Chapter 13:

"They're here, they're here, they're here!" The doors to the grand hall opened and this was the first thing the pirates heard as they looked into the room.

There was a girl in the front of the room pacing back and forth at the top of some steps. She had a large wooden chair behind her with a white bear head at the top of it but the girl was too excited to sit down. There were guards on either side of the room and some advisors near the bottom of the steps looking towards the entrance as the people walked in.

The Straw Hats were looking around the room in awe. There were large stone pillars going up to the ceiling high above them and there were empty balconies of what was a second level to the great hall they were in. "Cool," Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper muttered together as they looked around at all the guards. They were standing in front of the large white pillars symmetrically around the room and the whole place looked awesome.

The girl in the front had two guards up at the top of the stairs with her. One was on her left and the other on her right and they were in full knight's armor unlike most of the guards who had less on but were still armed. "You're here!" the girl in the front of the room shouted.

"Lady Lyanna?" Bran asked from on top of Chopper's shoulders. They had to leave Summer on the ship with Franky as per the request of the guards who said they'd take them to the castle.

"Please don't call me that," the girl said and rushed down the steps. The two guards behind her looked like they were used to their Lady's excited behavior and they were running right behind her as she met the crew halfway down the hall.

"How old is she?" Sanji wondered as he stared at the cute little girl running towards them. She wasn't even four feet tall but she had long brown hair and practically skipped down the long hall towards them.

"Ten," Bran replied in a whisper.

"And a half!" the girl corrected since she heard Bran from the short distance she was away. The pirate crew collectively sweatdropped at the little girl's comment and she looked around until she pointed at the next smallest girl in the room. Arya might have been a few years older and definitely a lot more mature, but Lyanna's smile was contagious as the girl made eye contact with her and shouted, "Arya Stark! I can't believe I'm meeting you. And you My Lord," she looked flustered and turned to Bran quickly, taking a knee in front of the reindeer.

The boy on top of Chopper went red in the face and lifted a hand, "You really don't have to-"

"Of course I do!" she jumped back on her feet and smiled at the boy on the large furry guy's back. "You're the rightful Warden of the North. You wanna hear what I said to Roose Bolton when he told me to bend the knee?"

The man in the Straw Hat nodded excitedly as this girl was really funny. The others couldn't help themselves from smiling either and the girl shouted, "Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK!"

The pirates who were doubting that this girl might not really be loyal to the Starks discarded that idea immediately after hearing this and they couldn't stop smiling at her. Arya looked a little confused though and asked, "Lady Lyanna..."

"Don't call me that," the girl pleaded and shook her hands in front of her, "It's Lya to my friends, we can be friends right?" She looked at the girl in front of her and Arya scratched her head nervously.

"Yeah, sure," Arya responded, "but why would you want to be my friend? You don't know anything about me."

The girl looked like she was just smacked in the face and jumped in surprise, "Oh my God I forgot!" She practically yelled in excitement and spun to the guard standing behind her on her left. The man never had the chance to speak because it would be rude to interrupt his Lady during her conversation, but now the girl remembered him. Arya looked at the man wearing full armor and her mouth lowered a little and the other pirates were confused. "I do know all about you Arya, or Harry," she started laughing and Arya lowered her jaw a little more. "Let me introduce, Ser Gendry of Ursan. He's my personal bodyguard with Ser Frowns-A-Lot over here."

The pirates looked to the girl's other side where the man in his armor was definitely frowning at them. He had white hair coming out of his helmet and was giving the crew in front of him suspicious glares. Arya didn't look at the older man though and she ran forward instead right past Lya and to the man in armor who was really uncomfortable to hug, but she did it anyway. She recognized him from the second she saw his helmet. It wasn't the same as the one he had with him when they were in the Night's Watch convoy, but it looked similar and made with stronger steel. "Gendry!"

"Hey Arya," the man said from inside his armor and it took all his restraint to keep his composure in front of the other guards and not bend down and give her a big hug too.

