(Gah! Hexcitement! I have been planning this for a long time and now that I've finally figured out how to make it work, I have died and resurrected three times over! Now, there are chapters that may or may not be spoilers for Return to Ni No Kuni. I don't know! I'm hexcited for you guys to read that one too! That's probably what's been distracting from writing the Songstress so much...

Swaine: You are too easily distracted.

Me: Shut up Swaine! You know what's going to happen in Return to Ni No Kuni!

Swaine: *Looks at ground sheepishly* I do…

Me: *grins* How's that going for you by the way?
Swaine: Can't we just let them figure it out before we talk about it?

Me: Fine! Enough of this chatter! Onto the one the thing that has made my life worth living! My Doctor Who and Ni No Kuni crossover! Ni No Who!)

The Cloister Bells rang loudly and red lights flashed as the Doctor ran about the TARDIS, pressing every button and pushing every lever he could.

"Come on! Come on! We can't crash!" From where she stood, Martha Jones tried to help.

"Doctor!" She cried out. The Doctor ran over and wrapped his arms around her.

"Brace for impact!" Then they hit the ground, and the TARDIS died down. They stood up and went to the door, peeking out. Staring back at them were people and… were those giant cats!?

"Oh my god! It's like New Earth all over again!" The Doctor exclaimed, wrinkling his nose.

"Doctor? When are we?" Martha asked, a little nervous. He went back into the TARDIS, but it was quiet. It was turned off.

"Oh, that's rubbish!" To Martha, he said "I don't know! I guess we'll find out, won't we?" Then he stepped out and faced the gawking people and giant cats, Martha close behind.

"Hello! I'm the Doctor! Can anybody tell me where I am?"

"You're in Ding Dong Dell." Said one little cat girl timidly. The Doctor smiled at her.

"Ding Dong Dell! I like that name! Never heard of it, but it's a brilliant name!" Martha tapped his shoulder, looking at the TARDIS.

"Um, Doctor?" The Doctor turned around and saw that a black mist had surrounded the TARDIS!

"Oh no no no no no no no!" He exclaimed, trying to grab the door, but his hand went right through it and the TARDIS vanished! "What!?" The Doctor exclaimed. Martha's eyes were wide.

"Now what do we do?" The Doctor turned back to the people of Ding Dong Dell.

"Quickly! Does anyone know where the nearest person in charge is?" That was when someone went flying over their heads on a dragon! The dragon was doing loop de loops

"Woohoo!" They heard a woman's voice shout.

"Aaaahhhh!" They heard a man's shout. The people of Ding Dong Dell exchanged looks.

"Well, you could meet up with King Tom, who rules over Ding Dong Dell, or you could meet up with them."

"What are they in charge of, exactly?" Martha asked, unsure about the two.

"The city of Hamelin. But it's much farther away." The Doctor grinned up at the two rulers.

"Yeah, but they look like much more fun!" Martha gave him a look.

"Doctor!" To the people of Ding Dong Dell, she asked, "Which way to King Tom?" A little girl pointed down the street. "Thank you sweetheart." Then she grabbed the Doctor's hand and pulled him along. "Come on, let's get to the bottom of this."

NW

"Ha ha ha ha!" The woman cackled. Cassiopeia looked up at her from where she lay on the ground, fearful.

"What are you going to do to me?" She asked, out of breath. Her hair had been ripped out of her ponytail and tangled, her dress torn. The dark woman grinned evilly at her.

"You? Well, it's your imagination keeping me and my colleagues alive, so I can't very well kill you." Then she snapped her fingers, and Cassiopeia was in a little cage! Cassiopeia gripped the bars and tried to look tough at the woman.

"You just wait until Oliver comes! He's saved this world before, he can save it again!" The woman glared at her, then heard a sound that brought joy across the universe. She turned and watched as a blue box appeared in the throne room. She smiled once more.

"This Oliver will have much more of a challenge with me than he had with you, you weak minded fool. And with this," She tossed a gesture to the box. "I can control all of time and space as well." Behind her, the Zodiarchs laughed.

"All hail the Black Sorceress!" They called.

NW

Fourteen year old Oliver stood up and wiped the sweat from his forehead, getting grease all in his hair.

"Boy, Phil! This car is going to be so neat when we get it done!" Phil nodded from where he was attaching one of the tires.

"Of course it will, dumb-dumb! We built it!" he told him, grinning. Oliver laughed. That was when he saw Myrtle coming in.

"Hi Myrtle! What brings you here?" he asked. The blonde girl shrugged, her cheeks pink.

"Nothing much. Just came to say hi and to see how the car was going."

"Just have to finish tightening this screw, and she'll be all set to be painted!" Phil told her.

