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Chapter Three: Arcadian Moon

When the Doctor had asked Amy if she wanted to visit Arcadia, she hadn't known what it was. She thought that Arcadia might be some exotic planet, moon or space-station at the far flung reaches of time and space— and the Doctor assured that Arcadia was all of those things, but the one that he had in mind was in archaic Greece, on Earth.

They walked across a pastoral landscape, and Amy could feel herself becoming more and more bored by the minute. "Doctor," she complained after a while of walking. "I'm bored."

"Bored?"

"Yes," Amy confirmed. "Bored."

"How can you possibly be bored?" he scoffed. "This is such a beautiful place."

"Beautiful yes," Amy agreed. "But nothing's here."

"Nothing?" asked the Doctor, stopping in his tracks to glance around. "There's the sky,"

"Like any other sky that I've ever seen."

"There's the landscape,"

"Not much different from the fields of England,"

The Doctor sighed and looked out onto the horizon. "I suppose you're right...not our usual cup of tea is it? Funny thing that," the Doctor rambled as Amy turned away from him. "Cup of tea. Such a British saying. I bet you've always been wondering why I sound British— being a Time Lord I could regenerate into anything. I could be American, or Slithereen or luck forbid a girl— but I've always been really lucky that I've come out British and it's all because of your cup of tea. Loved cuppa's in the sixties. I got stranded there for ages, really fell in love with this little planet and—"

"Doctor," Amy interrupted as she brought her hands to her eyes to shield them from the sun.

"What is it now Amy?"

"Do large black shadows always cross Arcadia like that?"

The Doctor turned from the direction that he was facing, to the one that Amy was. He followed her gaze and saw something very familiar. "Oh dear," he muttered aloud as he came to stand beside Amy. "I had hoped not to see one of those again."

"One of what?" asked Amy. "What is it?"

Can I just say one thing? asked a voice in his head.

What? replied his previous incarnation

A werewolf! the woman's voice squealed excitedly

I know! he replied back just as enthusiastically

"Doctor?" Amy asked again, snapping out of his memory. "What is it?"

"Something bad," the Doctor answered as he took her hand. "Run!"

They sprinted across the pastoral landscape in the opposite direction to where they had parked the TARDIS, and on an opposite yet parallel course to the creature that Amy had seen. They raced until they saw a cluster of small trees, not far in the distance. Night was closing in, and the Doctor figured that the grove would be better than no cover at all.

"There," he stated as he pulled Amy. "Come along Pond."

Together they raced along the home stretch and made it to the cover of the trees just as the sun slipped beneath the horizon followed by a horrific howl in the distance.

"Doctor," Amy whispered as she held on tight to the Doctor's arm, her nails digging through his tweed jacket and into his arm as they whirled around to look through the trees to the pastoral landscape behond. "What was that?"

"That my dear was an abomination, a monstrosity..." came a voice from behind them.

Amy and Doctor turned around slowly to be confronted by a different sort of monster.

"Pan!" the Doctor exclaimed cheerily. "So good to see you."

"Pan?" asked Amy as the Doctor strode up to the half-man half creature.

"Yeah, you know Greek mythology, chasing over all the nymphs..." the Doctor paused and turned back to his friend. "Been a long time hasn't it?"

"Doctor?" Pan asked. "It is you. You have a new face."

"That happens from time to time."

"Last time I saw you, you were lost on your way to meet a Queen..."

"Ah Bess," the Doctor muttered wistfully, lost in thought before he shook it away. "Another story for another time. Now tell me Pan, what's going on here?"

"Strange things," the god replied. "Zeus is at it again."

"Hang on," Amy interrupted. "Zeus as in thunderbolt guy?"

"He prefers to go by Lighting-Dude but don't tell him that I told you," the Doctor warned as he glanced at Amy. "What has the old guy done now Pan?"

"You remember the trouble that Lycaon was causing?"

The Doctor nodded. "Silly human trying to fool a Olympian, and the leader to boot."

"Well Zeus cursed him to be a creature,"

"What kind of creature?" asked a very curious Amy.

