Ch.28

With a bit of luck and some preparations, I was reborn in the land of Westeros next. I swapped my body for my Furyan one and fixed my eyes after a fashion so I could see in both perceptions of color without the goggles or pain. The color of my eyes remained the same silvery glow in the light and my body itself underwent an age reversal up to a point. That being my body was around twenty when the war of the mad king began.

I'd warned my knighthood and the house of Fury under the mad king in the neck of the world as they called it. I'd taken over Moat Cailin under the Warden of the North before the war began and my sigil was the Hellhound which I had hundreds of roaming the swamplands of the neck. I'd rebuilt and reinforced the castle with Sword and Bone who'd been able to come out due to the thin veil of magic in the world.

Eve, Dolls and the rest wanted to sit this one out because they didn't like old castle primitive worlds. I built up an army and joined Robbert and Eddard on the battlefield as a noble and strong house. My eyes unnerved Robert while seeing my Hellhounds obey and attack an army, losing only a handful as we tore apart the mad king's army, earned their respect. Old Sword and Bone used the war to shake off the dust and slaughter a bunch of fools with me.

When we found the Lannister with the dead king, it was Eddard, Robert and myself who'd found him. I could've taken the throne then and neither whom I'd fought beside for the past couple years would've argued. Still, I held my peace and left only after telling Robert to sit lightly or one of the southern swords my poke him in the ass. He laughed and the mood lightened a bit.

I sent my men to get the wildfire the alchemist guild had and bring it to the neck. I sealed it all away as Robert ascended the throne. My lands were bequeathed at Robert's behest to include the whole neck from the Twins to Moat Cailin. I built a king's road through the neck and warned the world my hellhounds roamed my lands eating the giant water lizards that looked like prehistoric crocodiles so they'd be safer on the king's road.

I told Robert that while I can control them enough at war, where they bred and slept, it was best not to push the beasts. I told him that besides them, he knew the neck was filled with wild animals so the road was the safest, but it wasn't always safe even if the hellhounds stayed away from it. He'd used the road a few times over the years, enjoying the comforts and whores that stayed around Moat Cailin.

From good wine to plentiful food and whores, my stronghold was his favorite part about the voyages north. Villages and towns of my loyal soldiers and civilians existed along the southern part of the moat wall I'd built of spelled steel, iron and stone. A kingdom in the wetlands they called it and they weren't far off as vast cities had been built Helmsdeep style. On the northern side, I'd built a towering city exactly like Minas Tirith with layered walls.

It was finished by the time I met Ros new to the whore house in Winterfell fresh from laying the last magic reinforced brick. I asked if she'd like to be one of my many women in my harem, protected, clothed in the finest silks and only fucking me or my other women of which she was the first. She agreed happily after I'd fucked her tired the first time. Robert was jealous of the city and I suggested he had one built like it in the south.

He agreed that he just might replace the shit smell of king's landing with such a marvel to be his legacy. He asked how I could afford it and I told him I mounded and built the whole thing, walls included, by hand over the last eighteen years while he was whoring in the south. Cersei Lannister, the queen and his wife by political marriage, said it was a thing of beauty like Helms Deep.

I'd left their names the same and thanked her for the complement, saying I'd built them with military strategy in mind. Robert said he could see that from the thin guard lineup on duty. I grunted, saying the wildlings and even the iron islands had been far more active than I'd anticipated so I built safe havens for my people. I gestured to the happy and clean commoners who bowed deeply and politely, telling Robert. "Give them a house and they'll thank you. Give them a city of safety, food and clean water and they'll worship you. I swear I've had to break up dozens of religious believers saying I was some dumb cunt of an old god made flesh to bless them."

Cersei raised an eyebrow. "That's right, rumor is you believe in no god."

I shook my head. "I believe they all exist and I believe they're all too busy with their own shit to give a fuck what happens to us. Only fools think gods have nothing better to do than improve their lives for them. If that were the case the mad king would've never gone bloody mad."

Robert huffed a laugh and agreed while I told them. "These are your lands Robert and your city. I'm merely a custodian and guard keeping them clean and safe. Stay and feast, fuck and be merry but you'll have to excuse me, I've more work to do and I'm no southern lord who can do nothing and still call it work."

He agreed and laughed while I told him I'd be at the banquet tonight, but until then I had the king's justice to meet out on some would be rapists, deserters from the wall and the latest raiders from the ports I'd built on both sides of the neck. He waved me off and I got back to work. From there it was a busy day and an even busier night thanks to Cersei coming to me while Robert was in a wine, food and sex induced coma.

She didn't have Jamie at her side this trip so she wanted to fuck and fuck we did. By morning I'd used her cunt so much it was practically in the shape of my cock all permanent like. She'd woken me up to sucking me off and swallowed before thanking me and warning me Robert would kill us both if he found out, but every time she came my way, she'd have her fun because she was my queen. I filled her cunt in the shower and yes, my kingdom had advanced plumbing.

She left through a secret back passage and by my directions she made it to her rooms with ease or as easy as a well fucked and stuffed woman could. Ros came out of the harem room and said she'd had quite the show before asking me to fuck her like that. I did just that before starting my busy days like usual. I ended up catching Yara of the Iron Islands a year later.

