Here comes chapter 2, have you been looking forward to this? Yes? Sorry that this took so long, I'm getting far too slow at writing.
Disclaimer: Don't own Doctor Who or Robin Hood, wish I did though.
Chapter 2: Something Wicked
The roar could be heard for miles around, the roar was from a creature not of this earth and it's dark eyes watched the Doctor, Martha and their outlaw companions, these eyes that belonged to a creature out of it's time, and out of it's galaxy, a hitchhiker that the TARDIS had inadvertently picked up and not alerted the Doctor to the presence of. The many spines on it's back bristled as it readied itself for attack. Looking at it from behind you would be forgiven for mistaking it for a giant overgrown porcupine, but the front view was quite different to that of the spine covered animal, it's eyes were almost glowing red, it had a snout and what appeared to be gills above it's nose, the fur was thick and wiry and stuck out in tufts at all different angles. A raised voice startled the beast and it turned to face a young woman who was on horse back and was calling to someone, she'd whistled already and was disappointed that no one had come to meet her. She had light blue eyes, dark brown hair and her dress was a dark blue, the beast was unaware of the colours being colour blind, it turned and the trees it was sheltered in rustled and the woman looked over at it.
"Robin?" she took a step towards the noise; "If you think you're going to scare me, by jumping out of a bush at me you are sadly mistaken." Marian wasn't in the mood to play games with him, she took a step towards the rustling she could see the mass that was hiding in the shadows now, it was impossibly big and Marian found her hands shaking, it took a step towards her and she screamed, she wasn't the screaming kind, but then again she'd never seen a creature like this before. It's breath came out in puffs of wreaking air, Marian scrambled backwards never taking her eyes from the creature, she tripped and fell backwards down a ridge, her horse had scarpered and Marian was suddenly all alone in the forest with an unknown creature bearing down on her. Marian held her breath waiting for the creature to strike, she then heard a whooshing noise and something struck the beast causing it to shriek, Marian fought the urge to cover her ears.
"DON'T!" an unfamiliar voice cried out; "It'll crush her." Marian sucked in a breath and looked up at the now enraged beast.
"I can't do nothing!" Robin's voice, she knew that one, Marian contemplated calling out to him, but was too busy worrying about the animal above her to think of what she could say.
"Let me handle this." That firm unfamiliar voice again, she could hear his footsteps and tensed her body, a strange whirring noise followed and Marian saw that the beast's attention was suddenly drawn away from her, Marian let out the breath that she didn't know that she'd been holding in, she squeezed her eyes shut as she heard the creature moving away, slowly at first but soon it picked up speed and was running at impossible speed away from her.
"Marian!" Robin's voice caused her to look up, he was smiling at her glad to see that she was alright, he had to check however, he was soon kneeling at her side; "Are you alright?" he asked cupping her face with his hands.
She nodded slightly dazed; "Wh…what on earth was that?" she asked, Robin did not answer her, instead he helped her to her feet, then that unfamiliar voice spoke up again.
"Not from earth," Marian looked at the stranger as if he'd slapped her in the face; "I'm afraid it followed myself and Martha here, and I'm fine by the way." The Doctor told everyone, he'd apparently had the creature chase after him to get it away from Marian.
Marian looked confused, she did not recognise this man; "Who is this?" she asked, she'd like to know the name of the man to whom she owed her life.
"Marian this is the Doctor," Robin introduced them, Martha coughed and Robin smiled at her; "and his friend Martha." Marian smiled clearly very grateful to these strangers. Marian was glad that Robin was still holding onto her because she lost her balance all of a sudden as a strange feeling came over her, she swayed slightly and Robin steadied her; "Whoa, are you sure…?" Robin didn't get to finish his question, Marian had slumped into his arms apparently unconscious; "Doctor!" he called out to his new friend worriedly. The Doctor bounded over and helped Robin lower Marian back onto the ground.
"What happened?" the Doctor asked apparently worried about Marian's well being, Martha was kneeling beside Marian checking her pulse and lifting her eyelids to look at her pupils; "Prognosis?" he asked her.
Martha had no idea what was wrong, Marian's heart was beating normally and she was breathing as if she were asleep; "She's sleeping." Martha concluded. Robin looked confused, he called Djaq over to check on Marian.
