Authors notes: Following some advice I have gone back and expanded chapters 42, 43 and 44, to add some extra build up to the animosity Raven has for Barriss.

Chapter 45

The Sleeping Leviathan.

"I don't know how I got here." The Wizard of Oz said. "After I left Oz to return Dorothy home I got lost. I'm not sure how it all works you see." He pointed at the balloon.

"Then why were you flying it to start with?" Raven asked. But the Wizard looked clueless and unable to answer that question.

If the Doctors theory that fictional characters here could evolve to become three dimensional people was right, then clearly it hadn't happened to the Wizard of Oz, yet.

"So, what can the Wizard do for you? I've become adept at giving people brains, hearts and courage." He said going into his balloons basket and pulling out a travel case which he popped open. "I see you already have a brain on your shoulders, and courage to approach me. I think I have a spare heart in here, somewhere."

"I don't need anything like that, thank you." Raven dismissed.

"How do you expect to 'feel' without a heart?" The Wizard said, pulling a heart shaped pocket watch from his case.

"A heart just pumps blood. It doesn't 'feel'." Raven sighed.

"Yours does, maybe." He pulled out more pocket watches from his case.

"Everyone's does."

"You mean to tell me you never get a warm feeling in your heart when you're around your family or friends?" The Wizard asked.

"Yeah, it's called heartburn." She commented as he held out a heart shaped pocket watch to her chest as if trying to match one too her.

"Funny how people with a brain have the capacity to tell such fibs." He held out one to her and pushed it into her hands. "Here you go. The perfect one."

She looked at it. "It's broken." She commented, because the hands of it were still.

"Well, at least you have one now." He said.

Not wanting to argue she hung the watch behind her broach. She'll discard it later when he's not looking.

"I'm looking for my friends. A tall man with unkempt hair, dressed kind of like you; or a green girl with tattoos across her nose in a hooded cloak and skirt." She then added in a low voice. "Probably attached to him by a piece of string."

"Oh, I'm afraid I can't help you there. Oh no. I've seen hide nor hair of anyone all day." The Wizard said, packing his things away. "I landed because I wanted to go see the elephants."

"Elephants?" Raven asked.

"Yes, yes. The big elephants. I saw them from the balloon. Once I saw them, I knew I'd found land. Find them and they should lead us back to civilisation." The Wizard said, finally packing everything away.

"You're welcome to join me. We might bump into your friends along the way." That was true. If there were elephants on this spit of land then likely the Doctor would find them too.

She wasn't worried. The Doctor wouldn't just abandon her here, he'd keep looking until he found her.

Unless he's found someone better than you.

Shut it!

The Doctor will have to find her anyway. After all, she still had the TARDIS inside her head. She quickly focused in on herself and could visualise the TARDIS standing alone in a meadow, one of the more pleasant places of her own mindscape.

Satisfied the TARDIS was safe she set off after the Wizard who began walking in a particular direction.

"Do you know where you're going?" Raven asked him.

"I just figured I'll head into the fog until I hear an elephants trumpeting." He said.

"Nice plan." She rolled her eyes. "The same method blind men use." She sighed and thought for a second. "Do you have a rope?"

"Hmm? Why, yes, plenty of the stuff." The Wizard said, and Raven held out her hand for a length. "Why ask?" He handed some to her.

"You said you saw the elephants from the sky. So I'll fly up there and look for them. You keep hold of this rope so I can find my way back." She tied the rope around her waist and gave the other end to him.

"I think my ears deceive me, did you say... fly?" He asked in astonishment as Raven gently stepped off the ground and ascended into the sky. She flew for a good few minutes before she emerged above the fog. She glanced around the place, but there was no land poking up from which she could see an elephant.

But then she saw it. It was huge! Giant! It was milling around with its trunk in the air as if looking for something, or holding something up. It's eyes rolled and it spied her. It's eyes must be bigger than she was!

Quickly she dropped to the ground and gently landed next to the old fraud Wizard. His mouth flapping.

"Umm... You're not a... a... a witch are you?" He asked clearly intimidated by her.

"Yes." She answered sharply.

"Oh, umm... a good witch I hope." He chuckled.

"I'll bring death and ruin to everything." She didn't know why she said it, it just slipped out.

"Oh..." The Wizard chuckled nervously as if she was joking. "How nice."

They headed off in the general direction of the large elephant. It can't be difficult to miss, it was large enough.

Raven did wonder what a giant elephant was from, and why the Mistress might have put it here. But she was drawing a blank. Does she just hate elephants? Was it put here before? Did the Mistress even invent the Land of Fictions Censored Zone? Or was it here before and the Mistress just added to it?

