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Chapter 8 - ch 8: I.., I submit!.

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"Rawghhhh!", the Wendigo stood up fully, it's arms raised in the air, it's screeching loud, the crows above the group started swirling around them, like a tornado.

Arthur's breathing quickened, not from fear, but excitement, "so we got more than dragon's in this world, well it makes sense, perhaps there's a Witcher in this world as well".

After muttering to himself, he turned to the other's to see if they were okay, after finding out they were fine, he went back to his combat stance.

The group waited for the Wendigo to make it's attack, but nothing happened, instead the creature looked up towards the sky as if it sensed something.

'Boom!'

Not far from them was a giant black dragon, it's body pulsating a red hue, as if it's entire body was a mass of magic and energy.

The Wendigo screeched loudly at the dragon for interrupting it's dinner, but the dragon didn't care, it raised it's giant palm and swatted the Wendigo into a pile of mush.

The animals all around shook their heads after the Wendigo died, however the crows chose to flee the moment they woke up from being controlled.

As for the animals, they stared intently at Arthur, before sitting on the ground, the dragon saw this and he sneered to himself.

"Boy!, I've come for you!..", Arthur hearing this frowned and spoke to himself, [is this that old man's magic, I seem to understand it's word's, but since when did dragon's start speaking.]

"You guy's get out of here, since this thing is here for me..", he turned back to face the menacing appearance of the creature before him and continued, "you won't attack them right!".

The dragon lifted it's head slightly and smiled, "if they want to get involved in this, then their only option is death".

"We're not leaving you!, this.., even if this thing is a God, we're staying!..", Thors, looked between the group, especially the one that just shouted, he raised his hand and chopped at her neck.

"We'll be close by, we won't leave you alone", Arthur nodded, "good, I wanna know why stuff like this keeps happening", he was deeply interested in why this is even happening to begin with.

Afterall dragon's shouldn't be able to pass the great wall, the giant watched as the group behind Arthur ran away, turning his attention back to Arthur, it gazed at him as if it understood what he was thinking.

"If you're wondering how I passed the wall, it's simple..., we ancient dragon's have a pact, we're not to pass into eachothers territory, it just so happens.., that the one in this region has died some time ago".

Arthur nodded, he was about to ask why it keeps hissing in between words, but he shook the sudden thought aside, "alright, mind telling me about why you came here".

It pointed it's giant finger towards him and a dark black aura spread out, "you!.., I came to see you!, to see if you're worthy of that blood!".

Arthur raised his sword while gritting his teeth, the black aura kept pushing towards him, trying to envelop his body within it.

It was like he was on a mountain facing a heavy storm, the black aura kept pushing towards him, almost like it was trying to devour him.

He raised his arm with difficulty and lifted up the blade, he was almost obliterated, he didn't know it, but that movement he did reflected the mist into the sky.

"Impressive, most Dragon Lord's would be dead from that attack!, mmm..", he saw a glint of of silver and blue glowing brightly, it was coming directly towards his throat.

"Damn human scum!, do you think this will work!..", the Dragon's pupils constricted, it's throat, even though it dodged the slash, he could feel a slight cold feeling.

He looked down and saw its own blood dripping down onto the charred snow, "this..!", his hand went to his throat, feeling the hot magma like blood on his hand and he instantly became enraged.

"Agh!, human!, I'll kill you!", he turned to the place he had last seen the blue light, only to see nothing there.

The dragon was stunned, but the air around it suddenly started vibrating, he looked up and saw the blue light coming down towards him like a scythe of death.

Narrowingly dodging the light, he felt the ground around it shifting constantly, he flew up into the air, only to see the blade coming back like a magnet, "what?!".

Arthur was on his back and he shouted at this moment, "stay on the ground!", the black dragon was about to roar loudly, then out of nowhere, he felt a sudden force slamming down onto the back of his head.

He almost bit off his tongue, his mind was spinning and due to this, he stopped flying and started plummeting to the ground.

The sword whizzed straight through it's wing back into Arthur's hand.

The dragon instantly felt even more pain, until he slammed into the ground skidding across the dirt.

Arthur raised his blade and just as the blade was about to land a clean slash, the dragon roared loudly again.

"I.., I submit!", Arthur's blade stopped just millimeters away from the Dragon's neck, he showed a confused expression and couldn't help but ask.

"After attacking me out of the blue, you wanna surrender, what bullshit!..", he shook Arthur off of his back and lay upside down, Arthur's mouth opened slightly, but no words came out.

