Ok so you may have noticed several Bleach ideas coming through in the prologue (swords containing power, a book containing great power…), yeah, I'm a MASSIVE Bleach fan. Tite Kido has all those rights… but I liked them too much not to use so: I don't own any Bleach rights either, because the main character has 5 other fractures to his personality and that always makes life interesting… not to mention the swords' abilities reflect each of the fractures personalities… Why do you think I write under "splitsanity"?
Also, I may make reference to several other TV shows, i.e. Star Trek in this chapter, you know that I'm just using them as cultural references, right?
Also, SPOILERS MAY BE PRESENT B/C I'M CURRENT WHEN IT COMES TO THE SHOW, so forgive me if I have a spoiler or two
Chapter One
It was a usual day aboard the TARDIS, the Doctor was going on and on and on about something. David was cleaning his five swords, listening to his Doctor just be the nerdy, dorky know-it-all that he had come to love. Rose was there falling evermore in love with David's Doctor. And David was getting jealous watching at her looking at him. Now this 9th regeneration wasn't something to look at, but David had a father complex, something which Freud never understood in David of all people, but David just dealt with it as he had before. Every day was the same: the TARDIS would either take them where they wanted to go, or not – as the case usually is, the Doctor would instinctively smash, bang, and half-way destroy the control panel, and David would talk to his swords, amongst himselves, considering each sword contained a fraction of his personality.
With time, David grew even more powerful. His ability to use his power cautiously would ultimately force the Chaos Lord to fracture his mind to prevent emotion from controlling him. His race prided themselves on logic and reason – God, who where we, the fucking Vulcans? Look at Spock!… David thought with disgust. But the method of the madness of the Vulcanic attitude was that emotions to his people were, in fact, dangerous to those around them. So his swords were based upon emotions. In total, there were six swords for his six fractures:
David, the one whom had introduced himself to the Doctor, was anger. His demeanor was benign, if you needed help, he'd offer, but don't hold your breath. Don't ever piss him off either, unless you want him to use his sword to the take shape of different "weapons", i.e. bow and arrows, katana, a giant's hammer, or a scythe, just to name a few of his personal favorites. David had one slight problem. He doesn't tolerate emotional pain very well. Even as a child, any form of emotion expressed to David was traumatic. He was the only child in the universe of his race.
While traveling with the Doctor, about 400 years ago, he fell in love with a girl from Solarium Cantra, but she never felt the love he had for her. The young dæmon (he's not a demon, there's a difference) had asked the Doctor if he could spend time with this woman. He fell in love with her mind, for she was homely, and that didn't faze David. (David knew the Doctor, even then, wouldn't see him in the same light. So he tried moving past the Time Lord.) The girl and he would be good friends, and David, being afraid to tell her the truth for so long, never said a word, for he was truly happy. One night, while the dæmon was waiting for his beloved, he noticed a poster for a banquet and ball at the mayor's mansion. He looked at it, looked at the giant clock that hung over the courthouse entrance, and then saw the woman, Iricanta, whom he loved. He finally asked Iricanta out to the gala. The night ended in him revealing how much he loved her, and that she would only be a friend to David. That wasted 20 years. David was distraught. So, he did what he thought would be the right thing... go back to the Time Lord. He used his connection with the TARDIS to call the Doctor to pick him up.
Albatross, the aura that flowed from the book, was a dark being capable of any act without mercy. Albatross was the first fracture. His temper fuse is incredibly short. So short in fact, this was the reason David sealed him in the book. During the battle, a soldier fighting on the same side as the child started to criticize him, Albatross simply looked at the soldier, and he disappeared. David's sword has holds no bar on Albatross' sword. When Albatross releases his sword, darkness falls. This isn't your typical darkness. It's cave darkness, or more accurately, a blind person's darkness. Within this darkness, opposition occurs. Those who hear are deaf. Those who are lame gain the ability to move. Only he can revoke the sword, either by voice or death, and he hasn't lost yet.
Nathan was that persistent pessimist that could infect a bunch of happy-go-luckys with unbridled despair. Nathan was the part of David that ultimately wanted to have his Doctor but respected the perceived boundary David had instilled in himself. He was a natural Dr. Jekyll, toying with the chemical properties of the universe to create new poisons (which had no antidotes, well, that anyone other than him had…). He absolutely LOATHED the Doctor. No matter what regeneration brought about, the Doctor was smart than he, and this made Nathan FURIOUS! One time, while trying to destroy a breed of creatures the 5th Doctor thought would help the universe, the Doctor told Nathan that he found the antidote to one of Nathan's poisons and used a process to make the liquid a part of the creatures natural habitat, in the air. Nathan's sword shatters into an infinite number of hollow-point needles, every single one of which has a different effect if the skin of the target is broken.
