The TARDIS whirred around as the Doctor drove it clumsily toward North Carolina. Sally Sparrow closed her eyes and held onto the railing tightly.

"Doctor!" she exclaimed.

"Sorry!" he yelled, "Almost there!"

Finally, he threw a switch and everything stopped. The Doctor smiled over at Sally and she smiled back nervously. "Ready?" he asked her excitedly. She nodded and picked up her coat.

The Doctor swung open the doors of the TARDIS quickly and Sally gawked as she ran out into the North Carolina forest. "We've moved! Like we've actually moved! And look at that! It's broad daylight!" Sally cried out as she examined the outside of the TARDIS.

The Doctor watched her, smiling. He grabbed her backpack off the TARDIS floor and handed it to her as she came around the front. She began to jump.

"Sorry, this is amazing though! Do you just do this all the time? Traveling around in a box?"

He looked at their surroundings and sighed. "Well, yeah. I suppose. Usually I've got a companion to travel with me."

"Where's that one girl? The one from the video?" Sally asked as she put the backpack on and tightened the straps.

The Doctor ruffled his hair and began to walk away. "Oh, she decided to go home."

Sally approached him and the two began to walk through the forest side by side. "Oh? Why would she do that? I mean, you could travel anywhere! Any time!"

The Doctor stopped and grabbed Sally's shoulder. "I have to be honest with you, Sally. Traveling with me is dangerous. Martha's family was hurt on our last adventure together, and she decided that she needed to stay home with them...The creatures we're going after are even more dangerous. There's a chance I could not save you if they touch you and you have to be prepared to accept that."

They stared at each other for a moment, and Sally's face paled slightly as she processed his words. "I understand, Doctor."

He smiled. "Good," the Doctor said with a jump as he began to run through the trees. "Now, we should be looking for a large clearing of sorts, shaped like a circle. Once we find it, then we should be able to find the Angels in the surrounding area."

Sally smiled and began to chase him. The two wandered around the area, then began to make their way back to the TARDIS. The Doctor bent down to sniff the dirt, and Sally continued foward until something caught her eye.

"Doctor," she said calmly.

The Doctor looked up and followed her gaze. It was the TARDIS, parked right where they had left it, but finally the Doctor realized something bad.

"Don't blink, just keep staring right at it," the Doctor exclaimed as he ran toward the TARDIS, which was parked right in the middle of the Devil's Tramping Ground. She stared, and begin to blink one eye at a time to keep her eyes watered. As soon as the Doctor went inside the TARDIS, Sally sighed with relief and began to look around. As she examined a bushy area, she saw something rustle in the leaves.

She turned slowly to face the TARDIS and yelled out, "Doctor, I think I may have found-"

The TARDIS was gone. She stood, flabbergasted and ran toward the middle of the circle. She had not heard it take off, and began to panic. She spun around. "DOCTOR! Doctor, where are you?!"


An alarm rang out in the TARDIS and the Doctor looked around. The lights flashed and the console made an angry noise. He ran toward the monitor and made a yelp in panic. "No, no, no, no, NO! That's not possible! You can't have moved my TARDIS! It's my TARDIS!" He took his hammer, hit the console, and began to spin a wheel. The lights stabilized and he sat back in the chair.

"Well, Sally, I guess that means your theory about Ms. Earhart was right. Move the craft, move the pilot-oh. Sally!"The Doctor stood up and began to frantically operate the TARDIS, but it made a whiney noise. "What's the matter? Old girl, come on!" As he threw more switches, the room began to spin and the Doctor yelled as the room whirred around.


Sally sat quietly on a log and stared at the circle on the ground. She groaned and began to study her history book. There wasn't much on North Carolina, so she closed it promptly and began to whistle. Suddenly, she heard more rustling behind her and stood quickly.

"Who's there?" she cried out.

There was no response, but the rustling got louder. She grabbed her stuff and packed it up quickly, preparing to run. Just as she took a step back, a group of Native Americans appeared. They were dressed in very little clothes, and all held spears and bows in their hands.

"What are you doing here, stranger?" one of them said. He was obviously the Chief, as he was adorned in many decorations and wore the largest headpiece.

Sally gawked, "You're...you're speaking English."

Everyone lowered their weapons and stared dumbfounded at her.

"No," he replied, "You are speaking Catawba. Now, what are you doing here, and why is your hair so light?"

Sally closed her mouth and scratched her head. "Ummm, my hair has always been like that. But I need help. The blue box, it was sitting right there, but now it isn't. It vanished right in front of me."

The Chief approached her, and shook his head. "It was not in the circle, was it?"

She looked around, then shrugged. "Well, yeah, but just because the Doctor and I were looking for-"

"The Yehasuri" the Chief cut her off.

The other natives began to fidget and raised their weapons again, this time aiming into the woods. Sally took a step forward. "I'm sorry, the what?"

The Chief put an arm on her and led her toward his warriors. "The Yehasuri. Legend tells us of a spirit which is mischieous and can be very destructive. Other tribes do not worry so much about them. But here, we are not so fortunate. They steal our supplies in the night, and no man dares go near the circle, for they take as they please. Whatever they touch will never be seen again."

Sally paused, then asked quizzically, "Have you ever seen one?"

They all stared at her and the Chief took a step back. "Have you?"

She hesitated again, but nodded. "I haven't seen one here, but where I come from, they looked like stone statues only when you look at them. Rather than taking things, they took people."

