NEW ALLIES
KINVARA
Despite her thin clothing the cold weather of the North did not bother Kinvara or her companions. She had decided to hold off on visiting New Valyria, and head to the wall in Westeros. The trip was uneventful, after going ashore Kinvara heads to the castle of Eastwatch. "Welcome to Eastwatch M'Lady, my name is Cotter Pyke, Lord Commander of Eastwatch by the Sea. How may I help you?"
"We are on or way to Castle Black. I believe the Masked Dragon is there…I have need to speak with him. I ask that you provide us with a guide." An hour later they leave with Qhorin
"How did you lose half your hand sir?" One of Kinvara's guards asks.
"To the cold…My men and I got caught in a storm. We found shelter in a bear cave. Had to kill the bear for food and warmth. I lost my fingers before we found the cave."
On they travel passing the castles of Green Guard, Torches, and Long Burrow. After a week of travel they finally reach Castle Black. When Kinvara and her guards enter the courtyard the Prince is waiting for them. She insists on speaking with Jaehaerys before getting settled. They meet in Aemon's room to talk.
"We came to warn you my Prince. Warn you about the Radicals of our order. They are led by the Priestess Melisandre. Your blood magic is very powerful and they seek you to use it for their own ends."
Jaehaerys sighs, "I will have to keep an eye on this Melisandre."
She takes a drink of warm cider. Not that she needed it, "There is also Magister Ilyrio Mopatis. We do not know what he wants with the Princess."
Jae looks at his Aunt, "He wants or wanted her for his son. His son is a Blackfyre that he's trying to pass off as Aegon Targaryen. He is also working with the Master of Whispers Varys."
"You know more than I my Prince."
JAEHAERYS
After speaking to Kinvara, Jaehaerys gets ready to hatch the Dragon eggs. He takes Viserys, Dany, and Aemon to the Heart tree beyond the wall. Kinvara and her guards join them. "Are those Dragon eggs?" Viserys asks.
Jaehaerys had not told them why he wanted them to come with him to the Heart Tree. "Yes they are." He builds a nest of stone and wood, then he places the four eggs in the nest. Next he takes out a small jar of his own blood. He pours the blood over the eggs, then oil and more wood. With a thought the wood bursts into blue flames. As the fire burns the stones turn cherry red. The fire burns all night and as the sun rises the flames die. Four baby Dragons crawl amongst the ashes, they are white, blue, black, and green. The White Dragon crawls out of the ashes towards Jaehaerys.
"Let them come to you." He cuts his hand and allows the Dragon to lick his blood, immediately forming a bond with the white Dragon. The blue Dragon crawls to Aemon, the Black one to Dany, and the last to Viserys. Jae names his Dragon Rhaenyx, Aemon names his Saphron, Dany names her Dragon Rhael after her mother. Viserys names his Dragon Argon.
VISERYS
Two days later Jaehaerys, Eddard, Viserys, and Dany return to Winterfell. Kinvara goes with them. "I will return the two of you back to Old Valyria on tomorrow." Jae says to Viserys and Daenarys.
The two Targaryens must stay in the cave beneath Winterfell as not to be seen by the servants. After preparing for evening meal Viserys has a visitor in the form of Sansa Stark. "Lady Sansa, a pleasure seeing you here. What brings you by."
She blushes, "You my Prince. That is…I wanted to bring you a gift." She hands him the scroll, "I wrote that for you…It's a song."
He smiles at her causing her to blush again, then he opens the scroll and reads a few lines. "I thank you. Won't you sing it for me before I leave."
"Yes of course. Perhaps later…I must get back to the main hall for evening meal." Two hours passed before she returned, Jae is with her. Jae plays the harp while Sansa sings. "You have a beautiful voice Lady Sansa." He says after she is done.
"Thank you My Prince."
"Please call me Viserys."
"Very well Viserys, but you must do me the courtesy of calling me Sansa."
"Sansa." The next morning Viserys asks to speak with Lord Stark, "Lord Stark…I would like your permission to write your daughter…Perhaps come and visit her in the future."
He sighs, "You have my permission."