"One that can stalk the land by day, but prefers the night of the moon," Pan explained in an eerie voice. "A creature that is fierce and strong by tooth and claw. The first of his kind here in this place."

Amy shook his head. "I'm not one for riddles."

A howl sounded causing a shiver to run down all their spines.

"Hang on," Amy stated as she suddenly put two and two together. "You're not telling me,"

"Yep," the Doctor interrupted. "Werewolf."

"Tell me Doctor," Pan added. "How do we stop this thing?"

"We don't do anything at all," the Doctor answered. "You're going to stay here with Amy,"

"Oi," she protested. "Where you go, I go."

The Doctor shook his head. "Not this time."

"But Doctor,"

"Amy, you don't understand," he insisted. "A single bite from a werewolf could ruin your life, and one from the very first werewolf could end your life."

"I didn't stay with you to be safe,"

The Doctor nodded. "I know that, but believe me and stay."

The Doctor paused and watched as Amy remained unconvinced.

"Trust me," he pleaded.

Amy was not one from backing down, especially where the Doctor was concerned. However the look in his eye told her that he was serious. He wasn't going to back down from this fight, and there was something almost scary by his insistence that made Amy realize that for the first time she might actually be better off staying behind.

"Alright," she conceded with a nod of her head. "I'll stay with goat boy."

"Hey!" Pan exclaimed feeling undignified while the Doctor smiled at the levity that Amy brought.

"Pan," the Doctor stated with a smile. "Watch Amy."

"I shall do as you ask."

"I mean it," the Doctor insisted. "Keep her safe."

Pan nodded. "I shall not let you down."

The Doctor regarded Pan and Amy for a moment before giving them an encouraging smile.

"Now don't you worry at all," he promised as he began to back away. "I'll be back before the sun."

The Doctor took off leaving Amy and the god Pan behind him. Amy watched and waited mentally counting down from thirty to zero before taking off after him.

"Hey!" Pan exclaimed again. "The Doctor told us to stay here."

"The Doctor says a lot of things," Amy answered, not pausing to stop.

"But I'm supposed to keep my eye on you."

"Then keep your eye on me and follow goat boy," Amy taunted as she exited the grove all together. Pan followed just as she knew he would and together they began to follow the distant sight of the Doctor. While they walked, Amy knew that the Doctor didn't have a plan. He never seemed to have a plan, always making things up as they went and she figured that it was her turn to do the same.

Alright Pond, she told herself as they walked across the moonlit landscape. You're going to keep the Doctor in your sights, you're not going to let him get in trouble and when this is all over you're going to make sure he takes you somewhere very cool, spacey even and—

"Well come along Pond," the Doctor stated just inches from where Amy was.

Amy looked up and was shocked to see the Doctor in her face. "Oh,"

"Never listen to a word I say, do you Pond?"

Amy grinned. "Nope."

The Doctor sighed. "Well let's go then."

Together, the trio marched over the pastoral landscape. The Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to attract the creature and in a rather anti-climatic way Pan lulled the creature to sleep with his magical flute. All in all, Amy decided that it was a rather easy resolution which allowed her and the Doctor to leave the eternally sleeping werewolf to Pan.

"All-righty then," the Doctor stated as they re-entered the TARDIS. "That was exciting."

"Werewolf," Amy agreed with a nod of her head. "Very exciting."

"And you thought that Arcadia was boring,"

Amy smiled. "Okay I take it back."

"As you should."

"Where to next Doctor?" Amy asked as she strode to the console. "Somewhere exciting from the outset I hope."

The Doctor gave her a devilish grin. "Oh I have an idea..."

TBC

Author's Note: I always wondered what Arcadia was like when Amy mentioned it. So I decided to find out and next comes the Trojan Gardens. But where do you think those Trojan Gardens are going to be? Hmm, only I know. Please leave a review!

Oh, and on a side note I've been obsessing over the new BBCone Trailer. Series Six looks SOOO good! If you haven't seen it yet, you should totally check it out.