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The Vampires of Venice (1)
After The Doctor had explained everything to Jenny, she was disappointed in Amy, but forgave her. Considering Bachelor and Bachelorette parties could get crazy and the people at the center of it could end up doing crazy things. She had been to a couple, which none had been for her, so she had an idea on what could happen.
After that, they had Amy tell them where Rory was, which was at his Stag party.
When they got there, they saw a big cake that a stripper was in it, and it was between Jenny and her dad on who would go in. They ended up playing Rock, Paper, Scissors with Jenny losing and going into the cake. When it started moving, she could hear music starting, people shouting, and having a good time.
"Out! Out! Out!" She then heard them all chant.
Jenny popped out and everyone fell silent, with the music still on. Jenny looked around and found Rory, who had a look of disbelief and confusion, she snorted in amusement and got out.
"Sorry boys I'm taken already. Also there's a girl outside named Lucy in a Bikini outside. Someone should get her something to wear. Rory! Long time no see. I don't know how to put this but uh… Amy tried to kiss my dad." Everyone gasps. "I know, and also we need you to help her out. C'mon and great party."
"So Amy did what?" Rory asked, as Jenny brought him outside.
"I'll explain once we get into the TARDIS."
Jenny dragged Rory out to the TARDIS and led him in. She found her dad in a harness seat underneath the console doing some welding while Amy was pacing nervously.
Rory went over, looked down through the glass floor of the console, and watched The Doctor. While Jenny stood by the console, just in case something happened.
"Oh! The life out there, it dazzles. I mean, it binds you to the things that are important. I've seen it devour relationships and plans."
As he said that there was a small explosion. Jenny went to check the console screen and found nothing bad.
"Ooh! It's meant to do that!" The Doctor said.
"No, it's not." Jenny responded with an eye roll.
The Doctor ignored her and continued," Because for one person to have seen all that, to taste the glory and then go back, it WILL tear you apart. So… Jenny and I are sending you somewhere. Together."
"Whoa! What, like a date?" Amy asked.
Jenny nodded and said," Anywhere and anytime you want. But the condition is that it has to be amazing."
The Doctor got out from his spot and went to the Console, "She's right! The Moulin Rouge in 1890! The first Olympic Games! Think of it as a wedding present from us. Because frankly, it's either this or tokens."
Jenny thought of where to take them but she noticed Rory with a stunned expression and smirked.
"It's a lot to take in, isn't it? Tiny box, huge space inside. Want me to explain?"
"It's another dimension." Rory said.
"It's basically another dimen.. what?" The Doctor said.
"After Prisoner Zero, I've been reading up on all the latest scientific, FTL travel, parallel universes." Rory explained.
Jenny had a proud look and said," That's brilliant Rory, I knew I had a good feeling about. He's a keeper." She said the last part to Amy.
"I like the bit when someone says, 'It's bigger on the inside!' I always look forward to that." The Doctor slightly complained.
"So this date. I'm kind of done with running down corridors. What do you think, Rory?"
Jenny went to the console and said," I got the place dad, somewhere romantic."
The TARDIS soon materialized in the middle of a busy market. No one in the vicinity noticed or seemed to care, as they went about their business. The Doctor was the first to exit with the rest of the group following him out.
"Venice! Venezia! La Serenissima! Impossible city. Preposterous city!" The Doctor yelled.
Amy and Rory look on in amassment and Jenny was thinking she could take Jack on a date in the city, either in the past or the present. The Doctor walked around with the others following him while he talked.
"Founded by refugees running from Attila the Hun. It was just a collection of little wooden huts in the marsh, but became one of the most powerful cities in the world. Constantly being invaded, constantly flooding… Just beautiful! Right Jenny?"
"Yep, and also this is 145 years before Casanova was born as well. We're in 1580."
"Ooh right. I owe him a chicken." The Doctor told Amy and Rory.
"You owe Casanova a chicken?" Rory said.
"He had a bet. I wasn't there, but he said it's a long story." Jenny explained.
An official dressed in black came in front of them and said.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Papers, if you please. Proof of residency, current bill of medical inspection." He said.
The Doctor held up his Psychic paper and said," There you go, fella. All to your satisfaction, I think you'll find."
The official bowed and said," I am so sorry, Your Holiness. I didn't realize."
The Doctor put his paper away and said," No worries. You were just doing your job. Sorry, what exactly is your job?"
"Checking for aliens, visitors from foreign lands what might bring the plague with them." The Official said.