The dragon turned it's head slightly worrying if this wasn't enough, "are.. are you not satisfied?".

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Westeros, tower of joy.

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Within the building, Arthur Dayne and his sister were in the castle alongside several other Knight's, soon there was crying coming from a room Arthur was stationed at.

He took his helmet off and slowly opened the door, "sister!", his word's were cut short when he saw the blood on the bed, he turned to the midwife blankly and the midwife shook her head.

Arthur Dayne fell to the ground staring at his hands, "wahh!.. wahh!", after hearing this sound, he looked up and saw a child in the midwives arms.

"This child, she is.., your sister's child, she named her Dany, Daenerys", he shot up from the ground and ran towards the woman.

Just stopping in front of her, he looked down at the child, "she.., she's beautiful, she has his eyes, but, she has my sister's face", he looked at the midwife with meaning and she nodded.

Passing the child over to him, he quickly turned to face his sister's dead body, "burn.., burn her, I want her ashes sent to dorne, she deserves to be with her people".

He walked over to the door and did a quick hand gesture over his throat to his trusted knights, they understood and walked into the room when Arthur left.

When he left the tower, he saw Rhaegar Targaryen jumping off of his horse, like he had just got here, "Ser Dayne, where..?", his word's paused when he saw the child in his arms.

The two just stared at eachother for a long time, "no.., you're lying!, she isn't..", "your grace!, this is Daenerys, you're daughter".

Rhaegar paused, he slowly walked over and stared down at the girl, his breath was caught in his lungs and quickly turned away, "take.., take her to my mother, she'll.., she'll look after her".

Arthur frowned upon hearing this, but he nodded and made his way over to a few servants.

Rhaegar watched as he walked away, his face frowning with a serious expression, "she's a princess, where's the prince that was promised, is it another person".

He shook his head and went inside the tower of joy, [me and mother have already had a conversation about this matter, if it was a boy, I'd take him to essos with me, but if it was a girl, my mother would take her as her own child.]

His feet stopped when he entered the castle, "Varys, where the hell did you go", he had found out that very morning, that Varys had disappeared without saying anything or leaving a letter behind.

It made him rush to the tower of joy in a hurry, for fear he knew about this matter, of a bastard being born.

Of course Varys knew about this, but he found this news bothersome, not worth the effort of spilling.

Meanwhile Varys was on a ship heading towards essos.

"Illyrio, how is my sister, I hope she is fairing well", Illyrio smiled, sat down by his side and passed him a cup of wine.

"She's doing good, I am indeed curious as to why you want to travel North after this though", Varys chuckled and said nothing else, but he did say something that shook Illyrio slightly.

"It concerns my houses survival", Illyrio's smile stiffened and he became serious, "do you want me to send my own men with you, on your way to the North".

"There's no need, I'm afraid if that person sees you, he may kill you or any other sell sword, on the spot, if you'd to appear".

Illyrio went into deep thought as he drank his own wine, [to think there were other Blackfyre offspring, no wonder the gold company is throwing a party back home.]

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Back to Arthur.

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He was leaning on his sword as he smiled at the black dragon, "interesting, so you have the ability to control darkness, and absorb life force, no wonder you've lived for so long".

"Since.., since I've submitted, can I stand now", Arthur narrowed his eyes on the dragon, causing it's breath to get stuck in it's lung's.

"What's your name?", "it's Mergther, my father gave me this name", "okay then, Mergther, from now on, follow me, no, the question is, will you follow me".

The dragon swallowed hard, Arthur could see it's fear against him, "I'll.., I'll follow you".

"Good, I've three offspring that are in need of hatching, I'll use my blood and you will use yours".

"Of.., of course", "you can stand now", the dragon nodded and slowly rose from the ground, as he slowly rose, he saw Arthur jump on it's head effortlessly.

[Is he really human, he just jumped 30 foot.]

"Take me to my brother's, we'll head back home, or to your new home".

The dragon and Arthur made their way towards the group in the distance, "let's head back home!..", he looked down at Mergther and spoke to him.

"You don't mind them climbing onto you and heading back home right?", "no.. no, of course not".

It dropped down and made it easier for the people below to climb it, "come, we're taking a ride back".

Ragnar and the other's had blank expressions, Thorkell however started laughing loudly, it almost woke up the passed out Eivor, "hahahaha!, alright!, let's go boy's".

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Ancient Dragon's appearance.

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