lelouch just smiles "Welcome back Andre how was your trip east."

Smiling at his lord Andre answers as he takes a sit. "Fruitful milord. It took some time, but I was able to locate the rice and sugar beets you ask me to fine. I sent them to the Riverlands as you instructed me to do along with how to grow them and extract the sugar from the beets. However, I was not able to find this maze you told me about milord."

"It matters little Andre. These two-foods staple by themselves will become very big sellers in the coming years for the Riverlands. I would even go so far as to say we will be them match the Reach in food production soon. That food will be need when the drapes lift, and the show begins." Lelouch says as he watches his brothers get beaten down with a smile on his face.

Andre just nods at this seeing as he knows what his lord is talking about. As he watches on with his lord at the beating his lord's sibling are getting he makes up his mind to tell him about knows what happen with Jon, if only to make sure Jon told him himself. "Milord can I assume that lord Jon told you about who he met when we were in Braavos?"

"Indeed, he did." Lelouch said.

"Is there anything you wish me to do about this." Andre ask of his lord wondering what his thoughts are on about the meeting with the

"There is nothing to be done about it right now Andre. Just keep an eye on her and her brother for now. I want to know everything they do and if they can be of some use to us down the road." Lelouch tells Andre seeing as they are too far away and to powerless to be considered any real threat for the time being.

"Understood milord." Andre said back.

"Tell me Andre what the word in King's Landing now it's known I am coming to visit it. What can I expect from those in power?" Lelouch ask him knowing that no matter how busy Andre gets he always knows what is happing around the kingdom as a whole.

In a professional matter Andre answers his lord's question. "There are a mix of feeling on it. The queen and her son Prince Joffrey for one hates it and has been upset every sense they found out. How one can hate someone so much for nothing is a truly an amazing and frightful thing."

"It is the effect of having a simple mind my friend and both are quite simple." Lelouch answers him.

"True but even a simpleton can be a dangerous. Best to keep an eye on them in case they do something stupid." Andre follows up with.

"No truer words have been said." Lelouch says. "Speaking of simple how is the king feeling about me coming to Kings Landing?"

"In a word excited. The man is already planning a huge feast in your honor and a tournament the very next day." Andre tells him.

"Hmmm. Send a message to my soon to be good father and tell him that he may wish to come to Kings Landing when I am there. He may see something he has been wishing to see for years now." Lelouch orders Andre.

"At your command milord." Andre responds.

Nodding his head at this Lelouch moves on to other things. "When I got home I found out my father has given you some interesting orders regarding the king's illegitimate children."

"Interesting indeed milord. It is well known that the king has more than a dozen bastard children running around the kingdom and this has made the queen extremely unhappy becomes of it. Your father knowing how the queen feels about them and after hearing report after report on what she is really like behind closed doors has led him to ordering me to start moving them safely out of the capital. A good idea for sure for I to fear for them to if left within the reach of the Queen and her son when the king passes on." Andre agrees with his lord's father on this decision. He may have given the orders to kill a number of people both innocent and guilty but one thing he would never do is kill or have a child killed.

"Make sure to do it quietly and slowly. We don't wish to give your counterpart any reason to think something is up. It's hard to say who's side he is on but we can be sure that he speaks to freely regarding certain things." Lelouch says with a frown. In truth he would much rather kill the man, but he still had his uses for the time being.

"Yes milord. Speaking of my counterpart milord I feel I should tell you he is getting better at his craft. He is learning and learning fast. Just last month he spotted and took out 5 of my spies inside the Red Keep. None of them were of any real important but it's only a matter of time before he finds the ones that are. We may wish to cut off contact with the more important ones for the time being." He does not like the thought of having to do so but Andre knows at if anyone of the more important spies where found out it could lead to having to change some lords over all plans. Something he was not willing to let happen.

Thinking it over a bit Lelouch makes up his mind on what to do. "Do it we don't have any well use for them for the time being and they knew there orders. Better to keep their cover for now and us them later then to lose them now."

"At you command milord. Now would you like to know now the others are feeling about you going to the capital." Andre asks of his lord.

"Yes, it would be good to know what people are feeling before my trip." Lelouch says with a smile.

For the rest of the afternoon they talk about what they know is going on in Kings Landing.

