In a room, full of dirt collecting furniture there is a man who is dressed in black and red rummaging and searching around the entire place with no one in sight and what seems as if he was looking for one specific item it seems. As he rummaged through the place he heard faintly a noise that was only a few yards away.
But this alerted this burglar as he began to replace everything back in its place as if he was never there, and he accomplishes this by using Dust to his advantage as he spreads it across the whole room and controls each speck to do his bidding, and by the end end of it all he then sneaks out through the window in the back, seeming as though he was never even there to begin with.
But back to the Doctor, Nora, and Salem they then head to where this village was, as the sun was getting dimmed and the winds began to pick up as they head home, through this the Doctor noticed things have been oddly quiet since Salem revealed her name, almost as if it may forgo into the Future and people will learn of this name throughout the whole world, in a very creeping feeling, one that was not felt ever since...
"Hey Salem, do you think there will be food? Cause I'm starvin'." Nora says, causing the Doctor to not think about it for the moment,
"I think so, mama taught me how to cook and papa use to teach me how to grow food." young Salem says as she continues to hold Nora's hand this entire time,
"That's good cause I can't cook anything, okay no that's not true I've made cakes and pancakes And some candy too back in the 6th grade but got busted cause the teachers though it was 'Too Sweet' or something, and there was that one time where I always use to make spaghetti to thanks to a Cool Skeleton but that a WHOLE different story." Nora babbled as all three of them began to see the village near the mountain range,
"Ah, there it is, a little small village. I wonder if they got little pets, I love tiny pets." the Doctor said with a smile as they continued to move forward.
Finally they made it to the entrance of all these living establishments as it seemed to have very flushed out resources and looked to have very little color at all, but this wasn't the worst thing to see as the people who minded their own work started to take notice of the two new people who have arrived on the scene, and with little Salem no less.
"ooh... a bit of a damped out place eh?" The Doctor says as he took a good long look around this place.
"What are they all looking at?" Nora wonders as all of the people stared at them funny and at an odd way, till the Doctor says,
"Us. Well, actually you cause you seem to be wearing Pink, and pink is a bit of a royal color around this time. What year is it? 217? 219? Oh well never mind that, Hello everyone don't mind us We're just here to get Salem here home, she's been through a lot and it's imperative that we need to get her to a relative, someone who can take care of her." but this made the people a bit more scares as they never encountered strangers out here in these lands, and much less so if they do not have horses,
"... maybe they didn't hear me, Uh I am just here bring back This child to Wherever her Home might be." again no one answers, they all just stare down at the Doctor and Nora,
"... My name is The Doctor, don't worry I'm a friend," he says with a smile, but just then a Thump was heard behind him, he turned around quickly only to find Nora being hit over the head with a piece of thick wood by one of the villagers, and before the Doctor could truly react to this he was tracked down and pinned and just like that, he was hit over the head with the wood as well. Rendering him unconscious.
Hours passed and the two woke up tied back to back to each other, well 1 and a half awake as Nora dozed and went back to sleep, not knowing who or what just happened and the Doctor with a splitting headache asks what had just happened? But Nora just replies with,
"Ren... why do we have to go so early..? 5 more minutes..."
"Come on Nora wake up." he shakes his body as it's tied to her, but still nothing from her as she is a heavy sleeper. But the Doctor tried a different method he learned from his previous companions,
"Oi Nora! Hurry up Your gonna miss breakfast! All the Pancakes will be gone!" And with an instant, she wakes up and snaps the ropes off the both of them and makes that SpongeBob caveman meme stance,
"DON'T EAT MAH CAKES!... ?... Wait where are we?" she asks as she looks around to see that they seem to be in some sort of building, or barn. And thanks to Nora's abnormal strength the Doctor was able to be free as well and with his sonic screwdriver he was able to scan the place that they were in,
"Seems the townsfolk here aren't fond of strangers."
"Pff yeah, it's Atlas 1416. The Dark ages." Nora states as she crosses her arms in a sleek and fashionable way,
"The what?"
"You know, the Dark ages." a silence fell upon the Doctor until Nora explained, "The time where Dust became a big thing until bad people used Dust to their advantage known as the Kilagwans and now that they are pillaging all across Remnant until they take over the world and kill anyone and everyone who tries to stop them from accomplishing their goal And now I just realize that I May have Need To Tell you that before... Whoops" she then tries to act all cutesy to the fact that she screwed the both of them over for not telling the Doctor on time,
"...How do you know all of this?" the Doctor asks in a bit of shock, but Nora just shrugs and does the (i dunno) sound "Right... Well, lets' just see what are we doing here then?" he then points his screwdriver to the door to open/scan it but unfortunately everything there was too primitive that he could not get anything to move or work,
"Okay, time to do some hands-on work." he then tries to open the door by pushing but it felt as if something was in the way, like a bolder or a crate and he simply can't get it to open,
"um, doc."
"not now Nora, I got this!"
"Doc."
"Just a little elbow grease nothing to worry about"
"Hey, Doctor!"
"Oh, What? What is It!?" he says, but Nora just walked up to him and 'Pulled' the doors open to see the way out, "Oh... I knew that I was just testing you." but to the look on Nora's face she had an eyebrow raised,
"... Right! Well, come on then." he responds after a brief pause of awkward demeanor.
