The Black Wedding:
Sansa Stark was feeling nervous and scared. She had not felt safe in a long time ever since the death of King Robert Baratheon. Things had fallen apart so fast after that. First her father was arrested for treason and then Lannister guards came into their home and slaughtered everyone including Septa Mordane and Steward Vayon Poole. His daughter Jeyne had survived and kept prisoner with Sansa for a time but then she vanished and she had no idea where she was now. Arya had not been captured but she was believed to be dead. Not long afterwards she had been forced to write a letter to her brother though the words were Cersei's not hers. Instead of coming south, Robb had called his banners and soon afterwards her father had been executed.
After that, things only got worse. She couldn't believe just how stupid she had been, she had believed all those stories about dashing knights and princes sweeping ladies off their feet and saving them when they were in distress but Joffrey was not like that at all. The signs had been there at the Kingsroad but she had ignored them. Joffrey was nothing more than a sadistic bastard who took great pleasure in tormenting her. She had forced her to see her father's severed head and later when Robb had won a great victory in the Westerlands, she had been threatened and humiliated when she was stripped until Tyrion had come in to stop her. Tyrion had been trying to protect her but it had been hard, while sending Princess Myrcella off to Dorne for her betrothal to Prince Trystane Martell, there had been a riot and only saved with the arrival of the Hound, Joffrey's sworn sword who seemed to have a heart after all.
During the Battle of the Blackwater, she had been huddled away and almost fled but in the end decided to stay since she had no idea how she would get back even with the Hound offering to help her but Sansa could not bring herself to trust him fully. She had been happy when Lady Margaery Tyrell had been betrothed to Joffrey instead but worried about her although she seemed to know how to handle him though she had warned her about Joffrey's true nature. She and Margaery had become good friends and Margaery had tried to arrange for her to marry her brother Loras which meant she could leave King's Landing. Unfortunately the Lannisters had found out about the plan and instead were making her marry Tyrion Lannister instead. Worse Petyr Baelish had offered her a chance to leave for the Vale before she found out about this and had turned the offer down since she could have married Loras, now she was regretting that choice.
Now here she was, being dressed for her wedding. She wore a long golden gown that was tight around her waist but then spread wide around her legs. Her hair had been done up into a braid with two pigtails coming over her shoulders to her front. The maids trimmed her nails and put makeup on her face. She was shaking with fear, she did not want this to happen and hope that maybe she could find a way to prevent this. A knock at the door was heard and her handmaid Shae went over to open it to reveal Tyrion Lannister dressed in fine robes alongside his squire Podrick Payne. Sansa gave a sigh as her handmaids left.
Tyrion also sighed ,"Lady Sansa." He greeted
"You look very handsome my lord." Sansa greeted back
Tyrion chuckled as he padded his tight clothes "Oh yes, the husband of your dreams." From the tone of his voice, he was not happy either "But you do look glorious. Perhaps we could have a moment alone." After a few moments of silence, everyone but Sansa and Tyrion left the room closing the door behind them. "My lady, I want you to know that I did not ask for this."
Sansa looked at him "I hope I won't disappoint you my lord."
Tyrion just shook his head "No, don't speak to me like you're a prisoner anymore you won't be a prisoner after today, you will be my wife even though we both know that neither one of us wanted this. I know how you feel."
"I doubt that my lord."Sansa replied
Tyrion laughed "No I guess you're right I don't know how you feel just like how you don't know how I feel but I will tell you this. Once you are my wife I will protect you, Joffrey will not be able to hurt you anymore and I will try and get you away from this city. I really want out of here too I can't stand that little shit Joffrey anymore."
"He is our king." Sansa replied
"Aye but he is still a little shit." Tyrion replied "You won't have to hide your true feelings anymore as I will try to keep you as far away from him as possible. What I'm trying to say is that I won't hurt you. I know it is hard for you to believe but there are worse people than me."
Sansa couldn't help but agree with Tyrion on that. Sure Tyrion was a Lannister but so far he was by far the best Lannister she had met. Tyrion had been kind to her and tried to protect her from Joffrey. She still didn't want to marry him but there were worst people to marry than Tyrion Lannister.