- Dorne Water Gardens 3 weeks later-

Everyone in the room could feel it. The dread of what would happen if things didn't change soon.. There was no stopping it if things didn't change soon. Like a mighty storm that wipes out all that stands before it and all anyone could do was hope to get out of it in one piece.

"Bored, bored, bored, bored, bored! I am so bored!" Shirly cry's out from the couch she was laying on.

"Then go for a swim and stop whining." Arianne says getting tired of Shirly's whining.

"But I don't what to! I what my Lulu!" Shirly cry's out even louder.

"Well you Lulu not here!" Arianne yells at her with irritation in her voice.

Tearing up Shirly looks to her cousin. "Why are you yelling at me?"

Arianne eye starts to twitch at her cousin's behaver. Shirly has always been emotional but ever sense Lelouch Stark left back for the North she has been completely out of control. Her pranks had increased and her moods have been all over the place. "Listen Shirly you be with you Lulu soon so can you just behave till then?" Arianne says in a soft voice hoping to calm her down some. After all, when Shirly becomes upset she will set out to make herself happy and drag everyone else down with her.

Running up to Arianne side Shirly kneels and grabs her dress. "But that is over a year away. What if he forgets me, what if he does not wish to marry me anymore, what if some stupid floozy comes along and seduces him."

The tears in her eyes making everyone shake their head at her. "Shirly my dear I am sure that will not be the case. After all he seem very interested in you. Plus, I thought you didn't mind the thought of sharing him." Ellaria speaks up from across the room.

"Yes, share as in I will share as long as I am there. If I find out some slut dared fuck my man without my permission make sure she pays a heavy price for it." The glare Shirly gives reminds every one of just who her father is and how truly dangerous she is when she is no longer being playful.

"Now sister I am sure you have nothing to worry about. After all that panting you sent him would make sure he never forgets how beautiful you really are." Nymeria giggles knowing now perverted it was.

"That may be, but a painting cannot satisfy a man's needs. What if by sending him that picture Shirly has unknowingly sent him in to the arms of some women becomes of the lust the painting instilled." Obara says with a smile hoping to make her sister go even crazier with worry. Pay back was a bitch and Obara would have hers for Shirly's little prank with the Greyjoy boy.

It works for Shirly's eyes go wide with worry and she hit the ground and starts crying out in a very dramatic way. "No, no, no what have I done. I didn't mean for that to happen. Damn that mean, mean, aweful father of ours. This is all his fault that I can't be there to take care of my Lulu's needs."

Oberyn who had just been sitting right next to Ellaria says noting at his daughter's words. There was no telling what would happen once his daughter realizes he is in the room with her. He would not say he was afraid of the girl per say but even he understood that sometimes discretion is the better part of valor and that went double when Shirly was involved.

This is the scene Doran walks into when he enters the room. When he sees his niece on the floor crying dramatically he looks over to his brother. "Do I even want to know why Shirly is crying on the ground?"

Looking over to his older brother Oberyn just answers "Not really brother. Shirly is just going through one of her crazy moments."

Giving a sigh Doran just rubs his head knowing his loving niece has these moments from time to time when she is bored. "I see. Well you got a gift from the Lelouch Stark and seeing as I was on my way here anyways I thought I bring it to you Oberyn." He hands over to his brother a package that is wrap in a fine red silk cloth.

Shirly's head jerks up at this and her eyes go to her father who she now sees as some mortal enemy that must be dealt with. So, getting up she runs up to him. "Why do you get a gift? What have you done? I his betrothed. Why didn't I get a gift?" Her eyes then go wide in fear and she look at her handsome father and say. "Oh no don't tell me. Father did you seduces my Lulu?"

Doran just shakes his head and walks away. Sometime his niece was just too much to handle. Oberyn on the other had just ignores her and unwraps his gift wondering what the black wolf had sent him. He had not made any attempt to get along with the boy when he was here so it very unusual to him to get a gift from the black wolf. When he is done unwrapping it sees a hard cover red book with a letter on top of it. Picking up the letter he reads the front of it. "Well my lovely daughter it seems you beloved has sent you a letter."

Hearing this Shirly face goes from looking upset, to looking unbelievable happy. "Really? Give me, give me, give me." She says as she reaches for the letter in her father's hands.

Seeing this as a chance to get back at his daughter for her name calling Oberyn moves his hand just out of reach. "Oh, didn't you just call me mean and awful father. Seeing as I am such mean father I think I well just keep this letter."

