Dawn Breaks over Westeros
Chapter 7: The Direwolf feasts of the Flayed Man
Chapter Start
Karhold
The Karhold. A massive set of twin castles erected on a twin set of stony hills that were connected by a small bridge, considered to be meaner, by those in the north, than Harrenhal despite being smaller. It was a difficult castle to take. But not this time.
A couple sentries were on the lookout for anything. Down below on the steps, Val made a signal with her hands, and a couple freefolk archers took the sentry's out. Unfortunately for them, one of the sentry's did see his fellow sentry fall to the earth and shout that they were under attack.
"To the gates!" Val shouted, knowing that they needed to get to the gates before they lowered the portcullis, otherwise they would have a lot more trouble trying to take the castle. They reached the gates when the portcullis began to lower. Dongo and Magmar came to the front of the freefolk army. The giant's new armor included a simple, thick steel breastplate that covered the chest back and torso, pauldrons on the shoulders, steel vambraces on the forearms, grieves that covered the lower leg, and a simple helmet that left the eyes, nose, mouth and jaw exposed. Dongo raised his arms and caught the portcullis and Magmar helped him. A third giant then slipped between them and beat on the wooden gates.
While Val was assaulting the gate, Tormund and his climbers had reached the base of the castle where it connected with the stone hill and began to climb up it.
Inside the Karhold main courtyard, where the giant was pounding on the door, Arnolf Karstark was rallying his garrison, along with his son's, Cregan, Arthor, and 3 of his 6 grandsons. "Men of the Karhold!" He shouted as the door was nearly broken, "This castle has never fallen before. We've beat back the Boltons twice when they tried. We're not gonna fucking start now, especially not to an army of wildling savages!" The men were getting pumped by the peptalk.
"Who owns the north!?" Arnolf asked and the men shouted back "We do!"
"Who owns the north!?" Arnolf asked again and the men shouted back "We do!"
"Show me!" He finished as they drew their weapons and readied their shields as the third broke open the wooden gates and the freefolk rushed in. Archers that he had lined on the walls fired into the freefolk army rushing in, but the archers in the Freefolk army quickly took them out as the garrison and the army clashed. Growling when he saw his few archers taken out, Arnolf turned his attention to the blonde haired wilding dressed his Northern clothing, who cut down 4 of his men and Arthor.
"Arthor! You'll pay for that, you Wildling whore!" Arnolf shouted angrily as tried to shield bash Val, but she brought up the shield part of Dragonheart and blocked his attack. He brought his sword down in an arc, only to be met with Val's shield again. He tried to stab her with his sword but she parried the blow and swiped at his stomach, which he jumped back to avoid. He stepped back into range, swinging his sword wildly several times, all of which were blocked by Val, before she knocked away a wild swipe at her face that put Arnolf off balance before she stabbed him in the stomach with her sword, cutting through his chainmail like it was made of hot butter.
Hearing someone behind her, she pulled her sword of his guts, before slicing the throat of Cregan Karstark open, turning back around and slicing Arnolf's back open, causing him to stagger forward a bit, before coming up behind him and stabbing him through the back, piercing his heart. Arnolf's groaned as Val whispered to him, "That's for calling me a whore." She pulled the sword out of his back and tossed his body to the ground.
They continued to slaughter the entire garrison and made it to the bridge that connects the two parts of castle. Val and her men hurried across the bridge as quickly as they could without risking it's stability and broke down the door, only to find Tormund and his men standing near Alys Karstark who was frightened and huddle in a corner.
"About time you got here," Tormund jokingly said, "You took so long getting here that I had enough time to kill the troops and take a nap."
"Only cause you got the easy part of the assault," Val fired back, before she turned back to Alys, "This is your only chance. Surrender."
"I surrender. The Karhold is your's." ALys said, with tears in her eyes.
"Then this castle belongs to Jon Snow." Val declared with a smile, "Put her in the dungeon's with her cousin's." Tormund and some of the female Freefolk took her down to the dungeons, while Val went to go rest, before she sent a raven to Last Hearth to let them know the result of the battle. The bodies of the dead were gathered in a pile in the courtyard and Khalamet and Aithuisa lit the pile on fire and began feasting.
Dreadfort
1 day later
Naruto and his portion of the army came up on the Dreadfort. They were sticking to the forests so they had less of a chance of being seen.
Inside the Dreadfort
Two of the Bolton garrison watched at a group of 10 fish monger's gave out their fish for a price. "Don't you think this is a little odd?" the first soldier asked.
