Stargate SG1

SPOILERS: Season 10. Episode 10- The Quest Part 1. Taken from the spoilers that I have read and in the vignettes on You Tube; WARNING! Do NOT read if you don't want to get spoiled….I for one just can't wait the six months so, this will be my sanctuary until The Quest part 2 and the subsequent episodes air…..hope you enjoy.

In The Choices We Make

Guardian

"Uh- Daniel," Vala began, her weapon pointed at the large flying dragon over head. "I thought we agreed that the dragon couldn't possibly be real."

"Yeah…" Daniel agreed, trailing off.

"That looks real to me."

"I know." Daniel agreed, watching in amazement and horror at the dragon. "I-"

"DUCK!" Cameron yelled as the dragon opened its mouth and a huge fireball fell towards them. Ba'al and Adria ducked down along with Cam, Teal'c and Sam leaving Daniel to pull down Vala who was momentarily stunned by the creature. "Hey Ba'al," Cameron yelled. "I thought that you knew the name of this guardian."

"That I do." Ba'al agreed nodding as he shakily stood up. He took a couple of breaths as the dragon flapped its wings over head before he spoke the name. "Mordred."

The members of Sg-1 and Adria all waited intently for the dragon to disappear, but nothing happened. Instead it just flapped its wings some more and blew a lot of fire causing Ba'al to duck and the members of SG-1 to open fire.

"Nothing happened!" Cameron yelled at Ba'al as he fired a couple of rounds into the dragon, noting with dismay that the bullets seemed to bounce of the hide of the dragon.

"I know." Ba'al admitted, ducking for cover along with the rest of them as the dragon let out another burst of fire.

"I thought you said you knew the name!" Sam pointed out as she fired at the dragon.

"So did I!"

"Clearly you didn't." Vala stated with scorn taking her attention off of the dragon to look at Ba'al.

"Clearly." Ba'al echoed, ducking again just missing another fire ball.

"I told you this was a trap." Adria mentioned looking towards Daniel. "You should have listened to me."

"No," Daniel argued. "The dragon's clearly guarding something."

"Yes, but what?" Adria asked.

"I don't know." Daniel admitted as he lowered his gun and tried to think.

"Daniel, maybe if you-" Vala began, only to be interrupted by Cam.

"Jackson, you got any ideas?"

"Not yet."

"Well think quicker." Cam ordered. "We won't be able to hold this position for long."

"I agree." Teal'c stated. "This dragon is most powerful, and our weapons seem to have little effect."

"I know." Cam agreed, nodding to Teal'c before turning back to Daniel. "Jackson!"

"I know! I know!" Daniel insisted, his mind spinning with emptiness. "But I've got nothing."

"Oh wonderful." Ba'al muttered to himself.

"Okay," Daniel took a deep breath and turned to Ba'al. "Did you get any other names?"

"No."

"Daniel-" Sam began, only to be interrupted by another ball of fire. "What ever you are going to do, do it quick!"

"Right." Daniel nodded and stood up and faced the dragon. "Okay, how about….Merlin?" They all waited with baited breath but again the dragon didn't move.

"Jackson!"

"Uh- ok." Daniel closed his eyes and pulled from his mind every Arthurian name he could think of. "Arthur, Gawain? Guinevere?"

"Jackson!"

"I know!" Daniel yelled back, still thinking. "Galahad? Halwan? Kilydd? Lancelot?"

"Lancelot?"

"Sam, if you have any ideas I'm open."

"Sorry Daniel."

"Right." Daniel sighed and thought about some more obscure names. "Addane? Cabal? Cador? Dagonet? Drystan?"

"As in Tristan and Iseult?" Vala interrupted with a smile. "That was such a sad movie."

"Vala!" Daniel yelled in frustration.

"Sorry." Vala apologized. "Why couldn't Morgan tell us what the name of the dragon w-w-?"

"Wait!" Daniel interrupted, noting that the dragon had paused momentarily. "Morgan?"

"Merlin named his dragon after the one who was watching him?" Cam whispered to Sam as the dragon looked at them intently.

"Well, she supposedly did enchant the area." Sam pointed out.

"Your name is Morgan?" Daniel asked, and he almost laughed when the dragon imperceptibly nodded. "Morgan, let us see what you are guarding." The dragon seemed to nod again and flew up into the vast recess of the cave.

"Good work you two." Cam stated with a smile, indicating to Vala and Daniel.

"Indeed."

"Right, but now what?" Vala asked looking around the cavern, not seeing anything new.

"I don't know." Daniel admitted looking around. "There should be something here."

