Chapter 1
"Checkmate." I called out.
"So it seems…" The professor frowned.
"You two are unbelievable." Clive groaned. Our chess games always lasted forever, because Layton was a master of logic and strategy and I've read every chess strategy published in the last five centuries.
"Yawn… I better go home." I yawned.
"You can stay here!"
"No… I'll just call a cab." I gathered my books and walked out the door.
The cool nighttime London air rushed against my face. I fingered my glasses frame carefully while shaking out by short brown hair. For the first time in a while, I was going to go to bed before ten. I really needed the sleep.
A nearby taxi pulled up. I stepped in, exhausted.
"Where to?" The driver grunted.
"Um… Mountjoy Lane. "I recited.
I watched as we passed the other streets. We just passed Mountjoy Lane.
"We just passed my stop…" I started, but the driver wasn't listening. He seemed way too focused.
"Excuse me!" I was trying to keep my voice under control.
I saw that we were going towards the harbor. I was starting to get a bad feeling about this.
"Um… sir? If you keep going we're going to fall in the Thames. You might want to-"
The car splashed into the cold water. I pawed at my seatbelt. It was stuck, and the driver had disappeared. There goes my idea of sleeping in my warm bed idea, I thought.
I pulled at my seatbelt some more. It still wouldn't budge, and the water was rising quickly.
I noticed that there was something bumping into my foot. It was a crowbar. Maybe I could use it to break the seatbelt and get out.
The water was beginning to reach my neck. I struggled to stick it into my seatbelt. I missed it by a few inches. Finally, the seatbelt broke apart, but now the water was almost to the roof of the cab.
I tried to open the door. The driver must have locked it before he left, and this, being an old car, required a key to unlock it. I couldn't see the key anywhere. Worst of all, I was running out of air.
I saw flashes of light and the water-logged sound of sirens, but it was too late. I fainted.
A/N: Here is the sequel to The One in the Shadows. Hope you like it. I plan to make it longer and put more action in it. To put it short, I making it more Laytonesque. Please review!