Prologue:

The only water in the forest is the river, the only melody the song. They have no moon, only a sun, and a mother's first will be a daughter's last.


Authors note:

This is my first Doctor who fan fiction; it's nothing special, just something I HAD to get out of my mind and down on paper.

Enjoy:


Chapter 1:

Star Song groaned as she woke up in her dark prison cell. Over the years, she had managed to make it a little bit more personal than the other prisoners' cells. This might be because she had been there longer than any other prisoner in this ship. Usually, the Daleks preferred not to keep their prisoners longer than five days, before they "exterminated" them, but Star Song was an exception; she had been there for five whole years now. Why was she an exception? She did not know, but she knew that it had haunted her for her whole life. Never had she, not been a prisoner with a hostile alien species. Daleks, Cyber-men, the Silence, Sontarans, even Weeping angels had at some point in her life had their slimy/stony/metallic hands on her. But despite being raised in a prison cell; Star Song wasn't evil, she wasn't cruel or revengeful; she was and had always been, a dreamer. One too many times, had she looked up at the starry night sky through the prison bars, with a spark of longing in her eyes. One too many times had she tried to escape her prisons, but none of her brilliant escape plans had ever worked out; she had in the dark managed to build a weapon once, but she never used it. Instead she had managed to hide it from them; what good would it do on Daleks anyway? Some people might call Star Song brilliant, how else would you explain the fact that she had been able to manufacture a sonic whip in a Cyber-man prison cell, right under their very noses, without ever getting caught? And some people might call her foolish, always waiting for the right moment to use it, never using it ever in fear of getting caught, but neither of those is true, not if you asked Star Song. She didn't think very much of herself at the time; she was a very shy, very broken down girl, who had absolutely no idea why every monster in the universe kept fighting over her, wanting her for themselves. She had come to the point where she didn't even care anymore; they could keep their secret if she could JUST escape.

"WAKE UP REQUIRED, STANDARD PROCEDURE REQUIRED" Waking up to the sound of a Dalek's voice was probably the worst thing ever, but after five years of it, Star Song had learned to live with it; it had taken quite some time to get used to. She groaned again as she lifted herself off the bed, and forced herself to stand up, and stare right in to the Dalek's eye.

"What?" She asked the Dalek, standing right in front of her.

"STANDARD PROCEDURE!" The Dalek said as it scanned Star Song.

"Why do you keep scanning me every morning? I mean it's not like I could have grown an extra heart or something during the night"

"YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED FOR THAT INFORMATION!" It was the same every single morning: Dalek scans Star Song. Star Song asks why they need to scan her every morning. Dalek tells her that she isn't authorized to know. And Dalek leaves the room. That was her life; they pretty much left her alone after that, she had the whole day for herself. Occasionally, the Daleks put another person in her cell before they were exterminated; that way she found out a little about the universe outside these prison walls. Mainly the people she talked with liked to tell her about a certain legend; every time it was a different story, but every time it was about the same man; The Doctor they called him. Doctor who? She had asked every single time, but every single time she had gotten the same answer: no one knows. She liked the stories about this Doctor person, but she found it hard to believe that it was anything, but stories. They kept telling her that the Doctor saves people everywhere, and that his arch enemy was the Daleks, but she had never seen him. She was a prisoner with his arch enemies, so if he really existed, wouldn't he have been here at one point? Star Song threw herself back in her bed as soon as the Dalek had left the cell. What was the point in getting up; when all she could do all day was staring at a wall? She closed her eyes, and fell asleep; little did she know that something was on its way, something that would change Star Song's life forever; a little blue police box.


"Right, I feel like going to Tradella, do you wanna go to Tradella? Let's go to Tradella!" The Doctor exclaimed excitedly as he pulled levers, and pushed buttons on the Tardis console, while he ran around it in his own little dance.

"What's Tradella?" Clara asked him, laughing at his childish like behavior.

"It's a planet, good planet, nice planet, nice inhabitants. Look like lollipops! But don't eat them though; no don't even take a lick, tastes like motor oil." The Doctor stuck his tongue out of his mouth and made a face that showed disgust.

"You've tasted motor oil? No, wait, an even better question, you've licked aliens?" Clara still laughed as she asked him the question.

"Well of course I did; they looked like lollipops, Clara!" The Doctor said with his fake serious voice.

"And as for the motor oil part; everyone knows what motor oil tastes like" He smiled as he pulled more levers, and pushed more buttons.

"I don't" Clara said.

"You don't? Good, don't try it, it tastes horrid!"