"Thank you My Lord." After speaking with Lord Stark Jaehaerys takes Viserys and Daenarys back to New Valyria.
SHIREEN
Shireen Baratheon is the only child of Lord Stannis and Lady Shireen Baratheon of Dragonstone. As baby Shireen was infected with grey scale and would have died if not for her father's efforts. Although she was saved, Shireen bares the scars from the grey scale. Shireen is black of hair, blue of eyes like all Baratheons and she has her mother's ears. A predominate feature of her mother's side of the family.
Because of her scars Shireen has no friends to speak of. Shireen grew up alone at Dragonstone. On her name days, her Uncle Renly visits brining her gifts. She is tutored by the Maester and the Septa. Despite all this Shireen is very kind and smart as she likes to read. Besides her father, Shireen loves Ser Davos Seaworth and sees him as him as a second father.
"Good night father." She says to her father.
"Good night Shireen." She closes her eyes and dreams…
"Shireen." A voice says calling her name. She sits up in bed. "Shireen."
"Is someone there?"
"Yes."
"Who are you?"
"I am the Masked Dragon."
"You are?"
He laughs at her response, "Yes."
"Am I dreaming?"
"You are, but if you awake you will see me…Do not scream."
She opens her eyes, sits up, and sees the Masked Dragon standing at the edge of her bed. "Wow you are real."
"And you are not afraid?"
"No…I was hoping to see you."
He walks around the bed, "I've been watching you."
"You have."
"Yes and I have come to heal your face."
Shireen had been put asleep. When she awakens the Masked Dragon is gone. Excited she rushes from her bed to the mirror and stares in wonder at her face. Her skin is flawless, tears form in her eyes as she looks at her face. Shireen washes her face, brushes her teeth, and gets dressed. As she walks pass servants and guards, they stare at her in wonder.
"Shireen…Your face?" Her father says staring as she takes a seat at the table.
"Yes father…Last night the masked Dragon came to me and healed my face."
That is when the door opens and they are joined by Selyse Shireen's mother. "Good morning all I…" She pauses looking at Shireen. "Shireen come here." She jumps up from her chair and walks around the table, "Your face…How is this possible?"
"The Masked Dragon did it. He appeared in my room last night and healed my face."
STANNIS
Stannis the stern many called him. Stannis is a strict man, who believes in, honor, law, and order. He also believes that a good deed does not erase a bad one. So that the Masked Dragon is an outlaw, a rebel, and a threat to him and his future as King, the day his brother dies, conflicts with the fact that the Masked Dragon healed his daughter.
Stannis did not agree with the deaths of Princess Elia and her children. Nor did he agree with Rhaegar's death. Rhaegar had a reputation, there was no way that he kidnapped or raped Lyanna Stark. Anyone with half a brain could see that Rhaegar was trying to overthrow his father, the Mad King. He also knew that Robert did not truly love Lyanna Stark. If he did, he would not have done the things he did while they were betrothed.
Stannis knows his goodsister's secret. Cersei's children were not fathered by Robert and if something were to happen to Robert, then the Iron Throne would fall to him. The Starks, House Arryn, the Tullys, they would support his claim if the truth came out. But the Masked Dragon is an unknown. A Targaryen who had been building a reputation for himself throughout Westeros.
House Tyrell would support such a man. Most of the loyalist Houses that fought for the Targaryens during the rebellion would as well. So would House Martell. A few days after his daughter was healed Davos Seaworth shows up. "Ser Davos…What brings you here?"
"My Lord…I have some news."
"Come with me." They head for his solar.
"Ser Davos!" They stop as Shireen runs towards them.
"My…" He takes a knee before her, "Little Lady…Your face…How?"
'The Masked Dragon healed my face."
"May the gods bless him, whoever he is."
Stannis did not like his words, but deep down inside he felt the same way. After promising to speak with her later, Stannis and Davos continue on to his solar. Stannis had knighted Davos for his service during the war. He had smuggled food into Storm's End, saving Stannis, his family, and men from starvation. Still Davos had to be punished for smuggling, so Stannis took three fingers for his crimes. Davos is a loyal man and one of the few men Stannis calls friend.
