Chapter 2 - Siama'a

Night had fallen on the outpost. Siama'a and her comrades were hiding in the tops of the trees framing the passageway to the sensor station. Soon it would be time for them to accomplish their mission.

And there it was, their target: a troop of Jaffa guarding a shipment of naquadah on their way to Baal's outpost.

Short before they came along the hiding-out Siama'a gave the other the sign to attack. They all jumped out of the trees catching the Jaffa completely off guard. Before any of them could even rise his staff half of them had already been knocked over by the three attackers, only a few second later the rest of them shared the other's fate.

This mission had been another success for Siama'a and her party. They had come as silent as breeze, had fought as quick and as strong as the wind and they had won.

Full of content she and her friends Tiobe and Seleyh took the transport platform back to the Stargate and returned to their world to help providing the energy generator with their prey.

Back on their planet Kel'ba the sun was shining brightly from the purple sky. Their fighter sisters were already awaiting them. They welcomed the party cheerfully, now they would not have to fear another power blackout.

Siama'a went to work on the naquadah generator, she had built for her people short after having come to this planet about four years ago, immediately.

As she had finished and went to join the others on their joyful feast, she was surrounded by a laughing group of little girls. For them she has been a heroine since she had arrived here. They all liked her blonde hair and her ice-blue eyes, the aspects that distinguished her from the rest of these people that were all rather dark haired and had brown or dark green eyes.

"Siama'a, tell us what happened on the planet", they all pleaded her.

"You don't wanna know..."

"Please", their begs were heart-melting.

"Okay, okay", Siama'a raised her hands in surrender. She sat down on the grass and the girls grouped around her. With a smile on her face she started telling how she and her comrades had ambushed the Jaffa.

While she was telling the story to the children she could not help it but fall back into the memories of her past. Though the people of Kel'ba had taught her how to cope with all these woeful happenings back on Tauri, they were still striking her a lot.

She remembered how she had fallen in love with Jack after Baal had tried to make her his servant.

For some time being together with Jack had helped to comfort her troubled feelings, it had been the most beautiful months in her life she had had with him. But then it came to the incident that had led to them being forced to split up.

It had been the most horrifying battle Siama'a had ever been in. The attack, the blood, the screams and then the explosion that had finally destroyed the whole planet - and everything because of her...

After it Sam had felt that she would never get over it, she had decided to leave Tauri for good. She had bypassed the dialing program randomly choosing a world for her to go to. So she had left and had stranded on a planet ruled by the System Lord Amaterasu. She had come in the middle of a battle and she had been near dead as the amazons of Kel'ba had found her and had taken her to this planet.

After having saved her, they had given her the name Siama'a what meant 'cloud' in their language. She had grown to like this name a lot more than she did her old one by now.

She had decided to stay and join the fight for their cause. So the others had taught her how to improve her fighting techniques, she had learnt fight quicker and jump higher than any Jaffa would ever be able to, one of the great advantages the fighters of Kel'ba had toward their enemies. With the coming of years she had become one of their best warriors, an idol to many of the younger, everybody liked and admired her.

But still those memories were bothering her, though she was no longer showing her grief to the outside.

Siama'a finished the story and went to celebrate with the other women. Their feast of joy lasted until late that night. As Siama'a went to sleep her overjoyed feeling faded away as she happened to have the same dream she had had for years now.

Dream

Major Samantha Carter was sitting in the SGC's cafeteria as Colonel O'Neill came up to her table drawing himself a chair. He had just been released from infirmary and his injuries he had incurred in the previous battle on the now destroyed planet of P3G-262.

"Sam, we have to talk", he began.

Sam knew exactly what was about to come now. Jack would tell her that it had to be over with them. But this time he did not say the expected as he went on:

"What happened wasn't all your fault. Don't blame yourself and don't even think of leaving, we need you here more than ever before. And I still love you..."

Siama'a woke up sweating, she was confused by this night's strange dream. What was the message it wanted to pass on?

Author's Notes: Btw, if anyone's interested: I'm using some altered versions of Maltese terms for some of the names here. (Something that could really tickle Daniel in some way...)