The Tardis is racing through the vast emptiness of deep space; Inside The Doctor, a long experienced time traveller and his companion Jess Ringstead were inside. The Two had met when Jess had bought a mirror that contained a hostile alien criminal and The Doctor had been asked to trap it.

Now Jess had accompanied him on many adventures they had met many different individuals mainly from earth, but there had been a few from other planets, some had been friendly, others had been hostile, some had been mistrusting and had apologised and others had been friendly but hiding sinister secrets. Now they were just travelling, Jess had gone into the immense depths of the Tardis Wardrobe while The Doctor was at the console. In front of him the wide array of dials, switches, gauges, buttons and levers. Gently The Doctor pulled the large lever just then there was an explosion and Tardis veered violently the whole console room began to twist and turn like a wild animal, hanging onto the Tardis Console with all his might, The Doctor fought for control, Just then there came a cracking noise looking up parts of the ceiling was cracking and breaking up.

There was a crackling noise as a bolt of bright blue lightening entered the console room and hit the console The Doctor cried as bolts of electricity shot straight up his arms and he was thrown backwards, he was sent across the room. He fell on his front there came the sound of cracking and smashing as the glass in the dials shamed, Jess ran in and saw the console bathed in an eerie blue light, she tried to get closer but a beam on energy shot out and knocked her back.

The Doctor got to his knees he crawled over to a cupboard and pulled what looked like a large rucksack, he grabbed a jacket but it on and buttoned then he put the rucksack on his back and buckled it on his front, then he picked up jess and strapped her to him, then staggered to the door, before kicking open the door, all he could see was inky blackness but far below a few twinkling lights "Hang on" The Doctor shouted and throwing his arms around Jess he fell out of the Tardis.

Jess Ringstead awoke, she had a sense of weightlessness as she couldn't feel ground beneath her feet. She looked around she appeared to be in a forest hanging from the branches of a tall tree by the parachute, it's canopy had snared on the top of it and Jess had her back against the trunk. When she looked down she could see the forest floor about twenty feet below. There was no sign of The Doctor, suddenly Jess felt her whole body jolt and she cried out loud, then slowly she began to descend. For what felt like hours she gently got closer and closer to the ground. Jess felt her knees buckle and she landed, then invisible hands began to unfasten the buckle on her chest.

She turned and saw The Doctor his cardigan was open and he wasn't wearing a tie but there was a smile on his face.

"Three questions" Jess said

"Where are we? When are we? And what happened to the Tardis"

The Doctor interrupted. "Well according to my watch," he turned his wrist and Jess notices an old fashioned smart gentleman wristwatch with a large round face and a black leather strap "It's approximately 7:30 at night of the 24th of August 2013. We are in the Maple-Leaf Wood which is in Massachusetts, North America and with regards to the

Tardis… I don't know"

"It looked like the Tardis was tearing itself apart, has it done that before?"

"No" The Doctor replied "We may have run into a cluster of extreme bombard electrons. A build-up of static electricity that has been known to rip of the hull plates of a ship."

Jess looked worried "Does that mean, we're trapped here?" she asked

The Doctor pointed up in the air and said "look" as Jess watched she could see little specks of orange streaking across the indigo coloured sky.

"Is that the Tardis?" she asked

"Parts of it. But the Tardis is very similar to an old fashioned wooden wardrobe. It may be a bit battered and bruised here and there, but it's as solid as a rock. Look" he took a device from his trouser pocket; it looked like an infra-red muscle soother that people used to cure back ache and muscular pain. He twisted the device and turned it on. At once a little light began to flash "Once the Tardis succumbs to the gravitational pull of the Earth it will home in on this, this machine is called a domestic beacon and will guide the Tardis into this spot."

"Then you can repair it?" Jess asked

"The Tardis is a lot smarter than any piece of machinery the console is capable of repairing itself, we just need to give it time. Now we need to find somewhere to spend the night?"