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The Wedding between Tyrion Lannister and Sansa Stark was being held in the Great Sept of Baelor, the grand Sept build during the rule of King Baelor Targaryen but only finished after his death. King Baelor was called the Blessed due to his piety although some do say that he may have had the Targaryen madness since he was known to do some wild things that sometimes destabilized the realm. The Sept was a large marble dome with seven bell towers representing each of the new gods and a marble statue of Baelor standing outside the doors into the Sept itself. It was now the seat of the High Septon, the head of the Faith of the Seven. The Sept was where most royal weddings were held although a few notable weddings were also held here such as Tywin Lannister's wedding to his cousin Johanna and now it would be the site of Sansa's wedding.
Sansa was escorted by her maids into the Sept where nearly the entire court were sitting on stone benches and Tyrion stood at the far end with the High Septon. Normally High Septons wore a crystal crown but the one normally worn by the Septons was lost during the recent riot where the previous High Septon who was viewed as corrupt and greedy was tore apart by the mob and the crown stolen and probably sold or destroyed. Tyrion had quickly elected a new High Septon and had a new crown made though it was not as fabulous as the previous crown.
Sansa looked down the steps that went down from the entrance to the main hall of the Sept and heard footsteps and she turned to see King Joffrey approaching his escorted by his Kingsguard Meryn Trant and Boros Blount. Joffrey had a look of glee on his face and seemed very smug. "What are you doing?" Sansa asked dreading the answer.
Joffrey just smirked "Your father's gone. As the father of the realm it is my duty to give you away to your husband."
Sansa was mortified, even now Joffrey was still finding ways to humiliate and torment her so she just sighed and took his arm as he escorted her towards the altar to Tyrion. Once she got there Joffrey decided to torment them even more by taking the stool that Tyrion was going to use to help cloak Sansa. Tyrion was annoyed and so was Tywin as Joffrey seemed to be acting like a child and was taking great pleasure in this. Now Tyrion just wanted to get this over with as fast as he could.
"You may cloak the bride." The High Septon spoke "and bring her under your protection." Tyrion unravelled the Lannister cloak and just as he feared, he could not wrap it around Sansa's shoulders since he was too short without the stool, he could hear Joffrey laughing in amusement and Tyrion wanted nothing more than to punch him again for this. Sansa was eventually forced to bend to allow Tyrion to cloak her.
The High Septon spoke again "Your Grace, my lords and ladies, we stand here in the sight of the seven to witness the union of Tyrion of House Lannister and Sansa of House Stark as husband and wife, one flesh one blood, one heart, one soul." He began wrapping a cloth around their wrists "Repeat your vows."
Tyrion and Lannister said the words at the same time "Father, smith, warrior, maiden, mother, crone, stranger. I am hers/his, and she/he is mine from this day until the end of my days."
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Back in the Red Keep, Astrid along with the other members of the squad made their way through the Red Keep dressed in the Red armour of the Lannister guards otherwise known as the Red Cloaks due to their red cloaks symbolizing their loyalty to the Lannisters. Only Arya was dressed as a servant since the armour was too big for her and would attract unwanted attention. They had an objective to do while the Red Keep was mostly empty with everyone at the Great Sept for the wedding ceremony before they came back here for the celebration feast. Olenna Tyrell had kept her promise in minimizing the guards present which were already minimum since there was no great danger right now so Astrid and her team would be able to blend in. Tytos had told them to wait for the signal which is why they would strike as Tytos would slowly be taking care of the remaining guards before he would seal the doors to prevent reinforcements arriving.
Right now though they had to secure another prize that was important to the Starks, their Valyrian Steel blade Ice. It was currently in the hands of the King's Justice Ilyn Payne, a member of House Payne from the Westerlands which was one of the principle houses sworn to House Lannister though they weren't as powerful as Houses Lefford, Marbrand or Crakehall since they did not control a huge amount of land but they still produced good warriors. Ilyn Payne had been Tywin Lannisters captain of guards when he was Hand of the King to King Aerys II but when he made comments that Tywin was the true ruler of the kingdoms while Aerys was a puppet, he had his tongue removed and when Robert Baratheon became King, Ilyn was made the King's Justice since his silent treatment made him quite terrifying to people.
Ilyn was not at the wedding since his presence was not deemed important so he was busy tending to Ice even though he had been told that he would be getting a new sword soon but it seemed he wanted to spend as much time with his new sword before he lost it. He was in his private chambers which were not fancy but still fine for a man of his standing. Since he was a mute, he did not say anything when Tytos entered and approached him. Arya really wanted to be the one to take him out but Tytos had told her that this needed to be done quietly and leave no marks in case someone found him later. Tytos quickly managed to grab him and cover his mouth while Astrid and Thorald grabbed his arms and they quickly dragged him back to the bed. Then Wendel and Smalljon came over taking his legs as he began kicking but being mute meant he couldn't scream for help.
