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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:
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
	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 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 have told for the longest time that there is no worst sight then the
eyes of a myrddraal, a fade, known by many names and as they say, to look into
the eyes of a fade is to know fear. Siuan Sanche, known for her recent
dethroning as the Amyrlin 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 to know it was
still there. With a cloak of pure darkness that never moved, it kept moving
towards her, never wavering, staring with those soulless eyes. 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 striking
fear into its victim.

	Siuan was not inexperienced, she knew what to do in the face of a
shadowspawn, but given the situation, panic flowed through her and she took a
step back, then another, and another. Finally some sense had gotten back to
her, she tried to use her powers, quickly if not fumbling in doing so, weaving
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. She made the weaves of air
as thick as she could manage to contain the fade. 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 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 wouldn�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 was strung high.
Slowly it was breaking apart, but that hadn�t mattered as much as what was
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. Siuan desperately tried to latch on to the
fleeing string of power that was flying 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 trying to get
back on" if she had that luxury. Grabbing the strand that gave her to ability
to channel 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 and grabbed 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 appears 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.

				< 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.	

	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 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, 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 from 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. 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 cool. 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 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 very 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 very
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 provoke 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.



Chapter 2 (Draft)

	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 with 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 have
that since you are now my warder." Trying 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.


	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.*

	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.

	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."
				
				< 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 struggling a bit having minor trouble with the
horse that he had on. 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 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 was
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.
 


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 in 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.

	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 the opposite
direction. *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 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 rescue 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 hooded guards glazed over at Ranma. He was in his
mid-forties with a shaggy bear 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 of 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 resgestured.

				< 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 thought 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.

	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.

	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 joking 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 encuragement 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 began 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 amid
he was running from a fight even when he used his final 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.

	"You really quiet Moiraine-chan," a cute girl�s voice perhaps in her mid
teens 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 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 peices 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 shards of rock.
*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.




~Kuku