Chapter 2 – The Sacred Book
"Armageddon, you must be trying to amuse me" The King laughed at the worried volunteer
"No, it is exactly as written as in the Sacred Book" Cxlim replied
"But that is only myth! " The King looked at Cxlim trying to look for reason
"Come look for yourself" Cxlim replied "the entire planet is terrified of what has happened, every person is in wonder"
The King leapt off his seat leaving his neatly prepared pipe and rushed to the silver elevator. The elevator only took seconds to reach the ground floor with its swift speed. Hundreds of people were standing around in wonder outside the palace trying to catch a glimpse. The volunteers had to make a way through the crowd so the King could see for himself. Then he saw what he had feared, what had previously been myth had now came true, exactly as written in the Sacred Book, it was the appearance of a mysterious blue box with alien writing.
The King learnt from bystanders that it had only materialised a matter of minutes ago from nowhere.
"What shall we do?" one of his volunteers asked in fear
"I think I shall approach it" The King replied with braveness
Suddenly the door of the box opened slowly. The entire crowd suddenly held their breath. Out came two figures both dressed in silver clothing, a man and a woman. The King slowly walked over to the two figures.
"Now Rose, remember to keep taking these mints every two hours, they generate oxygen since this planet has no oxygen" The Doctor said to Rose as they stepped out of the TARDIS
"I think there's a welcome party for us, Doctor" Rose noticed "I don't think they'll think much of our silver clothing"
"It's the main metal of this planet" The Doctor answered "and besides, this is fashionable in the year 5006 on this planet, it's like wearing gold on Earth"
"I wouldn't wear that" Rose answered sarcastically
The King came up close and the Doctor gave a smile and pulled out his hand for a handshake.
"Hello, is it King Diap XXIV?" The Doctor spoke as he pulled out his hand
"What bad tidings do you send?" The King replied ignoring his offer of a handshake
The Doctor looked at him in confusion.
"I'm not here to send any bad tidings" The Doctor replied "I'm here to visit your planet"
"I'm not sure if this is a welcoming party, they don't look rather friendly" Rose added
"But it is written that the arrival of that object you have in your possession brings destruction, the beginning of the end, the Armageddon" The King said
"Where is it written?" The Doctor asked completely puzzled
"In The Sacred Book" The King continued persistently
"How did it get in The Sacred Book?" Rose asked the Doctor
"Beats me" The Doctor replied stumped "so let me get this straight, my ship is in your sacred book as the bringer of Armageddon"
"That is correct" The King replied "and your arrival has shaken the population of the entire planet"
"For me to get my head around this, you'll have to tell me where the origins of this story came from" The Doctor replied
King Diap XXIV had warily invited The Doctor and Rose up to his Desert Palace, sat them down and pulled out The Sacred Book from his private library.
"Read if you will" The King said handing The Doctor the book "Chapter Thirteen Verses Six to Thirteen"
"This better be interesting" Rose said with a sigh
The Doctor took a few seconds to find the correct page and began to read.
"In the days before Barcelona got its name" The Tenth Doctor read "out of the mists of the Desert storm came a mysterious blue box, a man dressed in black exited from the blue box and came to the court of King Rael III. He stayed for exactly seven days and aided the King. Before he left he gave a gift to the King for his hospitality, his explanation was it was called a "weapon" and it carries ceremonial honour, and then the blue box left. He then demanded for his volunteers to ask their neighbouring planet Avnxeg what weapons were and when he found they were for defence King Rael III became interested and asked his volunteers to build a much powerful weapon. A volunteer came back claiming he found an object in a cave that could be a weapon. This was the beginning of the days of madness of King Rael III. He demanded that the planet be divided so he could test his weapon and when the people refused he provoked the planet of Avnexg to attack, which ended in his founded weapon turning the planet of Avnexg to dust. He later set fire to himself since his people would not support him and as he burned to cinders he shouted out a war cry of "Barcelona" as he died, and so ended the reign of King Rael III. If the blue box is ever laid eyes onto again it is said it may bring destruction to the planet of Barcelona."
The Tenth Doctor had a look of amazement on his face as he stopped reading.
"No wonder my blue box has connotations of Armageddon, a king on a utopian planet attacking and killing innocent Avnexgians and later setting fire to himself all started from a gift from a man in a blue box, to such a peaceful planet this would be Armageddon" The Doctor said "I'm so sorry King Diap XXIV, this is all my fault"
"I would accept your apology if any of that was true" The King replied
"It is true, it was I who gave the King the ceremonial weapon, I can't remember why I came here since it was a previous incarnation of me and I have temporal amnesia sometimes but…"
"It never happened, the myth may have came true but it is just complete coincidence, this story is just a myth of morality" The King replied
"Well what happened to the planet of Avnxeg then?" The Doctor asked
"It is a mythical planet, Barcelona has been alone in this part of the galaxy since its creation" The King replied "and it was indeed true I would still have the ceremonial weapon and this powerful weapon that he supposedly found"
"Not if the next King after him was so scared by the madness of King Rael III that he hid all connections to his reign"
"There never was a King Rael III!" The King shouted "who are you to come into my Palace and rave on about an old Barcelonan myth being true, you're bringing Armageddon just like the myth says!"
"I'm looking for only the truth, I caused this myth and I'm here to find out why" The Doctor replied
"Who's your friend then?" The King asked going off the subject
"I'm Rose, from Earth" Rose replied disinterested
"Not you as well, you believe you're from a mythical planet?" The King asked
"Earth is not mythical!" Rose yelled not believing her ears
"Oh come on, there is not a planet that could be so dystopian that they lack so much trust in each other that they don't trust one person to be the ruler of the entire planet and have split themselves into smaller parts, so dystopian that they have wars within themselves over the smallest thing, it is the stuff of novels!" The King replied
"I happen to have been there numerous times, it's not mythical, and you're looking at the downside of things" The Doctor said in response
"If you say so, but I'm telling you that The Sacred Book is nothing but myth written to teach you morals"
"We'll see about that"