Angel/Stargate Atlantis Crossover
The beating of her heart echoes loudly in her ears. Everywhere she looks lights streaks down from the sky enveloping the villagers that have been her family these past years. The high pitch screeching in the sky fills her with both terror and anger. She wants to scream. She wants to fight and claw and bite but knows there is nothing she can do as long as they attack from the sky. It isn’t fair she thinks but she learned three years ago that life isn’t fair and doesn’t get better when you complain about it. So she does the only thing she can do-Kaitlyn runs.
She heads towards the forest; her current position is too open, where the villagers who have yet to be captured are going. This planet has not been Culled in over nine generation and while the people, the Qu’lan, can fight and have passed down stories of the Wraith and the horror they bring, they have not lived in constant terror of being culled like most other planets of this galaxy. This planet has been allowed to advance and its people have become soft. It’s a death sentence in a place like Pegasus. The villages further away from the Circle of the Ancestors will have a better chance at hiding, surviving.
Kaitlyn knows these woods like the back of her hand and takes the most direct route towards one of the underground havens from the Wraith the village has set up. It is nearly three miles away and she is grateful that while they haven’t been attacked in so long, every man, woman and child know the way there. She had been on the other side of the village when the circle activated and the darts attacked so she is part of the last trickle of people heading towards safety. She wasn’t sure if it was luck or if the Wraith knew where the other two hideaways are, but they somehow manage to block off all routes to them and she has to go to this last one. It is highly likely that the older villagers aren’t going to make it.
Jumping over a fallen log she nearly twists her ankle flinching away from a shadow to her right and she is positive that everyone in her group is slightly ahead of her and to her left. Her brother has taught her how to fight and how important it is to be aware of her surroundings. He has told her many times that she should always be aware of her allies’ position so she knows that nothing is there. She has heard the stories of her people and others who have survived a Culling. She knows that the Wraith are fast and strong. They healed fast and there are warnings about how they can distort your senses, making you see and hear things that aren’t there.
Kaitlyn smiles.
The Wraith are following them. It makes her angry and giddy because that means that they are on the ground. This she can do. She no longer feels helpless and hopes that they catch up to her. It’s not like her. She isn’t a violent person and only knows how to fight because her brother insisted but now? Now she was to destroy and hurt for what they have done to her people. She may not survive this but she’ll make sure the ones that cross her path don’t either. She’ll have to apologize to her brother for not taking him seriously. Kat now knows why he kept warning her that it was okay to get to know and understand the Commander but she should never forget that he and his race considers them prey. She prays for her brother’s sake that it was not the Commander’s hive attacking them.
There are twelve others with her. A few are her age and the rest have seen thirty or forty summers. The man closest to her is Tyven and owns the Tavern. He is quite handsome and possibly the oldest among them. She can see by the way he clenches his jaw and tightens his grip on the sword that he knows they are being followed. She hopes that that their training will come thru because learning how to fight the Wraith in a relatively safe environment is different than firsthand experience. They are at least a mile and a half away from safety and they know that they will have to head away from it. They cannot lead them to the remainder of their people. She doesn’t have to say anything because Alynna has deliberately taken a wrong turn and they obediently follow.
They are all armed, after all Qu’lang is one of the most respected weapon makers in Pegasus. The woods are too thick for the Wraith to use their darts and Kaitlyn and the others have the advantage of knowing the terrain. She jerked to her left as a blue light exploded on the tree next to her. They were fast but knew they wouldn’t be able to out run them. Alynna and those closest to her kept running but Kaitlyn, Tyven and Mayra were forced to take cover. They have no choice left but to fight. She is able peek behind the tree and sees that there were five Wraiths. She doesn’t bother looking for more. The bastards were so arrogant they wouldn’t think to hide. Four wore a strange mask thing, which caused her to identify them as Warriors, and the fifth wore a long leather jacket. It billows as he…struts and she wants to laugh.
They were outnumbered and had to occupy them long enough that the others could get away. If they wanted to have a chance they were going to have to take the bastards down fast and unfortunately none of them have energy weapons. If they were going to do this they were going to have to get up close and personal. She slides the dagger out of her belt and takes a calming breath. She has to be quick and she couldn’t miss. She throws the dagger not looking to see if it hit and runs, throwing her-self behind trees fifteen feet away from where she was and she hears the thud of a body hitting the ground. The Wraith opens fire and Mayra sneaks around trying to flank them. She needs to keep them off guard and when one the Warriors passes her tree, she tackles him. It surprises the thing long enough that Kaitlyn is able to pull one of her zai from her boot and drags the middle blade across his throat. She’s lucky when a weapon’s discharge misses her and hits the ground next to her.