Once they have got out of this barn looking place they discovered that it wasn't a sort of barn but rather a sort of storage to keep items like food and supplies, the Doctor suspected this by seeing how they seem to be near a real barn with animals going in and a few crates of supplies were nearby,
"Where do ya reckon we are Doc?" Nora said with a western accent as it does seem as if they were in the mid-west,
"Don't know, but I think we should stay hidden for now." the Doctor says as he picks up a nearby blanket on one of the crates and hands it to Nora,
"Why? We can take em'," she says as she takes the cloth and begins to imitates a flexing pose, but the Doctor continues,
"We can but what they did was out of fear and instinct and we can't fault them for that. They are just people, slightly primitive people," he says as he pats himself looking for his Screwdriver, "And as such we need to keep our distance and make sure we don't mess with this sort of timeline."
"What about Salem? Is she gonna be alright?" she says with a bit of worry, but to the Doctor's response he takes out his Screwdriver and assures her,
"This is her time, her home. I'm sure she'll be alright." Nora then sighed with a bit of relief until the Doctor says, "On the other hand the TARDIS doesn't take us anywhere I didn't want to go unless it's important."
"Important how?"
"Well. Anything that can threaten the whole of the universe... or just the planet."
"Oh, that's reassuring."
"Eh, not my first time doing this."
"Pff yeah, we saw you save a whole planet of robots, I think I know what to expect."
"Oh believe me Nora, when you're with me nothing in this whole universe will make you expect anything, it's all a surprise. Come on, let's see where they've taken little Salem." and with that being said, both he and Nora set off into the nearby woods right at the side of the town, where in that direction awaits the mountain side.
During a travel to the mountain back in the sight of where the house of little Salem, the shadowy figure that was there earlier looks around the house for one last time as if he was in a haste to look for whatever was so important in this particular house, as he scuffled around the whole place this person heard a squeak in the floorboard, just one of them and to this certainty this figure began to rip through the floor in search of whatever is important until finally what was down there was a foreign object from the stars, not of this world and most likely not for any benefits to Remnant.
Back with Nora and the Doctor they arrived at where they suspected was little Salem and possibly where her home is as well, but by the time they had got there they could see that they people are afraid, but what could it be? The Grimm? The Kilagwans? This gave wonder to the Doctor's ears as he signals Nora who was putting branches on her head to make herself look like a moose, for some reason, to follow him as he wanted to see why would these people be afraid of every little thing around them, but before the Doctor could hear what they are saying a rustle in the bushes was heard and he looked back quickly to see what it was, but what he found was that Nora was gone, where could she have gone to? Did something take her? This made the Doctor nervous and proceeded to look for Nora by calling her out by name, but not too loud as he still didn't want to be spotted and be known to have escaped.
He looked around already be in a horrid state of fear he calls Nora over and over until he hears a weird growling sound coming from the trees, he walks over to these trees to see what is making that sound, as he readies his Screwdriver to whatever monster he might come across a fast blur of Pink pounces on him right where the noise came from, it was Nora with a make-shift bark tree mask, this spooked the Doctor for a while but then came to a relieved sigh seeing it was Nora doing her shenanigans,
"BooRah! I Am The Tree Keeper! To Pass my Home You Must Face me In a Challenge!" Nora says in a sort of old lady, mixed with witch voice, but the Doctor just gets up, dusted himself off and tells Nora,
"Come off it Nora, no time to be fooling around at the moment, we need to find Salem she might be in some danger."
"Oh, sorry." Nora's body language then shows a sign of sadness with the weird mask thing still on her face, "But do you think she might like this? It's kinda cool, right? Made it myself." she bounces back,
"I'm sure she'll like it, now please let's just find her."
"Oki-day!" she then salutes and then she takes the mask off and puts it in a safe place.
As they progressed on they then came across some more townsfolk working on what appears to be a sort of windmill but much shorter and the wind blades seemed too fat to be able to pick up any speed, but as it seems to absurd the Doctor did recognize from somewhere, but he wasn't sure were. This thought was broken as one of the people spotted them out of their imprisonment and the whole place started to freak out, and instead of trying to catch Nora and the Doctor again they stayed away, they kept their distance and went back to their homes to a safe haven, this confused the both of them as they have no idea what the heck was going on, but as they looked at each other they both heard a cry for help, it was Salem's voice and they both rushed to where that cry for help came from they both stopped and saw that a man with a large cloak stood in front of little Salem in a protective position as a large beast stood in front of them both, it was a Manticore! A Lion type Grimm that stood 30 feet tall and had razor-like fangs, the Doctor saw this and said,
"Salem!" the little girl heard her name and turned around to see them both and reached out to them for help, but for some unexplained reason the Manticore only focused on Salem and when she reached out her hand to them it focused on them too, and so it runs and attacks them.
"hey, doc. that's a, that's a pretty big cat... RUUUUUN!" Nora said with at first with a nonbinary emotion on her face like Blake but as it grew closer she changed her expression to a fear, and they both ran like crazy as there is No Way they could take on something like that since they've never seen anything like that, but this is where that cloaked man comes into play, after grabbing little Salem and taking her out of harms way this man then runs with high speeds to this Grimm and climbs up its leg, grab hold of its tail, and launches himself up on this thing's back and as he runs along the spine of this thing he stops and pulls out a Dust crystal and uses it to stab this thing in a separating joint of it spine, this may seem to do noting at first but as this man pulls out another Dust crystal he jumps and launches it to the same place as the one he just put, causing it to explode and splitting this monstrous beast in half.
(OH GOD! So sorry for the absence, my internet went out for a while and had to use mt phone's data to type what I had left to this thing. Yeah. Sorry about that, but hey look, a chapter, *yaaay* well anyway I should get back to writing more cause I got an ass-load of time since I haven't got accepted into any Job this whole goddamn time I might as well blow off my time writing the ideas of this whole story. So see you soon most likely. Bye-Bee)