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Chapter 1: Mist

"Where are we?" Donna Noble asked as she watched the Doctor strode around in a small circle, looking interestedly around at their surroundings.

"I think" The Doctor began, sniffing the air with a bemused look "we've landed in the 1970s."

Donna frowned, still finding the Doctor ability to tell which time-period they were currently finding themselves in by sniffing the air both fascinating and creepy at the same time. She did not think she would ever get used to the Doctor's special talents.

"Okay, so we're in the 70s, but where on earth are we?" asked Donna, looking expectantly at the Doctor, who just shrugged, putting his hands in his trouser pockets causally.

"Dunno" he said, and turning his back to Donna he added "In a forest, apparently."

"Well, I can see that." said Donna, annoyed at the Doctor's lack of providing her with proper information, but before she could utter a sarcastic comment about the Doctor's inability to steer the TARDIS, the Doctor turned to back to Donna.

"I got a distress signal, latched on to it and here we are." The Doctor said, taking another curious look at their surroundings.

"You don't know who sent it?" Donna asked, remembering the last time the Doctor had responded to a cry for help, they had ended up running from flesh eating shadows in a huge library, and then Donna had ended up trapped inside a dream world.

"Haven't got clue." Said the Doctor, scratching the back of his head. Donna sighed and took in their damp and misty surroundings. Huge pine trees surrounded them, and that was the only thing Donna could see because of the thick mist. Donna glanced upwards to look at the sky, but it too was obscured by mist, she could not even make out the treetops.

"Is it just me or is this fog getting thicker?" Donna asked wearily, and she felt cold ripple through her spine.

"Well observed, Donna." The Doctor said his tone low and serious. Donna suddenly felt very cold and she shivered involuntarily. The Doctor knelt down, picked up a handful of dirt, and sniffed it; looking puzzled, he carefully planted the tip of his tongue on the soil. Donna winced. Why did always have to lick things?

"Just as I thought!" the Doctor exclaimed, letting the soil spill between his fingers while rising back to his feet. "Normal, earth soil, well, normal in certain areas in North America, or more precisely, Sierra Nevada."

"We're in Nevada." Donna said, "But we're in the middle of nowhere, who could possibly be sending a distress signal from out here? There's nothing but..." she gestured to the trees"trees out here."

"Well, then, that's what we need to find out isn't it?" the Doctor inquired, suddenly grinning.

"You mean" Donna was appalled "we're going in there?" she gestured to the trees again. "But we could get lost in there!"

"Don't worry Donna, we 're not going in there because we're already in here, and we can't get lost in the forest because we don't know our exact position, so we're technically already lost, and you can't really get lost once you're already lost, now could you?"Donna did not feel very assured by this and the Doctor must have sensed it because he hastily added"Besides, the TARDIS and I are linked telepathically, finding my way back to her in a foggy forest shouldn't be much of a problem."

"Fine, but if I'm going hiking I'm going to have to change shoes first." Donna said firmly.

"Why, what's wrong with the ones your wearing?" the Doctor asked, looking slightly taken aback.

"These shoes are made for running" Donna pointed at her pair of grey ADIDAS," not for muddy forest floors, my feet will get all wet, I'm going to get a pair of hiking boots."

Donna turned and stumped towards the TARDIS, but stopped short after a couple of steps" Oh my god!"

"What is it, Donna?" The Doctor asked from behind her.

"Doctor" Donna whispered, staring ahead, eyes wide, "I think you might want to look at this."

"Look at what?" the doctor asked, appeared at her side, "I don't see anything."

Donna did not turn to look at him, but continued to stare straight ahead, as she asked tentively "Doctor, where's the TARDIS?"

"That" the Doctor said" is very good question."

Donna turned her head slowly and glanced at the Doctor. He looked mortified, surprised and shocked at the same time; his eyes were wide as he stared fixedly at the spot where the TARDIS had previously been. Now, however there were not even any marks on the ground indicating that the Police box-shaped TARDIS had ever landed there.

"The TARDIS is gone," Donna said, feeling slight panic rise within her chest. "How can the TARDIS be gone? Doctor, how?"

He snapped out of his reverie and muttered" No idea. I have bad feeling about this, a very bad feeling."

"But where's the TARDIS now? I mean, you said you and the TARDIS were linked, can't you just go and find it?" Donna asked, sounding hopeful.

"That's just it, my senses tells me she's right in front of us." The Doctor said quietly.

"But how can that be? It's not in front of us, is it?" said Donna "Maybe it's just invisible or something?"

