Author's Notes: Hello my lovely little aliens! So I decided that from now on, Amelia will call the Doctor, "Doc" but only in private. Can't make the Doctor too angry can we? Last time we left Amelia and Doc, Doc had gotten sick and Amelia was given the job of cooking and caring for the sick alien. We also saw the angry side of Amelia when the Doctor was MIA and the sweet motherly side of her when she was tucking the Doc up for the night. Today we'll see what dangerous planet the Doctor has in store for Amelia.
Without further adieu...
(I own nothing...but Amelia)
I heard the most terrifying scream in my life and I jumped out of bed to find it. I ran as quickly as I could to the Doctor who was moaning and crying out in pain. I made sure he was ok before looking to see if he was dreaming. He shouted out my name as though I was in trouble and I knew he was having a nightmare. I grabbed his hand and whispered over and over that I was ok and that he was dreaming.
He quieted after a while and I stayed where I was, determined not to leave until he woke up. He would mumble in his sleep about something called a "dalek" and some called "The Time War." He was still mumbling about something but it was too quiet for me to hear. It was almost like a lullaby but I managed to stay awake.
My Doctor needed me to stay awake.
I was still awake when he began to stir and I slipped my hand out of his when he relaxed it. I stood up and made it to look like I was checking up on him when he opened his eyes.
"Good morning, Doctor, how are you feeling?"
"Better, am I though?"
TARDIS performed another body scan and told us that he was cured. He was released from his bed prison and stretched his arms and legs. I was rubbing my eyes when he asked me how I slept.
"Fine, I had a nightmare but I'm ok. Why don't you get dressed and we'll go somewhere today, somewhere you want to go."
He smiled that goofy grin of his and walked out of the room, nearly taking my energy with him. I stood up and walked back to my room when the traitor's voice filled my head.
'First, I am not a traitor; I'm a TARDIS, second, why didn't you tell him the truth?'
'First you are and second I didn't tell him because it was nothing, he would've done the same for me.'
'I know but…'
'TARDIS, shut up. I am too tired to fight with you. I just want to get dressed and go running around with my Doctor.'
'Your Doctor?' The tone of her voice made my ears turn pink but my voice was stronger than I felt.
"Well he is my Doctor. I mean he is the Doctor and 'my Time Lord' just sounds so…wrong…"
'My Doctor' sounds wrong too, love.'
'Don't care. He's mine.'
'Possessive, aren't we?'
'Not always.'
'So what changed?'
'…I…I don't know…'
I stopped talking to the TARDIS and dressed myself in my jeans and my favorite t-shirt. I pondered the TARDIS' question when I felt the machine in question move. I all but ran to the control room where my, correction the Doctor, was fiddling with the controls.
"Where are we going?"
"That's a surprise, my friend!" His goofy smile never wavered and I trusted him to keep me out of danger if he could manage it.
The TARDIS bucked and chucked like a bull and we landed quite suddenly. He laughed and grabbed my hand, interlacing his long fingers with my shorter ones.
"Ready?"
"Always!"
We ran out of the TARDIS doors and through a field of blooms. The grass was a bright yellow and the sun in the sky was a deep blue. The wind was warm and pleasant and I felt very at peace here.
"Welcome to Soldier Planet, the training center for the universe."
I ran with his hand still in mine to the forest and smiled at all things strange and he went off and explained what everything was and how it worked. As we made our way through the forest, I wondered why anyone would train on a beautiful planet like this one.
"Amelia."
"Yes?"
"Duck!"
He pulled me to the ground and three arrows struck the tree we were standing in front of. The Doctor took out his sonic screwdriver and sent up a signal I couldn't understand.
Suddenly a man with pale green skin and armor walked to the Doctor and helped him up, patting his back as he did.
"Doctor, you return for more training with leader?"
"Actually my friend and I," he pointed at me as I helped myself up, "were flying by and we decided to stop by."
The man glared at me and turned his nose up at me.
"Girl look weak, no place for weak girlie girls."
"Excuse me?"
The man glared at me again and I looked at the Doctor, who seemed to be enjoying my harassment.
"Girl no talk until spoken to!"
"What are you going do if I do?"
I knew I was egging him one and the Doctor shook his head, still grinning like a manic, when the man pointed a wooden spear at me.
"Athin kill girl."
I rolled my eyes and grabbed his spear and snapped it in two. Athin turned greener than before and I wasn't sure if he was mad or scared.
"Not so tough without your pointy stick huh?"
He ran at me and I used his momentum against him as I flipped him to his back. I grabbed the sharp end of the old spear and placed it under his jaw.
"Give me a reason, I dare you." I was pissed now and he snorted slightly. He looked at the Doctor and smiled.
"Girlie smart and strong, she do well here."
"I learned long ago not to make fun of her, especially with sharp things around."
Athin laughed and looked back at me.
"Girlie let Athin up?"
"Why should I?"
"Athin take Girlie and Doctor to leader. Athin think Girlie very nice."
He didn't look very sincere about the compliment until his cheeks turned a light shade of blue. He was blushing. He was actually sincere about the compliment and I let him get up.
"Athin take Girlie and Doctor now! Follow Athin!"
