Monster of the Vortex
Disclaimer: I do not own the subjects of this fan fiction. All rights go to the respective owners of Rosario + Vampire and Doctor Who.
"No, no, no!" shouted the bow-tie-clad man as he danced around the central console of TARDIS. The Doctor moved around it quickly, flicking levers, pushing buttons, and acting generally over exuberant despite his vehement negatives.
"Come on, Doctor, what is it this time?" groaned Rory as he watched the Doctor from the couch in the control room. As he watched, the console started flashing red. He groaned again, and let his head flop back behind him.
"The TARDIS is being pulled in by a monstrous energy field! Guess it comes from being to a place where I've never spent too much time in before! Somehow…" the Doctor was cut off when the TARDIS lurched to the side suddenly and he was thrown off balance. Rory fell forward off the couch, and Amy collapsed while coming up the stairs from where she had been below the console, attempting to decipher the complicated color codes on the thermocouplings.
"Come on! It's usually not this bad!" yelled Amy.
"Well, yeah! But I've never seen an energy field like this one before. It seems almost… transdimensional! It would take massive amounts of power to fuel a shield liked that!"
"Oh, so it's a shield? But then, why's it pulling us in this strongly?"
"Your guess is as good as mine!" The Doctor grinned, and the TARDIS started to calm down.
The TARDIS landed with the usual racket, and the three occupants of the vehicle stepped out cautiously. The mishap in the control room had made them cautious, more cautious than usual.
They were confronted by a large cliff side, looking out over a blood-red sea. Behind them was a dark, skeletal forest. Overhead, there was a full moon against a pitch black sky.
"Okay, not scary at all…" muttered Rory, evidently exercising his well-used sarcasm muscles.
"Well, this is new!" said the Doctor happily. "Never seen an energy shield like this, no-sir-ii!" He frowned suddenly. "I'm never saying that again."
"That's all fine and dandy, Doctor, but where precisely are we?" asked Amy.
"Japan! Not entirely sure where in Japan, but it is Japan. You're speaking Japanese right now. Fun, eh? I never get tired of languages. Oh, the fun they are."
Both of the Doctor's companions looked at him incredulously, and then shook their heads in a way that signified that they were far too used to this kind of thing. They both looked up suddenly, however, when they saw the Doctor start sprinting towards the forest.
"You've got to be kidding me!" grumbled Amy, before she and Rory sprinted after the Doctor.
"Tsukune!"
The boy in question turned around, only to be greeted by Kurumu promptly suffocating him. Moka tried to pull Kurumu away as she pestered Tsukune, but she was beat to the task by Mizore, who had taken chance and chucked a few ice knives at Kurumu's forehead, which promptly caused her to collapse. Suddenly, pans appeared out of nowhere, and hit everyone smack-dab in the head. "Konichiwa, desu!" said Yukari.
In short, it was a normal morning. In due time, they managed to get to class, where Nekonome-sensei was able to keep them under something masquerading as control.
"Morning, everyone! Please get to your seats and settle down now!" said their cat-teacher. "Now, we're going to be doing a bit of geography today, so I need you all to listen up. We've got a special assignment, and I'd like to see it work!"
By this point, the class was a bit worried. When a special assignment was called, it usually meant that the infirmary would be full within the next three hours. On the other hand, their teacher didn't seem too upset, so maybe it wouldn't be too hard, at least physically.
"Alright, we're going to split up into teams, and make maps of the surrounding forest!" chirped Nekonome-sensei. At this the class became very excitable. They promptly formed groups, and looked at the teacher expectantly. As expected, Tsukune's harem all grouped around him.
"Well, you guys usually aren't this responsive! I wonder what's gotten into the air?" As she spoke, she lost concentration and her tail started to flicker behind her.
"Ah, sensei? Your tail?" asked one of the students tentatively. He received an x-shaped slash across his face.
"Alright, everyone come get some compasses, papers, rulers, and telescopes. They'll be useful for making your maps. Try to keep it in scale, alright? The headmaster asked us to do this for him, so let's get it right!" The class headed out the door, relishing the prospect of having some fun, outside work to do.
After running a solid half-mile, the time-traveling trio stopped abruptly. Ahead of them, they could hear several sets of footsteps, drawing closer. They could be heard muttering about something, but the three couldn't make it out.
The Doctor pulled out his screwdriver and started scanning the area that they were coming from. All conversation stopped immediately as the footsteps started moving faster. They had heard the screwdriver, even from the distance that they were apart. This can't be good, thought Rory.
The sets of footsteps revealed themselves in the form of several figures crashing into the clearing. They all seemed to be on the verge of attacking the group, all except for one brown-haired boy in the back. The rest of the group was composed of a pink-haired girl with a Rosario around her neck, a blue-haired girl who was rather… well endowed, and a short girl wearing a witch's hat and wielding a small wand. Amy looked up, and saw another girl perched in a tree. She was very pale, and had purple hair.
"Hello! Please don't attack us," said the Doctor cheerily. "We're just passing travelers, not trying to hurt anyone, no-sir-ii!" He frowned again. "No, no, no, no. Not saying it again." He looked up at the group assembled before him. Brightening, he attempted to resume the conversation.
"Ah, a rather odd group you've got there! Only one human, by the looks of it, you there, in the back." The brown-haired boy looked rather startled at this.
As the Doctor opened his mouth to speak yet again, the blue-haired girl cut him off. "Who are you, and how did you get here?"
"I'm the Doctor, and this is Amy and Rory!" the Doctor said brightly. He indicated his companions. "We're travelers, like I said, and we came in my TARDIS. Must say, impressive field around this place, by the way. The ol' girl had a hard time getting through."
"The TARDIS? What's that?" asked the pink-haired girl.
"My transport! The Time-and-Relative-Dimension-in-Space. She brought us here." replied the Doctor.
"Not to be rude, Doctor," said the purple-haired girl as she dropped from the tree to land in front of the trio. "But we need your real name. Also, what kind of monster are you three? It'd be helpful to know, considering the… circumstances."
"Well, my name's just, you know, the Doctor. That's my name. And looking at the kind of monster? So, just the species?"
The girl nodded.
"Well, I'm a Time Lord. These two here…" he trailed off, pondering what he was about to say.
Amy and Rory, who had simply been waiting behind the Doctor until now, looked at him oddly. Amy spoke up. "We're just humans."
The females of the group all suddenly hissed at Amy and Rory.
"Somehow, I don't think that was the best thing to say, Amy," said the Doctor.