Luffy takes the Iron Throne

by tmb1112

The Straw Hat crew, after getting their new ship at Water 7, land on a strange island where no one's heard of a Log Pose before. The crew gets stuck there and their dreams seem to be lost, but their newest crewmate tells Luffy a different King he could be. Not the King of the Pirates, but the King of the Seven kingdoms. Starts in 5th season of Game of Thrones

23. Chapter 23

Chapter 23:

"What do we do about Lady Walda?" One of the Lords gathered in the Great Hall for another 'important' meeting brought up as an issue. "She's pregnant with another Bolton. Both the Freys and the Boltons have bad blood. It'd be better to pluck the child from the womb now..."

Shouts of agreement rang out in the room from the other lords. Bran looked around with a nervous gaze at the majority opinion going around. Even his younger brother and older sisters seemed to be going along with this calmly. He looked at Jon pleadingly, but his oldest brother sterned his own troubled expression quickly and had to agree with the other lords that this child would be a menace when he or she grew up.

A loud crash sounded on the right of the head table where the Starks were sitting. The Starks were up on the top row with multiple tables down below them, and all the way on the right of the room was a table where the Straw Hats were now standing.

The Lord who was standing up and shouting angrily about the child looked their direction and his face turned blue. The tall black haired woman was giving him a glare that could kill, while the others didn't look any happier. Some of them would have stayed in their seats, if Luffy hadn't punched the table as hard as he could and snapped the thing like a twig, punching through and leaving his fist inside a small crater beneath the table that everyone was staring at now.

"What..." Luffy began and slowly lifted his head. The Lord who thought Robin could have killed him with her look, thought Luffy wanted to torture him and his family. The skinny teen ripped his hand out of the floor and glared at the man who was shouting and any other who agreed with him. "...Has that kid, ever done?"

Not a single person in the room said a word as they looked over at the pirate captain. His strength stunned most of them and the others who already knew how strong he was didn't want to mess with him. Nami thought her captain's outburst was strange for him, but she was about to start screaming too before she had to suddenly stand up as the table broke. The orange haired woman glared as well, "I can't believe you're all actually considering ripping a baby..."

"Rose Bolton's kin," a man called out.

"Is that a crime now?!" Nami yelled at the man who interrupted her. "Just being related to a criminal makes you one too?!" She was shouting and the men who had never been spoken to by a woman like this before were ready to get up and shout back, but the green haired man next to her had his right hand on the white hilt at his waist and they were all feeling very nervous.

Arya was staring at her friends and her mouth was open a little. At first she couldn't believe they were supporting letting the baby live, but the more they spoke, the more disgusted with herself she felt. She looked down at the stone counter that her family sat behind and listened to Sanji shout that he'd kill any man who tried to kill a little girl. "A ward," Arya called out and everyone stopped arguing with each other to look up at the main table.

"Excuse me my lady?" Another Lord asked her with a tilt of his head.

Jon realized what his little sister was saying and he spoke up, somewhat remembering the process from when he was a very young boy. "When the Greyjoy rebellion was quelled, Lord Eddard Stark took on Balon Greyjoy's only surviving son as a ward. Making this child a ward of Winterfell will keep those loyal to the Boltons from rebelling."

The men who weren't appeased by the moral stance of keeping the kid alive could at least agree to this and stopped their complaints. One man muttered rather loudly about how the last ward didn't work out very well as he burned down Winterfell, to which Sansa shouted angrily that it was Ramsey Bolton and they should have all figured that out by now. The pirates had to stay standing considering their seats were broken, but most of them were fine with leaning against the wall. The way these men were talking didn't sit right with them.

"My Lords, My Ladies," Lord Greatjon stood up and the mountain of a man bowed a little to the Starks as they properly greeted him. "I understand that this is the first time you've been together for a long time, but traditionally the Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North would be seated there," he pointed at the seat Arya was in and the girl looked down at her seat, not realizing that it was when she sat down. The Greatjon continued, "On his sides would be the Maester of Winterfell and closest advisors of the Warden..."

"Well Lord Jon," Bran snapped, already tired of yet another meeting. "We trust each other and regard each other's advice over any of yours," Arya snickered and had to hold a hand over her mouth to stop from giggling. "Also, we have to announce who will be taking the position of Warden of the North."

The pirates up against the wall looked over intrigued. They weren't involved in this conversation. It was between the Starks and only them, (and Jon). This would tell them whether or not they were keeping two of their members. If Bran were to leave, Gendry would have to stay with him as per Lady Lyanna's orders. They also hadn't heard about Arya either, and were waiting for her to tell them herself.

