On a planet far away in an
unknown part of the galaxy where no known human has travelled to before, a
small child known as “The NightMare!” was banished into exile at the age of 10
by her own species because of a prophecy into her future that saw the beast she
would become and the terror she would bestow upon creation.
Domina Mare was born
during the deadly plague of Gallifrey. The only child out of 1000’s who
survived during the planet’s darkest times, when an unknown virus claimed all
the children and left devastated parents screaming into the darkness as they
united in their grief. Her mother was a woman known to the Gallifreyan people
yet one they thought had died a very long time ago until she was found capsized
and unconscious on their shore in the midst of labour. They could not ask her
where she had been or how she had come to be there as she never regained
consciousness, yet they knew her appearance was an omen, a sign that darker
days lay ahead.
The Gallifreyan monastery
however originally saw the new born as a miracle, a blessing to be cherished as
a good omen and the start of a new generation of Gallifreyan children, and they
took her into their care to raise her in accordance to their beliefs, ignoring
the whispers that she was evil as they believed their faith and prayers were
all they needed to raise her as a good and kind member of their cherished
society. Naming her “The lady of the sea” because she was born on the shore, it
soon became apparent that Domina was no normal child.
Her screams shook the
world causing quakes and eruptions. Her tantrums caused desolation as volcanoes
exploded with larva, and her constant demands of attention caused her guardians
to take their own lives as they were forced to see horrific visions that tore
at the fabric of their minds. She was renamed “The NightMare!” at 6 months old
and it was decided that she should be incarcerated for the safety of Gallifrey.
As Domina grew, she
learned in her solitary confinement that she could use her abilities to get
what she wanted, that she could manipulate minds and cause a great suffering on
those who keep her captive, and on her 10th birthday she escaped her prison by
torturing her guards with visions of their loved ones tortured and broken as
they lay dying in great pain and agony. A man hunt was ordered for her
recapture, but she hid herself away in an old broken TARDIS, a Gallifreyan time
machine due to be scrapped for parts, where she stayed for days, trying to
figure out what to do and where to go. She was scared, alone and the most
powerful being on Gallifrey. If she panicked, the world was likely to implode.
Her whereabouts became
known to the elders of Gallifrey, those known as Time Lords and they decided to
banish Domina in the TARDIS, and send her hurtling into outer space, hoping the
broken TARDIS would engulf and swallow her whole therefore evicting her in a
banishment that’s would last for eternity. The Nightmare quickly became out of
control, wanting to consume everything like a hungry child. The high Gallifreyan
leader Rassillon, lured her to the gates of Elysium where he planned to destroy
her before Gallifrey was swallowed by the Nightmare Child’s rage. The Child and
the TARDIS fell through the gates, and as they closed, she disappeared behind
them, screaming her revenge into the abyss.
Dominas ability’s however
were underestimated and she was strong enough to connect to the TARDIS using
the ancient power of the Rassilon Imprimature, the legendary ability that a
Time Lord shares with his TARDIS in the form of a symbiotic link with it and
she managed to heal the ship that would become her home and placed it and
herself into hibernation as it began its healing process and she learned to
harness the powers she was born with. For 10 years she focused her mind, trained
her mentality to link herself back to Gallifrey so she could interact with the
elements without them knowing. She caused fires, tsunamis, earthquakes and
lightning storms that struck at the ground causing explosions as she reigned
devastation down onto the Time Lords. She opened their defences, blocked their
weapons systems and exposed them to their enemies as the time war began and
destroyed the planet as she fulfilled the prophecy of her birth.
The TARDIS eventually
homed in on a small planet called Earth and landed there, disguising itself as
a blue police box once used by the human race during the 1960’s. Domina had
searched the TARDIS databases as she researched Earth’s history and found that a
Time Lord known as The Doctor had also taken refuge there which was why her
TARDIS had not only locked in on his, but had cloaked itself like his to blend
in, so she would leave it that way, a place to hide from humanity whilst she
searched for him because he was a saviour to mankind, a hero who had lost his
home planet and come to save theirs, but to Domina he was a reminder of
everything she had suffered and she would hunt him down, find out why he
escaped and force him to tell her who her mother was, and who she was because
even though she had only been a child and imprisoned away from civilisation,
she had heard whispers of him, the rouge time lord who stole a TARDIS and ran
away, the man who knew everything, the man who tried to stop the war, the man who
fought Daleks and cyber men. If anyone could help her, it would be him.
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