SQUEEEE! You guys loved it! Wow I'm amazed by the reviews! I trully am! So I've done as you've wished!

Um...yeah I lied, I decided to just continue on from my drabble...so here it is! Chapter 2: Crow.

You'll notice now that chapter 1 is called 'Hershel'. Yeah that's because I'm naming the chapter after who's POV it's going to be for the most part for that chapter, this'll work the same for OCs (see end of story for more details.) so yeah, that's how I'm writing it. I really hope you guys like this chapter and yeah, I know, I kinda made it really long...please let me know what you think, because if you don't like it I can always re-write it!

Note: For fun, I have decided to tell you which PL soundtrack song works best for each chapter. I have also edited chapter 1 as well for this new little fun thing I'm doing :3

Music of the chapter: PL4, The Spectre's Call theme.

Note 2: I own the England version of professor Layton meaning that Roddy= Nabby and Gus= Tweeds

Enjoy! (hopefully)

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Crow smirked, today was the day. After six months of planning, they had finally done it. And now, with word from Louis, Operation Prim-Rose was a go.

Although at the actual time the idea came into place, Operation Prim-Rose wasn't actually needed, it was only in recent days that they had to complete it quickly as they now needed to execute it as, and their leaders had very well expected this…of course, they had all hoped it wouldn't happen.

"Crow? Do you read me? Over "came the familiar voice of Marilyn from his hand-held radio.

With that, he looked around the balcony he had just climbed on. Although made of grey bricks like the rest of the Layton Castle exterior, the flooring seemed to be that of…wood?...And was that stripy wallpaper? This confused Crow greatly, even more confusing was the interior of the room which was connected to the balcony. In the centre of the room a round rug with a blue exterior circle, some diamond shapes, a yellow inner circle and a blue one inside of that, somewhat on it was a big rocking chair with a big light brown teddy wearing a red bow tie, which near to that was a book case and a blackboard. There were also two windows side by side which had blue curtains and a candle holder in between them. Looking over to the other side, he could see a wooden bed with a blue, green and cream covered pillow and duvet, with a violin case leaning on the end. Finally, he noticed the map on the top of the bed along with…some pictures nearby…if he could just get a closer look…

"Crow?" called out the voice of Marilyn again, reminding him that he was here for him not to look at a child's bedroom, regardless of how out of place it was for a castle like this.

"Yeah, sorry…" he trailed off as he crept out the wooden door (he could of swore he saw a picture of Layton hung on that door...) and dived between some cargo boxes to hide then whispered "I'm in position."

Okay…here comes the hard part, waiting…Crow thought to himself. Now Crow was an extremely patient person, despite being a teenager he was really quite good at waiting. But today…today was different. Today was probably the day he and his dearest friends risked their lives and for once, maybe they might not make it out alive...

So Crow decided to do what he did whenever he felt his impatience coming on: a puzzle.

Slowly and quietly, he grabbed one out his pocket and read it himself...

You come to home to find that some kids have smashed a ball into your window, when you catch up with the kids they say:

A: B is lying!

B: A is lying!

C: A is telling the truth!

You know that two kids broke your window and only one of them is telling truth.

Which one did not break your window?

Well let's see...A must be lying because B hadn't even spoken yet...meaning that what C is saying is also lie...meaning B is telling the truth! Ah ha!

"Oof! Ah! AWWWOOOEEEEE!"

Crow nearly jumped out of skin at that sound. He sighed, why couldn't they be a little quieter?

"Wow, Badger, I didn't think that your martial arts skills could get any better than they already were! Seriously, that's like a new record!" Gus commented as he munched on some sweets.

"T-thanks..." he quietly said, blushing a little.

"Gus! Why did you bring the sweets?" Crow cried as he walked out of his hiding place to Gus, Badger and about five knocked out Layton goons.

"I'm sorry." He munched "They were...just so delicious."

Crow sighed again "Well, we can't do anything about it now. Let's just get to the door, shall we?"