"Hit his stomach, leave no marks." Tytos told them and the all began taking turns punching him in the stomach while Tytos held a cloth to his mouth and nose prevent him from breathing. After a short while, Ilyn Payne stopped struggling and fell silent and the all pulled away.
"Even if he is found, only an autopsy will reveal that he suffocated." Tytos said "With no marks or signs of a struggle, they will have no idea that he was killed."
"I still wish I could have taken him out." Arya grumbled.
"We cannot alert anyone that we're here." Astrid said as she picked up Ice "You'll get your chance for payback when we crash the wedding. Meryn Trant is yours to take out as you please."
"Remember to wait for my signal." Tytos warned "We have to make sure that they cannot call for help since there will still be Lannister guards around the keep so I need to ensure they cannot enter and we need to ensure that our escape route is ready. Thankfully I have found a new exit right in the Great Hall itself which will lead us to lagoon where our escape boat is waiting. Once we do this the city will be in lockdown so we can't escape that way. I know it may be hard because of that little shit Joffrey but keep your calm and play along until I am ready. Astrid, you'll know the signal."
"Yeah just like our mission to Myr last year when we rescue the Lys Magisters daughter." Astrid replied.
"I managed to get one of the musicians to play us the tune again." Tytos explained "When Astrid says so we move in. You'll all be playing the role of Lannister guards except for Wendel. You'll be in the kitchen with Arya and move in when Astrid says so. Arya could be recognised since she's been here before and we can't risk exposure."
"Fine." Arya grumbled "At least I can take out Trant but why not Joffrey or Cersei."
"Oh trust me Arya; we've got plans for them." Astrid smirked "We're not just here to rescue Sansa, we're sending a clear message about how the Lannisters always indeed pay their debts and that the north remembers."
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The Wedding feast for Tyrion and Sansa was held in the Great Hall. Most of the guests were Lannisters and their Bannermen but also included a few Tyrells. Most were chatting away while the musicians began playing songs. Only Tyrion and Sansa seemed to not be enjoying themselves. Tyrion kept pouring glass after glass of wine while Sansa sat quietly trying eat your food. Joffrey kept staring at Sansa while Olenna spoke to her grandchildren about family which was getting confusing. Loras clearly wasn't enjoying himself.
Olenna looked at him "Hey, if you aren't happy then why don't you leave and change. Test your swordsman skills with Balon Swann, the king won't mind he still has other Kingsguard." She suggested and Loras stood up and walked away, he spoke with Ser Balon Swann and the two left. Olenna smiled having got rid of a potential threat to the plan.
Tyrion looked at his reflection in an empty plate at his teeth and the scar he had gained following the Battle of King's Landing when Mandon Moore attacked him. He drank more wine and belched as if he was about to be sick, he then wiped his mouth on the table cloth. Then Sansa finally spoke "Will you pardon me my lord?"
Tyrion just smiled "Of course of course, please enjoy yourself." He replied.
Seeing this Joffrey began standing up possible preparing to try and torment Sansa some more. Cersei saw this and seeing trouble tried to hold him back "Perhaps you could talk to your bride-to-be instead."
Joffrey briefly looked at Margaery before snorted "I've got a lifetime for that." He groaned before leaving.
Tyrion gave a look towards his lover Shae before being interrupted by a cough from Tywin who was standing next to him "You seem rather drunk!" he hissed
"Rather less than I plan to be." Tyrion snidely replied "Isn't a man supposed to be drunk on his own wedding."
Tywin snorted "This isn't about your wedding. Renly Baratheon had a wedding. Your wife needs a child, a Lannister child as soon as possible."
Tyrion didn't seem like he was listening "And?"
Tywin was getting more annoyed "If you're going to give her one, you need to perform which you can't do when your piss drunk."
Tyrion ignored him "What did you once call me? A drunken little lust filled beast."
"More than once!" Tywin hissed
"There you have it, nothing to worry about." Tyrion replied as if nothing had happened "Drinking and lusting, no man can match me in that. I am the god of tits and wine." Tyrion was clearly very drunk and Tywin was getting more annoyed "I shall build a shrine to myself at the next brothel I visit." He began to take another mouthful of wine only for his glass to be snatched by Tywin.
