Grew Worm did not like being here standing on the deck of one of his queen's many ships, overlooking the city. He did not like standing and waiting. He wanted to be there killing his queen's enemies. But his queen asked him to lead a few ships to this part of the bay and make sure none escape the city.
As he was waiting, he took out his Myrish far eye and looked again at the direction of Kings Landing, he almost missed it but he saw a small boat leaving from a small rock formation at the base of the cliff where the red keep stands.
So he ordered his men to sail forward to capture the boat. He can see that the people in the boat finally noticed the approaching ships and tried to steer the boat to land, but they were too far.
As the ship becomes level with the small boat, Grey Worm had archers ready to fire at the boat at any moment notice.
He saw three people in the boat, one is an old man in brown robes, the other was a man in gold and red armor with a golden hand, and the final was a woman in a black dress with a lion on it and most importantly she was wearing a crown.
Grey worm realized who these people are and how his queen must have known that they will try to escape and asked him to monitor the bay.
After they were manhandled into the boat with the Lannister woman screaming threats, they were all put in chains and then they headed to the docks to be presented to the queen.
Daenerys was sitting on the Iron throne, it was an ugly chair made from the melted sword, she guessed it will be really uncomfortable if she was not wearing her armor.
The room was a bit dark for her taste, obviously Aegon the conqueror and the Targaryen's who built it wanted the room to seem intimidating and grand to any visitor.
She looked around at the lion sigil of House Lannister, which was everywhere in the room, on the windows, hanging from the ceiling, and in the decorations. That will have to change.
Then she got up and went to inspect the rest of the red keep using her magic sensory skills to find all the secret passages.
After a couple of hours exploring the red keep which she was joined halfway through by her unsullied guards she arrived at the vault and she found that there was barely any coin left, she shook her head at Cersei Lannisters stupidity, she was more arrogant and foolish then Draco Malfoy.
After she finished with the vault which did not take long, she went to check the grain stores and was relieved to find them full, in fact, they were overflowing she noted with disgust while the people outside were starving.
She then requested that her captains and the lords sworn to her be assembled to be addressed in the courtyard.
Once she arrived there, she found every one of the lords and her captains were assembled waiting for her so she stopped at the top step and addressed them. So she put subtle magic so they will be able to hear her clearly without the amplifying effects
"My loyal soldiers my lords the day is ours," she said and paused as the lord burst into cheering and hollering, the Dothraki were screaming and waving their Arakhs, and the unsullied started bashing their spears in the ground. After the cheering died down she continued "Today dawn a new age on Westeros and age of prosperity and peace, and age of justice and freedom, and age where we can all look to the future for hope for our families and our children, today is the start of a strong and unified Westeros" she paused for dramatic effect "Today we will celebrate our victory against the Tyranny of the Lannisters and the Liberation of the people of Westeros, and tomorrow we will begin working to ensure the future of a unified and strong Westeros" she looked at the expectant audience "Let the celebrations BEGIN"
The fastest way to get starving and poor people on her side is to feed them, and as she made sure that none of the smallfolk was taken advantage of during the attack. Unlike what happened when the Lannister sacked the city where the Lannister soldiers killed, raped and looted their way through kings landing she gave orders to her unsullied to make sure the Westerosi don't do anything of the sort and anyone who disobeyed her orders will be executed as she needs to make an example of people who disobey her.
She also ordered the Dothraki to do the same and she was sure none of them will disobey her especially as they now respect and fear her due to her martial powers.
Now that the battle is over, she ordered the vast amounts of Alcohol in the Red keep stores to be distributed to the people of kings landing, as well as enough food to feed them.
That night the people of Kings Landing celebrated their new queen, people were eating and drinking in the streets, unsullied and Dothraki were seen distributing food and drink to the people. For some of the people it was their first meal in some time.
Daenerys made sure that the Unsullied and the Dothraki be seen around the city keeping the peace and distributing food to endear the people to them.
She also ordered them to patrol and make sure that the citizens are kept safe and the celebration did not get out of hand.
She removed her helmet but kept her armor and went to celebrate with the people so that they can see her.
While nobody approached her as she walked amongst the people, they all bowed or raised a goblet to her as she walked.
