They had been in the city all day, trying to get a sense of his nephew magical power, but they could not feel anything at all. He had hoped that his sister would at least show the boy how to unlock his magical aura but knowing her. Now they were walking on the street of steel, before they had to go back to the red keep. He was on the verge of stopping for the day, when a young boy walked by Damien, he turned to look at the boy and without thinking he rushed and hugged the now confused boy.
Gendry was not having a good day, not that the lord his master had him deliver the armor to, was a shit, he was hungry and could not find a place to get a decent meal with the gold her made, from said delivery. Now what looked like a high born was hugging him. He begins to try to remove said high born from him.
" Oy, get the fuck off me" he said feeling annoyed.
Damien stopped and looked at his nephew and saw the look of his father when he his annoyed. Damien knew he had found the right person.
Erza spoke," Damien you're scaring the poor boy."
Damien let go of Gendry and introduce himself, "sorry, where are my manners, my name is Damien of House Akaishi" he points to Ezra "this is my wife Erza of house Scarlett and her apprentice Arya of house Stark" he point to the other lady "this is my other wife Yoruichi of House ShihÅin" he points to the boy about the same age as him, "and this is Jon Snow, my apprentice" "may in know your name" he ask.
Gendry was very confused, no high born is that polite, let alone to a bastard. He decides to play along.
" My name is Gendry waters." He sees the two beautiful ladies sharing a look, and the man, this Damien gave a beaming smile.
" So, she names you after our favorite emperor huh." he said with a small chuckle.
Gendry narrowed his eyes, named me? Could these people have known his mother.
Sensing his confusion Damien spoke" I am your uncle; your mother was my half-sister."
Gendry was shocked at what the lor- his uncle said, a great anger overcame him, and he punched Damien to the shock of the others.
He screamed, "MY UNCLE! WHERE IN THE SEVEN HELLS HAVE YOU BEEN ALL THIS TIME, DO YOU KNOW WHAT I HAVE GONE THROUGH, MOTHER IS DEAD, SHES BEEN DEAD FOR YEAR." he said in seething rage.
Damien who rubbed his check and said," you pack a punch, if I was weaker this would of knock me out."
He looked at his nephew and said in a serious tone, "my sister, cleverly hid you from us, father only found out you existed, about a year ago, and traveling here takes a while."
He sees that Gendry was not convinced, but before he could speak some more Yoruichi intervenes, seeing that they were attracting too much attention, "this is not a place for this" she looks at Gendry and ask "would you mind, accompany us to somewhere private so we can discuss this."
Gendry looked at her and after a while nodded a yes, the walk back to the red keep was a silent and an awkward one. Gendry could not believe it; he was going to the red keep. He looked at his uncle and frowned, he had better have a good explanation for abandoning him for all those years.
Once they reach the red keep and went to their quarters, Damien explains everything to Gendry, to his father finding out about him, him coming to Westeros to bring him back to be the future emperor of the 13 lands and lastly how his mother hid him, from father's gaze. Gendry wanted to ask why, but he had sense to know only his mother can answer that.
Gendry sat there thinking about all his now uncle told him, he agrees to meet his grandfather and take the mantle as crown prince of the 13 lands, Damien and his wives are happy and begun to plan Gendry's education, before they leave in 30 days. The plan is to teach him as much as they can before the introduce him in court.
It took 3 days to unlock Gendry's Aura, his sister did a better job at sealing the boy aura then he thought. Quake and Crash magic, two of the most powerful lost magic of the 13 lands. Damien had a grin on his face, his nephew could become the most powerful man in the 13 lands.
After 4 days, Gendry went back to master Mott and explained what had happened, to say worried Mott was shock was an understatement. Gendry thanked him for all he had thought of him, apologized for worrying him, packed his belongings and went back to the red keep with Jon who had accompanied him.
On his 5th day with his uncle in the red keep, Gendry was introduced to king Robert and the small council who immediately noticed the similarities between Gendry and the Baratheon brothers. Jon and Stannis manage to get Robert to legitimize the boy, they wanted everyone to think that this was a way to start on a positive note with the 13 lands emperor. Cersei was pissed when she heard, and Robert did not care to listen to her.
He spent most of his times learning the ways of court from Yoruichi in the day and training with his uncle in the evening. He was sore and tired every night he went to bed, he got to know both Jon and Arya who was being a pain in the ass.
On one of his training matches with his uncle, king Robert who had heard he prefer a Warhammer came to see him train, the king was boasting to the lord hand and his brothers, how Gendry reminded him of himself.
Today was supposed to be the same routine, it started great until the golden shit calls the crown prince of Westeros decide to grace them with his presence.
Gendry had multipole run in with the prince and non were pleasant but when the king legitimized him, their encounter got worse.
Joffrey came to the training yard, where Damien left Gendry and Jon to practice some stances.
Joffrey looks at them, "look dog" he said to the big man with him, the one known as the hound. "Bastard playing at being lords."
Damien had already told Gendry that when the shit comes, to antagonize him, Jon, or Arya, he should match him, vileness for vileness. He is the prince of the 13 lands, a lineage and crown older than Westeros. they stop training and Gendry looked at him and said mockingly, "Your grace, I'm surprise to see you here." Joffrey looks at him, "why, I go where I please."
Gendry gave him a smug look, "it's just that the training yard, is for man, not boys still hiding behind their mothers' skirts" Jon started laughing to an embarrasses and red face Joffrey.
Joffrey raged, "I'll have your tongue for this."
Jon smirked, "we all you are to craven to take it yourself, are you going to have your dog, do it?" Joffrey so easily angered unsheathed the blade he had on his hip. The hound frowned at how easily they played the little shit.
Gendry looked at him, "by all means, come and take it" he got in a fighting stand and prepared his Warhammer, ready to strike the shit. Just to make him loose his mind Gendry added, "coward."
Joffrey lost it and charged at Gendry, sword poorly raised, each of his strikes were easily blocked by Gendry. After a good while Gendry started hitting back and the crown prince of Westeros' face changed from anger to fear as each of Gendry's strikes became stronger than the last. Finally having enough fun, he gave a powerful swipe that sent the prince flying toward the hound, who moved out of the way and the prince hit the training wall, fell face down and was not moving. The training yard was quiet as a ghost.