The Who Tales-

Adric's Labyrinth

Set during "Castrovalva"…

Through the courtyards and corridors of the Dwellings of Simplicity on Castrovalva, there were four sets of running footsteps. And all four sets of footsteps were in quite a hurry.

'Come on! We must find the Portreeve!!' the Doctor exclaimed, leading the group. Behind him was Nyssa, and behind her was Tegan, who asked worriedly, 'Should you really be running, Doctor?'

Marty Burton brought up the back of the group, and lagged behind, exhausted from excessive amounts of running.

They ran down a flight of steps. 'Hurry!' the Doctor cried. Rolling her eyes, Marty murmured, 'We heard you the first time…'

'We must hurry!'

As the ran past that damned square for the hundredth time, Marty gazed out over the courtyard. 'This place has become quite a labyrinth…' she noted, and to no one in particular.

Had you been watching from a displaced point-of-view, you would've seen the four time travelers running through an upside-down corridor. On the mirrored, upright side below them, a girl about Marty's age with long brunette hair and brown eyes, wearing a billowy white shirt, gold vest, and jeans ran in the opposite direction. 'Hoggle!! Where've you gone?!' she called.

Marty glanced down and saw her, and a vague look of recognition passed over her face.

The group hurried down another flight of steps. Lurking in a corner was a great mass of orangeish fur; it resembled some people's idea of a yeti. No one but Marty really seemed to notice it, as it sat stacking rocks. Then a smaller furry creature in Renaissance-style clothes riding a dog approached it. 'Brother Ludo!' cried the furry thing. 'Have you yet found our lady?'

On another balcony they went. Waddling towards them was a dwarf with a face like gnarled tree bark. He bumped into Tegan, who merely muttered, ''Scuse me,' and kept following the others.

'Hey! Watch where you're going!!' he cried. When Marty gazed over her shoulder to take a better look, she stepped on the undone shoelace of her blue high-tops and fell to the ground.

'Aagh!' She sucked in her breath. The ginger-haired girl landed on her knees. 'That freakin' hurt…' She examined her skinned palms, though when she looked up, she saw a pair of booted feet in very close proximity to her nose. 'Having trouble, Marty?'

Marty looked up, then stood up. Sloped lazily against a doorway was a glittery man with blondish hair and a smirking face. His eyes were one brown, one blue, and he tapped his knee with a stick while spinning clear orbs in the other hand.

'Aw, shit.'

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And I'll let you guess what happened from there…

"Labyrinth" is my new favourite movie. I was driven to watch it by the great AsheRhyder of deviantART's "Roommates" comic series. It's brilliant, read it nao: .com/art/Roommates-58800328

Anyway, it's a completely amazing and hilarious film. When I watched "Castrovalva" on New Year's Eve, this idea was sort of mulling itself over in my head, but since I technically hadn't seen the movie yet, I couldn't write it. Now I have. (Because I'm really bored and it's all I can think to do before Mum sends me off to bed.) It's absolutely the best movie ever, watch it or "I keel you!!".

Hahah, crappiest descriptions of Sarah, Ludo, Sir Didymus, Hoggle, and Jareth EVUR. But you can't blame me for trying.

Of course Marty knows them. She knows everybody. XD

I think I had another idea for "Who Tales" floating around my brain. And look forward to "The Doctor Kidnapped Sora!", a spinoff of "Who Tales" which I'm fairly sure I've mentioned already.