Things you might want to know for this chapter: kidnapping, violence, weapon, and death mentions/mention.
Chapter 3
This is in Zephyr's point of view.
"Professor! You got a letter from Angela." Luke proclaimed, handing a letter to Hershel.
"That's one of the professor's old friends," Emmy explained. Hershel opened the letter and read it. His face turned serious.
"What's wrong?" Emmy asked.
"The letter says that Randall has gone missing, and asks us to come over right away to help them find him." Layton answered.
"That's awful!" Luke commented as Emmy made a sad face. I know what that must feel like for someone who care about to go missing.
"So, we are going to Monte Dor to find him right?" Emmy asked.
"Why of course, I hope nobody minds." Layton said, even though he said that I could tell that his question was directed at me.
"I don't mind, I know what that feels like." I answered.
"Ok, good, but before we go, I will write a letter to Angela to expect our arrival and tell her about Zephyr so she isn't surprised when she sees him." Layton said calmly.
After Layton finished writing the letter, we got in a car to drive to Monte Dor to find Randall. Then Luke attempted to brighten up the atmosphere. This whole scenario worried me a bit because I had no weapon. Oh well, there are plenty of police around. After we got into the car Luke chimed in, "You know Zephyr, we solve a lot of puzzles as a normal thing here, so how about we see if you can solve this one?" He handed me a weird looking puzzle. There was writing on it, that much I could tell. But the words were complete gibberish to me. Apparently this world had a different written language than mine. I didn't really want to tell them, but if I couldn't solve this puzzle I'd look like an idiot.
"What's wrong?" Luke asked.
"Where I'm from we use a different written language." I stated.
"Oh wow really? Ok, I can read it for you." Luke smiled. "It says 'A man is looking for someone. He knows where she is but at the same time does not know where she is. How is this possible?" I thought about it for a while than the answer came to me.
"Is it that he knows the building or area that the person is in but does not know where that place is?"
"Yep, that's correct. You're smart Zephyr. I bet you'll help us a lot in our mystery solving. Oh, can you show me the alphabet of your language? That'll be really cool!" Luke smiled.
"And what do you plan to write it on Luke?" Emmy asked.
"Emmy can I have some of your paper, I know you bring it around." Luke asked.
"Ok, just don't use too much of it. After all, I wanna see what the language too." Emmy handed me a pen and a notepad.
"Oh, can you write all of our names?" Luke asked excitedly.
"Sure," I said while beginning to write our names.
"Wow! That looks so cool!" Luke marveled as he watched Zephyr write.
"Let me see!" Emmy said as I handed her the notepad.
"Professor, I've never seen this language before." Emmy wondered.
"Well, I would love to see it but I am currently driving." Layton said. Emmy handed Zephyr back the notepad.
"Oh can you write the alphabet now?" Luke smiled. I wrote out the alphabet as Luke marveled over every new letter.
"Where are you from anyway?"
"Really far away," I said.
"Luke, don't be noisy. Zephyr doesn't have to tell us if he doesn't want to." Emmy reprimanded.
"Oh, sorry Zephyr," Luke apologized.
"It's fine." I answered. The drive continued with Luke asking me to write various words than they both would marvel over them. I never thought my written language was all that cool. When we arrived at our destination, Layton asked Emmy for the notepad I was writing on.
"Hmm, what a peculiar language," he commented. "Anyway we have far more important things to do now." Layton said. We then entered Monte Dor.
Monte Dor is a big bustling town with plenty of people walking through the streets. Colorful, bright colors doted the streets; I wasn't used to anything having this much bright colors.
"This place is as lively as ever." Luke commented.
"Let's make our way to Angela, so that we can get the full details." Layton said.
Little did I know that she lived in a huge mansion. Anyway, when we got there we were greeted by a man.
"Thank you for coming Layton," The man said. "Angela is awaiting you inside."
"Ah, yes. Thank you Henry." Henry led us inside where there was a woman whom I assumed was Angela.
