The Iron Fleet

[Marie]

Rhaenys flies up the coast on Elannyria and signals to the Royalist fleet to move. Then she waits until Dawn and flies North towards the Iron Fleet...

[The Smith]

As she approaches Pyke she sees twenty ships heading south in five lines. This Fleet is about three leagues outside of the city, to the South east.

[Marie]

Rhaenys sweeps forward, careful to keep the dragon high in the air and as she comes to the first ship gives the command. Elannyria breathes a jet of fire at the ship's mast. It takes light and Rhaenys urges the dragon on to the next ship (adn the next and the next and so forth...)

[The Smith]

The first flame catches fire, and the next three in this line. Arrows clatter off the dragons armor, and some narrowly miss Rhae perched atop.

The other long ships scatter. Heading away from one another. With out the lines Rhae must pick them up in ones and twos.

[Marie]

Rhaenys made for the ships that were bunched closer together, hoping that Lord Trant and the fleet would engage the ships that were scattered further apart.

[Ser Kenneth Coyn]

As the Iron Fleet Scatters, from Rhaenys and the Dragon the 168 Ships Under Rowan Trant emerges over the Horizon and moves to engage the Ironborn Patrol.

The 50 ships of Dorne, under Ser Wells (Master Battle) move to the Left
The 60 ships of the West under Ser Hugh (Grand Master Battle) takes the Right
While the Mander, Far Reach and Stormland Ships under Florent, Trant and Greenoak (Master, Expert and Noteworthy Battle) takes the Center.

They attempt to encircle the Ironborn.

[The Smith]

Rhae burned three more ships on the way toward Pyke, and was glanced with a single light arrow blow in return. As she got closer to Pyke's harbors she could could make out a large fleet gather at it's harbors. In the vicinity of the port there were 83 ships. 31 of them were tied to the ports. The other 52 were anchored in long inviting lines. Men could be seen walking about the vessels.

[Marie]

Rhaenys chose to attack the port first. She'd go for the rest later if she had the chance.

[The Smith]

The Dragon screamed, and dived. Fire burst along longships, reavers, and docks. Twice the dragon sail long carving burning lines deep into the buildings covering the wharf's side. One pass, then another. Three, then four, and five. It was on the sixth pass when an arrow slipped into Rhae's side, and she had to cover her wound with her hand.

It took two more passes to burn the last of the ships along the piers, but Rhae was able to control the dragon through them. Then she turned the beast on the moored ships. She could see five ships making for the mouth of the harbor, but beyond them the welcome ships of the fleet led by Trant could be seen approaching.

The Dragon dipped to burn seven ships tied in a row, but a wing slipped a long mast, and the creatured spun. Rhaenys was flung from her back into the black waters of Pyke's harbor, and Elannyria crashed down onto three more longships. Two masts impaled the beast through the chest, it belched flame into the sea, and a eerie mist was born of all the steamed water covering the area.

For a long moment Rhae was underneath the water, confused and unsure of which way was up, or down. She kicked suddenly and rose to the surface. She could hear the crackling of fire, and hear the creaking of ships, but there was nothing she could see but steam.

[Marie]

Rhaenys trod water and hoped the steam would clear.

[Ser Kenneth Coyn]

As the Dragon fell, Rowan let out a gasp, he had planned for such a problem but with the steam rising up from the sea the task was a lot harder then he imagined.

"Hard to Starboard," the greenlander said saying something he had over heard on his trip to Dorne. "Towards the splash," a man trumpeted and Rowan's and five other Stormlander ships broke off to see if they could recover Rhaenys.

[The Smith]

Before Trant could break the steam, Five Iron Born ships sail out of it. Two cut, and tried to run, the other three dropped masts. And a man jumped atop a rail, and began to wave at the other ship. No one moved to attack or defend.

[Ser Kenneth Coyn]

Rowan ignores the waves but does not order his men to attack. Instead the ships keep sailing for where he thinks the Queen landed. Although in passing he will order his men to try and attack the two fleeing ships with flame arrows aiming for their sails to try and cripple their movement. (Grandmaster Archery)

[The Smith]

The ships catch fire.

And Trant moves into the smoky, steamy fog.

Rhae sees a boat's hull passing close by her. She can not see high enough to know who mans it. But she is terribly cold, and her swimming is slowing.

[Marie]

"Hello?" Rhaenys called.