Physical violence,(sort of), mild choking, choking death, and spear related injuries in this chapter.
After a short debate it was decided they should go somewhere else, so after setting the co-ordinates they landed at their destination. Jaime hoped it wasn't another attempted trip to Mars. As it turned out it was not Mars but a whole different planet. When they stepped out of the TARDIS Jaime and Rose gasped in amazement. The TARDIS had parked up on a cliff and the view they were seeing was pretty spectacular. This planet's trees was like any normal Earth tree. The leaves were green but there were mostly reds and browns as well as if winter was setting in. But that was probably not it. The grass was green apart from several clumps of purple and the sky was a deep blue. It certainly didn't look like an Earth sky. In the distance there were mountains and the tops of those mountains disappeared into the clouds.
"Where are we?" A still stunned Rose asked, her eyes wide. "We're on the planet Gemini in Mutter's Spiral. It's full name is actually Gemini~9X7." John replied. "9X7? Does that mean there are other planets called Gemini as well?" She asked. "Nope," the Doctor spoke up. "Most planets in Mutter's Spiral tend to have a designated number or have several numbers after it." It was then that Rose suddenly realised something. "Hold on!" She said. "Mutter's Spiral? Isn't that the..." "Milky Way?" J.D answered with a grin. "Yep!" "We're a couple of thousand light years from Earth," the Doctor continued. "And you could probably see it and its Solar System once it gets dark." "Not to mention some really amazing aurora-borealis." John added. "So what's the year?" Rose asked now. "Oh, I'd say it's about 3610 in the 37th Century. "Wow!" But when Rose stared down at the trees below she noticed something unusual. "Is it me or are those trees moving?" "No, you're not imagining it. Most trees, not all, are sentient on this planet. They're likely to travel in groups and will attack when intimidated. Other than that they're pretty much friendly." The Doctor said.
Noticing that Jaime had been quiet the whole time John looked at her. She appeared to be in a world of her own. He tapped her on the shoulder and asked if she was okay. "Yeah!" She whispered. "But I can feel a lot of fear from somewhere and there's a really bad feeling." She was staring into space again. "Something big...red...is about to strike...when the moon is fat..." "Jaime? Can you see what it is?" John asked when they realised she was seeing into the future. Her eyes widened further but then a growing headache stopped her and she put her hands on her head, groaning in pain. Rose was at her side along with John in case she fell to the ground. Luckily she remained standing and looked around as if something was bothering her. "Do you know what the big red thing is?" The Doctor asked the teenager. She shook her head. All she could see was scales and feathers before the images went away. "Hmm, well I guess that remains a mystery." He said. "Come on." Rose and the Doctor began to walk towards the woods.
"Are you sure you're okay?" John asked. She quietly nodded her head and held his hand. They followed Rose and the Doctor into the woods and there appeared to be a worn footpath to walk on. "I'm guessing people live here as well? Not just trees?" Rose was heard to ask. "I would expect so!" The Doctor replied. "It just depends on what they're like." "And there's usually two choices in that. Friendly or hostile." John added and sensed Jaime's confusion.
She could feel a tingly feeling in the back of her mind and she wasn't sure what was going on. She ended up stopping and looking back the way they came. "Is something wrong?" John asked. The Doctor noticed they'd stopped. "What's the hold up?" He asked. "I don't know." J.D replied. "She just stopped." Jaime frowned at the way they came. The tingling in the back of her mind was still prominent and she could sense that something was there, but it felt a lot more erratic, over emotional, full of pain. Then the tingly feeling faded away to nothing. "What is it?" Rose asked. Jaime turned back to them, still feeling confused. "I don't know," she said. "I don't know what it was. It just felt weird." "Do you think it might be the big red thing?" The Doctor asked only she shook her head. They continued their walk but about a minute later there was a faint boom followed by an equally faint rumble of the ground. It came from back the way they came. "What was that?" A wide-eyed Rose asked. "It sounded like an explosion." The Doctor replied. "Followed by an Earthquake." John added. Jaime shivered and closed her eyes, a sudden feeling of paranoid dread coming to her.
