At the edge of my bed a statue stood tall, a statue of an angel to be exact. Its small hands were covering its eyes, not daring to peek at me. It had a long dress that covered her torso, legs, and feet. The angel had big wings that sprouted from its back that were much taller than they were wide. She was overall very dirty and quite cracked, though I was much concerned by how it got in my room than its cleanliness.

I figured the Doctor wouldn't have brought it in; unless maybe he was trying to scare me or something along the lines of that, but it just didn't seem likely.

But then I did something I shouldn't have, something that I regretted the instant that I did.

I blinked.

As soon as my eyes opened I was greeted with a no longer sad looking statue, but an angry and aggressive one. Its teeth were sharp and pointy, and its hands reached out for me with nails so sharp they could be mistaken for claws. Its fingers were curled up as if it was trying to grasp me and take me away. It was only a statue, but I was scared. My stomach was churning in circles as I cried out in fear for the Doctor, but he never came. I was left alone in a room with a statue that I was sure wanted to kill me.

I couldn't keep my eyes off of it for the reason that I couldn't believe it existed. A statue, a moving statue. A statue that had piercing eyes that were so blank, yet so scary.

"Help me!" I cried out, not to anyone in particular, but just to someone, anyone. I just wanted someone to come and hold me, take me away and tell me it was going to be okay.

My eyes watered and let multiple tears stream down my face, and with how I was breathing you would think that I just ran a marathon; but no, I was in my bed, crying in fear of the statue that stood before me.

This time I truly didn't mean to, I really didn't, but I did it again.

I blinked.

My eyes opened to see an empty room. No statue(well except for the small dragon statue that stood on the dresser, but I threw it away not long after, after all you can never be too careful), just nothing but normal furniture. It was just a dream?

Finally when I got enough confidence that the room was safe and that if I were to place my feet on the ground I wouldn't get pulled under the bed by tiny minions I finally got out of bed.

I walked into my bathroom just to see that I looked absolutely terrible. My face was red and hot, a mix of sweat and tears was on my face. I simply splashed my face with cold water, which felt amazing against my burning skin, then continued to apply some makeup. Just eyeliner and mascara though, I was never one for a lot of makeup. I prefer a more natural look.

I had realized that I didn't even change out of the dress I was wearing before I went to bed. I guess I was more tired than I thought. I walked towards the white wardrobe that had decorative circles made out of gold leaf scattered on it and opened it. There was so much clothes in it, and they were all wonderful. I almost thought the wardrobe could have been the one that led to Narnia(I checked, it sadly wasn't). I finally decided on a black and white plaid button up shirt and dark blue shorts that were a bit tattered on the ends.

I walked out of my room and skipped down the hall into the console room to be greeted by the Doctor.

"Morning Estelle! How did you sleep?" A very cheery Doctor said.

"Fine," I lied. I decided it would be best to not tell him, I didn't need him worrying about me more than he already was, "how about you?" The Doctor simply laughed at this.

"Oh, I didn't sleep. My body doesn't require as much sleep as you humans do."

"Oh? Well, how much does your body require?"

"About 8 hours every other week."

"Well, what do you do at night when I'm asleep?"

"Stuff," he said quickly. I flashed him a cheeky smile, when he saw mine his smile quickly dropped.

"What kind of stuff, Doctor?"

"Oh, you know, er," his arms were flapping all over the place as he looked for words to say, "stuff."

"Stuff with other woman?" His cheeks went red and he got extremely flustered at my remark.

"No! No, no, no, no, no!" He shook his hands and his head to stress no, but I knew he was lying. He was a terrible liar.

"Oh, all right. Whatever you say rabbit," I spoke smoothly and raised an eyebrow before I burst into laughter at the Doctor's awkward and embarrassed face.

"I'm going to ignore that this time, but just remember, I'm your ride home," this time he was the one with the smirk.

"Fine," I said facing defeat. I playfully glared at him for a moment before we both fell into smiles.

The Doctor flipped a few switches and pulled a lever or two before motioning towards the door. I happily skipped down the ramp and opened the door to be utterly surprised. We were underwater, in front of an underwater kingdom.

"How am I breathing?" I asked the Doctor who had followed me out.

"The TARDIS has an air shield around us, keeps us breathing, but you're gonna need this," the Doctor said as he handed me a necklace.

"What's this?" I asked as I examined the necklace. It had circular marks on it, some circles intercepting others.

"It will supply you with an air bubble once you leave the TARDIS' air shield. Put it on," the Doctor said as he put his on. I did the same. As I gazed at the water I noticed a person, except they had a tail. Like a mermaid!

"Are those mermaids?" I asked him, quite astonished. I never thought they were real, yet here they are.

"Well, kind of. Not really. They're like your tales of mermaids, except they aren't called mermaids. They're called Gyojin, and this is their planet, Sekai, " he informed me of the creatures. I saw a few more swim into the large castle that stood before us. Their tails varied in color, one was a sparkling purple that glimmered beautifully in the light, another was a metallic silver.

"Shall we?"

"We shall," at this I grabbed his hand and laced my fingers between his and we exited the TARDIS' air shield and swam towards the castle.

Once we reached the gates the Doctor flashed a blank paper to the guards, and they let him through.

"What was that?"