She was so relieved. The last time she saw him the Red Priestess was taking him away and she thought he would have been dead by now. She had to stop herself from crying multiple times and accepted this was real. Lya started talking again and there was no stopping the fast-paced girl, "He showed up at our island one day and was caught stealing food from town, back when Mom was still alive. I convinced her to let him go and he told me about himself and I wanted him to be my guard. Did you know Robert Baratheon is his dad?!"

Bran and Arya went wide-eyed and the man with the bull helmet on was trying not to tell the girl to stop shouting secrets to people they just met. She seemed to realize that at the same time and slapped a hand over her mouth, "Oh Shi-" she shouted and stopped herself just as fast. The pirates were almost as surprised by anything else as that the ten year old almost cursed in front of them. "I mean, I wasn't supposed to say that," she looked around at the pirates and tilted her head, "uhh, who are you people?"

Ser Frowns-A-Lot answered, "They're the pirates I was just telling you about ten minutes..."

"Oh yeah the pirates!" Lyanna smacked her fist down onto her open palm like she just remembered it. "Can I trust you guys?"

"You can," Bran told her and the girl smiled. The white haired man was surprised Brandon Stark believed they could trust the pirates, he assumed they were only there as transport.

"This place is so cool," Luffy said as he looked around at the walls.

"I know right?!" the girl before them exclaimed. She started going on about how her mother Maege wasn't one for decorating, but she was a different story. She had the best carpenters and architects on the island come and make the castle look really cool and the statues around the room were testament to that.

While Lyanna was talking to Luffy with the other guard watching them, Gendry added on to the group of pirates, "She may sound like she's an impulsive girl, but those paintings," he pointed at the other wall where a group of polar bears were beating up lions, dragons, and krakens, "and those statues," there were ones commemorating her uncle Jeor and her mother, "were jobs she hired people in the cities and outlying towns to complete. The riches her mother had stored in the vaults here went back into the pockets of the people on the island and Lya doesn't like the idea of taxes so she lowered them a lot. The people of Bear Island love her."

"I love her too," Nami said and wanted to go give the sweet little girl a hug.

"So!" Lyanna snapped back to business and ran from the statue of her uncle back towards the group gathered near the door. Luffy was staring at the statue of the old Lord Commander before Jon Snow and the man really sounded great the way his niece described him. "Am I the first?!" she asked excitedly.

"The first what?" Bran asked since the question was directed at him.

"Well," the girl started and took a deep breath. "I haven't received word from any of the other loyal houses that you've returned, so am I the first one you've come to for help?" The girl looked really excited and when Bran nodded, she was about to explode with joy.

The guards around the room were staying surprisingly still during all the excited outbreaks from their Lady. Robin looked around and stifled a laugh, They must deal with this every day. It's an exciting island.

Arya was asking Gendry all sorts of questions about how he got away from the Red Woman and all the way to Bear Island and the older boy was answering as well as he could. He was four years older than her and around the same age as some of the boys on the crew. The girl was laughing at his story and the crew looking at her were happily surprised this girl found another of her friends/family.

When we found her she was all alone in a place where people go to die, Robin thought proudly. Now we're waiting for her older brother to join us with her younger brother already here. And she's found a long lost friend. You've come a long way, "We thought House Mormont would stay loyal to the Starks..." the black-haired woman was never going to be able to finish her sentence with the young girl in the room.

"It's not just me," she exclaimed. "Lord Greatjon Umber is leading the secret rebellion," she started whispering as if anything else she already said wasn't as secretive as this. "The different Northern houses sided with the Boltons and Stannis, but they were all just biding their time until you returned. He asked me to pick a side and I told him I'd never side with anyone, even for pretend, if they weren't a Stark. Rickon is still with him the last I heard," the girl was the one interrupted this time as the two Stark children in the room started shouting.

"Really? When was that? Did Lord Greatjon side with Roose Bolton?!" Bran shouted all these things at once.

"He's alive, he's alive," Arya was receiving good news after good news and the girl spun around and looked straight at Luffy. The second he stepped through the doors of the House of Black and White, he changed her life. She didn't see him coming, but the moment he turned into a giant balloon and softened her fall, she knew there was something special about him. "Thank you Luffy," she said to the pirate in the Straw Hat and she was smiling more than they'd seen her the entire time they were with her, "for letting me on your crew."

