Okay everyone here's Utopia part 2, Probably a few mistakes but I hope you won't mind
I do NOT own 'Doctor Who?' but like some people play with dolls I pretend I do.
Enjoy.
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"Chan-you are most unusual tho." Chantho observes, I laugh,
"Well..." The doctor hums,
"You have no idea." I continue,
"So what about those things outside? The Beastie Boys. What are they?" Jack asked,
"FutureKind." I deadpan,
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"Yes." YANA looked at me in sigh shock "We call them the Futurekind. Which is a myth in itself, but, uh, it is feared they are what we will become. Unless we reach Utopia." I close my eyes, better to become them that live on the false hope of a dream.
"And Utopia is..." The doctor trailed obviously prompting him to explain,
"Oh, every human knows of Utopia. Where have you been?" YANA asked, I roll my eyes,
"Bit of a hermit." The Doctor shrugs,
"A hermit with friends?" YANA questioned skeptically,
"Hermits United. We meet up every ten years. Swap stories about caves. It s good fun...for a hermit. So, um, Utopia?" I wanted to hit him I really did. YANA crooks his finger and leads us to a computer that shows a navigational chart with a blinking red dot.
"The call came from across the stars over and over again. Come to Utopia. Originated from that point." YANA continued,
"Where is that?" The doctor inquired,
"Oh, it s far beyond the Condensate Wilderness. Out towards the wildlands and the dark matter reefs. Calling us in. The last of the humans. Scattered across the night."
The stars are going out.
Rose said that to Donna, even now things are echoing across space as a warning of whats to come.
"What do you think s out there?" I asked softly,
"I don t know. A colony, a city, some sort of haven? The Science Foundation created the Utopia Project thousands of years ago to preserve mankind to find a way of surviving beyond the collapse of reality itself. Now perhaps they found it. Perhaps not. But it s worth a look, don t you think?" I don't answer,
"Oh yes." I heard something then, something that scared me, something that terrified me beyond belief. I heard a four beat drum echoing in my ears, "And the signal keeps modulating, so it s not automatic. There's a good sign." The Doctor rambled as the sound faded, I felt my hands shaking almost as much as it had when I had held a gun after so long, to save Solomon. I clench them into fists and take a deep breath, "Someone s out there. And that s...ooh, that s a navigation matrix, isn't it? So you can fly without stars to guide you." I look over at the Doctor to see him looking over at YANA, "Professor? Professor?" he calls,
"I Right, that s enough talk. There s work to do. Now if you could leave. Thank you." He walks away,
"You all right?" He asks,
"Yes. I'm fine! And busy!" YANA answered,
"Except that rocket s not going to fly. Is it?" I ask knowing the answer already, without the Doctor's help it would never fly,
"This footprint mechanism thing, it s not working." The Doctor continued,
"We'll find a way!" YANA snapped,
"You're stuck on this planet. And you haven t told them, have you? That lot out there, hey still think they're gonna fly." The doctor pressed on,
"Well, it s better to let them live in hope." I shake my head at his answer. After this no one will hope again.
"Quite right, too. And I must say, Professor..." He removes his coat and Jack takes it as he passes, "Um, what was it?" The Doctor asked, clearly forgetting that he hadn't asked is name,
"YANA." He informs,
"Professor YANA. This new science is well beyond me, but all the same, a boost reversal circuit, in any time frame, must be a circuit which reverses the boost. So, I wonder, what would happen if I did this?" The doctor picks up the circuit and faces me with pleading eyes, I didn't want to give, but I couldn't deny him and that killed me, because it meant that I would be helping the Master kill everyone. Sighing I pull out my sonic and hold it to the board, giving them power.
"Chan it s working tho!" Chantho shouted in glee, but I couldn't help but feel the icy coldness of what had been set in motion because of that one action.
"But how did you do that?" He asked looking between us,
"Oh, we've been chatting away. I forgot to tell you, we're brilliant." he informed slinging his arm around my waist bringing me closer but not even his touch could melt the ice.
