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Mr. M., Mrs. J.K., I had a nice speech in my head this morning, but I completely forgot it. Maybe next chapter. As usual, I am not accepting any money for this. I am too lazy to set an account up.
Previous:
Life was great, every night was one big shaggalong. One morning, I noticed that Margaery and Sansa slipped into our bed.
I whispered to Astoria: "I can't remember them coming in. Did I do something to them? They are way too young!"
Astoria whispered back: "They bribed Lucinda. They were just playing with the others. But you will next year."
18 Horses…
Astoria continued: "You are confusing them with the girls from the previous level dear. You are fourteen, Margaery is fifteen, and Sansa is only one year younger than you. At her age, Daenerys was already married and pregnant."
Padma joined the whispering: "No matter what you say or do, their minds are already made up. Three reasons: one is the dragons, two is the magic, and three is your fighting skills. Besting Renly and Loras in a two to one duel in less than five seconds is making you the most desirable male to them, or to any other girl in Westeros. Why settle for second best if they can get the top male?"
Lavender added: "Lucinda is coaching them, she is definitively corrupting those girls."
Lucinda giggled: "Corrupting them was easy. Last level, Margaery was warging into dolphins with Justin and shagged the poor animals, they had to change them regularly, those poor animals were exhausted. Joffy, they are prepared to cross a lot of boundaries to be a part of your harem, our family."
With a serious face, she continued: "I loved them before, and I love them now. Don't reject them, even Arya will be a part of us in a few years. You know it and we know it. She is very much like Lyanna."
Daphne groaned: "Yes he will accept all three of them, but not today. I'm still sleepy, and my hug-pillow talks too much."
Xxxxx
At breakfast Arya approaches me: "Hmm… … I miss Nymeria, can we get her? I feel that leaving her behind with the pack was not a good idea. It feels like I am betraying her when I brush the dragons and Nymeria can't get any. Please?"
I nodded with a smile: "You are right, Familiars are supposed to stay close to you. They are a part of you, not some animal that you warg in. we leave after breakfast."
Daphne said: "We can all use a day off, why don't we visit some relatives or places from previous times."
Lyanna was enthusiastic: "That is a good idea! Sansa, I'll be going to Winterfell. If you want you can come along. I am certain Lady Olenna will appreciate a visit from you Margaery. I'll bet she is curious about you and us."
Lucinda added: "I am planning to visit grandpa, disguised of course. I can drop Margaery at her mother's home if she wants to."
Tracey: "I am heading to Braavos, and leave a message at the Faceless Men. A Faceless bunny is no fun at all."
I asked: "Oh, I forgot to pay the debt to the Iron Bank, can you arrange that love? And we should go to Valyria and find Grandpa's Brightroar, that is one point five million Dragons."
Lavender said: "Not on our day off love, Tracey, I come with you to Braavos for some shopping."
Xxxxx
Arya rode on Benny after we flamed close to where Nymeria met us. Ten minutes later Arya connected with Nymeria and guided us there.
Nymeria was all too happy to come along, Aria stored her, I asked: "Well wife NR Two, we have the rest of the day, what do you want to do? Besides stabbing me with that Needle? Visit the Wall and Jon?"
Arya looked suspicious at me: "Why are you so nice at me all of a sudden? What are you planning?"
I shrugged: "No reason at all, just that the other girls are visiting family, I thought you could see Jon at the Wall, after that, we can go to Winterfell too."
Slowly Arya said: "Aaalrighttt, I like to visit Jon and dad." I stored Benny and Berny, took Arya in a Princess-carry, and flamed to Castle Black.
Arya fumed: "Put me down you maniac or I'll stab you!"
The guard on the castle wall asked: "Who are you and what is your business at Castle Black?"
I answered: "I am your King, and am here for a family visit. Oh, and to inspect the Wall." The guard laughed: "Yeah right, you are the King and I am Lord Stark." I pointed to Arya and said: "That would make you her dad! Arya? Why didn't you tell me your dad took the Black?"
Arya gasped: "Dad? Why did you take the Black? Rob is still too young to rule! And what about mum? Don't you love her anymore?"
The guard got annoyed: "Enough! State your name and busyness or leave."
I tapped my Crown and said: "Do you think I wear this for fun?… actually I enjoy wearing it, my name is Joffrey, this here is Wife NR Two. Quit stabbing me, wife! We are on official busyness!"
Our performance attracted an audience, suddenly a voice shouted: "Arya! Why are you here? Guard open the gate! That is Lady Aria Stark! And… King Joffrey? Open the bloody gate for the King!"
Arya jumped into Jon's arms when the gates opened. The guard asked: "Sire? Where are your guards? And horses? You are alone here?"