They continued to walk through the woods but the bad feeling was getting so bad that Jaime was beginning to get very jumpy whenever something in the woods made a noise. She moved closer to J.D, clinging to him, as she stared around at her surroundings with wide-eyes. He noticed her odd behaviour which was unusually erratic for someone who was sensing danger right now. This was beyond the events of 9/11. Also he could sense she was upset about something. Panicking even. "Okay, hold up!" He stopped and looked down at Jaime. "What's going on?" He asked the teenager. Letting go of John she stepped away from him a little and looked down at her feet. "Whatever it was back there clearly spooked you, so just tell me what it was?" Shifting on her feet she let out a shaky sigh and looked up at him. John noticed she looked completely petrified of something.
But before she could say anything she suddenly yelled out in pain and covered her ears, falling to her knees. "Jaime? Blimey! What is it?" He asked, really quite unsure on what was happening now as he went to her aid. "Whistling!" She gasped painfully. "It's loud, so loud." "But I can't hear any whistling!" John replied. "Are you sure you're not hearing things?" Only she yelled out again and was practically collapsing to the ground. "They're all so loud!" She gasped. "All?" You mean somebody's using a silent whistle?" In reply Jaime squeezed her eyes shut and kept her hands over her ears, trying to block out the whistling. It was grating right through her brain causing her head to ache far worse than normal. Was this what dogs felt like when someone blew a dog whistle?
Still unsure on what to do John looked around to find they'd been left behind by Rose and the Doctor. And he didn't think he could get her to move. "Okay, stay there. I'll go see where the others went." Leaving her alone J.D ran up the beaten path and found it curved to the right. There was the Doctor and Rose looking at something on a tree. "Hey!" He shouted and the Doctor looked around, his brow furrowing, realising someone was missing. "What's going on? Where's Jaime?" He asked. "You left her behind?" "No...sort of...yes...look, she could hear whistling and it was hurting her. I couldn't move her." Rose frowned. "I haven't heard any whistling." She said. "That's because it's silent. She's got infra-sound hearing." "Silent? Like a dog whistle?" Rose asked and John nodded his head. "But there's not just one but several of them and she's hurting." "Right!" The Doctor was extremely worried about his foster-daughter and they were about to run back to where Jaime had been left, until a very sharp looking spear came sailing through he woods and hit the tree they were standing next to. "Blimey!" Rose cried out, her eyes wide. "Where did that come from?" As if in answer another one came out of nowhere and hit the same tree.
Suddenly they were surrounded by the natives of the planet. The Doctor instinctively pulled Rose close to him. The natives of Gemini~9X7 looked like dogs. They had short fur-like hair all over their bodies and faces. Not only that but they had dog-like muzzles as well and their ears were furry and pointy. Since they wore tribal clothes they were obviously part of a tribe. "From one of them most likely!" John answered Rose's question. The group of dog people started whooping excitedly...only it sounded like a variation of barking. "Friendly or hostile?" Rose whispered to the Doctors. There was only one way to find out. The Doctor stepped forward. "Hello, I'm the Doc..." He halted and put his hands up when they had spears and arrows aimed at them. "Hostile!" John said, also with his hands up. "Move!" One of the dog people growled. "Move!" "Well at least they speak English." Rose muttered. "But how well?" The Doctor added. "Oww! Hey, watch where you're sticking that thing!" John bit at the nearest dog person after they were prodded to get a move on. "What now, Spaceman?" He asked the Doctor. "And what about Jaime?" "The only thing we can do right now is go with them," the Time Lord replied as they started to walk with the group. "As for Jaime, hopefully she hasn't been captured too." "Cat nuns, yes." Rose muttered. "But dogs on upright legs? Do you know what species they are?" "No idea!" John and the Doctor said together.
