Counting from the votes received in the ballet, the segment, "Dawn Oi'f Do'h Deceased!" received the most votes! So here it is!

Now to answer some questions!

nazo-nin: The reference is a cheap knock-off of The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror, which is where the idea originated from! Good guess though.

this is lovely: Really, you've never seen one? I've sworn I've read one or two before...

(WARNING: THERE ARE GRAPHIC VIOLENT SCENES IN THIS CHAPTER! YOU ARE WARNED! ...Sweet dreams! C: )


Chapter 7 - Dawn Oi'f Do'h Deceased!

Luke struggled to keep up with the Professor, it was a saturday morning, and Layton was making his rounds about London, the skies were unusually gray, something quite uncommon for the beloved city of our protagonists.

"But Professor! Why can't we stop to rest for a little while?" Luke said as he dragged behind the Professor, they'd been running errands the entire morning, and Luke was getting exhausted from all the walking around they were doing, "I promise that the next stop will be our last, afterwards we can return home and you'll get your rest." Layton said, chuckling as Luke grabbed onto his coat to keep up with him, "You said that the last three stops! And the one before that too!"

"Oh, so I did...Well this time is the last time, no more errands afterwards. I promise."

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure, my boy...Now perhaps you can let go of my coat?" Luke blinked and released his hand from the Professor's coat, smiling sheepishly and shrugging afterwards, "Say Professor, what's that commotion over there all about?" Layton looked around for the source of the ''commotion'' Luke was speaking of, when he spotted a big group of citizens all huddled around each other, he was sure that he had found it, "Hmm...I'm not quite sure, my boy. Care to find out?"

"Absolutely! Maybe something devastating happened!" Luke let his childish imagination get the best of him as his energy suddenly returned, he ran up to the group and tried to excuse himself through the crowd, Layton slowly followed along.

Once both Layton and Luke were in complete eye and earshot of the gathering, a tall lanky man in a white coat stood before the crowd, "Thank you ALL for appearing here today! If you are here, you are probably aware of the messages I've been posting around town.-"

"Do you have any idea on what's he talking about, Professor?" Luke asked, holding onto the Professor's coat again, "Not in the slightest, though I can say that I've seen a poster or two advertising for a gathering, though I never suggested that both events were one in the same."

"Now if everyone were to settle down I can reveal to you the reason I've gathered you all here. Now recently, within my laboratory, I've been running some tests on cow meat to enrich the flavor of meat products such as hamburgers." -

Luke was shocked by the news and turned to the Professor, "Professor, is he allowed to do that? Wouldn't the chemicals that ''enrich'' their meats flavor be quite harmful to the poor cow?" Luke frowned, he never liked seeing animals get hurt... "I'm not quite sure Luke. Normally I wouldn't approve of such a thing, but there is nothing I can do without getting a stir up within the crowd."

The crowd was already stirred up enough by the news, either they were intrigued of the idea of tastier cow meat, angered at the idea of possibly injuring a cow, or just shocked at the idea in general, "Now I say once again, CALM DOWN! Once you TASTE one of the hamburgers, I'm sure you ALL will reconsider the idea! The meat is 100% fresh, and received from cows in Dropstone! All I did was add a chemical that betters the flavor!"

Luke cringed at the sight of the hamburgers the man in the white coat showed, the man allowed the crowd to sample the burgers to see if they would change their minds about his devious idea, "Professor, I'm not sure about this..."

"You don't have to eat one if you don't want too Luke, I'm not that quite hungry right now, I'll have myself for a meal at home later instead, there's nothing much more we can do here, for now let's just head back home and see if-"

"AAAAAH!"

Layton, interrupted by the scream, turned around, as did Luke, to see a woman who had sampled a burger grasping her head in disturbance. Eventually she collapsed to the ground, and was left there for ten seconds.

After those ten seconds were up, the same woman stood up, with a deformed rotted gray face, her left eye socket was completely empty, after rawring a mighty rawr, she POUNCED on the man in the white coat!

"Oh m-my! What are you doing!" The man said, everyone else who had sampled a burger also fainted, ten seconds later, ALL of them were morphed into a mortified, dead, cannibalistic state!

