Doctor Who: Target - Novelisations [001] - The Abominable Snowmen by Terrance Dicks

Author:Terrance Dicks
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780426105831
Publisher: Target Books
Published: 1973-12-30T23:00:00+00:00

7

A Plan to Conquer Earth

Not for the first time, Victoria’s well-developed lungs came to her rescue. Too frightened to move, she let out a series of ear-splitting screams that echoed through every corridor of the Monastery. Warriors and lamas came running from every direction.

Thomni was first into the Great Hall, dashing in just as the Yeti broke through the last of its chains, and started making for Victoria. He grabbed the frightened girl, and bundled her into the corridor. ‘Run, Victoria, run. Fetch Khrisong!’

As Victoria ran down the corridor, Thomni grabbed a heavy bronze incense-holder, almost as tall as himself, and prepared to use it as a club. He smashed it down on the Yeti’s head. The blow landed with a tremendous impact that jarred Thomni’s arms. He swung back the incense-holder for a second blow, but the Yeti roared angrily, and wrenched it from his grasp. Grasping the heavy metal pillar in both paws, the Yeti twisted it in two like a wax candle. Then it slashed out at Thomni. The glancing blow sent him spinning across the room and he crashed into a stone pillar. Ignoring him, the Yeti made for the doorway.

Thomni’s attack had delayed it long enough to allow a little group of warrior monks to arrive. The Yeti burst through them, its sweeping blows smashing men to one side and the other. Several of the warriors struck at the monster with swords or spears, but the Yeti didn’t even pause. Leaving a pile of wounded and bleeding warriors behind it, it shambled purposefully down the corridor.

As Victoria reached the courtyard she met Khrisong, and the main body of the warriors. Khrisong gripped her wrists fiercely.

‘What has happened? Why are you screaming?’

‘The Yeti, Khrisong! It’s alive. It’s broken free.’

Khrisong stared at her in disbelief. ‘It’s true,’ she screamed. ‘It’s all my fault – I put back the sphere…’

Suddenly the Yeti appeared from the cloisters, and began moving towards the barred main doors. Khrisong smiled in grim satisfaction. ‘This time we shall destroy it. Attack!’

Victoria crouched sobbing in a corner as Khrisong and his warriors fought their gallant and useless battle. The Yeti seemed almost uninterested in its human opponents.

It simply continued its progress towards the main doors.

Bowman after bowman loosed his arrows at point-blank range. Arrows thudded into the Yeti’s hide until it looked like a porcupine. They didn’t have the slightest effect.

Savage blows from spears, swords, even axes simply rebounded from the monster’s body. Whenever a rash warrior got too close, a single smashing blow from the Yeti put him out of the fight.

Victoria saw Thomni stagger into the courtyard, his face covered with blood. ‘You’ve got to stop them,’ she sobbed.

‘They’ll all be killed. They can’t hurt it. It isn’t alive. It’s a robot.’

Thomni watched the useless battle for a moment, and saw that she was right. Running to the main doors, he unbarred them, and flung them wide. Immediately the Yeti began heading towards them. ‘Close the doors,’ yelled Khrisong furiously. ‘We must destroy it.

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