Meanwhile a pained and scared Jaime had crawled underneath a small bush, sensing that J.D, the Doctor and Rose were not coming back. Thankfully the whistling had stopped but it'd left her feeling dizzy, disorientated and with a headache that felt like her head was caught in a vise grip. When she felt something wet coming from her ears Jaime wiped at one of them and looked at what it was. "Blood!" She croaked, staring at the watery red substance on her fingers. "That's a first!" It probably wasn't a good thing either. And if that wasn't enough there was a faint ringing noise and she wasn't sure where it was coming from. But whatever it was, it was scaring her a lot. Then bad emotions, bad feelings and weird sensations were beginning to make her feel jumpy and she really wanted to be with the Doctor, J.D and Rose. As the bad feeling got worse Jaime whimpered in fright and scrambled out from underneath the bush.
Still disorientated, dizzy and full of head pain the teenager stumbled through the woods, trying to work out which way to go, which way J.D and the Doctor was going. It wasn't an easy thing to do when all the trees were spinning and at one point she stumbled over a couple of branches and fell to the ground. She groaned as she put her hands on her head, hazel eyes watering. Maybe it was a good idea to take a painkiller. Just as she dug into her pocket where she kept them she heard the sound of a twig breaking. She gasped and looked around. "Hello?" The teenager croaked. "Doctor? John? Rose?"
Due to the nature of her headache she didn't notice that the tingly feeling was back and when she saw the shadowy figure she scrambled to her feet. This was one of the bad feelings she was getting, especially because she couldn't feel or sense anything from it. "Hello?" She croaked, trying her best to keep the woods from spinning. "Who are you?" In reply the shadowy figure punched her hard enough for her to go slamming backwards against a tree, hitting the back of her head on it. She cried out in pain and then her eyes widened in surprise when she was brutally smacked across the face, her right cheek burning from the slap. Then that person punched her several times. Extremely winded, thoughts were running through her mind. Why would someone do this? Why would they just attack her like this? Jaime tried to get back to her feet but she was roughly kicked in the side so she fell back down with a yelp. Why? She hadn't done anything to them! She tried to crawl away from the person only to be picked up and brutally slammed into a tree, face first. A pained whine escaped her throat as she slid back to the ground, face full of scrapes and nose bleeding. This person was really doing a number on her. Next thing Jaime knew, that person was choking her and she couldn't get a grip of that person's hand or arm, like it wasn't even there. Everything was going dark as her life was being choked out of her, then she felt that person put its other hand in her pocket trousers, taking her painkillers. "These'll do me good!" A familiar voice said and the person stopped choking her.
The teen was wracked with hacking coughs as she rolled onto her side and that person gave her a parting kick to her stomach before walking away. Jaime whined again and started coughing painfully. "By the way, ask yourself this," that familiar voice spoke again. "Do you really trust them? Ask them what happened to Fiction and Friction!" Then that person walked away. Poor Jaime was too busy coughing to even listen but she did recognise the voice. She started to crawl the opposite way, she had to tell the Doctor and J.D.
Managing to stumble to her feet she used a tree to keep herself upright and stop her from falling. Why did she feel so violated? Was it because she'd just been attacked by... Her vision blurred, she was even more dizzy than ever and it felt like a spike was driven through her skull. If only she had her painkillers but somebody had stolen them! Stumbling away from the tree the teen bumped into another shadowy figure and she gasped, stumbling back down to the ground. "Please!" She sobbed. "No more, no more!" She cried. The shadowy figure raised its arm and her ears were suddenly filled with that ear splitting whistle. It hurt so much she fainted.
She wasn't sure if she was dreaming or not. It looked like a dream, it felt like a dream and she knew she was supposed to be on Gemini, only it all seemed so real. There was nothing but dry desert as far as the eye could see and the sky was a dusky pink. Did people live here? And if they did how did they survive? The word 'Aridius' came to her mind and she had the weird feeling the Doctor had been here, visited with other companions so long ago. She suddenly heard screaming in the distance and whirled around to see where it was coming from. There looked to be a small settlement about a mile away and somebody seemed to be scaring the people who lived there. Something that didn't feel very nice.