Jess looked around and saw a small spot of yellow not far away "What's that?" she asked.

The Doctor had left his jacket resting on a tree stump not far away. Putting it on he withdrew a small pocket-size telescope which he put to his eye! "Yeah" he said "Looks interesting, we'd better get a move on" he added looking upwards "it's could rain at any minute" he put the telescope back in his pocket and took out a small torch, "Take my hand, and don't let go" and hand in hand the two of them headed off.

After travelling towards the light they realised that the light was in the downstairs window of a house sitting on top of a small hill. Making their way up to the front door they rang the bell. After a few minutes there was no response, The Doctor felt Jess' grip tighten on the arm of his jacket.

Slowly he reached out and grabbed the door handle, to their amazement the door opened and The Doctor stepped in. The hallway was tall and narrow with the stairs leading up one side there were two doors both on the right and a third one straight ahead, The Doctor dropped to his hands and knees and began looking under the doors,

"The Light is coming from in here." He whispered and slowly opened the door. They emerged into a modern kitchen with gleaming worktops and wooden-fronted cabinets. The light was coming from a single camping on a windowsill near the only window "Hello?" The Doctor asked out loud. He reached out and for the light switch and threw it. The lights came on

"Hello?" he asked out loud again, "Anyone home?"

Jess looked around, just then a shadow moved out of the corner of her eye and she slowly turned. Just then she saw a small cupboard and the door twitched, Jess tapped The Doctor on his shoulder and he turned too. The Doctor grasped the handle whispered to three and pulled it open.

Crouched inside was a very scared woman, she was curled up so her knees were against her chest in one hand she held a small phial of liquid, in the other was a kitchen knife.

About ten minutes later, All three were sitting around the kitchen table the young woman had introduced herself as Marie. She was about 35-40 years old with dark coloured hair, but there were hints of premature grey at her temples, she was dressed in a long blue dress with a white top. She was also 7 months pregnant, her baby bump just poking through the dress. She sat with them "I'm sorry" she said "A lot of weird and strange things have happened around here"

The Doctor who was sitting opposite her, leaned forward

"Tell me more?"

"Well my husband died only 8 months ago, I must have been…" she looked at her stomach "about 2 or 3 weeks, My husband was a policeman and during one kidnapper negotianction he was shot. I was heartbroken!"

"I bet you were" The Doctor said "So you were all alone?"

"No" Marie said "I had Hilary!"

"Hilary?" The Doctor asked

"My daughter, she's fourteen. I was young when I had her. So we moved her just for some peace and quiet."

"My mother was the same when she had me, Olivia and Jake!" Jess said smiling.

Marie nodded "Hilary is currently staying with her grandmother in the city, so I'm here all on my own"

"Not now you're not" The Doctor said "You've got us! I'll try and help you, but you must tell me everything. If you miss ONE Detail" he held up one finger "The that could be the key to both discovering and defeating, whatever is going on. Now" he took a note pad and pencil from the pockets of his jacket "Now, begin at the beginning as a the 'Doomed Poet' once said"

"Well" Maria began "I moved her only 6 months ago, I still own a house in the city. Well once we moved in we realised that we had CCTV. One night I was monitoring it when suddenly look" she went to a draw and took out a photo it was blurry and looked like it had been taken out of focus but standing directly in the centre was what looked like a man dressed in robes with a hood over his head. The Doctor looked at it closely "A hooded man"

"That's the point" Marie said "He just appeared and was there for about ten seconds then he just disappeared. All footage

was recorded so I can find it for you if you want?"

"Maybe in the morning?" The Doctor said "Has anything

weird happened in the house"

Maria nodded "Once I came down to the kitchen here" she walked down to the other end of the kitchen where a pair of French doors "I came here and found on this pane the word

'Fiend' written on the glass"

"Fiend?" The Doctor asked, he wrote the word on his pad and circled it he took a pocket dictionary from his cardigan and opened it he spoke out loud as he flicked through the pages.

