CHAPER 7

Mizariah sat across from the Doctor with Jack, neither dared say a word. For the look on the Doctors face was murderous. You could see that he was not happy at what had happened to Rose, Mizariah knew what Dumah would do to her. He wouldn't take her straight to Mokie; he would rape her. She knew that she didn't have to tell the Doctor what Dumah would do, from his reaction earlier she knew Dumah had taunted the Doctor with this knowledge.

They were back in the sleeping area; all around were the huddled forms of the slumbering. Finally Jack must have got tired of the Doctors broody silence.

"Doc, what we going to do? What's the plan? We have to go get Rosie"

"Mizariah, will he take her to the Sultarrvec?" she looked in to his eyes, seeing all kinds of horrors flowing through the blue gaze. Those were the eyes that had witnessed such darkness that they were forever tainted by it. His eyes were so much like Mokie's; she didn't mean their color but the darkness flowing within. But the Doctors held more spirit than Mokie's, as if the Doctor was strong enough to be touched by the fire and come out with minor burns that would heal over time. She was afraid that Mokie had not been burned, but consumed.

"He will do as he says…all that he says Doctor. I'm sorry."

"And will the Sultarrvec kill her?"

"Mokie is not evil, I'm sure he's not. But I can not deny that all that have gone to him never return." She replied sadly, but truthfully

"Then we have to get to her now"

"How? Night has fallen, the tunnel is frozen. You go out there without a suit you'll freeze in seconds." The Doctor got to his feet and started pacing. His boundless energy filled with frustration and concern.

"She's right Doc, not even you could stand that for long"

"I'm stronger than I look, but your right. I would last only about a couple of hours. But you two" he waved his hand absently in their direction. "We'll have to wait till morning"

"But Doc…"

"I know Jack. But we can't do anything" he sighed and sat down against the wall "I should have known he would do that. The way he was looking at her"

"Do what Doc?"

"Jack, this is not the time to be dumb" Jack looked at him a moment, then cottoned on what the Doctor was on about.

"Hell. We have to help her tonight Doc. Now! Do you want her to go through that!" Jack snapped. In the Time-Agency he had seen people like Dumah in the high rankings. They would rape women in the past, thinking it wasn't wrong. That was until Jack and a few others exposed them.

"Course I bloody don't! But would you have us get ourselves killed trying to get to her? You think Rose would want that?"

"No…." Jack replied looking away, fists clenched at his side. Then he felt a comforting hand on his shoulder as the Doctor stood beside him.

"We'll get her Jack"

"But what if she's dead?"

"She won't be" The Doctors voice a knife-edge, eyes the alien darkness deeper than a dieing star.

888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888

Dumah went to med bay to be stitched up. His eye would be fine, but he would have a large scar across it. He would have to now tell the master. And he knew exactly what to say. He came to the manor, and went straight to the master in his library.

"Did you bring the girl?" Melchia asked, his back to Dumah. But when he finished the question he turned to look at Dumah. "Why do I get the feeling I am not going to like what you have to tell me?"

"The girl is dead master"

"What!" In an instant Melchia was close to Dumah, his clawed hand at his throat digging painfully into this skin. "Did you try to taste her Dumah? Did she fight and you kill her? Speak quickly my friend for death is calling you"

"No my master! It was the Sultarrvec. He did this to me, was able to move freely. He said he was hungry. He killed her," Dumah babbled, true he had not seen the deathblow. But the Sultarrvec was a killer of the masters making. A shadow barely in control.

Melchia threw Dumah to the floor in disgust. He strode to a cabinet and opened it with a key. Inside was a glass tank. Held within was a black substance; almost tar like in is consistency and shade.

"It is time my pet was put in his place once more. We will need three men to carry the container" he indicated a table to the left. But it wasn't a table as such. It was a platform to carry something heavy on it. Coming from the back in the center was one pole; to the front two more poles from each corner. These were so three people could carry the platform. In the center were two flasks like containers.

The substance in the glass tank had a very high density. Normally you only needed one to carry the single small flask. But this had two.

"You going to give him a double dose master?" Dumah replied happy yet shocked at the same time. The Master had not given the Sultarrvec a double dose in years. Not since the last girl he had wanted murdered. Bills daughter.

"Yes."

"May I pay him back for what he did to me?" Dumah asked.

"Yes….and I am wary of the two that came with the girl. Chose them two to carry the platform. And also that Bob. I am tired of his screaming and ranting. They can….find the Sultarrvec's true nature" he began to laugh; his inhuman lilt an eerie pitch. Dumah bowed and exited the master's rooms. He would get the three, and would have his fun with the Doctor. He looked down at the tattered bloody remains of the blondes jacket…..yes he would have fun.

