Ahh it's been a while and seems like every time I post it I had to post
the begining. Please ready the delete button. But anyway, the revised I
send before was a sort of error due to saving error (believe it or not).
I didn't bother because I can't edit for my life so it made little difference.

C&C and all that other stuff welcomed

Standard Disclaimer:  All characters portrayed in this story are the
property of their respective creators and companies. (Especially Tor
since it's pratically right in my backyard.) If anything I'm only promoting
the series.

If you haven't and would like to, read:
The Eye of the World
The Great Hunt
The Dragon Reborn
The Shadow Raising
The Fires of Heaven
The Lord of Chaos
The Crown of Swords
The Path of Daggers (Now released)
	By Robert Jordan

Warning: Beware of falling grades or screaming bosses if not careful.
May put
the thought of stalking Robert Jordan in your mind.

Since so far the setting is in Wheel of Time you might have to guess some
stuff if you're a bit rusty or never read wheel of time.

                                  My BAKA Gaidin
                        Wheel of Time (Crown of swords)
                                Ranma 1/2
Keys
*(thoughts)*

Prologue

	Spanning the stars of the night, flows of energy weave into its target.
Inside a tent lay a woman, young compared to her real age. Shifting
uncomfortably back and forth, she wasn�t in the best of moods spoken by the
reflection on her face. Dreams can do that to you. A person�s dreams is often
a pleasurable experience though confusing, but sometimes, like now, it
is down
right horrifying. Those are referred to as nightmares.

	Gleemen, legendary traveling storytellers, have told of ancient horrible
creatures that plague the world, destroying everything in the name of a great
evil with uncountable names. It had been said there is no worst sight
then the
eyes of a myrddraal, a fade, known by many names. Some have claimed it�s fable
creature to scare little children at night, others who have fought them, have
said �to look into the eyes of a fade is to know fear�. 

	Among the stories the name Aes Sedai were also spoken, some good,
others bad.
Once there was both male and females with mystic powers who wear such a title,
now there are only women. Siuan Sanche, known for her recent dethroning
as the
Amyrlin, the chosen leader of such a clan, had done little better then anyone
else. The cold, utter hatred stare of a fade is as terrifying as the first
time it was experienced, Aes Sedai or not.

	The fade moved with uncommon grace, slipping into the blackness of the
surrounding scenery. It seemed to phase in and out of view every so often,
blending in completely with the darkness, but not long enough. With a
cloak of
pure darkness that never moved, it silently moved towards her, never wavering,
staring with those soulless eyes striking fear into its prey. It had an
exposed blade out, a wicked blade as dark as everything else on the
shadowspawn, but the outline of the blade was always clearly visible for all
to know it�s there.

	Siuan was not inexperienced, she knew what to do in the face of a
shadowspawn, but with all her pass training nothing but panic flowed through
her as she took a step back. One step became two, two became three, before
long she was running with desperation on her face. Finally some sense had
gotten back to her, facing the creature, she tried to use her powers, quickly
if not fumbling in doing so. 
	
	An intricate weave of mystic power formed around the opponent, a
barrier of
air to hold the fade, power that flowed through her with all its
sweetness and
pleasure just to wrap herself in it, Siuan almost lost herself to the
sweetness, fumbling the flows like the first time she had channeled. She made
the weaves of air as thick as she could manage to contain the fade, not
a wise
thing to do told by the old lessons of never do anything short of destruction
to a shadowspawn. Still the fade seemed effected little if none at all. From
Siuan�s point of view it had almost seem to smile at her feeble attempt.

	Reevaluating her efforts, Siuan deposed of the idea of air and opted quickly
with fire. Channeling with all of her strength, a bright stream of fire flew
from her hands at the shadowspawn as she shouted, "Die!" To her fear the fire
trickled down and vanished in front of the fade as if some invisible barrier
just squelched the stream. Siuan�s eyes widened, and mentally cursed to
the unknown.

	The fade seemed to slow down, but little else was done as the storm of fire
continued to flow towards it. *How can this be happening, my power isn�t what
it was, but it should have died. Died!* Siuan took a step back trying to
compensate for the fade�s forward motion, never letting up the blazing hot
fire. Renewed panic and fear struck her with vengeance as the situation
rapidly spun out of control. *Stay back! Die, burn you, DIE!*

	On the other side of the pitch black plane, if you can call it that,
was of
little better scene. A young boy faced off his latest opponent. Ranma Saotome
of the �Anything Goes Martial Arts� was doing badly in his fight with the
black cloaked thing. It was more like a struggle then a fight as it currently
had a firm iron grip on him. He kicked and fought, but that had done
little to
free himself. What frightened him most was the deathly stare of the creature,
but being the great Ranma Saotome he had worst. Normal men, even
abnormal men,
would cringe at the sight of a fade�s stare, but Ranma while still frightened
had worst then the creature ever could produce, namely Akane�s cooking
smelled, tasted, looked, and probably was more dangerous then the creature
could be. But that didn�t matter now, he clenched his teeth putting all his
strength to release the hold from his opponent. *I�m not gonna loose to a
thing like you! LET me go, damn you!*

	Siuan's efforts were having ill effects on her. She was channeling with every
bit of strength she can manage and beyond that. Her hold on the One
Power was
weakening. The strand of power that connected her to Sadiar, the female half
of the power, was strung high. Slowly it was breaking apart, but that
was an
afterthought with the fade still coming toward her. Then it broke; the strain
of her channeling broke it apart. The connection to the One Power
snapped like
a string holding a mad horse. All thoughts were forgotten as Siuan desperately
tried to latch on to the fleeing string of power that was flung away.
*No, NO,
not this, NO!* Fumbling hopelessly, it was like holding on to a
squirming wet
kingfish, with no avail. 

	Ranma�s sight was starting to blur. His strength was gradually decreasing.
The grip of the creature had gotten tighter and tighter. It was
squeezing the
life out of him. Then on the corner of his eye something appeared, a
tint of
light, like a rope of some sort. Desperately he tried to reach for it. *Come
on, Ranma Saotome never gives up!*

	Siuan would have dubbed the situation, "Slipped off the boat and floundering
to get back on," if she had that luxury. Mentally she reached out to
grab the
strand that gave her to ability to channel. Right now it was the only thought
on her mind. Every time she thought she had it, it just wriggled right
out. In
a final attempt she mentally stretched with all her might she lunged forward
to grab it...it seemed to grab her also.

	Ranma finally got a grip on the light rope that he had seen before, it almost
seemed to leap at him for some reason and pulled. *Got it!*

	Siuan pulled and pulled, it almost seemed like a hand now and with that she
lifted her self towards it. An image seemed to form from the strand, almost
like a body...a male body. *What the...*

				< OH MY! >

	Siuan�s eyes shot awake. Sweat covered her face and likely the rest of her
body. She quickly sat upright, the only thought on her mind was... *It
was a
dream, all a dream... It was so real... it�was a nightmare. * The last thought
almost felt like a relief.  Cursing herself for unknown reasons, she
went into
deep thought of what it meant. *My stilling, the stilling was probably
why I
had the nightmare. The fear that I would lose my powers again... Burn you
Elaida!* Her rage quickly died out as new emotions seemed to slip into her
mind. It was much like her own, but the feeling wasn�t the same, it was
different. She couldn�t describe it, it was odd and it also pointed in a
particular direction.

	Ranma awoke with frenzy. *A nightmare...* He was confused as anyone
else that
just had a nightmare. It was a vivid dream, but not all that uncommon
when you
were Ranma Saotome, nightmares and real life weren�t all that different. He
soon shrugged off as being another �Someone is going to kill you� nightmare
and looked at his surroundings. *Funny, the forest looked different from
yesterday.* Some of the more obvious things were that it seemed much hotter
then last night and the leaves were withered on the trees. But those thoughts
quickly subsided with new ones, very faint, something unfamiliar to him. He
seemed to look off into a direction, something was there, but again it had
been hampered with greater thoughts of food. *Man I�m hungry.*

	In some unknown place a figure stood glazing over the distance and appeared
to be in deep thought. *My plans seems to be going nicely.* As almost always
these events seemed to be the doings of some being and their plans. *They
should make a good match up, though I have to admit there are better choices
then Ranma in this world. Besides the fact that I�m Pro Ranma (just have to
love him), he does have some of the qualifications for the job. Now to
continue with my plans.* Though the figure had done all this, it really didn�t
have further plans or have any experience with this type of stuff, but you
have to start somewhere. *Oh, this is going to be fun* and with that last
thought it opened a portal and disappeared.

			End Prologue

Chapter 1

	The blazing morning sun shone into the sky over a withering forest. A
boy sat
in deep thoughts all the while searching his faithful backpack for a filling
breakfast. He looked about seventeen, black hair, tied in a pigtail. He
was a
very handsome boy with crystal blue eyes and of course with the build of a
martial artist.

	 Ranma Saotome was confused. Everything felt so weird, but then lately
everything was confusing. Recent events had turned his already confused life
even more confusing. He had been shunned out, not that it hasn�t happened
before, but it wasn�t serious last time. It had been pondered over many times
before and now it seemed little more then a nagging memory. "I�m running
a bit
low," he muttered, noticing his food supply was vanishing. *I wonder how much
money I still have left.*

	Breakfast was pretty good to a starving Ranma, given his talent for cooking.
He would turn someone into a pulp if that someone ever mentions it though.
With stomach filled, he became more aware of his other thoughts and feelings.
The first was where was he. *This can�t be the same place I was last night.*
The whole place felt weird to say the least. Withered trees were everywhere,
dried and wrinkled. The land seemed not to have rained in months and
with the
heat to match it. It was not a pretty sight.

	The second thought puzzled Ranma to no end. He felt other emotions different
from his own, like it was not his.  It was a faint. Confusion seemed to
be the
strongest he felt. The origin of the emotions pointed in the direction
he was
now facing. *There is probably a reasonable explanation for this. Like going
back in time or some wizard sending me somewhere because Pop ate his
dinner or
something.* With a sigh, Ranma went in that direction knowing some
things were
getting too easy to predict.

