"Get off me, Layton!"

The unknown man said and pushed Hershel aside. He couldn't help himself and crushed down to the wet grass, nearly passing out from the hard hit, he received.
Many Raindrops landed on his face, as he tried to see what the man was doing to Claire:
She was pressed under one of his, thin but strong, arms and almost fully covered with his black coat. Laughing, the man disappeared with Claire behind those big bushes.

"No, no, no! This can't be true."

Hershel screamed into the dark.

"But wait..."

Trying to stand up, he wanted to run after him but then the Professor felt that something was wrong with his foot. His ankle clunked badly when he made contact to the slippery ground.

"Not jet...I have to... save.. ahh."

At the Professor's Apartment:

"Oh hey Luke, already here?"

Flora asked shy, still having the hot tea pot in her firm grip. 'Ben' only smirked at the jealous boy and reached his hand out to greet him.

"Good to see you again, Luke. How was your day?"

He sat down next to 'Ben' and saw that something was strange about him: Somehow his presence was different.

"My day was quiet heavy, had to do school stuff."

Luke said passively, while he tried to figured out what was missing in the man's personality, which the real Ben had.
Meanwhile, Flora also filled Luke's cup of Tea and took a seat in the comfy armchair, right in front of the Boys.
She was nervous, extremely nervous. The only thing she had on her mind was Claire and Hershel:

'Hopefully they aren't harmed.. and won't be. But what if Hershel needs my Help? God... why am I not able to be at two places at the same time?...'

"Flora? You can put the pot down now..."

...the voice brought her back to reality. It was Luke who noticed her awkward behavior.

"Oh, crap...

Ex- Excuse me. A Lady shouldn't swear."

Placing the pot back on the table, she decided to go to the park! Eventually she would destroy the whole Plan, but Flora wanted to risk it:

"Luke? Would you do me a favor and help me, with making some snacks for our visitor?"
His eyes told her that he was clearly confused...however, he fallowed her to the kitchen.

"I need to go to Hershel!"

Luke quickly shut the door close, as he heard the Professor's name.

"My intuition tells me that something went terribly wrong! Please, Believe me!"

She was so uptight, that she nearly screamed at him and stepped on his foot.

"Ah...Flora. Calm down! You're getting crazy. Relax, Hershel's there to protect her... nothing's going to happen."

First then, she recognized that she had no control of her body.

"I'm so sorry Luke, but I can't sit hear and play the happy little girl for 'Ben'. I know it's very serious, but what if I would go and you look over 'Ben'?"

"No! You don't know where they are, it's raining like hell and you could get hurt, kidnapped or even worse. I won't let you go."

Silence... everything was silent. But... what was 'Ben' doing?

"Hello There! Wake up!"

A woman softly shacked Hershel and wiped his wet hair from his face away. She waited for an answer, for a look from the stranger, who was laying in her arms. And then, after 2 Minutes, Hershel opened his eyes. The woman gazed into his eyes and sighed in relief.
She was around twenty, had wavy, dark brown hair, dark eyes and wore a long, yellow coat.

"Wh- Who are you, Miss?"

Chuckling she replied:

"You just woke up from unconsciousness, and are a gentleman? Unbelievable. Oh em, now to me... I'm Remi. Remi Altava."

"Did I lost consciousness? Oh, how rude of me: I'm Professor Layton."

Smiling at the weak man, she returned concerned:

"Yes, you have. I think that your ankle's sprained. The only thing that I saw was: a woman who got kidnapped and you trying to stand up and afterwards you just lied there. I'm surprised that nobody came, except for me."

His eyes widened...maybe she knew where the man in black went?

"Interesting Miss. Do you know in which direction the man fled?"

"Yes, I do. He ran to the south of the meadow. I bet he went to the bridgery street. There are many hideouts."

Hershel smiled:

"I still got a chance to protect her... I'm sorry Miss, but I need to leave. Altava, right?"