Bran looked around at the Lords gathered who were all loyal to him. He appreciated that. Then he gazed over to the right side of the room and his lips parted into a smile, causing the people over there to smile right back excitedly. "My brother Rickon, will be staying in Winterfell as the-"

Instantly there was debate in the room as people started shouting about tradition and how Bran was the oldest and needed to accept the responsibility. The boy frowned and shook his head, Better to just say it all now and get the arguing out of the way. "While he's here," the boy continued loudly, "I will be going with my half brother Jon," he motioned towards the older man at the other end of the table, "and," he smiled and looked to the seat next to him, "my younger sister Arya..."

The fifteen year old girl so wanted to hit her brother and shout that she was really older than him, but she couldn't do that while he was talking in front of all these Lords. The fourteen year old continued over all the shouting in the room and finished, "Along with our other friends over there, to King's Landing." The room started quieting down as all of the Lords went wide-eyed. "There, we will dethrone the false King Tommen," the boy took a deep breath as this was the most important part, "and in his place establish Luffy as King of Westeros."

For everything else that the men argued with, this was the loudest and most vocal of their objections. They all tried to avoid directly insulting the pirate, while still voicing how they couldn't trust a man not of noble birth. "He has no claim!"

"He's a pirate!"

"How can we trust him?!"

"You don't have to!" Bran yelled at all of them. "Trust me." The room full of people looked at Bran and the boy looked over at the pirates. It hadn't been long since he got aboard their ship, but he trusted them entirely. "He might not have a claim, but neither did the Targaryans when they took the throne."

Bran looked to another table, "King Robert didn't have a 'claim,'" he held up quotation marks to show how claims really didn't mean anything. "And the Lannisters definitely don't have any claim to the throne! Yet the son of Jaime and Cersei sits on the Iron Throne right now!"

Murmurs of disapproval continued, but the idea of leaving the Lannisters in charge wasn't much better. "Would you rather have the inbred lion, or the man who saved the North?"

A man shouted as loud as he could, "Why follow a southern King at all?! We're loyal to the true King, the King of the North!"

"The King of the North is dead!" Rickon yelled at the Lords gathered. "Robb wanted to be King, you wanted him to be it. But I support Luffy," he stated, shutting down anyone who would speak up against him as it would mean speaking against their High Lord.

Bran was getting exhausted so he spoke up again and thanked all of the Lords and their men for rebelling against the Boltons. He told them it might be the last time they see each other for a while, and that the North was free again thanks to all of them.

When the meeting adjourned, The Greatjon walked up to the stone counter and leaned forward in front of Rickon. "They might sound angry, but each one of them is happier with this than they were with following the damned Boltons. They'll come around," he smiled at the boy he'd come to think of as a son after his own son, Smalljon, was killed by the Freys at the Red Wedding.

"Thank you Lord Jon," the boy nodded at his friend and close advisor. "And don't worry, the North has not forgotten." The boy's eyes darkened a little as he thought about his mom and oldest brother. "While Bran is taking King's Landing, we will be heading to the Riverlands."

Everyone remaining in the room looked back at the young preteen who looked very mature for his age. "The Freys will learn true fear when we come for them. And by the end of it, they will know, never to mess with the North."

The Greatjon roared in agreement and the other Lords rose their weapons and shouted along. Sansa smiled at her youngest brother and put a hand on his shoulder. She wasn't happy when he brought up leaving to help Brynden Tully take back the Riverlands, but that was a discussion for later.

The Blackfish wouldn't even be taking control afterwards, it would be his nephew, and Rickon's uncle Edmure. He is the only surviving child of Hoster Tully now that Catelyn and Lysa were dead. However, he had been captured during his own wedding as a hostage to keep the Riverlands under the control of the Freys.

As the room continued to clear out, Luffy spoke up to the Stark children and his own crew. "Let's have a party tonight, then we'll head out before morning."

"Roger!" His crew shouted, including Arya and Bran. Jon grinned at his younger siblings and then added on, "Roger," in a quieter tone. There was no place for him in the North. Even though his younger brother wasn't going to execute him, he was still a Night's Watch deserter. He couldn't stay.

A few of the crew members noticed Luffy didn't seem too enthusiastic about having a party, but they could understand why. "His brother's dead," Nami whispered to Sanji as they walked down one of the hallways away from the large meeting hall. "You'd think he'd be, more depressed."

