Awakening
Scotland, 994 A.D.
A castle under siege, portions of its walls broken through by fire and stone, archers lined up along the wall parts that still stand, firing to the best of their ability. On different areas of the castle, statues of gargoyles, different shapes and sizes, decorated the falling castle. An army of Vikings, shields raised high, to avoid being pierced by arrows, catapults loaded with boulders set ablaze by oils and flames. Amongst the many Vikings, their general, a man who was actually a machine with bulb like head while holding a metal sword, his name is Dr. Nefarious. He then gave the order to fire the catapults, striking another wall down.
On the Scotsmen side, a captain stood, the man is actually a lombax whose fur is white with red stripes on his arms, legs, ears, tail, and chin. His armor is Praetorian that surround his chest and shoulders. His weapon is Praetorian Omniwreach. His name Alistair Azimuth.
"Stand fast, we can hold them back!" He cried, but, the archers and guards were not as confident though, "Aye, and catch boulders with our teeth! It's hopeless Captain Alistair!"
Alistair, frustrated with the attitude, gritted his teeth and replied, "It's your choice then. You can face the catapult," He then pulled out his Omni wrench, "or me! Now back to your posts, in a few more minutes, the sun will be down, and then we'll see some real fun!" He said the last part with a smirk. Another boulder hit the wall, causing it to crumble.
Amongst the Vikings, they all cheered, for they knew that victory was assure, but two soldiers in particular began to talk among themselves, "Taking a castle full of gargoyles near night is crazy. Is General Nefarious aware of this?"
All of sudden, the soldier found his neck wrapped in a metal hand, and pulled closer to the said general, "No, that's not crazy," the general said with an icy tone, "questioning my authority and my sanity when I am in earshot, that's crazy," he then took his sword and stabbed the man in the back, his soldiers watching this action fearfully.
He then said, "I believe those gargoyles are nothing more than chiseled stone, nothing monstrous about them! And even if they're not stone, it is well worth the plunder inside the castle!" He raised his sword above his head for emphasis, and then cried out, "Charge!"
The Vikings continued their assault, pushing the catapults closer, and then doing the same with siege towers and makeshift ladders, allowing them access over the outer walls. The Vikings poured in passed the walls, like water drizzling through a dam, swords, spears, axes, clubs, and shields in hand. At this point, the Scottish soldiers were being pushed back, and the Vikings began to throw grappling hooks over the inner walls of the castle, and began spelunking up the ropes and in front of these climbers, General Nefarious took the lead, his rope attached to the highest tower, right in front of a gargoyle statue.
The gargoyle seemed to be chiseled to resemble a machine . The gargoyle was in a crouched thinking position. It had folded bat wings on its back, and its armor is combat design, its hands and feet were powerful looking talons, and a long serpent-like tail flowing from its back.
Nefarious would have usually brushed off the statue, but the fact that the statue had metal armor, armor he knew too well, caught him by surprise. 'Why would a Scottish castle have a stone gargoyle with features like me!" he thought.
Shrugging it off, he continued to climb to both reach the top and to get a better view of the gargoyle. As he climbed, the sun began to melt down into the horizon, and when he finally grabbed hold of the top ledge, the sun had completely set. All of a sudden, he heard a cracking sound, and then, in astonishment, peered upwards to see that the gargoyle statue was now riddled with cracks. All of sudden, the cracks began to shatter, revealing a very light purple skin, the armor color at chest and arms is red and blue with red flames on the arms, blue armor at the legs with flames while the helmet is blue. The gargoyle shook of the remaining stone as if it was a second layer of breakable skin, and then opened its eyes, revealing bright blue pupils within them.
Nefarious was beyond shocked, as the creature turned its ebony eyes angrily towards him. Growling, the gargoyle grabbed Nefarious by the arm, stood its full height of 7.8, then lifted him up dangling in the air above the outer castle, and finally spread out his full wingspan of 20 feet.
"You're trespassing," the gargoyle said in monotone.
Nefarious 's soldiers were facing similar problems as well, due to the fact that the other gargoyle statues had also come to life. The soldiers gasped and backed away in fear, as the gargoyles finished shaking off their stone like skin.
