appologies that it took so long to get this chapter up, but I decided that I would go beat Kingdom Hearts. Now that it's beaten (and that I want the next game) I can write without getting distracted (I hope, anyways)

note: I don't own Coldplay or any of their songs

"Snow?" was the first word out of the Doctor's mouth when he stepped out of the TARDIS. "It shouldn't be snowing here!" His thoughts were interrupted when he was hugged. He looked down to see Xavier.

"You're back!" Xavier said happily.

"Did you miss us?" Alice asked, as the young boy went over and hugged her too.

"How long were we gone?" the Doctor asked, walking slowly towards the village. "And what happened? Why is it snowing?"

"It's been two years" Xavier answered, then looked at the village. "The tribesmen from the other side of the island took over. I don't know about the snow, but it's ruined everything. All fruit and trees and other plants have died, the smoothie hut had gone out of business, and all the trade ships have stopped coming."

"That's not good." The Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver and pointed it at the sky, where dark storm clouds were pouring out snow. "This isn't good," he said after a moment. "Definitely not good." He turned to Xavier. "Any possible way I can speak to the Tribe leader?"

"Who are you?" the Tribe leader asked, looking up from his game of cards. "Who let him in? I'm busy!"

"I'm the Doctor, I've come to ask you a few things."

"I am busy, you can come back later."

"No, I'm afraid I can't. The snow is destroying the island, I would like to get some answers before it's totally irreversible." The Doctor sat down in front of the tribe leader and looked him in the eye. "Why are you doing this to the village?"

The Tribe leader put down the cards in his hand and sighed. "I doubt you would understand. I used to be the king of the tribe back home, until I was unfairly accused of treason. I went from king to lowly tribesman overnight

"And the rest of the tribe just loved their new king. Apparently he was better than me. I heard that there was another town over on this side of the island, I thought I would make a living here."

"'Make a living'!" the Doctor asked, enraged. "Everyone's scared to death of you!"

"Point?"

"They people out there want you dead! You've ruined their lifestyle, their trade, everything! They can't make a living anymore! Keep up like this and you'll die too! Is that worth being King?"

The Tribe leader didn't say anything.

The Doctor took a few breaths. "Besides, what's with the snow anyways? How did you manage that?"

"We did not."

"What did you mean you didn't?"

"The snow had nothing to do with us," the Tribe leader repeated. "We did not cause it, and we wish for it to go as much as everyone else does."

The Doctor reported what he had found out to Xavier and Alice later. "What could be causing it then?" Alice asked.

Xavier looked out to the village. They were standing on the same path with the stone wall they had stood on ages ago, with the mountains to the right and village to the left. "Maybe it's the birds" he said quietly. "I haven't seen them in ages. Maybe they don't like the tribe that took over and sent the snow in attempt to get rid of them."

The Doctor took a second to think about that. "It is highly likely, but I thought I took all the birds back to their home."

"Maybe they thought they should do the island a favor."

The Doctor shook his head. "I don't think so. They would know that the snow would ruin the island. But that doesn't mean the two things aren't connected…"

"Maybe it's because the birds left that it started to snow" Alice suggested.

"That would make sense," the Doctor admitted. "Considering they are aliens, there could have been something they were doing to make this place habitable while they were living here."

"So what are we going to do?" Alice asked "Should we bring them back?"

"Don't go!" Xavier said. "You just came back, you can't leave me again! I don't want to wait another two years!"

"We'll be right back" Alice promised.

"If it would make you feel better, Alice could stay here" the Doctor added.

"Hey! I'm not agreeing to that!"

Both of the boys looked at her with pleading eyes. Alice groaned and rolled her eyes. "You've got to be kidding me" she muttered.

As soon as the Doctor returned with the birds, the effect on the land was almost immediate. It stopped snowing, and the sun started beating down hard. The snow was already starting to melt.

"That was effective!" Xavier said happily.

"How do they do that?" Alice asked

"Basic compact teraforming," the Doctor said. "It's in their feathers; it makes it so wherever they go they can live without having to adapt to the environment themselves."

"Now we've just got to get rid of the tribesmen." Xavier looked out at the village, where everything was starting to go back to normal.

"Do you need help with that?"

Xavier shook his head. "Nah, the villager's have got hope to fight back now. And I'm sure Beth wants revenge for the destruction of her smoothie hut. This shouldn't take long." He grinned at the two of them, and then ran down the slope to go help out.

The villagers got rid of the tribesmen quickly. Apparently it was extremely easy to just convince them to leave and go to an island that was a week's travel away by boat. Whether not that island existed was a different story.

Xavier returned to the hill where he had left Alice and the Doctor, only to find them gone. Quickly making a decision, Xavier ran to the other side of the hill. The Doctor's blue box thing was still there, which meant they had to be too.

He found them in the smoothie hut. "There he is!" the Doctor called when he entered. "Come on over, we got you a smoothie!"

Xavier smiled, and sat down at the table with them. Alice flashed him a smile and pushed a smoothie across the table to him. It didn't happen to be one of his favorite flavors, but it wasn't a terrible flavor either, so he didn't mind. "Thanks," he said.

"You're village is one strange village, you know that?" Alice laughed.

"I know"

"I've seen stranger" the Doctor commented

"I bet you have"

The Doctor smiled and took a drink of his smoothie. "Just goes to show, life is persistent no matter what." His smile changed to a grin, and he lifted his glass to the air. "Viva la Vida!"

Xavier laughed and lifted his glass also. "Long live life!" he replied.

Alice just laughed.