Chapter 16: Shadow of the Colossus
(Location: Starry mountains?)
(Time: Dawn)
(3rd person)
"It truly is a magnificent day, we have hidden in the darkness for thousands of years forgotten about left weak and infertile, a dying clan"
"But today as the sun rises on the horizon so does it bring forth a new day and in this day the world shall be reshaped for he has awoken, he who was cast down has finally returned and with his return signifies the end of your false gods" Marlok exclaims with open arms as the whole mountain range can be seen trembling.
Cracks forming in the ground, Jon and everyone else struggle to stay up right it's as if the very earth is crumbling around them.
"But I'm afraid you will not be here to witness this new world" Marlok states with a malicious grin as he picks up his Warhammer with his other arm, still being strong enough to lift it with one hand.
"How about you take him this time, Arthur" Jon says with a helpless smile on his face.
"Might be a good idea" he replies with a grin on his face.
"Sansa and whatever your name is stay close to me there are still a lot of tribesman still alive" Jon says as he pushes Sansa behind him and grabs his sword off the ground.
"It's Rhaenys!" Rhaenys shouts with annoyance, Jon just looks at her with wide eyes as he sees the same colour eyes that he has, the stirring in his chest seems to be getting stronger now.
Shaking his head he refocuses himself as he gets ready to defend themselves.
*BHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
"Please tell me that the mountain isn't talking" Rhaenys says mostly to herself.
"We might be in a bit of trouble" Jon says as he defends against the first brindleman attacking him, he sides steps and arcs his blade upwards slicing him from cock to head.
Then turns around and splits a man's belly open, he can see his intestines spill outwards as the man collapses backward shrieking.
Meanwhile Arthur is squaring up to Marlok who had a manic grin on his half melted face.
"So they sent the old man, was the young boy missing his mother too much" he says with a booming laughter.
Arthur says nothing and then spins his blade and with an overhead strike hits Marlok, but he blocks with the head of his warhammer and pushes Arthur's sword backwards in an attempt to push him off his feet, it may have worked on an amateur but he wasn't called the sword of the morning for no reason.
Arthur flows with the force of the push and ducks spinning around and dismembering one of his legs. Marlok falls down in pain as he grabs the stump of his leg.
"All brawn's and no brain, not even a challenge really" Arthur says looking down at the beaten man.
Before he can finish him the trembling starts to get worse and worse until it's difficult to even stand.
Jon deflects a hit from a brindlemans club, but before he can attack a rumble manages to drop him to the floor.
The brindlemen were not fairing any better but they could be seen with tears in their eyes and smiles on their face.
Arthur grabs Rhaenys and Jon grabs Sansa as they start to go up the path and get to the high ground.
Before Rhaenys leaves she attempts to grab the red stone from out of the pillar though when she does this Marlok screams at her and begins to crawl trying to get up is proving difficult with only one leg.
Jon sees he's about to grab her while she's prying the stone out with a dagger, he lets go of Sansa and runs and kicks him in the face making him fall to the fall.
Jon then grabs Rhaenys hand and as soon as their skin makes contact it's as if the world stood still, nothing else mattered in the world apart from this moment.
They felt the warm stirring in their chests immediately latch in to each other as if they were magnets. Rhaenys eyes begin to water as she looks into Jon's violet eyes.
"After so long... I finally found you" she says tearfully with a joyful smile on her face.
Jon understands why as he feels like he just had the sudden realisation that he's been carrying a heavy weight on his shoulders his whole life and only knew now how he it feels to be free of it.
They can't help but fall closer together until their faces are barely apart.
Though they are interrupted by Arthur charging and grabbing them lifting them both over his shoulders with ease.
"Oi Oi Oi, are you stupid or something did you really forget that this whole mountain range is about to collapse" he shouts while running to catch up with Sansa who is currently walk-in on a steep path up the mountain.
"I may not have beaten you, but you will still die today, you really don't realise what situation you find yourself in do you" He shouts with a grin on his face as his tribesmen crowd around him
The group ignore him as they attempt to get higher and higher.
"What the seven hells is going on Jon" Sansa shouts from above him as she climbs
"I have no idea, whatever the ritual did has done something to the mountain range" Jon replies.
