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Chapter 13
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Date: March, 3665 BC Location: Alpha Centauri System.
I sent three hundred al'kesh into the solar system closest to earth with the mission of locating another source of naquada. I allowed the pilots to bring their families and told them to tell no one where they were going. They found low amounts of naquada present on the second planet in the system and moderate amounts in the third asteroid belt. They soon related the information to me via communication spheres.
I arrived with Kek II in tow. I immediately had construction begun on a fifth Troi in the system. The 300 al'kesh made quick work drilling and melting a large asteroid. It took all of a day to drill the hole and fill it with ice. It took another day to melt the drill hole shut, and a third day to melt the asteroid enough for it to begin expanding.
I renamed the system from the name the primitive humans had given to the three star system. It was roughly 4 light years from Tau'ri. Arik tree-ac te kek was it's new name. Arik for short. We do not surrender, even in death, was the meaning of the words.
Arik was to be my secret fortress system. It was fortuitous to find a source of naquada so close to Tau'ri, even if it was so little. The asteroid belt would be mined out in 100 years, but by then, the second planet would be finished terraforming.
It took another month to assemble my fifth large nano-furnace. I kept the 300 pilots and their mates isolated from the rest of my Jaffa. I imported another 300 pilots and their families to live on the al'kesh until the Troi was habitable.
Mining of the asteroid field began in earnest. The three hundred al'kesh were operated at all times, as I had two crews of pilots for each.
My son and I often made trips to the fortress system to oversee the construction personally. The knowledge of this world would not be passed on to Egeria's spawn. I was going to keep it completely secret.
There was no chappa'ai present in Arik, So I moved the one from an abandoned and mined out system to Arik. It made travel to an al'kesh I left in the system for my own use quite easy.
Soon, the construction of the Troi and the mining were going well on it's own without the need for me to micro-manage. I felt it was time for me to take a small vacation and see to the uplifting of Kek into a stronger and longer lived being.
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Date: April, 3665 BC Location: Tau'ri
"What will eating do, father?" Kek hissed out of his inhuman mouth between bites as he devoured the human heart. I exchanged a knowing look with Eve over his shoulder as I ripped the heart out of the next human in line.
Dozens of the captured jungle pygmies wailed in fear and anguish as My Jaffa held them still. I could only feed a few dozen hearts to my son every day, as that was all his stomach could hold. I believe the chant and ritual of sacrifice was lost to the rest of humanity.
The old shaman who had taught the ant queen had learned it from his mother who learned it from her father who learned it from his father, etc. They had never considered the power that could be accumulated by sacrificing thousands of spirits. The most his line had sacrificed had been ten enemy tribesmen, and it granted the shaman slightly enhanced strength and stamina.
My half Unas son on the other hand, seemed to have no effect to the ten dozen human spirits he had already devoured over the last three days. I should have at least seen a little growth already. Yet no response from his body.
"You should be feeling more powerful with each heart you eat, Kek." I told my little boy. "You should be feeling a rush of power with every human you finish." I passed over the next human's heart as Kek burped.
His mother, Nana, stood to the side of my throne as still as a statue. She was honored to bear the child of a god, and it showed in her eyes every time I was inside of her. She was in love with me. I encouraged the affection. It was good for my son to have a happy care-giver when I was not around, which was rare. I usually took him with me, wherever I went. I was too curious about his biology to let him stray too far from my sight.
"It feels good." Kek said as he chewed "What is powerful?"
I thought for a moment on how to explain power to the boy. I decided on an easy explanation. "Power is your strength." I lifted the human body off the floor before a Jaffa could drag it away. "It is how strong you are."
I slung the human corpse at the thick wall of my throne-room. I was chanting once more as the splattered human bits dripped down the wall.
"I want you to try now." I ripped out the next tearfully begging human in line's heart and devoured it in one bite. "You throw this like I did." I tossed the body at my 3 and a half foot son's feet.
"Yes, father." Kek bent down and lifted the upper body of the human off the floor. He grunted in a cute way as he slung the corpse of his head in a display of demon hybrid strength. The corpse landed short of the wall, and slid the rest of the way, where it collided with the wall with a crack.
He teared up as he realized he couldn't sling the corpse like I could. "I can't do it, father." I wiped the tears away from his eyes with blood covered fingers, making red patches on his spiked cheeks.
"It is alright." I chided the child. "You will be able to after you eat enough hearts, and gain enough power."
"I will be powerful." Blood began dry on his cheeks as his tears became sniffles. "More hearts, father." He had a look on his, usually happy, little face as serious as I had ever seen.
I laughed a little at his determination. "Of course."