Nefarious, thinking fast drew his metal sword, and brought it down on the gargoyle, unfortunately for him, the creature grasped the blade of the sword in its hand, showing no sign of pain on its face. Then, Nefarious noticed a slight trickle of blood coming from the creature's hand, realizing now, that despite it being a monster, it was still mortal.
"Fight you cowards! These things are not invincible!" he cried out to his soldiers.
With new found bravery, the soldiers began to swing their weapons, and throw them too, at the newly awaken gargoyles. Acting fast, each of the gargoyles reacted, dodging and flying away to gain the advantage.
It was at this moment, that Nefarious pushed his foot against the wall of the castle, pulling the gargoyle down with him, plunging them both down toward the ground. But Nefarious was quick, and thus, grabbed the rope from his earlier climb, and as for the gargoyle, he spread out his great wings, and glided away. The other gargoyles were dive-bombing the other Vikings, knocking them down, carrying them in the air, then dropping them, clawing at them, and some went to fighting hand-to-hand.
On top of one of the towers, stood four gargoyles watching the fight.
One of them had blonde hair with green roots, blue sapphire eyes; he wore blue vest and tan colored jeans like for pants, a single shoulder armor on his left shoulder, elf-like ears. The rest of his body was physically similar to the earlier mentioned gargoyle, except slightly shorter in height being only 5.9a nd without the armor design. On his face was a grin, enjoying the battle that was going on around him. His name Jak. His wing design is green dragon like wings.
Next to him a gargoyle who looks like caption Alistair expect for fur color, his fur yellow with brown stripes, he stood a height of 4.11, and his eyes are green. His name is Ratchet. He is also Jak younger
The third gargoyle is the smallest of the group and he is standing behind of the previous gargoyle, he similar to Nefarious and the earlier gargoyle expect for his height is 1.5 and his armor has different shade of grey, his eyes are bright green.
The last one was a tall looking gargoyle with purple mask on his face and He has three eyes, the pupils are green, with yellow hair spiked downwards, light purple skin, a black open biker jacket vest, black jeans and boot like shoes that have spikes on them. His wings are instead of skin, they are feathered wings with black feathers. He stands at 9.5
At that moment, the elf-like gargoyle began to get excited, and then said, "What are waiting for, let's not let our brothers and sisters have all the fun!" and so then, he jumped off the ledge to join in the fight, spreading his wings as he glided down.
The lombax gargoyle watched as the elf-gargoyles flew off and turned to the tall one "Not afraid, are you?"
The Tall biker gargoyle answered "Afraid? Me? Ha, why all of nature trembles at my passing!" He puff up to show his muscles to show him he is stronger.
Then the little grey gargoyle chuckled "I can see why." then poked at biker gut, that caused him puff out and then the three of them flew to join the fight.
Meanwhile, the Scotsmen guards were doing their best to fight the Viking invaders off, when all of a sudden, another gargoyle with Sliver fathered wings, came floating down. This gargoyle is humanoid and had no head hair, and pale looking skin, grey armor with small gold lines streaked across the armor that is on his shoulder collier bone, his face wrinkled from age and has small bread, but on his forehead, just above his eyes is a gold symbol of Egyptian design of the serpent apophis. In his right hand is staff that is used for combat. He stood at 5.11 Three Vikings charged straight at him, swords drawn to slash. He quickly backed away, and got into position, deflecting the oncoming attacks.
As he blocked the attacks, one Viking was planning to bludgeon him from behind with his club, when all of sudden, the red and blue armored gargoyle glided in, grabbed the club, and tossed the soldier over the wall.
"Watch your back Master Bra'tac!" he said, with a smirk.
Bra'tac eye-smiled, then responded, "And you watch yours, Optimus!" He then went back to fighting off the Vikings, as did Optimus.
Alistair began to deflect a Viking sword with his Omniwrench . The Viking then tried to under slice swipe Alistair's legs, but Alistair was too quick. He quickly jumped up to avoiding the slash, but landed just in time right on the sword, stepping on it to prevent the swords retrieval. He then took his wrench, and slashed the sword in half, Alistair then pushed the Viking off the ledge of the castle wall. Alistair turned around, and saw that he was surrounded by more Vikings, ready to avenge that last one's defeat . Before they could charge though, Optimus instantly flew in, pushing some of the Viking's off the wall before landing.
"My thanks, Optimus Prime!" Alistair replied, while stabbing another Viking in the neck.
