My Doctor Who fan-fiction. Merry Christmas. This is with the 10th Doctor and Rose.
The TARDIS materialized in an abandoned lot that dark night. No one was around to see the tall, skinny man stumble and nearly from it, wild-eyed like he had just witnessed something terrible; and disheveled like he had just run a long ways in the relatively nice sports jacket he wore. He dropped something blue and glowing on the pavement and swiftly stooped it pick it up again. He left the seemingly normal police box behind him and ran for the house that was nearest…
Rose Tyler was enjoying a completely normal evening in front of the TV. The day had been usual, the same things happening at the same time, as usual. She needed something to break the routine. As she flipped through the channels she heard a loud knock at the door.
"Coming!"
She opened the door to find the man who had run towards the house.
"Rose Tyler?" The man asked, still looking terrified.
"Yes, who are you?" Rose asked, a puzzled expression on her otherwise very pretty face.
"I'm the Doctor." The man said, giving her a small smile.
"Y…You're the Doctor?" Rose gasped. "I haven't seen you sense…"
"Yes, I know that." The Doctor said hurriedly. "But this is serious. You know a while ago I had that run-in with those stone angels? The ones that sneak up behind you and then ZAP! You're suddenly in a different time period? Well…" The Doctor said dramatically. "…They're back. Only this time, they're worse. They'll kill you instead of sending you back in time. Found that out the hard way too."
"Wha…who died?" Rose gasped, looking horrified.
"I'll explain on the way." The Doctor said. "You are coming with me, aren't you?"
"What? Wait…you just came hurtling through space and time to ask me to go with you once again to save the world? Or worlds…?" Rose went from being puzzled to looking extremely excited. "I'm so in."
"Ok, great! Let's go!" The Doctor turned to head back to the TARDIS.
He hadn't taken two steps before he fell on the cement. "Ow! Of all the times to nearly break my ankle…stupid angels…"
"What happened?" Rose asked. She still hadn't budged from the doorstep. "What really happened? I'm not leaving until you tell me."
The Doctor got up with a sigh. "It's like this…" He limped to the doorstep and sat down heavily. "I was on this planet called Xios. They've been having some criminal probablems lately, so I figured I'd pop up there and give them a hand. We were in a warehouse that supposedly had a couple of escaped refugees in it when-"
"Who's we?" Rose asked. "a friend? Chief of police? Family?"
"I'm getting there." The Doctor said. "If you don't interrupt I'll get there sooner." He launched back into the story. "Anyway, I was with a group of detectives that were armed to the teeth with all sorts of weapons. Most of them you won't be familiar with, but they were a bit like Tazers.
"We were going through the warehouse trying to find the refugees when there was a loud shriek. It sounded a bit like nails on a chalkboard combined with a chainsaw combined with a wail of the dying. We spun around to see it…" The Doctor trailed off.
"What?" Rose asked; although she had a pretty good idea of what was behind them.
"…There it was." The Doctor gasped. "An angel. Only an inch from one of the detectives. His name was Yelsh, by the way."
"What happened?" Rose asked again.
"Yelsh made sure the angle didn't move. If you stare at them, they can't move. If you blink…you're sent back in time. But as I said these were different angels, as we later found out. The remaining detectives and I shone beams of light around the room, trying to either find more angels or the refugees. That was when I heard one of the detectives shout, 'Over here! I found him!'
"We ran over into a corner to find one of the refugees covered with blood that had long ago stopped flowing from his chest. One look and I knew he was dead, as soon as my group would be."
Here the Doctor paused, staring out into the dark night.
"That was when we heard Yelsh scream."
Rose sat down next to him on the doorstop. Her eyes were wide with terror and disbelief.
"We spun around to see the angel. Her features on her face had changed into a ferocious snarl and she was lifting Yelsh up a good three feet in the air by his chest. By the time we ran over to him and the angel, he was already dead. The angel had broken through his ribs and crushed his lungs."
Rose's vision became blurry.
"That was when we decided it wasn't worth it; looking for those refugees. Knowing how fast the angels were, they were already dead. We began to creep out of the warehouse."
The Doctor swallowed, like something was caught in his throat. "We ran into a room with three angels. The detectives tried to maintain eye contact with them…but…"
Rose didn't need the Doctor to finish to know what had happened. "But how did you escape?"
