"Alliances of Sorts"
Ch. 8
(Int. SGC, Daniel's Office)
So, Daniel and I were back to translating the Ancient Egyptian scrolls. The writing on most of the scrolls had almost disappeared. Those appear to be mining records of some kind. We finally decided those scrolls weren't worth finishing translating.
So, we turned our attention to the two scrolls that had the story. Amazingly enough, it seemed untouched. All of the writing had stayed intact.
"Okay, I think I've finally finished translating this one," Daniel said, looking up from his desk.
I looked up from the computer and went over to him.
"What ya got?" I asked him, resting against his desk's edge.
"Well, by the looks of it, it seems to be this planets mythology. It's based on the phoenix mythology here on earth," he said. "Except for the fact it's a human instead of a fire bird; it's pretty much the same as the myth we know."
"What a minute," I interrupted. "A human that turns into flames and is reborn again from its ashes? How is that possible?"
"Remember this is a myth we're talking about here," he said.
"Right, I knew that," I said.
He snorted. He was trying to suppress a fit of laughter. I grinned sheepishly. I then got up abruptly and went to the second scroll I was studying. Something so obvious just hit me. It happens. Hey, I'm smart. But, I'm not that smart.
"What if it's not just a myth?" I asked, opening the scroll up.
Daniel got up and dashed to where I was.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
It had a sketch of a Phoenix on it with the phrase: 'Inside the heart of one so pure, a spirit of fire sleeps within.' next to it. The same one that is on the back of my phoenix pendant. I took off my necklace and placed it right next to the picture. They looked exactly the same.
Daniel and I looked at one another. He seemed to be as baffled as I. He appeared to have found his tongue and said:
"It can't be just a coincidence, could it?"
"For all I know: it could be, our it could be destiny," I said. "My family blood goes all the way back to Ancient Egypt. I have Egyptian blood in me. Somehow my mother knew that all of these things would happen to me. The experiments done on my DNA and that resulting to me dying."
He looked at me skeptical. I heard a knock at the door. We turned to see who it was. Emma, Brennan, Sam, and Teal'c stood at the open door.
"Hey, guys," Daniel greeted.
"Hey," Emma, Brennan, and Sam said as they stepped inside.
"Have you and Dr. Allison translated the scrolls?" Teal'c asked.
"Yup, and it's about me," I said.
They looked at me.
"We don't know that yet, Nicole," Daniel looked at the others. "One of the scrolls has a sketch of Nicole's phoenix necklace. She's convinced that the 'Human Phoenix' is her."
"So, anyways," I said, looking at him. "What's up?"
"General Hammond is letting SG-1 goes back the mining planet for more study on the caves," Sam said.
"We believe there is more there than what we had that," Teal'c said.
"And Mutant X is coming with," Brennan said.
To be continued . . .