Chapter 10:

The trip around the north of Westeros continued through its second week and a few of them were getting nervous they wouldn't make it around by the time they told Jon to meet them. It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that he'd be getting chased by the men he was abandoning.

Arya tried not to think about it too much and kept up her training with Zoro. She was able to last longer every day standing out in the cold and had Nami teach her a few things about navigating around the icebergs. If they could keep moving while the navigator wasn't outside, it would pick up their pace and they wouldn't have to worry as much.

It was worth a try and Nami was glad to see the girl had enough sense of direction for her to catch on quickly. The girl was also able to stay outside longer than she was, so the orange haired woman started giving her tips and letting her maneuver while she watched, testing her first. For a few days she didn't think it was going to work, but Arya really got the hang of it and they started moving faster and farther each day.

They were heading almost straight west now and wondered how far it would be until they started moving south again. Nami hadn't seen much on the north side of Westeros that was worth putting into her map. So far it was just ice cliffs all the way up and she couldn't even see the tops of the mountains from how far down she was. Only on the days when it wasn't snowing could she see the top of the cliff and it was beautiful when she did.

After two weeks of traveling, the crew was outside on a day with light snowfall. It was odd, the freezing cold weather had suddenly started to heat up, but they weren't moving south at all. The air was still frigid, but not as bad as before when they couldn't stay out on the deck for extended periods of time.

There was a bird circling the air above them and it looked like a large hawk. The pirates were confused since they hadn't seen life in so long, but the bird stopped circling and flew in front of them in the direction they were heading. It was almost like it was leading them.

"Look, the snow's ending," Chopper pointed off the bow and a few of the others looked ahead. Sure enough, the clouds up in the sky thinned out and then disappeared completely. The lack of clouds wouldn't have been so weird, if it weren't for the fact that clouds covered the entire sky in every direction they looked.

"Wh-What's with that?" Usopp whispered as they moved closer to the edge of the snowing area. They all looked up now and could see a huge circle in the sky where there were no clouds. The strange bird was circling the sky there and then it stopped and flew off in a random direction as if it had never noticed them in the first place. Chopper found it strange, but they were focused on other things. Sunlight was passing through the hole in the sky and bathed the sea beneath it in light.

Nami was following the light out of the sky and her eyes widened. The huge white cliff jutted out in front of them, and then maybe a mile in front of it, there was another jutt in the cliff wall. What's between those? She looked up at the sky and the snow stopped right at the juts in the walls. They were about to pass into the section of water covered in sunlight and she was getting nervous.

Luffy couldn't have been happier about the sun and he told them to go straight ahead into it. When they passed out of the snow and into the sunlight, instantly they all felt the difference. The wind was gone, the water wasn't choppy, the icebergs had thinned out earlier and there were none in this section without snow. Everyone was feeling warmer and they shed their coats as they basked in the sun, staring up at it and feeling like they've never felt better.

Sanji was the first one to stop looking at the sun and he turned his head towards the ice wall between the juts. His mouth dropped and the gasp that escaped his lips caused the others to look at him and then towards the wall. Their mouths all fell as well as there was no wall in front of them.

Between the two huge sections of ice wall where they were sailing, there was an oasis. The whole place was amazing and eerily creepy at the same time. Next to the left side of the cliff that they just came in on, there were trees lining the grassy coast that was at sea level so they could land there. The trees were on the other side of the coast as well, leaving the middle section empty where the elevation lifted and there was a dirt plateau sticking up so that it was at eye level with the pirates on the ship.

The pirates stared at the trees and felt nervous from the faces on them that were looking out over the water. It was like the wooden trunks grew naturally with faces on them and they had red streaks of blood coming out of the corners of their eyes. "Okay, seriously creepy," Usopp whispered.

"Weirwoods," Arya whispered, "there are so many of them."

"Holy sh-" Franky started but he couldn't even finish his sentence. The others were all noticing it themselves and they started to shake. Behind the weirwoods was a large forest of normal trees and it led far back until the mountains started again. They weren't paying attention to the weirwoods or the scenery around them though, they were looking at the top of the small plateau they were heading towards.

No one said a word as they approached it. On the edge of the elevated section of land, sitting there with his head lifted up and staring at them, was a child. He was short and had straight black hair that fell around his head to his shoulders and below. His hair was messy and his clothes were in tatters. He didn't stand when he saw them, but he lifted a hand and put two fingers in his mouth.

