And now we're back at where the prologue started. The T rating is going to be used for the next chapters by the way, minor gore and a swear here and there. Nothing too extreme. Have fun reading!
"Oh my god!" Clara said, eyes wide as she shook the unmoving body of the Doctor. Jack and Amy were right behind her as she tried to rouse the comatose figure of the Time Lord. "Don't you be dead. Don't you even try it!"
Amy had wide eyes as she saw the limp form her friend was in, there was a clean slit on his throat while his eyes were glassy and only stared forward into the darkness of the maze. The Girl Who Waited grabbed out his splayed wrist and felt for a pulse, there was a faint beat but it was changing from four beats to two, even his skin had taken on a pale tone and was ice-cold to the touch. Jack blinked, eyes flitting to the door they had just came through as it sealed itself off.
He placed his palm on the floor but quickly held it up, warm blood dripping from his fingers, he swallowed bitterly realizing for once it wasn't his own but the Doctor's. Clara was still trying to shake him awake but to no avail. A single tear dripped down Amy's cheek as she felt the pulse fade and the rush of life blood from her friend's young body. Clara looked up, wide-eyed but when Jack shook his head, she broke down. Sobs shaking her already tired and weak form.
Tears dripped off of Clara's face and onto the Time Lord's darkly colored tweed jacket as she picked up his discarded bow-tie. She held it in her hands like a lifeline but everyone jumped at the sudden gasp. Clara looked down at the Doctor's face, to find that her friend's eyes had turned a startling shade of gold and to Amy's own surprise the wound began to stitch itself close. This wasn't Time Lord healing, this was something else...something more powerful.
The Doctor blinked and suddenly the companions were blasted away, Amy farther away on the marble floor while Jack went straight through a wall and Clara got the least of it, she only skidded across the floor until her head slammed against the wall. The Doctor stood, wounds closing as a small field of golden light pulsated from his body. He looked at his hands, an experimental notion as he waved them through the air, in an instant a wall was blasted away.
"Oh this is a better form!" He cried happily, golden eyes wide as he spun around. He aimed his hand at Jack's unconscious form before sending a heated blast through his heart. The man screamed before going limp. "About time! I've been looking for a Time Lord for centuries."
Amy sat up, she was shaking as a trickle of blood caused her hair to stick to her sull. "What do you mean a new 'form'. Who are you?"
The Doctor spun around, he jumped down next to Amy, crossing his legs and putting his hands over his lap. Suddenly the man was calm as if nothing had happened. "Honestly, its a surprise you're still alive here. Didn't you listen to Jack? This is the maze of time. Made to imprison the most powerful thing in the universe and of all creation. So tell me...Pond, who am I?"
Amy shivered as he whispered her nickname. The thing possessing her Doctor had no reason to even say it. She swallowed, Clara was sitting up with wide eyes and Jack was gasping as he forced air back into his lungs. She shook her head, the Doctor smirking, golden eyes flashing, all around them the walls of the maze began to lower.
"Hello Time."
The Embodiment chuckled darkly, Amy glanced at his hands. Golden time energy swirled from his hands but then he blew it away with a swift breath. He shook his head and sighed "Why did the only Time Lord left have to be on his last regeneration? Almost useless I have to say, but it'll have to do."
Clara blinked as she saw the cold manner her Doctor was giving off. The Impossible Girl saw the walls shaking as they lowered at speeds she never thought she's see them move, Time stood. He smirked and rolled his shoulders with a devilish manner as he glanced at Clara.
"Honestly," He said with a sigh "you're the one that tore open time eh? Pathetic I have to say."
The Impossible Girl narrowed her eyes, her vision was still spinning but she growled out "Let him go. He's not your puppet."
"Oh and what is he exactly?" Time said with a smirk and a roll of his eyes. "A hero? No, he's a murderer. Look at Gallifrey. There were 2.4 Billion children alone there and he burned them to nothing but ashes. He was never a hero you insufferable idiotic humans, he was the monster parents told their children about at night."
Jack sat up straight at that one despite the pain in his heart. He shivered, never being able to imagine the Doctor burning children. It was awful and made his stomach churn. Time chuckled, the walls were gone and the place felt eerie, the dark plain went out for miles and miles in every direction. None of the furies were seen nor any of the other creatures that had been created to mess with the occupants. He whipped around, purple coat fanning out behind him as a blue box came into view.
"Ah ha!" He laughed, snapping his fingers the box came closer. "Finally, the last child of Gallifrey in my grasp. Oh...that's interesting."
"What?" Clara snapped.
Time gave a wink accompanied by a wicked smile. "She's dying...what a shame."
Jack's eyes widened as the embodiment whipped around, precision too exact to be the Doctor. He was laughing, muttering something in a language the TARDIS didn't translate, but eventually he switched back to english. "Her heart is burning out, she's going to land at Trenzalore soon, I can smell it on the console. She's mourning the loss of her precious Time Lord, what a shame being I don't want to give this one back."
Time paused, the cold barrel of Jack's revolver met the back of his head. A click sounded as a bullet moved into place, all that needed to transpire was the pull of the trigger. Jack snarled out three words coldly, eyes narrowed dangerously. "Let. Him. Go."
"No." Time snarled as he whipped around, grabbing the barrel of the gun and throwing it away. Jack backed away as the Time Lord stalked forward, golden eyes narrowed coldly. "Honestly, you want me to let a Time Lord go with more blood on his hands than the Daleks? I hear him, all of him, jangling around in this dusty head...I hear them screaming."
Amy was shaking her head, the way he walked or just blinked wasn't Doctor, not in the slightest. She had only seen him act like this once, at Demon's Run but that was it and it was dangerous enough. Time stopped suddenly and then said "Oh, this just got interesting."
Before anyone could ask he said "Earth scientists have been meddling with time outside of their own time periods, Victorian London is invading the future and vice-versa. Quite interesting don't you think? The way humans think that they own everything...it is annoying."
He smiled "Well, I best be off. Time fishers often cause cracks, oh how I hate them., and oh how they kill me."
Footsteps sounded across the ruined area they had been standing on. Time rolled his eyes and snapped his fingers just as the others came into view. Clara winced as she stood, legs shaking. The other group stopped as they saw the golden aura that seemed to surround the Doctor.
He smiled "See you around!" and with that sentence he was gone, leaving almost everyone either in confusion or horror.