The cellar doors are flung open, and the light shines in on the crate.
"Moonlight" The young man says as he removes his cloak and an unnatural wind starts to blow through the cellar.
"All of you! Stop looking at it! Flora, don't look. Listen to me. Everyone back away from the wall, Raiah do your thing! Move back I'm telling you! Come on! With me!" Rose shouts at them all as she moves to the group, Ky closer to where the chains meet the wall.
The young man begins his transformation.
"I said move! You don't want to be in the way when she does this come on back up!" Rose shouts again.
"She's right everyone get behind her and cover your eyes." Ky tells them calmly. The difference between the two girls glaringly obvious. Rose is frantic and Ky is unfazed and calm. Ky's trying to keep calm as she can feel panic set in, panic that does not belong to her. Her dads panic.
The young man becomes more vulpine.
"One, two, three, and go, Raiah go!" Rose shouts after they are all clear of the area.
Ky raises her and starts to clench her fist shaking it slightly. The chains rattle as the metal plate attached to the walls starts to shake in the wall. Causing bits of the wall, where the bolts are, to crumble and debris starts fly away from the wall. The plate finally come flying away from where it was and Ky flings it at wall, causing the chains to break off. The werewolf is now fully formed, and examining its paws.
The Doctor and Robert kick their way in.
"Where the hell have you been?" Rose shouts and Kyraiah shouts at him also, her voice dropping with sarcasm.
"Nice of you to join us dad, thanks for the impeccable timing. Really glad you were here to help get us free. Oh no that was what I was doing."
"Not the time for sarcasm little one." He tells her.
The Doctor sees the occupant of the crate.
"Oh, that's beautiful." The Doctor says. Ky walks towards her dad as he stares in awe of the creature.
"Yes very beautiful dad. But, um, lets not just stand there admiring it. How about we escape and don't become wolf dinner." She whispers, also in awe, to him from right behind him as not to scare the others in here.
"Come on, go. Get out!" Robert yells at everyone as the werewolf breaks out of the crate.
"Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out!" Both Timelords say.
"Come on." Rose says to them. Ky runs to the door as The Doctor still stares in admiration, then ducks as it throws a piece of crate at him. He runs out and Kyraiah locks the door with her sonic screwdriver, using it for the first time since he gave it to her. Rose just looks at her and wonders if that what the Doctor gave to her for her birthday. If it was how come hasn't she used it before. Then again the Doctor always has his out to use.The Steward hands out the contents of the gun cupboard to the men.
"Arms, and you five. Ready, everyone?" He says to the men before turning to Lady Isobel. "Take the girls. Get them out through the kitchen."
"I can't leave you. What will you do?" Isobel says turning to her husband.
"I must defend her Majesty. Now, don't think of me, just go." Is all he says.
"All of you, at my side. Come on!" She says to the women staff.
"Lady Isobel..." Ky says quietly to her as she goes to pass by her and she turns. "...I will do everything in my power to protect your husband, I promise." Lady Isobel just nods, already having seen what the girl can do, fully believing what she said. Kyraiah just had to hope her father hadn't heard her. He would be very angry if she knew that she would willing use herself to stop anything happening to the man.
Luckily for her, he didn't.The Doctor is removing the shackles with the sonic screwdriver.
"It could be any form of light modulated species triggered by specific wavelengths. Did it say what it wanted?" The Doctor said to Rose.
"The Queen, the Crown, the throne - you name it." Was the blondes reply.
There is a crash of something bursting through a wooden door. The Doctor goes out to investigate and sees the werewolf at the other end of the passageway. He runs back in and grabs Rose and Ky.
"Fire! Fire !" A man shouts."All right, you men. We should retreat upstairs. Come with me." The Doctor says to the men.
"I'll not retreat. The battle's done. There's no creature on God's Earth that could survive such an assault." The man who was ordering them to shoot said.
"I'm telling you, come upstairs!" The Doctor told him.
"And I'm telling you, sir, I will sleep well tonight with that thing's hide upon my wall." The man tells him.
