CHAPTER 9, THE END

"The high speed, unmanned shuttle should arrive in two hours. Be off the planet by then. Take care."

Those were the last words spoken from Murray before the TARDIS disappeared off the face of Xios. The Doctor, Rose and Damian were given communicators just in case they needed to speak with anyone in charge on Xios. The Doctor reasoned they didn't, but Rose insisted they all take one.

Nemasis was the same as it was a few hours ago. Still no signs of life— Nemasiean or Weeping Angel— besides the trees and plants.

"Well, we're off to a good start. I'll go that way, and you two decide what you're going to do." The Doctor said merrily, pointing and quickly walking away. It was plain to Rose that he was worried.

"I'll go that way," Damian volunteered, gesturing to his right. "unless you want me to go with you. The Doctor has the flames."

"That might be better." Rose agreed. "Two heads are better than one, at any rate."

The two of them walked off.

XxXxXxXx

Well, I'm not dead yet, that's a start. The Doctor thought to himself. He rounded a few trees, expecting Angels to jump out and freeze an inch away from his face. He had seen what they did to Yelsh. He wasn't going down without a fight.

And yet…there were no Angels around. It was like they knew they were back and armed. Or at least, they knew he was armed…

Perhaps it had been a bad idea to split up.

"Rose? Damian?" The Doctor turned and ran back the way he came.

XxXxXxXx

Rose found a good sized stick that could be used as a club if properly swung. She took a few practice swings, sending a beautiful sounding whoosh through the air. Damian stood off to the side, worried that she might try to take his head off with that thing.

"What are you planning to do, smack your way through the trees?" He asked.

"Either that or just keep this as a souvenir of my trip to Nemasis." Rose said, throwing the club in the air and catching it again.

"I hope the Doctor is having better luck than we are." Damian remarked. "We haven't seen anyone, Angel or Nemasiean."

"Perhaps that's a good thing." Rose muttered, brushing some thick vegetation out of the way with her club.

"And yet that means that no one's survived the Angels,"

"A whole planet lost…" Rose sighed, trying to comprehend if Earth had been lost. How many lives…gone?

"At least Xios was saved," She finally said. "one planet lost is already too many."

Damian didn't say anything. Rose looked up from the ground to see that he was staring, unblinking, at a Stone Angel nearly directly in front of him.

Rose clutched her club in her hand and ran at it, mimicking Damian's stare. He saw her coming out of the corner of his eyes and duck backwards, squeezing his eyes shut and turning away. Rose raised and swung her club down and shut her eyes. A hard CRACK met her ears.

Damian said a long string of words that Rose didn't even recognize, pointing and shaking at the dead being lying at Rose's feet.

Rose still hadn't opened her eyes, but she prepared herself and glanced downwards.

There lay what appeared to be a dead devil, part of its skull caved in from the blow from Rose's club that had splintered from the impact. So this was the Angels' true form. It was sort of ironic in a sickening way. The devil's skin was red, matching the red of the arm they had found earlier. It had short, ram-like horns growing out and over short curly brown hair. Its face was hideously distorted beyond anything Rose had ever seen; the true face of Evil. Ripped, bat-like wings grew out of its back, but they were useless now that it was dead.

Damian had stopped his ramblings and just stared. Rose couldn't blame him, although he looked like he was about to faint from terror or shock. Probably both.

"So this is what they look like," Rose finally said.

"I…I wish they just stayed Angels." Damian stuttered.

"Me too."

"We should heads back before something else happens," Damian managed so say, still staring at the dead Angel at his and Rose's feet. "no doubt that was a one in a million hit."

"At least we know we can kill them without the fires," Rose said.

"At least…"

"All the same, I doubt we can manage that again."

"Same here. Let's find the Doctor."

XxXxXxXx

"I sure hope you found something on that planet and are getting the hell out of there because that shuttle is scheduled to hit in the next ten minuets!"

The Doctor sighed and unclipped the communicator from his side, saying, "We didn't really find anything…well, at least I didn't. I'm not so sure about Rose and Damian."

"Find them and get out of there!" Murray hissed.

"I'm working on it," The Doctor ran through some low hanging plants and nearly tripped over a log. Murray still didn't shut up.

"Nemasis is a lost cause. At least you were still able to save Xios."

"If I had know what was going on at the beginning, I might have been able to do something."

"Maybe…and then again, maybe not. They struck without warning."

"At least we know now that this is the end of them…"

The Doctor stopped short as he caught sight of Rose and Damian, both of whom were staring unblinkingly at the four stone Angels surrounding them.

"Don't move! I'm coming!" The Doctor dropped the communicator and at the same time grabbed the jar of flames out of his pocket. Within seconds, the threats were just piles of ash.

"Too close," Damian stuttered. "boy, are we glad to see you."

"We're getting out of here. Nemasis is lost. The shuttle is going to be here any minuet now!" The Doctor retrieved the dropped communicator. "back to the TARDIS. Now."

The three of them ran through more dense plants until the familiar sight-for-sore-eyes blue police box came into view. Along with the not-so-good Angels blocking the door.

"I don't have enough flames," The Doctor tapped on the glass that held the last two flares. "This is going to be tricky."

"There's more over there." Rose whispered, pointing to the trees nearby. "They're everywhere!"

The three closest Angels were burning slowly away to ash, leaving the TARDIS' door unblocked. The Doctor managed to get one door open. "Get in! Quickly!"

Rose stumbled in, closely followed by Damian. The Doctor jammed the door shut and there was a mighty BOOM as the TARDIS leaned to the left dangerously.

"Get us out of here!" Rose shouted as she managed to keep herself from falling on the Chameleon Circuit.

The Doctor spun a few knobs, pushed a few buttons, pulled a few levers, and smacked a few panels with a mallet that was found underneath one of the defective panels. The TARDIS began to groan and shudder…

XxXxXxXx

"You did all you could." Murray said finally. "You saved this world. What more could we have asked for?"

Damian, Rose and the Doctor were in Murray's office, discussing the final events on Nemasis. Shortly after the TARDIS materialized out of the atmosphere, the shuttle had hit, blasting the planet to shards. Nothing could have survived it.

The Doctor turned away from the window he was staring out of and replied, "I honestly don't know. But if we could have just saved one person…"

"What's past is past," Murray interrupted. "The planet Xios is in your debt."

"There is one thing you can do for us…" Rose started, a small smile starting on her face.

"What is that?" Murray asked.

"If there's ever another crisis here, don't hesitate to give us a call."

END

What a suckish end.

So that's that, Guardian Angels is now 100% completed. Reviews are extremely appreciated. Think you can write the ending better? Please do and send it to me.

Hasta la Vista, Readers!

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