Subject: [FFML] [Fanfic][R.5][ReBoot][WOT] Gateway Between Patterns 1b
From: "Chris Wood" <matrix_83@hotmail.com>
Date: 1/3/1999, 11:23 PM
To: ffml@fanfic.com

Gateway Between Patterns. 
Part 1a: A Beginning. 
By Matrix Dragon. 

ReBoot is the property of Mainframe Entertainment. Ranma 1/2 belongs to 
Rumiko Takahashi and Wheel of Time belongs to
Robert Jordan. Anything else belongs to whoever they belong to. Don't do 
anything to this story without asking. That should
cover the copyright stuff. I hope. 

Note: This is set at the beginning of the Wheel of Time series, after 
the end of season three of ReBoot and after the battle
against Herb in Ranma 1/2. This means Nodoka does not know about the 
curse yet  (Very important in a future part),
Mainframe is back in one piece (For now), and all hell hasn't broken out 
in the Wheel of Time universe (I'm saving that for
later:) 

There are a number of people to thank/blame/send death threats to. These 
include Louis-Philippe Giroux for Differing Powers
(A personal favorite) John Walter Biles for Parallel Lives and him and 
Jeremy Blackman for Taveren 1/2. 

***

Night fell, and the celebrations began. Rand had to return to his farm 
for the night, but everyone else was celebrating. Matrix
looked at the Lady Moiraine as she entered the inn. The gleeman Thom was 
just as unsure about her. "People like her will bend
every part of your life to their will, and not even notice it. Best not 
to trust her lad." 

"I know Thom. How long are you here for?" 

"Only a few days at the most. Never stay in one place long. You'll get 
yourself in all sorts of trouble doing that. Take it from an
expert," Thom grinned. "That friend of yours is popular with the girls 
here. How's he do it?" A few dozen meters away, Ranma
was trying to shake of a large number of young girls who wanted to dance 
with him. Akane was just holding back. Ranma was
sweating very heavily. 

"I have no idea. But I do know he's trying to get out of there. Oh well, 
that happens all the time." *At least from what Akane
was saying about him.* "Got any more stories?" Thom was about to answer 
when the door to the inn burst open, and Moiraine
and Lan ran out. The Nerimans and Mainframers jumped into battle mode 
even before they saw that Lan had drawn his sword.

"Trollocs! Look alive, people, there are Trollocs nearby!" Most people 
just laughed at them. 

Thom growled. "Damn, I was right about those two! We've got trouble 
now!" 

"Thom, what's going -" Matrix's question was cut off as he saw a house 
burning on the other side of the village and the
creatures charged through the village, attacking everyone they saw. Thom 
pulled out two knives, then stopped as he saw
Matrix's gun fly to his hand. "Gun, Command Line: Multiple Target 
Acquisition!" The target symbol flew over the heads of five
Trollocs. Matrix opened fire. The trollops exploded under the rain of 
energy blasts. Thom just stood there in shock. 

"What is that thing?" 

"A gun." Matrix then charged into the battle, attacking any Trollocs 
that got near him or another person. Nearby, he saw Ray
fly past, energy bolts sending the beasts flying. Bob ducked the sword 
flying at his head and threw a cutter into the Trollocs
face. Matrix broke the neck of his last attacker then turned to face 
more attackers. There was only one there. It looked like a
human in a black cloak, but Matrix could see it had no eyes. In its left 
hand was a large sword. Said sword swung at the
guardians head. Matrix ducked the blow, grabbed the creatures left wrist 
and twisted. The bones shattered very loudly. The
threat of the sword gone, Matrix laid into an all-out attack. 

*** 

Ranma leapt over the creatures - Trollocs, he thought their name was - 
and laid into them with a kachuu tenshin amaguriken to
their backs. As they fell unconscious, the man who called himself Lan 
walked up. "Very impressive. Those attacks nearly broke
their backs. But they're still alive!" Lan rammed his sword through the 
neck of one of them as Thom did the same with several
knives to the others. "Why didn't you kill them?" 

Ranma looked at the swordsman in shock. *He's asking me why I DON'T 
kill?!* "I don't kill." 

Thom snorted. "If you've traveled the world, You must have been to the 
borderlands. And you've never killed?" 

"Not this world gleeman. You wouldn't believe me if I told you." 

"What does that mean?" 