"Oh, that's nice, see where you bring me? The plague!" Amy angrily said and glared at Jenny.
Jenny would've apologized but she what the man said was inaccurate, because the plague had died out for quite a while now.
"That's odd, because I heard the plague died out years ago." Jenny said.
"Don't worry, Viscountess." The Official reassured and bowed. "No, we're under quarantine here, no one comes in, no-one goes out, and all because of the grace and wisdom of our patron, Signora Rosanna Calvierri." He said and pointed to the crest on the box he was carrying. "But Signora Calvierri has seen it with her own eyes. Streets are piled high with bodies, she said."
"Did she, now?" The Doctor asked, not buying it.
The Official walked off with others walking off.
"You don't believe it either?" Jenny asked.
"Nope." The Doctor said.
Before Jenny and her dad could talk further, the sound of gates opening were heard and they looked across the canal. They saw young women lined up in two lines, all wearing white gowns. An older women was with them and told them something and they put their veils down.
"Huh, now why don't you listen orders like those girls?" The Doctor asked playfully.
Jenny rolled her eyes in amusement and said with smirk," I'm your daughter, I don't listen to orders."
The Doctor chuckled, kissed her head and put his arm around her. Amy and Rory watched the sight with small smiles. Amy could tell since she started traveling with them that they had a great father daughter relationship and loved each other. Rory had only known them for a short time but he could tell they were really close.
The moment stopped when they saw a black man run up to them and start lifting the girls veils. They couldn't hear what he was saying to the woman. They heard him call out to one of the girls who was named 'Isabella', who was probably his daughter, and was one of the girls who were lined up. When he found her, another girl seemed to hiss at him and the man fell to the ground. The girls then soon left, and the man was left there, and soon walked off. Jenny and The Doctor look at each with the same idea and went off after him.
"I hate it when they do that!" Jenny heard Amy say.
The both of them followed the man as he stormed off. The Doctor leaped onto a staircase and Jenny mimicked him, so they can stop the man.
"Who were those girls?" The Doctor asked immediately.
The man stopped, looked at them and said," I thought everyone knew about the Calvierri school."
"It's our first day here. Parents do all sorts of things to get their children into good schools. They move house, they change religion."
"Pull strings and ask for favors. So tell us, why you were trying to get her out?" Jenny asked.
The man looked sorta frightened and said," Something happens in there. Something magical, something evil. My own daughter didn't recognize me. And the girl who pushed me away, her face… like an animal."
"As in ugly with bad teeth or something that resembled an animal, and wasn't human?" Jenny asked.
"The second."
The Doctor put his arm around the man and said," I think it's time Jenny and I meet this Signora Calvierri."
The plan was to have the father, whose name was Guido, distract some guards, while Jenny and The Doctor make their way into the school. They were now heading into a chamber and walked around until The Doctor spotted a mirror.
"Hello, handsome." He said as he admired himself.
"As if your ego couldn't get any bigger." Jenny teased.
The Doctor waved a finger at her with a grin and said," Don't start."
Jenny sensed movement behind them. She turned around to see a group of girls, the same ones from earlier, dressed in white, standing behind them.
"Uh, dad." Jenny said.
"Hmm." He said and turned around.
"Who are you?" The girls said unisom.
The Doctor looked at the mirror and then back at them. Jenny did the same and saw the girls reflections weren't shown.
"How are you doing that? I… am… loving it. You're like Houdini, only five scary girls, only he was shorter. WILL BE shorter. I'm ramblingly." The Doctor excitedly said.
"I'll ask you again, signor and signora. Who are you?"
"Huh, like The Shining. Cool." Jenny commented, even though she was having a really uneasy feeling.
"Why don't you check THIS out?" Holds up his wallet that showed an ID photo of his first incarnation.
"Library card." Puts it away. " Of course, it's with… he's… I need a spare. Pale, creepy girls, who don't like sunlight and can't be seen in… [looks in the mirror again.] Jenny, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Jenny nodded, even though things were starting to look bad, she was feeling sorta excited at the prospect of what they were both thinking the girls were was kinda cool.
"Oh, wait, why shut down the city?" The Doctor continued.
"Leave now, signor and signora, or we shall call for the steward… if you are lucky."
"Ooh." The Doctor said intrigued.
The girls then hissed, bared their fangs, and started to advance towards them.
"Ok… I think it's time to go, dad."
"Right, but first. Tell me the whole plan…. No wait… listen, Jenny and I would love to stay here. This whole thing…. We're thrilled."
