Child's Play

By mermaid2bseeker

The Village:

"The Wraith are here!" a male villager yelled to Marta. He pointed to two spaceships that looked much like giant silver darts descending from the sky. For a second, she stared at the ships, her mind filled with conflicting thoughts. She was concerned for her people, but also for the strangers. Part of her wanted the strangers to be taken, and at the same time she hated herself for thinking that. Of course, they did want to return to their adult forms, and a wraith was the only way to do that. But, that wasn't an excuse to do nothing.

"To the shelters!" Marta yelled out of her door. Even as she said this most of the villagers were already running into the nearest house to hide, Marta and Keyto ran into towards the center of the eating room, and lifted the table which revealed a secret opening into a hidden room.

"Stay down here," Marta pushed Keyto into the room.

"Mother, no!" Keyto shouted as Marta closed the door, shutting her in.

"Stay there and don't come out!" Marta left her house and ran to help the villagers. Though the ships purposely overshot the village, the people continued to hide.

"Major," John Sheppard's radio crackled with someone's voice.

"What is it?" he hissed into his headset. John was trying not to make too much noise. His team members were hiding in the trees surrounding the temple. They were watching as two wraith darts began hovering over the temple. From one of the ships came a bright light that swept across the ground beneath it. Two wraith soldiers and an 'alpha' wraith walked out of the beam and headed into the temple.

"The gate just activated sir," the reply came, "but nothing is coming through."

"Crap," John rolled his eyes; of course the wraith would know that trick. "Okay. Keep the ship cloaked, and as soon as you get the chance, dial Atlantis, but have them keep the shield up until we're ready to go through…" His orders were cut off by someone else using the radio set.

"Uh, I hate to be a rain cloud," came Rodney's condescending I-know-something-you-don't-voice. "But we can't do that."

"Why not?" John asked, annoyed.

"Because, let's just say a Wraith walks by the DHD while the wormhole is dialed to Atlantis, all he has to do is memorize the symbols and he'll know our location."

"Even if he did, we have a shield."

"Yes, yes, yes. That'll only stop them from coming in through the gate. They could use the star coordinates to locate the planet in space, and fly there."

The enormity of that statement hit John hard. "Crap. Fine. Keep the ship cloaked and wait for further instructions."

"Yes, sir."

After a few minutes the Wraith slowly walked out of the temple, looking very annoyed. They stood at the entrance and paused while the alpha male sniffed the air. Without knowing it, John began breathing very softly. The alpha male—I'll call him Larry thought John—then took a long look at the surrounding trees. He said something to the other Wraith and they were swept back up by the beam. He let out a sigh as the ships flew back towards the village.

When the Wraith ships started circling the village, that's when the villagers started to panic. "Why are they coming back?" one of them asked.

Marla closed her eyes in regret, she hadn't told her people about the visitors and now they were going to be punished. Why did she have to be so compassionate? Wraiths don't understand compassion. Three people were a small price to pay for her village's safety. She took a quick view of the houses to see if there were any stragglers, everyone was hidden, so she ran back to her own house.

As she was running, she had to dodge the Wraith beams, since she was the only villager outside; one of the ships was focused on catching her. She was just a few feet from her house when she was swept up in the beam. The wraith then began shooting at random houses. Then as the villagers ran from their burning homes, they too were swept up.

A/N:

I know it's been a long time since I updated this story, about a year. But things have happened that I couldn't control.

Long Awaited Please Review.