This chapter contains a lemon at the end, if you don't want to read it, just skip it and you won't miss anything.

The Chronicles of Valyria,

Book 1 Resurrection

Chapter 8

The journey from Dorne back to King's Landing took Aurora longer than it had taken her to get to Dorne. This was because she was carrying considerably more people than she had so far. Besides Doran and Oberyn, she was carrying Doran's guard, Areo Hotha, his daughter Arianne, his wife, Lady Mellario and the three daughter of Oberyn.

Gabrielle had been forced to make a number of adjustments to the saddle, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to take so many people with them. With twelve passengers, even with her massive size, Aurora's speed was noticeably slower than usual.

About two hours' march from the capital, they saw a column of men and horses. The host was moving towards the city and when they flew over, they recognized Lord Randyll riding at the head of the army. He saluted them, and signaled for them to land.

When Lord Randyll had made his way back to Highgarden, he had only 2,500 men with him. Most of his men were riding through the countryside, to gather what remained of the Tyrell army. And when they had passed the site of the massacre, he had left 2,500 men there, to count the dead and give them a proper burial.

He had ordered his men to stay out of the city, as he wasn't sure how the Tyrells would react to a northern army riding into their city. When he made it to the gates, wearing a thick woolen cape over his armor to ward off the night chill, he found the gates of the fortress firmly closed. When he demanded entrance, he was told, "Piss off you beggar," by the guards on the walls above the gates.

Randyll lowered the hood of his cape and said on a clear tone, "My name is Randyll Tarly, Lord of Horn Hill. I was sent here by His Grace, the King. You can tell your Master, Lord Mace, that I will return to his gates in half an hour, and if I don't find them open, I will ride back to the capital and tell the king about his betrayal." Without adding a further word, he turned his horse around and rode out of the city.

He returned to were the remainder of the men under his command were waiting and told them about the situation in the city. He concluded with the words, "Don't make any threatening movement and don't let yourself be baited. If things go wrong, we get the hell out of here and ask the King to send those Dragon riders here. See if the Fat Fool is still safe behind his walls then."

The Northmen laughed at his words, it was exactly their kind of humor and they were all curious as to what Lord Mace would do against two dragons, they all remembered the ruins of Harrenhall, which they had passed on the way south.

When it was time, Randyll told his men to mount up again and he led them into the city. The guards at the city gates were quickly taken out and bound and gagged if they resisted. When they reached the gates of the castle, they were still shut and ranks of archers were manning the battlements.

A voice came from above them and Randyll recognized it as that of mace Tyrell himself. "Who dares to bring an army before the walls of Highgarden? Do you not know who lives here?"

"I know all too well who lives here, Lord Mace. And as I told your guard before, I am Lord Randyll Tarly of Horn Hill and I was send here by the King. He asks you to come to King's Landing to receive the just reward for the loyalty and courage you have shown during the past year of war."

"YOU LIE," Lord mace yelled from above. "This is a trick to get me away from the safety of Highgarden. I see those rebels besides you 'Lord' Randyll Tarly, did you think I wouldn't recognize Northmen when I saw them. Have you turned cloak? What was the reward the usurper promised you? Would he make you Lord of Highgarden and warden of the South? I know you have long desired my position and the power I wield. But I will not come, no, you can tell that usurper that if he wants Highgarden, he can come here himself. Now be gone or I will order my men to shoot."

"You never were very smart, Lord Oaf, but this has to be the stupidest thing you have ever done. Beware Lord Mace, for the next envoys will not ask nicely." With that Lord Randyll once again turned his horse and followed by his men, he raced out of the city and back to King's Landing.

When Aurora landed before Lord Randyll, Gabrielle told the others to stay seated, while she quickly rolled out the rope and descended to the ground. Standing before Randyll she asked, "What is wrong?"

"The Fat Fool is refusing to leave Highgarden, and I'm not going to risk the lives of hundreds, if not thousands of men, trying to take one of the strongest castles in Westeros. I thought that maybe you and your partner would be so kind as to 'smoke him out'."

Gabrielle thought for a moment before she said, "Send your men ahead to the city, and wait here, I'll send Aurora back this way to pick you up, but I have to drop off a few passengers at the Red Keep."

Lord Randyll nodded and turned to his men before starting to give orders, while Gabrielle climbed back onto the saddle on Aurora.

"What was wrong?" Rhaella asked from behind her.

