The trio, with an excitement they could barely contain, reached the rge building they believed to be the dragon tower from the barrier where they had left Elenya in a shorter time than the day before. When they arrived in front of the building's massive 10-meter-high door, Tayn, unable to hold back his excitement any longer, spoke:
"Friends, today will be the day Valyria rises from its ashes. And we will be its new founders. Our names will be written in history in golden letters!"
As soon as Tayn finished speaking, Sezayi turned to him and said,
"This is just the beginning, Vaer. To build the true Valyria, we need not only dragons but also people. Even if we have everything, the Valyria we build will not be like the old one. The old Valyria fell because it became intoxicated with its own power, trusting it too much. But the Valyria we will create will not be like that. We will choose simplicity over ornamentation and extravagance. And we will use the fall of the old Valyria as a lesson to remind ourselves that even dragons can face situations they cannot overcome."
Arda, impatiently, interjected,
"That's all well and good, but couldn't we say these things after we find our dragons? What are we waiting for? Let's go inside!"
Sezayi nodded and pushed the door. The heavy creak of the door filled the silence, and the trio stepped into the dark corridor. They quickly made their way through the path and the stairs they had taken slowly the day before. When they reached the corridor where the bcksmith and the warrior had been, they entered the dark passage where Sezayi had found the cat-sized dragon bones and the decayed dagger, with Sezayi leading, Arda in the middle, and Tayn at the back.
After walking for ten minutes in the narrow, dark passage, they arrived at a hall 100 meters wide, supported by dozens of columns reaching up to a ceiling 50 meters high. The hall, like the entrance below, was illuminated by light falling from the stones in the ceiling.
Seeing the size of the hall, Tayn excimed,
"Vaegon, you came to such a pce yesterday and didn't tell me. I was worried about you, you bastard."
Sezayi, slightly irritated, snapped,
"Enough already! You've been calling me a bastard since yesterday. If you don't stop, I'll cut you down!"
Arda, amused, intervened,
"Alright, alright, calm down, Vaegon. We won't call you a 'bastard' anymore. Let's forget about these words. Where are our dragons, Vaegon?"
Sezayi replied to Arda's question,
"I don't know either. When I came here yesterday, I only checked the doors near those columns. From what I understand, the rooms get bigger as you go further in," and he pointed to two 5-meter-high dark red doors next to a column about ten meters ahead, which the other two hadn't noticed before.
As they moved toward the two rge doors near the columns Sezayi had pointed out, Tayn eagerly stepped forward:
"Then the bigger rooms must have bigger dragons! No need to waste time with the small ones, let's go straight to the farthest ones!"
Sezayi rolled his eyes at Tayn's impatience and replied calmly,
"We don't know what's ahead, Tayn. If we rush while unraveling the secrets of this pce, we could meet our end before even seeing a single dragon."
Arda shrugged and interjected,
"Alright, alright, let's do as Sezayi says. But if I don't see a dragon within an hour, I'll break down the first door I find."
The trio carefully advanced along the columns. The echoing of their footsteps in the hall emphasized the vastness of the space even more.Twenty minutes had passed since they first saw the doors, but they still hadn’t come across a new one. After walking for a few more minutes, they spotted two 10-meter-high doors next to a column ahead, rger than the ones they had seen before. These doors, like the previous ones, were also a deep red color.
Upon seeing the door, the trio, just in case, stashed their bows into their carrying bags and drew the weapons at their belts. Before they could decide which door to enter, Tayn started walking toward the door on the right. Arda and Sezayi sighed in exasperation and followed him.
When the trio reached the door, Sezayi kicked it with all his strength. The door creaked heavily as it opened. Holding their weapons tightly, the three of them slowly and cautiously stepped inside. What they found was an empty room, 80 meters wide and 50 meters long. There was no dragon dung, no dragon bones, or anything else. Only a thick yer of dust accumuted over the years covered the floor.
Seeing the room empty, the trio let out a breath somewhere between relief and disappointment. Then they exited that room and headed toward the one across from it. But that room, too, was just like the first, covered in years of dust. Without wasting any more time, they continued forward to check the other halls. They inspected every room they came across, but each one was just as empty as the st, containing nothing but dust. And so, the trio spent over 40 minutes searching for their dragons.