The other two nodded to their leader as they began running down the corridor. They were so close! All they needed now was the door to be opened...just one last door and he would be safe, they would have saved him at long last, that large mechanical, arch door and then-

"OOF!"

Crow and Badger cringed as Gus crashed into the door; clearly the plump teen had been running a little too fast. Still, hopefully his crashed didn't make too much noise...

Crow took out his radio again as Badger helped his comrade up off the floor "Wren? What's going on? Why isn't the door open? Over"

Wren then replied "There's a puzzle lock that we weren't expecting and Socket wouldn't let me solve it and-and I can't seem to get my head around it and-"

Crow sighed, this wasn't a good time for Wren to get panicked...it was once again, something that happened on rare occasions, then again, this is probably the one and only time they'll try a plan like this.

"Wren...WREN!" The girl stopped talking "Listen to me, you are the most gorgeous, coolest, cleverest girl I have ever met and I believe in you, I know you can do it."

"C-Crow..." she stuttered, he just knowing she was getting flustered on the other end of that radio "I mean, yeah, of course I can! Just watch me!"

Crow smirked; there was that confidence of his adorable girlfriend.

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Wren ignored the growl from her brother after Crow's call; instead, she focused on the puzzle on the monitor...

A man who lives on the tenth floor takes the elevator down to the first floor every morning and goes to work. In the evening, when he comes back; on a rainy day, or if there are other people in the elevator, he goes to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the seventh floor and walks up three flights of stairs to his apartment.
Can you explain why?

Hmm...Well it seems he can only go up to his floor when other people are with him in the elevator...Why would that be? Seventh floor...what's the difference in a lift between floors? Buttons...height! Oh! I get it!

"Because of his height, he himself is too short to reach the top button, when he's with other people he can just get them to press the button for him hence why only sometimes he can take the lift all the way back up." Wren explained into the mic standing on the table in front of the hundreds of computer screens on the wall.

"No puzzle is without an answer" replied the mechanical recorded voice of Layton's as they watched the arch door lift up for Crow and the others from the monitor.

"Have I ever told you how bloody amazing you are?" Crow smirked into the radio.

"All the time." She giggled as Marilyn took the radio off her.

"Do us a favour, Crow? Stop flirting with you girlfriend on the radio and get on with it?" she sighed, knowing that if she didn't shut Crow up now, Socket was going to go into rage mode.

"Mam! Yes Mam!" he replied into the radio as he mocked saluted at the camera and winked.

Socket growled again, Wren giggled and Marilyn just smiled and shook her head.

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"Well gentlemen, let's go in...Shall we?" Crow could only smile; everything was going his way, he just knew that nothing could stop them now.

So with that, the boys walked down the cold dark steps the door had revealed down into the depths below.

They were surprised about how dirty the arched tunnel was, they had just presumed that this place would be as clean as everywhere else, which they felt very silly about as obviously a place like this would naturally be dirty...

"How much further?" asked Gus nervously after a while...Crow was beginning to think that although Gus was good to fight off goons- maybe it wasn't a good idea to bring the member who's scared of spiders underground...

"Badger, map?" Crow just simply asked as they kept walking, holding the torch.

"I think it's just one more left turn and one more right and we should be there…" Badger replied quietly as he walked and looked at the map.

Crow smirked; he knew that, he really did. After all, he spent weeks studying the damn thing...however, he didn't want to say anything- there is such a thing as being too confident...

They had just made the last right which means, he was there...after so long, it was good to see their friend again. They didn't really know him as well as some of the others did but the black ravens were still his friends, especially Crow...

They froze as they saw their friend's light brown spiky hair as he lied against the wall, clearly tired...it looked like he most of done something to upset Layton because he clearly wasn't in too good shape. And...were those bruises they could see on his arms?

"I-is he...?" trailed off Gus, for once, begging he was wrong.

"NO!" Crow shouted, making his friends jump "I mean, no I can see him breathing"

Before Crow did something incredibly stupid, Badger dropped the map and quickly fumbled with the copy keys the boss-lady (that's what he called their leaders: Boss-lady and Boss-man.) had made and opened the cage...

