Chapter 1: Arrival and Questions
The Doctor had been through almost 10 centuries of phone box travel. He'd faced down numerous and deadly enemies in his lifetime: Cybermen, Slitheen, Daleks, Davros, The Master, and Rassilon to name a few. He'd said goodbye to countless friends and family: Donna, Martha, Mickey, Sarah Jane, Jenny…Rose. But he had never in his 10 centuries of phone box travel had encountered the withering stare of Amy Pond.
"Well, Doctor…where do we go to now?" Amy asked with some force in her voice.
The Doctor started fidgeting with his bow tie as he thought about where they were going to go. He started looking around the control room of the TARDIS when he noticed a button he swore that he would never use again as the last time he did it…was more than a little unpleasant.
"Well, Amy…why don't we let the TARDIS decide this one." The Doctor said as he went to the button that he swore that he would never ever use again.
Amy looked a little shocked as she walked somewhat close to the Doctor. She noticed that he seemed a little apprehensive as he drew nearer to a small black button that wouldn't have seemed out of place on a video game machine.
"Nervous about something, Doctor?" Amy asked as she leaned on the Center Console.
The Doctor looked at her as he was praying (yes actually praying) to almost any god or goddess in the universe and beyond as he hoped that the button would send them to someplace nice for a change.
"You see this button…this button is something that I have never in almost 700 years wanted to press after a…rather disastrous incident involving me and the Queen of Daxonne VII." The Doctor said as he was still contemplating on pushing it.
"What kind of incident?" Amy asked without a clue to his now spreading blush on his face.
"I sort of appeared in the middle of her bath" The Doctor said as he set his hand next to the button, ready to press it.
"So, if you appeared in her bathroom…" Amy said as she was confused.
"No, it was in her bathtub…while she was in it…and it was night…" The Doctor said, hoping that she would get the hint.
Amy continued to look confused before a blush slightly spread across her face and she started gaping like a fish. The Doctor decided that that was enough stalling and pressed the button. There was a loud groaning sound as the TARDIS started to go off into a random destination in space and time.
"DOCTOR! IF WE APPEAR IN SOMEONE'S BATH I'M GONNA…" Amy started shouting before she was drowned out by the TARDIS.
To say Tamara Cousland was having a bad day would garner you with a withering glare. To say that it would get better would just get you laughed at.
'Great, first Alistair figures out that me and Leliana might just be starting to have something more than a simple friendship with one another. Then Morrigan and Wynne get into a small argument over whether the Chantry has the right to hunt down apostates. Now Sten decides the fact (or is it already knows) that I'm a woman and therefore I can't be on the battlefield as a warrior. Can this day get any worse!" Tamara thought as she was looking on at the vast chilly expanse that was the Frostback Mountains.
All of a sudden she started to hear a strange sound. Almost like a sick dragon trying to get one last breath before it dies.
"Of course it can," Tamara said to herself as she got her shield off her back and her sword 'Starfang' off the other slot on the back of her armor.
The others, she noticed, where getting their various weapons and spells ready. Leliana was readying her Ironbark Longbow with a fire arrow, ready to pierce and burn whatever was making the sound. Morrigan was starting her Spider talent from her Shapeshifter spell set, making her an ideal supplement to Tamara's own talents. Wynne held her staff at the ready and moved back from the others incase healing and larger spells were necessary. All in all, the little group was ready for anything.
Suddenly they started to hear voices coming from around the bend in the road.
"Well…" They heard a male voice say with a kind of amusement.
"At least it isn't a bath." They heard a female voice say with a slight accent.
Tamara grew a little curious as she had heard only one other person speak with that accent: Sister Justine at the Denerim Chantry. She motioned for the little group to move forward slowly.
'Remember…Leliana takes first shot before falling back, Wynne stays back with healing and minor offensive spells, Morrigan and I rush in to take damage with Morrigan pulling hit and run and me pulling threat.' Tamara whispered to her group as they took positions.
The small group got closer and heard the female voice say, "But it's also bad that I'm dressed for summer and its bloody freezing out here. Wait here while I change," before they heard something like a door slam shut.
They got close enough to notice a sight that only seemed to confuse them: A strange man standing in front of a blue box.
Morrigan changed back from her spider form with an odd look on her face.
'Morrigan…what is it?' Tamara whispered/asked her friend.
'That one…the 'man' standing there is more than he appears to be. I can sense a…powerful aura around him. Something that screams power beyond measure…and age, and wisdom, and…and danger.' Morrigan said with an ashen face.