"C. D. E. F. Here we are page 97. 'Field', 'Fielder', 'Field Trip' 'Fiend: A wicked or devilish person. Or another term to refer to the devil or a Demon' Interesting!" he mumbled to himself chewing the end of his pencil, Talking to himself. Jess gestured to Marie and together they left into another room. Jess was sleepy. Both of them sat on a leather sofa. "This guy.

The Doctor? He seems nice!" Marie said

"Yeah" Jess nodded "It's a bit strange, I haven't known him long, but it seems like I've known him since I was young. He is eccentric but I know this much, when your next to him, your next to the safest man in the world. If anything is going on, He'll know what to do! And trust me nothing bad will happen to you, well for tonight anyway" and within ten minutes both women were asleep.

Jess woke up she had fallen asleep on the leather sofa, she found herself with the Doctor's cardigan over her like a blanket, Marie had the Doctor's jacket over her. Just then the sound of singing could be heard from the kitchen. Slowly Jess got up and headed towards the kitchen. Inside The Doctor was making a cup of tea while he dropped the teabags into the pot he was mimicking Elvis Presley "One for the Money, Two for the show, Three to get Ready and Four Let's go"

"Hello!" Jess said.

The Doctor, who was now dressed in his shirt and braces turned still with the teapot in his hand

"Ah Jess, I'm glad your awake and no once you feel fully awake we need to go on a tour of the house with this" he put the teapot down and picked a familiar device from the kitchen table Jess recognised the device from a previous adventure it was an energy detector and looked like a scanner which is normally seen at the supermarket, it was black and appeared to be made out of plastic with a bright red trigger underneath, pressing the trigger there came a whirring noise and a small sphere about the size of a ping-pong ball emerged on a long Ariel the scanner began to click.

"There is something unusual" The Doctor said "I don't know if it has anything to do with the devil"

He to move the scanner slowly the clicks became more and more regular, the frequency was stronger the closer the Doctor moved the device to the floor. Marie came in The Doctor's Jacket in her hands "What are you doing?" she asked

"Marie," The Doctor "Do you have a cellar or basement under this house?"

"Yes" Marie said "There is a basement, But I haven't been down there for a few months"

"Why?" Jess asked

"We found something unpleasant" Marie explained

"something unpleasant?" The Doctor replied "Makes it even better to investigate come on"

They went to the basement door, opened it and went down inside. Marie turned the lights on. Holding up the energy detector The Doctor led the way with Jess and Marie staying in the doorway, The Doctor held the device near the plain concrete floor it clicked louder and faster. "There has been a massive influx of energy near this very spot" he said just then he noticed a piece of paper by his foot, he bent down and picked it up, on it written in faded blue writing were the words 'Tria pericula Satanæ' and a date '11/19/1865' the words brought a puzzled look to the Doctor's face. But the device was still clicking. The Doctor carried on walking deeper into the basement, "Jess?" he called "Come here" Jess smiled at Marie and walked down the stairs to join him he passed the piece of paper to her

"Trium Questionum Satanæ" she whispered "What is it?"

"It's Latin" The Doctor said "It means 'The 3 challenges of Satan'"

"Satan?" Jess said "You mean like the Devil?"

"yeah, though in the bible he is regarded as 'The enemy of God' and 'The Ruler of Evil' when I get back upstairs I need to see a bible"

The Device was clicking so rapidly no it was virtually screaming at a high frequency "There is something right here on the floor"

He dropped to his knees and saw the words 'Tria pericula Satanæ' etched onto the bricks right at the bottom.

Jess turned and could see Maire on the steps just then a man in hooded robes appeared behind her, "MARIE!" Jess shouted, she rushed towards the stairs but too late, the hooded man lashed out and pushed Marie down the stairs, she fell hard when she reached the bottom, but by the time Jess arrived, but the figure had gone.