Finally, she went to a table that has been hastily set up to accommodate her and the nobles who were clearly not comfortable and not used to sit around the smallfolk and celebrate with them but did not dare to offend her by refusing.
The party carried through till the next morning.
The next morning dawned on Kings Landing, and the people were still in high spirits after last night.
Food has started flowing into the city from the Reach and Dorne, which was requested previously by Daenerys so relief can begin immediately after the battle.
The people were walking around the street with no signs of fear. The Unsullied were seen patrolling the streets.
She ordered some of her people to set up a large stage in the tourney grounds where she will address the people in three days once things calmed down and the nobles from the Reach, Dorne, Stormlands, Iron Islands, and Crownlands arrived to publicly swear fealty in front of all their nobles and the people of kings landing. She will also address the people and lay down the laws that she will change or create.
And personally she can't wait for Arianne Martell to get here as she needed relief and missed her current lover.
The next three days saw the return of life to Kings landing. Fishing ships can be seen in the bay. The market and shops were open. Business was returning to the capital as lords from all over were coming to the city, even some lords from the Riverlands were seen arriving.
Inns are being filled, blacksmiths were working hard on mending and creating weapons, bakeries were selling their wares, and markets were thriving on the influx of people and end of the war in kings landing and the oppressive presence of the Lannisters.
All the city watch and the Lannister soldiers who surrendered were imprisoned awaiting judgment.
Every day the mood increased, and the people become more receptive to the Targaryen Banners flying around the city and the dragons flying above the city.
The third day saw a huge crowd descending on the large tourny grounds where a giant wooden stage with Targaryen banners has been set up, the stage has a set of steps at the front where people can go up.
Wooden benches were prepared for the nobles in half circle formation in front of the stage. There were more than a dozen rows of benches.
After the benches, there was a big area where people can stand.
By mid-morning the place was full of nobles from the Reach led by Lady Olenna Tyrell and her family including ser Garlan Tyrell and ser Willas Tyrell, the reach lords included the Hightowers, the Ashfords, Oakhearts, and Redwynes among many others then there was the lords from Dorne led by princess Arianne Martell who was accompanied by the sand snakes, then there were the remaining lords from the Crownlands and Strormlands.
There were also some surprising visitors, most of the lords from the Riverlands have come to pledge fealty including house Tully perhaps after hearing about kings landing and after receiving ravens that the dragon queen sent to all lords to attend and pledge their fealty or be considered enemies of the crown they decided to cut their fealty to the north, not like the north did anything for them.
There were also surprises like the young lord Monterys Velaryon from Driftmark. Also, John and ser Davos decided to come and attend the event.
The clearing was also filled with smallfolk, merchants, Masesters, septons ans septas, landed knights, hedge knights, traders and many more. The clearing had thousands of people coming to see and hear the new queen of the seven kingdoms.
It was also filled with unsullied who were there to protect the queen and make sure everything goes smoothly.
Daenerys walked down the path leading to the wooden steps of the stage wearing a blue dress with shining silver and gold armor. The armor consisted of a chest polished silver chest piece with gold highlights, and the red three-headed dragon of House Targaryen in the middle. Artfully decorated shoulder protectors. She had two pieces of armor protecting her legs at each side. And arm pieces. She was also wearing a white and gold cape with fur at the top. She had her sword strapped to her waist and on her head a jewel-encrusted golden crown in the shape of dragons with three large spikes at the front with a big red jewel in the center. All in all she looked like a warrior goddess descended from heaven.
As she walked everyone went down on one knee except the unsullied which stood at their assigned posts. She walked up the stage and stood up and looked down at the crowd, "you may rise". She had put the same enchantment on her voice that allowed her to be heard all across the clearing without the loudness that the sonorous charm provides.
"My lords, My Ladies my people I thank you for attending this momentous occasion when things are finally put to right in the seven kingdoms and justice prevails" she looked down at the masses and paused for effect, they were hanging on to her every word, and in the background, her dragons can be seen flying around and circling the area, the only other person on the stage was Missandei who was also wearing a white and gold dress and was looking at her queen with pride " Today you all here to bear witness to the return of the Targaryen's to their rightful place as rulers of the seven kingdoms, today I Daenerys of house Targaryen claim the iron throne as the queen of the seven kingdoms, Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men and protector of the realm"
All the attendees knelt again while shouting "long live the queen" "long live the queen" "long live the queen"
"you may rise" she said and they all stood up and those who had seats sat on the benches.