88888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888

The Doctor had not found slumber as the other two had done, Jack had an unsettled sleep, tossing an turning while he murmured. Only Mizariah had what could be called a restful slumber. The Doctor had been plagued with doubts and old hatreds. The more he heard of the Sultarrvec the more he knew it was Galen. The old part of himself, the one that had been unbreakable friends with Galen, told him he would never harm Rose. But the new part of him, the one that had seen the horrors after the time war, suspected that the tales of the ruthless Sultarrvec were true and that he would harm her.

He got to his feet when the alarm sounded, following the others from the sleeping rooms and joining the line for food. Jack and Mizariah were by his side as he began to outline the plan.

"Right, when we go to he mine we'll slip away like I did before. I know the way so it will be quicker than last time"

"You hope" Jack commented dryly.

"I hope.." The Doctor glared at Jack a moment then continued. "Then we can rescue Rose, then free everyone else"

"How" Mizariah asked, eyes wide in awe at this man who made it all sound so easy.

"Haven't figured that part out yet, but I'm sure I will" he replied with a grin, she looked at him shocked a moment when she heard Jack whisper in her ear.

"Don't worry, you get used to it"

"If we survive"

"Yeah well there is that"

They got their bowls of noodles and sat once more at the rusting tables. They sat to one corner huddled together, the Doctor seeming to be in his own little world so Mizariah decided to talk to Jack while they ate.

"Rose means a lot to you two doesn't she?"

"Yeah, she means more to the Doctor than I do. To me she is like my little sister" Jack leaned next to her, whispering these words to in her ear.

"How did you meet her?"

"She had traveled with the Doctor long before I met them. He saved her from some bad things, and then she in turn saved him. He asked her…twice, which I think he has never done before, to go with him." Mizariah was listening with rapt attention.

"I met them later. I must admit when they met me I wouldn't say I was a good guy, but wouldn't call me a bad guy either. I was a conman. I made a mistake, which Rose and the Doctor cleaned up for me. Then when any other would have told me to clear off. They actually invited me to join their crew. They showed me I was better than the man I had become."

"Was that when you came here?"

"No, you see the reason Rose means so much to us, is what she was willing to give up to save us"

"What?"

"Her life, she brought me back to life and saved the universe from a monster so terrible that some might call it evil itself"

"She brought you back to life? How?"

"Magic" the Doctor finished the tale, showing he didn't want the conversation to continue. His eyes had gone dark once more as he looked over their shoulder. They turned to see Dumah approaching with four guards. He had a smug grin on his face as he came to stand by the little group.

"Ah, there you are." His slimy slicked voice.

"Where is Rose" there was no room for ignoring or bypassing the question. The Doctors voice instilling a moment of fear in Dumah's eyes. In that instant he got a glimpse of what he was truly dealing with, and for him it was far worse. But then he remembered he held all the cards. Yes him. He could bring down the Sultarrvec and destroy this Doctor with what was in his possession.

"Rose? Oh the girl…… why she's dead Doctor" he smiled….for a moment before a fist wiped it from his face. Jack had moved before the guards could grab him. The guards then proceeded to shock Jack into submission while Dumah wiped the blood from his lips. He give Jack a quick kick, then looked to the Doctor who was now being restrained by two guards.

"You lie"

"Do I now? Well then, this will mean nothing to you" he threw the ragged, bloody remains of Rose's hoodie on the table. The Doctor looked on, eyes wide. The mask so well constructed falling for a moment. Dead? She couldn't be dead. Not after all this, not after all she had done.

"You.." the Doctor growled, anger upon anger. Hate upon hate. This little insignificant man had killed something so magnificent, so good. It seemed impossible to the Doctor now that some stupid man would be able to kill her, he had now thought only the time-vortex itself could claim Rose. To make her one with time.

"No. Sorry, I cannot take the credit for her, though she was a nice……ride"

"I don't believe you Dumah, you're a parasite, a little man trying to gain power by taking those who can not stop you. But I know Rose did, I can see it from the scratch marks on your face. You never touched her being, her light. For if you had you would have seen what a monster you are" the Doctor strained against the guards. Rose wasn't dead, he would know. Somehow he would know. After both being touched by the Time-vortex, he would know or the TARDIS would. But he felt with both his hearts that she still lived. Not until he saw her lifeless body and sightless brown orbs would he believe it.

"No, I didn't kill her. The Sultarrvec did. But if you don't believe that our pet did it…we'll give you the chance to ask him yourself. Bring them both"

Jack and the Doctor where handcuffed and pulled to their feet. The group was led to the exit of the food room when Bob decided to make himself known.

"I want to see it, I want to kill it. Take me to the monster, take me to the Sultarrvec" his raving hysteric voice reverberating around the cave room.

