Chapter 5: The Revelation of the Creature

The Creature glided through the primitive temple. Once the others had left, its power was diminished. It had tried to recover its energy for the past few Quintrels. It didn't help that it had to waste precious power to kill the primitives who lived on this planet.

Once it got enough power it was going to go and destroy all of them.

Gahiji looked at the tracker. The Doctor was heading to the Pyramids and the girl was following after a break in some small place on the outskirts of town. A shame it took the Doctor a whole night to go to the pyramid.

Well, he thought it all seems to be going according to plan.

The Doctor walked through the streets of Cairo. It had taken him two minutes to realize that Gahiji had left a tracker on him. It was harder to find an appropriate decoy. So hard it took him a whole night to find a pyramid worker.

He didn't want to endanger the people of Cairo but he was curious about Gahiji.

"Who are you," he said to himself. "How do you know me?"

He turned the corner and looked at the house where Gahiji lived.

That's strange he thought I thought it was two storeys.

The house in front of him was one storey and looked like a one room house. But he had a two storey house with multiple rooms.

This is starting to look bad he thought better find out what's in the pyramid.

Crissera arrived at the workings.

Here's the place she thought where I'll find the impossible man.

She walked inside.

The Doctor arrived at the workings and looked over the outside. It seemed normal with slaves being forced to pull large boulders with ropes whilst being whipped and yelled at by the guards. The guy with the tracker wasn't among them though.

He must be inside.

The Doctor walked into the entrance.

After just the first corner the corridor became near black. He pulled his torch out of his jacket's inner pocket.

The corridor lit up almost immediately.

Hieroglyphics lined the walls, they represented the journey into the afterlife. Once the king died he was mummified to keep his body or else he wouldn't make the journey to the Two Fields. He was then placed in the tomb with a cartouche that would tell the Gods who he was when he made it to the afterlife. The King's soul was divided into two at death. One called 'Ba' and the other called 'Ka.' Ba looked after the king's family during the day while Ka enjoyed life in the Two Fields. At night they would return to the body and rest. If the body wasn't preserved properly or his Catouche was missing then the soul would die.

The room was also lined with curses for grave robbers. It seemed that grave robbers were the most despicable creatures to the Egyptians because they also took the Cartouche which stopped the King's soul from living in the Two Fields.

The Doctor walked through the tomb's corridors. There were more hieroglyphs showing the weighing ceremony.

If your soul made it to the Hall of Double Ma'at, the god Anubis would weigh your heart while the recording was written down by the God Thoth. Your heart was made heavier by bad deeds and made lighter by good deeds. If it was lighter than a feather, you were allowed to live in the Two Fields. However, if it was heavier than your heart was devoured by the God Ammut. Ammut had the head of a crocodile, the hind legs of a hippopotamus and the fore legs of a lion.

The Doctor was reading the hieroglyphs with awe when he heard a scream. He ran towards the sound and came across the body of the man he placed the tracker on.

He dropped to the ground and felt for the man's pulse. He stood up solemnly and looked at the man properly. No markings on his body but the air smelt like something was fried. Definitely not Earth technology, he thought.

The position his body was is showed he must have held his hands out to stop whatever killed him. When he died he fell backwards. The Doctor walked towards the way the killer must have gone.

He turned around the corner and the hairs on the back of his neck rose. There was something most definitely wrong about this. He ran down the corridor and saw the murderer.

Crissera ran through the corridors towards where she heard the scream coming from and gasped when she came across the dead body of a guard. She knelt down and closed his eyelids.

She looked around. The Impossible Man should be around here.

The Doctor looked over the murderer. It was six feet tall and slightly cylindrical. It had two speakers on either side of its head, a long stick with a mechanical claw at the end. It had a large eye stalk and a ray gun next to its arm. It had a blue metal providing its armour with around thirty spheres attached. It had forty-six different ways to kill him. It was a Dalek.

"IDENTIFY YOURSELF!" It shrieked.

"How are you possible?" the Doctor asked.

"IDENTIFY YOURSLEF!"

"You seem a bit out-dated DALEK"

The Dalek shrank back a little in shock but immediately recovered. "YOU… KNOW US?"

"Yes I do and you are impossible, The Daleks never go back to inferior prototypes."

"EXPLAIN YOURSELF!" It was seething rage.

"What I mean to say is, the only way you are possible is if the Daleks are going back to old, inferior prototypes."

The Dalek seemed to process this before "IDENTIFY YOURSELF!"

"OK then, if it is what you wish," the Doctor said. "I am The Doctor."

"APPEARANCE DOES NOT FIT DATA BANKS!" The Dalek screamed in delight. "YOU ARE NOT THE DOCTOR!"

"What do you mean; of course I'm the Doctor." The Doctor looked at the Dalek confused. "I have two hearts I'm nine hundred years old and I defeat you every single time."

"EXTERMINATE!"

The Dalek fired its laser straight into the Doctor's chest. He felt both of his hearts turning inside out and he fell to the ground.

As he slipped into unconsciousness he whispered "The Dalek's have finally defeated me."