"Did I say mean? I meant kind, loving, handsome and most wonderful father in all the whole wide world." She gives a bright smile as she sucks up to him.

Oberyn does not know how to feel right now about what she just said. On one hand he knows she means it but on other it means so much less when he knows Shirly wants something from him. "Fine take it you little brat."

Snatching the letter from her father's hands Shirly giggles and jumps for joy at it. Opening the letter and reading it she lets out a loving sigh.

"What's it says big sister." Tyene ask her sister.

With a big smile Shirly answers her. "It says he loved my painting and has placed in the center of his bedroom, so he can look at it always. He also says he loves me and can't wait till we are married." Looking off in to the distance she says, "Oh Lulu I can't wait either."

Her cousin's odd but not unnormal behaver gives Arianne plenty of time to sneak up behind her and grab the letter out of her hand. "Let me see that."

"Hey, give that back your big meanie." Shirly cries as she chases after Arianne.

"No way. I want to read what you darling Lulu wrote you." Arianne says as she reads it and keeps it out of Shirly's reach at the same time.

It does not takes long read, in fact it takes less time to read it then it would if she just peeked over Shirley's shoulder and read it. Coming to a stop she turns and looks at her cousin with a funny look. "This only say thank you for the painting and see you at our wedding. It says noting of what you just said."

Snatching the letter for Arianne hand Shirley holds it too her chest and says, "That is become you have to read between the lines to understand its deeper meaning Arianne."

"Read between what lines? There is only one line to read." Arianne says back not understanding how her cousin's mind works.

Turing and look at her Shirley does the only they that comes to mind and sticks out her tongue at her cousin before she turns back around. "Oh, Lulu why can't my dimwitted but lovely, sexy and buxom cousin understand our love. Woe is me to have to go through such hardships." She says as tears fall from her eyes."

Ellaria's second youngest daughter Dorea walks up to her mother as her sister keeps taking to herself in this way. Pulling on her mother's dress she asks in a worried voice. "Momma has sister Shirley gone mad."

Looking at her daughter with a smile on her face Ellaria answers her. "Do not worry sweet heart your sister has always been mad. So, there is nothing to worry about."

Everyone in the room laughs at this but Shirley is to lost in her day dream to pay attention to their laughter.

As this keeps going on Oberyn turns his attention back on to the red book. The cover is done in a blood red color, as if it has been bathed in the blood of men and engrave in black letters is the title of the book.

The Art of War by Lelouch Stark

-Later that night-

It was late at night in the Water Gardens as Doran finds himself up and being pushed down the halls in his wheel chair. His gout was acting up more then normal and could not sleep so making up his mind he called on his loyal man Areo Hotah. He was going to one of the inner pools to take a dip hoping it would relive the pain he felt but when he got there he saw his brother siting in a chair reading the book young Lelouch had sent him. "Brother what are you doing here so late at night?"

Looking up a bit startled it was clear Oberyn didn't notice someone walk into the room. "Doran good evening to you. Why are you up so let is all will?" Questions Oberyn.

"I am good Oberyn but tell me what you are doing up so late? It is unlike you to sit in the dark like this when you could be in the arms of your paramour." Doran asks his brother once more realizing that Oberyn was so lost in the book that he didn't hear his question the first time.

"Just reading the book my soon to be good son sent me." Oberyn says with serious voice that is unlike him.

The serious of his brother's voice disturbs Doran a lot. It is unlike his brother to take any thing seriously and even when he does it was always with the same flamboyancy he aways showed. "Most be quite a read if it has you acting so serious. May I see it?"

Oberyn hands over the book to his brother with out a word and lets his look at it. "The Art of War by Lelouch Stark. What does a boy think he knows of war?" Doran can barely keep himself for laughing at this.

"More then me or you could ever hope to brother." Oberyn says with a somber tone.

Seeing the disbelief look on Doran face Oberyn just says "Just read from line 18 till the end of the first Chapter and you start to understand what I mean."

Doran sits down and does as his brother says opening the book and starts reading aloud. "All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack we must seem unable. When using our forces, we must seem inactive. When we are near we must make the enemy believe we are far away. When far away, we must make him believe we are near."

