((Sorry again for the last chapter being so short. But well, I had to end
that period of time and skip ahead about... six years. So here it goes,
this is when Jeriana and Zarkot are both sixteen, along with their friends.
P.S.- I don't care if ages are right according to the book because they aren't right to start with in MY story. This is just the way I decided to make things because, well, I wanted too. It is NOT set in the AOL, it's multiple years before Rand is discovered. Yes it is the Liandrin from the series and I changed her powers for a small bit, because I felt like it. Why they tolerate Zarkot will be explained soon, okay?))
DISCLAIMER: I do not own the Wheel of Time series. Jeriana, Zarkot, Lyrenna and a few others are my own personnel characters dragged out of my own mind.
~*~*Six years later*~*~
Jeriana laughed as she flung a fist-sized ball of Fire at Liandrin. The other's girl mouth twisted as she extinguished it with Water. Jeriana quickly weaved together bonds of Air and wrapped Liandrin in them. The other girl cut them with a slice of Fire and dropped to the ground.
"That is enough!" a commanding voice called. Both girls instantly stiffened as bonds of Air wrapped around them, along with shields so that they couldn't break free. "I thought I had made it perfectly clear to the both of you that if I ever caught you doing this again I would strap you then set you to chores for better then a month!"
Jeriana and Liandrin both had the grace to look extremely shamefaced. Sierin Vayu, the Amyrlin Seat, usually had no need to speak to mere novices. "We are sorry, mother," the girls chimed together.
Sierin sighed but her facial expression did not change. "I have come to speak with the both of you," she said. "The Tower has decided that it is high time you are raised up to Accepted." Both girls breath caught in their throat and they exchanged gleeful looks. "Come to my chambers after classes and I will instruct you on what to do. By the way, you might want to hurry along to class before you're late again."
Liandrin and Jeriana looked at each other, then bolted for the door. They both ran the whole way to their class and arrived winded, but on time. They slid into their seats just as the instructor, Temin Sedai of the Yellow Ajah, walked in.
"You two were almost late," a short girl with dark hair and bright blue eyes set in a foxlike face said to them. She was grinning broadly. "Were you battling again?"
Jeriana nodded, but kept her eyes to the front. This was her favorite class, here they learned about Healing. It was a mostly empty class because not many had the Talent for healing. Jeriana and her friends all seemed too.
There was Temaile Kinderode, the girl who had first spoken to them, Alviarin Freidhen, Moiraine Damodred, and Chesmal Emery. Well there were a few more in the class, those ones were her friends though.
At the end of class Temaile pestered Jeriana about the battle. "Who won?" she asked.
"Neither of us," Jeriana replied, lilac eyes distant. She brushed back a lock of her silver-gold hair and said, "Sierin Vayu walked in on us and sent us to class. After telling us that we are to be raised to Accepted!"
"As am I," Alviarin said from Jeriana's other side. "I was told by the Keeper only this morning."
Temaile grinned broadly, her eyes dancing and said, "I am to be Accepted as well! Moiraine, Jeaine, Ispan, and Marillin are as well. We all must go to the Amyrlin's study after classes to hear what we are to do. I don't know if Chesmal is however, I wasn't with her for chores this morning."
Chesmal nodded. "Yes I am to be an Accepted," she said in her soft, cool voice. "While I was helping at the Healing room, with Rianna, we were both told to go to the Amyrlin's study tonight after classes." Her dark hair was slightly unruly as a result of her weavings of Air.
"So we all are becoming Accepted at the same time," Liandrin said. "Well, within days of each other."
Moiraine's dark eyes were distant when she said, "That one girl, Mierin, she is to be Accepted as well."
They all fell silent at that. Mierin had come to the Tower just under two years before. Yet she was already becoming Accepted. She was the most beautiful girl in the Tower; her hair was long and night black with silver specks in her hair. The white novice dresses she wore fit her perfectly. Every single girl in the Tower, minus Jeriana, was jealous of her great beauty. Jeriana matched her strive for strive.
"Oh well," Jeriana said. "She can be an Accepted if she is powerful enough. Does anyone know about Zarkot?"
All heads turned to look at Alviarin, who blushed beneath her pale skin. Everyone knew that Alviarin and Zarkot were together, they had both gotten extra chores multiple times for being caught kissing, while skipping lessons. "I do not know," the girl admitted. "I have not seen him since yesterday."
