Longships
Part 4
I stood in the boardroom, waiting for General Hammond. Finally he entered, "What's this about a risk of attack from the Goa'uld?"
"Sir, Idona and me talked last night. The reason she
kidnapped me was that her people thought that we could help them, their sun is dying. It's not really that old either, the Goa'uld have developed some sort of weapon that can make a sun go nova. She said her people heard the Goa'uld's talking about using such a weapon on earth, they can here frequencies in their minds. She can hear anything she wants to on this planet, she has even given proof of such powers. If what she says is true, earth is in grave danger. The decision is yours, it is resting in your hands. You have to make the decision to fight, or not it is not my place that is why I came to you."
He simply nodded, "I shall consider that but I want you to use her as a spy. Since she can hear these frequencies and such, what is her exact ranking on this planet anyways?"
"She is called the Crimson Lady, I suppose that she is some sort of protector because she descended from such a line. Plus crimson is the color of war, which means she could stop wars or is a powerful warrior. Apparently she is the only one on her planet left with such powers, other then that she seems human."
"Why did they send the one person who can protect them? Why don't they set her against the Goa'uld? Why do they want our help?"
"We are known throughout the galaxy as the godslayers, they think we are in the line of the Ancients."
"Go talk to this Idona, get all the information you can out of her. Oh Daniel, before you leave go shave. You look like a hairy down in the streets bum with a beard."
A hour later I was down near her cell, she was reading. It was strange how well she understood the English language, she could even read in it. Her black hair was hanging over one shoulder, she still wore her red dress and cape. She refused to wear white, or any other color. It seemed like that red was sacred to her, for some odd reason she never seemed to look right in any other color in my minds eye at least. She looked up at me from her reading and smiled slightly, her smile made me more then a little nervous. Her violet eyes went through my skin, giving me an odd sensation. She was the most beautiful woman I had ever encountered, maybe that's why she made me nervous. She put down the book, and went over to the door of the cell and walked straight through it. That always sent chills up my
spine, she smiled.
"Idona, we want to know why you chose us to help you. Why would you want help from us, you are more powerful then any gun! Why do they want us to help?"
"Daniel sit down, let me tell you the story of my
people..... Long ago, the winds blew strong throughout our world. This is when the aliens brought our people to so lonely of a world, we were what your people called slaves at the time. We were left there, alone to fend for ourselves for many hundreds of years. We learned to survive, we built a land. My ancestors were the reining monarchy, the royal princesses were always called the Crimson Lady. We alone pocessed the powers of the aliens, who you called the Goa'uld. We could use their traditional powers, only us though. Once you were married you could never use the powers again, you had to pass it down to your oldest daughter. It has something to do with purity, well our culture became great. Greater then anything earth could ever imagine, little did we know that was our greatest mistake.
The years passed, exactly 1000 years after the
Goa'uld's left us the one called Hathor came to our planet. She destroyed our cities, she was firm believer in humans should never be nothing but slaves. She enslaved our people, we could not fight back. Only my family was able to summon Thor, we had to escape through the gate. We learned many things that year, finally Thor came with the rest of the Asgard. They came and frightened the Goa'uld, the Goa'uld are instinctively afraid of the Asgard. They left our planet, but we still had to rebuild. Over the years the Goa'uld continued to attack, finally the Asgard gave the crown princess the powers to defend her world. That is where I got my power, it was passed down from my mother before she died. Our power weakened over the generations, when our blood mingled with others. We are not as powerful
as we once were, we could use to bring down a Goa'uld
Mothership from the very vacuums of space. Now I can barely defeat one fighter, our planet is in grave danger. We heard of the godslayers through the Asgard, so my people sent me the lone queen to beg your help. And to bring back one of you to help us, I ask of you Daniel Jackson will you and your planet help my people?"
She looked up at me with her innocent eyes, who could refuse her. She looked as if she believed with all her heart that I could help, I would back her up no matter what.
"I'll certainly try."
We walked throughout the compound, she walked faster then me. That was an unusual trait in a lady, especially if she had been pampered all of her life. I decided to ask her a few questions about her world, "What do you call your world?"
She gave me a curious look, and then answered "Kalestra."
"What do you call you kingdom?"
"Drandamere. Why are you all of sudden asking so many
questions about my world, Daniel?"
"Because we need all of the information we can get, in case we plan to do something about your world. I should tell you we have no idea how to stop a star from going nova, but we can try to save your people and bring them here. We could give them new identities, teach them in the ways of earth. We could give them a chance to live, a chance to escape the Goa'uld."
"Daniel, you are just as confused as I am. We could not
live our lives on this planet, even though it is the true planet of our birth. We are connected with our planet, I can feel it even in my heartbeat even as I stand here. Over a millennia a race can become attached to it's world, even if it is not really their homeworld. You can have special bonds, that will never break. You can die with your world, nothing can ever change that. Your way of living may be better, but we are attached and can never break the bond that has been set on us. Why should we, we would go insane without our world. Insane with grief, it is best to never tell my people this. For they will mourn with the greatest longing, for our world to survive. They do not care if we
die by the flames of a dying sun, we shall stay with our
world. The world that reared us from our grave."
Her speech moved my heart, I knew she would die rather then give up her world. She was their queen, their protector the Crimson Lady. They held her in great contempt, they nearly worshipped her. She looked up with me, she was determined that we either save her world or she would die. I did not want her to die, I sort of was a little fond of her. Of course she did not realize this, I would never let her know that I was starting to fall in love with her. All I knew was that I must make her live, I could not lose another.
So how do you like part 4? Do you think Daniel should admit his feelings to Idona? Well please review, and if you want give me a couple of ideas.