As they moved between the columns, the silence of the hall pulsed strangely, like a heartbeat. The atmosphere felt as if it were filled with the breath of an unseen presence. This space seemed to make them feel the grandeur and magnificence of old Valyria.
Finally, the trio came across two massive 30-meter-high doors. As they had done with the previous rooms, they first began to examine the door on the right. This door, unlike the ones they had seen before, had bck dragon figures flying across a deep red background. When Tayn saw these figures, he excimed excitedly,
"Brothers, it seems we’ve finally found our dragons! Now we can leave this cursed city and rebuild Valyria!"
At Tayn’s words, Sezayi said,
"Calm down, Vaer. Even if our dragons aren’t here, they’re ahead. But yes, as you said, we’ll soon be dragonlords. Darion, prepare the bag with the rats we brought. When we wake our dragons, we don’t want them to eat us out of hunger," unable to hide the excitement in his voice.
At Sezayi’s words, Arda took the bag off his back. He rummaged through it for a minute and found the bag where they had pced the rats. Then he said,
"I’ve got the bag. Let’s go and find our dragons as soon as possible."
After Arda’s words, Sezayi, this time instead of kicking the door, pushed it open. As the door creaked heavily, the trio couldn’t contain their excitement. But when the door fully opened, they froze in pce. Inside the room were three massive white heads facing the door, each attached to a rge, muscur body.
When Tayn saw the dragons, he shouted with joy and excitement,
"We’ve found the dragons! We are dragonlords now! We can finally leave this cursed pce and build our own kingdom!"
Tayn’s words snapped Arda and Sezayi out of their awe at the sight of the dragons. Standing at the doorway, the trio exchanged a quick gnce and then began running toward the dragons.
Just as they were about to touch the dragons, Sezayi forced himself to stop and shouted,
"Wait, everyone! First, take the rats out of the bag and pce them in front of the dragons. If they wake up hungry, they might eat us!"
At Sezayi’s warning, Arda and Tayn stopped in their tracks. All three of them took deep breaths to calm their excitement. After finally managing to settle down after five minutes, they began to act as Sezayi had suggested.
While Arda took the rats out of the bag, Sezayi and Tayn pced them in front of the dragons. Meanwhile, they couldn’t help but carefully examine the dragons’ heads.
The head of the dragon on the left had a strong and elegant structure, with prominent and menacing eye sockets. Two one-meter-long horns, marble-white in color, curved slightly backward from its head.
The head of the middle dragon was broad and sturdy, with a powerful jaw and pronounced bone armor around its eyes. Extending backward from its head were two horns, over a meter long, tapering to sharp points like spears. The golden veins running through these horns gave its head a crown-like appearance. This head was significantly rger than those of the other dragons.
The head of the dragon on the right had a more rounded and fluid shape. Its jaw tapered forward, and there were slight bone protrusions around its eyes. Its one-meter-long horns curved outward, turning gray toward the tips. This dragon had a smaller head compared to the others.
Once all the rats were pced in front of the dragons, the trio began to think about how to wake them up. While the others were pondering, Arda said, "What are we thinking about? Let’s go over, sp their heads, and wake them up."
At Arda’s words, Sezayi replied in a sarcastic tone, "Darion, sometimes I can’t tell if you’re smart or crazy, but you come up with brilliant ideas! Why don’t you expin to us why the dragons won’t attack us if we sp their heads to wake them up?"
Just as Arda was about to respond to Sezayi, Tayn interjected, "Vaegon, Darion might be right. We don’t know the dragons’ names or anything else about them... We really don’t know how else to wake them up."
Hearing Tayn’s words, Sezayi shouted, "Have you lost your mind too, Vaer? What if we do that and the dragons wake up and attack us? Has madness taken over you like Darion? If so, tell me so we can find a solution!"
Sezayi’s shouting had slightly frightened Tayn and Arda. But Tayn still said, "Vaegon, this is the only way we can think of right now. Maybe if we knew the dragons’ names, we could wake them more easily. But we don’t know their names, and time is running out. You know Elenya is gathering the so-called Lords who survived today. If we want them to kneel before us, we need the dragons. Otherwise, how are three of us going to make those Lords kneel?"
Hearing Tayn’s words, Sezayi realized they truly had no other options. Reluctantly, he walked past Tayn and Arda toward the middle dragon, saying, "If we die, I’ll find you both in hell and make you pay, just so you know."