"What are you doing wandering the halls?" someone demanded from behind them. On instinct they all stopped moving and turned. They all expected an Aes Sedai bearing down on them, lecturing for being out and about, talking, rather then working. All Aes Sedai thought they were always getting into some sort of mischief, because they usually were. But this time they weren't doing anything.
"You should all be scrubbing the floors in the kitchens!" the person continued. She was wearing a heavy cloak so they could not see her face. But Jeriana recognized the voice, at least, she thought she did and she was ready to lash her with the Power. "Or pulling weeds from the gardens! Get to work now or I'll haul you to the Amyrlin by your ears!"
The figure stumbled when Jeriana tied off a thread of Air around her feet and the hood flew off to reveal a head of dark blond hair with a swan-like neck and coppery skin. She was laughing at the expressions on her friends' faces. "It is so much fun to do that!" she declared, pale eyes sparkling.
"Jeaine Caide!" Tieren Sedai called from the hallway she had just come out of. "What are you doing, acting like an Aes Sedai?" Her voice was full of outrage; it was the fifth time she had caught Jeaine doing such a thing. Jeaine blushed slightly before it vanished and she straightened up. She shed the dark cloak and bowed. "Don't you be smart with me, young lady," Tieren said. "You're still a novice and I intend to see you scrubbing the floors of the Tower until tonight. Do you understand me?"
"Yes Tieren Sedai," Jeaine replied, wincing slightly. She hated scrubbing floors more then anything and Tieren knew that. "I will see you all tonight," she said to the others as Tieren grabbed her arm and dragged her away, lecturing.
The girls all waited until Tieren was beyond hearing before they began to laugh. "What is so funny?" a calm, cool voice asked from behind them.
"You missed it Rianna," Jeriana said, turning to face the black-haired girl. "Jeaine was imitating an Aes Sedai again and Tieren Sedai caught her, again."
Rianna sighed. "Nothing new about that then. I have heard we are all to become Accepted." She didn't ask but Jeriana heard the question.
"Yes we all are," Jeriana said. "We were all informed this morning of it. Even Jeaine is to be one."
Temaile grinned. "Even though Jeaine is a prankster at time she still has quite a bit of potential."
"While we've been talking," Alviarin said. "Time has been going and we still need to get to class!"
((That's the end of this chapter. I just wanted to introduce her friends. Why Zarkot isn't gentled is in the NEXT chapter.))
P.S.- I don't care if ages are right according to the book because they aren't right to start with in MY story. This is just the way I decided to make things because, well, I wanted too. It is NOT set in the AOL, it's multiple years before Rand is discovered. Yes it is the Liandrin from the series and I changed her powers for a small bit, because I felt like it. Why they tolerate Zarkot will be explained soon, okay?))
DISCLAIMER: I do not own the Wheel of Time series. Jeriana, Zarkot, Lyrenna and a few others are my own personnel characters dragged out of my own mind.
~*~*Six years later*~*~
Jeriana laughed as she flung a fist-sized ball of Fire at Liandrin. The other's girl mouth twisted as she extinguished it with Water. Jeriana quickly weaved together bonds of Air and wrapped Liandrin in them. The other girl cut them with a slice of Fire and dropped to the ground.
"That is enough!" a commanding voice called. Both girls instantly stiffened as bonds of Air wrapped around them, along with shields so that they couldn't break free. "I thought I had made it perfectly clear to the both of you that if I ever caught you doing this again I would strap you then set you to chores for better then a month!"
Jeriana and Liandrin both had the grace to look extremely shamefaced. Sierin Vayu, the Amyrlin Seat, usually had no need to speak to mere novices. "We are sorry, mother," the girls chimed together.
Sierin sighed but her facial expression did not change. "I have come to speak with the both of you," she said. "The Tower has decided that it is high time you are raised up to Accepted." Both girls breath caught in their throat and they exchanged gleeful looks. "Come to my chambers after classes and I will instruct you on what to do. By the way, you might want to hurry along to class before you're late again."
Liandrin and Jeriana looked at each other, then bolted for the door. They both ran the whole way to their class and arrived winded, but on time. They slid into their seats just as the instructor, Temin Sedai of the Yellow Ajah, walked in.
"You two were almost late," a short girl with dark hair and bright blue eyes set in a foxlike face said to them. She was grinning broadly. "Were you battling again?"
Jeriana nodded, but kept her eyes to the front. This was her favorite class, here they learned about Healing. It was a mostly empty class because not many had the Talent for healing. Jeriana and her friends all seemed too.
