The forgotten allies of the Ancients

Chapter one- The fifth Race of the Alliance.

Daniel Jackson looked at his team mates. They were about to go to another world, in search of more secrets and new races. His team was a four-man team. Himself, Colonel Jack O'Neill, Major Samantha Carter and a Jaffa named Teal'c. They were going to a planet called P3X9208. It was reported that this planet held great archaeological findings that would help Earth in the battle against the new Goa'uld 'God' called Anubis. Anubis is bent on controlling the universe and is able to defy their allies, known as the Asgard, where all other Goa'ulds could not. P3X9208 has some evidence of another powerful race that could help them in their fight.

"Daniel, are you coming?"

Daniel snapped himself to the present at the sound of Colonel Jack O'Neill's voice and looked about. He was in the gate room of a secret underground base. Daniel looked up the ramp at the Stargate. It was a huge round device with symbols that were needed to pinpoint another gate in the galaxy. The Gate looked like as if it had a wall of standing water that was reflecting light around the room. Daniel noticed that his friends were standing in front of the Stargate, waiting for him. He hurried up the ramp to their side and watched as Colonel Jack O'Neill stepped into the wall of standing water and disappear. The other two followed him. Daniel looked back at the men at the ramp and then, he too, stepped into the portal.

He felt himself rushing along a long tunnel. He couldn't see, and he could feel or hear anything. It felt cold too, as if he had just jumped into a cold bath.

Suddenly, all sight, sound and warmth can back to him. Daniel looked about and found himself standing in a very long stone block room with plain pillars lining it. There were pictures that covered the wall, that were illuminated by curious crystals on the walls that glowed faintly. Daniel stepped down to join his team mates. He walked to the wall and studied the pictures- paintings. The pictures depicted people fleeing a group of armoured men. Then the next picture depicted these armoured men being attacked by creatures that resembled the mythical creature the dragon. Curious. Then the next picture showed the Dragons giving the people something, it looked like some kind of text. Absently, Daniel reached into his pocket and took out his camera. He stepped away from the wall and took pictures of the paintings. Then, something caught his eye. In one painting, there was a battle going on. There were the dragon creatures, but one that stood out the most was a massive white dragon with golden wings and golden eyes. This dragon was larger then all the others and somehow seemed to command all the others. Daniel took a picture of that as well.

"Well, what do you think of this, Daniel?" Asked Colonel Jack O'Neill. Daniel turned and saw that the others were also staring at the painting with great interest. Daniel cleared his throat and gestured to the paintings.

"Well, from what I can see, these creatures are another race that defended this planet from the Jaffa. And seemed to have taught some people something from the representation of this textbook. The large white creature must command them as it seems to dominate all the others." Daniel said, taking some more pictures.

"Oh, ok." Jack said, not really knowing what Daniel was going on about. He walked about the place and then studied one of the glowing crystals. After a few hours, Jack cleared his throat.

"I think we should go now."

The others reluctantly agreed and went to the gate dial device. Before Daniel could dial in their home address, the gate came into life.

"Hide." Came the crisp order from Colonel Jack. They all ran to the pillars and hid behind them, weapons at the ready. Nervously they watched. For, after what seemed a long time, men started to come out of the gate, wearing the same armour that the men in the paintings wore and their heads covered by armoured plating that resembled an animals head. These men were Jaffa. Ten of them came out of the gate and stood on each side of the gate. Out from the gate, came a pompous looking man. He was dressed in rich clothes. He had a bald head and a beautiful face with dark green eyes. He reached the bottom step and his eyes glowed. He was a Goa'uld. He waved his hand.

"Look about, they should be here."

Daniel held his breath; they obviously knew they were here. Daniel retreated further behind the pillar. He could hear the Jaffa walking about, searching for them. Suddenly, one of them jumped out at Daniel from the other side of the pillar, Daniel cried out and went to the other side, firing his weapon and catching the Jaffa in the chest, killing him. As he stepped away from the pillar, another Jaffa fired his staff at Daniel. The orange ball of energy collided with Daniel's shoulder, making him cry out in pain, spin, and fall to the ground.

"Daniel!" He heard Jack cry out. Daniel twisted round to see Jack about to run to his aid. A Jaffa was behind him.

