CHAPTER 11
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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.
Koschei materialized his TARDIS on Earth and released the cure into the air as soon as he had opened his TARDIS doors. Marissa had filled his TARDIS full of as much of the cure as she could produce. It seemed to be the best receptacle for containing as much of it as possible.
The vampirism cure spread far and wide throughout the planet as it was carried everywhere by the Earth's air currents. Slowly the vampires were being diminished everywhere as they began to return to normal everywhere throughout the planet. The vampires were finally losing!
The cure eventually even reached the battle between Rose, Cassie, Nemesis, and the Pythia. The Pythia looked around her in anger as her army all started to change back into ordinary people once again.
Somewhere on the battlefield, Donna Noble screamed with joy as she felt the curse leave her. She was free! She was free!
"Thank you, Rose!" Donna screamed out.
She had no idea that it wasn't Rose but the former Master who had saved her life. She would have been shocked if she had known. She still had a grudge against the man for trying to kill her before back when she had lost her memory. That would start to change later though when she found out the truth. One day, they would even become friends.
Without the vampires around to help them anymore; the Daleks, Sontarans, and Autons all began to make short work of the Cybermen, the Ogri and the Weeping Angels.
The war had been won. Or so it seemed.
Rose noticed to her horror that the Pythia did not change. She was still a vampire!
"Something wrong, Rose? Could it be that your little plan didn't quite work out?" the Pythia said as she started laughing hysterically.
The Doctor knew now that he had no choice. He had to use the Moment on the Pythia, or she would start things up all over again.
He began to power up the TARDIS and focused its energy into creating the Time Lock around the evil Time Lady. He just needed a few minutes in order to complete the process.
Rose and Cassie were determined to give him those few minutes. They continued to fight the Pythia and keep her in check. The Pythia was no fool though, and she could sense that she was about to be attacked by someone else soon. She knew that she was running out of time.
She exploded outward with power and knocked her enemies away from her for a moment when a shockwave of energy poured outwards from her and knocked them to the ground. Then she used every last bit of energy at her command and spread out her influence to the entire planet as she began to systematically transform every human being on the planet into her own personal army of temporal vampires! Every one of them started to transform into a bizarre combination between a vampire and a Vortex energy being. In other words, they became just like the Pythia!
They all gathered together now as they prepared to make one last stand against the massive horde of vampires coming to destroy them. There weren't just human vampires now either. Even the Sontarans had been changed. They were now all vampires as well. Only the Daleks and the Autons remained on their side and unaffected. They didn't have much of a chance against the others though.
"Now you see, don't you Rose? The entire human race now belongs to me! They will be the first in my new army. We will sweep across the stars until first this universe and then all universes bow down and worship me! I will be the ultimate being!" the Pythia spat at Rose in a combination of rage and triumph.
Dracula now returned to help her. He was transformed into his Great Vampire form now and was as big as the Eiffel Tower!
"We will finish the Time Lords now. We can do it together, my dear. Then we will rule everything side by side." Dracula said in a dark, bestial voice.
The Pythia looked at him and smiled.
"Yes! You're the perfect man for me, aren't you? We're the same, you and I!" she said as she got closer and closer to him.
"Yes. That's right," Dracula said as he grinned at her in triumph.
At last, he was about to have everything that he had ever wanted. Complete control of everything and everyone and someone by his side to make it all worthwhile. He had won!
As The Pythia stood next to him, he transformed back into his human form. She then drew closer and closer to him as if to give him a kiss.
Rose turned away in disgust. She couldn't watch someone that looked like her kissing anyone else other than the Doctor, especially not that monster!
Just as their lips were about to meet, Dracula screamed out in agony and crumpled to the ground. A stake was protruding from his back! The Pythia laughed at him as he looked at her with a look of betrayal.
"Do you think that I could ever ally myself with someone like you? That I could love you? Love is for lesser beings! I am beyond such a stupid concept. I need no one and certainly not you, you foul monster! Die like the garbage that you are!" the Pythia said as she cut his head off with a huge silver blade that suddenly appeared in her hand.
Dracula then burned and rapidly disintegrated into dust as the Pythia set him on fire with her powers. She then dispersed the dust throughout the planet with a massive wind that she conjured up from out of nowhere.
"Everything will be mine and mine alone!" she said to the rapidly disappearing dust.
Rose had mixed feelings about this turn of events. On one hand, she wanted to cheer the Pythia on for not being low enough to fall for Dracula. On the other hand, she was disgusted that this woman that was essentially her thought nothing of love and openly mocked it. It bothered her at the core of her being. How could see be anything like her? She was truly her complete and utter opposite. They couldn't be more unalike and yet still somehow be so similar. They were a very bizarre pair!
The Pythia somehow seemed to be getting stronger and stronger now. Rose wondered if she somehow gained strength from her newly vampirized followers. Had she created some kind of gestalt?
She hated it when she started talking like the Doctor!
The Pythia turned to Rose and ebony energy poured out of her, and Rose fell to the ground in agony. Rose passed out from the pain and lay unconscious and helpless on the ground.
Nemesis went to help her friend, but she was teleported into deep space by a gesture from the Pythia. She was not going to let anyone stop her this time.
To her surprise, Nemesis instantly reappeared and shot her arrow through one of her hearts. The Pythia staggered back in pain but was still able to function because she had two hearts instead of just one.
