These characters aren't mine, only Darem and a few others.
It's a Long, Long, Long, Long Way Home
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"Brother, you can not be serious! Reveal this to the people of Krynn NOW? They are afraid of magic, so much so they fear us! You expect them to welcome this like it is normal? They will not accept it until they are all unified, peaceful under our total control!" a tall, dark woman exclaimed at the old man before her. He started looking for his hat, a pointed, barely formed hat the same color as his mouse-gray robes.
"Takhisis, they would not accept it at the best of times, they will need to accept it now, though. Takhisis, we must reveal the Stargate," the old man said, having located his hat (it had been on his head the whole time).
Takhisis looked at him, "Paladine, do you realize what this would do?"
"Of course, sister, that is why we will have Dalamar find it, he is rational and will not overreact to it. He will do the right thing after he finds it"
"I hope you are right, brother, otherwise you are fixing the mess it makes," Takhisis said to her brother, Paladine. The two left suddenly, Paladine to set the Stargate where Dalamar would find it, Takhisis to continue her machinations.
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Dalamar was a Dark elf, that is to say he was disowned by his people for committing one of the worst crimes he could commit, he had tried to learn the Great Magics, he had tried to learn the magic that was only for royalty. Now, in these days so soon after being banished from Elven lands, Dalamar wandered around with a young dragon, whose name was Darem. Darem was a Green dragon, and he too was an outcast of his people, disowned for associating with an elf. These were the days prior to the War of the Lance; the lands were unfriendly to any dragons or elves. Dalamar protected Darem, and Darem protected Dalamar. Even so, they seldom spoke to each other. Now Dalamar came running out of the woods to Darem, "There's something you might like to see, Krycfire," Dalamar said using the name Darem was called by mortals, "There's nothing like it in the histories other than the Portals, but this is no Portal to the Abyss. Do the dragons know of such a device?" Dalamar asked as he showed the devise to Darem.
"We know nothing of such a devise, this is a great marvel, surely it was sent here by the Gods!" the dragon exclaimed. The strange pair examined the strange circle of metal standing in the middle of the woods.
"I wonder what it's for," Dalamar muttered in Silvanesti Elven, his native tongue. He then muttered a few short words of magic, a spell he should not have known for his low social status, but did anyway. The strange ring showed no sign of enchantment but the spell drew his attention to a dais a short distance from the ring. The dais was not magical either, but it seemed to be connected to the ring in a way.
"It's not magical," Darem said, but he was not deceived, the ring reeked of gnomes, it seemed to be far too advanced to be Gnomish, but one could never be sure, especially in these days, and now, even before their eyes, the triangles which lined the ring began to glow.
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After what seemed like a long time to Jacen, Jaina, and Anakin, (but it wasn't really) a Stargate address in another galaxy was found, the team had sent a probe through to the other side, but it was dark, most likely night time on the planet much to O'Neill's ire ("I thought we were going to get infrared on that thing!"). Now SG-1 was to be sent through the Stargate to this other galaxy with their young guests along side. "This might not be the right planet, kids, don't get your hopes up too high okay?" said Sam Carter, an attractive, blond astrophysicist, who was also an Air Force Major.
"We know, Sam," said Jaina; she got a smile from Sam. Jaina had grown on Sam ever since the day she had come flying out of the Stargate. She looked at the team as Sam had all those years ago, when the SGC was first assembled, and thought, as Sam had then, how the small group, an astrophysicist, a Colonel, who was placed as head of SG-1, a Jaffa, and an ex–geeky Egyptologist, a strange choice for a group of star–farers.
"Let's go!" Colonel O'Neill said, impatient as ever.
"Jack! Relax," Daniel Jackson, the Egyptologist cut in. He was not wearing his large, round, geeky glasses, but contacts for this mission.
"O'Neill, would it not be dangerous to leave without our weapons?" Teal'c asked.
"It would, wouldn't it, Teal'c?" O'Neill replied sarcastically. "Well, why don't chah just waltz on over an' get some of those zat guns and other zappy–energy–type Goa'uld weapons, Teal'c?" he ended on a steadily decreasing note.
