So here it is, my second chapter. This one isn't quite as long as the first, only 2k words this time.
Don't forget to review guys, this will help me improve my writing.
Chapter two; Doctor Amundvic
Luke's POV
I walked up to the receptionist. She was a short petit woman, who appeared to be in her mid-thirties; a similar age to the Professor.
"Excuse me, do you know where a girl named Aurora is in this hospital, she just came in? I know her." I asked politely but hastily, I needed to know of her condition.
"Eeerm," She looked puzzled as she scrolled down her computer screen looking for admittances. "Well I'm sorry young man, but you can't go and see her right now, she is in the intensive care unit, room 3. But you will need a guardian who is over the age 18 to take you there. I can give you a note to go to the waiting room though."
"Okay, thank you." I said, trying to keep my voice in a constant tone, rather than breaking into tears, as the Professor says, 'A true gentleman never makes a scene in public', so I didn't.
So I went and sat there for 20 minutes before I saw both Emmy (on a stretcher trolley) with an oxygen mask, and the Professor arrive.
Layton's' POV
As I briskly marched into the hospital after Emmy, I noticed Luke sitting at the side of the reception. Looking crestfallen, all form of colour had been drained from both the emotional and physical ordeal he had been through, an ordeal which was nothing compared to what Emmy and Aurora had to, (I wasn't sure on the emotional part for Aurora). As had I.
"Luke," I asked. "Weren't you allowed in to see Emmy and Aurora?"
"No, I wasn't." He replied glumly. "They didn't let me in because I needed consent of a guardian to go in."
"Well that's perfectly normal for hospital you know Luke. But I'm here now so we can both go and see if we can get news on them by waiting in the corridor outside."
"Okay Professor." Luke replied.
"Excuse me, may this boy and I go and see if we can speak to two young women that were admitted here in the last half an hour madam?" I inquired.
"Yes, of course," She replied." But first could you just sign here and here please, err Mr. …" She tailed off.
"Well, Professor Layton." I replied, signing the form she had just handed me.
"Oh, so you're a professor then, at which university is that?" She asked me.
"Gressenheller, in London" I replied hastily, noticing Luke walking up next to me, his head just inches above the counter, he was looking impatient. "Anyway, I think we best be going now, where did you say they were?"
"Oh, they are both in the intensive care unit," She said squinting at her computer screen. "But I doubt that you will be able to go inside and see them for a while,"
"Are." I said
"but you can go down to the waiting room just outside of their rooms and wait there for any news if you want to, by the way, it's just down the corridor that goes to the left on the other side of that door there, and the place for waiting is a few chairs just between the fourth and fifth doors on the left on the ground floor." She explained.
"Thank you madam, I think we shall go and wait there."
"You welcome." She chirped as we turned our back on her and began to walk towards the door to the rest of the hospital.
Luke's POV
I wrung my hands together in nervousness, and glanced at the near life-less clock on the wall of the waiting area, for what seemed like the millionth time. It had been three hours now the Professor and I had been waiting for news on Aurora. Just thinking about her made me because of the feelings she had made me feel during our adventure around the world, and the sorrow of her being gone, or fabricated and thus unable to sustain her being.
Although the medic told me that she was dead because she had no pulse, I wasn't sure if she really was dead. When the Professor first uncovered her from the ice, Descole had said that she was really had no pulse, yet seconds later, she was alive and well. I hoped this happened again, and she could live with us as a golem in disguise; I wouldn't mind that at all.
It was more a case of
I looked around the dull waiting room, at the mid-tone greys, and the part beige, part white floor, it reminded me of an overcast day, the type we had experienced when exploring Kodh. I glanced over to the Professor's side of the room, the colour of the surroundings probably reminded him of a puzzle no doubt. Each of the four walls of the perimeter of the room had one mediocre piece of artwork drooping from the wall. One depicted a glistening lake with a border of pebbles, another with a calming image of icebergs that were meandering around an empty bay the type that would be seen in Kodh. Falling snowflakes were shown in another, and the final image was the one about three foot above the professor's head, (24 inches beyond his top hat), and it contained a ship, gliding across the sea majestically.
Another hour passed with no conversation between me and the professor, we were both completely tied up in our thoughts. I felt as if I was locked in a sandwich of saviour, as I was in between the two rooms which would ultimately decide whether Aurora and Emmy would live or die.
Layton's POV
The clock struck 9.30 pm; three and a half hours in the hospital. I thought for the first time about Aurora, Luke said the medic pronounced her as dead, due to her having no pulse.
I then heard some loud voices coming from Aurora's room my heart started beating quicker. The door opened from Aurora's room, a doctor wearing bloodied green surgery overalls walked looking puzzled, he was of a similar height to me, and spoke in a soft voice, but not in a typical Froenburg accent which we had come across around here, but in a British accent, not quite as well-spoken as me though.
"Professor Layton, this girl Aurora is most unusual, she has lost 50% of her volume of blood, and she has no pulse, yet she is still blinking and twitching!" Said the doctor, he must have been informed of my name and presence.
"Has she not told you?" I asked, confused that
"Told us what?"
"Well, th… that she isn't, well, she isn't actually human."
"Well, what is she then? An animal? She has been losing lots of blood. If she was human or an animal, she would have been dead by now." The doctor had definitely seen anything like this before in his career.
"Well she told us, she was a golem-" I began, but I was interrupted by the Doctor.
