A LION ROARS AGAIN

TYRION

Tyrion stands beside his Dragon as the guards bring Ilyrio Mopatis in chains to him. His nephews Joffrey and Tommen are with him along with Myrcella. They are to fly with him on Joa. The rest of the family will travel by ship to return to Casterly Rock. "Is this the way I am to die? By Dragonfire?"

"No Magister, your death will take place at the Rock." They put Mopatis in a harness beneath Joa, then he places Myrcella, Joffrey, and Tommen in the saddle. Myrcella sits in front of him. Once everyone is secure Tyrion orders Joa to fly. Myrcella screams are loud as they climb into the air. Mopatis screams just as loud as Myrcella's and vomits.

Joffrey manages not to scream, while Tommen closes his eyes, but opens them after the Dragon levels off. "Wow how high are we?" Myrcella asks.

"Two thousand feet high, I would guess." Tyrion replies.

"Can we go higher?" Tommen asks.

Tyrion smiles, "Of course we can. Joa higher." as they fly the land passes by below as they head west. They fly through the day and night, but land so that everyone can relieve themselves. They also eat a small snack before mounting back up.

"Where are we?" Tommen asks.

Tyrion had pulled out a map before mounting up again. "We are a few miles south from the fork of the blackwater rush." He folds the map up and mounts Joa. When they reach Deep Den, He stops so that the children can sleep in a bed and rest properly. Mopatis is placed in a cell. Two days later they leave and do not stop until they reach Casterly Rock.

Tyrion and the children are greeted by their Uncle Kevan Lannister. "Tyrion?" He had been sent word of Tyrion's transformation. But had not believed it until now.

Ser Addam is the Captain of the House Guard. After a day of rest Tyrion summons him and the Maester to his solar. "Gentlemen I have a strange, but I it need fulfilled all the same. I need my mother's remains removed from the crypt and bought to a special room." Even though they did find the request odd, they do as their lord commands.

"What is this? What are you going to do to me?" Mopatis fearfully asks as they bring him into an empty room beneath the Keep.

"You were sentenced to death, by the King. Your death will serve a purpose." Tyrion's men tie the Magister to a table with a grate on it. Beneath the table are wood and hay. Once on the table Tyrion takes the jar of blood and pours some over his mother's corpse, then Mopatis. Next, he cuts his hand and smears blood on his mother, then on Mopatis.

Tyrion starts speaking in Old Valyrian as he takes a torch from the Maester. "By the gods please don't do this!" Tyrion ignores his pleas and lights the wood and hay. The fire gets bigger and Mopatis' clothes start to burn. "AAAHHH! AAAHHH! AAAHHH!" He screams as his body starts to burn. As he burns Joanna's body starts to rejuvenate.

Her hair grows back, her grey mummy like skin is restored, and her eyes fill in. Tyrion had removed the robes she was buried in and placed a large blanket on her body. She starts breathing and her eyes open. Joanna sits up and looks at Tyrion, "Who are you?"

"My name is Tyrion Lannister...I am your son."

She smiles, "Tyrion." They hug, "Where is your father, sister, and brother?"

"I have something to tell you." He takes her to a room via the secret passages. As they walk he tells her how he bought her back to life. He tells her that seventeen years have passed. He tells her about the masked Dragon. Tyrion has food bought to his mother and they eat together.

"Are you married? Is there someone special?"

He smiles, "Yes mother. Her name is Lynesse Hightower."

"I can't wait to meet her."

"You should know that she was married once before."

"Do you love her?"

He nods, "I do."

"Does she love you?"

"Yes."

"Then that is all that matters."

Tyrion is able to spend every day with his mother. They agreed not to tell Kevan, Joffrey, Myrcella, and Tommen, until the rest of the family had returned. There is a dumbwaiter in Joanna's room and she is sent food and books by the waiter. Tyrion draws her baths himself. When she wants to get out of the room, Joanna uses the secret passageway to leave.

Tyrion and his mother walk along the beach at night and they play chess. His mother is very good. The ship carrying Cersei, Jaime, Genna, Garion, and Bronn arrive a three months and two weeks after he did. Tyrion, Kevan, Dorma, Emmon, Lancel, Joffrey, Myrcella, Tommen, and their cousins are all waiting to greet them.

"Welcome home." Tyrion says to them all.

"It's good to be home." Genna says hugging Tyrion.

"Little brother." Jaime says.

"Not so little anymore." They hug. "Cersei."

"Tyrion."

They did not hug, but perhaps her attitude will change when he shows her his secret. "Uncle." Gerion and Tyrion hug.

"After everyone gets settled. I have a surprise for all of you." After all the greetings are done, they head to Casterly Rock. They all gather in the dining hall. Tyrion stands up, "I have something to tell all of you. As you all know I have Targaryen blood."

"A bastard who should not rule the Rock." Cersei says.

"I was legitimized by the King, but before we get off topic. The King returned his parents to the living and he shared the ritual with me. A ritual I used to bring our mother back to life." Tyrion rings the bell and Joanna enters the dining hall.