"Apparently Lord Mace Tyrell has barricaded himself in Highgarden and refuses to come out. Aurora and I are going to have to 'persuade' him, to come out and obey his King's orders."

Rhaella's answer was muffled by the cries of joy and fear from their passengers, as Aurora suddenly jumped into the sky and flew quickly towards the city where she landed before the Red Keep barely 5 minutes later.

When everyone had descended from the saddle, some a lot easier than others, Gabrielle turned to Rhaella and asked, "Would you please keep an eye on the twins? I have a feeling that they might get into trouble now that Oberyn's daughters are here as well."

Rhaella nodded in confirmation and said, "Of course, you just do what you need to do and get back here as soon as possible." Gabrielle bowed slightly before climbing back into the saddle and strapping herself in for the short trip to the Dragonpit.

Once Aurora had landed in the Dragonpit, Gabrielle quickly took the saddle from her back and Aurora turned back into her human form. Stretching her sore shoulders, she groaned, "Ohh I really need to get used to flying such distances again, and with that many passengers, it isn't exactly a joy."

"Stop whining already, you can let your frustration loose on the gates of Highgarden, because I am not going to fly anywhere near that place, until you take out any ballistae that might be present. I do not have the urge to be turned into a flying pincushion."

Aurora gave her wife a saucy smirk and said, "Oh really, I thought you liked it when I 'stab' you in certain places."

"Shut up, and help me get this saddle back in order." Gabrielle got a heavy blush but couldn't deny that Aurora was right. Her wife had magical fingers and she knew just how to use them.

Once the saddle was back in its usual form, Gabrielle changed into her dragon form and Aurora put the saddle on her. After she had put it in place, she climbed the rope and strapped herself in, before Gabrielle climbed the walls of the Dragonpit and jumped into the air from the edge.

It took Gabrielle only a few minutes to reach the spot where they had told Lord Randyll to wait for them. Even in the waning light of the evening, the eyesight of a dragon was formidable. They could tell a hare from a rabbit, from 5,000 feet high. And having heat-sensitive eyes wasn't exactly a downside either.

Gabrielle landed next to Lord Randyll and Aurora tossed him the rope while saying, "Climb on and we'll be off. With any luck we can surprise them and avoid a fight."

Lord Randyll climbed up and Aurora helped him to strap himself into the saddle before Gabrielle took off again. During the flight, Aurora asked Randyll about the defenses of Highgarden and he told her everything he knew.

"There are three rings of walls, one smaller wooden wall around the entire city, and two of stone. The firsts is 30 feet high and around the hill on which the fortress stands, the second is 25 feet high and goes around the top of the hill, protecting the inner keep. Each wall has numerous towers, but only the towers of the middle wall have ballistae and catapult mounted on them. However, there is a considerable garrison, which used to be around 1,500 men, half of which were either archers or crossbowmen. I don't know how strong dragon scales are, but we might have to strike the first blow if we don't want to be shot out of the sky."

Aurora could still feel the pain of the lances piercing her side and shoulder when she thought about it and she had no intention of risking her partner suffering the same fate. Turning in the saddle she said, "We only need to worry about the Ballistae and the catapults, normal arrows and bolts can't penetrate dragon scales. Her wings will be a target, but the structure of the wings makes it so that the arrows will go straight through, instead of tearing the membranes like they would with the wings of say, a bat."

The rest of the journey, which lasted about an hour, was spent in silence until they saw the softly illuminated shape of the castle of Highgarden. Aurora focused on her mental link with Gabrielle and looked through her eyes.

As Randyll had already told them, only the middle wall had towers with engines of war upon them. About half a dozen of each, ballistae and mangonels, were alternated on the towers and aimed at the fields surrounding the fortress.

They saw relatively few guards on the middle wall, which was fortunate as that meant there would be few casualties if it came to a confrontation. Aurora and Gabrielle mentally weighed the pro's and con's of a flyby over the towers and just burning the engines, as that would inevitably lead to casualties amongst the garrison, something they were very eager to avoid.

In the end it was decided that Aurora would jump off at a dark part of the wall and Gabrielle would stay out of sight until Aurora had cleared the wall by hand. Randyll would stay with Gabrielle, as his armor was much noisier than that of Aurora, and she needed to be as stealthy as possible.

The plan was executed without a hitch, Gabrielle flew quietly to a dark part of the wall, Aurora lowered herself to the wall with the help of the rope, and Gabrielle flew off again.

