Okay, here's part three, the next chapter will bring this story up to 39 chapters, which means it will have the same number of chapters as it's sequel. Anyway, enough of me rambling. Let's get on with the story.
The Doctor was sitting at the table in the dining room when the door opened and the servant entered "Your companion begs an apology, Doctor." he said "Her clothing has somewhat delayed her."
"Oh, that's all right." he replied. "Besides, we're all waiting on Sir Robert. Come, sir. You promised us a tale of nightmares."
"Indeed." said the Queen "Since my husband's death, I find myself with more of a taste for supernatural fiction."
"You must miss him." said the Doctor.
"Very much." she said "Oh, completely. And that's the charm of a ghost story, isn't it? Not the scares and chills, that's just for children, but the hope of some contact from the great beyond. We all want some message from that place. It's the Creator's greatest mystery that we're allowed no such consolation. The dead stay silent, and we must wait." she paused "Come, being you tale, Sir Robert. There's a chill in the air. The wind is howling through the eaves. Tell us of monsters."
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Rose was confused, she and Flora had been locked up with the other people from the household and what she wanted to know was why. "Don't make a sound." said Lady Isobel "They said if we scream or shout, then he will slaugter us."
"But he's in a cage." said Rose "He's a prisoner. He's the same as us."
"He's nothing like us." said the Lady "That creature is not mortal."
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"The story goes back 300 years." said Sir Robert. "Every full moon, the howling rings through the valley. Next morning, livestock is found ripped apart and devoured."
"Oh, tales like this just disguise the work of thieves." said the Captain "Steal the sheep and blame a wolf, simple as that."
"But sometimes a child goes missing." said Sir Robert "Once in a geration, a boy will vanish from his homestead."
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Rose stood up and slowly moved towards the cage. "Don't, child." said Lady Isobel.
"Who are you?"Rose asked as she got as close as she could get.
"Don't enrage him." said the older man who was there
"Where are you from?" Rose asked as though the man hadn't spoke "You're not from Eath. What planet are you from?"
"Oh...intelligence."
"Where were you born?"
"This body? Ten miles away." he answered. "A weakling heartsick boy, stolen away at night by the Brethren for my cultivation. I carved out his soul and sat in his heart."
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"Are there discriptions of the creature?" the Doctor asked
"Oh, yes, Doctor." answered Sir Robert. "Drawings and wood carvings. And it's not merely a wolf, it's more than that. This is a man who becomes an animal."
The Doctor leaned forward "A werewolf.?" he asked, now really interested.
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"All right, so the body's human." said Rose "What about you, the thing inside?"
"So far from home."
"If you want to get back home, we can help."
"Why would I leave this place?" asked the Creature "A world of industry, of workforce and warfare. I could turn it to such purpose."
"How would you do that?" Rose asked.
"I would migrate to the Holy Monarch."
"You mean Queen Victoria?"
With one bite, I would pass into her blood. And then it begins, the Empire of the Wolf." he replied "So many questions." he leaned forwards, everyone screamed "Look!" he said "Inside your eyes. You've seen it, too."
"Seen what?"
"The wolf." he answered "There is something og the wolf about you."
"I don't know what you mean."
"Oh, you burn like the sun, but all I require is the moon."
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"My father didn't treat it as a story." said Sir Robery "He said it was fact. He even claimed to have commned with the beast, to have learned its purpose. I should have listened. His work was hindered. He made enemies. There's a monastery in the Glen of St Catherine. The Brethren opposed my father's investigations."
"Perhaps they thought his work ungodly." said Queen Victoria.
"That's what I thought, but now I wonder. What if they had a different reason for wanting the story kept quiet? What if the turned from God and worshipped the wolf?"
"And what if they were with us right now?" asked the Doctor.
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Rose watched, now terrified as the door was opened and moonlight shone in to the cellar onto the creature. "All of you, stop looking at him." she said to her fellow prisoners. "Flore, don't look, listen to me." she said "Grab hold of the chain and pull!" she began to pull on the chain and the others followed "Come on! Pull with me. I said pull! Stop your whining and liten to me! All of yous! Andthat means you, your Ladyship. Now come on! Pull!" All of them pulled.
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"What is the meaning of this?" asked the Queen
"Explain yourself, sir."
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, they've got my wife."
"Rose, where's Rose?" the Doctor asked "Where is she?" the father ignored him, he was now really worried "Sir Robert, come on!" he shouted as he ran out of the room in search of both of their wives.
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The creature was changing and the prisoners were still pulling.
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The Doctor and Sir Robert ran through the halls of The Torchwood Estate.
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The prisoners had finally broken the chain from the wall and the Doctor and Sir Robert burst into the room "Where the hell have you been?" Rose asked her husband.
The Doctor was looking at the creature "Oh, that's beautiful."
They got everyone out. The Doctor left last and closed the door behind him, then locked it with the sonic screwdriver.
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The Doctor was unlocking the cuffs that were still on Rose's wrists with the sonic screwdriver "Could be any form of light-modulating species triggered by specific wavelenghts." he said "Did it say what it wanted?"
"The Queen, the crown, the throne, you name it." There was a loud crash and the Doctor went to see what it was. He went back the way the came and saw that the wolf had managed to get out. He stared at it for a few seconds and then ran, he grabbed Rose's hand and continued to run. He pulled her behind the men who had guns and held her close to him "Fire! Fire!" Rose jumped at every shot and the Doctor held her tighter.
When they had stopped firing the Doctor spoke "All right, you men, we should retreat upstairs." he said "Come with me."
"I'll not retreat." said the steward "The battle's done. There's no creature on God's earth could survive such an assault."
"I'm telling you, come up stairs." said the Doctor
"And I'm telling you, sir, I will sleep well tonight with that thing's hide upon my wall." he walked back to where he expected the werewolf to be "It must have crawled away to die." the werewolf grabbed him and pulled him upwards
"There's nothing we can do!" said the Doctor as he grabbed Rose and moved her on.
Okay, that's all your getting for now, I'm going for lunch, you'll get chapter 39 after that and probably 40 as well today maybe more.
TTFN
Julie.