Doctor Who - Past Doctor Adventures - 18 - Salvation (1st Doctor) by Steve Lyons

Author:Steve Lyons
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Space Opera, General, Science Fiction, Doctor Who (Fictitious Character), Fiction, Media Tie-In
ISBN: 9780563555667
Publisher: BBC Worldwide
Published: 1999-01-03T08:00:00+00:00

‘You’re going to talk to the gods, right? I know them. I’ve worked with them. They’ll talk to me. I can help you.’

‘I’ve no reason to trust you. You’ve told me nothing.’

‘I’ve told you everything I know, I swear it.’

‘Then, Mr Lullington-Smythe, you don’t know very much, do you?’

‘You can’t do this to me. I have an investment to protect.

My clients will be expecting me.’

Marchant bristled. ‘I am dealing with more important issues than your profit margins!’

‘I’ll go to the government. I’ll go to your superiors. Who do you report to?’

‘Are you threatening me, mister?’

Smythe forced himself to calm down. He spread out his hands in a placatory gesture. ‘Look, we’ve seen what these...

creatures can do. A familiar face on your team can’t hurt.’

Marchant thought about it, then nodded abruptly. ‘All right, I’ll take a chance on you.’

Of course, there followed the predictable warnings of what would happen if Smythe failed to obey the general’s orders.

Smythe did not care. The important thing was that he would see his clients again, hopefully before some unscrupulous microbe lured them away.

He didn’t know what the gods were. He didn’t know what they wanted. But they were still the biggest, and potentially the most lucrative, thing that had happened to him in his life.

Joseph almost laughed for joy. Yesterday, he had been alone. Now he had found a family and they were prepared to accept him.

Max and Jennifer had joined Dennis at his side. Norman, it seemed, had left on a mission to preserve order, but the Patriarch assured Joseph that his spirit was with them.

Though he remained on his knees, Joseph felt his head lifted so that he looked into the Patriarch’s radiant features. A beautiful light shone through the stained glass window at the all-father’s back, and created a corona around him. Joseph had the fleeting impression that the Patriarch was striding out of the sun itself, carrying with him the seeds of life. He thought he could hear a fanfare, although his ears could not detect it.

‘Of all of our pantheon, you, its sixth member, have suffered the most troubled genesis,’ announced the Patriarch. ‘You have felt the cruelty of those who would rail, unthinkingly, against that which they most want and need.

And yet you have also felt the love of those who would see you take your rightful place amongst us. You know that, in all things, love must ever hold sway. Those who have greeted us with hatred must be made to recognise their error. There are many on this world who would see harsh judgement meted out to them. They yearn to be freed from the scourge of the greedy, the selfish and the disbelieving; all of who would do harm to their fellow man. Thus, I name you Damien, and proclaim that you shall be our God of Vengeance.

Welcome, Damien.’

‘No.’

Joseph spoke quietly, and yet the single syllable cut through the atmosphere as if he had screamed it in the Patriarch’s face. The all-father frowned, and, with his displeasure, his light took on a hint of fiery red.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.