"I will have every lord and lady pledge of fealty right here in front of all their peers and people, in the sight of gods and men," She said
"my queen pardon me, but you must be coronated first" spoke a fat man in white robes
The clearing went into a hushed silence.
"and you are" Daenerys said looking at the fat self-important man
"I am the high Septon your grace" the man replied
"and what coronation are you talking about high Septon? " Daenerys asked with a raised eyebrow
"the faith must proclaim you the queen and coronate you and bless you with the seven holly oils to ensure that your rein is long and prosperous," the man said self importantly like she would start groveling any minute to appease him.
"and which faith is that?" she said
"The faith of the seven your grace" he said in a voice that suggested she was mentally infirm.
"Did not the faith of the seven proclaim Robert Baratheon the rightful king of the seven kingdom, did the faith not proclaim the ill born Joffrey hill as the rightful king of the seven kingdoms, and then his brother and then the madwoman Cersei Lannister" Daenerys said sarcastically "The high septons have no credibility you used the faith of the people to use them and enrich yourselves, tell me how many gold coins do I have to give you to proclaim me the rightful queen"
She grabbed a few coins and threw them at his feet.
The nobles looked aghast at the disrespect she was showing the high septon, although she doubted anyone here respected him. The smallfolk just watched in silence.
The man turned red from her accusation and disrespect "I will not have you stand there and disrespect the Gods" he shouted spit flying from his mouth
"I did not disrespect the Gods I disrespected you because you and your elk do not deserve respect" she turned towards the people "Do you see my people how when not offered enough coin he proclaimed to be a god" the crowd jeered at the high septon "if you are chosen by the gods then I will need proof before accepting your counsel"
"What proof do you need? I am the voice of the seven in this world" he said angrily
She nodded at two of the unsullied who came to the high septon grabbed his arms and dragged him up the steps.
"if you are really the voice of the gods then they will not let any harm come to you" she said as the septon faced her on the stage, he was shaking with fear now "do you not agree?"
"The gods protect the faithful your grace, please," he said babbling
"good then all you have to do is land safely," she said with a pleasant smile, he shot her a confused look
Suddenly Drogon dove and grabbed the man in his legs and took off with the screaming septon into the air, the crowd shouted as the huge dragon took to the air and the wind from his wings nocked many of them to the ground.
The dragon ascended into the sky and once he reached a certain point released the screaming septon who never stopped screaming until he hit the ground with a splat in front of the stage just as Daenerys wanted. Some of the blood sprayed on the nobles sitting close by but they were rooted to their chairs like statues.
"its seems that the gods did not care for him" Danerys finally said
"those septons have abused their positions for so long " she turned and proclaimed passionately to the people " they claim to speak for the gods and then they take the money from the faithful to enrich themselves, it is for this that I Daenerys Targaryen proclaim that from this day forward that any holly man or woman who takes money from anyone no matter their station is doing an illegal act punishable by death, those men and woman will no longer be allowed to steal from good folks to enrich themselves"
The smallfolk started cheering for here as most of them did not really care about the septons, especially those in kings landing who were all corrupt.
"and as I am the queen of the seven kingdoms where many people practice different faiths, I hear by put into law that any man or woman under my rule will be free to practice whatever faith they want and worship whomever they want to be it the seven, the old gods, the red gods, or any gods they desire and I as your queen will protect the rights of my people to freely choose their faith"
As she finished her dragons roared loudly in the sky and the people were quick to applaud and cheer for here. She also might have cast a few subtle sheering charm and week loyalty charms to help move things along faster.
"now that this is out of the way, as you know there were a lot of prisoners taken, and as your queen I will start with ensuring justice is met, my soldiers also caught Jamie Lannister and his sister the mad Cersei and her hand and they will meet justice in front of all the witness here" as she said this there was a sudden explosion of cheers and shouts and calls for their death, their beheading their hanging and even their burning though that was only a few small folks. The lords were happy that the Lannister's will face justice at last.