I fought her and when I won, she didn't fight when I fucked her repeatedly for a full three days. I sent her back to the Iron Islands with a bastard in her womb and knowledge that I'd make her pay the white price each time k caught her on my lands. It became a game for her and she even squirted out the bastard less than a year later, leaving it on my lands with my eyes. The girl was raised by maids and Yara didn't get away easily because I'd caught her again, having my way with her and making sure she paid the price for entering my lands again.

She was more than willing and even Ros enjoyed her for a time. After Yara went back to the Iron Islands expecting again, I headed to Kings Landing with Ros while old Sword and Bone watched over the cities that all the townspeople and villagers had moved into. In Kings Landing, I walked the streets with four Hellhounds that snarled and snorted because of the smell. I could see Robert hadn't started building a better city so I visited Little Finger's brothels and took all the best starting with Armeca, Marei, Kayla and Genna who all agreed to join my harem of sorts.

They especially loved not having to work anymore and when Ros showed them the silks she wore, they were sold. I paid Little Finger and told him I'd take as many of them as I'd like or he'd be a chew toy for my pets. The hellhounds growled from the corner and he backed off. I greeted and paid my respects to Robert and he held a feast he really couldn't afford.

I whistled when he asked what brought the visit on. Chests were brought in and they were set at the floor before him. They were opened up and silver, gold and gems sparkles. "I've had the time of late to scour the neck and I've found several pockets of riches. I've heard the crown is in debt and decided to do my duty as guardian of the neck to help my king and friend. There are a few carts, all in all about twenty million gold dragons worth."

I bowed lightly and told him while he smiled. "I must apologize that there isn't more, but I've only just begun the search and the wildlife isn't hospitable to others who don't have an animal's instincts for survival so it's only myself mining and finding the pockets."

He waved it off and laughed joyously, saying it was cause for a celebration. He chuckled and sighed at the feast, telling me of his newest child and one with his black hair this time with the queen. He named him prince Tagus, the third in line prince. I congratulated him and bemoaned not bringing him something special.

He said the funny thing was that the kid had eyes like my own and my guards. I grunted and told him it was in the water and their constant trips and long stays to Minas Tirith was likely the cause. I told him all the children born in Minas Tirith and Helms Deep have those eyes. Chuckling, I told him he must've conceived the child in the neck.

He thought it over and agreed slowly when the court scholar said such a phenomenon was highly likely since they'd looked into it since the prince's birth. I grunted and told him the new prince would see better at night like myself and my hellhounds, but could see just fine during the daylight. It really was true, though I'd put the spell on the neck itself so any child conceived or born there shared my gift. Many children in the cities I owned had eyes like mine and even some of the younger guards and soldiers I personally trained.

Robert said he didn't know if it was a blessing or a curse. I shrugged and enjoyed the feast, unafraid of Robert finding out. He told me honestly he'd thought I'd fucked the queen at first and was ready to have my head. I waved it off and told him to spend some time in the neck and see for himself.

I gestured to the money and told him I personally think it comes from the silver particles in the water, but it was his lands and he was free to take my head if it pleases him or even slightly tickled his fancy. Cersei asked if I had no regard for death and I grunted, telling her I was born a no named street rat with the life expectancy of one thanks to having been left to survive at birth in the neck alone. I told her the hellhounds raised me and in nature, death was as natural as breathing so no, I feared nothing and no one.

I fed the hellhounds at my feet and we watched them tear at each other before splitting the meat. They went and laid down while the strongest and biggest had the most. I reached down and took it, causing the hellhound to growl. A deep growl vibrated my chest and after a few seconds, it laid back down.

I tossed the meat back to it having proved my point. Joffrey said they were dumb beasts and the four of them all stood up growling at him. I looked to the crown prince and told him. "All living things are animals. Just because we walk on two legs doesn't mean we aren't apart of nature. Put a starving man in a cage with a hellhound and he'll fight for the food just as much as the hellhound. Calling a beast that eats men dumb and is smart enough to know you're insulting it however, is about as dumb as any human gets."

I snapped my fingers and the four vibrant red hellhounds calmed down and looked to me before turning back to coal black. Their scales laid flat and they laid back down while Robert told Joffrey never to insult a hellhound or a Furyan from the neck because while we may look human, we are animals of war land no one does war like a Furyan or a hellhound. He chuckled and told him he'd seen a hundred of hellhound slaughter thousands of trained soldiers and eat them out of their armor.

He told Joffrey he'd seen me kill hundreds of men barehanded without wearing armor and come out unscathed. Sighing, he told the boy. "Out of all the warriors I've fought beside or seen fought, the only one that ever gave me pause was Ren Fury. He's a bloody animal made for war."

I huffed. "As if your big ass war hammer was a toy. Don't tell tall tales Robert, you were no damsel in distress swinging that large ass hammer around and turning men's skulls into mush."

He chuckled and sighed. "Look at me now though."

I grunted. "It's the damned throne. You should spend some time in the neck and find that animal side of you again. At the very least you wouldn't be fat anymore."

He chuckled with me before saying after a bit that he couldn't leave the kingdom unattended that long. I grunted. "And now you know why I didn't and will never take the throne. The damned thing lulls seasoned warriors into a false sense of peace and only brings headaches. It already looks painful to sit on. I'd rather be dead than in your position."

He grunted and cursed me while I smirked. I suggested we get Ned to sit on it while we go wild again. He chuckled at the thought and burst into full grown laughter. We both laughed at poor Ned sitting on the throne growing fat and bald from all the petty concerns and schemes.

