CHAPTER 41

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The Gallifreyans were trapped with no way out except through the Great Vampires now so they had to fight them to the death whether they wanted to or not. This was the final battle of the war, and it was already going against them because they had let their opponents pick the battlefield without realizing it.

Sekhmet started decimating all opponents in her path with brutal mindless efficiency while Robin used his skills with a bow and his specialized explosive arrows, which Sekhmet had made more of to replace his old ones, to keep the vampires around him on the defensive so that they could more easily be killed by the others. The two of them made a formidable team, and they had become the most celebrated of heroes together in this war.

Sekhmet was already becoming a legend in her own time. The others looked up to her with respect and reverence. There was even talk that someday she might become the next President of Gallifrey after the war.

Sekhmet didn't have any political ambitions though. What she wanted was to perfect her time travel experiments and to help Omega to create a power source for them. She had originally wanted that for personal reasons, but now it was to help John (whose real name she still didn't know) return home to his fiancé.

Not that she really wanted him to. She wanted him to stay with every fiber of her being, but she didn't want him to be where he wasn't happy either. She knew that he liked her as a friend, but that he wasn't happy here in her time. She could hear him shouting the name Lily sometimes late at night even through the wall separating their rooms. One time when he seemed to be very upset she had woken him up, and he had called her Lily. She had been secretly glad for a moment. She often wished that she was Lily. She supposed that that was the closest that she would ever come to being her. She would never be his Lily she thought to herself in anguish as she tore through an extremely large group of vampires. Little did she know!

Her anger over these thoughts fueled her actions and made her fight even harder. She tore through the smaller vampires one after another as she broke their arms, legs, ribs, and every other bone in their bodies that she could get near enough to hit. She had perfected her fighting skills to the point that she could shatter a bone with one hit now, and she was using that skill to perfection in this battle. She would finish the vampires off after inflicting the maximum amount of punishment to them by staking them through the heart with steel bolts. They were smaller versions of the bow ships that they had been using to kill the larger Great Vampires.

As Sekhmet tore through the vampires like someone possessed, Rassilon was watching her with great interest. He had been looking for a subject for his latest experiment, and he believed that he had just found one.

The King of the Great Vampires was drawn to Sekhmet as well as he saw her easily crushing some of his best warriors. If he could bring her over to his side, then he would win this battle even quicker. She was one of the main reasons that it hadn't been won already. She was helping to keep the Gallifreyans alive. Now he was going to do something about that.

The King confronted Sekhmet directly now, and the two of them stared at each another for several long moments before the battle began as they sized each other up. The King then finally made the first move as his giant fist came down directly on top of Sekhmet in the blink of an eye making a huge crater on the floor. Robin couldn't believe his eyes. This couldn't be real. Sekhmet couldn't be dead!

The King laughed with triumph at his quick victory and raised his hand to see Sekhmet's mangled remains. He did a double take as he saw that there was nothing there.

Robin looked with relief to see Sekhmet suddenly climb up from under the King's enormous wrist. She must have jumped up onto his wrist right before his hand came down. Apparently she had moved so quickly that no one, not even the King, had seen her do it.

She ran up the King's arm while he still looked at the ground in confusion. Sekhmet then leapt from the King's arm to the top of his shoulder, and she swiftly embedded one of her steel bolts into his ear and directly into his ear drum.

The King screamed in pain and swatted at his shoulder to crush her, but she was already gone. She had jumped onto his other arm as it had come down towards her. Now she reappeared on top of that arm and quickly rammed a steel bolt through the hand that was still touching the shoulder. The King screamed again as his hand was now stuck to his shoulder by the bolt.

He moved to remove the bolt with his free hand while Sekhmet jumped onto his opposite shoulder. She pulled out another bolt and stabbed him in the other ear drum with it.

The King screamed in agony as he could no longer hear anymore. Sekhmet had ruptured both of his eardrums. The steel bolts had also disrupted his inner ears and made him unable to keep his balance. He fell backwards to the floor and landed on his back. As he desperately tried to get up, Sekhmet crawled onto his chest and embedded another steel bolt directly into his heart. It wasn't big enough to kill him, but it did cause him great pain and weakened him.

The Gallifreyans and the Great Vampires alike watched this battle in complete awe at how quickly Sekhmet had taken down the King. They couldn't believe just how skilled and powerful that she really was.

Sekhmet continued to ram her entire supply of steel bolts into the King's heart, and he became so weak that he could barely move. The other Great Vampires then chose this moment to attack Sekhmet. They weren't about to stand by and watch her kill their leader.

Hundreds of smaller vampires fell upon her at once and started to attack her. Sekhmet screamed in agony as one of the smaller vampires began to feed on her while the others kept her pinned down. The Gallifreyans immediately ran to her rescue and fought the smaller vampires off of her, but it was already too late.

Sekhmet was dying now from massive blood loss. She hadn't drunk the vampire's blood so she wouldn't become a vampire. She would just die permanently unless she was strong enough to regenerate.

"Keep her protected, and do your best to keep her alive. She just singlehandedly defeated the King!" Rassilon ordered.

Her body was taken and guarded by some of Rassilon's inner guard. The King's body was dragged off by some of the other Great Vampires to a place where they could guard him as well. As the two wounded warriors left the field, the two armies began to clash once more as the final battle of the war continued.

It seemed that the King's defeat had greatly demoralized the other vampires, however. They were losing now as though they had lost the will to continue. The tide had now turned thanks to Sekhmet.

Robin only hoped that she survived in order to see the end of the war. He knew that she must because he would never have met Lily if she hadn't, but he also knew that time was always in flux. He had learned that from Lily. If Sekhmet died here, then Lily would never have been, and he would go back to the Land of Fiction and immediately forget her. He couldn't think of a worse fate. To him, never having known Lily at all would be worse than dying because he never would have really lived!

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