Chapter Two: Tours...

The four Priestess walk together to the guest chamber which holds the people from Earth. When they get to the door they walk in they find the people sitting on the cushions beside the bath. Nenalnata smiles and bows her head to them then she sees they have not changed their clothes.

"You know the clothes we have given you are not poisoned or under black magic," Nenalnata says with a slightly hurt look on her face.

Jonas feels for the High Priestess forgetting that she is older then him by almost a millennia.

"Oh well. We have come here to give you a tour of our temple if you would like. Maybe then you would not see us a threat."

SG-1 looks at each other and Sam asks Jack,

"Well sir?"

"Why not. Get us out of here and away from the giant fur balls," Jack says he looks at Sam while pointing toward the large cats with his thumb, then he looks at Nenalnata.

She raises an eyebrow at his classification to one of the temple warrior cats as a fur ball. "Very well. Col. O'Neill I will lead you, Major Carter you will be lead by Contilal..."

"Woe woe. Time out your splitting us up?" Jack says looking at the 'child' in front of him.

"Yes. It would be much easy for one on one questions and answers," Nenalnata says with a note of annoyance in her voice. She closes her eyes for a second and thinks about her and the other Priestess and realizes that both sides here don't trust each other. She opens her eyes and says, "I understand that you don't trust us. To tell you the truth we don't trust you either. In fact if we find that you may be a threat we will not hesitate to kill you and send your bodies or what's left of them thought the Blintee(Solid Portal)."

SG-1 look at the girl like she is some kind of monster.

"I am no monster. We have many enemies and we do not know if you are or are not one of them. Now let us show you our temple before Dark Meal," Nenalnata says as she steps to the side with her hand held out toward the door. Each of the Priestess walks up to their assigned person to lead them out of the room.

Ten minutes later with Jonas & Daniel and Yntila.

Jonas and Daniel look at the walls with drawings on them telling stories that are millenniums old. As they runs their hands along the walls over the pictures they hear a slight giggle of amusement.

"You look like a child when they see their first Uuntilnat," Yntila says as she looks up at the much younger men in front of her.

"'Uuntilnat'?" Jonas asks looking at the woman whom looks younger then him but in her eyes he can see many years of knowledge.

"Umm...I guess it would be like hum..." Yntila knots her brow together trying to figure out a way to explained the animal which is so common on this world and many others. "I guess you would describe it as a creature that has a long neck like a horse, the body is much like that of a tight skinned bear, it's front legs are long and well muscled and they have three fingers and an opposable thumb. They also usually stand from six to nine feet tall on all fours."

"Oh. Ah...Wow. That's quite an animal," Daniel says as he stares at the 'young' woman.

"Yes they are. Would you like to know what the walls says?" Yntila asks as she looks at the wall and runs a long elegant finger along one of the pictures.

"Yes," Both Jonas and Daniel say at the same time and then give each other looks of annoyance.

Yntila rolls her eyes at the two men that compared to her are children. She then walks up to a picture of a young woman whom looks about twelve or thirteen stabbing what looks like a Jaffa in the stomach with a spear.

"Here's a good place to start. About four centuries ago these things that possessed peoples bodies with out permission came in ships they called themselves Goa'uld. The Goa'uld attacked us they tired to take our people as slaves and one was claiming to be a God..."

"Apophsis," Daniel says with a bit of a far off tone in his voice.

"Yes. How did you know?" Yntila asks then gets a sad look on her face and she says in an equally sad tone, "He is attacking your world isn't he and you have been traveling to worlds to find an ally?"

"No. We are not under attack by Apophsis. We are just traveling to see other worlds and alliances are an extra bonus," Jonas says putting a comforting hand on her shoulder. She smiles at him and nods her head, then turns back to the picture of the young woman.

"As I was saying, He demanded that we worship him and his queen as Gods. Many people on this planet worship many different Gods and Goddess but of their own free will. The Royal family did not want their people oppressed by faults Gods so they opened war against them. Many people became warriors to fight beside the Royals. Everyone fought even the priests and priestess. The war lasted two centuries. But we drove them away at the cost of King, Queen, and the hire," Yntila finishes her tale and looks at the two men.

"Wow. Priests and Priestess fought too and the Queen also?" Daniel asks trying to understand their culture a little more.

"Yes. Why does it seem strange to you?" Yntila asks wondering what kind of world theses people live in that would not allow anyone who are capable of fighting to fight? They are from an odd world indeed.

