Before you start reading this, please take into account that this is my very first fanfiction ever, so please do leave some comments to help me improve my writing, remember, they must be constructive. Thanks :)
Oh, and by the way, this chapter is quite long; 3000k+ words here.
Chapter 1; five for mankind, one man for one golem
Layton and Luke continued from the booby trapped-room, where they left Descole lying on the floor. It really shook Layton to finally crack open that distant memory of the other boy he once knew, in the back of his brain which he had spent decades trying to figure out. But for now he had to do his best to forget that. Bronev had to be stopped.
They both entered a large room, which appeared to be something of a temple. But there was nothing to be seen, but for dozens of stone pillars. The atmosphere in this hall was much different from any of the other, it felt warmer, and the heavy dampness in the air was gone.
Professor Layton and Luke approached the enormous door, which presumably led to a final room where the legacy, whatever that was, could be revealed. Layton hurriedly unlocked the door. Hauling the doors open he saw Aurora being ordered by Bronev into what looked like a semi-tomb, standing upright allowing her face to be visible.
Emmy, handed Bronev the Azran sword, it was a watery and drowning blue colour that glimmered in a deathly way in the light that shimmered through the gaps in the Azran sanctuary. Bronev loomed over Aurora, his eyes widening in expectation. Aurora looked unhuman, her face was emotionless, as her eyes gazed at Bronev.
Layton and Luke burst through the room towards Bronev, realising the risks of what he was about to do.
"Bronev stop!" Layton yelled
"Hyeeeuung-uh!"
The azran dagger slide straight into left side of Aurora's chest not a drop of blood left her chest, as this happened, Aurora's eye's glowed an electric blue, in the same way as they did when she held the azran eggs.
There was a sudden upwards urge that nearly knocked Luke off his feet. An enormous grin spread across Bronev's face. He was then hit with an extraordinary jolt of excitement and sprinted outside to see the sanctuary hurtling towards the skies.
"Magnificent, wouldn't you say? What you are seeing here before you is a feat in modern archaeology. My entire life towards this prize it was well, well worth it!"
"No Bronev this is no prize." Layton said sternly. At that very second, thousands of flying demons swarmed of a hole of the Sanctuary like wasps, eager to wreak suffering due to disturbance.
"What are those?"
"Aeons have surpassed, but men are still fools."
"What? You mean to say that this is a mock legacy."
"You fools, you have unleashed an eternity of extinction and suffering upon the worlds, just as we Azran did."
"This is the Azran Legacy? I've been tricked, I've spent my entire life working towards this moment!"
"Is there any way we can stop the Golems?" The Professed asked in a flustered manner.
"Yes, there is a way. Stand in front of the five rocks, where the light is emitted, block the light hitting the centre stone and the Golems will be stopped. But, if you do this you will die. That light can both give and take lives." As Aurora said this her eyes glowed blue once again.
"Professor," said Luke proudly, "I want to do it, I want to save mankind." He began to run towards the nearest rock, then stopped just before he got to it and waited for Emmy and the Professor.
"I think we should do it too Professor, one last puzzle?"
"We must, to save mankind."
Both the Professor and Emmy walked to a rock each, and paused before they got there, waiting for Bronev to follow suit. He wasn't. He simply stood completely still in the middle of the sanctuary, not moving a muscle, and thinking of what he had fought for in his life; a folly of a legacy.
There were still 2 rocks of light to be filled. Layton, Luke and Emmy, on verge of entering the path of the purple light, had their attention divided by the sound of footsteps, it was Descole, and he ran straight towards a rock and jumped into the light. As did the others, except for Bronev.
They all immediately screamed, wailed, growled and cried in agony. This light was vaporising their blood.
Aurora noticed there was still one path of light to be blocked, she ran to it, but found, that she could block it, the light knocked her off her feet. She tried again, but could block its light.
"It's not working for me Professor!" She shouted.
Then, finally, Bronev looked, at the final rock, and ran towards it. He leaped into the purple limelight, and howled in discomfort. The five of them could only wait for their inevitable deaths while Aurora just broke into a heap on the ground, crying for her lost friends, she didn't like to see them suffer like this, after all they had done for her.
"No, no, it can't be!" She wailed in despair.
She then remembered, there was a way to save them.
She walked over to the central pillar and spoke in an Azran riddle. A yellow light this time flooded out of the central stone. A loud screeching noise sounded as this happened.
The five of them immediately woke up.
"How, come? W w were alive Professor!" Luke stuttered.
"Aurora, how on earth did you do that?" The Professor asked, somewhat intrigued.
"The azran gave me the power to undo the deaths of those who I had grown to like. And those who I come to 'like' are the one who earn permission to see the room where the azran secrets, and texts are kept. Professor Layton, will you take up this opportunity?"
"As much as I am in your debt for bringing us back to life, no thank you Aurora. The Azran certainly did have extraordinary technology and knowledge, but I think today's human race can reach those height without help of the Azran; on our own."
"Very well."
Aurora looked most concerned, she began to glow orange.