				< OH MY! >

	Siuan Sanche had been the youngest Amyrlin to have ever lived, or at
least in
the tower with the present one was even younger. Her life had been stood on
its head ever since that meeting with the Dragon Reborn. Many things changed
besides her now youthful face. She had been the most powerful Aes Sedai
to now
one of the lowest, the highest in rank and back down. The first woman to be
cured of stilling that anyone every heard of.	

	Stilling was not a thing done, or mentioned often in her society. It
was a
fate worse then death to some and it led to eventual death to those stilled.
Anyone who channeled the power feared being stilled, as it was the permanent
cutting of the source that gave new meaning to pleasure and happiness
and if
ever experienced would never live again without it. It was said to be
permanent until Siuan Sanche changed the record.

	Siuan thought she had faced everything that the pattern can weave her into,
but again something new and unheard of wiggles right to her. Her
thoughts and
emotions were in turmoil. She felt something that wasn�t possible. To have
felt a bonded man that had been long dead was unheard of. *Alric� it can�t
be�* Alric, Siuan�s warder, long dead when she had been dethroned. She had
seen him die, felt him die, and cried many nights for that.

	"He�s dead, it can�t be�" wide eyed, she spoke softly to herself. *I
can�t be
feeling him, could I? Maybe�no� there was no other I could have bonded with.
But he�s dead!* She was sure of her memories at least, there was no knowledge
of her bonding with another man since that day. *Maybe it was an effect of
being stilled and brought back. No it can�t be�can it?* Siuan tried to think,
there had to be some explanation to this. *Leane! She would have felt
something too.* Leane, her keeper and companion for many years, she was the
only other person to share the experience of being stilled and brought back.
If anyone had felt what she felt it would have to be Leane. Barely getting
dress, she scurried out the tent opening seeking for answers. 

	Leane and Siuan, former Keeper and Amyrlin Seat, had a plan to pretend to
hate each other, but that was far from Siuan�s mind right now. Dodging past
women, she felt worried to no end, but decades of Aes Sedai taught her to
better mask that. Deep in her own worries, Siuan almost ran over a body, when
it hit her. In front of her was the youngest Amyrlin to have lived, complete
with the seven colors of the Amyrlin�s stole. "Mother," mentally and
physically, she calmed herself all while mentally giving herself a good kick
in the bottom for being so childish.

	"Is something the matter Siuan? You seemed worried to the point of
running me
over," Egwene, now Amyrlin looked at her. Siuan�s tutoring had made
Egwene act
at least like the Amyrlin despite her youthful face.

	"Nothing is the matter, Mother," Siuan calmly replied with Aes Sedai
serenity. *Nothing much just my dead warder coming back to haunt me!
Maybe I�m
going crazy.*  "I�m going to Leane to ask her something, do you know
where she
might be Mother?" Her face never wavered, giving no sign of her
emotions, but
Egwene knew better.

	Egwene blinked and quickly leaned closer to Siuan. "Is something really the
matter? You two are not to be seen with each other." Her voice lowered
to a
whisper. Aes Sedai could not lie. They could make truth stand on its head
though, but Siuan was an exception. Another secret effect of stilling.
*Well I
will find out later�* "I have something to speak to you, daughter." She
motioned Siuan to follow her into the tent.

	"I just got this last night," Egwene pulled out a folded letter, "it�s a
message from our group. They ask for you Siuan, want you to go to Caemlyn.
There was no reason mentioned." Taking a breath to ready herself; Egwene
continued, "Siuan I have no idea what this means. Do they have some intention
for you or is this all a trick� maybe Moghedien is� I don�t know Siuan."

	Moghedien, one of the female forsaken, even the mention of such a name would
put fear in the bravest. Recently she had been captured and had been
made to
do countless things that would call out for revenge, now that she was loose.
She had four targets and two of them were Siuan and Egwene.
 
	Siuan face was featureless, while she calmly listened to all this. "I know
nothing that could pull me to Caemlyn. It�s up to you, mother."
*Caemlyn, why
in the light must I go there?*

	"All the same Siuan, I need you here. I will see if anymore information
comes. Be careful Siuan, if it�s Moghedien�" Egwene�s voice trailed off not
needing to explain further. 

	Little things needed to be discussed more and Siuan left in search of Leane.
*First Alric and now Caemlyn, could this be Moghedien�s revenge?* Things
always get more confusing for Siuan in the time of the Dragon Reborn.

				< OH MY! >

	In the streets of Caemlyn, Ranma was quite annoyed. The whole way here, there
was not a drop of water on the road. That was except the splash of water on
the now her. When he went up to a guy in a wagon asking for directions, the
guy accidentally spilled his water bag on him. The guy fainted of
course, but
luckily he had told him there was a city near by at the end of the road before
he did. Then in the city, the now female Ranma, found out something or someone
had transported her to a different time or a different place. *This does not
look like Japan even if it�s a different time.* 

	Ranma thought she was in a pretty bad situation. *At least I speak the
language.* He shuddered with the thought of the many times how the lack of
communication led to big headaches. The place looked like some western movie
with knights in shinning armor and stuff, obvious with all the guards around,
and the large palace that he could see even before he reached the gates.

	Looking around, Ranma tried to loosen up a little. *It�s not all that bad,
not like I got anywhere to go anytime soon.* Still she wanted to go back to
the world she had slept in yesterday. *First thing to do is to get rid of
whatever is happening to me and go back to�China. I need to find the
cure for
my curse.* With that settled she now went in search of the temporary
cure, hot water.

	Spotting a tavern, it seemed the best choice for hot water then any place
else around. So Ranma casually strolled in with a now slightly oversized pack
from the result of the curse. As usual there were stares and whistling. Some
not because of the backpack but rather a pretty face and some other
looked at
parts. She had been through this before. Doing her best impression of 'One
more look and I'll kill you' stare, people quickly looked elsewhere. 

				< OH MY! >

	Siuan was confused, annoyed, and furious. Leane had mocked her about
the situation.

Leane(V.O.): Why Siuan, I didn�t know you wanted a warder so badly. You should
have became a green, with that sly mind of yours. You�re quicker to
think of
bonding then me.

	More emotions flowed through her. She was certain it came with the mysterious
bond that had inflicted her. It had all of a sudden tripled; breaking
down the
mental barriers that kept her coolness. The worse part was the confusion
caused her to back down from Leane like a little accepted to an Aes Sedai.

	It took her a couple of minutes to control the boiling emotions, but the
feelings of the bond were as strong as ever. *This can�t be happening! Oh
Light I�m going crazy.* Siuan made up her mind, she had to find out the source
of the bond and strangely or rather not so much, it came from Caemlyn.
*It has
to be in Caemlyn, the two events are too closely tied.* Trying to compose
herself, she stalked off to find Egwene.

	Egwene wasn�t far off when Siuan came up to her. "What is it daughter?" Siuan
had one of those looks that meant something demoralizing happened. *Maybe
Sheriam gave her a hard time again.*

	"I ask to go to Caemlyn, Mother." Siuan tried her best to keep that Aes Sedai
calmness. It wasn�t the emotions this time that worried her. It was the fact
that she would have to explain to Egwene.

	Scurrying the conversation off to the side from prying ears. Siuan
began her
explanation with Egwene�s eyes going wider with every sentence. "I see�"
Egwene sounded almost scared. There were certain problems if this story got
out. "I will make you a gateway to Caemlyn and make up some excuse for the
Hall. Be careful, the whole situation cries of danger."

	Siuan gave a nod. "I will hurry back as fast as I can Egwene." Little more
was said.

				< OH MY! >

	A now male Ranma walked the streets again. While in female form the emotions
got thicker, much more thicker. It spooked him, this never happened
before. He
became more aware of anger and confusion while in girl form and was all too
happy when the hot water went into effect. He also felt like he was being
watched. But between the pool of emotions, thoughts, and unusual
clothing he
wore, he couldn�t tell for sure.

	"Man, this is got to be the weirdest yet." Ranma swore to himself. One good
thing was the location of those foreign emotions suddenly got closer, a lot
closer and was moving toward him. Somehow he could feel she was close. *I
wonder why I call it a she?* the unconscious part of his mind asked.

	Siuan came out of the stable in Caemlyn. The trip was short, via traveling.
The bond was also close and headed towards her. She almost jumped with
nervousness from who it might be. *Alric please be you.*

	Suddenly pain came, much pain. Siuan fell to the ground from a blow to the
head. Fighting unconsciousness, she barely kept her eyes open as her attacker
dragged her into the alley. She tried to get up, but all her strength
went to
keeping consciousness.

	Ranma felt a stab of pain. Somehow whoever it was, was in trouble, she had
been hit over the head and he felt it. Without a second thought he
leaped and
sped to her from the rooftops. *She�s in trouble, gotta get to her!*

	There were five grizzly men circled around Siuan�s moaning body. Each
had a
fairly deadly weapon at hand, clubs, knifes, and the sort. "She�s on of those
Aes Sedai witches. Kill her!" one said. "She doesn�t look like an Aes Sedai,"
said another. "They mean to control the Dragon Reborn. Kill all Aes Sedai
witches and anyone with them!" put in the third. The made their decision with
that as everyone prepared to kill.

	Siuan would have screamed if she could. All she could do was watch them come
closer. Suddenly a red and black blur came into view followed by a "Oof"
and a
hard drop to the pavement. "Nobody is touching her!" a male voice snarled.

	*Alric�* She felt it, the bond came from him. A view of his back could only
be seen for Siuan; sleeveless shirt of red, loose fitting pants, and braided
black hair. The group only growled as the attack begun. Knifes and clubs swung
at him, but he moved with lightning speed, dodging and counterattacking with
deadly accuracy. The five would be attackers fell all with pain followed by
unconsciousness from their weaponless opponent.

	Ranma dodged easily out of the way of a knife while he ducked under a clubbed
swing. The attackers were armed men, but not very good. He punched a guy in
the gut and back kicked another guy�s face. Something was not right
here. He
couldn�t quite define it, but everything seemed easier. He felt more powerful,
faster, stronger, more aware of surrounding. His would be attackers fell with
little effort from him.

