Chapter 3: Captured

When the Ori soldiers boarded the cargo ship, with Adria following in behind them, Vala and Mitchell's days went from bad to worse. They didn't bother putting up a fight, they knew that they were both powerless to do anything. Two Ori soldiers took and carried Claire off somewhere, they had to practically grab her out of Cameron's arms. After that Cameron and Vala found themselves locked in a room aboard the Ori ship.

Adria came and collected Cameron and forced Vala to stay in the room. Adria marched Cameron down into what looked like a closed off room that only Adria and the Prior could gain access to with their supernatural powers.

Inside what Cameron saw nearly broke his heart.

Claire was floating in the middle of the room surrounded in a blue bubble that had electrical sparks coming in and out of it every so often that also shocked Claire. But when they did, she didn't move, didn't show any sign of recognition of the shocks. She just lay there floating like a lifeless puppet waiting for her strings to be pulled.

Cameron went to run to her aid, but two Ori soldiers held onto his arms and kept him away from her. "Let me go she needs me!"

Adria walked up in front of Cameron and put her hand under his chin forcing him to look into her eyes. "What she needs Mitchell is to return to what she was born to do." She turned to the Prior who was working at the controls panel. "How is she?"

The Prior looked up at Adria and then back down at his screen in front of him. "She's about 90 of the way there." He then pressed several buttons that made the bubble move and it started filling with a strange green liquid. The liquid filled the bubble in a matter of seconds and Claire opened her mouth and the water seeped in.

"Don't worry she won't drown, that liquid is unique as when someone goes under it you can still breathe normally." Adria turned back towards Mitchell and placed both her hands on either side of his head. "Last time we three were together, I never did get to take a close look at you're bond."

The next thing Cameron knew he was in the middle of a field that was covered in flowers that stretched as far as the eye could see. He felt a presence behind him and when he turned round he saw Adria smiling passed him. She pointed towards a figure standing on it's own. When Cameron ran up to it he saw it was Claire, her emerald green eyes were glazed over as if she wasn't there, her chocolate brown hair blew around her face in the gentle cool spring breeze.

"You see her end of the bond has been completely severed, and you know why? You can't share something if you don't remember it."

Mitchell's eyes snapped open and he found that Vala was sitting next to him. Apparently he'd been gone for a couple of hours and some Ori soldiers brought him back to their room on board the Ori ship unconscious.

"Uh Damn!" Mitchell clenched his fist and smacked it down hard on the floor. He stood up quickly and ran towards the door, he raised his arms and banged them on the door, trying to break it down or get someone's attention. "Let me out!" He shouted again and again.

Vala too stood up and ran behind Mitchell and grabbed his wrists. "Mitchell look at me." Vala demanded, when Cameron complied with her request she continued gently lowering his arms. "We will get out of here, Mitchell, and we will find Claire."

"They're doing something to her, Vala, and whatever it is I know it can't be good." Mitchell sighed and walked over to the window and looked out onto the Hyperspace making pretty colours dance across the room.

Vala came and joined Cameron and he two of them just stared out in silence, but that's when Ori soldiers burst into the room and ordered the two of them to follow them. They were taken to the same room that Mitchell was taken to before, the only difference was that there was no blue bubble in the middle of the room and Claire was nowhere to be seen.

Adria came strolling in, the prior walking a few steps behind her. "Well I thought this might be a nice family reunion, you should consider yourself lucky Mitchell that you get to watch this blessed event."

The door opened from where they had entered, a black figure was standing out in the corridor. "May I present to you, my beloved lost sister, Sophia." Adria said as she pointed towards the door. Mitchell and Vala both turned round simultaneously to see who she meant.

But suddenly something clicked in Cameron's mind. 'No it can't be… wasn't that the name given to…. Before she…'

The black figure took a few steps into the room allowing the light to shine on her face. She looked around the room with a hint of something that Mitchell couldn't quite make out. But he knew exactly who it was; he could never forget her angelic face. After all she was his Guardian Angel.

"My name is Sophia, proud daughter of the Ori, older sister to Adria, I have come to reclaim my rightful place as head of the invasion in this Galaxy."

Before this day, a couple of months ago her name was Claire.