"Is it me or is this mountain getting steeper" Rhaenys asks curiously as she starts to find it more difficult to climb.
"No you're right, it's not just that but it seems like we are higher up as well" Arthur says in confusion.
"Look all the birds are flying away" Sansa points out.
"It's not just the bird but everything is trying to leave" Arthur says looking behind him to the valley below.
"I have a bad feeling about this" Jon says with worry in his voice as he tries to start climbing quicker.
They manage to make it up the cliff that they were climbing and reach a flat bit of land, in front of them were two caves separated down the middle with more cliff.
"Jon look" Arthur says grabbing his attention, when Jon turns around he immediately notices what Arthur wanted him too.
"We really are moving upwards" Jon says "How is that even possible".
"Jon" Sansa says in a weak voice, Jon can hear the tremble in her voice and looks at her only to see her pointing at a mountain range that was moving around in all different directions completely ignoring what was possible.
"Is it just me or does that look like a hand wiggling around" Rhaenys says in a jokey manner, though no one around her takes it as such.
"Shit"
"Seven hells"
"We're gonna die!"
"Okay new plan, we run to those caves they can't be more than 1 mile away" Jon says before turning around and grabbing Sansas hand leading her over the rough terrain.
Arthur does the same for Rhaenys though she has more trouble as they had taken Rhaenys shoes long ago.
They run and run but it seems as if the terrain is getting harder to run on and getting steeper.
"We aren't going to make it" Sansa says hopelessly as she struggles to walk up the now steep terrain.
"It'll be fine Sansa I promised didn't I" Jon says with a smile.
*ROOOOAR*
*ROAAAAR*
*ROOOOAR*
They hear loads of roaring sounds as animals flee, they don't actually see it as they now have to hang onto the mountains as it has gotten too steep to walk.
They are being lifted into the air and they don't know how they'll get out of this Alive.
After what seems like hours the mountains seem to have stopped moving, the mountain range was gone the only thing left was a humanoid indentation and a humanoid made of stone in its place.
"This has to be a dream" Sansa says to herself as she clutches to the giants body.
"If it is please pinch me" Rhaenys shouts from further down.
"How're we going to get down its way too far" Sansa continues ignoring Rhaenys.
"This must be at least 10 times bigger than the Hightower in old town" Arthur mostly says to himself.
"Not helping Arthur" Jon says sternly as he reprimands him.
As they all clutch on for dear life they don't notice the wind start to pick up until it turns into small gale force wind.
"Is he breathing!!!" Jon shouts but no one can hear him over the high wind.
Eventually Sansa loses her grip and falls off the mountain, Rhaenys following immediately after her.
Their screams can be heard as they fall to what is most certainly their death.
Steeling himself Jon does the only thing he can think of which is pretty stupid.
Jon pushes himself back and jumps after them completely shocking Arthur as he saw Jon voluntarily jump
Off a cliff.
"That kid is a fucking moron!!!" Arthur says as he jumps after Jon not realising the irony of it.
Arthur manages to catch up to Jon as they fall though they have to dodge a lot of falling boulders and trees unless they want to smack head first into it.
Jon can see Sansa and rhaenys who made falling together though they haven't managed to balance their fall and are flipping around all over the place.
Jon realises Arthur us by him and grabs him by the arm and pulls him close.
"I need you to throw me!" He shouts while Arthur looks at him as if he's crazy but then he sighs and then grabs his arm and spins around in the air launching Jon towards the girls.
Pushing himself over a falling tree and flipping over a rock he gets closer and closer to the girls, close enough that he can hear them screaming.
Suddenly he's launched away as someone grabs him in the air. He looks at the one who's grabbed him
And realises who it was.
Marlok who's completely fallen into madness can be seen grabbing Jon's arm as they fall together.
"You thought you could escape boy, but you can't, you will die with us and god shall walk over your body trampling the world and making it a new!" He shouts while laughing and then draws his fist back punching Jon knocking the sense out of him.
Though Marlok isn't the only one falling as the tribesmen also are falling.
Arthur rights himself in the air and sees Jon in trouble but before he can think of helping he's grabbed by a tribesman who tries attacking him but is quickly dispatched when Arthur brings his dagger into his eye.