	Ranma looked back at the source of his worries. The girl seemed to be trying
to get up. He could tell she was in pain. She took quite a blow to the head.
Picking up his pack on the floor and the girl, he leaped up to the
rooftop to
a safer place.

	Siuan tried to scream yet again as her savior jumped to the rooftop and sped
away with her and at high speed at that. *This can�t be Alric. Who is
he? I
never seen him before in my life.* The young boy she now saw was definitely
not her dead warder. But with all the denial, she could feel the bond with
him. There was no doubt she had gotten him as a warder.

	Putting her down, Ranma saw a young girl, maybe a few years older then him.
She was pretty with blue eyes and dark hair down to her shoulders. Even
with a
few screams of "Put me down!" he felt she was confused. 

	Finding a small medical kit from his pack he decided to ask, "How are ya?"
while trying to tend to the wound on her head. She wriggled a bit, but
eventually accepted.

	"Who are you?" Siuan asked in an infamous Aes Sedai tone, cold and demanding.
*He's not Alric, who is he? How did I ever bond with him?* The boy was
handsome, lean, muscular, and aged around seventeen or so. Also very deadly
from the show he putted for her.

	"Urr�name�s Ranma." He tried to act polite as possible. *Don�t want her to
think he was crazy by blabbering out his feelings towards her.* "Yours?"
he asked.

	"Siuan Sedai" Siuan replied calmly. Ranma blinked at that.

	"Nice to meet�cha, Siuan. Umm hey I know it crazy, but�" Ranma was abruptly
cut off by Siuan�s cold stare.

	"I am Aes Sedai. " Siuan said coldly showing her golden serpent ring,
all the
while staring daggers at him. *Why that insolent boy! Bad enough the others
look down at me, but my own warder!* 

	Ranma backed away a bit, feeling anger from the Aes Sedai. "Umm�sure, umm
Siuan Sedai." He had not known what he had said to put his foot in his mouth,
but he could visibly see the anger on her with that last comment.

	"I should teach you a lesson, boy, for being so insolent to an Aes Sedai."
Siuan was very much angered now.

	"Hey, what did I say?" Ranma spoke back while muttering "Uncute tomboy" at
the end. He then felt and saw her anger go up more then he thought already
possible. *Um oh, looks like she heard that one.*

	Siuan hadn�t really caught all that much of the end, but uncute, added
to his
tone of voice was enough. *Why that�!* Weaving a small flow of air she hurled
the nearest object at the boy, which happened to be a battered bucket.

	Ranma was good at dodging, but he had one downfall; with all his skills,
almost anything an angered woman throws at him; it always seemed to go ten
times faster.  Needless to say the bucket slapped him flat in the face
and he
promptly fell over. Objects flown at him on their own should have provoked
some thoughts in Ranma (sometimes anyway), but the only thought he was
thinking was *Why do I always get stuck with violent women?*

	At least the bucket was empty.

	Not far from the two, a white cloaked figure casually leaned against the
wall. The cloak covered the figure from top to bottom with red triangle like
patterns embroidered along the edges. "Humm� this is sort of boring, just
watching them like this. Maybe I should do something else to keep myself...err
help with the cause." The voice emitted by the figure was definitely female.

				< OH MY! >

	 A SD figure clasped in a cloak of pure white, with some red decorations
along the edges. 
	
	Speaking out in a cute high-pitched voice, "Hellooo! This is a special
section to explain the Wheel of Time world that I�m manipulating."

	"Channeling, drawing magical powers from the �One Power� to do magical
things. Saidar is the female half, Saidin is the male."

	SD embraces the source, channeling, she starts throwing fireballs at fleeing
bystanders by weaving weaves of fire all the while cooking a lovely dinner.

	"Bond, A male that is attached to a female Aes Sedai, those with mystic
powers much like magic. They generally get more power, better senses, among
other things. It is not known totally all the effects of it, but it is very
bad if it was broken whether through death or some other means. Bonded
men are
called warders or Gaidin meaning protector."

	SD posts a �Help wanted� ad, "Must have great fighting skills, must be
incredibly handsome, must have�"

	"Forsaken, a bunch of old fogies who think they�re gods, but are dropping
faster then Akane can mallet Ranma, to Mister Dragon and some
insignificant others."

	[A cheap stick figure] : HAHAHA I AM God!
		[BOOM] 

	"Amyrlin Seat, Miss president of Aes Sedai."

	SD reads the "Political Leaders and Impeachment" pamphlet.

	"Till next time on the �I hate those women� world of Wheel of Time�"



Chapter 2

	In the grand city of Caemlyn, there were much trouble boiling. People lived
in fear since they had been taken over. Two foreign armies were in the city
with Aes Sedai and Asha�man somewhere about too. Aes Sedai, women who could
channel the one power, Asha�man, men who could channel the one power.
Put them
together and there isn�t much more to fear then that. There was no need to
mention the Black Tower was somewhere near by also.

	Ranma wouldn�t have cared for any of those situations. It wouldn�t
scare him
even if he�d known. What had scared him was the girl in front of him.
She had
used some kind of power to hit him, but that wasn�t what scared him. She had
screamed and stared daggers at him, that scared him a little, but nothing
Akane couldn�t do. What had scared him was when she was explaining to
him what
the feeling meant. After some boring lectures with screaming of "Are you
listening!", she had told him he was bonded to her.

	Siuan had finally cooled down with Ranma enough to get some answers answered.
He seemed to be confused at where he was. He had no idea about the world or
even about Aes Sedai. It was hard to believe someone could be that ignorant,
but he seemed to be telling the truth. Whether he was telling the truth
or not
that was not the real problem. 

	The boy, Ranma Saotome, had not even known he was bonded.  Ranma was very
poor at keeping his face straight, either that or he was a very cunning liar.
Siuan would have to right either one of that if he was to become her warder.
There was little choice; Blues could only bond to one man at a time. The other
choice was to pass him to someone else, but that would mean extreme
embarrassment and even if a tenth part of the situation got out, there would
be more than embarrassment to worry about.

	The answer would have to wait as her true assignment lay elsewhere. The party
that was to tell the Dragon Reborn that 'they mean no harm' needed her for
some mysterious reason. Siuan had told Ranma about what a warder�s job
was, he
hadn�t liked it at first, but he seemed to accept it now. "Come along
Ranma, I
have things to do," she commanded him to follow.

	Ranma sighed at his new life beginning. Siuan said that there was almost
nothing to break a bond short of death and the others were not all that better
either. He couldn�t just leave, he could feel her and letting her die was
unthinkable. Besides, she had coldly stated the facts of the effects of her
dying would have on him. Revenge and death were not such a nice future. 

	Ranma noted that Siuan was a mean one. She had a temper like Akane and
a mind
and expression like Nabiki. *Probably the only reason she told me the death
thing was to have me follow her around forever.* His life wouldn�t give him
something good for a change. He hadn�t got much of the Aes Sedai thing and
Ranma hadn�t thought she would want to repeat anything or he would have more
flying objects at him. *Does every girl I meet have the power to beat
the crap
out of me?*

	The two walked down the street with the Aes Sedai giving her Aes Sedai
serenity and Ranma, her warder, sulking behind. *I need to get him in some
decent clothes.* Siuan thought. The unusual form fitting clothes Ranma
had on
would definitely draw some attention. Siuan gave a sigh as it would take
a lot
of work to make him a suitable warder. *Burn them! A lake full of
catfishes to
sort out and in comes another one!*

	"Oy, Siuan, where are we going?" Ranma from behind asked her. Giving
him a
cold stare he quickly shut his mouth. Off to the corner of her eye, Siuan
spotted a familiar sight. Aes Sedai, but not anyone that was part of the
group. Even without the shawl, she could notice an Aes Sedai, but she could
also see that she was a Red. Quickly she sped her pace up with Ranma looking
at her with puzzlement.

	Finally Siuan and warder went into an inn and ordered rooms. Shoving
her bag
at Ranma all the while giving him a commanding stare "Bring these to my room
and stay there till I come for it."

	Ranma gave back a defiant stare, but said, "Sure, what ever." and going
off. 

	Siuan�s attention went back to the owner of the inn, one of her eyes and
ears. "Tell me what has been going on in Caemlyn. And how many Aes Sedai
are here."

	Ranma put the stuff on the bed inside the room. *She was afraid of something
back there. Great, I thought I was done saving Akane every other day and now
this.* He looked around for something to do, but nothing much came to mind.
*I�m going to have to talk with her and if I�m lucky I won�t get hit by
anything. Well at least this time I�m not engaged to her or nothing.* He
chuckled with the last thought.

				< OH MY! >

	"Finally, food!" As fast as Siuan had seen Ranma move before, it had done
nothing for her now as the would be warder moved faster then lightning getting
to the food prepared out. It was an amazing if not startling sight. She had
never seen anyone move that fast towards food. *What is he?* Of course, she
had to repeat that thought as Ranma seem to move even faster as what can be
barely called eating.

	"You have no manners Ranma." Siuan said after she had seated. "I will not
have that since you are now my warder." She Tried to ignore the gruesome scene
while at the same time examine him, she began to eat herself.

	"I have manners! It�s just that I�m hungry." Ranma said, finally
slowing down
to a somewhat normal speed. Half the food on the table was already gone by
this time. *Ain�t my fault I was hungry. To think of it, it�s been a
long time
since I�ve been this hungry.* "Umm�Is there more coming or do I have to
order?" Siuan finally lost her mask of Aes Sedai calmness.

