THE SHE WOLF OF WINTER

Arya Stark was not happy at all. First she had to leave her home to go south so that her father can take a fancy position in the capital and her stupid lady of a sister can marry the blonde ponce of Prince. She never liked how people always compared her to her sister who was was always better than her at stiching,dancing or anything else , or about how sansa was more beautiful than her and how she is nothing more than plain looking ugly Arya horseface. That's why she spent so much time learning to ride horses and archery because she wanted to be better than Sansa at something.

That's why she never liked to stay with Sansa and her friends. They always made fun of she never got lonely in Winterfell because she had her brothers now they were left in Winterfell. When they were nearing Moat Cailin she saw the a red headed boy playing with a stick like it was a sword when he saw her, he started apologizing calling her a probably thought she was going to complain to her father about this but she didn't she befriended him.

So now they both would play with sticks whenever she could get away from septa mordane and try imitating the swordplay after seeing soldier practice in training found out his name was Mycah and he was a year older than sansa and he wanted to become a guard to better serve house Stark.

Today she and Mycah had planned to see the Ruby Ford hoping they might find some rubies which were thrown from Prince Rhaegar's breastplate during battle of trident.

But alas they found nothing so with 2 sticks they started practicing their swordplay. That's how her sister and Joffrey found them. Joffrey looked a little drunk and was carrying a wineskin.

She told them to leave but they didn't listen to her. Prince started speaking about how mycah should be punished for trying to attack her no matter she was the one who asked him to do that. Mycah was getting more and more nervous by the minute. Just then the Prince took his sword out pointing towards Mycah muttering about punishing him. She could see Nymeria out of corner of her eye getting ready to attack Prince-

"Really Joff challenging a peasant don 't you think that's rather one sided."

They all turned towards the source of the voice.

Leaning casually against the tree was a boy who looked around Joffrey's age . He had messy black hair and greenest eyes she had ever were seen which were exactly like emeralds. On his doublet was sigil of two golden antlers with a golden crown between them. He had an amused expression on his face.

Standing beside him was fully armored was of medium height and broad shoulder from what she could of see one of his hands was on the hilt of his sword.

"YOU!WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE"snarled Joffrey pointing his sword towards the newcomer. She could easily see the armoured man stiffen but the older looking boy just smirked,put one of his hand on his chest and replied "You enthusiasm at seeing me warms my heart brother, it truly does."

So he was the second Prince. She had heard about him even in the North. They say he is one of best swordsman having defeated Jaime Lannister 'The Kingslayer' in a single combat. Stories also said that he was as ruthless as Grandfather Tywin Lannister. Stories about his exile were also greatly varied. Some said that King banished him because he wanted to usurp his older brother,others said he was banished because Queen favoured her eldest but no one except the select few knew for sure.

"ah..but as I was saying don't you think this spar would be too one sided not only the boy is unarmed but he also doesn't have any formal training in swordplay. So why don't you go bully someone else." The second prince said as he moved in front of mycah facing Joffrey

Joffrey's face flushed with anger and he gripped his sword harder and for one moment she thought he was going to attack his brother before said brother spoke "I hope you don't do something stupid like attacking me. After all its not like I'm second youngest person to be ever knighted in the history or I won my First melee at the age of 13 beating men twice my size."

Joffrey immideately backed off and stayed still. Then second Prince turned towards herbut the moment he turned-

"WATCH OUT!"Arya shouted on top her lungs seeing Joffrey swinging the sword towards his brother,she also heard Sansa shouting something.

The moment he heard her, the Prince ducked down and then turned and grabbed joffrey's wrist with one hand and throat with other.

"Attacking someone from back, rather cowardly for the Crown Prince don't you think?" he said while twisting Joffrey's wrist which caused his sword to fall on the ground while he howled in agony.

"Stop it! You are hurting the Prince." Sansa shouted. In response the Prince Hadrian turned to glare towards her which caused her to close her mouth suddenly and she started looking scared

He threw Joffrey towards the ground. Red marks were clear on his throat as he gasped for the air before saying

"Mother will hear about this."

In return he just caught a deadpan stare

He got up and started running towards the camp while sansa ran after him saying "My Prince,My Prince are you okay?"

"Well that was enough excitement for the day. Am I correct in assuming you were practicing swordplay?"He asked smiling looking towards her and Mycah.

Both her and mycah were overwhelmed by the past few minutes ,so they nodded just dumbly

"Well I am a quite a swordsman myself, I would be willing to offer my help if you want."He asked them while smiling softly.

They of course accepted. Both Prince Hadrian(he asked her to call him Harry in private) and the armoured man who revealed himself to be Ser Balon Swann taught them both. They corrected Mycah stance while Harry told her to maintain her grip more loosely. He also told her she should put less strength in her strikes as she did not have enough instead she should focus on the speed. They spent rest of the afternoon and nearly half of the evening training. When the Prince told her it was late and time to go ,she was rather sad. This was the first time she ever got formal training. Master at Arms didn't train her because she was a girl and her brothers only indulged never teaching her anything.

When Prince saw her disspointment he told her he might train her in sword fighting when they reach Kings Landing, she smiled broadly for the first time since she left Winterfell.

Maybe King's Landing might not be that bad after all.