Author Note: Thanks so much to xXx Misshaunted xXx for yet another really sweet review. I know this story's odd, but so are alot of things on here...and so am I really! So anyways, I hope you enjoy it, and remember the review button is there for a reason! Even if you don't like the story, tell me what you think! Please!

Oh and I know I said this story was a humorous one...well I know its not at the moment, but hopefully the ending should be...and I can't remember what rating I put this on, so I'm changing it to T for slight bad language and lots of blood...oh and death to...sorry!

Enjoy!

When Mia woke in the morning, she was in a cage deep underground. Only a thin sheet of sand covered the bottom and in a corner sat a plate of raw meat and a bowl of water.

Mia was hungry, but the thought of eating raw meat disgusted her, so she left the plate well alone, took a few sips (or rather licks) from the water bowl, then began studying her surroundings.

Sunlight filtered through iron bars up the top of a ramp at one end ofthe cage. Mia launched herself up the ramp, then dug her claws into the sandstone for as long as possible while she peered out through the bars.

She couldn't see much, just more sand and a large stone wall. It wasn't too high to climb over, if she could just get passed the bars. She heard a cheer from somewhere and then the bars shot back, startling her. She lost her grip and slid back down to the bottom of her cage again.

Seeing that the bars were open, she paused for a moment incase it was a trap, then leapt out through the opening, ready to make her bid for freedom.

What she hadn't known, however, was that the ramp had led into an arena, and there was no way out of that either. The walls weren't particularly high, but the cage and bars infront of them were.

Damn it! She thought angrily as she turned to go back down into the cage. But the bars had closed again. Oh this isn't good, Mia realised as she saw the stands round the arena begin to fill up. She had to get out of here - now.

Taking a huge run up, she leapt at the wire fencing, trying to claw her way over the top. She'd almost made it, but then guards on the other side were jabbing her with sticks, forcing her to lose her grip and drop back into the sand again.

"Get off!" she growled in protest, knowing by now that the people couldn't understand her. But it made her angry that she was being treated like this. Being made to fight for someone else's pleasure wasn't her idea of a good day out, no matter how much Jack had promised her this trip would be.

A grating sound from over the other side of the arena told Mia that another set of bars had opened. Perhaps she could escape that way. But as she neared the opening, another tiger leapt out, snarling and growling.

"Rose?" Mia asked hesitantly as she backed away. The tiger didn't answer, but just advanced towards her.

"Ok, not Rose...um...Tobias?" she guessed, remembering the name of the tiger she'd heard the men talking about. The tiger paused for a moment, then advanced on her again.

"I'll take that as a yes then...ok, um...Tobias look. I'm not really a tiger. I'm a human, who was hit by this energy bolt thing and...and..." Mia's voice trailed off as she saw the look in Tobias' eyes.

It was a look of death.

The men's words came back to haunt her as she continued to back away. Tobias'll kill her before she even has a chance to defend herself.

"Ok, I'm in a cage, with a mad killer tiger and no way out..." Mia whimpered as she came up against the metal bars. "Help!"

And then Tobias pounced, launching through the air, teeth and claws ready to rip Mia apart. She yelped and darted out of his way, but as soon as he landed, he spun on the spot and came at her again and again. One claw caught her shoulder and she yelped in pain. The crowd cheered. Mia had felt the anger boiling up inside her, threatening to explode, and that claw had been the last straw.

"Right. You want it that way...you got it,"she muttered angrily, flattening herself to the floor, ready to fight. When Tobias came for her again, she was ready and the two launched at each other, scratching, biting, ripping, clawing and tearing. Several times Tobias managed to pin Mia on her back, but she managed to free herself each time by clamping her jaws round his paw, or biting the unprotected part of his neck.

As Tobias pinned Mia against another set of bars, she felt something stroke her fur. She thought nothing of it until she heard a familiar voice.

"She's so soft."

"Jack!" she cried, hoping he could hear her. Tobias was really getting on her nerves now, so she swiped him across the face, her claw narrowly missing his eye. This made him get off and she was able to get back to her feet again. She peered through the bars and saw that Jack and the Doctor were climbing up the slope towards her.

"Jack! Doctor!" she cried in delight, but then Tobias was on her again, and his sharp claws sunk into her back.

She howled in pain and turned, fighting him off, then chasing him back across the arena, away from her friends.

oOo

Down in their cell, the Doctor and Jack had heard the commotion and scrabbled up their own ramp, grabbing the bars to help them stay up on the steep slope. They had watched the two tigers as they fought, viciously slashing at each other. One was their 'neighbour' Tobias. They recognized him because he was bigger and much more vicious than the other, much smaller tiger.

"That's an unfair fight!" Jack had exclaimed as he also noticed the size and weight difference of the two tigers. The smaller one was definately going to lose against the bigger, much older Tobias.

