Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon.

Chapter 78 Dancing on the Edge of a Knife (Part )
At noon on the seventh day after being forcibly detained in the deep waters outside the fishing village of Yuya Castle, the fleet that blockaded the sea received news that it was being released.

No one asked why they were allowed to pass; everyone just wanted to leave the place as soon as possible.

As the Jennah and the Valyrian brought several small fleets patrolling the sea into the harbor, no one stopped the foreign merchant ships that had been stranded in the fishing village for a long time. No one wanted to enter the Broken Ship Bay again, and all the ships weighed anchor and sailed away from the waters of Rain House City.

The three merchant ships Viserys was aboard were no exception. They immediately entered the Narrow Sea.

Viserys estimated that Renly had died long ago, and Stannis' siege of Storm's End had ended. Stannis was about to gather an army and march towards King's Landing by sea and land.

Viserys knew very well that when he was in the middle of a game, no one could see through the fog of war. He had no spies or intelligence sources, and could only infer the most likely situation based on various details.

And now, he needs to rush to the waters near Dragonstone immediately and wait for Stannis's navy to move north into Blackwater Bay.

And that was the moment Viserys needed!

After the merchant ships entered the Narrow Sea, Viserys ordered them to head north to the waters of Stonefort on Cape Marseille.

After this order was issued to each ship, Viserys's destination gradually became clear. The sailors who had been detained on the merchant ship for a long time and not allowed to disembark, and who were monitored and controlled by the Unsullied, and who felt that they were sailing towards death, finally protested on the Narrow Sea.

The two rowing boats in front of the merchant ship stopped rowing on the rainy night of the second day heading north in the Narrow Sea.

The Summer Sun was the first to riot. The rowing sailors went up on deck and demanded that the captain and first mate give an explanation as to whether the agreement with "that lord" was still valid. Then the Joker Yoso, which was not far away, also had a similar commotion.

It was the Unsullied's warning horn that sounded, and Viserys realized that the ship stopped on the sea not because of wind and rain, but because of a commotion in the rowing boat ahead.

As the core ship of the Grole fleet, most of the sailors on the Cedurian were recruited by him, and the stewards were also his own people. They all recognized him as the captain and knew that the captain had become a subordinate of "that lord". Some people were also recruited into his fleet by him in recent days.

And the three giant dragons were on board.

When the news reached here, Daenerys was quite flustered. She had never seen anything like a military mutiny. She could only look at Viserys nervously: "Brother, what are you going to do?"

"Dany, now you know why I have to bring two hundred Unsullied with me on this 'return home'. I wouldn't trade them for two hundred skilled knights!" Viserys gave her a helpless look and said, "Put on that half-plate. Let's go out and reason with them. Remember to wear a helmet."

In Tyrosh, Viserys asked Grolal, the commander of the First Fleet, to help him buy a half-armor armor and a gold-plated helmet, a specialty of Tyrosh. Leather is not heat-resistant and easily loses its plasticity and deforms when heated, but he was afraid that the heat would damage Daenerys if he wore a full armor, so he finally decided to buy a half-armor armor for Daenerys. The helmet was similar, so he bought a helmet that was said to be heat-resistant, and the helmet was lined with more than a dozen layers of heat-insulating silk.

Silk is not fire-resistant, but they did experiments and found that there is no problem if you wear it without it coming into contact with flames.

Viserys decided to let Daenerys wear it only in situations where there was no need to cast intense fire magic, to cover her head and face and add majesty.

The armor and helmet are actually a bit ill-fitting, but as a makeshift measure, I can only endure it for the time being.

Daenerys had learned from her experience the last time, so she wrapped herself in layers of silk before putting on the armor. By the time she was done, Viserys had removed the window from the side she had later put on boards and damaged part of the hull.

She climbed skillfully onto Viserys's dragon, hugged his neck and rushed out of the window with him.

The young dragon wanted to follow, but was locked in a cage and couldn't get out, and Viserys didn't want to take it with him - the young dragon liked to use roars to intimidate, and when it encountered an unfamiliar creature for the first time, it would try to scare other creatures by roaring like a carnivore to verify its own ecological niche.

Speaking of which, Daenerys has always had a knot in her heart about the young dragon since she felt that she was almost "harmed" in her dream that day. She has not named it yet. Although she has taken good care of it, she only calls it "it". Viserys sometimes thinks that this may be the reason why Daenerys has not been able to "tame" the young dragon so far.

As soon as he got out of the window, Viserys' body instantly grew several times larger. In fact, it was meaningless to grow larger now except to intimidate ordinary people. In order not to be seen by people far away, he planned to fly close to the sea surface. The larger body would only increase the labor.

But judging strength by body size has always been immediate.

Tear.

All we heard was the loud sound of wings flapping in the air, and we knew they had already flown a long way over the sea.

Grolai, who was anxiously waiting for Viserys's orders outside the deck passage, heard the strange and loud noise and felt a gust of hot wind blowing from the side of the ship. He hurried to the edge of the deck and looked to the side.

On the sea surface in the night, not far from the side of the Cydurion, a huge three-headed beast was flying close to the sea surface, with a knight who looked only as big as a bean on his back.