He soon got drunk and took three whores from Little Finger's remaining brothel that came to the party. Soon he was quite loud and Jamie Lannister was forced to listen to it all as he was stationed at the king's door all night. I however was not forced to listen to it and instead was balls deep in Cersei while I made sure no one knew with magic. I fucked her into her pillows and got us both off repeatedly before leaving once she was fully stuffed.

She told me Prince Tagus was my son and hers. I told her that it was more likely it was Roberts because I wasn't lying when I said the children of the neck all had eyes like mine. She put my hand to her breasts and told me it was my child and she wouldn't for a second believe it was Robert's. I shrugged and she rolled over, telling me to fuck her from behind like the animal I was. When it was over, she spread her legs and told me that just like that seed was mine, so was Tagus and any child she conceived next.

I took her one last time while she lay on her back and her breasts bounced telling me to give her another of my children. I can't say I didn't try and damned if I wasn't feeling great when I returned to my new harem in my private quarters. The next morning, I caught a ship to Braavos and picked up more whores before heading to Lys. I ended up with many including Doreah who wished to be apart of my harem.

I paid well for them all and headed to Volantis, getting Clea and a few more. Then it was to Slavers Bay where I picked up a Yunkai'i whore I recognized from the show. She and a few others were the last of those I took with me across the seas to the port of the neck I'd built. There we were soon in Moat Cailin before entering Minas Tirith.

They soon lived the high life as my harem and when I wasn't training men, handling matters or mining and finding things, they served me well. Ros kept them in line and every night six of them served me in rotation. Armeca loved to suck me off most mornings to wake me while my others watched and roused. I'd spend two hours each morning making sure every female in my harem got off to a great start.

The five famous for dressing up as the goddesses were all amongst my harem and all of them lived and loved their lives. Money, safety, clean and expensive everything, they lived like a harem of queens. Most hid when Robert came through a couple months later, headed to see Ned about the Hand of the King position. Cersei wasn't pregnant again so I did my duty and fucked her well when she stopped by.

Jamie Lannister knew I'd fucked his sister and kept his mouth closed because he was fucking her as well. I hardly cared and threw a proper feast while my harem stayed away in their rooms, safe from Robert and safe Cersei's manipulations. Instead plenty of whores from the city entertained Robert while I was balls deep in the queen. I may have respected the warrior, but he wasn't the warrior I remembered so when his wife demanded I fuck her, fuck her I did.

Still, Robert got to see the many children running around the city happily with silver like eyes. He was more than happy when the proof was evident in many of the new guards as well. I told him of my bastard with the fishwife of the iron islands and showed him the little girl being raised by nursemaids. I told her I caught Yara, the daughter of the lord of the iron islands, running tactics against my port so I'd killed her men and made her pay the white price.

I told him while he laughed that she'd tried to abandon the child on my lands so I'd caught her again and let her go a few days before I'd made my trip south. I told him there was about a million crowns waiting if he'd like to take it with him when he returns to the south. He agreed and we watched from the walls of Helms Deep as a pack of Hellhounds brought down a giant land croc. He smiled saying they were just as vicious as he remembered them.

I grunted and patted his shoulder saying the wolf was in all of us and all he had to do was find it again. I asked him to stay and get strong again to go back south as he once was and tell the southern lords to fuck off while showing them strength. He sighed and shook his head, saying his hands were tied. I grunted and we went inside while Joffrey watched the savage sight of the giant croc being torn apart with a sick satisfied smile.

At the feast he told me to teach him to control the hellhounds of the neck. I grunted and told him I don't even control them, I just lead them and they follow. I shrugged saying it was an animal thing and the first step was having the same eyes and animal instincts they had. I gestured to my guards and told him my men all had one or two parts of that equation already as some of the younger ones had the wild in them and the eyes to boot.

I told him I don't control my men either, I lead them and they follow because I'm the strongest of them. Gregor Clegane called it horse shit and I chuckled, asking if he'd like to fight me and find out. Robert sobered up and asked me not to because it was hard to find good guards with the Mountain's strength unless I wanted to take his place. I huffed and told him I'd pass because I'd done my time as a chore boy.

I watched as the little prince and princess played with the hellhound pups. When Joffrey tried to kick one, a guard stopped him and warned the boy right there and then that the hellhounds would tear him to bits if he struck a pup. The twenty hellhound adults all eyed the boy and bared their teeth while I spoke, telling him that even I wouldn't be able to save him if he strikes them. Robert told him to sit down and thanked the guard for saving his life.

The silver eyed guard bowed lightly and that was about as eventful as the banquet got. The pups shied away from the psychopath of a boy and that was that. I nailed Cersei and in the morning they set out to see Ned in Winterfell. When Ned and his two daughters came back through, they sat in the feast with us and the dire wolf pups played with the hellhound pups.

The adult hellhounds actually groomed and fed the dire wolf pups who were nearly as big as them. Ned found it amusing while I told Sansa and Arya what they were doing. I told them a hellhound was the hybrid pup of a dire wolf and giant lizard, hence the scales and wolf body. I told them to always respect the wild in every animal or man and they'd return that respect more often than not.

Sansa asked if I was another of her father's banner men and I shook my head. "The Freys are, but I've pledged solely to Robert and whomever he names king after him. Robert and Ned respect the wild so they're always welcome in the neck, but most southern lords and even some from the north don't have that respect. Make no mistake girl, while the north remembers, the wild never forgets. Harm a hellhound and even if you manage to survive, if you ever enter it's territory again, be it a day or a decade, it'll tear you apart just the same."