"Hmph!" Optimus said, striking another soldier with his claws.
"These rogues no doubt followed that band of refugees we gave shelter to last night!" Alistair said, looking towards the refugees inside the castle.
Beelzemon gently glided down toward the refugee camp, down toward a table filled with food, both meat and fruit, catching the eyes of a few refugees. "Momma! Look!" cried a little boy with blond hair, pointing his mother toward Beelzemon, who was now on the roof of a vending stand, grasping a shank of cow meat still on the bone from the table.
As he was eating, a Scottish soldier and Viking brought their fight to the area, not yet noticing Beelzemon's presence. As the Viking swung his sword at the Scotsmen, Beelzemon took another big bite from his shank, and then used it to clobber the Viking on head. The boy cheered the gargoyle for his impressive action.
The fight was becoming one-sided now that the gargoyles arrived, and Nefarious was aware of this. He was breathing heavily, getting tired from fighting both man and beast, and now, he began to think how long he and his men would hold out before they lost.
All of sudden, he heard a growling sound similar to that of reptile, coming from behind him. He then turned around in time to see a large blue and grey scaled covered gargoyle, with a length of 7 feet, was on all four legs but capable of stand to two legs, it had no wings, has rows of spikes that point forwards that travel from his back of his head to the tip of his tail, had huge brown claws, does not have outer ears, red angry eyes, and a snarling mouth full of razor-sharp teeth. The creature then pounced towards him, claws extended, saurian like jaws opened wide, ready to take him down.
Nefarious dodged to the left in time to see that the creature's claws had ripped right through the solid stone wall he was next to, leaving huge gashes on it. Realizing the power of this creature, he kept his sword ready to strike.
He ran forward to slice it down, when all of a sudden, another gargoyle caught the sword in his hands, "Nobody messes with my partner!" the gargoyle stated angrily.
The gargoyle had wild dark-brown hair, and vanilla-brown fur covering his body, his face was very feral looking, with two red triangular marks on his cheeks, he wore a grey and black fur covered jacket, a black gi for pants, had long dog like ears, and a long dog-like tail. He stood at 5.3.
Knowing he is outnumbered two to one, Nefarious loosened his sword from the gargoyle, and began a tactical retreat towards one of the towers. When he reached the tower, he met up with a pair of red glowing eyes and the figure of a woman as well.
All of sudden, she spread out two bat-like wings, 8 ft in length. The light from the now rising moon then showed more of her features. She looked like a lioness, with a cloth to over her chest and hips, he tail is like that of lion, with claws like a lion.
She looked down on Nefarious with smirk, and then proud fully but angrily said, "Face me, if you dare!" She let out a hissing snarl, revealing sharp fangs in her mouth.
Nefarious was not only tired and exhausted, but he was out-matched three to one now. For the first time in Nefarious 's life, he let fear be his guide as he began to run in the other direction, forgetting about the other two gargoyles waiting for him outside. When rational thinking caught up with him, it was too late, he is surrounded.
To make matters worse for him, the gargoyle, Optimus, had flown in from the side of the castle, landing right next Nefarious, and then stated, "I see you met our watch dog, Zilla and his owner Kiba!" To emphasize this, both Zilla and Kiba both growled and roared out at him, eyes glowing red and white.
To add even more fear into him, the female gargoyle hissed-growled again and held her claw out, ready to strike his head off.
"And Zira my second in command as well!" Optimus stated, grabbing Nefarious by the collar of his neck, lifting him up again. "I grow tired of this." Optimus then brought Nefarious 's face closer to his, and then said, "Take what's left of your men," he then lifted Nefarious above his head with ease, then threw him over the wall as he finished, "AND BE GONE!"
Fortunately for Nefarious, a wagon of straw and hay was where he landed, only slightly injuring him, but greatly injuring his pride. "THIS ISN'T OVER, DEMON! I SHALL RETURN TO HAVE MY REVENGE!" Nefarious yelled in anger, as he began to withdraw his armies from the battle, Optimus and the female smiled slightly at this.
Jak, Ratchet , and Clank picked up two straggling Vikings each, and then, all three tossed them out the castle, and on to the ground, Jak yelling, "And stay out!" When the Vikings landed, they got themselves up, and then ran for their lives. The Scotsmen shot down any of the Vikings that lagged behind, to hit some of them on the way out.
