CHAPTER 4

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This story takes up the story of War of the Guardians and Children of the Wolf. It picks up where Children of the Wolf left off.

Rose watched as the armies of Gallifrey assembled and left for Earth. Something kept bothering her about this whole thing. Her people had always been big into non-interference, and yet here they were raising an army and just sending it out without there being a hint of protest about it from anyone. Also why did they make her, someone with no political experience whatsoever, the Lady President? They also, despite their obvious dislike over her ways of doing things, had raised no serious criticisms against her since she had taken office. Something just smelled rotten here in Denmark to quote old Will.

She was also worried about something else. It was obvious that there had to be a traitor among them. The Weeping Angels didn't get through Gallifrey's defenses by luck. Someone had to have helped them get through!

She felt like she was being set up here, and she didn't like it. Not one bit. She had only really gotten to know one of the High Council. She didn't know whether she could trust him or not, but she had to talk to someone about her thoughts. The Doctor and the others had already left for Earth so she elected Heldrin to listen to her.

She approached him and took him aside where no one else could hear them. He looked surprised that she would want to talk to him alone, but he willingly went along with her to an out of the way corner of the Citadel.

"I don't know you that well, Heldrin, but I feel like I can trust you," Rose started.

"You can, my lady. I hope that I will be able to convince you of that eventually. I want to help you succeed and be one of the great Presidents of history. Your legend will be preserved in the Matrix forever!" Heldrin said with a wide smile.

"I don't care about my legacy, Heldrin. I'm worried about this war and about my home. Please don't call me "my lady" when it's just us, either. We're in private here. Just call me Rose," Rose told him.

Heldrin was a little taken aback that Rose called the Earth her home, but he could understand her feelings he supposed. She had lived there for a long time and been raised all over again by one of them. Such a thing could lead to an emotional attachment he supposed.

"I'm afraid that I can't do that, my lady. It just wouldn't be proper to call you by your first name. It certainly wouldn't do to address you by an Earth name either," Heldrin protested.

Rose looked at him angrily as she said, "It's not an Earth name! It's my name! My name is Rose Tyler. That's what I want to be called, and I don't care if it's proper or not. That's my name! I want you to call me Rose."

Heldrin looked shocked by this. He liked this woman. He really did want to work with her, but she could be utterly impossible sometimes. For her to demand such a drastic change in tradition was just unheard of. It simply wasn't done, and he told her so.

"You see! That attitude right there is what's been missing. That's what has been bothering me about this whole thing, Heldrin. That's what I want to talk to you about. Why is no one screaming about non-interference and staying out of Earth's affairs? Why do we all of a sudden have an army now? Why is no one complaining about me and the way I do things? I'm not a proper politician, and I have no experience. Why put me in the office of President at all? None of this makes sense!" Rose said to him.

Heldrin nodded as he now understood what was making Arkytior so angry and irritable. She wasn't stupid, and she had noticed that things were not as they should be.

"Arkytior, I want to be honest with you so I am going to tell you what I know about recent events," Heldrin said with a much more relaxed tone in his voice.

Rose was pleased that he had stopped calling her "my lady" at least, but she still would have preferred that he use her real name. She felt at least though like maybe she had found someone that she could trust on the High Council at last.

"It was agreed among all of us on the Council recently that the old way of doing things no longer worked anymore. Even the most traditional among us realized that after the Time War that everything had changed. We could no longer keep to our old ways of non-interference and continue to survive as a species. Our non-interference had led to the rise of the Daleks in the first place and our eventual destruction as a result of their actions. We feared that if we kept to that path, history may well repeat itself and Gallifrey could be destroyed again. To that end, President Romana then suggested that we now take a more proactive approach to preserving the Web of Time and that our new mission must be to now stop potential new Time Wars from occurring by neutralizing all potential universal level threats before they can occur. The entire High Council agreed to this out of necessity although admittedly some of them are still hesitant about pursuing such a course of action. Fear of extinction once again though seems to have quieted their fears for the most part. We therefore agreed to raise and keep a planetary army ready and able to go at a moment's notice in order to preserve and protect not only Time itself but also Gallifrey from another universal disaster. We would have a backup group of us left on Gallifrey to protect the planet and to preserve the timelines, but most of us would be conscripted to head off any and all potential threats to our way of life before they could come back to touch Gallifrey itself again. We have learned from our past, Arkytior, and we will not be caught with our metaphorical pants down again by any potential new threat. We will take the war to them first before they can bring it to us!" Heldrin explained to Rose.

Rose nodded as she thought that she now understood. The Time Lords had become paranoid about being caught up in another Time War again, and they were now dead set on keeping that from happening to them at all costs. She feared the road that that attitude might take them down!

They may well wind up seeing threats where none existed, or they may decide that the only way to protect Gallifrey would be to conquer everything. She didn't like the potential paths for Gallifrey here at all!

"Why me though? Why did you all decide to make me the President? Why didn't I have to run for office like everyone else?" Rose asked.

"That was President Romana again, Arkytior. She suggested that we let you guide us in these new and uncertain times. You are experienced with new and unorthodox ways of thinking from being raised as a human. You know how to "think outside of the box" as the human saying goes, and we need that kind of leadership if we are to take a more proactive role in things. You and the Doctor have already done that kind of thing. You have many years of experience in taking the fight to any and all potential threats to the Web of Time and defeating them. The rest of us do not. So you see, Arkytior, you do have exactly the kind of experience that we need! Romana admittedly does as well, but she requested that we let you lead us in this new war. Yours is the vision that led to our return after all. If it wasn't for you, none of us would now be here in the first place. This is the role that the Guardians handed to you, isn't it? They wanted you to recreate a new group of Time Lords in order to protect the universe after all. Now we are striving to do so by adapting to our new role in a post Time War universe. We have even accepted aliens among us and allowed them to participate in our meetings and decisions. We have remade ourselves anew for new times and now we need a new and unorthodox leader to lead and guide us through them. We could think of no one better than you!" Heldrin said to her with a sincere smile on his face.

