Week 3 Story: Dr. Rama

For as long as time has gone on there has always been time lords, those who try to control time, but after the great time wars few remained. One of whom was the renowned Doctor. He has came to be known as the keeper of time and even a great warrior, but back in ancient times some called him a god. After a loss whilst fighting the dialects, the doctor regenerated, but this time as a man, the avatar of Vishnu himself. He goes by Rama, and keeps his true identity a secret. The reason for this is to help rid the earth of the monstrous demons that haunt it. He always kept his companion by his side as to not be too lonely on his journey throughout the world. He did not meet her until he was traveling and saw her, Sita daughter of Janaka, at that instant he could see into her soul, he saw beauty, elegance, but most importantly loyalty. In order to prove to her father that he is worthy of having Sita as a companion he must string a celestial bow, that no man could string before him. It is wheeled out on a carriage and as this is happening he examines it. He uses his sonic screwdriver discretely to figure out how to string it. He then finds a weak point in the bow. He picks up the massive bow and breaks it at the weak point. All in the room are amazed and Janaka immediately gives his blessing for him to take Sita. The Doctor and Sita then set out to complete his task, all the while he is telling her they are on a honeymoon. The Doctor and Sita are traveling through the woods fighting of all of the cursed demons and sending them back to the afterlife, when all the sudden he sees a beautiful women approaching. She tries to seduce the Doctor, but to no avail as he is loyal to Sita. She then reveals herself to be the evil Shurpanakha, a rakshasa women. They are the demons of earth and she is the sister of the great demon king Ravana. She then jumped at Sita in jealousy, but the the Doctor stepped in and dismembered her ears and nose from her body. Shurpanakha was furious and sent 14 of her rakshasa companions to kill them, but the Doctor defeated them all. She ran to her brother to tell him what has happened. Ravana is angered that this could happen to his sister and plans to kill the Doctor. His sister warns of the power Rama possesses, that his only weakness is Sita. Ravana then schemes to capture Sita as his own wife. He asks his brother to take the form of a golden deer. Once his brother did this Ravana sent him to be seen by Sita. Sita sees this and asks the Doctor if he can capture it for her.

Sita Sees the Golden Deer

He leaves as he has never seen this before and wishes to log it into the system of species. Once the Doctor is away Ravana snatches Sita and flies off back to his palace. She screams for Rama to help her, but he cannot hear her. Upon his arrival back to where Sita was he realizes she has been taken away. Feeling guilty as he has brought her on this quest of his, he searches everywhere for her, until he runs into a dying man. The Doctor sees he's dying and tries to tend to the wounds, but alas the man died in the Doctors arms. He was able to tell the Doctor what had happened: "Oh great Rama, I saw Ravana with your wife and wished to help by any way I could, but as soon as I stepped in Ravana shot me down from the sky and here I lay. He is taking her to his island of Lanka. Go save your beautiful wife Rama." The Doctor then realized he had found the cove of the demons, which lay evil unto the world. He then sets out to not only save Sita, but to destroy the demons.

Authors Note: I used the Doctor to represent Rama, the avatar of Vishnu. Who falls in love with Sita his wife. He wins her by breaking the celestial bow, but as the Doctor always uses his sonic screwdriver I wanted to keep the story line as if it were a Dr. Who episode. The two were unfairly exiled into the jungle, which is full of monsters. Rama fights off all the creatures as he is extremely powerful, in the actual story Rama's brother is with him, but to coincide with Dr. Who, and because his brother was not a key factor in the story I excluded him from mine. They run into Ravana's sister where Rama's brother dismembers her. She goes to complain to her brother, where he comes up with the plan about the golden deer. After snatching Sita away a powerful vulture tries to help, but falls to his death. In my story I used a man as it was more coherent. Then Rama must save Sita and kill Ravana out of anger. In my story it made sense to use this as an opportunity to not forget the Doctors main objective of having to wipe the world of its demons. Also the use of "the Doctor" is used when the narrator is talking, but when others refer to him it  is "Rama", as that is what they know him as.

Stories where taken from: List of Stories
Sources used: M. Dutt, R. Dutt, Gould, Griffith, Hodgson, Mackenzie, Nivedita, Oman, Richardson, and Ryder.