Chapter 4!
A/N – Sorry for the lateness of this chapter… I had this big idea.. then I forgot it…. Then I remembered it! I'm good like that. grins
The water was cool and crisp against her now burnt skin. Alexia took off her clothes and plunged into the lake. Letting it swallow her up and sweep away her fears. All she felt before she rose to the surface was the coldness of the water. No sound. No one there to tell her to run, or tell her that her family were dead. For those few moments she was totally alone. Totally free.
Then the sun beat down on Alexia as she hit the surface, making her way back to shore with tired arms and legs. She had no idea that a dark figure was watching her, studying her.
"Hey Daniel. What an entrance!" Jack said as Daniel caught his breath, papers being waved about with strange symbols covering them. Jack wasn't ever going to pretend he knew what they were.
"I know who the J'vali are!" Daniel repeated, Jack and Teal'c waited patiently for him to continue. "Back when the ancients were still around, before they ascended this big thing happened and then another thing and then they went off and ascended and as time progressed this other thing happened that…"
"Daniel your making no sense. Slow down and explain it fully."
"Sorry, it's just a lot to take in. Ok Before the ancients ascended they built the star gates, explored new worlds and came across a dying race called the Nutaws. At least I think so, the translation is vague. Anyway they were plagued by a disease which had been slowly killing their people over centuries. The ancients saw potential in their race because of the technological advancements they had already made, so they helped create a cure. It involved integrating some of the ancient DNA into a toxin, or something like that. From this point the texts I have go onto say that it worked and the Nutaws survived." Daniel paused for breath and to let everything sink in before continuing. "All except one brief note at this bottom of this page." He held up a yellowed and crinkled piece of paper, covered in yet more symbols for jack to look at blankly. "We found this on our last off world mission. It says 'But out of the calm came the storm, out of the storm came the eye, the world pulled into a spiral of the integrated race. They evolved and they will come again'"
Jack and Teal'c stared at him, not quite sure where he was going with this. Daniel searched their faces for some clue as to what they were thinking.
"Ok" Said Jack "What does that all mean?"
"Well I'm not quite sure but I think, it means that when the ancients cured the Nutaws that they helped them to evolve. But the part about the world spiralling makes me think that the disease evolved to. Jack what I'm trying to say is that I think the J'vali were created by a disease, and that it's able to spread."