Stardust

Mia Bella

Here is chapter three I hope you enjoy it! Three votes for next chapter!

The Doctor will help you, you must find him. He needs you as much as you need him.

The Doctor will help you, you must find him. He needs you as much as you need him.

The Doctor will help you, you must find him. He needs you as much as you need him.

The words beat into Rouges head like a never ending drumbeat while she slept. Never to be forgotten, never to be overlooked. Rouge shot up from the bed sweating bullets and breathing heavily. She paused for a moment trying to figure out where she was and then it hit her like a brick wall, the ship leaving, the creepily lifelike tree, and the words that had been repeated in her head all night long.The Doctor will help you, you must find him. He needs you as much as you need him. She wondered what they meant and why they were so important that she couldn’t get them out of her head.

They were probably a message from this TARDIS thingy so it probably shouldn’t be ignored. "Hey, I resent that, I am a living being not  

a thingy.”  

“Ahhh!!!!!!!!!!!” I screamed and jumped out of my bed, landing rather ungracefully on the floor. I then scrambled quickly to the corner of the room hyperventilating before I heard the voice in my head again.

“It’s okay! It’s okay! I’m sorry that was my fault, I should have approached you differently. I’m sorry.” It said.

“Wh- Who are you?” I asked my voice trembling slightly.

“I’m the TARDIS! I sent you that note yesterday my little wanderer, and I must tell you it is great to be fully awake again! I have been waiting a long time to meet you. After the second sun arose I fully woke up and then so did you! she said.

“Wow! It’s already risen how long was I asleep?” I asked standing slowly.

“For about 16 Venusian hours. I couldn't wake you up until I was fully awake.” The TARDIS replied.

“Okay, I still don’t understand! What do you mean wake up? And what are you? How can you be in my head? What do you mean destiny? Was it you who was speaking to me last night?” I asked and stopped talking, not for lack of questions but for lack of breath.

“Whoa! Slow down, don’t worry I will answer all of your questions, but you need to listen to me in order for you to understand!” She exclaimed “Okay” I sighed.

“So, I know this is going to be hard for you to except, but before I begin I just need you to know that your life is a lie. You are not from Venus, none of your family is in fact from Venus, and the man that raised you was not your real father. You were left on Venus because your looks are similar to those of the Venusians. You are infact from the planet Gallifrey, your species are the Fernusieans, you infact share the planet Gallifrey with another species called the Time Lords. You were left at an adoption center on Venus when a war with a people called the Daleks started and it was obvious that your people were going to lose the war. I am your TARDIS I was left here in a deep sleep years ago by your parents, because they knew you would be drawn to me and would find me one day.”

I just sat there in shock as I took this in, this couldn’t be true it just couldn’t. I had always known I was adopted, my father had never made an effort to hide that from me, and as a child I had often wondered who my real parents were, what they were like, and where I was from but never in my wildest dreams did I even consider the possibility of being an alien!!

“Look I know that this is really hard for you, believe me it is for me to, but none of your people survived the war. Not even your parents, after they dropped you off they went back to help in the war.

I made a choking sound and once again slid to the floor. I couldn’t believe this, everything I ever thought to be fact just turns out to be a great big lie, and  on top of that I was the last of my kind. All those people dead, and I couldn’t even manage to remember any of them. “D-did any of the Time Lords survive?” I asked.

“Yes.” she said.

“Can we find them? Can I get my memories back and go back to Gallifrey?” I said a balloon of hope rising in my chest.

“Only one Time Lord survived. He ended the Time War now his planet and family and friends now lives on, forever alone.”

“You mean he’s been alone for this entire time?” I asked sadly.

“No, from time to time he has travelled with companions, but right now he is alone again.” The TARDIS explained.

“Oh” I said softly feeling sorry for the fact that I had not been able to help him when he was all alone after the Time War.

“So” I said, “you can travel in time and space, huh?”. “Yes, I can” she stated proudly. “Why don’t we go on an adventure, and what am I supposed to call you I can’t keep calling you TARDIS. Its too unoriginal.” I said quickly.

“What you call me is up to you.” she said “But you might not want to go on an adventure just yet. The Doctor happens to be on this planet visiting someone.”

 “He is?” I asked voice filled with hope. “Yes, but before you see him you might want to learn to pilot me” She said quickly.

“Oh, yeah, of course.... Umm how exactly do I do that?” I asked “Go to my console room, the path is lighten up for you, as soon as you see it you automatically know what to do. It’s in your blood.” She said.

I followed the lit hallway toward an ornate door and slowly opened it. Inside there was the most beautiful room in the center there was a golden and silver tree twisting up from the ground roots stretching and twisting into each other and branches stretching up connecting to the ceiling and disappearing.

I gasped and whispered “Mia bella” which meant ‘my beautiful’ in an old Earthen language called French.

(Sorry if that is incorrect. Blame Google translator, not me!)

“Oh, I like that one, you should call me that!!!” the TARDIS said, squealing in my head like a schoolgirl.

“Okay.” I said chuckling, and then almost subconsciously I snapped my fingers and consoles unfolded themselves from the trunk of the tree, there were nobbes and buttons and levers and little squiggly thingies,  and strangest of all I knew what all of them did.

It was like all of this information had entered my head as soon as I had walked into the room, and I knew exactly what I had to do.