"Professor! W-what's happening!" Luke didn't have the stomach to see what the ''zombie'' woman was doing to the man, and turned around to look away, "I'm not sure Luke, QUICKLY, come with me!" Layton looked around as he was dashing away, Luke trailing behind, he saw that those who did not sample the food were attacked by those that did, and soon THEY became cannibalistic zombies as well!

"It's an epidemic, Professor!" Luke was still exhausted from the walking they had done all day,he had regained some energy..But enough to keep up at a constant rate with the Professor..

"I wouldn't exactly call it an epidemic, especially for something that occurred in less than five minutes! We have to evacuate the area Luke! Before whatever is causing these people to morph into zombies spreads towards the rest of London!" Layton picked up his pace as he ran, grabbing Luke's hand in case he couldn't make it the whole way.

"But Professor! Where do we go!" Luke finally was able to keep up with Layton, "I have a plan, but it involves leaving London until this situation is calm, are you okay with that, Luke?"

Luke was hesitant at first, London was like a second home to Luke, especially now since he resides with Layton, but, he didn't want to end up like a zombie like the others have, after thinking about the situation, he spoke, "I-it's alright Professor, so as long as we're able to come back here when it's all over.."

"I was thinking of the exact same thing, now come along before any of them notice us fleeing!" The two of them ran as fast as they could away from whatever they had feared was tailing them..

Up until now, nothing was following them, the original batch of zombies were busy turning others into zombies. It was a horrific sight indeed, and what made it more disturbing is the fact that is all happened in less than 5 minutes...(A/N: Both true in the story AND real life! Although it may sound somewhat impossible...)

Victim after victim, the citizens of London were either dying or transformed into mortified beasts, those who were quick enough to run off at first sight of the zombies were quickly surrounded, ambushed, and had their flesh peeled from their bodies, as the zombies feasted on the innocent people as their thirst for blood was unquenchable. Trash cans were overturned, lampposts were taken down, and bodies of the deceased were thrown into alleys, even ''Big Ben'' was looking pretty grim now, it's cheery classic look now appeared to be a dull shade of nothingness.

The outbreak was soon documented into headlines for major newspapers, not only that, it was recorded for news show, and victims who fled London to another area were interviewed of the disaster.

It was a dark day for London...A dark day indeed...and what of the days to follow?

Approximatively six to seven days later. About one hundred and sixty eight hours into the massacre.

Efforts made to rescue victims from the terror that was now known as London were sometimes successful, most of the time however, they failed. Special Forces sometimes were sent to cover the streets, they were ordered to attack anything that came to attack them, or in other words. "Kill ANYTHING that comes close to you."

Those who survived often made small communities in the underground slums of the city, even though the zombies could sniff flesh, the survivors figured that they couldn't smell them out through dirt.

Layton and Luke managed to thrive in one of these communities.

This particular community, however, consisted of those closest to both Layton and Luke, which means, the two of them, Emmy, Dr. Schrader, Dean Delmona, his precious granddaughter, Rosa, Inspector Grosky, Constable Chelmey, and for some reason, the purple cat they had met in Mist Haley, known as "Keyte". They were lucky enough to recover this much people, as they had too many close calls in the past with the zombies.

Layton and Emmy often compiled plans on how to escape their small community into a safer area outside of London, currently they were discussing a plan involving Emmy's plane, though it would require backtracking to retreive it from her house.

"What if we attached the Laytonmobile to Emmy's plane...by use of a latch of some sort, then everyone can fit, and if we can angle it correctly...Emmy can fly off and have enough weight to support the Laytonmobile!" Luke had intentionally interrupted Layton and Emmy as they were discussing the plane plan with one of his own. The idea sounded farfetched at first, but both adults thought about it, and eventually gave it enough consideration for it to be performed.

"Luke, as outrageous as that sounds...It's worth a shot or two, but regretabbly, there are three faults with that plan." Emmy said as she frowned, "For one, I have to backtrack to go recover my plane at my house.-"

"And?" Luke questioned.

"THE STREETS ARE CROWDED WITH ZOMBIES! I CAN'T FIGHT THEM ALL OFF!" Emmy's shouting made Luke jump out of his skin! He apologized quietly and let Emmy continue, "Now as I was SAYING...We also have to go get the Laytonmobile, and the last problem is that we have to find a way to connect both vehicles together.."