"But we have to leave. Bye!"
The both of them run while the girls hiss after the both of them. The both of them make it out of the school and it was nighttime. They ran until they meet Amy and Rory across a canal from the school.
"Doctor!" Amy cried.
"We just met some/saw a vampire!" The Doctor and Amy said at once.
"Yes! I know their bad but I always wanted to meet one!" Jenny agreed excitedly.
Rory, who didn't have the same enthusiasm as them, looked a bit freaked out as he ran to them and said.
"We think we just saw a vampire." He panted.
"Yeah Rory, we know. It was really cool." Jenny said excitedly and Rory looked at her as if she was insane.
"And they went into their house." Amy said with a laugh.
Rory looked in disbelief and said," Oh. Right. Well…"
The Doctor walked up to him, slapped his hands on Rory's cheeks and said," Ok, so… first we need to get back in there somehow."
"What?!" Rory exclaimed.
"How do we do that?" Amy asked.
"Back in there where?!"
"The vampire's home, Rory. Do try to keep up." Jenny said.
The group were later inside Guido's home. He laid out a map of the Calvierri's House, while The Doctor, Jenny and Amy looked at it. While Rory sat on a barrel at the side. Jenny thought he looked out of place and sat next to him and gave him a smile. Rory nodded with a small grin in a sign of appreciation.
Jenny then noticed a black substance on a barrel and examined it. She knew what it was but didn't put much of a thought into it. Due nothing dangerous happening.
"As you saw. There's no clear way in. The House of Calvierri is like a fortress. But there's a tunnel underneath it, with a ladder and shaft that leads up into the house. I tried to get in once myself, but I hit a trapdoor." Guido explained.
"Ooo! Challenge accepted then." Jenny said with glint in her eye.
"No." The Doctor said as he looked at the map.
"Aw, but you didn't know what I was-"
"We pretend you're an applicant for the school, get you inside and tonight, you come down and open the trapdoor to let us in." He said.
"You're no fun." Jenny mumbled.
"What about me?" Amy offered.
"No." The Doctor said.
"Are you insane?" Rory cried out.
"We don't have another option."
"He said no, Amy. Listen to him." Rory said.
"There is another option." Guido said and pointed at the barrels that Jenny and Rory were sitting on. "I work at the Arsenal. We build the warships for the Navy."
"Gunpowder." Jenny stated.
Rory slid off the barrels and walked over to a window, out of fear and brought Jenny along with them. Jenny smiled a little at Rory's concern even though it was her who should watch out for him. But was thankful none the less.
"Look, I have a thing about guns and huge quantities of explosives." The Doctor said.
"Then why do you let Jenny carry those blasters she has?" Amy asked with a raised eyebrow.
"It's a long story that I won't get into."
"And also I can take care of myself." Jenny said.
"What do you suggest then? We wait until they turn her into an animal?" Guido asked.
"I'll be there 3, 4 hours tops." Amy offered.
"I still don't know why I can't go." Jenny pouted.
"Sweetie, they saw us and they would recognize you. I don't doubt that you can do it, it's just that." The Doctor reassured.
Jenny nodded and said," Fine, so what's the plan?"
Later the next day, Jenny, The Doctor, Rory and Guido, who was dressed in Rory clothes due to Rory needed his clothes, sat in a Gondola at night. Waiting for Amy to let them in.
Jenny noticed Rory having a nervous look and she place d a reassuring hand on his shoulder.
"She'll be fine. No need to worry."
"You can promise me that, can you?"
"Cross my hearts. And we will get Isabella too." Jenny said the last part to Guido, who nodded.
"Wait… hearts?" Rory said in confusion.
A few minutes later they had arrived at their destination and they all, minus Guido, go to the building. Jenny carried a lit torch while her dad took the lead and opened the gate while Rory was behind him.
"Right. Ok, I'll go first. If anything happens to me or Jenny, go back." The Doctor whispered.
"What happened? Between you and Amy? Jenny said she kissed you."
The Doctor stopped, looked at him for a second and said," NOW?! You want to do this NOW?"
"I do too." Jenny said.
The Doctor had told her about what happened, but she wanted to get the facts straight, just in case.
"I have a right to know." Rory agreed as they walked. "I'm getting married in 430 years."
They continued to walk down a dark corridor with the only light was from The Doctor's torch.
"She was frightened, I was frightened. But we survived, and the relief of it… and so she kissed me."
