John Snow is A Girl

Chapter 41: Treachery



"I want to apologize to you my lord and to my future queen for my earlier foolishness. I have...." Robb started and was going to continue but is cut off by lord Frey's lazy voice.

"A moment, did you say future queen? And who is this future queen you are binding together with this lord in your apology?" This question is met with a short awkward silence from Robb. Then he coughed and continued.

"My future wife is your daughter my lord. The one you had allowed me to marry in the first place." Robb speaks and lord Frey is taken aback by his words.

"Are you saying you won't go back on your words this time?" Walder is visibly surprised by the young man's words. 

"No, my lord. I intend on keeping my words. As a token of my sincerest apology I have a gift should lord Frey forgive my previous transgressions." Robb wanted to bite his tongue at the words coming out if his mouth.

"Oh? You have my attention, what could the king in the North use to quell this old man's anger." He says watching the young Stark and his men.

A chest is brought in front of Lord Frey and two men open it. "The finest wine from my sister's own collection. It is supposed to help with health issues concerning internal organs. Said to make those who drink it healthier."

"Only one bottle?" Frey raised an eyebrow.

"My apologies my lord but it takes a month to make this one bottle. The ingredients that are used are said to be more precious than gold. It isn't just a bottle filled with wine but a nectar of life. One cup and you will know what I meant." Before the lord could speak, Robb made another gesture.

"My second gift."

A small box is given to lord Frey. When he opened it, his eyes glistened reflecting the shining light from what seems to be a pill.

Then a woman whose face is covered is brought forward, when her face us revealed she has a glaring beauty that can captivate a man's heart from a single glance.

Every Frey in the room is mesmerized by her. "Do you recognize this woman my lord?" Robb asked him. 

"No." Frey answered honestly after squinting his eyes at her for a while.

"Are you sure my lord? Think carefully and looked at her again. You have seen this woman before."

"If I know her I don't remember her. Why are you asking me such things all of a sudden?" Lord Frey became annoyed.

"This is my mother lord Frey. You spoke to her a while back. Is she so different now?" Robb asked.

Frey stood up and walked to Caitlyn watching her carefully and indeed it is her. He looked at Robb in astonishment.

"I was also surprised my lord. My sister Olivia, you might have heard of her?"

"The bloody Snow who sneaked into the Citadel and slit the throats of over 200 gray rats who kidnapped her shop employees. I am familiar with the name." Old Frey said going back to his seat.

"As a child she was always better at creating medicine. She made the beauty pills sold in the brothels before she was 11. This is an improved version of a beauty pill. Instead of making you look good, it reverses the years on the body by ten years. Making you younger for real, it is skin deep." The hall erupted in discussion as everyone is very excited about this news.

"She told me this pill is too valuable to be for sale. She uses it to reduce the years of skilled people so they can still excel in their various crafts. That is how she was able to build her city." Robb explained.

Frey took the pill and looked at it carefully. "And you would give me this pill as a simple apology? What is it you really want?"

"Like I said, I wish for your forgiveness and maybe we can build a friendship with each other. This war is taking it's toll on me and my people. It is our wish to return home as soon as possible before the winter truly starts."

"Put your thoughts in words boy!" Frey said in annoyance and excitement about the pill. Who wouldn't want a pill like this?

"I wish for men. Lord Frey I wish for you to give 10 thousand men in my campaign against the Lannisters. Together we can end this war once and for all." Robb said boldly surprising everyone. Robb's plan to use them on the war at least use them as a distraction so his real army will be were the real fight is at. 

A young boy reached his place to give him a letter from Olivia. Not only did she find Arya but she also found the Lannister army that left Kings landing a while ago. Apparently they already inside Riverland pretending to be refugees of war.

Robb means to use the Frey army as a distraction and find them. It is likely they are here for the wedding to enforce the agreement between Frey and the Lannisters. 

Frey is aware he is being greedy but were else can he get such a good thing? "A deal then. I will give you 5 thousand men to fight the Lannisters. Can you let me know of this plan of yours?" He took his gifts and started talking to Robb like they are pals.

Robb is feeding wrong information so that if he is not on his side which he is most likely is not, he will feed this information to the enemy. During this night, Robb snuck in some of his men to identify the place where the Lannister remnants are most likely laying in wait.

The wedding is set at a closer date, Robb is wearing armor during the wedding. The only men he took inside the hall are the Bolton army wearing the various Stark loyalists family sigils. If the plan goes astray the ones to die will be the Bolton men.

As the wedding started, many unidentified men made their way to the venue. they are encircled by the prepared actual Stark loyalists and have to fight a bitter battle with no way out.

The Frey men who were sent out to the other side of the Trident to 'meet' the rest of Robbs army are led to a fools errand. When they realized they have been lied to, it is already too late.

The Lannister soldiers are surrounded and killed, there are casualties of course but it isn't as bad as it could have been if they had met at an open field.

The people outside the venue have a bitter battle against a few thousand. The wine and food had been poisoned but no one actually drank or ate anything.

Robb is taken to the bed chambers with his new wife but he knocks her out and goes to find Frey men who were pretending to be musicians shooting arrows and stabbing at the Bolton soldiers but they find that everyone wore armor and a bloody fight ensued.

Lord Bolton fought the bravest in protecting his king Robb because if Robb Stark dies, that Snow girl will not give him an antidote. This is one for the history books, the day a Bolton lord risked his life to safe a Stark. 

Frey is killed by Robb himself while he is still wondering why Bolton betrayed their deal? When would end up gaining something his ancestors wanted for several centuries. Dominion over the North.

