Note: If you desire, an introduction to wheel of time terminology and stuff will follow. Comment away.
chapter one
In which we find out that if you are big mouthed, you face the consequences sooner or later
"The wheel of time turns, ages come and pass. Yet, in this alternate universe, nothing stands sure. Shaitan reigns supreme, and the darkness taints us all."
Writings from the diary of A’thaila Dethae, the mother of the Black Ajah.
A’thaila Dethae, the current mother of the Black Ajah sat in her high-backed throne in the perverted Amyrlin quarters, looking down disdainfully at a novice of Darkness.
"You, defied, my, orders, again! For this, you shall be punished!" She shrieked, and an aura sprang up about her. Not that peaceful, sparkling coating which was the sign of the One Power, but a dark, foreboding shadow. "Do you know, what is the punishment for disobedience for the third time in a row, my daughter?" She spat.
"Y… Yes, Mother… I shall be blocked from the True Source for three weeks." The black-haired girl moaned pitifully.
"Correct, very correct indeed." The older woman smiled, and motioned with her hands in an arc, dark lightning dancing on her fingers. "Yet, i’m modifying the rules for now. You shall receive the punishment of the Dark one itself!"
The girl could be mistaken for a statue as she froze, eyes opened wide, mouth gaping in fright.
"B… But mother, that is for…" She tried to say.
"Silence, you insolent girl!" The Black Amyrlin roared, the lightning now engulfing her whole form. "Lord of the Dark, i call you from the Nothing to teach the girl a lesson!" She screamed, eyes now looking crazed and abnormaly large.
From the shadows in the room, a sphere emerged. A sphere, which was made from the material of the Dark one. It was black, so black that it sucked in all the light, leaving all in a thick fog of shadow.
"You summoned me, so i shall come!" The sphere projected in the minds of the participants of this dark ritual.
The girl tried to move, tried to run, but all her effort was in wain. Tendrils caught her, pulling her inexorably in, towards the form of Shaitan.
***
Nina woke up with an awful scream on her lips from the dream. This was the third such night, a fitting punishment for her insolence. She knew the rules of the novices of Darkness, yet, she defied her Mother.
"Well, i’m in love, i will not deny it." She muttered, standing up, puttinng her black robe on.
"Why? Why Nina? Why do you keep enduring this for me?" An other girl, taller, and blonde, entered the novice quarters. "I am not that important!"
"You are much more important than you make it seem, Shillian." Nina answered firmly, stepping beside her lover, and putting a firm, yet gentle kiss on the other girl’s lips.
Shillian just sighed, giving in to the kiss. The moment broke too soon, when a sharp laugh made them jump.
"Eh, lesbinina and lessshi! You’re at it again, are you? Can we watch?" A deep voice called out.
"Fuck off, Darin!" The girls said in unison, but the other novice and her entourage just stood, watching them with a smug confidence.
"You know, you are disgusting! I don’t know why Mother doesn’t teach you a lesson. A proper one, i mean. Those dreams don’t really help." Said another, spitting in their direction.
"Now, that is really enough." Said Nina, dark aura springing up around her. "Do you want to get into a fight, oh so powerful Darin, oh favorite of our Mother?"
"Disgusting lesbians!" Darin muttered, then turned on her heels, but before she could take a single step, flows of air enveloped her, turning her head, painfully back towards Nina. Her body stood rigid, the act twisting her neck in an odd angle.
"If you haven’t noticed, i asked you a question." Nina noted. "But, seeing that you just kept insulting me… Well, i say you want a fight.
"Help me, girls!" Darin shouted hoarsely.
Noone answered. Those friends, which Darin wanted help from, already ran away, never to return.
"What now, oh Darin? What will you do now?" Shillian mocked.
Darin wasn’t the best novice of the Darkness for nothing, she had the skills to back her mockery up. Still twisted, she closed her eyes, calling upon the True Source for an instant to transform her hands into sharp, steel blades. She jumped quickly, planting a swift kick on Nina’s chest to break her concentration, and the twisting hold broke on her neck.
"You are not as mocking now that i am free, are you?" She sneered at Shillian, delivering a deep cut to the girl’s face. "Feel the true Power of the… Uaaaaaarrgh!" She screamed as Nina’s fist met her head, dazing her for a second.
That second was what Shillian needed to get her "bearings, and embrace Saidar.
"Now, you get what you truly deserve." Said the girls in unison, and from both sides, they enveloped the girl in black, mindw-renching winds, the most potent of the weaves which a novice could learn at that age.
Darin just stood, eyes opened in madness. The winds tugged at her sanity, tearing it away bit by bit.
"Ple… Please, girls, i will not bother you again… I swear…" She pleaded.
"We heard it too many times already." Nina smugly noted, then increased the winds’ potency, finaly breaking Darin’s mind.
The girl stood there for a second, then crumpled down.