"The detectives lived just long enough to buy me an escape. If I could go back, knowing what would happen, I would have sacrificed myself so they could live." The Doctor was staring out into space. His eyes glazed over.
"But how could you? There was only one of you…and four of them!" Rose protested.
"Xios…." The Doctor muttered. "Xios…"
THE NEXT MORNING….
The Doctor woke up the next morning on Rose's couch, with Rose standing next to him carrying a tray of toast and coffee. "Oh, good. I thought you went into a coma."
"What happened?" The Doctor asked. "I came for you, right? Did we go to Xios yet?"
"No. You told me why you were here and then sort of passed out." Rose said, looking slightly worried. "Does toast sound ok?"
"Anything. Do you happen to have fish fingers and custard?"
"Why?" Rose asked, looking more worried that she had before.
"Oh, never mind. Just wondering." The Doctor took the toast from her. "Mmmmm. Lightly buttered. My favorite."
"Oh, and last night I found this in the parking lot." Rose held up a small key. "It's for the TARDIS, right?"
"Mmm! Yes! Thank you. Without this we'd have to sit here and twiddle our thumbs until a key maker can come." The Doctor took the key and pocketed it. "So are you still coming with me?"
"After you told me about the angels?" Rose asked. "You're mad!"
"I guess I neglected to tell you the way they can be spotted and avoided, eventually killed." The Doctor got a mischievous glint in his eyes. "If you're anywhere with a shiny floor, watch that. Watch the shadows. Watch anything below your feet, because that can be a lifesaving clue. Oh, and don't blink."
"What do you mean?" Rose asked.
"I mean that Xios is two planets in one." The Doctor said. "Have you ever looked at a reflection on the ground and wonder if there's another world behind that? Well, on Xios, there is, and that might very well be where your best friend is."
"So…if you look at a reflection, it's what's going on on the alternate side of the world?" Rose asked.
"Exacally! You're handling this rather well!" The Doctor looked extremely pleased. "All we have to do is get on the side of the world the angels aren't on, and then we can sneak up on them and destroy them!"
"But what if we don't materialize on the opposite side of the world in the TARDIS?" Rose asked.
"Then we die!" The Doctor said happily. "Isn't that great?"
"So we got a fifty-fifty chance of dying the second we get there?' Rose asked.
"Not really. It's more later on when we go back to the warehouse." The Doctor explained. "So are you coming with me, or do I have to get Donna?"
"What do we use to kill them?" Rose obviously needed to know everything before she decided.
"Fire." The Doctor said. "Angels don't like fire, as they associate that with Hell. But we have to use a special kind of fire that only flames up on stone."
"I thought those angels were originally from Hell." Rose said. "So wouldn't we use ice instead?"
"That was what I thought, and then I told myself that the reflection world in Xios didn't make any sense either, so I just let it go." The Doctor shrugged. "So are you coming or not?"
"Where do we get the special fire?" Rose asked.
"There are only two planets in the entire galaxy that have the right atmosphere for the fire. One is here on Earth, and the other is out of this solar system. It's called Nemasis. It's home to a race of beings known as the Nemasies. They're mostly friendly, but a couple can be bad."
"So we have to head to a place on Earth here first, right?"
"I got some already!" The Doctor said, looking extremely pleased with himself. "But if we run out, then we do have to come back."
"All right. I'll go." Rose decided.
"That's what I'm talking about!" The Doctor cheered. "Come on! We aughta go!"
Together they rushed towards the blue police box.
Inside it was just as Rose had remembered. The weird controls and buttons were all whirling and beeping, and the Doctor knew exacally what to do.
"Oh, here's the fire." He tossed a glass jar at her. Rose just barely caught it.
Inside were four small green flames, hovering independently in the jar and swirling around one another.
"How is this possible?" Rose wondered aloud.
"I don't know." The Doctor said. "But think it's some kind of magnetic fire or something along those lines. It's attracted to stone and repels against itself."
"Weird…" Rose just noticed that the jar wasn't burning hot. "Why is it not hot?"
The TARDIS shuddered and began vibrating. "I don't know. It's magic!" The Doctor said mysteriously.
Chapter 1 done. Yey. I have no idea when I'll get around to updating and adding more chapters, so add this to Story Alert or something so you get alerted to when I add more stuff. Review please, too.
Until…whenever.
Hasta la Vista, readers!
~Lordoftheghostking28