Battle of Captains

Daenerys

The next morning after the feasting had been done she called all her councilors and allied forces to plan their next move, to start the retaking of her Seven Kingdoms from those that sit her families seat of power. Across one side is her Hand, Varys, Missandei and Grey Worm. On the other is Ellaria, her daughters, and Olenna Tyrell. At the end of the table are Vickon and his cousins and first mate.

"If you want the Iron Throne then take it, we have an armada and three dragons. The city will fall within a day."

Asha advised her and she turned to hear it, Tyrion huffed and rebuked the advice by her allies cousin.

"If we set the dragons loose thousands will die in the firestorms." Tyrion was right in some aspects, she isn't here to burn people as her father had done, she isn't a butcher. Ellaria didn't like what was said and snapped at her Hand of the Queen.

"It's called war, you don't have the stomach for it then scurry back into hiding." Surprisingly it wasn't Tyrion who answered Ellaria's question but her allied King, and he was rather vocal about it all.

"I hear how the Dornish wage war. If its little girls amongst Cersei's ranks then we will certainly win. I reave and raid, take what I want but I don't get even with my enemies with poison. I rather do it myself." Vickon spouted and Ellaria and her three daughters glared at him, but he just glared back.

She didn't cross the seas to come and take children from their mothers and fathers, she came for justice and her birthright. That is exactly what she will do, so she agrees with Vicken on this matter. Seeing an argument beginning to take place she cleared her throat to get everyone's attention, most listened to her.

"That's enough." She would have order in this council, not squabbling amongst each other. She turned to Tyrion and nodded to him, time to start their own plans. "We will not attack King's Landing with my dragons, and I will not be Queen of the Ashes." Olenna Tyrell perked up at this and decided to speak next.

"That's very good to hear. Yet I haven't known a queen more loved than my granddaughter, but what's left of her now? Ashes." Olenna was indeed wise but her words are unneeded, "The nobles and lowborn are children really they won't be loyal unless they fear you." Olenna added and she sighed, how long must she hear this.

"I am grateful to all of you for your council, I truly am. You all agreed to follow me, and I will not attack King's Landing, WE will not attack King's Landing." Vickon laughed hoarsely at that and she turned to him, "Is something funny? I didn't know I pulled out a joke." Vickon placed his hands on the table and looked at it all, then he answered her.

"You came for a war. I came for a war. How in the Drowned Gods hall are you going to get that stupid chair without bloodshed? By asking nicely." His sarcasm wasn't wanted or needed, she did smile for his brashness.

"We will lay siege on the capital by surrounding the city on all sides, Cersei will have the Iron Throne but no food for her people or armies." Tyrion took the next part after she was done.

"But will not use Dothraki or Unsullied. Cersei will appeal to the Lord's loyalty and the love of their country, no our army will be Westerosi." Tyrion ended and Ellaria assumed they would supply the Westerosi, "You are, King Vickon will escort you to Sunspear." Tyrion then grabbed the Kraken and Sun pieces, "And his Iron Fleet will ferry the Dornish Army back up to King's Landing." He put the two pieces with the Tyrell rose, "The will join the Tyrell army and siege the capital, two great armies united against my sister." Olenna asked Tyrion why she bothered to bring her own if they weren't going to use them, Tyrion smiled and took the Unsullied piece, "The Unsullied will have another task. For decades House Lannister has been the true power of Westeros and the seat of that power is Casterly Rock. Grey Worm and the Unsullied will sail for the Rock, and take it." Tyrion ended and took his place at her side.

"Do I have your support?" One by one all of them nodded or told her yes, all except the Greyjoys which made her sigh again in frustration, you can't please them all. "Is something the matter with Lord Tyrion's plan?" She asked Vickon who grunted before answering her.

"For the most part, no. But think this right, you want the Unsullied to sail but alone that is almost a three-week journey. Now if you have them go by marching formation, a week and a half at best if they don't see it coming." He reset the pieces and then went by her, "Sailing and bringing the Dornish forces here, is fine. That can be done but if we split the navy too thin then my father will capitalize on its thinness." He advised and she looked to Tyrion for guidance only to see him perplexed, it was a good plan for the most part.

"Unsullied formation could keep Lannister forces from spreading to my own doorstep, never thought a Greyjoy could be smart," Olenna commented and Vickon snorted, he was happy about it.

"Fine. We will do this. Is this fine with you?" She asked both Tyrion and Grey Worm who nodded and said yes. "That is all, dismissed. Except you, my lady." She told everyone except for Olenna, she has some things to talk to her about.

Vickon

"Remember to turn back if you find yourself in danger, I can't risk you or others."

He looked at Daenerys like she was a mother chastising her children, her stern eyes looking deep into his own and he saw worry across it. He was also amused how she tried to act as if it wasn't him that she didn't want to risk, the very thought bringing a smile to his face. He told the others to get going to the boats and had them take his thing, but not his ax though. Afterward, he turned his eyes on Daenerys own eyes.

"Are you my mother?" He asked with a smirk on his lips and Daenerys had the grace to blush and turn away, he sighed and rubbed his dark hair. "I survived death so far, I can do it for a few more months while this war is fought." He promised and the woman didn't entirely believe him when he said this like he won't return.