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I heard the announcement,
"All passengers prepare for immediate boarding. I repeat, all passengers prepare for immediate boarding. Destination: Utopia." Atillo breathed as he made the announcement "All troops fall back to the silo. I repeat, all troops fall back to the silo. I repeat, all passengers prepare for immediate boarding." I was walking with Martha and Chantho carrying some circuit boards when Martha saw a boy.
"Excuse me. Hey, what was your name? Creet." Martha asks,
"That s right, miss." he answers,
"Who are you with, Creet? You got family?" She questions, Creet shakes his head,
"No, miss. There s just me." Creet informs,
"Well, good luck. What do you think it s going to be like in Utopia?" Martha inquirers,
"My mum used to say the skies are made of diamonds." I smile,
"I used to watch the stars, a long time ago now." I tell him,
"Why?"
"A little girl asked me the same question once." I whisper,
"What did you say?" he asked, I grin,
"Because it's fun! I used to make my own pictures out of them connecting the dots." I tell him,
"That sounds fun." He grins,
"Go on, off you go. Get your seat." Martha says hurrying him along, she looks at me as we leave "You're good with kids." I smile,
"Practice. Ethan was just like that..." I trail off thinking of my dear brother,
"Ethan?"
"My brother..." I answer,
"Who was the little girl?" she continues to question,
"Her name was Alexandra, I met her after Ethan... passed, cute little girl, blonde hair blue eyes, I used to play instruments for her all the time in Arcadia park." I tell her. I pause in walking again as I heard that same four beat rhythm in my head before it disappears, walking into the room I hear Theta's voice,
"Extra power. Little bit of a cheat, but who s counting? Jack, you re in charge of the retro-feeds." He asks,
"Oh, am I glad to see that thing." Martha exclaims, I look at the screen and see our beloved blue box and then I look over at YANA and that little joy turned cold. Chantho sits beside him,
"Chan Professor, are you all right tho?" She asks him in concern,
"Yes, I'm fine. I'm fine." His voice got stronger, "I'm fine. Just get on with it." he near snaps,
"Connect those circuits into the spar same as that last lot. But quicker." Jack orders,
"Yes, sir." Martha mocks as we walk to get the job done.
"You don t have to keep working. We can handle it." The Doctor said to YANA, I look over briefly before looking back down at what I was doing,
"It s just a headache. Just Just noise inside my head, Doctor. Constant noise inside my head." I freeze, it was happening. He was nearly there.
"What sort of noise?" the Doctor asked curiously,
"It's the sound of drums. More and more as though it s getting closer." I flinch as they started in my head louder as he talked about them, I shake my head, I didn't want to hear them, and then they were gone, why did it keep fading out?
"When did it start?" I ask,
"Oh, I've had it all my life. Every waking hour. Still, no rest for the wicked." He gets up and goes back to work, I look at his back and I could feel something coming from my locket a genuine remorse, but I couldn't figure out why, I knew he would die, I felt sad at that, because it would cause my link pain, but why my other self felt remorse I couldn't understand.
"How long have you been with the professor?" I heard Martha ask, I shake my head with a smile ever the curious one.
"Chan 17 years tho." she answered,
"Blimey. A long time." Martha whistled,
"Chan I adore him tho." She confessed,
"Oh right, and he " Chantho cut her off,
"Chan-I don t think he even notices tho." I felt genuine pity for the girl, in love and unable to have him. "Chan but I am happy to serve tho." she continued brushing it off,
"Do you mind if I ask? Do you have to start every sentence with 'chan' ?" Martha questioned,
"Chan yes tho." She answered.
"And end every sentence with..."Martha trails,
"Chan tho tho." Cantho finishes,
"What would you happen if you didn't?" she inquired,
"To her race it's considered rude or disrespectful, I can't remember which." I answer,
"Chan She is right tho."
"What, like swearing?" Martha continues,
"Chan indeed tho."
"Go on, just once." Martha urges, I watch her with an amused smile,
"Chan I can't tho." She denies nervously,
"Oh, do it for us." Martha begs,
"No." Chantho giggles,
"Professor, are you getting me?" I hear Atillo ask,
"I m here! We re ready! Now all you need to do is connect the couplings. Then we can launch." The connection is lost "God sakes! This equipment! Needs rebooting all the time!" He sighs,
"Anything I can do? I've finished that lot." Martha speaks up,
"Yes, if you could." He answers thankful for the help as he gets up from his seat so Martha can sit down "Just press the reboot key every time the picture goes out."
