Dragons and Thrones: Final War – Doom Upon All The World
Chapter 37 of my crossover story, enjoy.
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Disclaimer: Game of Thrones belongs to George R.R. Martin, Dragon Age belongs to Bioware.
Arya
Arya growled as she ducked, the sweep of the Dragon's tail whistling just overheard.
'Of all the...Gods...' She thought, at first frustrated and then worried. 'First, first Bran is...and now...'
She looked worriedly over at the Dwarf, Varric. He lay on the ground, where he had been knocked to by the dragon's tail, unmoving. She heard the noise and quickly looked up. The Dragon had turned it's evil, red gaze to her and was opening it's jaws.
Not waiting to see what it was about to do, she dodged, diving to the side and rolling as she hit the ground. From the noise that followed she realized it had just breathed it's deadly Red Lyrium breath. By the time she was back on her feet, Gendry and Solas were by her side, weapons at the ready.
"What do we do, we can't get past this thing, but we're running out of time." She hated the desperation in her voice, but understood it. "Corypheus is already..."
Solas replied. "I know and now Varric has been...We need to do something, distract it, injure it in some way."
Gendry pointed out the problem however. "But if we don't kill it, Corypheus will be impossible to kill."
"No time, it's coming!" Arya cried.
They immediately reacted, seeing it about to breathe on them again.
Dodging once more Arya hissed as she saw the dragon lunge, and only narrowly avoided it's claws as it tried to rake at her. Spinning around the dragon again nearly struck her with it's tail, this time directing it's claw attacks at Gendry.
Arya grimaced and, taking a chance, leapt up to grab the tail. Catching it she attacked with Needle, knocking off a few scales and, to her relief, injuring the dragon, even if only slightly. The dragon roared and Arya let go, managing to avoid being thrown around by the flailing tail.
She quickly dodged the tail and managed to regroup with Gendry, just as Solas avoided a blast of the dragon's breath.
"Well this is getting us nowhere!" She cried out.
Gendry shook his head. "We must do something…!"
It was then Arya saw him dart forwards in a clear desperation move. She watched in surprise, and no small amount of apprehension, as Gendry charged in and struck with his war-hammer. His hit connected, striking the dragon in it's front right leg.
As he dodged back the beast buckled from the damage and was struck, then, Arya noted, held in place by a spell from Solas. It was so close, a perfect target right before her. She charged in and, thanks to the efforts of Gendry and Solas, was able to strike. The dragon reared back, shrieking as they all backed off. She had pierced it's remaining eye with Needle, it was now blind.
Unfortunately this had an unintended side effect, the dragon went wild and lashed out, attacking at random
"Shit..." She hissed, only narrowly avoiding being struck.
She tried to regroup with the others, both of whom were also struggling, Solas' spells were doing more damage now, but this only drew the Dragon's attention and forced him to move before it could strike. It was then she saw Gendry, trying to move Varric out of harms way.
"Gendry!" She cried as she began to hurry over.
At that moment she heard the shout. Turning she cried out as the tail almost slammed into her. Instead it narrowly grazed her, but still threw her into a nearby rock wall.
She grimaced, dazed as she tried to pull herself up the rock wall. Once standing again she retrieved Needle from where she had dropped it and looked up.
"Fuck." She gasped, freezing.
For there, right in front of her, facing her, clearly smelling her, was the dragon. She was cornered, could hear Gendry and Solas shouting her name, but she had nowhere to go. The dragon opened its mouth, about the unleash it's Red Lyrium breath; Arya inhaled sharply, staring death in the face.
Then came the thunderous roar and suddenly a massive blur of gold crashed into the Red Lyrium Dragon, knocking it aside and causing it to unleash it's breath directly upwards, harmlessly. Arya was still frozen, too shocked to move, amazed that she had just escaped death.
When Arya finally recovered she hurried over, followed by a concerned Solas and Gendry, to the ledge the dragon had fallen off. They now saw the source of the gold blur, it was the Guardian of Mythal, still alive somehow.
The dragons were locked in deadly combat, when suddenly, before both dragons impacted the lowest, most jagged rocks of the island and died, the Guardian's jaws clamped around the neck of the Red Lyrium Dragon and snapped it, thus ensuring it's death.
"Gods..." She whispered.
Gendry was by her side. "Are you alright Arry, you..."
She nodded. "Yes, we need to hurry, the dragons are dead, both of them, that means."
"Corypheus is vulnerable." Solas finished for her. "I am sorry Varric, there is no time."
Despite it paining them, they had to leave Varric where he was and hurry up the mountain. Corypheus was still in the process of carrying out his ritual and they had only a certain window of time to kill him for good.
Reaching the mountaintop, they stopped, the area was circular with broken ruins all around, near the middle was a large altar upon which the orb had been set and was glowing with violent red energy, it's power gathering, Corypheus stood before the altar, arms raised, chanting a spell as his hands glowed with that same energy.
His back was too them.
"We need to..." Solas began.
But Arya wasn't going to wait, she needed to stop this. She charged in, aiming carefully and impaled Corypheus from behind with Needle. But it turned out this only wounded him. He cried out and suddenly swung around, backhanding her across the face.
Arya grimaced at the pain that exploded in her cheek, but recovered. Needle had been dislodged by his attack and she retrieved it, standing up and joining the others.
They now had to face off against Corypheus once more.
End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.
Last chapter for Arya's storyline in this story and indeed the series, also the last battle chapter we'll see before Christmas, tomorrow's chapter will take the focus away from the battle to end another characters storyline.