"Jack! Behind you!" Daniel cried in warning as a Jaffa stood over him, his staff at the ready. Jack turned, but was a little too late. The Jaffa grabbed his free right arm and twisted it cruelly. Jack cried out as his arm broke, falling to his knees as well as dropping his weapon. The Jaffa forced Jaffa to stand up and lead Jack to Daniel and forced him down. The Goa'uld came up to them and looked at them, a sneer on his face.

"I think you two ought to surrender if you want your two friends alive again." His voice was rasping and not pleasant to listen to. Reluctantly, Sam and Teal'c came out from two other pillars and came to the other two. Jack struggled to his knees, a hand rested lightly on his broken arm. Blood was beginning to stain his sleeve, it was a bad brake. The Goa'uld sneered at Jack and asked.

"Well, well, well. Isn't it SG1. I thought you were good warriors. You don't seem so good to me."

Jack glared at the man and retorted,

"We're better them you are, what, with you having a snake in your head!"

The Goa'uld paled in anger, and gestured to one of the Jaffa. The Jaffa advanced on Jack, who did not even flinch. The Jaffa raised his weapon on Jack, but instead of firing the weapon, he twisted it so that the end of the weapon collided with Jack's head. Jack wavered and then fell to the floor, unconscious. Daniel gasped and glared at the Goa'uld, who laughed and nudged Jack with his foot. He snorted, but was stopped by the gate activating. They all turned to stare at the gate. Through the gate stepped a woman, and then it shut down. The woman was stunningly beautiful, she could take any mans breath away. She had golden eyes with hugs thick, elegant eyelashes, curiously like the eyes of the huge white dragons in the painting, and Pale blonde hair in a plait down her back to her waist. Her ears were pointed, not like a human. She wore a top similar to a bikini top, except it was made out of gold. She wore a translucent gold ankle length skirt that was attached to a gold belt and her shoes were simple sandals with twisted golden materiel going up her leg to the knees. Her hands had some kind of device on them that was made of gold and covered her fingers with gold. The gold was wrapped up her arm in thin strands, reaching her shoulder and connecting with her top. In the middle of the device on the palm, lay a crystal that glowed red with some kind of energy. She surveyed the group and her golden eyes narrowed when she saw Daniel and his friends. She stepped down from the gate and approached them, a dangerous look in her eyes. This was not a woman to mess with, it seemed. The Goa'uld looked at her with lustful eyes and said,

"You're a fine looking woman." The woman turned cold, hard eyes on him and said in a bare whisper,

"Let the humans go and I will spare your life."

The Goa'uld laughed and said,

"Only if you can defeat my servants!"

"Fine, I will." The woman said calmly, looking at the device on her right arm with apparent casualness. The Goa'uld stared at her, taken back by her calm reply. His eyes narrowed.

"Kill her!" He hissed. The Jaffa all opened fire on the woman. She smiled as the energy bolts were stopped by a shield that surrounded her. She then lifted her right hand at the Jaffa. An invisible energy blast struck all the Jaffa, killing them all in a single stroke. They fell where they were. The Goa'uld now looked fearful. The woman advanced on him. He backed away. The woman stopped and said coldly,

"I have a message for your master, Anubis. My race shall hunt him down and destroy him. We are far more powerful than him and shall crush him like a bug. Now, go to sleep and not awaken until we leave" With her last word, the Goa'uld fell to the floor, out cold.

The woman turned on them. They stayed still, hardly breathing. The woman looked down at Jack and her eyes narrowed in anger. She went to him and bent down next to him. She lightly touched his forehead.

"He needs medical attention, fast." She said softly. Her voice seemed musical, as if she was about to sing. She stood up and gestured to Teal'c.

"Pick him up." She said crisply. Teal'c, after glancing at Daniel, approached and picked up the Colonel. Jack lay limp and pale looking in Teal'c's arms. The woman turned and walked to the gate dial device. She turned slightly and arched an elegant eyebrow.

"Well?" she asked. Reluctantly, the SGC team approached the strange woman. They stopped a metre away from her. She turned back and stared at the Stargate. She pressed a small crystal on her right hand device, near the elbow. A wormhole appeared in the Stargate. Daniel stared at the woman. Only Ancients could do that! The woman stepped round the dial device and approached the Stargate. She stopped and turned to face them.

