Chapter 273: The Duel Concluded
Winterfell, Stark Lands
POV of Doric Bolton
When Doric ca closer, Jamie suddenly stabbed at him.
Doric side-stepped around the sword, put his arms around Jamie’s shoulder, picked him up in the air, and slamd him down in a single mont.
Jamie coughed, and more blood fell down the visor.
Doric got up from over Jamie and took the hand that still held the sword. He pulled at it, but Jamie stubbornly held onto the sword.
Slowly but surely, Doric removed all the fingers from the sword and took it from Jamie.
As soon as he did, Jamie used the last of his strength to hit him with his shield.
The shield struck his armor.
Its magical properties absorbed the force behind the attack, but he still pretended to stumble and fall.
The Queen shouted sothing in the background, and Jamie slowly got up from the ground, coughing blood a few more tis in the process.
They both got up at the sa ti.
Jamie readied his shield and charged at him. Doric readied his own, and they clashed.
It was during tis like these that the losing party often found a boost in their imnse willpower, allowing them to topple their stronger opponent.
No such thing happened here.
Jamie was once again thrown to the floor. His wooden shield looked battered and broken, and even his chest plate looked dented.
There was a silence in the courtyard as Jamie coughed a few more tis before he once again got up from the ground on shaky legs.
The queen did not shout anything at this ti. But Jamie charged at him once again.
He did not even know why.
Shield t against shield, and Jai was sent flying once again.
It was almost painful to watch. He wanted to break one of Jamie’s hands or legs and end this match already. But Jamie’s imnse resolve made him want to see how long the man would last. And in the anti, he could prolong Jamie’s suffering.
Jamie stood on shaky legs once again, stumbled, and almost fell to the ground, but held himself up.
He lifted the shield with difficulty and got ready for another shield bash.
Doric got ready for a shield bash of his own, but at the last mont, Jamie side-stepped and... stabbed at him with the sword he had disard him with.
The stab was so sudden and quick that he only had enough ti to move by a few inches.
The sword struck the side of his helt and was deflected.
His magical helt absorbed most of the force, but so still went through, jerking his head to the side and making him off balance.
He fell to the ground, and a few ters behind him, Jamie fell to the ground once again as well.
Doric blinked a few tis in shock, wondering when Jamie had picked up his sword.
Was Jamie leading him this whole ti so that he would throw the man toward the place where he had left his sword so that he could pick it up and defeat him with a surprise attack?
And it would have worked as well if he were not covered from head to toe with his magical armor.
He got up from the ground, looked at where Jamie was struggling to get up, and felt a mix of frustration and respect.
Frustration at himself for falling to the man’s ploy and respect for the man.
But this couldn’t go on any longer.
He would not suffer any more surprise attacks.
He went up to Jamie and put a foot on his back, making him fall to the ground once again as his arms failed to lift the additional weight.
He kicked the sword in Jamie’s hand, disarming the knight once again.
Then he put his sword to Jamie’s neck and looked toward the King.
"This round has ended," Doric said, and the King nodded.
There was a pin drop silence in the courtyard as the King got up from his chair and said, "The winner of this round and the duel is Lord Doric Bolton."
The people cheered at once, and he felt Jamie stop struggling and go limp beneath his foot.
He removed the foot from his back and distanced himself from the man as Maester Lewin and two Red Cloaks ca to check up on Jamie Lannister.
He turned toward Lord Stark, who was holding onto the two Valyrian swords, when the Queen ca out of her shock and shouted.
"He cheated!"
"He cheated!"
"I said he cheated!"
The crowd continued to cheer for a while, but then the Queen’s screams intensified, and the crowd stopped cheering.
He removed his helt and gave the woman a disinterested look. "And pray tell how it was exactly that I cheated."
"Lay it off, woman. He won fair and square." The King said.
Cersei shook her head, "He couldn’t have. He’s not a swordsman. If he were, then we would have heard of him before. He must have cheated to win."
King Robert didn’t give her another mont to talk and turned to his friend Lord Eddard Stark.
"Ned. Gave the boy his swords. And then see to it that the Kingslayer doesn’t die."
Lord Stark bowed and walked forward with the two swords sheathed in their sheaths and handed them to Lord Bolton in front of everyone.
"According to the bet of the duel, the swords go to Lord Bolton." Lord Stark stated as he handed him both the Valyrian swords, and the crowd burst into cheers once again.
He took Excalibur and wrapped it around his waist before he turned and looked at Lion’s Claw and the Queen, who was shouting obscenities and threatening his life.
"This is not over." The Queen said before she turned to the King, "Do you think that my father will let an insult like this go without any repercussions. I hope you’re ready to pay every single di you owe him, along with the interest."
’Did the Queen just pull a Draco Malfoy act on the King and say, ’Wait until my father hears about this’?’ Doric thought.
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