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"Last one positive," a cleric reported to Octavian as both Gallifreyans stood in the doorway.

"Doctor? Rose?" Octavian said "We're through."

the Doctor and Rose looked at Amy and River "Okay, now it starts," he told them before he and Rose went outside holding each other's hand.

Amy felt something in her left eye and rubbed her left eye "Coming?" River asked.

"Yeah, coming," Amy answered "There's just something in my eye."

The Doctor climbs down a rope ladder and he joined Octavian at the bottom They both turned on their torches and looked around. Rose, Amy and River joined them and the other cleric soldiers "Do we have a gravity globe?" The Doctor asked.

"Grav globe," Octavian said and one of the cleric took out a sphere from his pack and handed it to the Doctor.

"Where are we? What is this?" Amy asked.

"It's an Aplan Mortarium, sometimes called a Maze of the Dead," River explained.

"What's that?" Amy asked.

"Well, if you happen to be a creature of living stone…" The Doctor starts and he suddenly kicks the globe into the air, where it illuminates a vast array of mausoleums and statuary.

"The perfect hiding place."

"I guess this makes it a bit trickier," Octavian said as he saw statues that didn't look like weeping angels.

"A bit, yeah," the Doctor said.

"Definitely," Rose said at the same time.

"A stone Angel on the loose amongst stone statues. A lot harder than I'd prayed for," Octavian said.

"A needle in a haystack," River said.

"A needle that looks like hay. A hay-like needle of death," the Doctor said "A hay-like needle of death in a haystack of, er, statues. No, yours was fine."

"Right. Check every single statue in this chamber," Octavian said "You know what you're looking for. Complete visual inspection. One question. How do we fight it?"

"We find it, and hope," the Doctor said and Rose and Amy went to follow him.

River went to follow them but Octavian grabbed her by the arm. "They don't know yet, do they? Who and what you are."

"It's too early in their time stream," she replied.

"Well, make sure they don't work it out, or they're not going to help us," he said.

"I won't let you down. Believe you me, I have no intention of going back to prison," River said.

The Doctor and Rose shone their torches in every direction. Amy followed. She stopped and looked at the many levels above them and all the statues lining the way. She rubbed the corner of her eye with one finger and found a little grit. Amy then used her full hand and sand and grit came out through her fingers. Scared, she stopped and looked at her hand but saw nothing.

River came up beside her "You all right?" She asked Amy.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Amy answered "So, what's a Maze of the Dead?"

"Oh, it's not as bad as it sounds," River said "It's just a labyrinth with dead people buried in the walls. Okay, that was fairly bad." She took out a syringe "Right give me your arm. This won't hurt a bit." she then injects the syringe into Amy's arm.

"Ow!" Amy cried.

"There, you see. I lied," River admitted "It's a viro-stabiliser. Stabilises your metabolism against radiation, drive burn, anything. You're going to need it when we get up to that ship."

"So what's he like? Your husband Jack and what are the Doctor and Rose like as well in the future, I mean. Because you know them in the future, don't you?" Amy asked.

Jack is an immortal human from the 51st century that is omnisexual and flirts with anything that is a living being," River said "The Doctor? Well, the Doctor's the Doctor. And Rose, she's the same person as she's now."

"Oh. Well, that's very helpful," Amy said sarcastically "Mind if I write that down?"

"Yes, we are," River agreed.

"Sorry, what?" The Doctor asked as checks the readings with River's portable computer.

"What were you two talking about?" Rose asked Amy and River.

"Talking about you both and Jack," River answered.

"I wasn't listening," the Doctor said "I'm busy."

"I wasn't listening as well," Rose said "I was just watching my husband."

"Ah. The other way up," River told him and the Doctor rotates River's portable computer around.

"Yeah," he muttered.

"You're so someone very important to them," Amy realized

"Oh, Amy, Amy, Amy! This is the Doctor and Rose we're talking about," River sighed "The last two Gallifreyans in existence and Rose was a goddess for a brief moment once called Bad Wolf. The most complicated event in Time and Space. Do you really think it could be anything that simple? Other than being someone important to them in the future as well as Jack's wife."

