Jason's POV

He had hoped to return home or at the very least King's Landing to continue serving on the small council, but instead the Iron Islanders had started to reave all along the west coast of Westeros. If the Lannisters had not surrendered when they had, his fleet would have been too busy and caught up with sieging Lannisport to be able to prevent the attack on the Shield Islands.

He had no respect for the Iron Islanders. They were the enemy of his ancestors and were his enemy. They thought they were powerful enough to defy the king. Maybe they had hoped that the Lannister rebellion would last longer and they would be able to hold power along the coast but now with the Lannisters defeated the Iron Islanders where once again out numbered. Sure they had around 500, but 400 of those were just longships not ideal for sea battles and then they had the iron fleet which consisted of an estimated 100 heavy War Galleys that could dip 100 oars or more each.

Where he led the royal fleet which consisted of 200 ships, 80 of them were full warships dipping 100 oars or more, others were dromonds, light war galleys, cogs, longships and carracks. At least 60 ships of the Royal fleet had either ballistae or catapults on board and 100 of them could be used as rams, smashing into the lighter Iron Islander ships. His flagship, King Robert's Hammer, dips 400 oars and is the largest warship in Westeros. He also had the 200 ships of the Arbor fleet plus another 67 from the rest of the Coastal Reach Lords, 25 ships from the Stormlands and he would be meeting the Lannister fleet of around 70 warships before journeying onto Fair Isle, then the Iron Islands.

More troops would wait for the fleets to defeat their ships and they would transport troops massing at Seagard, Lannisport and Torrhen Square. They had the some of the Reach army already on board, and the rest would journey to Lannisport.

He didn't fear battle, he craved it. He had fought in the past three wars and had always come out unscathed. He had killed Rodrik Greyjoy, on the wall of Seagard, slashed his throat with his axe then threw him over the wall into the sea. He worried now about his son leading Seagard, was he ready, the Iron fleet was reported to be around that area. The small defensive fleet they had at Seagard would not be able to hold them off, but he had to have trust in his son's ability because he had to focus on the battle ahead.

He could see Fair Isle in the distance, and so far no sign of the Iron fleet. They weren't expecting it anyway, they knew the Ironborn wouldn't try defeat their fleet on the same site where they lost last time.

All he knew is they had captured the island and there was believed to be still Ironborn on it; possibly a small fleet of longships committing raids along the west coast.

He had split his forces into three. First the weaker ships like the Carracks, Cogs and longships would deposit their troops on the south of the island. Meanwhile he and Lord Redwyne would lead half of the rest of the fleet each around both sides of the island clearing the way towards the iron islands and smashing any resistance.

His fleet sailed rapidly around the east of Fair Isle with no encounter until they reached the Northerly point where around 25 longships waited just offshore. He could see in the distance, Paxter's fleet, they were going to crush this tiny fleet like a nut in a shell.

Robert's Hammer smashed into the first feeble longship and it fractured in half as the ironborn were thrown off the ship and into the sea. The surviving Ironborn ships after the first wave had being destroyed tried to move alongside their ships and throw over grappling hooks to try and board.

He ordered his archers lined up at the side to nook and fire sending the first wave of brave ironborn either ducking for cover or bleeding to their drowned gods. The next wave some of them got on board, while more were shot or sliced while trying to get across.

He easily slashed open the throat of the Ironborn who found his way through to his feet, the one's head was crushed through, with his axe but it was the third one the proved a challenge. He wore a personal Sigel which was the Scythe of House Harlaw and the Peacock of House Serrett. He was tall and had a long face and as Jason swung his axe to meet with the man's sword, he noticed only at the last second that the blade was Valaryian Steel and it chopped the wooded handle of his axe straight through. He managed to roll and duck the next blow and dodged the next swing before managing to grasp a Morningstar that was lying on the floor near by him. With his shield he pushed back and started on offense again, meeting clash and swipe from the enemy with a clang of metal, desperately looking for an opening before his opponent wore him down. He spun around using his shield to bash the blade away the mustering all his remain strength swung the Morningstar, finding a whole as it came smashing down on his head knocking his helm clean off, then with one final assault, the spikes found flesh and dug in, spurting blood everywhere.

He now stood in Faircastle, the old sea of House Farham, as all of them had been slain by the ironborn, and they had only found a few survivors in the keep. The Maester and female servants mainly and a naked girl in the dungeons who was bloody and bruised and claimed to be Jeyne Westerling.

He looked down at his hand, where he was holding the valaryian steel blade he had won, it turned out to be the ancestral sword Nightfall of House Harlaw, now of House Mallister. They had just sent ravens to King's landing, Seagard, Casterly Rock and Highgarden announcing they had reclaimed Fair Isle and there was still no sign of the iron fleet. They would continue on to the Iron Islands, subdue the Iron Fleet and transfer troops to take each of the islands, in turn.

Then something happened that made him changes the plan's completely. His squire came bursting through the door, to the chamber he had taken for himself.

"Lord Mallister, a raven from Seagard, but it is not from your son. It is from Ironborn. Seagard has fallen," he exclaimed shocked.

Author's Note

Sorry about the last chapter, it was late at night, just did a 12 hours sift at work and forgot to delete the edits, thank you all for pointing it out, I have since changed it.

Also so you know, I will not be writing chapters about people who's story hasn't changed and is the same in the book, so at the moment, jon and denaerys and bran are still following the books, I will eventually get to them