"but before we start, I will have your pledge of fealty right now" she said and Missandei came forward with a scroll. The scroll was a heavily enchanted magical contract, and a blood quill she enchanted to draw blood without any pain or discomfort and no visible markings.
The first to move up the steps was Arianne Martell, she was wearing a bright yellow dress, and she moved with a regal grace up the steps an knelt in front of the dragon queen " I princess Arianne of house Martell do hereby vow to serve Queen Daenerys and house Targaryen from now till the end of time, I pledge that Dorne will always come to her aid and fight with her to defeat her enemies" she said while kneeling.
"Rise Princess Arianne Lady paramount of Dorne" Daenerys said with a smile at her lover. Then she gestured towards the scroll. It was a pledge of fealty contract with places for signatures, Arianne looked confused but signed without fuss.
Then she was followed by the other lords and ladies of Dorne, after that the Reached moved to swear their fealty led by Willas Tyrell as the new lord paramount of the Reach, then the Stormlords and the lords from the Crownlands came and pledged their fealty though she did not appoint any of the lord paramount's as traditionally the Crownlands were under the preview of the crown and so were now the Stormlands until she found someone trustworthy.
Each person who sworn fealty was made to sign the contract.
After all the lords sworn fealty a hush went through the crowd as Lord Edmure Tully came up the steps and knelt in front of her "I lord Edmure Tully lord of Riverrun and Lord paramount of the River Lands do herby pledge my loyalty to Queen Daenerys Targaryen and to house Targaryen from now until the end of time"
There was silence as the queen did not say anything and just looked at the man kneeling in front of her. She read the minds of everyone who came before her and this man was to put it simply useless. He did not know how to fight, he did not know how to run a castle or how to run a kingdom.
The crowd began whispering to each other at the long pause. Finally Daenerys said " Lord Tully I will accept your pledge as Lord of Riverrun but I will not be accepting your pledge nor will I be appointing you lord paramount of the Riverlands"
Lord Tully looked like someone hit him over the head with a club, in fact the other lords in attendance looked on with open mouths, never in the history of Westeros did a lord or monarch refuse a pledge of loyalty.
"My lady the Tullys have been Lord paramount's of the Riverlands for hundreds of years" Lord Tully stuttered.
"I know my history lord Tully, your house was appointed as Lord paramount by my ancestors, and what has your house did in that time? Nothing, they could not rule the Riverlands, and they betrayed their king and took arms against them" Daenerys said and was about to continue when Edmure protested
"My family fought the mad king your grace, we had no choice he would have destroyed our family"
Daenerys paused "Really, correct me if I am wrong but from what I know my father mad though he was did not mention your family, he wanted the Arryns and the starks did he not, your family joined so that it can place its two daughters as ladies Stark and Arryn" she raised her hands to stop his protest, by now all the lords and smallfolk were staring with rapt attention at what was happening " but I know that my father was mad and I forgive those who fought honorably against him and that's why I am ready to leave you as lord of Riverrun"
A confused look appeared on his face which just enforced her decision to make sure this idiot does not control a whole kingdom.
"But your family failed to protect the Riverlands when the Lannister invaded, and from the reports I have been getting the Riverlands have been overrun with bandits, people are starving, villages are raided and you have done nothing to address these concerns" Daenerys said sternly at the kneeling lord.
"your grace it was the Freys that betrayed my nephew and brought ruin to the Riverlands" said Edmure
"The Freys have all been killed in their castle by unknown assailant, what have you done since then to help your people?" when he opened and closed his mouth apparently have nothing to say "you failed to protect your people, you failed to provide aid for your people, you failed to govern your lords, and under my reign failure will not be rewarded, from this day forward house Tully is no longer the Lords paramount of the Riverland" she looked at the River lords assembled in front of her and at the people "Does anyone have any objections?"
Nobody spoke in defense of their former lord. After Edmure stood in a daze and signed the magical contract and went to sit back down.
The River lords then pledged their fealty to the new queen and went and sat down.
"your grace who will be the new lord paramount of the Riverlands?" asked one of the River lords.
