Doctor Who Vs. Dracula
I do not own Doctor Who or Dracula and I am making no profit off of this story.
Author's Note: This story features the Tenth Doctor and Rose. It takes place in the universe of War of the Guardians and Children of the Wolf and is a prequel story to them. In the timeline of the television show, it takes place after The Satan Pit.
CHAPTER 1
Transylvania, 1890
Two teenage girls were hiding in terror inside of an old mausoleum as they heard wolves howling somewhere nearby them. They had been here for hours ever since night had fallen. The unfortunate girls had been caught outside when the sun had set and had rushed to this old crypt in a blind panic. Luckily, they had gotten here in time before the sun had finished setting. They knew better than to be out after dark, especially in this godforsaken land!
The wolf howls grew closer and closer, and they were afraid that they were about to be attacked at any minute. The two of them held their breath as they waited to see if they were about to live or die.
It was at that moment that the entire crypt was filled with a wheezing, groaning sound. The girls turned around to look with wide eyes as a strange blue box appeared out of nowhere as if by magic!
A minute later, a beautiful blonde girl poked her head out of the door of the blue box and saw the two terrified girls looking at her like they were about to pass out from fear.
"Hello, my name is Rose. It's okay. I won't hurt you. I know it's a little strange to have a blue box just show up out of nowhere but me and my friend are harmless I assure you!" the blonde said in a kind voice.
The two girls looked at each other and both decided to instantly trust her. They ran toward her screaming, "Please take us out of here. Don't let them kill us! Please!"
Rose looked at them in incomprehension until she heard the wolves howling outside and the sounds of intense pounding on the door of the building as if something massive was attempting to break it down!
Something deep inside of Rose told her to get herself and the girls inside of the TARDIS now. She grabbed both of their hands and took them inside of the time ship with her as quickly as she could and shut the doors.
The Doctor stared at her with a strange look as she came rushing back into the TARDIS with the two young girls. He thought that she looked as if all of the demons in Hell were behind her. That assessment wasn't very far off it later turned out.
"Rose, what in the world are you doing?" the Doctor said as he started to get angry.
He stopped the rant that he was about to go on though when he saw the look of blind panic on her face and the looks of complete and absolute sheer terror on the faces of the two girls. His hearts felt for them and every trace of anger in him went away.
"There's something out there, Doctor! Something terrible, and it wants these two girls. We can't let it have them," Rose said to him with an imploring gaze.
"Of course not, but I have to know what it is first though. What is it that's following you?" the Doctor asked the two frightened girls.
"Please sir, just use your magic box and take us out of here! Please!" the eldest of the two girls pleaded. She had long dark hair and was about eighteen years old.
"Maybe we should, Doctor! Something's telling me that we should leave now," Rose said with fear in her voice.
"You know we can't do that. Once the TARDIS lands somewhere, it becomes a part of the series of events and can't leave until the situation is resolved," the Doctor said.
"I know that but can't we just go a short distance into the future when it's daylight?" Rose asked.
She didn't know why that was so important, but something inside of her was telling her that it was very important not to be in this place at night!
"I don't see why not?" the Doctor said with a wide grin on his face.
He went to the console and manipulated the controls of the TARDIS. They started to hear the heavy pounding on the TARDIS doors as well.
"What is that?" the Doctor asked with a look of bewilderment on his face.
"Please, let's leave!" the younger girl, who was blonde and about seventeen, pleaded with him.
The Doctor nodded, and the TARDIS dematerialized just as the pounding had started to get even louder. The two girls sighed with relief as the pounding stopped, and they began to visibly calm down. Moments later the TARDIS rematerialized and everyone went outside to see that it was now early daylight, and they were parked just outside of the mausoleum.
The two girls looked around them for a moment as of to check and see if it was safe, and then they seemed to relax at last.
"Welll! I'm sure there's an interesting story behind what just happened here, ladies. Do you care to tell me and my friend Rose here all about? We could help, you know," the Doctor said with an earnest look on his face.
The older girl said, "There's nothing you or anyone can do about the terror that plagues this land at nightfall. No one can stand against the power of the Dark Prince!"
"Dark Prince?" Rose asked with a look of concern on her face.
"Prince Vlad," the younger girl said with a terrified expression as if saying the name alone was enough to bring instant death.
The Doctor's face suddenly had a look of crystal clarity on it as he realized at last what was going on here.
"Dracula!" the Doctor said with a voice filled with hate and anger. Rose noticed that it was a tone that heretofore he had reserved only for the Daleks.
The two girls trembled in terror at the mention of that hated name. The younger one began to whimper.
"The Dracula?" Rose said with disbelief.
"Yes! The actual vampire Dracula just like in the movies and in the novel," the Doctor said with a nod.
"I always thought that he was just fiction. It least I always hoped so. Those movies used to scare me when my mum used to show them to me as a child. I loved the other monster movies, but the Dracula ones had me hiding behind the couch!" Rose admitted to him as she shivered.
The Doctor smiled at the image of his pink and yellow human being afraid of anything much less a movie monster! It was so unlike her.
Rose saw this expression and said to him with a smile, "Shut up!"
"You can stand up to a Dalek without a shiver, but an old black and white movie with a man with fake fangs in it scares the daylights out of you!" the Doctor teased her.
"I'm not scared of those movies now!" Rose said as she lightly slapped him on the arm.
"Of course not! That's why you just shivered just now," the Doctor continued to tease her.
"Shut up! I was scared of what just happened not the movies," Rose defended herself.
This brought the Doctor back to reality, and his smile fell. He looked at her with a serious expression now and said, "This is no movie, Rose. You should be scared! Dracula is a monster! He's an extremely dangerous threat to this entire planet! I have to stop him. It's the duty of all Time Lords to destroy a vampire wherever they find one, and I am the last one. This is going to be one of the most dangerous opponents of my career. His power is near the level of the Great Vampires who the Time Lords fought in the First Great Time War long ago. If left unchecked, he could completely obliterate this world and leave a barren wasteland populated only by the undead!"
Rose nodded. She understood that this was very serious. She also understood what he had been trying to do earlier. He had been trying to relieve her tension with jokes about monster movies so that when he hit her with the real truth that she wouldn't be so scared. It had worked. If he had told her when they first came here, she would have probably have been terrified out of her mind. He knew her so well now.
"We have to stop him right here and now, Rose. Before he completely rewrites human history, we have to destroy Dracula," the Doctor said with a stern expression on his face.
Rose shivered inside. She had the same uneasy feeling that she had felt on Krop Tor. She hoped that this adventure went a lot smoother than that one had but if the monster movies were any indication then that probably wasn't the case. She was about to find out that the movies about Dracula paled in comparison to the reality of the undead monster!
Next: The Doctor and Rose find out more about the two girls with them as Dracula finally makes his presence known.