Ned agreed and told his daughters that the hellhounds were the most ferocious beasts on the battle field only after myself in ferocity. I scoffed saying he was just like Robert and forgetting they were just as formidable. He shook his head and said no one fights like I do and kills men like me except maybe my hellhounds and the two friends of mine that work as my right and left hands.

I shrugged and left it at that while Robert said he told me so. When I heard of Brann, I told Ned I'd send old Bone to Winterfell to see if there was an alchemy that could help. Robert cursed something about witchcraft and I chuckled saying it was still alchemy even if it wasn't stuff exploding. I told them it was all wild plants used to make medicines that can strengthen a man's body or help it heal if combined with treatment methods, no more magical than drinking milk of poppy to numb the pain.

I waved over a guard to send the message and old Bone came from Helms Deep as young as ever. I told him what happened and he told Ned he'd do what he can to help the boy. Ned and his daughters thanked old Bone and he left that night headed through a portal to Winterfell. The blatant use of magic had them stumped and I chuckled saying alchemy wasn't magic, but I never said he didn't know how to use magic.

By then Robert was much too drunk and Cersei was taking her chance to use him in case I'd knocked her up on their last visit. She found it detestable, but it was better than a death sentence if he found out I really was nailing his wife. Ned and I watched over my city and he said I'd really built a magnificent thing that would outlast us all. He asked if it was true that I could see better at night than he could in the day.

I nodded and told him that it was in the water and land. I told him that women who conceive in or pass through the neck while pregnant have been known to give birth to children with eyes like mine and my men. I told him about the silver mines and the small gold deposits with gem mines in the swamp marshes, saying my working theory was the silver leaked into the water and when a pregnant woman drinks or bathed in it, it builds up in the unborn child and their eyes grow to be like mine.

I shrugged saying I was just the first human to have been born in the neck drinking those waters and raised by hellhounds who did the same. He nodded slowly and told me about being the Hand of the King. I chuckled and told him of the jest I'd suggested to Robert a while back before their mentor Jon Arryn died. He smiled wryly and blamed me while I shook my head saying I highly doubted Robert would come back to awaken the wild in him like the old days.

I sighed and told him of the twenty million gold dragons worth of treasure I'd sent to help pay off the crown's debts and the million they were taking with them when they left. He asked how it got so serious and I shrugged, telling him the crown was still somehow in deep debt with the Iron Bank and the Lannisters somehow and whoever the master of coin was, was fucking things up horribly or intentionally if they couldn't pay off the debts with what I'd sent.

I grunted and warned him to be careful because Kings Landing smelled like shit and snakes swam in that shit pretending to be friends while paying cock service to Petyr Baelish. I told him I don't know which of the three is more scheming, the Lannisters who want the throne to themselves, Baelish who want's Ned's own wife and screws with the crown's finances or the Spider who serves the crown, but not the king. Ned frowned and wasn't pleased to hear any of that.

I shook my head and warned him even the old guard that were friends with Jon Arryn get serviced by Baelish's whores so no one is out of his or the other two group's reach. We walked away from the wall and found old Sword teaching Arya how to hold her sword. I smiled and told Ned it seems Old Sword finally found a protégé to teach his skills to. Arya looked to us and asked if he was really that skilled.

I told her that out of everyone in Westeros and Essos, he was the only swordsman who could equal me in skill. I told her he spent several decades traveling all over learning every sword style and mastering it all so if he chooses to teach her, she should choose to listen. Old Sword just smiled kindly and continued to teach her with Ned's blessing. I told Ned old Sword would follow him to Kings Landing and train her if she has any talent.

He seemed relieved and said it would do her good and help him not worry nearly as much if she was so protected. I shrugged and we watched him teach Arya until it was time for her to go to bed. When she did, he said he'd take a hellhound or two so she can chase them and cats to learn to be quick on her feet, silent and quick witted. I nodded and whistled, calling forth the largest hellhound, the only male from Crematoria.

He came over with the two much smaller females and sniffed old Sword before looking the swordsman in the eyes. It licked his hand and the females rubbed up against him while he said they'd do. I headed to check on the guards and do my own sweep before heading to my private section of the castle. There Kayla the contortionist blew me while doing a knot ant letting me eat her out.

When she was ready, I made her remember why she chose to come with me. Most of my harem watched and some joined including a red headed former bed slave with pale skin. I fucked her from behind while her pale ass shook and she climaxed several times before I could nut once. It's one of the many things I quite enjoyed from her including that she was quite vocal, especially when I busted a nut in her.

She panted a good while and Ros cleaned me off before taking her place as the next to be fucked. After the king and everyone left the next day, I saw off Old Sword and Old Bone came back saying Brann could walk and was fully healed, though he was terrified to speak of what he saw. I shrugged and headed south with a dozen hellhounds. I was headed to see the Tyrells of Highgarden to arrange a marriage with Margaery Tyrell.

They weren't impressed with the hellhounds, but after speaking with the old matriarch of their house, Margaery and I were wed by day's end. The old matriarch knew of the devastation I'd caused on the battlefields and while it was just kids stories to most, she knew it wasn't just a story. She knew of the power I held and hid in the neck and I told her the true numbers of hellhounds and soldiers I had.