These words send a small chill up his back. They are simple but refined and detail to make once point clear and easy to understand. He reads the rest of the chapter with tells him when to evade an enemy, when to attack him and how to go about it.

"The other chapters or much the same." Oberyn says interrupting Doran's thoughts. "It covers everything brother. From the laying of plans, to how to us terrain and even how to go about using spies. There is nothing left out and he even talk freely about using dishonorable methods to achieve over all victory."

Doran looks at his Oberyn as he says this and then looks back down at the book with a serious look on his face and goes back to reading. For the rest of the night both brothers read and reread the book repeatedly talking about it in great lengths. They fine it to be the most complete and detailed book on warfare there has ever been, but one thought starts to creep in their minds. What kind of monster has the gods let be born in this world. If this boy could write something like this then there really is not limit to his intelligence.

-Kings Landing-

The capital of the kingdom was just before Lelouch's eyes with the Red Keep and the Great Sept of Baelor clear to see in the distance. It would be such a beauty if it was not for the small of shit and piss the was heavy in the air that was easy to smell from even far away. In a way the smell perfectly describes the capital for what it was. The capital was supposed to be a symbol of power and order but was now nothing more than an overpopulated city of shit and scum. Filled with worse type of people, such as killers, liars, rapist and thieves, it one of the worse places in the world to live. The saddest part was it was not the common folk Lelouch was thinking about when the thought these words but the people in power themselves. It was a good thing that Lelouch plan to deal with some of these people doing his short stay.

As he enters the city people lined the street to get a look at the young man who had change the North so much in such a short amount of time. Riding on top of a huge black horse wearing matching black armor Lelouch was a site to behold. It was like he radiated power and strength to all who look at him. By his side riding just behind his lord was Jeremiah Gottwald in his orange colored armor and behind him 150 men at arms from the Northern army.

The men at arms gave off the same but a lesser feeling of power and strength as Lelouch. Each movement was precise and in step with the man in front of the other. It was like they were an army on the march to war. There faces showed the discipline and seriousness of highly trained soldiers that one would not wish to meet on the field of battle. This was a feeling all the commoners, Gold Cloaks and Lannister Guard were feeling.

When they reach the Red Keep Lelouch and Jeremiah got off their horse and walk up the steps towards the throne room.

It was time for act one of the show in King's Landing to start.

-Inside the Red Keep-

Sitting on the Iron Throne Robert waited for the arrival Ned's son. He was feeling excited for two reasons, one being that the boy was a sensation around the kingdom. His name always on the lips of others wondering what great thing he would do next. The second reason was he just couldn't help but wonder what the boy was like. Would be like Ned? Gods he hopes not. He loves Ned like a brother, but the man was to serious and need to light up sometimes.

Robert excitement was not shared by all however. Cersei and Joffrey being chef among these people.

As the doors to the throne room open up everyone looked towards the door as the hair to Winterfell walked in. All eyes fall on Lelouch and the men that came into the room with him. The young lady's and even some of the older ones' blush as they look at him. He was a tall, handsome young man and gives of a feeling of power that appeals to them. Even Cersei felt blush just a bit at his good looks and how well he wears the armor he had on. His body even with the armor on shows the training he had gone through. The real warriors in the room like Ser Jaime, Ser Barristan, Sandor and Robert can tell this boy is a fighter. As he gets closer to the throne his eyes come in to site and the gray cold look they give of puts everyone on edge. Even Robert himself can feel some fear creep up in him at the site of them. It reminds him of Ned's own eyes when the man got read to do battle and it made Robert smile.

"So, this is Ned's son? Yes, I can see it, he has the same eyes as Ned. Cold like winter and strong as steel." Robert can't help but feel respect for Lelouch. He carries himself like a warrior and those 15 men behind him such discipline. They hold themselves like they are going to battle and ready to die if need be.

Lelouch stops once he reaches just the foot of the stairs leading up to the throne and kneels. "King Robert, I am Lelouch Stark son of Lord Eddard Stark Lord Warden of the North and my I say it is a great honor to meet the man my father calls brother." Taking a bit of time like he is thinking of something Lelouch give a smirk. "If my father calls you brother would that not make you my uncle?"

No one in the throne room knows what to think about these words but Robert can't keep the smile off his face or his laughter in. So, with a booming laugh he says, "Oh think the gods I was afraid you were just like that gloomy bastard of a father of yours." He then motions for Lelouch to stand.