She burst into a run and was at the settlement un under two minutes. What she saw there horrified her. Some of the natives were badly injured or worse even... Hearing somebody being choked Jaime ran around the corner and gasped in horror and confusion. One of the natives were being choked to death by nothing. But stood near him was... But it just wasn't right. Why was she here? "What are you doing?" Jaime shouted, getting upset. "Stop, stop it...just stop it!" She cried. Only she wasn't listening as if she couldn't hear her. Soon enough the native was dead, life choked out of him, and the teen watched as she walked past without a care in the world. "What did you do that for?" She shouted but the Other female still didn't hear her. "You killed him!" She sobbed. The Other female looked back with a frown but there was malevolence in her eyes. Anger even. Then she turned away again, bent her legs and zoomed into the sky. Jaime gasped as she watched the Other female. Why did that seem familiar?
A weird buzzing sound made her look around in confusion. Where was it coming from? "It's okay," a voice said. "All she's got is perforated eardrums and concussion. But they've beaten her pretty badly, Rassilon knows why!" Who's been beaten? She wondered to herself. "I'd like to get my hands on whichever one of them did it," that same voice angrily said. "There was no call for it." How odd! There was another noise and Jaime looked up again. The Other female was coming back down and when she slammed back into the ground there was a terrible explosion...
"AAAAUUGGGGHHHH!" Jaime screamed awake and tried to sit up but somebody was holding her down. It only led to further panic and she screamed and sobbed out various 'no's 'no more's and 'please don't's and it worried the Doctors a lot, wondering what the natives of this planet did to her. "It's okay," she heard Rose speak up. "It's just us, Rose, J.D and the Doctor." It calmed her a little and when she opened her eyes all she could see were blurry figures. Her headache was at its worst and every part of her body hurt. "Doctor!" She croaked and sat up quickly, clinging to him where she began to cry great big honking sobs, her stomach doing barrel rolls and the dream already fading from her memory. "It's alright now," the Doctor did his best to soothe her while Rose rubbed her hand up and down Jaime's back, thinking it might help. "You're going to be okay." But she just continued to hysterically sob.
"Blimey!" John grimaced. "She's got one hell of a headache." "I noticed," the Doctor replied. "Her painkillers will be in one of her pockets. Could you get them." He already had his hands full. "I know which pocket she keeps them in." John said and went to check her trouser pocket. She whimpered and sobbed when she felt his hand in her pocket, but the Half-Time Lord frowned in confusion and went to check her other pockets. She whimpered even more and tried to shift away from the enquiring hand. Both Doctors could sense the teenager's distress and trauma so John stopped and sat back, looking confused. "What is it?" The Doctor asked. "They're not there, or in any other of her pockets." "Oh," the Doctor looked down at Jaime and ran his hand through her hair. "Did you lose them again?" Only she cried harder and none of them could understand why she was so upset until all three received garbled images. "What was that?" Rose asked. "I think she just showed us that one of them stole her painkillers." The Doctor practically growled and John shook his head in disgust.
Jaime was so upset she began to get very breathless until she started coughing. And that was hurting her bruised throat. The Doctors were getting worried because they couldn't get her to calm down. Not to mention they needed to find out which dog person stole her medicine. Rose scooted closer to the girl. "Jaime, it's going to be okay." she said and put her hands on the sides of the girl's head. "Why don't you get some sleep?" She suggested. Soon her eyes closed and she was snuffling into the Doctor's shirt. "What did you do that for?" J.D asked as Rose put her hands down. "Why do you think?" She replied. "She's hardly going to be giving you any answers since she's completely hysterical. Someone did that to her and it was obviously traumatic." The Doctor grunted and laid the sleeping Jaime back down on the soft ground, using their coats as a pillow. She whined a little and rolled onto her side.
The door of the cell opened with a creak and a young female dog person made herself known. She had a bowl of water with what looked like cotton balls. She stared at the teen warily. "Loud!" She barked. "Loud!" Then she pointed to her head. "Is she saying they're Telepathic?" Rose whispered. "Who knows," the Doctor spoke up. "They might be Empaths." The female held out the bowl to them and pointed at Jaime. "Use, scratches!" She suggested and jumped back a little when John stood up, angry. "What? You want to help her after one of your lot best her up and stole her pills?" "John!" The Doctor warned. "Getting angry at them won't help matters." The female shook her head. "See!" She said and pointed to her eyes. "Twins!" She said next, pointing at John, then at the Doctor. "Twins!" She said again and pointed at Jaime. Then she carefully put the bowl down and quickly skittered out of the room, shutting and locking the door after her. "Uhh, what?" Rose uttered as the Doctors stared in utter disbelief.
