CHAPTER 16

CHAPTER 16

280 AC

BANG!! BANG!! BANG!! BANG!!

The door started to bang, and someone opened the door really hard. The ravens and I jumped up from where we were. It was a Winterfell guard.

"Aermir Drasil, you are coming with us. The Lord is waiting for you."

"What happened?"

"We don't know, and we do not ask questions when ordered to do a thing. All I know is the Lord ordered us to bring you to his solar."

When we arrived there, I understood what was happening. Hallis and his grunts were there with their fathers. Four of them were all bruised and bloodied, especially Hallis. His nose was crooked, red and blue in color. The one I kicked in the balls couldn't stand, so he was sitting. I got his name from the whispering going on around us. He was from a household guard of Stark's, and his name was Wyl Flant.

Lord Stark looked at me and said, " You are accused of ambushing and assaulting noble-born children here today. What say you?"

"It is a lie, my lord; they were the ones doing the ambush and the assault."

"You lying common street rat, do you expect us to believe you beat six ten years old squires by yourself without an ambush and when they were armed? Nothing but mummery." Said the father of Wyl, Mander Flant.

Another one of the fathers shouted, " Who do you want us to believe? You or six squires saying you only managed to beat them because of the ambush."

"If I were ten years old, I would have beaten them black and blue with my eyes closed and one hand tied. The only reason 2 of them were able to run away is I m 6 years old now." After I said that, all hell broke loose; all of them started to shout and tried to reach me.

"Silence!!!" shouted Lord Stark. His shout created a deadly silence. He took a deep sigh and looked at me for a few minutes. He turned to the other children, got up, started to look into their eyes, then said in a furious tone.

"Did he ambush you, or did you all ambush him? If you tell the truth now. You will not be punished, but if you lie and the truth comes out, I will punish you all really heavily."

" My Lord, we didn't ambush him. We were walking around the castle, and then he came out of a dark alley and started to attack us with a wooden sword." Said one of the grunts. After that, one of the guards that brought me here showed the Lord my bloodied wooden sword.

"What do you say about the proofs they put out?"

"It is all lies, my Lord. I have beaten them, but they cut my way and tried to break my arms. A swordsman's arms, my Lord, should I have let them do that? If they are telling the truth. Let them swear upon their ancestors' names and souls. What they are saying is the truth."

"Look at the galls on this little rat. How dare you demand something from your betters."

"They were not my betters when they were ambushing me and then crying under my sword."

The second I finished talking, I knew I had made a mistake, but it was too late.

SLAPPP!

A big hand hit me with a backhand slap. I fell to the floor, my ears rang, and my mouth was full of blood. I think my inner cheek got busted.

"I m sorry for my actions, my lord, but this commoner can't talk like that to our children or us even though you favor him."

Lord shakes his head disapprovingly to my words and says nothing. He paces a bit and then says, "He might have gone a bit too far with his words, but he is not being unreasonable about the oath."

Right at that moment, Rodrik shouts, " All of you should be ashamed of yourselves. All grown men but still bullying and demanding ten flogging as punishment for a six years old child." Then another ruckus begins.

"Silence!! I will decide after getting the oaths of all the children."

One of Hallis's grunts starts his oath, " I swear upon my ancestors and their soul what I said is nothing but a truth he ambushed us."

The second he finishes his oath, the blinds of the solar open with a load BANG, and a strong wind enters. At the same time, the fire in the fireplace grows to 3 times its size.

Woa, AAhh (shocked voices)

Everyone is shocked, and some become fearful. Then the second one finishes his oath, and then the same thing happens again.

BANG!! FOOSH!!

Woa, AAhh (shocked voices)

Now some of them look like they are going to shit themselves. Even Lord Stark seems confused. Just when the third one was going to open his mouth, the same happened again.

Woa, AAhh (shocked and fearful voices)

He squats down and puts his head between his arms, head down. He starts shouting in a frightened voice.

"No, no, no, no, no, we lied, we lied, please forgive us, ancestors. We ambushed him, and we had sticks too. Please forgive me…

He started crying and begging to be forgiven. That cost all of my mana, but it was worth it. I love magic. When he confessed without stopping, all of their faces turned sour upon this, and they began to whisper to each other.

Rodrik says while shouting and fuming with anger, "Now we know how noble your proud sons are. From now on, I m forbidding them from training with my group; I don't care who trains them. How dare you dirty the name of Stark guard. "