4 After Icon: Part Three
'Violet Vision'
A/N: Spoilers for Season 8 (After Icon where SG-1 goes to a world where Daniel is wounded at the base being taken over and after my part one and two, but this is before the next show.) so be forewarned. This is the fourth in my series of what happens between the shows in Season 8.
Eastern Kentucky in the Tri-state Area
Jack held his weapon higher as Teal'c aimed his staff-weapon at the sarcophagus. The light violet hand had been complemented by a second then the being sat up and peered at the group inside the chamber.
The light violet being was immaculate in appearance, Teal'c noticed. The female alien wore a black halter-top like dress that connected very low below her waist. Her body was human looking except for a few details besides the color of her skin. There was a slightly raised ridge that started at the tip of her nose that went up to her forehead and forked at two spots at her eyebrows and the top of her forehead. The black ridge, that matched the color of her hair and dress, extended from between where her eyebrows should be outward taking the form of human eyebrows. The ridge has two half circles that extended from the ridge parts forming eyebrows. They from a 'C' shape that faced the center back in toward the center of the forehead. From the center of her forehead were it forks to form eyebrows, it continued straight up to where a human's hairline should be. Here hairline was a few inches back and it was obvious her hair strands were about five times as thick as a humans.
The ridge extended left and right along the sides of the face, not touching the ridge eyebrows, down in front of the ears and along the sides of the neck. Her hairline was back a little from around the ears farther back then human hairlines. The fact that her outfit looked like a black skirt in wide sections that hung free with the only material above that the front of the halter-top, drew attention up to her face and accentuated the oddity at her knuckles. Teal'c, and everyone else, could see the black ridgeline on the light violet skin descend over the shoulders down to bone formations that protrude out of the skin on the knuckles.
The place on the knuckles, where the raised ridge that resembled vines was located, was the center of Teal'c attention. The skin opened and held still on the bones on the hand just before the knuckles. The bone claws were thick and extended out from the knuckles, Teal'c guessed, three inches. He wondered if the claw like formations on the knuckles were retractable like a cat's claws and used as weapons.
Everyone else in the chamber stared at the female being's exquisite face. Her angularly formed face managed to accentuate her larger then human eyes. The color of her eyes was several shades of a darker violet then her skin. She climbed out of the sarcophagus and sat on the edge. The sections of the bottom of the dress parted in different places allowing several adequate views of her shapely legs.
Her lips parted and her voice filled the air like flowing water with delicate variations in the tone and frequency like a string instrument. The group of humans was mesmerized with the slight melody of her voice. She discontinued the use of her voice and looked at each person individually as if expecting a response.
Jack finding his own voice knew that his own would sound harsh in comparison to her tranquil voice, "Daniel."
"I wonder if those writings I had never seen are the written form of the language she is singing." He took a step toward her as she directed her vision on him.
"My name is Daniel." He pointed to himself then to her. "What is your name?"
She tipped her head to one side and blinked her eyes quite noticeably several times. Her eyes were not exactly circular shape like human's eyes, but her eyes were more oblong. On the last purposeful blink, the violet colored iris portion of her eyes darkened slightly. The violet colored irises started to change shape to a more starburst form.
With her eyes fixed on Daniel, the violet irises in her eyes changed in appearance to liquid pools in the starburst shape. "You are Daniel?"
"Yes, my name is Daniel." Daniel could hear the musical note of her actual voice in her telepathic message.
"My name is in sound form which sounds like this." She made an audible sound thru her mouth that reminded Keira of a violin.
"Yea, I don't think I could imitate your name correctly. Is there something you would prefer to be called?" Daniel was fixated on the link to his mind.
"I am not sure. I know almost nothing of this world." She spoke to his mind alone. "Your skin color is tan and the other with the image on his forehead is brownish. Are most of the beings on your planet of these colors?" She stood up and placed her hand over Daniel's comparing the colors.
Everyone else standing around was only able to hear what Daniel was saying and already they had several questions each, but they kept silent.
"For the most part, how are you talking to my mind?" Daniel noticed he was the only one who could hear her speaking. It was strange for him because her voice did not emanate from her, but appeared in his mind like a thought. Her words were laced with the sound of her real voice and that was how he knew he was not just thinking her voice up.