Everyone in the castle cheered for their come from behind victory, one man stating, and "Look at them run from our arrows, now they'll think twice before coming back!"
The gargoyles watched from the tower top as everyone cheered, Zira wrapping up Optimus's hand with a bandage. Captain Alistair then approached Optimus, and then said with pure gratitude. "Optimus prime, we owe you and your clan our lives!"
Optimus prime stared at Alistair, and then came back and said, "As we owe you ours, everyday!" Alistair smirked at Optimus, as Optimus did the same, but only slightly. He then put his arm on Zira's shoulder, both of them then truly smiling at each other.
Later that night, Castle Dining Hall.
Every noble and soldier were feasting, celebrating their victory with wine, roasted chicken, and a variety of other foods to eat, letting the dogs eat the scraps in between two of the tables. At the head of the room, a large elegant table was setup, and in a large chair sat a princess, with brown eyes, long flowing brown hair with a tiara in it, and a pink, white and brown dress on her as well.
On one of the tables, two Scottish soldiers ate and spoke; one then chuckled and said, "For a bit, I thought we were under the sword there for a while!"
The other man chuckled as well, and then responded, "Aye! A fine soldier our captain of the guard, Alistair is!"
Without realizing Alistair was walking right behind them, the first soldier then joked, "More like 'Captain of the Gargoyles' he is!"
They both chuckled, the second soldier then responded, "He would fit in right well in the tower corners with them! It's a fact!" The soldiers both boisterously laughed at this comment.
Alistair, having been summoned by the princess, decided not to waste his time with these two, he sighed, and then continued onward to the end of the dining hall. He took his seat right by the fancy table of the princess. The princess with a gentle smile then said, "Our thanks for a battle well fought, good captain!"
Alistair then decided to give the credit to where it belonged, "The credit is not mine to take, Princess Zelda! Without Optimus and his gargoyles, our defense would a proven useless!" At that moment, multiple faces were made at that comment, mostly of spite and anger.
The princess scowled, not happy with Alistair's answer, "Please! Don't mention that monster's name in my presence!"
Bang!
The sound of a door slamming open drew everyone's attention towards it, shocking them all at the sight of the ones who entered. For standing at the doorway, two figures stood. One was the figure of Optimus who was scowling now, and the other was of Zira who was also in a foul mood.
As they walked on in, the sounds of whispers could be heard from the crowd. "Who let these monsters in the castle," whispered one, "What are these creatures doing here," whispered another. Optimus, believing he better than them, chose to ignore these remarks.
"Your pardon, princess! I took the liberty of asking them to appear to be recognized for their bravery!" Alistair stated, puffing his pipe again, hoping the princess would really consider recognizing Optimus for his bravery.
To say Zelda was appalled would put it lightly; her face filled with fear, anger, and disgust all at once. After finding her composure, she stood from her seat, and softly said, "Captain! We are most seriously displeased, to allow beasts in the dining hall!"
From her right, a man with black hair with red out line hair flowing downward, black and purple silk flowing garments, and brown colored eyes, rose from his seat. He then voiced, in monotone, his response, "You speak wisely, Princess Zelda. These are unnatural creatures; no good could come from associating with them."
At this time, the two gargoyles had finally arrived at the end of the hall, in front of the princess; ignoring a growling dog they passed by. Fear had slightly taken Zelda, as she slightly backed away from them, anxiety apparent on her face.
As Optimus approached, he spread out his wings to show their width, catching Zelda off guard, forcing her to fall back in her seat. However, as if Optimus was wearing a cape, he took his wing, and graciously bowed to her, showing his respect. Zelda was surprised by this action, not expecting a beast to act like a gentleman. "Well Optimus! Your name suits you. You fought just like a fierce machine indeed, "Alistair said, patting the back of Optimus in a friendly manner.
Zelda was not pleased, "You will do well to remember, Captain, that the machines were feared as horrible destroyers and monsters!"
This made Zira very angry, hissing and snarling her fangs towards the princess, eyes glowing red. Zelda was startled by this, and so, Optimus instantly grabbed the shoulder of his companion, trying to calm her down.