After that she couldn't tie her house to my own fast enough. Margaery overheard everything and asked before the wedding why I didn't become the king. I told her I despised politics and stringing all the idiots up in the streets that think they're getting away with shit would cause another war of the mad kings. I grunted and told her power, real power, doesn't need to show off because it just is.

I told her that even the cities I built were for the army and to defend my lands, not to be fancy or show off, they just do both naturally on their own. She said she couldn't wait to see it and I warned her of my harem I had on the side. She said she was fine with it and she'd let them know they were for my amusement and her own, not that they have my heart. I cupped her cheek and smirked, telling her she could be quite the dangerous woman in the south, but she'd soon be more than she could ever be even as a silly queen.

That evening we married and that night she received the name Fury along with the first of many children in her unused womb. By morning I'd made sure to do everything humanly possible to ensure her pregnancy. We headed back to the Neck and she was kind to the hellhounds who sniffed and liked her as well. It didn't take long though we did stop in Kings Landing where I introduced my blushing bride to Robert and Ned.

Ned paid his respects and Robert said it was a fine match. Cersei was a bit jealous, but we didn't stay long and I only left after seeing Old Sword whom I introduced Margaery to. Arya said she didn't seem strong and I told her that while she wasn't as obviously strong, she was skilled with a blade and bow as well as more cunning than most nobles. I tapped Arya's head and told her that strength comes in many forms.

Sansa had a talk with Margaery and Arya told me Sansa's wolf pup was nearly killed until old Sword stopped it and told Robert what Joffrey had done entirely. Robert had retracted the sentencing and warned Joffrey that he wasn't pleased with such behavior. I grunted and told her to stick by old Sword and if anything went wrong, he'd protect her and Sansa. Margaery and I headed to the neck and only met the Freys long enough to pass the twins.

Once in our lands, we took the long way to Helms Deep and didn't stick to the King's Road. She met some the many hellhound packs and saw that they'd flourished in numbers that boggled her mind. She saw me take down a giant swamp land croc and drag it out before cutting it up to feed the pups. The time she spent watching and helping me feed them helped her bond to them.

They'd remember her scent and protect her in our territory and I told her as much. She seemed content no matter what we did and I chuckled when a few sniffed her crotch before snorting and looking to me. "They smell me in you and they're accepting you as my mate, the female alpha."

This pleased her to an extent and I showed her how to command them with simple gestures they could understand. Her growl was funny, but cute and her guards watching wearily were sent to Helms Deep via the Kings Road. She told them not to worry because I'd protect her in our lands and the hellhounds would do the same. Once they were gone, I took her to a den and had my way with her.

Some of the hellhounds watched and when we were done, they sniffed her more often, but after a while that too passed. We moved on and I showed her the trails through the lands, what to watch out for, the plants that could heal or kill. I showed her the wild and how to survive. By the time we reached Helms deep weeks later, she was wearing croc skin armor and leather trousers with a spear and bone tooth necklace from the kills she'd made.

She was in fact pregnant as she'd missed her period thanks to our frequent bouts of sex. She looked wild and strong in many new ways and happily met with old Bone along with her guard who were stunned by the transformation. She told them our lands were harsh but fair and she knew every inch of them as the lady of them. She met the soldiers and leaned into my arms while I rubbed her exposed stomach.

They all knelt before us and thousands of silver eyes sparkled back like mine. Margaery seemed satisfied and told them to rise. She walked amongst them while her guards from the Reach and I watched. When she told two to fight and show their skills, the rest near them moved back and made a circle.

They fought with a savage and brutal nature I'd instilled into all of them. I huffed and told them to put on their blindfolds. They both stopped and did so before continuing with just as much accuracy and brutal killing intent. When Margaery told them to stop when one got the upper hand and nearly finished it without her saying so, I smiled at her guard's looks of astonishment.

I told them and her that in the wild it's kill or be killed and all our men are trained not be the killer. I told her she could bind their legs, arms or gouge out their eyes and ears and they'd still fight to the death because it meant they'd live. I told both the soldiers to take a bean and collect ten silver at supper to do as they pleased. They bowed and slammed their right fists over their hearts.

The rest did the same and the instructor dismissed them with my nod. I told Margaery that was only five thousand out of the two hundred thousand in the spread out villages in our lands we'd crossed the trails for. She said the neck had many wondrous and special gifts. She added that she'd give me the gift of a child and heir in less than a year.

In the meantime we bathed and heard old Bone's news. Apparently Robert died shortly after we left, invigorated and drunk on a boat hunt gone bad. Ned was imprisoned now and the Imp Lannister was in Catelyn Stark's possession or used to be. As for Old Sword, he got Sansa out while Arya ran off and was presumed in the Lannister's hands.

Eddard was captured by the Lannisters and the hellhounds helped him kill his way out with Sansa in tow. Arya had missed her training session so he'd missed getting her back and was too busy killing his way north with Sansa to stop and search for Arya. I sent word to Catelyn in the Vale that old Sword was bringing Sansa back to the north while they might have Arya and they definitely had Ned. The North was preparing for war and Rob was calling his banners.

The dumb kid sent word to me thinking I was a banner man and I wrote a letter sending it back that I'd never pledged my banners to Ned so he needs to straighten his shit out and not treat me like a banner man. The neck was my lands just like the north was Ned's lands and we were equals. I am a high lord and not a basic noble or lord. I may not act it nor care at most times, but I wasn't answering a boy's call to battle.