She allowed the others to hear her thoughts to Daniel, "I am able to send my thoughts to you, but I can only send them in the same way you hear them when I speak out loud. My thoughts are sent in the state of a kind of feeling and your brain translates my thoughts into your language in your words. When you speak to me, you are thinking what you are saying and by brain picks up on it and translates it into my language. Only when thoughts are directed at me or intended for me to hear am I able to understand them. It is rather more complicated then that." She turned to look at the others.
"Hello." She spoke for them all to hear including Daniel.
They responded with the same word. She heard the word out loud and would recognize it later.
The alien looked at her hand again, "What is the color you call my skin?"
Daniel turned to Sam and Keira with a question on his face.
"Purple." Jack said while relaxing the position in which he was standing.
"Very well, then call me Purple." She looked around to see what they thought.
"Well, I would say a light violet or even a soft wisteria, but not red violet or a plum." Keira glanced at Sam.
"Light violet, there is a wild flower that is named violet too." Sam concluded.
"Violet will be by name while I am among your people then." She smiled and listened as Daniel told everyone's names.
"How did you come across the sarcophagus?" Teal'c interjected.
Violet relaxed sitting on the sarcophagus again, "I was traveling with a group of our people when we came under attack. We tried to escape and hide in your galaxy. Our enemy discovered us and we did battle. They were destroyed, but our craft was unable to continue. We left out craft in a damaged smaller life craft that is only used under extreme conditions. After detonating our craft to hide it from any more of the enemy who might seek us, we landed in a populated area searching for assistance. It was only then when we discovered another race dominated the beings on this world. I had been wounded during the battle and was not expected to live much longer as our healer was killed and unable to assist me. One of us found the sarcophagus and took it for my healing. When I awoke, they were in another battle with the dominating beings that owned the object. Instead of returning it like we planned, we hid ourselves. Knowing we could not return home in our craft, which was so heavily damaged, we fled to a less populated area, which was on this land mass. We were about to pick an area to live when we were discovered and attacked. After sending ourselves to the surface underground, we crashed our life craft and detonated it simultaneously to make the attackers believe we were all dead. They searched and believed us to be destroyed. Once they were gone, we made a tunnel to the cave then exited to the surface."
"How many were in your group?" Daniel questioned after she had been silent for a time.
"There were ten of us who were traveling and only three of us survived." My friend, who is a male, went out searching for peoples to communicate with. In the way of his people, he possessed a better means of mental telekinesis and telepathy that could communicate better and was of golden skin much like the color on these walls. There was another who was a male guard and of my people that was to stay in this area for my protection. I am from an important family line in my galaxy and as such, they sought a way to keep me safe. I agreed reluctantly to remain inside this sarcophagus to maintain my life in the same state. Thank you for releasing me. Do you know anything of my two companions?" Violet did not make eye contact, but started reading the walls.
Daniel felt confident about his thoughts, "I believe your companion who was golden found groups of Native Americans called Adena, Hopewell and Natchez. The Natchez are recorded to have worshiped a sun god and I am sure he fit right in with them or even created that believe by his existence. I cannot think of any references in this area of one who was here to guard you. Do your people know of the beings that you go the sarcophagus from?"
"They were beings that attached and controlled the bodies of the humans here on the planet. To the best of my knowledge, there have been no instances of contact between our peoples. They are not living in our galaxies or even mentioned. We would not tolerate such actions. They sound to be similar to the enemy we fight who feed off of other's life force. There is a beacon here that I can activate that will send our people to find me, but the fear was and remains that our enemy and the Goa'uld might discover us first. And now I am alone." Violet lost the darkness to her eyes, and the irises of her eyes changed from the starburst form back to circular and solid in appearance. She was tired.
"Well, it looks like she has turned off her communication thingy." Jack lowered his gun, as he did not view her as a threat at the moment. "Sam, Teal'c, can you feel if she is a Goa'uld or not?"
"She isn't." Sam stated, as she obviously felt sorry for the alien who was without her own people and could not send for help. Could we use the Stargate?
"Indeed, she is not a Goa'uld. Could we not use the Stargate to get her closer to her home before she activates her beacon?"
"Yea, if we can get her back to the SGC without anyone knowing. I believe you know too much Keira. I guess we will probably have to let you in on what is going on, so you will understand." Jack appeared to be somber, but was waving his hands around in gestures as he spoke. "Hey, Daniel do you think that you could get everyone to leave or get distracted somewhere else, so we can take her out?"
Violet got up off of the sarcophagus and started reading the writing that Daniel did not know. It was messages from her other two companions to her and to any of their people who might find the room. She read a different section and got startled and gasped for air. Everyone turned to see what happened.