"Yes." Adria agreed stepping forward. "But what?"

"Daniel," Vala began pointing to the stele behind the pedestal with the sangraal. "What does that say?"

"What" Daniel asked, turning to face Vala. "What does what say?"

"That thing over there beside the sangraal…."

"Oh, that." Daniel walked back across the bridge and studied the stele. "It's a riddle."

"Ooo!" Vala squealed in excitement running to stand beside Daniel. "What does it say?"

"That what you seek, is not what you find. To go ahead, speak your mind." Daniel translated.

"Speak your mind…" Vala muttered. "What does that mean?"

"Well, maybe Morgan or Merlin wanted to make sure that who ever got this far was pure of spirit."

"But why?" Vala asked confused. "Surely all the tests proved that."

"I know." Daniel admitted. "But still you could get this far and want to use the sangraal for-"

"Jackson!" Cam called out. "Any ideas?"

"No, not really…." Daniel answered glumly.

"It's another riddle." Vala stated simply as Cam made his way across the bridge.

"What does it say?" Sam asked, her voice carrying across the way.

"That what you seek is not what you find. To go ahead, speak your mind." Vala recited as Sam, Ba'al, Teal'c and Adria joined Cam, Daniel and herself around the sangraal.

"Speak your mind?" Ba'al echoed in confusion. "Why would we have to speak our minds?"

"Who knows." Sam began. "Maybe this is one final test."

"That's what Daniel thought." Vala pointed out. "But what does it mean."

"Perhaps we are to speak the reason of our quest." Teal'c suggested.

"Well, Adria wants to destroy the weapon." Daniel stated simply. "Ba'al wants to use the weapon to destroy both the Ori and the Ancients."

"While we want to use it to protect ourselves," Vala interjected.

"Exactly," Daniel nodded. "…..only the pure of spirit will be able to open the gateway."

"Go ahead then." Adria prompted. "Speak your quest. It won't lead anywhere"

"We'll see." Sam stated turning to look at Daniel. "After you Daniel"

"Alright then…." Daniel stood in front of the stele and placed his hand over the blue star shaped stone that was above the inscription. "We wish to find the sangraal to protect our people and the galaxy from the Ori invaders."

They all waited with baited breath when suddenly there was a bright flash of blue light and the chasm vanished leaving a cavern with a tunnel leading away from the holographic sangraal

"I'd say that is somewhere." Sam stated with a smirk, looking back at Adria.

"Yeah," Daniel agreed. "That is definitely somewhere."

"Wait!" Adria ordered as Daniel took a step forward.

"What?" Cam asked turning around to face Adria who looked once again, out of her element.

"It could be a trap."

"Adria," Vala began with an exasperated sigh before she was interrupted.

"Mother, there is nothing here." Adria countered. "And there is probably nothing down that passage way."

"I have to agree with the orici." Ba'al interjected. "Everything we've done had led us nowhere."

"No," Daniel argued. "Everything that we have done has led us here. There is something here."

"There is nothing here!" Ba'al argued. "Let's just give up."

"We can't do that." Cam stated with annoyance. "We have a galaxy to save."

"There is nothing here!" Ba'al argued throwing up his hands in frustration.

"Why do you think that there isn't anything here?" Sam asked, turning to face Ba'al.

"Why do you think that there is something here?" Ba'al countered.

"Well-" Daniel began turning to face Ba'al. "Merlin wouldn't have put the dragon here for nothing and Morgan wouldn't have enchanted the area for nothing."

"Then why did they do all that?" Adria asked, turning her head to face Daniel who just shrugged.

"Well what ever it is, I'm sure it's in there." Sam interjected, indicating towards to large cavern.

"Alright," Cam spoke up, tiered of all the talking. "Let's go."

Cam led the way across into the tunnel followed by Daniel, Adria, Vala, Ba'al, Sam and finally Teal'c. Together they made their way towards what the dragon Morgan was really protecting.

A/N 2- September 27th. Hi all. I know that this isn't the update that you wanted, but between the two tests I have coming up in the next two days and the assignment that is due on Friday...this is the best that I could do. But never fear, I am working on getting chapter 2 onto my computer so look for chapter 2 either tonight (hopefully) but soon for sure. Hope you enjoy this new chapter. And please, REVIEW!

A/N 1- Like I said above, it's going to be a long six months and for the first time, in a long time, the characters of SG-1 are hitting me over the head. This is Chapter 1 of- I don't know how many chapters. Hoped y'all liked this one and are looking forward to the next one! Please REVIEW! Any comments are most welcome, and besides, a writer likes to know that her work is being read. Till the next chapter!