I'd told him they have safe passage through my lands and the moat along the king's road, but I would not go to war for a boy who doesn't pay the wild the respect it deserves. I told him to bring the female wildling they'd caught and I'd send twenty thousand men to defend Winterfell from the Iron Islands and the wildlings or anyone that might strike out while his armies were south. He brought the wildling and I sent the silver eyed men with a hundred hellhounds.

He apologized for his mistake and said when his father spoke of me, he'd made it sound like I was as close as any of the lords of the north. I grunted and told him that like his father and like he will be one day, I am a high lord and in ways of war I have to be seen as such. I told him old Sword managed to save Sansa and has brought her to Catelyn in the Vale where he guards them both now. I told him that I am friends with Ned, but as close as we are, we aren't sworn brothers like he and Robert and I have my own people's well-being to consider.

I told him he and his men would find safe passage along the king's road and through the moat, but I will not commit my men to a southern war that doesn't benefit them or me. I told him that he'd understand someday and I just hoped it wouldn't be soon. He thanked me and I sighed, telling them they'd find food, supplies and gold waiting for them in wagons along the way for their war efforts, but warned him to stick near the road or the hellhounds and worse predators would attack them on instinct. I cautioned them against eating or touching plants unless they knew what they were as well because half the plants in the neck are as deadly as any hellhound.

The other lords paid their respects and I nodded to them before telling Rob to be careful because lords of the north don't do well in the south too long. Margaery paid her respects as well and they moved on. They reached the Vale by mid day the next day and Old Sword sent word that Catelyn wished to speak to me in person. Margaery and I headed through the neck and made it to them by lunch taking shortcuts and swamp trails far faster than an army marched.

We met with the army still in the neck though near the bottom of it and the twins where Sansa, Old Sword, Catelyn and Rob had a camp of twenty thousand northerners. Lady Catelyn, Rob and Old Sword were in the meeting with Margaery and I when we arrived. The lords Rob brought were allowed in by Catelyn's agreement and I asked her what it is she wanted. Rob said it was what he wanted that she'd sent the message.

He wanted to know the army I could bring to bare and in what numbers. I snorted and Margaery spoke. "A hundred thousand hellhounds and two hundred thousand trained and blooded soldiers minus the twenty thousand soldiers and one hundred hellhounds sent to defend Winterhold."

I quirked an eyebrow at her for revealing the strength of the neck and spoke. "Unlike Winterhold, those numbers don't include the city guards and peacekeepers trained to defend the cities, ports and villages in my lands."

All the lords choked and I grunted. "Once I taught the hellhounds how to hunt the large land crocs their populations went up and thrived. One of the many benefits my rule has brought to the neck. As for the men, they were born and trained from normal villages I built for those fleeing the south or the north that the iron islands left in ruins. I trained them, raised their children to be survivors and warriors for the last eighteen years so they are absolutely loyal to me."

I turned to look at Rob. "So why is it that you want to know the strength of my lands young lordling? Are you looking to fight me?"

He shook his head. "No, I'm looking for your help."

I shook my head. "You have nothing that would be worth risking my men's lives lord Stark. The neck will not fight in your small war and it's done enough with Old Sword securing one of your sisters for you. I've given you supplies to sustain your army, a war chest of a million gold dragons and no more. You know I need nothing you have nor desire money."

He frowned and Sansa spoke from the corner. "You need legitimate ties to the north."

I narrowed my eyes and turned to the girl while Margaery told me to head her out. Sansa spoke, saying she'd heard I was a lord who won the title and lands to build my place in the world. She pointed out that I'd married Margaery to legitimize my status as a respected high lord. She hesitated before saying that what I needed was blood ties to the north otherwise I was just another southern lord to all those here.

My fist cracked the table and a large chunk of it shattered off making her and everyone jump. I spoke coldly. "Girl, you speak of things you know nothing about. I've fought side by side with every lord here besides your brother. I've bled for them and killed for each and every one of them, your father included."

Margaery spoke up. "It's not the same. The girl has a point love."

I turned to her and my eyes softened before I grunted to the rest. "What is it you have in mind?"

Rob spoke up, saying they'd have to speak in private. I stood and left with the lords, Margaery and old Sword who said he despised politics so he was heading back now. I nodded and told him I'd return within a day or so. Soon enough Rob asked me back in with Margaery and Catelyn told me they'd discussed it and proposed Sansa and I be married when her first blood comes in exchange for fifty thousand men and ten thousand hellhounds.

Margaery spoke up then, saying they asked for too much. She said we'd give them twenty thousand men, doubling their current army and only a thousand hellhounds because their feeding cost will be the dead Lannister men mostly in exchange for both Sansa and Arya to be pledged immediately to me as the second and third wives, tying our house to the north and south solidly, ten thousand men per lady of the north.

Catelyn looked to me since I'd stayed silent and Margaery told them I hated politics which is what they'd made this when they involved marriage with war so she was in charge of negotiating as my wife and the lady of the neck. I watched Rob and told him we should let the women deal with marriage issues since I still wasn't sure it was a good idea. Catelyn bargained that ten thousand had to be from my time with Ned and the rest would have to have my night vision.

