Doctor Who: Target - Novelisations [095] - The Awakening by Eric Pringle

Author:Eric Pringle
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780426201588
Publisher: Target Books
Published: 1985-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

6

The Awakening

The noise of Jane’s screaming echoed around the church until it too was swallowed up by the smoke. At her side, Will Chandler peered towards the wall, which had come so terrifyingly to life with its noise and gushing smoke and those awesome eyes. He whimpered with fear.

Then all at once the smoke began to clear. The rumbling noise subsided to an ominous, steady droning.

Through the drifting white cloud, which thinned before their eyes, they saw the Doctor again. He was standing in the exact stance he held when the smoke shrouded him: with his head bent forward slightly, and his hands upped over his cars, he looked as if he had been turned to stone.

Ignoring the remaining fumes, Jane and Will ran to him. Jane took the Doctor’s right arm and tried to lead him away from that obscenity in the wall. He looked stunned.

‘Doctor, are you all right?’ she cried; he nodded, but she could see that he didn’t know where he was or what was happening to him. Now he stumbled and she had to hold him steady. She guided him towards the pews; when his eyes focussed on them he staggered forward and sank down, exhausted.

Will ran around the back of the pew. He crouched down behind the Doctor, bewildered, frightened and near to tears. Jane watched the lad with growing concern, for it seemed to her that Will was not far from snapping altogether. Yet the Doctor was her most immediate problem: he looked shattered. And no wonder! she thought. She removed the green jacket from around her shoulders and put it around his. ‘Are you sure you’re all right?’ she asked him again.

‘Yes.’ He nodded again, to her great relief.

But a crash made her jump as more plaster flew out of the wall behind her; it seemed to be bursting at the seams.

Smoke belched out and the hubbub was renewed, as if the thing inside had got its second wind.

It intrigued Jane as well as repelled her – curiosity bred fascination, and she found herself walking slowly towards the wall. Stones exploded past her and made her jump and shout with fright, but she held her ground. As the Doctor had been, she was nearly hypnotised by what she saw in there: great grey stone nostrils flaring above a grimacing, gigantic mouth, and high above them the green-white brilliance of the eyes. The whole thing looked as if it was made of stone, and yet it couldn’t be stone at all; this monstrous thing, which looked most like an enormous magnified medieval gargoyle, was alive.

‘It’s a face,’ she whispered.

It was such an evil face, destructive and filled with hate.

As Jane looked at it a feeling of nausea overcame her; her whole being was revolted by the sight and she had to avert her eyes.

‘Look at it,’ the Doctor insisted. Almost fully recovered, he was leaning forward in the pew and watching her intently. ‘Does it look familiar?’

Jane shivered. He wanted her to acknowledge

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