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Little Red Cape
Summary: The Doctor, Amy and Rory land on a simple forest planet but the village is more than it appears and a familiar face lurks beneath a red cape.
Ch 1.
The Doctor stood in his Tardis with his two companions, Amy Pond and Rory Williams. Amy was married to Rory but Amy Williams didn't have the same ring to it as Amy Pond or rather Amelia Pond. He liked her name it sounded like a fairytale and he quite enjoyed fairytales they were full of wonder, adventure and danger not unlike his own life. He was over nine hundred years old and gone through many faces but he still like to stop and smell the soil? No, plants? Or however the human saying went. Flowers, roses? Most of them would say it but never actually do it. They just went about their routines day in and day out never realizing their true potential.
That's how he chose his companions he saw something inside of them that screamed show me the world, shining, shimmering, splendid. Unbelievable sights. Indescribable feeling. Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling. Through an endless diamond sky. No. That was a song. But it was the same and he saw that in them. And all his companions gave him something he cherished and would go on cherishing long after they left him or he lost them. They were forever in his hearts.
Amelia Amy Pond was slightly similar to his previous incarnations companion Donna Noble. She was loud, adventurous and fiery like her hair. Her hair was ginger which for some reason he never seemed to get when he regenerated.
Rory was devoted to his wife and he admired that kind of devotion. Not many men would drop everything and follow their wife through time and space with a stranger, or rather the real incarnation of the invisible friend his wife talked about since she was little. So he knew when he had to leave they would be ok because they had each other.
So now the three of them were standing by the console. "Rio here we come!" The Doctor said excitedly pressing buttons on his Tardis.
"I'll go change into something warmer then" Amy Williams said walking out of the room since they'd most likely to end of somewhere the complete opposite of Rio, the party planet he'd been promising to take them for ages.
Her husband Rory joined her and they walked down the many corridors of the Tardis to find their room Suddenly the Tardis gave strong jolt sending them crashing into the wall. "DOCTOR, WHAT'S HAPPENING?" Amy shouted as the Tardis started rocking back and forth. She and Rory decide it's best to stay in their current position huddled together on the floor.
They both screamed as the Tardis tilted down and to the left and they started sliding down the corridor using their hands to try and stop their descent. "DOCTOR!"
The Doctor held on to the various levers and handles on the control console as his ship felt like it was now flipping and flopping around as they hurled through space. He liked to think he had control of where they were going but his Tardis often made her own mind up about where they would end up.
Then just as abruptly as it happened it stopped. The Doctor grabbed the top part of the console with one hand and then the other and pulled himself upright as Amy and Rory run into the room.
"I take it, it's not Rio unless we were shot out of cannon for the Carnivale" Amy said straightening her hair and outfit.
The Doctor fixed his bow tie and walked towards the door.
"Where are we?" Rory asked.
The Doctor smiled. "I don't know let's find out shall we" he pushed the doors open and walked out.
They stepped out into a vast forest of trees that went on for miles; the sun was shining brightly through the trees giving it an ethereal feeling. The Doctor sniffed the air, it smelled minty. He liked mint or at least thought he liked mint.
"Why does the air smell like toothpaste?" Rory asked looking around the endless forest of trees. The Doctor looked at Amy and she smiled so they began walking.
They walked for what felt like hours and saw nothing but trees, trees and more trees. Then they finally came into a clearing and saw a wooden sign post that said The Village. The Doctor figured that was as good a place as any to start, a village meant living species and living species were what they needed to find to find out where they were.
Amy smiled at the Doctor when they heared the voices of the village not far ahead of them, they picked up their pace and found themselves in the village.
The Village had a quaint and charming feel to it. Horse drawn wagons made of wood passed them in the street; all the shops were log cabins, which made sense with the endless supply of trees they had available to them. He looked at the signs by the shops they were all simply named what they were, The Bakery, The Butcher, the Candlestick Maker.
As they walked through, the villagers all stopped what they were doing to stare. It looked like they walked straight into the pioneer age. The people were also dressed simply, the men wore trousers and shirts and the women wore dresses. But one man stood out to him, he was grizzly looking with thick brown beard and cap pulled down low covering his eyes. He held an axe over his shoulder while a pile of wood lay beneath his feet. The Doctor had the strangest feeling like he was supposed to know that man but also felt like this was the first time they met; it was a strange feeling indeed.