She opened her mind to them, and they seen the changes in her eyes and knew she was about to let them in on what she gasped about.
"Who found the key to this room?" Violet scanned them for answers.
Keira leaned forward seeing the pain in the girl's eyes, "There was a group of three Grotto members who found it. What's going on?"
"It says when he leaves that the key is placed inside of a section on the wall that is safeguarded and unable to be taken out without our genetic make up. Whoever accessed the key was one of my people or it is possible one of our enemies who chased us till we ended up in your galaxy." Violet started to act anxious when she looked at the staircase.
"Who are your enemy? What do they look like?" Teal'c could only wonder at the enemy who was this technologically advanced who rivaled the Goa'uld even when in a damaged life pod who have no knowledge of them where they live.
"They are a very pale blue with large fangs and talons. Their physical appearance is similar to you and I. They also have the ability to alter their appearance. They can shift their internal gravity to navigate in the air and they feed on the life force of other beings. They only attack in large numbers for feeding, but if there is a smaller group, they will attack alone. They consider all other beings except for themselves to be lesser and only made for a source of nourishment. They have the capability to sleep for long periods of time that even span as long as several of your generation's lifetimes." Violet held her hands to her forehead, and it appeared as if the raised black ridges moved slightly.
"It sounds like what we have come to consider legends about ghouls, zombies or vampires." Keira opted.
"Yea, vampires sleep in coffins for a long time, drinks blood for food, dies if they get in the sun and have fangs. Is it possible that they found your other two companions and people seen what they did to them? Is it possible that could be one of the source of our vampire stories?" Jack mused while thinking he was getting hungry again.
Violet turned away from the writings on the walls again, "I do not recall the enemy being killed by light from a sun or some of the other attributes you thought about garlic as you spoke. It might be a coincidence. If they were the enemy, they would not have been left behind. They do not believe in leaving each other out for their enemies to take captive, we have a similar believe system. In the writings they left for me, they found no enemy on this planet except for the one we made when we got here. When we destroyed the enemy in our ship, we ended anyway of them letting their other people know of this planet's existence. If they had known of such a planet without external defense systems, they would have come already and feed on the people of your planet."
"Keira, I need you to go up and ask who found the disk. Daniel, I need you to tell them that we are going to be here all night and that it is ok for them to leave. Sam, I need you to finish taking pictures of this room and send a call back to the SGC about making immediate arrangements for travel. Teal'c, I need you to collect all of our things and look around back up in the cave for anyone lurking around who is not supposed to be here. I will have the paperwork sent over claiming we can take the key, and we will lock the door as we leave. The staircase will not be mentioned in any of the papers or documents. Violet, I think it would be safer for you if you came with us. There is a race that is far more advanced then us and one is my close friend Thor. I think he might be able to help you locate your galaxy." General Jack was back in charge and giving out orders.
Violet looked into his eyes and knew in his thoughts what he said he actually felt, "General Jack O'Neill, I would be honored to be in your care. There is one more problem and I am afraid it could be disastrous."
"Yea, we have cloths and things like that at the SGC you can have." Jack smiled hoping it was nothing more then some comfort thing since she was a member of her people's royalty.
"Thank you. But the problem I am referring to is a little more complex then arrangements for clothing and food. If we are leaving, will I have access to the images she is taking of the writings?" Violet's eyes in the starburst form were a very dark violet at this point.
"Yeppers, no problem there." Jack felt relieved.
"If the beacon is activated, the enemy as well as my people will detect it. Both beings will come to investigate. My people would then have to defeat the enemy to retrieve me and stop them from feeding on your planet's people and showing the significance of this planet." Violet looked as if she was becoming nervous again as everyone was reporting back from having their tasks completed and heard what she just said.
"No problem there either. We will lock the room and take the beacon and the key with us." Jack stated once again relaxing.
Violet pressed her hands together then let out a violin like sound with her voice. She peered deep into Jack's eyes, "You don't understand. Some one has stolen the beacon and for all we know they have already activated it!"
A/N:
What happens if Violet's enemy is on the planet and took the beacon?
What if another secret government agency took it?
Could the enemy of Violet be the Wraith or real Vampires?
I guess I will make another chapter to find the truth. Please REVIEW! Let me know what you think, so my universe will maintain its stability.
Thanks!
Smile,
Leia