Her eyebrows narrowed at the sigh of him. Like a little naive boy, he tried to save the world... with an sprained ankle. It was impossible.

"That's my name, yes."

Hershel stood straight up and didn't felt any pain. Maybe it was the adrenaline that flowed through his body.

"I owe you something."

With that he ran away (didn't felt his injury anymore) and simply left her out in the rain. Only his fake mustache lied before her feet.

"Oh, ups..."

'Ben' was walking around in the apartment, as he broke a vase. A beautiful, old vase and made Flora jump up from the ugly noise.

"Luke, what's happening..?"

Both went out of the kitchen as Flora stood on some of the shards.

"Blood..."

She couldn't see any of it, she would get immediately sick and Luke knew that. 'Ben' ran to her, while he apologized to her for that mess.

"Flora, look away and hold on tight."

Luke held his arm out and let it be squeezed really hard from her, as 'Ben' pulled the huge shard out from her tiny foot.

"Dear? I'll bring a bandage, one second."

Luke walked to the bathroom again, just leaving 'Ben' and Flora in the living room.

"Flora, I'm truly sorry about this, but I need to go. Someone's waiting for me."

"Oh, is that so? You were only 15 minutes here.. I thought we would spent the whole evening together."

She wasn't angry at all but the pain caused her to be so harsh and of course concern. Was he on the way to the Park where Claire should be? She didn't knew.

"I know, but I couldn't not come. After all you're a very good... Friend of mine."

As answer she gave him a smile. Then he suddenly rushed to the door and went, without even saying goodbye.

"Flora, I've found a blue bandage. I hope it isn't a problem.."

The girl only sat there, her eyes showed no emotion. What you could say was, that Flora was shocked.

"Whats wrong?"

Luke asked, when he kneeled down to her.

"Ben's gone."

"Claire! Claire!"

Hershel cried his soul out for her and ran as fast as he could. He was sure, that everyone that heard or even saw him, thought that he's a maniac, but he didn't cared.

"Shit..."

The man in black heard Hershel clearly.. that meant that he was right behind him.
Running even faster, the man almost dropped Claire! As normal woman she was simply to heavy to carry around. He grabbed her harder and turned into the bridgery street. So Remi was right!

"Shit?"

Hershel recognized the noise and moans between it. It had to be the man! Who else would ran at a rainy night? He fallowed the voice.. and then the steps which where audible.

"Claire! Claire, where are you?"

After a long while of running, Hershel's way ended in an impasse. There was no way out.. but.. wait.

"A Door? Someone closed a door.."

Hershel's way didn't ended.. but where was the entrance? He walked back, fallowing his instinct. He percussed the wall on his right and held his ear near to it. A shallow sound made him smile and made him push a little spot on the wall. Then the entrance appeared. It looked like a regular Door.. but it wasn't: As if someone knew that the Professor, Master of all Puzzles, wanted to enter here.. The Person who accepted him to come locked the Door with a puzzle. It wanted a code.. a code of numbers.

"Claire.. I'm coming."

He said, while he tipped the code in. The white Door opened and what it showed was just another long way. On every side where other Doors.. about 100 of them.
Claire could be in each of it!

"Hello, Claire. Finally we're alone!"

She sat on a wet, dark ground. In the Room was just the man, herself and a few spiders. Not even windows where visible.

"Who are you? Where am I?"

Claire said calm. She was one of the rare person who had nerves of steel, in every situation.

"oh.."

She brought her Hand to her forehead.. Blood. The Hit was harder than she thought. Her dizziness was becoming badder.

"Who I am? I'll show you.. but later. First of all, you need to meet this Person. He or She'll soon be here.. Just wait.."

"Claire!" The Professor screamed before he lost consciousness again...

Author's Note: Again... a sequel :) Hope you've liked it! And.. yeah Remi, his assistant in the fourth PL game appears in this chapter... guess you knew that. Please Tell me what you've liked (R&R) for the next chapter! Thanks for reading :)