Okay, here's your next chapter. I hoped you liked it, tell me if you think something's wrong. Trust me, all will be revealed sooner or later.
Rose and the Doctor made their way back to the TARDIS, hand in hand. Rose knew she must have a bit of grass or leaves in her hair, and she looked up at the Doctor. He had quite a bit in his hair. They had wrestled a bit, and even though he looked skinny he was actually quite strong. Not that Rose minded, she liked strong men. It was getting dark, and she wondered if Jack and Emily had made it back to the TARDIS yet.
Rose opened the door, and found Jack and Emily sitting on the floor on blankets, sipping from mugs and eating what looked like…ah, Shortbread cookies. Jack was talking about one of his past adventures, and Rose caught a bit of it before he realized they were in there.
"So I was sitting there in my ship, and the two hadn't realized they had been brought aboard, and they were standing close together and…oh, hello, Rose, Doctor. I was telling Emily about our little adventure during the London Blitz." Jack said, and clearly Emily was enjoying every bit of it.
"Well, did you tell her that the whole thing was your fault?" The Doctor asked, stepping into the room. Jack raised his eyebrow, noting that the Doctor's tie wasn't straight. Not that it mattered; really, it just looked like he had put it without looking at in in a mirror. Jack swore it was straight when he last saw it, too.
"And, pray tell, what were you two doing in that forest?" Jack returned, totally ignoring the Doctor's question. He didn't even get to tell Emily about the gas mask zombies yet. Ah well. He'd get around to it later. Those were fun times.
"We were…um…walking around, same as you." The Doctor said, and Rose bit her lip. The Doctor was a terrible liar when it came to things like this. She knew Jack would see right through it. And she also knew that Jack would have some smart-ass comment to say. His eyebrow arched more and the Doctor began playing with his ear, a sure sign he was lying.
"Right, and I was a monk." Jack said, watching the Doctor blush. Rose gave him a meaningful look before she strode out of the console room and Jack stood, helping Emily clear away the blankets and such. The Doctor turned his back on them, fiddling with the TARDIS controls. He was acting like a kid that got caught doing something he shouldn't have done.
"It's not like we didn't know what you were doing anyways. I would have done the same. Well, not with you, but you know what I mean." Emily said, and she saw the Doctor shrug his shoulders.
"Come on, Dad, cheer up. It's not like we care. Just as long as I don't hear it, do whatever you want. It's your TARDIS, isn't it?" Emily grinned, sweeping gracefully out of the room, leaving Jack and The Doctor in there alone.
"Alright, Doctor, where are we going next? Please, somewhere with some action. God knows I've been stuck on earth for a year and a half. I need something to do." Jack said, and the Doctor got that look in his eyes that told you were going on a wild ride, so buckle up. Jack smiled, sensing a good adventure.
"Does the Auron Rift in South Carolina sound good to you?" The Doctor asked, and Jack's eyes widened. The Auron rift was a rift in space and time that ran right through a tiny town called Aiken. But every so often, the rift would open and these creatures would pour out, causing mayhem and death in their wake. The only way to send them back was to desecrate their sacred altar, and it was different every time. Once, the Doctor had to send K-9 through hordes of the creatures, because the altar was not allowed to have any machinery ten feet around it. Poor K-9, he was so battered and beat up after that, but the Doctor and Sarah-Jane took care of him.
"You're kidding. That could get dangerous. It's not like you to go directly into danger." Jack said, and The Doctor got the look on his face again. Jack was beginning to think the Doctor had lost some of his marbles during that regeneration.
"We're going to try to close the rift, permanently." The Doctor said, and the Doctor changed courses in the Time Vortex, causing Rose to shriek from her room. The Doctor laughed, and began to circle the consoles, pressing buttons and fiddling with wires.
The TARDIS set itself down, gently for once, and the four merry time travelers found themselves in a backyard of someone's home. Ahead there was a pool, loads of people and music, it was nearly impossible to hear the TARDIS over it.
