Eternal

 is a Series created by Dream High productions. The series revolves around three high school students who travel through space and time with a deceased Time Lord's TARDIS.

The alien, the key, and the wardrobe
“So, how’d you do on that test?” Stephen asked as he, his friend Brandon, and his other friend Ashley walked down the hall.

“Oh…I’m pretty sure I failed.” Brandon laughed a bit. Today was June 4th, the last day of school, and nothing was going to get Brandon down. Brandon, Stephen, and Ashley were sophomores in high school. This year had been a tough one, being thrown into classes that made almost no sense, with math being the worst. Brandon was just glad to be done with it.

“How the hell did you fail that?” Stephen said. “All those inventions you make with all those equations and what not, and you still fail a math test?”

“I don’t know. If it’s not in practice I fail. Theories and stuff always gets me.”

“Hey!” Ashley said as she finally got her nose out of her science fiction book. She always was a sci-fi nerd. “What are you guys doing over the summer?”

“What we do every summer, Ash.” Brandon said. “Staying home, sleeping all day, and watching something all night.”

“Are our lives really that boring?” Stephen asked, prompting Brandon to shrug, and caused Ashley to go right back into her book.

The students took their time throughout the rest of day, taking more boring final tests until they finally got to their 8th period, their free period, where they spent most of their time walking around the school. “So, anyone wanna do an anime marathon?” Ashley asked. “I’m sure we can find something to watch.”

“Maybe we can go to a convention this year.” Stephen suggested. “You know, get us out of the house. There’s one in the convention center in downtown, sounds like it’ll be f-“

“Guys?” Brandon interrupted. “Do you here that?” Coming from inside of one of the classrooms was a low, guttural moan. Immediately following the sound, Stephen yanked the door to the room open and the trio entered the room to find nothing out of the ordinary. There was no teacher, no students, just a bunch of empty desks and chairs. Yet the sound could still be heard. “What the hell is that?” Brandon whispered.

“Sounds like someone’s hurt…” Ashley said as she hurried forward and looked around.

“Guys…come here…” Stephen mentioned as he stood behind a desk. Brandon and Ashley followed Stephen and found a blue, large alien moaning and next to him was a young looking man, with a key on his necklace and some odd bottle in his hand. The man had red, wiry hair and wore odd looking glasses.

“What the hell?” Brandon exclaimed loudly, causing the alien to grab Brandon and pull him closer.

“You…” He moaned in pain. “You’re…human…right?”

“Y-yeah…I’m human.” Brandon said in a scared voice, he looked from a scared Ashley, to a startled Stephen, and back down to the dying alien. “What happened to you?”

“He…he poisoned me…” The alien looked at the dead man lying in the corner. “T-take his key…”

“What?” Brandon asked. “What about you? Can’t we help you?”

“No…he…the timelord…his poison is too much…you have to take his key…find his ship…” He mumbled softly.

“His ship?” Brandon said excitedly. “What ship? Where is it?” It was too late though, the alien was dead. Sighing, Brandon took to the man, grabbed the key off of his neck and put it on himself. “So…what do we do now…?’

“I suppose we find his ship.” Stephen sighed.

That night was one of the worst for Brandon. He couldn’t sleep, he couldn’t eat, and all he could do was stare at the key that he looted off of the dead man in the classroom. “What secrets do you hold?” He whispered to the key. “What’s so special about you?” He had gone through quite the effort to escape from the classroom along with Stephen and Ashley, only for no report of anyone found dead at the school. That was one of the things that really messed with Brandon. The key was so important, the alien commanded Brandon to get it with his dying breath, but what was so important. There was the ship that the alien mentioned, but Brandon didn’t exactly know what to look for. What did space ships even look like?

Come with me…

“What?” Brandon called out, looking around his dark room. There was no one around him, but he swore he heard a voice.

Come with me…

Brandon followed the sound of the voice down, to the key. Was the key…talking to him? “Hello?” Brandon asked. “Are you…um…speaking to me?”

The one who holds the key, my new master…

“What?”

Follow me; I’ll take you to my home…

Suddenly a great wave of energy crashed down on Brandon he bolted up and looked at the door, feeling a great urge to walk right outside. Grabbing his jacket, and slipping on his shoes, Brandon left the building and walked right outside, into the dark. He didn’t know what time it was but for some reason, he didn’t care. His spirits soared, and he felt so very inspired, for almost no reason.

He didn’t need instructions, to get to the ‘home’ that the key mentioned. For some reason he felt like he knew where to go instantly. The moment he cornered one street, he felt compelled to go to another until finally, next to a dark office building was a white wardrobe, with a lock on the door. Brandon immediately went to the door and tried to open it, but the lock held. Fumbling, he put the key in the lock, turned it, and opened the door.

The wardrobe was larger on the inside. Brandon took a few minutes to gaze around and finally entered the piece of furniture. Roaming around, he found himself almost burst with excitement, he had done it, he had found the space ship, but exactly did it do? He looked to the console in the center of the room and pressed button near, what looked like a television. Immediately a man’s face appeared on the screen, the same man from the classroom.

“Hello.” He said. “My name is Bishop, and I am one of the surviving Timelords. If you’re hearing this, then you have probably found my body, have taken my key, and made your way into my ship. If I am dead, I highly suggest that you leave, lock this wardrobe up, and never come here again. However, knowing the fact that you are human, I know that you will probably ignore those orders, so let me help you. This is a Time and Relative dimensions in space machine, or a TARDIS. By activating the controls on the console, you can travel anywhere in space and time. I only ask that you follow three rules. First, don’t change history from what it once was, we can’t have your unbirth happen, second, do not ever take an adventure on your own, you’re human not invincible, and third, I have a son. I don’t know where he is. He doesn't know who he really is by now, but I beg of you to help find my son and tell him that I am no longer alive. His name’s-” For some reason the television turned to static, causing the rest of the message to end.

“Come on, you.” Brandon banged on the screen. “Come on, what was it?”

“You shouldn't do that.” A monotone voice said, causing Brandon to turn and see a woman with long blonde hair and in some rather odd clothing.

“Who are you?” Brandon asked.

“I am a program that my master has set up to teach a user how to pilot this device if they chose not to leave.” She said and pointed to the console. “Are you ready to learn how to pilot the TARDIS?”

All night, Brandon learned how to use that wicked white machine, but in the end it paid off. The boy successfully managed to fly the TARDIS correctly. As soon as he did, he had called Ashley and Stephen and had them meet Brandon at the office building.

“Brandon, what are you doing here?” Stephen asked. “This isn't exactly a good part of the city.”

“Well, I just wanted to show you guys something.” Brandon said happily as he lead the two towards the wardrobe.

“What is this?” Stephen asked. Brandon didn't even answer; he walked up to the wardrobe, unlocked it, and pulled the doors open, revealing the inside of the machine. “This is a TARDIS. It can travel through space and time.”

“No…” Ashley said as she jumped right into the box. “This place is huge.”

“What…what do you mean?” Stephen asked Brandon. “It can go through time…”

“And space.” Brandon finished. “I was thinking, you know, why stay at home, watching movies and cartoons, when we can spend out summer vacation traveling through time and space?”

The three friends looked at each other and gave a smile that only the closest of friends on the most mischievous of adventures would give one another. Brandon turned to the console and started to pull levers and press buttons. “So, where to now?”

“Hmmm…” Ashley said. “Well we have all the time in the universe to do what we want. Surprise us.” And with that, the three friends set off for an adventure that would prove to be exciting and dangerous.