"It means - LOOK OUT!!" Ranma leapt past Thom, smashing into a Trolloc 
who had almost gotten close enough to attack the
gleeman. Like always with Ranma's luck, their movement would take him 
and the Trolloc into a snowdrift. Ranma felt the snow
melting a bit into cold water and swore. *Damn, why now?* The change 
rippled through her instantly and a very female
Ranma-chan slammed a fist into the Trollocs face and climbed out of the 
snow. "Damn that's cold!" Then she saw Lan and
Thom. Both were just looking at her in shock. 

"What the....." Thom gaped at the redhead. How had Ranma turned into a 
girl? 

"It's this curse I have. Cold water turns me into a girl, hot water 
turns me back to normal. Now c'mon and fight!" With that
Ranma-chan slammed a fist into Kuno, who had just reached the village. 
She ducked a sword and smashed a fist into a trollocs
stomach. *This is what I should use the art for. Defending people, not 
just petty fights.* Nearby Frisket tore through the
trollocs with incredible speed. 

She jumped at two Trollocs, her feet aimed at their chest. "Kachuu 
Tenshin Amaguriken revised! RYUUSEIU GERI!!!" The
speed of the beating the creatures took knocked them out instantly. 

*** 

Nearby Enzo lead the villagers to safety. When he saw Ranma-chan looking 
at him, he grinned. "I may not be able to fight well,
but I can at least help!" Ranma-chan nodded and ran off, chasing after a 
group of Trollocs with Mouse, who taken down a
good part of the beasts. Enzo got the last of the villagers through, 
than followed, not noticing the young girl hiding under a bush. 

*** 
Bob pulled a sword out of nowhere -*I've been able to do that ever since 
Glitch and I merged, I have to find out how I do it*-
and sliced open a Trolloc. He spun around and locked swords with 
another. Nearby, Mayor Bran al'Vere impaled a Trolloc on
a pitchfork. *Looks like the villagers are taking a stand against these 
things. Speaking of which, what are they? They're uglier
than Web-Creatures!* He gave the Trolloc a spin kick to the face, with 
his sword going through the things neck as it fell. 

Dot ran up. "There's a group on the other side of the village. Come on!" 
As one they ran towards the fighting. 

*** 

Ukyou soon found herself fighting alongside the other Nerimans. Her 
spatula was doing a good job of knocking the things
unconscious. None of them heard what was behind them until a young girl 
screamed. The four martial artists spun around to see
a Trolloc swing a axe into the side of the girl. She fell to the ground, 
not yet dead, but close to it. 

Ranma-chan and Ryouga's auras appeared. 

*** 

Moraine looked at Lan as he ran his sword through the Trolloc. He was 
giving off pure shock. "Lan, what's wrong?" 

Lan looked at her. "You know that boy Ranma? He just turned into a 
girl." He pointed at a young red-haired girl who, along
with the boy with the bandanna, started to glow. The glow looked 
familiar to her. Saidar. 

*How can this be happening! A man, drawing Saidar! How? And how does a 
girl so young channel so easily?* 

"Moiraine, they're glowing." 

Moiraine gasped. "You saw it!?" 

"Yes." The Warder was unsteady on his feet, wondering is he was nuts. 
"She's glowing blue, and he's glowing green." 

"MOUKO TAKABISHA!!!" yelled Ranma-chan. 

"SHISHI HOUKOUDAN!!!" howled Ryouga. 

*** 

The fade tried to pick itself up. Matrix put a full delete energy burst 
through its head. It trashed around, but Matrix ignored it.
Suddenly Chip beeped. <Energy buildup to the east. I don't know what it 
is, but-> 

"MOUKO TAKABISHA!!!" 

"SHISHI HOUKOUDAN!!!" 

<Never mind.> The guardian ran toward the noise, only to see the charred 
remains of a Trolloc and Ranma-chan and Ryouga
kneeling by the body of a dead girl. 

"What happened?" 

Ranma-chan looked like she was going to be sick. "We couldn't bring 
ourselves to kill the Trollocs. We just knocked them out.
One of them came to and killed this girl." Ryoga was just staring in 
shock. 

Matrix put his hands on the girls shoulder. "It's not your fault. You 
acted as you always do. It couldn't be helped." 

"Maybe so. But no Trollocs leaves this village alive." With this the 
pair ran off into the night. Matrix watched them for a second.

*They learnt something tonight. Sometimes you have to kill to save a 
life. I just wish they didn't have to learn it this way.* 

*** 

Ryouga walked among the fallen Trollocs, his umbrella smashing skulls 
and necks. *That girls dead because you couldn't kill.
Why couldn't you kill them? After all, you always want to kill Ranma,* a 
voice in his head said. 

