Chapter 11:- The Enemy From The North

Inside the Red Keep, in the throne room, we can see Rodrik sitting on the steps. In front of him were the Lords and Ladies of all the Great Houses. Only, not all of them were present in the room at all.

Representing House Lannister, Tywin Lannister was present with his brother Kevan Lannister.

Representing House Martell, Obryen Martell was present with his lover Ellaria Sand.

Representing House Tully, Hoster Tully was present with his brother Brynden Tully.

Representing House Arryn, Lysa Tully was present with her brother in law Ronnel Arryn.

Representing House Stark was none other than Rodrik himself and no one was with him at all.

The throne room was surrounded by his Shadow Army and he's confident that no one will be able to break into here at all.

Looking at all the Lord's, Rodrik said "I did say similar to Hour Of The Wolf, but not quite close. Cregan Stark did that for the Kingdom and his King. But I'm doing this for my family."

"So, why are we all here?" The Red Viper asked, he was one of the fearless ones present here.

Looking at Obryen, Rodrik smiled and said "The things I'm going to say will affect the entire Westeros and I wanted everyone to hear about it. But unfortunately, House Baratheon doesn't want that, both Stannis and Renly only want the scrap right behind me, and since the Reach support Renly they also didn't come."

Obryen chuckled at the jab to the Iron Throne.

Looking all too serious, Rodrik spoke "No. 7 bring him in and No. 8 hold Lysa Tully."

Before anyone could react, Lysa was pinned down with her mouth covered with a cloth. Seeing this, Hoster Tully roared out "What the hell---" But he couldn't finish his sentence as he felt a sharp edge on his neck and he heard Rodrik saying "You're Catelyn's Father, only because of that I will let you live, for now. There won't be a second time."

The room descended into silence as all of them thought that if he acts like that to someone close to him, then what will happen to others?

They didn't have to wait for too long as a No. 7 brought Peter Baelish, who was beaten to bloody pulp.

Standing up, Rodrik went towards Baelish and knocked on his head and said "Come on Pete, tell the truth now."

With a laboured breath Peter started to speak "I.... *gasp* planned... the death.... of... Jon..... Arryn." Hearing that almost everyone in the room gasped.

"How did you kill him?" Rodrik asked.

"I..... poisoned..... him.... with... Lysa."

When they heard that they all looked at Lysa Tully who had a wide eyed expression on her face.

When Peter spoke of Lysa's name, Rodrik started to speak.

"You see, Peter Baelish here, killed Jon Arryn while he was serving as the Hand Of The King. Now that is the problem of Westeros as a whole. But what he did after that is what really affected my family and I will tell you now." Looking at each of them he started to say "My nephew, Brandon Stark have become a cripple after an unfortunate fall." When he said this he looked directly at Tywin and continued "Someone had ordered an assassination on him, Catelyn found a dagger, asked Peter about it when she reached King's Landing, he answered her by saying that the dagger belonged to him but it was won by Tyrion in a gamble. Obviously he lied, he didn't lose the dagger to Tyrion, but to Robert." Then looking at Tywin and Hoster he said "Do you understand what I'm saying?"

Tywin nodded and said "He wanted the Starks and Lannisters to go to war against each other. Thanks to Catelyn Stark kidnapping my son I started to attack Riverrun."

Hoster didn't say anything as it looks like most of the problem originated from the ones he had close ties with.

Nodding at Tywin, Rodrik said "That's true. Do you know what his true plan was? He wanted the war to go on and when the time was right he wanted to be the Lord of Vale, Riverrun and the North. Now, you will be wondering how North is right? Well, he wanted to marry my niece Sansa as she looked similar to Catelyn and Vale will be in his control when he finishes off Lysa, after that if he plays his card right he would be the Lord of Riverrun too."

Looking at the shocked faces of Hoster Tully and Ronnel Arryn he said "Don't worry, he already had an elaborate plan to kill each of the successors."

Then looking at the rest he said "Now, there is another crime in his name, specifically taking gold from the Royal treasury. Well, I have confiscated it before coming here and have dumped it in the treasury. And believe me, the amount I bought had the capacity to pay off half the debt Westeros have with the Iron Bank."

As that was understood by everyone he continued, "Now, you might be asking is that all? Well it isn't." Then with all seriousness he said "I don't care what you do in the South from now on, the North will not be responding to any of the calls to come here. Even if it is to end a civil war, we won't be coming. And I expect to see a thousand soldiers to the wall by the end of the month."

"What? Why?" Ronnel asked.

"If you think that the greatest enemy of Westeros is in Essos, then I'm telling you you're wrong. An enemy far stronger than the Dragons of the past are marching on us from the North. Not the North that I rule from now on or the free folks beyond the wall. They come from the Land Of Always Winter. Our ancestors called them many names, the Others, the Cold Gods, the Cold Shadow, the White Shadow or the more famous one the White Walkers."

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