"And if you encounter your father? Don't let your anger take you over. Come back, to all of us." She said to him, he stepped closer to her and she blushed again in annoyance.

"You mean back to you? Yes? Either way, I'll be back. My father will perish before I leave this world... Until then I always come back."

He boarded the rowboat and left the shore to the Merciless, five days would pass after leaving Dragonstone and they should be passing Estermont and then another two days before getting to the nearest Dornish shores where Ellaria swore that 20,000 warriors are waiting for them. Out of the 500 Iron Born and 200 Targaryen ships they have, two hundred is what he has taken with him and he left his First Mate in charge of the other half of the fleet.

He was enjoying Dothraki woman on his lap before Ellaria entered his cabin, looking directly at Asha and he got the hint. "Get off." He told the Dothraki woman and got up and poured him and the Dornishwoman a drink. "Want it?" He asked after she gave him a queer look like he did something to it.

"Why would you defend the Dwarf? I thought Greyjoys hated the other great houses." Ellaria took it after some time and asked him the question, he sighed and decided to tell the Dornishwoman his reasons for defending the Imp.

"I have a daughter, a beautiful child of four or five. The thought of her suffering something like the Long Farewell? It drove me to the edge." He spoke with unadulterated intensity. He wanted to bring his Alissa with them but thought it would be too dangerous, so he left her with a ship guard of forty and a thousand of his most trusted men. Ellaria turned away from him and he thought it disrespectful, so he got up and got into the woman's face. "Look at me when you hate and know this; If I wasn't aligned with you, then I'd bury THIS into your head." He threatened the bitch, pulling his ax from his side, and the Snake Whore for a long moment was afraid of him.

He set his cup down and left, purposefully bumping into Ellaria and nodding for Theon to follow him out. He stomped up and past a few men going down to sleep, looking out into the open ocean, noticing the moon was nowhere to be seen so that is both a bad and a good sign.

The wind was different, not going south but east. "What is it?" Theon asked him and he narrowed his eyes westward.

"No. Theon, sound the alarms! Battle stations!" He cried out, and Theon looked at him and both men realized who has come.

Euron is here.

Flaming projectiles hit his ship and he jumped out of its way, Asha and Theon helped him to his feet and the three looked west and saw a large ship coming. He could recognize it from anywhere to the red eye on the sail, his father's ship. The Silence pierced Merciless from the sharp spike on its belly and rocked the entire ship, his men were fighting some of the fires as his father's ship lodged itself in his own. Moments later the port of the Silence dropped and riding it was his father, smooshing one of his crew as he came down and his father cut down another.

"Father!" He shouted out, taking out his ax and going for him. Swarms of his father's crew began flooding the ship and fighting his own, he swiftly cut down two before looking for his father again. "Fight them off! Kill them all!" He ordered as another flaming ball flew past him and hit his mainsail, exploding in the impact. He cursed himself before seeing his target.

His father was fighting two of the Sand Snakes, Nymeria, and Obara. They looked like they were doing well until they weren't, Euron Greyjoy first broke Obara's spear and sent it down her throat, he then went on to choke the other with her whip and with on quick motion snapped her spine. He took the and darted towards Euron but two more men got in his way, swaying left to avoid one's sword and slamming his fist on their face and driving his ax onto the others head and blood spouted out and marked his cheek.

It was then he took a look around, so many enemy ships were swarming his own fleet. He knows this is a defeat on his side but he will not be going down without taking his father with him, speaking of his father he looked for him and saw him looking right back at him. He took a step towards him before feeling a hand on his shoulder, turning to see Asha looking back at him.

"We take him together." He nodded after thinking on it for a moment, then he and Asha both went at his father with the intent of ending him.

His father proved his skill despite having only one eye, he'd swing and it would be blocked and Asha would swing next and it would be avoided. Euron hit Asha in the face with the end of his battle-ax, and for a moment it was just him and his father, "Come on boy, time to die!" He was affected by the taunt and it sent his anger over the edge, he charged in like a madman, swinging madly at his father with his ax. To no avail he was kicked in the chest and sent into the arms of his other cousin and Tyene Sand who looked bloodied, they helped him steady and stand right.

Sadly when he turned back to his father, the man had Asha held against him with his battle-ax's sharp edge against her throat. "Come and get her you bloody cowards, cockles and pathetic!" Euron taunted him and Theon and the Sand Snake.

"We go in together, help me." He said with gritted teeth at Theon and saw something different with him, he was shaken and uncontrolled. And not too soon his cousin abandoned him and leaped into the waters while taking the girl with him, leaving him to his demise and the demise of Asha. 'Damned coward!' He cursed and decided to do everything himself, he is going to end the man before him.

With swift speed, he evaded two strikes from his father's men and drove his ax in one's head and his dirk in the other's throat, picking up a spear he dug it into the gut of one more before being tackled into the water by one more. The last thing he heard during all of this was his father's heavy laughter, he cursed and shouted as they disembarked from his sinking ship and onto the Silence.

All around him the flames consumed his burning fleet, a loss to himself and yet one more missed chance to end his father. Now his cousin and Ellaria are taken captive, this is... This...

Is humiliating!