Chapter 24: Chapter 24 - Hunting The Three-eyed Raven 07.
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Third Person POV.
Somewhere on North.
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An eerie silence took over the atmosphere. Jon didn't fail to analyze every detail of the man, roots entwined around his body, some embedded within his skin. The man appeared to be around 70 years old, but must have been older, since the tree itself was preserving him. However, for Jon, it wasn't hard to notice that he was dying.
Ygritte stood a bit away from Jon, holding her sword ready to fight anything on alert, while she looked surprised at the man in the roots, wondering how there was someone living like this all this time in these lands with the children of the forest. Jon, in the end, had been right all along when he came here, and to think there was a warg who controlled as many animals as she saw when Jon had to fight against them.
Jon's spectral wolves stayed alert, for any movement especially to protect the woman as their master ordered as soon as he summoned them, being the most vulnerable there.
Jon decided to break the silence while the man studied him all along, he didn't respond to Jon's question when he asked if he was the three-eyed raven, although the answer was quite obvious. "You live through these roots, which makes me wonder what happened to you...?" Jon asked and the man didn't question.
"Are you mute?" Jon had to ask, and continued. "Besides, your attempts to kill haven't worked out so well, John." Jon mocked.
"Who are you?" The man finally spoke, with an old and tired voice.
"So you're not mute then. I guess you've spied on me enough, haven't you? Haven't figured it out yet?" Jon smiled once more as he continued. "Let me ask now, who are you?" he asked.
The three-eyed raven looked for a while, until he sighed before addressing Jon. "I used to be Brynden Rivers, and now I am the three-eyed raven," he spoke, in a neutral tone.
"Brynden Rivers... I've heard that name before... you're the bastard son of Aegon, the Unworthy..." Jon commented, accessing his old memories in Winterfell, he studied a bit of the history of House Targaryen and read this point as one of the main points. 'We are related somehow... but that doesn't matter.' Jon thought and returned to the man.
"And why the insistence on killing me?" Jon asked, interested in the man's answer, since he seems quite obstinate to it.
"As I said, I would like to know who you are? After all, you appeared out of nowhere," he spoke, since Jon's presence in this world affected the entire future the moment he appeared, like a ghost, as if he had appeared from another world. "Moreover, no one should have these powers, there was never anyone with this strength, are you really from this world?" He asked him, looking at him.
Ygritte even held her breath with this question, after all, she was beginning to believe that Jon was a god, but there were so many other strange things happening here, could Jon be a being from another world?
Brynden really wanted to know who this man was and his origins, he had never seen anything like it in the green vision, he used all his greatest powers, threw a living walker with an exercise on top of him attracting them to the camp, but nothing stopped this man, he was a risk to the future, a risk to him and his plans.
"If you really want to know, I'll tell you a bit about myself," Jon said, cracking a half-smile. "You are Brynden Rivers, a Targaryen bastard, or at least you were, according to what you've said. I don't know what you are now." Jon spoke and began to introduce himself.
"My name, my true name, is Aegon Targaryen, the sixth of my name, son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark of House Stark." Jon spoke calmly.
Ygritte, standing beside him, was surprised, not quite understanding what Jon meant by that, but certainly surprised to learn his name was something other than Jon Snow, as she had always known him.
The three-eyed raven looked a bit surprised. After all, Aegon, or Jon Snow, was supposed to be used for his plans in the future, and the boy had vanished 8 years ago, slightly altering destiny, but still under his control over the fate of this world. Now this man was him; he seemed older than he should be.
"Don't be so surprised, where I was, time passed differently, around 50% faster." Jon said, already aware of his thoughts.
"What happened to you?" The three-eyed raven became interested, after all, he had held this mystery in his hands for 8 years, since the boy disappeared from Winterfell without a trace. How did he vanish and return, becoming someone so powerful? Someone who could even change the future of this world, a future over which he had no control, making Jon's existence dangerous.
"Well, answering your earlier question, yes, I was not in this world," Jon said calmly, since there was no reason to hide it now. "I was in another place, and in that place, I was doing what I was born to do, what was my destiny," Jon spoke firmly, as memories of chaotic scenarios flashed through his mind, fighting against men and gods alike.
"And why did you come back? What do you plan to do?" the raven asked, not denying the existence of other worlds. After all, Jon and his powers were living proof, having disappeared from this world, where he could have eyes in nearly every place.
"I came here after negotiating with some entities you might call gods," Jon said, causing Ygritte to almost exclaim, asking how he could negotiate with gods, and the Three-Eyed Raven raised an eyebrow.
Jon continued, "In exchange for a few things, they showed me my past, my parents, and how I was born. How my life was a lie, so I decided to leave everything in that world and come here. But of course, nothing is free, and I have some things to do, which is to eliminate the White Walkers from this world." Jon said, waiting to see the man's reaction.
'After all, the Daedric Princes didn't want this world lost to those creatures, that's why they sent me here. And I already knew this, although I only came convinced with the possibility of getting revenge.' Jon thought calmly.
"What I want to do in this world, what I came here to do, is to settle a debt many people in the south owe to my family," Jon concluded, with a somber tone.
"You can't," Brynden immediately said, in a tone darker than usual.
Jon raised an eyebrow, amused. "And why do you think I can't?" he asked, in a challenging tone.
"This world is in great danger, you cannot stop the threat, and your interference will kill everyone," the man spoke with a more severe tone.
"My interference? I think not," Jon said, since he would have to deal with the White Walkers anyway. So, he wasn't too worried, but looked at the man with a slight smile. "Let me guess, there's a Savior in this world, and that would be you?" He left the question hanging.
Brynden didn't respond immediately, but then said, "Only I can control the future for humanity's victory," he spoke without any doubt in his tone.
"I don't think you'll be of much help, seeing as you're stuck in roots," Jon mocked.
"This is temporary. Soon, I will find a new vessel. I must control the future, the future where humanity still survives," he continued, repeating these words.
As soon as he said these words, the atmosphere tensed up, Ygritte swallowed hard while gripping her sword's handle, the spectral wolves were a step away from starting to growl, and Jon even felt the other beings in these root-filled caves of the tree beginning to stir.
Jon cracked a smile, breaking the tension as he started to laugh. "Hahahahahahahahahaha" He laughed as his voice echoed all around, leaving Ygritte confused while the man in the tree just narrowed his eyes.
"Hahahaha..." Jon slowly stopped his laughter and looked the man in the eyes with a gleam coming from his own as they turned even more purple. "And I don't think that's possible," Jon spoke without a smile as the man in the trees felt a shiver run down his spine at that moment.
But he quickly recovered and spoke with confidence amongst the roots "Of course it's possible, and I will do it," The three-eyed raven said with confidence, as if there was no other option.
"You forgot you tried to kill me several times, and that was your mistake," Jon spoke again with the same gleam as before, while the environment became a hostile sphere.
The man exploded at that moment, yelling at Jon. "I did it for the future. You are a threat. You could destroy everything," he said, while Jon raised an eyebrow to this change.
"In this future, it seems you were unable to see, and do you know why?" Jon replied in contrast to his previous outburst and answered before the man could speak. "...Because you will not exist in this future. After all, I came here to kill you, and that's what I will do right now." Jon said, flashing a smile, as his ice spear appeared in his hand from the dimensional space, preparing to eliminate this enemy.
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