No sooner had he done it, Crow rushed past him and straight to their friend's aid! Begging he was alright...

"Hey! HEY! C'mon, C'mon...wake up you big idiot!" Crow cried out as he slapped and shook his dear friend.

"Crow I-"Gus started off to say but was quickly stopped by Badger who shook his head.

"Oi! SMARTIE PANTS!"Crow shouted, continuing to try his best to wake him up.

"Five more minutes, Birdy...tell her...I'll..." He groaned quietly.

This was good! Very good! 'Birdy' was the nick name he gave Crow, it annoyed him to bits but anything coming out of that guy's mouth would have been good right about now.

"No! Look at me, you're not at home...we're in Layton's Castle, He- he got you, remember?" Crow said clutching his friend's face in his hands.

"You're not a...your- your real?" his friend questioned as he stared into his eyes.

"Real? Of course I'm real you big idiot! We've come to save you!" Crow declared, getting a little frustrated. They didn't have time for this!

"Really now?..." he trailed off, looking up and down Crow. From what he had seen of the younger Crow, his features haven't changed too much and the fact he still wore the same dark blue hat and yellow scarf helps. He also work a pair of black ripped skinny jeans, a white tee shirt with a dark blue denim jacket, all in all stylish yet comfortable Wait...these weren't the clothes that he wore in the dreams...could it be? The man smiled, he had one thing and one thing only to say to Crow:

"You're late."

"In that case, as we're so late, I guess we'll be leaving here. Nice seeing you, Clive." Crow shot back in return, smiling at Clive rather confidently and putting his hand out for the man after Badger picked the lock on his chains.

"Nice seeing you too, Crow." Clive smiled "So, which way is up?"

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Luke Triton bit his lip as tried his hardest not to jump about and shout at the throbbing pain he had just caused his foot. This wasn't going well; he needed to get down to that room. Hershel was out as well as Bostro, meaning he finally had the chance to go there.

'There' being the one room he was banned from. Luke was free to go wherever he wished...provided it was in the castle. However, despite being told this, when he actually decided to explore the place he was banned from this one arched mechanical door.

The door to the dungeon.

Yes, Hershel didn't really need to explain why...Luke was already pretty sure someone Luke cared about was probably in there. Or at least, would be in there at some point. This did frustrate the boy deeply because he knew even if he did see someone down there that he knew...or even someone he didn't, he knew that there was nothing he could do for them.

What he could do through, was draw detailed maps and designs of every little thing Hershel had in this castle. That way, one day, he can give this notebook full of details of Hershel's secrets to someone who can truly take him down, and this whole nightmare with them...without killing his dear old friend.

So, down the stairs he went, to see what horrors Hershel was keeping from him. He gulped as he clutched his dear old bag...he hated spooky places but he knew he had to overcome this fear...for mum and dad...for Flora...For the professor. He knew he had to face his fears, to save them.

Though, if Luke hadn't been so concentrated on actually forcing himself down into the deep old dark caverns there would have been one question on his mind:

Why was the arch door open?

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"GAH!"

Crow cried out as the bullet just missed his head and went straight to the wall. So much for just walking up and out, he guessed those goons from earlier must have woken up and sounded the alarm...although he couldn't be sure. If they got out of this alive, he was defiantly going to look this matter up.

If? What was he saying? Of course they were going to get out alive!

Clive was ducked down next to him "I take it you have a plan?" he asked hopeful.

"Did you ever doubt that?" Crow smirked in return, getting out his radio "Ravens! Escape plan Delta 5!"

"What's Delta 5?" asked Clive trying to remember. He had heard most of The Black Raven's escape plans before however it's been so long since he last saw them...surely; he wasn't forgetting his friends, was he?

"It's a new one, quite a bit has changed since you've been...away." Gus explained.

"Yes...and in order to do it we're going to have to get to the room across from us..." Crow trailed off as he stared at the door.

"What?" cried out Gus and Badger, Badger grabbing Gus out of the way anther bullet was fired through the door.

