[Chapter Size: 2100 Words.]
Third Person POV.
Somewhere on North.
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Lucis was slaughtering everything that attacked her, the dead had returned to the camp as soon as Jon had performed his sorcery, which she still didn't understand, but knew that thanks to them, they were safe for the moment. That was until a horde of the dead emerged from the north and invaded the camp, people fought to survive, while some simply ran south in fear, others were paralyzed, falling to the ground with wights on top of them.
She tried to stand firm, cutting down all the wights growling and approaching, feeling her hand burnt from contact with the fire she made them burn with Jon's sword, yet she didn't give up fighting, thinking only of staying alive, at least for her brother.
Explosions were happening in the north at that moment, knowing Jon was using his power there, she worried about him, even knowing his strength and sorcery, since everyone knew a white walker had appeared and it was because of it that the camp was attacked again.
However, while she was pressed against the dead and watched her companions dying beside her with despair rising in her heart, the dead simply collapsed on the ground. One by one, the dead began to fall, as if they had finally rested, some were still attacking them, but in much fewer numbers and were quickly taken care of by archers with fire arrows.
Everything went silent as the last growls were consumed by the flames, everyone looked cautiously at the sea of dead spread across the place, kicking their bodies to see if they would move again, but they remained like immobile bodies.
"By the Gods... What happened...?" An old man spoke beside her.
She saw many people questioning what had happened and why the dead had stopped attacking, since they had never heard of this before.
"Who cares what happened! We won!!!" A man with red hair shouted and many others joined him at that moment.
The entire camp was roaring in victory, Lucis moved away from the flames generated by her sword while they still consumed the bodies and went to look for something to alleviate her pain from the burns, she dropped the sword and began to rub snow on her arms.
"Lucis... Are you okay...?" Guren approached and Lucis saw that he was the man had several scratches on his body and his rib had been pierced.
"I am..." She spoke.
"Where is the man?" He asked, and Lucis was a bit surprised by his attitude, since his hostility towards Jon was clearly known to everyone.
"He went to the north, I'm sure it was him who did something to stop the dead." She said while still rubbing her hand in the snow.
"We lost so much, Karsi won't like this..." He spoke, after all, they were one of the few who had survived from this side, the camp that had 200 before, was reduced to 50 people shouting for victory after the fight.
"If we don't count those who fled, I think only 5 of us are left." She spoke and looked at the few who remained.
"Cowards!" Guren growled in pain, referring to the people who ran away instead of fighting.
"They will be expelled..." She was speaking, but someone interrupted her.
"It's him! He's bringing the weapon of the cold shadow!!" Someone pointed towards the north side of the camp and Lucis saw Jon approaching the place, holding an ice spear.
"He killed a cold shadow!!!" Someone exclaimed again.
"That's why the dead stopped..." Guren murmured, looking at Jon with a certain fear now.
Jon walked stepping on the dead bodies of the place as he approached the camp of the Karsi tribe, while holding his new weapon, this made everyone stop celebrating and look at him as if he was not just a southerner, but some kind of messiah, the free folk moved away with each step he approached, looking at him cautiously, after all, they had never seen someone kill a cold shadow, moreover, they had never seen a man spit fire from his mouth and everyone recognized what Jon did there, it was thanks to this stranger that they were all alive.
Jon approached Lucis, trying to ease her burns. "Jon..." she said, quite dazed, looking at the cold weapon.
Jon crouched beside her and looked at her hands, while everyone still watched him. "Your hands, let me take care of them," he said and placed his hand over hers, emitting a small glow. He was not an expert in the school of restoration, but knew the basics like every Nord from Skyrim. "This will alleviate your pain for now. Later, I will make a potion for you to heal completely," he said, since alchemy was his best area for healing.
Jon stood up and looked at Guren, who still regarded him quite cautiously. "You're not in a condition to lead, I will take your place," he said, and the man just nodded.
Jon turned to the camp, while everyone awaited his speech. Jon was glad that Val was alive, despite looking quite tired in a corner, and Ygritte seemed to be doing better on another side.
"We must burn all the dead, we need to make a pile," he said. Initially, it was just for the Karsi tribe with the other 2 who survived, but the whole camp started to move, after all, who wouldn't put him as leader after everything that happened.
"Is it true that you killed a cold shadow?" A man asked him, gathering courage.
"If you mean a white walker, yes," he said.
"But how, no one has ever done that!" another said.
"Indeed, my weapons broke like ice, but then I used its own weapon against it. I just had to be quicker and smarter, while the creature seemed to underestimate me," Jon said, and the men seemed to accept his story, even earning Jon a look of respect and admiration from them. After all, who could have thought of using the ice creature's own weapon against white walkers?
The rest of the night was spent with people throwing bodies into the wildfires happening outside the camp. Jon had been wrong when he said there were hundreds of dead; there were at least a thousand of them.