"Oh, it makes me feel better to know that you are here Hershel. The police haven't found much of anything," The woman said.
"Can you tell us what happened Angela?" Layton asked.
"Oh course. After you left all the stuff that Henry used to own belonged to Randall now. But Henry still stayed in our house. It was normal for a while but strange things started happening like these awful letters that I found in our room after he went missing. He went missing about a week ago. He said that he had business to attend to, and had to leave right away at night. But he never came back Hershel. I think he might have been kidnapped." Angela said, obviously concerned.
"It's too soon to jump to conclusions. Could you show me these letters?" Layton asked.
"Yes they are in Randall and Is' room." Angela said, walking up the stairs to her room, Henry followed and we all looked at the first letter together. It read, "I know who you are and I can help you. From your friend, Kaito." M y blood froze, could that be the same Kaito? I really hope not. I can't handle him without a weapon. But why Layton's friend anyway, he couldn't have known that we were connected, that's not possible. Angela then took out another letter and showed it to us. This one read, "Why don't you understand? I'm going to help you rescue your friend of course! He's in big trouble. From your friend, Kaito." Angela got out the third letter, "Ah, you're interested now? Well, your friend Layton in big trouble because he just let in an evil child. From your friend, Kaito." With every letter, I thought more and more that it's Kaito sending these letters. Angela took out the fourth letter, "It's the other kid besides Luke and I know he's evil, I've seen him do very awful things Randall. Very awful things. You should warn your friend if nothing else. Your friend Kaito."
"That's the last of them." Angela said. Did they actually believe this? I really hope not. I didn't realize that I was distancing myself from everyone.
"Don't worry Zephyr, I don't believe this shady guy one bit!" Luke said.
"Neither do I. Zephyr's was very nice to Luke." Emmy commented.
"I don't believe it either. A better question would be do you have anyone who would like to ruin you Zephyr?"
"Yes, I can think of a few people. One of them name's is Kaito too. That's why I thought it might be him. But that would be bad news for us."
"Why for Kaito because it's more likely that this is the same man."
"It's not for something I did. It's for something that he believes that my step-dad did, which he didn't, not that he would ever listen to me."
"What does he think that your step-dad did?"
"He used to be in the military but quit after he survived his unit getting completely wiped out. He believes that my step-dad, Vashyron, is the one who did it. He also knows that Vashyron cares about me a lot, so if I suffered he would too."
"Yeah, but if that were true why would they go after Randall? I mean we haven't known Zephyr very long and Zephyr's doesn't even know what Randall looks like."
"Perhaps his target was Layton and he just used Zephyr as a scapegoat," Emmy said.
"But does the professor really have any enemies?"
"Not that I can think of." Layton answered. "We do know for sure that someone wanted Randall to believe that Zephyr was a danger to me. Whether it was because he wanted me to reject Zephyr or he wanted Randall to be lead to a trap or ruin me is unknown to us."
"We should consider all the possible outcomes professor." Emmy said. "So why don't we think about a reason why they would want to hurt Randall?"
"Well, I'm not sure the people of Monte Dor know that Randall was the masked gentleman," Angela said.
"The police never said a word, so only a few people would know if any," Henry deduced.
"It could be about money," I suggested.
There is no POV here.
After Leanne, Vashyron, Lindow, Alisa and Soma searched they found that Rheon had dropped one of his world changing devices. Using that Lindow was able to create another one and gave it to Vashyron and Leanne. While this was happening Kaito found Rheon and forced Rheon to switch bodies with him. Soma, Alisa, Lindow, Vashyron and Leanne were able to capture Rheon while Alisa, Lindow and Soma went back to their own world to take him to jail. But before they did that, Lindow gave Vashyron a device that would not only put Zephyr and Rheon back to normal but not change the place they were either. What Lindow did not know is that when that device is used Kaito will lose his power. Lindow also gave Vashyron a device that would track Rheon cell which would lead to Zephyr and give them his number.