"That's good. You two have been working on this car all summer!" Myrtle remarked. Then she looked back at Oliver. "I also came to ask about Aaliyah. Where has she been?" Oliver felt his cheeks turn red. He'd nearly forgotten about his curly haired friend from the other world. It'd been a few years since he last saw her.

"I-I told you guys. She moved again." Myrtle crossed her arms.

"Without saying goodbye? That doesn't seem like Aaliyah." Oliver shrugged.

"How would you know? We only knew her for a couple of months!" Phil argued, standing up.

"Well, I just think it was a bit strange. After all, everything was normal, then all of a sudden you both were gone. You come back, and you're in those clothes that you wore when you told me you went to Ni No Kuni." Phil groaned and rolled his eyes.

"Are you implying that Aaliyah is in Ollie's imaginary world, Myrtle?" She nodded.

"That is exactly what I'm implying!" Oliver shook his head.

"No she isn't! She moved to Vermont!" Myrtle raised her eyebrows.

"Again, without saying goodbye? Or at least telling she was moving? Or even writing to us?" Oliver shrugged, then he looked down at his watch.

"Oh! I've got to go home! Melody wanted me to be home by five because she has to work late tonight and it's her first day!" Then he ran off back home, where Melody was fixing her bangs with a comb in the reflection of a pot in the sink. She had a starch white long sleeved shirt and navy jeans with work boots on.

"Hi Melody!" Oliver greeted, coming in the back door. She jumped about ten feet in the air, dropping her comb in the sink.

"Aw, crap!" She groaned. To Oliver, she said "Ollie! You scared me! Don't do that!'"

"Sorry." He said, looking a bit sheepish. She sighed, then looked back into the pot, fixing her hair.

"Now, Sam and Grant should be home in a few minutes or so. If you get hungry, I left some hamburger in the fridge. You're fourteen now, so you can cook it yourself if you must. Don't leave the house, make sure the doors are locked, and above all else, do not go to Ni No Kuni without our knowledge." Oliver rolled his eyes.

"Don't worry, Melody. I'll be okay. It's not like I can go to Ni No Kuni anyway." Melody turned her head at that, looking concerned.

"Why can't you?" she asked him, coming over and putting a hand on his shoulder, even though he was covered in grease and oil and she needed to be clean for work. He shrugged.

"I just haven't been able to for about three years now." Melody furrowed her eyebrows.

"I'm sorry Ollie. I'd give you a hug, but I don't have an extra shirt for work." He shrugged again.

"That's okay. Maybe I'm only allowed to go there when they're in danger. At least, that's what I hope. Then I know they don't need me." Melody shook her head.

"Oliver, that's not true. I'm sure they miss you every bit as much as you miss them!" Oliver nodded, feeling a little better. "And, if you can't go because they're not in danger, then at least you know that they're safe, right?" He nodded again.

"Yeah, thanks Melody." She patted his back, then looked at the clock and gasped. "Crap! I've got to go!" She then ran to the sink, washed her hands, grabbed her purse, and ran out the door, placing a kiss on Oliver's forehead. "Bye, Ollie!" Then Oliver was alone. He went around and made sure all the doors were locked, then sat on the couch and looked around. He couldn't remember the last time he'd been home alone. Probably before he was officially adopted by Melody, Sam, and Grant. And that was over four years ago.

As Oliver decided to watch TV, he heard a knock at the door. He looked over at the door, a little nervous. Who'd be knocking at this hour? Sam and Grant shouldn't be home for another few minutes or so.

"Who's there?" he asked nervously.

"Oliver? Are you in there?" Harmony?

"Are you sure this is his home?" Marcassin? What were they doing here?

"Of course we are! I just saw Melody leave!"

"Swaine?" Oliver jumped up and ran to the window, and sure enough, his three friends stood there at his door! "Guys!" Then he jumped up and opened the door for them.

"Ollie!" Harmony's face broke into a grin and she hugged him tightly. Marcassin and Swaine joined in. When they broke it, Harmony looked him up and down, and pouted.

"I told you two he'd be taller than me!" She told the boys, and held out her hand. "Pay up!" Swaine and Marcassin groaned, but each pulled out a few guilders and handed them to her. Oliver looked at them curiously.

"What?" Swaine shook his head.

"We've been trying to get that stupid Gateway to work for the last three years! When it finally worked, Harmony made a bet with us that you'd be taller than her by now. Obviously we underestimated the power of a growth spurt." Oliver laughed. He missed these three! Then he gasped.

"Wait! I've been trying to get to Ni No Kuni for three years too! But I've only ever gone there in a time of need!"

"Well, I needed some Oliver hugs!" Harmony wailed, giving him another hug. "Does that count as a time of need?" Oliver laughed.

"I count it!" He told her. Marcassin and Swaine laughed too.