"Shishishi, of course!" he exclaimed.

"Lya," Bran said and the girl looked at the boy on top of the furry man, "We've come to ask for your help. For the support of Bear Island when we take back the North."

The frowny faced guard also seemed to be the girl's trusted advisor and he looked at the cripple boy who had to be held up. "How do you plan on taking the North? Winter is Coming, and Roose Bolton controls Winterfell. The keep can last a siege for months, years if they have the food. Stannis is already on his way and his army doubles the Boltons."

"Stannis can't get into Winterfell," Bran stated, "we can."

"How?" the girl in charge of the island asked. She was anxious to hear what the plan was and couldn't wait to get involved. Her advisors always told her it could be years before their chance arose to help the Starks take it back, but she was liking this plan so far.

"With him," Arya pointed at the teen in the Straw Hat.

"A pirate?" Frowns-A-Lot asked.

"A really strong pirate," Usopp added.

The men in the room were looking at each other nervously and wondered for a second if following Bran Stark meant they were all going to die. "Luffy, could you..." Bran started but the pirate was already on it.

"I can break down any wall or gate we need to get through," Luffy told them and stuck his right thumb in his mouth. "Gear Third!" He bit down on his finger and yelled, "Bone Balloon!" His arm expanded into a gigantic fist and the Stark children as well as most of Luffy's own crew was stunned.

"You can do that?!" Most of his own crew shouted. Zoro just smirked at his captain's new strong ability. The guards in the room were all freaking out and drawing their weapons, but Lyanna was amazed too and clapped her hands, "AWESOME!" she yelled. She turned to the advisor guard next to her and said, "See Ser Harrick, they do have a plan!"

Frowns-A-Lot, whose real name was apparently Harrick, closed his dropped jaw and composed himself before most people in the room. The pirates were the only ones who calmed down pretty fast because they were used to their captain surprising them and his powers weren't too impressive since they already knew he could do similar things. The man watched as the large fist deflated back to normal size and the pirate turned miniature causing his crew to stare at him again in surprise.

One of the other female advisors near the stairs rose her voice, "I suggest we consult Lord Umber and the others first. This plan is too risky to leave in the hands of pirates."

She received a few nods from around the room and Lya scratched her chin, wondering what to do. Arya was the one who spoke up first, "My sister Sansa is in Winterfell right now. She's at the mercy of the Boltons," who I just learned were responsible for betraying my family with Walder Frey. "Every minute we spend talking about this, is another day my sister is being tortured by these monsters."

Lya's mind was made up as soon as Arya started talking, "Bear Island is with you," the girl said and rose her hand to silence the room when her advisors spoke against it. Surprisingly, Ser Harrick didn't speak out against her decision and the man nodded. He was still stunned by the pirate's strength and his biggest concerns about following the Stark kids went away. They already had powerful allies, if few of them.

"We were promised a feast when we got here," Luffy stated in a high-pitched voice because his body was so small.

Nami bent down and punched the tiny captain on top of the head, "Don't be rude in front of the Lady..."

"Wait," the girl looked around at the pirates and they weren't like her normal subjects or lords from other lands who she had to be formal with. "You guys, do you want to be my friends too?"

"SURE!" Luffy said as his body popped back to normal size. "So let's get some food Lya!"

The girl accepted and the two of them ran off with Harrick and Gendry chasing after them. Arya laughed as Gendry said he had to go and sprinted off in the heavy armor. He's probably getting a lot stronger running around with all that heavy armor on all the time. The girl smiled after her friend and wanted to sit with him at the dinner feast to catch up some more.

Nami and Robin were walking with the group and they were all being escorted by the guards. It was a little nerve-racking for some of the crew members being surrounded by armed guards all the time, but they had to convince themselves that's just the way things were in this land. Everyone was worried about assassins or enemies lurking around every corner. It was a very dangerous place.

The orange haired girl turned to her older friend as they walked, "I'm so happy Arya found that friend of hers."

"Yes," Robin mused and stared at the girl in front of them who still hadn't stopped smiling, "her friend." Nami tilted her head confused at her and then looked forward at the younger girl walked down the hallway.

