Ni No Who

Chapter 5

"So what brings you down here to the Fairygrounds, mun?" Drippy asked him. "I can see that look in youer eyes. You're on an adventure, and you need youer old pal Drippy to come along and help you save the day!" Oliver laughed and shook his head.
"No, we just came to get you for Aaliyah's coronation! She's going to become queen!" Drippy jumped up.
"Blimey, have the years gone by! It seems like only yesterday we were getting rid of Senkrad and finding out she was a princess!" Swaine crossed his arms and nodded.
"Yeah. You should see her, Oliver. She's really grown up." Oliver smiled at him, thinking about Aaliyah and her curls that never sat still, her freckled covered face, and her big blue eyes. They always made her seem younger than she actually was. What did she look like now?
As they left the Fairygrounds, a Fightingale came flapping up to them, squawking at them.
"Gallin! What're you doing here?" Swaine went up to the Ave, who held up a claw that had a letter tied to it's leg. "Oh, this must be from Harmony and Marcassin." he untied the letter from the Fightingale, then opened it.
"Is Gallin the Hamelin delivery Ave?" Oliver asked. Swaine nodded as he read the letter.
"Looks like those people that Harmony and Marcassin were waiting for showed. A couple called the Joneses. A doctor and his wife by the sounds of it."
"Ooh, they sound nice." Oliver said. Swaine nodded, then looked back at Oliver.
"We flying or spelling?" Oliver waved his wand, and it gave a small spark.
"I've only got a little magic. Mind if we fly?" He asked. Swaine shook his head.
"No worries! Tengri loves me!" Then he gave a sharp whistle, and from the skies came an indignant screech as the giant purple dragon landed. "Hey, Tengri ole boy! Mind giving us a lift back home?" Tengri ignored him and nuzzled Oliver. Oliver laughed. "Oi, Tengri!" Swaine clapped his hands, making the dragon turn to him. "Come on, mate! Can we go home?" Tengri just turned away from him, swishing his tail and knocking Swaine over. Oliver and Drippy laughed, and Swaine gave them a look. "Okay, so maybe Tengri doesn't really like me. It's usually because I don't have magic and I need a ride if I go out. You mind getting him to scoot?" Oliver laughed and nodded.
"Of course! C'mon, Tengri! Let's get back to Hamelin!" Tengri screeched, and the three boys got on and flew to Hamelin. When they got there, they found Harmony and Marcassin speaking to a man with rakish dark hair and a blue pinstripe suit with red converse. Next to him was a dark skinned woman wearing a red jacket with a white shirt, jeans, and black shoes. Harmony was the first one to see them.
"Ah, there you two are! And I see you brought Drippy with you!" the man and woman smiled when they saw Oliver, Swaine and Drippy.
"You must be the famous Oliver, Swaine, and Mr. Drippy!" the man said, coming over and shaking hands with the three. "Miss Harmony and Marcassin here have been telling Martha and I a bit about you!" Oliver smiled. The man seemed nice enough.
"Nice to meet you." Swaine said. "You must be Doctor Jones." The man shook his head.
"Oh no, just the Doctor." The woman, Martha, shook her head too.
"Yeah, we're not together." Swaine chuckled a little.
"Well then, nice to meet you Doctor and Miss Jones." Then Harmony came over.
"Doctor, if you wouldn't mind, could you please continue to tell us about your fascinating time box? I'm quite curious on the bigger on the inside aspect, yet you say it isn't magic."
"Time box?" Oliver asked, confused. Marcassin nodded.
"Yes. Apparently, the Doctor here is a Lord of Time, with Miss Jones as his companion. He travels across the world in a small blue box." Martha laughed.
"Oh not just the world, your Majesty. Through all of time and space! The Doctor has shown me many amazing things in the time we've spent together!" The Doctor just shrugged modestly.
"Well, it's all my backyard for me. For others it's the trip of a lifetime. Might as well give tours then!" As Oliver listened to some of the tales that Martha told of her and the Doctor travelling, he became more and more excited. Imagine, a time machine that looked like a phone box!
"So, where is your time machine? Can we see it?" Oliver asked him. The Doctor's smile turned into a frown.
"Eh, that's the problem. My TARDIS was stolen."
"Stolen?" Harmony asked, looking concerned. "By whom?" The Doctor shrugged his shoulders.
"I don't know. Your King Tom said that it was magic, but that's a bit ridiculous! Isn't it?" Harmony, Marcassin,Oliver, Drippy, and Swaine exchanged looks, then grinned.
"Oh, is it?" Harmony asked, grinning. Then she cast Levitate, Oliver cast Mornstar, Marcassin cast Magic Lamp, Drippy did Tidy Tears, and Swaine threw out Gunther. "Then explain this." Martha began to laugh, excited by the magic.
"That's extraordinary!" She exclaimed, Gunther coming up to her and her patting him on the head. "Who's this little fella?"
"This is Gunther." Swaine told her. "He's a Hurlcules, and my familiar."
"What's a familiar?" Drippy jumped up.
"I got this one mun! A familiar is a little beastie that comes from the heart! You cast Form Familiar on youerself, then out they pop!"
"There's all sorts of different familiars that you can get though." Harmony explained quickly, sending out Purrcy, Alacamara, and Tokiono. "It just depends on your personality. Or you could just catch them out in the wild with a Serenade." The Doctor crossed his arms, still unconvinced.
"Oh yeah? Well, if this is real, then cast your Form Familiar spell on me!" Harmony grinned and nodded.
"Alright." Then she cast it, and two different familiars came out. "What the hell?" The Doctor just shrugged, staring at the balls of light coming from his chest in amazement.
"I've got two hearts." He told her. "I guess two hearts equal two familiars." Then the balls of light formed two different cats!
"Tidy! Proper useful, those two are! An Astralynx and a Dualynx!" Both cats purred, then yowled as they changed into different type of familars a few times.
"What's happening to them!?" Oliver exclaimed, scared for the cats.
"You said that the familiars respond to the different personalities?" The Doctor asked Drippy, who nodded. "They must be confused by my regenerations! It's confusing them!" Soon, the cats calmed down, back to their normal forms.
"Are they okay now?" Martha asked, looking nervous. The Doctor nodded.
"They should be. Doesn't look like they're freaking out anymore." The Astralynx and the Dualynx came over to the Doctor and rubbed up his legs, purring. The Doctor bent down and pet them, smiling.
"Believe in magic now, Mr. Doctor?" Harmony snickered, crossing her arms. He gave her a look, but nodded.
"Alright, I do!" Martha looked to Harmony.
"Do you think... I could get a familiar?" She asked. Oliver went over to her.
"I'll help you, Martha!" Then he cast Form Familiar on her, and out popped a Jabber! Martha gasped as the Jabber waved it's spear at her.
"Tidy! A Jabber en't too bad neither, mun! They're proper tough, they are!" Martha smiled, patting her Jabber.
"What are you going to name them?" Oliver asked them. The Doctor examined his two cats.
"That one will be Astra, and that one will Diual." He decided, pointing to each cat as he named them.
"I'll just call mine Jabber." She told them. "It seems to just suit him." Oliver smiled as Martha and the Doctor admired their familiars. This was definitely a new adventure!