				< OH MY! >

	On the rooftop of the Inn, the familiar white cloaked figure is seen shaking
a sphere like object while sitting. "Oh ultra magical eight ball, which Ajah
should I visit. Is it Red, Green, Yellow, Brown, Blue, White, Gray, or Black?
Wait, I shouldn�t choose blue, but then it will be the ultra magical seven
ball." Giving it a bit of thought, she began to reach into the cloak. "I
wonder if I have a purple here somewhere�" she muttered to herself.
After a
replacement, the ball told her to torment the Reds. *Lucky me, they�re
close by.*

				< OH MY! >

	Back inside with everything back to normal. Ranma was eating normally of
what�s left of the food while Siuan ate, looking like a queen at a royal
banquet. "Where are you from Ranma? I have never seen that type of clothing
before," Siuan asked. *It looked like clothes Domani men would wear, but he
was not even close to a Domani.* That was true enough as Domani were
copper-skinned. They were also known for their flirting. *If he dares drawing
any kind of unnecessary attention, I�ll skin him.* 

	"I told ya, I�m from another world, I think," answered Ranma in between bites.

	"Some people think anywhere beyond their farm are a different world." Siuan
had again wore that no nonsense Aes Sedai look again. To Ranma it
reminded him
too much of Nabiki or Cologne.

	"Fine, don�t believe me," said Ranma not really caring. *Better change the
subject. If she�s anything like Nabiki, she�ll probably poking into some
things I don�t like.* "You were afraid back there. Who did you run away from?
I am your protector or something right? I�ll protect ya."

	Siuan gave back a slight frown. *Perhaps he isn�t as thick as he appears.*
"You would be of little help, It is a Red sister and I would not swim
near any
silverfishes." Finally finishing up her plate her eyes gazed back at her
warder. "You must change those clothes of yours. If anything would get
unwanted attention, it would be you. I have already prepared some."

	"Hold on a minute!" roared Ranma. "I�m not changing my clothes for anyone!"

	"You will do as I say. I will not have a fool warder." Siuan�s voice
went up
slightly. *He will learn I�m not to be disobeyed.* She hadn�t needed to
control a warder in years. *Compelling would put the fool boy in his place.*

	Giving a tug on the bond to do as she command, nothing of the decades
of Aes
Sedai training prepared her for this. As if the power just backlashed, a
hammer would have been softer for what hit her mind. Wide eyed, her
sight was
even more startling. Ranma at that moment went brighter that almost anything
she had seen before. Stumbling uncontrollably she fell to the floor.

 	Siuan had an ability that was not part of her Aes Sedai-ness. She
could see
a ta�veren. They shone with brightness above others. The most powerful
she had
seen was, one Rand al�Thor, The Dragon Reborn. Ranma Saotome, her
warder, now
came in second.

	The brightness was gone in an instant. Nothing of what she had seen was
there. Her head was pounding with agony. *What happened�* "Siuan, what
happened, are you alright?" she heard Ranma say.

				< OH MY! >

	A �thump� could be heard as the cloaked figure fell to the ground and seemed
to be in pain. "Ahh, that hurts!" she muttered. Slowly and seemed to
require a
fair amount of effort, she got up. Something just mentally slammed her head.
There was little that could explain what happened. "Baka, Siuan. Maybe I
should have kept the blue in the magical eight ball." Tormenting Siuan would
not be so bad right now.
				
				< OH MY! >

	On a plane of pitch-blackness, a figure stood there. "Mom?" Ranma asked.
Something was not right here, on top of this he�s mind was fuzzy.
Without any
thought he moved closer. 

	The figure who looked like his mother was smiling, a polite smile.
"You�ll do
fine," he thought she had said.

	Suddenly, she frowned; she looked like Akane now. Something began to stir
behind her. Like a cloak it wrapped around her as she began to struggle
against it. It slowly pulled her into the darkness. Ranma began to run towards
her. "Siuan!" he screamed. He could now clearly see that face to be Siuan�s.
"NO, Siuan!"

	"RANMA, GET UP!"

				< OH MY! >

	Ranma�s eyes shot awake. "Siuan�" he breathed out. Quickly he scanned the
room. *It was a dream�nightmare.* Calming down, he could now see it was
morning. After Siuan fell last night, he helped her to her room and that was
it. It was odd how she suddenly fell.

	"With the way you have been sleeping I thought someone killed you in the
night. You better learn to keep your eyes open, I don�t want to lose another
one." Siuan glared at him with daggers as he struggled out of bed.
"There is
little time, we must move. Some sisters are here and I don�t."

	"Umm, ok," Ranma replied when a soft thump was heard behind him. "What�s
this?" He looked at the pile on his bed.

	"These are your clothes," Siuan said, cool and demanding as he ever seen.

"I told ya, I�m not wearing them" he spoke back angrily. *I don�t think so!*

	A discussion promptly took place, shortly followed by shouting. Oh yea, Ranma
got hit over the head with his own shoe this time. 

				< OH MY! >

	A few hours and miles later, our Aes Sedai and Warder traveled the road with
Caemlyn a dot to be barely seen behind them. Siuan led the front with
Ranma a
bit back on the rear. Ranma was struggled a bit having minor trouble
with the
horse that he had on. Siuan was doing little better and perhaps even
worse at
riding then him. He was wearing a gray cloak. *This cloak is hot as anything
with the sun. At least I didn�t have to wear the stupid clothes.*

	"You better start doing your job as a warder, Ranma. I have been doing all
the things you should have been doing. I will have no nonsense as I
would not
mind spending money for one instead of two." Siuan was looking ahead
giving no
notice of him. Ranma said nothing.

	Suddenly, she felt it, the one power being used. Very powerful if she could
not see it, but it was close. She felt a woman channel and something
must be
about if she could feel it from here. Making her horse go faster she sped
towards that location. Ranma gave a second before following closely behind.

	Off a distance they saw a black cloaked figure just before Siuan�s eyes went
wide. A fireball streaked out of its hand directly towards Siuan.  Desperately
Ranma flew from his horse grabbing his Aes Sedai and diving into the ground.

	As Ranma tried to get up he was lifted off the ground by some invisible
force. He also tried to struggle out, but nothing worked. Siuan was in the
same situation, but had not struggled much. "Settle down and be quiet, Ranma,
you can�t do anything," she said while she glared at two black cloaked men.

	"Should we kill her?" one asked.

	"No, take them to the M�Hael," answered the other.

A portal promptly opened and all went inside it when it closed.

	Behind a withered tree, our white cloaked figure stepped out. Surveying the
area she said, "Not good. I did not expect this." She gave herself a bit of
thought; "Well I better do something." A portal promptly opened for her
too as
she disappeared.

				< OH MY! >

	In the palace of Cairhien, Rand al�Thor was not happy. Someone came wanting
to speak to the Lord Dragon, something about a black cloaked man. It hadn�t
taken him much thought to know what it meant. *Burn you, Taim.* "Bring her
in," he commanded. 

	The door opened and came in a girl. It was an amazing sight. She was pretty
with fair skin and a slender body, around his own age if not a year or so
younger, but that was not what was amazing. The girl wore pure white silk,
with a large emerald brooch, a thick golden bracelet on each arm, and a light
blue belt tied to the waist. The brooch sparkled as she moved with each step.
Rand had seen odd arrangement of clothing before, so this was not very
startling. What was amazing was the color of her hair. She had very long hair,
a bit lower then her waist that was braided in two equally large, thick tails.
The color of the hair was a startling light shade of green and if that was
amazing, her eyes were purple, a pure color of purple. Rand internally
struggled to keep himself expressionless and focus on the reason she had came.

	"My Lord Dragon, I�m�my name is Philia. I was�." She seemed to be very
uncomfortable, stumbling and franticly scanning the room and back at
Rand. "I
am a scholar�that is I was traveling and there was a�I mean near
Caemlyn, I
found a black cloaked man and he�I think there was a message since�something
of Aes Sedai, a lot of them and a�a tower, black tower." She was hard press
with speaking the whole line. Clearly she was in a panic. "Lord�my Lord
Dragon, I�m sorry if it was not clear�I will try�"

	"It is alright, Philia, I know what you mean. You may go now," told
Rand. Aes
Sedai and black tower, it only meant one thing. "By the way, why is your hair
green?" She looked confused by the question, then examined a strand of her
hair and left without an answer. As soon as Philia scrambled out, he
would be
making a trip to the black tower. *I doubt Elaida could send enough to take
down the black tower without me noticing. Still it is serious.*

	Outside the gates of the palace, Philia smiled to herself. *Aes Sedai
eat you
heart out.* Everything she said had been somewhat true. There was a black
cloaked man and Aes Sedai and the black tower. *A bit of acting and he thinks
he knows everything.* Turning around in to a narrow alley it was her
turn to
be startled.

	"What! How! Who� It can�t be�" She was more then startled at the sight in
front of her. In front of her was an image of a woman, a misty, transparent
image of an Aes Sedai, Moiraine Damodred. "How can you be here�you
should be
or maybe�" Looking around the area to see if there were any spectators, Philia
gave a big sigh. Clearly she was more then startled.

	"I do not know," replied the image of Moiraine. "I was sent here to
give this
to you." She held out a rolled up letter as transparent as her hand.

	Taking the letter from her, it suddenly became as solid as everything else
around. Philia opened it and began to read�

	I�ll bet you are surprised right now and angry after you read this, so
I am
already running. You are now stuck here for an indefinite amount of time and
you are to drag around Moiraine Sedai here with you.

	P.S. HA HA

	At first Philia looked at Moiraine with an angry expression, then she
gave a
bigger sigh.

				< OH MY! >
 
A SD figure clasped in a cloak of pure white, with some red decorations along
the edges is seen trying to slip away.

	"Ackk! I don�t like this job anymore! Look at this�I don�t wan�na do this
chapter's explanations!!"

	Being sued for false advertising she finally starts this chapters lecture.

	"Male Channelers, bad people, they go crazy like raid your refrigerator,
wreck your house, cause property damage�basically like any other men, only
they can channel. Aes Sedai especially Red Ajah are sometimes called witches
because they wack them  with brooms to get them out of your house."
	
	"Compel, a thing Aes Sedai do to their warder�a �Call me queen thing,�
I think."
	
	"Ta�veren, they do weird stuff to people and events. Great way to get
rich or
find if your boyfriend is really cheating on you."

