WAR OF THE LONG NIGHT

To my father the Emperor of the East and West

Father our worst fears have come true. The old legends are real and the White Walkers are a threat…Please come with all haste and bring Jossette, we will have need of her power as well. I shall hold them off for as long as I can with the men I have…

With Regards and love

Your Son King Darius Palidyn

"No!" His wife Victoria says after Galarad tells her of Darius' message.

He sighs, "We need her if we are to defeat the White Walkers. I'm sorry Victoria."

"Promise me she will return safely. Promise me that you all will return safely."

He sighs, "You know I can't promise that, but I will do my best to make sure it happens."

She shakes her head, "Go with my blessing and come back safely."

They make love before he leaves on a ship called Dorran's Glory.

DARIUS – CASTLE BLACK

He had sent word to his brother in the capital, to send another fifty thousand men North, by ship. They were to land in White Harbor. The Free Folk were now south of the wall. When Mance told Darius about Craster. He sent men to the Keep. Craster was killed and the women bought to Castle Black. He made them all his wards. When Darius wasn't getting ready for the attack he would write his wife Daenarys.

Darius is on the wall with ten members of the Royal Guard. "Your Grace Prince Aegon." Ser Arthees says announcing him.

Darius smiles, Jon had decided to be acknowledged as Prince Aegon Targaryen. No longer a bastard. "Aegon what brings you up here?"

"Restlessness…and I heard rumors that a certain royal was on guard duty."

"No matter what your title or rank in life, never be above doing something you expect of others. My Grandfather would do guard duty and even cook the servants on their name days. And if a servant's name day fell on the same day as one of his children, they would celebrate with them as well."

"I will remember that." They talk for few more hours and then go down the lift to get some soup. Another week would pass before the reinforcements Darius sent for would arrive. Darius allows Aegon to organize the reinforcements.

"Your Grace…May I speak with you?"

"You must be Peryr Baelish…My brother's description of you was spot on."

"Your brother?"

"Lord Varys…He was my father's Ward…We are like brothers."

"I see…" He walks away as Darius smiles behind his back.

Darius is in the King's tower when the horn sounds. He waits and there is a second blast. He gets up grabbing his sword and belting it as the horn sounds for a third time. Castle Black comes to life. Nine more lifts had been built on Darius' orders so that men could get to the top of the wall faster. He, Aegon, Eddard, and Mance ride up together. When they arrive they look down and spot Walkers on dead horses coming out of the forest. Soon thousands upon thousands of Wights come out of the darkness with a snow storm following.

Darius' eyes turn blue and he looks at the approaching snow clouds. "HOTAUTH!" His voice dispels the snow storm. The Wights on the ground stare up at him. One of them dismounts his horse and takes out an ice spear. He throws it up at the wall aiming for Darius. One of the royal guards steps in the path of the spear holding a broad square shield. The spear goes through the shield killing the man.

Darius sneers as his eyes turn red, DRACARYS!" A plum of fire flies from his mouth and as it travels towards the dead army, it gets bigger. The snow melts and hundreds of Wights are incinerated. "Light it up! Fire at will!" The catapults hurl barrels of wild fire and flaming pitch at the enemy. Huge explosions rip up the ground and incinerate thousands of Wights.

The flames are extinguished by the Walkers. Darius nods to Eddard, "Archers!" A hail of flaming and dragonglass tipped arrows fly at the enemy. Two Walkers are destroyed by the Dragonglass arrows. The Wights start to retreat back to the forest. Darius looks at Mormont and nods. "CALVARY CHARGE!"

From the left and right flanks Khal Drogo leads the charge into the forest armed with weapons made of Dragonglass. They ride into the forest; not long after the wales of the undead fill the air, accompanied by the screeches of dying horses. As time passes the clouds gather again in the sky and the snow starts to fall. A fog covers the forest and then men start riding back out of the forest in retreat. "Archers cover their retreat." Darius orders, but no one follows them out.

"My King we lost many men and horses." A man says reporting to Darius on the wall. The waited for hours and the Wights did not attack again. Darius uses his voice to clear the fog.

"Looks like they have gone." Mormont says.

"Yes, but where?"