As for the hellhounds, she'd up it to two thousand and finally both Rob and I agreed gingerly. I stopped Old Sword and told him to send the men and Hellhounds. Within a few hours twenty thousand men and two thousand full grown adult hellhounds had joined Rob's camp under my banners. I told the lordling that if he or anyone in his house broke the agreement from now on, he wouldn't have to worry about the Lannisters because he'll have made the neck his enemy as an oath breaker.

Catelyn hated to do it, but she'd had no choice if she hoped to help her family stay alive. The commander assigned to the twenty thousand men reported in and I told him he now served Rob in this war until it was over. I told him that when it was, they were to return home and collect their payment and fuck as many whores as they can for a month. The men all laughed and the old commander agreed before asking if I was fighting as well.

I shook my head. "They couldn't meet the price it would cost for me to fight their war for them. Last time I got the neck, this time I'd likely end up ruling the damned seven kingdoms and that in itself is something I don't want."

They all nodded and I turned to Rob. "Commander Gregory here will be under your command until the duration of your war concludes. He will obey and give your orders to my men and they will do as instructed, whatever it may be. They will fight in your name lord Stark, but make no mistake, they die in my name only. They are Furyans and my people are as stubborn as stone while being as hard as valerian steel."

I stepped away and the commander knelt, saluting him with a fist over his heart. The twenty thousand men did the same as one. Sansa came with Margaery and myself, heading to Helms Deep and onwards to Minas Tirith where we watched the war. Osha, the free woman Rob had paid his way through with, asked what I wanted her for. Margaery took Sansa away while I broke the shackles on Osha with my bare hands.

Seeing the casual strength I had, she raised an eyebrow and I looked her in the eyes. I told her that I am wild at heart and free from any oaths I've made with Robert's death. I told her my lands were secure, guarded and prosperous. I cupped her chin and told her I wanted her in my harem as a kept woman, free to do as she pleases within reason so long as the only man she fucks is me.

I told her that in exchange, she'd never be safer than with me and eventually I could use magic, real magic, to make her immortal. She looked me over and agreed if all I wanted her for was for pleasure. Though she did demand to see some magic. I held out my hand and a ball of coal appeared. I closed my hand using a spell I'd made long ago. My hand glowed and when the spell stopped, I opened it and blew the dust of the coal away to reveal a nice sized cut pink diamond.

I gave it to Osha and told her to keep it as proof to remember our agreement. She stripped and fucked me right then and there. She wasn't a virgin, but damn she was tight. She told me I had to be part giant and god because I had the cock of a giant and fucked like a god.

She dressed while I watched and sat across my lap, taking my goblet. I told her she'd have her own bedroom, but the harem room was next to my bedroom so each night I'd have six women or five if Margaery was in the mood to join me. I told her she could have the fine silks or live as she likes in whatever armors that please her. I stroked her slick cunt and told her that when and wherever the mood strikes me I'll have my way with her or any of the harem, but I'd follow them to Essos or the farthest reaches of the north itself to kill any that betray me be it with a man or by working with others to try and harm my interests.

She said I didn't have anything to worry about because she would keep her word, her cunt was for my use only. I chuckled and told her I said other men were off the menu, not everyone. I told her my harem finds pleasures with each other and with Margaery and so can she if she chooses. She bit her lip as I went three fingers knuckle deep and set my goblet down.

She rode my fingers until climax and spilled some of what I'd put in her. I had her lick my fingers clean and told her that Margaery would show her around. I told her Ros, the head of the harem would let me know if she had any preferences to change in her personal quarters or supplies. I added that Ros would explain the stuff she didn't know how to use for her.

I swatted her ass lightly and told her to send in Margaery once she was done showing her to Ros. She left and Margaery came in half an hour later. I was already clean and dressed again while speaking to Sansa at this point on where she could and couldn't venture for safety reasons. I told her when we are wed I'd take her to the swamps and there she would meet the packs of hellhounds, learn of our lands and their hidden treasures as well as how to guide the hellhounds to do as she pleased.

Margaery finally explained why she helped the North, to strengthen our ties and ensure that should they win, they don't seek to attack us next. I tapped my armrest and turned to Sansa, telling her that from now on she was to take lessons from Margaery in politics so that I'd have two buffers from the bullshit that comes with dealing with kings and lords wanting things other than war forces.

Sansa asked if Rob could beat the Lannisters and I grunted. "The Lannisters current forces, maybe if he's smart and careful, but Tywin will drag this battle out and Joffrey being a sociopath will no doubt order your father executed before it's over. In the meantime Tywin will be building his forces while fending off Rob while Rob will be doing the same. The reason I didn't want any part in this war is because it's a war of attrition and it's held in the south where the Lannisters are at their strongest. A fool's war if you will."

I watched her expressions and she finally asked. "Could you win it? If you wanted to?"

I closed my eyes and grunted. "Not once it's truly began. The reason your father will soon die is because he found out that Joffrey and all the blonde children Cersei's had are incested children between Cersei and Jamie Lannister. That's the reason Joffrey is so screwed up besides being spoiled and raised by Cersei who isn't fit to raise a fruit fly let alone a child."

I opened my eyes and sighed. "Once the Baratheons know this, they'll make a claim for the throne and both of them will raise armies. Stannis isn't fit to rule and Renly will never have an heir to the throne with his preference for men. Though both are capable of raising armies up to a hundred thousand strong separately and will fight each other as much as the Lannisters."