"She is no 'Golem Professor Layton, she isn't made of clay, but human skin, she has a human heart which has been severely damaged. Oh, and I just thought you should know, we have put both her on the life support machine, she is still alive as far as we can tell, but I think it would be best if you don't disturb her for a while, you should wait to go and see them for a while at least, until tomorrow maybe." The Doctor announced.
"Phhew, that a relief." Luke sighed. I was not entirely sure as to what went on or what was going on in Aurora's body, had she really become a human or not after killing Bronev.
"But I must advise you, err, what was your name again?"
"Luke, Luke Triton, the Professor's apprentice, Doctor…?"
"Amundvic." The doctor replied.
"Where was I? Ah yes, the two of them could both quite easily slip towards death again if their conditions falter; they need rest."
"Okay." Luke replied, in a quieter voice.
"I completely understand Doctor Amundvic. Do you have any other details of Aurora's, and Emmy Altava's condition?" I asked, I was quite worried about Emmy, as I had seen her injuries first hand just hours earlier.
"Well, I can confirm she has a broken left arm, fractured ligaments in her left foot, some very severe bruising around her body such as on her back, and her face. She had quite a nasty cut on her face, we've treated that with bandages. Aurora has simply a very deep cut to her heart, which is a human one as we discovered when doing surgery to stop the bleeding and repair her heart, which is a very similar to a human heart, but with very slight hindrances such as thinner walls to her arteries. To do that we had to put her in a coma to allow us to treat her, she also had a much smaller man made heart which was just in front of her human one, which was made of blue glass."
"I see. That 'blue glass' heart you mentioned must have been made by the people that made her; she said she was 'made'. Although I'm not sure where the human heart comes in here. Anyway, it's getting late, we should be going now Luke to retire for the night. We shall spend tonight at the hotel in Froenburg arms Inn Luke, back in the centre of town and come back tomorrow; it's getting late."
"Right you are Professor." He said.
"We shall see you tomorrow Doctor, good night." I tipped my hat, and turned my back on him, as Luke and I began to walk through the door, when Doctor Amundvic changed his mind.
"Actually, Professor, could you explain to me the details about this girl Aurora, and Emmy Altava to me please?"
"Oh, yes of course, you shall need some details of them to help with a diagnosis and treatment won't you."
"Yes I shall." He replied, picking up a notepad and pen from a nearby desk. I began my recalling of knowledge and what we had been through in the last few weeks.
"She did say that she could become a human and stop being a 'golem', if she took another human's life. She stabbed a man in the heart named Leon Bronev. I'll tell you everything about Aurora now Doctor, as she was unable to tell you, several weeks ago, Luke here, the young lady in the room over there," I said pointing. "Emmy Altava, and a man named Jean Descole and I discovered this girl trapped in ice. Oh, and it was only possible to find her if we had discovered the garden of healing in Misthallery, the infinite vault of Monte dor, and the city of harmony in Ambrosia. We recovered her from very deep cave full of ice, which is just outside of Froenburg, about three miles north of here and up on the side of the glacier." I paused, allowing the doctor to write all the details down. "When I solved a puzzle that was over one million years old, she was finally released from the ice. Jean Descole, who was imposing as 'Professor Sycamore', estimated Aurora was this old too." I'm used to lecturing people like this, it is what I'm paid for anyway, as my first job.
"One million years old? Are you sure Professor Layton?" He gasped, flabbergasted.
"Yes quite sure, have you ever heard of the Azran civilisation Doctor? They both flourished and fell around 1.2 million years ago. Aurora is their messenger, she said she was their messenger to the people of today."
"Well until now, I never had heard of the 'Azran' Professor."
"Yes, I quite understand, back to how she came to be here, she was kidnapped by a criminal organisation named Targent, but we managed to free her in a town about 100 miles south of here, Kodh have you heard of it Doctor? It's down away from the mountains by the lake."
"Yes, I most definitely have."
"Anyway, she uncovered an Azran ruin under the lake there. We then went on a quest around the world to uncover the five Azran eggs she told us of to seek the Azran legacy. We found them in due course and came here to uncover the legacy in the cave we discovered her in. She warned us that the Azran legacy would bring suffering and enielation to the world, but Targent's leader, Leon Bronev, found the legacy. He did this by piercing Aurora's human heart. Although, I forgot to say, Emmy revealed she was Leon Bronev's niece and thus my biological cousin, as Bronev was originally both my Descole's father, before abandoning us to work for Targent."
"I can say though, that I have heard of Targent, but not Bronev before. Do you know anything else about Aurora? By the way, we already know plenty about Emmy, as she is registered so we found all the data we needed about her; I know she is your assistant Professor."
"I don't know any more details an Aurora's background, other than that she had her heart pierced by an Azran dagger, and she told us she was 'made' by the last of the Azran to pass on their message to the people that discovered her."
"She said she could only become a human if she killed another human; she killed Bronev."
"Okay, thank you very much Professor Layton, I won't keep you and your apprentice waiting any longer to retire for the night."
"Thank you for saving Aurora and Emmy." Luke replied before I could.
"Yes thank you very much and goodnight Doctor." I opened the door allowing Luke to pass through, as he thanked me, and we began our walk to the door and along the corridor to the reception and into the car park. Luke forgetting how cold it was had forgotten how cold it was outside, and let out a high-pitched semi shiver, semi groan at the cold. I made a quick phone call to the hotel to book a night there. We then headed to the hotel.
It had been a long day.
So that was that, chapter three should be up here by Wednesday next week I estimate, (the 19th of Feb. 2014).
Thanks for reading.
And just a reminder, all the characters contained here belong to Level-5. I just thought that I should say that to avoid copyright breaching.