"Really?" Nami asked and Robin had a wry grin on her face. "You think she'll tell us if we bug her about it tonight?"

"I doubt she'll come out and say it," Robin said, the more rational thinking of the two. "But," the woman smirked, "we'll be able to tell from her reaction." The woman's plan was devious and Nami liked it, the two of them smirking at Arya's back as she walked after Gendry, her long lost, friend.

A/N Hey everyone, hope you enjoyed the chapter. It was a little shorter than usual, but I decided to split Bear Island into two chapters to make it work better, but don't worry, I'll post the next one probably tomorrow. Lya Mormont is my favorite character, no lie, from that one line they read about the Starks being in charge. I've never read the books, but I do know that at some point in the series, the Mormonts join with Stannis, but I heard nothing about that in the show, if I'm wrong correct me. Also, WE FOUND GENDRY! Everyone's been looking for him, and Bear Island hasn't been shown the entire series, so why not?! I don't think the Straw Hats saw Gear Third in Water 7, which is why I had them be surprised in this chapter. Arya's life just keeps getting better piece by piece, and Bear Island joins the fray. Thanks to everyone who reviewed and gave feedback:

iitrnr

Great chapter.

Thank you.

Vasto-Lorde26

Great chapter as always. I can't tell you how relieved I am that Jon will live and is there a possibility that sansa will be joining the crew as well?

Jon's big re-entrance is on its way, and Sansa will be an important character... but idk whether or not she'll be joining the crew yet.

Ralman23

I love this story. However, 3 questions.
One. First of all, I don't watch GoT [Gasp], but I did see the last two episodes of this season, so yeah. SO, my question is that will Luffy be dealing with all the 7 kingdoms in GoT, or just this one in particular?
Two. I like that you didn't overpower the SH in order to balance it with GoT, which I think is a pretty good choice, my question is though, will you do the Summit War Saga, when Arya and Jon join the crew?
Three. Will Arya learn one of the SH's pasts?

In Game of Thrones, the Seven Kingdoms are the 7 kingdoms of Westeros, which are all on the same island, not even counting the area north of the Wall. So Luffy is dealing with the 7, in addition to the North, and Essos, so he's all over the map in the GoT world. For the second one, I never planned on having god-like pirates coming into the scene and changing everything easily, it's going to be a challenge for them. The crew has been north of the wall for a month now, Ace got captured soon after Water 7, then Thriller Bark, Sabaody, and another week happened until Ace was executed. I don't think the crew is going to make it on time, even if Luffy notices the little white card in his hat on fire :(. Arya will definitely learn a flashback of one of the crew, I'm thinking Robin, Usopp, or Zoro, maybe Nami. She's close with Usopp, but I feel like his story isn't anywhere as developed as the others so I'll probs leave him out.

Mazzax

I hope Lyanna Mormont gets along with the Straw Hats. I can only assume that flaming shadowed figure with the stag antler is Stannis, though I'm not sure why he would be "riding" House Mormont. The only problem with people in Westeros or Essos suddenly finding Devil Fruits is that Devil Fruits reappear in the nearest fruit of their type when the host/user dies. That means all previous Devil Fruit users that ever existed there either left the lands of Essos and Westeros entirely, or died somewhere remote enough that no one passed through the area since. There's only one Devil Fruit that I would specifically find hilarious, and that would be if they found the Samu Samu Fruit and somehow accidentally gave it to Nami's Clima-Tact, so it tells a corny weather-related joke every time she uses it. But then you'd have to keep coming up with jokes and/or one-liners all the time. Or I guess having a set list with a new one every now and then would work too.
I could totally see Sansa eating a Devil Fruit and it turning out to be something super over-powered like an ability that allows her to create a hole in anything she touches. All she would have to do to kill someone is touch them and create a hole through where their heart is. Either that or it would make it impossible for the person to be stabbed through the heart, but they would otherwise still function normally. I have no idea. I guess all you'll have to do is make sure whatever Devil Fruits crop up don't give people abilities other characters in One Piece already have.