I shook my head: "Nope, I have wife NR Two with me, she will protect me. She has a mean stab with her Needle."
Some men went on one knee, I stopped them: "Hold! When you take the Black you don't bend the knee, other than to take your oath, or to tie your boots." I'll better quit joking.
I said to Arya: "Let Nymeria out, she will be pleased to see her brother." When the Direwolf appeared, some need to get clean underwear.
Jon asked: "How did you do that? Where did she come from? Those rumors about magic must be true then." Arya said: "Very true. Yesterday I was in Essos, getting the horses from the Dothraki. I slept in a magic castle and brushed eleven dragons, along with Sansa, Margaery, Daenerys, and Sirius."
Wife NR Two is getting the hang of it! The audience had to pick their jaws up from the floor. She has the right amount of flair to nonchalantly drop incredible facts, and prove it by pulling a Direwolf out of her pocket.
Xxxxx
They led me to the commander, Jeor Mormont. Should I tell him Junior is visiting Yi Ti? Nah, better not. Arya stayed outside with Jon.
Jeor asked: "What is your purpose for your visit here King Joffrey? Why are you alone with a daughter of Lord Stark?"
I smiled at him and said: "Next year, you and your men will need to find a new job. By then, the reason for the wall will disappear, and I will remove the magic from the wall."
Jeor choffed: "Magic? What are you talking about?" I looked at him and asked: "Do you really believe a wall of ice stays solid in summer? For eight thousand years? How do you think this thing was built? Why do you think the seasons are so irregular if not for magic? But you know what? Let us go to your Maester, he is an old blind Targaryen is it not? and ask him."
Jeor nodded: "That might be the best. Follow me please."
At the Maester Jeor introduced me: "Aemon, let me introduce to you King Joffrey, the First of his Name. King Joffrey, our Maester Aemon formally Targaryen." Aemon beckoned me closer: "Come closer my king, let me touch your face so I can see you."
I shrugged, and put a Heal at the old man: "Use your eyes old man, that gives you a better idea of how I look."
Chocked Aemon widened his eyes: "I can see again! How did you do that? The reports from the capital were correct then? It was no illusions or tricks?"
I grinned at both: "That my good men, was magic. The same magic that sustains your wall, or how the Maesters train their ravens. I am curious Maester Aemon, are you aware of the conspiracy against the magic users from the First Men? Or against the dragons and your family?" I showed the book with the details of their experiments on the eggs and chicks.
Aemon leafed through the pages, his expression turned darker and darker: "Those rotten bastards! Power-hungry criminals! Murderers! They deliberately poisoned our dragons! Here! They even admit to planning to put potions in the pregnant Queen's food to encourage miscarriages!"
He looked at me and said: "Boy, I need justice, I demand Justice!"
"You will have it, you may find comfort that the dragons are roaming the world again. But the main topic is the wall and what it is preventing to moving south. What do you know about the Others and the Night King?"
Xxxxx
The meeting lasted an hour. We went over a lot of topics about the region beyond the wall. Back down in the main hall, with all officers present, I donated thousand enchanted swords, and a thousand spearpoints, blessed with light magic.
I explained: "Regular swords won't work on the undead, these spearpoints and swords are especially made for fighting the undead. Obsidian and Valyrian weapons work too.
I advise you to talk to the wildlings and let them move south of the wall. You may offer them the gift to settle if they pay taxes to the Night Watch. Also, if they raid or steal girls from us then I will come to their settlements and steal all women from them. I don't care if they steal girls among them, but not ours."
I looked at the officers: "If you believe for one minute that the Wall was built to keep the wildlings out then you are demoted to a simple soldier. If you truly believe this wall off six hundred feet high and three hundred miles long, defended with eighteen forts, is meant to keep some hungry wildlings with bone weapons from invading us… then my dear men you are idiots."
The fact that I pulled a whole arsenal out of thin air was enough to shut them up. I continued: "Go to Craster's Keep and kill that bastard. He is offering his sons to the Night King, to become Undeads. That he is feeding you information is telling you enough about him. He is playing with you, stupids! In a half year, I will deal with the Night King."
Now… Where is Wife NR Two? Arya and Jon were talking when a Patronus dragon appeared before them: "Wife NR Two? Where are you? We need to go to the In-Laws." The high-pitched scream told me where she was.
When I reached Arya, she was holding her Needle in her hand, ready to stab me: "You bastard! If you cal my dad Good-father, then I carve you a new asshole!"
I grinned and looked at Jon: "Hey Rhaegar, did you have a good talk with your niece? Here take this ring, put a drop of blood on it and say instructions. Don't look at me like that! Do you really think you are a bastard? Daddy was Rhaegar, mommy was Lyanna. Do the math. Come, wife NR Two, let him figure it out himself. Store Nymeria."