"First of all, the TARDIS is not an it, but a she." The Doctor said, annoyingly, but continued in more calm and polite manner " And the TARDIS can't become invisible, well, at least not by herself. No, there's something else going on here."

He took a few steps forward, reached out a hand as though to touch an invisible TARDIS, sighed and let his hand drop by his side. " As expected, noting there, not even a trace of indication as what might have happen to her."

Donna shivered, and suddenly realized their predicament, and how uncomfortable the mere thought of it made her feel. "So, we're trapped here, if we can't find the TARDIS we'll be trapped in here forever!" She felt panic rise within her, her blood starting to run cold, and she thought she heard a branch snap from somewhere behind her. She whipped around, her hair flipping wildly, and she heard the Doctor guffawed as some of her red locks hit him in the face.

"What was that?" She shrieked.

"What was what?" the doctor asked wearily.

Donna ignored him and squinted into the fog, her senses spiked up and sharp, she could see nothing through the thick, white ghostly fog. Before she could stop them images of fierce creatures with dagger sized claws, and razor sharp teeth shot into her mind like bullets, creatures jumping out of the fog, murderous, huge and hairy, lunging at her.

Donna let out a high-pitched scream as she felt something touch her shoulder; she whirled around in panic and began to beat thoughtlessly at whatever was attacking her.

"Ouch, ugh, stop it! Stop it! It's just me!" The doctor yelled, holding up his hands protectively in front of his face. Donna retracted her balled fists at once, shocked at her violent reaction, and how she had panicked when the Doctor's hand had touched her shoulder.

"Oh, Doctor I'm so sorry, I..I" She stammered in her haste to apologize " I didn't know it was you, I thought I was being attacked."

"It's alright, Donna, I'm okay. " The Doctor said calmly, he then looked suddenly alarmed and gripped both of Donna's shoulders carefully. "Donna, are you alright? You're shaking."

Donna had not realized it, but now that the Doctor said it, Donna felt herself shaking, and breathing heavily. The Doctor's grip tightened around her shoulders, and his eyes looked straight into hers.

"Donna, are you alright?" he asked slowly, as though speaking to a child who had difficulties understanding, and Donna felt like a child too, a lost and frightened child.

"D…Do..Doctor" She stuttered in a whisper"I want to get out of here."

"So do I." said the Doctor, his grip on her shoulder loosening.

"I can help you with that."

Donna jumped, startled, gripping the Doctor's right arm reflexively as she went. She looked at the newcomer and was shocked to see a teenage girl stand before them. She was slim, a fact that was easy to spot as she was wearing nothing but a thin white dress, reacing just above her knees. Her hair was sleek and shoulder length, thick and dark brown by the looks of it. She would appear almost ghostly, except for the fact that her skin seemed rather tanned.

"I'm sorry; I didn't mean to startle you." The girl said, stroking a lock of thick dark brown hair away from her eyes, and sending Donna and the Doctor an apologetic smile.

"It's alright." The Doctor grinned, "Hello there, I'm the Doctor, and this is Donna."

"You're lost, aren't you?" The girl said airily in an American accent, more a statement than a question.

The Doctor looked taken aback by the girl's sudden directness, and the smirk that followed in the statement's wake.

"Well," The doctor hesitated, "just a bit, yeah."

The girl nodded and grinned, showing a row of pearly white teeth. "Good thing I found you, I might be the only one able to guide you out of here, these woods are like a maze, and not everybody comes out of here, but not many people come on here in first place."

"I can't think why." Donna muttered sarcastically.

The girl laughed, "The few people that actually come in here only come because they hope of catching the king of the mustangs, but that can't be why you're in here, seeing as you don't have any horses or equipment with you, unless you're one of those who believe they can catch a wild horse with their bare hands."

"Em, no, we're not here to catch horses." The Doctor said bemusedly and grinned sheepishly.

"Then, why you're in here?" the girl asked, looking just a tad suspicious, but the smile remained plastered upon her young face.

"We…sort of… stumbled in here by accident." The Doctor answered reminiscently, sparing a quick glance at Donna before turning back to the teenager with another sheepish grin. "So, you said you can guide us out of here?"

"Yes I can, "the girl said proudly, looking way too cheerful for someone wandering about alone in a misty forest, Donna thought. She could not understand how anyone could feel cheerful in a place like this, then again, Donna reminded herself, the girl had said that she was probably the only one who could guide anyone out of the forest, and one tend to feel secure when knowing your way around.

"Just follow me and you'll get safely out of here." The girl said cheerily, turning around to leave. "Oh, and one more thing." She said, turning her head to look them" I am Amber, by the way. "

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