Athin walked forward and the Doctor and I followed like he asked and I was curious about something.
"Why is he speaking like that?"
"Soldier Planet teaches the students how to fight, not how to learn. They go to Sirius' Moon for that part of their lives. In fact Athin might be going soon in a couple of years."
I watched Athin walk calmly to the large tent in the middle of the next field. A number of different creatures were working together on different tasks, everything from washing clothes to planning hunting parties. Athin disappeared into the tent and the field, once noisy with work, went silent. Athin reappeared and he had a blue skinned man behind him. This man was handsome and lean, evidence of years of running and hunting and fighting.
"Hello Doctor, how are you? Athin tells me that you and your friend are visiting."
I was a little stunned by his wonderful English and he looked at me.
"I believe you are the 'Girlie' Athin told me about? How are you, did Athin upset you too much?"
"I am fine sir; Athin didn't make me too mad. My anger and temper is like a lightening bolt, quick and forgotten."
I glanced at the Doctor and Athin who were watching me, along with half of the village.
"Pardon the onlookers; they have not seen a female of any species for years."
That made so much sense.
"It is fine, where I am from it is flattering to have people staring at you."
"May I give you and the Doctor a tour of the camp?"
I smiled and nodded my head.
"Let us begin; Athin, go plan a hunting party for tonight."
"Athin do as leader want!"
Athin ran to the small group planning the hunting party and I grabbed the Doctor's hand as the leader of Soldier's Planet began the tour.
Leon, the leader of Soldier's Planet, told us that he was once a soldier like the students and when he passed Sirius' Moon, he worked his way to become a trainer back on Soldier's Planet. He explained everything from the training the boys got to the living conditions to the minimal teaching they did.
"We teach them to communicate but nothing more so to concentrate on training. Normally women are not allowed here because they are a distraction and they are usually not ready for battle."
"But if one was ready…"
"She would go to Sirius' Moon first and learn before coming here. We train them according to their species, Exlopns against Runines etc."
"Do you accept feuding species at the same time?"
"No, we take one or the other, so they don't start feuds of their own," Leon looked back at the Doctor who was smiling at me, "She asks many questions, Doctor."
I blushed and lowered my head, making the Doctor laugh a little harder and grabbing my shoulder lightly.
"Yes she does. Silly little apes are always so curious about the unknown."
'Silly little ape?'
I bit my tongue and continued on, trying to forget the taunting voice of the Doctor in my head when Athin ran toward us.
"LEADER, RAVILES ATTACKING!"
One moment I'm on my feet, the next, the Doctor is carrying me to the tent.
"Doctor, let me go!"
"No!"
"Let me go now!"
He dropped me and I was glad he did but it faded when the leader ran in after us and grabbed a spear while the Doctor had his sonic screwdriver ready.
"Where are you going?"
"To fight the Raviles."
"What are the Raviles?"
"They are a shapeless creature that takes the essence of any creature and mimics it. They have every memory and thought that the original had and they are highly dangerous," the Doctor explained quickly.
"Well how do you fight them?"
"We spray meat water over our bodies and fight the ones who don't smell like rotten meat. Raviles cannot be near meat or they die," grunted Leon as he placed a dagger in his holster, "Doctor, you protect Amelia and we'll fend them off."
"Wait-what?! I can fight like you guys!"
"No it is too dangerous! Stay here!" Leon left the tent with a bottle of what I thought was meat water. The smell reached from outside into here.
"Let's go Doctor!"
"No we have to follow orders."
"But they…"
"No buts."
"Doc!"
"I'm sorry, Amelia but you are not fighting these things."
I huffed and puffed but the Doctor wasn't moving so I had to stay put. There was fighting and screaming coming from outside but I had no clue to who or what they came from. We waited for what felt like hours until I heard a scream that I did recognized.
"That was Athin! We gotta help him!"
"We must wait for Leon to tell us it is safe!" I thought about how close Athin sounded and how much pain he must be in. I thought about the danger but I needed to help Athin. I thought about the best way to get past the Doctor when the dirty fighter in me came out.
"Sorry Doc, you asked for it."
I kicked him as hard as I could in the one place I knew no guy wanted to be kicked in and as he fell to the ground, I ran out toward Athin's scream. I saw a dagger on the ground and picked it up just in case I encountered someone or something.
"Athin! Where are you?!"
"Here…"
Athin stepped out of the shadows and smiled an easy smile at me. I looked around him and saw nothing, no Raviles, no bruises, nothing.
"Athin why did you scream?"
"I fell."
He was using pronouns and he didn't call me 'Girlie' yet.
"Athin are you feeling ok?"
"Fine, in fact great."
"Me and the Doctor…oh no the Doctor! He's so going to kill me."
"We should explain what happened then."
His English was better. Something was wrong. Athin wasn't ATHIN!
"Ok…well I'm going to run now!"
I tried running when something grabbed me from behind. The dagger was pulled from my grasp and I tried screaming when it stabbed me in the back and I began to lose consciousness.
Author's Notes: Uh oh, what's going to happen now?! Poor Amelia be careful! If you want to tell me what you think of the story tell me in a review!
But until next time, my lovely little aliens!