There was Temaile Kinderode, the girl who had first spoken to them, Alviarin Freidhen, Moiraine Damodred, and Chesmal Emery. Well there were a few more in the class, those ones were her friends though.
At the end of class Temaile pestered Jeriana about the battle. "Who won?" she asked.
"Neither of us," Jeriana replied, lilac eyes distant. She brushed back a lock of her silver-gold hair and said, "Sierin Vayu walked in on us and sent us to class. After telling us that we are to be raised to Accepted!"
"As am I," Alviarin said from Jeriana's other side. "I was told by the Keeper only this morning."
Temaile grinned broadly, her eyes dancing and said, "I am to be Accepted as well! Moiraine, Jeaine, Ispan, and Marillin are as well. We all must go to the Amyrlin's study after classes to hear what we are to do. I don't know if Chesmal is however, I wasn't with her for chores this morning."
Chesmal nodded. "Yes I am to be an Accepted," she said in her soft, cool voice. "While I was helping at the Healing room, with Rianna, we were both told to go to the Amyrlin's study tonight after classes." Her dark hair was slightly unruly as a result of her weavings of Air.
"So we all are becoming Accepted at the same time," Liandrin said. "Well, within days of each other."
Moiraine's dark eyes were distant when she said, "That one girl, Mierin, she is to be Accepted as well."
They all fell silent at that. Mierin had come to the Tower just under two years before. Yet she was already becoming Accepted. She was the most beautiful girl in the Tower; her hair was long and night black with silver specks in her hair. The white novice dresses she wore fit her perfectly. Every single girl in the Tower, minus Jeriana, was jealous of her great beauty. Jeriana matched her strive for strive.
"Oh well," Jeriana said. "She can be an Accepted if she is powerful enough. Does anyone know about Zarkot?"
All heads turned to look at Alviarin, who blushed beneath her pale skin. Everyone knew that Alviarin and Zarkot were together, they had both gotten extra chores multiple times for being caught kissing, while skipping lessons. "I do not know," the girl admitted. "I have not seen him since yesterday."
"What are you doing wandering the halls?" someone demanded from behind them. On instinct they all stopped moving and turned. They all expected an Aes Sedai bearing down on them, lecturing for being out and about, talking, rather then working. All Aes Sedai thought they were always getting into some sort of mischief, because they usually were. But this time they weren't doing anything.
"You should all be scrubbing the floors in the kitchens!" the person continued. She was wearing a heavy cloak so they could not see her face. But Jeriana recognized the voice, at least, she thought she did and she was ready to lash her with the Power. "Or pulling weeds from the gardens! Get to work now or I'll haul you to the Amyrlin by your ears!"
The figure stumbled when Jeriana tied off a thread of Air around her feet and the hood flew off to reveal a head of dark blond hair with a swan-like neck and coppery skin. She was laughing at the expressions on her friends' faces. "It is so much fun to do that!" she declared, pale eyes sparkling.
"Jeaine Caide!" Tieren Sedai called from the hallway she had just come out of. "What are you doing, acting like an Aes Sedai?" Her voice was full of outrage; it was the fifth time she had caught Jeaine doing such a thing. Jeaine blushed slightly before it vanished and she straightened up. She shed the dark cloak and bowed. "Don't you be smart with me, young lady," Tieren said. "You're still a novice and I intend to see you scrubbing the floors of the Tower until tonight. Do you understand me?"
"Yes Tieren Sedai," Jeaine replied, wincing slightly. She hated scrubbing floors more then anything and Tieren knew that. "I will see you all tonight," she said to the others as Tieren grabbed her arm and dragged her away, lecturing.
The girls all waited until Tieren was beyond hearing before they began to laugh. "What is so funny?" a calm, cool voice asked from behind them.
"You missed it Rianna," Jeriana said, turning to face the black-haired girl. "Jeaine was imitating an Aes Sedai again and Tieren Sedai caught her, again."
Rianna sighed. "Nothing new about that then. I have heard we are all to become Accepted." She didn't ask but Jeriana heard the question.
"Yes we all are," Jeriana said. "We were all informed this morning of it. Even Jeaine is to be one."
Temaile grinned. "Even though Jeaine is a prankster at time she still has quite a bit of potential."
"While we've been talking," Alviarin said. "Time has been going and we still need to get to class!"
((That's the end of this chapter. I just wanted to introduce her friends. Why Zarkot isn't gentled is in the NEXT chapter.))