Chapter five- The Cure

Melora snuck her way to the pergola. The Pergola was an eight sided structure where people sat and talked and where she, Cyrain and Mongoola played when they where toddlers. Now it held something of vital importance.

The Pulidishc flower lay within, the cure for Sec.

Melora had to be careful. Caan's guards lurked in the garden.

The pergola was ruined; the thick plants roots and branches hung off of the roof which had partially come down under the weight.

Grasping the wooden floor beneath her, she wretched up the floor boards.

Beneath lay Jast's tools and lots of little white containers filled with the seeds of plants.

Digging she found a small container, made out of silver with the words;

"Please forgive me, Sec." Written on the lid. She turned it over and saw more words written on the bottom.

Julian Amadeus Scott Tharnian- Jast, The confused warrior of the west.

Melora tucked the metal casket in to her pocket and retreated back into the wild gardens that Jast used to keep.

She waited for a guard to move and darted back inside the house.

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Light flooded the room in a stream sprawled across the floor.

The boy raised his head and looked up at Caan , in his red and gold robes.

The boy's wrist's where attached to cuffs which the chains held above his head.

Caan smiled and held a small device out to him. It was small blue and looked like the sonic screwdriver only it wasn't.

It was thicker and had more multi coloured buttons down the sides. A small razor knife about ten milimetres high protruded out of the top.

"I think, you know what this is? Don't you Thay?" Caan asked him.

Thay merely stared at the device, fear in his eyes. Caan smiled at his reaction and clipped it to his belt at his waist.

"All you have to do is answer truthfully and I won't have to use it. Now, where's Sec's body?"

Thay looked into Caan's eye and glared into it.

"I do not know where Sec's body is." Thay growled angrily.

Caan drew out the device and lashed the razor knife across his face.

"Stupid little boy! Tell me!"

"I do not know! I'm answering truthfully!" Thay shrieked at him.

"Very well. You do relise that I need someone to control the army. A controller. With a Dalek mind. And You and Sec are the only one' left who have a pure Dalek mind in there. So, if I don't find Sec's body then I guess someone else will have to take his place. Good night little Thay."

Caan sighed slamming the door shut.

Thay was left to the Darkness and himself.

Who was he. Never been for had anyone mention that he was to have been Emperor if the Time War had not wiped out the Dalek Race.

And he could no longer contact Sec.

Thay felt a tear run down his face but could not wipe it away because of his restraints.

Words, endless words suddenly filled his mind...

Fear and panic in the air, I want to be free from desolation and despair.

And I feel like everything I saw is being swept away, well I refuse to let you go,

I can't get it right, get it right, since I met you. Loneliness be over, when will this loneliness be over?

Life will flash before my eye, so scattered and lost.

I want to touch the other side.

No one, thinks they are to blame, why can't I we see, when we bleed, we bleed the same.

I can't get it right, get it right, ince I met you. Loneliness be over, when will this loneliness be over?(1)

"Sec, please answer me..." Thay whispered to the ceiling. "I need you..."

"I really need you..."

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Dalek Caan stood in his office over looking his armies advancing on the smaller villages around his headquaters.

"Today it rises... The new Human Dalek Empire... The Human Daleks will emblazen the skies with an Empire so mighty so powerful. Today it rises and never it falls." Caan spoke softly.

He looked back at Alpha her glaze set on the armies below.

"Oh, Isn't it brilliant Alpha... I thought you'd like it. After all, you where the firt Human Dalek ever created. As was Sec. But he will never see this sight. He was to stubborn to enjoy it." Caan said putting his arm around her.

Alpha shrugged him off and stared straight ahead.

"Where's my children?" She asked softly.

"Mongoola's right there." Caan said turning her around and pointing to Mongoola who stood glared at Caan angrily.

"I know that! Where are my other children?!"

"Cyrain and Dalek Sec II are fine. They're in confinement."

"And Thay?" Alpha asked. Caan's face morphed in to a glare.

"Thay is not your son. You did not give birth to him. He is none of your concern."

"Any son of Sec's is whom I care for. Sec entrusted me with him and now I demand to know what have you done with Thay!"

"Stupid woman!" Caan snarled hitting her and making her fall to the ground.

"Mother!" Mongoola cried clutching her mother in her arms. Mongoola glared at the wretched creature in front of her. "You have no honour, sir!" She spat angrily.

With that she and Alpha left.

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(1) Lyrics from Muse, Map of Problematique, Black holes and Revelations album, track four…