In the dragon pit,
When they heard how much, no one knew how to react.
"Gods" Tyrion exclaimed, "That's more gold than casterly rock has ever produced."
Tywin gave his son a disapproving look.
"So, which house will get the most?" ask a curious Tommen.
"Our House, cousin." answered Shireen with a smile, which Tommen returned.
"Grand maester, how much will each house receive?" ask the king.
Maester Pycelle, who have been writing information for the citadel, answered his king. "The bastards of house Baratheon will receive a total of 1.5 billion gold dragons."
"That is a lot of gold." said a surprise, Jon Arryn.
He looked at the northerners, "House Stark will receive 1 billion gold dragons and House Bolton 500 million Gold Dragon."
"Dad our house will be rich." a thrilled Arya Stark says, Ned gave her smile agreeing with her.
Lord Bolton said nothing, still staring at the flames.
"House Tyrell will receive 1 billion gold dragons and House Tarly will receive 500 million gold dragons." he continued.
"They better keep those spears of theirs." said the queen of thorns, not wanting to miss out on those foreign weapons even with the gold they are getting.
Garlan and Mace agreeing with her. The spears where like nothing the world has seen.
"Do you think Sam will share his gold with our house?" ask Dickon Tarly.
"Not if he resent your father for what he did." answered his mother.
Randyll said nothing but frowned as he watches the flames.
"House Martell will receive 1 billion gold dragons; House Greyjoy 500 million gold dragons and House Targaryen will receive 500 million gold dragons." he finished.
'Enough to buy every sell sword in Essos' Oberyn thought, looking at the Lannister's. his sister and her children would be avenged.
'How many ships will we be able to build with such wealth' Yara Thought, she had an evil grin on her face.
"The others" ask Orlena.
"M-my lady, I don't not know the houses they are from but combine they will receive" he took a moment trying to comprehend the number. "2.5 billion gold dragons"
Tyrion started chuckling, "looks like House Lannister have been dethrone as the richest house in the realm father."
Tywin again gave him a stern look. 'This is not good', he thought. His house will not be getting a copper from those gold, he will have to try to get Robert to take the gold from his bastards.
Cersei was seething at the Imps words, she will have those bastard hand over their gold, for her brave Joffrey.
In the flames,
"I'll leave you all to discuss the contract and if you agree, I will collect it tomorrow. Colton has rooms assigned for you, I will see you all tomorrow" he said to them, he got up from his chair and left the room.
With Arol gone, they all left the room and went to their assigned rooms. Everyone is weighing the pros and cons of signing this contract, of participating in this Journey.
In his room, Arol starts to think about his plans, and the council reaction when he brought it up to them.
In the mage council room, 24 dark figures sat, their appearance impossible to see by those in Westeros.
"Why have you call this meeting Arol," said an authoritative female voice.
"The time have come for us to move against HIM" he said, emphasizing the 'Him' part.
"The land bleeds, flogged by devastation and you would have us bring more desolation to a broken people!" said a tall figure, outrage by Arol suggestion.
"If we do not act it will be too late" Arol defended his decision.
"The tree is weak and unprotected, leaving the garden would be unwise" said another figure sternly.
"It wouldn't be us, that bring Daemon down" Arol said, finally catching their attention.
"Comrades, Allow Arol to plead his case." Said another figure, his accent was different, he even sounded older than those that have spoken earlier.
"Not long ago, I took in two students. I saw potential in them, potential that I have never seen in any from the race of man." with a wave of his hand, a miniature Gendry and Jon appears in the middle of the table.
In the dragon pit,
They were shocked at this revelation.
"If this Arol ever comes to Westeros, he will be treated as a guest of honor in my court," said Robert.
"Aye, mine as well your grace" Ned added, agreeing with his king, the man turned his son into a great warrior, his honor demands it.
The other houses were wondering why their children were not worthy to be train but two bastards were.
"Is Daemon this dragon king name?" said a confuse Tommen, catching the attention of everyone.
In the flames,
"You think two mortals will stand a chance against the dragon king and his hoard, when we could only fight them, to a stalemate." ask another figure insulted at what Arol was saying.
Arol looked at him, and with a serious expression said, "I do".
"Do not play games with this council Arol!" the same figure screamed, outrage.
"Why do you think they will succeed, where we failed" said the women from earlier, trying to calm the situation.
He waved his hand again and Gendry is the only one shown, "Gendry is the wielder of the Jack-Jack fruit" Arol simply said. Shocking all 23 members of the council.
"That is not possible, the vile fruit was lost, not only to us but to Daemon as well." said a new figure.