"You can drink, you can joke, you can engage in juvenile attempts to make your father uncomfortable, but you will do your duty to House Lannister!" Tywin hissed before storming away.
Elsewhere, Astrid dressed in Lannister uniform watched over the wedding as one of the guards. Tytos was busy ensuring their escape route was ready and preparing the doors to prevent reinforcements. She had watched Loras Tyrell take Balon Swann out which made their job easier since of all the Kingsguard, he was the biggest threat. Now it was just Astrid's group and two Kingsguard in the Wedding feast which would make things easy. Each member of the group was stationed at a different area waiting to strike. Astrid kept a close eye on Sansa and got concerned when she saw that little shit of a king Joffrey start following her around. Astrid really wanted to take him out now but she had to wait until they were ready otherwise more guards could rush in. She knew that the first signal was about to be given and sure enough, the servents brought the message in first.
Sansa tried to forget the feeling of nervousness she had when it came to the end of the feast and the bedding ceremony would begin. She watched as everyone began awing as the servants began bringing in one of the main courses. A large black roasted boar that had more meat on to feed everyone. The Boar looked delicious and once it had been place on the feasting table, everyone began trying to get a piece of it. Sansa looked confused, she may have been raised by her mother and Septa Mordane who taught her but she knew some of the myths and legends of the north. The Black Boar tended to represent death, something was wrong here and she noticed that one of the Lannister guards were eyeing her not like a predator wanting to strip her but as if he was watching out for her. Something wasn't right here. She also saw just how drunk Tyrion was getting, she knew that he did not want this marriage either so was he trying to drink himself to prevent doing the bedding that night? She didn't know. Then she felt fear when she heard a familiar voice.
"Congrantulations my lady." Joffrey sneered as she took her arm
Sansa sighed "Thank you your Grace."
Joffrey carried on smirking like he had won in the end "Well, you've done it. You've married a Lannister. Soon you'll have a Lannister baby. It's a dream come true for you, isn't it? What a glorious day. I suppose it doesn't really matter which Lannister puts the baby into you. Maybe I'll pay you a visit tonight after my uncle passes out. How'd you like that? Ser Meryn and Ser Boros will hold you down."
Sansa looked at the Lannister guard who was looking at her and noticed he was speaking to another. She wondered what was going on and she was feeling more uncomfortable every second.
Astrid heard the entire conversation and was almost ready to take him out herself but Tytos came to the rescue. "We're ready." He whispered "The doors are locked and the passage is secured. I'll give the signal now and you do what you wish."
Astrid nodded and got herself ready to strike.
And just in time ad Joffrey clapped to get everyone's attention and give an announcement. "It's time for the bedding ceremony!" he announced
Tyrion glared "There will be no bedding ceremony." He hissed
Joffrey took Sansa's hand and began leading her towards Tyrion "Where's your respect for tradition uncle? Come everybody, pick her up and carry her to her wedding bed. Get rid of her gown she won't be needing it any longer. Ladies attend to my uncle he's not heavy." Joffrey was enjoying this way too much.
"As I said, there will be no bedding ceremony!" Tyrion hissed again
"There will be if I command it!" Joffrey hissed
Tyrion replied by stabbing his knife into a piece of the black boar he had taken which ironically was a piece of the head "Then you'll be fucking your own bride with a wooden cock!" He was very drunk now
"Did you just threaten me?" Joffrey shouted at him "Did you just threaten your king, I can take your head for that!"
"You say that about everything nephew." Tyrion growled "Like I said before, we have had vicious kings and we've had idiot kings but now we have a vicious idiot for a king!"
"How dare you speak to me like that!" Joffrey howled. His mood was not helped when the musicians began playing a new song "And stop that music, we're past that now."
"I'm sorry your grace but someone wanted to send a message." The musician replied.
Sansa looked around, she noticed the Lannister guards seemed to be surrounding the tables and the one who had been eying her before now was just a few steps behind Joffrey with a crossbow in his hands.
"A message?" Joffrey hissed "What message."
It was then that the Lannister guard who eyed Sansa spoke up which surprised everyone "This is the message." The guard said in what was clearly a female voice and before anyone could react, she fired the crossbow into Joffrey's leg causing him to fall to the ground "NOW!"
