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Really enjoying playing with the bending abilities in the world of Game of Thrones :D

Chapter 2: Guest of the Enemy

Some days later …

Lannister camp, Somewhere in the South East Riverlands

Catelyn closed her eyes as her back rested against the rock bars of her cage but the cold metal encasing her wrists reminded her of her predicament. She had been trying for hours to coax the water out of the mud-covered grass that the Lannisters had decided to camp on. Alas it wasn't a technique she had mastered yet, choosing to focus more on defensive moves and healing skills that most woman of the water tribes decided to pursue. She was regretting that choice now, and made a promise to herself that if she got back to Ned, she would make him teach her all the water bending battle techniques he knew. She never wanted to feel this helpless again.

She slapped her hand down to the ground in frustration and let it rest there as she gave up trying to control the water in the surrounding vegetation to push out with her chi to explore the surrounding area.

She knew that they were still in the Riverlands as no other region carried so much water underground and she could sense its presence below her feet. She attempted to drag the water to the surface but she only got so far until her strength failed her and the water would start to seep back down to where she had tried to pull it from.

Again, she brought one hand down to the ground in frustration but this time instead of a slap it was a fully formed fist.

"You are Catelyn Tully?" a voice floated through the bars.

Catelyn turned her head to see a young blond girl who was probably only a few years younger than herself staring down at her from across her cage.

How long has she been watching me? wondered Catelyn.

"It is actually Catelyn Stark now."

"Yes, you married Eddard Stark in a pathetic attempt to strengthen the rebel alliance against King Aerys."

"I married for love."

"Sure," Cersei said disbelievingly then switched tact. "I heard you lasted for more than a minute fighting with my father."

"What of it?" Catelyn snapped back, remembering the feeling of the boulder smacking right into her before her world went black a few days ago.

"Most people don't last more than a few seconds," Cersei replied watching Catelyn carefully.

Catelyn didn't know how to respond to that so she didn't.

Cersei walked closer to where Catelyn sat and crouched down to her level, "If the battle had lasted another minute you would have returned to Catelyn Tully."

Catelyn felt her temper flare as she thought of Ned fighting the smirking woman in front of her.

"If you could have killed my husband on the battlefield why didn't you?" Catelyn challenged.

Cersei brought herself to her full height once again and walked around the cage, "Oh, that is right you didn't quite make it to the end of the battle. Rhaegar fell in combat to Robert Baratheon so my father and Lady Olenna sounded the retreat. We are going to return to King's Landing. Where I suspect you are going to meet a fiery end."

Catelyn remained silent at the thought of being dragged to King's Landing and put in front of the notoriously unforgiving Aerys II Targaryen, the Dragon that burned all those in his path.

Cersei's hand tapped on one of the bars, "You have never met the Mad King, have you? I was there when he burned Rickard and Brandon Stark alive. They stood no chance against the Dragon's flames. Unfortunately for Eddard Stark it looks like his wife is going to share his brother and father's fate."

Catelyn once again remained silent knowing if she no longer interested Cersei the younger woman would go away and she desperately wanted to be alone. Her instincts were rewarded when Cersei gave her one last look of triumph and sauntered away.

Catelyn slumped back down to the ground and leaned her back against the bars of her cage once more. She thought about trying to break the metal chains that held her hands together but without any water at her disposal she had no idea how she was going to do that, let alone escape the entire camp.

Next day …

Lannister camp, Somewhere in the South East Riverlands

Tywin sat across from his daughter. An open letter laid on the desk between them. The rain could be heard hitting the roof of the tent above the deathly silence inside the tent.

Not a single word had been spoken between them since Cersei had finished reading the letter; since she had read the news that her twin brother had been burned alive for the failure of Tywin Lannister to protect the Crowned Prince during the Battle of the Trident.

Tywin waited patiently giving his daughter the time she needed to process what she had just read, just as he had given himself the time needed to contain the inferno of anger that had consumed him when he had finished reading the letter.

When Tywin spotted the tell-tale wobble of Cersei's mouth, he knew it was time to act. He stood from his chair and rounded the desk that separated them to drag Cersei from her seated position into a tight hug just before a flood of emotion poured down Cersei's face. Tywin's hand went to stroke Cersei's hair as her tears soaked his chest.

Tywin directed his voice just behind Cersei's head as he visualised killing his oldest friend, "We will make Aerys Targaryen pay for what he has done. I will ensure his entire houses destruction for what he did to Jamie."

Cersei nudged closer into her father's embrace as she tried to control her breathing and calm herself down.

If anyone had entered the tent at that moment, they would have been shocked at the emotional scene in front of them. Tywin Lannister was known to be a cold man and a hard task master. These traits didn't change when applied to his own children.

But in this father daughter moment there was only understanding; that both were hurting, that both were containing a burning rage that would only be quenched when Aerys Targaryen was dead.

Jamie would be avenged. They would ensure it.

Suddenly there were a few shouts of panic that penetrated the tent and abruptly ended the tender moment between daughter and father.

Almost immediately Tywin returned to his usual cold and controlled manner as he quickly disengaged from Cersei and gave her a clear look, stay here, as he marched through the flap of the tent to see his men trying to contain a torrent of water that was raging through his camp.

At the centre of the rapidly moving jets of water was Catelyn Stark. Tywin looked towards the sky and felt the rain hitting his face.

Of course, rain empowered a water bender just like the sun's rays empowered a fire bender. Tywin looked to the cage that should have been entrapping the young water bender to see the bars had been bend outwards. That must have taken a considerable amount of pressure and strength. Tywin eyed the young water bender with newfound caution.