"As powerful as this vile fruit is, wielding it does not mean this, Gendry can stand against Daemon." said a new figure, his accent was a more elegant version of Colton, the owner of the Dragon Dot Inn.
"it's not only that, his Haki is on par with our own, he has also mastered 5 of the 6 statuses of the Jack-jack fruit" Arol finished.
"And your other pupil" ask another figure, breaking the silence in the room.
Arol waves his hand and Jon appears, "Jon is Gendry's equal regarding their Haki level, he wields the Flame-flame fruit" he finished.
"Has he awakened the fruit?" as another female figure.
"Yes, he has" Arol confirmed, he could see they were starting to take his proposal seriously.
"He is not the only one with an awakened fruit" Arol waved his hands, and three figures appears,
"This is Mya, the wielder of the String-String fruit and Bella, the wielder of the Mochi-Mochi fruit, both the elder sisters of Gendry" he points to the other Male that appears, "This is Robb, the wielder of the Ice-Ice fruit, elder brother of Jon"
In the dragon pit,
"String-String and Mochi-Mochi?" said a confused Renly.
"I wonder what they do." Shireen added.
"I guess we will find out niece." said Renly with a smile.
"How does one wake some fruit?" Tyrion asks.
"That would imply that, said fruit is sleeping, lord Tyrion." said the blackfish.
"What is this Haki they speak of" ask Edmure. This was the first time he said something productive, no one knew and were hoping the flame will show them later.
"Dad, Jon is as strong as Gendry, we should bet on him." said Bran to his father.
Eddard looked at his son and sighed, "Lord Tyrion" he said catching the attention of the imp.
"I will join the wager; my son Jon is the strongest." He announces, shocking everyone, that the honorable Eddard Stark is gambling.
Robert Started laughing, Tyrion responded, "it's your lost Lord Stark."
In the flames,
"If we agree to this plan of yours, how many will accompany these 5 on the journey" ask the figure with the same accent as Colton.
"You cannot expect us to believe these five will be enough to take down Daemons army." ask another female figure.
All eyes were now on Arol, "No, I have plans to recruit 13 others to assist me"
"Very well, you will have the full backing of the council." said the first female that spoke in the beginning.
The screen returns to Arol who is in his room, laying on his bed, he slowly closes his eyes and drift off to sleep.
In the dragon pit,
"Well, that was something" Renly spoke, not sure what to make of this revelation.
"It is interesting that their appearance is hidden from us." Tyrion said.
"Just like the 10 Lords of Duir." stated Bran, the others actually forgot about that.
In the flames,
In the Baratheon bastards' room,
"You brought it with you" Bella asks her little brother.
"I couldn't leave it behind." he responded, looking at the sealed sword.
"Whether you want to admit it or not, it is part of you little brother." Bella said softly.
Gendry swiftly turn to face his sister, anger written all over his face, "I am nothing like them!" he said.
"I didn't say you were." Bella quickly defended her statement, before adding "But that does not change the fact that their blood flow through you."
"Regardless, House Lannister owes me debt, and you know what they say, a Lannister always pays its debt." Gendry says as he places the sealed sword away.
Gendry makes his way to his room to rest.
"We still have a lot to discuss Gendry." Bella reminded her little brother.
Gendry scoff, "You and Mya have a lot to discuss, I'm going to bed." With that said, he went to his room, Bella sigh and made her way to Mya and her shared room.
In the dragon pit,
"What debt?" ask Shireen.
No one had an answer, Robert turns to his wife, "what, did, you, do?" he demanded menacingly.
Cersei glared at her husband but said nothing.
Before Robert could say more Stannis intervened, "I am sure whatever secret the queen wants to keep will be revealed as we continue to watch." he said sternly, suspicious at what the Lannister did, to his bastard nephew.
Tywin look at his daughter who was avoiding his gaze. 'What did you do Cersei' he thought.
"It seems, my dear sister may have doomed our family." he said to his father smiling brightly. Tywin did not respond or acknowledge his son, only glaring at the flame.
"I wonder what kind of sword he has sealed" Jamie asks no one.
Lady Orlena Looked at the bastard boy, remembering his words, something was missing, but she will get it.
In the flames,
In the room, where Robb and his brothers were staying.
"Are we going to sign the contract?" asked Samwell, looking at the other 4 in the room.
"I don't see why not; more gold than we can dream of, and we get to be heroes." Theon said, with his signature smug smile.
"I don't usually want to agree with a moron, but yes, I think we should." Jon said, getting a glare form Theon.
"It may be our only chance to return home." Domeric added.
They all turn to look at Robb, "Very well, we will give Arol our answer in the morning." With that said, they all went to their rooms and fell asleep.
In the dragon pit,
When Jon called Theon a moron, many in the dragon pit started laughing at the insult, while the iron born glared at the stark bastard.