"Am I going to run for office eventually though? I don't want to be a dictator! I don't believe in that," Rose said firmly.

"Don't worry about that, Arkytior. You will be put in an election soon. We have just exercised our emergency power in a time of war to put you in place as our leader because we felt that this situation demanded it. After the war, there will be an election I assure you. I must say that it makes me trust you even more that you don't want this office unless you win it honestly. It speaks well of you, my lady!" Heldrin told her.

He felt better about the decision to make this woman the President now. He trusted her to do the right thing for everyone.

While Rose felt better about her role in things now, she still felt uneasy about the current situation. There was a traitor out there somewhere, and it could be anyone. They could strike again at any time. She had to find them before they did.

At that moment, the traitor was getting ready to launch another assault. They had just finished rewiring the connections between the Eye of Harmony and the Capitol so that they would overload and all power would be lost in just a matter of hours. At that moment, a massive attack would begin on Gallifrey itself! Very soon now Dracula's army would strike, and Gallifrey would fall before him even before Earth did!

Rose though had been on top of the situation. She had hired someone to watch over the Capitol, and they had been keeping a careful eye on things. They had now found the saboteur standing over their handiwork checking it over after they had finished.

Commander Maxil and his Chancellery Guards appeared out of nowhere and surrounded the saboteur. They all held their stasers out as Maxil said, "You're under arrest for treason against Gallifrey!"

At that moment, Rose was getting on the President's Command TARDIS as she prepared to join the others in orbit around Earth. She was about to lead a full-scale invasion of Earth in order to liberate it. She had never been so terrified in her life, but she knew that she had to do this in order for the Earth to survive. No one was taking her planet if she could help it!

Back on Earth, Lily was waiting for the glow of her attack to fade so that she could see if she had succeeded in defeating Dracula or not. It turned out though that she hadn't!

A mist came from out of nowhere and surrounded her before she could move out of its way. She was then quickly overwhelmed as a hand formed out of the mist and wrapped itself around her throat!

Dracula completely solidified now and threw Lily against a wall as hard as he could. Allison's eyes went wide as she heard a sickening crack come from Lily's body!

"Lily!" She screamed in terror.

"I believe that she's out of commission at the moment, pretty one. She may have a broken back or even better, a broken neck! Would you settle for talking to me instead?" Dracula said as he suddenly appeared next to Allison with a wide grin on his face.

"Leave the woman alone, monster!" Robin Hood said as he aimed his arrow straight at the vampire's heart. He loved Allison like a sister, and he was not going to let this foul thing have her! He was also going to make him pay for what he had done to the woman he loved!

Dracula laughed at him and openly mocked him.

"Do you really think an arrow can defeat me, primitive?! You must be quite simply the stupidest man that I have ever met!" Dracula said with an evil sneer.

Robin smiled a wicked grin as he said, "The arrows have been dipped in garlic and blessed by a priest. That's a double threat for one such as you."

"You're very good, primitive. Such an approach would work most effectively against other vampires but unfortunately I am not most vampires. I was given my power by the last of the Great Vampires, and I am on a whole different level than the others of my kind. Those arrows won't bother me!" Dracula told him with a smug grin on his face.

"Let's just see about that, monster!" Robin said as he quickly shot several arrows into Dracula's heart in less than a minute!

Allison took this opportunity to run to Lily's side, and she searched her desperately for signs of life. She was happy to find her still breathing, but she couldn't tell just how badly she was injured. She was surprised to find Lily growing colder and colder. She could also see a layer of frost beginning to cover her body. What was going on here?

Cleopatra placed a hand on Allison's shoulder and said, "She's gone into a healing coma. It's something Time Lords do to repair themselves when they have been severely injured. We will have to protect her from Dracula until she reemerges from it because there is no way that she can protect herself now."

Allison nodded, but this information worried her even more. How were they supposed to save Lily when they couldn't even save themselves?!

Meanwhile, Robin's arrows did indeed have an effect on Dracula but not as much of a one as he had hoped for. He noticed that Dracula had become slightly weaker and was moving around a bit sluggishly as if he were fighting off a cold. This was not enough to help him though. A slightly weaker Dracula was still more than a match for an ordinary human. He backhanded Robin and immediately knocked him unconscious.

He then turned to see Cleopatra standing protectively between him and Lily.

"Hello, my dear Cleo! I was so sorry to hear of your sudden return to humanity recently. It is a condition that I can easily fix though. It should only take a moment!" Dracula said as he revealed his fangs to her with a hiss.

Cleo stood against him in a fighting stance despite her near paralyzing fear of becoming a vampire again as she prepared to die to save her friend.

At that moment, many miles away Ileana and Daisy were taken by surprise as several vampires invaded Daisy's house in an ambush! They had found Daisy at last.

"Run!" Ileana shouted to Daisy as they jumped out of a nearby window and ran for their lives.

There were too many of them for even Ileana to handle and still be able to protect Daisy from them. They would have to go on the run now and hope that they could stay one step ahead of them at all times. Ileana feared what might happen to the world if they got their hands on her.

Luckily, she already had a backup plan in place. She knew just where to take Daisy. She was going to take her somewhere where even vampires feared to tread!

Next: Ileana and Daisy go to the place where even vampires fear to tread! Cleopatra fights alone against Dracula for the lives of Lily and her friends. Luckily for her, she gets help from an unexpected source. The saboteur revealed as they fight back against Commander Maxil! Plus Rose and her army officially start the war as the battle against the vampires truly begins!