An Alternate Betrayal- Prologue

A rich blue sky without a single cloud, making the surface above beautiful with the sun's rays shining through.
An enormous meadow of bright red poppies filled with life with the rays dancing through with the wind flowing by.
Everything was calm with the gentle breeze as the only noise around, until laughing could be heard.

The laughing came from two figures which were coming closer and it turned out to be two people, chasing each other happily.
The one being chased, was a young lady with shoulder length fiery ginger hair and bright emerald eyes, wearing a long black dress with a red strap around her waist.
While the chaser was a man wearing a black suit, a sort of pirate hat with 'puppy ears' wig joined on to the hat and to add more mystery to the man, he had a white mask to cover his own eyes, not letting anyone know his true identiy.
They were as happy as can be as they were still running around the poppy meadow.

"You can't get me, Jean Descole!"

"I think I will Danielle Kitchener!!" and with that, Descole managed to wrap his arms around Danielle's body, causing them to fall down gently, rolling down a hill full of the poppies laughing.
But as they stopped rolling, both just in a giggle fit with Descole on top of Danielle. He couldn't help but stare into her eyes.

"Its not long until your name is Danielle Descole..." smiled Descole.
Danielle smiled back but as she felt Descole's face, her hand was going for the mask until Descole got hold of her hand gently, giving an amused tutting noise.

"You must learn to have patience. Wait until our wedding." he tutted.
Danielle sighed but smiled.

"Okay dear..." and she gave him a warm, loving kiss.

As they kept kissing each other, Danielle with her eyes open could see a far away figure calling for her, and this caught her attention making her stand up.

Descole was shocked by this and said "Whats wrong Danielle??".

"T-Theres someone over there... they seem to be calling for me..."

"Errr... I can't see nor hear anyone."

Danielle couldn't take much more of this and ran to the figure but it was then, she stopped. Her eyes began to water with tears, as the person in front of her was a man but not any ordinary man, but a man with a shaven head and dotted eyes that she could never forget.

The man smiled, with his arms wide and all he could say was "Danielle... My little star..."

"D-Daddy...??" and Danielle shedded so many tears and gave him a long lost hug after the 10 long years stolen from her life without a father.

She burried her head into his chest, happy that he was back in her life and she cried out "I'm so happy that you're here! I-I was actually going to France to try and find you when I heard you was alive!!"

Her father chuckled and placed his hands on her shoulders, making sure that they were looking at each other and he said "Its ok! You're my little star and I'll always be with you! No matter what! But I haven't been to France ever."

Danielle gasped in confusement as she had thought that he had to stay in France for he wasn't allowed back to enter Britian.

He smiled and said "But stay here Dani! I'll go get ice-cream! I'm sure your sister Stephanie will want some too!" and it was then that he was walking away out of sight.

Danielle's eyes were wide of horror as she tried to shout over to him "NOO!! DADDY DON'T!!! S-SOMETHING BAD WILL HAPPEN! PLEASE STOP!! PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!! PLE-"

"DANIELLE WHATS GOTTEN INTO YOU!?" and Danielle's sense came back to place as Descole had grabbed hold of her.

"Theres noone there Danielle... your father isn't anywhere around here... you must be seeing things."

"...y-yes... I-I guess you're right... i-its since after finding out the truth about him I- AHH!" and Danielle was then in pain and as she fell, Descole kept shouting her name before she hit the ground.

Voices from Descole swirled around Danielle's sore head and as she woke from the ground, all she could see was pure darkness.
She started to freak out as she stood up and noticed that the cold, hard floor was of black and white tiles as if she was on a chess board, but alone in the darkness.

"HELLO!?? JEAN!!!? ANYONE!!?" and Danielle could hear her cry of help echo around the unknown area that she was in. She kept on worrying about how she was all alone in the darkness as if shadows were lurking everywhere.

But she was not alone.

Danielle could feel the feeling of someone near by and she didn't dare want to move or turn as she was frighten so much.
The person was right behind her, and that person then grabbed hold of Danielle but gently on her arms but to Danielle, her arms felt like they were burning and she began to grit her teeth to bare the pain that she was getting.
She only knew one person that had hurt her arms nearly as the same pain she was getting now.

But the clue was seeing the person's arms and she could tell that they wore a red shirt but a black jacket over them and pale white claw like hands.
It was then that a mirror appeared in front of her showing Targents leader, Leon Bronev, was that person with his blondish-grey hair, beard and mustache, his dark shades and his faint scar on the left side of his face.

But she was getting more scared as she could see how he kept staring at her neck and she said in a quiet voice "L-Leon??".
He then chuckled saying "Think again my dear." and he began to kiss her neck which made her get mad and mad.

She closed her eyes getting furious and she opened them again shouting "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!!?" but she then gasped as it was no longer Bronev, but it was the most evil man who ever lived with him wearing black with his trench coat and red waistcoat, his famous top hat and monocle.

As he finished kissing, his eyes had looked like dark blackholes of doom and he gave an evil smirk and said "Well Danielle... I was your leader known as Monocle Layton. But you may call me Hershel. So... Shall we dance!?" and he whirled Danielle around close to him and they began to dance.

Danielle had no idea on what the heck was happening as they were dancing. She then thought that if he wasn't evil, he would of been a true gentleman, but she could tell how he was a dibolical monster for all that hes done to his home country.

But then, Layton decided to place his hand on Danielle's front waist gently and he tooked it away which lead Danielle to scream in pain, falling to her knees holding her waist to see that her hands were covered in crimson red blood.

Layton then knelt down chuckling at her whispering to her ear "You may of won this round but the game isn't over yet... We will get revenge on you... Danielle Kitchener!" and he then let his hand grip onto her neck, strangling her.

She kept shouting "GET... OFF ME!!... PLEASE STOP!!!" trying to claw his hand away. It wasn't long until she was struggling to breath while Layton was laughing in pleasure.

And thats... when she woke up screaming, with sweat falling down her.

She was back to reality in her own room.

She began to catch her breath back while sitting up, with an awoken Descole next to her, holding her hand to grab her attention.

"Another nightmare?" he asked with her replying with small nods.

"Don't worry. I'm here now... No one will harm you..." and they both laid down hugging each other with Descole kissing her top temple.

It wasn't long till they both fell asleep leaving no more nightmares for the night.