A Game of Dragons:
-A Wheel of Time and Game of Thrones Crossover-
Chapter 1: Unusual Findings
Portal Stones...Doors to other Worlds. The younger man inside of Rand Al'Thor was excited by the possibilities that could exist.
For the years following Tarmon Gai'don, it had lodged itself somewhere deep inside of Rand...far back in his mind until the far more pressing issues had been resolved...until now.
Now, he had time...now, he could explore...
Now...that he'd discovered one so close to the Stone that he now called home...at least, in his 'off-time', it was.
Elayne was less than pleased with the idea of his. She knew that time was different in these 'other-worlds' and worried about what might happen...not that she really even bothered to entertain the notion for long.
Aviendha...was a little more interested in the idea, although she said she was too busy, 'A Wise One must always think of her people, as you should' she had said before leaving the Dream World.
Min...Min actually seemed to enjoy the thought of them going to explore other worlds. She was quickly becoming one of the top scholars of the 'New Age', as it was being called.
He remembered fondly of how she had seemed to almost-giggle as she smiled and batted her eye-lashes at him...
There was one real oddity around this particular Portal Stone that he could just not figure out...or perhaps all were like this but had simply never been noticed before.
This Portal Stone had a large platform of some kind underneath it. It was by complete accident he'd even found it.
A heavy rain had poured down a couple days before he had discovered the oddity and was likely his reason for it in the first place.
Min likely would have called him a 'wool-headed lummox' if she'd been there at the time. With the ground softened, he'd ended up sinking into the ground and his boot hit something metalic. Curious, he dug down to discover a large, black-brown slab with crisscrossing lines all over it.
It took several days to un-bury it, but he'd done it.
Currently he stood in front of it, pondering the reason for and the making of it.
First, it seemed like some kind of Granite, but even using the One Power couldn't make a dent in it. So he thought that perhaps, it might be some kind of dark-cuendillar or even a Ter'angreal of some sort.
Then he shook his head, no, neither of those were right either.
"Just what is it made of? I wonder if I could get Perrin away from Faile long enough to..."-Rand thought to himself as he stared down at the strange slab-like platform the Portal Stone sat atop of.
Walking around it several times, he finally spotted something different...a symbol...of a strange creature?
(For reader benefit, it's the Targaryen Symbol)
Looking at it for some time, studying it, he thought maybe it was some kind of three-headed dragon.
It also had wings...he could not figure out what it was.
"Perhaps it's some kind of long-dead beast from a previous age?"-Rand said aloud.
"What is?"-Min said, startling poor Rand enough to jump and fall to the ground, causing Min to laugh.
Brushing himself off and getting over his embarrassment, he pointed out the symbol to her-"This"
After letting her study it for a while he asked the question nagging at him-"Why didn't you say you were coming to Tear early? It's not like I don't visit you in your dreams each nigh-"
"When you remember to!"-Min admonished him, though she didn't press it as she knew of his reasons...most of the time.
"So any idea what it is?"-Rand said, changing the topic and getting a sniff from Min as a result.
"No, not really...I mean, it almost looks like the winged-reptiles or rather Dragons, i've seen sketches of in some of the oldest scrolls in the Whit Tower."
"But this..."-Min rubbed the top of the symbol-"This looks like it has three heads!"-Min finished saying, clearly thinking of it as absurd.
"Perhaps it's meant to portray that there are two more that are simply covered over by the first?"-Rand offered, walking up to it and tracing it.
"Or, maybe, these aren't wings but different tails?"
"Could be..."-Min replied.
"Neat little puzzle you found, but what is this thing anyway?"-Min asked.
"I...don't know. I just recently dug up this platform that the Portal Stone there seems to be resting on a few days ago. I'm still trying to...puzzle it out."-Rand said with a smile and getting one, along with a snort, in return.
"By the way...did anyone else come with you?"-Rand asked.
"What? Am I not enough for you now?"-Min asked, clearly making fun of her lecherous sheep-herder.
Who was currently trying, and failing, to reply...and ending in mumbles.
"Ahem, well, as a matter of fact, yes...Aviendha is here as well"-Min said with a 'ghost-of-a-smile'.
Before Rand could form another thought, he was knocked to the ground where a new weight on his back appeared.
"The Car'a'Carn should be much more aware of his surroundings, lest someone might stick you with something unpleasant."-Aviendha said from atop his back, smiling with her eyes at Min...Who started laughing.