Xxxxx
Again, Arya got in a Princess-carry, and we flamed to Winterfell. When I put her on the ground, I asked Arya: "Hey Darling, is my crown good on my head? Do I maybe tilt it a bit to look more dashing? Or a bit higher up to look smarter, you know? Show more of my brains. Or a bit to the front to look more menacing?"
Arya yelled: "Stand still you bastard so I can pin that crown on your ass!" Arya's screams got the attention of the guards, behind the guards Lyanna and Sansa followed.
Sansa sighed: "My King, can you stop teasing my sister? One day she might actually stab you." Arya grumbled: "That day will come soon, you can count on it."
Lyanna chuckled: "Go inside and greet your parents Arya, we had a hunch you would be visiting." I let Benny and Bernie out to stretch their wings, they joined Lyanna's Beauty in the sky.
Lyanna said to me: "You are supposed to have your honor guards with you, or at least the Hound, or a king's Guard." I laughed at her: "Then I have to protect them, Lyanna, they are weaker than me, how are they are going to protect me?"
While talking we reached Lord Stark, he heard my last words and said: "It is true you are more powerful, but it is expected to have an honor guard."
"I did not hear them complaining about it. They don't like my way of traveling. After each trip, they had to hammer the dents out their armor."
Lord Stark said: "Thank you for allowing my daughters to visit us. Their brothers are missing them."
Xxxxx
The talk went over the visit I did at the Wall, Arya asked me: "Why did you call Jon Rhaegar? And me a niece from him? You said Rhaegar was his father and Lyanna his mothe…" She gasped: "Jon's Father was Prince Rhaegar? Aunt Lyanna his mother? Then he isn't a bastard at all! He is a bloody Prince!"
Yep, Arya, The Blabbermouth threw it all in the open.
I nodded: "Yep, Rhaegar Targaryen, not a prince anymore though, more like an Honorary Noble. When the Night Watch disbands, Lord Stark can give him some land, maybe the New Gift with the Queen's Crown as Castle."
After an explanation of why the Night Guards are going to disband, I closed with: "First I have to deal with the Dothraki, to train my wives back to full force before we go after the Night King."
Lady Stark choffed: "You let your wives fight? How barbarian." Sansa came to my defense: "Mother! Don't judge them! I witnessed them creating wonders I could only dream about. They rebuild a castle in one week. A castle, like never seen before mother. Compared to that, the Red Keep is a Small Folks' hovel. They can fight better than the best warrior from Westeros. And all of them are willing to train Arya and me."
Go wife NR One! Slap the bitch some truths about proper Ladies in her ears! It stung that it was Sansa that defended me… I corrupted her little Lady!
I grinned at her: "I doubt someone from a backwater region knows anything about being a Lady. They can only pretend to be one. These two little princesses from the north though, are being trained to be proper Ladies. They come from a long line of Royalty, eight thousand years if I remember it right. The Tullies? Three hundred? Two Hundred?
I'll start teaching them more magic in a couple of months. Arya is learning Warging and Sansa is studying Light Magic. Their fighting skills are good already. Sansa can shoot a raven out of the sky, and Arya is close to getting me stabbed."
Lady Stark protested: "Magic is a source of evil and must be destroyed!"
I shrugged: "Are you willing to kill your children? They all have a connection with their Dire-wolves through magic. Maesters all are using magic to train the ravens, are we killing them? The Gods gave me magic, are you telling us you know better than the Gods? Your husband witnessed the event of me getting Magic. If I didn't get Magic on time, then your husband's head would be on a pike in the Red Keep."
She should have known better than to open her mouth. Bashing her is always fun.
Xxxxx
Ah! that felt great. Back Home, we gathered for dinner. Margaery, Sansa, and Arya were telling each other about their day, Nymeria found a spot she was comfortable at. She got a lot of attention from the wives and dragons.
Tracey reported: "The Iron Bank was surprised that we could settle the debt, I received the money back when I sold them some Storage Rings, they were even asking for more rings. The Faceless men won't bother us after a little demonstration. After that, Lavender and I had a nice day of shopping."
Lavender smiled: "It was fun to relax and shop for a day, we bought two ships and hired crews for the ships here in the harbor. We also bought three warehouses and renovated the docks next to them. Do not look like that to me! We can't shop for clothes because ours are way better! All the things on the markets we can make ourselves, and better. It felt a bit nostalgic when I recognized those buildings from our level. I just had to have them."
Daphne said thoughtfully: "We can use them to teach the girls about commerce and handling employees."