Jaime continued to sleep and didn't wake up again until it was nearly dusk. During that time the blood had been cleaned up from her face and ears. The scrapes and cuts she received had already healed up and the bruises were already a fading yellow. When she woke up her vision was less blurry than before, the faint ringing in her ears had stopped and the headache had dulled down a little. When she shifted it was J.D who got to her first. "Hello sleepyhead," John said and smiled. "How're you feeling?" In reply she sat up and hugged him. "Don't leave me again!" She mumbled. "Don't worry, we won't." John replied and hugged her back, running a hand through her hair. He could feel her shivering and sense how scared she was. She'd been through a lot in the last few hours. "Did you see or remember who attacked you?" The Doctor asked and John sighed. They'd discussed the whole twin thing and came up with two theories. Either the dog people were lying in order to cover up what they did...or...there really was another Jaime on the planet who apparently attacked herself. Which could explain the random explosion and earthquake.
But none of them wanted to believe the second theory because if it was true then something led her to leave the TARDIS and attack her younger self. "Don't know!" Jaime mumbled. She'd already blocked the worst of it from her memory but she felt their disappointment over something. "There was a weird feeling in my head." She mumbled next and John glanced up at the Doctor, worried. "Oh? Did it feel like it was tingling?" The Time Lord asked and Jaime nodded her head. He groaned and sighed while John closed his eyes and held the girl tighter. "What does that mean?" Rose asked them. "The tingling is a Telepathic warning telling you you're about to get too close to a future or past version of yourself." "So what about you two?" Was her next question. The Doctor snorted. "We may look a-like but we're two very different people."
Ignoring the conversation and emotions in the room Jaime closed her eyes and snuggled into John's warmth. If felt nice and comfy and safe. "And how are we supposed to know when she gets separated from us? And is there a way to stop it?" "Well..." The Doctor sucked in a breath and rubbed the back of his head. "It's obviously sometime in our future. We just don't know WHEN that will happen or how it even happened." "We have to stop it!" John said, sounding scared. "We can't let this thing happen." Rose nodded. "So we just have to keep our eyes on her?" "Yep!" The Doctor answered. "It'll be hard to do when she can just teleport at random." The Time Lord grunted again, appearing to be deep in thought. In fact both Doctors were. Jaime opened her eyes again and looked around at her surroundings for the first time. They appeared to be in a grey looking room with a small window. The floor was dry and full of what looked like hay. "Where are we?" She croaked the question, confused. "In a cell, in the village of the dog people," Rose answered her. "Story of our lives!" She smiled at the Doctor who smiled back.
"Of course, we still haven't figured out what their species is." The Doctor said. "And I also suspect this may actually be the 37th Century BC not the 37th Century AD." Jaime felt J.D's annoyance over this little mistake and hoped he wasn't going to shout at the Doctor. "Oh well, I suppose it's an easy mistake to make." Rose said. The teen frowned. How was that easy? Then again, Tegan never did get to the airport and Rose was brought home a year late! She shifted and looked at the Door as it opened again and they all watched as a male dog person walked in with food and water for them. Jaime stared at him intently as he put it on the floor, trying to read his mind or just get anything about him. The dog person looked at her warily and all she could get was fear from something big and now a sense of intrigue towards her. The dog person turned tail and rushed out of the room, locking the door after him. "Well at least they feed us!" Rose said before going over to the tray. John followed her and Jaime was left shivering with her arms around her lower legs. The Doctor scooted over to the teen and put his arm around her shoulders but she just continued to shiver. "Looks like dog food!" J.D stated and tasted it. "Well?" Rose asked him when she noticed an odd grimace on his face. "Worse than dog food!" Rose had a bit. "Tastes alright to me."