"Don't worry, I'll distract them. Then you can meet the others in the car." Crow declared as he looked at them all.

"NO! You can't! They'll kill you!" Clive ordered him.

Crow wasn't sure what to think of that...was he really naive enough to think that Crow hadn't already thought something up for that? It made him sigh to think that Clive, of all people, was underestimating him.

The room they were in was (what Crow guessed to be) some sort of store room for the many artefacts that Layton had dug up. In this room he could see Celtic weapons, suits of armour, ancient ruins, old maps, even gold...but none of these caught Crow's eye.

No, what caught Crow's eye was the shield.

It was plain, simple, metal, round and probably heavy...but he knew it would protect him from bullets.

It was the key to their safety.

So, he grabbed the shield as he said "Don't worry, Clive. I'll give them a round for their money."

And before Clive could do anything, he jumped out of the door.

"CROW!" Clive screamed as he was about to go after him. After being in that place so long, he was not going to let that man's threats become a reality! He was going to do everything and anything to make sure they got out...anything but sacrifice them.

So he was off...or at least, he would have been, had he not a certain person pull him back and to his surprise rather roughly too.

"Don't!" cried out a voice "Crow knows what he's doing not to mention he's studied the map and knows it inside out, if anyone can distract those goons and get back to us it's Crow. If you go after him then we may end up losing both of you which would mean this entire mission would have failed!" explained desperately the voice of Badger, which really caught Clive off guard.

Badger…he never really spoke much to Clive or anyone other than The Black Ravens and Rai for that matter. The only time he had seen Badger be truly talkative was when he walked in on The Ravens hanging out to get Crow for their latest plan. In fact, right here and now was probably the most Badger had ever talked to Clive…and, the teenager was right.

"You make a good point...lead the way." He commanded the young teenager who simply nodded and snuck out into the corridor once the coast was clear.

The two teens and the young man were off, ducking and diving whenever the goons came by. Whatever Crow was doing, he certainly was 'giving them a run for their money'. Still, although this made it a little more likely they were going to run into some goons, it also made it quicker for them to get to their destination...whatever that was, Clive realised he had no idea where they were going as they entered a room and Gus shut the door behind them.

"Now what?" Clive asked Badger after he helped Gus pushed a cargo box against the door.

Badger, who was looking out of the window, replied "We jump."

"What?" asked an extremely confused Clive as he ran over to see just what Badger was looking at. After all, he couldn't be serious about that, right?

On second thoughts, Clive decided that actually he was serious...by the fact that he could see about six blobs waving at them and a car with a life boat on it...Oh, they can't be serious...was all Clive could think to himself.

"We are all going to die..." Clive grimaced.

"Relax; we've tested this out before. Seriously, even Gus came down safely." Badger reassured him, remembering that they didn't have much time.

"Yeah!" Gus agreed, munching on sweets...which Clive decided to not even ask about.

He sighed, the two teens were right on this matter...he had to jump, they didn't have many options...okay, they didn't have any options left. However, Clive did promise himself that if he survived this, he will not be letting this lot come up with the escape plan ever again...

So, without thinking anymore about it (as he knew he'd end up scaring himself) Clive climbed up onto the bouncy...

...and jumped.

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"GET 'IM BOYS!" Growled a gruff voice as Crow heard what almost sounded like a herd of buffalo stampeding towards him as he just kept running, all the while holding up a shield to protect him from the rain of bullets.

Crow began panting, he had been running around now for the last ten minutes and he knew he couldn't keep up all this running forever- he needed a hiding place, somewhere to rest even if it were for only five minutes...

Actually, Crow was pretty sure he should have collapsed by now, the only reason he kept going was her...to see Wren's face one more time. He knew as long as that thought was in his head he could run like this for a good day or two...

...providing his body didn't have other ideas, which it seemed to as Crow found himself beginning to slow down.

Desperately, he looked all around him as he just got out of their line of fire. It had to be around here. It just had to! He was certain this was the way they came from, which meant the entrance had to be here.

