(I would like to say thank you to my friend STupIDWiNsAGaIn for helping me write this story)
CHAPTER ONE - KALLISTA'S POV
It was a nice day for a flight, the cool air coursing though my face and caressing my face. But to my dismay it was only a patrol flight so there was no time to enjoy it. I loved to fly I thought it felt magical and it was also very relaxing .Our squad was on patrol of the eastern border where the ancestral ring sat.The only thing that came out of there were the wingless ships that use to come and swoop people up and take them away. They don't come anymore, they haven't come in a long time. I was bringing up the rear of the squad when the ring unexpectedly activated, I was about to warn the squad but no ship came though four people did.
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"I'm reading about five life signs," that way McKay said while pointing forward.
"Well lets check it out, maybe we will find some new trading partners." John exclaimed not sounding at all excited.
"Have you ever been here before," He asked facing Teyla.
"I do not recognize this planet,no,I do not believe I have been here before." She answered shaking her head. John turned to Ronon, giving him a nod as to respond.
"No I don't recognize it either, but I have a feeling that I haven't"
"Mckay how close are those life signs" John demanded
"They're just up ahead,... they should be here," he told them sounding confused.
"Well there's no one here" Ronon pointed out sounding annoyed.
"Well how about in the tree branches Teyla suggested," with that they all looked up into the tree branches, any not that of them expected to find anything.
"You did say five life signs right, because there are five birds up there, or something of the sort" John said nodding towards the sky.
"What! It doesn't pick up animal life signs, Mr. Fantastic." Rodney exclaimed.
"Well maybe your LSD is malfunctioning," Teyla suggested.
"Hey we dont need any machine to tell us that there is no one here, so moving on" John told them happily.
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We were circling above the humans high enough not to be seen as we really were.
"Captain,"I called "they are moving on"
He looked down and grunted we will have to stop them before they reach the city, "Kallista"
he called.
"Yes sir" I answered shaking with excitement, we never saw any action so this was really exiting for me.
"You will wait for them in the clearing, I and the others will come up from behind and take them by force.
When the captain was finished talking to me I started towards the clearing, when I arrived I landed silently so to not give away my position. I stood there waiting shaking with excitement, I couldn't believe that I might finally get to meet someone from another planet. I snapped back to reality when I noticed the under brushes rustling, after a few moments which felt like forever a group of well four walked though, they were completely stunned at the sight of me.
"Hello" I greeted cheerily
"Hi" greeted one of the males, sounding unsure, He seemed to be the leader of the group.
"What are you doing here on our planet?" I asked curiously.
"we're explorers" answered the leader "we also look for trading opportunity's"
"Trading" I exclaimed musing over the word. We have never traded with anyone before.
"well there is a first time for everything" He assured me.
I was about to reply when the rest of the patrol came crashing though the bushes aiming their small clanty guns at the group.
They were surprised and in response the raised their own weapons and took aim.
"We don't want to hurt anyone" the leader told our patrol.
"They want to trade,"I called over
"Trade?" repeated the captain looking bewildered. "We have not traded with anyone before" he told them slowly.
"so we've heard" Rodney muttered
"well how about we lower our guns and we'll talk about it I'm sure we will have something to offer each other." John said assuring
The captain turned towards me
"Kallista, I want you to go ahead and tell the queen we have some guests to talk to." He was ordering me, not asking no matter what it sounded like but that was my job.
"Have you ever seen anyone take off before?" I asked them excitedly
They all looked at me not having any idea what I meant, but I didn't wait for a reply. I turned around and ran about ten feet, than as with much power I could muster I jumped, unfurled my wings, spread them to their full extent and gave a couple hard flaps to clear the tree level.
When I turned around I saw tham gaping at me, "Show off" Calon yelled after me.
They looked both totally stunned and amazed.
They are just jealous cuz I could do it so fast.I thought cockily to myself then I turned and headed towards the city.
"Hey Halyn" I screamed excitedly, she was busy picking duron fruit. She looked when I called, so I waved her over.