"Certainly, sir. Just don't ask me to do shorthand." Martha jokes,
I smile Sally Sparrow can do shorthand, so can Donna come to think of it.
"Are you still there?" Atillo's voice comes out loud and clear,
"Ah, present and correct. Send your man inside. We ll keep the levels down from here." YANA orders, "Captain, keep the levels below the red." YANA continues,
"Where is that room?" The Doctor asks,
"It s underneath the rocket. Fix the couplings and the footprint can work. But the entire chamber is flooded with stet radiation." YANA informs,
"Stet? Never heard of it." The doctor speaks, he had said that quite a lot recently,
"You wouldn't want to. But it s safe enough. We can hold the radiation back from here." he assures, We watch on the monitor as a guy works on the couplings, and then an alarm went off, "It s rising...0.2. Keep it level!" YANA shouts,
"Yes, sir!" Jack barked out, the man moves onto the second coupling, more alarms go off,
"Chan we re losing power tho!" Chantho shrills in panic,
"Radiation s rising!" The Doctor and I shout,
"We've lost control!" Jack booms,
"The chamber s going to flood." YANA said horrified,
"Jack! Override the vents!" The doctor shouts,
"No stay there I'll do it." I call as work on override.
"Get out! Get out of there! Jate!" I heard Atillo scream.
"We can jump start the override!" I call and then I remember, it would kill me, Jack grabbed them from my hands,
"Don t! It s going to flare!" Jack connects them and I watch as he screams in agony before falling to the floor.
"Jate, get out of there! Get out!" I hear a voice scream "No!" Jate was dead.
"I've got him." Martha shouts as she rushes to Jack,
"Chan don t touch the cables tho." I kick them aside with my foot as I stand, I look on as the doctor does and look unperturbed,
"Oh, I m so sorry." YANA apologizes,
"The chamber s flooded with radiation, yes?" I watch as Martha does mouth to mouth and sigh, that was going to make his day...
"Without the couplings, the engines will never start. It was all for nothing!" I shake my head,
"Oh, I don t know." He walks forward, "Martha, leave him." he pulls her up gently,
"You've gotta let me try." Martha struggles, I sigh and step in front of her,
"Come on. Come on. Just listen to me. Now leave him alone." The doctor hushes, I look over at YANA, no point in delaying the inevitable,
"It seems to me, Professor, you've got a room a man can t enter without dying. Is that correct?" I ask,
"Yes." He nods,
"Well..." Jack gasps for breath, the doctor takes his glasses off, "We've got just the man." I announce,
"Was someone kissing me?" Jack questions hopefully,
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"Lieutenant, get on board the rocket! I promise you re gonna fly." I heard the doctor say through the com,
"The chamber s flooded!"
"Trust me. We've found a way of tripping the system. Run!" there was a pause then I head the doctor sputter, "Wh-What are you taking your clothes off for?" I smirk,
"I'm going in." I hear Jack say, I wanted to make so many dirty comments at that thought though,
"Well by the looks of it, I'd say that stet radiation doesn't affect clothing, only flesh." The doctor informs completely unimpressed,
"I look good though." it cut off for a moment,
"We lost picture when that thing flared up. Doctor, are you there?" Martha calls over the computer,
"Receiving, yeah. He s inside." The doctor tells us,
"And still alive?" Martha inquires,
"Oh, yes."
"But he should evaporate. What sort of a man is he?" YANA asked,
"I've only just met him. The Doctor sort of travels through time and space and picks people up. God, I make us sound like stray dogs. Maybe we are. Phoenix knows though." he looks over at me for an answer,
"Nothing I can tell anyone, not my place." I shrug, I'd rather hold any information I could back. He'd use it against me somehow.
"He travels in time?" YANA looks away distractedly and I keep one eye on him, he was pulling pieces together,
"Don t ask me to explain it. That s a TARDIS. The sports car of time travel, he says." I glare at her slightly,
"Martha... please, enough."