	"Men in black-cloaks (Asha�man), the Dragon bloody Reborn�s personal
channeling army of men."

	"All seven colors of the Ajahs for Aes Sedai, too long, here�s an
excerpt of
the �Darkone�s Dictionary� by Joe "Uno" Shaw and Bill Garrett:

<snip>
Ajah

	Societies among the Aes Sedai, to which all Aes Sedai belong, except the
Amyrlin Seat who is the sole member of the Rainbow Ajah. They are designated
by colors: Blue, Red, White, Green, Brown, Yellow, and Gray Ajah. Each follows
a specific philosophy of the use of the Power and the purposes of the Aes
Sedai. For example, the Red Ajah bends all its energies to finding men
who can
channel and gentling them, so that they cannot spread the truth, which the
Reds see as vicious lies. The White Ajah loses touch with the world by
dedicating itself to questions of philosophy and truth, which have no
application to the real world. The Brown Ajah, on the other hand, knowingly
forsakes involvement with the world to see knowledge and study history, which
any fool knows will repeat itself anyway, so why bother studying the
past? The
Blue Ajah mucks around with causes, manipulating governments and
societies for
their own benefit and personal pleasure. The Yellow is primarily
interested in
healing, but seldom affiliates with 'regular people', so they're not much
good. The Gray likes settling arguments, but as everyone knows, the best way
to settle an argument in your own favor is to start it and blame it all on
someone else. In this way, the Grays are like the Blues, but much craftier.
The Green Ajah talks about preparing for battle, but its main interest
is in
meeting guys. There are rumors of a Black Ajah dedicated to serving Ishamael's
'needs', but these rumors are hotly denied.
<snip>

	"Hopefully there will be no next time on �Explain The bloody World of Wheel
Of Time.�"


Chapter 3

	Rand the savior of the world and all that, was trying to figure out
what had
happened. He walked down the corridor with his usual ring of maidens and
Asha�man. Their presence hadn�t bothered him anymore for a while now. *Why
can�t anything be easy? I told those Aes Sedai what would happen if they went
after the Black Tower. They never listen.*

	His mind went back to the carrier of the message. She was an odd girl
to say
the least. An exotic girl would better fit Philia. *Why would anyone dye their
hair green of all colors?* Rand couldn�t place where Philia was from either.
He mentally cursed himself for being distracted by such things as appearance.

	The group finally reached the room specially used for traveling. He motioned
the Asha�man to open a gate. "To the Black Tower," he commanded. *Those eyes,
how could anyone have purple eyes.* They were big and purple that seemed to
sparkle with mysterious powers.

				< OH MY! >

	Philia looked at Moiraine. She was not very happy, but she had learned to
roll with the punches so to say. So being grounded on this world was a bit
shocking, but then she wanted to have a vacation anyway.

	Moiraine Damodred was every bit like she had thought she would be. She was
short, slender, dark haired with those penetrating eyes, and most of all Aes
Sedai. Philia wondered why she had to drag the Aes Sedai with her. "So, you
are to follow me� Who sent you? Wait, don�t bother. What happened to you after
you went through the doorway? Do you know what happened to Lanfear?" Philia
knew a lot about the tale of the Dragon Reborn and his companions, but not
everything. Like any other curious minds want to know.

	If Moiraine was uncomfortable with someone asking questions about her past
she didn�t show it. "I do not know. When I woke up, I was told I was needed
back and was sent to you." She spoke with a musical and also somewhat
commanding voice.

	Philia waved away the all too obvious answers, looking in other directions.
*So Moiraine is here. She has to come back anyway. Well she is back� in spirit
anyway." She swung back facing Moiraine as if a moment of revelation had came
to her. *It couldn�t be� If Moiraine was back and I was the cause, then
I am
part of this line of destiny.* It was either that or was purely coincidence.
*How could something like destiny sneak up on me�*

	"It seems we are in Cairhien, it appears some time has past. How much time."
The weather was acting up from the mysterious powers of the Dark One and it
was hard to tell if it was winter or summer, but Aes Sedai somehow knew things
like this.

	The comment seemed to snap Philia out of her daze. "Yes yes, no need to do
the old Aes Sedai bit. You are to follow me around for some time and I will
tell you all you need to know. Now follow me."

 	One moment you saw them, the next they were gone.

				< OH MY! >
	
	Ranma was sitting in a cell. How a barn basement had a cell, he had no idea.
Many questions filled him on what happened. The black cloaked men had been
sorcerers, he knew that much, but using a barn as a base? Ranma did not know
very much.

	He still felt Siuan�s bond so she was alive. He could also feel that
she was
scared and angry at the same time. *Ok, so I break out rescue her and maybe
defeat the boss, typical.*

	Ranma could destroy the bars as they hadn�t seemed to be well made or maybe
just blow the wall with a chi blast, but the guards, not to mention a whole
camp of sorcerers around made the rescuing part hard. He needed to make up
some plan. *Why can�t anything be easy these days. I have a curse,
engagements, violent tomboys, some mystical bond, and now I am locked up.*

	One of the black cloaked guards glazed over at Ranma. He was in his
mid-forties with a shaggy beard and a grisly voice. "You�re too young to
be a
warder, kid. I heard the Aes Sedai was young too, if she is one. What happened
to you; do those witches steal children now for there own pleasure or
were you
fool hearted enough to go running after Aes Sedai?"

	"I didn�t ask to become one. She just showed up and said I was her warder,"
Ranma replied trying to figure out the why too.

	"I feel sorry for yea kid. You don�t seem like the warder type," the guard
sympathized with him. "Here�s some water kid, life is never what you expect,
eh." The guard turned around walking back to his post.

	*Bingo* Ranma looked at the water, it wasn�t want he liked, but it was the
best choice if he wanted to get out of this place.

				< OH MY! >

	Siuan was scared, who wouldn�t be, being captured by these men. She was
shielded and was wrapped up. At least she was in a comfortable position.

	She had kept her mouth shut, not wanting to reveal anything bad. The fact
that she was Siuan Sanche, the ex-Amyrlin Seat, was not favored with many
people, especially these people. She doubted that anyone would believe
such a
name, but then Aes Sedai could not lie even if she could. Either way it was
better if she would not speak. 

	*I must escape this place and soon.* Who knew what men who could channel
would do to her. The thought that men who could channel would go crazy and
destroy anything around had not even regestured.

				< OH MY! >

	Rand viewed the scene about him. Asha�man all around of course, but his
sights quickly came on to Taim. He never liked the man, but that could
not be helped.

	"What an untimely arrival my Lord Dragon or should I call you King al�Thor,"
Taim intoned in an arrogant voice. "Let us discuss why you have come over,
over chilled wine. The heat is getting worse every day."

	Rand ignored all that, it was a standard Taim greeting. "I heard that Aes
Sedai attacked the Black Tower." He left it at that. Taim would fill in
the rest.

	"News travels fast," he muttered. "Greatly exaggerated my Lord Dragon. A
skirmish with some Aes Sedai while a group was off near by. Three Aes Sedai
were captured, but that last one did not look it and her warder even less."

	*Three? How could something so small...* "Three you say, how many men
did you
lose?" Rand was curious now.

	"We did not lose any. The two reds gave some small struggle. The last one...
Well she was just captured," Taim answered. He seemed almost baffled if you
could actually see any anything on his face. "A bit later after the
other two
were brought back. She has the ring, but is too young to be Aes Sedai
and her
warder is but a kid. She is keeping quiet."

	Rand listened to all this in astonishment. *Three Aes Sedai, no men lost,
just captured. But then the girl said...* "Did you have any other �skirmishes�
or any men lost," he asked with curiosity.

	"None," was Taim�s only answer.

	"Show me to the Aes Sedai that is keeping quiet," Rand commanded. *How could
the strange girl know that Aes Sedai had attacked if it just happened.
Was she
lying or was it all some secret plan.* Rand grew up on a farm, but recent
experience had taught him to see things not just on the surface and odd things
like an odd Aes Sedai could be more then just odd.
	
				< OH MY! >

	Ranma was dumb-founded. Here was her great plan in escaping and everything
went wrong. Well it didn�t really go wrong, but he it hadn�t happened
the way
he expected. First she turned in her curse form and pretend a little so the
unsuspecting guard would come, except no one came. After a bit of
yelling and
frustration she decided to blow the cell door then he found that the
guard or
rather guards as the ones around were out cold too. That was good, but the
fact that she had to turn into a girl she hadn�t liked.

	"Why can�t anything go right," she muttered. Ranma was a Martial
Artist, she
knew how to keep her cool, but she definitely didn�t look it. *She�s afraid�no
more then that, way more then that�damn I have to get to her fast...stupid
tomboy can�t cha keep it to yourself.* Emotions of fear was affecting
Ranma to
say the least. The heir to the Anything Goes Martial Arts was, well the curse
heir at the moment, was frantically looking around and constantly
missing a
step all the while rushing though to her destination.

	With all this and the sleeping guards earlier, she wasn�t prepared when she
stumbled out into the open with oh, say twenty or so men in black cloaks
staring at her. Ranma was shocked when she realized everyone and was staring
at her. Shifting in to a battle stance, she try to spot any opening for
her escape.

	"Hold it, hold it. Some boys here just aren�t used to seeing a maiden that�s
all, no need for blood," a somewhat old man in his late years said all to
quickly. There was a couple to clearing to throats and some also quickly
looked elsewhere.

	*What the...! Well better then the other way. Maiden?* Moving quickly, but
still on guard for anything, Ranma went towards the near by house. It
was a
pretty big house, something you don�t see on a farm, but when did a farm have
cells and sorcerers all around.

	"Aiel are so odd," commented one.

	"Are you sure that was Aiel? She�s young and�and those aren�t any clothes
I�ve seen before," added another.

	"She had to be a maiden, look at that fiery red hair. Besides The Lord Dragon
is here," put in a third.

	"What a looker though, wouldn�t mind having her on my lap," piped in fourth.

	"Would also stick a knife in your ribs. Not even the M�Hael would save you
from a maiden," a fifth one lectured and chuckling at his own comment.