As they wandered Raven and the Wizard did come across more ghostly creatures banished into this realm. First four children which were weirdly animated. They bobbed up and down with their legs still as they moved forwards, unless viewed from the front or back, then you could see their legs moving; and they looked like they were constructed out of coloured pieces of paper. They had conversed with each other, it got heated and they became foul mouthed. From then most of their speech seemed to come to a stop, covered over with a loud 'bleep' and a big black rectangle formed over their mouths masking them.

Never having seen a TV show before Raven had no idea what she was witnessing. But she guessed the bleeps were covering over offensive words, maybe.

The kids moved on but the larger of the four kids looked at Raven and the Wizard, and said. "Pft, a [Bleep] bunch of freaky emo gothic [bleep]s" and moved on.

"I hate this place." Raven said to herself.

Moving again they encountered more strange characters and scenes. But Raven just tuned them out and walked past them. She'd already had her fill talking to Doctor House earlier, she had no interest in speaking to another one.

After a small climb the ground levelled out considerably and it was getting colder. Another quick check above by Raven told her they were in this giant elephants shadow.

"Doctor!" She cried out. "Doctor?! I'm here!"

No response.

"Oh I say, there is someone in the fog over there."

Five figures were emerging from the fog. Four of them looked like they were in some kind of sharply, angular, white battle armour, or maybe they were robots. They appeared to have some sort of round, gun poking out of their chest.

"Doctor?" She questioned of the fifth person.

"That's right, my dear Raven." Said a feminine voice as the bulky form of the Impostor came into view.

Oh no, not her again. She sighed. Why couldn't she just piss off?

"This is your Doctor friend?" The Wizard of Oz asked, "I thought you said he was a man."

"The Doctor can be anything!" The Impostor shrieked at him. "I'm not surprised by this attitude coming from a character invented in the backwaters of history!"

"You know, I get the feeling she's upset." Raven said.

"Enough. I want the TARDIS, and I want the Doc... my obsolete persona." she corrected.

"Over my dead body." Raven said coolly.

"I'd love to. Unfortunately your brain needs to be alive for me to extract the TARDIS. But your body can be mangled for all I care." The Impostor spat.

"You sound more like the Doctor every day." Raven said with obvious sarcasm, rolling her eyes to get the point across.

"You really think so? I'm glad I'm taking to the role." the Impostor looked pleased.

"You don't do sarcasm, do you?" Raven stated.

"Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit." The Impostor fought back smugly.

"Easy to say for someone with no wit at all." the Demon girl shot back without missing a beat.

The Impostor swallowed. She had nothing to come back with to that.

"Robots, take them!" The purple alien cried to her escorts.

A bulb like gun extended out from their chests and fired.

Instantly Raven knelt down and cast a black shield in front of her, blocking the attack.

"You're forgetting who you're messing with!" Raven said, her hood now up and her eyes glowing. But her confidence began to fade when out of the fog more robots appeared. The Impostor meant business this time and there was no way she was going to be able to defend against so many attackers.

Raven threw up a full force field and dragged the Wizard of Oz to the ground as she was fired on from all sides. She curled her legs up to make herself as small as possible, the Wizard did the same so the shield could be both small and much stronger.

She should've remembered from her encounter with the Cybermen that this strategy was a fatal move, because unless she had someone to help her out she was trapped trying to maintain a shield with no chance of escape. Unless the robots came closer so she could blast them away, but the robots were keeping their distance.

Suddenly there was a 'Snap-hiss' and the sound of a buzz as someone leapt over them and began slicing into the robots as easily as paper.

It was Barriss Offee and her laser sword, chopping up the robots! The robots were so slow they couldn't react in time to her and her abilities as she sped around, sliced a couple and blasted a couple off their feet before driving the blade down into the robots body or slicing off its head.

"Raven!" came the Doctors voice and he ran to her and knelt down.

Raven dropped her shield almost exhausted trying to keep it up. She began to fall forwards but the Doctor caught her by her shoulders and propped her back up on her knees. "Are you alright?"

"I hate this place." She said in a tired voice. "Can we please go home now?"

"Just rest for now." the Doctor said. But one glance at Barriss and her laser sword made Raven feel shame at her lack of energy.

"No, there's nothing wrong with me." She said taking a deep breath and struggled to her feet. "I'm fine. I just need a minute." Her eye went to the Impostor who, after realising she was defeated, decided to turn tail and run.

Raven held up her hand, activated her powers and locked the Impostors legs together so she fell over. Then Raven hauled her back over to them and held her up by a black sphere around her ankles so she dangled upside down.

"Look what I've caught." Raven said flatly, but with a hint of pride. She looked at the Doctor. He was pleased.

Barriss joined them after shutting her laser sword down.

"So, this is the mysterious Impostor who wants to take over from me." The Doctor said. "I have to say, as a fan of mine I'm less than impressed."

