CHAPTER 12

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As Donna's TARDIS arrived at the London neighborhood where the most activity of the demons had been spotted, it assumed the form of a large copier. Donna stepped out of it in happy anticipation and groaned in exasperation. This was not what she had wanted her TARDIS to look like!

"Oi! You stupid machine! I didn't want a copier! Is this your way of being funny?" Donna shouted back inside of her TARDIS.

"You should have specified what you wanted instead of just giving the TARDIS a description of yourself and telling it to pick something based on that," Ileana said giggling.

"Well, I couldn't think of anything. I thought that a super smart TARDIS might have a good idea or two of its own, but I guess not!" Donna shouted through the open door toward the TARDIS console.

"Maybe you'll think of a better idea later on after we get done battling these little devils whatever they are," Michelle suggested.

"It looks like I'll have to come up with one since my TARDIS has no clue what to pick," Donna said angrily.

She pulled out her own sonic screwdriver that looked like Rose's with a pink light. She had insisted on having one when she saw hers. She used it to see if there were any alien energy signatures or signals in the area. She couldn't find anything.

"This mission is going really great so far. My TARDIS looks ridiculous, and my sonic screwdriver is practically useless," Donna said angrily.

"You're trying too hard to be like the Doctor. Maybe you should solve this the Donna way," Ileana advised.

"You're right. We'll have to just go do the old fashioned grunt work and talk to the witnesses that Martha told us about. Maybe one of them can give us some helpful evidence and a good place to start in this investigation," Donna said with a hopeful smile.

They went to speak to a young man named Mark Spiegel who had seen the most activity. As soon as he opened the door, Donna noticed that he couldn't take his eyes off of Michelle. Michelle didn't seem to notice all of this attention though. Donna wondered if she even understood humans enough to get the signals that he was sending her. She wasn't really human after all.

Mark invited them into his house, and they sat down in his living room as he started to tell his story.

"I was sitting in here watching television when I heard a horrible commotion outside. There were cats and dogs screaming all over the neighborhood. I knew that someone must be outside walking around. I went to the window and saw this horned devil with hooved feet walking around just a few feet away from me! I swear that that's what I saw. It looked at me and gave me this hate filled look. It started to walk toward me, and I quickly backed away from the window and bolted the front door. That didn't do me any good though. This thing fried the front door somehow. It reduced it to ashes. Then it started to come after me. I ran from it screaming, and it chased me through the house," Mark said looking terrified at the memory.

"How did you get away from it?" Donna asked.

"I raced out the back door and jumped into my pool. I'm a diver so I can hold my breath a long time. I stayed on the bottom of the pool and waited until I couldn't hold my breath any more. Luckily it was so dark outside that the thing couldn't see me down there. When I came back up, the devil thing was gone. I was so glad too. I heard later that it attacked other houses on this road too. I was lucky because there were other people that got burned and shocked by it. I heard that it actually shot electricity out of its hands," Mark said in awe.

"Okay, thanks then. We may come back later if we have any more questions," Donna said.

They all got up to leave; and as they did, Mark said to Michelle, "What's your name?"

Michelle looked surprised and said, "Me?"

"Yeah, you. What's your name?" Mark asked with a wide smile.

"I'm Michelle. Michelle Jones," Michelle said nervously.

"Would you like to go out on a date sometime, Michelle?" Mark asked.

Michelle looked at the other women in terror. She didn't know anything about dating or much about humans either for that matter. Donna looked at her and nodded her head. It would do the girl good to interact with people she thought.

Michelle said, "Yes, I would. How about I meet you back here later tonight?"

"That sounds good. How about at seven o'clock then?" Mark asked her.

"Okay," Michelle said as she nodded her head in a hurry to get this over with.

The four women left Mark's house then, and Donna laughed as she heard Michelle sigh and saw a look of anxiety appeared on her face.

"Don't worry about it. I'll give you tips. I've dated plenty of men," Donna said.

Ileana opened her mouth to say something and from the expression on her face Donna just knew that it would be snarky.

Donna kept her from speaking by quickly shouting, "Oi! You'd better watch what you say, Fang Girl!"

Ileana just laughed instead and wisely kept her mouth shut.

Victoria had stayed quiet up until now; but she suddenly opened her mouth and said to Michelle, "I'll give you some pointers too if you want. I'd like to help."

"Thanks. I really appreciate that! I think I'm going to need the help of all of you," Michelle said nervously.

Donna patted her affectionately on the shoulder and said, "You'll do okay. Don't worry about it."

She was already beginning to like Michelle. She was beginning to like the others too. They were all beginning to bond. She could feel it.

They passed by an old building with stone gargoyles perched on top of it. Donna looked up as she saw movement out of the corner of her eye. She was horrified to see that both of the gargoyles had come to life and started moving!

Both of the gargoyles started flying toward them and started to dive bomb straight at them. It all clicked now as Donna knew from the Doctor's memories and Mark's story just who they were dealing with. The Daemons.

Next: First, Donna and the rest of our cast have to find a way to deal with the stone gargoyles. Then they'll have to dig even further to find out just what the Daemons are up to as they interview more people in the area. Could the Daemons have an accomplice?