Suddenly all of the other Lannister guards in the room pulled out weapons but instead of attacking the guard who attacked Joffrey, they instead shouted at the guests pointing the weapons at them ordering them to stand down. Tywin got punched in the face by one guard knocking him to the ground. Meryn Trant and Boros Blount drew their swords to protect their king but a servant suddenly charged at Trant stabbing him in the eye with a knife and knocking him to the ground and then stabbing his other eye and then multiple times in the chest. Blount didn't last much longer either as the guard that shot Joffrey reloaded the crossbow and shot Blount in the neck. The Kingsguard chocked on his blood before falling to the ground dead.
Soon, all of the guests were on their knees. Only the guards were standing as was Sansa. Even Tyrion had been forced to kneel but he was still quite drunk but he could tell that something was wrong. The female guard laughed "Well that was easier than I thought."
"You bitch!" Joffrey yelled holding his leg "I am the king, I'll have Ser Ilyn take your head for that!"
The guard who turned out to be Astrid laughed "I am the king, I am the king." She said in a weak voice as if mocking him "That what you have to say. I don't think you understand the gravity of the situation you are in. Besides, you are no king of mine, you not really a king at all, you're just a spoilt little mommy's boy who will probably go down in history as one of the worst kings in history. How many other kings started a war within the first year of the reign, I can't think of any and part of that conflict was entirely preventable but you just had to act like a spoilt brat and kill the one man who could have prevented this war."
Tywin glared at her as he was held by another guard "Just who in the Seven Hells are you? And why are you here?"
"She's one of my best soldiers." The man holding Tywin who was also the man who punched him "As for who we are, well we're here on a mission to retrieve stolen property and to send a clear message."
Astrid spoke again "The Lannisters own House Stark a debt and we've come to collect." She smirked "As for who I am, well." She then removed her helmet revealing her now white hair and purple eyes for everyone to see. Sure she had used hair dye when they had arrived at King's Landing to avoid attracting attention but now she wanted to show who she was "The name is Visenya Targaryen, daughter of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark though I also go by another name though I doubt anyone other than Sansa knows me. After all we did live as sisters for a while."
Sansa finally guessed it "Astrid!"
Astrid smiled at her cousin "Hello Sansa, that gold really doesn't suit you. We'll have to change when we get home."
"And the Stark family will all be together again." Arya spoke up catching Sansa's attention as well as Cersei's. Cersei was held by Wendel and Smalljon. Arya then smirked at Tywin "I served as your cupbearer at Harrenhal and you never figured how who I was. I have to say it was entertaining to witness that."
Tywin could not believe it. The young girl who had served as his cupbearer had been a potentially influential bargain tool and she had slipped through his fingers. He had suspected that there was more to her but he never suspected this.
"I also have something to say." The guard holding Tywin added and then removed his helmet revealing his blond hair "It brings me great pleasure to see you all like this especially after what you all did to me." He then looked at Tywin "Hello brother."
Tywin looked at him and then realized who this person was "Tytos!"
"Indeed." Tytos replied "You know we could have been brothers you know. You were right about my mother, she was indeed a whore and she did try to convince your father to name me as heir but she was dreaming. The lords would never have accepted that but that's not why I'm here. You did try to kill me after all; I agree that my mother got what she deserved but what did I do? I had nothing against me but you still tried to kill me all the same just because I was an insult to your legacy. Well I swore that I would show you that I was just as capable which is why I joined the Company of the Rose."
"We always swore that we would return home when the North is a free and independent kingdom again." Astrid smiled "I may have the blood of the dragon but I also have the blood of the wolves and the spirit of the north. My loyalty lies with my family which is why I came here. We're taking Sansa and going home."
"She has been married in the light of the Seven." Tywin hissed
"Well that marriage was done without permission from her family and is declared null and void." Astrid replied "You may have declared her a ward of the crown but now we're voided everything. You no longer have any say in her life."
Cersei tried to insult her "You mother was a whore!" she snarled "My husband could not stop thinking about her and it ruined my marriage."
Astrid just smiled "Well, you're no better Cersei Lannister. Your husband may have loved my birth mother but she did not love him. I'm sure you can understand why, I mean he drank and whored all the time and I doubt he would have stopped for my mother. No wonder she wanted out of the marriage. Though you are just as bad considering what you done, although I guess it doesn't really matter much really, after all history remembers names not blood. It wouldn't be the first time the legitimacy of royal children is questioned, your children have blond hair instead of the black hair of the Baratheons and it has shown in the lineage book that the Baratheon Black hair will always prevail over other hair colours. The children of Rhaenyra Targaryen by her first husband were also questioned since they had the brown hair instead of the Targaryen silver. Though in the end, history never really knows for sure but we're not here to talk about history. We're here to send a message, House Lannister has a debt to pay." She then looked at Thorald and Avulstein. "Hold him." She pointed at Joffrey.