Optimus decided they didn't need any bad relationship with their charges, and decided it was time to leave before it got worse. "If you will excuse us your highness." Saying the word, highness like it was a bad taste; Optimus then pulled the blackhead along with him, walking out away from the princess. Alistair did not have a happy face on, for he was hoping things would go much better than it had.
Zelda rose to speak with Alistair, "In the future, Captain, you will make your reports to my advisor, the Magus, Atem, not directly to me!" Alistair looked toward Atem, who was smirking a smile that was not pleasant in the least, his hand on his chin.
Alistair turned his back from Zelda, and continued to walk where Optimus had left. Catching up with them, he decided to say what he had to say. With allot of sorrow, anger, and sympathy in his voice, he said, "My apologies for this, Optimus!"
"No apologies needed. We are what we are. Her thoughts will not change that." Optimus said in monotone.
"Have you no pride, no sense of justice. We saved their lives, and they repay us with insults!" Zira yelled.
"She is right, Optimus, you all deserve better than this!" Alistair agreed.
Zira decided to continue her rage-full outburst, "These lands belonged to our clan long before they built this stone fortress. THEY SHOULD BOW TO US!"
Optimus then grabbed her hand to calm her down, and then spoke, "It is the nature of toonkind to fear what they don't understand! Their ways, are not our ways. Even if the life does not deserve such."
Zira sighed, feeling less aggressive and angry then before, and gently said, "There are times when your patience astounds me my love."
Later, in the Royal Apothecary Study
The Magus, Atem, was looking over a large thick book, letters, undecipherable, turning page for page, looking for something in particular. As he flipped the pages one by one, his face showed frustration for lack of finding what he was looking for.
Daybreak, the Castle Walls.
Every gargoyle had returned to their stone positions, Optimus, being the clan leader, was at the top of the tower, in a crouched position, the bandage still wrapped around his stone hand. On the lower towers, Zira was right below where Optimus slept, one stone hand extending her claws, the other holding her up.
Behind the tower of where she stood, was Master Bra'tac, looking as fierce as he could while standing in a fight pose. Below him, stood in place Jak, who had his wings spread, his mouth opened in a growl, and his claws over his head.
Next to his right was Ratchet, who was crouch to look as though he was like big cat like a panther and his back is Clank in a sitting position.
Next to him was Beelzemon, who, despite looking aggressive in stone, also looked like he was still hungry. In between Ratchet and Beelzemon, on the back of the tower, were Kiba and Zilla, both on all fours, looking as though they are ready to strike.
All of sudden, a white cloaked figure riding a horse, galloped out of the castle, no-one noticing him. The man rode onward, crossing great distances, and came to a camp next to a cave. The camp was filled with both injured and uninjured Vikings, wondering who this man was. The cloaked man asked to see Nefarious, and was led to the cave, where Nefarious was yelling over his failer of the attack and next to him is Lawrence who does not seem bothered.
"You seek the fall of Castle Wyvern?" the cloaked man whispered. At that moment, Nefarious stopped yelling at the moment hearing this, looking over at the cloaked stranger.
"What of it?" he asked, not in the mood to be amused.
"Perhaps a bargain can be made!" whispered the cloaked man, his features hidden under the cloak.
Nefarious stared at the man, willing to take anything if it meant the downfall of the castle, and him taking his revenge. "I am listening!"
Later that night, Castle Wyvern
Optimus was now awake, undoing the bandage on his hand, revealing it to be completely healed. He flexed a few times to see that it still worked. Alistair then came up to him, with a worried expression on his face. "Those Vikings may return at daybreak, Optimus. I say that you take your entire clan, and attack them full force before they think to attack us."
Zira decided to add her thoughts in as well, "I agree! I say we go out, and put an end to these pigs once for all!"
Optimus thought it over for a bit, and then said, "Too risky, I don't want to leave the castle unguarded for an attack!"
Alistair then added, "But their leader swore revenge! Best to do away with them now then to take an even bigger risk of them coming back when you're vulnerable!"
Optimus, agitated by Alistair's wisdom, had decided, "You make a good point, very well! But I shall go alone!" He then made an evil smirk, "I can scare those cowards away with the slightest of ease!'
At that moment, Zira jumped in, worry in her voice, "That's too dangerous, even for you, Optimus! Let me come along at least!"
With seriousness in his voice, Optimus then said, "You and the others will stay here in the castle to defend it!" He then grabbed her shoulders, "You are my best warrior, and I leave you in charge!"