	They all started to gossip among themselves with some chuckling here
and there.

				< OH MY! >

	Siuan was very afraid, no beyond that, she was frightened to death. As if
nothing could be worse, drowning in a lake full of silverfish and in
came the
big kingfish himself. Rand al�Thor the Dragon Reborn just walked in and it
seems he was shocked also. *No, this can�t be!!* Siuan almost bit her tongue
and wished she had.

	"You know her?" asked Taim.

	"I know those eyes anywhere," answered Rand. Never letting his eyes wonder
off of Siuan, he continued, "It is a surprise to see you here Siuan Sanche;
former Amyrlin Seat, is it?" There was a collective gasp and raising of
eyebrows all around the room. 

	Siuan forced herself to say calm as possible, which was not very much. *I
have to do something, have to get out of this� somehow.*  With so much fear
bottled up, she never noticed that her savior was close and getting closer.

	Suddenly a large �BOOM� was heard from outside. Everyone went on the alert.

	"What in the light was that!" yelled Rand. In a flash Rand was running toward
the origin, followed by many others.

				< OH MY! >

	Ranma spited out some foul tasting water out of his mouth. *How come rescues
never happen the way they were suppose to!* The now male Ranma got up
from a
big wooden tub of water. It had been warm enough to activate his
transformation. He figured it was very weird for a tub of hot water to be
outside a farm, but then everything had been weird so far.

	Of course the reasoning of the mysterious tub took a back seat in his
line of
thought. The main thing on his mind was, *WHAT WAS THAT!!??* He was just about
to finish surveying the area when some loud explosion made him accidentally
fall into the tub. Ranma scanned the surrounding a bit more and saw all the
guards were gone. He didn�t know how good a group of women were, but
they had
sharp weapons and faces ready to kill. Not that he couldn�t defeat them, just
that they would probably distract him long enough for those black cloaked
sorcerers to come.

	Now there wasn�t a guard in sight, and so he casually strolled in.

				< OH MY! >

	Siuan�s mind for once became a blank. There was no scheming, no hidden
agenda, no plans for escape, not even pondering if she should get a new dress
when her old one looked like mud...struck by lightning. The rapid change in
emotions from fear, across the spectrum, all the way to confused, had fried
her brain. Having her brain fried, she didn�t see Ranma casually walk in and
give the pitiful two guards a nap.

	The savior, one Ranma Saotome, smiled at the easiest rescue that he could
remember. There had been no crying fathers, no "halt stop right here," fights,
not even a boss at the end who seems to have some weird fighting style
that he
must figure out to win. Of course a small part of his mind finally,
after it
screamed at the other parts for a while, told him that something was wrong.
Siuan in front of him had not moved in the slightest and seemed �to be
out of it.�

	"Oy, you alright Siuan?" he said with a hint of worry in his voice, nothing.
So he waved a hand in front of her face and added, "Yo, you there?
Hello. Snap
out of it." *Oh boy, something must be wrong with her.* He could feel
that she
was there, but nothing else.

	

	*This is not good, with my luck they�ll be back way to soon.* Ranma
considered his options which wasn�t much that his Martial Arts brain can come
up with. Grabbing his still frozen Aes Sedai, he bolted. He also refrained
from taunting her about her weight; it was rather nice that for once it
was a
silent escape.
	
				< OH MY! >

	The Great Dragon Reborn was in one of his daily sour moods. 
He knew that there were secret plots against him all around, but this
one was
more annoying then he had expected. It had him running in circles, a weird
girl, an unexpected arrival, now a fake diversion. He cursed himself
that he
went after the first sign of trouble and with him everyone else
followed; now
she had escaped. *What kind of Aes Sedai plot are you playing now?*

	"Her warder had somehow escaped too," Taim informed. "It would seem his
appearance is deceiving; even if he is young, he must be a warder. Most Likely
he somehow made the explosion and rescued her. There are no horses and the
land is barren, they will be founded."

	Rand hadn�t listened, as he was a step out the door. *I�ll find you and get
whatever you�re planning out of you, Siuan Sanche.*
	
				< OH MY! >

	"You should�ve gotten horses Ranma, or at least have gotten some supplies..."
Siuan had finally woken up from her frozen state and oddly enough there were
no more traces of what ever happened to her. She was right back to her old
self or as much as Ranma could see.

	Inside Siuan was still scared and Ranma could sense that. *She scared to
death of something.* He could also feel she was trying to hide this, but with
little luck. That�s why Ranma wisely hadn�t argued with her.

	"This way, there is a bit more trees for us to hide in. Without horses they
will find us fast and light maybe we would find something to eat," Siuan
rambled on as if on top of the whole situation.

	 Inside she was scared and wanted to run as far away as she could and
was all
too happy when she found out her warder rescued her. *It was my fault for
getting caught, but he doesn�t need any encouragement or he will never learn.*
Lecturing Ranma was the only thing she could do to push away the fear of what
the Dragon would have done to her. They weren�t on the best of terms and she
would figure Rand would want to skin her alive if he had the chance.

	They stopped when two thin lines of light appeared in front of them and then
expanded into portals. Siuan hardly had time to grasp the one power
before it
was shielded from her. 

	"Light, not again!" intoned Siuan as she tried to run, do anything, but she
couldn�t move. Fear ran again at the thought of being caught again, before
something very startling happened.

	Ranma was glowing an eerie blue as far as Siuan could describe it. It was
faint, so faint she almost couldn�t see the glow, but the presence of it
somehow made, felt, that Ranma became more dangerous. The Asha�man were
startled as her and maybe even more as they seemed shocked. 

	Suddenly Ranma�s glow flared into a blazing blue fire as he kicked the first
Asha�man with a flying kick of amazing speed and accuracy. The second
had just
enough time to draw his sword before he too fell down. "Night, guys," he
smirked at his two opponents. *Wonder why they didn�t use their magic.*

	More thin lines were emerging a short distance before Siuan had time to yell,
"Run! This way!"

	"Hey, I can take them on!" Ranma shouted back, but she paid no
attention to
the comment and was already running. He had little choice but to follow, not
because of her ordering him to, he briefly thought. *Don�t want them using
that holding trick again.*

	The ground erupted between her and the Asha�man with what little of the one
power Siuan could handle. *I hope that will slow them down.* Then it
went up
ten times as the earth seemed to explode with rocks flying everywhere, steam
shot out of the ground, and smoke started to cover the area.

	"Did ya have�ta over do it that much!" Ranma screamed as he a stream of
boiling steam shot out right next to him.

	"I didn�t do this, I couldn�t have!" screamed back Siuan, as she
stumbled in
the cloud of smoke and trying to avoid the shards of rock. *What in the light
is going on here!* Then it got worse.

	Ranma instincts reached critical when a melting hot fireball nearly
took his
arm off. Without a thought he leaped at his Aes Sedai, tackling her to the
ground. *Ah SHIT!* Siuan unfortunately didn�t have that caliber of
survival instincts.

	"GET OFF ME BEFORE I SKIN YOU!" she yell at the top of her lungs. Had Siuan
bothered to pay attention to her warder�s actions she wouldn�t have yelled.
Another fireball came, narrowly missing the two and destroyed a piece of the
already broken up land.

	More fireballs flew out of the thick cloud of smoke and steam, again missing
its intended target. This time the accuracy was much better liked for Ranma
and Siuan. They opted for a run, duck, and cover plan. 

	Things were looking worse and worse, he had to do something. Fighting against
such odds wasn�t that bad, but on exploding ground wasn�t making it any
better. *Damn! Can�t fight those guys with her around.* Ranma would never
admit he was running from a fight even when he used his �Saotome secret
technique�. Another fireball streaked pass him, he could still feel the heat
grazing his skin. *Those things are hot!*

	It came to him, the ground shot out hot streams of steam, the fireballs
flying all around, and a cloud of thick sweating smoke, it was perfect
for his
technique and equipped to handle a lot of opponents at once. Ranma prepared
for it closing his eyes, trying to stay calm. He needed to stay calm for
it to
work. *Must stay calm.* He briefly heard Siuan calling to him. He could feel
she was afraid, worried, angered, but he pushed away, staying calm, drawing
power he would need. *Calm, ignore everything around, cold, distant, I�m at
centered, the cold eye at the center...*

	"Ranma? Ranma!" Siuan called when she gasped, she even ignored a fireball
flying across her. Her warder was glowing a bright hue of blue and it kept
getting bigger.

		"Hiryu Shoten Ha!!"

				< OH MY! >

	Not far from the wave of fireballs, smoke, and rocks, two figures stood
watching the scene, if one can see beyond shadows over the cloud of
smoke. One
was cloaked in white with a hood hiding the identity; the other was a misty
figure of a person long thought to be dead.

	"Your really quiet Moiraine-chan," a cute girl�s voice spoke. "If I
have you
hanging around with me, let�s at least have a normal conversation."

	The misty image of Moiraine almost seemed to smile at this, ever so slightly
moving her lips. "You have not told me much, but I presume you will tell me
when you�re ready to." With a slight pause she continued, "You said you will
not interfere with them, yet you help them escape and create this screen to
hide them in."

	"I said I would not directly interfere with them," the figure corrected
without a pause. "Besides it was sort�a my fault, heh. I was visiting
this red
and well I guess she went a little nuts and..."

	"Hiryu Shoten Ha!" was heard stopping her explanation. One could almost of
heard her comment "Oh dear..."

				< OH MY! >

	A roar of wind, rocks, and everything else flew up into a giant spiraling
tornado. The technique was even more powerful then Ranma had thought. The
normal use would have been safe in the eye of the tornado, but this one was
far more powerful and loose pieces of rocks of various sizes had caused a
slight mishap on his plan.

