"Hang on," Alice said, recognizing the direction they were heading "why are we heading back to the TARDIS?"

"We're going to do a bit of traveling, going to somewhere less public." The Doctor replied as they rounded the corner. A sudden scream from a bit farther away, stopped him in his tracks. "You've got to be kidding me," he muttered, changing direction and heading towards the sound of the scream.

They reached a crowd that was gathered around some random house, where the sprinklers were going haywire. Water was going everywhere. "Back! Get back!" the Doctor called, shoving his way to the front of the crowd and pushing everyone behind him. Alice reinforced the 'get back' idea and stayed back.

"We're meeting a bit sooner than you had planned aren't we, hmm?" the Doctor called to the water, which was starting to writhe and twist in the air as it shot from the sprinklers.

"What is he doing?" someone from the crowd asked, as another asked: "is he mad?" Alice ignored their comments and said nothing. She stood and watched the Doctor as he addressed this odd alien life form.

"Yeah, yeah, I know what you are… but I would like to know who!" The Doctor shouted at the water, and Alice could see why people could think he was crazy. The alien was either communicating telepathically, or speaking in a language they all couldn't understand, or just not responding. "Where you're from even" the Doctor said, as if offering suggestions "why you're here?"

The water did nothing, but the sprinklers did switch off. The Doctor muttered something under his breath that sounded quite a bit like swearing. Maybe it was in a different language…

"What is it?" Alice asked, going over to him.

"I just made a fool of myself in front of a crowd of people" the Doctor replied, quite tersely "made myself look like a madman. What could possibly be wrong?" He glared at Alice, then softened up "sorry, but still… over nine hundred years of having a good reputation for communicating with aliens, I come down to this."

"Well, what are we going to do now?" Alice asked, noticing the crowd of people was dispersing "going to go after it?"

"Yeah," the Doctor replied, pulling out his sonic screwdriver. He started buzzing it over the area "I'll get a reading on this and we should be able to track it easily." He waited for a second before running back towards the TARDIS "come on!"

Alice followed, and watched with mild interest as his screwdriver and the TARDIS swapped info, and the screen of the TARDIS changed its picture to show a map, with a little moving blue dot. Now the chase really began.

"It's moving again!" Alice called to the Doctor, who was looking for something.

"Pull the lever!" he replied

Alice glanced over all the TARDIS controls and called back "which one!"

"The one on the right!"

Alice looked at the controls for a moment before pulling a lever on the right which she desperately hoped was the right lever. It apparently was, because the TARDIS started its whirring as it followed the destination route of the monster. "Is flying the TARDIS really this easy?" she asked, giddiness creeping into her voice for some reason.

"No!" the Doctor replied, wandering back with his nose in a book "I just have it set to follow the water creature wherever it goes. And we're only traveling across the planet, not through time and space."

"So what you're trying to say is that I'm not actually flying the TARDIS"

"Exactly."

Alice sighed. "It's stopped, should we go do something?" She glanced over her shoulder at the Doctor, who came over and looked at the screen and where the alien was. He shook his head.

"To public a place, it won't want to talk to us."

"So we're just going to sit here and wait for it to move again?" Alice asked, the Doctor didn't reply, for he had gone looking for something again. Alice sighed and watched the little blue dot patiently. As soon as it started moving again she hit the lever and the TARDIS took off again.

"Here we go" the Doctor said, causing Alice to jump. He had snuck up behind her. "Now we can stop." He started out the doors of the TARDIS before she could even register what was going on. Alice followed him, wondering why this spot was so different from all the others.

She didn't even need to take three steps to find out why this place was so different. They were on an empty beach, the water spreading out as far as the eye could see. "You sure this is a good idea?" she asked "there's water everywhere."

"I'm positive" the Doctor replied, sounding quite sure of himself. Alice still thought otherwise. But she couldn't stop him as he strode over to the water and cast his glance out to sea. "Right then," he called "willing to talk now!"

The water reared up and took the form of a giant sea serpent. "There we go!" the Doctor said, grinning like a maniac "now then, why are you here?"

"So much water" the serpent replied

"Right, any other reason!"

The serpent snapped at him, and the Doctor took a step back. "Oi!" he yelled "no need for that! I'm trying to help!"

"Then leave me be!" the serpent hissed

"And let you kill more innocent people? I think you've done enough!"

The serpent snapped at him again, and he took another step back. "Just let me help!" he called again angrily. Alice watched and started to notice something. The serpent was toying with him, and the tide was coming in.

"Doctor!" Alice shouted "the tide!"

"Not now!"

"Doctor! The tide is coming in!" she shouted again.

"What!" the Doctor asked, looking over at her. But it was too late, the water was already snaking around his ankles, and he was pulled under. The serpent let out a satisfied cackle.

"NO!" Alice screamed