In the flames,
in the room of the Martell brothers,
"What do you think?" Quentyn asks his little brother.
"We have no choice, I miss home and if removing the dragon king will let me see sun spear again, I say fine." Answered Trystane.
Quentyn looks at his little brother, for any sign of doubt, he found none. "Very well, I will inform Arol of our decision in the morning." He said, they made their way to their room to rest.
In the dragon pit,
Oberyn was smiling, 'it won't be long now' he thought.
In the flames,
In the room, where Daenerys and her group was staying,
"So, what's the plan?" ask Ygritte to the group.
"I say we join" Tormund answered her.
"it's a lot of gold and we get to go home after, yep I say we join." Val said.
"What about you two?" Danny ask Talisa and Gilly.
"It's going to be dangerous, who will heal Tormund with his recklessness." Talisa said with a smile, her comment earned a laugh from Tormund.
Gilly agreed with her, "Very well, Arol will know of our decision in the morning" with that said they went to their rooms to rest.
In the dragon pit,
Robert scowled at the flames, "Fucking Dragon Spawn" he is hoping that she dies in this mission of theirs.
In the flames,
In the Tyrell sibling room,
"Marge, hello" Loras waved his hand Infront of his sister face.
"What?" a confused Margaery asked.
"Your drifting, why?" Loras ask.
"Never mind why" Margaery answered.
"It's the Baratheon bastard isn't it" Loras said smugly.
Margaery faces turn a new shade of red, "Shut up Loras"
In the dragon pit,
"Absolutely not!" Mace Tyrell erupted, "My daughter will not marry a no name bastard."
The pit, stared at the Lord of Highgarden, Robert face was red with anger, to everyone surprise it was Stannis who responded to the insult towards his family.
"My nephew, bastard or no, is more than you up jump stewards deserve" he glared at the Tyrell daring him to challenge his words.
Lady Orlena grabs her son's hand, "Sit down you oaf" mace heeded his mother's words and sat back down. She did not want her granddaughter to marry the bastard either, but she sees how the king and his brothers are starting to like the boy, she had hope mace would be wise enough to not voice such opinion.
Tywin did not like this one bit, if he can't marry Joffrey to the Tyrell girl, they will have no allies. He looked at the Baratheon brothers, it was then he knew Robert would allow his bastard to do as he wished. He did not like it one bit.
In the flames,
"So, you like him" Loras asked, still smiling.
"It doesn't matter, whether I like him or not. We have to focus of the contract." Margaery deflected.
"Alright, I'll let it go for now" he said.
"So, we agree, joining is the best solution" Marge asks.
"Grandmother would kill us herself, if she found out we had an opportunity to make that much gold and did not take it." He chuckled to himself.
"Alright, we will tell Arol of our decision in the morning." Marge ended the conversation, and the Tyrell siblings went to their room to rest.
In the dragon pit,
"He is right" Garlan said to his grandmother, who heard him but chose to ignore him, earning a chuckle from her grandson.
In the flames,
In the morning, they all met back in the mage council room, Arol, took the signed contract from each one of them.
"I welcome you all to Operation Iron Justice. We will depart in 3 days." he declared.
They all made their way back down to the Inn dining area, to break their fast.
The flame zooms out and travels to a desolate land, where three dark figures appear, two were on their knees while the third stood before them.
"The mage council are making preparation for war, Arol is in Andrel, you are to go there and bring me his head, failure will not be accepted." said the leading dark figure, menacingly.
The two kneeling figures are revealed.
The first one is an ugly young man, even with his fine blood red armor. He is big boned, and slope shouldered, with a fleshiness indicating he will be fat later in life. His skin is pink and blotchy, his nose broad, his hair long and dark and dry. Although his mouth is small, his lips are wide and meaty, wormy looking, and he smiles a wet-lipped smile.
The next one, possesses the classical Valyrian features: he has pale skin, silver-blond hair, and pale lilac eyes. He is a gaunt young man with hard lines in his face and a feverish look in his eyes.
The dark figure spoke once more, "When I found you, you were weak and alone, through training I made you what you are, now stand as my heralds." He finishes.
"Rise, Viserys Targaryen, King of Westeros, rise Ramsey Snow, warden of the north" they both stood, bowed and left the room.
(The devil fruit of Bella, and Mya are finally revealed)
(What is the sealed sword that Gendry hates so much, can you guys guess?)
(Orlena is starting to put the pieces together)
(The twins roses spears are design after Gungnir in AC Valhalla)
(Ramsey and Viserys, the first obstacle to our Heroes)
(As always, thank you for reading and Criticize, Criticize, Criticize.)