"I ran into an old friend of mine…He told me that, Old Valyria has been rebuilt. The Targaryens rule the city, they call it New Valyria." Stannis does not respond to this news, he turns his thoughts inwardly, thinking about Robert, Cersei, her children, the Masked Dragon, and how recent events affect him. "My Lord are you alright?" Davos asks breaking the silence.
He grunts, "I need your council. Anyone with eyes and a brain knows this…Cersei's children were not fathered by Robert."
Davos gets up and pours himself some wine, "You have proof of this?" He asks after taking a drink.
"All members of my House are black of hair and blue of eyes. All that is until Cersei's children were born. All gold of hair and green of eyes. While I was in King's Landing I visited the street of steel. The blacksmith Tobho Mott has an apprentice, Gendry by name. He is one of Robert's many bastards. The boy is a spitting image of Robert as a young man."
"If what you say is true my Lord…and I do not doubt you. Then you are next in line to the Iron Throne."
"You just told me that somehow the Targaryens have rebuilt Old Valyria. And the Masked Dragon just healed my daughter. The Masked Dragon's reputation spreads like wildfire…If the legends are true and they seem to be so…Only a fool would go against this man."
"You save your House by supporting the Targaryens' return to power."
"And my brother?"
"If cared about your brother My Lord you would have told him about the Queen."
"Jon Arryn is a smart man. He'll figure it out soon enough."
"And the Masked Dragon?"
Later Stannis preparing for bed. He speaks to the guard before going to his bed. A few seconds after placing his head on the pillow. The door to his bedroom opens and in walks the Masked Dragon. "You. I've been expecting you."
"Then you know what I want."
"My support to your claim for the Iron Throne."
He holds up a vial, "Give it to me and I will give you this."
"What is that?"
"Your wife has had many still births…If she drinks this, she will give you a healthy son. She will give you many more children. If you want them."
Stannis gets out of bed and falls to his knees, "My King. I swear fealty to you and you alone." The vial is thrown on the bed, then the Masked Dragon leaves. Stannis gets up and walks to the door. The guard is there, but the Masked Dragon is gone.
"Is everything alright my Lord?"
"Did you see anyone?"
"No m'lord…I saw no one."
The next day Stannis has the cook slip the vial of liquid into Selyse's food telling him, its medicine. That night she comes to him, the hair on her lip and in other places had been shaved. Her hair had been combed out to cover her ears, and she smelled very good. It had been a while since he was aroused by her, but something in him stirred and Stannis had to have her. He had her several times that night.
JAEHAERYS
It took House Forrester a month to cut down, a thousand trees and three weeks to deliver them all to the White Knife, river. When the trees are on the river, Jae has the men of the Fiery Hand take jars of his blood and place them on all one thousand trees. His Uncles Eddard Benjen, and Aemon are present. When they are done, Jaehaerys chants in old Valyrian.
The blood on the trees bursts, into blue flames and spread across the trees. He smiles at the reactions from his Uncles Eddard and Benjen. They watch as the trees start to take shape. The branches twist and split to form the skeleton of the ship. The bark of the trees stretch to make the hall. The leaves merge together to form the sails, the roots twists and stretch into ropes for the rigging.
The process takes four hours and when it is done, a thousand ships sit on the White Knife, river. The Iron wood ships have three decks, not including the cargo hold. Tree branches had also been shaped into scorpions. The flag ship is twice the size of the others and has six decks. Men are called from White Harbor to sail the ships out to sea.
When they reach White Harbor the ships are stocked with food and then sailed North towards Hard Home. After a month at sea the ships reach Hard Home. Jae goes ashore with his Uncle Eddard and Benjen at his side. "As promised Mance…Ships to sail your people South of the wall."
"You have my gratitude and that of the Free Folk." They load the ships up and when a ship is full, it set sails. Sailing to East Watch takes a week. Eddard and Benjen go with the first ships to see that the men of the watch live up to their word. Jae stays to help load the ships and organize supplies. It takes three weeks to get all the Free Folk south. Mance and Jaehaerys board the last ship and leave.