"When did you first realize?" I heard the Doctor ask,
"Earth 1892. Got in a fight in Ellis Island. A man shot me through the heart. Then I woke up. Thought it was kinda strange. But then it never stopped. Fell off a cliff, trampled by horses, World War I, World War II, poison, strangulation, a stray javelin... " I wince at that one, "In the end, I got the message, I'm the man who can never die. And all that time you knew."
"That's why I left you behind. It s not easy even just...just looking at you Jack, cause you re wrong." I sigh, he had such an elegant way of putting things,
"Thanks." Jack called sarcastically.
"You are, I can t help it. I m a Time Lord. It s instinct. It s in my guts. You re a fixed point in time a space. You re a fact. That s never meant to happen. Even the TARDIS reacted against you tried to shake you off. Flew all the way to the end of the universe just to get rid of you." The Doctor explains,
"So what you re saying is that you re, uh, Like Phoenix said prejudiced?" I grin,
"I never thought of it like that." The doctor mused,
"Yeah. Last thing I remember back when I was mortal...I was facing three Daleks." I flinch, "Death by extermination. And then I came back to life. What happened?" He asked,
"Rose." I saw the blonde flash across his mind with a blinding smile, she really was something.
"I thought you sent her back home." Jack stated in confusion,
"She came back. Opened the heart of the TARDIS and absorbed the time vortex." I remember the brilliant gold, it was beautiful,
"What does that mean, exactly?" Jack asked confusion still apparent,
"No one s ever mean to have that power. If a Time Lord did that, he d become a god, a vengeful god. But she was human." I lower my head watching the scene play out,
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She was glowing golden with the vortex energy.
"I bring life." She whispered, and then i saw Jack opening his eyes gasping for air.
...
"Everything she did was so human. She brought you back to life but she couldn t control it. She brought you back forever. That s something, I suppose. The final act of the Time War was life." he whispered, the drumming started again. I winced and looked around at YANA.
"Do you think she could change me back?" I heard Jack ask,
"I took the power out of her. She s gone, Jack. She s not just living on a parallel world, she s trapped there. The walls have closed." The doctor explains,
"I m sorry." Jack offers,
"Yep."
"I went back to her estate, in the 90s, just once or twice. Watched her growing up. Never said hello, timelines and all that." I couldn't imagine the pain in that.
"Do you wanna die?" The Doctor asked, curious, i place a hand to my temple,
"Oh, this one s a little stuck." Jack struggles,
"Jack?" The doctor presses,
"I thought I did. I dunno. But this lot, you see them out here surviving and that s fantastic." He gasps out,
"You may be out there somewhere." I shake my head, not anymore.
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infront of me I see the Face of Boe, I kneel down in front of him and I feel a welcome wave of happiness
'Hello, Lexi.' I cringe at the name the pain still raw before I smile
'Hello, Jack' I think to myself and know he can hear me,
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'You once told me that the word impossible only means I'm possible, nothing is impossible if you believe, Lexi.'
'Look at you using the cliche saying, and for you that may have been a long time ago but it hasn't happened to me yet, I just don't have the guts to show him.'
...
'Line stealer'
...
"Save them, Doctor. Phoenix, Save them."
I have to get this done, I'm almost there... He bangs his fist against the console and jumps up.
"So what are you going to do?" Hame asks
"This!" he says I look over,
"NO!" but I was to late,
...
'Jack you idiot.' I think he looks at me
'It is my time Lexi.' shake my head at him, but smile as best as I could,
'You get to be with Ianto now, Jack.' I tell, him and his eyes brighten slightly, with longing,
...
"It's good to breathe the air once more."
...
"Everything has its time. You know that, old friends, better than most."
"I have seen so much. Perhaps too much. I am the last of my kind as you think you are the last of yours, Doctor."
'Don't Jack'
"I must. But know this, Time Lord. You are not alone." I flinch at that knowing what it means, but his eyes are on me, "Tell him Phoenix, He will understand, Protect him."
...
"This new regeneration, it s kinda cheeky." I hear Jack accuse,
"Hmm." The doctor agrees,
"I never understand half the things he says." Martha turns to YANA and I "What s wrong?"