"What's odd?" the second soldier said as he bit into his cooked fish.
"Lord Ramsay sent a raven to be on the lookout for Jon Snow and his band of Wildling's, and suddenly there are fishmongers giving out a full feast? Something doesn't feel right." The First one said.
"Relax," said a 3rd soldier as he drank some wine. "Jon Snow is probably headed toward Winterfell. He's never fought a battle in his life. He'll try and take Winterfell first, because it's his home and Ramsay will destroy him. Now come on and enjoy the food and wine. With Winter nearly here, it may be the last decent meal you have for a while."
"I guess." The first solider replied and he too partook in the food.
Nighttime
It was nighttime at the Dreadfort and the men had fallen asleep after feasting on the fish and wine. It was at that moment that on of the fishmongers pulled off her cap to reveal Karsi. She and the other 20 freefolk that posed as fishmonger's pulled out their weapons and made their way to the gate. All of the guards were asleep, even the ones that would normally be awake at this time, likely due to the sleeoy stuff that had been laced with the fish and wine. Karsi and 9 Freefolk moved up the stairs to the top of the wall, while the other 10, slit the throats of the guards closest to the gate. Karsi lit a torch and waved it around some before throwing it over the walls as the other 10 slowly pulled the gates open.
"That's the signal." Naruto announced as 2000 freefolk charged with him. Within a minute, Naruto's army had reached and entered the gates and began to slaughter the entire garrison. Several of the men did wake up and try to put a fight but they were easily slaughtered. Even the 10 men that mounted a resistance inside the main hall were felled by Naruto with Blackfyre in hand. Like with the Karhold, the bodies of the enemy were gathered in a pile for Acnologia and Midhir to eat.
While the men rested, Naruto found the Lord's Chambers and took off his armor. "Well, that was a disappointing battle." Naruto said as Melisandre entered the room.
"They were nothing more than fodder, my king," She said, looking the door behind her, "Little more than food for your dragons."
"That's true, they will make good meal's for them. Gorging on those bodies should help them reach a large enough size to be useful in combat," Naruto said as he turned to Melisandre and walked over to her. "Now then, your king desires your company."
"And I am happy to give it, my king," Melisandre seductively said.
Lemon
Naruto wrapped his arms around her and immediately kissed her, which she returned without hesitation, wrapping her hands around his neck. Melisandre kissed him, before he picked her up and placed her on the bed. Melisandre sat up and roamed her hands along his body before she started unbuckled his breeches. Melisandre stopped as he forced her to look up at him, before the two began to kiss lustfully, the two closed their eyes as the kiss deepened and got hotter while their hands began to roam each others body.
Naruto went from leaning down to her, to sitting on the bed with her in his lap while wrapping her arms around his neck while they continued to make out. Naruto brought one of his hands down south and felt her moan into his mouth when he gave her ass a nice squeeze.
Before they broke the kiss to allow Melisandre to catch her breath. Naruto wrapped his arms around her waist and brought her forward then took her left tit in his mouth to begin suckling it. Melisandre moaned in pleasure when she felt him swivel his tongue around her hardening bud, using his teeth gently nibbling on it to make her gasp and moan from his actions. She wrapped her hands around his head to hold him in place on her chest almost like she was begging for him not to stop, while she began to grind her hips against his lap. Naruto took his lips off her nipple for a moment to flick his tongue over it before he switched to her right breast.
Melisandre was getting hotter by the second as Naruto gave both of her breasts equal attention, but she gasped loudly with eyes shooting wide open when she felt his hand slip down to her nether region and begin massaging her moist womanhood. Naruto continued sucking on her hardened nipple and thought that her loud moans of pleasure were music to his ears while she panted and gasped and moaned loudly from him working his fingers inside of her cunt, which was tightening around his fingers.
Melisandre shut her eyes and moaned in pleasure from feeling her orgasm hit her. Naruto let her lay down on her back so she could come down from her pleasure high. She watched as he got on his knees and cleaned his fingers off licking her sweet nectar from them and savoring the taste.
Naruto then moved over before her and reached down to spread her legs. Naruto gazed at her soaking wet womanhood and took a moment to breath in the sweet scent of her arousal. He leaned forward and gave her pussy a quick lick which sent a shiver of pleasure up her body. Naruto traced his tongue over the folds of her wet pussy making her emit soft moans of ecstasy. Melisandre was in heaven when she felt him switch between her lips then her clitoris and back again. Naruto smiled when she started moaning even louder from his actions. The Red Woman loved how this king pleasured her. Stannis certainly never did this with her. In fact, none of her other lovers ever did this with her.
