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Chapter Seventeen: Siren's Secrets
(Flashback Begins)
(Danny 2)
(Rome, Italy)
"You must be King Daniel." The person on the left said from under the cover of the robe
"I am and you are?" Danny asked as he looked at his escorts. Sybil and Seline were the servants of Arcadius that Qetsiyah had told him about. He was just not sure which siren was which.
"I am Sybil." The siren on the left said.
"And I am Selene." The siren on the right said. "You are certainly reckless."
"What do you mean?" Danny asked as they moved away from the gate and through the city.
"We could have met you in another city, but you want to walk through this city as if the Pope would not order you to be captured the moment, he learned of it." Sybil said.
"There is little that he can do to harm me." Danny said as he sat down on a by a fountain and looked at the people walking through the ancient city. What he was not saying was that he had already gotten someone to take the Pope a message. Just a little something for him to worry about until his Jaffa showed up to attack the city. Until that time though he was going to relax. There were many placed in the country that the original wanted to see when he got the memories from Qetsiyah. The Roman coliseum, the leaning tower of Piza, the home of Batiatus where Spartacus lived while a gladiator, the path Spartacus took after his revolution began, and all the other places in between.
"We still must keep a low presence. We are not vampires that drop bodies wherever we go." Selene said.
"I will try not to make trouble for you. They will never know that I have met with you." Danny said.
"Good. Sybil and I will take you to the estate and you can ask her your questions about Imhotep." Selene said.
"What about you?" Danny asked.
"I stayed up late hunting last night. I need my sleep. The only reason that I am still up was to make sure that we met you and make sure you do not cause problems." Selene said.
"Thank you then." Danny said. It was no big deal. It would allow him to focus on just one siren.
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"So, what does your master know of Imhotep?" Danny asked while he took a sip from his teacup. As he hated tea, he had transmuted the liquid to cranberry juice. They were in her estate so beyond the servants she had no one would see him here. The estate was full of treasures that they had acquired in their lifetime. Paintings, jewelry, and the like. The Vikings would have loved to raid this place if they were still around.
So would the original.
"We have been told that he is threatening the world. That he is looking for ancient powers that should be best left alone." Sybil said.
"That is barely more helpful than what Qetsiyah told me. I thought your boss Arcadius would have more information to give since he is older than her." Danny said.
"Just because he has been around longer does not means he knows everything. Arcadius was not watching while Imhotep was buried and the people who performed the act did not end up with him when they died." Sybil said. "I do have something else to tell you though that you may be interested in."
"What?" Danny asked curious.
"Give me your hand." Sybil said extending her open palm to him.
"Can we not write what we want to say to each other instead if you want it to be secret?" Danny asked.
"I would prefer for us to be able to speak openly without hiding secrets." Sybil said.
"That seems ironic." Danny said. This was how most people got manipulated in stories when they made deals with demons.
"Come on." Sybil said impatiently.
'Very well.' Danny thought to himself before he put his hand into Sybil's.
'Where is the original?' Sybil thought to him.
The first thought he gave to her was that he was just a duplicate.
'He is busy with other business. I and the others do the work that he needs done.' Danny thought to her.
'That is a useful power.' Sybil thought to him. 'We could observe and collect many more souls if she and her sister could make duplicates of themselves.'
'I think so. Now what did you wish to talk about?' Danny thought to her.
'I wish to tell you, our story.' Sybil thought to him.
'Very well.' Danny responded as they began to travel through Sybil's memories back to a time long before she was a Siren. When she was just a little girl that had been abandoned by her family. 'Why did they do this?' Her father let her be taken despite her mother struggling to take her back.
'In my time it was tradition that when a child was shown developing with psychic abilities they were to be abandoned on a desolate island and left to die.' Sybil thought.
'That is terrible.' Danny thought to her as he realized what happened to his people's descendants. So that was why it was so hard to find people with the ATA gene in this time and possibly the SG-1 show. With how many Alterans/Lanteans had lived on this planet it was odd to find so few with the gene.