Tayn and Arda, watching Sezayi walk toward the middle dragon, shouted simultaneously, "Hey, where are you going? Weren’t you just mad at us for suggesting this idea? Who gave you the right to choose the dragon you want?"
Unfazed by their shouting, Sezayi replied, "Kids, I gave myself that right. If you had acted instead of standing around, you could’ve chosen the dragon you wanted."
Sezayi's words instantly spurred the motionless pair into action. They began running toward the dragon on the left. Arda won the race, while Tayn had to settle for the smallest dragon on the right. When Tayn reached his dragon, Sezayi said, "Everyone, let’s hit them together. I’ll count: 3... 2... 1... Strike, brothers!" and he smmed the dragon’s head with all his strength.
As Sezayi counted down, Arda and Tayn also struck their dragons’ heads with full force.
The moment the trio hit the dragons, they froze in pce. Their heartbeats grew louder and faster. When they opened their mouths in fear, they realized no sound came out. Before they could understand what was happening, their vision darkened, and they found themselves in another room.
When Sezayi tried to open his mouth to ask what was going on, he realized he couldn’t speak. The others were in the same state. Looking around in fear and confusion, they realized they were still in the room where the dragons had been. But something was different: instead of the three white dragons, the room was now filled with a massive blue dragon and a pregnant woman lying beside it. Around the woman were 20 maidservants, all with silver hair and purple eyes.
One of the maidservants said to the pregnant woman, "My dy, please let us move to the manor. It will be easier for you to give birth there."
The woman shouted at the maid, "No! I will give birth here, beside Aeksion. He has never left my side since I was a child, and he won’t leave me now. Tell me, where is my useless husband, Aeyrs? Does he not know I’m giving birth?"
As the woman shouted, the door to the room burst open, and two tall men with silver hair and gray eyes entered. One of them yelled, "Woman! Why are you giving birth to my children here? Don’t you care about yourself at all?"
The other man said, "Aeyrs, calm down. Jaenara knows what she’s doing. Don’t be so angry."
Aeyrs shouted at him, "Aesen, be quiet! It’s not your wife giving birth here, it’s mine. And it’s my children who are in danger!"
As Aesen was about to respond, Jaenara suddenly screamed, drawing their attention back to her. One of the maidservants said, "Push, my dy, push! Your child is about to be born. Push with all your strength!"
Jaenara, following the maid’s words, began pushing with all her might. While the trio was still trying to understand what was happening, Jaenara gave birth to her first child. The baby was immediately handed to its father, Aeyrs. As the maidservants rexed, Jaenara began pushing again.
Meanwhile, Aesen, looking at the baby boy in Aeyrs’s arms, asked, "Brother, what will you name this child?"
Aeyrs, regaining his composure, said, "I will name this child, my heir, my first son, after my grandfather, Vaegon the Bloody Hammer."
As Aesen was about to congratute his brother, the maidservants handed Aeyrs the second baby Jaenara had just delivered. This time, Aesen said, "Look, you’ve become a father of twins, just like our father! And both are boys... House Beegon has gained new heirs thanks to you."
But as soon as he finished speaking, Jaenara began pushing again. Aesen, watching in shock, said, "Aeyrs, the gods must have blessed you today! Look, you’re having three children at once. There’s no other expnation!"
Aeyrs nodded in agreement, as he was busy tending to his newborn sons. At that moment, Jaenara’s dragon, Aeksion, suddenly expelled something resembling waste. However, it didn’t look like ordinary waste; it was more like a rge, mucus-covered sphere. Aesen and Aeyrs were surprised by what Aeksion had done, as this was the method dragons used to y their eggs.
Aesen left Aeyrs with his sons and immediately went to the mucus-covered sphere. When he broke it open with his hands, he found three white eggs, one blue, and one bck dragon egg. One of the white eggs had golden veins, another had silver veins, and the third was pin white. The blue and bck eggs were single-colored and identical in appearance.
Meanwhile, Jaenara gave birth to her third and final child. The maidservants brought the newborn to its father, Aeyrs. When he held the third child in his arms, Aeyrs was stunned; this child was also a boy. As Aeyrs pondered what names to give his two newborn sons, the five maidservants who had assisted Jaenara carried the five eggs id by Aeksion over to Aeyrs and Aesen.