"I will not be appointing one at the moment, I will wait and observe those who show loyalty to me and those who will help bring peace to the Riverlands" she said and she could see the greed in their eyes 'good now I will be able to use those useless lords to put the Riverlands to order' she thought.
After all the lords in attendance were sworn in, she moved to discuss the situation in Kings landing.
"In order to prepare for winter I hereby open the kings wood for any hunter from kings landing to hunt game and for builders to collect timber to help with the repairs" after she said this there was a cheer from the small folks as winter was coming and this will help them collect meat, leather and furs.
"I will also send aid to the farms and villages in the crownlands to help support the city and buy crops for the city stores for winter" she announced " I will also enlist a lot of workers to help fix areas of the city such as flea bottom, this will create work for my people and make sure that everyone have a place to survive the winter"
After the cheering died down she continued " but before we start rebuilding we must ensure that justice is served so we can move on and create a better future for all of us, bring in the first prisoner"
Two unsullied guards came dragging a gold cloak captain up to the stage, he was wearing dirty clothes and he had dirt on his face and hair, he was forced to kneel in front of the queen. As soon as he was in front of her he immediately began pleading "please my queen, I will bend the knee, I will take the black"
Daenerys looked at the sniveling worm, she already read his mind and knew he used to take bribes, harass the people, rape women and use his position to bully and torture the smallfolk. So she raised a hand for silence.
"the duty of the gold cloaks when created by house Targaryen was to protect the city and its people and keep order and peace in the city, if you followed your oaths and did your duty then I will be happy to accept your fealty and you will be given your old post as a captain in the gold cloaks, but if you went against your oaths then" she said as two other unsullied moved a chopping block and put it on the stage.
"Now stand and face the people, we will let the people you are supposed to protect decide your fate" she said and paused for effect, of course she already read his mind and she was going to execute him anyway but she wanted the smallfolk to feel like she was giving them justice and protecting them, and by the end of this day they will be calling her Daenerys the just she smirked mentally "People of kings landing, this man here swore an oath to protect you and keep the peace in the city if any of you have evidence or can say that this man did not follow that oath then step forward so this man can face the queens justice" she said an a strong and demanding voice.
There was silence after that as she stood waiting and the gold cloaks captain was standing between two unsullied in chains.
Time ticked as she stood waiting, after a few minutes a woman carrying a small babe moved out of the crowd of smallfolk and walked down the path to stand in front of the stage and bowed deeply "your grace "
"Thank you for coming forward to see justice done" and Daenerys meant it, this woman had much courage as smallfolk usually avoided nobility at all cost let alone a queen with three dragons "speak truthfully about this mans actions" she said simply while layering compulsion charms in her voice to help the obviously frightened woman along.
"my queen, this man forced himself on me and threatened to kill my child If I did not pay him every week," she said in a rush and then apparently lost her courage and stood there clutching her child to her chest.
"shes lying your grace she is a whore" the man spat shouting wildly
Daenerys already know this as she read her mind but she asked, "Are you a whore?"
"yes your grace" she sounded defeated like Deanerys is going to dismiss her now. But Daenerys admired her courage and would not dismiss the first person to come up out of the smallfolk, besides she knew that what the woman said was true.
"you swore an oath to protect the people of kings landing and to maintain the piece, you broke your oath and for that I sentence you to death" Daenerys said drawing her sword.
The unsullied immediately moved the shouting and crying man to the block and pushed him down. And with one swing of the word his head was separated from his body.
Then she said "take his coin and possessions and give them to the woman as a compensation for her suffering"
"thank you, thank you, your grace, may the gods bless you your grace" she said weeping as the unsullied moved her gently to an area where they gave her a pouch of gold.
That set the trend for the next few hours where the captains and leaders of the gold cloaks were brought and executed, as most of them were corrupt. More and more of the small folk became brave enough to step up and accuse their tormentors and after the execution, the gold from the accused went to those he used to torment. One of the smallfolk tried to lie to get some coins but he was also executed as an example of lying to royalty and no one after him tried to tell falsehoods.
After the last one was executed and the body and head removed from the stage, the unsullied came dragging a man who obviously tried to put up a fight and he was being escorted by two Dothraki.
Daenerys immediately recognized him as the man that was with Jamie Lannister and from what she guessed he was the leader of the gold cloaks.