Chapter 2
~Diary entry~
As my eyes opened I began to scream as the flames began to bite into my skin. "There's a boy in there!" a voice of a girl yelled all around me but I was too lost in the collage of red and orange around me to notice anything else than the immense pain which had felt like it had become me entirely. "I CAN'T GET TO YOU! OH GOD! WHAT DO I DO?!" the voice of the girl faltered as I could make out her eyes now. They were an alluring blue. "We can't do anything."
"Just let me burn like Gallifrey." I managed to scream out between mangled and strangled bursts of my pained howls.
"Gallifrey falls no more."
My eyes shot over to a thin standing man. His eyes bore a dark brown of an understanding and a vision of a time so old it must have been forgotten except to those who are haunted by an endless horror. "Doctor." I managed and I reached an outstretched hand.
"I'm sorry. I am so sorry."
"I label you, Doctor. I label you my executioner." The worst part was he stayed silent until a scene flashed in my mind as the vortex woke up inside of me. "He will knock four times Doctor. Then you will die." His eyes became mirrors of the flames as he watched me before they clouded over and he turned away all the while a dark shrieking laughter roared through me.
That's how I spent the next three days; burning in a crater under a blanket of flames, screaming and laughing like a maniac. It was made only worse by the fact that I was not burning enough so that I would die or even regenerate, but so I was in constant pain and wishing that I could die.
I spent so much time after that in and out of dreams I found it hard to distinguish reality.
Well… Reality always hurt more.
A cold cloth pressed against my face and brought me back to reality. "Hey, sleeping beauty." My eyes flew open and I took in the sight of the girl in front of me. Those cerulean blue eyes drew me like a moth to a flame, while her dark black hair fell neatly around her shoulders. Something about her felt destined… maybe I was stilled being influenced from the vortex, or maybe it was just my hallucinating. "You're lucky. You should have died in that there fire." Her accent was just as alluring as she was.
"Get away from me." I winced as I sat up and felt my pupil dance with the flames of my power. I've had enough of fire for now. I thought.
~End of Diary entry~
A tall man was stood over his diary entry. Ink dripped from a hoisted quill as he paused and searched for the words that he was going to use to paint the image of that day, oh so long ago, in the lines of ink.
A thin arm slowly wrapped around his waist and pulled him into a loving hug. "What are you still doing up?" that accented voice made the man's head turn as he was pulled into the warm and friend like embrace. "Angelic. You really should not sneak up on me like that."
"Well what can I say? I'm quiet." Her eyes began to move towards the page and the man quickly slammed it close. "You were writing about that day I found you… weren't you, Incubo?"
"So what if I was? It's nice to be able to remember myself sometimes." The man closed his eyes as he began to recall the fire that had tore into his skin over and over. She looked into his eyes for a second. "Are you ready anyway? For a walk?"
"Of course." He said as though the idea of him being unprepared was ridiculous.
The man was a betrayal to his own life!
He wondered the streets of London with his saviour. The girl; Angelic, had saved him. He looked at her with a longing love, something about her drew the man like a magnet… and yet, his heart did not belong to her. He felt such a strong connection from his heart to her and yet there was nothing.
And affairs of love were the least of his worries.
The movements of the earth around him had not gone unnoticed. The Daleks raining down at the end of days. He had heard stories of the metal men disguised as ghosts.
He had fought them all off.
-Flash back-
The sky was lit with crimson blasts as the mechanical stamping cracked the cement beneath their feet. "Cyber units 279 to 472 will proceed to search the houses. Bring all stock. Any reject stock will be incinerated!" there was no warmth to the voice which used to be human.
"Order will be obeyed immediately!" a chorus responded and the stamping drew nearer to the doorway.
A teenage boy slowly turned in the doorway. His eyes burnt with anger as his blood filled hunger slowly filled his mind and a grin slowly swept onto his face. "Come to me my metal toys." he whispered as he turned and stared into the eyes of the similar aged girl. "Angelic, you have to go!" he hissed as he could feel his lust for destruction growing higher.
"Do you really think I am just going to leave you to face them alone?" she bit back at him as she stared into his eyes with a thrill of adrenaline and a deep rooted fear.
"You are going to go, before you give me a reason to worry!"
"You are so stubborn Incubo!" she snarled before she hugged him and sneaked up the stairs of the house while he stood in the shadows of the doorway.
Smash.
"No one is home" he grinned as he watched a metal fist smash through the door.
SMASH
CRASH
BANG
His eyes narrowed as he watched the crimson lasers tear through the doorway, ripping away the front of the house in the process. "You could have knocked!" Incubo snapped as he walked out into the hallway and folded his arms as he frowned. "Or even." he picked up the remains of what once had been the doorbell. He shook his head and tutted at the metal men as his eyes ran over them.
Thick plated silver armour.
Eyes, black and lifeless; darker than the shadows.
The humanoid shaped helmet on the body of silver.
Cybermen.
One slowly marched forward as its hand reached out and sparked. "You will be upgraded."
"Oh good, I've been meaning to tell Angelic, the sky movies channel are so worth it." He looked around as though he was whispering a deep secret. "I love the disney films me. Beauty and the beast? So human to think of a tale like that."
"Your words are irrelevant."
"You'd think that don't you?" he looked absent mindedly at the fracturing ceiling as he pondered deep in thought.
"You will be upgraded!" the cyberman said over and over again.
"Yeah! I know, and as i've been telling you, the sky box is through here!" He portrayed a look of frustration as he rolled his eyes. "Now are you going to finish the job or- EEK" he ducked into the living room as a formation of lasers smashed over his head, hitting the staircase in the process. "Okay... maybe you aren't interested in giving us the movie channels... how about the music channels then?"