He then used his fingers to spread her open wide giving him a great view of her moist caverns then dove his tongue inside her body. Melisandre gasped from the sudden feeling of him moving his tongue around inside of her. She was blushing hard and panting even harder from the pleasure that racked her body.
Her walls were growing tighter and wetter by the second as he continued tasting the red woman and he loved the sweet taste of her wetness. Soon enough, she was at her end. With a moan, she unleashed a torrent of her fluids that coated his tongue. Naruto took a moment to lap up her juices and he moaned from the rich taste as he felt it all slither down his throat. Naruto got back up and smiled down at her as she panted hard.
Melisandre seeing the smile got up on her hands and knees before Naruto who was standing before her. She quickly pulled his pants down past his thighs and marveled as his thick manhood stood at full attention just inches from her face, which only made her more horny. With a grin, she licked her lips in anticipation, hardly able to wait. She brought one of her hands up and took his length in her grip to begin stroking it. She looked up at him when he hissed and his eyes closed in pleasure.
As she stroked his cock in her hand, she then gave it a quick lick and savored the taste. She licked again this time ringing her tongue from the bottom of his shaft then up to the head of his cock. Naruto was moaning from the feeling of her pumping her hand along his length and she loved every second of being able to make him feel good. Melisandre then brought his shaft into her mouth still working her hand around his cock and began sucking on it. Naruto watched as she began bobbing her head up and down his length.
Her moaning from the taste only raised Naruto's arousal as it sent shivers up his body and he was in bliss from feeling her suck him off. "Melisandre, that feels so good." he said barely able to keep on his feet. He brought one hand down to help her work her mouth over his penis. Melisandre smiled when she felt him twitch inside her mouth which signaled that he was nearing the end. She brought him as far into her mouth as she could till she choked as he hit the back of her throat, while she stroked what she couldn't fit.
Naruto groaned loudly and exploded inside her mouth. Melisandre worked diligently to swallow as much of his cum as she could, not wanting to waste his royal seed. It was tough, but she got all his semen down her throat in several large gulps. Once she took her mouth off of his shaft, she sat back and licked her lips savoring the rich taste of his cum, as it was so good. She watched as Naruto took his pants off all the way. She got the message. Her king wanted her for the whole night, and she would happily obey him.
Naruto and Melisandre came forward and wrapped their arms around each others necks and began another heated make out session. Melisandre made Naruto lay back on the bed so she could climb up over and straddle him. Once she was planted firmly on his pelvis, she smiled down at him feeling his manhood at full strength again, grinding up against her soaking wet pussy. Melinda got up on her knees and reached down to line him up then sit back down bringing him into her body, moaning loudly as he stretched her for more than any of her other partners ever had, before she slowly begin to work her hips, lost in ecstasy as she felt his length bury itself deep in her womanhood and how he stretched her to the brink. Melisandre began to speed up the rolling of her hips, before Naruto gripped her hips and began thrusting up into the beautiful red head on top of him. Both lovers were beginning to sweat from the motions of their hips working in sync.
Melisandre leaned forward a bit to better balance herself over Naruto who brought his hands around to begin squeezing her ass cheeks again. Melisandre smiled and started picking up the pace to which Naruto began thrusting up harder into her. Both of them were breathing harder with Melisandre moaning loudly as his cock was thrusting in and out of her faster and harder. Melisandre cried out as she orgasmed again while Naruto gave her ass a nice slap.
Melisandre placed her hands on his shoulders now and then switched from rolling her hips over him to bringing herself up and slamming back down on him. Naruto brought his hands up to her waist and started thrusting up even harder causing her to bounce up and down and soon they were breathing hard, moaning loudly, and sweating bullets as the sound of wet flesh smack against each other filled the room. Naruto felt her walls tightening around his shaft with each thrust till they both met their end.
"Shit!" Naruto groaned as he felt her walls throb around him orgasmic bliss and he reacted by filling her with his cum. Melisandre moaned with a wide smile as she felt his extra hot cum fill her up and she also unleashed her own fluids which soaked both their crotches. Naruto caught her as she fell forward and she looked into his eyes and he back at her. They locked lips again in another lustful kiss. Naruto sat back up and gently worked his legs under so she was still in his lap.
As they kissed, Melisandre smiled as she felt that her king was still supremely hard inside her body and she broke the kiss and smiled as she started working her hips again. Naruto pulled out of her and quickly flipped her over on the bed and put her in the missionary position, before slamming back into her. His quick and powerful thrusts caused the priestess to moan loudly as she orgasmed around his horse-like cock. Naruto did not let up as he continued his pleasurable assault on her body, peppering her neck with kisses while pounding into her. Melisandre wrapped her legs around his waist, trying to drive him further inside of her.
