Email the author Title: Atlantis
Author: OrchidFire
Email: OrchidFire98@hotmail.com
Drama/ Angst/ Smarm
Spoilers: None
Sequels: Atlantis # 7 in the Elemental series
Summary: After a strange dream Aleia insists that SG-1 go to the address she saw in the dream. There they find out a shocking truth that lies just below the waves.
Rated: PG for profanity
Disclaimer: Star Gate SG-1 does not belong to me and is Copyright Show Time Inc. MGM/UA
Author's Note: In my last story " War Torn " I forgot to give credit to The Dixie Chicks who wrote and perform " You Were Mine " and to Bonnie Tyler who performs " Total Eclipse of the Heart ". As you all know this is my 7th story and if you haven't read the first 6 I suggest that you do because you'll be very confused if you don't.
Atlantis
Part 1
By OrchidFire
"And don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who we are?"
Name by The Goo Goo Dolls
"It's coming... time is running out I can't hold it any longer... Sire; hear me...the time has come. Find the truth...beneath the waves..."
She whipped her head around searching for the source of the voice. " I don't understand. What are you talking about?" she asked glancing up through the darkness.
"Find the truth... beneath the waves..." the voice repeated.
All of the sudden a pain like no other stabbed in her head as seven symbols were burned into her memory. She thought she could take no more when a harsh beeping sound pierced through the darkness and...
Aleia shot up as she gazed around her surroundings. She was back in her apartment. " What the hell was that?" she asked no one in peticular. She turned over the source of the annoying beeping sound it was her alarm clock. She sighed as she slammed down on the button to shut it off.
She swung her legs over the side of her bed and began to stand up when a sharp stabbing pain in her head made her remember the seven symbols in her dream. She quickly jotted down the symbols, but as she took a better look at them she realized they weren't symbols, they were chevrons!
Aleia darted left and right trying to get by the soldiers and medical officers who were all in a rush. She tried to drink her coffee with one arm full of reports about the last planet they visited, as she quickly as she could before she reached the briefing room.
She bided everyone a good morning as she stepped through the door. She then noticed another officer in the room. He was a short man with thinning hair. As she glanced around the room and noticed the unhappy faces of her teammates. " What? Am I late?" she asked.
" No not at all," the General sighed. He took in a deep breath before his next sentence. " Aleia Marque, this is Colonel Mayborn. Colonel this Aleia Marque our new life sciences expert I told you about."
" It nice to finally meet you Dr. Marque," the Colonel said as he shook her hand.
Aleia cast a glance over to Jack he smiled and nodded silently telling her to play along. She turned back to Mayborn and smiled. " It's nice to meet you too," she lied. There was something about the way he looked at her; it kind of reminded her of a scientist looking at a specimen in a jar, that sent shivers down her spine.
" Colonel Mayborn is here to check up on SGC," Daniel sighed as he rolled his eyes.
" Yes, we want to be sure you're pulling your weight, cause you know the president won't tolerate any organization that doesn't do its job. Anyway I'll be seeing you around," he finished as he left the briefing room.
"Is it just me or does that man give you the creeps," Aleia commented.
" Don't worry Mayborn gives everyone the creeps, and sorry about lying about the life scientist thing. The thing is we've been talking to the president and he now knows that you're an off world human. He has agreed to let you live here as military, but we haven't gotten his signature back yet and if Mayborn found out he'd want to start running test and what not. So for now you're from Canada and you already know about the life sciences officer thing," Jack said.
" How do Canadians act?" Aleia asked cocking her head to the left.
" Whenever you're around Mayborn just say "eh" after almost every sentence," Daniel explained.
" Okay," she agreed even though she didn't completely understand. " Oh! I almost forgot. I remembered a star gate address from back on Andros," she said. What was she supposed to say? Oh, by the way I had this funky dream and it showed me a star gate address. They'd probably ask her if she were on any type of medication at the time.
" Really? Do you know what the planet is like?" Sam asked.
" Um, no I don't. I just know that there is something very important is there," Aleia replied.
" What is this something?" Teal'c asked cocking his eyebrow up in confusion.
" I have no clue. I think it's maybe a weapon, I can't seem to recall," she sighed.
" Well if you really think that there's something of use there we might as well check it out," the General agreed.
The team was spit out of the blue vortex out onto the hard pavement of a path. As each of them rose they glanced around. The place was a paradise; lush trees of all kinds, some of which SG-1 had never seen and wild flowers scattered the land. The stone path they had landed on looked like it hadn't been walked on in years.
Aleia glanced up at the sky but was disturbed by what she saw. " Are any of claustrophobic?" she asked.
" No, not really," Sam replied.
" Okay good," Aleia sighed.
" Why do you ask?" Daniel said looking up at the sky, " What the hell!" he cried as what he saw processed in head.
" Watch you mouth Daniel," the Colonel shot back to the young man.
" No Jack look," he said as he pointed up towards what should have been the sky.
An invisible barrier was the only thing that kept an entire ocean from drowning them. It seemed as if they were on an underwater island. But what was really odd is that there was no one there.
" Where are all the people?" Carter asked. " Why would anyone make a beautiful haven and then leave,' she continued.
" I have no idea," Daniel answered still staring dumbfounded at the supposed sky.
" Well come kids let's see if we can figure what's going on around here," Jack called back to the rest of his team.