A loud whistle sounded from the small cliff and they watched the boy sitting there. He never took his eyes off their boat, but the crew members stopped looking at him as they saw a tree behind the weirwoods shake. The green top of it shuddered and leaves fell off before the one next to it shook as well. "What is-" Nami started and stopped her sentence short as it came jogging out of the trees.

"It's a direwolf," Arya whispered as the huge wolf that was almost as tall as the trees it was in started running up the small hill.

"It's going to eat him!" Chopper exclaimed.

Zoro shook his head, "Didn't you hear him whistle? That boy is its master."

Arya was staring at the white wolf with golden fur on its back and head and she wondered who this boy was that owned a pet like this. She'd never heard of people owning pet direwolves besides her and her siblings, but then again, she never expected anyone to live this far north.

"Is he alone here?" Usopp whispered and looked around, seeing a lot of wildlife, but no signs of other people. They watched the direwolf run all the way up to the top of the small cliff and it was flat at the top. The wold reached down and it looked like Zoro was wrong, it opened its mouth around the boy's neck.

The swordsman got ready to send a flying sword attack at it, when the direwolf lifted up the boy by a piece of his shirt and placed him on its back. The boy was positioned on one side and they thought he would throw his leg over the other, but instead he grabbed his right leg and lifted it up with his arms, putting it on the other side of his wolf.

Arya took a step back and slipped on the snow, falling to the ground and hurting her butt. The pain didn't register on her face while the other crew members looked down at her, It can't be. She shot up as fast as she could and ran to the rail, leaning over as far as she could and shouting at the boy sitting on a wolf on the cliff. "Bran! Brandon Stark!"

"What?!" the crew yelled, hearing the girl's last name.

The boy sitting on his wolf didn't react to what the girl said for a moment. He looked out at the ship and then patted his wolf on the side. The animal turned around and ran off with the boy holding the scruff of its neck to hold on. "Bran!" she yelled again, but the boy disappeared into the forest and they watched a few trees shake before it was too far. She turned to Luffy and stated in a pleading voice, "We have to land."

The pirate in the straw hat was planning on it anyway, even without the strange boy on the point furthest north in Westeros. "Yosh! Men, land at the shore!" The crew started running around and getting the ship ready to land. The snow on the deck was melting and everything was getting wet.

"How did he get here?" Nami whispered as the boat turned to the grass area near the weirwoods on the left and sailed towards them. They were hundreds of miles away from the Wall and hadn't seen life for over a week. Then they suddenly emerged in an oasis with a young teenage boy in it?! She turned to Arya, "Who was that?"

The girl was standing as close to the edge of the ship as she could. She wanted to get off as quickly as possible and chase after him. "He's my brother," she said and the others opened their eyes wider, "he's a year younger than me, and he's a cripple. He can't walk."

"So that's why the wolf had to carry him," Usopp wondered out loud.

"Jon said that he'd heard Bran passed through the Wall, but..." the girl stopped. "How is he here?" She was as confused if not more by all this than anyone else and as the ship stopped, she was hesitant to get off. "What if," she whispered, remembering what Nami said about the large mass of bodies in front of that mountain. It sounded like the only things this far north were the dead, "What if he's, one of them?"

"He didn't look like it," Robin assured the younger girl who was hesitating on the ship as it hit shore. They lowered a platform from the side as they anchored and it hit the grass below.

"But if he is," Arya whispered again. She didn't know what to think and was afraid of what she'd find up here. If only they were close enough before for her to see into his eyes. She'd be able to tell if they had that icy shade of blue. I don't want to have to kill my brother.

"What are you talking about?" Luffy asked and patted her on the back so she would start walking down the platform. "He's not one of those white walkers. If he was the dog would have barked at him instead of carried him away." Luffy's logic was the least sound out of everyone who was going to talk to her, but her eyes lit up anyway and she nodded.

"You're right," she shook away the bad thoughts. "Somehow, he got up this far north. Summer is still with him, and maybe Hodor and the other people Jon said were traveling with him are somewhere around here too.

"Who's Hodor?" Luffy asked as the two of them ran down the platform to the grass area.

The crew went down and started looking around at the weirwoods. Sanji walked up the small cliff covered in grass that the boy was sitting on before and he stopped when he got halfway. Arya was describing the simple-minded half giant who could only say his own name and Sanji called down to the crew standing between the shore and the start of the forest. "What did you say that name he just kept repeating was?"

