KITG: ooh. Think it time I let you off the cliff. Hehehehe.
Chapter 10Galen's blood froze, he turned looking up to see the form of his brother sitting on top of a rock that jutted from the cave entrance. His brothers yellow eyes looking at him in triumph.
"Galen, it is so good to finally see you again" his voice was silky sweet, the kind of voice that screamed at you to run as fast as you could from the owner. Galen moved himself in front of his friends, hoping that Balthazar would not realize just who was behind him. Make him focus on the one he wants so he will not hear the extra heartbeat.
"Brother….what brings you here?" Galen tried to stay calm, but he was falling apart inside.
"How dare you speak as though you have no idea Murderer!" came a deep female voice, Galen rolled to the side as a tail lashed out at him, a blur of summer green. He looked to see Balthazars mate Jancis. "And you even take on their loathsome form. The arrogant cowards the Time Lords were"
"Cowards?" Galen laughed, unable to help himself in the face of such self-righteousness. "Who were the ones to hide behind the shield while the Time Lords faced the darkness, who fled our world as it burned to ash?….Think that would have been you two"
Galen on retrospect now thought that might not have been the best course of action to avoid a fight. For Jancis had leapt at him with a roar. He rolled away, turning back to his dragon form, the cloak blowing away in the air disturbance crated by her wings and his movement. They roared, flashes and snaps as teeth tried to rend flesh. Fire as she tried to burn him, him jumping to the side, and giving a roar of pain as on reflex he tried to open his wings with such force that he broke the chains, or pulled out the spikes that held them closed.
"Stop Jancis, not yet" Balthazar ordered. She snapped once more, and then stepped back from the panting form of Galen. His wings hung down to the ground, his muscles long since atrophied from none use. "Galen, why do you still fight? Those arrogant fools are gone. You must pay for what you did"
"They are not gone"
"They may as well be. You cannot travel to where you have placed them. There are no TARDIS to get you there. Come brother, let me end your suffering"
"No Balthazar……please……I don't want to kill you" Galen stood looking, the vortex trying to merge with him, to destroy the traitors to Gallifrey. He knew if he joined with the Vortex, it would be just be bad as the poison running through him right now, it would be the Vortex in control. His consciousness would be pushed to the background.
During this time The Doctor, Jack and Rose ran over to the orphans caught in the ring fire. The Doctor took out the Sonic screwdriver and using one of it's many settings, placed a small energy field over a section of the fire, starving it of oxygen.
"This way! Quickly" The Doctor called to them, Rose and Jack helped the young ones past.
"Rose, your ok!" Mizariah exclaimed, hugging Rose. "See Doctor, I told you Mokie wouldn't kill her"
"Yeah, Galen wouldn't" the Doctor replied.
"Galen?"
"That's Mokie's real name Mizariah" Rose replied with a smile.
"Wow, I love it. Much better than Mokie" she replied with a roll of her eyes. She looked at his Dragon form, so this was the form of a monster. But to her he wasn't. He was a golden saviour, his heart showing her that not all things were bad, and his form showing her not all things were, as they seemed. She looked to the green dragon, to see it had its dark gaze keenly on the form of the Doctor. Even as she watched she saw it's eyes widen in shock, then snarl.
"Time Lord!" In the next instant she had flown over and pinned the Doctor to the ground under her front right claw. She growled in his face as he lay, breath pushed out of him.
"Let him go" Mizariah looked to Galen and felt fear, his red eyes were laced with gold as some strange power surged to the for. His voice was deep, but lilting also as if joined with something else. Its tone broke no argument. Balthazar came to land beside his mate, and looked down at the Doctor.
"Oh..This is priceless. The oncoming storm…..Doctor. I see now, you were going to have him take you to Gallifrey and bring them back."
"Let me do this brother, let him go let me finish what I must and then you can do whatever you want with me."
"You really think….I would let the survive after what they have done!" Balthazar roared at Galen
" What we did? You broke your oath, you swore to Rassilon that you would come when we called"
"Don't talk to me of your egotistical hero leader Doctor! Your race enslaved us for eons. Why should your race live while ours die by the very fire you started? No Doctor, your race shall die" Balthazar nodded at Jancis, she made a move to kill the Doctor, Rose called out, her and Jack both trying to get there. Galen got there first.
He pushed her off, standing protectively over the Doctor, eyes blazing gold. He growled low, aware of the Doctor getting to his feet, feeling him place a hand on his hide.
"You will not kill him"
"I will, and you" Jancis roared at him, they clashed in a flash of teeth and claw. Galen never moving from his place protecting the Doctor. Jancis flew up into the sky then landed on Galen's back, clamping her jaws were the spine met the shoulder. Galen roared, eyes flashing bright gold. He flipped Jancis from his back seeming to all other moving faster than was possible. Moving in time with precise movements thanks to the Vortex. When he returned to sight Jancis lay upon the floor unmoving. Galen's eyes returned to the red, he looked shocked at the scene.
"Jancis…..my love" Balthazar moved towards Jancis, he nudged her head with his….but the Doctor could see from this angle…that her neck was broken. "You killed her……" he turned a black gaze on Galen "YOU KILLED HER!" he leapt at Galen but in his rage Galen could jump aside.
"I'm sorry, but you gave me no choice. I told you" Galen almost sobbed
"SHE WAS WITH CHILD!"
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Rose gasped; the Doctors face became set in stone. Jack looked sorry for realizing what this meant…Galen had finally sealed the fate of his race. Galen looked destroyed to think he had killed his unborn niece and nephew.
"I…I didn't…I told you…why couldn't you wait" Galen babbled.
