CHAPTER 15
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Ileana ran after the Daemon that had been chasing Mark Spiegel around his house and grabbed him by the arm. The Daemon ignored her and continued to focus his attention on Mark, who was cowering before him as he had finally cornered him against a wall. That was a big mistake.
Ileana picked him up off the ground and threw him out through the still open patio door and into the swimming pool. Mark looked at her in awe at her sudden display of strength. He wouldn't have thought that anyone could have manhandled the Daemon like that.
As soon as the Daemon climbed back out of the pool, Donna began to bombard the Daemon with a sonic wave from her sonic screwdriver that disrupted the balance in his inner ear and caused him to lose his balance and fall right back into the pool again. The alien let out a scream of rage as he resurfaced, and Donna let him have it with the same attack again. She wasn't going to let him get out of that pool anytime soon if she could help it.
Michelle then had a flash of inspiration. She vanished as she entered the reflection in the water around the Daemon who had stopped trying to move for the moment as it just glared at Donna who kept bombarding it with her sonic screwdriver. Then she popped a hand out of the water and pulled the Daemon in with her into her mirror universe!
Michelle reappeared in the real world standing at the side of the pool and left the Daemon trapped in the reflection in the water's surface. She looked down on it in triumph as it screamed at her to let it go. Only she could see or hear it unless she allowed others to as well. She could potentially trap someone in the universe between mirrors forever if she wanted to, and no one would ever see them except out of the corner of their eye for just a moment.
"Good job, Mirror Girl! I assume that you've got it trapped somehow since I don't see it anymore," Donna said.
Michelle's eyes turned opaque for a moment as she stretched out her hand and gestured at Donna. Donna could suddenly hear the Daemon screaming to be let go; and as she raced up to the pool, she could see it as well.
"That's amazing. So you're letting me see and hear him; or otherwise, I wouldn't?" Donna asked.
Michelle nodded; and Donna said, "Thanks, Shelley. Bring Lana into the loop too, would you? I want us all to hear what the Daemon has to say. I'm going to question it. Play along with whatever I say to him, okay?"
Michelle said, "All right. I'll improvise with you I guess. I'll just have to play it by ear."
Donna walked up to the pool and said, "Alright, Horn Boy. It's time to come clean with us. What are you up to here on Earth? I know that it can't be anything good. Tell us now, or my friend is going to leave you trapped inside her little mirror world forever. No one will ever see you again."
"You wouldn't dare. If you dared to do such a thing, I would tear you limb from limb once I got back out. I would fry you into atoms," the Daemon threatened.
"That's the thing, Goat Boy. You won't be getting out. There's no way anyone gets out of the mirrors until we let them out. So tell us what we want to know, or we'll leave you there for all eternity. I'm a Time Lord, buddy. I do stuff like this all of the time to people who make me angry. They call me Raging Donna or the Raging Storm. At least my fans do. My victims don't get to call me anything. Nobody's ever stayed around long enough to talk about what I do when I get angry," Donna bluffed.
"I don't believe you. You don't have the eyes of a killer," the Daemon said laughing.
Ileana stepped up and said, "What about me, Daemon? Can you say the same thing about me?"
Ileana's eyes turned gold and red, and her features took on an almost demonic form. Her fangs extended, and she looked like a completely different person from the happy friendly woman that the others had known up until now.
Donna and Michelle suddenly stepped away from her and looked at her with terror in their eyes. Even the Daemon seemed to be afraid of her and suddenly went silent.
"Tell us what we want to know, or I'll have Michelle send me in there after you. Trust me, you don't want that!" Ileana said in a low demonic sounding growl.
"What do you want?" the Daemon said nervously.
"Who keeps summoning you here to Earth? What is it that they want from you?" Ileana demanded in a cold fury.
"It's the one that you call Mark Spiegel. He wants power. He wants enough power to take over this world. He keeps asking us to give this planet to him to rule. I have decided against it though. I have now found another better candidate. Release me, and I shall give you great power. You will be like a goddess and will be the undisputed ruler of this planet!" the Daemon promised.
Michelle turned to Mark with a hurt expression on her face. She had liked him. How could she be so wrong about him?
"He's lying. It's not me. I haven't done anything. You have to believe me," Mark said.
Ileana turned on him and began to advance on him, and he shook all over the closer that she got. Donna wondered whether she was actually bluffing or not. She also wondered if she or Michelle would be able to stop her if she wasn't.
"DON'T LIE TO ME!" Ileana shouted at him when she was standing right in front of him.
"I'm not lying. I swear! I'm not!" Mark said with a voice full of pure terror.
"I don't think that he's lying, Ileana," Michelle said.
Ileana grabbed him by the neck and held him up against the wall. Mark looked terrified, and his eyes began to roll up into the back of his head. He looked like he was about to pass out any minute.
"Enough!" Donna shouted at Ileana.
The two of them locked eyes for a moment, and Ileana backed down. She saw the cold fury of a Time Lord in Donna's eyes. It even scared the vampire inside of her. It knew that Donna wasn't going to let it get away with anything on her watch.
"I'm sorry. My vampire side sometimes takes over, and it's hard for me to suppress it. I'm glad that you stopped me," Ileana said as her features returned to normal.
Ileana had a sad look in her eyes as she slowly lowered Mark back down to the ground. Donna could tell that she really was sorry. She decided to be a little gentler with her.
"We don't do that kind of thing in any team that I'm on. Okay?" Donna said in a gentle but firm tone.