"What did you see?" They heard the Doctor ask Jaime. "You were looking at him, obviously reading his mind. What did you see?" "Nothing! His mind was hidden." She mumbled. "But they're scared. They're all scared of the red thing. It's big and it's coming tonight!"
Two hours later they were roughly pushed out of the cell and into the middle of the village. It was dark outside but surprisingly very bright. The torchlight brightened the village but the Moon was the most surprising. It was very big and very bright and had what looked like a leering face, all red and discoloured to make it look angrier. Jaime whimpered and hid her face in John's suit jacket. She could feel fear washing off everybody. "Woah!" Rose breathed as she stared at the giant Moon. "Yeah, no wonder why everyone seems to be on edge." The Doctor said. "Is that the thing you saw?" He asked Jaime. But she shook her head. "No!" She was heard to whimper.
Excited chattering and barking was heard and a small group of dog people walked over to the four time travellers. In that group was the young female and the male they saw earlier. They pulled Jaime away from J.D and she suddenly found herself stuck in the middle of the group. "Hey! What do you..." John tried to protest, stepping forward, only to be stopped by their guards. "See, see!" The male said to somebody who looked very important. His fur was mostly grey and his eyes looked old. He studied Jaime then barked to his people around him. Various dog people barked back excitedly. "Uhh...Doctor! Why can't we understand them?" Rose asked. "Their language might be so ancient the TARDIS can't translate it." The Doctor replied. "Just like that language on Krop Tor." John added. "And what about the old guy?" Rose continued to ask. "He may well be a Village Elder." He replied.
The Village Elder in question now stepped closer to a frightened Jaime and put one hand on top of her head and the other under her chin, appearing to inspect her. She was getting a weird feeling from him and John could sense how scared she was. "What the hell are you doing to her?" John shouted. Jaime almost fainted until the old dog person let her go. She noticed that the headache had dulled away to nothing. "Magical Healing Girl!" The Village Elder now said. "You are powerful. Very powerful." "Yeah, I suppose." She muttered and looked around when the group chattered excitedly in English. Rose and the Doctors were stunned and she wasn't sure why. The Elder whistled for the group to hush and Jaime yelled out, covering her ears. The Elder stared at her warily. "You can hear this?" He asked, pointing at the wooden silent whistle. "Yes. It hurts. Please don't use it." She croaked, scared and the dog people around her 'awwed' in sympathy, patting her back. "Can they?" He pointed to the trio. She shook her head. "No...why? Is that important?"
"Jaime!" The Doctor called and she looked at him. "What are you telling him?" Now she looked confused. "You're speaking to him in his own language!" Now that was a surprise and she looked back at the Elder. "What did you do?" All the trio of time travellers heard from her was barking. "You are like us!" The Elder said but Jaime shook her head. "No! I'm not. I'm just human. I'm not like you!" The Elder raised his whistle in a threatening manner and Jaime quickly covered her ears with a yelp. At this point John was so angry he was practically being restrained. "You hear our whistle," the Elder said. "You speak our language." She sighed.
"Magical Healing Girl. If you can heal yourself can you heal other people?" "Uhh..." She looked at the Doctor for help. "What did he say?" The Time Lord asked. "He asked if I can heal people." She replied. "Say yes," John spoke up. "Tell them you can!" The Doctor nodded in agreement. After taking a deep breath Jaime said; "Yes. I can." "Then, Magical Healing Girl, you are important." "What about them?" She pointed to the trio and the Elder looked at them. She registered his disgust and she couldn't understand why. "They are not important." He said and her heart skipped a beat. "What do you mean? They are important!" She argued back. "He's the Doctor, a Time Lord. Rose, she's Bad Wolf!" "None of them are as powerful as you. We hear your sadness. They are not important." Oh hell! So now what was going to happen? "They will be taken to the clearing and given to the Great Maw!" The Elder said. "For the time is near." Jaime frowned. What the hell was a Maw and why did it seem familiar? The trio were manhandled pretty roughly, their hands tied behind their backs. "What the hell is going on?" J.D shouted. "What did you say to them?" She could feel their panic as they were dragged away. Then she too was pulled away by excited, chattering young dog people. "Doctor!" She shouted to him. "What's a Maw?" There was no reply over the ruckus because the excited whooping was so loud.