"Ah. They build a house on the rift. This is going to be fun." The Doctor said, and he walked towards the pool party. The rift was due to open in two days. He had 48 hours to find the altar and find out what desecrated it, but in order to close the rift permanently, he would need to enter the rift. The TARDIS could keep it open for him to get in there, destroy it and get out.
"Um, excuse me, I don't mean to crash your party or anything, but I was just wondering if you knew that your house was build right on top of the Auron rift?" The Doctor asked, well aware that everyone had stopped what they were doing and were now staring at him.
"Oh my freaking god. Ashley, you owe me thirty bucks!" Broke the silence. A blonde girl, sitting on an air mattress in the middle of the pool had shouted that to a girl with black hair wearing a green and silver bikini that was sitting on the edge of the pool.
"Actually, I didn't know about that rift, but um….rifts are bad, aren't they. Especially after the rift opened in Cardiff, with the Slitheen and all that. Oh, that's right. I wasn't supposed to know that. Hmm…Torchwood really needs to pick up on its security." The Girl said, trying to make the air mattress go to the side of the pool so she could get out, but only succeeded in flipping it over. No one else had moved or said anything.
"So, uh, rift. Running through my house, that's not good. Hmm, how are we going to close it?" The Girl said when she came back up to the surface. The Doctor was staring at her like she'd grown another head, Emily had walked off to do some searching, and Jack and Rose were standing behind him.
"Oh! I'm sorry. My name's Jackie. Um, yeah, I was having my birthday party, but don't worry about it. My friends, well, they didn't think you existed, but I knew better. That's why Ashley over there owes me thirty bucks. But anyways, whatever you need, I can get it, well, most anything." Jackie told them, ignoring the scattered conversations.
"Hey, Doctor, the rift, its right here. It goes through the middle of the house, and there's an underground cavern that I suspect holds the altar. But it's sealed, and not even the sonic screwdriver can open it. It's almost like magic." Emily said, coming around the other side of the house.
"Ah! That I can help you with. I'm a witch, and so are a few other people around here. I should be able to break open that seal, with help. Um, Alex, could you go up to the garden and bring back…well, you know better than I do what I'll need to break open that seal. You put it there in the first place." Jackie said, and she wrapped a towel around herself, covering her red bikini clad body that Jack was so unashamedly staring at. Not that she cared, she knew she had a great body, but she didn't need her dad getting ticked off, let alone her boyfriend.
"You knew about the altar to the Aurons?" The Doctor asked, and Jackie nodded. She'd known about it since she had moved into the house. She had sealed it when she felt it acting up, but they broke through the seal and she had her boyfriend seal it, seeing as how he was more experienced in sealing things than she was.
"I knew about the altar. I could tell it was malevolent when I moved in, but I've been trying to keep it at bay. Do you think its going to start acting up again? We can destroy it if-"
"Doctor! There are immeasurable amounts of energy coming from that altar! They're opening the rift!" Emily cried, and there was a loud cracking sound. A large fissure opened up in the ground, and an altar began to rise out of the ground.
"Oh my god!" People began screaming, and they scrambled back, out of the pool, as far away from the altar as possible.
"So it begins." The Doctor said, immediately began to issue orders. "Emily, shut everything in the TARDIS off. It will begin to feed off of the TARDIS. Jack, I need you to go with Jackie, help her do whatever she needs. No time for flirting, Captain. Rose, you're with me. We need to find some clue on what desecrates the altar." The Doctor and Rose nearly ran towards the altar, but stopped a few feet from it when beings that resembled Slitheen began to appear around the altar.
"Rose, be very careful. These things, Aurons will not hesitate to grab you and take you away from here. They're not Slitheen; they're more brutal, more vicious than a Slitheen could ever hope to be." The Doctor said, and decided not to mention they got more violent each time.
"Doctor…" The Aurons hissed, and the Doctor's hand dived into his pocket for the sonic screwdriver. The Aurons moved faster, and grabbed the Doctor and Rose. Rose shrieked as they dug their claws into her arms, and out of the corner of her eye she saw the Doctor fighting the Aurons.