Still not satisfied, she nagged on, "No! I cannot let you..."
"I won't go alone." Optimus interrupted her mid-sentence, bringing ease to her face. He then pulled her in a loving embrace. "Know this; you were my angel of light in the darkness! You and I are one, now and forever!" He then turned around and prepared to leave. Zira reached out for him, but held her claw back, watching as he left, worry in her eyes.
Little later, Castle Courtyard.
The refugees were by a great bon-fire, enjoying the food that was on the tables and stands throughout the courtyard. Sitting in the center of a mountain of food, was Beelzemon, scarfing down any food he could find. Close by to where Beelzemon was, seated down Clank, Fiddling with things and turn them in to something else and help him is Ratchet with own wrench. Further away, Jak and Kiba where playing a game of keep away with Zilla, the object being kept away, a large chunk of meat.
"Come on, Zilla! You can catch it boy!" Kiba yelled, throwing the meat at Jak, Zilla trying to catch it in midair. "Aw! So close, too bad Zilla! Try catching this!" Jak yelled this time, throwing back to Kiba. Zilla gave small roar while jumped as high as he could, almost catching the meat in midair.
Zira watched them all from atop a castle wall, keeping an eye on all of them, making sure none got into trouble.
Close by the refugee's bon-fire, two human children and Ottsel were playing with a ball. One of children is named Link. the Ottsel is Daxter whom only stood at the same hight of Clank. Link went to go kick the ball, but then, he missed, causing it to bounce towards the gargoyles playing keep away. Both He and Daxter then ran after it,
The ball landed right in front of Jak, just as he threw the meat towards Zilla, letting him catch it. Jak then noticed the ball, then noticed Link and Daxter heading his way. Zira saw this, and watched with mistrust, and angry suspicion in her eyes. "Hey! I'm Link, this is my friend Daxter." He mentioned his friend's name who greeted aswell. "What's up blondie?"
"What's your name?" Link said, looking at the gargoyles with amazement in his eyes.
Jak ignore called being blonde and grinned at Link, and then said, "The Toons called me Jak, and over there with the small one which is the one next to him is my brother Ratchet, thought we might not look like that we are brother but we are." Jak mentioned to Ratchet who looked up and waved at them and then went back to help Clank.
"Whoa, I wonder what your parents looked like to have you two?" Daxter asked he is curious how both are different but are brothers. Kiba then walked over to them and greeted them.
"Hey, my name is Kiba!"
"Nice to meet you, Jak, Kiba! Can we have our ball back?" Link asked
"Yeah so we can get back to the game we were playing." Daxter told
"Sure kid!" Jak said, picking up the ball by his feet.
As Jak began moving towards Link, Then Link mother came in between Link, Daxter and Jak, holding a piece of firewood in her hands. "Boys, STAY AWAY FROM THESE MONSTERS!"
"But mom!" Link tried to say, but his mother was not listening.
"Listen lady, I wasn't going to hurt them or any..." Jak tried to calm her down, but was interrupted by the mother, throwing the piece of firewood at Jak, striking him in the head. "KEEP AWAY FROM THEM YOU BEAST!" Jak looked at the woman, shocked by this action.
Zira was now enraged, and instantly flew down in between Jak and the humans, snarling as she did. Link mother got in front of Link and Daxter, shielding them from the female gargoyle who then snarled out, "You're the ones who are beasts!"
But then all of sudden, Jak and Kiba decided to have some fun with the humans by scaring them. "Actually, if they think we are beasts and monsters..." Jak grinned towards Kiba who continued, "Then perhaps we should act the part!" They both began to play growl towards the humans, while twiddling their fingers to add to their scary visage. Unfortunately, some human refugees saw it as them really attacking, and began to pick up any wood or utensil for a weapon they could find.
Zilla, seeing the humans posing a threat towards his master, then began to bark towards them. The refugees then lost the courage they had, and ran for their lives. Beelzemon, who was still eating, all of sudden heard the screaming people, "Huh! What was that, are we under attack again?" he then jumped up, holding some food, ready for combat.
Both Ratchet and Clank snapped out of their work when they heard the commotion, "What is my brother doing now?" Ratchet said. Then both he and Clank went down to investigate the commotion.