"Martha's right, it must have been the Draxus' breath, heard it's not pleasant, handy though, excellent way of disabling your pray if you can get close enough to breathe on them." Robin was looking at him like he was crazy again, and Martha was giving him a warning look; "She'll been fine though, a little dazed, it wears off in fifteen minutes." He informed the confused outlaws. Robin now looked relieved, he looked back at Marian and smiled to himself.
"Uh, Doctor what is a Draxus?" Djaq asked, the Doctor grinned.
"I was wondering how long it would take one of you to ask."
"Well?" prompted Will.
"It's an alien creature from out of space, it's got an alien body and alien face…" he paused; "no wait that's a song, but away an alien, from the planet Phonon. Long way away from here." He told the group, Martha felt sorry for the outlaws, at least she wasn't a total novice with this sort of thing, she understood some of what the Doctor rambled on about. Their present company knew nothing about what lay beyond their stars. The Doctor noticed the blank stares he was getting and smiled sheepishly; "All that is important is that she'll be fine." He said looking down at Marian's prone form. Robin didn't speak until the 15 minutes were up, the Doctor couldn't hide his smile as Marian sat up rubbing her eyes. Robin, who had simply refused to leave her side was asking her if she was alright, Marian looked around slightly dazed.
"What happened?" she asked letting Robin help her slowly to her feet.
The Doctor was about to reply when Martha gave him a warning look; "You were attacked." She provided, it was Robin's turn to glower as Marian looked slightly taken aback.
"Do you not remember?" he asked her ignoring Martha, she shook her head slowly trying to clear the cobwebs. Marian rubbed her temples and blink slowly before shaking her head slowly; "Well, it was a creature unlike any I have ever seen before, do you remember being introduced to the Doctor and Martha?" he asked as he gestured to their guests, Marian once again shook her head. The Doctor bowed his head as a sign of respect to Marian. She smiled at him and Martha, she still looked a little dazed but seemed determined not to let it show.
"It's nice to meet you, uh again." Marian smiled sheepishly.
The Doctor grinned at her; "Nice to meet you to Lady Marian." He said striding forwards to shake her hand. Marian shook his hand and smiled at Martha who gave her an apologetic look, the Doctor could be a little forward at times.
"Doctor, where did that creature go?" Robin asked, he was suddenly worried that they were being watched, the hairs on the back of his neck were standing on end and he looked around almost panicked.
The Doctor's senses were all alert he could feel it too, they were almost certainly being watched, but by what or who the Doctor couldn't tell, he placed a finger to his lips to silence the group they were all looking around worriedly now; "Slowly, on my word…move into those trees, ok?" they all nodded, Robin's hand was now holding Marian's, he wasn't about to let her go; "Now." The Doctor's voice was quiet but strong, they all moved almost as one towards the shelter of trees.
Martha was crouched in a rather awkward position she got the Doctor's attention and waved him towards her; "Did you actually see anything, or do you just like the power of getting people to do what you say?" she whispered in his ear. He grinned before giving her an expression that said; 'would I ever?' she quirked an eyebrow at him knowing that he would.
The Doctor sighed; "I could have seen something," he paused noticing that everyone was looking at him; "but as I know for a fact that the Draxus went East," he paused as he heard Robin and Marian gasp; "what? What did I do?" the Doctor asked confused.
"East is to Nottingham, there are a lot of people in Nottingham!" Robin stated he was clearly concerned for the people of Nottingham town.
"Ah." Was the Doctor's reply. He could see a rather large problem with that; "Right, too Nottingham!" he said getting to his feet one arm pointing forwards, everyone else got to their feet as well.
"Uh, Doctor?" Marian's voice caused him to turn and look at her; "Nottingham is this way…" she said pointing in the opposite direction, the Doctor blushed and Martha couldn't hide her giggle. The Doctor was quick to turn on his heal, he decided to let Robin lead them all to Nottingham. But what, I wonder will be waiting for them there?
A/N: Ooooo I wonder what could be waiting for them...? Well actually I don't 'cause I know, and it's good that I know. I am writing it. If I didn't know I'd be worried. Right...that was an odd ramble. Hehe, well I'll try and write Chapter 3 quicker that I did Chapter 2, I have no idea how long this fic is going to be. Depends how much time I have and how long I make the chapters. Anyway. REVIEW please, it makes me very happy and it makes me write faster. No flames please.