Mayra had picked up the weapon of the first Wraith and was already shooting at another. Unfortunately it takes more than one shot to take one of them down. It is close enough to Mayra that it manages to knock the weapon from her hand and she is forced into close combat. Tyven is already fighting the last Warrior. Kaitlyn is unable to watch either fight because the last Wraith, who she decides to call Severus, is descending upon her. She drops to the ground as he aims a round kick at her head and swipes his legs out from under him. He is already getting up as she stands, drawing her other sai. The male is taller than her so she doesn’t waste energy aiming at his face and instead uses her thumb to flip the zai so that the blades are along her forearm and does two quick jabs to Severus’ solar plexus. After that they fall into a rhythm with the Wraith trying to break her defense.
Severus is fast and strong but her brother is faster and stronger. She knows she’ll be able to keep up with him and even kill him because she has spent three years fighting someone superior to him. She is no master but she is good and knows that since she lacks his speed and strength, she will have to fight smarter. She dodges and blocks and sometimes manages to thrust with her blade but his offence is pushing her to her limits and she doesn’t find any openings to make a fatal attack and the wounds she gives him are already healing. She has to be patient and prevent him from hitting her. She breaks her routine and hits Severus in the throat with the knuckle of her right sai. She can feel the bones of his trachea give way and her window of opportunity is small. She flips her left sai and brings the blade down towards his heart. The blade sinks through leather, flesh and bone and she feels a flash of frustration that the bastard managed to move. Her blade misses the heart but she plans to do as much damage as she can, so she drags the blade down to his stomach. He screams and Kaitlyn manages to think that her eardrums may burst before he flings his hand out striking her in the chest and sending both her and the sai in him a good ten feet away.
Kaitlyn can’t breathe. She lay on her back staring at the light that manages to penetrate the thick trees and thinks why can’t I breathe. Nothing hurts and the noise around her seems to vanish and she tries to make her lungs inflate. She does not know how long she laid there but she is finally able to breathe again and struggles to sit up. The noise comes rushing back and she wishes it didn’t because someone is screaming. She doesn’t turn to see who because Severus is coming towards her and his coat is billowing and she chokes out a laugh. He knocks her back down and straddles her hips. His smile is feral as he raises his hand. She thinks about her mother and how she told her that if any boys tried to get fresh with her she should go for the balls. She doesn’t know how the Wraith reproduce or if their reproductive organs are in the same place as humans but she brings her knee up. The noise Severus makes is worse than his scream from before and she decides that yes, male Wraith’s reproductive organs are in the same place as human males. Severus is curled up in a ball on his side and she grabs the knife from his belt and finishes him off.
Someone is still screaming and she figures that the fight did not last as long as she thought. She turns towards the screaming and a Wraith has Mayra pin to a tree. She sees Tyven landing his final blow and she stumbles forward to help Mayra. Something moves and then there is a man standing behind the wraith with a knife to its throat. The screaming stops and the silence rings harshly through the forest.
“Give it back and I’ll kill you,” the man’s voice is cold and it sends a shiver down her spine. She doesn’t hear what the Wraith says and doesn’t know if it’s even capable of speech but then the man is talking again.
“You will die right here, today, you don’t have a choice about that. You can, however, decide how you die. Give it back and I’ll break your neck. If you don’t I might just decide I want to play with you, ya know, figure out what makes you tick.”
She doesn’t know why it decides to believe the man but it places its hand on Mayra’s chest and suddenly the gray hair is turning black and wrinkles smooth. Kaitlyn suspects that the Wraith gave back more years than it took but it really doesn’t matter because Mayra will live. There is a quick flick of hands and a loud crack and then the man is turning towards her. She looks into blue eyes and feels relief.
“You alright Kat?” she can feel the pain now but its okay because both her and her brother survived another attack on their home.
She grins widely and maybe a bit manic and says, “I killed Professor Snape.”
He gives her an incredulous look and she points to Severus. He looks and she can tell he doesn’t get it. She walks over to the body and nudges the coat with her boot. He snorts and rolls his eyes.
“Congratulations Potter. Are you injured?”
“I think he cracked some ribs and I’m going to have one hell of a bruise later but I’m fine Connor.”
Connor looks at her like he thinks she may be hiding something and turns towards Mayra and Tyven and checks them.
“We have to go before any more come. I didn’t see any but I’m not sure if it’s over yet,” they could hear darts in the distance. They collected their weapons and that of the Wraith before following Connor deeper into the forest.
She glances at Mayra, “Are you alright,” and Mayra gives her a weak smile and nods. Even though she is no longer old, she still feels the effect. They had heard rumors that the Wraith are able to give back what they took but hadn’t known for sure. She could not imagine what it was like to be feed on.
She hopes she never finds out.
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