I turned to Margaery. "I spoke as much to your grandmother when we spoke of hypothetical scenarios. That and the fact that she knows the Lannisters would have to march north if they hoped to reclaim the north are the reasons she agreed to the marriage. Apparently she'd seen and heard what I'd done to the mad king's armies so she knows no army Tywin Lannister can build nor all the seven kingdoms combined could win against me."

I sighed and Sansa asked if I was that confident. I grunted and closed my eyes. "The cities and wall were built with magic, real magic that remained from the old gods and the dragons who fell. I tapped into that magic like Brann the builder did to build the cities and wall. Even if both sides come to war with me and Daenerys herself crosses the ocean with a Dalthraki horde and dragons to boot, no one and nothing could win against my armies and cities."

I opened my eyes and told them while Osha came in and listened. "The magic in the cities can stave off the cold and the white walker army rumored to be in the true north. The cities on both sides are equipped with weapons that can bring down dragons and any army that faces them. To make matters more serious, I have the mad king's stash of wildfire capable of burning any army that comes be they white walker undead or horse lords and southern lords."

I turned to Sansa. "I tell you this so you know you are safer here than anywhere else in the world. Those are only the hidden assurance I will tell you of. Suffice it to say it is only the tip of the sword. You can't imagine the true full depths of my lands and none of this will leave this room. Am I clear?"

They nodded and I turned to look at each of the three. I waved over Osha and she joined them while I told them I had duties to attend to until tonight when they and the harem would feast and enjoy the luxuries of our lands. Margaery mentioned faceless men and I chuckled. "The faceless men know enough about me to never agree to take a bounty or honor kill agreement on me. I've killed their kind before when they came after me in the last war. If they tried again I'd burn the house of black and white before butchering their order and they know as much."

I gestured to the silver eyed guards. "If ever you suspect a faceless man is near, look at their eyes. A faceless man can mimic anything except the silver eyes of the Furyan men. The guards here could each kill a faceless man with ease and such a skilled killer couldn't slip into their midst without their instincts warning them."

The guards didn't react and I turned, leaving them there safe. I had plenty of work to deal with and Osha occasionally watched me do as much. She now wore a simple leather strip necklace with a diamond folded in it while watching me handle matters. When news came of Rob using five hundred of my men to slaughter the Freys, I chuckled and told Sansa her brother might just make a fine leader after all.

My men took the Twins and slaughtered the house Frey down to the last bastard, leaving Rob in control of the Twins for now. No doubt they'd be a bargaining chip later, but for now Rob began winning his little war battle after battle slowly, though too slow to make a difference because Tywin was dictating the speed of the war. I heard about what came next, a massive battle against Tywin and Jamie on two fronts.

Rob won after a fashion and captured Jamie Lannister, but he'd lost all twenty thousand of my men and the two thousand hellhounds plus two thousand of his own men. Tywin had lost nearly twice as much in the same battle plus all the hill tribesmen of the vale and a great many sellswords he'd hired when he heard of my deal with Rob. As it is, he'd barely won the battle with his seventh thousand men that were now just under thirty thousand, not including the dead hill tribesmen.

I crumpled the letter and heard the hellhounds had returned mostly after the men were dead. Some had perished, but no more than a hundred due to their extremely tough scaled hides. News came of Eddard's execution and his dying words that rang the bell of the real war. He'd announced with his last breath that Joffrey and the blonde children of Cersei were all incested children of Jamie and Cersei.

This legitimized Stannis Baratheon's claim to the throne along with Renly's claim to the throne. Both began amassing armies, one egged on by Loras Tyrell, no doubt by the elder Tyrell's design. It became a war of the kingdoms for the throne and I held Sansa through her crying. I got a separate letter from Cersei, asking that I back her and Joffrey.

I sent her a letter of the truth, that the dark haired bastard wasn't mine, but one of my men's bastards thanks to them having run a train on her while she slept due to a dream herb I had served in her tea. It was true I'd fucked her first and several times in fact, but I'd made sure I beget no bastards with her through magic. She'd no doubt want my head after learning she'd serviced half my army and I do mean that literally thanks to senzu beans and drugs.

Why? Cause fuck that crazed bitch. She was just as crazy as the mad king only far more calculating. Still, a bastard was a bastard and I sent word to all the lords with the full story of how she'd threatened to tell Robert I'd raped her if I didn't fuck her so I gave her herbs and let my army train the whore Queen which was how the black haired bastard was made. I put my seal on it and sent it to all corners of seven kingdoms along with the conformation that Jamie was fucking her even in my castle when they headed to pick up Eddard Stark to be the Hand of the King.

I added that I suspected Brann Stark had seen them and Cersei shoved or had Jamie shove Brann out of the tower. I admired my guilt in it all and told them all I'd do the same to any whore Queen that threatened me in that way. I have them the exact number of men that had fucked that loose goose. Sure enough the Lannisters called it lies which really only showed them covering their own asses.

Hell, even the lord of the iron islands had a laugh I'm sure. Margaery had a laugh herself with Sansa who called me devious. I shrugged and told them I don't respond well to threats of that nature. Margaery asked what drugs I used and I smirked, telling her of the mixture I'd bough to experiment with from Slavers Bay.

I told her I'd boosted my own immunity to it in small doses over the years along with all the poisonous plants and venomous creatures in the Neck. I told her there were very few things I wasn't immune to after spending decades boosting my body's immune response. She seemed impressed until I told her the down side was that very few medical drugs worked on me as well so I had to suffer if I'm injured.