I fed him for days, carefully observing and making notes.
One thousand hearts effectively doubled his already tremendous strength. One thousand spirits made him grow four inches in height. I gave me enough reason for a hypothesis.
His body could hold ten and a half thousand spirits before it reached the pinnacle of strength.
All the other bodies I'd enhanced with spirits had grown to twice their natural height before it stopped growing stronger. My current host was still an adolescent, and had not finished growing yet.
When I sacrificed enough souls to bring Kek up to near 7 feet, he would be at full strength.
It took the better part of a year to bring him up to full strength. At 7 feet tall and very young, he was near five times the strength of my current host. He was also five times as fast.
There was only one choice I really had.
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Date: February, 5664 BC Location: Grand Temple of Cheops.
I rendered my Granok demon host unconscious as I exited. Noshni quickly disintegrated the sleeping demon with three quick zat blasts. There were many gasps in the audience as the body disappeared. No one shouted or made any particularly loud noises to disturb the ceremony.
My new host knelt, with his mouth wide open. He was happy to be my newest host. Egeria And Nana smiled behind him, as they held his his shoulders, as ceremony and ritual of thousands of years of of public avatar change dictated. Hundreds of Unas tribal chiefs and thousands of Jaffa officers crowded the temple's pews as they watched their god on stage.
I jumped from the floor into my son's mouth with a single spring of my powerful muscles. I had to chew at the tough skin at the back of my new host's throat. I heard him groan in pain as I slipped inside his body.
Unlike with every host taking before, I did not shut down the mind of my new host. I shared my own mind with him. I began with showing him my memories of my life on Tau'ri, from the beginning.
I felt his memories as if they were my own. I felt the exhilaration as I realized my father was a god, and what it meant. I felt the love of a mother's arms around me. I felt the love of a father wiping away my tears. I felt the joy at realizing that I was so powerful, that father wanted to live inside my body.
It was a true gesture of affection from me as I sent my son into a deep slumber, to dream of my life and memories. It would take him a few years to assimilate them all.
I shuddered with pleasure as I opened my son's eyes. The hormones and chemicals flooded into my body as I connected myself into my new host's bloodstream. My eyes glowed as I stood in my powerful new body.
"Behold and celebrate, your god lives still!" I screamed in a deep and echoing voice as I raised my hands in the air. The crowd of beings in the temple's pews stood to their feet and cheered. I enjoyed the wash of cheers celebrating and glorifying me, before I noticed Niko, my Fleet Admiral, running down the isle between the pews shouting and waving her arms for my attention.
I waved my arm for silence. "Back to work!" I called out with a genuine smile. "Their are tasks that need doing, and no one to do them without you." I told the assembled leadership of my society.
Egeria walked up behind me and placed her hand on my shoulder. She towered over me by five feet and I felt like a child as I glanced up at her face. She smiled down at me. I felt true affection for my queen. She had given me all that I could ask from her. Sera was truly a queen now.
"You have made a good decision." She said. "Sharing your memories and life with Kek was the right thing to do. He shares his memories and life with you, it is only right for you to do the same." There were tears glinting in Egeria's glowing eyes as she smiled down at me. "You have done the hardest part of making yourself different from the other Goa'uld."
I smiled back up at her. "He is asleep now, watching my memories and maturing." I said. "Kek needs more time to learn all that makes us adults slowly, as not to traumatize his childish mind."
It was going to be far easier to have a willing host.
It would make it possible for me to leave his body and take a new, temporary host and learn what they knew, before killing them and going back into Kek. It was a hope of mine to find more powerful mages on Tau'ri, and take their memories before killing them. It would make it far easier to learn spells and demonology far easier than having to bind the spirits of the magic practitioners to my own for all time.
Niko was still running towards me, fighting the crowd going in the opposite direction.
"Go and get her." I pointed at Niko as I looked over at Eve. The captain of my bodyguard squad nodded and pushed her way into the mass of Jaffa and Unas flooding out of the temple.
"Are you content with being the lover of your son?" I asked Nana. She was truly and uniquely beautiful to a Unas' eyes. Her little facial horns were curved in a sexy way. Her brow ridges were spiked with longer curved horns, the sign of a powerful and dominant female. "You may return to your tribe and I can pick a new lover from the tribes as replacement."
Nana gasped and shook her head negatively. "This one is proud to serve her god in every way possible." She hissed out in a guttural voice. "There is nothing that this one would like more than to love her god."
I nodded as I watched Eve lift Niko up into the air and carry her through the crowded isle. Jaffa and Unas alike jumped aside for the captain of my guard, making her return quick.