"Yep."

"You're good," River said after a brief moment and aims her flashlight upwards at the statues "I'm not saying you're right... but you are very good."

the Doctor, Amy and River were examining the statues when they heard gunfire. They ran back down to the main chamber. A young cleric had fired his weapon at one of the statues. The Doctor stopped to look at it. "Sorry," the cleric apologised "Sorry, I thought... I thought it looked at me."

"We know what the Angel looks like," Octavian told the cleric "Is that the Angel?"

"No, sir," the cleric answered.

"No, sir, it is not!" Octavian snapped "According to the Doctor, and Rose, we are facing an enemy of unknowable power and infinite evil, so it would be good, it would be very good, if we could all remain calm in the presence of decor."

"What's your name?" The Doctor asked the cleric.

"Bob, sir," the cleric said.

"Ah, that's a great name," the Doctor said "I love Bob."

"I love the name as well," Rose said agreeing with her husband.

"It's a Sacred Name," Octavian explained "We all have Sacred Names. They're given to us in the service of the Church."

"Sacred Bob," the Doctor said "More like Scared Bob now, eh?"

Rose had a facepalm "Oh, brother," she muttered.

"Yes, sir," Bob said.

"Ah, good," the Doctor said as he puts his hand on Bob's shoulder and the other on Octavian's shoulder "Scared keeps you fast. Anyone in this room who isn't scared is a moron. Carry on."

"We'll be moving into the maze in two minutes," Octavian told Bob "You stay with Christian and Angelo. Guard the approach."

"Isn't there a chance this lot's just going to collapse?" Amy asked as they explored the tunnel "There's a whole ship up there."

"Incredible builders, the Aplans," River said.

"Had dinner with their Chief Architect once," the Doctor said "Two heads are better than one."

"What, you mean you helped him?" Amy asked him.

"No, I mean he had two heads," he explained "That book, the very end, what did it say?"

"Hang on," River said as she took out the book.

"Read it to me," he said.

"What if we had ideas that could think for themselves?" River starts to read "What if one day our dreams no longer needed us? When these things occur and are held to be true, the time will be upon us. The time of Angels."

"Are we there yet?" Amy asked "It's a hell of a climb."

"The Maze is on six levels, representing the ascent of the soul," River answered "Only two levels to go."

"Lovely species, the Aplans," the Doctor said "We should visit them some time. Rose, remind me to visit them one day."

"Doctor, now is not the time for that," Rose told him.

"I thought they were all dead?" Amy asked confusedly.

"So is Virginia Woolf," he said "I'm on her bowling team. Very relaxed, sort of cheerful. Well, that's having two heads, of course. You're never short of a snog with an extra head."

"Doctor, Rose, there's something," River said " I don't know what it is."

"Yeah, there's something wrong. Don't know what it is yet, either. Working on it," he said "Of course, then they started having laws against self-marrying. I mean, what was that about? But that's the Church for you. Er, no offence, Bishop."

"Quite a lot taken, if that's all right, Doctor," Octavian said and walk forward and the others followed were now in a narrow passage lined with statues. "Lowest point in the wreckage is only about fifty feet up from here. That way."

"The Church had a point, if you think about it," Amy said "The divorces must have been messy."

"Oh," the Doctor said as he aims his flashlight on the face of one of the statues and saw that they had one head instead of two and were coming back to life.

"What's wrong?" Amy asked.

Rose aims her flashlight at the same statue "Oh Rassilon," she said

River aims her flashlight at the same statue and. Realized the same thing that the Doctor and Rose saw "Oh," she said.

"Exactly," the Doctor said.

"How could we have not noticed that?" River asked the Doctor and Rose.

"Low level perception filter, or maybe we're thick," the Doctor said.

"I think that it was because of a low level perception filter," Rose said.

"What's wrong?" Octavian asked the two gallifreyans.