The clearing was indeed just that. A large clearing devoid of trees and in the middle of that clearing were four poles. Of course only three of them were getting used tonight. As they were being tied to the poles Rose noticed the ground was stained dark red and she gulped. "I don't think that's paint." She said and the Doctor followed her gaze. He shook his head grimly. "No, that's blood. And quite a lot of it." John groaned. "What are they gonna do? Maul us to death?" He tried to struggle but he was tied too tight to the pole. They all were. *DOCTOR!* They all heard her shout in their minds and groaned painfully. If they hadn't been tied to the poles they would have collapsed. "What was that?" Rose asked with a groan. It made her head hurt. "Psionic Call." The Doctor replied, surprised that Rose got it too. She was still in the middle of Telepathic training. *You don't have to shout.* He now told Jaime and he sensed her sheepishness. *Sorry,* she replied. *They won't let me go near you.* he was grim at this. *What did you say to them?* He asked her. *They think I'm like them and important cos I'm powerful. I tried to convince them you were too but they weren't listening.* "Apparently we're not powerful enough to be important." The Doctor said out loud. "I know, I heard!" Rose said while John snorted humourlessly. The Doctor was surprised that Jaime was talking to all three at the same time. *Try telling them we are!* John told her. *I did. But he acted like he'd never heard of Time Lords or Bad Wolf.* Jaime replied. "Blimey!" The Doctor and John said at the same time. "What does that mean?" Rose asked. "It means we're so far back in time they haven't even heard of us." He replied.
*Doctor. Do you know what a Great Maw is?* "Great Maw?" Rose wondered. "What's that?" It was at this point they all heard a screech in the distance and a flap of wings. "I would imagine that is their Great Maw." The Doctor said and breathed out in awe as it came closer. "Oh, that is beautiful. It's a Red Carnivorous Maw!" He now said. "Well isn't that just Wizard!" John spoke up. "We're about to be eaten by a giant bird and the great Spaceman dunce thinks its beautiful!" The Doctor rolled his eyes. "Try concentrating on your Time Lord side, not your human side!" He bit back. "This is the red thing Jaime saw, yeah?" Rose asked the two Doctors before they could get into a full on argument. "Yep!" The Doctor replied, popping the 'p'. "Looks like we're being sacrificed!"
Jaime stared at the massive bird in horror, feeling everyone's fear around her. When it got closer it didn't just look like a bird. It looked like a cross between a bird and a dragon. It had a beak, bright red feathers with bird-like wings, but it's tail and four legs were that of a dragon. This was the Red Carnivorous Maw the Doctor mentioned in passing near the beginning of 'The End of Time' and for the love of sanity they were going to be fed to it! She had to do something to stop this madness! "Oh Great and Mighty Maw," the Elder called as everyone suddenly went to their knees, bringing Jaime down with them. She tried to pull out of their grips but they wouldn't let her go. "We give you three humans to appease The Grinning Moon." She looked at the giant moon with the leering face. It still gave her the creeps. "Stop it!" She shouted to the Elder. "You don't have to do this." "It is too late oh powerful Fire-Bird!" Jaime flinched at the name and realised that it was NEVER too late.
"No!" She shouted and Teleported out of their grips. Now she was running across the clearing, looking up at the Maw. With what she was about to do she had to get it right. She couldn't just go sailing past and landing half a mile away. Jaime bent her legs and jumped. She felt herself leave the ground and panicked, thinking she was going to bugger it up, until she hit a soft feathery body. She instantly grabbed handfuls of feathers before she could fall. A loud, pained and surprised screech almost deafened her and she felt it change direction. The trio all stared as Jaime hung off the side of the Maw but it began screeching and flying all over the place in a bid to shake her off. "Where'd she learn to jump like that?" Rose asked. "It's only her third time." John replied.