Aurora crept towards the first tower and snuck inside. She carefully climbed the stairs to the top of the tower and found the ballista to be unmanned. Making use of the opportunity, Aurora drew one of her daggers and cut the string of the great crossbow, disabling it from use until it could be repaired.

When she descended the stars again, she noticed a patrol of guards coming towards her and quickly hid in a dark alcove beneath the stair in the tower. The three guards walked past her without paying attention and Aurora crept up behind them.

She clamped her left hand over the mouth of the last guard and held him in a choke hold until he fainted. She carefully lowered him to the ground and repeated the process with his two comrades. She tied them up with their own belts and put a piece of their tunics in their mouths to gag them.

This process repeated itself a dozen times, she cut the strings of the ballistae and destroyed the release mechanism of the mangonels. She had to neutralize two score guards, which was very little, considering the wall was a good ¾ mile long.

When the last tower was secure, Aurora descended the wall and marched up to the gates of the inner wall, the same gates that Lord Randyll had found closed two days ago.

She grabbed her battleaxe from her back and stuck it with the point in the ground, before slamming her armored right fist several times against the heavy oaken doors.

'BANG, BANG, BANG'. The sound of her knocking woke half the city and it wasn't long until guards started streaming onto the battlements above her.

"WHO GOES THERE?" a guard yelled from above.

Aurora took her axe from the ground, walked a few passes backwards until she could see the men that had spoken to her and replied. "IN THE NAME OF KING RHAEGAR, FIRST OF HIS NAME, KING OF THE ANDALS, THE RHOYNAR AND THE FIRST MEN, LORD OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS AND PROTECTOR OF THE REALM, I ORDER YOU TO OPEN THIS GATE."

Her metallic voice instilled fear into everyone who heard her, but the gates remained firmly closed, so Aurora added, "You have ten seconds to open this gate and bring me to Mace Tyrell, or I will open these gates myself and personally drag him from his hiding hole."

She counted silently to ten and when she got there, nothing happened, as she expected. She lifted her axe and said calmly, "Time's up." she marched to the gate and slammed her axe into the massive wooden gates, which shuddered under the force of the impact.

Blow after blow Aurora dealt to the gates and soon they started to splinter. Arrows were shot at her but she shrugged them off. Stones were thrown from the murder-holes above her, but they bounced from her armor. Half boiling oil was dropped on her and set on fire, but Aurora covered herself in red fire and the burning oil was burned up as soon as it came into contact with the dragon fire. And all the while, she kept hacking away at the gates.

It took her five minutes to break through the gates and finally the tree sized beam that kept it closed, broke under the violence of her blows. She gave the gates a mighty kick and the thick wooden doors were thrown open.

Awaiting her on the other side were roughly 200 men, in hastily put on uniforms, many lacking any kind of armor, and with fear clearly visible in their eyes. Aurora lowered her axe and said with a metallic growl, "If you don't want to die tonight, I suggest you lay down your weapons and surrender."

About half of the men threw down their weapons and fled into the darkness. The others slowly came towards her, none wanted to be the first to get into the reach of her battle axe.

With a grin on her hidden face, Aurora removed her helmet and grabbed the small black horn from her belt. She brought it to her lips and gave a mighty blast. Far above them Gabrielle responded to the horn call and she came flying down in a dive.

The remaining men screamed in fear as they saw the massive black shape falling towards them in the moonlight. With a heavy THUD, that shook the ground, Gabrielle landed behind the men and they fled past Aurora into the darkness through the gates.

The rope was thrown from the saddle and Lord Randyll came sliding down it. As soon as he was on the ground, he removed his helmet and threw up on the grass besides the gatehouse. "That was utterly terrifying, I don't want to ever have to endure that again," he managed to say.

Aurora couldn't hold in her mirth as she saw the gruff lord throwing up while sitting on his hands and knees. Gabrielle had managed to turn around in the confined space between the gatehouse and the main keep and was staring through a window on the 4th floor.

When Lord Randyll was done throwing up, Aurora helped him back to his feet and gave him back his helmet, which he put on. "Shall we go in?" she asked with an innocent smile on her face.

Lord Randyll just nodded and Aurora put her own helmet back on before grabbing her battle axe again and marching to the gated of the keep.

These doors fell after a single blow of her axe, seeing as they were only shut with a lock. Once inside the hall, she followed Randyll's directions towards the living areas of the Tyrell family. They passed the occasional guard, but most either ran away when they saw Aurora coming, or they were quickly disarmed and knocked out.