"Nobody move. Nobody move. Everyone stay exactly where they are," the Doctor said "Bishop, I am truly sorry. Me and Rose have made a mistake and we are all in terrible danger."

"What danger?" Octavian aaked

"The Aplans," River answered.

"The Aplans?" Octavian asked.

"They've got two heads," River explained.

"Yes, I get that," Octavian said "So?"

"So why don't the statues have two heads?" Rose explained.

"Everyone, over there," the Doctor said as he points his flashlight in an area of the tunnel with no statues "Just move. Don't ask questions, don't speak."

Everyone goes to the area with no statues "Okay, I want you all to switch off your torches," the Doctor said.

"Sir?" Octavian said in confusion.

"Just do as he says," Rose told him.

"Thanks, Rose," he said to her and everyone except the Doctor turns their flashlights off "Okay, I'm going to turn off this one too, just for a moment."

"Are you sure about this?" River asked him

"No," he said as he turns his flashlight off and then he suddenly turns it back on and saw that the statues have moved.

"Oh, my God," Amy said "They've moved."

"I was thinking almost the exact same thing, Amy," Rose told her and everyone turns their flashlights back on and the Doctor runs down the passage, and it is filled statues coming towards them.

"They're Angels," he said " All of them."

"But they can't be," River said.

"Clerics, keep watching them," he said as he runs back to a vantage point of the main cavern Rose, Amy and River followed. They saw that all the statues are climbing up towards them. "Every statue in this Maze, every single one, is a Weeping Angel," he said "They're coming after us."

"But there was only one Angel on the ship," River said "Just the one, I swear."

"Could they have been here already?" Amy asked.

"The Aplans," the Doctor said "What happened? How did they die out?"

"Nobody knows," River said.

"We know," he said, telling them that the Aplans were killed by the weeping angels and were turned into weeping angels.

"They don't look like Angels," Octavian told him.

"And they're not fast," Amy said "You both said they were fast. They should have had us by now."

"Look at them," the Doctor said "They're dying, losing their form. They must have been down here for centuries, starving."

"Losing their image?" Amy asked with confusion.

"And their image is their power," he said "Power. Power!"

"Doctor?" Amy and Rose asked at the same time.

"Don't you see? All that radiation spilling out the drive burn. The crash of the Byzantium wasn't an accident, it was a rescue mission for the Angels," he said "We're in the middle of an army, and it's waking up."

"We need to get out of here fast," River suggested.

"I agree with River on this one," Rose said.

Octavian grabbed his communicator "Bob, Angelo, Christian, come in, please. Any of you, come in."

"It's Bob, sir. Sorry, sir," Bob said on the communicator.

"Bob, are Angelo and Christian with you?" Octavian asked "All the statues are active. I repeat, all the statues are active."

"I know, sir," Bob said "Angelo and Christian are dead, sir. The statues killed them, sir."

As Bob said this the Doctor grabbed the walkie-talkie from Octavian.

"Bob, Sacred Bob, it's me, the Doctor," the Doctor said into the communicator "Where are you now?

"I'm talking to my-" Octavian said interrupting him.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, shut up," the Doctor snapped at Octavian.

"I'm on my way up to you, sir," Bob said "I'm homing in on your signal."

"Ah, well done, Bob. Scared keeps you fast. Told you, didn't I," the Doctor said "Your friends, Bob. What did the Angel do to them?"

"Snapped their necks, sir," Bob said and as he said that both the Doctor and Rose looked at each other with a confused look on their faces.

"That's odd. That's not how the Angels kill you. They displace you in time,"the Doctor told him "Unless they needed the bodies for something."

Octavian took the communicator back "Bob, did you check their data packs for vital signs?" he asked "We may be able to initiate a rescue plan."

The Doctor took the communicator back from Octavian "Oh, don't be an idiot! The Angels don't leave you alive!" He told him "Bob, keep running. But tell me, how did you escape?"