"I don't think Luffy wants us to see him like that," Sanji replied to the navigator. "You can see it though, behind his eyes." The woman walking with him looked down, having pretended not to notice for days. Sanji took out his pipe and lit it up, "I've never seen him this, sad, before. I mean in Water 7, with the whole thing with Usopp, he was devastated, but I think he might have always held onto the chance that Usopp might come back."

"But here," Nami whispered and felt tears in her eyes, again. "Ace really is dead isn't he?"

The question wasn't meant to be answered, but Sanji nodded anyway. "For his Mera Mera no mi to be here, it was the only way."

Nami sighed and crossed her arms, holding herself tight. She prayed that Nojiko would live a very long and happy life, and Gen too.

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"Robin?" Rickon asked as the tall black haired woman walked up to him during the banquet.

"Hello My Lord," she greeted. The woman was wearing a beautiful long black dress and her hair was braided by Sansa who was quite good at it actually. "I have something I'd like to discuss with you in private. I know this is a party, but it won't take a minute."

The young boy smiled at her and nodded, hopping out of his seat and following her around a stone pillar. Bran and Arya both thought it was weird, but they trusted Robin with some of their darkest secrets, they didn't think she would ever hurt their brother.

"What would you like to talk about? I know you'll only be here for the rest of the night, so..." Robin quieted the talking child who looked pretty nervous being in the dark with this beautiful woman. They were in a shadowed portion of the room, and Robin reached into her cleavage, making the boy's face go red as he got even more nervous.

"The dress didn't have any pockets," Robin explained as she pulled out what she was reaching inside the dress to grab. There was a small box in her hand and the woman opened up the clasp and let the boy look inside. "Whoa, is that one of those Devil Fruits?!" Bran had told him some stories in the last week and he no longer looked like a High Lord, but the excited child he really was.

Robin giggled at the boy's reaction and then held the box out towards him. He seemed confused, then surprised and asked, "B-But why? Wouldn't you need this to help you take King's Landing?"

"That's sweet," Robin thanked him but continued holding out the box. "But, you have a few flaws in your plans for the Riverlands that I've gone over many times. As soon as you mobilize an army, or meet with the Blackfish, your uncle Edmure will be killed by Walder Frey."

"I've thought about that, and in that case we'll have to rescue him first..."

"He's held at the Twins am I correct?" She asked and the boy nodded. "That bridge is a very fortified position. By the time a rescue force makes it to your uncle, even a very good one, the guards will have already been notified and your uncle-"

"Will be killed," Rickon frowned and the intelligent woman made a lot of sense here. "And you think this will help?"

Robin looked down at it and sighed, "It could. I have no idea as to what power this fruit possesses, but if you give it to one of your men, the chances of saving your uncle successfully would greatly increa-" The woman stopped and her jaw lowered a little as the boy took the whole fruit, shoved it in his mouth, and swallowed it in one bite.

"Blech," the boy stuck out his tongue and wiped it a few times with his hands.

The woman closed her mouth and smiled at him. "Let's go back to the party," Robin said and patted the boy on the shoulder as they walked back around the stone pillar and into the room where a drunken Usopp was now dancing on the table and singing a song about wolves or something.

As the two got close to Rickon's table, Robin broke off and started walking back to where Nami was sitting. Arya and Bran looked behind them and saw Rickon smiling at her as she walked away, "Thank you Robin!" The boy called to her one last time. She looked back and smirked at the boy before continuing to walk to her table. Both of Rickon's slightly older siblings looked at each other oddly and then up at Rickon who stood behind the chair between them and stuck out his tongue, "That really tasted terrible, I wasn't expecting that."

Arya went red in the face while Bran started cracking up. The long haired boy got a punch on the shoulder from his sister a few chairs down and he remembered this was probably pretty serious. "Umm, Rickon, what were you just doing?"

"Oh," the boy exclaimed and scratched the back of his head sheepishly, only making the other two more suspicious. "Robin gave me one of those fruits."

"Really?" Bran asked while Arya just went wide-eyed. "What does it do?"

There was one left in that box when I ate mine. She looked at her brothers, but neither of them knew she had one too. I bet his is easier to figure out than mine. I've spent days trying to figure this out now, but I've got nothing so far! She sighed exasperatedly, and then grabbed her plate and stood up. "I'm gonna go sit with Gendry, see you guys later."

"Ooooh," Rickon teased, his brother having told him a certain rumor. Bran started to crack up at his sister's red facial expression. Arya bonked the new Warden of the North on top of his head and the young boy rubbed the bump as Bran laughed even harder than before.

