Memion had a reached an uneasy peace with Bron'wyn over the last few hours, and not without 'bloodshed' either. She had suddenly lunged at him with her 'magic claws', which were unable to drain anything from him. He had thrown her off him and changed into his full twelve foot tall bat form and placed her head between his teeth. He suspected that other Atavus would be untrustworthy, but had agreed to search for others as long as she 'pulled her weight' on board the ship, and helped kill the Taur'i. He was just beginning to learn how to access the race memory of the Wamphyri. The first ever Wamphyri was called Shaitan, and was a pawn, a servant of….
He couldn't think what the missing memory was. What he did remember less far back was that whoever the Masters had been, another race of possible allies existed; the Wraith. If only he could find them.
"All we need to find now are the Wraith" he said
She had been quite surprised by him turning into a 'monster', and had been truly terrified when he had held her arms down and placed her head in his mouth and quite calmly threatened to bite it off. She knew his species, the Wamphyri. They were Lord of all the vampire species, Atavus, Wraith and others; sworn to the Old Ones to serve. For a minute she thought her ears were playing tricks. You only invited the Wraith if you wanted wanton slaughter. They were good killing machines, and they had such large numbers. Mmm, maybe she should tell him. She knew of another Atavus hive long ago, they had been ordered by the Old Ones to shelter a dozen or so Wraith.
"I know where there were some, but will need to access your computer to find out which planet they would be on now"
Meanwhile SG-1, and Katya were in hyperspace on board an Al'kesh that, Sam's dad, Jacob was flying. Katya, sat and looked out of the window. She had never been in space before, and wasn't exactly thrilled. The SGC already had a new doctor on loan who specialised in genetics; someone called Adam Kane. Apparently according to what she'd been told he had worked for a government project called Genomex.
Maybe given time they could cure her species allergy to daylight. For now, she would wait.
"We're approaching the planet, preparing the drop out of hyperspace" said Jacob, "engaging cloak"
"Dad, isn't that a Goa'uld ship in orbit, opposite side of the planet?" asked Sam.
"Yes, it one of the older vessels, it won't be able to see us cloaked"
"It's not that, are there any troops on the surface dad?"
"Okay hang on, I'm entering the atmosphere" They flew across a huge sea and went towards an immense forest. Jacob started to turn the Al'kesh presumably looking for landing spot.
"Over there" pointed Teal'c to a small clearing.
"You've got to joking" replied Selmak, "You'd never be able to land there, it's too small"
"Allow me"
"I'll do it" insisted Jacob. Slowly the cloaked ship landed, and the occupants started to emerge.
"Come on dad". After they landed he rose from his seat, and grabbed a zat from the mini armoury in the back; "According to the scanner there was some Ancient technology readings three miles, due east of this position" he said pointing.
In the last half hour of walking Jacob noticed that Katya had not slowed down her pace despite her surroundings the kind of obstacles you expect to find in a large forest.
"How does she do that" Jacob asked directing his comment to Teal'c walking next to him.
"Some species of vampire, which I believe would make her a Hoktar"
"I guess so" said Jacob, hoping she wouldn't decide to turn him into a tasty snack.
"Er wait up. Some us aren't as fast as others" said Daniel in the background, and Jacob noticed that Katya slowed down her pace.
"Are you okay Daniel.." Teal'c began to say, and was interrupted by Katya.
"Sssssh".
Katya, noticed what looked like a body of a local, he was dressed very primitively, and was lying face up about twenty metres away, coincidentally in the same direction they were going. The members of SG-1 approached her, but it was Teal'c who asked the question "What do you see?". She pointed in the direction of the body, and mouthed 'cover me' to Teal'c who nodded. Katya moved anticlockwise towards the body. As she slowly approached the last of the cover before the 'body' she noticed several things, there were more of them. They were about ten meters further on, and would be hidden by trees from her previous position.
Teal'c, was monitoring movement, and looking for hostiles. At this minute he couldn't see any, and had asked that Sam, and he 'dad' watch other angles. One second the space next to the body was empty, the next Katya was leaning next to the dead body. He'd never seen her cover the intervening distance.
Katya made a dash from tree cover to the body, and looked around cautiously with her pistols out. Whatever had cut into his heart had been sharp, no angling past the sternum, just straight through. The smells around did not seem human to her either, similar to Teal'c so that would Jaffa, and something else. She certainly did not recognise the scent. She beckoned the rest of SG-1one over to take a look.