*That's different!* he replied. 

*How?* 

*.......* Ryouga couldn't answer. 

*** 

Moiraine watched in horror as the male Mainframers seemed to channel. 
*How can this be happening!? It looks like
channeling, but I have seen more than enough of that to see that this 
isn't channeling. What in the name of the light is happening
here?* 

*** 

The Mainframers and Nerimans stood together a short time later. "Looks 
like they're all dead mate. Any that aren't are long
gone." 

Ranma looked sad as he dropped the kettle. "How many died tonight? How 
many died because we couldn't bring ourselves to
kill?" 

"Not many Ranma Saotome. I have some abilities as a healer." Moiraine 
walked up to them. "How did you do all that?" Her
voice was very unsure, with a tinge of fear in it. 

Bob grinned. "Sorry lady, our powers aren't channeling. Ranma and 
Ryouga's powers come from years of training. Matrix gets
his powers from the keytool on his arm and the gun in his hand. As for 
Ray and I, well, Ray's a Websurfer, and gets his power
from there and I'm a keytool in a sprite form." 

<Why is it only Glitch that gets a body?> Chip moaned. Matrix grinned. 

"Because Glitch was willing to give up his code so we could escape the 
Web." 

<Oh.> 

Moraine stared at him. "We will talk of this later." And with that she 
was gone. Akane looked in the direction that the Aes Sedi
left. 

"That is one weird lady." 

"She is Aes Sedi. She will use you for what she needs you for and then 
dump you." Everyone looked at Thom Merrilin. "I was
wondering, when you left here, could I travel with you? I have a hunch 
that you lot will be a part of a great story. A gleeman
would be a fool to miss out on that. The curse alone is interesting." 

Ranmas voice was ice cold. "I don't think interesting is the way to 
describe it, Master Gleeman." 

"Of course. And I am interested in your powers. I have seen channeling 
before. You do not channel. I am sure of that. I would 
like to know more about you," he said before Dot stopped him. 

"Sorry about this, but we've got to deal with other problems for now. 
I'm sure you understand." 

"Of course. Allow me to help." With that, the group moved out, dealing 
with the fires and injured. 

*** 

The sun was rising as Rand al'Thor got his first glimpse of Emond's 
Field in the aftermath of the Trollocs attack. A quarter of
the village was in ruins, most of it ashes. Rand saw Ranma, Enzo and Mat 
running towards him and his father. Mat grinned.
"Light!  You're all right! We were worried about you." 

Ranma looked worried. "Trollocs hit your farm? How bad is it?" 

"Not too bad. Most of the animals are dead, and the smell of blood will 
be impossible to get out, but the real problem is my 
father. He went up against the Trollocs, only got a scratch, but now 
he's burning up." *Light, he IS my father!* Ranma pulled
back Tam's shirt to look at the wound. 

"Damn, this is bad. Nynaeve won't have a hope of healing this." 

Mat looked confused. "How do you know that?" 

"I just know about stuff like this. I've been on the receiving end too 
many times." Mat grinned and opened his mouth. "And if
you dare to say it Matrim Cauthon, I will send you into Low Earth 
Orbit." Mat shut his mouth very quickly. 

Rand didn't understand. *Say What?* Out loud he said, "Then what do we 
do? I can't just let him die!" 

Enzo looked at the dying man. "Bob?" 

Ranma shook his head. "I don't think his medic programs work with non 
sprites. Our best bet is Moraine. She does have some
talent in that direction, she said." 

Rand was now VERY confused. "What do you mean?" 

Mat looked at him. "She's Aes Sedi Rand. I saw her throw fire. It was 
incredible!" 

*** 

Matrix pulled the badge off a Trolloc, tossed the badge to Lan and the 
Trolloc in the bonfire. Lan cursed under his breath.
"Ko'bal. That makes seven bands so far." He threw the badge into the 
fire. "There have never been so many bands working
together since the Trollocs War." 

Matrix nodded. "And the fact they're here in the first place." Thom had 
explained a bit of the past three thousand years. In
short, the Trollocs had only been seen in the Borderlands and Blight for 
the past two thousand years. Dot's map showed the
Blight to be a long long way away from the Two Rivers. "If we hadn't 
been here, the village would have been destroyed." 