"She's just a youngster," the Doctor had noted as the fight brought the two closer to them. They both ducked and let go of the bars as the younger tiger was thrown on them and pinned again. Jack scrabbled up the ramp and managed to touch her fur through the bars.

"She's so soft," he'd cried in delight. This was the closest he'd ever been to a tiger, and he was loving every second of it, the Doctor could tell. The female had growled and then swiped at Tobias, who yelped in pain and fell off, allowing her to get back to her feet again. She'd peered in through the bars and growled at them, but not in a threatening way.

More like a greeting actually.

Then she'd howled in pain and chased Tobias away to the other end of the arena.

"Did you see that!" Jack cried excitedly as the tigers moved off the bars and he and the Doctor could resume their viewing positions. He was like a five year old at a zoo. "It was like she was saying hi."

The Doctor had noticed it, and he'd also noticed something else too. The tiger's eyes weren't the usual greenish yellow, but rather a deep brown, and they'd got a familiar spark in them.

"That's no tiger," he suddenly realised as the female leapt onto Tobias' back and grabbed the scruff of his neck, forcing him to the floor, much like Mia had once forced Jack to the floor when he'd refused to give her back her i-pod.

"Course it is," Jack replied as though he thought the Doctor was stupid.

"No, Jack. Look. Deep brown eyes, uses the same technique Mia used on you, recognizing us down here...I think it's Mia."

Jack obviously thought he was crazy, but when the female managed to break away from the winded Tobias, and had run back over, peering through the bars at them again, he did begin to wonder.

"Mia?" he asked cautiously and the tiger nodded frantically.

"Bloody hell!"

"Mia, what happened?" the Doctor asked as he and Jack tried to pull themselves closer to her. She'd crouched down by now, but all she could answer with was a growl.

"She can't talk," Jack realised.

"It's alright Mia. Is Rose with you?" the Doctor asked. Mia shook her head.

"Was she with you?"

Mia nodded.

Now we're getting somewhere, he thought.

"Mia, is Rose a tiger too?"

Another nod.

"Is she alright."

Mia paused, not knowing how to answer, which the Doctor took as meaning "I don't know."

"Was she when you were with her?"

A definate nod, and the Doctor sighed with relief. Then Jack's eyes flew wide in horror.

"Look out!" he cried, but it was too late.

oOo

Tobias had crept up on her, and was now using her trick against her. She was helplessly forced down into the sand, his razor sharp teeth biting into her neck. She couldn't breath. He was choking her.

The crowd's cheering seemed to be growing louder as over to one side another gate opened and a third tiger bounded out, looking confused and disorientated.

Tobias immediately let Mia go, and she fell to the floor, too badly winded to move. All she could do was call out to the other tiger "Look out!"

oOo

Rose looked around the arena in alarm. There were already two tigers in there, and pools of blood everywhere.

She saw the two tigers, one huge much older tiger, pinning a poor youngster to the ground. When he saw her, however, he let go of his original target and charged at her.

"Look out!" a voice had called, and Rose realised it was the smaller tiger, who was now laying winded in the sand, blood dribbling down her neck.

"Oh no!" Rose cried as she dodged Tobias' thundering charge and ran over to the other tiger. "Are you alright?"

"Rose?"

"Mia? Oh my god, look at you," Rose exclaimed, nuzzling Mia's nose gently.

"Look out," Mia warned, and Rose spun to see Tobias coming back for her again. She ran, as fast as she could, back down to the other end of the arena.

oOo

Tobias seemed to be ignoring Mia now that he had a new 'toy' to play with, and this allowed her to drag herself back over to the Doctor and Jack, who looked appaled at the huge gash on her neck.

"You wanted to know about Rose...see for yourself," Mia gasped and although the Doctor and Jack couldn't understand her, they saw her look somewhere and followed her eyeline towards the new tiger, who was busy dodging Tobias with athletic ease.

"Is that Rose?" Jack asked and Mia nodded.

"Are you hurt badly?" the Doctor asked as a drop of blood dripped into his hand. Mia paused for a moment, then shook her head and began dragging herself back to her feet.

"Can you dig?" he asked and Mia nodded, seeing his plan. She began clawing and scrabbling at the sand around the bars until she hit sandstone, then she frantically clawed at that aswell, but it was no use.

She looked helplessly at the Doctor, who nodded to show that he understood, then Rose and Tobias had joined them, and his two friends were forced to fight the huge tiger together.

Rose seemed to be the divertion, darting back and forth infront of Tobias, whilst Mia gathered up her remaining strength, then leapt onto his back, using the neck lock again. She would have been thrown clear almost immediately if Rose hadn't joined her, and together the two brought Tobias crashing down into the dirt, where he wriggled and growled for a moment, before laying very still.

Neither would let go until they were sure he was dead.