He then climbs on top of him and jumps off his body launching himself towards Jon, he sees dozens more tribesmen falling in his direction and he pulls himself onto a falling boulder. He then draws dawn and side flips off of it decapitating an approaching tribes man and then thrusts into another one approaching from the left and pushes himself off the body trying to get to Jon.
Though they are very quickly approaching the ground what seems to be the colossal man's hand raises itself to its head, that simple motion being done by a creature so big managed to create an updraft lifting everything that had was currently falling off the creature back up.
Arthur, Jon and everyone feels confused as for a second they stop falling only to then begin falling towards the sky.
"Are we falling upwards" everyone says as they look in disbelief as the ground gets further and further away.
However Marlok isn't giving Jon any leeway as he continues pummelling him, Jon mostly manages to keep the damage to his chest as that's where his armour is but he's now currently sporting a black eye and busted lip as he tries to escape the large man's grasp.
As they reach the Apex of their height and then slowly begin to fall back down, Jon lifts his leg up and blocks the punch though it still makes his bones ache he kicks Marlok in the face, takes his dagger out and stabs his arm making him let go of Jon.
Jon uses his agility and small size to climb around and position himself on his back.
"I guess you won't be seeing this new world after all" Jon says coldly before jumping using his body as a board launching him closer to the ground and Jon closer to the girls.
Reaching them and grabbing both of them with each hand he stabilises them in the air just in time for Arthur to join them as he just finished killing another tribesman.
"Great looks like we can all die together" Rhaenys shouts with visible sarcasm.
Jon sees something in the distance and then he lets go and draws on his magic.
Arthur resigning himself to his fate of being painting all over the forest floor is surprised when he looks at Jon only for his eyes to be a milky white.
*ROAAAAAARR*
Arthur turns as a Wyvern swoops down and dives underneath them catching them and then extending its wings flying upwards mere seconds before hitting the ground.
"IS THAT A DRAGON" Arthur and Sansa shout in surprise as they hang onto the creature for dear life.
Jon's eyes return to normal as he grabs onto the creatures neck directing it away from the falling debris once they manage to get out of harms way.
"How the fuck did you do that" Arthur shouts shaking Jon back and forth.
"I couldn't at first I tried to warg it but it's like it ignored me, but then I remembered when you said dragon taming for a Targaryen is in the blood and wyverns are in the same family so I combined it and I managed to tame it when I warged to it" Jon explains.
"I'm just going to ignore how little sense that makes because we are alive" Rhaenys says holding onto the wyvern as if it were a lifeline.
"We can leave yet" Jon states seriously as he directs the Wyvern to fly upwards.
"Why not, we barely survived getting off the mountain and now you want to bring us back to it!" Sansa shouts as she looks incredulously at Jon.
"She's right we can leave now" Arthur says in the same disbelieving tone.
"Did you really not listen to Marlok at all!" Jon shouts back at them.
"He said this creature would trample the earth and become the new god of it" He continues.
"Whether this thing is a god or just some creature from a long time ago we can't let it stay alive" Jon says with a serious expression.
"Jon you're insane what can we do against a creature this massive" Sansa tries to reason with Jon.
"I don't know Sansa but I know I can't just do nothing" Jon says frustratedly.
"I might have a way" Rhaenys says quietly as the others look at her.
"I was saving this for something special but I think this might be a bit more important" Rhaenys says lifting the Sorcerers stone into view.
"How will that help" Arthur asks looking in aw at the crimson glow of the stone.
"This empowers a mage to proportions unheard of" Rhaenys explains.
"Most of it was used restarting the heart or core of this beast, but there is still quite a lot left at least in human standards" she continues.
"But it doesn't matter how much the spell is empowered it will be too weak" Jon says which causes Rhaenys to turn to him.
"I know a spell that was used by the Valyrians during their war with the Rhoynar, it sunk one of their island cities into the ocean, I originally planned to use it on pentos so I'm not sure if it'll work though I do know it took 100 mages to pull off" Rhaenys states as everyone listens.
Agreeing to the plan Jon keeps directing the Wyvern until they manage to get close to the face of the human monolith.