"Oh! Psychic paper, says whatever I want it to say. Great for getting into places.

"Oh, that is good!" I said as I examined the paper, he was proud of the compliment he recieved and fixed his bowtie.

"So you can literally get into anywhere you want with this?" I continued.

"Pretty much."

"I need one of these," I said with a small chuckle. At this he snatched the psychic paper out of my hands and put it back in his tweed jacket; I playfully rolled my eyes at him, but the Doctor didn't seem to notice. After a bit of walking we came across something that looked like a market. There were vendors that had vegetation for sale, jewelry, and other accessories. We were greeted by a creature that didn't look like the others. Instead of hands she had fins, she didn't have a tail, but legs and flippers instead. Also instead of hair it looked like she had white coral growing from her head, and her skin was very white.

"Greetings, I am 822, if you need anything I am at your service," she spoke in a perky voice. She held her hands behind her back and stood before us awaiting a reply.

"We won't be needing your services," The Doctor said politely to the creature. She simply bowed and floated away to serve someone else.

"Is she a servant?" I asked the Doctor.

"Indeed."

"She seemed so happy to be working."

"Well they're programmed to serve. It's their whole purpose, and they're completely happy with it," the Doctor informed me. I simply nodded in reply and we continued to stroll the market. I saw a few dolphin-like creatures swim around. These had horns, were a sparkling white, and were much larger than dolphins on Earth though. They were quite beautiful though, much prettier than ours.

Our nice stroll was interrupted by another servant who swam towards us.

"The king would like to speak to you," she said in a sweet voice.

"Where do we go?" I asked the lady.

"Follow me," she replied and began to swim off. Me and the Doctor looked at each other, quite surprised by the invitation.

"What are you waiting for? Let's go!" The Doctor said cheerfully. I laughed and followed behind him.

We passed another gate that led us into a beautiful and elegant room where we were greeted by the king. I curtsied as we approached him and the Doctor bowed.

"Welcome, my friends," the king spoke.

"Thank you for inviting us," The Doctor replied.

"Come, sit down. Let's feast!" The king said as he sat down at a long table that had about twenty chairs around it. We did as he said and sat at the seats closest to him.

The king had silver hair that shone so beautifully in the light just like his silver tail that had a few scales that were a shiny rainbow color that no other Gyojin seemed to possess. His eyes were a beautiful deep blue that reminded me of the water. In his hair laid a crown that had multi-colored jewels around the bottom of the golden crown. He held a silver trident in his hand that was around the height of me, possibly even taller(it didn't help that I'm a bit short).

I finally stopped examining the king's face when I felt a kick from under the table. It was the Doctor. It looked like someone was a bit jealous that he wasn't the one receiving my attention. This made me giggle a bit.

"I can't help but ask, but you're not from around here are you?" The king asked us in his beautiful voice that resonated so clearly in the room. His voice was one that you wouldn't mind listening to all day, one that just felt right.

"No, we're just visitors. We travel," the Doctor answered for me.

"And your names, especially yours beautiful," the king spoke to me, not even glancing at the Doctor.

"I'm Estelle."

"Ah, Estelle, what a beautiful name for such a beautiful girl," I couldn't help but smile at his flirting. I could feel my stomach turning from being in his presence.

Who let those damn butterflies in the room?

"And I'm the Doctor!" The Doctor said loudly, trying to remove the attention from me. Except the king just used his hand to motion the Doctor to quiet down, in fact the king didn't even glance at the Doctor.

"It's a shame you're just a visitor my dear Estelle."

"Well I couldn't. I have lungs, I need air. So this isn't the best location for me."

"Oh, that's no worry, we could always transform you into a Gyojin." At this the Doctor glared at me hard.

"That won't be necessary," the Doctor spoke for me since I failed to say anything and was just sitting with my mouth wide open, trying to think of how to reject the king so that we won't get our heads chopped off.

"Let the lady speak for herself," the king said placing his hand on mine.

"I couldn't, I have family, friends and the Doctor. I couldn't abandon them," at the mention of his name a small smile appeared on the Doctor's face, except the king frowned.

"Oh, what a shame. 722, please come here," the king said. The servant did as he said, and the king whispered something into her ear. She simply nodded and walked off into another room.

After a few minutes of the king flirting with me, and the Doctor being grumpy a few servants came out and presented us food. There was oysters, something that looked like a salad but probably wasn't, and some other foods that I couldn't recognize. I took a little bit, but not much since I didn't want to be rude. I didn't particularly like any of the food, but I ate it anyway. The drink tasted good though, it tasted kind of like grape, but it was a little different, but still, it was good. I was the only one to have this particular drink, the king said it was because I was special. I didn't bother questioning it anymore.

The king was in the middle of a joke when I started choking. I couldn't breathe, I was gasping for air but I was receiving nothing.

Damn useless lungs.

Was I really going to die of lung cancer on another planet, in another world, among a different species, with none of my family around? I'm gonna die and I wasn't even going to see my parents again? I wasn't even going to tell them I loved them one last time?

I was crying and gasping for air and receiving none, which was a terrible combination. I was starting to feel faint and my vision was darkening and I could feel someone touching me, but I could see who it was or ask.

"Estelle? Estelle!" I heard the Doctor yell one last time before everything went dark and silent.

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