"I didn't escape, sir," Bob said "The Angel killed me, too." As Bob said that Everyone looked at each other with a confused look on their faces.

"What do you mean, the Angel killed you?" The Doctor asked Bob.

"Snapped my neck, sir," Bob explained "Wasn't as painless as I expected, but it was pretty quick, so that was something."

"If you're dead, how can I be talking to you?" The Doctor asked Bob.

"You're not talking to me, sir," Bob said before explaining "The Angel has no voice. It stripped my cerebral cortex from my body and re-animated a version of my consciousness to communicate with you. Sorry about the confusion."

"So when you say you're on your way up to us…?" The Doctor asked

"It's the Angel that's coming, sir, yes," Bob confirmed "No way out."

"Then we get out through the wreckage," Octavian said Go!"

"Go, go, go. All of you run!" the Doctor shouted, agreeing with Octavian.

"Doctor," Amy said as she saw that the Doctor didn't budge as everyone but him and Octavian was running.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm coming," he told her as she followed everyone else. Just go. Go, go, go." He approached Octavian "Yeah. Called you an idiot. Sorry, Rose hates when I call people that, but there's no way we could have rescued your men."

"I know that, sir," Octavian told him "And when you and your wife have flown away in your little blue box, I'll explain that to their families." Octavian then walked with everyone else while the Doctor took out the communicator.

"Angel Bob. Which Angel am I talking to? The one from the ship?" The Doctor asked.

"Yes, sir. And the other Angels are still restoring, Angel Bob confirmed."

"Ah, so the Angel is not in the wreckage. Thank you," he said and put the communicator away and ran along the passage and saw Amy "Don't wait for me. Go, run."

"I can't. No, really, I can't," Amy told him.

"Why not?" He asked her.

"Look at it. Look at my hand. It's stone," she said

Rose, River, Octavian and the clerics run down the tunnel as they hear the sound of metal creaking and saw that it was the Byzantium making the creaking sound.

"Well. There it is, the Byzantium," Octavian said.

"It's got to be thirty feet," River said "How do we get up there?"

"Check all these exits. I want them all secure," Octavian said.

"My husband will probably have an idea," Rose said.

Back with the Doctor and Amy, the Doctor aims his flashlight at Amy's eyes "You looked into the eyes of an Angel, didn't you?" He asked her.

"I couldn't stop myself," Amy told him "I tried."

"Listen to me. It's messing with your head," he told her "Your hand is not made of stone."

"It is. Look at it," she told him.

"It's in your mind, I promise you," he said "You can move that hand. You can let go."

"I can't, okay? I've tried and I can't. It's stone," she told him.

"The Angel is going to come and it's going to turn this light off, and then there's nothing I can do to stop it, so do it," he said "Concentrate. Move your hand."

"I can't."

"Then we're both going to die," he said.

"You're not going to die," she told him.

"They'll kill the lights," he explained.

"You've got to go. You know you have," Amy said "You, Rose have got all that stuff with River and this Jack whoever he is, so that's all got to happen. You know you can't die here."

"Time can be re-written, it doesn't work like that," he said and the statues suddenly arrived.

"Keep your eyes on it," he told her "Don't blink."

"Run!" Amy told him as she looks at the statues.

"You see, I'm not going," he said "I'm not leaving you here."

"I don't need you to die for me, Doctor," Amy said "Do I look that clingy? And You are married to Rose."

"You can move your hand," he told her

"It's stone," she told him.

"It's not stone," he told her.

"You've got to go. Rose and those people up there will die without you," Amy told him "If you stay here with me, you'll have as good as killed them."

"Amy Pond, you are magnificent, and I'm sorry," he said as he knew what he had to do.

"It's okay. I understand," she said "You've got to leave me."

"Oh, no, I'm not leaving you, never," he said "I'm sorry about this." He suddenly bit her hand.

"Ow!" She screamed.

"See? Not stone," he said "Now run."

"You bit me," Amy said.

"Yeah, and you're alive," he said.