They had been wandering around this island of sorts for a little while before they came across a small temple that dug into the side of a mountain or cliff. Daniel gazed hypnotically at the strange writing on the door to the temple:
The rise and fall of our land was not in vain,
For the saviors cometh and taketh it to the sea,
Were upon Atlantis found it's home and were it shall be,
But not forever,
For when the evil is taken away only then will Atlantis rise.
Daniel read the translation out loud as he tried figure out what it meant. Then it suddenly hit him. " Of course!" he exclaimed.
" What?" Jack asked wondering what Daniel was once again babbling about.
" This island, it's hidden under water, just like Atlantis. In myth, Atlantis supposedly sunk to the bottom of the ocean. But it never said where. I'm guessing that these saviors found Atlantis and it's people and brought it here," he explained.
" So what you're saying Daniel, is that Atlantis didn't sink. Instead it did the exact opposite?" Sam asked.
" Exactly. But I don't understand the part about how it will rise when the evil is taken away. I wonder what evil they are talking about," Daniel muttered to himself.
" Maybe they are speaking of the Gou'ald and are in hiding," Teal'c suggested.
" Of course. The system lords would never think of looking for these people in the ocean," Aleia agreed.
" Come on, let's see if there is anything of use in this temple and maybe we can find out where our hosts went," Jack said as he waved the rest of the team into the temple.
They slowly opened the great stone door and cautiously stepped in. The temple was bare except for a large stone fountain that in the middle gleamed a gigantic royal blue gem and mirror-like shields that hung on both sides of the room.
" Whoa..." Jack mumbled as his jaw dropped at the sight of the gem. " How much do you think that's worth Carter?" he asked still staring in amazement.
" I... I... have no clue whatsoever," she stammered out.
Aleia turned to the shields shaking her head in disappointment. She remembered what this was and what happened when her cousin brought her to a similar temple on Andros... and what happened next, but there was nothing she could do. " Well this was a waste of time," she muttered to herself. She focused on her reflection in shield and tried to remember how many things had gone wrong that day. Aleia could hear the conversation going on behind her and came out of her reflection of that day and looked at the reflection of the people behind her when she noticed something shocking. " Daniel, don't touch that!" she cried turning to him, but it was too late, the young man's hand had already made contact with the smooth surface of the gem.
Daniel glanced up at the gem: which glowed almost angrily as a beam of blue light struck him full in the chest and sent him sprawling onto the stone floor.
Jack was first to scientist's side his eyes wide open in stark shock and fear. " Danny! Can you hear me?" he called frantically to his unconscious friend.
Aleia walked back slowly shaking her in disbelief. " This can't be happening. This can't be happening," she repeated to herself over and over.
" Come on Danny, wake up!" Jack called again to his friend.
Daniel's eyes slowly opened and a groan escaped his lips. " Oh, man! What was the license plate of truck that hit me?"
Aleia looked back at Daniel. Her eyes that were once full of fear were now confused at what she was seeing. Her mind started asking questions that had been long forgotten as new and old ideas clashed together in her head.
All of the sudden a low rumbling spread through the temple as the entire island shook.
" Let's get out of here!" the Colonel called to rest of his team as he helped Daniel stand and get out the door with the rest of SG-1 close behind. " What's happening Carter?" he asked as they ran toward the gate.
" I'm guessing it's a seaquake, sir," Sam replied shielding her head from falling rocks from the cliff.
Once they reached the gate Carter frantically punched in the symbols for home. Once the chevrons were locked the five of them ran through to safety.
" Well Daniel, whatever that thing was that hit you seems to have made no effect. Other than that imprint near your collar bone that has mysteriously disappeared, you're right as rain," Doc Fraser said. " You're free to go," she smiled as she waved him out of the infirmary.
As he exited he bumped into Jack who had been waiting outside. " So?" the older man said.
" So what?" Daniel asked looking at the Colonel with a puzzled face.
" So, what did the Doc say?" he asked.
" Nothing really. Only that what ever that thing was back there, had absolutely no effect on me whatsoever," he sighed.
" Well that's good to hear," Jack nodded as the two of them walked down the corridor.
Aleia paced around in her quarters debating what happened with her self, " Okay Aleia. Think this through. If Daniel touched The Heart of Water he should have died if he was a normal human. But obviously he's not. But this can't be happening... can it?" she shook her head in confusion as she sat down on the bottom bunk as her mind a quarrel with itself.
The two men walked down the corridor. Daniel was trying to explain the myth of Atlantis to Jack who just smiled and nodded to Daniel's babbling.
Just when they were to turn the next corner Daniel stopped and leaned heavily on the wall. Everything was going black. He felt the sensation of water filling his lungs in the sense that he was drowning. He gasped for air but drew none into his starving lungs. His body became heavy and he was no longer able to keep himself up right.
He toppled forward but Jack was able to catch the young man. " Daniel! What's wrong!?" worry and fear choked Jack's voice.
Daniel stared blankly up at his friend as the sensation of being far away took over. The last sound he heard before he was plummeted into darkness was a spine-chilling laugh and scariest thing about it was the laugh was his own...
Authors Note: Sorry about leaving you to guess what's going to happen next. It's just I've been over run the last couple weeks, going from one play practice to another. I was so close to having a nervous breakdown. Good thing I was able to finally relax doing with what I love doing most; writing. So I have decided to do this story in parts. It should be 2 to 3 parts. It depends how much homework I have. I wish I was able to do twice the work of one high school student but then again I am just one. Please be patient with me.