"Shut up," she stated coldly and then spun on her heels and walked away.

The fifteen year old girl wore a black dress similar to Robin's except it wasn't as slim and the bottom didn't end at the ankles, but at the floor. Arya despised wearing a dress, and she dreaded sitting with Gendry because of it. Sansa had forced her to wear it despite her arguing and so far not even Zoro had been able to hold in his laughter after seeing her. Sanji just told her how cute she looked, but she shut him down after two seconds of his everyday praising remarks.

When Arya reached the table her older half-brother and Gendry were sitting at, Jon looked up first, and like the others he had to lift a hand to his mouth and stifle his laughs. The man with curly hair lowered his mug and tapped on his new friend's shoulder whose back was to Arya.

As Gendry turned around, Jon stood up and looked back for another table to sit at. It wasn't him his sister came over here for, and he knew it the way she barely glanced at him.

Arya watched Gendry's expression as he turned with a smile and tinted red cheeks, and then his smile turned to a straight lowered lip with wide eyes. He sat there like that for ten seconds before Arya cleared her throat and he looked up in her eyes. "Whoa," he said, at a loss for words.

The girl standing before him giggled and thought, Giggling, really?! She tried to stop herself, but Gendry being at a complete loss for words was just too funny. "What? Too ridiculous right?"

"No," he said, a little too quickly. He looked her up and down again and then smiled back up at her face, "You look great."

No matter how many of her friends laughed at her for wearing the dress tonight, Gendry's opinion made her look down and question herself. "Really?" She asked, not seeing the appeal of it.

"Yeah, the color really brings out your hair," the man continued and she reached up and grabbed the long braid behind her back, moving it over her left shoulder and matching it up with her dress. Now that she did, she could see what he was saying. Gendry smirked at the girl and added, "Looks so good, that if I didn't know any better, I'd have thought you were a Lady."

The girl dropped her braid and glared at the boy in front of her, raising a fist. "Haha, joking!" He exclaimed, holding up his arms to show he didn't want to get punched. "Come here, take a seat," he grabbed her by the outstretched fist and pulled her towards the table, "have you tried this..."

Nami looked away from the table that Arya and Gendry were at and turned towards two of the other men at her table sitting across from her and also watching. Zoro looked back at his food uninterested and took a drink, while Sanji wished he was the one over there. "Feeling a little jealous Sanji?" Usopp asked from his seat next to Nami.

"Jealous?! Of what? Who?" The blonde haired man spun and looked back at where Arya was laughing at something Gendry must've said. "Gendry? Pssh, there's nothing going on there!" His mind wouldn't let him believe it and Zoro couldn't have been more clueless as to what they were talking about.

Usopp and Nami both looked at each other and giggled at Sanji's denial. After a little while, Zoro left to have a drinking contest with the Greatjon who was outdrinking all of his men in the room, while Sanji went to go impress some noblewomen. The two remaining at the table kept talking and eating, and definitely drinking through the night of the party.

"By the way, where's Luffy?" Usopp asked as he picked up his fork and knife to cut a piece of steak on his plate. The chefs had really gone all out to serve their saviors one last great meal before they left Winterfell. Apparently food was going to be scarce in the North soon considering the Tyrells, another enemy, were in charge of the food in the kingdoms. Getting rid of the bottomless pit of a pirate captain was really going to help these people.

Nami sighed and drank the rest of her mug quickly, "I saw him earlier, but I don't think I've ever been to a party before where he was one of the first ones to leave instead of the last." The two of them each rose their mugs and a server came over and filled them up with more booze.

"Yeah," the man burped and had to stop before continuing. "I feel, really bad for him." Usopp shook his head and smiled, elbowing Nami too, "But this is a party, so let's think about the positives okay?!" His goofy smile with dark red puffy cheeks made Nami burst out laughing and he felt his job was done.

The man with the long nose started telling stories about the battle that Nami could have swore she'd heard ten times already, but this time they seemed to be exaggerated a hundred times more. "Then, there I was, surrounded by ten, no TWENTY, Logia Fruit eaters. Did I mention the army of eight billion that was surrounding me?" Nami just nodded and wondered how crazy this story could get while Usopp still thought it was believable. "Oh, I," he burped again and might've actually gotten the hiccups, "did? Ok, well, they all attacked at once, and I shouted!" He lifted his knife up in the air with his left hand and pointed it at Nami, "Come and get-" the knife fell through his fingers and he tried to grab it, but it fell to the table, "shit I wish I still had those fingers." The man chuckled and scooped back up his knife with the few fingers he did have on that hand and pointed it at Nami, while trying to remember what he was saying before.

