Chapter 38.6- The Seadragon's Roar

I closed my eyes, slipping from my mind into Igneel’s with far more ease than before the poisoning. It was quicker and easier than breathing sometimes. I did it by accident more often than not. But now it was intentional. We fused, and I beheld the sprawling castle with razor sharp clarity.

Vhagar was behind us. With better hearing, I could hear her scales cut through the wind as she shot at the ground spy qwuick;y I suspected she was going more crashing than landing it would be best to get out of her way. I trusted Laena’s control, but it was best to not go e the Bronze bitch any openings. Igneel chortled at the nickname even as we banked left and allowed her shoot past us. She was land in the middle of Sunspear. We left her to do her thing. Vhagar excelled at indiscriminate violence.

We could do that as well, but where we excelled was in the discrimination. Okay, wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Not like that. Discrimination in the sense that we were like a scalpel compared to th canon that Laena and Vhagar could be. Not in the other form. We started at the walls.

‘Dracarys’ I whispered in the mind of my oldest and best friend and we flew along the innermost wall, unleashing flames that consumed the men who manned it. Then we turned inwards, heading for the Sandship next. The ancient stronghold of House Martell fell easily under our might, and then we went for the tower of the Sun. The Spear Tower had already fallen to Vhagar’s rampage. That was how we spent the next hour. Laena and Vhagar remained in the middle of the castle destroying everything around them with claw, tail, and flame, while Igneel and I circled the castle. We incinerated every attempt to escape, quelled every attempt at resistance, and for the most part just let Laena and Vhagar do their thing.

When the massive dragon had tired of stomping things with her feet, she shot into the air again. Igneel and I banked away to give her space as she covered everything in her flames, going over and over again with the bronze fire. That landed with explosive force that smote down everything the massive dragon hadn’t already leveled with her bulk.

In the end, Sunspear had stood mighty and proud two hours ago. Now where there had been a massive fortress made of towers and keeps, there was naught but rubble. Rubble with two intact walls encircling it from without.

Laena turned her gaze to me, and then gestured at the walls. I nodded, and Igneel and I shot down.

“Brace yourself” I said, words leaving my lips to warn Ben as Igneel and I crashed straight through the first set of walls. Laena and Vhagar were doing the same on the other end.

The great fortress Sunspear stood for centuries before Aegon’s conquest. Even before the Doom of Valyria. And all of it fell in less than three hours. Less time than it would have taken someone to navigate the mazes that separated the walls.