Astoria said: "Teach them to sell horses, if you didn't notice, we are not even at one quarter in the Dothraki Sea of Grass, and nobody wants to have more horses. It is amazing how many horses are out there."
I sighed and answered: "Yeah, we bit more than we could chew, I don't mind storing some horses to feed our dragons, but not thousands of them. How do we tame those Dothraki? Stealing their horses was a good idea on paper, but there are just too many of them."
Sirius asked: "Destroying their camps maybe? We can't ward the entire region, you must have noticed at the Wall, that it corrupts the natural world."
Padma confirmed it: "Sirius is right, the Wall, Valyria, Qarth, The shadowlands, the Red priests, they all corrupt the natural magic of this world. Also, if you tax the leylines too much, it warps them, and disturbs the natural flow of the seasons."
Fay said: "We destroyed their capital city and all their monuments, destroying camps will send the wrong message I think, why don't we transform the Khals and their Blood-warrior-riders into horses?"
Daphne warned them: "You better make them geldings, if they start breeding, Morgana only knows what the offspring will turn out to be."
I shrugged: "With our Wizarding Magic at 100 our transfiguration is permanent. We can do that, maybe select the best horses for ourselves? Hmmm, now I sound like a highway robber. Let's sleep on it."
Xxxxx
In the following days, we raided the camps of the Dothraki, changed the Khals and their best warriors into geldings, and gave them the: Be Nice Or Else Speech. Any protest from them was answered that if they are not happy with it, then we treat them the Dothraki way, and steal everything they have.
Sirius had fun with his dragon, the little thing took after his master and was full of mischief. Often he was watched by the girls with envy, especially by Daenerys. Although Sirius didn't mind sharing Prongs with them."
Astoria took Daenerys aside: "It is no use to pine after that Throne Daeny, it isn't even your birthright, a son of Prince Rhaegar is still alive and has more right for that throne than you. That you are resistant to fire is no big deal, Joff is fireproof too, so are we, a simple spell will do that.
Think about your life, for as long as Viserys was alive, you were a way to get him an army. You tasted power when you were Khaleesi, everyone jumped for you. Was it worth it? An infected wound and your dreams shattered. What will you do when we give you a dragon? Will you raise an army and go to war for that cursed Throne?"
With tears in her eyes, Daenerys whispered: "I don't know what to do anymore, I never did. I always followed others' advice. I only know that those three eggs responded to me, I felt their warmth, their magic."
Astoria hugged her and said softly: "I'll talk to Joff tonight. But know this Daenerys: without our magic healing, you would have at best three wild dragons, and at worst three crazy ones."
Daenerys asked: "How can you be sure of that? How can you tell?"
Daphne, who followed the conversation answered: "We have spells that analyze the egg, it can tell the percentage for survival and mental health. Even the duration for hatching. Dragon eggs that are left unhatched lose their chances of survival with the years that pass by. We hatch the eggs after healing and curing them while binding them to us.
We can't pass dragons out like candy to little girls, certainly not to a girl that burns for revenge. Life was not fair to you, but it isn't fair to a lot of people. You can ask any slave about life and fairness."
Astoria hugged her and said: "Take a few months to morn your losses Daeny, after that we will talk again. Play with little Prongs, or spend time with Betsy. She loves you like one of her own. I'll show you why after dinner."
Xxxxx
That evening, Daenerys viewed our past life, how I saved her other self from Braavos, and her time with Betsy and Elia Martell.
I told her: "Forget about that Throne Daeny, focus on living, study books or weapons, or even magic. In a few years maybe you fall in love again and build a life in Westeros or Essos. You see, the memories of the previous You are the reason we helped you at all. My reason for our visit was to get those eggs, my wives decided to take you home. Don't throw it away for a fool's dream."
Daenerys let her shoulders sag and said: "You are right, but it is hard, all my life I am being told we are the last dragons and are meant to rule. I will give up on the Throne."
Sirius put his arm around her shoulder: "Small steps Daeny, take it one day at a time."
Xxxxx
That evening, Margaery and Sansa were smuggled in again by Lucinda. With a sigh, I told them: "Ok, you win, but… Sansa, not before you are fifteen. Margaery, you should wait a few months too. The previous world is too fresh in my memory, in that world you were more than ten years younger than me. You can stay and play with the girls, but I am off-limits. Do we have a deal?"
Margaery jumped in my arms and shouted: "Yes! We have a deal. Grandmother already gave her blessing, and I can wait two months."
Sansa nodded: "On my five and Tenth Name day you will make me your wife. Father already agreed with King Robert, for the marriage, so there will be no problems at all."
New Companions:
Margaery Tyrell
Sansa Stark
Arya Stark
Bloody hell? How is the little one involved? That Game is messing with my head.