When Usopp made eye contact with the woman who'd been laughing through his whole story, he lowered the knife and tilted his head. "Wha- What's wrong Nami?" the drunken sniper questioned his friend.

Nami looked down at the table and grabbed her mug again, clenching the handle hard and chugging the whole thing, hoping it would make her feel a little better. "I-I, I left you behind." The long nosed man still seemed clueless at what she was talking about, "To the zombies," she stated angrily, mad for some reason. She softened her look again and gazed back at the table, "If I, had stayed on shore and looked, for you. Maybe..."

"I'd still have my fingers?" The man whispered angrily, finishing her sentence and making her look up in shock. "Is that what you think?" His eyebrows were pointed down, and it was probably the lowered inhibitions that let Usopp speak freely like this, while he normally just tried to avoid the topic altogether. There was still some pretty loud music in the room, so no one was listening in on their conversation even as the bowman's voice rose. "Nami, I don't ever want you to be worried about me."

"Wh-What?" she asked him, kind of lost at the moment as to what he was referencing.

He looked down at the table and he clenched the wood so hard their table started shaking. "I was, I was right downstairs." Usopp whispered and Nami could see his eyes were watering a little. "Me and Gendry, we opened the gates, and then I went to go help look for Sansa. I was right downstairs, when Sanji, when I saw him break through the wall."

Nami still didn't know what he was talking about, but she put a hand on his right shoulder to calm him down. However, the man just brushed her hand off and clenched his eyes tighter, "I went upstairs and saw, I saw you, just laying there." Finally Nami understood what Usopp was talking about and she remembered the moment too. "I, I ran through the door, and the only thing in the room besides you, was that dead bastard's body."

"Usopp, I-"

He continued, on such a rant now that he didn't even hear her. "I ran inside the room and you were lying there, your eyes wide open, like, like you were..." Just the memory of what he saw then was too much and he covered his eyes with his hands. No one was in the room when he got in so he didn't know she was alive until a little after he saw her.

"I remember," she told him. The man lowered his hands and looked into Nami's eyes as she moved closer to him. "I saw you run into the room after Robin said she'd be right back." The man with her opened his eyes wider, and she continued, "I saw you, fall to your knees. I heard you beg, and pray, and scream. I saw you cry." And then I saw the worst look in your eyes that I've ever seen. I saw you grab your bow and walk over to the hole Sanji kicked in the wall. I watched you fire arrow after arrow as you screamed and I wanted to yell at the top of my lungs that I was alright, but I couldn't move at all. I saw you look back once more with red eyes full of tears before you leapt from that hole to go continue fighting.

"Y-You really saw all that?" he asked, his mind still trying to process it. If he thought about how she saw him beg and pray, he would have realized she saw the rest too, but he was too tipsy at the moment. "I-I was, you were," he stuttered and stumbled over his words, "you were dead. And I was alone."

Nami shook her head and lifted up his chin so they could look into each other's eyes. "I was fine," he looked up and into her light brown eyes. "And you aren't alone Usopp. You never will be."

On the other side of the room, Robin was watching her two nakama getting increasingly closer to each other at the table. She smiled and took another sip of her wine as she continued looking around the room. She saw Sanji get turned down by another two girls and was going to start laughing, when she caught a glimpse back at the table Nami and Usopp were sitting at. Instantly, the blonde haired man in the other corner of her eye stood up straight and it looked like every sense in his body was signaling him.

Uh oh, Robin chuckled and crossed her arms, sprouting more arms to come out of Sanji's side and wrap around him in a hug. The chef's eyes were wide and he was slowly turning around as he felt the sudden urge to kill Usopp, but when two womanly arms wrapped around him, blood spurted from his nose and he jumped for joy. "Robin-chwaannn!" He realized whose arms they were since they were still wrapped around him when he jumped in the air.

The loud shout knocked Nami and Usopp back to their senses and they opened their eyes, looking at each other with shocked looks. The two leaned back in their seats and turned away with red cheeks from more than just the alcohol now. Usopp scratched the back of his head into his long black curls, while Nami coughed a few times under her breath to regain her composure. Both of them were smiling ear to ear when they turned back around and faced each other.