Cave Beneath Great Weirwood Tree
Bran and the Brynden were both having a vision, their eyes whited out, or in Brynden's case, his one remaining eye. Meera and Hodor were preparing for travel.
"We can go home now, Hodor. Well, maybe not home home, but somewhere that isn't a cave." Meera said.
Hodor chuckles and responds with his usual "Hodor".
"Eat something that isn't moss. I want an egg. How do you like 'em? Boiled? Fried up with some butter? With a rasher of bacon and some blood sausage." She finished, her mouth salivating at the thought.
"Hodor." He responds with a laugh, as he too would like some real food.
Meera notices she can see her breath. She looks at Bran and then runs to the entrance of the cave. Leaf and the other Children of the Forest are gathered outside. Across the field, the Night King, three White Walkers, and the army of the dead are gathered. The Night King stepped forward, kneels, and placed his hand on the ground. A rift cracks through the ice all across the field and into the Great Weirwood Tree.
When the barrier broke, Brynden's single remaining eye turned red and he smiled. "Finally."
Brynden snapped his fingers and Bran was pulled out of his vision. "Wha-What?" Bran said as he looked around in confusion.
"The Night King and his army are here. Our time has come to an end, Brandon Stark." Brynden said as he used his now unrestrained powers to maneuver the branches to pick up the paralyzed young man and bring Bran up to Brynden.
"What are you doing?" Brandon asked as his direwolf, Summer, growled.
"I'm giving you what you originally came here for. I'm fixing you." Brynden as he placed his two finger's on Bran's spine and chanted, "Hoc reficere pueri spina. Sana ejus crura musculi. Hoc reficere pueri spina. Sana ejus crura musculi. Hoc reficere pueri spina. Sana ejus crura musculi."
A loud snap of bones was heard as Bran cried in pain as his spine snapped back into place, his nerve endings repaired themselves, and his leg muscles, once atrophied from years of disuse, filled out as if he had never stopped walking.
Meera ran back into the cave at that moment, retrieving a sword on the way back. "Bran!" Meera said, as she needed to get him out of here.
"By the Gods," Bran said as he felt his legs. "I can feel my legs again."
Bran tried to stand and he rose his knees of the ground but then toppled to the floor. "I may have fixed your legs Brandon, but they haven't been used in 5 years. You'll have to learn how to walk again." Brynden said.
Brynden groaned as the vines wrapped around his body more and he forced his old body to stand. He summoned some of the tree to forge a staff for himself so he would not fall. "You three and Summer need to leave and get back to Winterfell. The Children and I won't be able to hold off the Night King for long. This is where our path's end, Brandon Stark. You will not see me again."
"Goodbye, Brynden Rivers, and thank you, for everything," Bran said as Hodor and Meera carried him away, but not before grabbing 2 dragonglass spears. Brynden then turned to the cave entrance.
Outside, the few remaining children of the Forest were throwing their exploding acorn bombs at the Night King's army, when suddenly, roots flew out of the ground and impaled the children of the Forest. Brynden slowly walked out of the entrance. The Night's King, interested in this new development, stopped his armies advance, leaving the army of the dead still as a grave.
"Why? We saved you," Leaf said weakly as her sisters died.
"No, you didn't. You damned all of humanity when you created the White Walkers. I was sent here by the Old Gods to save the human race. And I could have already prepared humanity for this, but you genocidal tree-hugging maniacs bound me to that tree so I couldn't reincarnate into Jon Snow. But that hardly matters at this point." Brynden said as the tree roots flung the dead bodies of the Children to the side, igniting them, creating a line of fire that prevent the Army of the dead, minus the walkers, from crossing.
"Hello, my old enemy." Brynden said as he leaned on his staff.
"You." The Night's king spoke, in a voice that sounded like knives scraping against stone.
"Yes, me. The man who has been stopping you for 8000 years. Just in the old body. How do you like it? It should have died a long time ago, but still." Brynden said.
"You cannot stop me. You are weak and old, while I remain unchanged. You will perish here." The Night's King said to him.
"Maybe so. But you are already too late. My will has been done regardless. And even if you kill this body, I'll just take another until you have fallen. And make no mistake, your downfall starts here." Brynden said ominously as the Night's King laughed. His laugh was like something straight out of the pits of hell.