Just as Aesen was about to speak to Aeyrs, the white eggs in the hands of the maidservants began to crack. As the white shells broke, they fell to the ground. When all the shells had fallen away, three small dragon hatchlings emerged. Their weak cries announced their presence to those around them.
This event left Aeyrs and Aesen, who were present, speechless with astonishment. Finally, Aesen said, "Aeyrs, it seems your sons are destined to become great men. But first, tell me what names you will give these two children."
Hearing Aesen's words, Aeyrs snapped out of his daze. His shock gave way to happiness. Smiling, he said, "Aesen, as you said, my sons seem destined to be great men. I will give them the names of great men." Then, lifting the child next to his son Vaegon, he said, "I name this son after my wife Jaenara's great ancestor, Vaer the Bloody Sword."
Then, pointing to the child in the maid's arms, he said, "And I name this son after our great ancestor, Darion Ironwrist, who killed a brown-bellied Wyvern with his bare hands." He then asked the maidservants to take the children and pce them in their cradles. Once the children were settled, Aeyrs went to his wife's side.
Aesen, staying behind, turned to the maidservants still holding the dragon eggs. "Send these eggs to House Dracarysion. Inform Lord Dracarysion that his daughter, Lady Jaenara, has given birth to three healthy boys, and that with their birth, Aeksion has id new eggs from which three dragons have hatched," he said.
At that moment, everything was enveloped in a white light. The trio found themselves under the apple tree where they had encountered the mutant rat. Under the tree were three children, about five years old, three white dragons the size of two horses, and a wingless creature. While the children pyed under the tree, the dragons were fighting the wingless Wyvern-like creature. However, the dragons seemed to be toying with it, biting and releasing it but not killing it.
At that moment, Aeyrs emerged from behind the apple tree, furious, with three guards by his side. When he saw his children and the dragons pying with the creature, he stopped walking and began to run. The guards followed suit. The sound of their armor caught the children's attention. When they turned their heads and saw their father and the guards running toward them, they tried to flee but were caught.
Aeyrs grabbed the children and spped each of them twice. Furious, he shouted, "Didn't I tell you to leave that Wyvern alone? Do you know how much gold I spent to find it? Get your dragons off that Wyvern now!"
Tears and snot streaming down their faces, the trio tried to stifle their sobs as they called their dragons. But just as the dragons were about to withdraw from the Wyvern, the creature suddenly moved. Its white body adorned with golden veins, a small crown-like formation on its head, and red eyes, it attacked the rgest dragon, which had done the most damage to it.
The Wyvern's attack didn't harm the dragon much, but it enraged it. So, the dragon unleashed its fire, which it had not used before, onto the Wyvern. As the dragon spewed its silver-white fmes adorned with gold, one of the children shouted, "Anogrion, stop! Don't do it!"
But Anogrion didn't listen. When the fire subsided, it attacked the dazed Wyvern's neck and tore off its head. Blood gushed from the Wyvern's severed neck like a fountain. At that moment, everyone seemed frozen.
As one of Aeyrs's eyes twitched in anger, he shouted at the guards:
"Quick, take Anogrion away and chain this dragon in the tower!"
At Aeyrs's shout, the child who had called out to Anogrion pleaded, "Father, please don't chain Anogrion! You saw it, that sneaky Wyvern attacked." But his words were cut short by a sp from Aeyrs.
Aeyrs shouted angrily, "Don't open your mouth, Vaegon, or I'll have you chained too! Look at what you've done. I brought this Wyvern alive for your uncle Vaenas's wedding feast. It took me three months to find this creature. But you turned it into a toy for your dragons! Actually, you're not the only one to bme, Vaegon," he said. Then, to the guards approaching to take Anogrion away, he ordered, "Leave Anogrion for now! Call more guards. Come back to chain Aeloris and Vendieron as well."
At Aeyrs's words, two guards quickly went to summon the others. Aeyrs, hitting Vaer and Darion on the head as they tried to protest, said angrily, "Vaer, even if you try to convince me not to chain Aeloris, and Darion, you try to save Vendieron, you won't be able to free them. Now think about yourselves, not your dragons!"