	Both, Ranma and Siuan were caught in the huge tornado. He currently had a
tight grip around Siuan trying to shelter her from flying debris. *Damn, this
is too powerful.*

	Siuan mind was strangely rational, trying to figure some way to save them.
They would surely die here if something weren�t done. *What can I do?
The must
be some way out, traveling would be great if I had my full power. I will not
die like this!* She forced her head to look at her warder and saw and felt
that he was in great pain. Incoming rocks had struck him multiple times. *I
must do something, must somehow get away. Traveling...I can barely make
a gate
big enough for a mouse. I can try to make it bigger... I would burn my self
out...better then dying.* She made up her mind, drawing all the one
power she
could, she drew more, then something happened. Power came rushing into her,
lots of power, like she was holding on to an angreal or san�angreal. 

	A gate had promptly opened and both flew in.

				< OH MY! >

	Rand walked through the scene with confusion and anger. Taim had
informed him
that Siuan had been found. It was a quick gate to the scene before a huge
column of wind came up devouring everything. He had been far enough from the
tornado, but he still felt the shear power of it. When it finally died, pieces
of the land were scattered all over with bodies in between.

	"There is no deaths as odd as it may sound, maybe it was your
ta�veren," Taim
came up to him and quickly informed. "Some had been near death, but was healed
in time. Siuan Sanche and her warder were not found..." Taim was cut off as
Rand swiftly walked off toward some decapitated trees and rocks.

	There was a body lying unconscious in the mix of the rubble, the body of
Moiraine Damodred.

				< OH MY! >

	A SD figure clasped in a cloak of pure white, with some red decorations along
the edges. SD is supposed to explain some concepts of TWOT. 
	
	"I Don�t want to do this any more! I quit!� Please NO MORE!"

	The light�s come on: "Helloo!"

	"Moiraine, real important, she did a bunch of stuff ok�OK!!?"

	"Taim, very sadistic S.O.B., he is the M�Hael or teacher for those men."

	"Aiel, if you ever see one, don�t mention the word �dance�. They like
to poke
people with spears, work for Rand who sometimes walks with Dawn."

	"Maidens of the Spear, female Aiels. Don�t ever dance with them! Rand�s
personal bodyguard among other things."

	"I�m not getting paid enough for this�better renegotiate my contract
next time�"




Chapter 4

	A mind floated in the void, everything was dark, quiet, nothing moved,
nothing happened, nothing was here, but the presence of herself. She felt
light and fuzzy, but calm. Millions of questions flowed in the void, but each
one meaningless and went pass in the blink of a second, until many undefined
moments later. The usual questions surfaced to the mind, *Where am I? What
happened? What�s going on?* Rays of light pierced the void and promptly
swallowed everything.

	It had been seconds before her vision cleared, a wave of heat and drowsiness
swarmed the mind and finally, slowly, things came back. Slowly she sat
up from
the bed, just in time to see a figure, guard, and running out the door. She
was confused, but calm, she probed into her memories to figure out what happened.

	Looking around the room, there were a number of furnishings and the remaining
guard standing next to the door as if nothing had happened for the whole day.
He was an Aiel, she knew that, it was very hard to mistake it once you know
what an Aiel was. A rugged man with a harden face wearing faded clothes with
the trademark veil and short spear. That fact that she was in the palace had
been easily puzzled out, but why.

	Flashbacks attacked her mind with images of hurling winds that she saw just
before everything Faded. *Arr, Ranma you idiot!* Looking at the guard again
she figured she was in Caemlyn or Cairhien, chances are she had been rescued
by Rand. Observing more she found something more startling.

	On the corner of the mirror that was mounted nearby, she saw her
refection or
more accurately not her reflection. The opening of the door brought her
out of
her daze, before her was Rand al�Thor and a bigger then normal group composed
of Aes Sedai, Maidens and too many others for her comfort. *I�m
Moiraine... In
Moiraine�s body at least. How?* Giving a look at the Dragon she knew things
were getting very much out of control.

	The body of Moiraine though with years of experience was still trying
to keep
a barable straight face. This suited her purpose  anyway as not even the
legendary Moiraine Sedai could keep an entirely composed face when one
woke up
to the faces that most seasoned ruffian would cringe at.

	Briefly scanning the crowd, she opted not to say anything that would have
been bad. A slight raise of her eyebrow betrayed her, but again it would be
perceived as another Moiraine like quality.

	"Moraine, where have you been? We thought�" Strangely the first to
speak was
one Kumira Sedai, while she is one very commanding and authoritive Aes Sedai,
she knew opening her mouth will give her another�uncomfortable session to
right that. Another fact that seemed to slip her mind was that Kumira likely
never seen Moiraine in her lifetime.

	"Moiraine, I thought you were dead. What happened to you?" Finally Rand spoke
as if unsure of what he was seeing.

	After a few silent uncomfortable moments, "Well answer!" the old leathery
face Sorilea a demanded. Everyone, but Rand who spoke before her usually
started praying to the creator, likely what Kumira was doing.

	*What to say�what to say�" The mental brainstorm was blowing with chaotic
ideas to solve this unpredicted situation. When all else fails, stall.

	"I�I� should get dress first, please leave." Oh not one of the group liked
the first word out her mouth, but after a few more silent moment all the while
having some frowns, they left. 

				< OH MY! >

	Rays of sunlight peered though the leaves of semi-normal trees woke our Aes
Sedai from her well-needed rest. Siuan for the first time recently felt
relaxed and well rested. It wouldn�t last as haunting memories of why
she was
in the middle of nowhere slowly, but surely came back. There was much to think
about, even in her ten years of being the watcher of the seal, the flame of
Tar Valon, the Amyrlin Seat; she had never had so much trouble facing a
subject no matter how disturbing it was. *The boy, Ranma, he can�Oh
light! I�m
bond to a... But how, it should of...* Not a thought was completed as they
kept clashing with still more new ones.

	Standing up, she was barely aware of her immediate surroundings. The trees
were still green if still looked withered and the air was moist unlike
the dry
air of Andor. She was faintly familiar with it; the land was by the sea, which
would mean she was near the cost. Growing up a fisherman�s daughter in Tear,
Siuan could never forget the way the salty summer breeze felt even if it
wasn�t summer. *I�m in Tear�no, maybe Illian. Ranma, where is he.* Looking
around, her warder was nearby with his face flat on the ground,
unmoving. She
briefly checked the link to see if he was alive, the fact that Ranma was,
wasn�t surprising, as it should.

	Rolling the sleeping form over, Siuan used the standard procedure of probing
his body and soul. *He�s...he�s not there, Oh light! Wait. There�s a faint
link.* Any Aes Sedai would feel his mind was empty as well as soul, but Siuan
bond felt something more, like a faint thread as fine as a catfish�s whiskers,
but her warder was not lost, barely. 

				< OH MY! >

	Ranma felt faint, but forced himself to stand despite that. The familiar
effects of being trampled by mobs of angry women or when all of his fianc�es
meet were usual causes of such awakenings. After he stretched and
checked all
his body parts were in place, he scanned the surrounding. There was a
much-expected pause as he recognized that he was standing inside the Tendo
residence. Usually, it would be the spot he gets caught by Akane when she�d
cooked breakfast. It�s wasn�t right as the last thing he remember was fighting
off hordes of black cloaked sorcerers while protecting a violent...
*How? What
happened... was it a dream...* Using a newfound talent, he faintly
checked the
back of his mind where a warder would check for his Aes Sedai. *Siuan�s
there... then it was real. Where is she?* The link was weak, but he�d learned
it would be if the distance between them were far apart.

	Finding himself back at the Tendo, the first thing he knew he should do was
to check up on everyone. As much as Ranma convinced himself he was
leaving, he
still wanted to go back. *Saying hi is fine, I guess.* 

	"Yo, everyone!" he bellowed out. A slight pause, no answer. Ranma gave a
quick look outside and assumed it was still morning, everyone should be around
and eating breakfast, unless of course Akane was cooking. *I guess I can say
hi to the tomboy before I run.*
Walking into the predicted room, everyone was there, "Hello everyone. Hi Pop."
Again nothing, maybe they were ignoring him.

	"It�s been quiet around here Tendo," the familiar voice came out of the
ever-familiar bald father. 

	"It�s been awhile Saotome. Ranma being gone is working very well to my
house." The voice behind the paper commented. "He should be back soon, his
love and honor for my daughter will draw him back any day now."

	"Of course Tendo, but the lesson for tricking me to take his place of his
duty to sit with Akane and her rare cooking... would be learned." Genma
explained to his long time friend. Akane gave a "Humph!" at that.

	"Are you sure it wasn�t because he wanted to visited Auntie Saotome again,"
our ever blunt Nabiki said with her ever casual tone.

	Genma glasses seemed to reflect the morning sunlight despite the probability
of it happening at such an uncomfortable time. "He probably learned his lesson
and coming back right this minute," continued the bald headed father like
Nabiki was still quietly eating.

	Ranma, during the interaction already noticed he wasn�t seen so gave a well
planted kick trying to send Genma into the pond when it faded right through.
After a bit more testing he knew that he was perhaps a ghost or
something like
it. After frustration passed, Ranma ponder if it was another trick or
something of the sorcerers he fought just before everything blacked out. 

	"I don�t care if that idiot ever comes back. I hope he stays away!" Akane
finally spoke up. Standard comment really, but Ranma seemed to give a cool
stare towards her at that.

	He needed to figure out something when something not so familiar was standing
outside near the pond. An odd woman was standing there looking directly at
him. "Who are you!" bellowed out Ranma, stepping onto the grass.

	"I�m Moiraine," replied the musical voice of the out of place figure. "It�s
seems we don�t belong here." She was short and slender, Ranma observed. He
couldn�t figure out what, but something told him she belonged to whatever
world he recently became apart of.

	"Do you know what�s happening? Are you causing this?" Ranma was also
known to
be blunt along with some other things.

	"I know little more then you do, but something has happened for us to be
here. We must find a way back." Moiraine was never known for being
blunt, but
when she is, there were ten other things the Aes Sedai was hiding.

