The House Of The Shadows
CHAPTER 1
Elisabeth Gail was late. She was too late to be able to return home. Wait until the morning then say you stayed with a friend last night she thought. But that meant she needed somewhere to spend tonight. Of course Lester Collins the old abandoned house no one ever went there she could spend the night there and go home in the morning. At 11:00PM the residents of Oak Road reported hearing a scream coming from Lester Collins. But when the the police arrived they didn't find any trace of Elisabeth just a skeleton that had been stripped clean of all flesh...
The following day on Oak Road an unearthly wind blew up as the Tardis materialised into being with its usual fanfare. Out of the Police Box walked a tall skinny man with manic gelled hair in a blue suit and converse trainers. He was joined by his travelling companion a young black woman in her twenties wearing a red leather jacket and jeans.
"Ok Doctor you can now stop being all mysterious and tell me where we've landed?" asked Martha.
"I'm not sure. We were dragged of course by something powerful. Wherever we are there's something weird about this place." said the Doctor doing his best to hide just how clueless he was and failing.
"Well Doctor lets find out what your weird powerful thing is shall we?"
The Doctor and Martha had been searching for the best part of an hour to try and find the whatever had dragged them off course with no luck. Martha was beginning to give up home when she noticed the headline of the local paper. ELISABETH GAIL MYSTERY DEEPENS said the headline of the paper Martha read the article and discovered that a girl had gone missing after not returning home from a night out. But what really interested Martha was that a mysterious scream had been heard from Lester Collins shortly after Elisabeth was last seen. "Well" thought Martha "If we can't find what's dragged us off course we can still solve this mystery"
Martha ran to where the Doctor was standing to let him know about her mystery. He was scanning the village with his Sonic Screwdriver to track what had dragged them off course. He noticed Martha coming towards him
"Its definitely gone Martha looks like it was only brief. Whatever dragged us off course did do deliberately and quickly then vanished." Martha took this opportunity to tell the Doctor about what she had just read in the paper.
"Well..." said the Doctor "If we cant find why we landed here we can at least find out what happened to Elisabeth. Tonight we'll go to Lester Collins. But first we'll go back to the Tardis so you can get some sleep." Martha raised an eyebrow at his last remark. The Doctor noticed this so added "It could be an all nighter"