"Wh, wh, what's happening to you Aurora?" Luke stammered.
"The Azran Sanctuary has served its purpose and so have I. I am the last of the Azran golems, my body will son cease to function." Aurora
"No! Come with us!" Luke shrieked.
"Is there any way we can save you? Like when we saved the world?"
"There is a way?"
"What is it?"
"I remember now. In order to become a human, I must end a human's life. The Azran fitted me with human organ just like you. All I needed was a human soul. I have to kill one of you to live."
"We cannot do that. I'm so sorry".
"I see your view Professor Layton, I shall continue to fade away like the Azran and the rest of their Golems".
"Wait." Bronev croaked, as Aurora's fading slowed am little. "I do not deserve to live, I cannot live. If this is the legacy of the Azran, I truly have nothing to left to live for, I abandoned my children, I let my wife die, for a legacy of terror." Descole glared at him, Layton simply looked at the floor in disgust.
"You disgust me Bronev. Go on girl, kill the swine!"
"No, you cannot-".
"He deserves any abuse he gets."
"He's the only family I have!" Emmy now had tears pouring down her face.
"You have Layton, a cousin."
"I cannot let this happen!" Emmy seemed to no longer care for the man who employed her as 'assistant'.
But it was too late. Bronev offered the Azran dagger into Aurora's right hand, which had stopped fading. Aurora pierced Bronev's left pectoral area (chest), with a reasonably human look on her face; she was beginning to feel emotion. Maybe she was enjoying piercing Bronev's heart, as he did to her? Blood spewed down him as he collapsed. Emmy lept in towards both Aurora and Bronev, but it was too late to stop Aurora from slicing through Bronev again this time through his stomach.
As Bronev breathed his last breath, with Emmy kneeling at his side, constantly saying Uncle Leon, Uncle Leon, we've got to help him.
When Bronev's heart stopped due to the blood loss, Aurora was thrown backwards, as if she had been stabbed through the rib-cage. She tumble to the floor, as blood poured out her chest like a raging torrent.
"Aurora!" Luke gasped, as he dashed over to help her.
"It must be the wound from Bronev stabbing her earlier."
"We need to find a way of stopping the blood flow around her wound. I've got it!"
"What? What is it quickly Professor, we must save Aurora!"
"Remember Luke, what Aurora said earlier about the, light?"
"Hmm, well, not rea, ohh! The light can both give and take lives!" Luke gasped in excitement
"Yes! That's it! And I think she must be part human, part golem to be bleeding! If we put her in the yellow light by one of the stones, we could save her." Layton immediately picked up Aurora in his arms as he had done a month earlier in the cave at Froenburg. He placed her gently in the transparent custard shaded light, which originated from the centre column stone.
The light did not cripple Layton as he stepped in to it as the purple light had done, it must have had healing properties, instead of harmful 's bleeding stopped immediately. She had lost her consciousness though.
As soon as the centre pf the sanctuary landed back the outskirts of Froenburg, which just minutes before had been in ruins, with the life-less destructive Azran Golem's swarming around it in a large pack.
The sanctuary bludgeoned in to the snow, and began to crack up into smaller parts, then crumble into dust; like the Azran had done, aeons ago. Layton was first off the sanctuary, with Aurora and quite a large spillage of blood, in and on his arms, with Luke in quick pursuit. Descole was standing solemnly alone on the edge of the crumbling sanctuary, he looked exhausted both mentally and physically, with his injury from the trap outside the sanctuary, and the experience of seeing the human race being brought to near enielation.
Layton look back to the sanctuary again, there was still no sign of Emmy, she was still inside grieving for her uncle. If she did not leave soon, she would be dead like her uncle.
Layton took to keeping Aurora alive, he had already let Bronev his biological father die today, and he could not allow Aurora turn out the same way. Within minutes of fleeing from the sanctuary to the snowy slopes, the police arrived, with numerous other vehicles like ambulances. But, there were no casualties that were residents of Froenburg, if you excluded on which lived nearby in ice for a million years. Descole was however nowhere to be seen.
It was to no surprise of Layton and Luke, Grosky was not in a police vehicle, but half running, half slipping up the icy road.
"Layton, tell me where he is! Where's Bronev? I'm looking forward to getting him into handcuffs."
"Bronev is dead. Aurora stabbed him, she asked him to, she didn't understand."
"What? If Bronev is dead, then who went rampaging around Froenburg, destroying everything and then repairing it?"
"There is no time, we must get Aurora to hospital as quickly as possible Grosky!"
"Where is Emmy as well?"
"She is inside, Grosky, you and Luke get Aurora medical treatment, and I need to go back for Emmy and Descole."
"What? Descole? He was with you the whole time?"
"Just go inspector!"
"Quickly inspector we need to get her to an ambulance."
Luke POV
I glanced out the large glass window on my side of the air ambulance. I stared at Aurora, and the mass of blood which the medic was trying his best to stop, my mind a swirl with thoughts of Aurora, Emmy, the Professors family tree and relations, and most importantly; Mankind.
