Chapter 4:- Benjen Stark: The Ranger Wolf

After talking with Jon, I left the wall with some of my brothers from the Nights Watch for ranging. This time it's to finding any kind of evidence on the Others, as Ned is not believing that the threat from these Others are the major threat to the North than anything else.

For two days we rode through the woods as much as we can. On the second day, we went to Casters Keep and got some information out of him, a bastard who marry his daughter himself and having kids with the said daughter. After getting the information, we left the place as soon as possible, because if I stayed any longer j would have killed him.

As we were riding in silence I heard a twig breaking from behind us so raising my hand I said "Hold!" Then looking at one of my companions I said "Check it out"

Nodding at me he went to find what caused the sound.

Couple of minutes passed and he didn't come back so I said "Let's go together."

As I said that we moved in the direction where Othor had went. A minute later we reached wher he is, but the problem is that he is dead. Getting down from my horse I started to examine the corpse and found out that he was killed due to a sword impaled through his stomach.

After that I turned around, only to see my other companion, Jafer Flowers, is also dead and this time I saw the killer of my two ranger companions, the Other.

The pale skinned blue eyed Other, he kept looking at me and I thought that my end is near and I will die in his hands. And as I have expected it lunged towards me and I unsheated my sword and started to fight with it.

Our fight lasted severa minutes and I started to feel fatigued. The Other took the chance to attack me vitaly and I was sure that I would have died, but I saw the Other crumbling down into pieces then into a puddle of water.

Looking around for my savior I saw a hooded figure with a bow in his hand. Seeing him I smiled as I recognized that insignia very well.

Coming towards me he asked "You okay?"

"Yeah, I'm okay..... Fighting a mystical creature is out of my bucket list." I said that with a smile.

Then with all seriousness I said "We need to warn the Watch. And the North."

"You don't have to. We have a mission from my Liege. He knows about the threat of the Others so he have appointed me and my squad to find last of the Children Of The Forest and the Giants. We need their strength in the upcoming war against the dead."

"He gave you an order, not to me." As I said that he gave me a parchment, looking at it I asked him "What is this?"

"A message from my Liege to you."

I took the parchment and unrolled it, and started to read it.

After I read through it a couple of times I asked him "Is it true?"

"Yes. Your brother Eddard Stark is held captive in King's Landing accused of treason. And the other things are also true as my Liege has seen it before hand thanks to his gift." He told me.

"Understandable, as he had a knack for it from childhood." I said remembering our time in Winterfell with everyone, father, Brandon, Ned, Lya, me and him, those were the good times.

"Well, he always liked to order me around like Lya did. So what's the plan?" I asked him.

"As I have said before, find them, enlist them with us go back to the Wall when the time is right." He said.

Nodding at him I stood up and looked around and asked "Where is your squad again?"

Right after I asked him he blew a whistle and a flock of eagles came down from the sky and preached on the branches. Looking at them I said "It never gets old." Then looking at him I asked "Did you getore of them?"

"Yes."

"You're still not that much talkative huh." I asked and all I got was a grunt as reply.

Sighing I started to walk with him after sending my horse back to the Wall as that will make the Watch to find the bodies of these two.

A couple of miles of riding later I asked him "Hey, will there be a war in the South?"

"Most probably. My Liege did say that the dragons will be coming back to the world." He said.

"Yeah, if the Others have come back then I'm sure that the Dragons will be back too." I said that with a sigh. Then I asked him again "I mean the war between the Five King's?"

"That won't happen as House Stark will be under my Liege as per the outcome of the trial of your brother." He said.

Looking at him I asked "What do you mean by that?"

"What I mean is, if Eddard is sent to the Wall as per the deal he made with Varys, my Liege won't do anything and let Robb become the Warden of North. But, if the Lannister's go back on their end, then, my Liege will be the one leading House Stark with Robb Stark as his heir and before going neutral in the happening of South, he will doing a through cleansing at King's Landing." He told me something that 'he' will definitely do.

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