Awakening pt 2
RRRRAAAAAAAGH!"
As Optimus Prime roared in grief, Master Bra'tac was inspecting the ground to get some clue of what happened. He then picked up a bow left from the battle, inspecting it very carefully. "Hmm. Interesting. The bow string looks as if it has been cut, which would only mean that the castle had a man on the inside. Sigh!" Master Bra'tac could not stand traitors; for he believes those who do not follow the rules is scum, but those who betray their allies, their friends, their comrades, are worse than scum.
All of sudden, he heard the creaking sound of a door as it opened. He then turned his eyes to the rookery door, where Jak and the others were sentenced to for their punishment.
When Jak and the others exited the door, they were shocked at what they saw. "What the...?" was all Ratchet could say.
"What's going on?" Was Kiba's response, anger almost edging his face.
"This is horrible..." Clank muster, shock.
"Oh my god!" Jak said with horror on his face.
Zilla whimpered and howled, and as for Beelzemon, he was speechless for what he saw for all around them was fire and ruble.
When Optimus spotted them, his heart began to hope that his Black-headed lover was among them. He glided down to them, and in a monotone voice, trying to hide the sadness as he spoke, "Where there... anymore down in the rookery with you?" Optimus's voice was almost trembling, almost on the brink of tears.
Nobody wanted to answer that, not wanting to be the one to drive an already deep wound deeper. Beelzemon deciding that if no one would answer, he might as well go out and say it instead of torturing their heartbroken friend. So, with great sadness in his voice said and with his head down, "None. We-we were the only ones down there! I'm sorry Optimus!"
"All the humans are gone, taken prisoner most likely." Master Bra'tac said, approaching Optimus, placing his hand on Optimus's shoulder, eyes revealing sorrow. "You're the clan's leader, Optimus. It's your call."
Optimus's mind then caught back up with the present, and then he began to seethe with anger. "Then we will find them, save the humans..." he paused for a moment, emotions boiling over, then his eyes began to glow from blue to an angry red, then with great anger, he cried out, "then, we will HAVE OUR REVENGE!"
They all climbed to the tallest tower, and then spread their wings to glide, Clank, Jak and Ratchet staying back a bit. "You ok, Clank?" Ratchet asked his best friend.
"Don't worry, I'm coming, just give me a sec!" he said, looking back on the castle, and made a quick shift Cross for the deceased, both human and gargoyle, to rest in peace.
"Let's Go before are left behind!" Jak called out to this bother and to the little one.
Then they spread their wings, gliding off toward the battle ahead. Zilla followed on the ground, not wanting to be left behind switch from his four legs to his hind legs, with great speed and power, almost keeping speed with them, leaving the ruined, burning castle behind them.
Viking's Camp, Later that Night.
The Vikings were celebrating their easy victory, drinking and feasting around the fire. But some of the Vikings did not have this luxury because they had guard duty to watch the prisoners.
Link mother has fallen in despair, Link and Daxter was trying their best to comfort Link mother. "Don't worry mother, the gargoyles will come for us."
"Yeah, any moment now, the gargoyles will come and beat the crap out of them!" Daxter said this while kicks and punches in the air.
Link mother then looked Sadness, and then, with tears on the edge of her eyes, said, "No boys, but the gargoyles were all destroyed during the battle." But Link and Daxter didn't give up believing in them, for they knew, somehow, that they were still alive.
Inside the cave, where Dr. Nefarious was, along with Alistair, they kept two prisoners as special guests. The arms bound both Zelda and Atem, both glaring angrily towards Dr. Nefarious and Alistair.
"Hmmm, the Magus is worth more alive than dead, barely..." Dr. Nefarious stated, in a slightly bored tone.
Alistair then spoke next, "True." he then looked more towards Zelda. "But, I am sure your uncle the king will pay handsomely to see his niece returned alive!"
Atem wouldn't stand for that comment, "You Traitor! If my hands weren't bound, or I had my book of spells I would..." he was then rudely interrupted by the laughing of Dr. Nefarious, "Would you be referring to this book Magus!" he said, as he pulled out a large book, opening it up as he lifted it. "Magic spells, BAH! What a load of nonsense." He said, as he tore a page from the book, throwing it in the fire.
"NO! MY SPELLS!" Atem then down casted his head in utter shame, wishing he could be more useful now.
Zelda was upset at this action, "Traitorous scum, I'll see that you both hang for this!" Zelda yelled, showing no fear to either of them.
Dr. Nefarious did not like the tone she had used, he threw the book to the ground, and then walked over to her, "I'd watch that tongue of yours, princess, or else, you might lose it!"
"RRRRAAAAAAAGH!"
All of them were then caught off guard when they heard a loud roar in the distance, then the sounds of the Viking men yelling in fear. Both Alistair and Dr. Nefarious went out to see what was going on.
"They're coming! Run for you lives!" a soldier screamed out, pointing towards the sky. Dr. Nefarious and Alistair looked up in time to see seven shadowy figures with wings heading right for their area.
Dr. Nefarious looked a tad nervous, and then in angrily said, "I thought you said they wouldn't follow us."
Alistair then looked at him angrily, "If you hadn't destroyed the others!"
Dr. Nefarious ran back into the cave, pushing Alistair aside, and then ran up to the princess, grabbing her by the ropes, pulling her close to his face. "It seems your precious gargoyles have come for you, princess!"
Zelda was shocked but relieved to hear this, "The gargoyles?" she then smirked an evil smirk, "You're a dead man, Dr. Nefarious!
