Blood and Tears (comic story)

Summary
As the people from the village of Galathos relate their sad tale of the oncoming sickwind, a curse from the Gods that kills their people and takes them away, they show the warning marks on their bodies (small plaster-size patches, like tattoos). Once the marks start to appear they have only seven suns time left to hunt the Dramos and revel in its healing blood or they will die. The Doctor and Rose along with a catlike creature, the Palanth (thought to be lucky), they head off to find the Dramos. They head through the jungle, down a waterfall and into a cave, where the Doctor finds a nest of creatures hanging from the walls. As they prepare to leave, the Dramos returns, but rather than attacking them it tries to communicate. The Dramos explains that the Galgothians are wrong to hunt and kill the Dramos, leaving its young with no-one to protect them, and many to die. The sadness draws the Palanth (now carrying the signs of the oncoming sickwind) to the Dramos' side to comfort it, and soaked by its desperate tears the Palanth starts to make a recovery and the marks fade away. The Doctor realises that the Dramos carries the antibodies to cure the sickwind not only in its blood but also in its tears. Taking the Dramos back to the villagers, who are at first alarmed by the Doctor's betrayal at not killing the Dramos, the Doctor wins their trust and as both sides tell their sad stories the tears flow and the sickwind is cured.

Characters

 * Tenth Doctor
 * Rose Tyler
 * Palanth
 * Dramos
 * Galathos

Original print details (Publication with page count and closing captions)

 * 1) DWA Issue 7 (6 pages split 4/2) * NEXT ISSUE: MORE DANGER AND ADVENTURES!

Reprints

 * None to date

Continuity
to be added