"Yes, I understand. It's wasn't really me. It's the thing inside of me. It won't happen again," Ileana promised with a shamed look on her face.
Michelle ran over to Mark and said, "I'm sorry. She wouldn't have actually done it."
Michelle didn't know whether she would have or not, but she didn't want Mark to know that. She was growing to like him and didn't want him to think that she or anyone that she worked with would ever do anything against him.
"I didn't do it," Mark said softly as if afraid to speak too loudly around Ileana.
"I believe you," Michelle said.
"That was fun watching you three turn on each other while the finger of suspicion was pointed at the wrong person! I loved it thoroughly. Oh, well. Playtime's over now. Now's the time to get down to brass tacks," said a voice from the front door of Mark's house.
It was Marsha Taylor, the woman who lived near Mark who told him that the Daemon didn't attack her immediately and who claimed to have hit one with her car. She was smiling with an evil grin at the four of them. She snapped her fingers, and another Daemon was suddenly standing right next to her.
"You're going to release my friend from wherever you put him, or I'm going to have my other friend here kill each and every one of you," Marsha threatened.
Michelle's eyes turned opaque again, and the trapped Daemon reappeared at the side of the pool.
"I knew that your story sounded fake. Why would the Daemon not attack you on sight when they had done so to everyone else that we talked to?" Donna said.
"They wouldn't have even hesitated for a second. I left that in my story as a deliberate clue to dangle right in front of your eyes, and you still believed that it was Mark. Some investigators you are!" Marsha laughed.
"What was this all about? World conquest?" Donna asked.
"No, or at least what I want won't lead to it directly anyway. What I want is much simpler. I want the Daemons to give me the power to reassemble the body of my husband," Marsha said as her eyes began to glow red.
Ileana started to hiss at her. She knew who this was now. She had used her shape changing abilities to hide her true identity so well that even she hadn't detected her.
"Oi! Fang Girl, spill it! Who is she, and who is this husband of hers? I know that you know so let us in on it," Donna said.
"She is Carmilla, one of Dracula's wives," Ileana answered as her face returned back to the demonic state it had been in earlier.
"Oh, that's just great! Not him again. Well, you're not going to get to bring Dracula back this time. It'll be over my dead body, Fang Gal," Donna said defiantly.
"I want to be Fang Gal! Why does she get the cool nickname?" Ileana protested with a small smile as she tried to get back on Donna's good side.
Mark started to shake at seeing Ileana's vampire face again, and Michelle put a comforting arm around him to reassure him that he was safe this time. He smiled weakly at her and calmed down somewhat. Donna smiled at the sight of the two of them. Any other time she'd be making some kind of witty comment about their budding relationship, but this was definitely not the time.
Marsha laughed as she changed into her true vampiric form of the blonde Carmilla. She turned to the Daemon with her and said, "Well, did I meet your expectations? I even thought up a sneaky way to summon you on the spot by getting your brother in the mirror to blame the wrong person and generate a massive fight that triggered a lot of negative emotions. I thought that that was quite clever if I do say so myself!"
The Daemon with Carmilla nodded and said, "Yes, I am very impressed with your abilities, vampire. I will grant you the power that you want to manipulate matter. I think that you've earned it. You may do with it what you wish."
"Whoa! Hold on a minute, Goat Man! This is my planet not yours. You don't have the right to come here and just decide that you're going to inflict Dracula on us again. He nearly destroyed the whole planet not too long ago," Donna protested.
"I will do what I wish, and my wish is to see what will happen once I give the power to Carmilla. It will be an interesting experiment," the Daemon said with a twisted smile.
"I'm afraid I'm going to have to raise a big protest to your little experiment. You're interfering in Earth's development. I can't allow that," said a female voice from behind the Daemon and Carmilla.
Carmilla turned around and hissed out, "Daciana!"
"Oi! What am I, chopped liver?" shouted out another male voice.
Donna started to smile as she knew that the cavalry had arrived. The Doctor and Rose were standing right behind Carmilla and the Daemon, and they looked like they ready for a heated battle.
"You couldn't let me have one mission to prove myself as a leader, could you? You just had to show up and claim all of the glory, Spaceman!" Donna joked.
"Oh, you know me, Donna. I woke up today; and I said to myself, 'I wonder what Donna's doing. I think I'll show up to throw a big old monkey wrench in it'," the Doctor quipped.
"That sounds just like you too," Donna said with a laugh.
"We decided to investigate the massive amounts of alien activity here lately. We actually saved some poor woman from being abducted a few nights ago. She was a little confused by the stressful situation apparently; and she actually thought that our sonics were guns for some reason, and that we were her neighbors. I never could convince her otherwise. I didn't know that this was the same case as yours, Donna. Sorry if I'm stepping on your toes here," Rose said apologetically.
"It's okay, Rose. The more the merrier when it comes to stopping Dracula from coming back. I almost became a vampire thanks to him. I don't ever want to have a repeat of that experience," Donna said.
"You will prevent nothing. The power has already been promised. It will be granted," the Daemon said as he glowed with energy and pointed a finger at Carmilla.
Carmilla began to glow with her new abilities, and she cackled evilly as she started to quickly reassemble Dracula's form from the many scattered atoms that Jenny had made of him when she had disintegrated him before.
As Dracula began to take shape once again, Carmilla shouted, "Dracula will return, and the entire universe will be his!"
Next: Will Carmilla succeed in bringing Dracula back?