Standing up and raising an eye brow that reminds Robert of his dear friend Lelouch says "Gloomy milord? I would call my loveable father down right depressing if asked. Seven hells I can recall a time where he one tried to tell one of my younger brothers a joke. Poor boy depressed for the rest of the week" Lelouch lets out a chuckle as Robert laughs even more.

"Indeed, that is Ned for you. Tell me now is that son of a bitch doing up there in that cool hell you call home." Many are taken aback by the king's words. It is one thing call a lord gloomy but what he just said could be call a flat-out insult.

Lelouch however just smiles and says, "I would imagine freezing his ass off along with the rest of my poor family."

Robert just laughs even more and can't help but like the boy. Sure, he may look a bit girly like his own son but unlike that useless piss ant he can see the cold as ice look all true Starks have in their eyes. The look of a fighter. Giving Lelouch a big smile he says "I would imagine so as. Welcome to Kings Landing young Lelouch Stark. We well have a feast where we will drink, and you can tell me what old Ned has been up to lately."

With a smile on his face Lelouch says "Of course your Highness but first I have brought gifts for both yourself and your family." Looking over to Jeremiah he tells him to go bring in the gifts.

Many whispers fill the room, all wondering what it is the black wolf was giving the royal family. Even Robert was wondering what these gifts where. He was used to lords and noble men bring gifts to him or someone in his family in hopes of carrying royal favor, but this was Ned and he was not the type to do such a thing. "Hum I have to say I am surprised Ned would agree to send gifts to me, it is unlike him. Seven hells I can't even recall the last time he wrote me a letter that didn't have something to do with the running of the North.."

"Oh, it was not my father your highness who sends these gifts. It was my mother who insisted that when I came to Kings Landing I didn't do so with empty handed and what good son would not obey his mother." Lelouch says in good humor.

Robert nods his head at this. "Even when he was a strong bull-headed lad who didn't listen to even his own father. He all ways obeyed his mother when she called on him to do something. Such was the fate of all good sons and though he was far from the best son he would try to do what she told him to do."

As they wait for the gifts to come in Lelouch comes up with his first impression on the king. That impression is not a good one. In his eyes the king was a fool and overall a disappointment but even a fool has his uses. It is with this thought on his mind that his men come in with the gifts. Each is covered in a fine silk that varied from big too small in size.

"My king the first gift is for you." Lelouch motions for the silk be removed.

When the silk comes off everyone gives a gasp at what they see, and Roberts eyes go wide in amazement. In front of him is without a doubt the best set of armor he has ever seen in his life. It is made of what he can only guess is a shining new type of steel with engraving of gold stags on it. The helmet had the face of a stag along with steel antlers that look sharp enough that if he was too run in to someone head first he could impale them just like a stag. Then his eyes go down and looks at the weapon by its side. It is a massive warhammer much like the one he used to kill Rhaegar Targaryen with but this one had engraving in it much like the armor. The difference is the engraving was that the Warhammer showed the battle between him and Rhaegar. On one side of the hammer it showed them in the mist of battle and on the other the killing of Rhaegar when he slammed his hammer in to his that fucker's chest.

"By the fucking gods." Robert says in amazement. Looking at Lelouch's armor closely then to the armor Lelouch had on himself he says. "This is not the same kind of steel as your armor is it?"

"Looks like the man is not a complete fool after all." Lelouch thinks to himself. "You got a good eye your highness. This set of armor is indeed different from my own. For you see my king it is made of a new and better steel then the kind my own is made from."

Many eyes go wide at this and a voice speaks up "Excuse me milord but are you saying the North has found a newer way to make steel once more."

Looking over to where the voice came from Lelouch's eyes fall on an old man wearing the chain of a maester. It does not take long for Lelouch to realize this is Pycelle the so called Grand Maester, who in reality is just a useless old man and spy for the queen. "No what I am saying is I have found a new way of making steel once more and have made his majesty the first suit of armor ever made from it."

As Pycelle looks into Lelouch's eyes he can't help but feel like the boy is looking down on him and even worse he feels like he is beneath him.

"What do you call this new steel?" Robert asks Lelouch as he walks closer to the armor to get a better look at it.