"Get us to the forehead" Rhaenys commands as Jon listens and gets them close, Rhaenys then jumps off the Wyvern onto the creatures forehead and Jon follows her.
"Stay back we don't need to all be in danger" Jon commands as he leaps off the wyvern landing next to his sister.
She clutches the stone and begins chanting in what sounds like Valyrian the wind starts to pick up and the area begins to warm up, red lightning begins sparking from the stone as magic starts to drain from it, eventually it turns black and crumbles into dust though Rhaenys still keeps chanting.
While that's happening creatures can be seen burrowing out of the giants head, they have four legs and a mane around their head that looks like slimy tentacles they seem to be apart of the giants body and want to get rid of the intruders.
"Rhaenys you might want to hurry up we seem to be in a bit of trouble" Jon says slowly as he draws his sword.
He looks to see that Rhaenys is chanting a bit faster so he steels himself to try and buy her as much time as possible.
The first creature charges and Jon fires a ball of flames at it to distract it, it hits it directly in the face and it starts screeching Jon steps to the side of it drawing his blade upwards and cuts its head off but then he's set upon by anther creature being pounced on.
He is pinned to the floor as the creature tries to rip his throat out, Jon tries to keep control of his body while partitioning his mind.
He manages to do this though the strain makes him bleed from his nose and eyes.
The result of this was the Wyvern swooping down and clutching the creature between its talons and dripping it off the stone giant.
Jon releases direct control of the Wyvern and gets back up and manages to side step another creature and stab it through the heart his sword entering just behind its front leg.
Jon then goes back to Rhaenys to see how close she is to completing the spell.
She looks pale and is sweating, Jon realises that it must be magical exhaustion as he can recognise the symptoms so he grabs onto Rhaenys hand their close connection instantly intensifying, and he directs his magic into her.
Colour returns to her face as the chanting picks up intensity. Suddenly the chanting ends and then she slaps her hand on the floor and shouts
"Vhagar qilōnarion"
The rumbling starts again as fiery lines began to spread through the mountains burning it from the inside out.
*EEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHH*
The creature bellowed as me and Rhaenys began to run we jumped off the mountain and began to fall for the second time that day, I felt my connection with the Wyvern and commanded it to come to me.
I heard it roar as it entered a dive and swooped us up. I got to it's neck to begin directing it.
The wind currents were completely messing with our flying as the colossal giant was thrashing around.
One particularly strong air current pushed the Wyvern straight forward and we ended up headed straight for the ground.
Jon puts his arm in front of the Wyvern and pools his magic into his hand concentrating it in one spot and as they were spiralling closer and closer to the ground Jon releases a burst of magic the force of the explosion stabilising their flight as the Wyvern manages to land roughly rather than crash.
"Is everyone okay" Arthur asks as he was thrown off the wyvern, he gets up and runs to the girls who were also thrown clear.
Looking for Jon he finds that he's still on the Wyvern as he is holding his arms around his neck, Jon hops off the check on Sansa and Rhaenys.
"Are you girls okay" Jon asks with concern is his voice.
"I feel like I just fell off a mountain" Rhaenys says not bothering to stand up
"I can't believe we actually made it off the mountain" Sansa says star fishing on the ground.
A loud rumble gets the groups attention and they all turn to see the colossal monster clutching its head in pain but otherwise okay.
"Fuck" says Arthur
"Did we really do nothing to it" Jon says in disbelief.
"Well he is supposed to be a god, no?" Rhaenys says sitting up.
"What're we going to do!" Sansa says in a panic as she sides up to Jon holding his arm.
"It's obvious we get the hell out of here" Arthur states as he dusts himself off.
"We tried but we failed, now we just hope he doesn't know how to swim" He continues.
"No" Jon states with a serious expression on his face as he looks up at the living god.
"No? are you a fool, there's nothing else we can do" Rhaenys says walking up to Jon reprimanding him.
"I got an idea that might work" Jon says rubbing his head.
"Yeah cause all great plans start with it might work" Arthur says huffing in disbelief.
"I need Dawn" Jon says bluntly.
Arthur narrows his eyes trying to figure out his plan but eventually just sighs.
"You know only the Sword of the Morning is supposed to use this" he says jokingly as he takes his scabbard off his sword belt and hands it Jon.