"So be it." I told Nana. "You will remain with me for the rest of your life."
Sera gripped my shoulder for attention as Eve approached. She spoke in a human voice to identify herself as my lo'taur. "I will go and prepare you a feast for tonight, and as a reward for the good and godly deed you have done today." She referred to my taking of a willing host and sharing my memories and emotions.
I grinned to myself. Kek was so young, that his little mind would be devoured by my own. My thoughts and emotions would overwhelm the young mind, creating just another copy of my own mind.
I replaced the kara-kesh on both of my arms as Nana knotted the silver skirt around my waist. It was a simple style of clothing that I had kept for hundreds of years. I would not stop now of all times.
"There is another ha'tak fleet approaching the planet, lord Apep." Niko gasped out as she panted. The run up the temple steps and fighting the crowd appeared to have exhausted her. "Two thousand of them. The enemy is flooding through the chappa'ai."
I was stunned.
Two thousand ha'tak?
Who would waste so many resources on such a worthless planet? Was it revenge from Gia? I had destroyed her fleet of 100 ships after all. I had not destroyed every ship, but I had destroyed enough to force the survivors into retreat.
"Return to Tau'ri." I told my queen and lover. "Prepare the feast there. I will be along no matter the outcome of this battle." I opened a portal and stepped through, motioning for the rest to follow. The pink rabbit world greeted me.
I opened another portal to Tau'ri and gestured with my head at the portal opening to my throne-room on Tau'ri. I looked at Nana, and then up at Egeria. "You and the guards, as well as Noshni and Nana, need to return to Tau'ri. I will face the battle to come alone." Eve simply nodded and obeyed. Noshni saluted before walking through the portal last.
I sighed as I closed the portal and opened a new one to the pel'tak of my fourth and newest completed Troi. It's armor was a little bit thicker than it's predecessors. I had used a slightly bigger asteroid to build my newest battleship. The 500 ma'tok cannons mounted on the hull gave credence to the fact that it was my most powerful battleship I had yet to build.
"Report." I said as I sat in the command seat of the pel'tak.
Niko glanced down at the holographic display on the the screen in front of her. "They enemy fleet is 8 hours out of staff cannon range at their current speed, and have already launched al'kesh and death gliders. There are thirty thousand al'kesh as well as a hundred and twenty thousand death gliders three hours out of range."
I grimaced. The number were overwhelming. I stood no chance at winning this battle, and I knew it. I only had one real option. It left a sour taste in my mouth.
Diplomacy.
Ugh.
"Hail the enemy fleet." I ordered.
"No response." Niko reported back. "They are ignoring hails."
I closed my eyes and sighed. This was the end for my fleet and the hundreds of thousands of Jaffa down on the planet. It was the end of my little million Unas army. I rubbed my new host's temples in frustration. This was so disappointing. I had no idea how to fight that many ha'tak with my little fleet. I sat there for the next hour, brooding.
I never would have expected this many enemy ha'tak over such an insignificant planet.
"They are hailing us, lord Apep." Niko interrupted my trance of self pity.
"Put it on the center projector." I gestured with my clawed hand to the holographic display of the approaching fleet I had been staring at for the past hour.
The central projector flared into the image of a gold plated ha'tak's pel'tak. A plain faced redheaded girl sat at the command chair. Her clothing was golden robes with a gold kara-kesh on her right arm.
I grimaced, seeing my creation on the arm of my enemy. It was bad fortune that I recognized this person from the memories of Ra. It was Gia, herself. A system lord had come to deal with this backwater planet personally.
Gia was old. Almost as old as Neith, she was utterly ancient. She had been a system lord from th early days of Goa'uld conquest. She had rose to power back during the old times as we warred with the Asgard. She was one of the most experienced and respected of all system lords.
"I am the goddess Gia, And I lay claim to this planet." She began to speak as her eyes glowed with light. "You have one chance to surrender before my fleet destroys your own. Surrender now, and I will allow you to live as my under-lord."
I grimaced again.
"I am the god, Apep. I invented the kara-kesh on your arm." my eyes glowed as I identified myself. "And I-" The words caught in my throat. "I surrender."
The ancient false goddess smirked at her easy victory before her face became expressionless. "I saw the recordings of your last battle against my forces. Your two ships stood against a fleet of 100 ha'tak and won. I find that most impressive."
I bowed my head in submission. "I humbly apologize for my actions. I should not have destroyed my lady's ships in-" she cut me off.
"Silence." She ordered. "I am not done speaking."