"Yes and why are you here? It seems to much like coincidence for my 
liking. I want answers man." Lans voice had a trace of
fear in it. That surprised Matrix. Lan didn't seem to actually have 
emotions. *Like me once.* Nearby, Moraine sat on a log,
watching with that ageless face of hers. Matrix realized that last night 
had easily blown their cover. *Nice going idiot. First thing
you did was pull out that gun of yours.* 

"Well, it's like this. There are a lot of realities. Most of us come 
from a world called the Net. It's a lot more advanced then this
world, to say the least. The Net is at war because of a creature known 
as Daemon, which now controls the sworn protectors
of the Net, the Guardians. Bob and I are the last two who aren't 
infected. Bob because he was trapped in a place known as the
Web, and me because I'm only a cadet that was never able to attend the 
academy at the Supercomputer. This hunk of junk on
my arm-" 

<Hey! Who are you calling a hunk of junk pal?> 

"-Is Chip, my keytool. I received him when we arrived in this reality a 
day ago. You saw last night only a fraction of what it can
do. Bob had a keytool as well, but he was damaged. When we were trying 
to escape the Web, Bob merged with his keytool
so we could escape. As for Ray? Well, he's a Websurfer. Comes with the 
code." 

Moraine nodded. "I believe you are speaking the truth. But what of the 
'curse' Ranma suffers?" 

Matrix shrugged. "I don't know all the details. Ranma, Ryouga, Ukyou and 
Akane are from another reality called Earth. In a
country called China, there's a place called Jusenkyo. You fall in one 
of the springs there, you get the form of whoever
drowned there. Ranma landed in spring of drowned girl. Cold water 
activates the curse, hot water reverses the effect. That's all
I know." 

Lan had his usual expression -nothing- and Moraine just looked at him. 
"Interesting. When we leave this place, do you mind if
we traveled with you for a while? Your arrival here and now must be an 
important part of the Pattern." Her tone of voice
sounded like she was stating a fact, not asking a question. "What would 
the effect of this be, Three Patterns being connected
like this. It must have meaning." 

"Um, excuse me? Moraine Sedi?" The Warder, Aes Sedi and Guardian turned 
to see Rand, Mat, Enzo and Ranma standing
there. 

*** 

Rand looked at Moraine. *She looks like a normal person - Of course she 
does you woolhead! Did you think she would have
horns and fangs all of a sudden?* "Ah, well, I was hoping, well -" 

Enzo grinned at Rand. "What shyboy's trying to say is that his father 
needs your help. He got this small cut and now it's off-line
city!" 

Moraine glanced at Enzo. "Off-line city?" 

Matrix stepped in before his twin brothers big mouth got him in trouble. 
"A saying back in the Net. But Enzo has a habit of
overrating anything. How bad is it Ranma?" 

"Very bad. It's only a small cut Tam got last night, but it looks like 
it's been infected for months. He won't last the day without
your help." 

Moraine rose to her feet. "Very well, take me to him." 

"He's in a room at the inn." 

*** 

People stepped aside as the group walked down the street. *No surprise 
there, half of them think we're demons,* Ranma
thought to himself. 

"Ranma, what is life like for you with your curse?" Ranma stumbled in 
shock. Moraine was looking at him with that ageless face
of hers, Rand looked like someone who wanted to know what was going on. 
Enzo and Mat grinned, as if it was a joke. Matrix
looked at Ranma as if to say he knew what he was going through. Moraines 
question came as a surprise. 

"I take it as well as I can." *Damn her, why did she ask that?* 

"Do you accept your cursed form?" 

*What kind of question is that?* "Of course not." Ranma was on ground he 
never wanted to walk, _Ever_. 

"Why not?" 

"I was raised to be a man amongst men. I'm sure that helps explain that 
to you." 

"When you are in cursed form, who are you inside? Are you yourself, or 
someone else?" 

"I'm me. No matter what, I'm me. At times, that's all I had." 

*** 

Matrix looked at the young boy. Moraine was walking on deadly ground 
here. He could see that the curse was a bad subject
to ask Ranma about, just like it had been a bad idea once to say that 
Matrix was Enzo. 

"I'm me. No matter what, I'm me. At times, that's all I had." Ranma 
walked ahead. 

*What did he mean by that? Maybe I'll find out one day.* At the end of 
that thought, he entered the inn. 