Nemesis wasn't done with her yet though. She deliberately blew herself up with a huge burst of silver energy as she tried to disintegrate the Pythia into dust!
The explosion would have caused major damage if Cassie hadn't contained it. The two of them had had this planned in advance. This was their doomsday scenario in case Rose fell.
As the dust cleared, Cassie' heart fell to see that the Pythia was still alive and Nemesis was gone. The Pythia was laughing at her as she pulled the arrow out of her chest and instantly healed. Cassie knew that Nemesis would eventually reform, but it would not be in time to save her. She was all alone now against the Pythia!
The Doctor knew that he had to do it now. He started to use the Moment on the Pythia. She started slowing down as time began to come to a complete stop around her. Unfortunately, the effect also was extending to Rose and Cassie!
He began to shake and sweat poured off of him. He could save the universe, but he would lose two of the people that he loved the most! It wasn't fair! He couldn't lose Rose again!
He watched as time stopped completely for all three of them, and he knew that in a minute that the effect would be permanent and not even he could undo it.
"Forgive me!" He said with despair in his voice.
He quickly flicked a switch on the TARDIS console and let the Moment fade away before it could become permanent. He had released them.
He couldn't lose her again! He just hoped that the universe could forgive him for it someday.
"Fool! Your love has just condemned you and everyone else that you care about. This is why I will win!" the Pythia spat towards the TARDIS.
Her eyes suddenly flashed wide open with a combination of pain, shock, and surprise as two stakes came through both of her hearts simultaneously!
"Do everyone a favor and shut up!" Ileana said as she stood in triumph over the fallen Time Lady.
Ileana then proceeded to start to cut her head off. The Pythia was very weak now and barely able to move, but she still had enough power left to teleport away to safety. She would find though that she wasn't as safe as she thought.
The Pythia appeared a few miles away from the battle. The entire area was empty at first so she assumed that she was in the clear and had successfully escaped. She was wrong.
She slowly walked toward a nearby abandoned building where she thought that she could hide and attempt to pull out the stakes. They hadn't successfully punctured both hearts completely so she thought that she had a chance at survival if she could swiftly remove them before she got too weak.
Before she got too far though, she was found by a group of Daleks.
"HALT! YOU WILL SURRENDER TO THE DALEKS, OR YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!" one of them screamed at her.
She tried to dissolve them, but she was much too weak now. It was taking all of her power to keep herself moving. She would be lying helpless on the ground without the power of the Vortex to keep her going.
Suddenly Davros appeared and smiled evilly at her.
"I'm afraid that your career is at an end, my dear! I will end this Time War right here and now with your destruction! Final victory will belong to the Daleks!" Davros said as he began to attack her with bolts of energy from his hand.
The Pythia crumbled to the ground in pain. She still managed to laugh at him though.
"You can't fool me! You're not doing this to end the war. You're doing this to protect the girl! You've been contaminated by love! It will lead to your undoing one day. I'm just sorry that I won't be there to see it," The Pythia said with mocking laughter.
Davros sneered at her as he increased the power flowing into her.
"You know nothing about me. I do not feel love! I have no feelings at all anymore. Those all died a long time ago. I do this in the name of universal supremacy not for emotion!" Davros spat at her in disgust.
"Methinks thou dost protest too much!" the Pythia managed to spit out with one last smirk before she disintegrated into dust and blew apart on the wind.
"Idiot!" Davros said with a smug grin on his face.
He knew what he was. The girl meant nothing to him. The universe was his ultimate goal.
"Report! Who has fallen to the Pythia?" Davros said as he called his Dalek forces in the area of the battle.
"THE BAD WOLF HAS FALLEN AND IS UNCONSCIOUS BUT ALIVE. THE NEMESIS DEVICE HAS BEEN DESTROYED. THE DOCTOR, THE ONE KNOWN AS CASSIE, AND THE TEMPORAL VAMPIRE ILEANA ARE AS YET UNHARMED," the Dalek reported.
Davros found himself smiling for a moment. He wasn't quite sure why except that he had dealt a major blow to the enemy. Yes, that must be it.
He turned to the Daleks and said, "Excellent. Then we still have a chance of defeating these new vampires now that their leader is gone. The Bad Wolf will soon recover, and we will have ultimate victory. This war will be won due to the superior might of the Daleks killing the vampires' leader first where the Time Lords failed!" Davros said with a wide grin on his face.
"ALL HAIL THE DALEKS! THE DALEKS ARE SUPREME!" the Daleks all cried out in unison.
The vampires were slowly starting to lose, but were still a potential threat. If they ever learned to use their Vortex abilities, they would become unstoppable. At the moment however, they were thankfully still very unskilled. Koschei had already told Marissa about the change in their abilities and power so that she might be able to come up with a new cure against them. Maybe they still had a chance to stop them before it was too late!
Then again, it might already be too late.
Dracula suddenly reappeared and grabbed the still unconscious Rose Tyler right in front of everyone. The others were shocked by his sudden return and did not act for a second. That was all the time that he needed to sink his fangs into her throat and begin to drain her blood!
Jenny awoke now to see that her nightmares were coming true! She screamed in anguish as she lay helpless and unable to help her mother!
Next: The Time War ends at last in the next and final chapter! Who will be the one to finally end the war and destroy Dracula once and for all? Find out next time!