Then I released the medic was taking Aurora's pulse, and started asking me something.
"What was her name again?" He asked me.
"Aurora!" I shouted over the noise of the helicopter.
"What's her surname?"
"Eerm, I don't know, I don't think she has one!"
I noticed that the medic was writing something along the line of 'died' at 4pm, with todays date. I gasped massively, knowing that she was gone for good now, no special Azran beams of light could save her now. I started crying desperately, while the medic began to comfort me. Another medic who seemed to be the deputy of the situation, pulled a white sheet over her body.
I could not believe it, Aurora had been the only one of two people I had ever met that had made me feel this way inside, (the other person being Ariana), I must admit, I had somewhat felt love towards Aurora.
As soon as we landed at Froenburg hospital, Aurora was taken straight in at pace, I walked along behind slowly, trying to hold back the tears.
Layton's POV
I sprinted back towards the crumbling wreck which was the Azran sanctuary. I just could not face losing Emmy, my assistant, (not that she would be for any longer I expect), my cousin, my best friend. I leaped over a large rock, which could easily have been part pf the sanctuary.
I slalomed between armchair sized boulders which were once part of that ghastly sanctuary. I scrambled up the crumbling steps of the sanctuary, large chunks of it cracking off as he sprinted up them. He lost his footing momentarily, but then getting it back again, after hauling myself up.
I reached the top of the sanctuary staircase, to find that Emmy was still kneeling at the side of Bronev's blood-drenched corpse, crying frantically. There was no sign of Descole, I assumed he was crushed by debris.
"Emmy! You must leave now if you want to live!"
"I cannot, I have nobody left, Uncle Leon is dead, and life is not worth living!"
"I am your cousin, and I cannot let you die now!"
"I don't care for life anymore!"
"Emmy, as a gentleman, it is my duty to save you now!" I darted towards her in an attempt to save her, Emmy began to reply, screaming at me, but she was drowned out as the roof of the entrance of the sanctuary fell down. The main roof would be next. There was a way to get in despite the main entrance being blocked, I would have to climb over the boulders.
I leaped up on to the boulders as if I was ascending a near vertical climbing wall. The ancient rocks were granite grey in colour, but had the texture of sandstone rather than granite. My hands and feet were constantly crunching and crushing all of the boulders or at least breaking them. I got to the top of the boulder ridge. I vaulted off the top, to find Emmy now lying at Bronev's side. No, it cannot be. I ran to her side.
I took her pulse. She was still alive, thank puzzles for that I thought.
"Heeelp! HEEEEEELP!" My cries caused an equitable scuffle of nose from outside, I was far too weary to carry Emmy out and over the wall on my own.
"Layton? Layton? You down there?"
"Grosky, you're stronger than me and I am weary, we must haul Emmy to safety before this place collapses!" Grosky frantically stumbled in a very un-Grosky manner down the rocks, to help Layton lift Emmy.
"My word! Emmy! Is she alive?"
"She is still breathing, I think we can save her. You lift her legs, and I'll take her arms."
"But, who is that there covered in blood there? Wait it can't be, Bronev? Is he dead too Layton?" We lifted her onto a stretcher which had been bought up by a medic, and took her to receive medical treatment. As soon as we were out of the Sanctuary, the entire roof crumbled down on Bronev.
When halfway down the snowy slop, Grosky glanced back at the sizeable amount of troublesome rubble, this was the first time I had ever seem Grosky looking especially concerned.
"Our priority is to get Emmy to safety, you can go back for Bronev's body later Inspector."
"Bronev is dead?"
"I'll explain it to you later Inspector."
We picked her up, and hauled her up, over and down the rubble, before carefully lying her down on a stretcher then carried her down to another air ambulance.
As soon as I got on the helicopter, I slumped into a chair breathing heavily. I noticed as we took off, that Grosky was sprinting back towards the ruined Azran sanctuary, I smiled to myself, the first in what seemed like the first in memory, 'He really wants Bronev to be alive so he can arrest him doesn't he?' I thought.
With this, a very lonely amusing thought in my mind, and a million ones of shock, wonder relief, and any other strong emotion that one can think of, the helicopter took off. I gazed at Emmy and the Medics that were crowding around her, as I sat watching from a bench at the side.
I remained in this sort of trance for a good 15 minutes until a medic asked me question.
"Are you okay?" he shouted over the whir of the helicopter. I paused for a few seconds.
"Yes, I think so." I replied, coming to my senses. I then noticed Emmy had some really quite terrible injuries, and these were just on here face. A thoroughly bruised eye which had swelled up badly, a bloody nose, she also had a nasty deep cut which must have been from a falling boulder, this stretched from the top of her left cheek, to her chin. This was then obscured by the oxygen mask which was placed on her. I also noticed many large blood stains all over her body from the impacts of being crushed by rocks.
We then arrived at the Froenburg hospital, Emmy as quickly taken away, and I wandered in too finding Luke in the Lobby.
I didn't want to lose by best friend, or my cousin, or my assistant.
So that was my very first chapter ever, hope you liked it.