"You want to see it, very well Bob. You may see it" Dumah smirked, he couldn't have planed it better himself. The Doctor and his friend looked Broken. Only Bob was following willingly into the depths.

They were taken to the entrance of the cave were Melchia was waiting. Beside him was the platform. The two flasks glinting silver in the dull light.

"You there will carry that and follow" The master ordered. Not even bothering to look at the three. The Doctor, Jack and Bob each took a pole and hefted the pallet onto their shoulders.

"Reminds me of my visit to Arabia, of course I was riding on it with a princess instead of carrying it" Jack remarked with a grin, it even managed to get a little turn of the lips from the Doctor. But only a small one.

They worked their way deeper into the mine, the sound of scratching becoming louder as they neared where the Doctor had come to before. The scratching stopped a moment, but continued soon after.

They came to the mouth of a large room, beyond was utter darkness. That was until the master inserted a key, which turned on a large bank of lights. And there in the center was a large dragon. Jack gasped at the sight, it was huge. The scales a sickly yellow color. Well what you could actually manage to see through the layers of black mud covering it. The eyes were white but with red orbs in their center, its wings cruelly chained to its back. It was also chained to the wall by chins that attached to his neck and four claws, the chains then disappeared though a holes in the wall. Jack watched as it looked at them a moment before it locked eyes on the Doctor.

888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888

Doctor knew now that this was Galen, but oh how he had fallen. He was chained, wings held to his back by more chains that were attached to pikes that were driven into his hide. His scales no longer shined like pure gold, but were a sickly, putrid yellow. For a second he felt sorry for Galen. But only for a second, then he remembered the betrayal, and the supposed death of Rose. The hard mask fell across his face, eyes dark and cold once more. And he saw Galen sigh at this; he also saw fear for a moment.

They placed the platform with the flasks on the floor, and then stood beside it. The master walked forward and threw a black robe on the floor.

"I would have you change my pet"

"As you wish my master" Galen walked forward, then he glowed in yellow light. The Doctor knew it once would have been gold. It was a testament of how ill he must be. The form of the dragon compacted and there standing before them was a man, his long silver hair tied back, though this was covered by the black mud also. He had trousers on that the Doctor recognized as fabric that would change with him. Would hide in his genetic makeup when he was in his true form. He could also see the chains that had held his wings were now small chains across the sides of his chest, disappearing round his back. His wings when in dragon form were linked with his ribs so would have to be placed there. His eyes no longer the red, but now glowed Gold. the Doctor could see the trace of the Time vortex held within. but this was also dulled.

Seeing this made the Doctor wonder. How had this Melchia know what metal alloy to use?that would change with Galens form? Who had told him? The Doctor watched as Galen walked forward to stand before the master.

"Kneel" he knelt without question. He was then chained on his knees, arms tight by his side so he could not move. "It is time for your medicine my pet"

"Two master?" there was fear in Galen's voice as he looked to the others there with him.

"You have displeased me. Did you kill that girl I ordered to be brought to me?"

"Yes my master" Galen lied, he had in fact hid Rose in a dug out at the back of the cave and told her not to move no matter what she hears. Not until he calls for her.

"You so clearly admit it, you know my rules my pet. Shall I tell them?"

"No my master please" Galen begged, he actually begged. This shocked the Doctor more than he would admit.

"I should, you have displeased me"

"But my master, Dumah has tasted many girls down here. He cut her, and you know my master when I smell blood. Especially when someone has not fed me." The masters eyes narrowed as he looked as Dumah, making the man squirm.

"No matter. I am still displeased. Dumah!" Dumah smirked, thinking he had got away with it again. He grabbed Galen by the hair and pulled his head back. Then he indicated to Bob and Jack.

"Bring the flask" they did, Bob eagerly so. Jack was more restrained but the prod of the dull end of the electro jabber reminded him that he would have to do as they say for now. So they brought the first flask and poured the thick tar like substance down the Sultarrvec's throat. He gagged and coughed looking even sicker than before. Black flashing like lightening across his eyes for an instant. Jack and Bob got the other flask, repeating the processes. They could now see the Sultarrvec shivering. Almost convulsing. The Doctor looked on face blank. He knew what that stuff was. After all, it had been his people to create it eons ago. To keep the guardians in line. But two doses, that would almost kill Galen.

Galen coughed again; Dumah shoved Galen's head forward in disgust. He walked to stand to the side.

"May I master?"

"Yes….he needs to be taught a lesson." Melchia replied. Dumah smirked, then he kicked Galen in the side near his ribs. He cried out, falling to the floor, chains cutting into his wrists in the movement. He began kicking Galen over and over. They heard ribs break. Galen cried out only once as one vicious kick must have punctured his lung, he coughed up blood a moment. Jack tried to move forward to help.