At around this time in the party, Luffy was sitting up on the roof of the keep. It wasn't hard for him to Rocket himself up there and he sat at the highest point in Winterfell, staring up at the clear night sky. There were so many stars out and he was watching them and the bright crescent moon. First Sabo, now Ace. He clenched his fists and then stopped as he saw the shadow lifting up in the air and blocking out the moon from his sight.

The figure landed on the roof right next to Luffy and he stared down at the captain who smiled back at him. "Oi," Zoro greeted and took a seat, "what are you doing up here?"

"Looking up," Luffy replied casually and went back to looking up at the sky. The two of them sat there in silence for a long time, until after a lot of people left the keep below them to go home. They waited until the feast was over, and finally Luffy spoke again, "Oi Zoro," the captain began, his straw hat hanging on his back by the string around his neck. "You don't believe in God right?"

The swordsman grunted and shook his head while he looked down and out over the landscape. Winter was here, and outside the walls of Winterfell, and even inside on most areas, snow covered the ground. The two of them were still in the normal clothes they wore to the celebration, so it was cold up on the roof exposed to the elements, but neither of them minded.

"Yeah, but you believe in heaven right?" Luffy asked, and this time Zoro stopped and looked back up at the sky. He nodded, his goal was always to become a good enough swordsman to be heard from the heavens. He believed in an afterlife, how else would Kuina still be watching him?

"Well," the captain stood up and raised his arms on either side of him high above his head with clenched fists. He took a huge breath so his chest was actually puffed out and Zoro leaned back, not knowing what was about to happen with his eccentric captain. Luffy had his cheeks puffed out and he looked like he needed to say something, but he stopped and squeaked out of the corner of his mouth to keep the rest of the air in, "What was the name of this island again?"

Zoro stared at his captain who was visibly shaking because he needed to let the breath out so badly. He chuckled and stated, "Westeros."

Luffy nodded, this time going to try and remember it. "SABO! ACE!" He roared at the top of his lungs straight up at the sky. Zoro held his ears shut because of how ridiculously loud Luffy was being, though he understood why he needed to be. Ace and Sabo had to be able to hear it from heaven right? The skinny teen continued, "I'M NOT GOING TO BECOME THE KING OF THE PIRATES ANYMORE!"

A few guards down below on the walls were the only ones still awake that were outside, but a few people could even hear Luffy through their windows. Franky and Chopper each got up and walked towards the window in their room, opening it and letting them hear their captain's voice. Robin did the same thing, though the other girl with orange hair in her room was passed out from drinking too much and wasn't listening like the blonde haired man and guy with a long nose in the next room down from them.

Luffy took just as big a breath as the first time and Zoro clenched his ears tighter, still hearing the shouts really loud, but making it so his eardrums didn't pop. "INSTEAD, I'M GOING TO BE THE KING OF WESTEROS!"

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"Wow," Arya whispered and her sister was just as surprised as they backed away from the window and closed it to stop the cold air from getting into their warm room. Arya turned to Sansa, "He said Westeros correctly, I don't think he's ever done that before."

Sansa sighed at the reason her sister was amazed and the two of them got ready for bed. As the hosts of the party, they had to wait until everyone else was gone before going to bed, so they had only just gotten back to their room that the two of them would share for only one night more.

They went to bed, but Sansa kept fidgeting around restlessly. "Why must you leave?" Sansa asked her sister. The two had separate beds right next to each other and they could speak in hushed voices. "Your injuries still haven't healed all the way..."

Arya was staring up at the ceiling of the pitch black room. She interrupted her sister, "Chopper's the best doctor in Westeros. I'll be fine Sansa, I'm going," she was getting annoyed by her sister's constant nagging over the last few days.

"But why?" Sansa asked again, lying on her side and looking at the other bed that her younger sister was lying on. "We're finally all together again, now you, Bran," she paused and then added, "and Jon, you're all leaving."

"We're not all here," Arya said and now turned on her side to stare at her sister in the dark. "If we were all here, then I'd stay. But Dad's not here, Rob's not here, Mom's gone," the girl quieted down as she realized she was raising her voice at her sister. "We can't let those responsible get away with it. I need to kill them," Arya made eye contact with Sansa across the space between their beds.

Sansa was about to open her mouth to continue, when Arya began: "Illyn Payne. The Mountain. Cersei Lannister. Beric Dondarrion. Thoros of Myr. The Red Woman. Walder Frey." The black haired girl stopped and Sansa stared straight back at her. "I'm going to kill everyone on that list," Arya stated.