All of sudden, Optimus and Bra'tac landed in between the two groups, Optimus not looking pleased. Ratchet, Clank and Beelzemon arrived behind Jak and the others, not knowing what was going on. Jak and Kiba looked a bit surprised or nervous. Optimus looked at all of them, anger apparent on his face. "You five, I want you all to be down in the Rookery until I return! I will deal you with then!" Optimus then looked down at Zilla, "And take him down with you!" Zilla whimpered a bit, knowing it was in trouble.
They came to an underground door, with a gargoyle's head shaped on the front. Kiba then opened it, and then, one by one, they entered on in, Jak looking upset, pouting and scowling, then said, "We meant no harm" "INSIDE!" Optimus yelled, not in the mood for this.
Zira was really upset now. "Optimus, are you blind! It wasn't their fault, it was the human's!"
"No matter who was at fault, I cannot condone fighting between their people and ours!" He then sighed in irritation, "I'll make it up to them later But now, I have business to attend to!" Optimus then left, Zira was reaching for him again, wishing to go with him, fear and sadness on her face.
A few miles outside the Castle.
Bra'tac and Optimus were both gliding through the night, keeping an eye out for the Viking soldiers. They were now gliding above a forest, when Optimus spotted something. "There!" he pointed, and then they both began to descend. They landed outside the forest, spotting some horse tracks, a lot of them.
Bra'tac then began to investigate, "Strange, though, the tracks are very light for horses carrying armored men!"
Optimus began to ponder this, but decided to ignore it, "They're not too far ahead, come on!" he yelled, making a sprint for the trees. They both then climbed up the tree, and began to jump from branch to branch, having being close enough to walk to them then waste energy gliding.
Meanwhile, in the Castle Rookery.
A large cavernous pit filled in the center with large eggs the size of a human torso. It was down here Jak and the others were sent, as their punishment.
"Argh! Sent to the rookery, how embarrassing!" Jak said
"You know, Clank, Beelzemon and I didn't even do anything, but we're still down here." Ratchet complained.
"I haven't been down in one these since I hatched!" Beelzemon said, rubbing his growling stomach. He then saw some green gooey stuff on the wall, walked over to it, picked it up, and then in one gulp, ate it up. "Hmm! Needs seasoning!"
Kiba and Jak were both very disgusted by the sight of this action. "I hope we're not down here long, he might eat us!" Kiba whispered to Jak, who nodded his head in agreement.
Castle Armory.
The same cloaked man from before was looking at each bow. He began to slightly cut the bowstring on each bow, but not enough to be noticed, just enough so that if someone was to use it, it would break in the pull back.
Optimus and Bra'tac were jumping from tree to tree, after the horse tracks. Bra'tac looked up in the sky, and then realized something, "It's not long until sunrise, perhaps we should head back!" But before Optimus gave him his answer, he then spotted their target, "There they are!" he pointed. They then jumped from the trees, and dive-bombed down, causing the Vikings and horses to scatter and run.
"Here they come!" one yelled, running as he did.
But then, Bra'tac noticed something, there was only four soldiers, "They were leading the horses to decoy us from the castle!"
"No!" Optimus yelled, infuriated at hearing this. Optimus then bolted back in the direction of the castle, Bra'tac right behind him. But as they began to make it to a hill-side over-looking the castle, the sun began to peak over the horizon.
"We're too late!" Bra'tac cried out, and in an instant, the beams of sunlight hit them, changing flesh to stone, petrifying them in place. Before turning to stone, Optimus let out a bestial roar of anger and fear, fully struggling to resist the change, only to be cemented in place till sunset.
Morning.
Nefarious and his armies waiting till the peak of sunrise to make their move. He then saw the sun as it rose, then drew his metal sword, at his side, then called out,
"Attack!" Vikings charged in, weapons rose high, yelling as they ran toward the castle. The Scottish bowmen prepared their arrows to strike, aiming for any Vikings that come into range. But as they pulled their bows back, the bow strings snapped, catching the bowmen by surprise. As the Vikings neared the castle entrance, a figure pulled on the gate's pulley, allowing the castle gates to open. Without the gates to hold them back, the Vikings charged right in, ready to slay anyone in their path. Scottish soldiers, swords drawn, began to fight back, but due to surprise and lack of the gargoyles, were at a disadvantage.
