|3rd POV|
Viserys looks at Euron in confusion as he hears the Crow's Eye laugh madly. Viserys decides to let him for now and orders Alduin to attack the ship on the back. While riding on Alduin, he catches a group of people firing a hail of arrows at Dany, who flies too close to the ship.
With a snap of his finger, the arrows stop mid-air. A second later, he waves his hand, and the arrows fly back at the archers and kill most of them. Their armors cannot stop the arrow as Viserys increases the speed of the arrow.
"Alduin! Burn that ship!"
Viserys orders his partner, and Alduin happily obeys his order. The ship that fired that arrow gets burned by dragon fire and slowly sinks to the bottom of the ocean. After making another circle around the enemy's backline, Viserys ordered Alduin to fly at Euron's ship.
Euron continues to laugh even when he sees a giant dragon flying toward him and his ship. However, even with the wind on his side, he cannot outrun a dragon. He takes his men's sword and climbs to the crow's nest.
With a mad grin, he shouts to the incoming dragon.
"Come! Come and feel the wrath of God! I'm the incarnation of the Drowned God and you will feel my wrath!"
Sadly, his declaration is nothing but a declaration as a massive torrent of fire washes over him, leaving nothing but his ashes behind. In his mind, he will die in glory and will be remembered as the number one pirate and the Drowned God incarnation.
However, he died as a lunatic. He is known not for his bravery but for his stupidity. He will be known as Euron, the lunatic and the last Greyjoy ever lived. His death marked the end of the first Golden Age of piracy.
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The fight did not last long. With Dany terrorizing the front of the Iron Fleet, me being the backline and Rhae killing the one who tried to run away, the fight did not last very long. Two hours of fighting is enough to wipe out most of the ship, leaving only seven ships that we let get away so they can inform the others about their defeat.
Dany, Rhae, me, and our dragon land on the biggest tower of Tyrosh. I get off of Alduin and give him a pat on the snout.
"Good work, boy. I will give you the biggest cow, two of them in fact."
I smile a little when I hear him purring at the word cow. He really likes his cow. Silver Wing and Elia like seafood more than land animals.
I look at Dany and Rhae, who already mount their dragons. However, before I could even say something, they ran toward me and hugged me tightly.
"Dany? Rhae? Are you okay?"
I can see they are nodding their heads but keep hugging me. What happened? Oh, wait. This is the first time they kill someone, huh? I smile at them and carry them in my arms. I look at Bakir, who walks toward me with a sad smile.
"Bakir, can you take care of the rest? It looks like we need some rest."
"Of course, your highness. I will give you the report of the fight tonight."
"Thank you, I will see you tonight."
~Sometimes later~
It takes Dany and Rhae three hours of constant cuddling and head patting before they finally sleep. I give them kisses on their foreheads and then walk out of the room. I walk to the war room, where the other generals and admirals are waiting for me.
They get up from their seats and bow when they see me. I nod my head and sit down.
"Tell me the casualties."
Bakir gets up and reads the paper in his hand.
"We lost ten ships and one hundred and twenty men, your highness. However, we managed to capture more than thirty longships in excellent condition and ten in not-so-good condition but can be repaired."
"I see."
More than a hundred people died in this battle. Even with the advantage of a healer in our army, it was not enough to prevent death from happening in the war.
"Take their body back to Sol-Luna to be given a proper burial. We will honor them as a warrior and compensate their family. Make sure to write their name. Don't let anyone be forgotten."
"Of course, your highness."
I nod my head and say.
"Now, let's discuss the plan to attack King's Landing. We need to end this war and end it fast."
I don't like war, but we will ensure we end it as fast as possible when we go to war.
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Cersei Lannister - Queen of the Seven Kingdoms |
I can see father slamming his fist on the table as the messenger arrives in the meeting room. He looks at the young knight and says in a low voice.
"Tell me one more time."
"Y-Yes, my lord! T-The Lunarian Fleet has defeated Euron Greyjoy and his fleet. T-The captains said, "Lunarians have a dragon that destroys their ship in the back and weird loud weapons that kill them from the front. T-That is all, m-my lord."
"ARGH!"
I wince once more when I hear father slamming his fist on the table.
"I know it. That weapon… That weapon is coming from Lunaria. I know that the noble from the trident cannot build that kind of thing."
I look at the messenger and dismiss him, leaving father and me alone in the meeting room.
"What should we do now, father?"
Father looks at me as if I'm stupid before saying.
"We need to end this stupid war even if we need to acknowledge the north as a single entity."
"What?! How can you say that?! Joffrey is the rightful king of all Westeros!"
"And what?! Starve to death?! We just barely survived against the North, and it was because they did not have enough food to continue marching south! We are still in winter, you stupid child! This would not happen if you did not kill Ned Stark! We need to focus on killing the Baratheon Brothers before focusing on the north!"
"Why? Why can't we attack the north? If they did not have any food, we could kill them all."
I don't understand. With the north without food, it is our chance to attack them and kill the so-called Young Wolf.
"Why? Are you stupid? Or are you just too ignorant? We did not have any food. They still have food but not enough to go further south. If we attack, we will be dead. The west's harvest gets even worse, Cersei! The north somehow beat us in food production, and they are nothing but a frozen wasteland!"
I look at my father in shock.
"No! You must be lying. There is no way the North produces more food than the Westernland."
"You are truly ignorant and stupid. Westerland cannot produce food to feed her own people let alone going for a long war. Not only that, the rumor of our mine going dry is true. We cannot spend a lot of money like before. That means, we cannot have a long war that will dry out the vault even faster."
No. He must be lying. He must be.
"Combine it with the Iron Bank not willing to let us borrow their money, we did not have any choice but giving the north a peace offering and focusing on attacking the Reach to raid their food supply to feed our people."
"Why did the Iron Bank not want to lend us more money? We are their biggest customer."
Father raises his eyebrow for a second before releasing a tired sigh.
"We are their biggest customer, yes. However, for the wrong reason. We are their biggest debtor. They are not sending the Faceless men to kill Joffrey is a miracle in itself."
"What?! They cannot do that! If Joffrey died, the debt would be gone."
"Are you an idiot? No, you are an idiot. The debt to the Iron Bank lasted until the dynasty was gone. That means the debt will stay as long as Baratheon and Lannister are alive."
Father releases another sigh and says.
"That is why we need to end this war quickly. I don't need you to create another mess, Cersei. Attacking Lunaria, who declares neutrality, is the worst decision you will ever make just after executing Ned Stark."
Father drinks his wine in a single gulp and says.
"At least it is not getting worse like Stannis agreeing to bend the knee to Lunaria. He has a lot of debt to those people for rescuing his family from the disease they get from who knows where."
Before I can say something, the meeting room door gets forcefully opened, and I can see a guard panting.
"What is it? This better is something important. I said I don't want to be disturbed for the time being."
"This is urgent news from Lord Varys, Lord Hand!"
"Out with it."
"Lord Stannis declaring Viserys Targaryen as his king and now join force against Renly Baratheon!"
I can hear father slamming his head to the table and then starting to scream.
"FUCCCCK!"