'This is where I met Seline.' Sybil thought to him as he watched as the two girls grew up on the island ignored by the rest of the world and forsaken by their fellow villagers.
'Where did the meat come from? I thought the island was desolate?' Danny thought to her.
'My sister had told me that it was supplies from the ship that we caused to crash on the rocks." Sybil thought to him.
'I am guessing that is not true?' Danny questioned her given the way that she was, feeling.
'It was technically true, but she did not tell me that the meat was actually from the men that had been working on the ship.' Sybil thought to him.
It did fit with the whole Siren myth. Women that caused sailors to crash upon the rocks. The cannibalism was a surprise, but it served as a good explanation for why.
'You tried to kill yourself?' Danny asked her.
'After learning the truth how could I do anything else?' Sybil thought as they watched her jump from the top of a cliff.
'What happened next?' Danny asked given that she survived for centuries after this.
'Seline could not handle my death. She prayed for someone to save me while I prayed for death and unfortunately Arcadius was listening.' Sybil thought and they watched as a man with dark skin, bald hair, and wearing a toga appeared before Seline. It was a surprise that he had dark sin. Probably would not help race relations if the people of this planet learned the truth.
'What type of being is he?' Danny asked wondering what type of creature he would be making a deal with.
'In the story Seline told me he was the first psychic in our lands. The reason that we were sent to that island. He had tried to help the people of this village with his gifts but because he told the wrong person he was aware of his secret he was burned alive.' Sybil thought.
'How did he create his own dimension then?" Danny asked. Not even he knew how to do that. He just drew in power from the ghost zone.
'When he was burned alive and smelled his burning flesh, in his hatred he released a blast of psychic energy that covered his village. Now whenever he forms a link with the souls of the wicked, he can drag them to his realm for eternity. His favorites are the villagers that burned him' Sybil thought.
'Wow.' Danny thought. That was a kind of petty that a Goa'uld would love. 'Why are you telling me all of this?'
'I want my freedom.' Sybil thought to him.
'You wish to die?' Danny thought to her.
'No. If I did, I would just end up being resurrected by Arcadius.' Sybil thought.
It was how she had become a Siren in the first place. Arcadius used his power to change her and her sister to serve him better. On the chance that they did die he would put their souls back in their bodies and bring them back to life.
'What do you wish me to do then?' Danny thought to her.
'I want you to kill Arcadius.' Sybil thought back to him.
'You want me to kill the devil?' Danny thought to her.
'I could give you the weapon to do it.' Sybil thought to him. A blade forged in the moment of hell's creation. One correct stab with it and Arcadius would die.
'I will think on it.' Danny thought to her. He could not make such a promise for the original as he was not sure what type of consequences there could be for such an act. "I still have plans in this country. Would you like to join me?"
"Where are we going?" Sybil asked.
"Not far." Danny said as he stood up and held his hand out for her to take.
"Where do you wish to go?" Sybil asked him.
"I wish to see the coliseum where they used to have gladiator fights." Danny said.
"At this time of night, it will be hard to get in. The guards patrol it as lots of kids try to sneak in." Sybil said.
"That's fine. Between the both of us we can take care of them." Danny said taking her hand teleporting them away.
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(Flashback End)
"So, what do you think of the Sirens?" Danny asked Danny 2. He was not sure how to react to her request. Was his life now an episode of Supernatural?
"I think she is being honest about wanting to be free from having to eat human flesh, but I am not sure about her request." Danny 2 said.
"Can we not give her a new body. We are doing so for the Originals?" Danny 1 asked.
"Arcadius has marked her soul I think he would notice if we put her in a new body." Danny 2 said.
"Do you wish to start a war with the devil right now?' Danny 4 asked.
"I think we should take a wait and see approach. Arcadius may not know much about Imhotep but he is still older than Qetsiyah and may have information that we want. We should not risk losing his dimension until we have a better understanding of what is on the table." Danny 3 said.
"I agree with Danny 3." Danny said.
"Alright now it is my turn." Danny 3 said.