Grolai opened his mouth wide, unable to imagine how such a huge beast as big as half a ship could be hidden in such a small room. Was this the same dragon he had seen in the room?
Grolai remembered asking Viserys: "Why don't you just use coercive means to control all the crew members? We dare not resist you, but you want to use agreements and gold coins to constrain us, and also ask me to recruit those who are really willing to join me. If they don't agree, don't force them?"

"Because I do not need their loyalty," Viserys said. "All I want is an experienced captain like you, but you must find a way to build your own crew. Those you recruit will be yours."

At that time, Grolai didn't believe it, thinking that Viserys looked down on the sailors on his ship. But now, seeing the size of the giant beast, Grolai was very sure that Viserys was telling the truth. And he was not wrong. Viserys did look down on the sailors on his ship, and he really didn't need them.

It turns out.

The violent cognitive instinct of "big is strong, huge is extremely strong" always exists in people's hearts.

When the protesting sailors heard the strange noise, looked around, and saw a huge body fanning hot winds slowly rising from the side of the stopped rowing boat into the air, the commotion stopped almost the moment Viserys appeared.

Fortunately, the situation did not develop into a bloody incident.

Viserys was willing to reason with them and make an agreement, so when the sailors protested, they wanted to use the agreement to restrain him rather than engage in violent conflict with the Unsullied.

So the sailors and the Unsullied were very restrained.

Despite this, after Viserys appeared, the sailors were so frightened that they dared not move, and the leaders were so scared that they wet their pants.

After intimidating the crowd, Viserys began to speak: "I am a reasonable man. The agreement has been issued, and it will be implemented according to the agreement. Who has doubts about the agreement? I give you a chance. Now, speak your doubts."

No one dared to mention it.

So the commotion stopped here.

When setting off again.

Dozens of instigators were named, and Viserys had the Unsullied take back the gold they had been given when they were stranded in Rainhouse, and then had them brought to the Cedurian. These people were actually just being kept under strict control by Grole and assigned to hard labor, but Viserys didn't let the rowers in front know what they had been through.

After this little incident, no one on the ship questioned Viserys' decision anymore.

The merchant ship arrived at Stonehenge a few days later and stayed there for a short time. After discovering that the blockade of Dragonstone did not extend here, the merchant ship continued to sail towards the Point and the Throat at Viserys' radical request.

The Throat is a narrow waterway between Dragonstone and Cape Marseilles. As the name suggests, it is a choke point. It is the entrance and exit of Blackwater Bay and the Narrow Sea, and is the only way for Stannis' fleet to reach King's Landing.

Near the tip, Viserys and his party encountered a patrol fleet of small ships that Stannis used to block the throat. Unlike the fleet at Rain House City, the fleet here did not drive them to a certain place to stay, but forced them to stop and declared that "this road is blocked", requiring them to turn elsewhere immediately.

So Viserys and his merchant ships turned northeast and tried to sail to the waters of Dragonstone, but they were also blocked by a patrol fleet near Dragonstone. They announced that the port of Dragonstone was not open to the public at the moment and asked them to stay away.

So Viserys ordered the merchant ships to sail back to Stonehenge on the sea.

He could only wait for news of the opening of Dragonstone and the Throat with the stranded merchant ships of the Free Trade Cities near Stonehenge.

About two weeks later, the wind started to blow from the south and a storm of moderate size arose in the nearby sea.

It was noon that day, and a storm had just ended. The sea was rough and the waves were surging.

Amid the sound of surging waves, the rumbling of drums and war trumpets crossed the sea, and the whistles were hoarse and deep, like the call of the devil.

Everyone who heard the sound looked toward the southeast.

On the southeast sea, warships were moving forward with the tide, stretching out in a line that could not be seen at the end. It was a huge fleet, with the distance between ships no more than twenty yards. The sea breeze blew the red, orange and yellow tricolor flags on the ships high.

Looking far ahead, you can see thousands of wooden oars rising and falling, hitting the water, creating shimmering waves. The drum beats are like a giant, gentle heartbeat, and with each beat, the oars move a little, like countless boats spreading their wooden wings at the same time.

Leading the way were the nobles' ships. Looking far away, one could only make out some general colors: there was gold and black - that was probably the crowned stag of Baratheon, there was red and white - that was probably the red and gold fox of the Florent family, there were lapis lazuli flowers, there was white and green - probably a silver seahorse on a sea green background of the Velaryon, there was gray and black - probably the small black ship with a gray background of the Onion Knights. The white onions on the black ship could not be seen due to the distance, and there were many more. The red crabs with a white background of the Celtigar family of Crab Island were also red and white. After seeing the back, Viserys could no longer tell which families those colors belonged to.

Behind the nobles' ships came large merchant ships, Myrish warships, longships, Lysian warships, and painted-hulled pirate ships.
In front of the dilapidated window of the luxurious room of the Cedurian, which was haphazardly nailed with boards, Viserys asked Daenerys, who was standing beside his three heads: "Did you count them?"

Daenerys muttered, "More than two hundred!"

Daenerys stood at the window and was amazed by the huge fleet.

Viserys mourned for the dying men in the room.

(End of this chapter)