				< OH MY! >

	
	Inside the walls of Cairhien, the figure of Moiraine was trying to get dress
while deep in her own thoughts. *Ok, so somehow I�m in Moiraine�s body, even
though she never came with one. I guess it makes sense now... I never thought
destiny would spin me into its events. Imagine me, Maintainer of
Destiny...well off duty Maintainer of Destiny stuck in something she was
toying around with.*

	Looking in the mirror she observed that the dress was being stubborn, *Stupid
dress, easier to just mumble a spell or have my normal clothes.*
Blinking a
moment, she looked around and stuck her hand at nothing and it seemed to bend
into some hidden wall. *At least I can still access my pocket space, so much
more convenient. Maybe I can get one of my usual...no I should keep my image
of being Moiraine, the pattern might have ill effects if I change completely.*
The physical appearance of Moiraine gave a devious smile, *Maybe it
still can
be fun.* 

	Arranging her hair, she cursed that she has to wear such uncomfortable
clothing. It was made of silk and of fine quantity, but that was below
standard from her usual, as the custom made material keep proper normal
temperature, smoother then any silk, never dirty, the list goes on. Such
things spoiled her over the years, but she guessed it wasn�t very bad.

	Doing a mental check she tried to keep in mind some less then obvious, but
important changes, *My power would have to be limited now, poopers.
Maybe a
couple of magic boosters will pass as jewelry.* Spells weren�t a problem if
one can control the power needed to focus it. *Now it�s time to put on
my best
Moiraine impression, don�t think I can keep them away much longer.
Perhaps I
can wield the One Power too.* 

				< OH MY! >

	Siuan had to figure out something. She could leave Ranma, but the power and
mystery behind him would be lost and he was her warder, even if the
wool-headed fool can�t do anything right. *What can I do, light.* Healing
wasn�t her specialty and with the power she has now, it wouldn�t do much good
if Siuan was a Yellow.

	A thought came back to her, *How was I able to open the portal...* Too many
questions, finally Siuan decided to drag him to some shelter, the land was
dry, but there was some indication of used land. Hunting or farming it could
be and with it shelter, with some luck there might be one close.

	Wincing under the bulk, she swore that the fool would wish he were dead by
the time she was finish with him.

				< OH MY! >

	Ranma looked at the close door which led to the closet, nothing was out of
the originally, but he felt the pull of the bond toward it. Moiraine said
little. She seemed to know about him and Siuan and would say little
except to
tell him what to do. Moiraine was like Siuan in a way, Ranma felt both had
that cold demanding stare, and look. But while Siuan would get angry, argue
and eventually throw things at him, Moiraine just smiled and suggests
something else that would ultimately lead to what she wanted.

	He didn�t like Moiraine, in a way it was almost like his mother trying to
persuade him/her to do something. All that niceness was worse then any
bullying Siuan could do, he had enough experience with Akane. Facing Moiraine
had been like trying to fight Kasumi�well it wasn�t that much like Kasumi.
Moiraine was� also like Nabiki only even more harder to figure out and
minipuitive. Siuan was hard enough to dodge, but Ranma Saotome�s �make
her so
angry that she hits you and forget about what she was talking about� technique
worked on his Aes Sedai.

	Thinking back, he knew Moiraine was holding back something. She was the one
that suggested for him to try to feel the bond between Siuan and him.
How she
could know about that, Ranma couldn�t figure it out. She also told him
that if
he wanted�needed Siuan, he would somehow find her. *How does she know about
this�* Ranma was no master detective or he would have noticed that both Siuan
and Moiraine had an �ageless like face.�

	"Don�t know what this door got to do with the way out," said Ranma while
feeling the smooth surface of the closet door. Moiraine also put her
hand on
the door and to their surprise both hands began to melt though.

	"Interesting," commented Moiraine, "Well we have a way, lets go Ranma." Just
then Akane came though.

	"I�m going to school now father," yelled out Akane moving quickly
towards the
outside. Ranma give her passing a searching look.

	Moiraine�s only response was slighting raising her eyebrow. "Shall we be
going?" He only gave a nod and both disappeared through the invisible portal.

				< OH MY! >

	Rand sighed as Moiraine left; as usual the Aes Sedai kept her mouth shut,
claiming she knew nothing. The talk had shifted from asking where she
had been
to what he had been doing. It would be very much like every Aes Sedai to sway
the conversation a different direction, but there was something different
about Moiraine. He didn�t know what, but she was nicer and friendlier or more
generally, showing more emotion. Not that anyone could tell, but he just knew
that something was slightly different with Moiraine. *Is this a new tactic
she�s using? Was she hiding from me all this time, feel it was time to
push me
again... the Tower is broken, what is she up to now. Can I... did I ever trust
her.* 

	Giving a quick look towards the door he knew the others would question her
many times more then he had. Ranma knew Moiraine liked to work alone, "Never
trust Aes Sedai", Moiraine had said in the letter. *I think I trust you
Moiraine, I owe you even if you tried to leash me. I�ll help you keep
them off
your back...*

				< OH MY! >

	Ranma followed Siuan�s lead, after going through the door he woke up being
carried by Siuan. They gave the usual exchange of greetings, Siuan
sending out
a sharp lecture of how useless he was and Ranma trying his best to rebut,
�Ranma style�. He was happy to be back with Siuan, dealing with her was easy
compared to Moiraine.

	Ranma�s mind was else where, he couldn�t help but wander what happened. *Was
it a dream? Who was this Moiraine, what happened to her?* There was a
calculating look that Moiraine kept giving him, he couldn�t help but shudder
at that. Ranma wouldn�t want to be around her that much, being around Siuan
was enough for his nerves, but he wanted to find out what happened. *Who ever
she was, she knew something.*
	
	It was a short talk before something came up. He saw that it was a small
patrol of three soldiers and two women. One was strangely leashed to the
other. Ranma unconsciously tensed up from the link that meant Siuan was really
worry about such a small group. From the way he saw it they wouldn�t
last a
minute with him.

	She had gone as far as almost throwing something at him to  get away
from the
patrol. Passing the patrol Siuan had again took the lead much to Ranma�s
displeasure. When he asked who they where and why was she so afraid, exact
words "What are you so afraid of, with me here they wouldn�t last a
minute," 

	Siuan as usual said "It was none of his business," he protested, but her
bullying finally convinced him to accept. Ranma quickly dropped it.

	Inside Ranma�s mind, he was deeply disturbed. Something felt different, more
accurately the bond. He could still feel Siuan, but something else was there
like another invisible hand waving at him, every time he checked it, it kept
going back to Siuan�s bond. 

	"What did you do back there?" Siuan asked out of no where, putting
Ranma out
of his self-analyzing.

	"What are ya talking about?" came the reply.

	"Whatever you did with the wind back there. You were glowing. Don�t
hide your
channeling from me!" commanded his Aes Sedai.

	"I don�t know what you mean, channel what? Look it was technique using my
chi." Ranma tried to get it all out while clenching his teeth in frustration.

	"Chi? What in the light is that!" Ranma suddenly walked in front of her and
put them both to a halt. Siuan could see Ranma was looking around at the
surrounding trees and bushes. "What, Ranma?"

	"There�s someone around, watching us," Her warder whispered to her. "Come
out!" Ranma called out, getting in to a defensive stance all the while
shielding his Aes Sedai.

	Seemingly out of no where a figure stepped out from the camouflage of the
woodland. A tall built man with a little gray around his temple stood
out. His
face was stone hard, like chiseled from a mountain. He was dangerous, Ranma
could tell, perhaps the most dangerous he had seen so far. "A surprise
to see
you Siuan Sedai, what have you bran here, a young lion cub ready to pounce."

	Siuan�s face never changed through the meeting while her companion on the
other hand looked back at Siuan. "It�s a surprise to see you too Lan Gaidin."

				< OH MY! >

	The fake Moiraine looked out from the window of the palace of Cairhien. *I
wished I knew where Moiraine was.* It had been an exhausting day trying to
maneuver around all the questions. It was especially hard for that Wise One
Sorilea  and Verin Sedai as they kept asking questions. She felt something
that she hadn�t felt before. Perhaps it was because the day occupied her so
much. *There�s something...like a feeling at the back of my head, An invisible
hand maybe...weak, but I can feel it. Is this the feeling of a bond."

				< OH MY! >

	Out in the middle of nowhere, the sky was scattered with muffled sounds.
Dozens of large shadows danced by the single light of a small lid campfire.
Bodies as large as trees lay in the crumpled heap as a single human boy threw
around more. The red bamboo umbrella was swung around like a bat and
with the
power of a battering ram. The boy with his trademark back and yellow striped
bandanna ducked under the slash of large wicked sword as the nasty
spiked club
of another had been kicked away.

	Ryouga Hibiki also known as eternal lost boy, snarled at the incoming armored
creatures. They just came out from the night, at first a couple, then more.
Though their weapons were deadly, they had little skill above looking hideous.
He guessed someone would fall under the constant attack, but he had been more
hard pressed the time he was constantly slammed by boulders.

	The impact of the Ryouga power punch left the final creature sprawling
on to
the ground. He knew there was another, It was probably the leader as the black
cloaked figure glided toward him with uncommonly grace. Quickly turning
around, he faced ready to pound who ever dared to attack him. Staring
into the
face of the maggot faced creature; he felt a chill shiver down his back. The
wicked glowing back blade went into motion, as did Ryouga.

				< OH MY! >

	A SD figure clasped in a cloak of pure white, with some red decorations along
the edges. SD looks like she had seen better days�

	"Umm�my demonic contract says I need to do another explain Wheel of
Time stuff."

	"Sorilea, A wise one, who bullies you into thinking she�s wise. Think
of your
oldest meanest teacher�then think of her oldest meanest teacher�about 5 times
later you get Sorilea�who needs Holloween"

	"Kumira, Green Aes Sedai. Aes Sedai and Royalty, you get a work out from
bowing�think of what she gets, she probably does twice as much to Sorilea."

	"Lan al�Mandragoran, Moiraine�s ex-warder and a bunch of other�s warder�guy
sure gets around."

	"Next time I am doing a formal protest do this."


Author's Babble:
	Marry Christmass and a happy New Year. And Yes I have no life. 5 is on
the way.

~Kuku