This is a good question, and I have wondered the same. The idea that two kings having to die in order to ‘wake dragons from stone’ (not for the dragon to rise again) ASOIAFis pretty clear from Melisandre’s and Aemon’s conversation in Jon I in A Dance for Dragons.
I honestly think the dragons have already been woken from stone, literally. And the kings that fueled those dragons’ awakening are Khal Drogo and Daenerys’ unborn child, Rhaego, the Stallion who [was supposed to] Mount the World.
The funeral pyre, the witch’s encantations, the dead horse, the painful execution of Mirri Maaz Duur. Perhaps all that was necessary too.
But I strongly believe that two sacrifices with king’s blood must die for a dragon to be born. And it’s better to sacrifice an unborn child than an already-born child, if you are going to do that. Burn, baby, burn.
Of course the recipe has been lost over the years, suppressed by the Maesters who think the practice of sacrificing humans should probably be best left to the past.
That’s what happened at Summer hall, in my belief.
Aegon V, was trying to sacrifice the unborn Rhaegar in order to raise a dragon so he could implement his reforms of peasants’ rights. The good outweighed the bad for Aegon.
The only thing that went wrong was that Ser Duncan the Tall, thick as a castle wall, screwed it up by rescuing Rhaegars mother and Rhaegar, thus saving their lives while screwing up the spell.
So will it happen again? I don’t think so. There is some indication from the Theon chapter from The Winds of Winter that STannis might sacrifice Theon to the heart tree. Theon definitely has king’s blood(though not Targaryen blood.) And Shireen will probably end up crisped venison, too.
But if the ‘dragon’ is Jon Snow, one doesn’t really need to sacrifice anybody to the dead to resurrect him.
All you need, from the examples of Beric Dondarrion and Lady Stoneheart, apparently, is the Will of R’hllor and someone willing to kiss a corpse.
And then you’ve got your Snow Wight.
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