"Impostor? I'm no Impostor, I am the Doctor."

"So I've been told." The Doctor turned to Raven. "Let her down, gently."

Raven just let the sphere vanish and the Impostor fell directly to the floor.

"Whoops..." Raven said deadpan to make it clear she did it deliberately. "I'm just so tired." She added looking the Impostor in the eye.

"Your companion is a vicious, little monster!" The Impostor spat.

The Doctor turned to Raven as if looking for her reaction.

"What?" she asked, "I am." she was serious.

The Doctor stood over one of the white robots and using a pair of jewellers screwdrivers he was carefully taking them apart.

Raven watched as he did this. She looked to Barriss who, along with the Wizard of Oz, were both keeping an eye on the Impostor.

Turning her attention back to the Doctor the goth girl decided to ask the good questions before Barriss did.

"Umm..." She murmered at first, "What are you doing?"

The Doctor looked up, a jewellers magnifying scope held to his right eye by his brow.

"I'm taking these robots apart." He answered simply.

"I meant, specifically."

The Doctor carefully removed a plate and placed it on the ground.

"These robots aren't fictional. They're real, and they're a part of this world." He said. "Like the Master Brain."

"How does that make sense?" she asked.

"I don't know. They've just always been here, and with Time Travel not officially working in this dimension I can't use the TARDIS to nip back and find out where they came from."

"I must be dreaming. You mean there's something you don't know?" Raven smirked a little and waited for his reaction.

"If I knew everything, life would be pretty boring." The Doctor commented as he removed the whole chest plate of the robot.

"So why are you taking it a part?" she asked, "are you looking for something?"

"These robots seem to have the ability to teleport in and out. I've watched them do it. If I can find what device in here preforms that function then maybe we could use it to get out of here." He said.

"You think you could work something like that?" She asked.

"It should be simple, once I find the device all I'd have to do is figure out a way to trip it." The Doctor said as he suddenly pulled out a lot of pipe, wires and circuit boards like he was ripping someones guts out. He dumped them beside him as if he already knew what they were for and knew they were useless.

"Oh..." was all she could say and she was drawing a blank on what to ask next. So she just watched and waited for him to do something.

"You have no right to hold me here!" The Impostor moaned. "I am one of the good guys, you know that makes you the bad guys!"

The Wizard of Oz looked unsure and turned to Barriss. "I say, is this true? Are we the rotters here?"

"She's delusional." Raven said sharply.

"She sounds like she has good intentions," Barriss added, "But is singularly minded about how to fulfil it."

"Exactly," The Doctor said as he extracted more of the robot. "Most of the time people aren't evil. They do what they think is right and just don't consider the cost to other people."

"She's a psychopath." Raven stated.

"That's a rather harsh statement." The Doctor said.

Raven looked deep into the Impostors eyes. "She doesn't care about helping people. She cares only about her self image."

"Don't tell me what I think, you evil Dalek!" the Impostor spat. Raven looked deep into her eyes.

"Tell me I'm wrong!" the demon girl said.

"What did you just call Raven?" The Doctor asked of the Impostor.

"What she is, an evil Dalek!" She spat.

The Doctor froze and looked like he was double checking his mind to see if he'd misheard. "You do know what a Dalek is, right?"

"Are you suggesting I don't know?" The Impostor asked as if offended. "Of course I do, I'm not uneducated."

Raven had to ask, "What is a Dalek?" Oh god, I really am becoming his companion now. Someone shoot me, quick.

"A domed shaped cyborg creature from the planet Skaro, with rather xenophobic tendencies." The Doctor said, turning back to his work. "You wouldn't want to bring one around to dinner. Their table manners are rather horrid, what with murdering the other guests, the cook, the butler, and everyone in the house." He put down his screwdrivers for a second. "But why did you call Raven one?"

"Because she said she didn't care about my cause to spread goodness and tolerance throughout the universe." The Impostor said, "She stands in the way of that mission. Therefore, she is for badness and intolerance, therefore she is a Dalek."

The Doctors eyes adopted a tired look. "As logical as that sounds..." he began, "I think Raven is... many things." He said looking directly at her. "But she's not a Dalek."

"Of course she is, what else could she be?"

"A human to start with. Though a very cold one. She could freeze a pyrodite with that stare."

"You shouldn't joke about such matters." The Impostor said sharply.

"Why not? It's one of my character traits." The Doctor said.

"What I want to fight are serious injustices, and you just sit and joke about them as if they were nothing. People will take you more seriously if you act more seriously."

"I think the Impostor is trying to tell you how to be the Doctor 'properly.'" Raven said flatly, but with a smirk.

"Oh really?" The Doctor laughed "After over nine hundred and fifty years I guess I need someone to put myself right."