"I don't think i'm ever going to get used to Aiel humor...at least when i'm at the end of t-"-Rand was saying when Aviendha put a hand in his hair and pulled his head back enough for her to lean far enough to look him in the eyes.
"The Car'a'carn can't see, but can talk..."-Aviendha was saying until Rand shifted and knocked her off himself and they began a short struggle to pin the other.
All this Min watched with great mirth, Rand was trying to be gentle while Aviendha...was decidedly not trying in the least.
"Oh~ Rand~"-Min said, walking up to the struggling duo, being rather...provocative in what she was doing.
With Min distracting him for a moment, Aviendha once again, pinned him down.
"They Car'a'carn is easily distracted during a fight, this must change"-Aviendha said.
"Mmmm! Nuh furh! Mmm meahtd!"-Rand's muffled voice says in protest.
Min mocks innocence-"I would never cheat!"
Indiscernible muffles are heard from Rand...
"The Car'a'carn must speak louder if he's to be heard~"-Aviendha says, enjoying herself a bit...too much.
"Mmhuh!"-Rand muffles out louder before brushing her aside gruffly and out of her hold on him...not that she was really trying all that hard.
"I said enough! I've eaten enough dirt for one day! Oh, and nice to see you to...Shade of my Heart"-Rand says to which Aviendha actually blushes.
"Okay you two, I suppose it's time to end the antics"-Min says as if she had nothing at all to do with it.
Rand gives her a mock-hurt look as he turns to face her, Min simply rolls her eyes at him.
"Such a strange thing...Is it some kind of Wetlander memorial?"-Aviendha said, not really interested in it.
"Seems Rand here found it underneath the Portal Stone that's on top of it. We were discussing what the symbol on it might mean. Perhaps you might know since he did get his 'Dragons' in Rhuidean I believe?"-Min said to Aviendha as they all turned to regard it.
"This does not look like any symbol for a Clan-Chief...i do not know if I can help you to discern the meaning of this..."-Aviendha trailed off as she touched the left side.
"I was thinking that these might not be wings but tails"-Rand said as he traced the wings/tails he mentioned.
"And then there are these-"-Min said as an explosion of light and sound assailed them.
As soon as it began it was over...
"-circles..."-Min finished her statement before grabbing her head, the others doing the same.
Blinking his eyes, Rand cleared his vision...or, at least, that was the idea.
"Can either of you see anything? All I see is a fog-like-"-Rand was saying before gasping as he looked down...
"Quick! Get on the Slab!"-Rand shouted, thankful that they at least listened to him when it really mattered...usually when life and death were on the line...the though made him grunt.
"What happened? What is going on?"-Aviendha and then Min asked at the same time.
"I'm not sure, but as soon as all three of us touched that symbol...we, we...just look over the edge and down"-Rand said with dread.
Doing as he said, they both peered over the ledge and saw an inky blackness that was strangely familiar...
"We're falling through the darkness of a Skimming portal or Gateway?!"-Aviendha exclaimed.
"But what about this fog? Rand, you've taken through both...but i've never seen anything like fog before..."-Min said.
Shaking his head, Rand replies with-"I don't know, Min. I didn't use the One Power...although..."
"You cannot grab the source either?!"-Aviendha says to him.
"No, as soon as I looked down I tried but...it's as if i'm in a Stedding again or something like it."-Rand said with remorse.
Min could understand that, most, perhaps all, people that could channel felt a 'loss' when they couldn't at least touch the One Power anymore.
A sense of rocking...or maybe it was more like swaying, made them all get as far from the edges as possible.
"Now what!" Rand wasn't sure which of them said it but was fairly certain they were all in agreement with that statement. Looking behind him, he was just in time to see the Portal Stone vanish.
"Blood and Ashes!"-Rand cursed, surprising the two, he hardly ever did so.
"The Portal Stone just vanished!"-Rand informed them, to which they both just had to look and see as if they didn't believe him.
The rushing of wind started, Rand immediately thought of the Black Wind from the Waygates, but disregarded that notion...there were no voices after blood...no...
"We are falling!"-Rand said in realization that the air was rushing upwards, just as it would if you, say, fell from a tall tree.
Before he could say anymore, there was an earth-shaking, jarring, impact before blackness clouded his mind.