Inside, Thom spoke with the Mayor about something or other. There was 
also a Coplin making demands that the Aes Sedi
witch be kicked out of the village. He shut up when Lan glared at him. 
Rand, Lan and Moraine headed upstairs to the room
that Tam was in. The rest waited downstairs. Ranma sat down, half 
asleep. 

"Hey Ranma, you okay?" Enzo was looking at Ranma, worried. 

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just a little tired. Haven't had fight like that since 
Herb attacked a few weeks back." 

"Who?" 

"Herb. Leader of the Musk Dynasty. He's got the same curse as me." Ranma 
stopped, a pained look on his face. He stood up
and walked out of the inn, which resulted in a curious little boy 
throwing water on him/her. Enzo looked confused. 

"What's up with him?" Enzo had no idea what was wrong with Ranma. But 
Matrix did, in a way. 

*He's frightened of losing himself to the curse. Just like I was scared 
of losing the part of me that was Enzo. I could never bring
myself to tell anyone, not even AndrAIa. It's the same with him. Good 
luck Ranma - You'll need it.* 

*** 

Rand watched as the Aes Sedi began healing his father. Already his 
breathing sounded better. He was so focused on his father
he almost jumped out of his skin when Lan spoke. 

"A fine weapon you wear. Is there a heron on the blade as well?" 

"Yes there is. Why?" *Why does it matter?* 

"I'd never expect to find a heron-mark sword here, of all places. Where 
did you get it?" 

Rand looked at the Warder, intriged. *Why is he so interested in a 
sword?* "It's my fathers. I never knew he had it until last
night. He said until then it had been useless." 

"I'm sure there are times he would not have believed that. The heron is 
the symbol of a master swordsman. I wonder how a
shepherd got it." Ranma decided now was the time to ask a question he 
didn't want to ask, but needed an answer to. 

"If you heard that there was a black cloaked man around the village, 
with the wind not touching his cloak, who made people
afraid just by looking at them, would you have been able to stop this?" 

"Not without half a dozen of my sisters." Both men turned to see Moraine 
looking at them. "I would have brought as many as I
could if I had known I would find Trollocs and Fades here." With that 
she continued the healing. 

"Light, that was a fade! But they're twenty feet tall and - " He stopped 
when Lan grinned at him. 

"Stories have a way of making things worse than they really are. The 
truth is bad enough. One Fade is no match for Aes Sedi,
but they can easily kill a strong soldier. It's amazing how Matrix just 
tore apart the one that was in the village last night." Rand
blinked. 

*** 

Matrix cleaned his gun as the group of Nerimans, Mainframers and a 
gleeman planned their trip. Dot had figured out where to
get clothes, food and horses. Enzo couldn't figure that one out. "I 
mean, we have zipboards right? Why in the motherboard
would we need horses?" 

"Because flying around would look like channeling to these people. 
Remember that, and that includes you Ray." The Websurfer
nodded. He had minimized his board and stuck it to his belt. Matrix 
glanced at Ranma-chan. The boy-turned-girl had been
quiet since their talk in the inn. *Most likely she's still worried. 
I'll have to ask Akane about that Herb guy later.* He looked at
Bob. "Moraine wants to know if we would travel with her for a bit. My 
guess is that whatever we're here for will draw itself to
us no matter what." 

Ranma-chan looked up. "I hope you're right Matrix. If not, who knows 
what could go wrong. This world is in a bad way." 

Ryouga looked at Bob. "The main problem is the fact this world is 
different from yours in every aspect. Who knows what could
happen?" Ranma-chan nodded in agreement. Matrix realized something. 

"Hey, how come whenever there's no trouble, you to usually end up trying 
to kill each other, but when there's trouble like last
night, you work together without even thinking about it?" 

Ryouga shrugged. "Beats the hell out of me why we work together. It's 
because of that girl that my life has been hell!" 

"Girl!?!?!? Shut up Pig Boy!" 

"Why you!" With that, Ryouga tries to punch Ranma-chan, but misses and 
hits a pole instead. With that the usual fight scene
brakes out, with Thom staring in shock at the two fighters. 

"Are they always like that?" Ukyou nodded. 

"Yeah, but no-one but Ryouga knows what this 'hell' of his is." She 
ducked a bandanna. Matrix grinned. He could remember
Ryouga's 'hell' from when they traveled together. 

*Wonder if I could practice with them. I need to know how good they are 
if I'm going to work with them.* 

<How 'bout we join in? I could use the practice. After all, I've been 
working for the pervert for a while now, I'm a bit rusty.> 

Matrix blinked. "Did you just read my mind?" 