"Stop it! You're going to kill him"

"Yeah, let me kill him!" Bob rushed forward, and got a few stomps in before the guard pulled him off. The Doctor through all this just looked on with his cold mask.Maybe he deserved this, for his betrayal. But he was a living being, nothing deserved this. Are you sure? Think of how all your people died while they cowered behind the shield. And now he has killed Rose. At that last thought he took a step forward, fist clenched as in that instant he wanted to join in.

"Enough Dumah" Melchia's voice cut through the moment. Dumah pulled Bob off and threw him to the floor. He then walked back to stand beside Melchia.

"I'm sure you all want to have words with my pet" Melchia pressed a button and the chains that had been holding Galen unattached themselves. Then he turned to the 2 guards "bring the pallet"

Melchia, Dumah and the guards with the pallet left the cave. As they exited it metal bars clamped down so they could not escape.

"Enjoy yourselves" then Melchia walked back up the tunnel laughing all the way.

88888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888

Rose stayed hidden, she had nearly leapt out when she saw the Doctor and Jack. But she heeded Galen's warning. She had cried when she saw Dumah hurt him. Then they had left, she waited until she was sure it was safe, but something made her rush out before she had intended. The Doctor had been using the Sonic screwdriver to unlock his and Jack's cuffs. When the one known as Bob had started to attack Galen again.

"Stop it!" she ran out pushing Bob over and leaning over Galen. He was curled up trying to protect his already injured chest.

"Rose!" that was the Doctor, and before she could blink she was in his strong embrace. It was almost bone crushing. She returned it, inhaling the sent of his leather jacket and all that was him. "You had me worried"

"Sorry"

"No, I should say sorry."

"Don't start. Wasn't your fault" she tightened the embrace then moved back.

"Let me kill the monster" Bob ranted in Jack's hold.

"Leave him alone" she kneeled back beside Galen.

"Galen?" she touched his shoulder gently but he backed away quickly.

"Don't touch me!" he almost crawled to the raised bier of rock, once there he withed upon it showing his pain. Rose flinched as she heard a bone snap. His bones were snapping back to place before he could change. With the poison running through him he could not hold this false form. But his bones needed to be aligned before he could turn to his true form. If he didn't it could kill him. Then the glow started, but there was something wrong with it, the yellow was tinged with black. Then he was his full form. But his eyes not were full red, with black veins running across them as he looked.

"Doctor, still have your sonic toy?" he growled at the Doctor.

"Yes" came the clipped cold reply. He got a look from Rose. But Galen gave a listless laugh.

"Then, old friend, would you point it at the holes you saw the chains recede to?"

"Why?"

"Because I don't want to kill you all" the voice was now a growl. The Doctor pointed the sonic screwdriver where the chains were, they shot out and reattached to Galen. Galen jerked on the sharply so they tightened, them thinking he was trying to pull free. "Doctor, if you still have the 0045923.8 setting? If you do press it" the Doctor did and the chains tightened more. He then heard a click "thank you old friend"

"We're not friends"

"Nice to see you too old friend"

" I know friends. They don't betray each other," the Doctor snarled out

"You know nothing" came a resigned sigh

"I know you all coward behind the shield. Where you were nice and safe. Did you enjoy it Galen"

"You know nothing of what I have been through. So don't speak what you know nothing about, Time Lord!" the last was a sneer. Then he groaned in pain.

"You let them die, you…"

"Doctor stop it! Galen….why did you want to be chained again? We could escape." She walked toward Galen.

"Don't come closer Rose. I will not be me very soon; I will be all you have heard the Sultarrvec to be. I will kill you if you come close. Take them to the alcove. My master will turn the lights off soon." Galen rested his head down on his forepaws.

"This way. She began to lead them to the alcove, Galen had begun to growl. It was not the good kind of growl. It was like being cornered by a rabid dog. Galen opened his eyes to watch them pass and Rose shivered. His eyes were now red with pitch-black pupils. No shred of kindness in them, only lust for blood.

The next pass of time happened so fast. Bob elbowed Jack making him let go, he then ran towards Galen screaming about avenging his daughter. Galen rose from the floor, growl becoming a roar as he clamped his jaws on Bob and ripped him to pieces. Writhing his head back and forth as the mans back broke, he died with a gurgled scream, his lower half falling to the floor. Galen shaking his head spraying blood all over the cave. He then swallowed his morsel before emitting an ear-piercing roar.

KITG: Yes I know, long chapter with evil ending. Sorry! (Begs for forgiveness)

Oh if you want to see what Galen looks like. Then look on my profile. I'll upload some pics.