Sheppard and his team have captured a young wraith and hope to use him to complete the retrovirus. But a creature came with them and is terrorizing Atlantis. As the team tries to track it down, a new command offers help to find it. But the longer Sheppard tracks down the creature, the more Sheppard realizes that there allies aren't who they ought to be.

Disclaim- I will cry my heart out because I don't own Stargate Atlantis. WHAAA! But it's cool.

A/N- this takes place between Conversion and Michael.

AN- Cousin, you can understand this one!

A/N- A special thank you to Dr. Weir on GateWorld.

The Black Blood Regime

The Specter

Colonel Sheppard was relaxed as he flew the Jumper above a beautiful planet. The sun was shining, the water was glistening, and the trees were greener than a leprechaun on Saint Patrick's Day. It was total and complete bliss.

"Colonel wake up!" Except for Rodney. Now that was a complete nightmare. Sheppard slowly woke up and looked around. Mckay, along with Teyla and Ronan, were behind him. McKay was looking a little worried. "Are you crazy! You could have gotten us all killed! We could have crashed and all died, or crashed in the river and drowned, or-."

"Rodney! It's okay, I just took a little nap and put the Jumper on autopilot. No big deal."

"No big deal! You could have slept all you wanted on Atlantis, but now you choose to sleep!"

"Well if somebody hadn't kept me up for the past 24 hours talking about some stupid ruins, then I wouldn't be sleeping right now."

"Well you could have told me to stop."

"I did but unfortunately your mouth doesn't stop."

"Very funny, and they're not some stupid ruins. They could be the map to an Ancient power source."

"What like the one you blew up four fifths of a solar system with?"

"Actually it was only three fifths, Colonel."

"I hate to interrupt you two, but we're coming up to a village." Ronan said behind them. Sure enough there was a fairly large village up ahead.

"Well how convenient. We can ask these folks where the ruins are and I can get some sleep." Sheppard landed the Jumper a ways from the village and they all walked from there. The village was more advanced than the other villages, but nowhere near the Ancients or Earth for that matter. The villagers were doing their daily chores and stuff but looked in curiosity when Sheppard and his team came through.

"Teyla, do you no these people?"

"No, I have never been to this world before."

"Okay, new neighbors, we can do this." Sheppard went over to a young woman. "Um, excuse me ma'am, do you know where I could find your leader?"

The woman smiled but at the same time was frightened. "You are looking for Kijik?"

"Um…sure." Sheppard responded confused.

The woman looked over at Teyla, then Ronan, then Mckay who knocked over some very large fruit and was feudally trying to pick them back up.

The woman laughed looking less frightened. "It is all right. I'll pick them up later."

Rodney turned red as a tomato and Teyla and Ronan laughed.

"Very smooth Mckay." Sheppard said laughing as well.

"Come, I will take you to Kijik." The woman said still laughing a little. She led them through the village. They twisted and turned around houses and buildings as the people watched them with curiosity but still looked somewhat frightened.

Finally, the woman came up to a large house and went inside as Sheppard and his team followed. They entered a room that looked like a medieval accountant's office. In the middle was a man sitting at a desk who looked to be in his 50's and was dressed in what looked like a 1600's version of a tuxedo.

"Hello, Kijik." The woman said.

Kijik stood up and walked over to her. "Hello Kenia. How are you doing?"

"I am fine. This people came to see you."

"Hi." Sheppard waved as Kenia left.

"Hello, you must from another world, for I have never seen a style of clothing like that."

"Yes, well, same for you." Mckay said.

"So who are you?" Kijik said with great interest.

"Well I'm Colonel John Sheppard, this is Teyla, that's Ronan and that's Dr. Mckay. And yes we are from another world."

"You have traveled far. Is there anything I can do for you?"

"Actually there is, that's sort of why we're here." Mckay interrupted.

Sheppard glared at him. "Yes, we got some information that there were…ruins?"

"Yes ruins." Mckay interrupted irritably. "We believe, there are ruins, on this planet, that could lead to a power source."

Sheppard saw that Kijik looked hurt by Mckay's tone of voice. "Ignore him. He may be brilliant but he's more of an idiot."

McKay just rolled his eyes.

"So do you have any ruins?" Teyla asked.

"Yes, we do." Kijik said reluctantly and started looking a little nervous.

"Great!" McKay exclaimed with a look on his face that would suggest he was going to skip down the yellow brick road. "We can go right now. Where are they?"

"In the forest, about three miles west of here." Kijik was looking very scared.

"Great let's go!"

"Hold on." Ronan walked out from the shadows. "Why is everyone so scared?"

"Yes, I have also noticed that people look a little alarmed." Teyla said looking at Kijik.

"What, why would people be scared." McKay asked in a sort of happy confused way.

"What, it wasn't obvious?" Sheppard asked sarcastically.

"Um, well, no." McKay looked down in embarrassment.

"Anyway, why are people scared?"

Kijik looked down for a second but then spoke gravely. "A week ago, something crashed near the village. We went to see what it was, but the only thing left were fragments of metal and fire."

Ronan became extremely interested.

"Then, two days after the crash, a number of us saw a creature lurking in the forest. I saw it myself. The creature was human but yet not. It reminded us all of the old tales of the Dark Age. We are afraid it will come and take one of us."

"A wraith." Teyla stated.

"There's a wraith loose?" Rodney said in a scared, somewhat squeaky little voice.