EASTWATCH BY THE SEA

Cotter Pyke is in command of Eastwatch, while Lord Asher Forrester of the East commands the Palidyn forces. He had been sent into exile by his father for brawling. He caught the attention of Prince Darius, the two became friends and he earned a place in the royal court of the East. Small Jon Umber was there as well commanding the Northmen and Tormund is commanding the Free Folk. All four shared command, but Asher was in overall command.

"Any word from Castle Black?" Tormund asks.

"Not since the last message about the attack." Maester Durmyn replies. Eleven days had passed since the battle at Castle Black.

They are all sitting at evening meal in the main hall, "No news is good news." Asher says.

They stop eating when the horn sounds. Everyone jumps up grabbing their weapons. The horn sounds for second time and then a third. When all four commanders make it to the top of the wall, the Commanding officer at the top of the wall points. "They're just out of range of our weapons, my Lords…Looks like they trying to freeze the sea."

Asher looks through his spy glass, "No…" He says shaking his head, "They're trying to build a land bridge around the wall across the water. All they can do is watch as the Night King and his Walkers freeze water to walk across.

"We can't just let them make a bridge." Cotter Pyke says.

"No have the men collapse as many catapults as they can and rebuild them a quarter of a mile from the shore." The soldiers rush to carry out his orders while Archers line up on the shore just in case the catapults aren't built in time. By the time the bridge is halfway built, the defenders have four catapults ready.

EMPEROR GALARAD

The fleet was five days away from Eastwatch, as Galarad has men on the oars at all times and sails at full. The fleet is made up of six ships. There were no threats on the water, not even pirates. Dorran had them hunted down long ago and pirating is illegal. "You were right father…It is cold up North in the West." Jossette says.

"They call the lands beyond the wall the Lands of always winter."

"Yes father I know. I have studied the maps of Westeros." She replies. Jossette is now 14 name days old.

"So are there any young men I need have put in the dungeons?"

She smiles. "Arylla told me about the first young man who tried to gain her favor and win your trust."

"He only wanted to be seen with a Princess. The little shit."

"And yet you allowed her to marry Prince Viserys."

"That was her idea, not mine."

When they reach Eastwatch, the castle is under siege from both sides of the wall. "Captain get us as close as you can!" Galarad orders. The ships start firing at the Wights on the land bridge and the ones on the south side of the wall. Galarad looks at Jossette, "Together."

She nods as their eyes turn red. "DRACARYS!" They both say at the same time. The fire shout destroys the Wights on the ice bridge and melts it. The three Walkers on the bridge sink into the water. A Giant Wight picks up a bolder and hurls it at Galarad's ship. Jossette looks up as the bolder is coming down. "HOTAUTH!" She screams shattering the bolder

Father and daughter combine their powers again, their eyes turn blue. "HOTAUTH!" The blast is directed North of the wall. Trees are ripped up, rotting flesh and fresh that had been recently animated is pulverized. Walking skeletons are shattered, the Night King and his Walkers are thrown to the ground.

"My bow!" Galarad commands. His Squire hands him his bow. He nocks a Volyrian steel arrowhead and aims at the Night King who is slow to stand up. Galarad releases the arrow and its sails from the deck of his ship across the water, then the shore, and strikes the Night King in the upper back. He howls as his body turns to ice and it shatters. The Walkers shatter as well and Wights stop moving.

A thunderous cheer echoes from Eastwatch and the men on the ships. "Father you did it! You killed the Night King."

He smiles, "We did it." He signals a ship and it sails off to Pentos to send a prepared message to Empress Victoria Palidyn. Galarad rests for a day at Eastwatch, then he, Jossette, and the Royal Guard head for Castle Black. As they travel the snow starts to fall, but Galarad and Jossette use their fire voice to clear a path.

"Father." As Father and Son hug, the men of the Watch, the Northerners, and the Imperials bend the knee. "Little sister, my how you have grown."

"Rise." Galarad command.

"Mother stayed behind?"
"Yes, but when she hears of our victory, she will probably come here."

After introductions the Emperor and King meet with Mormont and the commanders of the Watch. "We have decided not to disband the Watch, but there will be major changes." The men of the Watch are allowed to marry from now on, though their sons and daughters will remain at the wall. Women serving as cooks and servants, unless they show skill with weapons. No more will criminals be allowed to join the Watch for a pardon. Both Galarad and Darius try to convince the Free Folk to stay below the wall but they decide to head back North.