GENDRY! ...Is the stag on the bear. Caught you off guard there. With the Devil Fruits reawakening in the closest fruit of its kind, I've never seen that in the show, it's only been alluded to, so when (or if) DFs emerge, there probably won't be a big scientific explanation from me, sorry. Who knows, there might have been Devil Fruits in the GOT world the whole time, people just thought they were poisonous so they didn't eat them, or other excuse blah XD. I like the Devil Fruit idea you came up with for Sansa, that sounded really cool! Thanks for the review!

P053id0n

Hi!
Great Story so far though I am a little afraid for westeros with luffy as King though Robin as the Power behind the throne can hopefully prevent the Red Keep becoming a Zoo full of the animals Luffy finds cool!;)
Bran as a strawhat is cool, maybe chopper or franky could help him walk again or at least franky can build him some "SUUUUPER" armored and armed mechanical weelchair!;)
I am curious as to how the rest of the North reacts to Jon deserting the Watch, I mean most will probably understand him trying to protect his siblings but still Ned Starks son a deserter and pirate sounds like a choking hazard!:)
Thanks for writing I hope you continue to update so fast!

Lol, Hi! Thanks for the great review! Love the ideas, Robin would definitely be running a lot of behind the scenes action, much like Varys with his spies and such. Though I think the Red Keep will be full of wolves and dragons by the time Luffy makes it there XD. A lot of people have mentioned making it possible for Bran to walk, and now a SUPER cool wheelchair, but I like the whole thing that he's on his wolf all the time, it's like a part of him. Giving him some cool legs though for once he's off the wolf wouldn't be bad, and maybe Franky's got some secret project he's been working on since they found him! Jon leaving the Wall is going to stir some trouble, though the ones who have to uphold killing deserters (Now the Boltons) he would be trying to fight anyway, and if Stannis took charge, the man told Jon to abandon the Wall himself to make him Lord Stark. The wildlings under Tormund would probably be more comfortable with Jon now that he wasn't part of the Watch anymore, so there are some more allies for him possibly, and I think the Stark bannermen would be happy if he came and took back the North for the Starks, even if he was a deserter. The only ones I see who will be really pissed at him are the other Night's Watchmen, and those guys are all dicks. Especially Olly, Fuck you Olly! XD I'll try to keep my updates at a fast pace!

Guest

When the strawhats make it to Meereen may I suggest they find both Viserion and Rhaegal, dragons obviously respect strength, and won't follow those who lack it, Luffy and the others have it in spades, I therefore suggest that if they find them they should either have then become the crews pets like the direwolves, you could even have Bran warg into one, or have them as traveling companions before reuniting them with Daenerys. I could picture Luffy riding a dragon all excited and shit. :P

Hmm, I can see Luffy walking into the room all calm like, and the dragons just bowing their heads to the floor as he approaches to pet them. They can probably sense fear, so I doubt Usopp, Nami, or Chopper would be able to get on one of those things, but having the stronger members wide dragons seems totally feasible. Bran warging into a dragon is something I've wanted to see on the show for a long time, and I might just put it in here, (that or him riding it). Luffy would look awesome riding a dragon, and imagine if he got serious on it, like against Shiki riding Billy (the duck) XD!

Erin

Great chapter, it's nice to see Arya getting stronger and even managed to scratch Zoro. And lol at the comment of Luffy becoming the king. I wonder what's to happen next?

Next time we get a feast with the Bear Islanders! Arya's been training for a while now with our favorite swordsman, let's see how she matches up against some other fighters when the battle begins... Thanks for reviewing!

GR

orgin standard is just about 10 not 20 or more
although the Sunny is big,it gonna get crowded this way
Hmm, maybe Jon will eat Yomi Yomi to escape death?

Sunny might start getting a little cramped with the extra members, though in the new seasons we have Kin'emon, Momo, and Law all on the ship too (along with Brook) so it should still be comfortable for a few more. Umm, I couldn't translate Yomi into english, I promise I tried, but the first thing you said I didn't understand at all till I looked it up, and I tried to understand that too, but didn't get it. What does the orgin (or origin, I tried both) mean? And what does it have to do with the story? Thanks to everyone who reviewed, followed, or faved this story! 'Till next time!