The True Gods Chapter 1
Disclaimer I do not own any of the characters mentioned only the plot.
"Blah" speaking
"Blah" thinking
"Blah" mind speak
Daniel crouched down exploring the base of the wall searching for a hidden trigger. He was in a room full of statues displaying the different Greek Gods, and in front of him was a mural of mount Olympus. Having already established the fact that there was a hidden chamber behind this wall he was now simply looking to find it.
When SG13 had brought back some tablets written in ancient Greek that had references about the goaulds and a feared enemy of theirs last month. General Hammond had asked Daniel to translate it as quickly as possible. There was plenty of information on the tablets but the thing that got Daniel's most attention was the line that read.
"…And the Goa'ulds took the place of the true gods stealing their worshippers and locking them away in a temple on the first planet. However the true gods planted the seeds of unrest and suspicions in the followers and cursed the Goa'ulds swearing their revenge…"
While the first planet was obviously earth and the true gods were what the people of ancient Egypt and Greece worshipped before the Goa'ulds came and stole their identities. Daniel had never heard of the original gods in this context before. But the writers of the tablets spoke of them as if they were real people. Also if the Goa'ulds locked them up they were certainly real people and obviously had some advantage to merit getting locked away to rot rather than killed immediately. It also sounded like they had started the rebellion on earth, which in itself was a great feat.
So Daniel had gotten the approval from the General to start searching for the tomb to see if there was any thing that could help their fight against the Goa'ulds still in it. After a couple weeks of research he had identified a temple in Italy two hours northeast of Rome and he was now trying to get into the chamber.
"Hey Danny" Jack asked wandering over "found anything yet?"
"I just identified there was a chamber here ten minutes ago Jack" Daniel replied "it would be nice if you let me work now" he thought while gently running his fingers along the bottom to feel any indentations. "Let me work"
"Geeze okay just bored out of my skull here" Jack replied. "Why don't you go bother Sam or Teal'c then" replied Daniel "the less you bother me the faster I'll work." Jack stretched working some of the kinks out of his back. "Carter scanning the other room's for power sources and Teal'c helping her so I guess you're stuck with me" Jack answered. Daniel looked over at him thinking "in translation you bothered Sam till she sent you over here" and shook his head "joy" he replied "you could try to help me by finding a latch to open this door" "my luck you'll find" "Nah I'll just study this big guy here what's his name?" Jack asked while studying a statue of a big muscular man wearing leather breaches a silk shirt and holding a sword in the ready position. "That's Ares" Daniel replied "god of war" Jack looked more closely "interesting position he's in almost off balance think he'd know better being war and all." Jack replied. (Sort of good looking not that he noticed.) he thought briefly "What are you talking about" Daniel asked looking over than he paused "That's it!" "Why did I know he'd find it before me" Daniel thought while jumping up and coming over to the statue studying it carefully. "I believe you found it" "Found what?" Jack asked moving out of the way. But Daniel "how to open the doorway" he replied while circle ling around the statue. "Jack" he asked, "If you were to make him balanced what would you do?" Jack slightly confused looked at the Daniel "ok I don't exactly know where you're going with this but I'll give it a shot" he thought looking at the statue "well" he replied "his left arm is to low" he said placing his hands under the arm as if he was correcting the form "He needs to lift it up more" He said gently Appling force on the arm. They heard a crack then several things happen at once. The statue arm moved upward. A door finally opened to the chamber, and on Mount Olympus a war god who had been sleeping for 2000 years suddenly opened his eyes.
That's Chapter 1 please tell me what you think and feel free to give positive criticism.