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A Stargate Halloween
Chapter 6
Teyla held her breath with her eyes opened wide as she watched, illuminated in the thin sliver of light provided by her small flashlight, the hundreds and hundreds of slithering, slimy, hissing snakes that covered the passageway floor. She stood motionless and her heart pounded against her chest as they began to circle her bare ankles and slide between her bare toes.
Panicked, she frantically used her light to search the floor for a vacant space for her feet and found none. She was trapped, trapped amid an ocean of serpents that weaved strangely, almost in a melodic rhythm and she knew she would have no choice but to cross them in the desperate hopes that she would find a way out before she was bitten.
Finally, after reminding herself to breathe calmly, she gulped back her fear and began to step gingerly atop the piles of shining slippery skin guided only by her small light. It felt like nothing she had ever experienced before and her stepping felt very unstable as the snakes moved and slithered beneath her.
One false move and she grasped hungrily at the rock wall to her right, momentarily grateful for the suport and relief, only to let out a small scream when a snake fell to her shoulder from somewhere up above which she quickly grabbed and tossed away, watching it land somewhere in the endless pile of its kin.
Pressing on, her mouth clamped shut in utter fear, she came to the end of the long dark tunnel and found two statues standing guard against another rock wall. She almost choked on her despair at the dead end, when she realized the statues not only had words carved upon them, but each had its own lever to pull.
One statue was of a gigantic horse with elegant wings and a long flowing mane. This one read :Winged Pegasus. The other was of a man and woman. Their bodies were entwined in a naked embrace with the scrawling of: Love Conquers.
A resounding echoing hiss sounded louder than the rest and Teyla turned her head quickly towards it. A snake with a rounded head so large that Teyla backed up instinctively, pressing herself against the creviced wall between the statues. The creature opened its mouth and revealed its distinctly long fangs that dripped with a mucusy saliva as it snapped its head straight in her direction.
Unthinking, she reached up and grabbed both levers pulling them hard and felt the ground open beneath her, sending her flying, screaming in the dark.