Once Upon a Time Lord

Chapter Nine

                  "Illustration" by Karlie

"Help!" Jane shouted as loud as she could. 

"Jane!" a faint voice said.

"Killian!" Jane cried.

At the same time, the sound of the TARDIS sounded, and Lucy felt relief wash over her.  "It's the TARDIS!" Lucy said to Jane.  "Doctor!"

"Killian!"

The Doctor stepped out of the TARDIS just in time to hear Lucy scream his name, and saw Killian and Peter running toward a hogon-like structure.  "Lucy!" the Doctor shouted, taking off after them.  The Amazons barely noticed, being too amazed by the disappearing blue box.

Killian, Peter, and the Doctor dashed into the hogon.  They found their way into a small room that held a caged Lucy and Jane.

"Doctor!"

"Killian!"

"Finally something metal around here," the Doctor said, pulling out his sonic screwdriver and unlocking the cage.  Lucy tugged at the rope that bound her and Jane's wrists together as the Doctor ducked into the cage and fumbled with his screwdriver.

"Perhaps I can fry the fibers and reverse the—" he wasn't given the chance to finish.  Killian unsheathed his sword and slashed the rope easily, and Jane winced as the sword grazed her wrist.  Lucy jerked her hands away from Jane's and fell into the Doctor's arms.

"Oh, Doctor, you came!"

"Of course, dear," he said, smiling.

The relief, however, was disrupted by the presence of a young woman who looked to be about seventeen.  Peter recognized her as Tigerlily.

"Such a happy reunion," she said, nodding at the warriors who had entered the hogon behind her.  They took Killian and Pan off-guard from behind and dragged them back into the open as they struggled in vain.

The remaining warriors moved towards the Doctor who pushed Lucy behind him protectively.  The warriors laughed and one lifted a hollow reed from her belt.  She blew on it and some sort of dart flew from it and embedded itself in the Doctor's neck.  His eyes rolled back in his head and he crumpled to the floor, his collapse accompanied by a horrified scream from Lucy. 

Jane stood with her back to the wall of the cage, holding her hand over a laceration on her wrist that was gushing an alarming amount of blood that was barely as red as it was black.

Lucy was sobbing in distress when the warriors took her.  "Oh, for crying out loud," Tigerlily said.  "He's not dead."

The others warriors carried the Doctor's motionless form away as the last set grabbed Jane by her arms and pulled her after them.  She was not a weak woman, and neither was Lucy, but Jane was injured and when they'd shot the Doctor they'd as good as shot Lucy, too.

There were several posts set up on a podium near the bonfire.  Each post was formed in an ominous cross shape.  Peter and Killian were bound to them already, and the Doctor's slumped form was in the process.  Lucy let out a muffled sob at the way his head hung limply.

The warriors tied Lucy and Jane to the posts, Jane wincing at the way the ropes dug into the cut on her wrist.  Killian was on the post next to her and noticed the injury.  He closed his eyes as though it pained him.

"I am Princess Tigerlily," Tigerlily said in a carrying voice.  "You are all on trial for theft.  You," she nodded at the Doctor, "for the theft of my sky-box.  You," she nodded at Peter and Killian, "for the theft of my captives.  You," she nodded at Lucy, "as an accomplice.  And you," she said to Jane, stepping up onto the podium so that she was inches from Jane's face, "for the theft of my prince."