Many days and nights passed, each one more morose than the last, as Zacharias sunk back into his old ways while trying to find the witch who had caused his and Karena's misfortune. He had succeeded in doing so, but with her capture came many mysteries; one of which was that the true Stone Witch didn't have any involvement in the petrification of Karena.
"Are you sure it was not you who turned Karena to stone?" Zacharias asked her once he had heard this from her.
"Yes, for the tenth time." The witch replied with a roll of her eyes. "I was ordered to only frighten and frame her. Nothing else."
"Who was giving you these orders?"
The witch turned her gaze away. "I…cannot say…"
"One final thing…If you were there that night – as you claimed – then you must know where her engagement ring went."
The Stone Witch turned to face him, now confused. "What?"
"The ring on her left hand that disappeared when she was petrified. Do you know where it went?"
"No. Look, I went to her cell to scare her up a little, but someone cast a spell to render me unconscious." The witch said as she became defensive. "I did not petrify her, did not see the person who did that to her, and I did not take some silly engagement ring!"
She paused for a long while, giving a look like she wanted to share something more. Zacharias caught onto this and asked, "Do you perhaps have something more to share…?"
For a moment more the witch weighed her pros and cons, and then she said slowly, "I may not have seen that girl's attacker, but I might have a good idea…"
"Then pray tell me. Who did it?" Zacharias leaned in, interested and desperate for an answer.
"Bezella."
"Nonsense! Bezella is just a bedtime story to make children behave!"
"No! She is real, and she's living amongst us all. Find her and send her to the flames, and all this will end!"
Zacharias thought nothing of it at the time, and so sent the witch to the pit to burn for her crimes. This of course, didn't solve a thing. Karena was still a stone statue, and Zacharias hadn't found a way to return her to normal. Days turned into weeks, and weeks into months, but still nothing about Karena's mystery attacker – so named Bezella – never turned up.
Life turned back to the way it was before he met Karena, as if all that had happened between them was just a dream. He kept pictures of her at home and his workplace, and he left flowers in her cell frequently, but it wasn't the same as physically holding her in his arms and talking with her.
Soon he came to the grim conclusion that he was not the one who would solve this mystery. And he knew that Darklaw wouldn't step up and solve it either, so who would?
Turns out that four peculiar characters were soon to appear in Labyrinthia and unravel all of the mysteries the town had to offer, exposing the town for what it really was…
So here we are on the threshold to the start of the game itself, and with it the introduction of Professor Layton, Luke, Phoenix Wright, and Maya. Just to warn you, some of the content of the chapters from here on will be some of the scenes from the game. I'll try not to copy them word for word, but I can't guarantee it, seeing as it's hard to alter such an accent as the British that Zacharias and the other characters use. Also, sorry for the short chapter, but the next one will be extra long! I guarantee it!
But I am back, and there shouldn't be any more breaks until the end at least. Hope you enjoy!