<Of course not. If keytools could do that we wouldn't need voice 
commands. Do you really think Bob would have let Glitch
get smashed?> 

"Okay, point taken. Hey, Ranma! Mind if Chip and I join in?" 

"Why not?" She slammed a ki powered foot into Ryouga's face, sending him 
into an alley, where a splash was heard. "C'mon,
lets see how good you are!" Suddenly she was under Akane's mallet. 

"Stop picking on Ryouga, Baka!" 

*** 

After stopping Akane from flattening Ranma completely, Matrix and 
Ranma-chan circled each other. The young red-head
hadn't really seen Matrix fighting last night, so she really didn't know 
how well he fought. Yet. Give her a few minutes and she'd
know his style perfectly. "Anything goes, okay?" 

"Fine by me," was the reply she got. Matrix moved in to attack. 
Ranma-chan dodged his left fist, then jumped out of the way as
his right foot tried to trip her. She attacked with a roundhouse kick to 
the face, a kick that Matrix caught. He flipped the girl
over his head, sending her flying in the direction of a wall. Ranma's 
bounced off the wall, hitting Matrix with a right hook in the
jaw. Matrix picked himself up off the ground. "Nice trick. I've pulled 
that a few times myself. Chip, staff." The keytool morphed
into a large staff. Ranma-chan sucked in a breath. 
  
*Damn it Ranma, you've seen Chip in action before. You should have 
expected this. Now he has a longer reach then you. And
the keytool can turn into whatever Matrix wants it to. This will be 
harder then I thought.* With that she attacked again. Matrix
spun the quarter staff around at high speed, forcing Ranma to block and 
dodge. Then Matrix left an opening. "Kachuu tenshin
amaguriken!" Matrix went flying one way, Chip the other. 

The guardian spun around, boot impacting with Ranma-chan's chest. She 
sailed a dozen meters down the street, past all the
villagers watching in shock. *Clever boy! You must have seen me do that 
last night and were ready for it. You're good!* 

*** 

*Cursors and Crashes, I've never seen anyone fight like this before! If 
I hadn't seen her pull off that move last night I'd be out
cold!* "Chip, return." The keytool reverted to normal and flew back to 
his arm. "Gun, Command Line: File Locker." Raising
the gun, he opened fire. Ranma dodged a number of shots, then came in 
low, under Matrix's line of fire, knocked the gun out of
his hand, and found herself in hand-to-hand combat. Soon they broke 
apart, Matrix breathing heavily. *Can't stay too close,
she's too fast for close combat* "Not bad. This is the best fight I've 
had in a long time." 

"It's not over yet. Mouko Takabisha!" Before Matrix knew what was 
happening, a large ki-bolt was heading in his direction. 

"Chip, Shield!" The Keytool morphed, blocking the shot. 

<Careful, I don't run forever you know. I need to rest too. So don't 
overdo it.> 

*I've got an idea.* Matrix dove through an open window, grabbed a kettle 
of hot water, then dove out, splashing Ranma. The
villagers who hadn't seen Ranma change before passed out and/or 
facefaulted. The two fighters went into hand-to-hand
combat, neither able to break through the others defenses. They broke 
off the combat, sitting down outside the inn. 

Ranma grinned. "Not bad at all, my friend. That was true skill. So, 
what's the plan? I think it would be best to go with Moraine
when she leaves. We don't know anything about this world and could use 
her help." 

"I agree. We have to figure out why we ended up here at all. With an Aes 
Sedi we have a chance." 

One by one, each of the Mainframers and Nerimans placed their vote. 
Matrix nodded. 

"We all agree then. We leave with the Aes Sedi." 
                                            End Part 1
                                               ***
Hi there! 

This is the first part of Gateway Between Patterns. If you like this, 
E-mail me at Matrix_83@Hotmail.com. C&C are welcome
but please note that if you flame me I WILL FIND YOU!!!!!  Also, I need 
some pre-readers. If you want to be one let me
know at the same adress. 

In Part Two, the travelers head for Barelon, with trouble on the way,. 
Moraine learns a bit about ki, a few people get a shock,
and Matrix proves that a gun is a good thing to have. Also, Akane cooks! 
( Oh the horror... *WHAM!!* BAKA! ) And
finally, Ranma begins to fight his fear 

Till next time! 

Matrix Dragon 
"Life's a bitch and then you die, have a party, watch 'em fry!" 

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