CHAPTER 9

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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.

Marissa and Susan had been struggling for hour after hour to try to come up for a cure for the vampirism from a sample of Lily's blood. They kept trying to isolate whatever it was in Lily's blood that the Immortality Gate had used to make Cleopatra human again. They wanted to create something that they could quickly use to cure all of the vampires and end this war in one move.

They were so close now. They could both feel it. They had gone for so many long hours without sleep or food, but it had been worth it for this upcoming moment. They knew that they were about to make a breakthrough at last.

They didn't know that their very lives depended on their coming up with a cure in the next few minutes!

Omega was now less than a minute away from turning the power off to the Capitol. After that, the vampires would start landing on Gallifrey and soon sweep across the planet.

Marissa and Susan were working just a few minutes away from Omega and oblivious to all of this. They were locked into their soundproof lab running experiments nonstop on Lily's blood.

The Daleks rounded the corner and started firing on Omega, but his force field protected him for now. Against the power of the Daleks though, it would only last for about fifteen minutes. Fifteen minutes was all that he needed though! He would make certain that Gallifrey would fall in half of that time.

Koschei then suddenly materialized his TARDIS right on top of Omega and held his Laser Screwdriver at his head as Omega suddenly found himself inside of Koschei's Console Room.

"It's set to Ultraviolet Light so don't make any sudden moves!" Koschei threatened him.

The door to his TARDIS opened, and the Daleks came in with their gun stalks pointed at Omega as well.

"DO NOT MOVE!" they ordered him.

"You cannot win. The power will go off in just a few minutes anyway. I've already sabotaged it. I was just going to move up the timetable and make it happen quicker. I'll still win even if you hold me here for all eternity! Omega wins!" Omega shouted and then he began to laugh.

Koschei shot Omega with a blast of his laser screwdriver, and he dissolved into dust instantly with him having only time enough to make one last loud scream to mark his passing!

"Then there was no reason for me to keep you alive then was there. I never liked you anyway. All mouth! I'll just tell Arkytior that it was self-defense," Koschei said with a cruel smile.

"YOU WOULD LIE TO THE WOLF?" one of the Daleks asked him.

"She would try to cure him. There is no cure. He would only cause more trouble before she realized that. I'm protecting her from her own misguided idealism," Koschei said.

"SHE IS YOUR FRIEND," The Dalek surmised from his statement.

"You are very observant for a little tin pepper pot, aren't you?" Koschei said with a grin.

"FRIENDSHIP IS A WEAKNESS. DALEKS KNOW NO EMOTION BUT HATE," The Dalek said.

"Normally I would agree with you, but Arkytior is a very special person. She believes in people even when others would give up on them. She is a true friend. Those are very hard to find in this universe, Dalek. You never let one of those go if you're lucky enough to find them. They're the rarest treasure in the universe. Gah! I'm starting to sound like the Doctor. I've been hanging around him too long!" Koschei said with a grimace.

The Dalek looked at him perceptively as it said, "YOU LOVE THE GIRL!"

"Not in the same way that the Doctor does. I love her like a sister. She's the only person in this universe that I care about. Remember that, Dalek! If everything were to ever happen to her, I would watch your world and all of your kind burn! Do I make myself clear? If you're pumping me for information about her because you are thinking of using her against me in some way, then think again!" Koschei said as he glared at the Dalek with a look of pure menace on his face.

The Dalek backed off in fear and said nothing more.

Koschei quickly ran to the connections between the Eye and the power grid as he tried to undo what Omega had done before it was too late. The Daleks were lending their expertise to the effort as well. They too were examining the connections and using their intelligence to help speed a solution along quicker.

None of them paused to consider the irony that they were working together to help save a world that they had both tried to destroy in the past.

Meanwhile back on Earth; Rose, Cassie, and Nemesis combined still couldn't bring down the Pythia. The Doctor decided that he had to intervene and put a stop to her once and for all. This whole situation was his fault anyway because he had tried to give her a second chance. It was up to him to fix it.

He materialized his TARDIS a few feet away from the fighting and started to set things up for him to use a weapon that he never thought that he would ever use again. He was going to use the Moment on the Pythia! He just hoped that he didn't wind up trapping Rose or Cassie inside of it as well.

He was sure that he could localize its effect, but he didn't know if he could contain it to just one person specifically or not. Those around them might be affected as well. It was why he had been hesitant to use it so far. Now he could see that he had no choice. It was the only option that they had left.

Ileana watched with pride as her fellow vampire hunters tore through the ranks of the vampires threatening Jenny. She too joined into the fight in order to speed their destruction along quicker. Soon she would have cause to regret that action!

As everyone who would have defended Jenny was busy fighting a ton of vampires all around them, the evil alternate universe Rani appeared behind her in her TARDIS. She quickly got out and then shot Jenny in the back with a staser at point blank range!

Jenny fell to the ground with a scream for Rose, and then fell instantly unconscious. Rose forgot about the Pythia immediately as she heard her daughter scream in pain. She teleported to her side and glared at the alternate Rani. In the next instant, the alternate Rani was turned into stone and found herself at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean on Earth. Maybe one day Rose would consider forgiving her but not today.

She then turned in anger towards the incredibly weakened Dracula, and he blanched at her attention. He knew that he couldn't face her in his current condition. He turned into mist and rapidly floated away from her.

Rose would have gone after him had she not seen that the Pythia was starting to overwhelm Cassie and Nemesis without her help. She could see that Jenny would survive by using the power of the Bad Wolf, but that she would be very weak and sick for a while. Luckily, the staser wasn't powerful enough to kill Jenny while she had the protection of the Vortex. She went back to help them keep the Pythia contained as Ileana knelt by Jenny's side and watched over her. She looked guiltily back at Jenny as she did so. It should be her doing that. She was her mother.

Ileana felt guilty as well. She should have kept watching her. She knew that there was no way that she could have expected the alternate universe Rani to appear out of nowhere like that, but she should have been watching over Jenny anyway. She was so glad that Jenny was going to be okay. She couldn't have lived with herself if anything permanent would have happened to her.

She whispered words of encouragement to her while the Time Lady lay unconscious. The positive intentions of her friend toward her didn't do any good though because Jenny was currently having horrible dreams. They were dreams of the vampires overwhelming everyone. The worst one was the one where Dracula made her mum into a vampire while she watched!

She wished that she could wake up. She didn't want to see the horrible visions anymore! She wanted to wake up and do something about them. She would wipe every single one of them off of the face of the universe to protect her mother. If only she could wake up!

Next: Will the Master and the Daleks save Gallifrey in time? Will Marissa and Susan find a cure? Both of these questions get answered in the next chapter.