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{{Infobox Short Story|
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story name=Once Upon a Time|
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series=[[Doctor Who Annual]]|
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doctor=[[Tenth Doctor]]|
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|series       = [[Doctor Who Storybook]]
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writer=[[Tom MacRae]]|
|enemy       = [[The Mountain]]
publication=[[Doctor Who Storybook 2007]]|
|setting      = [[Earth]]
previous story=[[The Cat Came Back]]|
|writer      = Tom MacRae
next story=[[Opera of Doom]]|
|illustrator  = [[Adrian Salmon]]
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|anthology    = Doctor Who Storybook 2007
|release date = 1 July 2006
|prev        = The Cat Came Back (short story)
|next         = Opera of Doom! (comic story)
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'''''Once Upon a Time''''' was the third short story published in the ''[[Doctor Who Storybook 2007]]''.


==Summary==
== Summary ==
Children gather around an elderly storyteller, who tells them about the day, long ago, when the children of this very village began to disappear after hearing strange music in their heads. Soon the only children remaining were a boy named Brynn and a girl named Lissa, who tried to comfort each other by telling stories about the music. However, one night Lissa disappeared as well, leaving Brynn alone. Brynn decided to rescue her himself, and slipped away from his parents, following the music in his head to the metal mountain that towered over the village. Near the mountain, he met a wizard named Doctor who claimed to have been drawn here by a "distress call," and who revealed that the metal mountain was in fact a ship that travelled between the stars. The Doctor opened up the ship to let Brynn in, and they saw that the children had been wired up with circuitry and connected to the ship. The Doctor explained to Brynn that the ship had crashed here long ago, and ever since, it had been watching the people of the village and enjoying the imagination in the stories they told each other. Now the ship was dying and wanted to tell a story of its own, but it didn't understand that the children it had kidnapped to help it were independent people and not just characters in its story. The Doctor urged Brynn to help the ship, and Brynn did so by writing an ending in which he kissed Lissa, bringing her and all the other children back to life
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The children of a quiet village begin disappearing until only two, [[Brynn]] and [[Lissa]], are left. When Lissa disappears as well, Brynn sets off to find her, and meets [[Tenth Doctor|a mysterious man]] with [[The Doctor's TARDIS|a blue box]].


==Characters==
== Characters ==
*[[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]]
* [[Tenth Doctor]]
*[[Brynn]]
* [[Brynn]]
*[[Lissa]]
* [[Lissa]]
* [[The Mountain]]


==References==
== Worldbuilding ==
''to be added''
=== The Doctor ===
* The Doctor appears to be travelling alone.


==Notes==
== Notes ==
''to be added''
''to be added''


==Continuity==
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
''to be added''


==Timeline==
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*This story occurs after [[DW]]: ''[[Attack of the Graske]]''
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*This story occurs before [[DWM]]: ''[[The Betrothal of Sontar]]''
 
==External links==
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[[Category:Tenth Doctor short stories]]
[[Category:Tenth Doctor short stories]]
[[Category:Short stories set on Earth]]
[[Category:2006 short stories]]
[[Category:DWS short stories]]

Latest revision as of 20:15, 3 November 2024

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You may be looking for another short story of the same name.

Once Upon a Time was the third short story published in the Doctor Who Storybook 2007.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Once Upon a Time DWS.jpg

The children of a quiet village begin disappearing until only two, Brynn and Lissa, are left. When Lissa disappears as well, Brynn sets off to find her, and meets a mysterious man with a blue box.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor appears to be travelling alone.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

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