"The staff weapons?" Teal'c asked, raising his eyebrow.
"Yeah, those things"
"I already have done so, O'Neill," Teal'c replied as he picked the weapons up off the chair behind him and gave them to Colonel O'Neill.
"Good," O'Neill said shortly, looking over at Anakin, Jacen, and Jaina.
A voice came over the loudspeaker, "Starting dialing sequence. Chevron one encoded. Chevron two encoded. Chevron three encoded. Chevron four encoded. Chevron five encoded. Chevron six encoded. Chevron seven encoded. Chevron eight is locked," the wormhole was established, "S.G. 1, you're good to go"
"Here goes nothing," O'Neill muttered.
"Good. Weapons everyone? Yes? Okay, let's go then," and they stepped through the 'gate.
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Dalamar was shocked when the ring spewed forth a jet of what looked like water, but he knew it couldn't be water, even water summoned by magic. Dalamar and Darem had little time to think about this though, as a strange metal object came through ring into the dark Krynnish night. The water in the ring provided little light, but it did not light up the shadows where Dalamar crouched, hidden with his companion.
He knew that only an elf, or a dragon perhaps, could see in the darkness of this night where Lunitari and Solinari had yet to rise, Dalamar found himself looking up, trying to find the fabled third moon, Nuitari, the black moon, but he could not see it. Dalamar should have known he wouldn't, but he couldn't help it. Even though all those on Krynn knew that only mages of the Black robes could see this moon, if it really existed, but Dalamar had a feeling that some day he would know the truth, what ever the cost may be.
He drew in breath so quickly now that his companion might have thought that the elf had seen the black moon, but what Dalamar saw was not that, he would have been less shocked to see a God, whether it was Paladine or Takhisis, or some other God, than he was to see what happened before him now. Darem looked over at the ring and saw what Dalamar saw — a group of eight figures, seemingly human, stepping out of the water suspended in the ring. There were three children or otherwise three kender, but no one on Krynn, not even Humans, would travel with three kender, so the two of them assumed the smaller figures were children. Dalamar and Darem silently planned out an attack and started towards the group now bereft of the sickly glow of the water-stuff from the ring with Darem in the weaker, but safer form of a young elf, a guise he had begun to favor after meeting Dalamar.
Jacen, Jaina, and Anakin knew as soon as they got through the Stargate that this was not the planet they had been on before, but they had no time to tell SG-1 this as they were suddenly all ensnared in cobwebs. The webs held SG-1 to the three kids, but Anakin was able to squirm his way out of the webbing and to leap up to the branches of the trees above.
"Who are you?" a voice came hissing out of the woods, only Anakin could see who or what the speaker was. Anakin saw two figures in the same place; one was what looked like a man, about 1.8 meters tall, the other was a large flying lizard as far as Anakin could tell. Anakin also saw another figure to the other side of the spellbound group below, this was a man-like figure, about 1.75 meters high, with power radiating from him.
Anakin had never heard tales about dragons living where he did, nor would any stories have been able to help him if he had. Anakin did the only sensible thing he could have; he called out to Jacen and Jaina, telling them what he saw. I see a strange thing, a beast and a man standing in one place, they share one mind, one body, but yet the mind is shared between the bodies. I am going to try to free you and the others, please help me! Just think of weakening the bindings, I'll do the rest, okay?
Of course Ani, Jacen and Jaina answered him.
Anakin felt the bonds weaken and slowly, carefully broke each strand so that the two people outside could not hear the strands brake, but Dalamar and Darem were too preoccupied by their attempt to get an answer from the group in the web. Jacen answered the speaker to keep them from getting suspicious, "My name is Jacen, I am here on a peaceful attempt to return to my home," his voice rang crystal clear through the area, ringing sweet as honey in Dalamar's pointed ears in the language of the elves, although as a human he should not have known it. "Why have you done this to us?" Jacen's voice was like funeral bells, soft and melancholy, "We never meant you any harm. Why do you do this, is it the lack of trust you hold for us as people? Or is it that you think you can do anything you want to now that you are free of elven laws, Dalamar?" Jacen had just probed the elf's mind learning several interesting facts. "Or is it that you, Darem, better known as Krycfire, distrust all of the races with such short lives as ours?" Before either of the two attackers could respond a twisting, brilliant light shot out of the cobwebby pile, rendering Dalamar unconscious.