The next morning, the twins castle is robbed of everything of value. Boats docked nearby taking those who wish for safety to go stay in the Haunted city. The girls and grandchildren children of Walder Frey also left. 

The men who went out came back to find a mess, Walder had sent the most useless and those he didn't need to be ambushed by the Lannisters at the Trident but these guys were able to explain they are not Northerners and were therefore able to come back safely. 

But they understood that Walder had sent them to die while. Upon their return, they didn't shed any tears at the sight of his copse and even disrespected it some more. They left to pursue employment under another house. This is how the Twins became decadent and empty.

The land is under the protection of the Riverland and has now gone back to the hands of house Tully to do with it as they wish. 

After cleansing the castle with fire, the North returned home with their dead. The gates of the bridge are closed off with the concrete powder turned paste that was retrieved from the North. This action is done because the war of the five kings is not finished but the North must return home for the time being. 

"After everything you gave him to placate his fury he still went and betrayed you." Lord Karstark said shaking his head. For a moment there, he was worried the king would marry that foreigner girl and dishonor house Frey but the young wolf came around and took his duties seriously.

Lord Frey on the other hand is a treacherous bastard for what he had planned to do to the lad even after knowing he would marry his own daughter and that pill must have cost a lot for the young king.

"Why go through all the apologies my king? If you don't mind me asking." Bolton asked. He is wondering why all the trouble with making amends if he already expect betrayal from the other party. 

"It was to try everything I can to wash myself off the guilt out the conflict. I was giving us both a chance to start a fresh. Hoping for a better future." Robb said but his words sounded pretentious at best. Robb laughed when he saw the stoic Bolton roll his eyes before riding ahead. 

"How did you know of the Lannister men in the Riverland my king?" Umber asked making Robb smile.

"That is a secret I'm afraid. Lets go prepare for winter!" He shouted and everyone is relived to be going home. 

"Yeah..."

Roars of celebration sounded as the convoy travelled to Winterfell. They will have a feast once more. There is still the matter of Jaime Lannister as a prisoner of war. But having him will put the Lannister family on good behavior. 

The River lands are left with men to help defend it from the south but after this massacre, the Lannisters will likely not recover in a short time. Especially since there is an attack on kings landing and the army that was supposed to meet the Starks loyalist but instead met the Frey men is supposed to come back and lay in ambush for the approaching army of the Baratheon brothers.

Bree is the one who wrote to Stannis telling him the exact location of the sleeper army laying in waiting.

However, that is not the only card Tywin has to play. He was certain that girl will expose his army or someone else will find out after a little digging. So he assumed his plan has been exposed. As such, he made...contingencies.

Olivia wouldn't have anything to know about these contingencies because she is currently staying away from all the war and fighting. What she wants to do is to find a solution that will delay the night king a little more.

She found her answer in the knowledge of her dragons. She can turn the land into a no black magic zone with the ability to purify unclean magic vessels. This process is not gentle nor is it cost less. It will drain the dark magic, purify it and then send it into the land.

The results will be North becoming a place where dark things don't dare come close. If they do, they will be pinned to the ground while the magic in their bodies is being sucked out, purified with a purification rune and then sent back into the world.

The land will be fertile, the inhabitants will be healthier and slightly stronger than average humans because the vegetation growing from this land will be special. It is not a complicated process to make this spell all it needs is a pure source to activate it.

Olivia will have to use her flame. Morpheus said others used things like virgin blood but what she has is better. It is a flame filled with life essence and purification magic which can expel unclean magical powers.

She is thus making the spell in confinement. Since her glass is indestructible, she carved runes while its still warm from the furnace and then activate them with her flame. All that is left is for them to be burred deep into the earth and stay in that same position for a year.

This allows the runes to become part of the land after which they will slowly shift from the glass and merge into the earth as long as there are living things around this place with in the time period. There type of old runes tend to become the location if they are left in place for long enough. 

They will never be fully charged because they have a process which is to draw power, purify it, then send it back into the air. This is different when encountering normal magic, the spell will never take the initiative to draw power from a normal magic vessel like a human with magic or a dragon.

These glasses that Olivia carve are no bigger than an adult man's palm. She realizes the ice wall will start melting on its own soon and she doesn't have time to make another wall. She will just cloak these glass slabs and burry them all over the place in her lands, hopefully it will be enough to trap the night king for a while. 

If it turns out she has time, then she will build a strong wall of hard concrete imbued with the same spell. "This is an old magic. We will have to do it together at that time these spells you are casting on these discs are hardly powerful enough to turn land into sacred grounds." Aeryn said shaking her cute white head. 

"Hey Aeryn do you know what made this spell necessary in your inheritance?" Olivia asked feeling the intensity of the spell.

"Our kind has always been war beasts, we fight each other or other races but what usually makes our dragon fire imperative is its ability to purify dark magic. Other species even have ways to preserve our fire to use at a moment's notice." Aeryn answered.

"But one needs to be very old and very powerful to have a fire with purification abilities close to your white flames. This is why you must grow even stronger to be able to use those flames in a large area for prolonged periods." Morpheus said in excitement. 

"I think I will stick to the glass spell discs for now. If I try another body forging I might actually die." She told them. The two dragons looked at each other and decided not to press her. 

Olivia continued her seclusion in the hot deserted lands of the red waste. When she finally came out, she heard that her child Drogo is now able to take a few steps. This is enough to lift her spirit, she left the place and flew on her dragon with Aeryn on the side going home after a long time. 

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