A/N: Once again thanks for all of the reviews and sorry it took so long to post this. I'll try to get the next one up by Saturday at the latest.
Charlie bolted upwards from where he had been laying on a simple bed. His hands automatically reaching for his leg wound. He was in for a shock though. He could feel the hole in his pants but there was no pain at the touch. Charlie bent down for a visual inspection and found that the only evidence of his injury was a hole in his pants and a scar in his leg where the spear had punched through.
There was a brief moment of fear at that discovery. The only people that Charlie knew had that level of healing were the Goa'uld with their healing device he hardly thought his injury warranted a sarcophagus. Could the Goa'uld be here on this planet and if they were why would they bother to heal his leg. With that thought weighing heavily on his mind Charlie began to survey his surroundings.
The simple bed he as lying on was about the size of a twin. The room was fairly dark, the only light burning from a single torch on the rock wall by a wooden door. Every wall as well as the floor and ceiling was rock and there was not a single window. Charlie assumed correctly that they must be underground maybe in the mines the bearded figures had mentioned.
Charlie slowly got to his feet noticing immediately where there was no pain coming from his leg it was so stiff it almost hurt to move it. As quietly as he could Charlie limped toward the door. There was one way to see if he was being held prisoner, checking to see if the door was locked.
The handle moved freely and the door pulled inward easily. Charlie quickly moved out of the room almost running into the short figure that was standing in the hallway.
"It's good to see ye up and walkin' Charlie. I be Rask Delvedeep. Come with me, the king wishes to meet with ye," Said the figure.
"Where are the children?" Charlie Demanded.
"Don't ye worry; the little ones are being well taken care of. After ye see the king I'll be sure you're brought to them."
Charlie wasn't very happy about not knowing where his brothers and sister were but he really didn't see what he could do about it so he agreed, "Well I guess it's off to see the wizard."
Caught completely off guard Charlie barely managed to backpedal before he found an axe at his throat.
"Wizardry be a tool of the weak and I can assure ye me king is not weak," Growled the Rask.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend. I didn't mean that the King was a wizard it's just something my father use to say when he had to go meet someone important," Charlie somehow managed to stutter out.
"So ye father be a servant of a wizard?" Rask's axe did not lower.
"No he um … it was a line from a movie," Replied Charlie.
"What be a movie?" Rask questioned his axe lowering slightly.
"Well, um actors well act out a story, and I don't know why but he was always quoting this one movie and I guess I kind of picked up on his habit."
The axe lowered, "Follow me."
Charlie followed Rask through the well light halls for a while before he got up the nerve to ask a question, "Rask I'm not trying to offend you so if I say something wrong please don't cut my head off. With that said I got a question. What are you? You almost look human but I'm guessing your not."
"Ye be right were not human. We be Dwarfs," Replied Rask.
Charlie looked like he wanted to say something else but he found himself lead into a huge audience hall.
The audience hall was nothing like Charlie had expected it to be. There was hardly and decoration in the large room and the King's thrown was made out of stone. Granted it looked like there were a couple of Jewels imbedded in the stone but nothing to extravagant.
The King was seated on his thrown telling a story to the Trips who were all sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of the king all enthralled in the story. They didn't even notice when Charlie and Rask entered the room. Two other figures were also in the room, one on each side of the king. One of them held Sarah in his powerful arms.
Rask Delvedeep took care of the introductions on the way over. The king was Ollom Hammersong, the Dwarf holding Sarah was the King's oldest son Tomek, and the other Dwarf was a cleric by the name of Rurik Deeperdown.
When Charlie and Rask entered the room the King ended his story promising to continue after he had spoken to their brother. The Trips didn't want to wait for the rest of the story but reluctantly agreed.
"Well met Charlie O'Neill," Greeted King Ollom Hammersong.
Charlie shrugged slightly and replied, "Well met King Hammersong."
"What brings you to our kingdom?" Ollom questioned.
"Actually your dwarfs brought me here," Charlie replied with a smirk.
"True enough, what brings ye to our planet?" Ollom rephrased.
"Our planet was taken over by the Goa'uld. They are a parasitic race with a god complex. They take humans as hosts. We missed our ride to the Alpha site where all the refugees were being sent ...so my Dad and Uncle shipped us through this mirror like device. We ended up on another planet, it wasn't very hospitable so we gated to this planet. I got attacked, your dwarfs showed up and well here we are," Charlie replied.
"We have heard of these Goa'uld," Rurik Deeperdown spoke up. "They tried to come to this planet long ago. The Gods of this world were not pleased when they saw mere mortals parading around as gods. The Gods banished them from this planet and made sure if they ever would return they would have no power here."
"Ye will have nothing to fear of the Goa'uld while ye remain on this planet Charlie," The King added.
Charlie wanted to ask if that meant that they were welcome to stay with the Dwarfs but he wasn't sure how to ask and he didn't want to impose.
Tomek seemed to sense what Charlie was thinking and automatically added, "Tordek Brasstwister has offered to take ye in if ye wish to be staying here."
"That is a very gracious offer. How would I repay him," Questioned Charlie assuming the cost would be more than he could hope to offer.
"Charlie, ye wouldn't need to repay anyone. Sure ye would be put to work, but not to be repaying any debt. Ye would be workin' for yeself and yours," Was the king's reply.
Charlie was about to reply when suddenly the door burst inward and two figures walked in.
The first was a Dwarf standing about four and a half feet tall his long brown beard tucked into his belt. An arrow shaft stuck out of a crease in his armor but he didn't appear to even notice it. Of course his anger probably shielded his body from the pain. He was more than mad, pure rage seemed to roll off of him in waves.
The next figure threw the door was the complete opposite of the Dwarf and immediately had everyone on edge as he entered the room, even the Trips moved to hide behind Charlie. The figure stood just over five feet tall and the unpleasant odor of brimstone preceded him into the room. His eyes glowed red, two horns protruded from his forehead, and he even had a tail. He was dressed in boots, a baggy pair of pants, and a pair of leather bracers was strapped to his wrists. He had no beard to speak of and his dark hair was trimmed short. He grinned in greeting showing off his pointed teeth.
JD of coarse moved forward and immediately asked a question, more like demanded an answer, "How come he's got a tail?"
"I was born with it," The figure answered.
The King quickly interceded before JD could ask a million more questions. The king had a question he wanted answered first, "Krignar, what happened and who is this?"
The Dwarf Krignar Warbringer replied, "We were on patrol when we were attacked. The humans apparently want war. All of my men were captured and if not for Tyro here showing up at the right minute they probably would have grabbed me too."
"Tomek, send a couple runners and demand their release. Rurik take care of Krignar, I have a story to finish," Ordered the King.
Tomek handed Sarah off to Charlie on his way out of the room and Rurik left with Krignar and Tyro in tow leaving The King and the O'Neill clan alone. The Trips were quick to gather around the king to hear the rest of the story while Charlie played with Sarah nearby.
Charlie had a question before the king began his story, "Why aren't you concerned about the captured Dwarfs?" Charlie knew if it had been a captured SG team General Hammond wouldn't have rested until they were brought home safe.
"Don't get me wrong Charlie, I am concerned, but they are Prisoners of War now. No more harm should come to them and we will demand their release. Besides outright storming their kingdom there isn't much more I can do yet."
Charlie accepted that with a nod and went back to playing with his sister as they King continued his story.