"And you kissed her back?" Rory asked.
"No, I didn't kiss her back. Rory she kissed me because I was there. I would have been you. Or else she might have tried it with Jenny… wait."
Jenny rolled her eyes and said," Basically, it should've been you."
"She's right." The Doctor said.
A strong gust of wind came and blew out The Doctor torch, and then it was total darkness.
"Can we go see the vampires now please?" He whispered. "Jenny, you have anything?"
"I think I do, but it's too dark and I can't see a thing. Do you want to hear a ghost story?"
"No." Both The Doctor and Rory said.
They then had managed to make it topside to the schools courtyard. Jenny had went first, even though The Doctor had objected but Jenny had taken out a blaster she had in her pocket and then easily got Rory and The Doctor out.
"Amy! Where's Amy? I can't see a thing." The Doctor whispered.
"Just as well I brought this, then." Rory said and pulled a out small pencil torch.
The Doctor pulled out a long large torch under his jacket," Ultraviolet, Portable sunlight."
"Yours is bigger than mine."
Jenny grimaced and said," Let's not go there."
"I agree." The Doctor said and took point.
"You know, Jack is quite good." Jenny said with smirk and let it hung there.
The Doctor almost gagged and said," No, Jenny, just don't."
Rory ignored them and said," If we cancel now, we lose the deposit on the village hall, the salsa band." Rory sighed.
The Doctor found a chest on the ground, opened it and found skeletal remains.
"What happened to them?" Rory asked.
Jenny took a closer look and saw that the bones seemed to be of a younger person and the bone structure showed to be female.
"They've had all the moisture taken out of them."
Rory frowned and said," That's what vampires do, right? They drink blood and replace it with their own."
"Except they haven't just taken their blood, but all of the water in their bodies." The Doctor said.
"Why did they die? Why aren't they like the girls in the school?"
"Maybe not everyone survives the process." The Doctor said with a shrug.
Jenny had a raised eyebrow at her dads bluntness and carefree attitude towards that. Considering there was a possibility of Amy going through whatever process those girls went through, and making it. She was about to reprimand him on it but Rory beat her to it.
"You know what's dangerous about you? It's not that you make people take risks. It's that you make them want to impress you. You make it so they don't want to let you down. You have no idea how dangerous you make people to themselves when you're around."
"Who are you?" Said a group of familiar voices
The girls appeared again, each from a different archway. The Doctor holds the ultraviolet light up to them as they get closer.
"Aren't you going to shoot them?" Rory said.
"I don't want to hurt them. I shoot as a last resort for things like this." Jenny said.
"We should run. Run!"
The three of them run out of the courtyard while the girls followed them. As they run down a corridor they encounter the Signora, Francesco, who Rory told them was the Signora's son, and another man. They were about to go the other way when the girls blocked their paths.
"Cab for Amy Pond?" The Doctor said.
"This rescue plan, not exactly watertight, is it?" Signora smirked.
The Doctor brandished the light at the girls to keep them back," Ha-ha!"
"Rory!" Amy yelled as she and Isabella ran over as they came from a different corridor.
"Amy!" Rory said and went to hug her.
"Quickly, through here!" Isabella said and led them off, while the girls chased them.
"They're not vampires!" Amy said.
"What?!" The Doctor said as he soniced the door.
"I saw them, I saw her. They're not vampires. They're aliens!" Amy continued.
"Ha! Classic!" The Doctor chuckled.
"Well, still a better story than Twilight." Jenny joked.
"I happen to like those books." Amy said.
"That's good news! And what does that have to do with this? What's wrong with you people?!" Rory cried.
The sounds of the door beginning to break made everyone run off again. They were close to the entrance to the outside and The Doctor had to brandish the light again. Isabella opened the door that led to the canal that Guido was waiting for them and ushered them out.
"Quickly. Get out. Quick!"
Isabella was about to walk out, but the sunlight hit her and she held her hands out to block it.
"Isabella, c'mon!" Jenny yelled.
"I can't!" She yelled as she was dragged back inside.
The Doctor was closets and ran back up and pounded at the door. He spasmed due to the door being electrified. He fell to the ground with the three running to check on him.
"Is he dead?" Amy asked fearfully.
"No, our physiology can withstand that much energy. He's just knocked out. Rory, help me." Jenny said.
She also realized that Isabella was probably not going to make it. And she and her dad promised Guido that they were going to get her back, but failed. Whatever was going on, they were going to stop it.