Sansa sat in silence for a few minutes. She already knew that Arya had changed, and there wasn't much she could do to change that. Her sister rolled back to face the ceiling, and Arya was almost going to fall asleep. Then her sister asked her something that made her eyes shoot wide open, "Then what?"

The younger teenager lay on her back motionless as the question echoed in her mind. Sansa asked it again, but Arya had never thought about it. After my vengeance... All she could think about for so long was surviving, getting stronger, and getting vengeance. What came after never occurred to her because these tasks seemed like they would take forever to accomplish.

Her mind was racing with possibilities. She saw the faces of her family members who were still alive, imagined the way they were smiling back at the feast. Franky's grin appeared above her with the cyborg posing in a super fashion. His face disappeared and was followed by Robin's, then Chopper's. She saw Sanji and Nami smiling and laughing and then imagined Usopp's face with a carefree smile on it. Her teacher, Zoro, appeared next and he was grinning proudly at her.

All these images were appearing on the dark ceiling above her as she stared straight up. "I think..." she began. Luffy's face formed above her with his straw hat on top of his head. The scar under his eye was there and she could see him laughing in so much detail. "I think I'd want..." Gendry's face appeared now and she felt her heart skip a beat and she felt all warm inside. It was different the way she felt after seeing him than the way she felt seeing all her family and crewmates.

The girl with black hair smiled wide at the ceiling. Usually she went to bed feeling angry, hateful after saying the names of everyone she despised most in this world. Now though, she had more people that she loved than people she hated. "What do you think about Gendry?" Arya asked and her eyes popped open huge, instantly regretting the question considering who she was asking. "I mean-"

"You like him?!" Sansa exclaimed tauntingly so loud that Arya thought everyone in the castle would hear.

"No!" Arya yelled.

The red haired girl shot out of bed and up to her knees, smiling over at her sister. "It's because he's a knight isn't it? Oh don't think I haven't seen you two."

"I don't know what you're talking about," Arya said quickly and shook her head. "There's nothing going on between us."

"Maybe not," Sansa said and then started in a teasing voice, "But you wish there was." Arya could feel her cheeks heating up and was glad it was dark to hide her blush. Sansa continued, "And he wishes there was too."

"He does?!" Now Arya was the one shouting and she clamped her hands over her mouth. The fifteen year old girl had shot up to her knees as well now and both sisters were leaning off the sides of their beds so they were only about a foot apart. The shorter girl realized her mistake immediately as Sansa began laughing at her. "Raa!" Arya dove off her bed and tackled her sister back down so she had her pinned against her bed.

"Get off me," Sansa tried wrestling her sister off, but she was stunned at the smaller girl's strength. Arya was holding her down with little effort at all and the raven haired girl smirked.

"Who's laughing now?" Arya said and then her smiled faltered as she was looking down into her sister's eyes. "Did you mean it?"

"Mean what?" Sansa asked as she kept struggling to get out from under her lighter sister.

Arya coughed and looked away a little, sliding off her sister but staying on the bed. "Does Gendry, does he really wish, there was something?" The proud girl couldn't look back at her sister because she knew she would snap at the way Sansa was looking at her.

This was the kind of conversation Sansa wanted to have with her sister on the last night they'd see each other for a while. The earlier conversation about revenge and their dead family was way too deep; this was something Sansa could handle.

The older sister wanted to tease Arya, she really did, but this might be the only chance she'd have to get Arya to really open up to her. She wasn't going to waste the opportunity. "When you're not looking, he'll steal a glance at you," Sansa started and her sister turned and they made eye contact. From the short distance on the same bed, their eyes had adjusted enough for them to be able to see each other's facial expressions. Sansa continued, "He watches you so carefully, as if his eyes were guarding you. When you were recovering, he'd run his hands through his hair, blaming himself for not being at your side when you were hurt."

Sansa could see her sister's face softening and she smiled. If this was anyone else they were talking about, Arya would be grossed out by the conversation and wouldn't care less. She wasn't the type of girl to be into, well, girly stuff like talking about boys. But this was her boy. "You may not see it, but it's obvious to everyone else. He likes you, and I know you like him back."

"I do not," Arya countered defiantly.

"Yeah?" Sansa asked with a grin. "Then why are your cheeks so red?" She actually couldn't see the color of her sister's cheeks, but telling by the way Arya turned away so fast, she knew she was right in assuming her younger sister was blushing.

Arya frowned as she realized her sister just tricked her again. Instead of making it worse, she grunted and muttered, "Whatever." The girl jumped back over to her own bed and lay down.