"Just another reason why I shall become the greatest Doctor ever and..." she stopped talking. The Impostor rolled her tongue around in her mouth before sticking it out and she tried to get it to move. But it looked like it had no life in it at all.

"Whoops." Raven gave a small, dark laugh. She then caught the Doctor looking at her. "What? I've just paralysed her tongue, not killed it. I just thought we could enjoy some peace."

"What was wrong with a gag in her mouth?" The Doctor asked.

"This way she knows I mean business."

The Doctor soon extracted what he wanted from the robots and put them in his trans-dimensional pockets.

Now they followed the slope of the ground downwards, back towards the sea. The Doctor claimed he could navigate using a combination of patterns on the ground and the perfect, rhythmic beating of his hearts. Raven wasn't so convinced because she saw him sneak a compass out of his pocket and gave it a look.

"I have to say, when I left Oz, I never expected to land in such a peculiar place." The Wizard said.

"I know the feeling." The Doctor chuckled. "Are you serious when you said you didn't know how your balloon works?"

"Ye... yes." The Wizard said.

"Then why were you flying it to start with?" The Doctor asked, "Why did you think you could get Dorothy home if you couldn't fly it?"

The Impostor chuckled but still couldn't speak, thank god.

The Impostor marched between Barriss and Raven. Barriss had her laser sword in her hand, though not ignited; while Raven was intensely focused in case the Impostor tried anything.

Raven so wanted to break her legs and just drag her along with her powers. There would be less chance of her getting away. But she knew the Doctor wouldn't approve of such a method.

Not a word passed between either Barriss nor Raven. Raven had her hood up so far across her face she couldn't see the green girl. So she could instead focus on their prisoner, and so she didn't have to look at Barriss.

She didn't know why, but she wanted to avoid looking at her. Why though? Okay she admitted it, she was concerned... just a little concerned that Barriss might be better than her, as both a person, and a friend to the Doctor. She doubted the Doctor would just forget about her, but... her mind went blank.

You don't want to fight for his attention. Said a voice in her head.

Yeah, that's it. No wait! It isn't I mean... crap! She could deny it all she wants but that voice was right. She'd only known what it was like to be an only child. Now she had someone who she considered a father figure, and now Barriss was like an unexpected sibling who popped out of nowhere, and suddenly the parents attention was divided between them.

You like to have the Doctors attention at your beck and call. Said a voice in her head. Now when you need him, he might be too busy with Barriss.

Barriss is not coming with us. It's impossible for her to leave this fictional land.

Is it?

All thought relating to this ceased.

Finally out of the fog they could see the ship, with that Ed shaped hole in the hull now patched up, and still wedged between the two large stones. The large stones made of keratin.

The pirates and the lost boys were now chipping away at the edges of the stones and trying to fill the gap with something from heavy barrels. It looked like some kind of lubricant or oil. Whale oil, maybe?

The Doctor stopped and looked thoughtful. The rest of the party nearly crashing into him.

"What's wrong, Doctor?" both Barriss and Raven said at the same time. They looked at each other. Barriss looked uncomfortable. Good, it meant she was winning.

"The way the ground moulds around the hull of the ship." The Doctor had his hand up under his chin. "I first thought it was just how the ground formed as the ship impacted. But if you look at the ridges in it you can tell, it already grew in that shape."

"In the shape of the ship?" Raven asked. "A trap?"

"Or maybe its a coincidence?" Barriss suggested.

Ha, Raven thought, its never coincidence if its got the Doctor thinking.

"Ever heard of Herpetology?" The Doctor asked. Raven hadn't.

"The study of amphibians?" Barriss suggested. Under her cloak Raven gently ground her fingers and thumb together in annoyance.

"Yes. Doesn't that shape." He nodded at where the ship was wedged. "Look like the neck of a turtle shell?"

"You know, sir; I think it does." Said the Wizard.

"I don't know what one is." Barriss admitted. Ravens mouth smiled upwards a little.

The Doctors face slowly began to morph into a face of worry.

"Oh no." He said.

"What?" both Barriss and Raven said at the same time.

"A giant turtle. A slumbering leviathan." His voice dropped. "And we've parked directly in front of its head."

As if that was a cue for disaster, the suddenly ground shook and Raven, the Doctor and Barriss braced each other while the Impostor and the Wizard of Oz fell over.

The crew who were around the base of the ship ran for cover as the boat was pushed out of where it was wedged as an enormous turtle head slowly rose up out of the water. Being so large it was a hideous looking thing and ultimately dangerous.

The ship bobbed back out into the sea, but the wake this giant creature was throwing up as it moved was causing the ship to be buffeted left and right.

Their group felt the ground shift as the head moved to see the boat in its sights. The giant head snapped at the boat and seemed determined to either chew on it, or smash it to pieces.

To Be Continued...

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