The rescue and the first real battle

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One week later Harrenhal

Tywin POV

"The King's plan is good, with twenty thousand men holding the Golden Tooth The Westerlands are off-limit for the rebels, and with the newly added forces of the Vale lead by House Royce, holding the Bloody Gate, the rebel forces are trapped in the Riverlands, so either they can march here or retreat North which we know they won't do" Lord Tarly was right, now we only need to wait for them to march here and face their death.

"Even still, I am worried they manage to get into the Reach, which would leave us without enough food" hearing Kevan speak I decide to add "That is why Lord Renly is heading towards Tumbleton with fifteen thousand, with five thousand of them near the villages" hearing me everybody present nods, next to speak was Ser Axel Florent "The real problem lies with the houses from the Crownlands who decided to side with the Greyjoy's in return for them keeping their heads, and with the other half of the Reach forces led by Lord Stannis dealing with the Iron born raiding the coasts of the Reach and Westerlands, the only force available to assist the King are the Stormlord's who have no current leader, and Dorne who would take to long to get there, especially with the Dornish Lord's just arriving in their lands".

"Then we can only hope that the King leads the Stormlander forces to deal with the rebels in the Crownlands, the men will fight better with their King alongside them" Tygett was right, it was time the King proved himself in battle after all skirmishes with bandits couldn't compare to real war.

--- Same Time Riverlands

Nymeria POV

"The Riverlands are horrible" Tyene was right, ever since their father told them to rescue the kingslayer all she could think about was how they were supposed to bring him to the capital safely, not just because of the war, but because they couldn't harm him, even if his family was responsible for aunt Ellia's death, but still father said the King would reward them generously for his uncle's safe return.

"So how are we supposed to infiltrate an enemy camp in which everybody would recognize us as Dornishwoman?" as always Obara had a good point, their skin color and accent would give them away, so I decided to voice my plan, "I say we sneak in as foreign cooks from one f the free cities, once that is done we scout the place for the Kingslayer's location, after that we merely wait until nightfall and sneak him out", thinking of something Obara asks "And if the guards don't let us in?" and as always Tyene comes up with a solution involving her favorite thing "Its like aunt Ellaria always says, *A woman's greatest weapon is between her legs*, I say we listen to her advice" she finished with a small giggle, and that's a solution I can agree on.

--- A few hours later, Stark Camp, Same POV

The plan went perfectly, the guards let us through, although they were a bit suspicious about our weapons we just told them it was for our safety, and seeing as how they didn't consider three women a threat, they let us through.

Once we entered, we were given a tent near the other cooks, now that we were settled in we left towards the spot the cooks were working at.

Thankfully no one important person came near us to ask for food so we were still safe.

After a few more hours of work, Tyene was able to take a break from serving so she could go and find our intended target, which was what Tyene was telling us about "So after a few minutes of wandering around I was able to spot him in a wooden cell near the edges of the camp, something stupid if you ask me anyone could sneak through the forest and free him, he's also guarded by two men one of them was addressed as Lord Harrion, so I assume he is the son of Lord Karstark, and heir to Karhold" humming at that Obara proposes her plan "I say we keep up the act of servants, with this role we take some drugged food to the guards and once they fall unconscious, we set the kingslayer free and take him with us, while adding a fake trail to hide our route of escape" a plan to which both I and Tyene agree on.

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"My Lords, his grace has asked me to bring you some dinner" hearing me both of the men guarding the kingslayer turn towards me and the food tray I was carrying, smiling one of them thanked me "Thank you beautiful we will be sure to thank his grace for this" finishing that both of them grab a piece of bread from the tray and eat it, and after a few seconds, they fell face-first on the ground making me smile.

Coming out of their hiding both me and my sisters start searching the guards bodies trying to find a key, one which Tyene finds, so walking towards the cell she opens it, hearing the noises the kingslayer wakes up "Who are you?, I've never seen you around" hearing him I reply "My name is Nymeria and these are my sisters Obara and Tyene, we are the daughters of prince Oberyn Martell, and we are here at the Kings request to set you free and take you back to that stinking shit pile of a city" smiling at that he answered me "I see my nephew still worries about me how sweet of him, tell me were you able to grab my sword?, my father would probably kill me if he sees me returning without it" to that Obara hands the sword to the newly unshackled prisoner, before he could say anymore I tell him "Stop talking, we are not interested in you, only the reward we are getting after this, so do please shut up I'd hate to be executed for accidentally poisoning you" hearing that he merely smirks, a smirk that made me and my sisters angry.

--- A few days later

Stefan POV

Currently, I was marching alongside six thousand men including Ser Barristan, Ser Robar, Ser Balon, Ser Arron, Gendry, and Sandor, our destination being Stonedance, we were heading there due to the treason of house Massey in joining the Iron born, 'I currently have five kingdoms while the Iron born just had one, how could someone be so stupid as to side with a losing side' even though I wanted to leave them alone until the Iron born were defeated and the capital wasn't in any risk.

Surprisingly it was Pycelle that advised that I deal with these minor houses now instead of letting them gain some more strength and eventually join with the Iron born, say whatever you want about the Grand Maester but he was wise.

Before I could immerse myself more in the reasons for being here, I was able to spot the walls of Stonedance.

After we got to a distance where the siege would be most effective I started giving orders "Lord Buckler start setting up camp, and have the engineers start preparing the siege engines, I along with my guards and Gendry will go ahead and try to negotiate with them" once the orders were given I started doing my assigned task as well.

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Just as I expected Lord Massey didn't agree to my demands, his pride wouldn't allow it, so once I returned to camp I started waiting for the siege weapons to be ready.

Once all of the preparations were made, and everyone was in formation, I looked towards my men easily seeing how most of them were a nervous wreck, so I decided to be a King and inspire my men instead of a commander who merely sent them towards their death, so I turned to face the army "Soldiers, the men we are going to fight are men that have sided with the enemy, an enemy who would rape your wives and daughters and slaughter your children, just for their entertainment, and the men behind those walls <points to the castle with the Warhammer> are men who would allow this without care, so come with me and let's make sure our families are safe!" seeing how every man in sight became inspired I lowered my visor and started charging towards the castle giving out a war cry "¡OURS IS THE FURY!" a cry that everyone repeated.

Before I could reach the gates, we started getting bombarded with arrows, making the spearmen get in front and raise their shields on top making the enemy arrows harmless, "¡CATAPULTS AND ARCHERS FIRE!" at my order soldiers started repeating it until the catapults and archers did as told and then the only thing I could see were boulders being flung at the wall and arrows landing on either enemies or the wall itself.

The moment I reached the gate I gave the order for the men operating the battering ram to do their job.

And after a few minutes of the gate being hit, it finally fell allowing for me and the rest of the army excluding those climbing the walls, to enter the castle, and unlike the ill-prepared bandits I've faced before the men I was fighting now were armored making it somewhat harder to kill, but they still fell before me.

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After about an hour of battle, we had won, losing men in the process, but still winning, instead of the battle ending with a surrender from Lord Massey it ended when both he and his son were slain by Ser Barristan proving how despite his old age he was still the best fighter in the kingdoms alongside my uncle, "The battle is won your grace, you should rest I can handle things from here" hearing Lord Buckler I nodded heading to one of the rooms in the Keep to rest, smiling all the way there.

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Authors note:

I hope you all liked the fact that the Sand Snakes rescued Jaime since Brienne couldn't in this fic seeing as how she's in Stefan's service.

So this concludes Stefan's first real battle, I hope you liked it, and sorry if the speech was a bit clingy, I'm just a regular guy, not a motivational speaker.

I used Grammarly for this chapter so I hope the quality improves

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