Chapter 9 – Goodbye, Hello –

The Doctor looked around, trying to determine if there were any people he could get out of the way, however, upon seeing the immense amount of people that actually surrounded the square, he realized that there was very little he could do. He turned to Kymern, to see what he had made of the situation. Kymern however, was currently whistling and messing about with his sonic wristband. The Doctor decided to pay no attention, having recently come to the conclusion that Kymern hardly cared that much for other peoples lives, then ran to the nearest people, shouting something at them, trying to get them out of the way, but they were too busy screaming and pointing at this golem that had suddenly appeared in London. Rose, who was also shocked at this giant rock golem, slowly turned to Kymern.

"Well, can't you do anything?"

Kymern looked at her, and smirked "I'm doing something right now my dear"

"What, on that thing?"

"Why not? All I need is a large enough energy source…….." he cut off, and stopped smiling.

"What?"

"Source…… I need a large energy source" he frowned, then turned to Rose.

"What do you mean? Can't you just operate that thing?"

"Well you see, it requires an external power source, why do you think it's so thin?"

Rose just looked at him. She didn't realise what he was really talking about, so she just nodded and muttered her agreement. Suddenly the golem groaned, and lifted it's fists. Everybody turned and looked up. The golem lifted its fists up, and was about to slam them down in a direction. Right where the Doctor and some people stood.

Rose cried out to him, but he looked too shocked to realise. Kymern shook his head, looked gloomily around himself and muttered.

"Well, guess it had to happen to sometime"

He ran forward, raising his wrist up, just before the golem's fists hit anybody, it flashed bright white, blinding everybody. A beam of lightning appeared to stuck out between Kymern and the Golem. The Golem roared, and Kymern dropped to his knees, screaming. He had not felt pain like this ever. The pain ripped though his body, tearing his limbs apart, sucking energy from every single molecule of his existence. This lightning shot through them both for a couple of seconds, then suddenly the Golem just disappeared from the air. All that was left was a giant crater in the middle of the square. The Doctor ran over, and peered over it, seeing a small broken canister, which looked familiar to him. He laughed and grinned.

"Ha, looks like it was only a prank, sent by some other planet" He looked up "No invasion after all"

But Rose didn't notice, she was too busy looking at something else.

"Doctor…." She muttered "look"

The Doctor turned around, slowly but surely. He did not know what to expect, but he knew from the tone in Rose's voice that something was indeed wrong. There, lying on the ground, smoking very slightly, and with an awful pained expression, was Kymern. The Doctor ran over to him, kneeling beside him.

"Kymern……" he uttered.

But it was no use, Kymern had been knocked unconscious by the sheer force of it all. His wristband had also suffered massively, it was beeping, and emitting sparks like crazy. The Doctor stood up, looked around at the people who just were staring at him, having been scared witless by the attack of the golem. He turned to Rose.

"Come on, let's get him back"

She stood there, looking at him, not knowing what to do. Slowly she nodded, as if slowly coming back to reality.

Moments later, back on the Crusader, Kymern was laid out in what the Doctor had thought to be the ships medical bay. He wasn't entirely sure of this, but the markings on the door appeared to say something about health, or so he told Rose. Kymern groaned slightly, trying to force his eyes open. His entire body ached, and he could feel a strange, slightly painful sensation in his body. As he looked up, he saw the Doctor and Rose peering over him.

"Did…. It work…. Then?" he whispered, for he somehow could not feel within him the strength to talk normally…. Yet.

"Yes" The Doctor grinned "It worked, the golem's gone"

"Good…" Kymern moaned "then it wasn't wasted……"

"What wasn't wasted?" Rose butted in, curious to know what he mean't.

"Oh nothing, just my life, had to use a big energy source, also know as me to do what had to be done" Kymern laughed, wondering if the Doctor would ever explain to her the process.

Rose looked at him. "But don't worry, you'll be fine won't you" She turned to the Doctor and asked again "Won't he?" although this time with more curiousity in her voice, and less confidence.

The Doctor didn't bother to reply. He just looked at Kymern, as Rose slowly shed a tear.

"Listen, I don't want to seem rude, although I probably will be anyway, but I'd hate to leave and not tell you." He smiled at the Doctor. "But, perhaps staying with me isn't the best thing for you to do, you need to get out more, have more adventures, and so does your companion, in fact, so do I" he chuckled softly "So when I pass, perhaps I should be given a clean slate, and you should go back to where you left off" and looked at them both. The Doctor slowly nodded his head in agreement, and smiled.

"Well, does it hurt?" Kymern raised an eyebrow feebly, already his body was starting to ache more and more by the second.

"Depends, it's different each time" The Doctor whispered gently.

"Oh, well, I hope it doesn't, that would be a shame, wouldn't it" he looked to Rose.

Rose simply had no idea what he was babbling on about, but knew his time was at an end. She put her hand on his, and smiled feebly.

"Well, I think it's time to……" he began, but never finished, for by the word to his eyes had shut, and his voice had trailed off. The Doctor looked at him for a few seconds then held Rose's hand.

"Let's go" he said softly. "he needs time on his own now"

The tear that Rose had shed before, had finally reached the end of her face, and then dropped off onto the floor. She nodded, and walked off into the corridor with him, seeing another death, especially with somebody who she had seen for a few weeks, even if she hadn't always gotten on with him, had sparked something within her.

From the medical bay, her muffled voice could be heard "Doctor…. About my father….."

But that was it, for the medical room slowly shined to light. Kymern's dead body suddenly started to glow, and a bright light span around him. A quiet but distinctive high-pitched noise could be heard, as the light engulfed him. Within seconds however, it was all over, it had been completed. As the light and noise dimmed from the room, a much younger eye than the old man's opened, and looked into the world for the first time.