Beginning of the End | House Of The Dragon

7.2

3RD PERSON

With all of the other family members otherwise 'occupied' no one noticed the so called twins slip from their beds to followed the Velaryon boys and Targaryen twins out of the castle and down into the caves. Everyone called them twins even though they were two years apart because Alysanne was so small, and you never saw the two of them apart; they even rode twin dragons.

"What are we doing?" Alysanne asked grumpily.

"Someone stole Vhagar." Baela filled them in.

Madoc blanched and would have stopped walking completely if it weren't for Alysanne dragging him by the front of his shirt. "What, how do you steal a dragon? I don't think it works like that Baela."

"Vhagar was my mother's dragon, she would have wanted me to claim her." Both Pendragon's shared a look but kept their mouths shut. Rhaena had already had plenty of time to claim Vhagar already, they thought, so how could she be mad that someone had beat her to it.

Alysanne was squinting into the dark torchlight passageways as the outline of a person started to make itself known. The Pendragon 'twins' shared a look once more, though this time in suprise, as it became apparent that Prince Aemond had been the outline Alysanne had been squinting at.

Though it wasn't his presence or him having been the one to claim Vhagar that surprised them, that was was least suprising, it was the confident way he now held himself that perplexed them. It was if that by claiming the old she-dragon, she had somehow shared with Aemond parts of her own personality.

"It's him." Baella pointed out the obvious as she looked angrily at her cousin.

"It's me."

"Vhagar is my mother's dragon." Was, Madoc thought. She was your mother's dragon. 

"Your mother's dead, and Vhagar has a new rider now." He had a point, though Alysanne didn't think he had to be so rude about it. It kind of made her cross and she crossed her arms over her chest to show that fact.

Rhaena tried to say that she had wanted to claim Vhagar, but when Aemond told her she should have then, Alysanne and Madoc couldn't help but agree. He was voicing their own thoughts from mere moments earlier and just like then, they now kept their silence about that fact.

"Maybe your cousins can find you a pig to ride. It would suit you." Aemond spoke tauntingly to the young Princess. But Rhaena was the blood of the dragon, the daughter of the Rogue Prince, Daemon Targaryen himself and she would not take this slight.

Although usually an observer of the chaos he usually created Madoc acted when Aemond pushed a charging Rhaena, although he himself mischievous and liked to tease the girls, he knew it was wrong to actually hit a Lady.

He rushed forward and without thinking punched the Prince in the face; an offense punishable by death or enough to at least cost him the offending hand. Baela came up beside Madoc and was the one who ended up taking the punch to the face from Aemond that had beem meant in retaliation for him.

Aemond looked shocked at what he'd done but it was only for a split second before he kneed Madoc in the crotch. "Come at me again and I'll feed you to my dragon!" He tried to threaten, but it only worsened Madoc's temper and he gladly joined in with the Velaryon boys when they ganged up on the young Targaryen Prince.

Jace was pushed away, Luke was punched straight in the face, and Mads took one to the jaw. Jace was the quickest to stand back up, to shove the Prince back and start blindly beating at him. All of the other children quickly joined in as well, except Alysanne whom just stood there wide eyed and wondered how everything had happend so fast.