My mind buzzed with questions. Who would come through the stargate now? Why were they coming through the stargate? Sariah and I pulled our horses up. We stood at the forest clearing. "There's no way I'm going to go down there if it's an ambush." I warned her.
"Come on Maya, who's gonna ambush us through the stargate?" My best friend had a good point but memories held strong.
"The gate hasn't opened in years but that doesn't mean someone won't decide to use it." I argued.
"Look the horses aren't worried and we can get out of their quicker than on foot." Sariah begged. Our horses Galaxy and Faraj were actually interested in the gate. Interested in who ever it was coming through the gate.
"Alright, I'm blaming you if it's a shoot out." I said blankly.
"Lets go." She squealed. I suppressed a smile and cantered after her.
We had gotten half way down the track when Galaxy went berserk. Sariah called out to me but I wasn't concentrating hard enough to hear what she said. It kinda sounded like Ta'Re. I looked up and froze on my horses back. Galaxy slid to a stop at my reaction. He was confused. I could feel exactly what he was asking me. Why did we stop? They're the Ta'Re, aren't they? That's good isn't it? All I could think was Shit. Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.
Sariah walked past me. "Oh my god. It's been so long." She dismounted and stood staring at the four visitors.
"Sariah, they're not from the SGC." I said nonchalant.
"But we are from earth, how do you know?" Sheppard gave me a puzzled look.
"Your uniforms. I prefer the old ones but…" I trailed off.
"Wait you know about earth. How do you know about earth?" McKay butted in. He was almost angry.
"Ok, just incase you don't know us. I'm Major Sheppard; this is Dr. McKay, Lieutenant Ford and Teyla."
McKay butted in again. "Major, they have guns."
I suddenly realized my AK 47 was slung over my back. Shit. Again.
"Ok, you know us, you know earth, and you have our guns. Would you like to tell us why?" Sheppard couldn't decide to look at McKay or me.
"No." I said blankly and turned to my horse.
"There is obviously a reason you know of the stargate and SG1. We have come from Atlantis. When Daniel found out how to get us to the Ancient's home planet they sent a team and then basically a battalion an now due to lack of power we can't go home." McKay was resisting the urge to yell.
"Look maybe you can take us to your city. And we can talk more." Teyla spoke up for the first time.
I looked at Sariah. "We're going to have to aren't we?"
"Yep." She smiled.
We walked along the beaten tracks toward the village. I was interested to find McKay's reaction.
"So, we've introduced ourselves, how bout you?" Sheppard asked.
I sighed. "I'm Maya, this is Sariah. The horses are Galaxy, Faraj, Ebony, Coco, Aloura and Asti."
"She introduced the horses." Sheppard smiled.
"Well we're here." I said taking a deep breath.
The forest dropped out into a massive desert. McKay's jaw dropped.
"This is amazing. It looks like." He stopped. "It looks like Daniels pictures of Abydos. Except with out the pyramid."
"Don't be ridiculous McKay. The Gould destroyed Abydos. And anyway I don't recall there ever being trees on Abydos." Sheppard tried to make light of what they saw. I swallowed hard.