"Headache." I answer, the drums got louder,
"Time travel. They say there was time travel back in the old days. I never believed. But what would I know? I m just a stupid old man. Never could keep time. Always late, always lost. Even this thing never worked." He pulls out a fobwatch like the doctor's, why was mine so different? "Time and time and time again. Always running out on me." Rambles on,
"Can I have a look at that?" Martha asks,
"Martha-"
"Oh, it s only an old relic." he chuckles, "Like me."
"Where did you get it?" Martha continues on,
"Hm? I was found with it." I flinch,
"Please." I whisper,
"What do you mean?" Martha ignores me,
"An orphan in the storm. I was a naked child found on the coast of the Silver Devastation. Abandoned with only this." I shake my head,
No please,
All that blood, it was on my hands, I started this, because I couldn't refuse him...
"Have you opened it?" she asked,
"Please Martha." I stress, still she doesn't stop,
"Why would I? It s broken."
"How do you know it s broken if you never opened it?" I hung my head, there wasn't any getting out of this now... was there.
"It s stuck. It s old. It s not meant to be. I don t know." YANA answers, Martha takes the watch and turns it over. It bears the same engravings as The Doctor's. She steps back and breathes nervously. "Does it matter?" he asked,
"Martha, I'm begging you, you have no idea what's-"
"No. It's...nothing. It's...Listen, everything s fine up here. I'm gonna see if the Doctor needs me." I let out a sigh, and then I look at Chantho, "Common Phoenix." I shake my head,
"I'll- I'll stick around encase anything goes wrong on this end." She catches the double meaning, "Hurry back my heart." I joke and she catches that as well, my heart was the Doctors, I'de told her that a few nights ago, she'd asked more about the link,
...
"When you say you're linked..." she started, "Does it mean romantic?" I smile,
"Not always, romance is rare, usually it's more of a brother sister bond, but every so often there is that one miracle."
"And you're is?" I nod,
"I'd give my life for him in a second, the Doctor has two hearts, but in my case he has three." She looked confused,
"I'm not following." I roll my eyes,
"I'm going to sound really cheesy now, but the doctor has my heart, and therefore, he is my heart, I literally could not live without him." she gushed at how sweet that was, she just didn't see the morbid side of it, and I didn't want her to, I'd brushed over it vaguely. But that was as far as I was going to go.
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"Ready to launch. Outer doors sealed. Countdown commences T minus 99 98 " I hear Atillo voice,
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YANA was holding his watch, different voices echoing in his head.
"Chan YANA, won t you please take some rest tho?" I hear, I walk over and Take her hand,
"Chantho you need to leave." I state as I pull her towards the door,
"Chan-Why?-tho."
"It's not safe in here." I answer as I push her out of the door "Give these to the Doctor." I hand her my gun and sonic. "Tell him to take care of them." She nods and I close the door behind her. I move over to the TARDIS placing my hand on her door, "I'm so sorry I can't stop what happens next.
"13, 12, 11, 10 " Atillo counts,
I get flashes from the doctor's mind of Jacks last words,
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You ( Y typed into the computer) are ( A ) not ( N ) alone ( A ).
YANA blinks on the computer screen.
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I watch as the Professor turns from the TARDIS I seemed to have escaped his notice for now. He threw a switch and I heard the doors lock, then I felt anguish through the link, it seemed he had gotten my message.
"As one door closes, another must open." He throws another switch this one to the main gate. He works on various other controls, I saw a gun on the side just behind the TARDIS and reach for it quietly, "THAT IS NOT MY NAME!" he shouts to himself, I place a hand over my heart, god help me... "I am the Master." He whispers to himself. He was mad...
"Professor!" The Doctor pounds on the window, "Professor, let me in! Let me in! Jack, get the door open! Professor! Professor, where are you?! Professor! Professor, are you there?! Please, I need to explain! Whatever you do, don t open that watch!" I close my eyes as I load the gun,
"Utopia." He scoffs condescendingly,
"They re coming!" I hear Martha shout.
"Professor!" The doctor tries desperately, "Open the door, please! I m begging you, Professor! Please! Listen to me!" moving so I was behind him I set a steady aim on his heart, "Open the door, please!"