It was obvious that most of the guards had already fled when the news had spread that a dragon had landed in the courtyard.

When they reached the living area, they found Lord Mace Tyrell hiding in his closet, while his wife Lady Alerie Hightower was calmly waiting for her fate while sitting at a table and drinking a glass of wine.

When Aurora kicked the door open, Lady Alerie almost dropped the glass in surprise but she calmly stood up and said, "On behalf of myself and my children, I welcome you to Highgarden and express my hope that you will not hold us accountable for the mistakes of my foolish husband. Might I know your name Ser, as I would like to know who is able to ride such a mighty beast." She pointed towards the window and Aurora saw that Gabrielle had put her head into the opening.

With a soft chuckle, Aurora removed her helmet and said to a stunned Lady Alerie, "I am not a Ser, my lady, and my name is Aurora."

In the meantime, Lord Randyll had removed his own helmet and made his way to a shaking closet. Pulling the door open he commented dryly, "What an unusual place to find the Warden of the South. Are you looking for your courage, Lord Mace?"

When the head of house Tyrell refused to answer or even leave the closet, Aurora marched towards it and dragged him out by his arm. Randyll was unable to contain his grin as he said, "I warned you that the next envoy would not ask nicely, you should have listened to me."

Lord Mace was sputtering undiscernibly until Aurora dropped him on the floor and spoke, "Lord Mace Tyrell, in the name of His Grace, King Rhaegar, King of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm, I place you under arrest. You have failed to answer the royal summons to appear before the king and to answer for your cowardice on the field of battle, which as a direct consequence, allowed the Lannister army to reach King's Landing and sack the city. Do you have anything to say for yourself?"

Lord Mace only sputtered and Aurora scoffed, "I thought not," before she picked him up by the back of his tunic, stretching the fabric and almost tearing it, and threw him towards the window where Gabrielle's head was still resting.

Mace looked fearfully at the massive dragon head that towered above him, and when Gabrielle opened her mouth, he fainted.

"That's enough sweetie," Aurora said offhandedly and Gabrielle closed her mouth again, before withdrawing her head and carefully reaching into the chamber with her left front paw. She scooped up the limp figure of Mace Tyrell and carried him out of the room.

Aurora turned towards lady Alerie and said, "Your husband will receive a fair trial and will be given the opportunity to plead his case before the Lords of the other Great Houses. You, your children and the rest of your house will not be held accountable for his crimes, and your son Willas will remain the Heir to Highgarden. And the daughter you are carrying, will still be able to find a proper match when she grows older."

At those last words Lady Alerie fell silent and stared with amazement at her belly, "I, I'm pregnant?" she asked with disbelief in her voice.

Aurora nodded and said, "Yes, I thought you knew, I apologize if it is a shock for you."

"No, no it isn't a shock it's just, I hadn't hoped for a fourth child, as my husband isn't as active in bed as I would like him to be." She blushed a little as she said this and Aurora gave her a knowing grin.

Turning to Lord Randyll, Aurora said, "Lord Randyll, can I entrust you with ensuring that the family of Lord Mace makes it to the capital safely?"

Randyll bowed and replied, "It would be my pleasure my lady, I assume you will take Lord Mace to King's Landing immediately?"

Aurora nodded and said, "I will, I leave for King's Landing in five minutes," turning to Lady Alerie she added, "I would like to ask you to order that the remains of the Tyrell army are to be placed under the direct command of Lord Randyll Tarly, as he has proven his worth to the king and carries his trust."

Lady Alerie bowed and replied, "I shall see to it at once My Lady." She motioned for Randyll to follow her, which he did, and they left the room together.

Aurora walked towards the window where Gabrielle's head had reappeared and she asked, "Is the Fat Fool secured?" Gabrielle nodded her mighty head and as in answer she turned around partially to show Mace Tyrell sitting in the saddle, though the straps weren't secured yet. Aurora leaped out of the room and landed softly on Gabrielle's neck, which she then used to walk over and reach the saddle.

After strapping in the still unconscious form of Mace Tyrell, Aurora secured herself and Gabrielle carefully maneuvered herself towards one of the larger courtyards from which she would be able to get herself airborne.

During the flight back to the capital, Mace woke about halfway and judging by his expression, he was about to throw up, apparently the men of the Reach weren't that suited for travel on dragon back, so she warned him.

