Authors Note: So I've finally managed to post this story, I wanted to completely plan it out before I started posting it but it's finally here. I hope you all enjoy it and thanks to Steph for the beta.

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The Electus Series – Part 1 – Paths Of Destiny.

Chapter 1

The outer planet of Corlain was nothing special, like most other outer planets the main settlement had built up around the space dock and there were several other smaller settlements scattered across the planet. It was one of the more beautiful, friendlier outer planets but there was nothing that really distinguished it from the others. So no one would have ever guessed that this planet was home to something of such great importance. Something that some people would kill to protect and others would kill to destroy.

Tenal Vaseran had spent most of his life on Corlain having been sent there when he was just 20 years old. The last twenty three years of his life had been spent avoiding contact with people and guarding what would one day save the entire human race from destruction. Doing so had meant that he'd had to live away from people and keep social contact to a minimum. He lived in a small house that was separate from all the villages and towns and isolated by the forest that surrounded it. It wasn't much but was where he had been instructed to live 23 years ago.

That was the day he had been give two children to take care of, to protect until the day they would be called upon to do their duty. Although the children were of no blood relation to each other they had both been removed from their homes and brought to him. They may not have shared DNA but what they did share was more important, a destiny neither was aware of but he knew the time for it to begin was coming.

He looked at the two girls themselves, both now twenty three years old. Elizabeth was the older of the two, she had been six months old when she had been brought to him. She had dark brown hair that reached just below her shoulders and made her emerald green eyes stand out. Teyla had only been a few weeks old when she had arrived, she had light brown hair which also reached just below her shoulders and deep brown eyes that held a look of such curiosity and wonder.

They were both beautiful girls inside as well as out, so full of love and compassion and so blissfully unaware of what fate had in store for them.. That was they way he had decided he wanted it to be, they had grown up knowing they were adopted but having a happy, healthy and most importantly normal childhood. He wondered now if he had done the right thing keeping their destiny from them because now they were unprepared for it. He knew he had to tell them and it was now or never, he had a feeling their destiny was rapidly approaching.

He looked at them both as they sat together on the couch talking excitedly about the upcoming festival in the main city. The two of them had grown up incredibly close and he was so proud of both of them though he knew he should have kept an emotional distance from them.

He was about to draw breath to tell them the truth when the front door to their house crashed open and several armed men stormed in. The uniforms they were wearing and the manner in which they entered the house immediately told him they weren't the good guys and that it was too late, Elizabeth and Teyla would have to face their destiny unaware.

"Elizabeth, Teyla, get out of here" he instructed and he could feel their hesitation to leave him. "Go!" he shouted and waited as the two girls turned and ran from the room. He looked back at the men entering the room, there were so many of them and he knew there was nothing he could do but buy the girls time to run as far as they could.

The last man who walked into the room was not in uniform like the others but he wore something similar. The lack of uniform meant he was not simply another soldier but a commander, a commander of the Vernai Army. His cold brown eyes searched the room before resting on Tenal.

"Where are they old mad?" he questioned.

"I will tell you nothing," Tenal replied adamantly though inside he was truly terrified.

"We will have the Electus" he said his voice cold and calm.

"You will not" Tenal stated confidently praying his fear did not show.

"Commander Kolya" another man said as he approached and Kolya turned to look at him. "Two women were seen running eastward from the house"

Kolya turned to Tenal a victorious and smug grin on his face "I take it these two women are the Electus that you are so willing to die to protect."

"When the time comes they will destroy you," Tenal told him and held his head high as Kolya aimed his weapon at him killing him in a single shot.

"Not if they are dead," Kolya stated maliciously.

He and his men left the house and headed eastward into the dense forest that the house was in the middle of to where several of soldiers had the two girls surrounded. They both stood close together and had a fearful yet defiant expression on their faces.

"Do not resist and you will not be harmed" Kolya told them as he stepped toward them and watched as they stepped back in fear.

"If you want them to believe that then perhaps you should stop scaring them" a tall man said as he approached the group. He too was not in uniform, he wore a long tanned coat that covered the dark blue clothes he wore underneath. His face was framed by his dreadlocks which brought out his green eyes.

"Commander Dex" Kolya acknowledged as anger passed through his eyes "Come to watch me claim my prize?"

Ronon was about to respond when several gun shots rung out from behind them one of them narrowly missing his head. He knew immediately that it was the Human Alliance which was confirmed when he turned and saw the standard Alliance military uniforms. There were also several men who wore more civilian clothing which meant they were Alliance Agents, not exactly military but controlled by the same people and a far bigger threat than the military soldiers.

The two girls took advantage of the distraction and ran into the woods. Ronon saw their movements in the corner of his eye and ran after them, he was faster than they were so he had no problem catching up to them. He pulled out his stunner and fired at one of the girls who collapsed to the floor unconscious without the other noticing. He ran over to her and dropped to the young woman's side turning her onto her back and brushing her light brown hair away from her face.

Once he was certain she was uninjured he picked her up and carried her away from the sounds of gunfire to his ship which he had landed nearby. The other woman was no where in sight but at least he had one of them. If they failed to capture the other then at least the Vernai had half of The Electus.

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Elizabeth turned around realising that Teyla was no longer behind her, her eyes scanned the trees around her but she wasn't there. She started to head back but still couldn't find any sign of her. She was startled when the man who had been talking to them before the fire fight had broke out appeared from among the trees in front of her. She tried to step back so she could run but he grabbed her arm preventing her escape.

"You're not going anywhere but with me" he told her coldly "Where is the other?"

Elizabeth remained silent unwilling to tell him where Teyla was even if she knew. A look of anger and annoyance filled his face and for a moment she was afraid he was going to strike her and she tried to pull away. That caused his grip on her arm to tighten and he pulled her closer to him.

She turned her head when she heard a noise to her left and a young man stepped out of the trees his gun aimed at the man holding her. As he appeared the first man manoeuvred Elizabeth between them using her as a cover to prevent the other man firing.

"Will you really risk hitting The Electus?" he asked incredulously.

"I'm not aiming at her" the second man stated calmly and Elizabeth jumped when she heard the sound of a gunshot. The body of the man holding her jolted and he released his tight grip on her causing her to fall to the ground. She immediately stood up again as the second man approached and she regarded him both warily and fearfully.

"Where's the other girl?" he asked her and Elizabeth met his gaze trying to judge if she could trust him or not. The look in his eyes told her she could.

"I don't know, I lost her when we were running" she informed him sadly.

"Okay, we need to get you out of here" he told her firmly, his voice completely calm despite the current situation which she found helped with her own panicked emotions.

"What about Teyla?" she asked not wanting to leave her behind.

"My people will keep searching for her but we have to get you to safety" he stated and Elizabeth couldn't understand why it was so imperative that she was safe. She wasn't even sure why all these people were after her in the first place but she followed him to wherever he was planning to take her.

TBC