"We're going on a field trip!" Koschei announced, dramatically pointing outside the window. He posed heroically before his group.
Theta clapped his hands enthusiastically, "A field trip!"
"A field trip?" Ushas repeated dryly, she was slightly thrilled by the idea but wouldn't give Koschei the satisfaction of seeing it.
"We're not allowed." Magnus frowned, folding his arms, he leaned back, supporting his head against the wall, "And how can ten students sneak out of academy grounds without getting noticed?"
Koschei's grin didn't slip away, "We'll be going in three groups-"
"Where are we going, by the way?" Drax interrupted, Koschei shot an wary look in his direction. Drax smiled feebly. He hadn't been listening for the past ten minutes of Koschei's talk.
"Just in a Tardis. See the controls, perhaps test drive one." Excitement interrupted in the classroom.
"But time lords are not allowed anywhere near one till fifty!" Millennia said frightfully.
"We're not any ordinary time lords, we're the Deca." Koschei smirked, everyone burst out with excitement.
"If we get caught, we're in big trouble." Vansell interrupted, he sat straight in his chair, his grey eyes firm, "And it won't be detention, it will be exclusion. Permanent."
The excitement immediately died. Koschei scowled but listened intently to Vansell.
"If any of you go on this 'trip' I will inform the teachers. And not only about the trip, I will tell them everything. The unauthorised experiments, the building of unstable devices, the stealing of dangerous tonics…" Vansell let his gaze glide around to every pale face in the room and landed on Koschei. Koschei kept his expression clean from any emotion. The students turned to one another in silent horror, they known Vansell WOULD tell the teachers. That mainly due to why Theta called him 'Nosebung' when he spoke about him to Koschei.
Koschei spoke calmly, "That's not wise Vansell, you see there's nine of us who do want to go on this trip." Vansell's smug dropt. Koschei continued, "Sure, you can tell on us, and yes, there is a chance that we'll get into trouble. But, we will certainly drag you down with us." He said lightly, a false sweet tone in his voice. Fear struck from behind Vansell's glasses. There was a few seconds of complete silence. In that silence Vansell calculated the outcome. Finally he opened his mouth to respond, "Fine, I won't tell. But I'm not going, because you will be caught."
"Good." Koschei smiled, giving a pale Theta a wink.
The group of three students trenched across the red grass. It was night, the young time lords could hardly see what was ahead of them. Koschei, Theta and Ushas walked in line hand in hand. Koschei had counted the number of steps towards the batch of Tardis's during the day. 237 steps to be exact. He told his friends to link hands so not to get lost.
"This is stupid, why did I say agree to this? Can't believe I'm walking around in the middle of the night, outside academy grounds with two idiots." Ushas complained, she had been complaining since they sneaked out of the main doors of the academy. Theta and Koschei worked on a mechanism to keep passing teacher's attention away from them. It laid around their necks like a necklace with a piece of metal at the end. "As long as we keep to the shadows, we won't get noticed." Theta explained to Ushas before slipping the necklace around her. "It's like we're ghosts." Koschei added, making what he would call 'ghostly sounds' to creep Ushas out.
"Here we are." Koschei said finally, finally seeing the warm light of the tardis peeping through the door. Theta rushed passed him before he could give the all clear. Koschei let out a sigh, and followed after him. Theta's brown eyes darted everywhere, the floor, the monitors, the ceiling, the buttons.
"Thet, we can't stay for long, this Tardis will be checked in another fifteen minutes." Koschei smiled, more interested in Theta's animated expressions than the Tardis itself. Ushas was studying the buttons. Koschei sighed sadly, gliding his fingers across the console, it will be a very long time until they get the chance to drive a Tardis.
He felt the familiar rhythm of drumming at the back of his mind. Slightly louder than usual, urging him to hijack the Tardis and kill the other two students. It would be easy, it would simply take a few minutes. Koschei shook his head, warily forcing the drumming to the back of his mind. He could never kill. And certainly won't kill Theta, he was his best friend. He ignored the horrible thoughts and turned back to reality.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Theta danced around the Tardis, trying to catch every detail, every part of the Tardis as soon as possible. Ushas reached out to turn a dial on the monitor, Koschei stopped her, "No, don't touch anything." he warned, "The teachers inspect everything. If they see a tiny difference, they will inform those of higher ranks. And before we realise it, they will find out it was us."
Ushas pouted. "Tell that to your blond friend." Koschei gave her a questioning look, turning his gaze back to Theta.
Who was gone.
"Oh no." Koschei whispered.
Theta wandered around the golden narrow corridor. Helplessly opening and closing doors. He remembered the way he came in, except the Tardis removed the door. It was as if the Tardis was playing with him. Every door he opened led to a garden or an library. He sometimes opened the same door the second time to see a completely different room. Many occasions a room was blocked by a brick wall or was completely empty.
He began to feel panic creep up, if he won't get out soon, the time lords would find him. Or remain in a loop forever. The loop was garden, garden, empty, wall, library, kitchen, library, garden, garden, empty, wall, library, kitchen, library. Theta felt like his head was about to explode, he couldn't take it anymore, the constant changing.
"KOSCHEI!" He yelled to the walls. It was useless, no one could possibly hear him. He was locked inside the Tardis. Forever.