As the trio waited for the scene to continue, everything suddenly turned white. When the whiteness faded, they found themselves in a massive bcksmith's workshop. Looking around, they saw three young men, resembling their younger selves, entering through the door with an older Aeyrs, Aesen, and a man they didn’t recognize.
As Aeyrs entered, he said, "Children, you are now adults. Like every dragonrider of noble blood, just as Beegon did, you must learn to forge Valyrian steel. You might even be getting married soon," he added, turning to Aesen with a mocking gnce.
Seeing Aeyrs's look, the man behind him began to ugh. But Aesen suddenly turned and spped him, saying, "What are you ughing at, Vaenas? Care to share with us?"
Instead of answering Aesen's question, Vaenas simply rubbed his head. Vaegon, Vaer, and Darion, who were following behind, tried to suppress their smiles at the scene.
When the group reached the forge, Aesen said, "Children, watch closely. Forging Valyrian steel is not as simple as you think. It takes a long time to forge alone, so it’s usually done by two or more people."
After Aesen's words, Aeyrs, Aesen, and Vaenas stepped up to the forge to demonstrate how Valyrian steel was made. Vaenas took a long, gray dragon bone in one hand and pced it on the anvil. Aeyrs said, "Children, one reason Valyrian steel is so expensive is the dragon bone you see here. This bone is hammered by bcksmiths until it turns to powder," and he began striking it with a hammer.
Aesen and Vaenas joined in, hammering the bone until it turned to powder. They collected the bone dust into a wooden box. Then Vaenas took an iron ingot and pced it in the forge, stoking the fire with bellows.
As Vaenas worked, Aeyrs expined, "Children, as you can see, we pce the ingot in the fire and wait until it turns red. Then we hammer it repeatedly until it becomes thin. After heating the metal sheet in the fire, we sprinkle the dragon bone powder we just made onto it, pce another heated thin sheet on top, and hammer them together. This process is repeated until there are six yers. Finally, the resulting sheet is cut into equal lengths. Every three pieces are braided together, and we forge the weapon we desire. Lastly, the forged weapon is heated once more with dragonfire and quenched in dragon blood."
Aeyrs demonstrated everything he had described, except for the final step of heating with dragonfire and quenching in dragon blood.
After Aeyrs, Aesen, and Vaenas finished their work, they handed the hammers to the young trio. The three worked together, hammering iron rods until they created braided pieces. While Vaegon and Vaer forged swords, Darion worked on an axe head. Aesen inspected the one-handed, one-meter-long sword Vaegon had forged and said:
"Well done, Vaegon! You seem talented at this."
Vaenas added to Aesen's words:
"Aesen, your daughter Daenora has a good husband. Look, he’s skilled in bcksmithing and successful in dragon riding."
Vaenas's words surprised Vaegon and the others. Vaegon turned to his father, Aeyrs, and asked:
"Father, what does Uncle Vaenas mean? Why did he call me Daenora’s husband?"
Aeyrs turned to his son and said:
"My son, as you know, we dragonlords keep our bloodline pure by marrying within the family. Since you have no sisters, we have betrothed you to your uncle Aesen’s daughter, Daenora."
Just as Vaegon was about to protest, Aeyrs continued:
"This is how it must be, my son. You will marry eventually, and it will be within the family. So don’t object. If you bring up my marriage to your mother, know that it was arranged only to secure peace with rival houses. Also, your cousin will visit you next month. Treat her well, or I’ll show you what happens."
As the trio thought they would continue watching past events, everything turned white again. When the whiteness faded, they were back in the room where they had first awakened. But they were not alone; a girl around twelve years old was with them.
Vaegon sat next to the girl, talking to her. The girl asked:
"Will my dragon, Raeyes, grow as fast as your dragon, Anogrion, Vaegon?"
Vaegon turned to Daenora and said:
"Daenora, your dragon might not grow as fast as mine. You know, some dragons grow quickly, while others grow slowly."
After Vaegon's answer, Daenora couldn’t wait any longer and decided to go see her dragon, Raeyes. About five or six minutes after Daenora left the room, a painful roar was heard. Those in the room rushed to the window to see what had happened, but they saw nothing. They couldn’t see the source of the sound, but suddenly a transparent barrier rose from the ground, completely enveloping the manor. After the barrier appeared, the ground began to shake, the sky darkened, and screams could be heard from outside.
Looking out the window, the trio suddenly fainted.
