Author's Note: I don't own Stargate of any of its character. All I own is my OC. I know I've left some parts out and some other parts will be left out since I'm telling this from my oc's point of view she only knows what she sees. I hope you enjoy. The italics in quotations are when the characters are speaking in another language.

Chapter Three

After the meal my team had been led to a tent on the ground level. When I had tried to follow Kasuf had been frantic in trying to dissuade me from going. I guess they weren't to keen on letting a young woman stay in a room with a bunch of older men.

For the moment I sat where we had dinner earlier. A group of women had come and set out a sleeping pallet for me about half an hour ago and now I just sat there. The tent with my team was only about twenty feet away so I didn't feel too exposed, but being alone with no one to talk to kind of sucked.

The boy, what was his name, went into my teams tent. He was in there for about ten minutes. I only caught a few snippets of conversation. Suddenly I heard O'Neill screaming and the boy fled the tent in fear.

What the? I don't really know why but I took off after him. When I finally caught up he was sitting on a platform at the top of a flight of stairs.

"Hey." I called out tentatively as I climbed the steps.

His head snapped up when he heard me, but he relaxed into a smile and waved for me to sit by him.

Sitting down next to him he turned so that we were facing each other. "Are you ok?" Even though he couldn't speak my language me I hoped he understood my tone of voice.

"Skaara." He said pressing his hand to his chest.

"Skaara?" I repeated.

He nodded his head grinning and pointed at himself again, "Skaara."

I realized it was his name. "Skaara." I smiled pointing at him so he knew I understood. "Erin." I put my hand on my chest.

"Airen." he kind of butchered my name.

"Yes, Erin."

"Airen." Skaara smiled.

He continued speaking, most of it I didn't understand, but a few words caught my attention. I grabbed his arm.

He stopped speaking abruptly and stared down at my hand on his arm. "Opps." I said removing my hand. I hope I hadn't broke some kind of social protocol, they did seem pretty old fashioned.

When he said nothing I repeated the words I recognized.

His face broke into a grin and he repeated himself, straightening out the way I said the words.

"Do you understand me now?" I asked using an old dialect of Egyptian Daniel had taught me. I just adjusted the pronunciation of some of the vowels.

"Yes, yes! And you understand me?" Skarra asked.

I nodded, "Yes."

"Skaara!" A boy called from below us.

"Come." Skarra took my hand and we went down to the lower level. "Nebeth." he greeted the boy.

"Where were you?" Nebeth asked as several other boys gathered around us.

"I was talking to the strangers from away." The boys looked at me uncertainly. "This is Airen." Skarra introduced me.

"Hello." I said waving my hand shyly. They waved back in synchronization, it was kind of funny.

Skarra reached into a pocked a pulled out a lighter. "Their leader gave me this." He flipped it on and a small flame bounced out. Immediately Nebeth reached his hand forward to see if it was real. He yanked his hand back when it burned him.

I laughed when Skaara slapped Nebeth away when he reached for the flame again.

"Hey you guys." Colonel O'Neill voice called from around the corner. "So this is where you went of to?" He said when he spotted me.

I just shrugged.

"I'm looking for Jackson. Have you seen him?"

"No, I haven't seen him since dinner." shaking my head. "Maybe they know." But before I could ask them O'Neill started talking. Right, I forgot to tell him that we could communicate now.

"I'm looking for Jackson." He held up Daniel's vest. "He's got long hair." he pointed to his hair and all the boys saluted him. "No, no wears glasses so he can see," He put hand goggles over his face they mimicked him.

My sides were hurting from how hard I had started laughing. I should provably interrupt him, but I was enjoying this to much.

"I guess the word dweeb doesn't mean anything to you guys does it?" O'Neill threw his hands up in exasperation. "Come on I'm on planet X looking for a dweeb who wears green fatigues, wears this jacket, and his hair comes over his eye like this," He drew his fingers over his eyes and the boy did the same thing again. "wears glasses and achue sneezes."

"Pow!" Skaara yelled nodding as he realized what O'Neill meant. "Pow! Pow!"

"Yeah, chicken man," O'Neill shouted over the chorus of chicken sounds from the boys. "Chicken man!"

"Stop!" yelled Skaara.

Nebeth kept acting like a chicken, flapping is arms until Skaara slapped him.

"May I?" Skaara asked O'Neill reaching for Daniel's jacket.

"You want this?" O'Neill held up the jacket.

Skaara took the jacket and ran to one of the walking carpet animals and let it sniff it. The creature jumped up and down until Skaara threw the gate open wide and it barreled out. The boys ran after it, hooting all the way.

"What now?" O'Neill came up beside me.

"I suppose we follow." I ran after them, then turned back when O'Neill didn't come to. "Come on."

"Oh sure, like that thing is a blood hound." he grumbled.

