„Weapon? What weapon? What are you planning?" She back away a bit from the creature, The Lord, who started to talk to her through Jeanne. But suddenly, Jeanne's expression got sad and he stopped grinning, because He could tell Amy was getting scared.
„Have you 'seen' my children?" The Lord spoke with a calm tone.
Amy hesitated. „You mean the Nano people?" She licked her lips before continuing any further. „No, I haven't."
The Lord shook his head. „You are wrong, Amelia Pond. You are very wrong."
Amy got confused. What was he trying to say? He is probably the first alien Amy has witnessed, and known of, her entire life, besides from the Doctor.
„But I haven't. Besides, you communicate through Jeanne, so I haven't seen your body."
The Lord suddenly started glaring at Amy with a scary and serious expression. It made Amy feel uneasy.
„Look around you, Amelia!" The Lord yelled at her. „They are everywhere!" Amy startled and yelled back, because she hated being yelled at. Very much. „But the only species I SEE are humans!" Then it hit her. Maybe the humans ARE Nano people. The Doctor looks human. It's a possibility that the Nano people look like humans, too. That would explain why they are called 'Nano people' though.
Seeing that Amy has finally gotten close to realizing something, the Lord grinned. „Look closely. Observe how the humans act."
Amy looked at her own race, and at the same time, the Lord started to say something very fast and what sounded like gibberish to Amy's ears. But she noticed that the gibberish the Lord spoke started to affect the humans. They, one-by-one, started to glow like gold and the sun. The humans themselves didn't notice it, so it seemed. They treated it like it was natural.
„What's happening? Are these human look-a-likes your people?" She turned to the Lord.
The Lord shook his head. „No, they are within them. We nano people are so-called vermin's. We live off gold. It is our food, it is our house, it is what keeps us alive." He paused and then continued. „We were created by the Time Lords long time ago, but were kept secret because we turned out to be too deadly for any race. They kept us hidden for years with only limited amount of aurum. When we were starting to get short on supply, we wanted to get out there and find a new place to live. We escaped the prison, where we were kept. Our real bodies aren't "bodies". We are dust, almost like the vastha nerada. We traveled for years, most of our species dying in the process. Then, when almost all hope was gone, we smelled aurum, on this planet, Earth. We went there and our chaos seemed to have come to an end, but that was only the beginning. Since we were almost like children and we weren't taught how to eat properly, we started killing people. You might know it as the Black Plague."
"You caused the Black Plague?"
"Yes. But no one knew what or who caused it because we aren't seen. We live in the blood of humans." The Lord took a seat and started to remove Jeanne's gloves. "We wanted to help the dying humans," He continued. "they gave us food and we gave them death. It didn't seem to be fair. Over the months of the plauge, some of us found a way to live inside the humans without killing them. That's when the plauge ended. But some of us were still too young to do the same. The humans found the "cure" to getting rid of us. They killed half of our species here, but we decided not to rebel, because they are our only source of life and food. So, we have lived among and in humans for years without them noticing. I am this race's elder. I've seen chaos and I've seen life. I learned how to control humans and studied their language. Over hundred years ago, my species wanted to leave this place. The humans seemed too corrupted with war and there was a rumor spread amongst us that there's a planet, entirely made out of gold, somewhere out there. That we should go there and not torture humans any further. But then came the war.. We hated it and our plans to finding this legendary planet began. Then, there came Jeanne. When my last source of food died, her mother, I went inside little Jeanne. Her thoughts were so gentle and feeble, that you couldn't help, but treat her as your Queen. The war was getting worse over the years, so I decided to take action with Jeanne. At first, it was a laughing stock, because she is a woman. But my plans, which were completed through her, always went well. As I was getting close to bringing victory to Jeanne in the Siege of Orleans, I discovered something. Her blood, the gold was multiplying in her. I don't know what caused this, but it feeds me well. Then, there comes you, Amelia Pond. I have developed my senses over there years that no other Nano has in their entire lifetime. I sensed you ever since you came to this time. I could smell great amount of gold in you and the scent of Time Lords. That's how I knew you were time traveling and that's when I knew you were an useful weapon."
Amy stared at the Lord with her mouth open. Everything that he said made her pity him and every other Nano that has gone through the same thing. Knowing this much must have made her ensure a lot of pain and suffering. "How am I a weapon?" She muttered under her breath. He still didn't answer her question and it made her mad.
Then he finally answered; "Amelia Pond, you are the re-creation of me and Jeanne D'Arc. Once Jeanne dies, me and her will live on the atmosphere until the day you are born." Suddenly, Amy started to glitter and shine like a golden statue. She noticed it after she saw something bright coming from her cheeks. She looked at her arms closer, refusing to believe her eyes. Her arms were shining the exact same way Jeanne's arms were couple minutes ago. She smiled at the beauty of the sight.
"Together, you and Jeanne will defeat the enemy. Together, you can free my people, Amelia Pond."
Sorry for the late update.
I had to find a way to tie out loose ends and wan't working for me properly, when I wanted to update. I hope I'm excused! I'm already writing the next chapter. Stay tuned on what will happen next! ;)
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- Mari