When they fainted, everything turned bck instead of white. And at that moment, the trio, who had been watching everything from the sidelines, suddenly found themselves back in their original state before being pulled in. Before they could understand what had happened, they clutched their heads and knelt down. Their heads were pounding as if they were about to split open. The cause of this pain was the transfer of all the memories of the bodies they had taken over into their minds.
After writhing in pain next to the dragons for over half an hour, the memory transfer was complete. A tear involuntarily streamed from the trio’s eyes. Vaegon was the first to recover. Still holding his head, he turned to the others and tried to call out to them, but he realized he could only remember their names in this world. When he tried to recall his own name, he realized he had not only forgotten his name but also the names of his family and the pce he had lived.
Hemen di?erlerine d?nüp sordu:
"Arkada?r, siz de benim gibi ailelerinizi ve ge?mi? ya?amr?n?zda ya?ad???n?z yerleri unuttunuz mu?"
Vaegon'un sorusu, ha ac? i?inde k?vranan Vaer ve Darion'u ger?e?e d?ndürdü. Ge?mi? hayatr?n? dü?ündüklerinde, neredeyse hi?bir ?ey hat?ryamad?kr?n? fark ettiler. ü?lü, dü?üncelerine o kadar dalm??t? ki ejderhar?n?n g?z kapakr?n?n yava??a hareket etmeye ba?d???n? fark etmediler.
Vaer oturmaktan rahats?z bir ?ekilde aya?a kalkmaya ?al??t???nda, ejderhar?n g?z bebeklerinin hareket etti?ini fark etti. Heyecan ba??rd?:
"Arkada?r, ejderhar?m?z uyan?yor! Bak?n, hareket ediyorr!"
Vaer'?n ba??r???y Darion ve Vaegon hemen ejderhar?na bakt?r. G?z kapakr?n?n hareket etti?ini g?rdüklerinde, az ?nce ne dü?ündüklerini unuttur. ü?lü heyecan izledi.
Sonunda, Vaegon dayanamad? ve s??an le?lerinin y???n?na do?ru ilerledi. En kü?ü?ünü ald?, Katil Y?ld?z'?n kabzas? büyüklü?ündeydi. Ejderhas? Anogrion'a gitti ve s??an? ?ldüren oku ??kard?ktan sonra, s??an?n kan?n?n Anogrion'un burnuna dammas?na izin verdi ve ba??rd?:
"Sen, gü?lü, kudretli ve asil Anogrion! Sen benim s?rda??m, yolda??m, koruyucum, kuvvetim ve kudretimsin. Uyanma ve yolda?r?n ??yeniden birle?me zaman? geldi. Uyan, Anogrion!"
Vaegon'un s?zleriyle Anogrion, se?iren g?z kapakr?n? a?t? ve kan k?rm?z?s? g?zlerini ortaya ??kard?.
Vaegon'un yapt???n? g?ren Darion ve Vaer da fareleri se?ip ejderhar?n?n yan?na gittiler. Ayn? kelimeleri tekrard?r, ancak sonunda ejderhar?n?n isimlerini eklediler: Vaer, Aeloris'in ismini s?yledi ve Darion, Vendieron'un ismini s?yledi. Aeloris zümrüt ye?ili g?zlerini a?t? ve Vendieron alt?n sar?s? g?zlerini a?t?.
ü? ejderha uyand???nda, ?nlerindeki fare y???n?na ate? püskürttüler. Sonra, sanki d?nü?lerini duyuruyormu? gibi, gü?lü bir kükreme ??kard?r.
Sevgili dostr, buldu?um yeni bir AI arac?n? kulnarak bu b?lümü yeniden ?evirdim. Hangi ?evirinin daha iyi oldu?una karar verip onun devam edece?im, bu yüzden geri bildirimlerinizi rica ediyorum. ?imdi ana konuya ge?elim: Baz? yeni yerler ve onr? y?neten evler ekleyece?im. Akl?n?zda herhangi bir isim varsa lütfen benimle pay??n. Ancak, yeni evlerin ?o?unun AI veya insan isimleri taraf?ndan olu?turun isimler kuln?rak olu?turuca??n? belirtmeliyim. ?nerilere a????m, bu yüzden akl?n?zda herhangi bir isim varsa lütfen bana bildirin.