Comment 1: @Gaal_RH

"Aww, come on guys! I really want to visit Lancashire. I told my parents that I would send them some pictures of castles and the landscape around there." I said walking around The TARDIS console, trying to convince any of them.

"We were there already, why do you want to go back?" The Doctor didn't usually say much when she let us choose a destination, but this time she had to ask.

"Listen, I don't want to go back. I just want a quick visit to the place in our actual time. I can't send them pictures of Lluna's moons just like that!"

"That's a good point. And hey, maybe we could check the tree lock, just to be sure. Then we can pick another planet to go." Yas, being the wonderful moderator she was, helped us find a middle ground in the topic.

"Fine. But just a quick trip. Gaal takes the pictures, and we check the tree." The Doctor was already moving switches and levers to get The TARDIS moving.

"I think I'm sticking with Gaal in this." Ryan was quick to add.

"Why? Don't you want to see if King James left you a letter?" I said with a smirk on my face, while Graham rolled his eyes with a smile on his face.

"Hey! At least that helped us have a little more credibility." By this point, Yas was asking The Doctor what had happened while she was with Willa that time.

When we landed and got out of The TARDIS – who had made some resistance against The Doctor's commands – we weren't meet with the sight of big fields and little houses on the hills, but with a big enough town to be called a city.

"Doc, I don't think we're in 2018, not even 2022."

"I don't like when she does this. But we might be here for a reason." The Doctor eyed the box, and proceeded to close the doors.

"Your pictures will have to wait, I'm sorry." She said to me.

"It's alright. And it wouldn't be the first time this happens. The quicker we find out what's going on, the faster we can get back." She nodded, and then started walking in front of us.

"Come on fam. Let's go to the tree first."

To find our way was a little difficult, since we no longer could see the hill from any point.

The fact that everyone where heading to it made us nervous, the memories of the witch trials coming back to us.

"I think we should speed up our pace if we want to find out what's happening before it's too late." The Doctor said, signaling us to walk out of the main path.

Getting out of the mass of people was easy to The Doctor, Graham and I, Ryan and Yas having a little trouble. As soon as we all were out, The Doctor scanned the place.

"2418. Missed by a couple hundred of years." She then knitted her eyebrows together. Not a good sign.

"What is it Doctor?" Yas asked the blonde alien.

"Is the trees. They emanate some weird energy, but I can't get my finger on it. Like they are trying to tell us something."

"Well, that sounds Narnia like. But we should keep going." We were four hundred years in the future, and the humans did like to experiment with plants and animals, so who knows? We had other things to worry at the moment though.

As we got closer to Pendle Hill, we saw a gathering of people around the modified tree trunk, only to find out it had managed to grow again. But the once castle was now a hotel, barely keeping some windows and the front like it once was, but it was clear it had many people work on it and how it looked.

"Excuse us. What's going on? You see, we just arrived and were planning on having some meal downtown, but everyone is heading here." The Doctor asked to the woman in a very elegant suit and a clipboard.

"We are finally taking this tree down. It's an unpleasant sight for the visitors of our hotel. We had some resistance from a family that claimed to be descendents of the original residents of the once Bilehurts village."

Did Willa came back after all? More importantly, they want to take the tree down, again.

"With all due respect ma'am, but you shouldn't do that." The Doctor said, seriousness taking over her voice and features.

"Why not? My boss already started it. A symbolic action, but now we're bringing the machinery."

We all looked at each other and were quick to run past the tape, and saw the place where said boss had already cut the tree.

The Doctor scanned it, an irony filled scoff leaving her lips. "Yup. The lock is broken. Again. Maybe it wasn't a good idea James decided to erase what happened from history."

"Wait, if the lock is broken again, where are the Morax? And who got out?" Ryan was already looking to the people around, not trusting any of them.

"I'm right here. Glad to see you could arrive. You are exactly the ones I wanted to see." We turned around, to see a man who looked like it was made out of wood and stone stand besides the woman we talked earlier.

"Ma'am, please, step aside. He's dangerous." The Doctor tried to talk to the woman, but she just laughed at her.

"You killed our Queen all those centuries ago, and confined us again, and you can't spot one of us when you see it?" with that, the possessed woman proceeded to lift her sleeves, showing the characteristically texture the bodies took when infected by the Morax.

In that moment, a communal gasp was heard; we looked at The Doctor, asking for what to do with them.

"Yas, Graham, lead them inside the hotel. After you make sure there isn't any Morax inside, come back out here. With fire." They nodded and ran to the paralyzed crowd.

"Ryan, you and I are going to distract them. Meanwhile, Gaal, I need you to get me a couple of branches, for both setting the lock again and torches. Same plan as last time."

"How am I supposed to do that?" The Doctor raised an eyebrow, a knowing smile on her face. "You want me to climb up? Fine, but you better let me have some biscuits back at The TARDIS."

The biggest part of the conversation I didn't hear, since I was focusing on not falling and cutting some branches of the ridiculous dense tree.

When Yas and Graham got out of the castle with what seemed to be a blowtorch, the Morax duo panicked, noticing they were fooled in wasting their time. Then I heard the Morax King shouting.

"It was your lover the one who killed her. So I guess you'll be the first one to go down." He was pointing at Ryan, who was left speechless; I knew exactly what he meant, and as much as I knew I shouldn't laugh, a chuckle left my mouth, directing all eyes on me.

The Doctor lifter her arms at me, like asking 'Why did you laugh?'. There wasn't any point in keeping quiet anymore.

"I'm sorry, is still funny. Oh no." The Morax subordinate was already walking to the tree.

"Guys, catch!" I threw the branches I already had. Luckily the day wasn't windy, so they landed near their feet.

As I saw the Sheffield trio light up the sticks and The Doctor scanning it, I looked at the female looking Morax, and waited for her to get as close as I could afford before looking at the ground.

'Here goes nothing.' I thought as I jumped.

Getting up, I ran to the others, picking up a torch with my good arm. The other was numb, but it didn't hurt. A good thing.

With the torches on, and the toxic for them smoke in our power, The Doctor ran to the tree, already using her screwdriver to activate the lock and update it so no injury that small would break it.

Meanwhile, the rest of us were left to corner the King and make sure the other didn't get down from the tree. That one was quick to leave.

"Doctor, you are still an enemy of the Morax. And this shall not be the last time we meet."

"Yeah well, I'll be ready. We'll be ready" She looked at us, and we nodded. She won't be on her own.

With a final growl, the King returned to the tree, and as soon as he did, The Doctor activated the lock again.

We told the people it was safe to go out, and this time, we made sure they knew why that tree shouldn't be disturbed. After all, the concept of aliens wasn't so crazy in the current time we were.

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