What If Balerion the Black Dread Was Resurrected in Old Valyria?

When King Robert Baratheon visits Winterfell, the night should be nothing but feasting and old war stories—until Jon Snow vanishes from the godswood. Kidnapped by Valyrian dragon cultists and dragged across the Narrow Sea, Jon awakens to a nightmare older than Westeros itself: the smoking ruins of Old Valyria… and a forbidden ritual meant to bring back the Black Dread.

Ten stone eggs crack. A brood is born screaming into ash. And from smoke and blood, Balerion returns—scarred, furious, and hungry.

Bound to a dragon he never asked for, Jon must survive the cult, the Doom’s poisoned land, and the terrifying truth that the world is about to remember what dragons mean.

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00:00:00 — Robert arrives at Winterfell: feast, tension, and strangers watching Jon
00:06:10 — The godswood at night: Ghost senses something wrong
00:12:45 — The trap snaps shut: Jon ambushed and taken beneath Winterfell
00:18:05 — Winterfell wakes in panic: Ned, Catelyn, Arya, and Robert’s fury
00:25:20 — Out of the North: the cult flees with Jon as the castle searches
00:33:10 — White Harbor: bribes, black sails, and an iron-banded Valyrian chest
00:40:30 — Storm ritual: glass candle, Valyrian steel, and Jon’s blood bound to fire
00:48:20 — The Smoking Sea: ash-fall, dead water, and a shadow in the clouds
00:54:40 — Old Valyria: black shores, melted statues, and the broken dragonpit
01:01:10 — The Rite begins: wildfire, obsidian, and the eggs awaken
01:07:40 — Balerion returns: the horn fails, black fire answers, the pit collapses
01:13:50 — Jon breaks free: hatchlings swarm and the cult’s control shatters
01:18:40 — The ridge: Balerion lands—choice, hunger, and the last warning
01:22:10 — First flight: Jon climbs the Black Dread as the brood follows into the sky