The Doctor and Jess carried Marie up to the house and placed her on the sofa, "Now is there a bible anywhere?" The Doctor asked

Maire nodded and pointed to a bookshelf "Hilary was given a children's one" The Doctor went to the shelf and took down a small blue books with the words 'Children's Bible' written on the front he went into the kitchen and put the bible on the table, opened the back and began looking down the glossary.

Then he turned to a page he read it and sighed.

Jess joined him, "What is it?" He asked

"As I said before 'Tria pericula Satanæ' means 'The Devil's three challenges' in the bible the devil possess three

challenges to Jesus to try and trick him into disobeying God.

According to this The Devil's first challenge was when Jesus was fasting in the desert, He said 'If you are the son of god then you could turn stone into bread and be able to eat' Jesus replied 'The Bible says that we cannot live by bread alone and we must learn to live by the words of God' he also refused to use his power to satisfy his own needs.

"Satan's second question was that 'Jesus should throw himself off the tallest tower in Jerusalem and being the son of God, God will save him' Jesus refused again saying that 'The Bible tells us not to test God power to satisfy his own whims'"

"But there is no such thing as The Devil?" said Jess

"There is" The Doctor said "I met him once before he was trapped in the core of a planet. Anyway Satan's third question is that Jesus 'could rule the entire world, if he gave up God's will and worshiped him instead' Jesus ordered Satan to leave him and said 'That the Bible says we worship God and Only God!' And there was the Legend!"

"What Legend?" Jess asked

"A lot of planets have various theories of how the universe was created, Human say it was the big bang. But there are other worlds that tell this story," he leaned forward and began his tale

"'Long ago, The forces of Nature were governed by a court of Gods with the God Jehovah as the most powerful and senior of the Gods. Satan too was a god however his mind was possessed by evil and he tried to take over heaven. The result was that the forces of Good and Evil engaged in a fierce war for the universe. To safe their troops Jehovah and Satan engaged in a power battle. God wasn't strong enough to fight off the Devil. So he sacrificed himself and incarcerated Satan in the ninth circle of Hell trapped in a frozen lake.' People say it's nothing more than just a story"

"Isn't it?" Jess asked

"But what if it isn't! This date 19th November 1865, this house. I think there is something more sinister in this house than anything we have ever fought before!"

A couple of days later, The Doctor and Jess were still guests in Marie's house, the doctor was reading every single book he could get his hands on, flicking desperately through the pages with a pencil trapped between his teeth

Jess spent much time with Marie mainly getting stuff ready for the baby and when Marie's daughter Hilary joined them all three women were laughing and joking. With regards to the Tardis it had come down in the woods, just like the Doctor had said. However he had told jess that no one was go near it,

"The Tardis engines are fuelled by a substance that is incredibly unstable so that's why we have to stay away from The Tardis"

Even the hooded men hadn't been seen so it looked like things were starting to calm down, then one night just as the sun was starting to set The Doctor was standing at the short wooden fence that ran at the bottom of the garden, Jess could see him from the house.

A noise from behind him made The Doctor turn round. He saw Hilary walking over towards him, Hilary was sixteen, but she looked younger. She stood beside The Doctor looking out at the countryside "It's Beautiful" The Doctor whispered

Hilary nodded then she added "Where are you from?"

"I'm not American!" The Doctor replied

"You have the accent as does Jess" Hilary said "but this is a local community strangers are easy to spot"

The Doctor nodded "Jess is British, I'm from… somewhere far away! Anyway never mind me, you look after your mother."

"Can you at least try to stop all the weird things that are going on?"

"I can do better than that" The Doctor responded "I'll Stop them!" Just then a blast of chilling air came from behind them there was the sense that something was behind them and it didn't feel good.

The Doctor and Hilary turned at exactly the same time and infront of them were three of the men in hooded robes, "Keep very still" The Doctor whispered, the men did nothing just stood there, their hoods were pulled down so their faces couldn't be seen. Then slowly one reached up, grabbed the hem of his hood and lowered it.