In his anger Darem called for help. He called out in the language of dragons, a yell that spanned time and space, summoning all Dragons loyal to the Draconic Prince to fight by his side. The call was irresistible and all those dragons that heard the call and were loyal to their prince had to come.
Hearing this call, Anakin reached out and felt around him. He felt the others he came with, the lizard man, and the other man-like person. But now Anakin sensed five beings like the one who called out coming from one direction towards the group, along with two falling figures. At that moment Darem changed from a human like being to the lizard-like Dragon that was his true form and he flew up, (to Anakin's utter astonishment) caught both of the falling figures, and deposited both of them on the ground.
Now Anakin could see that the two people who had been falling were human, two humans in the company of five Dragons, so he described them to Jacen, Jaina, and Daniel, who whispered what he heard to the other members of SG-1. There is one girl, a young woman really, and a young man. Both of them are wearing old beat up clothes that might have been white at one point but now are closer to a shade of brown due to dirt. They are both tanned dark, although it was hard for Anakin to see in the dark of the night, But the young man has three spots of shockingly white skin on his back, three pits of white. The girl has black hair, long black hair that goes well down her back. The three great lizards (Dragons) are similar to each other, but there are three that are very much alike, the three have brown scales and have minds much the same as each other. The other dragon who fell from the sky are red in color, the smaller has a splash of gold on her forehead, while the larger is a pure red all over his body.
Suddenly Daniel heard a voice in his head, a voice unlike the voices of the three Solo kids, a voice that sang with strange sounds and words and colors. No Splat! No splat, no splat, no splat! the voice sang out, laughing almost, for laughter was the closest thing to this that Daniel could think of. Daniel now heard another voice, groggy and confused, speak to the owner of the bubbly voice. Sssasha, bank thy mighty flames, thou Wonder Worm, a voice that was unmistakably male and almost a color, Sssasha and Sssargon, guard us from what ever beasts there may be in this dark, the voice sounded again, slightly stronger. Daniel thought he would try to be helpful, and stretched out with his mind, calling to the seven new minds that he knew could hear him. Hello, he thought, holding back a bit, giving an impression of friendliness, My name is Daniel Jackson; I am a peaceful explorer from the planet Earth. Please, I will help you if your Dragons will calm down and let me near. I mean you no harm, he thought at them, letting it overflow into the minds of the dragons to allow the dragons to know his mind.
Sssargon, Sssasha, let Daniel pass, the young man said to his two draconic guards who stepped off to the side to allow Daniel to pass.
Sssargon lets Daniel pass, the full bodied Red Dragon said, part of the endless commentary the Dragon had been running ever since he appeared in the sky with his four sisters and his "parents," the two humans.
"My name is Jakkin," the young man said, favoring the rhythm and safety of spoken words to the impreciseness of the mind to mind communication he had used up to that point. "I do not know why I am here," Jakkin measured out his words, not giving any one word more power or energy than the others. "We, Akki, Sssasha, Sssargon, Tri-sss, Tri-sssha, Tri-ssskkette, and I, were eating dinner in the cave we now call home, when we were yanked out of Austar, our home planet, and found ourselves here on this planet. Where are we?"
Daniel thought about this and then answered honestly, "I have no idea what this planet is called, we have had difficulty communicating with the natives," Daniel saw an almost fragile man walk towards them, Sssasha and Sssargon bowed before him.
The man looked at Daniel, "I mean no harm, Daniel Jackson, we thought... no we didn't think, can you forgive us? My name is," he looked around and then whispered to Daniel, "Darem," he extended his hand to help Daniel up. "What did your people do to Dalamar? We heard no spell," this last bit confused Daniel more than it helped. Daniel realized now that some how on this planet there was magic, well, that explained the giant cobwebs...