"Mother." Cersei says.

"Hello everyone."

Cersei feints, but Jaime catches her. "Mother!" Joffrey and Tommen run around the table to help their mother.

"Joanna...You...you're alive." Genna says walking slowly from her seat. She touches her arm.

"I am real sis."

They hug, as the Maester comes in to help Cersei. "Mother." Jaime tearfully says joining his aunt and mother.

"Joffrey, Myrcella, Tommen, come say hello to your grandmother. Lancel, Martyn, Willem, Jenai, Tytos, Walder, Tygett come say hello to your Aunt Joanna."

"Am I dreaming?" Cersei asks when she wakes up.

"No, My lady, you are not dreaming." Maester Craylen says helping her up.

"Mother!" Joffrey runs over to help.

JOANNA

After everyone settles down, they all sit around the table to eat, questions are asked by everyone. "Did you see the gods?" Myrcella asks.

Joanna smiles, "I do not remember sweetling. I do remember dying. I went somewhere. I remember being asked some questions and shown sone things. That is it. Then I awoke in a room with Tyrion and a dead burnt body."

"Mother I have missed you so much." Cersei says.

"I missed you as well my little lion. But not so little anymore. A lioness with her own lion cubs." She looks at Jaime, "And you my son. A member of the King's guard." He smiles.

"Yes mother...I am so sorry about."

"She doesn't remember that, Jaime.' Tyrion says interrupting.

Joanna frowns, "Remember what?"

"Tyrion, we should tell her." Genna says.

"Tell me what?"

Tyrion sighs, "Mother...While father was Hand of the King...Aerys...the Mad King...He raped you."

She gasps as the memory comes rushing back to her. "I remember." She says placing her hand over her mouth. Then she looks at Tyrion, "How did you..."

"King Jaehaerys...He reworked the ritual that bought you back to life so that you would not remember that. He also said that if we bought it up you would remember it. As for me, the King performed a ritual on me so that I would no longer be a Dwarf. Aerys was my father not Tywin. Also I am a Dragonrider."

She closes her eyes remembering that she had seduced Tywin to make him think Tyrion was his, "Does Tywin know?"

"No."

"I must go to him."

They try to talk her out of it, but are unable to. In the end, Tyrion will fly her to Winterfell and then go by horse to Castle Black. Cersei, Jaime, and Genna will also go. The trip to Winterfell takes a week on Dragon back stopping two times. Then they take a horse drawn carriage for Joanna, Genna, and Cersei. Tyrion and Jaime ride horses.

Tywin had been made second to arms under Ser Alliser, training recruits. They are in the yard, when Jaime and Tyrion ride in on horseback with a carriage. "Jaime, Tyrion, what brings the two of you here?"

"We have something to tell and show you father." Jaime says as Tyrion walks over to the carriage and stands by the door. "Mother...Our mother...The King showed Tyrion how to bring our mother back to life. She's in the carriage." Jaime nods to Tyrion and he opens the door.

Joanna gets out and looks at Tywin. He is older, but her heart still skips a beat at seeing him again.

TYWIN

When he sees her, Tywin falls to his knees. "Joanna? Joe...is it really you?" He asks with tears streaming down his cheeks. Tywin was not a man to show his emotions.

"Yes, it's me my great lion." She replies walking up to him. He wraps his arms around her waist and buries his face into her stomach. "Now stand up."

He does and showers her with kisses. Later they are given a room in the King's Tower since Jaime is a member of the King's guard. Tywin and Joanna are alone and all he wants to do is rip her clothes off and ravage her body. "I have something to tell you my love."

"What is it?" He asks touching her long, golden, hair.

"Aerys...Before he went mad, we were all friends. He confessed to me that he had feelings for me. This was after our betrothal was announced. I told him that I was in love with you and all we could ever be was friends...Then he became the Mad King and..."

He shakes his head, "No! No! I don't want to hear anymore."

"But you must."

He takes her hands, "Do you still love me?"

"Of course, I do."

"Jaime killed that mad bastard...And Tyrion, he gave you back to me. That is all that matters." They make love fulling years of passion. After Joanna falls asleep, Tywin gets up and goes looking for Tyrion. "Here you are."

Tyrion had just finished pissing off the top of the wall. "Father."

"Lannisters always pay their debts. I am deeply indebted to you for Joanna. So, I have come to apologize and ask you to forgive me for the way I treated you all these years. You have proven yourself to be a true Lannister, time and time again."

Tyrion takes a shaky deep, teary breath, "Thank you for saying that father."

"You are Joanna's son and that makes you, my son."

Tywin's family stays a week, then they leave to return to Casterly Rock. "Lord Tywin...Commander Mormont wishes to see you atop the wall." Mormont's steward says.

"I know the way."

"He commands me to bring you to him, My Lord."

They go up in the lift and when they arrive no one is there. "Is this a joke?"

"No...House Martell sends its regards." The Steward says and shoves Tywin over the side of the wall towards Castle Black. His twisted broken body is burned and the ashes are sent to Casterly Rock.