Chapter 28 (Knowledge is power)
At Dorne inside the Water Gardens, you can watch the arrival of many Lords, like Lord Stannis Baratheon with his guards and followers. On the other side, Lord Renly Baratheon and his guards with House Tyrell. House Martell was of course there because they are the hosts of this party.
"I never expected Dorn to be so happy hosting us of House Tyrell and House Baratheon. Well considering what happened in the past." Lady Olenna Tyrell said strangely. Waiting to hear the answer as she stared at Prince Doran Martell.
Prince Oberyn Martell spoke in place of his brother, Prince Doran Martell, and said with a smile, "King John is a friend of House Martell. We can't say no to such a request as this."
"Really, then why don't I see your friend here?" Lady Olenna said with a faint smile
"He messaged me that he wanted to check out some of his territory here." Prince Oberyn replied with a smile
"You mean he owns land here in Dorne and I didn't know about it?!?" Lady Olenna said.
"No, of course not, I mean The Stepstones." Prince Oberyn said.
Everyone was shocked to hear this. They all knew how difficult it was to attack or even capture these contested lands. This of course confirmed some of Lady Olenna's ideas about John as someone with a power[a] to hide from everyone.
"So, my brother, why is the deer in your flag surrounded by fire? Lord Renly said as he tried to change the subject while looking at his brother smiling.
"The King takes the fire of the Lord of Light in his emblem." Melisandre replied.
"So that's the reason why you converted, brother, I can see why now. Lord Renly was smiling as he stared at Melisandre's beautiful body.
"You should kneel in front of your brother, he is the chosen one." Melisandre said, as if she was ordering him to do so.
Hearing this, Lord Renly laughed. After a while he stopped laughing, and changed his expression to seriousness. Then stated to Lord Stannis, "No one wants you to be King. You, my dear brother, also never wanted any friends, and a man without friends is a man without strength." When Lord Renly finished, everyone heard someone applauding from afar. Of course it was King John Black.
Now everyone was staring at King John. Assessing the person who could stop the war, and of course to his seven guards beside him. Also with the new group was a strange person wearing a mask that covered his face in black and at the top of the middle of the mask there was also the Black Family crest, a red skull with strange hands.
"Sorry my friends for being late." King John stated. King John then sat in front of the assembled false Kings, Princes, Lords, and Ladies. His guards were standing behind him. Lord Loras Tyrell was able to identify one of them as the person who rescued him from the Mountain and killed him, and now Lord Loras can see his savior with six other people of the same size. Lord Loras can't say he is not afraid of them.
"So you are Lord Black." and Lady Olenna said, assessing King John with her eyes. He was a young man with a body that would make even the Baratheons ashamed of themselves, and of course those sharp eyes.
"I am glad that I met you, Lady Olenna, but I want to speak first with the witch." King John turned his eyes to Melisandre and said to her: "So, has your master told you about me?"
Melisandre stared at John and said, "Why would the Lord of Light tell me about you?"
"Well, why don't you go to those fires and maybe you'll know." King John said to her
Melisandre moved and looked at the flames and was shocked at what she saw. She stared once again at King John and said, "You are the real chosen one. You are the one who will save us all from the long night."
Lord Stannis was now angry when he heard him, and stood up from his seat and yelled at her angrily, "You bitch, what do you say?"
King John smiled at Melisandre and said to her, "Then you will serve me, will you not, and pledge allegiance to me?"
"Yes, sir, I will serve you with my life, whatever you desire." said Melisandre with a big smile.
"Good if you come here." King John ordered her. When Melisandre went to him he said to her, "I want you to die for me." With a quick movement he pulled out his sword and then a piece of her head fell onto the ground. The assembled crowd looked at this scene with shocked looks.
Her corpse quickly turned into a very old body, and it was a sight that made everyone nauseous.
Even Lord Stannis was shocked that he had persuaded him to sleep with her the day before so that he could kill Lord Renly. Fortunately, he didn't because he didn't want to do anything before he heard his brother's words first.
"Well let's get to our important topic now." stated King John. He looked at Lady Olenna and said to her, "I want to marry your granddaughter." When King John finished his words everyone was amazed especially Lady Margaery and even Lord Renly.
"And why would I do that? My granddaughter is already married." Replies Lady Olenna and looks at King John with a suspicious expression.
"Yes, if you meant your grandson Lord Loras, I would have believed it," said King John, smiling, and of course Lord Renly's expression turned black.
"How dare you slander me?" said Lord Renly, after reaching his limits.
Everyone knew these rumors, but no one believed them. King John said to Lady Olenna, "Do you want your granddaughter to become like Cersei, a marriage without love, especially from someone who loves her brother more than her?"
Lady Olenna frowned because she knew that fact and wanted her granddaughter to become the Queen at any cost. But after King John's words, she thought of different things and was not happy with her conclusion in the end.
"And how will you make her a Queen? For I know that the North has twenty thousand soldiers, and also you are engaged to the daughter of Stark. You do not even have a right to claim the Iron Throne." said Lady Olenna.
"Well yes I don't have the right but my fiancée does." King John said
"You're telling me Stark's daughter is a Targaryen?" Lady Olenna said mockly at King John.
"No, I didn't mean her, I meant my other fiancée, Daenerys Targaryen, daughter of King Aerys." said King John with a wide smile.
Everyone was shocked to hear that. Only some rumors arrived about the Meereen Queen Daenerys Targaryen and how she conquered the Free Cities with her army made up of the famous Astapor unsullied slaves and the second son's mercenary company.
Little was known about Queen Daenerys other than that she conquered Astapor, Yunkai, and Meereen, thus occupying Slavers bay under her hands and she is also the holder of the greatest legal right for the Iron Throne among all the 'Kings'.
And if King John could marry her, he would have no problems with the right to take the throne either.
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Note from the editor
[EN: Sorry for the lateness of the chapter, dear readers. Life happens and so you deal with it. For those interested, I'm nowhere near a professional level editor. Just like reading fanfics. I barely passed English and unfortunately, English is my only language. I'm working on punctuation and run-on sentences currently. Hopefully I will get good enough to edit so you have all past tense verbiage eventually. Just don't count on it. Anyways, another chapter to work on next so see you lot soon!!! P.S. any help you wanna give in the paragraph commits, I will read to improve my speed. Spent 5 hours overall just for this single chapter.]