"It's dialled to your home address, so I would recommend going through, the gate will not shut down until you do." And with that, she turned and walked through the gate. Daniel looked at the other two and winced. The movement hurt his shoulder. He looked down at it. It would heal. Sam looked uncomfortable and asked.

"Shall we go?" Teal'c looked at the Stargate and replied.

"It appears we have no choice."

Daniel nodded and approached the Stargate. He looked back at the other two. He took a breath and stepped through the Stargate.

General Hammond was in the control room when an incoming wormhole alerted him. He snapped his eyes to the screen, waiting for SG1s signal. It didn't come.

"Close it." He ordered.

"Yes sir." One of the technicians replied and placed his hand on the Iris control. Nothing happened. General Hammond turned on the technician and asked as armed soldiers went through the blast doors into the gate room.

"What's wrong with it?"

"I don't know sir, it won't work!" The man tried again, without any success. General Hammond looked at the gate with apprehension. Through the gate stepped a woman. Her clothes were not like anything General Hammond had seen, but what caught his eye was her unusual golden eyes and pointed ears. The armed soldiers pointed their guns at the woman who walked down the ramp until she was at the bottom and then she looked back at the Stargate. Through the Stargate stepped Daniel, clutching at his injured shoulder. He waved his uninjured arm and shouted,

"Don't shoot, don't shoot and we need a medical team!"

Hammond ordered a medical team and exited the control room and went into the gate room. Daniel was now standing next to the strange woman.

"What the" He was stopped by Teal'c emerging from the Stargate followed by Sam. Teal'c was carrying a very pale looking Jack. The medical team came in and Teal'c lay Colonel Jack on the bed and they rushed him off. Daniel was also taken to the medical facility. General Hammond turned to Sam and asked,

"What happened?"

Sam Turned to him and said,

"I'll explain later." Then she walked out to follow her injured team-mates. General Hammond turned to the strange woman and said formally,

"Welcome to Earth."

The woman's eyes drilled into his and made him shiver. Then she said softly.

"Thankyou." She then swept out of the room with the men's eyes following her slender figure. General Hammond shook his head and walked out of the gate room to his office. He then thought about Jack and Daniel, they were injured. He better check on them and talk to Janet; their head doctor. He got up and walked to the medical facility, there he found Daniel with his arm bandaged and talking to Sam and Teal'c. In one section of the medical facility, it was curtained off. General Hammond noticed that the strange woman was standing not so far away from Sam, Teal'c and Daniel. She was staring at the curtained off section, and then her eyes went around the room. Her eyes showed curiosity, strange, for someone to have such emotional eyes. General Hammond approached them and stood next to Teal'c, who was nearest. He asked Daniel,

"How's your arm?" Daniel looked at his shoulder and replied,

"It's ok, but I think Jack's in a worse condition"

"What happened?" Sam cleared her throat and replied,

"Well, we were in a building of some kind that had these paintings all over the wall with these dragons in them. We were about to come back through the gate when it dialled in. Ten Jaffa and a Goa'uld came through. We hid, but one found Daniel, he killed that one and was shot at by another Jaffa. Jack went to help him, but a Jaffa caught him and broke his arm. Me and Teal'c had to surrender. The Goa'uld said something to Jack and he replied an insult. One of the Jaffa's hit him over the head and he feel unconscious. Then the woman came through the gate and killed the Jaffa and told the Goa'uld something, and then we returned here." General Hammond turned to look at the woman and she smiled at him.

"Thankyou." He said. The woman smiled even more, but did not reply.

Daniel cleared his throat and the woman looked at him. Daniel asked,

"If you don't mind me asking, but, what is your name?"

The woman flicked a piece of dust off her arm and replied,

"No I do not mind, and my name is Talivana. I have been sent to make contact with the team known as SG1." General Hammond was about to reply when Janet came over, a grave expression on her face. They all looked at her.

"His head will be fine, a small concussion is all, but it's his arm I'm worried about. The brake is so bad that we might have to amputate it to save his life."

"What?" Sam asked, shocked. The woman, Talivana said suddenly,

"There will be no need. Even though I am not trained in the arts of healing, he will be attended to. When he and his friend have recovered, SG1 will come with me to my home planet. He will be treated there. An alliance needs to be forged between our two races if we hope to defeat Anubis."

