Twice to live and twice to die

Book 1: Ripples from a mountain

Prologue: A stone is tossed.


"Everything that falls in a lake causes ripples, be it a pebble or a mountain"

The seals crumbled. The Dark One burst free. Rand held the Dark One tightly.

Filled with the Power, standing in a column of light, Rand pulled the Dark One in the pattern.

Around Rand every single thread from the thousands upon thousands of threads the pattern was made from spun and spun, begging for his attention. And when Rand looked he understood. For all the lies the Dark One told him, the world without Shadow was one of the very few times where the Dark One told the truth. If he killed the Dark One he would leave the world no better than if the pattern was spun by the Dark One himself. Understanding now what he had to do Rand began to mend the hole that was ripped in the pattern millennia ago.

As Rand held the necessary weaves he stopped and wondered, was it right to leave the world touched so thoroughly by the shadow? The Dark One´s taint guided events for years and years before it was fought against with any measure of success. Just because there must be Shadow does not mean the Light must be smothered.
"EGWENE?" Rand asked after reaching a decision.
"Yes Rand?" came through the void.
"WILL YOU HELP ME?"
"I have given all the help I can, remember what I told you, let go and seal the Dark One"
"THE WORLD IS STEEPED IN SHADOW FROM YEARS OF THE DARK ONES TOUCH,THE WORLD WILL CONTINUE TO SUFFER FOR YEARS IF I DO NOT CHANGE THINGS"
"You cannot save everyone Rand, and trying will just make things worse" Came Egwene´s voice sounding exasperated.
"I STAND BEFORE THE PATTERN ITSELF EGWENE, I AMNOT BOUND BY TIME, HELP ME RIGHT THE WRONGS OF THE PAST "
"What are you proposing?"
"WE GO BACK, TO THE START OF EVERYTHING, THE BEL TINE WHEN WE LEFT EDMONDS FIELD. WE CAN STOP SO MUCH, THE SEANCHAN INVASION, RAHVIN CONTROLLING MORGASME, THE FALL OF THE BORDERLANDS AND SO MANY DEATHS. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS COME WITH ME"
"How can you be sure this will work, and more importantly how can you be sure we won´t make things worse?"
"IT WILL WORK, I CAN`T BE CERTAIN WE WILL MAKE THINGS BETTER BUT SHOULD WE NOT TRY. EVERY COUNTRY ON THE CONTINENT IS ON ITS LAST LEGS, MEANWHILE THE SEANCHAN ARE HARDLY DAMGED WITH PROBABLY THE BEST COMMANDER ALIVE AS THEIR PRINCE. I MADE THE MISTAKE OF THINKING WAR WAS ABOLISHED ONCE, I WILL NOT DO IT AGAIN. AS IT STANDS THE SEANCHAN ARE THE DOMINANT FORCE ON THE PLANET, DO YOU WANT THEM TO BE?"
"Blood and ashes Rand you know that I don´t. ...Fine I will help you you wool headed lummox, you´d probably do it without me anyway"

And so Rand began to weave anew, only instead of continuing to mend the Dark One´s seal he grabbed both Egwene´s thread and his own with minimal effort. Holding both of their threads tight Rand weaves them in his web. When Rand is done weaving he hesitates for a moment, and then he yanks. As Rand begins to spin away he hears the Dark One scream with fury. An eternity and no time at all later two people awoke gasping in the Two Rivers, heads still spinning from the events of the past hour.


A/N

Hello everyone, I hope you liked it. The first chapter is just setting up the premise of the story so it is a bit short. A small while ago I was looking for fanfiction of WOT but there was surprisingly little. In the maybe 2k unique stories on here and AO3 I found very little worth my time. Like 1 fic that isn't abandoned on AO3. So I decided to write my own, this is my first writing a story outside of school and that has been awhile. So please if you have suggestions give them. Same goes for my English since I´m Dutch.

Updates will probably be irregular but I will try for once a week for now. The first bit is straight from AMOL and thus not mine. Just to set up when this is taking place.

I hope you enjoyed, please review and until next time.

-Rallar