'Let's go to the theater, it'll be fun,' he said. Jade huffs as she runs away from the growl that made her flee the theater in the first place. There'd been a concert to celebrate some dead man's birthday, and apparently he liked music of the loud category (seriously all of the attendees had to wear earplugs so they wouldn't come close to going deaf). Halfway through the event the ground rumbled as if there'd been a mini-earthquake. Most of the attendees ignored it, even Jade did, but she did notice the Doctor stiffen beside her. Then, a couple of songs later a beast decided to interrupt the performance by digging its way up through the stage and devouring the band.
And that's when the chaos started.
The first few moments were a blur to Jade. People rushed past her, and the Doctor grabbed her arm and told her to run. Except they didn't run with the flow of the crowd, they ran through it instead. They kept running through corridors in the stadium until they were forced to split up. The Doctor let go of her hand for a second, and she heard a noise coming from one of the other hallways. Of course she had to wander off and see what it was. It could've been someone injured for all she knew!
And with her luck, it wasn't. Instead it was the monster, or alien as the Doctor described; a Terratriton specifically. A large lizard-hound hybrid with skin as solid as rock and molten lava in their veins instead of blood. She assumed it was bigger than a bus –guessing from how big they were in the television shows she watched as a kid– and its bark was louder than any of the music at the concert. Before they were split, the Doctor was explaining that the creature must've been sleeping for centuries underneath the earth, and the music must've woken it up. It was their job to send it back to sleep.
But at the current moment Jade was more occupied with surviving. The end of the hallway was coming up, an emergency exit the only thing separating her from fresh air and a better chance at escaping the thousand (give or take) ton beast charging at her. She threw the doors open and jumped off the side of the exit stairs landing beside some trash cans. The Terratriton stood in the street, sniffing the ground, searching. Jade tried to catch her breath while looking for any signs of the Doctor.
Think of the devil and he'll appear, as the Doctor was right beside her the minute she turned. She would've screamed, if not for his hand immediately covering her mouth.
"What's wrong with you!" She whispered harshly.
"What?" The Doctor asked.
"You just don't sneak up on people, it's rude! Also not to mention it risked giving me a heart attack, do you know what I had to put up with?" Jade fumed.
"More of that later, we gotta get this dog to the vet and pronto," The Doctor gestured to the Terratriton with his hand, which happened to have some sort of gun in it. Where'd he get that?
"Oh, this old thing?" Yeah she totally said that out loud, didn't she? "I found it in the prop room, I believe it's a flare gun. These Romans just love explosions. Now I can admit I do like explosions, but more of standing in front of them. It creates a sick backdrop," The Doctor rambled while Jade rolled her eyes. She looked over the side of the stairs at the beast. Under the alien's belly she could see a fire hydrant. Perhaps if she just...
"Sorry, Doctor but I need this," Jade snatched the flare gun from his hands and aimed it at the cap of the fire hydrant.
"And just what are you doing with that?" He asked.
"Polishing my aim." Without a second thought she pulled the trigger. Another second later and water was spraying itself onto the rock hound. It fell to the ground with a defeated growl, its eyes losing the fire that gave it the red-orange glow.
The Doctor and Jade stood up, eyes still fixed on the laying Terratriton. Jade turned to the Doctor.
"I didn't kill it, did I?" She asked, worry making her eyes tired and sullen.
"No, you'd need like a bucket of water the size of Russia to do that. You've only weakened it, and it's sleeping now." The Doctor pulled a cellphone out of his pocket. He dialed a number and held the phone up to his ear.
"Who're you calling?" Jade asked.
"Oh, just some guy to get a big crane and move this mutt. Then I'm going to have a talk to the empire about investing in headphones."
A/N: The word for this drabble was polishing. Finally getting some aliens all up in this fic, and Jade gets to shoot a gun. So it's hitting two birds with one stone!