"Give it a year I'm sure I'll get there" Jon says with a smile on his face.
"I want you guys to start heading as far off as you can I'll catch up with you" Jon says seriously as he equips dawn to his belt.
Before they can even raise and argument Jon holds up his hand snd interrupts them.
"Don't worry I'll be fine, I'll see you soon" Jon says a smile on his face.
Rhaenys huffs and walks up to Jon poking him straight in the chest.
"You better, we have a lot to talk about so don't think you're getting out of it" She says with a serious expression, then surprising everyone she grabs his face and kisses him on the lips.
Being caught off guard Jon can only reciprocate the kiss, the connection they share flaring to life as they lose themselves in each others embrace.
Sansa can't help but have mixed feelings as she looks at the scene in front of her, she clenches her fists as she feels a slight pain in her chest.
Rhaenys backs away from the kiss her face fully flushed and without saying s word backs away.
Sansa comes up to Jon and throws herself around him hugging him tight feeling tears go down her face.
"Be safe please" she says quietly as Jon hugs her back.
She can't help but feel safe in his arms, his body feels warm and she feels as if she could drift off to sleep in his arms.
"I'll be back soon don't worry" Jon says with a smile.
Turning around Jon is met with the narrowed eyes of Arthur Dayne.
"You know I'd be a pretty piss poor kingsguard if I let you go back alone" Arthur says with frustration.
"Good thing you're not a kingsguard yet" Jon says with a smile as he clasps hands with Arthur.
"Besides there's another Targaryen that needs just as much protection" Jon says before letting go.
"I'll have this dealt with soon no need to worry" Jon says as he winks then climbs back on the Wyvern and takes off.
(Jon POV)
'while that did sound pretty heroic and brave, my plan is pretty bare' I think to myself as I command the dragon upwards
Flying up into the sky dodging any falling rocks we finally get to be eye level with the monster.
I take dawn out and feel the connection I have to the sword immediately as I channel as much magic as I can without passing out.
"āeksio ōños" I say quietly.
White hot flames erupt around the blade burning so hot even the Wyvern seems to feel the heat, I calm it through the bond we share and keep on feeding magic into the blade.
I then push the magic outwards while keeping it condensed, the result being the blade growing in size as a sword of white hot flames is forming.
It catches the attention of the giant as he sees the massive sword start to form.
In the corner of my eye I can see it start to teach for me with its massive hand, I direct the Wyvern into a dive, as we fall downwards I aim for the gap between its fingers.
I then even us out and and direct us towards the giants wrist.
As we fly under I extend the sword of flames even more and it cuts through the giants wrist like butter.
The monster screeches in pain as it looks at his stump.
'Okay it works now I just need to do it again' I thinks to myself as i go back to being eye level with the creature.
Pouring more and more magic into the blade making it hotter and longer I realise I'm at my limit.
Breathing heavily I start to sweat 'I won't be able to finish it with this, it isn't even half as much as I need" I think as I start to feel dizzy.
But then I think back to when me and Rhaenys completed the spell and how I supplied her with magic.
I focus on my bond with the wyvern and look into it finding what I need.
"I'm sorry" I say even if it can't understand me.
I then pull on the bond absorbing all the magic I can and when that runs out I start to absorb its life force. It screams in pain and eventually it goes limp.
Before it falls from the sky I jump off and pour all the magic I absorbed into Dawn and with an overhead strike I slice down from above and the blade goes straight through the top of his head.
As I fall the blade continues to slice through his body until I fall past his groin and I see a giant red line straight down the middle.
Time seems to stand still as the creature looks down at me and tries to move only for one side of him to lean to far in one direction and fall off entirely.
"Heh, god my ass" I say to myself as I fall.
'Didn't really think of an exit strategy, I'm glad the rest of them are safe and they have Arthur with them' I think to myself as I smile and close my eyes falling to my death.
(AN: and that's it. End of the Arc, maybe I should call it the stone god arc or maybe something cool idk, I basically come up with an arc story and then I type as I go. Anyway hope you enjoyed it hope it wasn't too cringe hope the actions scenes were okay and felt cool, let me know what you guys think)