"Halyn! Halyn! You will never guess what happened today," I was so excited I pretty sure I looked like a maniac.
"What did Carlon ask you out" she asked mockingly
I gave her a mock hurt look, "I do like him but no its something else, something better."
"Hmm better than Carlon. Well whats so exciting that you had to come and disturb me while I was collecting food for our supper," she said teasingly
"The ring activated, but no ship came through..."
"Maybe they made a mistake." She put in cutting me off.
I never said no one came through."
She looked at me utterly confused.
"People came through, four of them, and they want to trade." I finished breathlessly
"WHAT,WHO,WHEN," she basically screamed.
I laughed, "I'm on my way to the queen to prepare her, squad delta is bringing the to talk to her, you should come with," I told her, I didn't want to go alone. "Come on I know you want to see them."
"Oh! I do" she said bitting her lip excitedly, "but,"she paused, "would they let me in?"she asked me.
"Halyn are you not an Elite Warrior, do you not wear the Dragon. As Elite Warriors we are to partake in the affairs of other planetary relations, and..."
"OK, ok that's enough!"
"Good" I said smugly
"You get so worked up over things like that," she muttered to herself.
"Only because I know I bugs you," I giggled.
"I have an important message for the queen," I declared to the royal guards who where guarding the gate, well more like standing there.
The one looked at us judgmentally then opened the gate.
"I have never talked to her as the queen before" I told Halyn nervously.
"Its ok, you'll do fine I've never talked to her either," she said encouraging me.
"Thanks," I muttered.
The castle was huge, I was so glad they made the queens chambers easy yo get to, otherwise there would have been a lot of getting lost involved.
I knocked on one of the large doors that lead into her throne room, they started to open in response which I thought was pretty weird.
We walked in and bowed as we have always been instructed to do, then we continued to the front of the room.
"Queen Malathia, I bring you a message from the captain of Delta squad," I said formaly and proudly I was also proud I kept my voice from wavering.
She nodded, "yes what is your message."
"We were patrolling eastern border, while patroling that area the acient gate activated, but no ships came though. But four humans did."
As the mention of humans there was a hint of surprise , she quickly regained her composure.
"Delta squad is bringing them here to talk to you, I believe they wish to trade," I finished by taking a much needed breath.
"Thank you, Kallista, Halyn, you may sit over there," she said nodding towards a couple chairs at the side of the room.
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Sheppard and his team were following the squad, as it were called, back to their city. They had been walking in silence until Rodney finally broke the silence.
"What the heck was that?" he asked loudly and demandingly.
"I don't know but its not like anything I have ever seen before, well except for in those super hero cartoons of coarse." John told him sounding a bit disturbed by the fact that they could fly.
"Well I defiantly haven't been here before," Ronon said off topic, earning him a annoyed look from Rodney.
"People dont just grow wings and fly... its improbable, its plain impossible". He said reassuringly more to himself than anyone else.
"Well if the wraith are possible than they are very much possible,"Teyla pointed out
"Ya.. But.. Its jst not fair," he whined.
"Looks like we're here," John announced to the others.
The squad seemed to be leading them to a castle looking thing of some sort. Once they entered the castle they were led straight to what they could only guess was the throne room. Once they entered the room it was noticeably well guarded. Also noticable was the gorgeous young queen, with a tan face and fine features. A babe in some peoples books.
She spread her wings, probobly to show them off. They to along with the rest of her were magnificant.They were white tipped in royal blue. The queen herself also had royal blue eyes. everyone seemed to have an odd colour of eyes here.
Welcome, she greeted in a soft fluid like voice.
"Hi! I'm John Sheppard, this is Rodney Mckay, Teyla Emmagen, and Ronon Dex," he said introducing each member of his team.
"I am Queen Malathia queen of the Icarii, I welcome you to the city of Sakatoshi."
"Icarii?" Rodney said questioningly, "what exactly is an Icarii?"
"Rodney, I and my people are Icarii it is what we are," she answered.
"Wow thanks for the help, he muttered" sarcastically, John shot him a famous shut up glare.