Sansa kept giggling for a little longer and Arya started smiling, actually in a really good mood after that conversation. "Hey Sansa," she started after a few minutes. The older girl got quiet again and Arya continued, "I really missed you. I'm sorry it took me so long to find you."

"Me too," Sansa said as she closed her eyes. She continued on the verge of sleep, "I'm happy you know, even though you're leaving again. I've seen how much they all care about you." Both girls were smiling and Sansa finished, "I know they'll keep you safe."

Arya nodded her head, Yeah, they will.

A/N Hey everyone I'm back. I finally started writing this story again and this was the last chapter I had in reserves from when I last stopped. I now have five more chapters to post and will hopefully get back in the swing of posting every few days. I've had a few tough weeks, with first going to Ole Miss from New York to start up college. One week into it, I heard my father died, (was murdered), so I never got into the rhythm of college, and I had to leave and go home for a week. Now I'm far behind in all my work, but I guess I have time for this, haha. I hope you liked this chapter even without a lot of action. Whoa, Nami and Usopp?! Who saw that coming? And Arya and Gendry too... Rickon gets that fruit Robin had hidden away, and Luffy shouts up at his brothers. Next chapter the crew is gone from Winterfell and they're heading south, let's see what happens next.

iitrnr

Interesting chapter. Thanks.

Thank you.

beta-reader

Are you gonna bring any of the one piece villains? Or are you just gonna give the GOT characters devil fruits?

The second one.

thewhitedragon1993

Will Cersei or kings landing gets devil fruit too? because it will be awesome if unstable characters like cersei gets powerful DF like the goro goro no mi(Lightnihg one) or the gura gura no mi
since luffy never went to impel down i guess crocodile, buggy, Mr 1, Mr 2, Mr 3 and the other 200 escapes are still in their cells and Blackbeard never got his extra crew members and the gura gura no mi?

Battles will only be getting harder from here on in...

Erin

Oh~ I wonder what Luffy's going to do once he becomes king, anyway great chapter got finally caught up with the rest of the chapters. Can't wait to see what happens next.

He doesn't seem to like the mindset of the rulers in Westeros right now. Whatever he does, it will help the common people.

GR

I expected them to dicuss more about the DFs. Who in the SH will kill next, thought I don't like the idea of Nami killing or Chopper.
Do you the fic Assassin Straw Hat?

Who kills next? Who will be killed next? Both of those questions will be revealed in a few chapters... :P

Raeker

You had a long review so I'll just touch on a few points. "in the first chapter Robin says that this place obviously doesn't belong to the World Government, because nobody around is carrying is really, really bad story telling and it put me off. The thing is, you don't really notice that things are missing, especially for places you haven't been to before. For example, if the couch in your living room were to suddenly not be there the next time you enter, you'd obviously notice it. But if you'd enter your friend's place for the first time and there wouldn't be a couch in his living room, you wouldn't suddenly think: 'oh, this guy obviously doesn't know what couches are', would you? No, because that's not an association the human mind makes. Maybe they'd have noticed eventually there were no guns and through that no World Government, but definitely not within the first few minutes, if not hours of arriving." Well, Robin is smart. I don't know where all that random psychology knowledge came from, and maybe the average person wouldn't notice if their... couch was missing? But I'm sure Robin would, because again, she's smart. She's in a large port town where pirates, mercenaries, and probably soldiers are all over the place. She's been traveling the Grand Line for a long time, so she can easily notice when something is off like that. Second, you said that Luffy should have questioned it, but he heard about a fruit, that contained fire powers, it was pretty self-explanatory. Also, since when does Luffy ever think about anything before rushing off to do it? It didn't seem OOC this way, and even if you may have written it differently, that doesn't make it, "Unrealistic." or "Bad story telling," It's just not the way you wanted. Thank you for your review as it wasn't just criticism or praise, but both, and Luffy will be getting more ruthless as more horrible things happen to his crew. About describing the characters in GoT, I guess that makes sense considering the amount of people who have told me they haven't watched Game of Thrones, but I do try to describe their armor and hair as often as I can. In the little clips where random characters appear to foreshadow later events, they'll most likely be described in those later events rather than when they're alone or with other enemies. Thanks again!

Zillafan

Roose didnt deserve to die! He should have been flayed (BUT ALL OF HIS SKIN!), then blinded with a hot iron! THEN he should die! MAYBE.

Ned Stark outlawed flaying, so I don't think his children wanted to betray their father by executing in any other way rather than how he taught them. I would have liked to see all that though, maybe we'll get to see it in the show!