chapter 5
298 ac
Viserys was woken up by the voice and right in front of him was the mouth of the cave, he didn't know how long he had been unconscious and the sun was almost setting. The voice kept calling for him and it was even louder than the last time he heard it, he suspected it was because he was close as the urge to go to it was also stronger.so he stood up, picked his supplies and walked into the cave. Due to his magic nature, he could traverse through the darkness since he could see like as if it was the day.it was one of the few perks he had due to his shadow magic other than shadow travel and intangibility, others were shadow storage and to mask his presence but this applied in dark areas. In the cave he could see bones of mostly people and what he assumed to be dragon bones. Some bones had fine armor and weapons on them and others were surrounded by chests some open with riches inside but it put him in a bad mood since he couldn't store them in his shadow, shadow travelling left him exhausted enough. Seeing all this he concluded that he was in Valyria and the bones were of those who tried to hide of whatever that caused its doom. He was brought out of his thoughts as the voice got louder and also the cave got brighter, wider and warmer.
He travelled through the cave as it got wider until he got to the place the images with egg had shown, and there it was, in all its glory, on the alter. He couldn't take his eyes of it and he unconsciously moved towards it till he stood in front of it. The heat generated from the lava didn't affect him in the least, the place just felt warm and if it were anyone else the heat would be unbearable. He picked a sharp stone from the ground and cut his arm and he let his blood fall on the egg, his body moved on its own as his thoughts were completely filled with egg and the voice was still calling out to him. When he recollected his thoughts he found himself holding the egg and he was confused on how he got there but now that he was here, the voice was gone and he felt complete. Suddenly his magic begun to be siphoned to the egg and he couldn't stop it ,the egg was sucking his magic dry and it angered him as he took a lot of time to gather it in his body .he started to lose his strength and couldn't stand straight, his vision became blurry and he passed out. At the same time, Daenerys set the pyre with her dead husband and dragon eggs together with the tied maegi on fire and walked into it. The remnants of the Khalasar thought her to be dead, only to find her the following morning naked with three cat-sized dragons with her, each with its own distinct colors. One was black with red markings, another was green with bronze markings and the last, was white with gold markings. Ser Jorah was awed by the sight, dragons had returned! This strengthened his belief that Daenerys was meant for the throne ,so he knelt as words escaped from his mouth," blood of my blood," he pledged his life for her and the other remnants followed in kneeling .
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Viserys was woken by something crawling on top him ,he willed himself to get up and as he was getting his bearings he came face to face with a cat-sized dragon.it was black as night with its scales shining from the dim light from the cave, it was beautiful. With its serpentine form it crawled towards him and stared at him with its mesmerizing ruby like eyes .he was brought out of his stupor when a voice said ,"kepa ,"in his head. He fell down on his arse and crawled away from it and asked in a surprised tone mixed with confusion," that voice in my head it was you?!....you can talk?!"
"Kepa ...Sven," the dragon answered as it nodded its head
"How is this possible…..wait you said Sven …how do you know that name….how I did get here….why am I here?" Viserys flooded the dragon with questions only for it to incline its head to the side indicating confusion.
"Hungry," it replied in High Valyrian
Viserys sighed and looked at it again, its cluelessness brought laughter to him as he thought it was cute. He picked it up and placed it on his shoulder.
"Judging by the voice in my head you should be female, hmmm, I'm going to name you Rhaellor after my mother," Viserys said as he scratched her chin. From his memories Viserys loved his mother and the name felt right even the Viserys (referring to the emotions of Viserys) in him agreed.
"Rhaellor Rhaellor!" Rhaellor the dragon repeated with enthusiasm in his head.
"You like it don't you? Now let's get us out of here and get you something to eat, LittleSam is going to be happy to see you, Daenerys would too," he said the last bit coming out more as a whisper in sad tone.
He traced his way back until he reached the bones when he decided to loot everything that was there from swords to armor to the treasure chests but he had one problem, how to take them back. His shadow acted as storage but it required magic, then it hit him, magic! He was so caught up with the dragon that he failed to notice the increase in magic around him. He speculated it was by his dragon as dragons were considered as magical creatures even in his original world; this was the trigger that the dormant source magic was waiting for! So he sat down and started meditating, the drawing of magic towards his body was much smoother and it boosted his abilities greatly.it took him a few hours to get his fill but he now he didn't need to meditate as his body drew in magic naturally at a steady pace. He quickly put the treasure in his shadow held Rhaellor tightly and shadow travelled back to Essos.
When he arrived the first thing that came to view was smoke , the he took off at full speed toward the old woman's house, the smell of blood and death filled the air, mostly from the village. He hoped to find the old woman and her grandson safe, he hoped that they hid somewhere during the chaos but reality was different .When he came near the house just at the door the body of the old woman lay, she was dead. Her clothes were ripped and her head had dried blood, an injury probably from falling. She had a stab wound just under the ribcage, the main cause for her death. He noticed the boy was nowhere to be seen so he looked around for him and after failing to find him, he went to the village hoping to find him there. The village was in a worse state, corpses were lying everywhere, some houses burnt to ashes and some the fire wasn't out yet indicating not long had passed since the raid. He didn't find any survivors meaning the ones missing must have taken to as slaves as the number of corpses didn't march with people he had seen in the village when he was around.
He went back to the old woman's house, prepared a pyre and burnt the old woman's body while vowing to find the boy. He caught some fish and tried to feed Rhaellor but she refused to eat it uncooked, he only realized it when he cooked for himself and Rhaellor snatched a piece from his hand to which he proceeded to feed her to her fill. Then he took the treasure out of his shadow to search for weapons that will help him when their need rises, to which he was sure, would arise. He found a long sword to his liking, it was valyrian steel sword, and he could feel the magic in it, the pommel had the head of a dragon and so was the cross guard and the fuller was red in color fading towards the edge. He also found a short sword, its hilt was made of dragon bone and the blade was black. There was a variety of armors but he preferred a leather armor as it suited him better for his sword skills mainly focus on speed. He geared up, returned the remaining treasure to his shadow and set off to track the attackers with Rhaellor on his shoulder making squealing sounds and hopefully save the boy if he was alive.
The group was obviously large as they had slaves that they had captured thus making their movement slow and left huge tracks so it was easy to locate them. A day later he found the culprits and it was a dothraki horde, with around seven thousand mounted warriors and they were setting camp .He couldn't search for the boy or attack during the day so he had to wait till nightfall for him to be in his specialty ,the shadows.