The Doctor herded his companions back onto the TARDIS and opened the letter in safety.
"Who are the Flower Girls?" Amy asked.
"More like what?" Rory replied.
The Doctor leaned against the console board and sighed, he didn't need this to happen. Not now. He flipped up a lever and then started pressing an aray of buttons. The TARDIS lurched and all three were thrown around the console room. The TARDIS gave a jolt and the Doctor sighed. He looked at the red trimmed letter in his hand and tore it open.
"Doctor?" Amy asked, her voice full of warning.
The Doctor scanned through the letter given to him. Once finished reading he rubbed his face and pinched the bridge of his nose. He really didn't have time for this.
"What are Flower Girls?"
The Doctor turned to his companions and took in a breath, "Flower Girls are aliens taken form of normal ordinary human girls. They have the power to take and give life to anyone they please through their only main life source. Their flowers. Their planet is known as Florinica, the only planet that has the most exotic, extinct, beautiful flowers known to alien and human. This letter, was written by their leader, Maiden, who dominates over the Flower Girls."
The Doctor turned to the console board and then started to press assorted buttons again.
"What do they want?" Rory asked.
"One of them went missing on a mission," the Doctor said, "The Flower Girl who went never returned telepathy messages, nor did she send any. Maiden invited us to go to Florinica, she wants to talk to us."
The Doctor pulled the large black lever and they jerked through space.
The TARDIS landed in a patch of sweat smelling grass. The Doctor was the first one out and then followed his companions. Amy and Rory could literally smell the aroma that the flowers gave off it was so powerful. Before them was an eye-hurting assortment of flowers of all colours, shapes and sizes.
"Hurry along!" the Doctor called behind him.
Amy and Rory were too shocked to move as they saw the beautiful planet. The Doctor turned and went back to herd his companions to move.
"Eyes open," the Doctor said.
"Hard not too," Rory said blinking at a very bright red flower that seemed to turn in the direction he went. They went along the smooth dirt path until they came to a large opening. The flowers seemed to have suddenly stopped and an enormous patch of green grass surrounded a gothic stone castle. The castle was tall and elegant with bridges connecting towers and large grass woven flags with the Florinica coat of arms dyed in.
"This way," the Doctor said.
Amy and Rory followed him until they came to the very entrance of the tall elegant castle. In front of them was a girl of around fourteen, she had a black dress on, black hair, pure black eyes and bouquet of black roses in front of her.
"Doctor?" the girl asked, her voice was stone cold and harsh almost.
The Doctor nodded and the girl simply said, "Follow."
The girl led the Doctor and his companions through the front gate, through the flower covered gardens and into the castle itself.
Inside, everything was basically consisted of images or woven mats that had something to do with flowers, the coat of arms which was a spear and a grey rose wound around the spear's staff. Amy and Rory were both amazed. Flower Girls moved quickly passed them and some stopped what they were doing to stare at the Doctor with his human companions.
"Maiden has waited for you," the girl leading them said.
"We're here," the Doctor replied.
They came to the throne room which was tended constantly by the Flower Girl servants who had red roses and were dressed in red, and had pure red eyes. The Doctor looked up to see a tall elegant girl sitting patiently in the flower woven seat A bouquet of grey flowers laid on her lap before her, her grey dress had black beads sewn in, her pure grey eyes narrowed in on the Doctor and her flowing grey streaked hair hung loose over her shoulders and chest. On top of her head was a laurel wreath of flower stems and in the middle of the laurel was one of the last Maiden's purple rose. The Maiden watched them come up and bow with respect.
"Thank you Dark Tonic," Maiden said to the girl in all black, "You may go."
Black Tonic bowed and retreated immediately.
"Leave us."
The servants dropped what they were doing and left immediately, closing the doors behind them.
The Maiden looked at the Doctor and then sighed.
"Has it really been this long?" the Maiden asked, "You've changed."
The Doctor said, "Regeneration my dear."
The Maiden nodded, "Yes, I have heard of your regeneration."
The Maiden got up and walked down the stone steps until she was face to face with the Doctor. The Maiden was the age of sixteen, and yet she could look the Doctor right in the eye. Amy found this a little odd.
"I may look sixteen," the Maiden said turning to Amy, "But my true age is much more."
"Said to me over a million," the Doctor said looking directly at the Maiden.
She laughed, "Rumours like that are what make my day."
The Maiden then became serious.
"Did you get my letter?"
"Yes."
"What do you think?"
The Doctor sighed, "Very interesting case."
"Who is she?" Amy intercepted.
The Maiden said, "Petal Dancer, the daughter of the White Roses, an heir to the Council of Florinica."
"An heir...," the Doctor pondered, "What do you think?"
"I don't know Doctor," the Maiden said, "I don't think Petal Dancer would be intercepted from her mission, there are hardly any if not no aliens on the planet."
"Which planet?" Rory asked.
"Earth."
Everyone went dead silent. The Maiden looked from one to the other.
"What's wrong?" the Maiden asked.
"Earth?" the Doctor replied making sure he heard correctly.
"Yes."
The Doctor turned and then hit the side of his temples.
"What? What's wrong?"
"There may be some complications...with Earth," the Doctor said.
The Maiden's face turned pale.
"Earth is very popular in the typical 'take over the world' kinda thing," Rory added.
"What was Petal Dancer's mission?" Amy asked.
"To seek out human behaviour, to study them up close and see what the humans were all about. Those are the only missions I allow the Girls to go on."
The Doctor then started to pace back and forth, he muttered a bit to himself and then turned to everyone else.
"Petal Dancer goes to Earth to bring back how human's behave right?"
The Maiden nodded.
"Where would she be?"
"London."
The Doctor continued to pace until something stopped him.
"How long ago did she leave for Earth?"
"A week."
The Doctor then gave a frustrated cry and then started muttering, "This is not good."
"Why? what's wrong?"
"Torchwood."
Everyone looked at the Doctor with curious looks.
"I thought you said that the place got blown up or something," Amy said.
"Not blown up," the Doctor said, "Closed down after the Void opened, but someone opened Torchwood up again."
"Who?"
The Doctor shook his head, "I don't know."
The Doctor and his companions looked at the Maiden who didn't look to pleased. The grey roses in her hand started to glow.
"What exactly is Torchwood?" the Maiden asked, her voice was low.
"A building that is operated to keep the humans safe from supernatural beings or happenings. It is run by humans."
The Maiden looked at the ground, her fist clenched her bouquet so tightly that her knuckles turned white and her breathing almost came to a stop. The Doctor placed his hand on top of the Maiden's and forced her hands to unfurl.
"Easy," the Doctor muttered, "We'll get her back."
The Maiden relaxed and her breathing returned to normal.
"Please Doctor," the Maiden muttered.
The Doctor turned on his heels and marched out of the throne room with his companions right behind him.
Back in the TARDIS the Doctor started it up and then looked at his companions. Amy and Rory clung onto the railing and then gave the Doctor a thumbs up. The Doctor pulled the lever and then the TARDIS jolted and then after a few quick seconds, landed on solid ground with another powerful shock.
"Where are we?" Amy said, "On Earth."
"I know where Petal Dancer is," the Doctor said, "The only place in the world that could track a being like her."
"Where?" Rory asked.
The Doctor opened the door and Amy and Rory looked up to see a tall glass building stood above all.
"Torchwood."