Tamara then looked at the man in a closer light. The man had brown hair that looked kind of long for his frame. His general face had given her the impression of Teryn Loghain at a younger age and without a broken nose. He wore some kind of coat with a white shirt of some kind with straps of cloth and metal holding his trousers up. Said trousers were brown and rolled up at the foot and covering some kind of black boot.
What drew Tamara were the eyes: Normal everyday brown like the hair but something was off about them from her view. She noticed that underneath the mirth and knowledge in them, was some kind of…age and experience that she knew that she would never even come close to seeing. She saw people with those kind of eyes once: veterans telling her about their time in the war against Orlais. Their experiences were not pleasant.
'Maker's breath! It's almost like the story of Valan and Dorma. Only this man is both parts.' Leliana exclaimed as she looked.
Wynne had a funny look on her face as she looked at the man. Tamara noticed this and wondered if it was her that had noticed the man in front of the blue box or if it was the spirit in her.
'Wynne?' Tamara asked, again without disturbing the man in the distance.
Wynne took a moment before asking, 'Remember our conversation earlier at camp?"
'Yes…did the spirit helping you encounter this man before?' Tamara asked.
'No…but it senses that this is a…kindred spirit in a way. Almost like it had been with him at one point it it's life.' Wynne said as she started to stand from her crouch.
"You know, if you wanted to talk to me…all you had to do was not skulk around like a bunch of thieves." The man said as he was leaning against the box.
They all stood up and walked towards the man, noticing that he was looking at them from the moment they were looking at him. What surprised them was that the box had the words 'POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX' in bold letters on all four sides of the box…in Fereldan.
"Alright, Doctor…Who are these people?" The redheaded woman asked as she stepped out from the box.
The Doctor had leaned against the TARDIS and noticed that there was a group of four people coming up the path from the trees. The one in the back had on what looked like red robes, had white hair and was carrying a staff. She looked a little odd with rocks falling off of her robes from nowhere.
'Kindred spirit of a sort.' The Doctor thought as he went on with his observations.
The redhead with a white/black bow with a fire arrow at the ready whore thick leather armor with studs in it. She looked like she had the air of a monk before he quickly and quietly probed her mind and saw that she had more history than her aura suggested.
'Monk with a dark past…interesting.' Thought the Time Lord as he moved on.
The other one with a staff looked like she didn't even know the concept of modesty as she wore bits and baubles of silk, beads, feathers and ribbons. She had on enough makeup to flaunt her feminine charms and had an air of superiority before she changed into a giant spider.
'Very cool…this is starting to be my favorite destination with the Randomizer.' The Doctor thought as he turned his gaze to the final person in the group, obviously the leader.
The head of the group wore black and gold armor with what looked like silver underlay. The armor had a design of a pair of gryphon back to back with a crown over their head. She, and it was obviously a she from the general look, had dark makeup and dark hair. But what startled him were the eyes. The eyes were the color of chipped ice and held a slight mirth as well as sadness and anger. But there was something else that he noticed from the eyes…the fact that he could immediately sense both her and something darker lurking behind her…like The Master or The Beast.
He knew they were whispering about him…and about the strangeness of the situation. The only thing is…if his memory was correct, than this is the Earth in the year 3 trillion. By this point it was millennia since humanity left their home galaxy. This planet only had sparks and remnants of ages past…and by this point all trace of everything from the past was erased from the Earth itself.
'So why is this presence so familiar?' The Doctor had asked himself as he finished his mini inspection of the newcomers.
"You know, if you wanted to talk to me…all you had to do was not skulk around like a bunch of thieves." The Doctor said as he waited for the group to exit.
The Doctor heard Amy open the door and saw that she had redressed for winter with a winter jacket, long sleeved t-shirt, heavy pants and winter boots.
"Alright, Doctor…Who are these people?" Amy asked as she stepped out from the box.
"Right, Amy Pond…meet our new friends." The Doctor said as he started the introductions.
"I am Morrigan," The dark-haired woman introduced herself.
"I am Leliana," The redhead with the slightly French accent said.
"I am Wynne of the Circle of Magi," Wynne introduced herself.
"Tamara Cousland of the Grey Wardens…now who are you?" The leader of the group asked after her introduction.
"I'm The Doctor and this is Amy." The Doctor introduced himself and Amy.
"I don't understand, Doctor Who?" Wynne asked.
The Doctor smiled and said, "Just the Doctor. So, where are you four heading?"
And that is chapter one.
Pairings:
11/Amy
Female Cousland/Leliana
More to follow (Maybe)
Disclaimer: I don't own Dragon Age: Origins or Doctor Who. EA/Bioware and the BBC own these separately.