Origin

Briar Elwood

A/N: I TOLD you the moment I got access to a computer with Internet, I'd update. Why? Cuz I love you. Duh. But, again, it'll be a while before I update again. I'm on vacation, people! Things to do, people to see, time to waste... ;p

Chapter XVI

Thunder

"Q?" Sam asked, disbelievingly. The woman smiled, nodding.

"Aw," Cameron whined. "Now I can't call you 'kid'!"

Q laughed. "Sorry, Cam."

"How old are you?" Jack asked.

"Twenty-one," she replied. "General Landry's told me it's only been a year for you guys." She glanced at the bundle in Vala's arms. "Though I can tell there have been a few changes."

Vala glanced down at her son wryly. "Yeah…this guy's fairly recent."

"He Daniel's?" Q asked, smiling. Vala's wry smile faded into a stiff stare.

"Yeah," she mumbled. Q's smiled disappeared as she glanced around at the others in the room.

"Where is he?"

"Why don't we not get into that quite yet?" Jack suggested, standing up and stuffing his hands in his pockets. "Why're you here?" He paused. "And how?"

"I used a Puddle Jumper," she replied. "I'll probably get into huge trouble for that but…" She shrugged. "I'm here because Earth's been converted."

A strange silence filled the room.

"'Converted'?" Cam repeated dumbly. Q nodded.

"To the Ori."

"You're kidding me," Cam said bluntly. "Didn't we…?"

"Exactly," Q agreed. "After all the work we went through to make sure Earth wasn't wiped out for this? I knew something had to have been messed up."

"Dr. Jackson," Teal'c stated. Jack groaned.

"Fer cryin' out loud…"

-------------------------------------------------------

"Orionus!"

Daniel turned to see Oci running up to him. Several days had passed since the team had left and Oci had essentially become his first assistant. Oci was in charge of scheduling, security and a variety of other things. The young Alteran was the only one Daniel considered confiding in but, when he did, it wasn't much.

"Yes, Oci?"

"All of your followers are gathering," Oci told him breathlessly, an excited gleam in his eyes. "We're organizing ourselves permanently…and we need your help."

Later…

"Orionus Desalo," Oci began, his voice loud and clear managing to quiet the large group gathered in the mess hall, "you have led us and shown us the truth. You have given us hops for eternal salvation. We have come to the decision to name ourselves after you."

Daniel's raised his eyebrows at Oci who beamed at him.

"We are the Ori."

Time literally seemed to stop in Daniel's mind as those four words echoed in his head. They had been right. The team…Jack…the entire group…. And he realized he had known they were right. He just hadn't wanted them to be.

And now he was stuck.

"Ori?" he repeated dumbly. Oci smiled cleverly, lowering his voice.

"Yeah. You know, as in Ori-onus?"

"Oh no…" Daniel mumbled, stumbling back a couple steps. Oci didn't notice as he bowed deeply.

"Hallowed is Orionus," Oci declared, echoed by the others in the room. "Hallowed are the Ori."

"Oci…" Daniel hissed warningly. However, the young man couldn't hear him over the crowd. Oci glanced up; grinning at his leader and suddenly Daniel got an idea. He was their leader, their founder…

He could steer them away from the villains they could become.

Daniel smiled back at Oci as the younger man straightened.

"Those already ascended of our kind wish to bestow upon you their power," Oci told him. Before Daniel could make any reply, a sudden bright light appeared before him and rushed towards his chest. Daniel's back went rigid as his eyes rolled up into his head, showing only the whites. The sensation he felt as the Ori's power was poured into his system was similar to when he had become a Prior…yet magnified by a million. It felt like he was standing at the base of Niagara Falls, letting the water pound down on him and cleanse him. Suddenly it was gone and he staggered forwards, Oci quickly stepping out to catch him. After regaining his balance, Daniel stood straight, letting the burning fire inside of him billow out, a crack of lightning lighting up the night outside. Daniel grinned to himself.

This was cool.

He searched through his power, finding he could affect other points in the timeline…and so he did, letting a loud rumble of thunder rush through time. Why the ascended didn't do this all the time, Daniel didn't know.

"Orionus," Oci interrupted his thoughts. "What is you wish?"

Daniel opened his eyes to gaze at his followers, the Ori, and smiled softly to himself.

"First," he said, letting his boom, "we will move, away form the unbelievers. In fact, we'll move to an entirely different galaxy."

---------------------------------------------------

"What was that?" Rodney exclaimed as a loud rumble shook the briefing room.

"It sounded like an explosion," Cam said, standing up.

"No…" Ronon argued darkly. "It sounded like thunder."

A/N: Okay, so it's short. But it's wacky cool, isn't it? I don't believe we're going to see Daniel again for a chapter or two…maybe even three…so he literally went out of the story (temporarily) with a boom, didn't he? (cackle)

AND I LOVE REVIEWERS!!!!!!