Tywin clenched his hands into two fists. He was in the mood for a fight. He needed to drain some of his rage away before he could think clearly and he had just found a perfect target to unleash it on.

He slammed one foot into the ground and he began to rapidly close the distance between him and the escaping water bender as he surfed the moving ground below him to reach her.

Catelyn heard him before she saw him propelling towards her in his red and golden armour, rocks flying behind him as he carried with him a face full of thunder.

It really was a terrifying image and it made Catelyn work harder to escape the camp. She ran and glided past the many soldiers who tried to stop her but were too slow to even lay a hand on her or strong enough to penetrate the water flowing around her.

She was within a few seconds of reaching the edge of the camp when a block of rock rose up before her, closing off her escape route.

I really hate earth benders, Catelyn thought bitterly as she stopped and immediately turned around to see Lord Lannister rapidly advancing on her position. Every fibre of her being told her to avoid a confrontation with the man chasing her. She was the prey in this situation and he was definitely the predator.

She moved quickly, summoning a tornado of water to rise her above the recently constructed wall before her.

Rocks jutted out of the wall, trying to knock Catelyn of the jet of water that was elevating her.

She nearly made it to the top before she realised that the wall was curving over her head making her stop her ascension and catapulted herself against the wall to avoid being caught under the bending earth.

She landed safely on the ground after guiding herself back down, deciding that going over the wall was no longer an option.

As soon as her feet touched the ground, she was assaulted with fist like rocks that smashed against her quickly set up ice shield forcing her to retreat towards the wall. When her back hit the wall, she knew she had made a tactical mistake.

The wall merged around her back and pulled her into it until she was immobilised and only her head was in contact with the air, the rest of her body was lost inside the thick wall of rock.

Fuck, Catelyn thought as she scolded herself for not remembering that some earth benders could manipulate rock into mud just as some water benders could morph water into ice.

Tywin Lannister strode towards her as she struggled in vain to release herself. He stopped just an arms length away from her but all he did was breath and keep an eye on her as if their short fight had alleviated a burden on his shoulders.

After a few seconds of struggling against the earth encapsulating her Catelyn disturbed his peace, "I would rather die here, now by your hand than in the throne room screaming while Aerys Targaryen burns me to cinders."

Catelyn was expecting a rebuttal from Lord Tywin but instead his face seemed to turn white at her words and his jawline tensed.

"That isn't your fate," the proud Lord ground out. It was Jamie's.

"Cersei said you were going back to King's Landing."

"I was," Tywin said slowly as if confirming his decision in his mind.

"My Lord?" Catelyn questioned noticing the exhausted countenance that now surrounded the man and the slight tremor in his hand but she couldn't say if this was due to fatigue or anger.

"Aerys Targaryen blames me for the death of his son. He thinks I didn't bare my full strength on the battlefield at the Trident. He …" Tywin hesitated and looked away from Catelyn as if the next piece of information he hadn't truly come to terms with, "He killed my son, Jamie in retaliation."

Catelyn had the good sense to remain silent as the rain drops fell around them. She knew how Jamie Lannister had likely died. It was the same manner of death she had just asked Lord Tywin to spare her from.

Tywin did some quick hand movements in front of her and she felt the wall of mud encasing her fall away and return to flat earth behind her.

She collapsed to her knees on the ground as her hands rested on her upper thighs to help control her breathing. The last week spend as a prisoner had sapped her energy but the escape attempt and short fight with Lord Tywin had exhausted her to the edge of her physical capabilities.

"I am no longer returning to King's Landing. I intend to ride toward north not south," Tywin said down to her.

"You will join our cause? You will fight against the Crown, against Aerys Targaryen?" Catelyn said in a disbelieving tone.

"He killed my son. I will destroy him," Tywin locked eyes with Catelyn as he extended a hand down towards her, "I will join … your cause."

Author notes:

Jamie died early in this and it looks like the Lannisters are joining Robert's Rebellion due to this!

Cersei in this AU is still a bit intense and aggressive but nowhere near as extreme, or bitter, as in canon (G.O.T) because she has the ability to fight with her earth bending that she was denied in the G.O.T universe (she always wanted to learn how to sword fight), which I think would have an effect on her personality a bit. This shift in personality allows for a deeper/stronger bond between Tywin and Cersei as she is much more useful to the family legacy therefore Tywin would value her more in this universe allowing them to connect more e.g though earth bending lessons/lectures.

Catelyn losses to Tywin again but she is a teenager and he is a well renowned general and skilled earth ender in his thirties so she really had no chance against him in the first fight or the fight in this chapter.

If some of the moves are confusing you please look up avatar last air ender on youtube and you should get the gist of the moves of water benders and earth benders that I am trying to describe :)

RIP

Jamie Lannister (Aerys burnt him alive using fire bending in the Throne room)

In Aerys mind Tywin got Rhaegar killed at the Battle on the Trident so he decided to return the favour and kill Tywin's son in King's Landing. Bad move as Tywin has now joined the rebels.

Review:

kira444 - Thanks for reviewing! I thought it would be a cool ideas as all the wives or daughters could play a more important part in the wars and I haven't seen too many stories that have attempted to merge elemental bending with GOT. I didn't know that but to be honest I have only watched the Witcher TV series, not the games or books, so my knowledge of that universe it a bit limited.

Next Up: Jon, Ned and Robert have a decision to make while Olenna Tyrell shows off some moves and the Mad King plays with fire.