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     Heero gazed at the flaming pit in front of him, He had seen this pit before long ago. A number of travelers who had seen it declared it a world wonder, but, to Heero it was a place to return too face his own fears. You could travel all day and see nothing but sand all around, and near the constant flame the heat would push many back.

    With his usual warm up done he went to start training when he noticed a cave close to the mouth of the fire pit. Curiosity drew Heero in, it was not a feeling of wonder but more of a physical sensation. It was a steep slope,  not forty feet away when he spotted it. A man, but not a man. He or for what Heero thought was a He turned and looked at Heero with fox like eyes, cruel eyes. A wicked smile came across the fox mans face, teeth threatening to rip his head in half. The flames danced and red orange light reflected off the creatures head.

    Heero turned to run only to find he could not move three steps, the terror built up inside as he watched the figure slowly walk towards him. The footsteps on the stone floor he could hear over the roar of the spiraling flames so near to them. His pulse quickened. 'Im going to die, im going to die, im going to die!' He screamed in his mind. His terror turned to anger. "Get away from me damn you! Let me go! I cant die not even knowing myself or accomplishing my dreams! I wont let you get me, do you hear me?!" He yelled at the top of his lungs at the menace approaching.  The fox man only laughed a deep but raspy crackle. "Kill you? Im not going to kill you, no I have much bigger plans for you. I will grant you a chance to make your dreams come true, to know yourself, the only thing I require from you is I get to watch. I am going to put you in a dream like state, where nothing here can wake you. Your mind will be in a different world where chakra does not exist but there are powers there. You wont gain them though, your goal is to survive and return." The man continued as he neared closer and closer. "Every injury you get in the dream will be real and appear on you here. If you die in the dream you die here, however, any training you do in the dream will also show up in real life." As the fox finished, Heero could feel his world spinning, then darkness took him.

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Heero awoke and checked himself over, nothing seemed to be broken. He brushed himself off and looked around for the first time. He seemed to be on the edge of a forest and a mountain range. Heero nearly jumped from his skin when a mans voice called out behind him. "Ah, looks like the Aiel lad is awake, although he was hurt pretty badly when we found him." The man said. Heero turned to face him. As he looked over the man, he noticed armor unlike anything he had ever seen, it was black and well kept but you could see all the repairs that had to be made to it from constant battle. A cape or a cloak gently stirred in the wind behind him, what fascinated Heero though was that he could not since his presence even though he was looking right at him. "I agree, he should be pretty hungry about now." A different voice said from behind a few trees, a woman's voice. 'Come to think of it I am hungry' Heero thought, as if on Que his stomach rumbled in agreement. He scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, his face a small blush appeared. Before he could do anything else the man drew his blade and put it at Heero's throat. "Be careful you hear me lad, you may be just a lad, but I know about the Aiel and I wont hesitate to kill you if you try anything." The armored man withdrew his blade and sheathed it. Heero's eyes widened 'No way he could be that fast, I did not even see him move!' He trembled in cold sweats from the shock. 'I would have been dead in a instant! If people like him are common im in deep trouble.' He thought the woman would be happy with the man, instead she growled a stream of what Heero thought where insults at the man. "You wool headed fool! He is just a child, if you do something like that again so help me I will skin you alive!" Heero sprinted into action placing himself in between the man and the woman. "You wont hurt her!" He all but yelled at the man, his trademark stuttering fading for the time being. 'I cant stand if someone is low down enough to attack a defenseless woman, if he has to fight let him fight me instead' Heero thought the weakness from his hunger still in full effect.

In spite of everything the man burst into laughter along with the woman. A confused look appeared on Heero's face. The laughter died down and the man gazed Heero. "Lad your really NOT from around here are you? Can you not see she is a Aes sedai? I am her warder Cabhan, and this is Ailene sedai. Quickly Heero's stuttering came back with a vengeance, his anger gone. "I um..I...no.." He trailed off wishing he had more confidence and a sword, a sword would be nice. Heero pondered his situation at the moment and decided to try and be nice to them. "M...My name... is Heero" He said softly "Child be calm you are safe." Ailene assured him as she strode to him and placed her hand on his head gently "He still has a slight fever but he should be alright to ride." She said removing her hand. "Wai....wait. Fever?" This was all news to Heero as last thing he remembered was falling in darkness.

"Aye lad looks like you took a tumble off the cliff over there it was the dark ones own luck Ailene is of the Yellow Ajah " Cabhan said. The man looked old to Heero, but now that He got a closer look at him he could tell every bit of that man was assured death. ' You don't live that old by being weak...' Ailene shifted in her shift and let out a small cough to get their attention. "We need to ride." Ailene said calmly to Cabhan "A dangerous decision, you know we cannot ride fast and we have a fist of trollocs on our trail." Heero did his best to concentrate on what they were saying ' Trollocs? yellow Ajah? aei sedai ? Warder? What are they talking about?' He thought to himself. It was going to be very interesting to say the least.

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