Here's the second chapter! From here on out I'm going to try for weekly updates, though with my erratic work schedule I can't necessarily guarantee they'll always be on the same day each week.
Disclaimer: I own neither Stargate: SG1 nor Merlin.
The Scholar
Chapter 2
Wordcount: 779
Teal'c walked into Daniel Jackson's office. As was usual, the office was silent. The first thing he noticed was the familiar walking stick leaning against the desk. He looked further in and, sure enough, there was Doctor Hunithson hunched over an artifact and examining it with a comical squint and a very large magnifying glass. Haloed by his long, white beard and hair, he resembled the wizard, Gandalf, from the Lord of the Rings movies SG1 had watched during their last weekend off.
Teal'c looked around and frowned. His teammate was nowhere to be seen.
"Was there something you wanted or do you enjoy looming in doorways for no reason?" an impatient voice snapped.
Teal'c raised an eyebrow. Doctor Hunithson hadn't even glanced up from what he was doing.
"I was looking for Daniel Jackson," he replied pleasantly.
"Hump, Doctor Jackson got called to the briefing room. One of the SG teams brought back some sort of glowing artifact. Come to think of it, you might want to go down there."
Teal'c frowned, wondering why he'd be needed to examine an artifact. If it had been goauld, he would've been called already. However, he had been looking for Daniel Jackson to join him for lunch anyway and it wasn't like he was otherwise engaged.
"Then I shall take my leave," he said.
Doctor Hunithson grunted something in reply.
Teal'c was just getting out of the elevator when the alarm sounded. He raced to the armoury and grabbed his staff weapon before heading straight for the briefing room. Not until much later would he realize he hadn't even thought to consider the threat might be coming from somewhere else.
The briefing room was full of armed airmen, their weapons pointing at an octagonal-shaped disk sitting on the table. In the centre of the disk four triangular flaps were open outwards and, above them, a round glass orb hovered just above where they would've connected into a pyramid. The orb was glowing a light blue colour. The same colour that was currently covering Daniel Jackson, General Hammond and two members of SG-5 and keeping them suspended a foot above the ground.
Teal'c met Daniel Jackson's eyes. The archeologist didn't appear to be in any pain, but, except for his wide, frightened eyes, looked like he was paralysed. Suddenly, he screwed his eyes shut.
Teal'c pointed his staff weapon at the artifact.
"What has happened here?" he asked Major Stevens, SG-5's second-in-command, who looked shaken.
"Don't know, sir," the major answered. "We brought the artifact back from P3R261 and then it started glowing, so the general called Doctor Jackson down. He started examining it and then, suddenly the flaps opened and these four rays of light or something shot out of the orb and then, well..."
He waved his hand at the room to encompass the entire situation. Teal'c wondered briefly whether he should wait for Colonel O'Neill to arrive, but one look at his friend and the general made his decision clear. Now, it looked like they were in pain, although it was rather difficult to tell when their facial muscles were paralysed.
He aimed his staff weapon at the artifact on the table and shot it. The energy blast from his staff weapon enveloped it and the orb's glow began to fluctuate violently. Teal'c could've sworn for a few moments he thought he saw a more distinct shape trying to emerge from within.
Suddenly, the fluctuations stopped and the glow surrounding the four suspended humans shot back into the orb. They fell to the ground in a succession of dull thuds followed by a chorus of groans.
It continued glowing for a few moments more and then the four triangular flaps slowly came together and the orb settled down onto their tip. No sooner had it settled, it stopped glowing.
No one moved until Colonel O'Neill ran in, demanding to know what was going on.
Meanwhile, several floors above them, Doctor Hunithson opened his eyes. He took a deep breath and noticed the magnifying glass had fallen out of his hands. He looked around, finding it on the ground below him, the glass inside it shattered by the impact. He let out an annoyed breath.
He held his hand out and his eyes glowed a warm gold colour. Shards of glass reassembled themselves and then the fixed magnifying glass flew into his outstretched hand. Doctor Hunithson turned back to the artifact he'd been studying.
"Stupid alien entities," he grumbled. "Thinking they can just come and take over the planet. Hm! As if I'd let them!"
Well, there's two chapters as an introduction. Please review and let me know what you think of this story!