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After running across what felt like half the city we found Daniel in in some old catacombs talking to the woman from before.

"I thought you couldn't speak their language?" O'Neill boomed as soon as Daniel came into sight.

"Oh," Dani clutched at his chest, "You scared me."

"Yeah, you and Clark seem to have that in common. Now answer my question." He said curtly.

"Sha're" Skaara greeted the woman.

"Brother." She smiled up at him.

"Brother?" I questioned.

O'Neil whirled on me. "You to?"

"Kinda."

"Why didn't you stop me when I was making an idiot of myself?" He hissed.

"Sorry," I squeaked. "But it was just to funny."

He glared at me and turned back to Dani who was still on the floor.

"It's and ancient Egyptian dialect. I mean like the rest of their culture its evolved independently. One you know the vowels..." Dani explained.

"Then it's just a simple matter of getting the pronunciation right." I finished his sentence.

"So that's a yes?"

"Yes." Dani rose from the ground.

"It hasn't been a living breathing language in over two thousand years." He went over to a wall with carving similar to ones I'd seen in Egyptian temples. "I gotta show you all something. It says here a traveler from distant stars escaped an dying world. Looking for a way to extend his own life." His hands traced the hieroglyphs as he told the story. "His body decaying and weak, he couldn't prevent his own demise. His whole species was dying, he traveled the whole galaxy searching, looking for a way to cheat death. Look here, he came to a world rich with life, and he encountered a primitive race, humans. A species with all his knowledge and powers he could maintain indefinitely. He realized that within a human body he had a chance for a new life. Now apparently, a young boy, while everyone else ran and night became day, curious and without fear he walked towards the light. Ra took him and possessed his body, like some kind of a parasite looking for a host." I shivered as he said that last part. "It inhabited his human form and he appointed himself ruler. He used the Stargate to bring thousands of people here to this planet, to work in the mines, like here. Clearly this mineral is the building block for all his technology. So he could sustain his life. Now something happened back on Earth. A rebellion and uprising, the Stargate was buried. Fearful of a rebellion here he banned all reading and writing. He didn't want people to remember the truth."

"So all these people, they're what, his slaves." My voice held an edge of anger.

"Essentially." Daniel grunted shaking his head in disapproval.

"Jackson, Erin I think you better take a look at this." Kawalsky yelled from a nearby room.

In the room we found his was a stone cartosh like the one found in Giza back on Earth.

"That's it, that's what were looking for." Daniel said bending down to brush off the sand caked on its surface. "They must have hidden it here, perhaps hopping that one day the gate to earth may be reopened. I knew they must have written it down some place. Wait a minute, wears the seventh symbol?" At the bottom where the symbol should be there was only a cracked stump. "It must have broken off. It's gotta be here," he found it lying under the sand, only, "its worn off. I can't make it work with out the seventh symbol."

"Alright that's it." O'Neill's voice had taken on a dangerous edge. "Kawalsky, Jackson, Clark come on. We're leaving."

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The rest of my team were already heading out the main gate, but I hesitated. Skaara came up next to me.

"You are leaving." It wasn't a question.

"We need to find a way back to our home." I answered him sadly.

"May not to many moons pass before we see each other again." he said resting a hand on my shoulder in a gesture of farewell.

"I hope so to." I backed away from him. "Goodbye."

I turned to follow the rest of the team and found Daniel's gaze lingering on one of the natives in particular, Sha're. "Maybe we'll come back." I tried to be reassuring.

'Maybe."

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We walked for about an hour before we came to the pyramid. However it wasn't the only thing we found. Resting atop it was a glistening gold craft. The ship was using the pyramid as a landing platform!

"What the hell is that?" Daniel stared at the spaceship.

"Here," Kawalsky handed Daniel and I each a hand gun. "You might need these. To turn the safety off you..."

Immediately I flipped the safety off and cocked my gun.

"Never mind."

"Let's move." O'Neill led us into the pyramid.

Scattered inside the enhancer were the rest of the teams gear. Scorch marks and bullet holes marred the walls showing evidence of a fight. Near the dying fire in the center of the room was a distinctive stain of red that could be only one thing.

"Stay close." Daniel whispered in my ear and he pulled right behind him.

O'Neill signaled us to stop moving and we did, but there was the faint sound of footsteps echoing of the walls and ceiling. We weren't alone.

Behind us and a little to the left there was a pained grunt the sound of a body falling to the ground. I turned around to see if I could find the intruder, but I couldn't see anything.

Breathing hard, I tried to control my pounding heart. I gasped when I turned back around and Daniel was gone. I pressed my back against the pillar behind me, trying to make myself as small as possible. A scraping sound, metal scraping across stone came from my other side. It sounded like claws. I peeked out and saw a dark figure duck just out of my sight.

