Chapter 44

Lightning Fervor

Helltanz's Notes: 44 yay, little bit more Earth Magical world this chapter, tad short but uh yeah check my profile for the 24 of March kind of important note.

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Chapter begin

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Sol, Earth, United Kingdom, Hogwarts

Albus Dumbledore poured over the ancient leather bound tome that rested on his desk the fact was the Wizarding world needed Harry Potter. The magical world was too separated from the non magical world and to ingrained in its beliefs to fully comprehend exactly what all was going on.

Black's escape had raised issues and Moody had become steadily more paranoid about the growing activity. Going so far, the scarred Auror, had admitted that the knights of the gods could sense one another, but Black wasn't a member of the brotherhood so he was a wild card and whatever he was doing for Sithis was causing trouble.

Certainly the idea of the gods using avatars, vessels for their powers made sense, but the wizards needed Harry to defeat Voldemort. To this end the aging headmaster was preparing to summon Harry himself.

Dark families were certainly spreading the worship of the gods and while not necessarily a bad thing, certainly Albus supported the status quo, it was causing additional strife between the muggleborns for some odd reason.

Even so resorting to such ancient magics was not something that should be taken lightly but the fact was, in his mind at least, England was all important, so Harry Potter needed to return.

For certain to accomplish this magic would need to be taken to call forth Harry Potter from wherever he was and into his true form. Unknowingly by doing such this would allow the one who had been raised as a member of the Ayeleid, the Alteran's brother race, to circumvent the rules.

Getting past those rules involved mortals and were usually merely temporary passes but what Dumbledore was unknowingly about to bring about was so much more than that perhaps if he intended to consult Moody he might have found out before hand. Such was unfortunately not the case not that it was likely that the aging headmaster would be prepared to change his course of action once he had decided on it.

Hands delicately traced the ornate curves of the symbol, compared to what Gotham's caped crusader was going to do this was different, Dumbledore didn't intend to summon the god he intended to summon the being in truest form.

In other words instead of an avatar or a synthesis, he wanted to bring the fullest form to be present on earth.

One of the Ayeleid's brightest minds and the cause for its inevitable downfall would very soon reappear in regular reality in his fullest form.

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Sol, Earth, High Orbit, USS Atlas

General Jack O'neill was hardly pleased, as if the Goa'uld controlling the galaxy, well the part of it which had been seeded with stargates which was about half, was bad enough there was another race who were supposedly, the descendant of the Alteran believed it was in fact the case, the ones responsible for the Ancients destruction in the Milky Way galaxy, and now Daniel and Vala had managed to get the attention of a new set of Ancients…. Oh and a ship had shown up around the earth, far to quickly for him to change out of his dress uniform from the meet and greet with dignitaries at that stupid Washington Dinner.

With disclosure a number of things had changed, and the descendent, inheritor of the Alterans was really missing the old days when he could just be back in the field fighting the good fight. Among those changes was him having to go to those blasted political meet and greets.

The goa'uld was perfectly polite, his clothes relatively normal at least in comparison to the average snake head's get up. Normal probably wasn't the right word, but the clothes weren't nearly as tacky.

"You're the new one," Remarked the Goa'uld in a graceful manner, grace not so much as like you got from etiquette class or whatever but more like the discussion with an old soldier that kind of grace like a dangerous cat. "The Alteran's successor not tainted by your ancestors flaw." He stated.

Really it was kind of on the creepy side.

"Were you aware Raiden has a dark side," The goa'uld continued onwards, "I knew him back them when we first found your lovely world."
O'neill raised an eyebrow in his best Teal'c impersonation. "Really and what does that mean," He was going to be polite, main reason he acted like he did because he couldn't stand arrogant people.

"Oh indeed he's changed we all have. You see O'neill we were different the Alliance was powerful." He seemed to grow angry, "Anubis betrayed the circle however he had changed long before that." The system lord remarked, "It was a battle with the system lords during our improving of the human species."
The 'ancient' snorted angrily, "Improving?" He questioned.

"Your kind was not any kinder," Allah reproached him with a smirk, "They treated mankind as little more than favored pets." The system lord paused, "We are getting off topic. Raiden changed I could feel it in his soul when he arrived back at Earth, do you know why Ra was never slain even with our powers by chance?"
After a moment of thought O'neill shook his head the more he thought about that was surprising. How was it possible for Ra to have survived as long as he had when Raiden could hurl bolts of lightning that could destroy spaceships that were fully shielded. "No one let me in on that little secret."
"The Tok'ra were never a real danger to Ra, he was arrogant but in a way with a good reason." Stated the system lord, "He slew his father who like Yu was a powerful magic user. That was where his ability to came in, he didn't have magic ability per say not like we did, but he was immune to it to an extent his advancement was focused inward. He was a canceler as we called him, a threat we saw him as but a necessary evil we had to tolerate for now."
O'neill was slowly processing this, it would explain why Raiden was so pleased to kill the former supreme system lord.

"Ah you comprehend it." He seemed pleased, "Raiden arrived different his powers had increased immeasurably new things were obvious. It wasn't simply the addition of new physical powers augmentations if you will it was that he was getting stronger every time he killed,"
The General seemed to be disbelieving.

"You don't believe me, the Alliance if you will was a group of us among us well there was Anubis, Sokar, Yu, Raiden, and myself amongst others." He paused allowing it to sink in, "Feudal society as you call we realize its inefficient however it does keep the species propped up, look at your ancestors and the Asgard peace weakened them toppled them from their height. We realized this at the time our technology had been mostly been established from finding other races bits and pieces here and there. So the Asgard were a danger so very much so at the time, but when the Alteran returned a few millennia ago it was then we realized that were endangered by there return and how much Raiden had changed was something we realized."
O'neill looked surprised, they were talking as if the Alteran's return, from what he assumed was Atlantis, had been a bad thing but that didn't jive with what the going theory was on the situation.
"The Alteran thought they still had the right to control the galaxy," Allah shook his head grimly, "We lost so much with that war and the one that followed. Raiden had ceased being a goa'uld long before the rest of the alliance had."