And, fortunately for his life, it was.

Without any hesitation, he dropped the shield, kicked across the room (so as to make them believe he went the other way) and ran straight down those steps back into the dungeon below...

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Luke was sitting cautiously in the corner of the room which was clearly the dungeon, drawing almost furiously into his notebook, trying his hardest to ignore the ghosts appearing in his imagination...he needed to get his drawing done and he needed it done now. Before his imagination gets the better of him, besides he was pretty sure he had started to hear footsteps now.

Still, he kept focus, currently drawing in a cobweb with a spider on it. According the spider, he didn't much of this Layton character other than he comes down here often and that when he does, the spider would leave the room. He doubted very much that the web or the spider had anything to do with whatever Hershel did down here but when living with Hershel Layton, you know better than to take anything for granted.

Besides, the web was the last thing he had to draw before he could sneak back upstairs and act like he had been lounging in his room the entire time...

So, with the last stroke of his HB sharp pencil, he jumped up and turned as quickly as he could to the corridor, not waiting anther second to make his way out of here. This place was already beginning to give him even mor-

"AAAHHHH!"

Luke screamed as he felt something bump into him, making a shiver go up his spine. It was a ghost! He knew it! He just knew this place was haunted! Oh, why did he ever go down here again? Now what was he going to do? How-

"Cli-"started off the 'ghost' making Luke open his tightly shut eyes and Luke up at...wait, that wasn't a ghost.

Luke stood up looking at the boy, who was clearly around his age...he squinted; something...something about that boy looked familiar. That hat of his...and...and his yellow scarf...that nose! That nose was unmistakable. There was only one person who looked like that...

"Luke?" asked the boy barely louder than a whisper as he stared wide-eyed at Luke, clearly just barely believing his eyes...this only confirmed his identity to Luke.

"Crow..." he breathed out, his face suddenly turning to a wild grin "That's really you?"

"My god...Luke, we thought- Oh my god...I...you've been here all this time?" he questioned in disbelief.

Luke frowned at this, not really quite sure what Crow was talking about so he only dumbfounded replied. "Um, yeah...I have."

"Luke-" Crow was about to say, he didn't really know what, he had so much he wanted to tell him! Luke and Crow were never really friends back when Luke lived in Misthallery but when he left the two become quite good friends and even wrote letters to each other (like Luke did to all his old friends) so to see him again was a wonderful thing. However before he could truly talk his next sentence was cut off...

"OI HE'S DOWN 'ERE." That gruff voice from earlier declared.

"Bostro...?" Luke said frowning, making Crow understand that Luke must clearly personally know the man chasing him "Oh gosh, he didn't spot you, did he?"

"No, as far as I know none of them had managed to get a really good look at me." Crow quickly explained as he heard the footsteps get closer.

"Good...right...do you know a way out? I mean there has to be some sort of reason you came down here, right?" Luke said hopefully more than asked, still as sharp as ever.

Crow nodded "Yes there are some secret passages that lead to the old ruined underground, which will allow me to get up to the clock shop on Midland Road."

"Right, you go, I'll stay here." Luke replied.

"What? No! You have to come with me and the others!" Crow shot back, a little panicked. He had just seen someone who he had presumed Layton had 'hidden'; he was not going to lose his friend again.

"The others...? You mean..." Luke shook his head "Look, if I stay they'll just think it's me playing about and they won't say a word to Hershel as they'll think they've botched up by nearly killing me...You were the only one seen right?"

"Yes I believe so but still you have to come with me! You can't stay here, how will I ever see you again?" Crow argued, if today could be the day he got both one of his leaders back and finally found Luke Triton.

"Look, when the sun and moon are both up high, meet me at the old home of scholars." Luke said as he pushed Crow away as he could now see Bostro's boots.

Crow nodded, understanding the riddle was in case Bostro heard "Goodbye Luke, it was good seeing you again."

"You too! Now go!" Luke commanded as he pushed Crow even more, making him starting to run again.