"Airen!" Skaara's voice suddenly reverberated within the chamber. My head shot up and I saw his face starring in through one of the slitted windows. "Behind you!" He shouted.

To late I realized he was trying to warn me and something hard and metallic collided with my stomach forcing all the air out of my lungs and a pained scream with it.

"No!" I heard Skaara through the blurriness the world had become.

Falling to the ground I glanced up at my attacker. I must have been hallucinating because Horus was standing over me.

It grabbed the scuff of my army fatigues and dragged me across the ground deeper into the pyramid. Most of my blond hair fallen out of it's ponytail across my face, obscuring most my vision. A bright light appeared above us and suddenly I found myself in a room I didn't recognize. The creature roughly hulled me up so I was kneeling before a pharaoh's chair in the center of a grand, ornate room.

A few moments later Anubis came in dragging O'Neill and Daniel. Again they were forced to kneel before the throne.

"Erin, are you hurt?" Daniel immediately asked me. One of the creatures surged forward and hit him in the stomach with its staff weapon.

It's meaning was clear, shut up.

Drums sounded with in the room and at the far end a door opened. Out poured dozens of children dressed in traditional Ancient Egyptian garments. Following them a man strode elegantly down to the throne. Several of the children carried parts of his opulent robe. His face was covered in a mask made out of precious metals and embellished with numerous jewels. He came to the throne and sat, his back ramrod straight.

When he spoke his voice had a strange, deep reverberation to it like there were two voices layered atop each other. "You have come here to destroy me." He motioned with a wave of his hand at two servants who came forward. They laid down an object in front of us.

"Oh my God." I gasped in horror. "That's a nuke!"

It was unmistakable though I'd never seen one in person. I scooted back as far as I was able until the butt of the Horus' guards weapon hit my back. Stopping me. I didn't want to anywhere near that thing.

"That's what you were looking for." Daniel exclaimed next to me. I had a feeling I was missing something, but right now I really didn't care. "What the hell were you thinking? What did you come here for?"

O'Neill didn't respond, he only glared at the man on the throne in undiluted anger.

I heard a metallic clicking noise and the Horus and Anubis creatures masks pulled back to reveal men beneath.

Up in the throne the man's mask pulled back and young youthful boy appeared. The descriptions from the ancient texts I had read as Daniel's student identified him for me, this man before us was the god Ra in the flesh.

The Colonel shot his hand out and grabbed on the guards staffs and he shot one of the guards before turning to aim the weapon at Ra. All the children rushed forward to surround Ra in blind loyalty. There was no way for Jack to shoot without hitting one of them.

"Jack!" I heard Daniel shouted the Colonel's first name and a blast rung in the air.

The room went stock still. Daniel was lying on his back, a patch of smoke rising from his unmoving chest.

"Daniel!" I screamed and I ran to where he was lying, dead. "No,nonono." I repeated over and over in denial. My brother couldn't be dead. Pulling his head into my lap I rocked his lifeless body. Dimly I heard O'Neill being dragged out of the room.

I don't know how long I sat there, but it wasn't long before a couple of the children came and pulled me off Daniel. They each took one of my hands and lead me into the room they had come out of before.

They sat me down in a cushioned chair in a corner of the room. I drew my knees to my chest and wrapped my arms around them, trying to stop my shaking. My mind just couldn't seem to comprehend that Daniel was gone. Nothing that was happening around me registered in my thoughts.

"Erin?" an impossible voice questioned behind me.

"Daniel?!" There he was, alive. Where he had been hit there was only a hole with freshly healed skin. I launched myself at him, wrapping my arms around him tightly and he held me close in return. "You were dead." my voice wavered, my eyes near tears.

"That's why I choose you race." The reverberating voice from before answered from behind a curtain of silky material. Ra rose out of a pool of water and held his arms out. Servants glided forwards to put a robe around him. He continued. "Your bodies, so easy to repair. You have advanced much, harnessed the power of the atom." The bomb had been placed upon an altar in the center of the room.

"What are you going to do?" Daniel slowly inched towards Ra, keeping me close the whole way.

More servants had surrounded Ra and helped him put on a bracelet with a red jewel in the center of the palm. "You should not have reopened the gate. Soon, I will send your weapon back to your world, with a shipment of our mineral which will increase your weapon's destructive power a hundred fold."

Daniel's grip on me tightened. "Why would you do that?"

Ra swiveled his head to look at us, a cruel smile playing on his lips. "I created your civilization, now I will destroy it." he eyes glowed like embers burned behind them. "But before my workers question my power you will prove that I am their one God, by killing your companions."

"If I refuse?" Daniel asked defiantly.

"Then I will destroy you, and all who have seen you." Ra glanced at me, emphasizing his threat. Ra grasped Catherine's necklace around Daniel's neck. He viciously yanked the necklace off, his eyes glowing once more. "There can be only one Ra."