I bowed my head lower in further submission. I could still see her as I looked up at her, through glowing eyes. I could curse her to death. Even with such distance between us, I had tested an old witch-doctor's death curse from a longer range. If I did, however, Gia's first prime would stop at nothing to kill me. Certain death for my planet.
"You have impressed me with your inventions." I could see her giving her kara-kesh a speculative look. "I wish for you to invent devices for me, instead of for yourself. I see that you are in a host unlike I have ever seen before. I know that you are inside of a ship like I have sever seen before."
I itched to cast the death curse and end the system lord's life. It would spell the doom of hundreds of years of my work if I did. She wanted the secrets of Granok demon/Unas hybrids? Should I reveal demons to her?
"You will give me the secrets of your new host and deliver one to me." She spoke in flat tone as if ordering a peasant. "You will give me one of your new battleships as well, and begin producing them for me. I want ten a year. You will make new devices for me, to aid me in my wars against my enemies." I could see her crack a bit of a smile as she imagined what a scientist of my caliber could grant her. "You will maintain your ownership of this planet, and it's inhabitants. My fleet will stay here to guard your planet."
'And keep me under your thumb', went unsaid.
"I will need large amounts of naquada to begin production of enough Troi class battleships to satisfy your needs. And a few years to build enough facilities to construct as many battleships as you'd like." I said slowly, testing the waters of my new master's temperament for requests. "It has taken me a decade to produce each ship with my current resources."
Gia nodded. "I will begin regular shipments of naquada through the chappa'ai, and you have five years to bring your production up to ten a year." She smiled then. "How long will it take you to prepare a female host like the one you have now? I wish to try on a new host as..." She paused to consider her words. "Unique as yours."
Kek would have appeared human, had he not the spikes of Unas in the traditional spots on his face. There was no facial scarring like my last host. Kek's body was that of an attractive and powerfully built young man.
I could replace the Granok demon DNA and replace it with human. There could be side effects, however. I would have to experiment. Perhaps I could breed a human with a Unas? It had already been tried I believe. I hit upon a solution that could work.
"Three months for a female adult." I answered. "I need to use nano-bots to increase the aging to-" Gia cut me off once more.
"I don't care how you do it." She snorted as if the thought of my beloved science was repugnant to her. "Send a female host to my home-world in three months time. I want her to have light skin and red hair. I will be taking your largest battleship with me now. Get out of it, along with everyone but your pel'tak crew."
The transmission cut out and left me in silence, with my head bowed in submission.
I felt the cold rage course through me.
How could I not have foreseen that my new battleship design would attract the personal attention of a system lord? I should have abandoned the planet long ago and led my slaves and Jaffa on an exodus long ago.
My arrogance has clouded my judgment, I decided at last.
I would have to re-plan my entire conquest. I was now the glorified slave of a system lord. It required new actions. It required new plans.
I cursed.
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Date: February, 5664 BC Location: Tau'ri
It was one day after my surrender and I had work to do.
I had to begin my experiments to produce a female version of me, quickly. The first step would be to find a population of red-headed and pale skinned humans to experiment on. I was in a foul mood as I slowly brought Kek back to consciousness.
I had overwhelmed my child's sense of self and created another version of myself, with all of my same goals. Similar to a harsesis, he possessed hidden knowledge that no normal mortal would ever normally posses. I felt secure inside of my strongest and fastest host to date.
"I live to serve your will, father." My host whispered in the quiet pel'tak, too low for others to hear. The al'kesh was escorted by five more as we skimmed the ocean's water as we headed north. "I will always protect you, and will always be here to be your host." He assured.
I knew his every thought, and knew he spoke the truth. He was for the most part, me.
"That village looks promising." I pointed out to my al'kesh pilot as I sat in the command chair. We were floating above a village that looked to host a few thousand primitive red-headed people. The location of the village was a large island to the north. The island was north west of the continent above the dark continent. (Briton)
"Yes, lord Apep." The pilot intoned as he signaled our escort to begin landing.
"Inform the Jaffa this is a capture and secure mission. Not seize and destroy." I stated reluctantly. I really wanted to kill until my blood-lust was quenched. "Zat'nik'tel use only."
The pilot nodded and began landing procedures as he manipulated the holographic display before him and communicated my message to the rest of the strike force.
I felt the light thump as the ship landed. I slowly walked out of the pel'tak and into the cargo bay as I moped in depression.
Screams reached my ears as my Jaffa met the villagers ahead of me. The villagers were going to be running scared as my Jaffa descended upon the large village of red-heads. The screams of surprise and agony intensified as I made my way down the ramp.
Then I noticed something.
The screams were in Goa'uld.
And my Jaffa...
were losing.