Sauron's road of redemption

Back Valyria a 6 days have past, and tomorrow the rite of fire will be held.

Excitement was in the air most citizens were starved of entertainment, like the Romans of old.

So they were already lining up for the Colosseum, where the rite would take place tomorrow.

High up in the Imperial Palace, the Emperor was looking out over Valyria.

He turned his eyes towards his advisor.

"So the idiot, Havarus Du Klararion finally makes his move."

"Yes while his methods have much to desire, at least he was able to outbid the other highlords when we divided house Dracon."

"Yes he is willing to give away everything except the dragon, nobody could offer more than that."

The fertile dragon farms, and businesses of house dragon would be divided under the other houses.

It was useless for house Dracon to hold all those dragon farms.

They only had one dragon after all.

One dragon farm created enough meat for one dragon on average.

The surplus of meat was sold to the other houses for a high price.

Sounds nice, but that is only if you have enough power to hold on to that wealth.

"What about her daughter and sister?"

"Her daughter is already claimed by a duke's son, he has particular taste if you know what I mean."

The emperor gave a disgusted face but did not comment, the weak were at the mercy of the strong no matter the morels behind it.

"And her sister was sold to a brothel, they paid handsomely for a high quality fallen noble."

"Hmm good"

"Know anything about the man who is being challenged, we don't want any suprise."

"Not much is know, he came here after a disaster in Qohor where he and the girl were the only survivors."

"I that is all I heard from Qohor's governor."

"Hmm where is he now."

"No idea he hasn't been seen for days."

"inform me as soon as you get him in sight, he has to die before or during the rite."

"Of course your imperial highness."

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Back in the Dracon family estate, Vysesa was walking with her aunt.

She had just taken High Valyrian etiquette classes.

They would not take too long, in relation with her age, at most an hour a day.

But to integrate well with the high society of Valyria, she had to start learning young.

"Aunty is daddy coming home today?"

"He should be coming home about now."

"Tomorrow he has competition to crush."

"Hmm oki but when do I get a sibling?"

"Haha that will take some time."

"We will first let you hatch your own dragon."

"My bloodline was not pure enough to hatch one, but yours is."

"I don't know what that man did to you, but I have never seen a purer bloodline or a sorcerer with more potential and raw power than you."

"I don't understand what daddy did, but now I can make fire out of the air like a dragon!!"

"Then once it is hatched, I can play with my own dragon."

"Yes; you can dear, let's go find your mother she is with Galarion preparing him for tomorrow."

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In the Dracon's dragon pit Messenia was talking to Galarion, communicating about tomorrow's task.

His giant frame dwarves the woman.

73 meters of pure muscle and spite.

But there was no fear in Messinia, having grown up with the giant creature.

She was barely 21 years old right now the prime of her life.

But for dragons, with a longer lifespan than humans this was nothing.

Galarion who was hatched in the same year as Messenia, was born had many more years to go before he reached his prime.

So the rite tomorrow would be hard fought. As he would be up against a much older dragon than he himself.

The air was filled with his hot damp breath filling the surroundings with a stench.

"Pfoo, did you have fish for dinner big boy?"

"Grraaah"

Galarion grumbled like a upset cat.

"Are you ready for tomorrow?"

"You will not have to directly confront the other dragon, but you will have to compete in fire power with it."

"Gukukuu!!" Galarion tilted his head upwards before his voice rumbled trough the Arena.

"Yes your a good boy, you will have to burn that nasty piece of work on the other side."

Her eyes filled with venom.

She knew they were responsible for the death of her husband, and kidnapping of her daughter.

The only reason her daughter lives, is that they could get more money for selling her.

But she did not have enough power, influence, armies or dragons to stand up against them.

But that was changing with Mairon's involvement.

While she did not entrust him with everything yet, she has started to open up to him after a couple of weeks.

Right when she was thinking of him, a portal opend and Mairon stepped trough.

By his side was a strange ugly creature.

Her eyes quirked when seeing it.

Before she could say anything, Mairon spoke up.

"Messinia your here, good"

"Is everything prepared for tomorrow?"

"I am at a critical breakthrough point in my research."

"So I don't have long to play with these mongrols games."

"I stay until tomorrow evening then I have to finish what I started."

"Alright hus- alright Mairon." She wanted to say husband but the words got stuck in her throat.

She was still not over her trauma with her late husband, and not yet ready to move on.

Besides they were not yet officially married so she had time to adjust.

"And what is this strange creature you brought."

By Mairon's side was a Orc who didn't know what was going on.

He was working on a supply card, when he got grapped by Mairon and suddenly found himself outside of Moria.

Mairon had wanted to test put if he could now safely take living creatures with him trough his portals.

So he took the orc nearest to his location before he went back.

"Ah yes I almost forgot, this is a creation of my former master."

"They are known as Orcs, perverted distortions of what they used to be."

"Their ancestors were the tortured souls captured by Morgoth, molded to become his weapons of war."

"They are part of my new research so you will see more, and different variants of them popping up the coming time."

"Now let's get to the whole rite thing, explain how it works and if I can twist of the opponents head."