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Living Statues Part One

Dante was making his rounds as he always did when he came upon a flier. It was crumpled on the ground but it drew his attention none the less. It was a flier for the opening gala at the museum. A demonic exhibit. Dante knew he had to see this. The date for the gala was yesterday and he knew that the museum must be closed by this time of night. But for him it shouldn't be hard to sneak a peek. Not like he could pay for a museum ticket anyway.
Dante snuck in the back door and arrived in a room full of statues. The room looked like a warehouse full of completed and works in progress. Like a studio. He heard tiny clicks and clanks, like a hammer hitting metal. He searched for the sound of the noise and found a man with a long black ponytail hammering away at a block of stone. He was obviously a private artist for this paticular museum. But he couldn't figure out why some of his beautiful finished works weren't on display. Suddenly the man stopped hammering and lifted his goggles. "Can I help you," he asked without turning.
Dante was almost shocked, how did he know he was there. He walked out from the shadows to face the man, "I came to enjoy the art." The man picked up a cloth and whiped the dust from his hands, "If that were true you would have come while we were open." Dante laughed and took time to look at the surrounding busts and statues. "These are pretty good, how come their not on display," Dante said pointing at one.
"Those are personal questions," the man said, "And I'm afraid we don't know each other that well." Dante started to introduce himself but the man interrupted him, "I know who you are. I'm not completely ignorent on what goes on at night in this city." The man turned away and when over to his work bench puting away tools and such. He removed his goggles which were the last thing to go into his large tackle box before he shut it. "They call me Glitch and I'm not going to explain why. But explaining is what I do best so allow me to enlighten you," Glitch said turning to face Dante and walking up to him, "Your here for the Demonic Exhibit but I assure you there's nothing of intrest as far as your concerned. I designed and created everyone of them. But it is that Exhibit's hint at demonic power that distracts all others from all the real supernatural statues that we have just down the hall."
Now this was confusing. Dante wasn't sure what came out of Glitch's mouth but he defenetly said that there was some demonic energy in this place and Dante wanted to know what. Glitch grinned, "Would you like to see?"

The Man known only as 'Glitch' led Dante into the main part of the museum. And sure enough, just down the hall was at least a dozen statues on desplay. You can tell that they were old and have been locked away for some time. Each had a plaque with a single name writen on each one. Glitch stopped in front of one the had 'Alucard' written on the plaque, "These statues were found in a cave found deep underground. The room was sealed, it took a borer to get in and most of the statues shattered in the process. Each statue is of a person or a person-like creature. This man has his hand raised as to block some blinding light as if it caused pain. These are some of the most life-like statues I've ever seen. There so real it makes you think that if you stare long enough, they flinch."
Dante took all of this in, it was so strange. There was a demonic aura coming from each statue as if possessed or enchanted. He didn't like the feel of this. Glitch turned to Dante as he continued to explain, "They found a plaque in the chamber and it is being researched and decifered in the back of the museum. The language is foreign, no ones ever seen it before. But with a little bit of luck they have decifered some of the context. It says that these were all monsterous being that were locked in stone by the gaze of Medusa, a Gorgon that was so ugly the very site of her turned people to stone. And the ancient ones locked them away so that they can never reak havock again."
"Can they be freed," Dante asked, still not sure if the story was real. Glitch pointed to the name on the plaque, "They say the chosen one can free them by merely speaking their name. Each statue has a name carved under it's base and is now desplayed as their tite. That's all we know. No one in history ever looked as this beings do. There is nothing to compare them to." Dante became suspicious, "Why are you telling me this?"
"Because if what the plaque said is true, we'll need all the help we can get."
"But why me?"
"You just happened to fall into my lap, and your a devil hunter, are you not?"
When silence came from Dante, Glitch laughed, "I will leave this to you, if you wish to hear another story, I'll be in my shop." And with that Glitch left Dante to his thoughts. The statue before him didn't look all that evil. But then again, neither did he. He peered down at the plaque, "Alucard, huh?" And with that Dante went back to the shop. But even though Dante didn't notice, as he left the 'Alucard' statue's arm cracked.

To be continued...

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