"This isn't right..." Jon murmured internally, looking at the camp. "Why would they use so many dead to take down a group of 200... they spent days gathering for this attack before tonight..." Jon murmured, after all, if he hadn't been there, 100 undead could have wiped out the entire camp catching them by surprise, but sending this amount just for one group, monster or not, wasn't smart.
"The only thing that ended them was my presence... And if I was the target of this attack? The white walker didn't seem to know about me... but if someone drew them here?" He quickly looked at some trees outside the fire and saw a crow looking at the camp from hundreds of meters away, not caring about the fire.
"So it was you..." Jon murmured and went to Ygritte who had approached him in the last few minutes trying to talk to him.
"Give me your bow," he said, and the girl quickly handed it over. He quickly took an arrow and turned his bow towards the tree where the crow was.
The animal or whatever was behind its mind didn't even have time to react, as it just saw the arrow embedding in its body from that distance.
"Sorry about that," Jon commented, looking at the broken bow in his hand. It was a simple bow, and the force he used to reach that distance broke the weapon.
"It's okay..." Ygritte said, still trying to understand why Jon had done that, but she didn't ask much.
The rest of the night was spent organizing the camp, and Jon ended up becoming the leader of all those present, commanding the place to clean up and prepare for a new attack before they left the place.
He returned to his tent, which remained intact after the attack, and saw Lucis in bed. He approached with a pot containing a paste made from herbs he had gathered and sat beside the bed.
"This will help improve your burns," Jon said as he took her hands and applied the paste.
"Thank you..." she said with a blush on her face, being touched and cared for in that way.
"It's nothing. There's something I must warn you about," Jon spoke, now in a serious tone, causing Lucis to look at him with a questioning gaze.
"I'm leaving," he commented.
"Are you going back to the south?" she asked, more worried than she intended.
"No, I'm heading north. This attack... That warg is trying to kill me," Jon spoke with a firm tone.
"But who is he, no warg in the camp can do what he does..." Lucis commented, after all, Jon had been after this warg for many days, but without success.
"It's true, but you saw my clairvoyance spell, I'll follow the line until I find him, he won't stop until I kill him," Jon said in the same tone.
"Can I go with you?" she asked, leaving Jon a bit surprised by that.
"No, it will be dangerous. You think this attack will be the only one? I must go alone," Jon said with no room for discussion, it was better for him to go alone, Lucis would be safer returning to the camp.
"I understand..." she murmured a bit frustrated, already knowing she would be more of a nuisance than a help to Jon.
"Don't worry, I'll be back soon," Jon said.
"Just be safe..." she spoke softly.
After that, Jon returned to commanding the camp, Val approached him at that moment.
"So we're going back... I hope to find those cowards who fled before I kill them myself," Val growled, not accepting the cowards who ran instead of fighting that night.
"It's no longer safe here, I've passed some instructions to Lucis on where to set up camp at a higher location we passed, you'll have more success watching the north from there," Jon said aside, and Val looked at him strangely.
"You talk as if you're not coming with us, Snow," she joked.
"Because it's true, I'm heading north, I have something to settle there," Jon spoke.
"Then I'm coming with you," she declared.
"No, this group needs a leader, you're the best option for them to return alive," Jon wanted to pass the command to Val.
"You... Forget it. If you say you're going to do this, who can stop you," Val still wanted to go with him, but Jon didn't seem to accept her help and asked her to command. If someone was to venture north with all the danger at this time, Jon was the only bet for survival, so she nodded in the end.
"Just stay alive," she commented.
"Of course, I'll return," Jon spoke, and he returned to Lucis, organizing his last things.
The temporary camp soon began to dismantle, having to abandon many things, since 75% of the people had died or fled.
Thus, everyone prepared, Jon no longer needed to carry anything, placing his equipment and supplies in his dimensional space.
"The cold shadow slayer isn't coming with us?!" the Free Folk exclaimed with some apprehension, Jon was their current safe haven after what happened during the night.
"Something sent those dead to us and it's in the north, so I'm going to hunt it," Jon declared, and no one could disagree with his words.
Jon continued. "Val will take command to return, I'll come back to the camp as soon as I settle the situation," Jon said to everyone.
Then they began the march to the camp, Lucis approached him.
"Jon, stay safe," she took the initiative to kiss him for the first time, after all, she had been in love with him for a long time, but remained shy.
Jon nodded after the kiss and kissed her forehead. "I will return soon, take care and use your weapon against anything that threatens you."
"Yes, when we see each other again, I will be an even better warrior," she declared, and Jon smiled.
After Lucis went on the march, Jon was left alone in the camp while many looked back to see him, he sighed and turned to the north region. "Now let's start the hunt," he declared, beginning to take his first steps.
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