Editing Arrax (section)

===The Dance of the Dragons===
[[File:Battle over Shipbreaker Bay by Jota Saraiva.jpg|thumb|450px|right|Arrax and [[Lucerys Velaryon]] are menaced by [[Vhagar]] and [[Aemond Targaryen]] in the [[fight above Shipbreaker Bay]]. Art by Jota Saraiva ©]]
In {{Date|129}}, at the start of the [[Dance of the Dragons]], the civil war between Queen Rhaenyra and her half brother, King [[Aegon II Targaryen]], Lucerys was thirteen years old, and Arrax was big enough to ride. At Rhaenyra's first [[black council]] on [[Dragonstone]], Lucerys and his brother Jacaerys volunteered to serve as her envoys to the [[lord]]s of [[Westeros]] to raise support for her claim, and to show their legitimacy as [[House Targaryen|Targaryens]] by riding on dragons. Rhaenyra allowed this, but she first made her young sons swear on ''[[The Seven-Pointed Star]]'' that they would not take part in any fighting. Prince Jacaerys flew north as a messenger on Vermax. Prince Lucerys, as the younger son, was sent on a mission that was considered shorter and safer than his brother Jacaerys's, flying on Arrax as a messenger to [[Storm's End]], where it was expected that Lord [[Borros Baratheon]] would give him a warm welcome.{{Ref|FAB|13}}

Lucerys and Arrax arrived at Storm's End before a gathering storm, and discovered that Prince [[Aemond Targaryen]], an emissary for his brother, King Aegon II, had already arrived on [[Vhagar]], to acquire Borros's allegiance. Lucerys could not match Aemond's offer, and Borros rejected Rhaenyra's attempt at alliance. However, before Lucerys could leave, he was challenged by Aemond, who insisted that Lucerys put out his own eye to repay him for the eye Aemond had lost in a fight with Lucerys years before. However, Lucerys refused, telling him he came as an envoy, not a [[knight]], but Aemond demanded Luke's eye or his life. At this, Lord Borros intervened, not wanting the blood of envoys to be shed under his roof, and his guards escorted Lucerys back to the castle yard where Arrax waited amidst a terrible storm. When Borros's daughter [[Maris Baratheon|Maris]] taunted Aemond, asking him if Lucerys had [[eunuch|removed his balls]] as well as his eye, Aemond became enraged. When he asked Borros's leave to go, Borros told Aemond that he had no say about what he did while not underneath Borros's roof, and allowed him to depart.{{Ref|FAB|14}} 

[[File:Arrax storms end.png|thumb|350px|Arrax washes up beneath [[Storm's End]]. Art by Ashley Hunter Rice ©]]

As Aemond mounted Vhagar and went after Luke, Arrax was struggling to stay aloft in the storm. Arrax was younger and swifter, and on a calm day might have been able to outfly his pursuer, but the weather impeded him, and Vhagar was five times the size of her foe and the hardened survivor of a hundred battles. The two dragons [[Fight above Shipbreaker Bay|met above]] [[Shipbreaker Bay]]. According to [[Archmaester]] [[Gyldayn]], if there was a fight, it could not have lasted long. Watchers on the walls of Storm's End saw distant blasts of flame, and heard a shriek louder than the thunder. Then the two dragons were locked together, as lightning crackled around them. The fight ended when Arrax fell, broken, to be swallowed by the storm-lashed waters of the bay.{{Ref|FAB|14}}

Arrax's head and neck washed up beneath the cliffs below Storm's End three days later. Prince Lucerys's body was never found. Gyldayn notes that some claim that Vhagar snatched Lucerys off Arrax's back and swallowed him whole. Some have even claimed that Luke survived his fall and swam to safety, but lost all memory of who he was, spending the rest of his days as a [[simple]]minded fisherman. But more legitimate historians such as [[Munkun]] disregard such tales, and state that Lucerys died with his dragon.{{Ref|FAB|14}}