Lost Cause II House of the Dragon

Chapter 8

One Year Later

Vera struggled at first to navigate a world were Laenor was replaced by Daemon. At the start she ignored him. Then she moved on to acknowledging him with a simple nod. Now, she's talking to him when needed to. It was safe to say Daemon wished this process was a bit faster but he was happy that he was getting closer to her.

Vera had set a routine for herself since she came back to Dragonstone. After breaking fast with her family, she would go to the beach and share stories from the day before, it made her feel closer to her father.

The sky was his home now, he was resting with his sister.

Vera hated the days it rained, though it rarely happened when it did it meant spending her time in the castle, and that meant she had to deal with Daemon, who was trying everything to build the father daughter relationship he wished for. 

"You know, you always eye Dark Sister if you wished I could teach you to fight" Daemon told the girl who was sat in front of him attempting to read a book. The girl rolled her eyes and ignored him. The prince then maneuvered himself till he could see the title of the book. "Aegon The Conquer, I've heard that story many times" The man started.

"Oh gods" The girl muttered under her breath she quickly shut the book and looked outside, it had stopped raining, meaning Vera was allowed to go to the beach. "I shall return later" The girl informed the prince before quickly running down the halls to the beach. What she failed to notice was the dragon looming over the beach not far from her normal spot.

"Sorry i'm late Kepa, Muna doesn't like me going out in the rain, because she claims I will catch a cold" The young girl spoke to nothing, Vera continued to talk about her past day. She once again  failed to realize that the dragon that had been stalking her was making it's way towards her. 

As the ground around her shook, she looked up towards where it had come from, and saw a dragon, it's scales were a memorizing deep black and the rest of its body followed it had a mesmerizing. It was rather large dragon, shorter than Vhagar but bigger than Syrax.

"oh-" The small girl quickly stood up "Sorry to disturb you mister dragon." The girl spoke "I don't usually come her this late, but you obviously know this because you come here everyday, I assume." The Dragon took a step towards Vera who took two steps back, the young girl could feel the dragons breath on her face as it leaned closer to the girl. The dragon let out a strange sound that resemble a snort.

"Do you want me to leave?" The girl asks the dragon who only pushed its snout gently into the girls shoulder who tensed before she let out a giggle. The dragon then pushed the young girl towards its back using it's snout gently pushing the back of her shoulder.

"What do you want Mr Dragon?" The girl asked the dragon as it knelt to the ground and flapped it's wing. It continued to push the girl till she stood in front of the dragons wing, which was placed slightly on the ground. Vera now curious, stepped close to the dragon.

 "Are you hurt?" She asks as she gently stepped on to its wing to try to see were it was harmed suddenly the dragon's wing had moved up, causing the girl to grip onto the side of the dragon's wing. A few moments later when the wing stopped moving the girl looked down, she was high up. Very high up.

"Um, Mr dragon, I would like to be put down now, please" Vera spoke, the dragon didn't move causing the girl to sigh, she slowly let go of the wing and moved to the body of the dragon, she climbed onto the dragon's back and slowly crept forward towards it's neck hoping the closer she get's to the dragon's head the more it would be able to hear her. 

As she got to the junction in it's neck which was connected it to the body the dragon stood up cause the girl to grip the small bones that stuck out of it's neck. "Mr dragon." Vera started, "Miss dragon? have I been assuming wrong, is that why you won't respond?" Vera spoke "Miss dragon I would like-" Before she could speak again the dragon had taken off into the air, taking the girl with him.

Rhaenyra was playing with Joffrey when she was informed that Cannibal had left his nest, as soon as she heard the news she was running around the castle to make sure that everyone was safe. She found Jacaerys and Lucerys first the two of the in the kitchen trying to grab food before dinner but she was struggerling to find her husband. Daemon was not in any of his normal spots, she checked the training part of the court yard were Damon had set up a small wheat dummy, he wasnt there. She check their shared room he wasn't there. She checked their room to see if he went riding, nope his riding clothes were still there. In her last minute panic she checked the libray she knew Vera liked to spend rainy days in their and she knew that Daemon wished to get closer with Vera, so when she saw the white haired man sitting in a chair read a book about the conqure she couldnt help but let out a sigh of relife.

"Daemon, do you know where Vera is?" The women questioned Daemon nodded still reading the book.

"I belive she went to the beach." He said before Rhaenyra could speak again a dragon keeper ran into the room out of breath.

"It was believed that Cannable was spotted on the beach earlier today" that made both of the Targaryen's freeze. Quickly they both rushed out of teh room calling their daughters name in worry.

This attracted the attention of Jacaerys and Lucerys, "what happened to Vera?" Jace was first to question only to be ignored as the parents ran to the beach.

Vera was no were to be seen. "Have any-" Before the princess could speak a loud roar filled the familes ears above them was Cannible and from what they could make out, their was a girl riding him.

Vera a little about controlling dragons, she knew rȳbagon (obey), drakarys (fire) and a few more. But it seemed that the adrenaline of flying caused the young girl to forget all that.

"Sir- I would like to go back to the ground now" Vera spoke, "I don't like this very much!" Vera yelled as the dragon flew higher, finally something clicked "Tegon, ilagon konīr" She spoke as she pointed to the beach near where her family stood, not that she could see her family from this height. (Land, down there).

As the dragon sped to the ground, Vera couldn't help but let out a delighted giggle as the air ran though her hair. From the ground there were many different expressions . You see Daemon was standing there with a smile on his face but a slightly scared look in his eyes. Rhaenyra was terrified her daughter was fly one of the oldest dragons with no prier experience.

AN// Hello everyone a bit of a longer chapter today but my girl finally has a dragon. The next few chapter will be like this before we get back to the episodes 

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