The man steps into the corridor then looks back. "It must have crawled away to die."He is then hoisted up to the ceiling.
"There's nothing we can do!" Both Timelords shout as sounds of snarling and wet meat ripping.At the bottom of the stairs, they find the Queen coming down them.
"Your Majesty? Your Majesty!" Sir Robert shouts.
"Sir Robert? What's happening?" She asks him, "I heard such terrible noises."
"Your Majesty, we've got to get out. But what of Father Angelo? Is he still here?" He says to here, hoping the man is gone.
"Captain Reynolds disposed of him." The Queen says, and Ky wants to snort at that but holds it in. That was the Queens way of keeping up appearances, Ky knew that actually meant her Majesty had done it instead.
"The front door's no good, it's been boarded shut. Pardon me, Your Majesty. You'll have to leg it out of a window." The Doctor says coming back from checking the front door. Again Ky want to snort, this time at the image of the Queen doing that. They make there way to what looks like a drawing room.
"Excuse my manners, Ma'am, but I shall go first, the better to assist Her Majesty's egress." Sir Robert says to Victoria.
"A noble sentiment, my Sir Walter Raleigh." She says to him.
The Doctor regains his London accent as he says, "Yeah, any chance you could hurry up?"
As Robert opens the window and the monks outside open fire, Ky turns to her dad and whispers "accent" to him he looks confused at her not quite sure what she means.
"I reckon the monkey boys want us to stay inside." He says to the group.
"Do they know who I am??" The Queen asks them.
"Yeah, that's why they want you. The wolf's lined you up for a, a biting." Rose tells her.
"Stop this talk. There can't be an actual wolf." Victoria says as there is a spine chilling howl.
They leave the drawing room and run down a hallway.
"What do we do?" Rose asks them.
"We run." The Doctor tells her.
"Is that it?" She asks him
"You got any silver bullets?" He says back.
"Not on me, no."
"There we are then, we run. Your Majesty, as a Doctor, I recommend a vigourous jog. Good for the health. Come on!" They head up the staircase.
"Dad..." Kyraiah calls out to him from the back, "... I could..."
"No! Most definitely not!" The Doctor and Rose shout. Ky can hear them talking between themselves and Ky reckons Rose is telling her dad what the wolf said earlier. She had a feeling Rose had the similar thoughts she did when he said about her shining like the moon and how that's what he needed. If she did anything to risk herself she would be in so much trouble when they got back to the Tardis, but she made a promise and she intended to keep it.The werewolf smashes its way out of below stairs and follows them.
"Come on! Come on!" The Doctor shouts as they head towards a room. The werewolf is nearly upon them when the captain looking man turns towards them out of nowhere and shoots. It retreats.
"I'll take this position and hold it. You keep moving, for God's sake! Your Majesty, I went to look for the property and it was taken. The chest was empty."
"I have it. It's safe." She responds to him.
"Then remove yourself, Ma'am. Doctor, you stand as Her Majesty's Protector. And you, Sir Robert, you're a traitor to the crown." He says to the group.
"Bullets can't stop it!" Kyraiah shouts at him. She wanted to save this man too, but she had a feeling that this was yet another life she couldn't save. He wasn't the one she promised to save but it still hurt to leave him defenceless. This creature was going to kill him.
"They'll buy you time. Now run!"
Reynolds shouts as he empties his revolver at the werewolf before it pounces and rips him apart.
"Rose! Ky!" The Doctor shouts dragging them inside the room. It's a library.
"Barricade the door." Sir Robert says and they do.
"Wait a minute. Shush, shush, wait a minute." The Doctor says and they hear one lonely howl.
"It's stopped." The Doctor says and Ky follows him with "It's gone."
YOU ARE READING
Last Timelady In Space
FanfictionThe Doctor has just regenerated, and now he and Kyraiah have to navigate their relationship whilst the Doctor figures out who he is exactly. Book two in the Last Lady Of Time series.