Sam and Janet covered their eyes as they stepped through the stargate onto the Amazon planet. After they had gotten used to the amount of sunlight streaming onto their faces they turned to look around instinctively. Janet interupted their thoughts by pointing at the horizon and saying those word hated by everyone all over the world, "we have company!"
"Come on, let's go meet them Jan," Carter sad with forced cheerfulness.
"Yes, your highness," Janet joked, then she took a more serious tone, "you should probably order me around a bit, just so it looks authentic."
"Just as long as you follow my instructions," Carter replied. "Do you think that Jack doing alright Janet."
"Of course Sam," Janet replied soothingly,"he always makes it, you'll see," she finished with as they started walking purposely towards the women coming from the horizon.
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As the two groups of women met you could see the qustions in each groups eyes. Sam was trying hard to look tough and queenly. The other group's leader broke the silence with her smooth words of welcome, "hi my visitors, my name's Xylena and I welcome you to my planet Xyla."
"Thank you, Xylena," Carter said graciously, "my name's Samantha."
"What are you doing here Samantha," Xylena demanded, looking at Janet.
"My Queen came here earlier," Janet started to reply, "because she had heard of your good graces and your mighty warriors and so we had decided to come here so that we could make an alliance. Sorry we left earlier so quickly, but we wanted to wait until you yourself could grace us with your presence, your highness."
"Very well," Xylena said brusquely, "come, follow me."
The walk to their village was brief though quiet. When they arrived a gaggle of young girls streamed out, calling and pulling their mothers towards the village. There wasn't a man or boy in sight. Janet and Sam looked at each other worriedly when they realized that, where's Jack? Is he alright? They followed Xylena through the village to the biggest hut there was, it looked as if it was normally used for village celebrations. They entered the hut and followed Xylena through the rooms until they reached a room in the far back, where they sat down for some kind of tea. "Now what did you come here to talk to me about," Xylena started, "that was so important to come all the distance that you came."
The three women talked about many different things after that. Sam and Janet found out that this society was just like the Amazons in ancient mythology, though they couldn't figure out how or why the Gu'oulds chose to take this society from earth. Their political situation was just the same as Daniel had predicted, you had to fight and win to become their leader, so natural Janet quickly agreed that we used the same system in our own world, before Sam could stop her. One interesting fact that they uncovered though was that whenever their world won a leader the new leader would rename the world so that it resembles closer to their own name, hence Xylena and Xyla. Which was an awful proud thing to do. They also sadly discovered that they hadn't seen any of the men because they are usually kept locked up with the exception of one celebration once every year. When they started to talk about possible trades between the two cultures they discovered that the Amazonians were short on men and they would gladly trade to get men but would not offer any of their men in trade. They also didn't recognize the fact that they had stolen one of Samantha's slaves. When Janet and Sam were told about that they shared a look of desperation. How were they going to be able to save Jack???
"Come on, let's go meet them Jan," Carter sad with forced cheerfulness.
"Yes, your highness," Janet joked, then she took a more serious tone, "you should probably order me around a bit, just so it looks authentic."
"Just as long as you follow my instructions," Carter replied. "Do you think that Jack doing alright Janet."
"Of course Sam," Janet replied soothingly,"he always makes it, you'll see," she finished with as they started walking purposely towards the women coming from the horizon.
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As the two groups of women met you could see the qustions in each groups eyes. Sam was trying hard to look tough and queenly. The other group's leader broke the silence with her smooth words of welcome, "hi my visitors, my name's Xylena and I welcome you to my planet Xyla."
"Thank you, Xylena," Carter said graciously, "my name's Samantha."
"What are you doing here Samantha," Xylena demanded, looking at Janet.
"My Queen came here earlier," Janet started to reply, "because she had heard of your good graces and your mighty warriors and so we had decided to come here so that we could make an alliance. Sorry we left earlier so quickly, but we wanted to wait until you yourself could grace us with your presence, your highness."
"Very well," Xylena said brusquely, "come, follow me."
The walk to their village was brief though quiet. When they arrived a gaggle of young girls streamed out, calling and pulling their mothers towards the village. There wasn't a man or boy in sight. Janet and Sam looked at each other worriedly when they realized that, where's Jack? Is he alright? They followed Xylena through the village to the biggest hut there was, it looked as if it was normally used for village celebrations. They entered the hut and followed Xylena through the rooms until they reached a room in the far back, where they sat down for some kind of tea. "Now what did you come here to talk to me about," Xylena started, "that was so important to come all the distance that you came."
The three women talked about many different things after that. Sam and Janet found out that this society was just like the Amazons in ancient mythology, though they couldn't figure out how or why the Gu'oulds chose to take this society from earth. Their political situation was just the same as Daniel had predicted, you had to fight and win to become their leader, so natural Janet quickly agreed that we used the same system in our own world, before Sam could stop her. One interesting fact that they uncovered though was that whenever their world won a leader the new leader would rename the world so that it resembles closer to their own name, hence Xylena and Xyla. Which was an awful proud thing to do. They also sadly discovered that they hadn't seen any of the men because they are usually kept locked up with the exception of one celebration once every year. When they started to talk about possible trades between the two cultures they discovered that the Amazonians were short on men and they would gladly trade to get men but would not offer any of their men in trade. They also didn't recognize the fact that they had stolen one of Samantha's slaves. When Janet and Sam were told about that they shared a look of desperation. How were they going to be able to save Jack???