The Grey-Mane siblings grabbed hold of Joffrey who was still on the floor and picked him up dragging him into the centre of the room away from everyone.
Cersei screamed "No, what are you doing?" she demanded
Astrid smiled "We're collecting the debt you owe us." She replied "An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth. Blood for blood, your king killed the lord of the north and now we've come to pay him in kind."
Cersei finally realised what she was about to do "No!" she screamed and tried to fight only for Wendel and Smalljon to hold her tighter "NO PLEASE, LEAVE HIM, NOT MY FIRSTBORN SON."
Astrid said nothing and took hold of Ice which Arya gave her and shared a look with Tywin "We recovered this earlier, Ilyn Payne no longer needed it and we also knew what you were planning on doing with it so we took it back. Your king desecrated it so now it's time to fix it by avenging lord Eddard." She raised the sword high into the air and everyone gasped now seeing what was about to happen. Then Astrid swung the blade at Joffrey's neck and in one clean swing, his head separated from his shoulders and bounced a few times on the ground. "Blood for blood, your debt is paid." Thorald and Avulstein dropped Joffrey's body and Astrid picked up the head and placed it in a small bag "This will serve as a message to you all of what happens when you fuck with the north."
She then approached the terrified Tommen Baratheon with a softer look "Now kid, I guess this means that you're the new king now. I want you to learn from what you've seen here." Tommen whimpered and Astrid gave him a softer look "Oh don't worry kid, I'm not going to hurt you, you're innocent in all of this and I wouldn't hurt you but I want you to learn from everything and be a better man than your brother was. But understand this, the north no longer takes orders from anyone here. Continue to try and harass us and we will return south and send an even greater message." Then she walked over to Tywin and took out some more papers than she had taken earlier "As for you, don't think I know what you were planning on doing, look what we recovered from your office." She held the papers high "Well let me tell you this, we still have one more weapon we can use, your eldest son Jaime is still a prisoner at Winterfell, try and go through with this plan or any other plan to harm my family and I will cut pieces off of Jaime and send them to you. Look at what's happened and learn from it."
She then stood up and looked around "And as for the rest of you, welcome to a brand new beginning you sorry shits, your king is dead and you have a new king, let's hope that he's better than the last one." She then walked over to back wall and pulled on a candlestick and a secret passage opened. All the other members of the group walked into the passage including Sansa leaving Astrid alone to say one last thing "Now then, we'll be leaving now, don't try to follow us, we already have an escape planned. I hope that we never meet again as it would mean that you ignored my warning. I hope my message has gotten through to you all because we can do so much more if you push us. Now then, tar, tar." She pulled the candlestick hard enough that it broke and walked through the hidden door before it shut and now they couldn't follow them since she had broken the switch to open the door.
Chapter End:
Notes: Well this was intense but this was the chapter I was looking forward to writing. I has Astrid act like Negan from the Walking Dead in her intimidation of her enemies hoping to send a clear message. Some of you may believe I gave Joffrey a too quick death and I had planned on having him being beaten to death but I had used that in Joffrey's death in Rise of the Divines story. I named this event the Black Wedding after the Black Boar that was brought in as part of the feast which represents death. This type of symbol was used at the event known as the Black Dinner, one of the real events in Scottish History that inspired the Red Wedding where a Black bull's head was served at a feast with the Douglas Clan and King James II of Scotland and then both the ruling Douglas and his brother were both executed on trumped up charges.
I also want to address some guest reviewers I have been getting, there is nothing really wrong with my computer, writing just takes time and I switch stories each time so I don't update two chapters on the same story at once, this is to try and prevent one story from being on hold for too long. Some days though I am out for most of the day and don't have access to my computer so I am unable to write some days so that can be why chapter updates are slow because I am sometimes having very busy days where I barely have access to my computer since I am out or playing on my game consoles. The next story that will be updated will be the Dragon X but I am due to go on holiday next week so I won't be able to write for a whole week since I won't have access to a computer so the next chapter on any story may be a few weeks, just be patience.