"Well in our world not may women are allowed to fight especial not women that are in a leadership role like your Queen and neither are Priests," Daniel explains as best he can to the perplexed 'young' woman.

"Your world is odd. Here anyone who is big and strong enough to pick up a weapon is allowed to fight if they wish. No one is band just because of sex or social statues or if they are spiritualist. Point of fact it helps people to push themselves harder because they know they are not being pushed to the bottom of the barrel," Yntila says then turns and raises her right arm straight out level with her shoulder and the palm of her hand facing out. At the motion of her hand stands with giant bowl like dishes set on them, blaze making the dim room bright as if there were windows in the room. She looks at them with a lopsided smile bows her head slightly so she has to look up at them giving her an insane look and she says, "You think that is something, you have got to see this."

She turns and begins walking in to the deeper reaches of the temple. Daniel and Jonas look at each other nervously then start after Yntila.

Same time Jack and Nenalnata.

Jack and Nenalnata are walking in the garden. Jack is staring in awe of the trees and the other plants of the garden it looks more like a forest of the oddest but most beautiful plants he has ever seen in his life. The garden radiates peace and calm he feels as if all of his worries and fears have been washed from him and all there is, is him and this garden. The plants are of all shapes and colors trees that are as big as red woods that have green or dark red almost black trunks and purple or blue leaves, bushes that are as big as most tall men and as big around as four men made up completely of flowers. Fields of flowers that seemed to be made of clear crystal that are up to his waist. At seeing these flowers Jack couldn't help it and touched one of the crystal flowers. When his finger tips touch the flower it is the softest thing he has ever felt in his life.

"Bilontee," Nenalnata says making Jack jump and pull his hand away from the flower and look at her like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar. She smiles at him softly as a mother would do to sooth away a child's night demons.

"What?" Jack asks feeling himself calm and let down his guard at the warmth and softness of the smile.

She walks up to him and takes his hand and puts it on the flower pedal again then says as she lets go of his hand and steps back from him. "The flower is called Bilontee. Roughly translated means Softness of Beauty. For many of us it is a reminder that looks can be deceiving. Thought the flower looks brittle and hard it is extremely strong and is softer then the finest spider silk."

"Spider silk? You guys harvest spider silk?" Jack asks looking at her clothes almost expecting tiny spiders to start crawling out of the folds of the clothes.

Nenalnata laughs at the look on his face, she turns and beacons him to follow her. They walk one in front of the other for five minutes till they come to part of the garden that is covered in giant webs. Jack sees spiders of all shapes, sizes, and colors crawling all around the webs some carrying dead animals and spinning silk cocoons around the dead animals. Some are carrying round ball like bundles of silk and placing them at the edge of the web city where a large pile is already formed. A spider the size of a two story house, it is silver with black stripes going down it's back, it's twelve black eyes with thin lines of bright red going through the center of them, fangs the size of Jacks arm which are dripping venom off of the end of them and on to the ground. Jack can't help but think that this creature is the ugliest thing he has ever seen in his entire life.

Nenalnata walks up to Sontilna and stops about three feet from him and bows. She then begins talking to the spider in his langue.

Translated conversation.

"Sontilna I have brought a guest to see your beautiful city," Nenalnata says as she stands up from her bow.

"He is Human. I did not know Humans could travel here? But he is welcome to my city non the less. May the Gods bless you and Keep you child," With that said Sontilna turns and walks up the walks of silk and in between two flaps.

Back to Jack.

Jack watches in amazement as Nenalnata walks up to the giant spider bows and begins to make clicking sounds and the spider makes the same clicking sounds then turns and walks up to a fold in the web and disappears. Nenalnata starts walking toward the web then turns to Jack and says,

"Come Col. O'Neill I would like to show you the inside of the Web city."

"Yeah. Coming," Jack says with an unsure look on his face as he follows her toward the giant wall of web. Nenalnata walks up to an opening that looks like an opening to a tent the pair walk into the web city. To Jack's surprise there are fires burning on the ground up against the walls of web. He looks ahead of him and he can see tunnels with doorways that most likely lead down more tunnels.

"Many species of giant spiders live in these cities. The ones that build these tunnels for us and the smaller worker spiders are Melilnee translated it's mean's tunnel weavers, Gilnata means Brave Warriors they are the warriors for the spiders and for us also they gather food for the city. Minimum means Strong builders they are the worker spiders the have build everything you see before you, Junitlra means Great Givers of Care, they're the ones that take care of the eggs laid by the other spiders," Nenalnata says then stops and turns to Jack and asks, "Would you like to see the nursery?"