Abigail, the duplicate and diplomatic side of David, was known for her charm and charisma. How David had ended up with a female fraction was beyond him, but then again, "timey- wimey" was a great excuse the Doctor had always used… She could discern everything diplomatically. If you lied to her, she'd know. She had been known to lie on occasion, but the Doctor did too. She only lied if the situation would have been resolved peacefully. After all, a little white lie never KILLED anyone, had it? Her sword was a set of dual swords made of mirrors. When she pulled them out of her sheath, it would split with a cord of pure silver behind her to connect the hilts. At her will, one of the swords would transform into a shield that could reflect any energy shots blasted at her or she could refract the energy beam to another place with one precise slice of the air.
The torment of David when he was just a child back home was intense. For 50 years, the other soldiers mocked him because he wasn't as "deadly" or "despicable" as they were described. He actually was a "good" child, considering "good" on Chaos meant that you didn't want to kill every living thing and you actually wanted to get along with people… So, to alleviate the tension of misery, the torture began to shatter onto another… To be kind and gentle – and at the same time, cruel and unforgiving – Jason's sword turned into a fan that was two meters wide when open, well that's as big as it could get (because if you're fighting someone in a corridor, you don't want something that massive in your way). This meant that Jason could manipulate the wind and air patterns to rip his enemies to shreds without ever having to be near the intended victim.
The final fracture was a choice. A means to an end. This fracture had the ability control all the other swords' abilities. The Doctor and David had been through so much together, David had helped the Doctor get out of messes, but the biggest point that David had with his Doctor: The Doctor had slightly hinted about flirting with David, all through the 650 years they had known each other, but never said what he was actually feeling! All David wanted was some form of communication from the Doctor on his true feelings! And David had to figure out how to get those feelings out of his Doctor's mouth… He honestly didn't care what they were, he just wanted to know them.
The Doctor, during all this, was talking to Rose and the TARDIS. David had come to accept that his feelings would be kept on the backburner for those times when he and the Doctor were alone without some female companion. At least she's not Jack! UGH! David found himself thinking. Something about Captain Jack Harkness David found repulsive… It could be that Jack flirted with everyone and everything… He's hot and all, but everytime he opens his mouth, he's trying to flirt with something! Maybe it's nothing. I don't know. The Doctor called out, "David, weren't you listening? We're here!"
"Oh, sorry, Doctor, I was… was…" David spoken in a flat line of embarrassment.
The Doctor came over and said, "It's ok, I understand. You probably had a lot to think about." This was true. The planet the TARDIS had just dumped them out on, left David absolutely miserable because the atmosphere had a power converter. The local inhabitants recognized the amount of power David had stored inside of him. They captured him with garnet chains and bound him to the generator. It nearly drained him of his power let alone the time energy he had stored up… Had it not been for the 9th Doctor who used his screwdriver to over energize one tiny mechanism which powered down the generator. David then cursed the planet with a drought that would last the natural span of the most recent newborn's life. The Doctor tried to warn the lizard-men, "I wouldn't piss him off any further if I were you…" Unfortunately, they had forced David into eating a bowl of ground garnets, which was something that had the chemical composition to absorb David's power – and was considered food on this mining planet – didn't make matters any better…
"Fantastic!" exclaimed the Doctor. "Fantastic? Are you crazy? It's bloody cold out here!" exclaimed Rose. David grabbed a parka for each of them upon hearing this. He figured it'd be another ice world… well anything than another jungle one..
"Rose, welcome to Mother Russia." Proclaimed the Doctor, as he, Rose, and David were putting on their parkas.
Upon hear Russia, David froze, almost like whenever the Doctor heard "Bad Wolf", but this was worse. It didn't mean Daleks. It meant an argument between his bevloved Doctor and himself was about to happen…
Do you remember the Time Vortex I mentioned in the Prologue? Well, this the same concept: a Time Lord sees all of time and the events contained within. A Chaos Lord also has the ability to know when chaos is about to happen... Fortunately for David: there is no laws prohibiting him from interferring with his personal future self... But what battle are they entering? What alien civilization will be there in Russia, of all places?
