The Dragon Lord (comic story)

 was a comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine.

Part one: The Dragon Lord
The Doctor and Clara land on an alien world, specifically on a deserted trail. Using his sonic screwdriver the Doctor picks up a power source. However, what appears to be a dragon suddenly swoops down, grabbing hold of the TARDIS.

The Doctor insists that dragons are fictional creatures, so this one cannot be real. Heading towards civilisation while chased by several dragons, they meet a force field which the Doctor bypasses with his sonic screwdriver. The Doctor and Clara find themselves in a mostly Medieval village which nevertheless contains heavily advanced technology.

The town's residents are angry at the Doctor, who "cast a spell with his magic wand" and arrived unannounced. Met by Lord Mortigan, the Doctor holds out his psychic paper, which holds the seal of the Hanging Towers and allows the Doctor and Clara "freedom of the fourteen realms." They follow Lord Mortigan to his keep, where the forcefield generator is held.

Mortigan explains that their kingdom was created for those desiring a simpler age of chivalry, heraldry, pageantry and pomp. The dragons are actually genetically modified versions of native life forms. Unfortunately, the Doctor classifies the forcefield generator as impossible to repair — and if it remains broken, the dragons are likely to take all of the planet's human life.

Weezie explains that the dragons were initially given inhibitor chips which stopped them from harming humans — "until the Dragon Lord came along..." This being was angry at the humans' torture and slaying of innocent dragons for no reason other than entertainment. He freed the dragons from the humans' tyranny, reversing the roles of hunters and hunted.

The Doctor considers leaving the planet, but Clara points out it is not his responsibility to choose which lives are worth saving. Realising she is correct, the Doctor formulates a plan to reason with the Dragon Lord, though Lord Mortigan and Sir Edryc Dragonsbane are skeptical of this idea. Mortigan is in actuality planning on murdering the Dragon Lord instead.

The group meets a baby dragon, which Mortigan slays. Unfortunately for the Doctor and the humans, the baby's parents chase them in response. Dragonsbane leads the group to a cave, but the Doctor and Weezie are missing. While the dragon cannot enter the cave, it uses its fire breath to attack. Dragonsbane manages to block the flames using his shield, but the heat still poses as a threat for the three humans.

Meanwhile, Weezie climbs up a tree to give himself and the Doctor a better idea of their location. A spear rises from the ground, just barely missing the Doctor. This allows Weezie to identify their location as once-popular hunting grounds which the Dragon Lord mined with spear traps. The Doctor sets off his sonic screwdriver to avert any other spears from rising: they are "shielded against sonics." Unfortunately, though, the Doctor and Weezie are "sitting ducks for any dragon that happens to come across us and fancies a snack..." and, as luck would have it, a dragon arrives at that very moment.

Part two: Dragon Attack
to be added

Characters

 * Twelfth Doctor
 * Clara Oswald
 * Lord Mortigan
 * Weezie
 * Sir Edryc Dragonsbane
 * The Dragon Lord

Continuity

 * The Doctor is more willing to hug Clara than before. (TV: The Girl Who Died)
 * The Doctor still has his sonic screwdriver. He would later abandon using it when he gave one to the boy Davros. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice)