Author's Note: So here is the first episode in my new series! Woo hoo! It is basically set a few weeks after the events of The Emerald Mantis and it just plunges head first into the story. Nothing slow about it!
Anyway, it is my second series involving the Doctor and my OC companion Bella Lumic, so I am kind of pushing the real events (i.e. The Planet of the Dead, The Waters of Mars, The End of Time and the fifth series back a year. So, instead of the Fifth series (Eleventh Doctor) starting in 2010, if we go by the dates in my series, it won't have happened until 2011. The Tenth Doctor lived an extra year! *fan girl melt down* Sorry... Does that make sense? I hope so... Anyway, I don't suppose dates matter to anyone but me, so I will stop rambling.
Throughout this series (there will probably be thirteen episodes, just like last time) I will make references to my last series, but it isn't a necessity to have read it. If you get confused, have no idea what I am talking about, or just forgot what happened, sent me a message and I will try and answer any questions.
Oh, if you are interested, there is this little question and answer thing that you fill out in the view of your OC. Feel free to use it, I got it off deviant art, just tell me so I can read yours and let me know what you think of mine. I put a lot of thought into it :P
So, I will stop rambling now and let you get on and read it! Let me know what you think, cause I love hearing your thoughts.
ENJOY!
P.S. Sorry already for what happens...
Chapter One: Violet Snow
In an empty street on a strange, new planet, the Doctor and Bella walked side-by-side, the latter becoming more and more fascinated by the violet coloured snow falling lightly around them. Spotting a snowman that someone had obviously made the previous day, Bella ran ahead, exclaiming "But it's made out of purple snow!"
The Doctor watched her, chuckling slightly as she picked up snow from the ground and held it in her gloved hands, laughing. All the things she had seen in the Universe, and it's the snow that gets her, he thought, amused. He continued to watch her as she poked the violet snowman a few times in his side before it suddenly quivered and fell to the ground around Bella's snow-booted feet.
"I didn't do it!" Bella said guiltily taking a step backwards, making the Doctor grin at her.
"Come on," he said as he turned to walk back the way they had just come. "Let's go and buy some breakfast, I hear the cornflakes here have a distinct bite to them!"
Bella smiled and made to go after him, but she couldn't move. "Doctor!" she gasped.
The Doctor, who had already started walking without her, turned back and found Bella's legs slowly being covered by the now creeping, violet snow that was already halfway up both of her legs.
"Doctor, I can't move," she said looking to him alarmed.
"Hold on," the Doctor said, quickly walking back to her.
She gave him a cheeky smile. "What else am I going to do?"
He grinned at her, retrieving his sonic screwdriver from his overcoat before he stopped walking suddenly, feeling the snow beneath his own feet starting to shift and crawl up onto his grey converses.
"Keep moving," Bella suggested. "It won't be able to creep up your legs if you aren't still long enough."
"Brilliant," the Doctor said before beginning to run noisily in circles around Bella, pointing his sonic screwdriver at the snow surrounding them. Even as he did this though, he could feel the snow grabbing at the soles of his shoes.
"You know, this would be such a funny sight if the snow wasn't trying to eat us," Bella said lightly while she watched the Doctor give up with the sonic and just run flailing his arms around. "I have never seen you look like such a dork!"
"Oi!" the Doctor said, sounding rather hurt, but Bella gave him another flash of her brilliant smile so he forgave her before a new, sinister voice spoke.
"Having fun, Doctor?"
The Doctor slid to a stop, which was a mistake as the snow instantly enveloped his shoes and began slowly moving up his long legs. Looking up he saw a tall figure in a hooded black cloak. The figure wore black leather-like-gloves and his face… well it was like nothing else the Doctor had ever seen. The figure had pale, leathery skin, his pale lips seemed dry and cracked and his teeth were sharp and pointed. He had no eyes, just dark depressions where his eyes should have been.
As Bella stared at the fearsome looking being with wide eyes, the Doctor said darkly "The Trickster,"
The tall being gave a creepy smile and gave the Doctor a slight bow. "I have wanted to meet you for such a long time." He said and Bella frowned.
The Doctor looked up to him with a distasteful expression on his face. "I can't say the feeling is mutual."
The Trickster gave an unpleasant chuckle, still smiling. "He is so very charming, isn't he Isabel?"