"Well of course it does, its motor oil, when did you taste motor oil? What went through your mind? Did you just see a can of motor oil and thought "Hey I wonder what that tastes like" and took a sip?" Clara joked.

"Yes! Well no. Well, not really. It was on this planet: Tradella; hey, let's go to Tradella, just don't lick the inhabitants" Clara laughed again.

"Ok fine, let's go to Tradella then" Clara gave in without even having argued against him about their destination.

"Great, let's go to Tra…" The Doctor was cut off when the Tardis's alarm systems went off. The room went red, the alarms blared, and the Doctor and Clara held on for dear life as the Tardis shook violently.

"Doctor, what is happening!?" Clara yelled threw the noise.

"We're being hijacked!" The Doctor answered her, even though she might not have heard him. The Doctor started pulling more levers, pushing more buttons and looking at screens as he tried to make the chaos stop.

"By whom!?" Clara asked; apparently she had heard the Doctor.

"That is what I'm trying to find out." Shortly after he had said that, a loud DING could be heard through the alarm noise; the Tardis had identified their kidnappers.

"We're being hijacked Clara, by…" The Doctor said as he walked towards the screen. His face turned sour when he saw the answer though.

"DALEKS!?" He exclaimed in angry surprise.

"Why did it have to be Daleks!?" The Doctor had lost all the glee he had just had a second ago.

"How is that even possible? Aren't you able to see if you're steering the Tardis close to hostile ships?" Clara asked.

"Yes, but we weren't close to this Dalek ship; they located us, and are now dragging us across space!" The Doctor explained to Clara.

"Oh that is just great!" Clara said sarcastically.

"Can you pull us free?" She asked him hopefully.

"No, their ships were built during the great time war; they were built specifically for Tardis'; their retractor beam is too powerful for the Tardis to be able to pull itself free without help!" The Doctor explained as the Tardis stopped moving.

"Doctor? Why have we stopped moving?" Clara asked nervously.

"End of the line Clara." He didn't need to say more than that for her to understand that they were now on board the Dalek ship.

"DOCTOR! SHOW YOUSELF!" There were no doubt; there were Daleks outside the Tardis.

The Doctor let out an exhausted sigh before he opened the door to the Tardis, and went outside.

"Right then! What did you do that for!?" The Doctor asked the Daleks as he ran out of the Tardis doors with his sonic screwdriver in one hand, and Clara in the other.

"WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT BELONGS TO YOU, DOCTOR!" All of the Daleks said in unison.

"Belongs to me? What belongs to me?" The Doctor's curiosity had been woken by that last comment; what could they possibly have that belonged to him?

"IT DOES NOT MATTER! NOW WE CAN USE IT AGAINST YOU!" Of course the Daleks would say something like that, and the Doctor was prepared for that. He might not be able to leave with the Tardis, but he was able to do something else.

As a flash of lightning, the Doctor pointed his sonic screwdriver at the Tardis, and right that second the power went out in the Dalek ship. As the light went out; the Doctor and Clara ran for their lives, deeper in to the dangerous ship filled with Daleks.


As Star Song lay there in her dreamy world, she was suddenly awoken by darkness. She sat up in her bed and tried to figure out in her head what had happened. "The power must have gone out" She thought to herself as she took her sonic whip in her hand. This was it; this was her chance of escape. She said goodbye to her prison cell, as she opened the now unlocked door, and left. Never would she see that prison cell again.


"What did you do?" Clara asked the Doctor between her heavy panting; they had finally stopped to get some air in their lungs.

"Simple; I let the Tardis drain the Dalek ship for power momentarily; I'm afraid to tell you that the power will be up and running again in a few seconds, we should run" The Doctor explained.

"Where to!?" Clara was very confused; of course she was.

"The Daleks said that they have something that belongs to me; I intend to find it" Again, the Doctor grabbed Clara's hand and they ran.

"You don't even know what it is they have!"

"Maybe not, but I think I would recognize something that belongs to me" The Doctor exclaimed as they ran.

It was hard to tell just how long they had been running for, but all in all it came down to one thing: the power slowly returned, and the Doctor and Clara found themselves in the middle of a Dalek crowd, a Dalek heard, a Dalek… forest. With the power gone, the Daleks had gone out too, but they were slowly waking up. In just a few seconds, the Daleks would notice them and they would be exterminated. They both froze when they heard the dreadful sound.

"POWERING UP"

"POWERING UP!"

"POWERING UP!"

"EXTERMINATE!"

"EXTERMINATE!"

"EXTERMINATE!"


Authors note:

How are the Doctor and Clara going to get out of this one? If you wanna know, please leave a review.