A tall blonde man with bright blue eyes shook the Doctor from his thoughts. "I'm The Mayor" he said walking up to greet them.
"The Mayor, good. I'm the Doctor, this Amy and Rory Pond" He told the mayor pointing to his companions.
"Williams" Rory corrected the Doctor. "Rory and Amy Williams"
"Right, Williams" the Doctor repeated.
"I'm sorry about the staring; we don't get many visitors to The Village" The Mayor said to them.
"That's quite alright, staring is good, healthy even, shows you're alert. Good use of the eyes I always, say…or well I don't always say that, that's the first time I said that." The Doctor said still looking and spinning around to get a good look at the village. "If they didn't stare then I'd be worried" He continued then a flash of red appears out of the corner of his eye; he turned to look and saw the tail of red cloak disappearing behind a wall. He shook it off as another villager tying to get a look at them. He looked back at the man. "Can you tell us what planet we're on?" The Doctor asked startling the man who was trying to follow his train of thought.
"You are on Lycanpodiophyta, Sir" The Mayor replied.
"That's a mouthful, isn't?" Amy replied looking at Rory.
"Not as much as Raxacoricofallapatorius" The Doctor said not knowing why he just now thought of that planet.
"You're right, that one wins" Amy replied not bothering to repeat it.
"Lycanpodiophyta" The Doctor repeated. "That's new, never been here. Do you have a name or are you just called the Mayor?"
"You can call me Tony, sir" the Mayor replied his head was spinning from this strange man that talked too fast and too much.
"Right then Tony, can you tell who that man is over there?" The Doctor asked nodding in the direction of the grizzly man with the axe. The man was looking down now but he felt his eyes on them a few minutes earlier.
"That's the Hunter" Tony replied.
"The hunter, the hunter of what?" The Doctor asked as the man swung his axe down chopping a piece of wood in two with a single blow. And once again he saw the red cape disappearing between the shops; he tried to get a look at her but her face but it's hidden beneath a hood.
"Things" is Tony's reply.
"The Hunter of things" The Doctor repeated and looked back towards the man but he was gone. The Doctor stretched his neck to see if he can find him but he's nowhere in sight.
"Thank you Tony, we're just going to have a look around if you don't mind. I love new villages" The Doctor told the Mayor.
"Of course" the Mayor replied and made his leave quite quickly, but the Doctor was too busy staring at the village and its shops. He had a strange feeling that he wasn't seeing everything he needed to see, so he starts walking and Amy and Rory followed.
They pass a larger wooden cabin with a swinging sign that said The Doctor. They look through the window to see a waiting room full of people. "Popular guy, that doctor" he said to his companions with a smile. A tall lanky man in a blue scrub hat and mask walked by the window and turned to look at them then quickly looks away. For that split second the Doctor looked into the man's deep brown eyes and he felt that same feeling of familiarity, like he should know him. He wants to see if he can see him again but he was gone, probably to take care of his many patients.
"There she is again" he heard Amy say, so he turned to look at her. "Who is there again?" he asked.
"The girl in the red cape" Rory replied pointing to the edge of the forest opposite the side they entered from.
The Doctor looked in the direction of his companions but she was already gone. "You've seen her too?"
"She keeps peeking around corners to stare at us then she runs away" Rory told him.
The three of them run to the edge and peer into the forest and just saw the trees. A loud piercing almost inhuman scream suddenly fills the air. The Doctor and his companions watch as the simple villagers quickly took action, dropping what they were doing, running into their shops and homes and coming out again armed, and running towards the scream.
The Doctor took off running after the villagers and Amy and Rory follow. They were running deep into the forest and Rory notices something written in the trees in a language he didn't recognize but he didn't have time to ponder it as Amy was getting further ahead of him and he didn't want to let her out of his sight. He didn't even know why they were running towards the scream instead of away from it. Whatever made a person scream like that is not something he'd like to meet.
And he was so right as they found themselves in the presence of a massive beast. A beast that looked like every forest animal combined into one. It was at least eight feet tall with the head of a large fox and the ears of bunny, the claws of a raccoon, the hind legs of bear and the tail of a beaver.
Tbc…