"I call it stainless steel your highness. You see it is not only stronger then the steel I have on but also hard to rust as well. In fact, you can leave it out in the rain and sun for days on end and you would still not find a spot of rust on it anywhere." Lelouch says with a smile.

The gasp of breath from a handful of the people in the room shows that only a some of the people realize what this could means in terms of building and weapon making.

"And well you be selling this newer steel any time soon Lord Stark." Another man asks from the side.

Looking over once more Lelouch sees Petyr Baelish the master of coin. "Sadly no. The cost of making it is far more than the normal steel we trade, and I have sadly yet to find a cheaper way to make it."

The way Lelouch say now he has yet to find a way to make this new steel has Petyr very worried. He needs to do something and something fast before the boy works it out. The North has already tip the balance of power in the land and with this even better steel that tip would become a land slide. So for the sake of his plan the boy most not leave King's Landing alive.

As the king keeps admiring his new suit of armor Lelouch moves on to the next gift. Looking over to the queen who is looking at him with a clear look of distaste Lelouch bows and say, "My queen the next gift is for you."

The men bring up the next gift at their lord's words. It is a tall item, even bigger and wider than the suit of armor from what Cersei can tell. She tries to look uninterested in what it could be, but she can't help but wonder what she is going to be given and will it be as grand as the suit of armor her fool of a husband got.

When the silk comes down her eyes see a wood box cabinet that is made from red wood and has gold engravings of lioness with ruby eyes on it. Her first thought is that it is wonderful wood work and the engraving are wonderful as well but it's too slim to hold anything in side of it. However, when the men move and open the cabinet and her eyes go wide at what she sees. "It's a mirror. A three-sided mirror." Cersei can't help but feel amazed at what see is looking at. Sure, she owned many different types of mirrors from the North but none like this and the design on the inside was just as grand as on the out.

Seeing that the queen is speechless Lelouch moves on. "The next gift is for you Prince Joffrey." The silk comes down and what greets the young prince's eyes are clothes but not just any clothes. Each one is far different then what he has ever see before.

"Each pieces of clothing were made from the finest silk and drys from around the world. They were also each designed by my sister herself. She has become quite the little dress make and tailor if you ask me." Lelouch says with a smile.

Joffrey walks up to his gift and can barely hold back sneer or say something rude and stupid. He finds the gift insulting like this no good north scum is saying he is not already dressed in the best clothing in the kingdom or that his taste is some now lacking. Oh, now he wishes to say something but even he is not stupid enough to say what was on his mind when his father is so entrance with his new suit of armor.

"Princess Myrcella you gift is next." Lelouch says with a smile that makes the little princess blush a bit at how handsome he is.

Myrcella gets up and walks forward trying to keep herself from jumping up and down from excitement. When the silk comes down her eyes go bright at the many different dress and jewels that are in front of her. Neckless and bracelets all in a lovely jewelry box with her house sigil on it.

"Thank you very much lord Lelouch." Myrcella says as she takes out one of the many neckless from the box. Her smile bright and lovely.

"Your very welcome princess." Lelouch says with a dashing smile that makes her knees go weak.

"My dear Prince Tommen you are last but not the least by any means." Lelouch smiles at him.

The men move to remove the silk cover and when it is down Tommen sees toys. All matters of child toys and books as well. It is wonderful, and he loves them right away.

Lelouch smiles at them but not out of joy for them but becomes this was easier than he thought. He has been here less then a couple of hours and he has already got himself in good with 3 out of the 5 royals and has one of them confused. "So simple they are."

"Lord Lelouch what are these?" Questions Myrcella.

Looking at what she is holding Lelouch tell her. "Those are called kites princess. They are a type of children's toy I made for my little brothers and sisters. They seem to like them so much that the North will start sending them out for trade soon."

"What do they do?" Questions young Tommen.

"Well you take them out side and using the sting attached to them you run. If the wind is good, then it well catch the wind making it fly." Lelouch says with a smile knowing how the two children will take this information.

With stars in their eyes and wide smiles they start jumping in excitement like the children they are and start to ask their mother "Can we go play with our new toys mother please, please, please."

Before she can answer Robert speaks up and says "Seven hells get out of here and go play with you toys. Could do without the whining."

Cersei does not like how he address her children but for the sake of not embarrassing the whole of the royal family she just agrees and tells a couple of the guards to take them outside, so they can play.