"Don't worry Rodney, it going to be all right. We'll protect you." Sheppard mocked as Rodney give him a sour look.

"I'm going hunting." Ronan started to walk out.

"Hold on there big guy." Sheppard grabbed Ronan by the shirt and lugged him back. "Listen, we don't even know what where up against."

"It's a wraith, how much more do I need to know?"

"Like how strong it is and if how many more are there."

"Kijik just said one."

"Yea well so did the villagers in the Ellia incident and look what happened."

Ronan stared back at Sheppard.

"We all go together. And besides, we have to check in with Weir in two hours. It'll take us at least an hour to get but to the Jumper and another hour to get back to the Stargate."

Ronan stared coldly at Sheppard. "Fine."

"Good, then we'll all go back to the Stargate." Sheppard walked over to Kijik. "Kijik, we'll be right back. We have to check in and consult about the ruins with our superiors."

"Yes I understand. You're friend mentioned that he could kill the wraith. Could he?"

"Um, we'll also consult that with our superiors, okay?"

Kijik nodded.

"Good, we'll be back in a few hours. Okay team, move out."

The team walked out of the village and into the forest, with Rodney looking exceptionally scared. They were on guard the whole time. It would take about a half an hour to get back to the Jumper, and a wraith attack could happen at any time. But eventually after no incident yet they became somewhat relaxed.

"So Rodney, you said the ruins lead to an Ancient power source?" Sheppard said walking along a trail.

"Yes, a very powerful one too."

"So it could power a hyper drive."

"Yes, intergalactic."

"That might explain why a wraith is here." Ronan assumed.

"What to get the hyper drive?"

"Yes Rodney, to get the hyper drive." Sheppard said irritably.

"But that does not explain why the ship crashed. Kijik and many other witnessed it." Teyla joined the conversation.

"Maybe some Ancient power shield took it out." Sheppard pondered.

"No, I got no magnetic or radioactive readings on or around this planet." McKay stated definitely.

"Well then maybe the Wraith made a deal with the villagers to keep quiet."

"Oh please Colonel, that's impossible, you're getting more and more pathetic."

"Well we've seen other impossible things."

"Like what?"

"The Stargate?"

"Yes well, that's, different."

"Actually Colonel, McKay's right." Teyla said a matter-o-factly. "If the Wraith ship did indeed crash, the Wraith would need to feed to recover."

"Yea, and if it is this power source the wraith's after, he wouldn't need to make any sort of deal." Ronan said agreeing with Teyla.

"Still, it doesn't hurt to have a difference of opinion." Sheppard said.

"Well that depends on what you call an opinion." Mckay shot back.

"Were you always this pessimistic?"

"Yes, yes I was! And if the idiot next to me continues to babble on with stupid opinions, then I will continue to be pessimistic!"

"Don't you call me an idiot!"

"Stop it!" Teyla interfered just as Sheppard was about to severely hurt Mckay. "You two are behaving like children! If we-." Teyla suddenly froze and all three became awfully alert.

"Teyla, what's wrong?" Sheppard asked very uneasy.

"Something is watching us."

"The wraith?" Ronan said firmly and Mckay said with a dreadfully nervous voice.

"I'm not sure. I can't explain it. I do not sense it, but it's just, there."

"Where is it?" Ronan asked anxious.

"I don't know."

"Okay, Ronan, Teyla, you two and I are going to fan out into the forest. If you find it, signal us, if you have a clear shot, shoot it. Don't go too far."

Teyla and Ronan nodded and headed out.

"Hey what about me!" Mckay was scared to death of being left alone.

"You head back to the Jumper and start it. If anything attacks you, shot it."

"That's crazy I can't run all the way be to the Jumper do you have any idea how far away that is!"

"By now, a quarter of a mile. Now go!" Mckay ran off as fast as he could and Sheppard headed into the forest.

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Ronan moved as silently as leopard as he tried to track this thing. All he saw were traces of animal tracks. Mostly wolves. He had heard a few howling earlier, but they were no threat to him or anyone else. In fact, they were sometimes quiet friendly. Back to tracking he notice one of the wolves' prints separated from the pack and indicated it was running. Going a little further he saw exactly what he wanted to see. Another set of tracks. They were not animal but not human. The wraith. The wolf must have been running away from it and got separated. Quickly, he signaled Sheppard that he found something and hastily followed the tracks.

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Teyla hiked through the forest with no string of luck. She lost the feeling of the creature a long time ago. She was beginning to think this whole thing was a wild goose chase. But that couldn't be. The feeling she had was very real. It was like she felt its presence very strongly but could not sense a trace of it. What was it? She could barely comprehend what she was thinking, so she just decided not think about it at all and concentrate on what was going on. But there was nothing going on. She saw there was nothing here and started to head back.

Then suddenly the feeling came back. It was closer. Much closer. Behind her! Teyla whirled around but saw nothing. She heard something to her left and started firing. Nothing. She heard it again and started firing. Again nothing. This thing wasn't an illusion. It was very real, and it seemed hostile. There it was again! She fired continually all around. Usually she wasn't like this. This thing was scaring her. Even more than the wraith, and this deeply disturbed her. Next to her! See shot in the trees until she heard the dreading click of an empty gun. No! She tried to quickly reload but it was stuck. It was in front of her. She snapped her head up rapidly, but all she saw was a flash of green and a vanishing shadow.

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Well folks, that was my first chap of my story. I'll update my other story eventually… but not while I'm still inspired with this one. See ya later.