Startled that this strange creature knew her name, she looked from the Doctor up to him.
"That wasn't a question, you don't need to answer that," the Trickster said, his voice no longer kind. "For some strange reason everyone finds the Time Lord charming, especially this incarnation."
"How's life with two less members of the Trickster's brigade?" the Doctor asked hotly, the snow moving up past his knees now.
"Still harbouring a grudge, I see." The Trickster sneered, "For the record, I had no involvement in what one of my members tried to do to young Bella here. It was foolish of her to try the same trick twice with you around, let alone to a half-Nealonian. As for the Time Beetle and Donna Noble – well, no serious harm was done."
"No serious harm?" the Doctor repeated, his voice raised slightly. "You nearly destroyed a parallel universe in which you managed to get both Donna and myself killed!" out of the corner of his eye, he saw Bella give a small shudder in which she attempted to hide, but the Trickster had already noticed.
"Chaos," the Trickster said with a malevolent expression, "is just so easy to bring to the cosmos."
"Doctor, who is this guy?" whispered Bella, surveying the Trickster with a worried expression.
"Tell her who I am, Time Lord." The Trickster said, cutting across the Doctor who had opened his mouth to explain. "She won't remember anything in a minute."
"What do you mean I 'won't remember anything in a minute'?" Bella asked as the Trickster gave the Doctor a malevolent smile before vanishing.
Bella gasped in shock and the Doctor glanced around him; he didn't trust this transcendental being one bit.
"Bella whatever you do, don't let him touch you!" he told Bella quickly, who gawked at him.
"In case you've forgotten, I'm not going anywhere." Bella said pointing down to her waist where the snow was still continuing to rise. "But it looks like he's gone anyway. Weird thing to say though…"
"He's never just gone, Bella." The Doctor said, trying to stress to her how bad a situation they were in.
Not a second later, the Trickster reappeared beside Bella.
"Get away from her!" the Doctor said slowly and dangerously.
"Can you imagine, Doctor, what kind of a universe it would be if you and Bella went your separate ways?" the Trickster asked gleefully, "All those stolen moments, all those things that could have been, and all those people that could have been saved."
"Don't you dare," the Doctor said, horrified, making Bella look to him alarmed.
"Can you not see that I cannot possibly resist that much anarchy? So much chaos would occur without her by your side, the death of the last Time Lord would be inevitable, in fact it is already on its way, I will just make it happen that much quicker –"
"No!" Bella cried, struggling to free herself from the snow which had now worked its way over her thick, black puffer-jacket to halfway up her chest. "No, I won't let that happen!" she finished, looking furiously to the Trickster beside her.
The Trickster gave a sinister laugh. "You needn't fear, Bella. You won't remember him and you'll never remember what has just happened, so you won't realise that he is gone."
"No," she whispered, looking emotionally to the Doctor, whose own expression mirrored hers perfectly.
"I need him!" she cried quietly looking back to the Trickster.
"You do not need what you cannot remember," the Trickster said cruelly as he took off the glove on his right hand.
"Don't touch her!" the Doctor yelled, struggling to get free of the snow, but the Trickster's smile only widened as he lifted his pale hand and held it dangerously close to Bella's forehead. She moved desperately, trying so hard to get free from the snow holding her in place, but with another cruel laugh, the Trickster placed his index and middle fingers on her forehead.
The snow instantly dropped away from her perfectly still body and his fingers lingered on her forehead for a few moments until finally he pulled them back. Bella instantly fell backwards into the soft violet snow, her emotion-filled face facing towards the Doctor, motionless except for her blue eyes, which lingered on the Doctor's.
"You are better off alone, Doctor." The Trickster said in his cruel voice, obviously enjoying the pain he was causing for both the Doctor and Bella. "You do so much more damage that way."
"I'm sorry," Bella whispered but the Doctor couldn't hear her, they were too far apart, he only saw the words form on her lips before her eyes slowly shut.
"I'll find you," he managed to croak out, making the Trickster give a deep, truly amused laugh.
"But she'll never remember you!" he said spitefully, before both himself and Bella disappeared.
The snow released its grip on the Doctor's now saturated pants and he sunk to his knees in the violet snow, keeping his head cast emotionally downwards. "Bella," he whispered emotionally.
