The Siege
The siege engines had not stopped throwing rocks at the castle walls since they had been built three weeks ago. They had smashed several holes in the wall. Last night they had been throwing great clay pots filled with fire into the castle. Smoke blackened the skyline above the castle. Little activity could be seen taking place in the castle.
The castle undersiege.
"8 groups will attack the breeches in wall. One group to a breech. Each Lord here will lead his own troops into the breach. Lord Terrick you shall take your men and attack the eastern most breech."
Gendry dreaded the idea of the assault. Even though Tulley loyal forces now numbered nine thousand at the siege Gendry still was unhappy. He had heard of the great siege of Kingslanding when Robert Baratheon himself had lead the assault on the breech. That breech had quickly turned into a slaughter house. Archers on the Walls either side of the breech fired down into it and spearman greeted any that made it through. This siege would likely be the same. He knew hundreds of his men would die in the assault. He had not raised his men to go home with half of them. But he would do what was needed to secure his title!
The night was dark. Gendry Terrick wore only his light chain mail and leather jacket under it. He did not want to be slow moving this night. He and his troops had a few hundred yards of open ground to cover before they reached the walls. Gendry wore no helm and carried a great morningstart mace. His shield sported the emblem of House Terrick. He looked ahead and could see sentinels on the walls. To his right was all of the Tulley host. The signal to attack was given. One long blast on a horn.
The Terrick troops ran across the open ground but after the first few yards arrows and bolts started to fly into the mass of men. Gendry looked around as he ran and could see men falling to the ground for no reason. The missiles were invisible in the night. With each moment that passed as they ran more and more arrows filled the sky and night. By the time Gendry reached the wall he had lost easily one hundred if not two hundred of his men. His shield had an arrow in it which he quickly snapped of. His men were now pressed as close to the wall as possible. " TERRICK!" Gendry shouted the name of his House and charged into the breech followed by his household guard. The breech had no defenders on the ground only archers and men armed with crossbows on the walls. As he entered the castle Gendry ran to his right for that was were the gate house was. Some of his men broke off and headed to the walls to kill the men atop them.
Further down the wall The Blackfish had been slain. He had been hit by a bolt in the throat. Despite this he carried on running forward. Just as he reached the breech a spear thrown by a man on the walls went clean through him. So The Blackfish was killed during the Keath rebellion.
Gendry Terrick had successfully opened the gates on the east side. He then pushed on deeper into the castle. He had been separated from the main body of his men. He had only fifty men of his guard with him. As they neared the central keep of the castle Gendry heard not the sound of battle from other corners of the castle but silence. Had the other attacks failed!? " You take five others and head back to those stables we saw back there! Take horses and ride to Lord Tulley tell him the east gate is taken and we are holding, and that he should bring all his might to my assistance". Gendry Terrick was not in the mood to accept failure of this assault he had lost too many men to.
Lord Terrick sat in the great hall along with all the other Lords that had taken part in the siege. The siege had been a close run thing, Terrick forces had barely held their breech in the walls. Keath troops had counter attacked en mass, they had nearly broken Terrick troops but Tulley troops had arrived from the gatehouse and taken the enemy in the flank. However Gendry Terrick had been else where. He along with his small contingent had taken the keep which had only been defended by half a dozen men. Gendry had started the siege with a thousand men. By the end he had five hundred fighting fit and another hundred wounded. The reason for the failures of the other attacks was that upon then The Blackfish being slain men thought that Edmure Tulley, not his uncle, had been killed.
"Lord Keath you are charged with treason and the needless murder of innocents." The old maester of Riverrun read the charges against him. " M'Lord Tulley I ask you one small favour , I ask that you allow me to take the Black? I did save your life during the Baratheon rebellion when we fought together as comrades." Gendry Terrick was enraged! Take the black!? That would mean Lord Keath's son would retain all his traitor fathers titles and lands! After a minutes silence it was agreed that Keath would take the Black and that his son would retain all titles and lands. "OATH BREAKER! YOU SWORE IN THE LIGHT OF THE SEVEN! " Gendry Terrick shouted at Edmure Tulley. Many in the room shouted agreement! A man wearing the badge of The Twins chief amonst them! He was Walton Frey one of the current Lord Freys grandsons. "I AM LORD OF RIVERUN AND THE RIVERLANDS! I ANSWER TO THE KING NOT YOU!" Edmure Tulley had broken a sworn vow! How can a Lord expect his men to keep loyal to their vows if he breaks his? And he knew this.
Lord Keath and his fellow traitors were being escorted to the Wall by fifty Tulley men. It was a week since the siege by the Green Fork had ended. The party had passed through Terrick land unharmed. Now they were in Frey land. Walder Frey had never been friendly to Lord Keath or Lord Tulley for that matter. Some men whispered he plotted to depose Edmure Tulley. The captain of the guard gave a shout and the whole escort stopped. A tree had fallen across a small bridge they had though to cross. Five of the Tulley horsemen dismounted and moved towards the log. But before they had reached it three feel to the ground with arrows in them. "BACK BACK!" shouted the guard captain. He too was hit by an arrow that sent him flying of his horse and face first into the dirt. Arrows flew thick and fast into the party, men where falling all around Lord Keath. He spurred his horse back hoping to escape this ambush. But he was stopped before he began a spear had been thrust into his side. The man wielding the spear wore the two towers of The Twins.