They all stared at her, uncomfortable. Daniel said quietly,

"Well, we don't know much about your race or you, Talivana, and we are curious people."

Talivana smiled,

"Would you like me to explain?"

Talivana explained how her race, the Dragconans, came to be and how they were part of the alliance of the races. She also told them that she was the Princess of her planet and that she was 60years old. They didn't believe her, but she told them that on average, her people live for 5000years. She told them of their abilities and that they could transform into another form that would be shown them later. She told them of a race that they were protecting, called the Aquarians and how they have a special bond with the race. She also told them that their cities were made of gold and crystal and were a sight to behold, though some in her race found it unsightly and spent all their time in the forest that surrounded their cities. She told them that they will understand more when they have been to her planet. When she had finished, the others were staring at her, amazed. General Hammond cleared his throat and asked,

"Why us, why not the Asgard?"

"Because, they believe that we do not exist and that we perished along with the Ancients, and SG1 have become a source of great interest to us as they are warriors that can, at times, outstrip our finest. They are clever and know what they are doing, so we have decided to honour them and give them an invite to see out cities which no other race has set eyes on for thousands of years." They all fell silent and didn't talk any more. Later, they were aloud to see the Colonel, though he was asleep most of the time. There was a bruise on his face were he was hit and his arm had been bandaged to keep his arm straight. In the evening, Sam was sitting on one side of the bed and Talivana on the other. Talivana looked at Sam and smiled. She could tell that Sam loved the Colonel, though they couldn't be together. Talivana leaned forward and asked quietly so no one else could hear,

"You love him, don't you?" Sam, at first looked shocked and then blushed slightly. Talivana smiled,

"Don't worry; your secret is safe with me."

"Do you mind not talking? I'm trying to sleep here and I can't with you two whispering in the background." Jack suddenly said, opening his eyes. Sam jumped and blushed a little redder. Jack looked at her and asked,

"Why are you blushing?"

"Nothing sir,"

"Oh."

He then looked at Talivana and asked rudely,

"Who are you?" Talivana laughed, her laugh was like the tinkle of a bell, and pleasant to listen to. Sam grinned and said,

"Colonel, this is Talivana. She rescued us from the Goa'uld and brought us back to Earth." Jack stared at Talivana for a while and finally said,

"Nice to meet you." And then he promptly fell back to sleep. Janet came up and lifted up one of Jack's eyelids and shined a light into them. She then tuted and walked away on another errand. Sam looked after the woman and then turned back to Talivana, the worry showing in her eyes. Talivana reached across and patted one of Sam's hands.

"Don't worry, he will be fine. Our healers will deal with his arm, and he will return in better health than before." Sam looked only slightly reassured.

A few days later, Colonel O'Neill was let out of the medical facility as he had recovered from his concussion, although his arm was put in a sling, there was nothing the doctors could do with it, as the brake was so bad. SG1 had various meetings to decide whether they should take up Talivana's offer, Colonel O'Neill and Daniel wanted to go as this new race offered so much. Sam wasn't so sure, she didn't trust Talivana. Teal'c just didn't want to, his symbiote got slightly agitated in the presence of Talivana; there was something about her. General Hammond suggested that they take the offer up, so in two days, they were going to Talivana's planet. She did not seem surprised by their decision.

The day before they were to go to her home planet, Daniel was in his study, looking at the pictures he took on P3X9208. With his free hands, he was flicking through the pictures in the computer screen. Talivana came up behind him silently. She looked at the pictures for a while, and then asked,

"What do you call those creatures?" Daniel jumped and turned. He cleared his throat and pointed at the dragon pictures.

"What, these?" Talivana nodded; an intent expression on her face. Daniel glanced at the screen and said,

"This is the mythological creature known on our planet as the Dragon. This one is a western dragon, very ferocious and tough. Why do you ask?"

Talivana went to the computer and tapped one of the dragon pictures.

"This, what you call the dragon, is the form in which my race can turn into. We can turn into it willingly as we rejected ascension in preference of this form."

Daniel stared at her, his mouth open.

"You… You can turn into a dragon?" He asked, amazed.

"Yes, Daniel, I can."

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