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Prologue/Chapter 1: The Kraken's Doom

Year 289 AC

End of the Greyjoy Rebellion

Great Hall, Pyke, Seat of power of House Greyjoy in the Iron Islands

Eddard and his men bashed through the heavy wooden door and subdued the Ironborn easily with their superior numbers. Some Ironborn fought and died others surrendered. Eddard watched as his men manhandled Balon Greyjoy to the ground as well as his brother Euron who was putting up such a fight it took five men to tie him up. The floor of the Great Hall was littered with dead bodies, most Ironborn but some Stark soldiers. All this death could have been avoided if Balon Greyjoy had just been content to stay as Lord of the Iron Islands instead of raiding the western coast of Westeros. What was worse is that on one such raid Euron Greyjoy had kidnapped Alyssa Arryn, oldest daughter to Jon Arryn who was as good as a little sister to Eddard and was to become his actual sister in-law by marriage to his younger brother Benjen. The guilt of being responsible for her when she was kidnapped had been gnawing at Eddard ever since she had been whisked away from the North.

More men spilled into the Great Hall baring the sigil of the Arryn Household. Eddard nodded to them and announced that the Greyjoys were to wait for the King to pass judgement. No doubt Robert was enjoying himself on the battlefield, thought Eddard. It was his duty to hold the captives until Robert got to the Great Hall.

Eddard's attention was drawn to Euron Greyjoy as he started laughing manically while staring at something behind Eddard's shoulder. Eddard was about to order he be gagged when an arrow whistled past him and embedded itself in Euron's midriff. Eddard whipped around with his sword drawn to see Alyssa Arryn advancing on Euron with a bow drawn.

No this wasn't Alyssa this was her twin sister Kenna, thought Ned.

Eddard yelled for Kenna to stop but she released another arrow while walking to Euron's position. It found its way to Euron's shoulder. Eddard was about to grab Kenna as she walked past him on her way to Euron but found Benjen blocking his way.

"Let this happen brother," Benjen implored. "He deserves this."

"He deserves the King's justice, which requires the King to pass sentence," Eddard said stoically.

"We found Alyssa, she … Euron hurt her brother .. Euron raped her," Benjen said in a quiet voice full of emotion.

Ned looked at Kenna, she was Alyssa's twin it couldn't have been easy seeing your own likeness in pain. Ned remembered finding his own sister in a state of pain. Ned could understand the fury in her eyes as she released her third arrow. It struck Euron in his upper torso. Throughout the encounter Euron had kept laughing. His manic tones were bouncing of the walls of the Great Hall making it appear that there were multiple Euron's laughing all around the Great Hall.

"You look so like your sister," Euron slurred, "except for that look of fear she has you don't have that yet but don't worry someday someone will break you too," Euron promised while spitting out blood.

Kenna was only a few metres away from Euron and shed her bow and now arrow-empty satchel to reveal a short dagger in her hand. She ran the last few steps and lunged at Euron. The dagger plunged into Euron's body with little accuracy. Euron continued to laugh and in turn this seemed to fuel Kenna's frenzied attack. She didn't stop when blood splattered across her face and started to soak into her clothes or when Euron stopped laughing and breathing. But when a hand grabbed her raised arm. She turned her head to stare at Eddard Stark. His eyes were full of concern.

"Enough", he said softly.

"Do you know what he did to Alyssa?" Kenna said gulping in breaths and straddling Euron's dead body.

"Yes, I have sent Benjen and a few men to escort your sister back to the ships." He took a moment before continuing "I think you should join them and return to the Vale."

Kenna nodded, "Yes I will but first I need proof to show my sister that Euron Greyoy is dead and can't hurt her anymore."

It took Ned a few moments to understand her intentions. He released her arm and stepped back away from Kenna avoiding the pool of blood growing from Euron's corpse.

Kenna positioned the dagger at Euron's throat and her other hand on top of his lifeless head. She pushed down with all her strength and after a few dozen slashing motions his head was separated from his body.

Kenna stood up, dropped her dagger and held Euron's head in her hands staring into his lifeless eyes. Balon Greyjoy showed no emotion for his dead brother instead remained kneeling on the ground looking defeated but defiant.

Kenna backed away from Euron's headless body and turned to leave. Eddard couldn't keep the shock off his face as the blue cloth of her battle garments were fully soaked in blood. Her face was streaked in red lines, with some of her hair sticking across her face. It was her eyes that worried Eddard the most. The feral, uncontrollable rage was clear to see. He was sure his men were giving her the same look of bewilderment.

"I want the crew of Euron's ship too," Kenna said coldly. Some Arryn men bowed and gathered the still alive men who bore Euron's personalised sigil.

As Kenna left flanked by her Arryn guards Eddard could only stare at the bloody footprints that she left behind leading back to the now headless Euron Greyjoy. How was he going to explain to Robert that he had failed to keep the King's justice?

He needn't have worried. When Robert had made it to the Greyjoy's Great Hall followed by Jamie Lannister, the King Slayer, and a small army he simply bemoaned missing the carnage.

"I would have paid good money to see Kenna take that fuckers head off. You know if she hadn't have killed him I would have had him stung up by his balls until he begged for death," Robert roared while slapping Eddard's back. "Now let's deal with the living Greyjoys shall we," pointing towards Balon and his two remaining children.

Author Notes:

Hey everyone,

Hope you enjoyed the prologue! There is a lot more to come.

Main aim of this story is to answer the question – What if House Arryn had agreed to fight with the Starks in the War of the Five Kings?

I really didn't want to input my own character into the story but I didn't think there were any Arryn characters that could hold the story together and take it in the directions that I want to go in.

I know my OC here doesn't really utter many words but actions speak louder than words, right?

This story will be following cannon loosely until the latter episodes in Season 1 on the TV show then it is an AU. The story takes its sweet time ramping up to the action and intrigue after this prologue but I think scenes have to be earned to be believable and this is going to be a long story

I am finding the writing process really fun but I am still new to the whole community so any advice and thoughts are welcome

Let me know your thoughts! Please review!

Information for the series/novel

This whole story will have three distinctive arcs. All three arcs will be contained in this story/publication and I will just fiddle with the tags when necessary.

I will aim to update every weekend, probably on Sundays. I have written most of ARC I (this story) out but will review each chapter again before I publish it. I am polishing the ending up as well.

I have bullet pointed ARC II & I have an end game (see what I did there?) in mind for ARC III but I want to see the ending of Season 8 Game of Thrones before finalising that.

Also although reviews are great (seriously they are amazing to get) I don't write for them so this story will steamroll its way to an end regardless of if it get reviews or not. I write for fun and all the cool situations I can put G.O.T characters through.

Cheers,

R.M