"Hodor!" Arya called out in a low voice, imitating him.

"I'm sorry," Sanji said and turned to look at her with a frown on his face. The man lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth as he pointed up the plateau he was on.

The girl didn't like the sound of that and started running up the cliff before slowing down and walking. The pirate crew was behind her and watched as she walked up to the two crosses made of sticks coming out of the hill. On one of the sticks, the word 'Hodor' was carved into it and Arya turned from it to the one next to it. The ground beneath the second one had no grass on it and looked like it was recently dug up, as if the grave was fresh. This one had the name, 'Meera Reed,' on it and she wondered if she was one of the two kids who helped her brother.

She stared at them for a few seconds longer and then looked back and over the large forest that stretched out behind her. "Bran!" she yelled, receiving no response.

The girl was about to run off into the woods when Nami told her to stop. "We're agreed that we're going to help Arya find her younger brother right?" Everyone there nodded and Nami continued, "Let's split up into groups then."

Arya really wanted to find her brother, but at the same time she had to say it. "I'm sorry," she apologized to her friends. "In the short time I've been here you have helped me find two of my brothers. I know we weren't really looking for Bran, but now you're all so quick to-"

"You're wasting time," Luffy told her and motioned for the forest with his head.

"Yeah it's fine Arya," Chopper told her with a large smile.

Usopp flicked his nose that had a scar on it from when the white walker scratched his face and he grinned, "It wouldn't be an adventure if unexpected things like creepy kids on the edge of the world didn't appear every once in a while." He realized how he referred to her brother and added with his hands in front of him, "Not that he was creepy or anything."

"No," Arya said and felt chills from the way he was looking at them when they arrived, "he freaked me out too."

"Alright," Nami clapped her hands together, "teams." She was no longer going to let straws decide anything and she pointed people out herself. "Robin, Zoro, and Chopper. Usopp, Luffy, and Arya. Franky, myself, and Sanji."

Sanji heard he was put in Nami's group and he shouted in joy, though any of the three groups would have been fine with him. Each one had its own beautiful female crew member for him to protect.

While they were standing there and making groups, Chopper noticed the strange bird from before flying above the tops of the trees in the forest. It got closer to them but didn't look like it was going to approach. He was the only one who noticed it and he watched as it flapped its wings to keep it up close to the group. It was squawking quietly and the little reindeer looked at it closely.

Some of the others saw Chopper looking up and looked to see the red hawk with a four foot wingspan flapping above them. The reindeer suddenly stated while the bird was squawking, "It said, 'Arya, why have you come here? The only thing this place brings is death.'"

The bird squawked again loudly and flapped back a little, "'You can speak to animals?'" Chopper translated as it squawked. Arya was surprised too, but more so that the bird knew her name and was concerned about her. The bird suddenly stopped flapping so calmly and flew away squawking much louder than before.

Chopper looked confused and Arya questioned, "What did it say this time?"

The little reindeer looked at her and he muttered quietly, "It said, 'What am I doing here? Ah, danger! Run!' But it wasn't the same voice I heard the first time." The others looked at him with puzzled expressions and he continued, "The first voice sounded more intellectual, articulate, and it had a lower voice. When it spoke the last time, it was higher pitched and sounded like a bird talking."

"This place gets weirder and weirder by the second," Franky said and looked around at the line of trees at the beginning of the forest. The others all watched the bird fly away and then focused back on the task at hand.

"Alright! Let's go!" Luffy ran off with Arya at his side and Usopp scrambled to catch up with the two that were too eager to wait for him.

The other groups went straight and to the left and straight to the right. They had to search the woods for this boy and the outer groups were on guard. This kid had a huge monster wolf as his pet and from what Arya told them, the direwolves were very loyal to their masters and would kill to protect them.

"Remember guys," Nami said as she walked away with Franky and Sanji, "don't hurt the wolf." None of them wanted to hurt the intelligent animal that cared for its master and they nodded.