Still didn't stop Crow for feeling guilt as he, once again, had to leave his friend with that fiend.

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"We…we have to go." Roddy sighed, not making eye contact with his friends.

"What? No! We can't leave Crow!" both Wren and Clive said at the same time.

"Roddy's right…those were Crow's orders should he take too long." Marilyn agreed unwillingly. She didn't want to leave Crow anymore than Wren did but she knew that if they waited for him any longer they were going to get caught and that wouldn't be any help to anyone…

"But…" Wren trailed off teary eyed, knowing they were right…but also she…she just couldn't do it.

"That's it; I'm going back for him." Clive declared at the sight of Wren's tears.

"No! Stop him Badger!" Marilyn quickly told the boy.

Marilyn, Louis and Roddy could only watch as their friends struggled to keep Clive in the car. How were they going to break this up? The three of them all knew that they need to get going, now.

Louis was considering just stepping on it, it would stop the fighting and get them out of here before Layton's goons got here…but then, his friends would get hurt. He just didn't know what to do! But he knew he couldn't just sit there like a lemon, he had- Wait….what was that running towards them? It…It was…

"Look!" Louis gasped, pointing at the figure that he recognised, making the fighting stop.

Suddenly, the car which was filled with screams, shouts and struggling…was now full of almost frozen smiling faces.

Crow quickly opened the front of the car and jumped straight in "What are you waiting for? Step on it Louis!"

"Right, boss" he smirked, doing exactly that, the rest of the passengers as happy as could be.

Once safely out of Layton's area, the car was quickly filled of laughing and chatting from The Black Ravens and Clive. Although, Wren couldn't help but notice her boyfriend wasn't exactly joining in on the fun…

"Crow? Are you alright?" she asked as she leaned over into the front seats.

"Hm? Oh, Wren, yes I'm fine…pass me the headset would you?" he said rather seriously.

Wren…it was never good when he called her by her real name. Well there were a few times…but this certainly wasn't one of them. She could tell something was wrong, but she decided not to press it. She believed Crow would tell her when he was good and ready, so, for now, she did as he asked.

Crow, just took them, forgetting to say thank you. He was far too busy thinking about what he saw…was Layton keeping him down there? But wait, his clothes were pretty much clean…wait, didn't he mention something about the goons thinking he was 'playing about', that was suggest…just what was going on? What had he just seen?

When he was finally connected Crow could only say "It's me, we're heading back…yes, yes we're fine but that's not important. Gather everyone; I have some dire information to tell you all."

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Haha, admit it...you guys so thought they were there to save Luke! MUHAHAHAHA as if I'd be that predictible...

So, who is the resistance's second leader? Why was Clive in Layton's Castle? Why didn't they know Luke was there when he goes out into London streets daily? And just who was Crow talking to at the end of that chapter? Go on! Tell me what you guys think :3

1. On a quick side note, despite the fact the theme of this story is actually Friendship being strong even in the darkest of days (and I'm talking about all the characters not just Luke and Layton), if I had to pick a theme song it would be 'Not In Love' by Crystal Castles ft. Robert Smith. Simply because the music works extremely well for all the running about there's gonna be in this story and it does fit Luke knowing that he and Layton can't really be friends...so yeah, 'love' in a different sence of the word.

2. you'll notice that Badger only talks to 'The Black Ravens and Rai' who's Rai you ask? Why it's my first OC into the story! She was created by Riku's Music Lover and you'll hear more about her later. For now though, look below to find out how your OCs can be in the story!

3. Right now for how your OCs can be in the story.

All you have to do is pm me a description of their appearance, personally and who from the PL games they'd get on with the most. (do not say anyone from MoM as I haven't played that yet.)and then tell me if they're one of the following:

A. Willingly or Unwillingly working for Layton (E.g A maid, which I really need btw. So please, someone send me in an OC that's a maid or something of Layton's)

B. A member of the resistance

C. A cizten of London who gets caught up in one of Layton's and/or the Resistance's plans.

That's it really, so please send them in!

Review! :D