The natives began to panic. The Chief grabbed her arm. "Spirits made of stone? We have seen one!"

Sally frowned, "Around here?"

"Come with us," the Chief said calmly. The group led Sally through the woods as she clutched her backpack nervously.


The Doctor finally threw down a switch and smiled. "Gotcha!"

He ran out the TARDIS doors, but stood staring in surprise as he was face to face with a family of tourists right outside the door. The smallest child dropped his water bottle as the Doctor closed the TARDIS doors and smiled at them.

"Oh, hello there! Sorry I'm just looking for-"

"That's our campsite!" the dad exclaimed.

"Sorry?" the Doctor asked.

The dad charged forward. "I paid a lot of money for my family to camp here on Memorial Day weekend, and no idiot with a stupid accent is gonna take my spot!"

The Doctor slowly backed away and shook his head, "Oh, I'm terribly sorry. Reservations! Should've made reservations. See, I'm from out of town-"

"Obviously," the dad sneered.

"Right," said the Doctor, "but I just have to grab my friend and be off then. Have you seen a blonde? She's short with a big backpack. Funny accent like me."

The dad crossed his arms. "We just walked up the trail and we saw nobody else."

The Doctor tilted his head and began to look around. "Really? Nobody?"

"Nobody," said the dad. The family watched in awe as the Doctor began to run toward a patch of dirt and sniff it. He pointed at the youngest kid. "Oi! Stare at that box! Don't let anything move it!"

The kid nodded and began to stare, but the dad started throwing a fit. "What do you think you're doing? Looney fool, I'll report you to the rangers if you don't get out of here. You and your...big...blue box- does that say police on it?"

The Doctor stood and whipped out his psychic paper. "Yep. Codename the Doctor, I work for Scotland Yard."

"Isn't this out of your jurisdiction?" the dad said angrily.

"My friend has gone missing...and that dirt smells way older than it did before-oh. I may be off by about 300 years," the Doctor thought aloud as the dad began to mime an argument with his wife, who was beginning to pull out her bear spray.

"Right, I'm terribly sorry for the inconvenience," the Doctor said as he went back into the TARDIS, and just before he closed the doors he added, "Enjoy your camping trip, watch out for moving statues!"

The family gawked as the TARDIS doors slammed and the whirring began. The smallest child squealed with delight as the box began to fade away and the dad passed out, hitting the dirt hard as he fell.


Sally fidgeted as she approached the natives' village, finally grabbing her camera out of her backpack and snapping pictures as they walked down the trail. She stared in awe at their huts and clothes, and watched as a woman wove a basket. She took pictures of the people until they reached the center of the village.

"The statue. The stone statue that moves," the Chief explained.

Sally lowered the camera from her face and put the neck strap on as she knelt on the ground to get closer. Trapped in a cage made of wood, there was an angel. However, it was like no angel she had ever seen before. It bore some resemblence to a human, but for the most part, looked more like an elf or a sprite. The face was malformed and was stuck in a face of terror. She stood and whipped around to face the Chief.

"Why is it caged up?" she asked him angrily.

The Chief crossed his arms proudly. "We found it in the circle. We discovered that as long as we stare it cannot move, so we always have a guard to watch it. We made a cage for it, so we could study it and discover its secrets."

"But don't you see what it's doing?" Sally exclaimed, "Look at its face! It's terrified! It wants to go back to the circle to join its family, and you said the Yehasuri have been stealing your supplies, but you're rather far from the circle. It's because of this one! He's crying for help, he's screaming, and they come all the way here because they want to help him. If you let him go, they won't take your stuff anymore."

The warriors stared at the Chief, who frowned at Sally and took a step forward. "But you said they were dangerous. In your land, they take people."

"In my land, they don't look like that. They're taller than us, and have these long pretty wings. This is different. This is just a mischievous little statue, it doesn't mean any harm to you. It just wants to be with its kind," Sally explained.

The Chief's face tightened with scrutiny, and the warriors watched anxiously, as they awaited orders.


The Doctor finally threw a switch and felt the TARDIS land. "Aha!" he exclaimed as he approached the doors again. As he swung them open, he jumped in surprise.

"Took you long enough," Sally laughed.

"What?" the Doctor said.

"All done, we can go somewhere else now," Sally continued as she sat down in the console chair and smiled.

"What?" he repeated, and she laughed.

"These are different than angels. They looked like elves or something, and they don't mean much harm."

The Doctor sat on the railing next to her. "What? How did you discover that?"

"I ran into some natives," Sally explained, "They had captured one so I got to look at it, and they were complaining that other statues were taking their supplies, but I persuaded them to let it go so the others wouldn't target them anymore. They called them the Yehasuri."

"Ah!" the Doctor exclaimed, "You met the Catawba tribe! Yes, the Yehasuri were just supposed to be mischievous, that makes sense."

"But I don't get how they spoke English! They said I was speaking their language but-"

"Oh, I probably should have mentioned, the TARDIS gets inside your head and translates other languages for you. So techincally, you weren't speaking English, you were speaking Catawba," the Doctor laughed.

Sally gawked. "I...spoke...another language?"

"Yep! So, Sally Sparrow, where to next?"

She smiled and stood, examining the console.

"Anywhere!" she yelled.

The Doctor smiled at his great new companion, "Well then, Sally Sparrow, ALLONS-Y!"