"Do not fight, pretty human. You only give us more energy" It hissed in her ear, and Rose's eyes narrowed. The thing had just ripped holes in her arms and it expects her not to fight? Come on, really. What did they think she was going to do, stand there?
Jack looked up sharply when he heard Rose shriek. Nothing was allowed to hurt Rose. He found Rose and the Doctor struggling with the Aurons and nearly ran to them. He felt a restraining hand on his arm and turned to find Emily standing there. Apparently she had finished her job and came to help him.
"They'll be fine. Jackie needs help breaking that seal. The Aurons can't do it, the seal's to powerful. The Doctor and Rose can't get to the altar if the seal isn't broken. But once we open that seal, we're going to have to work quick. Get everyone inside, Aurons aren't allowed inside human dwellings." Emily said, bolting off to help the witches break the seal. Jack sighed and did what he was told.
"Okay, its an ancient Italian spell, and I have the chant to break it, but it needs to be chanted by an…untouched woman. Ah. This is going to be difficult." Alex said, looking at his girlfriend. She didn't fit the description, and neither did her best friend.
"I'll do it. Show me the chant and I'll do it." Jack heard Emily say, and he looked at her with a raised eyebrow. Untouched, eh? This was going to be very interesting.
"Are you sure? Do you have the experience, and um…requirements to do this?" Alex asked, and Emily nodded. He showed the page of the book he was reading to Emily and she memorized the chant in thirty seconds.
"Okay, what do I do?" She asked, and Alex directed her to a circle of silver colored berries.
"Do you have any current technology on you? If you do, you need to take it off. It will disrupt the magics." Alex said, and Emily's watch and the sonic screwdriver was handed to Alex.
"Alright, you need to begin chanting." Emily closed her eyes and pulled the chant from memory.
"Madre della terra, padre del cielo, li denomino mi scolo per fare la mia offerta in questa ora. La guarnizione che ho disposto sul altar deve essere rotta. Il altar deve essere libero avvicinarsi a in qualunque momento, tramite tutta la corsa di essere dovunque. Cielo padre, madre di terra, chiedo questo voi, del mio signore e della signora." Emily said, the Italian coming flawlessly from her lips. Five billion languages helped a lot, you didn't need the TARDIS translating for you all the time. But the seal didn't budge. Emily knew a bit about magic, and she knew sometimes you just needed to push the energies to do what you wanted.
"Rompa il sigillo!" She said, her eyes flashing open. They were changing from their beautiful blue color to a sinister looking green. Jack watched in horror as the circle of berries erupted in flame.
"Rompa il sigillo!" She tried again and she felt the energy flow through her. About time the damned spirits listened to her. She was a Time Lady, and they'd do as she instructed. She was the superior being here, not them.
The Doctor managed to free himself and disable the Aurons and he dashed towards the altar, Rose not far behind him. But the seal was still up. He looked over and found Emily surrouned by energy, chanting.
"Oh, this is bad." He said, and Rose looked at Emily then back to the Doctor. She didn't want to ask how bad, because she knew. It was as bad as it could possibly get with another suitcase full of bad.
"Time Lords weren't meant to use human magics, because our sense of superiority would take over. That's what its doing with Emily, and the earth spirits are going to punish her." The Doctor explained, and knew he had to wait for her to break the seal, which she would.
"Sono una signora di tempo e come tali, io li comandano fare la mia offerta. Romperete questo sigillo!" Emily cried, standing from her sitting position in the circle. The whole circle was engulfed in flame, and Emily didn't notice. All she knew was that the seal would break. And it did, with an earth shattering bang. The fire shot higher, and this disappeared totally. Emily was gone.
Okay, for those of you who actually know Italian, I'm sure my italian is horrible, but I hope it got the point across. For those of you who don't know, its along the lines of "Mother of the Earth, Father of the Sky, I call upon you this day to break this seal on this altar. I command you to do this" Something like that. Please reveiw!