With warm wind blowing in her face from a wing the teen tried to climb up it but the Maw finally managed to shake her off by whacking her with its tail. She gasped in surprise and lost her grip on it. And it was a long way back down. "Oh fuuu..." She cried. "Teleport!" John shouted. Hearing him Jaime Aeroported in mid-air and re-appeared on its back. "What is she even planning to do?" Rose questioned when the Maw started screeching and flying all over the place again. "I'm not sure." The Doctor replied. Clinging onto its back with handfuls of feathers she knew her next move might outright kill her, since she didn't have her pills on her. But at least she would die saving the lives of the Doctor, John and Rose. The Maw screeched again and dived towards the tied up trio. It was now or never! With a yell she jumped towards its head and placed her hands on the sides of its head.
The teen quite brutally forced her way into its mind and made it fly away and hover around the clearing. As she continued to invade its mind her head began to hurt but she held on tight. She wasn't finished yet. *Why are you attacking them?* She asked the Maw and was able to walk through its mind. It was something to do with the Moon and how it affected the giant dragon bird's mood. The rest of the time the Maw fed on small animals but when the grinning moon was at its fullest its brain registered the dog people as its food. And in turn that made the dog people give it sacrifices to appease the 'giant face' in the night sky. It was to do with the moon. It was far too close to the planet. *You'll be okay!* she told it and began to manipulate its mind. The headache turned sharp and painful and her nose began to bleed but she held on tightly. She told it to land before she fainted.
The Maw dived and landed with a heavy thud several feet away from the tied trio. Jaime fell off its back and landed on the ground, unconscious. "What did she do?" Rose asked. Seeing that it's rider was out of it the Maw nudged at Jaime in a bid to wake her. "Hey, you big chicken! Don't you dare touch her!" John shouted. But the Maw continued to nudge her until she stirred and groaned. Nose bleeding profusely and her head feeling like it was bashed with a hammer, Jaime sluggishly struggled to her feet, using the Maw as leverage. "He's okay now," she croaked, wiping her nose of the blood and petting the bird. "Can we keep him?" She asked the Doctor who just groaned.
Somebody screaming made her look around and she saw that a young warrior was running towards the Maw with his spear. "No!" She held her arms out and stumbled towards the warrior. "Don't! Please!" The teen felt a flash of pain as the spear was driven through her left shoulder of her collarbone area. Her eyes widened and she howled in pain as she fell to her knees. Then she tried to pull it out but it hurt so much and she could hear either one of the Doctors tell her not to make it worse. It really, really hurt and it was making her really really angry. Using the last of her strength a watery eyed Jaime managed to get back to her feet again, caught the young Warrior in a Telekinetic grip, lifting him off the ground. Around the same time she called on a storm and storm clouds quickly covered the area including the Moon. The dog people were cowering, realising the Magic Healing Girl didn't just heal but could start a storm on a whim and trap people in her invisible grip. She fisted her right hand and the young warrior began to scream in pain. It began to rain and crash thunder and a streak of lightning convinced some of the very scared to stay where they were.
"You don't need to Sacrifice anymore!" She shouted angrily to the dog people, her voice loud enough to be heard over the claps of thunder. "And you will let my friends go!" The pain was becoming unbearable. "Immediately!" She ordered and the Maw screeched in agreement. The sharp pain in the center of her brain returned, combined with the pain in her shoulder and she soon collapsed to the ground, unconscious. Several of the dog people found the courage to move and released the tied up trio. It was the Doctor who got to her first. She was in such a state. Her face was deathly pale, her nose continued to bleed profusely and the blood from the spear wound was spreading widely. "Oh god!" Rose and John joined him. "How bad is it?" "Very!" The Doctor replied grimly. "We need to get her to the TARDIS." "He didn't fair any better!" John nodded to the young warrior who was being inspected by the Elder. The boy's brain had been compressed so hard it liquified and had come out of his ears, nose and eyes. The Elder then turned to the time travellers with a scared expression on his face. It seemed not only Magical Healing Girl could heal lives but take away lives as well.