Lelouch looks at this with some sadness in his eyes for the children. Not all children can have a loving father and he knows this best of all but still it would not kill the fat old man to dismiss them in a kinder voice.

-Later that night-

The feast the king decided to toss in Lelouch's name was in full swing. It was a grand affair that put the one held at Winterfell doing the planning of the what many in the North started calling the year of the wolf to shame in both size and grandness. Lelouch however like always was not impressed at in the slightest and was in truth a bit bored. He had done all the grandstanding, glad-handing with the noble men now showed up and was in truth tired of it. Right now, he was talking with both the princess and prince about how much they enjoyed the kites he gave them. A very welcome change if you ask him.

Lelouch found their story both amusing and endearing. They were so much like his little brothers and sisters that it was sad that they were kind of his enemies but who knows maybe they would not have to end up like so many of the other enemies he had in the past.

"So, Lord Lelouch I hear you plan to build a bridge in the Riverlands." A voice speaks up across from him.

Looking over at littlefinger Lelouch answers him "Well you are half right Lord Baelish. You see it may have been my ideal, but it was my lord father and my lord grandfather who agreed to do it."

"And your father and grandfather just think they can do what you want ever they like without asking the king for permission to build this bridge." Cersei says with a heated tone.

"Well that is why I am here your highness. I have not real reason to come to Kings Landing otherwise. To hot down here if you ask me." Lelouch says with a playful voice.

The king laughs at this and says "So Ned sends you to get my blessing has he. Well you can tell him he has it. Seven hells he can build a fucking statue of himself in the middle of Kings Landing for all I care. Well that is as long there is one of me to." He laughs even harder at his own joke.

Lelouch give a light laugh to at this but then says. "No, my king my father didn't send me here to ask for your blessing. He sent me here to ask if you will join us on this great building project. My father knows you would give him your blessing for anything he wished to do. Just like he would for you if your roles were reversed but how often does a opportunity comes along were you two can do something together like brothers.

Lelouch's words gets Roberts attention off the cup of wine he is drinking and the severing girl he is currently groping. "Ned wants to do this with me?" Robert questions with a wondering look on his face.

"Of course, my king. He feels this will be the greatest building project of the age and wishes for both yours name to talked about when people from all over the known world come to see it." Lelouch pauses for then adds in "Plus what better way to get back at the Frays for what they did doing the war."

The the first thing Lelouch said had Robert thinking about it but the last thing is what makes him wish to do it.

"I don't understand what did the Frays did to the Starks to make your father wish to get back at them?" Questions little Tommen.

At his question Robert's slams his fist on the table making it shake with some of the power he use to have back in the days of his youth. "Those fucking cunts kept the armies of the North delayed by months doing the war that is what those fuckers did. If it was not for them the war could have ended sooner and she would be with me right now."

Everyone knows who Robert is talking about for it is no big secret that even to this day Robert still yearn for Lyanna Stark.

"With is why my king my father is going to name the bridge in her honor." The room was already quite at the beginning of this conversation but now it is deadly quite and no one says a thing in fear upsetting the king. "Jeremiah show the king my plans."

Jeremiah does at told and takes out the plans from the waist and goes towards the king and lays them out for him to see.

When Robert eyes look at the plans in wonder. He is not a builder and has no eye for art but even he can tell from what he is seeing that this would be one of the great wonders of the known world. Each piece of paper giving details on now it will be build and what it would look like when done. It would be built from white stone will the lined with marble statues of his beloved that will go from one end to the other. The bridge would even have a roof over the top of it with engravings on the inside of it. This bridge would truly be the perfect dedication of his love for Lyanna.

"My father wishes to call it Lyanna's Bridge." Lelouch says with a smile.

"No." Robert says in a broken voice. "No, The Winter Rose Bridge will be its name. It was her favorite flower. Jon sees to the details." Robert then stands and for the first time in years he leaves a feast without some women on his arms.

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And that is the end of this chapter.

I really have nothing to say about this chapter other then it didn't go like I wanted it to but sets things up for the next chapter. I feel like I could have done better and that goes for the end of this chapter big time.

Oh and something about Robert. I have all ways felt he loved the ideal of being in love with Lyanna. He would have tried to change but couldn't really do it in the end but becomes he did love her in his own way I feel he would have know a bit about her. Like what color she like best, what flower she like best. You know small things like that.