Chapter 6- and The Raid and the Goa'uld

Laura sat next to Kawalsky and Ferretti as Sha're teased Skaara and a friend of theirs. The Abydonians were a fun-loving sort of race. Laura couldn't quite put her finger on it, but she still felt as if she had seen this place before. If she was a Goa'uld or Tok'Ra harcesis it would make perfect sense since Abydos was a starting point for either group when they used the stargate.

The sound of the gate starting up, amidst laughter got Laura's attention as the chevrons lit up. "We've got company, boys!" Laura heard Kawalsky bellow.

Laura hid behind a pillar with a small girl of four and an elderly woman. The little girl gripped Laura's hand in fright. Already the child knew that something coming couldn't be any good. Laura watched as everyone else hid like frightened mice in the presence of a very large cat as the event horizon appeared and two Serpent Guards appeared. Skaara and his group then opened fire and the Jaffa's fired back. Laura then saw her team open fire. Amidst the chaos, Laura saw a figure in gold armor just stand there, his serpent head looking in all directions. Laura felt an icy chill settle in the pit of her stomach. Apophis! Laura thought in terror. Only Goa'uld System Lords wore gold armor while their Jaffa minions wore pewter-colored armor.

Laura looked on in shock as the elderly woman next to her got a staff blast to the chest and Skaara jumped out with a machine gun and opened fire. "Sha're! Shim Rota! Shim Rota!" Skaara barked. Laura could only get from the gist of it that he was telling Sha're to run.

"No!" Sha're screamed as a Jaffa grabbed her in mid-run. "No! Skaara!" Sha're screamed as Skaara tried to load a new clip and another Jaffa grabbed Skaara by the face.

The mask lifted to reveal a dark-skinned Jaffa with the golden serpent on his head. He looked briefly at the machine gun he had taken from Skaara. "This is not your weapon. Where did you get it?" The Jaffa asked conversationally as if he was discussing the weather. Skaara spat and the Jaffa held him in front of Apophis. Apophis's helmet lifted.

"Good choice, Teal'C. A perfect specimen," Apophis said as he held something in front of Skaara and knocked him out. From where Laura stood, it looked like a riband device. It was a device that could stun or kill, judging by whoever wore it. Apparently Apophis had just decided to stun Skaara with it.

"No! No! Stop that! Stop that! No! Skaara!" Sha're screamed as the serpent guard who had grabbed her carried her to Apophis.

"No! Sha're!" Laura heard herself call out to no avail. Whatever Apophis had done to Skaara, he would do it to Sha're as well.

Apophis gently stroked Sha're's face, hair, and teeth as if she were in a slave auction and slave owners used to do that when Slavery was popular in America. "You may be the one," Apophis said as he knocked her out and dialed out. Laura watched as they walked through the gate, leaving carnage. Laura stepped out of the pillar, the little girl sobbing wildly. Laura looked at the symbols on the DHD and filed them away. If they knew where Apophis was taking Sha're and Skaara, they could follow them.

Laura looked to the entrance of the pyramid as Daniel, Jack, and Sam came back. "Daddy!" Laura screamed as she ran to Jack and into his arms. Jack hugged her tightly as she cried into his chest.

"Sha're!" Laura heard Daniel shout.

"Dad, it was Apophis! He took Skaara and Sha're it looked as if they're going to Chulak!" Laura said, raising her face from Jack's chest

"What? Where's Ferretti?" Jack as he held Laura's face in between his hands. It was then that Laura noticed that Ferretti had been shot.

"Oh no! Oh no!" Laura ran blindly to the soldier who lay bleeding out and babbling.

"There's so- There's so many-" Ferretti said faintly.

"What?" Sam asked as Jack opened his shirt.

"There's so many of them," Ferretti said faintly.

"It's all right. Just tell me what happened," Daniel asked an Abydonian who was also alive, but bleeding out on the ground.

"It was Ra," the boy said with a rasp.

"Dad, it wasn't Ra. It was Apophis!" Laura said frantically as she and Jack went to Daniel.

"Ra is dead. Ta qua Ra," Daniel repeated firmly in Abydonian.

"No! Ra... I saw... He took Sha're. He took Skaara into the Chaapa-ai," the boy said haltingly.

Jack stood up and went to someone else who was wounded. "Colonel, Ferretti needs medical attention now!" Sam said fiercely as she tried to stanch the flow of Ferretti's injuries with her hands.

"Go! Help him! I can send you back!" Daniel said as he looked at another wounded Abydonian.

"You're coming with us this time, Daniel. I've got orders," Jack said, sounding like the voice of reason.

"I don't care about your orders, Colonel. My wife is out there. So is Skaara," Daniel said with a bitter laugh as he stood.

"And the only way we're gonna get 'em back is for you to come home with us. Ferretti might have seen those coordinates. Laura, did you see them as well?" Jack asked Laura.

"Yeah. Hopefully Ferretti had enough presence of mind to record, but it looks like Chulak. The home world of the Jaffa," Laura said as she and Daniel looked around at everyone dead, dying, or just wounded.

"Ni-Ya! Ni-Ya!" Daniel called all who were still alive and standing to him.

"After we go through the Chaapa-ai, you have to bury it like we did before and then leave this place," Daniel said.

"You come back?" A boy of fourteen or fifteen said.

"No, I can't. Nobody can. That's what I'm telling you. Not for, uh, a long time. Now, as soon as we're gone, I want you to close it, bury it. Put a big, heavy cover stone over it. Nothing good can ever come through this gate. Do you understand me?" Daniel asked firmly.

"You came through it, "Danyer," the boy said, sounding close to tears.

"Do you remember the story I told you? How the Ancient Egyptians back on Earth cut themselves off from Ra? Well, that is exactly what you have to do. Then, in one year- One year from this day, you take the cover stone away. I will try to bring Sha're home with me on that day. But if I don't make it back, if I don't... if I don't return, then you must bury the gate again forever. Joa qua?" Daniel asked the boy. The boy nodded slowly. You tell Sha're's father... in one year," Daniel said and the boy hugged him and the other Abydonians' stroked his head and shoulders gently. Daniel broke away from them and Laura dialed out, her heart feeling sad at what had just happened.


A/N: I know some of you probably thought Laura would be captured with Sha're and Skaara, but I decided not to do that. She's gonna go to Chulak to rescue Sha're and Skaara instead with Jack and the others.