Princess Zelda was running throughout the castle, desperately searching for Captain Alistair. She then spotted him heading her way. "Captain! Captain! The Vikings! We're under attack!" she cried out in panic, trying to catch her breath.
Alistair didn't say anything, he just continued to walk to her, and then, by surprise, grabbed a firm hold of Zelda's arm. "Sorry Princess, but it is much worse than that!" he spoke the word princess out with disgust, anger apparent in his voice.
Zelda then realized what was going on! Alistair had betrayed them!
One hour before sunset.
The Vikings had killed most of the soldiers, and was now taking the nobility, the remaining soldiers, and the refugees as prisoner, all of them walking in a line outside the ruined castle. In the line, princess Zelda, and advisor Atem, both were bound by the hands, and being pushed by the Viking soldiers in the long line of prisoners. Atop the tower, Nefarious and Alistair stood, watching the events unfold.
"Not that I am complaining, but why? Why betray your own kind?" Nefarious asked Alistair.
Alistair in a sigh, and then bitterly said, "They're not my kind!"
Nefarious then started walking up to a gargoyle statue, brushing his hand on one of them as he did "What a waste! Oh well! Might as well get to work, barely have time for it before the sun sets!" He then raised a spiked mace, ready to destroy the statue.
Before he could drop it down, Alistair caught his arm before it could strike. "THIS IS UNNESSARY!" He said with worry on his face.
"Are you insane, in a moment they'll be flesh again, then my armies won't stand a chance against them!" Nefarious said, words edged in anger.
"Once we are out of sight, they won't follow. It's not their nature!" Alistair argued back, hoping to convince him.
Nefarious then pushed Alistair to the wall, shoving his arm on Alistair's neck, mace raised high above his head. "I swore that I'd have my revenge on them, and so I will. I am not willing to risk leaving an enemy alive, understood!"
Not wanting to die, Alistair decided not to argue with this man, "U-unders-stood!" he choked out, desperately trying to get free.
Nefarious then released him, turning back to the gargoyle in front of him. "I have not lived this long by taking foolish chances!" He then raised his mace up again, ready to continue where he left off.
As each gargoyle shattered apart, it felt like a knife was stabbed in Alistair's heart, each one a twisted blow. But he only just watched with horror on his face, watched as the creatures who called him an ally, who called him a friend, who some even called a family, perished before his eyes. And to know that they perished by his treachery, was shattering his heart into even more pieces than the gargoyle statues. He then silently mourned for their deaths, a tear in his eye as he watched.
Nighttime, moon high above the air.
Optimus and Bra'tac were now quickly gliding back to the castle, hoping to see that the castle was untouched, and that everyone was fine. What they came upon though only shattered their hope. The castle was in ruins and flames, fires still burning fresh.
"No." Optimus and Bra'tac whispered themselves, Optimus trying to deny this horrible sight, Optimus down heartedly accepting it. As they approached the castle, they were horrified to see not just burning human corpses, but shattered gargoyle remains. Optimus flew to the spot where his beloved Zira usually perched, only to see the ruble of a gargoyle statue. The ruble of all the gargoyles were so mutilated that the piles were unidentifiable. He then grasped the stone pieces in his hands, a look of saddened shock on his face.
"My...angel…" he then dropped the pieces, raising his hands to grasp the sides of his head, his breath becoming shallow and increasing in reps, realization finally hitting. Then a new emotion appeared one that was very common with everyone, whether Gargoyle or human, but also very dangerous when it came down to it. Anger. Optimus then shut his eyes, holding back the tears, and then gritted his teeth. He then, in an instant, threw his hands in the air, and threw his head back, releasing a roar that could be heard for miles. "RRRRAAAAAAAGH!"
To be continued...
End of Chapter
I bet your wonder why did I choose some of the characters and add things, here is a few examples.
Beelzemon for Broadway is because I did not have anyone to choose but the main reason is that beelzmeon represents gluttony, so that he would eat a lot.
For making Jak and Ratchet brothers, for the reason is that they both have so much in common. the first example is that both have a small person with them, both are main hero's of their games, both of them like weapons and some of their past for their family past is mystery.
I decided that Daxter should not be a gargoyle but he will be with Jak later on like their in the game.
Now I hop that clears a few things but if you have anymore questions just give me a PM.
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