"Forgive me." I whisper and then I pull the trigger but her turns slightly and I miss my target, he staggers backwards and turns to look at me and then he rushes forward grabbing my wrist before I can comprehend what he was doing dragging me forward as he stepped back,
"Phoenix." I go shock numb as he utters my name, I heard the door open but didn't register it.
"PHOENIX!" The doctor shouts, I still don't move,
'How could he know me?'
'Who was I to him?'
'What was I to him?'
Suddenly I'm pulled sharply into the TARDIS and thrown to the floor as he locks the doors, I got to my feet and run up the stairs, running into the corridor, I had to go somewhere... anywhere, not my room.
'Help!' I call a door appears in front of me, a completely random one. Opening it I see a garden of fire lilies, I ran in closing the door behind me and watching the door disappear soon after. I let out a breathe of relief, I knew it wouldn't last long. 'I can't stop this...'
'I know dear one.'
'He's going to cannibalize you' I whimper, I didn't want that for her.
'You will save me sun bird.' I smile at the warmth but it came out as more of a grimace.
'So many people will die... All because I couldn't kill him.'
'Sun bird, everything will be fine in the end...'
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3rd Person...
The Doctor tries his key but the Master flicks a switch so a key won t work. He then heads up to the console noticing that Phoenix was gone. The Doctor pulls out the sonic screwdriver. Inside, the Master presses a button on the console to prevent that from working as well.
"Deadlocked." The Master says to himself, the Doctor pounds on the door,
"Let me in! Let me in!" The Doctor shouts,
"I've broken the lock! Give me a hand!" Jack shouts,
"I m begging you! Everything s changed! It s only the two of us! We re the only ones left!" The Doctor pleads, The Master scoffs,
'He doesn't know about Phoenix.'
Martha goes to help Jack.
"Just let me in!" He begs.
"Killed by her! A girl! How inappropriate. Still, if the Doctor can be young and strong, then so can I. The Master...reborn." He rants to himself, The Master stands in front of the console, head and arms flung back, and the regeneration starts. Bright golden lights pours out from his neck and arms. He screams. Outside, the The Doctor can see the light and hear the scream. All he could think about was that the Master had two very important things, his TARDIS and his Star.
The Futurekind arrive at the door and Martha and Jack try to hold them back as the door isn't fully closed. Phoenix lay crying in the grass of the garden.
"Doctor! You d better think of something!" Jack shouts,
Inside the TARDIS, a younger looking Master early 30s wakes up next to the The Doctor's hand. He stands slowly, amazed.
"Ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha!" He runs about the console "Ha, ha, ha!" He puts the TARDIS on speaker "Doctor ooh, new voice. Hello," He says in a low voice, before changing pitch to high "hello," and then he went back to normal, "hello. Anyway, why don t we stop and have a nice little chat while I tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me? I don t think so!" The Master shouted sarcastically, manically
"Hold on! I know that voice!" Martha recognizing it from somewhere. The Futurekind Cheiften reaches an arm through the door.
"I'm asking you really properly! Just stop! Just think!" The doctor reasons,
"Use my name." He commanded,
"Master. I'm sorry." The Doctor spoke his voice remorseful.
"Tough!" He runs around the console setting co-ordiantes,
The doctor holds out his sonic screwdriver,
"I can't hold out much longer, Doctor!" Jack cries,
In the TARDIS the console sparks,
Phoenix jerks up and the pained cry from the TARDIS.
"I'm sorry, he doesn't mean it he just needs to stop him." she whispers,
"Oh, no you don t!" The Master denied getting the control column moving again, "End of the universe. Have fun. Bye bye!"
"Doctor, stop him! He's got Phoenix!" Martha shouts. Martha and Jack fight off the Futurekind while The Doctor can only watch as the TARDIS de-materializes, Phoenix inside held hostage by his psychotic best friend...
To Be Continued...
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Okay Now tell me what you think I'm trying to get these chapters done as fast as I can. I know that it may be late but two chapters, thought you might like it, finally the Master is introduced, I might do a little bit chapter of the life Phoenix has for a short little day period to explain what she goes through. Hope you enjoyed everything let me know what you think.
Shadow OUT!
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