Chapter 60 (Patreon)
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It's was the evening of my second week in Lys, before leaving I had to set and put everything ready for Daenerys so she wouldn't have to move a finger, so with that in mind, I stayed setting up the city for her, a little paradise just for her.
So after two week, I was finally due to leave, but as if the gods wanted me to stay the winds started to howl outside shaking the sea violently, apparently, a storm was coming our way, a really big one. Which meant I would have to delay my plans for a couple of days or so, at least for the moment being, not that I really cared.
Daenerys was probably in her last month of pregnancy at this point. And while I wanted to start waging my war to the other cities so as to keep her out of the enemy’s sight, a bigger part of me wanted to see my children, I wanted to hold them.
“It seems you are staying,” Daenerys smiled, “Maybe our little chimeras will decide to come out during this time, maybe they want to say hi to daddy,”
“Heh, that would be lovely,” I chuckled, touching her belly with the utmost care wondering if my little warriors would come out and say hi soon.
*Our motherly caw! Instincts feel they are about to hatch! Any time this week!* The ravens that usually protected her, or brooded her pregnant stated, and while I knew what they meant by that she was about to hatch, the image they put on my head was disturbing, to say the least.
“What do they say?” Daenerys giggled.
“That our little chimeras are about coming any day now,” I answered with a smile of my own.
As we continued to talk about how the kids would look, and names for them, my mind started to ponder on what was my family on Bear Island doing right now.
I knew they were safe, and out of the political mess that was moving inside the seven kingdoms that was the main reason I had left them there, to avoid any of them getting hurt, a safe haven for them, like the one I’m giving Daenerys right now, but even though I knew they were safe, I didn’t really know how was my little cousin, Lyanna, or my Aunt Maege.
Were they happy? Sad, something in between?
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[Maege Mormont POV]
Today, like every afternoon, I was alone walking in the forest with one of the many of armored bears Ronard left behind, with my mind on the idea that, it had been quite a while since my great-nephew left to Essos, originally it was intended to be a simple and uncomplicated business trip, and yet, somehow he ended up marrying Daenerys Targaryen, also declaring his intentions to conquer the known world, becoming one of the most prominent players on this war game.
Did I approve what he was doing, no it a million years, but he was family, and we bears stand together, against anything and anyone, because we don’t a reason to stand for our family, we don’t need to be logical.
But I can’t say I fault my little nephew, everything started when they broke his betrothal, and he probably made his second one with rage and thirst for retribution.
“Mom, when is cousin Ronard coming back?” Lyanna inquired, running towards me, smiling at the bear, like always she was wearing her custom made battle armor, since Ronard left she had been practicing nonstop to be a warrior on pair with him, wanting to be of use to us, to his cousin, “Maybe he needs a bodyguard?”
I smiled, no matter how impulsive Ronard’s decisions were, he had made such a good impression on everyone that served under him or with him, that we would follow him to hell, “He will be back soon, he is one of us, and we bears don’t die so easily, we bears stand together,”
“Aye,” Lyanna smiled, satisfied with the answer as she left fading deep into the woods to practice.
“Stupid boy,” I growled with a smile on my face, “If you wanted help taking over Essos, why didn’t you call us, we bears must stick together!”
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[Daecy Mormont POV]
Ronard had left and had started a war without us, his family, and that was something I planned to fix, I wasn’t going to let my cousin go into battle without us, not any longer, not without his armored bears, and his armored ladies, as he used to call us.
“You were right, mother has no idea when he is coming back,” Lyanna sighed with a pout, that turned to smile really fast, “When are we leaving?”
Lyanna had discovered my plan to go and help Ronard, and the only way I managed to buy her silence was to offer her to come with me, and it wasn’t like she was going to charge into battle, Ronard would probably have her with his new wife. As for me, I wanted to go into this war with him, I wanted to ensure he would come back to us, his family.
He was beyond reckless, always acting like he was invincible, unstoppable, unkillable, but no one really is, so he needed us, by his side, to help him.
“We have to leave tonight, I have gathered half of the bear squadron, and some of our men,” I smirked at her.
“Very well,” Lyanna smiled excitedly.
*Finally, we will be able to serve the vodkabringer,* One of the many armored bears coming with us growled, as soon the other growled in approval.
“Sometimes I feel they can understand me,” Lyanna added with a puzzled look on her face.
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Later that night, Lyanna and I left the house, being careful as to not be seen or hear, the men I had gathered were loyal to Ronard like everyone on the island, but unlike others, these would keep quiet, so that mother wouldn’t stop us.
“So you finally decide to leave?” The voice of my mother stopped me cold on my tracks as I was running through the forest.
She was standing against the tree with a mug of vodka on her left hand, and her weapon on her right, looking at us, with cold-blooded eyes for a brief yet long moment that seemed to last an eternity before she suddenly smiled, “Be sure to slap the brat for me,”
“He would dodge it,” I laughed as if the palpable tension that was a few minutes ago had never existed.
“Is the thought what counts,” Mother laughed, turning her gaze to Lyanna.
“I will go, you can’t stop me!” Lyanna said standing her ground, as if ready to fight her way out of this, knowing full well mother would give her the spanking of her life.
“I won,t” Mother laughed, so loud and fluidly that her mug was spilling vodka around as if leaking, “I killed my first men when I was your age, I learned how to fight before I even learned how to read, that is our way, Ronard made our island safer, but it wasn’t always like that, we the womens of bear island don’t standby as the men fight, we fight with them and we fight BETTER! So go out there and come back, or I will bring you back to life and kill you again for disobeying me!”
“Aye,” Lyanna smiled nodding.
“I will make sure she comes back,” I smiled.
“Aye, you better make sure we have the same amount of bears or more when you come back,” Mother laughed, as she moved out of the way, “I believe your crew is waiting.”
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[Renly Baratheon POV]
I had the Tyrells with me, and an army of one hundred thousand men, loyal to me, and yet, I was losing, my brother and the north refused to bend the knee for me, all I had was Loras, who firmly believe I was going to win.
I had to unite the seven kingdoms so that I could focus on getting rid of the menace that the lord of the bear islands had become.
“Why so tense,” Loras smirked, kissing me, “Do you have some tensions to release my king?”
“I do, but only their heads rolling would fix that,” I smirked at him, kissing him back, “Though, your body does wonders,”
“I know, and it’s all for you,” Loras said, and after that, I was engulfed in the fiery pit of pleasure.