Ceased being a Goa'uld what the hell was he talking about, wondered the steadily more surprised O'neill.

"Has he told you about the Daedra yet, or the Aedra perhaps, he did, who do you think crushed the old empires of the gate builders in this galaxy?" Inquired the newly returned system lord.

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Raiden scowled, this was absurd utterly illogical Allah by all accounts should have been dead long ago. His survival could potentially be a very big problem, a serious thorn in his side and a nuisance to the plans as they stood.

"One would think you aren't happy to see me, my rival" The Saracen face of the man's one time host now his default physical form looked so irritably jovial it was utterly sickening to him.

The Shinto Kami weighed the option of summoning a torrent of lighting to the chances of his rival getting a shield up in time, or hitting him with one of those blasted wind swords of his.

It was a pity such was out of the question at the moment, he really would have liked to crush his former colleague.

"How long was it you spent time wasting developing the mobile suits?" Questioned the returning system lord, he seemed amused, "Developing the population realizing that the jaffa were by and far useless for such a thing." Allah paused, "But you pushed on of course as you always did. Stubborn, unrelenting."

All of them had long since realized the Jaffa were not as valuable as they had been, their original purpose, to serve as incubators for immature goa'uld was no longer needed, after all all it did was create potential competition.

Using magic, or technology, to improve one's body was not something unique to Raiden and Anubis alone. Though admittedly in the case of the prior it hadn't been a voluntary or planned procedure. Now that all those system lords were immortal there was literal interest in propagating the species especially when those new members might well try and kill them.

Of course that issue hadn't been something the, new, supreme system lord had been worried about after the synthesis.

Raiden shrugged dismissively, "What does it mattered the time were the development of such weapons where it could be exploited has long since passed. You and Anubis were the principal opponents to such a mass production project." He remarked pleased that he had been proven right on the issue. "In the end I was correct, though bringing the others populations up to stuff hasn't been easy I'll concede."

"Yes you always have been one to admit that there would always be problems when it came to gaining strength." The returned system lord nodded, "The times have not changed so much they aren't so different from the days of the alliance."

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As it stood the recent change in galactic situation had thrown the council, at least the Goa'uld System Lord's High Council and the Tok'ra, into his disarray.

Allah's return boded ill for the plans and the timeline for the prior, especially with the chance of an Ori attack, and complicated the worries of the Tok'ra.

Well it stood the Tauri would be worried as well however they were having personnel issues Raiden's endorsement of the US control of the Stargate, the reiteration of the treaty's stipulation that it be left in their care, it was worrying the Chinese and as such they were raising a fuss.

Right now it was more pressure on other people, their government attempting to influence the other nations around them India was worried, either they would capitulate or ask for help. The same was the case with the other nations in Asian field of influence for the middle kingdom.

Stargate affairs was being addressed by the UN, or rather they were attempting to bully their way in. It wasn't simply the Chinese. OPEC and their developing nations they both disliked the changes that were occurring.

The nations of OPEC had lost their major consumers, well China was still devouring oil by the barrels full. The United States had introduced their new battery on a massive scale and the OPEC's attempt to gouge had encouraged the shift.

In the developing nations of earth who had the same voting rights as the big nations in the international body. They didn't like the fact they were falling so far behind the status of the 'first world'.

Warships were in space. The gods existed. Strength was held by the developed nations. It was true that all three of these were truth.

Magical civilization was another issue that needed to be deal with they intended to leave them alone because they were, because they would be easy to subjugate, but with the changes in the non magical world it was utterly infuriating what was going on.

The dread father smirked stroking his chin despite there being some complications, not all of which were minor things were still going well. Getting past the other former Ayelied had not been easy but it had been doable, then again he'd surpassed them, that wasn't to say they weren't a threat if he wasn't careful.

Still even some unexpected complications, some of which could be potentially severe problems in the future, had cropped up there were other events which had the potential to be extremely useful.

Magical society on Earth was an issue; it was quite different than what he had known growing up in the Ayelied Star Empire but that mattered little.

Earth would probably be distracted shortly, whether or not the Ori showed up in this galaxy if that happened it could be a bother, though a useful one, with their own internal fractures to deal with.

In the event the Ori did show then more than likely it would be a repeat of the destruction of the Ayelied Star Empire. The Alterans weren't really an issue those who ascended weren't powerful enough one on one to challenge them, the Daedra or Aedra, and wouldn't try hence why they were left alone it wasn't worth the bother.

Whether a civil war would occur on Earth was not certain, and really another world war as they were called was quite unlikely though as always possible, it could happen. As it stood there were simply so many high tension political issues any one of which could start a conflict.

The ship that the Alteran, O'neill, was commanding appropriately named it would seem given that vessel might well and the other craft would be insuring the safety of the world or could very well cause the world to shake.

He leaned back there was still a great deal of work to be done in preparation if indeed the last of the Ancient superpowers returned, to say nothing of other threats. There was also little doubt that the wizards were hosting agents of the other gods amongst their ranks and that more than anything could be a dangerous problem given Wizarding kinds abilities.

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Chapter Conclusion

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Helltanz's Notes: Dumbledore's actions cause the beginning of Arc 3 to start, Allah isn't so much a big bad as someone whose a threat but also at the same time a valuable ally against the worse enemy.

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