Luke walked away as Emmy continued discussing her plans with the Professor, the man had seen Luke tremble off, and had wondered what he was up too, after ending their discussion with Emmy, he had walked over to Luke, who was resting on a stool they had recovered from the torture that is known as London.

Luke was holding his stomach tightly, as if he had some sort of injury, Layton kneeled down in front of the boy and looked at his face, "What seems to be the problem, my boy? You didn't seem ill earlier, why is that all of a sudden you seem to look the part...?"

"W-well...P-professor...It's just that there's something I had regretted to tell you ever since this whole epidemic started..." Luke looked down at his shoes as he talked, clearly embarrassed to tell the Professor as to what was bothering him.

"Luke, you know you can tell me anything, but if you don't feel up to it, that's alright then." Layton was about to stand up and leave when Luke grabbed his coat, "No, stay please, it's important..."

Layton kneeled down again and Luke sighed, eventually he fumbled around with his shirt and pulled it upwards to reveal his chest, Layton was confused at first by this action, but once he saw what was on Luke's bare chest, he almost fell over!

A long, deep, red, bloody gash lay upon the boy's chest. Clearly he had been attacked sometime early by one of the zombies.

"H-how did this happen?" Layton said, his hands trembling, "I-I'm not sure! I just woke up one day and I was aching! Honest! I looked at my chest and...it was there! I don't even know how it happened!" Luke cried out, Layton crossed his arms and looked up at the rocky ceiling, then looking back down at the young boy.

"I believe I know who did this to you, Luke."

"You do, Professor? Who!"

"Me."

"Y-you!"

"Yes. Me. As you see, my boy..."

Layton's face literally melted off of him! His arms grew extremely long and his fingers on each of his hands blended into each other till he only had three sharp claws on each hand! His eyes bled a deep dark scarlet, wings had sprouted from his back. Not only that, Luke had never before noticed that Layton had fangs, and even then, not any that were at least somewhere around the size of a mammoth's

Luke was old enough to know that top hats never had any eyes, or mouths...Heck, they weren't even alive! But clearly this wasn't the case, as the one belonging to Layton seemed to suddenly have all those features within seconds!

By now Luke was trembling into a corner, he was surrounded, Layton's face was clearly the face of Satan himself. There was nowhere to run, it was obvious that this Hershel Layton wasn't the one Luke had grown to love as much as a second father.

It was clearly out of the realm of possibility.

"I'VE BEEN INFECTED THIS ENTIRE TIME!" Layton screeched into the air as he suddenly swooped down and SWALLOWED Luke whole! (A/N: Kudos to Darkstar Runner, we love you and your fetishes for having Layton eat people.)

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"AAAAAAAH!" Luke said as he jumped out of his comfy bed, smacking himself onto the wooden floor, "Ow..." Luke gathered the energy to stand up and looked around, his room was entirely dark, and he couldn't see much. After recovering Mr. Bear and giving it a loving hug in secrecy, Luke looked out the window.

It was raining, a thunderstorm actually.

"So...it was just a nightmare..?" Luke said to no one in particular, then again, the possibility of an outbreak that occurred in less than five minutes due to tainted chemicals in cow meat DID seem to be a bit off in terms of reality.

Fearing that he would have a similar dream, he stepped out of his room and into the dimly-lit hallway, taking the usual route he would have taken had he were going to the Professor's room.

To be continued...


And, there we have it! The first of the horror segments has been completed! So yeah, so what if the story made absolutely no sense? It's a dream! Dreams never make sense! :D

Albeit, I should apologize for the lack of father/son interaction and that rather gory ending, but that's how horror stories happen anyway, in fact, this was actually intended to be the more frightening of the three segments, the other two were mildly-scary, but also midly-humorous.

Please forgive me, but then again, you DID say you wanted this one first, oh well..

You can vote for which of the two remaining segments you want to see next, remember, they are.

1. The Laytonmobile's Got A Brand New Bag! - A segment in which Layton and Luke are being hunted down by a possessed Laytonmobile! Which is bent on killing them both!

2. Wrath of the Terror Teddy! - Mr. Bear (Luke's Teddy Bear) becomes mutated and turns into a gigantic radioactive monster, which then begins to start terrorizing London!

See ya next chapter!

P.S The next chapter of "Santa Clive V.S The World...Of Layton Fanfic Authors" will be posted in a few hours!