General O'Neill sat at his desk examining the recent reports, and they were not good. So far two other SG teams had encountered the same Wamphyri character. One of the deaths had been another Vampire like Katya. Once he had killed like a Wraith, the other time like an Atavus, but neither had worked on the other vampire, not according to the report, third time he had ripped out the heart and eaten the head, and even promised to create more of his kind. Neither the silver nitrate or irradiated fluid, otherwise known as liquid sunlight was proving an effective method of stopping him. He was hoping to bring in more elementals mutants, preferably fire but it would prove easier and safer to equip teams with thermite grenades, and SG-1 would be the first to take them offworld and use them.
SG-1 were currently offworld, each carrying a couple of thermite grenades in their backpacks. Currently they were standing on beach, blazing sun in the sky; Katya was staring in wonder, and not for the first time.
"Why can't we get missions like this more often. I would've bought some trunks" remarked Daniel.
"I don't think swimming is what the General had in mind"
"I'm sure Katya would love to lounge around in this weather"
"Are you offering to take me 'skinny dipping' Daniel" inquired Katya. Teal'c was just watching the exchange with an amused smile on his face, and carried on walking towards the caves. The prime reason for the mission was that SG-4 had found strange inscriptions on some rocks in one of caves, and Daniel was supposed to translate.
As they neared the caves, Katya could almost feel something, it felt similar to watching a good horror movie when that shiver went up your spine. She watched and saw that Daniel shivered too.
"Can anyone besides Daniel and me feel that?" asked Kat.
"No why what did you feel" asked Sam.
"It was like someone treading on my grave" replied Daniel, "kinda weird really considering its about 25 degrees"
"I too feel something" said Teal'c.
They made their way with torches inside the cave, it was only ten yards before they reached the rock face. It was covered in strange writing that only Daniel could read, although both Sam & Teal'c recognised Ancient when they saw it.
While Daniel was sitting there reading and getting images of the text to take back to Stargate Command, Katya started to walk towards the wall.
"What does it say?" asked Sam
"As far as I can tell, and this is a rough translation; 'those that drink the liquid life shall one day raise those that although dead will no longer lie, and cast down the false gods, the all eyes and their enemies', I'm not sure what the rest of it says, but I need to get back to make a full translation"
Memion walked down the corridors, highly pleased with himself. He had not only taken all the powers of both Wraith and Atavus, but all their knowledge. The Wamphyri had been the originators of the Vampire and Lycans on Earth, but having diablorised a vampire recently his knowledge of their world was increasing. Plus his race memory of the Wamphyri was improving, while he could not drain other vampires; turning them into his thralls was possible. Next time he thought to himself and find a worthy subject to turn into a Wamphyri.
If his race memory was right, and all he could get were glimpses, the same victim must be fed on like a Wraith and Atavus simultaneously, this would require both hands; drain the same victim totally of blood and finally diablorise them would consume the soul. If he could drain a thousand in this way, and then offer their souls at a Witchgate it raise an Old One, who would in turn raise a Great Old One, their more powerful brethren. Let the other Goa'uld perish, none would oppose him. He Memion would rule.
The Ascended Ancients, and their enemies the Ori would fall to ruin, he licked his lips thoughtfully tasting the blood of the Jaffa he had just killed. It might be possible to raise a Great Old One directly, but that would require a journey to another galaxy, or further. He must obtain either a 'shard of eternity', or a 'darkness device'. The kudos he could demand for raising one of the Ogdru Jahad would be tremendous indeed. Some of the Wraith, and the Atavus were busy modifying his ship Memion tested one of his other skills and sidestepped off the physical universe. His race memory was telling him that this was called many things; Humans quite often called this the umbra, or spirit world; to the Ieldra it was the 'Undertime', the Seraphim called it the 'Sea of god', the Sanjian called it 'Akira'. In short it was a sea of energy that resided below planck space and time. Draining a thousand would be easy, he would do that at the next world. He returned to his stationary ship.
"Hurry, it is time to leave, I have much to do"
"Your ship is ready my lord" one of the Atavus replied.
"Good, engage the ID drive" and with that his ship continued to his next destination.
Thor was in his ship the O'Neill, and noticed a Goa'uld pyramid ship drop out of some dimensional distortion, only to re-enter another almost as quickly. He had never seen this type of technology before. Thors' limited scans, mainly because the distortion was not there long enough, revealed that it used some kind of other dimension like Hyperspace but travel would appear much faster. His must report this find to other Asgard ships and see if they encounter this vessel again and to be able to use this technology.
To be continued