"YOU WILL BE UPGRADED!"
"Something tells me you wont be helping me here..."
He grinned as the cybermen lined in front of him and aimed out their hands. "You will be scanned."
"Bit personal, I barely know you... take me out on a date, first at least." he shrugged.
Soon they became agitated as they began forming a circle around him. "What are you!?" the blue monitor, where their mouths should have been, lit up in a frenzy. Incubo slowly looked at each one of them as he heard more barking orders echo from the sky above him. "THE GENESIS ARK WILL OPEN!" a cold voice screamed and the cybermen turned about face. "You will be upgraded here and now!" they decided.
"Now... here's the problem boys." He slowly turned and looked at their faces slightly longer as though he was looking at the old souls which they used to be. "You killed the father of someone very important to me."
Fire exploded in his eyes and the soldiers backed away as a residual of fear broke through their metal hearts.
"Jonathan De Cobray." his eyes move around and rested on the metal man stood closest to the doorway. "I'm sorry, by god, I am so sorry for you." he reached out his hand slowly. "Now boys, I have an upgrade for you-"
"You cannot upgrade us, you cannot perfect us. We are Perfection-"
"YOU WILL LET ME SPEAK!" the boy shouted as the walls erupted into flames around them.
"DELETE REJECT STOCK!" the black handled leader ordered and watched as they slowly stepped forward.
"Your new upgrade boys; emotions!" a burst of flames erupted from his hands and into the metal body which used to be Jonathan De Cobray. "I'm so sorry." he whispered as screams exploded from the helmet as he staggered forward and grabbed onto the body of the others.
All through the screams, Incubo stood there as the house burnt around them. His eyes were even darker than the metal soldiers as he watched them begin to rip away parts of their own armoured bodies as they screamed with insanity. "AGHHH" what used to be Jonathan collapsed to the floor as in his hand, he held his own metal heart and smashes his fist through his helmet in an effort to stop the pain from seeing what he had become.
That left all but one.
The dark handled leader rested on the floor as Incubo stood over him as the room collapsed. "W-what are you."
"I'm the worst of my kind." he crouched as his eyes bore into the helmet. "Translate Incubo."
"Human records indicate... Incubo is a word from the Italian language... It translates as-"
"Nightmare." Incubo grinned.
Then came for what Incubo had been waiting for.
"ENEMY IDENTIFIED. IT IS THE CHILD! FIND AND EXTERMINATE HIM!"
"NO, WE MUST FOCUS ON THE DOC-TOR!"
"DALEK SEC ORDERS MUST BE OBEYED!"
"Well then."
Eye stalks turned as the flames wrapped into the boys hands as he turned and faced his own nightmares. "EXTERMINATE!"
"Exterminate this you son of a bitch." he shouted and unleashed his flames as a volley of turquoise beams were fired at him.
His eyes widened as he found his flames stilled in the mid way clash with the beams. "W-what the hell!" he grunted as he felt the ground beneath him tearing away as the power of the vortex burnt through his arms. The skin on his hands was slowly flaking away as it burnt into ash. "WEAKNESS IDENTIFIED!"
"Transmitting data!" both enemies barked at once as out the corner of his eyes, Incubo could see the metal soldier slowly rising to it's feet. DAMN IT! I used to much vortex energy in this regeneration. his thoughts screamed as he felt more of the skin on his arms burning away.
When the flames finally gave way, he rolled as quickly as he could to the right as the beams smashed into the cyberman who died in agonised screaming.
As the Daleks slowly hovered over him, no ideas came to mind but the possibility of how slow and agonising of a death they would deliver onto him. "Daleks are the supreme beings! Acknowledge."
Incubo slowly grinned.
"Acknoweledge!"
The grin slowly became a blood gurgled laugh which would have brought even the darkest creatures fear.
And it did.
The Dalek hovering over him slowly twitched with annoyance and fear. "YOU WILL ACKNOWLEDGE!" it screamed.
"You're so stupid!" Incubo laughed. "You are just so thick and so stupid it's hysterical."
"I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF THESE WORDS!"
"YOU'RE PATHETIC. SMALL AND PATHETIC, WRAPPED FOREVER IN A COLD PRISON! YOU ARE NOTHING!" he slowly turned his head and glared into the blue light of the eyestalk. "and you know what? All this time you wasted on me."
he paused as he let the Dalek get more infuriated.
"SPEAK!" it roared as the exterminator cannon fired into the ground around him.
"All this time you wasted here with me. You forgot the someone." he laughed, "you forgot."
he slowly sat up as the Daleks began to slowly raise higher into the air.
"There's a storm coming."
"IT IS THE DOC-TOR! CONVERGE ON TORCHWOOD, ATTACK, ATTACK, ATT-AGGHHHH" the sound of a million screams as the daleks were ripped into the air and in flashes of turqoise cannons and red crimson lasers fired by cybermen as the monsters were dragged away.
"Well Doctor." Incubo collapsed back as his sight slowly slipped away. "I guess this time... you really did save me."
-End of flash back-
Incubo stared at the cover of his journal as he ran his hand along the smooth brown leather cover. "Incubo are you coming or not?!" Angelic shouted through as he rose slowly and pulled on his coat. His hands shook slightly as he slowly came out the memory. "Day dream?" Angelic slowly appeared in the doorway as she watched him.
"No." incubo's eyes slowly rested on the journal for a few more seconds.
"Then what?"
"It was a nightmare." he whispered before walking out the door with her following in his steps.
Okay, hi everyone! I'm sorry it's taken this long to get this chapter up, but better late than never eh? I hope you enjoy it. Please review and follow, I think it's about time we bring the rest of the cast in eh? Join for the next chapter. Incubo is about to find out; the true meaning of pain.
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