"Yeah sure why not," Jack says sarcastically which does not go unnoticed by Nenalnata she gets an evil smile on her face and says,

"Follow me then please."

"Uh okay. Hey I was wondering why the webbing isn't burning and why it's not sticky?" Jack asks he makes is point by touching the wall and pulls his hand away easily.

Nenalnata smiles turns and begins walking again as she begins to talk, "Their webs are fire proof and very strong they can hold several thousand pounds. These webs are not sticky so the Priestess can walk around here with out getting stuck we help out here as much as we can, mostly in the nursery. Any other questions Col.?"

"Yeah. How did you make deals with spiders?"

Nenalnata tilts her head back and laughs and Jack can't help but think it's the most beautiful sound he's ever heard. He's not attracted to her in any way. But her voice and the voice of all the other Priestess here are almost hypnotizing and calming.

"We are leaders Col. we must have voices and laughter that soothes people. You think loudly. To answer your first question is the spiders are very intelligent creatures. We have this deal with them since before I or my Munyea were born. We have been getting our finest silks from them our strongest armor, our greatness alliances from them. But the alliances was only strengthen by the Princess."

"Um wow."

"Here we are. The nursery," Nenalnata says as she steps to the side to let Jack into the room. Jack looks around the web room and he sees several Priestess setting on the ground rubbing some of the eggs. One catches his eye. She looks about sixteen or seventeen she's wearing a white gown that seems to be glowing her skin as well also seems to have a glow to it.

"She is as she looks Colonel. She is only one decade and six cycles old. Her skin glows because she is of the Underground Country. It is also not my place to tell you what the Underground Contrary is. Lilnattee will tell you or you will see it for yourself," Nenalnata says with a kind smile.

"Okay. One question isn't it kinda dangerous to be rubbing spider eggs like that. Won't mama spider get mad about someone touching her baby?" Jack asks changing the subject back to the one at hand.

"No. These eggs need attention like this. It helps them develop. The contact like this before they are born helps in not wanting to destroy everything the moment they are in the world. Now on to another part of the city," Nenalnata says as she walks out of the room with Jack following close behind her.

Short time later Sam and Contilal.

Sam and Contilal stand beside each other in the entrance area. Contilal turns to Sam and asks,

"What would you like to see now?"

"Well if you don't mind I'd like to see what kind of technology you have. If it's okay with you of course," Sam says as she turns and faces Contilal.

"Why?" Contilal asks Sam as she cocks her head to the side trying to figure out what this human is up to.

"Well...uh...well I would like to know...uh..."

"No need to explain. You would like to know if we are more advanced then your people. I understand. Come with me," Contilal says with a slight smile and turns and leads Sam to a doorway that leads to a downward stairwell. Sam and Contilal walk for several minutes. They get to a large wooden door which Contilal pushes open. The two women walk into a room where six crystals the size of a football are set on pedestals in a circle around the room.

"We once had great technology that surpassed anything else in the known universes but it was destroying us and our planet. It also was causing us to hate our own because he or she had something that was a little better then ours. So the king of the time declared that all that wished to replace their Gods, Goddesses, or Spirits technology then they must leave the planet or be executed for treason. So we replaced our technical advances with power crystals. To explain your next question these allow us to channel power from our bodies and the world around us to power them. We can use them as long range weapons, shields, and energy."

"Wow. So you replaced technology that was far more advanced then anything in the known universes because people stop having religions? That is going to the extremes of controlling people thought their religion," Sam says forgetting whom she is with at the moment.

"Sam we have not one religion here but many and we have people whom do not have any religion at all and we do not care. And it was not only because people were replacing their Gods with fake idles it was also because it was destroying our planet. So where to next?"

Two hours later back in SG-1 quarters.

"So did any one find out anything interesting about our hosts?" Jack asks looking at the four other members of SG-1. "Carter?"

"Well Contilal told me that they had technology that surpassed any other in the known universe but destroyed it because they were destroying their planet and were losing touch with their religions. So now they use these power crystals. They use the crystals to channel power from their bodies and the world around them to use as long range weapons, shields and energy. Thats all I got that was of any importance," Sam explains to her teammates.

"Daniel? Jonas?"

"Well...uh...Jack you may have a hard time believing this," Daniel stammers out.

"Try me."

"Well, I think these people maybe the ancients."

"Wow hold on a second here. You think these people are the ancients? Why?" Jack asks