"Stargates, Dragons, and Amazons"
Ch. 3
(Embarkation Room)
Colonel O' Neill, Major Carter, Teal'c, Dr. Fox, and Dr. Jackson stood in front of the Stargate waiting for their next order from General Hammond.
"Sg-1 you have a go. Repeat, you have a go," the general said.
First Teal'c went through with FRED, then Jack and Sam, then finally Tris and Daniel. This wasn't Tris's first time going through the Stargate. When she did go through it for the first time the planet they had visited wasn't inhabited. From what she could tell, the planet was covered with trees and animals. No humans though. So, this time when they would go through she would be used to traveling this way.
(Planet PX5-369)
They looked around at the planet.
"It's just like Earth," Daniel said.
"Except that when the sun goes down, the temperature drops to 5 degrees below 0," Sam said.
"Great. I hate the cold," Trisana said.
"Tris see if you can find anyone out here," Jack ordered.
"You got it," she said. Tris searched through the forest with her mind's sight. "There's a village a few miles from here. All are woman."
"They could be Amazons then," Daniel said.
"Let's check it out," Jack ordered.
"Wait," everyone looked at Tris. "Apophis is here. He's accompanied by 10-15 Serpent Guards at least. There about 6 miles North West."
"There not that far from that village," Sam said.
"We should try and stop them. Those woman and children will be slaughtered if we don't do anything," Tris said.
"We help these Amazons we could make them our allies," Teal'c said.
"Jack, we should at least try," Daniel told him.
"I know Daniel," Jack said. "All right, we're goin'" He turned to Tris as they started to head in the village's direction. "I'd like for you to try and not use much of your powers while we fight Apophis. I want to be able to surprise him later on,"
"I understand," she said. "I wouldn't mind to hold back a little. It drains my strength when I go overboard,"
"What happens when you do?" Sam asked.
"I loose most of my strength. I can't move for several days," Tris explained.
"A weakness," Teal'c asked.
Tris nodded and looked at Sam. "How long will it take to get to the village?"
"We should be there by tomorrow morning. If we don't run into Apophis while we're at it" she said.
"O' Neill, it will be dark soon. We should find a place to set up camp," Teal'c suggested after hours of walking through the massive forest.
"That's probably a good idea. We'll keep walkin' till we find a nice spot," Jack said.
Tris searched the area with her mind's eye one more time. Apophis is about the same distance away from the Amazon Village as SG-1 is.
"Jack, Apophis is 2 miles west of us. If we're lucky we can stop him and his Guards from even reaching the village," she told him.
"And that's if we're lucky," Sam commented from Tris's right side. Trisana smiled.
Jack, Tris, and Sam were up front, while Daniel and Teal'c were bringing up the rear. She fell back to talk to Daniel. Daniel finally wasn't quiet around Tris anymore. In fact they had spent countless nights up late doing whatever interested the two of them. Usually it was playing Mythological Trivia games that Tris had found on the internet.
"Hey," she said.
"Hey," Daniel said. "You know that we've known each other a month and a half and I still don't know what kind of Doctor you are."
"I'm a healer,"
"I just couldn't decide. If you were a tie between a healer and an Anthropologist," he said.
"I was going to be an Anthropologist. But, I wanted to put my mage power to use." Tris said. "Studying other cultures is a bit of a hobby."
"Well apparently you take your hobbies seriously because we're tied right now in our Mythological Trivia game," he laughed.
Tris laughed too.
"Hey guys it looks like there's an opening up ahead!" Sam said.
She was right. It was a nice little opening with just enough room for them to sleep and a fire. They had managed to set up camp before the sun went down. As Sam said before it was cold.
To be continued . . .