A
Doctor Who Fan Fiction story featuring the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara
and Susan.
CHAPTER
SIX
As
the Doctor, Firestorm and Susan arrived back in the
sitting-room, David was just finishing up a game of scrabble
with Ian and Barbara. "Is it my go?"
asked an apparently bored Barbara, gazing in a detached
manner at the scrabble board. "Yes it is, I can't possibly
make a decent word out of this lot!" he gestured
despairingly at his assembled letters. Barbara smirked slightly,
and then she proceeded to make a perfect nine letter word, out
of seemingly incompatible letters. David's mouth dropped open,
his eyes widening in astonishment. Ian grinned at his reaction,
his eyes twinkling with suppressed mirth. David was only now
able to overcome his surprise enough to gasp
"How…how
did you…" Barbara's smile widened and she said
"Well, I think this is a product of many bored evenings
with my mother…"
Susan
and Firestorm began giggling, but hastily turned it into a
coughing fit, as the Doctor turned in their direction. Raising
his eyebrows slightly in amusement, he turned back to David and
his companions. "Well, I am glad to say that we have
clarified that little event earlier, and it poses no danger to
us. I was wondering whether you would like to show Miss Wright
and Mr. Chesterton your workshop?" David smiled and said,
"Of course! This way!", leading Ian and Barbara
towards a large, flat roofed wooden building. The Doctor and
Susan followed, as did Firestorm, who hung back slightly to
study this new building shape (she had never come across a
building with a flat roof before). While she was admiring the
building, her greatly enhanced hearing picked out a rustle,
somewhere behind her.
She
sensed the men before she saw them, seven large, strong and
bulky men. The fastest one reached her first, jamming a gloved
hand over her mouth, and seizing her around the waist. She
growled, biting the hand with enough force to make the man feel
it, and kicking backwards with great precision, at a very
sensitive area. The man jumped at the pain in his hand, then
felt a much greater pain down below. His mouth opened in a
silent howl of agony, and his eyes crossed, before he toppled
backwards onto the ground, clutching himself and moaning with
pain. She sent the seconded one flying by hocking her leg under
his, and tripping him up. Unfortunately (for him) his head
collided with the house wall, as he had chosen to attack too
close to the house. He crumpled to the ground, out cold. Now
there were only five left standing, and they wisely decided to
attack her all at once. As they closed in, she knew that she
would not be able to fight them all off. One of the men was so
frustrated with her, that he grabbed her round the neck. This
was a big mistake.
She
felt the ever-present, smoldering anger begin to grow and burn,
deep within her. She embraced it, increasing its intensity,
feeding its fire with the irritation she felt about these men.
The anger grew to rage, and then, at last, to a wild,
uncontrolled fury. This fury manifested it self as the fire
burning deep within her. The man who held her felt the skin
under his rough fingers begin to grow warm, then the temperature
increased, until it felt as if it was burning. Then he realized
that it was, flames
licked around his hands, and formed an aura around the girl he
was restraining. He screamed, as the fire burned him, but he
could not let go. The fire around Firestorm flickered and formed
itself into dragon head shapes, which lashed out at the mean
surrounding her, basting them backwards, and causing many to
crash into walls and trees (inside the garden). The leader with
his hands burning was suddenly able to let go. He looked once
into those burning, raging inhuman eyes and felt all his courage
draining away, to be replaced with pure terror. He screamed, in
both pain and fear, and then fled into the woods at the back of
the house. Firestorm felt the red mists of rage and the
bloodlust disappear, to find everyone staring at her. The Doctor
was frowning at her, studying her with his eyes. She disliked
this, and interpreting the stares as hostile and afraid, she
fled into the woods also, dimly hearing David and the Doctor
shouting her name. She carried on; tears stinging her eyes, not
fully aware of her soundings, just wanting to get away from
everyone and everything, feeling that she was too dangerous to
be around….
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