"If you throw up on her, I'll cut you lose and she'll catch you, with her teeth. The King has asked Lord Randyll to bring you back unharmed, but he has given no such orders to me, so you had better behave."

Mace nodded quickly but didn't say a word for the entirety of the journey.

It was well past midnight when they finally arrived at King's Landing, and Gabrielle carefully landed in the courtyard before the Red Keep. Aurora loosened the straps that kept Mace in place and told him to descend the rope to the ground, where he was awaited by a trio of guards.

"Lock him in a room and treat him well, but don't let him escape," she told the guards, who nodded before two of them took Mace between them and marched away, while the third returned to their post.

Gabrielle jumped back into the air and with a dozen flaps of her mighty wings, they reached the Dragonpit and descended into its dark interior.

When they emerged again, they were both in human form and they quickly made their way towards the Red Keep. It had been quite the day for all and they were eager to reach their bed.

When they entered their personal quarters, they saw that Silvana and Lissena were sleeping peacefully in their own bed, while one of the Queen's Ladies-in-waiting was dozing in a chair before their balcony.

Aurora and Gabrielle softly helped each other to remove their armor and then put on their bathrobes before they woke the Lady-in-waiting. With a soft exclamation she awoke but after a 'Shhst', from Gabrielle, the young girl recognized them and stood up. She curtsied and whispered, "Good evening My Ladies, I was bid by Her Grace to watch the girls until your arrival, so I shall take my leave now."

Aurora and Gabrielle thanked the girl before she silently left the room. Softly staring into each other's eyes, Aurora and Gabrielle slowly brought their lips together and shared a kiss that started tender, but soon turned into something much more passionate.

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They untied the other's bathrobe and removed their smallclothes, all the while not breaking their kiss, before they slowly walked towards the bed and Aurora fell backwards on it, with Gabrielle on top of her.

Gabrielle finally broke the kiss, only to place them on the side of Aurora's neck and biting her softly, which initiated a low moan from her partner. They were careful not to make too much noise, because they didn't want to wake the twins.

Gabrielle slowly kissed her way downwards, stopping at the nipples on Aurora's large, perfect tits. She brought her left hand up to Aurora's right breast and started to pull on the ring in her nipple, eliciting another soft moan from her wife's throat, while suckling on the other nipple with her mouth.

Gabrielle put her tongue through the ring in Aurora's other nipple and pulled hard on it, before biting down on the stretched out nipple.

Meanwhile her right hand had moved downwards to Aurora's slit and was gently rubbing on a third ring, which was put right through her clit.

With another soft moan, Aurora managed to free her arms from between their bodies, and started to kneed the supple round ass-cheeks of Gabrielle, before moving one hand between her legs and inserting two fingers into Gabrielle's still tight channel.

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH," the moan that left Gabrielle's throat at the sudden intrusion into her slit was so loud that they both stopped their movements to listen for any sound that might indicate the girls had woken up, but nothing was heard.

Aurora was the first to continue her movements, and with a single push, she switched places with her lover. Now being on top, Aurora repeated Gabrielle's ministrations, slowly kissing her way downwards to Gabrielle's equally perfect tits with the large nipples which each held a golden ring with a sapphire stone set between the ends.

All the while Gabrielle hadn't removed her fingers from Aurora's slit and she was still pumping three fingers in and out at a steady rhythm while flicking her clit piercing with her thumb. After a few minutes they both moaned in pleasure as they shared their first climax since they had arrived in Westeros.

Not wasting any time, Aurora lowered herself down further until her head was level with Gabrielle's slit and she pressed her lips onto Gabrielle's clit, biting below the silver ring located there.

Still in the afterglow of her first release, Gabrielle immediately moaned again as she was hit with a second orgasm, releasing a burst of cum which Aurora drank eagerly. When she finished lapping up the result of Gabrielle's ecstasy, Aurora pulled on the trio of rings which were put in each of Gabrielle's outer lips, pulling them apart and baring her centre, which she immediately stuck her tongue into.

After a few minutes Gabrielle let out another moan of "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH," before she fell down on the bed, totally spent.

Aurora crept up next to her wife and whispered huskily, "I promised I'd make it up to you didn't I?"

Gabrielle lazily opened her eyes and said softly, "You sure did sweetie, you sure did." Before her eyes fell closed and she began to snore softly.

Aurora gave a soft kiss on her wife's nose, before she pulled the blankets over them both and snuggled into her side. "Sleep well my love, and dream of our future as a family."