"Look, I've got a mark. Look at my hand," Amy told him

Yes, and you're alive," he said "Did I mention?"

"Blimey, your teeth," she said "Have you got space teeth?"

"Yeah. Alive. All I'm saying,"he said as he grabbed Amy's hand and they ran.

The Doctor and Amy burst through to the cavern where Rose, River and the clerics were. "The statues are advancing along all corridors. And, sir, my torch keeps flickering," one of the clerics reported.

"They all do," Octavian told him.

"So does the gravity globe," River said.

"Clerics, we're down to four men. Expect incoming," Octavian said.

"Yeah, it's the Angels. They're coming. And they're draining the power for themselves," the Doctor told him.

"Which means we won't be able to see them," Octavian said.

"Which means we can't stay here," Rose added.

"Two more incoming," Octavian said.

"Any suggestions?" River asked.

"The statues are advancing on all sides," Octavian said "We don't have the climbing equipment to reach the Byzantium."

"There's no way up, no way back, no way out," River said "No pressure, but this is usually when you have a really good idea."

"There's always a way out," he said and his voice echoed through the tunnel. "There's always a way out," he suddenly said, repeating himself.

"Doctor? Can I speak to the Doctor, please?" They suddenly heard Angel Bob say.

"Hello, Angels. What's your problem?" the Doctor said as he took out the communicator.

"Your power will not last much longer, and the Angels will be with you shortly. Sorry, sir," Angel Bob said.

"Why are you telling me this?" he asked.

"There's something the Angels are very keen you should know before the end," Angel Bob said.

"Which is?"

"I died in fear," Angel Bob answered.

"I'm sorry?" He asked with confusion.

"You told me my fear would keep me alive, but I died afraid, in pain and alone," Angel Bob said "You made me trust you, and when it mattered, you let me down."

"What are they doing?" Amy asked.

"They're trying to make him angry," Rose told her.

"I'm sorry, sir. The Angels were very keen for you to know that," Angel Bob told him.

"Well then, the Angels have made their second mistake because I'm not going to let that pass," the Doctor said "I'm sorry you're dead, Bob, but I swear to whatever is left of you, they will be sorrier."

"But you're trapped, sir, and about to die," Angel Bob told him.

"Yeah. I'm trapped. And you know what?" the Doctor said "Speaking of traps, this trap has got a great big mistake in it. A great big, whopping mistake."

"What mistake, sir?" Angel Bob asked.

"Rose, do you Trust me?" He asked his wife.

"I will always trust you, Doctor," Rose answered.

"Trust me," he said to Amy.

"Yeah," Amy answered

"Trust me?" He asked River.

"Always," River answered

"You lot, trust me?" he asked Octavian and the clerics.

"Sir, two more incoming," one of the clerics said.

"We have faith, sir," Octavian said.

"Then give me your gun," the Doctor said and Octavian gives the Time Lord his gun "I'm about to do something incredibly stupid and dangerous. When I do, jump!"

"Jump where?" Octavian asked him.

"Just jump, high as you can," the Doctor told him "Come on, leap of faith, Bishop. On my signal."

"What signal?" Octavian asked him.

"You won't miss it," the Doctor told him.

"Sorry, can I ask again?" Angel Bob asked him as the Doctor points the gun at the hull of the Byzantium "You mentioned a mistake we made."

"Oh, big mistake. really Huge," the Doctor told Angel Bob "Didn't anyone ever tell you there's one thing you never put in a trap? If you're smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never, ever put in a trap."

"And what would that be, sir?" Angel Bob asked him.

"Me," the Doctor said as he fore at the gravity glove and it exploded.

To be continued

Please review and tell me if I'm making Rose sound like well… Rose Because I still don't know how to write her properly and I need a beta-reader.

Sorry for uploading this late I was very busy to finish writing this chapter and in a week from today (July 22nd, 2019) it will be my younger brother's birthday, me and him are 16 months apart and never get along and he loves Anime while I just don't care for Anime and he hates Doctor who.