"I understand you wish to trade, you must know that before we trade with anyone we wish to learn about them, and get to know them. Which planet have you come to us from?"
"Well we come from Atlantis," John answered proudly.
"Oh Atlantis, we have not had anyone come to visit us from Atlantis in a very, very, long time" she exclaimed, her voice rich with curiosity.
"Well we are quite new there," he explained.
She looked and him puzzled by this statement.
So John went on to explain in short form, very short. Well the ancients left a long time ago to escape the wraith. They came to our planet called Earth. We found Atlantis a couple years ago and since have come to live there. And we have been exploring planets, which is how we found you by the way.
"I see, I am very glad someone once again resides in that magnificant city," she said souding very pleased.
"You've been there before?" Rodney asked sounding surprised.
"Oh no of coarse not, she giggled, but when the others use to live there many of my people visited it. So we have many books and paintings teaching and showing us of it's beauty and magnificence," she explained.
"Well I'm glad you like it!" John replied hotily.
"Before we trade I have a favor to ask you..."
"Go on," John encouraged.
"I would like to send a couple of my people back to Atlantis with you, to explore and learn about both it and your people," she proposed.
"We would be honored, but first we must go back to get permission from our leader but I'm sure that wont be a problem, do you have anyone picked out to come yet, he asked.
"Why yes, yes I do." She answered.
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"Kallista, Halyn, come forward" the queen called. I myself just about fainted, both me and Halyn had been listening to the whole conversation intently. I knew only two things that were possible to happen now we were to go and find those to come, or we were the ones going.
We made our faces completely calm, even though we were bubbling over inside.And I had to use all the self control I had to not jump up and run to the front.So we walked to the front an stood at attention to show that we were listening.
"Kallista and Halyn you both have been Dragon class for over a year now. You have been waiting patiently to be assigned to a squad. But now another job has presented itself. You will go back to Atlantis to learn about it and the people there. You are also to teach them what they want to know about us. This will now be you job, your new rank. You will be the ambassadors for our planet, you are the one that are to interact with any other planetary people who may come to our planet. Anyone who comes though that ring will be your responsibility. I believe it is also important to begin exploring other planets again.
Since you are no longer Dragon Class your new rank will be know as Dragon Rider Class. So your first job is to go see the painter before you leave, and get that taken care of. Now all of you please be on your way."
"Oh and one more thing good luck...my friends, she said cheerfully and winked.
Once out of there me and Halyn turned towards each other and hugged. I couldn't believe we were also promoted.
"What is the painter?" Teyla asked curiously.
"Tag along and see were going to have to be there awhile anyway," Halyn told them excitedly.
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"Zandri," I greeted.
"I dont have time to visit,she told me" in a no nonsensical voice.
"No but what about work I said handing her the forms, with a huge cocky smile on my face of coarse.
She looked at the papers, then me, then Halyn, then back to the papers as if she were'nt sure what to make of it.
"There Hasn't been a Dragon Rider class forever, she told us."
"Well the queen decided to bring it back after these visitors arrived," Halyn chipped in pointing excitedly at John and his team.
"Hmm, well sit down, I better get started," she guided me and Halyn to chairs then went to get her supplies.
She came back and I looked at her intently.
"What?" she demanded.
"Not even a congratulations, its like you don't even care about us anymore," I said giving a fake hurt look.
"Oh I'm so sorry, she laughed she ran over and hugged me, I've just been so tired lately, and when your gone I'll have no one to visit with, so don't you dare to forget me or visit me."
"No of corse we wont, what kind of best friend would do that." Halyn giggled.
It took about two hours for her to finish, I walked in front of her mirror to check out my new paint job. New paint jobs always meant new ranks, well almost always.
"Nice job," I told her, I was very impressed.
"Well what do you expect, when you come to me you get the best, and congratulations once again," she said smiling, now you cant say I forgot,she added.
"Now remember dont forget us less important people," she said while hugging us goodbye.
"Never," I said sincerely.
We led the team to our home and got them settled, as we went and got packed.
We were going to Atlantis.
TBC...