"I'll kill you, and the Time Lords!" Balthazar jumped at Galen again; they became a blur of red and gold, the Vortex flashing across Galen's eyes.
"Please brother" Galen begged, " don't make me kill you. We are the last!"
"No brother, I am the last….you are a freak…tainted by the Time Lords. You are nothing. You are an abomination! You are no longer one of us, and neither are you a Time Lord. So what does that make you brother?"
"Please brother!" Galen moved again, trying to keep the Vortex in check. For he knew if her let it take control he would kill his brother.
"Why do you serve them so, they enslaved us"
"The universe needs them. Do you truly believe when the Time Lords lost the battle with the Daleks that they would stop there?"
"We could have made a treaty"
"Your not serious! This is the Daleks we're talking about. Is this what you thought you would do? You manipulated our father…..killed our sister….so you could do that!" Anger finally entering his voice.
"It would have worked…and if not we would have destroyed them"
"You deluded FOOL!"
"Fool? That's rich, coming from a murderer."
"Takes one to know one" more gold entered Galen's eyes
"You killed our father!"
"And you killed our sister"
"She was nothing, how dare she try to free you."
"She was everything, she knew the oath even though she never took it with us, she was born into the pact. You. You stood by my side, with our father and swore before the seal!"
"What can I say……I lied" Balthazar pinned Galen to the ground "and now die with those you protect"
"So be it" Galen's voice had changed, eyes of pure blazing gold.
Galen flicked his brother off him, Balthazar opened his wings and flipped to land on his feet and launch himself at Galen. The clash was titanic, claws rending flesh. Claws slashing down chest and face. Each trying to gain the upper hand, to blind their opponent. The clouds overhead rolled and boiled as if a storm approached. The flowers, that once had survived the freezing cold of evey night, now slain by the heat of fire. They fought on, with roars of anger and betrayal. Galen twisted round, his tail making contact with Balthazars face. He fell to the ground but then blew fire, forcing Galen to roll away instead of going for Balthazar's jugular.
Balthazar backed up looking at Galen as he stood at the ready; both were dripping blood onto the scorched ground.
"What's the matter freak? Lost your fire? Let your flame go out?" Balthazar sneered
Above the clouds opened, rain falling to put out the raging fire in the fields. Balthazar took to the air, raining fire down trying to hit Galen. The roar of the flame, and the snap hiss as the raindrops me it in mid air joined with the noise of Galen's claws impacting on stone. He ran up the side of the cave entrance using the cave to give him height, he leapt from it and collided with his brother. Galen fouled Balthazar's wings, making both crash to the soil. They writhed as they tried to slay the other. It was hard to tell where one started and where one ended
Then it stopped, the form of Galen got up, looking down at the gasping form of his brother.
"You…..did…it" gasped Balthazar, seeming shocked that Galen had mortally wounded him. His blood pooling from his throat. The gold left Galen's eyes, leaving the shell shocked red. "I curse you…..brother. You…will never…..find the…..peace of death. You….must pay…..for our extinction. You….will wander…..even after the end of time. Going mad," His breath coming in bloody rasps, as his heart stopped.
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Galen looked down at his brother….he was truly alone now. Maybe Balthazar was right, he was a freak…should not exist. He felt something tugging at his mind, dark….evil. A cold feeling flowing over him. He looked down to see black bleeding into his scales. Feel it bleeding into his eyes.
"Galen?" he looked to see Rose and the Doctor. It had been Rose that had spoken. "Not going to ask the stupid question of "are you all right?" cause I know your not" that got a small smile out of him.
"What are three more? To the amount I have killed" he commented. He then grabbed his head in pain, the blackness flaring again. He would not give himself over to it.
"Galen? What is it?" that was the Doctor.
"Old mind, new mind. Trying to take over, trying to kill. Something placed there long ago," he mumbled. Then the pain went, as did the black.
"I thought you stopped the effects on his mind Doctor?"
"I did…this is something else" The Doctor pulled out the screwdriver again scanned Galen's head. "His brain patterns are wrong, it's like he has two different brain patterns"
" That is enough I think. Come here my pet" they all looked up to see the Melchia, beside him was Dumah, and writhing his grasp was Mizariah.
"You no longer have your hold over me" Galen growled, the pain still nagging at him in his mind.
"You will do as I say or I will kill her"
"You will not" the darkness growing inside him.
"Give it up Master. You'll never have him again, just as they said when I talked to them…." Dumah stopped talking suddenly, realizing just what he had let slip.
"You called them!" Melchia snarled, he rushed at Dumah, to slay him…….but Dumah had other plans.
Galen watched wide-eyed as Melchia went to kill Dumah, but Dumah maneuvered Mizariah in the way. He saw the flash of black claw then the fountain of red, as her jugular was stuck. She gave a gargled scream. Dumah dropped her like rubbish and began to run.
In that instant as he saw Mizariah die, the pain became unbearable. His scales turned black, the darkness spreading like ink dropped into water, becoming stronger and dark until it was black as space. His eyes becoming the full red but instead of the gold Vortex, more blackness flittered across them like lightening. He roared, eyes on Dumah as he opened his now black wings and took to the sky. Muscles that had moments before been atrophied, now worked like they had never been damaged.
Dumah was looking back with frightened eyes, running for his life that was about to end. Galen landed on him, and without a pause ripped him to shreds, rib cage snapped as his bloody gargled screams mirrored Mizariah.
All looked on in wide-eyed terror, as Galen lifted his blood stained muzzle and looked at Melchia, a deep growl emanating from him.
"Sultarrvec" was all Melchia could gasp…..
TBC…..
KITG:oooh. Galen gone Eeeevil, will update soon. hope you like. R&R. see you in time:)