"Stop me? I am the bane of all living things. I am Winter, I am Death." The Night's King proclaimed.
"Maybe not you, but your army on the other hand," Brynden trailed off as four spears of dragonglass shot out the ground and hit the Night King and his three Whitewalkers, killing the White Walkers while the Night King broke the spear and pulled the broken thing out of his eye. The Night King then saw Brynden glowing, just as he had all those years ago as Azor Ahai. Before he could pull out his magic Ice scythe and kill him, Brynden exploded in a blast of flame, the flames seeming to only travel towards the Night King's army. The Night King watched as the 8,000 freefolk from Hardholme, and 4,000 more were burned to ash.
The flames finally died and the Night King looked at the scorched earth and saw nothing of the 12,000 troops he had lost. He wasn't worried though. He still had half a million more meat suits to use. He could have gone after Bran, but he saw no point. The brat was going back home behind the wall. He'd kill him then. Although, the Night King did notice that his eye where he was stabbed with the Dragonglass was not healing.
As the Night King and his army began their slow march again, he didn't see a cloud of red smoke fly away.
Dreadfort
Naruto was sleeping peacefully with Melisandre sleeping soundly next to him when the red smoke came into the room and Naruto was awoken and sat up as the red smoke entered his body through his mouth, his essence from Brynden recombined with his true essence, and his staggered out of bed, which woke up Melisandre, who was stunned by the development. Naruto fell to his knees as he adjusted to his new power.
Naruto rose to his feet as he clenched his fist and a red aura surrounded him as he smiled as he closed his eyes. Naruto knew he could now use up to 75% of his full power. But he still needed to unlock the rest of his bodies secrets.
"My King," Melisandre said as she stood next to him, hugging his arm to her body, laying her other hand on his chest, her eyes shining with devotion and lust. "Your power feels as though it has been magnified." Naruto was extremely powerful at 5%. Now, he was many times stronger than he was before.
"It has," Naruto said as he opened his eyes, and his once black sclera, were now colored a normal white again, before hugging Melisandre close to him and said, "And I'm feeling particularly horny right now, so let's have some more fun, my sexy Red Priestess." Melisandre was more than happy to obey.
Later
It was still nighttime out as Naruto was in the courtyard of the Dreadfort, contemplating his next move. Now that more of his power was restored, he could start taking care of that wildfire in King's Landing. All of Aery's old wildfire was still underneath King's Landing, placed all throughout the city, since Jaime Never told anyone about it. He needed to take care of that, because if Cersei went through with her insane "blow up the Sept of Baelor" plan right now, she would blow up all of King's Landing. Set one off and they all go off.
Naruto held his hand, which was in a claw shape, and breathed red smoke into it, until it formed into an orb of red smoke. He then thrust his hand forward and the orb exploded into a thousand wisps of red smoke, that became a thousand red human-like silhouettes, all standing in formation.
"You all know what to do. Go," Naruto ordered, and the thousand clones he had made flew off to complete their objective.
King's Landing
A number of the gold cloaks were sleeping, including their Commander, Humfrey Waters. The red smoke entered into their bodies. Humfrey and the men that the smoke entered got up and opened their eyes, showing blood red irises, showing that Naruto's clones were possessing them.
"Come on, boys. Let's find that Wildfire," Possessed Humfrey said, working to bring his master's command to fruition, along with 999 more possessed men.
2 weeks later
With the Karhold and Dreadfort under his control, Naruto and Sansa were able to secure the allegiances of the Hornwoods, and the Mazin's. At Mors' suggestion, they feasted with the Northern mountain clans who were loyal to the memory of Eddard Stark. 'The Ned', as they called him. By doing this, they were able to earn the Mountain Clan's allegiance. Val and Tormund kept their men at the Karhold while they continued to arm their men with good castle-forged steel. Naruto had sent 4,000 men to escort Sansa and Ser Davos as they traveled to Bear Island, to secure the Mormonts had also taken Highpoint, the seat of House Whitehill, the bitter rivals of House Forrester. Besides Ludd Whitehill, who was at Winterfell swearing his allegiance to Ramsay, and Gywn Whitehill, who was the lover of Asher Forrester, who Naruto had also managed to acquire, the Whitehill bloodline was gone.
The sacking of the Dreadfort, Karhold and Highpoint came at a cost of just over 100 men, while the Bolton casualties were 7 times that.
With two of the Bolton's major strongholds and one minor one in possession of the Starks, the time had come to call their banners. Now, it was time to finish the Bolton's off once and for all.
Chapter End