Chapter 4
The Doctor continues his lonely track onward, towards the jagged mountains. The twin suns never seem to move from their position in the clouded sky and the heat seems to distort the ground in the distance making it ripple and change. The winged beasts continue circling the mountain's tips, every once and awhile one shrieks and dives into the mountain and disappears into it. A slight breeze stirs the dust from the bone dry ground.
"Such a nice planet! I should build a summer home here." The Doctor says, his voice laced with sarcasm.
The Doctor suddenly stumbles on something on the ground. He regains his balance and bends over to examine the object. It's a charred black skull of some sort. It has a long nose or beak with jagged teeth jutting out of it like the mountain tops piercing through the boiling clouds in the sky. It has very large eye sockets that protrude out of the skull slightly. Streaks of black radiate out from the center of the skull as if lightning had struck the beast's head at that point. The Doctor rolls the skull over in his hands a few times before dropping it on the ground. He kicks it once and it rolls a few feet away from where he's standing
With only a slight flapping sound for warning, one of the winged creatures dives from the sky at The Doctor, it's claws outstretched towards the lone figure. He yells and drops and rolls on the ground out of the way. The beast smashes into the ground with a shriek of pain and collapses. It twitches feebly a few times before lying prone on the ground. The Doctor cautiously approaches the prone being and slowely pulls out his sonic. He compresses the trigger and aims it at the being. The sonic hums and pulses as it scans. He begins to gather the readings when suddenly he feels the the tingling electrical sensation covering his body. He initially tries to ignore it but this time the charge intensifies.
"What? No no no... AAAAHHHHHHH" The Doctor screams as the charge begins to form into the web that took his TARDIS. The pain is too intense, even for the Timelord, and he blacks out. The web crackles and buzz as it lifts the Doctor up off his feet and begins to slowly suck him into the welcoming ground. It pulls him through completely, and his head slides into the ground without a sound. The ground around where he disappeared ripples, and all signs of life are erased leaving the ground and it was before The Doctor came. All is quiet on the forbidding planet, and in a moments time it will seem as if no one was ever there.
The sound of gently dripping water fills The Doctor's ears. He groans and, without opening his eyes, he brings his hands up to his throbbing head and massages his temples. He slowly opens his eyes, and peers around, his vision swinging in and out of focus. He feels dry, as if a significant amount of water has been leached from his body.
"Where am I?" he ponders aloud from his rest on the ground, "How did I get here?"
He slowly brings himself up into a sitting position and he lets out another groan, the motion setting off a wave of splitting pain through his already pounding skull. He pats his pockets for his screwdriver, fortunately it's still there, tucked snugly in the breast pocket of his shirt.
"Well that's a stroke of luck, usually when things like this happen, the sonic takes a leave of absence" He brings one leg in, and presses his palm flat on the ground and pushes himself up. Again, the movement sets off another wave of pain, and The Doctor sways slightly from the dizziness it induces. Steadying himself, he peers around at his surroundings. He's in a cavern of seemingly massive proportions. The ceiling is barely visible, but he can make out the sight of thousands of jagged stalactites, their bases concealed in swirling grey mist. The floor slopes downwards ever so slightly, and a small lake can be seen off towards the left side of the cave. The water seems to be perfectly still, as if no breeze has ever stirred its waters. The cavern slopes down toward the right so that the ceiling and floor are slightly closer to each other. The closed distance between them has allowed massive pillars to form from the stalactites. The corners of the cavern are veiled in shadow. The whole scene is bathed in a eerie bluish glow that seems to emanate from the walls themselves.
Suddenly, The Doctor's headache recedes and he remembers everything that occurred since he woke up in the strange cavern. "I suppose I should try to recover my TARDIS, and get out of here as fast as possible." he says. The Doctor puts his hand in the air and test the dead air around him and tests it on his hand. He wipes off the seat of his pants, and starts walk towards the lake at the far end of the cavern. Maybe there he can find an exit out of the space and into an area where he can look for his TARDIS and means of escape.
Well here's what I've got so far, I'm looking forward to continuing to write and develop the story. Tell me what you think of it, and I'll try to get the next installment out faster!