A/N Hey everyone, thanks for reading! One thing I'd like to mention is this is not a Song of Ice and Fire crossover, because I've never read the books. Actually, I have no idea what Bran's been doing all season, but I didn't want to leave him out because he's got awesome powers and cool potential. Everything I wrote about him after arriving at Bloodraven's tree is all fanfictional, because that's where we're at with the show right now. I hope you enjoyed the introduction of Bran Stark, and what could have happened to him? HODOR NOO! oh yeah, and Meera, but whatever. XD Time for reviews:

BemmyBean

Thank you very much for the review. I accept a lot of that criticism as fair, mainly for the darkness of One Piece portions, but I'm trying to put a focus on having Luffy need to mature while he's here, so it does go a bit to the extreme. I thought about putting the Robin backstory share with Arya in that last chapter, but I felt like it would've sounded like Robin telling the girl to "suck it up, we've all been through shit," so instead I just had her comfort the girl. I do think having Robin share her past, perhaps Nami too, will be a good chapter later in the story to get the girl closer to the crew again. Umm, oh yeah, two more things. The Iron Bank part, definitely, had a purpose, and I never went into the repayment portion because it's not too important yet, they don't really have a way of contacting them... but when Winterfell, or the Eyrie, or King's Landing falls to the Straw Hats, it's going to be pretty easy for the Iron Bank to find them and demand repayment. The second and final thing relates to Jon leaving and the whole thing with Robb, that's a scene I put in in a few chapters with a lot of Jon's thoughts, mainly explaining his own actions, but I don't want to go into it, cuz spoilers. Thanks again!

Vasto-Lorde26

Great chapter as always, its great how fast you update this story. I just hope you don't delay them from going south of the wall for too long. Keep up the good work!

At the point I'm at in a few chapters, they're already back below the Wall so don't worry. Thanks for the review!

iitrnr

Great chapter. I think you're the first author who ever attempted a description of the far North. Enjoyed it very much. Thanks.

Haven't heard much about it from the books and not from the show either, so I figured I'd give it a try. Besides, the Nami map-explanation was really me realizing, 'oh shit, they're going to have to do it sometime, why not make an arc out of it?' XD Thank you!

Bobboky

very good work

Thanks!

aizen the III

i honestly applaud you i think this the best crossover of it's kind thanks for the great story

Thank you very much!

Chrome Cheetah

Can't wait for more! Please do keep up with the explanations of Game of Thrones though please. It can get pretty confusing... that and I've never watched it. Also I searched their wiki and the undead are called Wights and the commanders were White Walkers but you seem to switch them around in the previous chapters. Oh well, it's already been done. Can't wait for more!

Thanks! And the wights and white walkers, the names I never really cared much to label. In the show they pretty much call anything dead and moving a white walker, so I interchanged the names solely for writing purposes. Like how in a sentence you'd replace your name with a pronoun and then your name, then 'the boy' or 'the kid with black hair' because it makes it flow better than repeating, 'Cheetah... Cheetah... Cheetah...' all the time. Thought I'd just give an explanation behind why I used the names freely, and thanks for the concern.

thunder18

Great chapter Update soon

Thank you! I always do!

Erin

Another wonderful chapter,I felt for arya in this chapter and I glad she got all tat weight off her shoulders, can't wait to see what's in store for the crew next. :D

Thanks! I like the interactions between Arya and Robin the most, because they've got a larger age gap than most people on the crew, (besides Franky). It makes the fact that Arya is still young much more apparent than with the pirates 3, 4, and 5 years older than her.

Guest

So where are they headed next? The Free Cities, Dorne, the North, Valyria, Kings Landing? I just can't wait till they meet up with Daenerys and Drogon.

Sansa needs my help! And as the writer I, Can, Save, her! We're probs going to head to Winterfell first before heading to the other parts of Westeros. I recently had an idea about the Boltons... and Devil Fruits... and I'll just leave it there cuz I haven't really put the idea together yet, but it's going to be fun. Thanks for the review!

GR

hey, if you made DFsmagic,valkyrian steelkairouseiki another typical One PIece x-overs ficc, no more fun. Yours story is quite unique so far,pls don't ruin that.
And for this chapter, is Zoro teaching Arya Shishi SonSon? figure that it would be his best one sword stealth move

He hasn't even used that in the show yet, so he's probably not teaching it to her :P, but I want to see him reveal it in an awesome way like the Gaon Hou, so that will be in the future. Looking for a way to put Devil Fruits in the story is tough, especially when no one here has ever heard of them, but the characters didn't 'world jump' so they're still in the One Piece world, which means those things are still existent.

Danriver

Save Sansa from being raped by shithead. Have that cockchopping bitch die plz! Just saying its your story.

Lol at Ramsey's nicknames. Ramsey is one nasty sonofabitch, so he may meet his end at the hands of one of the crew, maybe... XD. Thanks again to everyone for reviewing and till next time!