The Hour of The Wolf

by VVSINGOFTHECROSS

Robb Stark's twin brother Dareon, must pick up the pieces of his shattered family. After reclaiming the north for House Stark, defeating the Ironborn and the treacherous Boltons and Freys. Upon receiving a rather cryptic note Dareon makes way to the Vale, but what will he find there when all his family are dead?

6. The Bold

Meeren

Barristan Selmy stood on the rampant of the main wall that had protected Meeren from the combined forces of Yunkai and Astapor during the battle of Slaver's Bay. The fact that that the battle had raged for days and was in fact still raging did not escape his notice, but he had been given a small respite from all the carnage to reflect on how things had progressed.

They had come in the dead of night with a slight horn blast, the combined forces of both Yunkai and Astapor numbering some 30,000 men including marched and fell upon the gates of Meeren to be met by a 20,000 strong force of brazen beasts, Unsullied and the Tattered Prince's company. The battle had seemed lost when on the third day Lhazaro one of the boys Barristan had been training as a knight pointed out ships on the horizon with what looked like squids- Barristan knew them to be kraken- on their sales. The Ironborn had landed on shore of Slaver's Bay and had immediately began to ransack and kill Yunkai's forces Barristan had never truly been so relieved to see the Ironborn as he had been in that moment.

The feeling lasted but for a brief moment when he felt a bone chilling blast come from somewhere out on the shoreline, and spied a man in red robes standing next to a man with a patch covering one eye, and Barristan's heart had plummeted. For if the Crow's Eye was here it could only mean more bad tidings for the rest of them. However, his fears had proved unwarranted as suddenly he saw Viserion emerge from wherever he had been during the battle and bathed both the red robed man and the Crow's Eye in flame, and had then flown back to wherever he had made his resting place. Once the smoke had cleared both the red robed man and the Crow's Eye were dead, but so too it appeared were the remaining Ironborn's spirits for the remaining forces scattered and ran back to their ships.

But just as it seemed that they would leave their remaining ships were destroyed by canning blasts and further horn blowing which announced the arrival of the Volanteene fleet coming in aid of the Yunkai forces. Barristan now felt that they were lost, he felt like he was at the Trident all over again watching Prince Rhaegar fall down to his death throes at the hand Robert Baratheon.

He felt truly useless then in that moment, was he doomed to constantly fail to serve and protect the family he had sworn his vows to all those years ago.

It was in the middle of this deep dark spiral that Lhazaro tugged on Barristan's shoulder and point upwards and said "Look ser, look! A big shadow has covered the sun!"

And Barristan looked upward and could not believe how their luck had improved for up there towering above the Volanteene fleet was Drogon and his mother Danaerys. They were saved!