The Battle of King's Landing (Episode 5 Season 8) Part 4

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Although having lost his rider, Drogon remained galvanized by the fury of the fight against his dragon brother. Viserion closed his mouth on the left wing of Drogon and the two flying creatures start an aerial balet and fall faster and faster towards the red dungeon.

From the throne room, Brienne, Bronn, and Sandor, through a window, perceive with horror the imminent arrival of the two dragons towards them, and hasten to leave the throne room, while carrying with them the body of Jaime.

In the anarchic melee, Drogon in a momentum manages to bite and close his jaws on the neck of Viserion, and tightening more and more, literally tries to tear his brother's head off. Seeing the impact more and more imminent, the Night King jumped from Viserion and landed on his feet on the cobblestones of a street, in the middle of the carnage orchestrated by his own troops. Biting each other, Drogon and Viserion, in a last breath of common flames, collide with the roof of the throne room and destroy a large part of it. In the impact, Drogon managed to pull off Viserion's head, killing him once and for all, but the big black dragon suffered terribly from the shock and moaned weakly in the middle of the rubble of the throne room. 

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Daenerys survived her fall, dampened by the providencial presence of a big canvas from a shopkeeper's stall in a commercial street. Yet half-stunned, she watched helplessly and horrified the fall of the two dragons in the red dungeon, which plunges her back a brief moment in her vision of the hall of the destroyed iron throne room.

Slightly limping, the queen of dragons roam among the streets, contemplating the chaos around her. In order to better protect herself, she seizes an abandoned sword on the ground. In the midst of cries, she suddenly hears a familiar voice.

_ "Khaleesi!"

Jorah appeared, repeling a few wights in his path, and ends up joining the young queen who was more than happy to see him alive. A wight, however, disrupted the reunion by jumping on Jorah from behind, but Daenerys killed the creature by piercing his skull with the weapon picked up earlier. Jorah thanks Daenerys and brings her in the direction of the port.

On his side, the Night King made his way in the streets and armed with his sword of ice, massacring all the inhabitants and the soldiers within his reach, while continuing to raise the dead with his terrible power. That's when he came face to face with Ser Jorah and Daenerys. Immediately, Jorah works to protect his queen and blocks the first sword's blow of the terrible ice king. Jorah in turn tried a riposte, but is easily countered by the monster. Daenerys refused to see her friend risk his life alone and tried to attack the Night King by the side with her sword. But by his superhuman reflexes, the king of the walkers blocked with one hand the blade of the young queen and looked at her with his sharp blue eye. 

The Night King hit and pushed Jorah backwards and grabbed Daenerys by the throat, half-choking her and pinning her back against a wall. Looking at the Targaryen woman, the Ice King seems to decide to transform her and begins to want to place his hand on Daenerys' forehead, maybe to make her his Night's Queen. But feeling Jorah's presence coming behind him, the Night King, with a simple gesture, pushed Daenerys on the side with incredible violence, making her fall to the ground. Seeing this, Jorah tried a final stab, but the Night King avoids it again, passing behind Jorah and with his ice sword, strikes the Andal knight's back all the way up and down, leaving him a deep bloody slash. Daenerys lets out a scream as Jorah, hit hard, falls to one knee on the ground, under the impassive gaze of the Night King. Daenerys rushed to Ser Jorah, and with the energy of desperation, managed to raise him up and took him with her in the opposite direction.

The Night King began to follow them to finish them, but soon he seems to give up and turns his cold eyes towards the partially destroyed red dungeon. Drogon does not seem to have recovered from the fall. The Night King then begins his decided march towards the red dungeon to finish Drogon himself and make him his new undead dragon.

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