"Not only is Harmony in need of hugs, Aaliyah's coronation is coming up. And I'm sure she wouldn't want you to miss it." Marcassin told him.

"Aaliyah's coronation?" Oliver asked. Marcassin nodded.

"Yes, she is of age. She's to become Queen of Al Mamoon." Oliver gasped.

"But I thought that people started to rule at age twenty one!" Marcassin shook his head.

"It is up to the predecessor, or when the one of age feels ready."
"At least, that what is was for Marcassin." Swaine teased. Marcassin gave him a look, then turned back to Oliver.

"Anyway, we thought that we'd come and see you, but we couldn't. Now, we are extending an invitation to Aaliyah's coronation." Oliver grinned.

"Of course! I'd love to go!" Then he looked at the ground. "But I can't. Melody told me not to go to Ni No Kuni above else before she left. She's been trying to be a better guardian lately." Harmony furrowed her eyebrows at this as she sat on the arm of the couch.

"How come?" Oliver sighed.

"Well, Phil and I were working on our new car, and Miss Leila's cat came in chasing a rat. They ran through our work, and managed to get the car moving! It ran right through this old lady's garden, Miss Ryder. She was so mad! She dragged Phil and I down home by the nape of of our shirt collars and gave both his mom and Melody a real earful! I think Melody took it worse."
"What did Miss Ryder say?" Marcassin asked.

"Well, she told Phil's mom that he had always been really irresponsible and that this just proved it further and that if this kept up, she was going to call the police. But she told Melody that this proved much further that she was unfit to my legal guardian." All three of the young rulers gasped.

"She didn't!" Swaine exclaimed, clenching his fists. Oliver nodded.

"Yeah, she's always making comments like that. Because Miss Leila still has to help out a little with paying bills and their jobs aren't very well paying, she's always saying it was pure luck that they get to keep me. And because I kept running off to Ni No Kuni, she said that Melody, Sam, and Grant were irresponsible because they couldn't keep an eye on me! And because Melody works nights and mornings while Sam and Grant work all day, Melody gets the brunt of it all!"

"I oughta teach this Miss Ryder a thing or two!" Harmony growled. Oliver nodded again.

"Yeah, and after the incident with the car, Miss Ryder said that if she catches me doing something like that again and Melody, Sam, and Grant don't take care of it, she's going to go to court and make it so that they're not my legal guardians anymore!" Harmony jumped up at this.

"Where is she!? I'll throttle her!" Marcassin put a hand on Harmony's shoulder.

"Is there any way we can help? After all, we are their soulmates. The least we can do is help them keep you." Swaine nodded.

"Yeah, if you get taken from them, then you have to leave Motorville!" Oliver shrugged helplessly.

"I don't know." That was when they heard a car door slam.

"I'm just saying, Grant. Nobody likes smooth jazz. People listen to smooth jazz to fall asleep."

"Well, I do like smooth jazz! And you know what? Next time we'll listen to country music on the way home." Sam and Grant were home!

"Oliver? Why is the front door open?" Came Grant's voice. Oliver realised he hadn't shut it when his friends came in. Oliver looked to his friends from Ni No Kuni, a little panicked. When Sam and Grant came in, they saw Harmony, Swaine and Marcassin, and shook their heads.

"I should've known." Sam muttered. Harmony gave a small wave, Marcassin smiled, and Swaine just gave a nod.

"Hi yah, guys. Long time no see." Sam gave a small nod and Grant just shook his head again.

"Nice to see you again, Swaine." Sam told him. Marcassin came over.

"Sam, Grant. We were wondering if it'd be alright if Oliver came with us back to Ni No Kuni. Aaliyah's coronation is coming up, and she asked us to see if he would like to come and see it." Grant and Sam exchanged looks.

"I don't know… After all, Miss Ryder's going to be watching out for him a lot more after that car incident. I don't want her calling up social security." Grant said nervously. Sam nodded.

"Yeah. We've worked too hard to lose Oliver now." Oliver gave them a pleading look.

"It would only be for a few days! You can say I went to summer camp! Please, Sam? Please, Grant?" The boys looked at each other, then back at Oliver's big eyes, then nodded.

"Alright. But only for a few days, maybe a little less than a month." Sam told him. "We'll make sure Melody knows where you are." Oliver grinned and gave both of them an enormous hug. Then he ran upstairs to change and to grab the Bottomless Bag and Astra. He had another adventure ahead of him!

(I just realised what a weird family I've created! Because Oliver's mom died, all three Sam, Grant, and Melody adopted him. If it weren't just a legal guardian situation, who would be the dad? Would Oliver have two dads? Or would either Sam or Grant be an uncle? Would that make Sam the uncle, seeing as Melody is kind of a mom to Oliver? But then, Harmony is like his older sister (SPOILERS!), so that's weird? I don't know! I just confuse-boggled myself!)