Part 4
I stood in the boardroom, waiting for General Hammond. Finally he entered, "What's this about a risk of attack from the Goa'uld?"
"Sir, Idona and me talked last night. The reason she
kidnapped me was that her people thought that we could help them, their sun is dying. It's not really that old either, the Goa'uld have developed some sort of weapon that can make a sun go nova. She said her people heard the Goa'uld's talking about using such a weapon on earth, they can here frequencies in their minds. She can hear anything she wants to on this planet, she has even given proof of such powers. If what she says is true, earth is in grave danger. The decision is yours, it is resting in your hands. You have to make the decision to fight, or not it is not my place that is why I came to you."
He simply nodded, "I shall consider that but I want you to use her as a spy. Since she can hear these frequencies and such, what is her exact ranking on this planet anyways?"
"She is called the Crimson Lady, I suppose that she is some sort of protector because she descended from such a line. Plus crimson is the color of war, which means she could stop wars or is a powerful warrior. Apparently she is the only one on her planet left with such powers, other then that she seems human."
"Why did they send the one person who can protect them? Why don't they set her against the Goa'uld? Why do they want our help?"
"We are known throughout the galaxy as the godslayers, they think we are in the line of the Ancients."
"Go talk to this Idona, get all the information you can out of her. Oh Daniel, before you leave go shave. You look like a hairy down in the streets bum with a beard."
A hour later I was down near her cell, she was reading. It was strange how well she understood the English language, she could even read in it. Her black hair was hanging over one shoulder, she still wore her red dress and cape. She refused to wear white, or any other color. It seemed like that red was sacred to her, for some odd reason she never seemed to look right in any other color in my minds eye at least. She looked up at me from her reading and smiled slightly, her smile made me more then a little nervous. Her violet eyes went through my skin, giving me an odd sensation. She was the most beautiful woman I had ever encountered, maybe that's why she made me nervous. She put down the book, and went over to the door of the cell and walked straight through it. That always sent chills up my
spine, she smiled.
"Idona, we want to know why you chose us to help you. Why would you want help from us, you are more powerful then any gun! Why do they want us to help?"
"Daniel sit down, let me tell you the story of my
people..... Long ago, the winds blew strong throughout our world. This is when the aliens brought our people to so lonely of a world, we were what your people called slaves at the time. We were left there, alone to fend for ourselves for many hundreds of years. We learned to survive, we built a land. My ancestors were the reining monarchy, the royal princesses were always called the Crimson Lady. We alone pocessed the powers of the aliens, who you called the Goa'uld. We could use their traditional powers, only us though. Once you were married you could never use the powers again, you had to pass it down to your oldest daughter. It has something to do with purity, well our culture became great. Greater then anything earth could ever imagine, little did we know that was our greatest mistake.
The years passed, exactly 1000 years after the
Goa'uld's left us the one called Hathor came to our planet. She destroyed our cities, she was firm believer in humans should never be nothing but slaves. She enslaved our people, we could not fight back. Only my family was able to summon Thor, we had to escape through the gate. We learned many things that year, finally Thor came with the rest of the Asgard. They came and frightened the Goa'uld, the Goa'uld are instinctively afraid of the Asgard. They left our planet, but we still had to rebuild. Over the years the Goa'uld continued to attack, finally the Asgard gave the crown princess the powers to defend her world. That is where I got my power, it was passed down from my mother before she died. Our power weakened over the generations, when our blood mingled with others. We are not as powerful
as we once were, we could use to bring down a Goa'uld
Mothership from the very vacuums of space. Now I can barely defeat one fighter, our planet is in grave danger. We heard of the godslayers through the Asgard, so my people sent me the lone queen to beg your help. And to bring back one of you to help us, I ask of you Daniel Jackson will you and your planet help my people?"
She looked up at me with her innocent eyes, who could refuse her. She looked as if she believed with all her heart that I could help, I would back her up no matter what.
"I'll certainly try."
We walked throughout the compound, she walked faster then me. That was an unusual trait in a lady, especially if she had been pampered all of her life. I decided to ask her a few questions about her world, "What do you call your world?"
She gave me a curious look, and then answered "Kalestra."
"What do you call you kingdom?"
"Drandamere. Why are you all of sudden asking so many
questions about my world, Daniel?"
"Because we need all of the information we can get, in case we plan to do something about your world. I should tell you we have no idea how to stop a star from going nova, but we can try to save your people and bring them here. We could give them new identities, teach them in the ways of earth. We could give them a chance to live, a chance to escape the Goa'uld."
"Daniel, you are just as confused as I am. We could not
live our lives on this planet, even though it is the true planet of our birth. We are connected with our planet, I can feel it even in my heartbeat even as I stand here. Over a millennia a race can become attached to it's world, even if it is not really their homeworld. You can have special bonds, that will never break. You can die with your world, nothing can ever change that. Your way of living may be better, but we are attached and can never break the bond that has been set on us. Why should we, we would go insane without our world. Insane with grief, it is best to never tell my people this. For they will mourn with the greatest longing, for our world to survive. They do not care if we
die by the flames of a dying sun, we shall stay with our
world. The world that reared us from our grave."
Her speech moved my heart, I knew she would die rather then give up her world. She was their queen, their protector the Crimson Lady. They held her in great contempt, they nearly worshipped her. She looked up with me, she was determined that we either save her world or she would die. I did not want her to die, I sort of was a little fond of her. Of course she did not realize this, I would never let her know that I was starting to fall in love with her. All I knew was that I must make her live, I could not lose another.
So how do you like part 4? Do you think Daniel should admit his feelings to Idona? Well please review, and if you want give me a couple of ideas.