Dr. Nefarious had just about lost patience with this girl, he then pulled out a dagger, "That might be, but not before you!"
Zelda acting on impulse, took her bound legs, and shoved them into Dr. Nefarious's gut. Zelda then was able to get to her feet, and started running. Unfortunately, Dr. Nefarious gave chase, Alistair right behind him. Atem, thinking she would not be able to get away fast enough, all bounded up like that, started yelling for help.
"Help! Somebody help! He's going to slay her! Zelda!" Atem was able to find a very sharp rock, so he pushed himself towards the rock, using it to cut the ropes that bond his hands.
Optimus was not in a good mood, he started the fight off, by clawing two Vikings on his way down, then he rose back up to find his real target, the leader, and the betrayer, spotting them chasing after the princess heading towards a cliff.
Bra'tac landed on the ground, when all of sudden, a soldier charged right at him, sword in hand. Bra'tac simply grabbed the man's wrist holding the sword, and tossed him a good distance, crashing him into a wooden crate. He then avoided a sword attack from another soldier, got behind the swordsman, and used his staff and knock off his feet, then finished him off.
Beelzemon landed by a fire that had a roasting pig on a stick, and picked it up by the cool side, and took it as an edible club. A Viking tried to stab him with a sword, but Beelzemon was agile enough to avoid being stabbed. He then took the edible club, and swung it at the man, sending him sky born.
Kiba was chasing some runaways, who quickly started heading towards a shadowed ridge for shelter. When they reached the ridge, they were face to face with Zilla's snarling fangs and few puff of flames, in a crouched position. Kiba landed on top of the ridge next to Zilla, then said out load, "Sick'em boy!" Zilla did not hesitate to start chasing the men as they ran, Kiba following them by air.
Jak was surrounded by five bravely foolish Vikings who stayed behind, one charged for him, but Jak not only avoided the attack, but grabbed the man by the feet, flailing him around like a weapon, hitting a few soldiers while doing so. He then tossed the man into the group, most of them then lost their nerve, running for their lives but Jak did not know that behind him was one ready to crubble him with mace.
"Jak, look out behind you!" Daxter warned him from the crowd of prisoners. Jak turned just in time to dodge, grab him and throw over his shoulder. He looked back to Daxter to see him jump his left shoulder armor. They looked at each other then smiled and then charged to fighting the Vikings.
Clank, one who is quite small, snarled with ferocity at the few soldiers charging right at him. He then spun around to avoid one man's attack, then struck the man three rapid times driving the tips of his talons in to the back of their necks and knock them out. The men fell unconscious then were grabbed by the smarter soldiers, who soon began to retreat with the man in their arms.
Ratchet was dodging the attacks of three soldiers, using his wrench, he brock their swords and then picked two of the men up, spun them around, hitting the third man to the ground, then tossed the other two away.
All the Viking soldiers were now retreating, not wanting to risk their own lives. Link cheered for the gargoyles, relieved that he was right, "I told you they would save us!" he boasted to his mother, who smiled at this, while began to brag.
"Oh Yeah, we whipped their butts and they running away like little girls!"
Atem exited the cave, book in hand, believing he was too late in saving Zelda, and then angrily stared at the gargoyles but did not notice Daxter among them.
In rage and grief, he then shouted towards them, "You fools! She would be alive now if you hadn't come!" tears flowing down his eyes.
The gargoyles were now confused at what he said, "What's he talking about?" Kiba asked.
Atem continued, "They would have ransomed us both, but you invaded their camp, and now..."
"Calm down! Now what's all this about, where is the princess?" Bra'tac asked, wondering what was wrong with this man.
His face then saddened, but instantly turned to rage, "Dead! And if I could wield the sword, I would send you all to join her!" he then began to skim through the large book, then spotted something that caught his eye, "But, this will have to do instead!" He then began to recite the spell...
"Dormiatis
dum castellum
super nubes
ascendat!"
And as he said this, a magical aura began to dance around the seven gargoyles and Daxter, shocked, surprised, and awed by the spectacular sight. Then, one by one, they began to feel something happening, as the aura began to dance faster and faster around all of them, and then there was a blinding flash of bright light.
Link and the others are shocked to the gargoyles that happening to them and Link friend.
Princess Zelda, still bound by the arms, continued to run for her life from the now mad, Dr. Nefarious, towards a cliffs edge. Unfortunately, the said mad bot had caught up to her, grabbing her by her bindings, dagger in hand, Alistair, next to him.
But then, the shadow of something passed overhead, and landed right in front of them, cutting off all escape routes. Optimus growled with anger, anger that only grew when he caught eye of Alistair, "You are the betrayer?"
Alistair then began to bleed his heart out to Optimus, "It was not supposed to be this way!"
But Optimus was not listening, "All of my kind are dead, and now, you two will join them!" he said as he extended his claws.
Alistair then tried to explain himself, tears in his eyes "I told you to take your clan with you! If only you had listened!"
"Traitor!" Optimus yelled, ignoring the sadness in his voice.
Dr. Nefarious then knew he could play on this to survive this meeting, by focusing Optimus's wrath all towards Alistair, "He is the one you want, he shattered them all!" he said in a monotone voice.
Alistair was beyond enraged by Dr. Nefarious 's accusation, and in anger, attacked him, "You lying SCUM!" he then grabbed the hand that held the dagger, and started to struggle for it, accidently pushing the princess toward the edge, both her and the struggling pair falling to their dooms.
Remembering his promise to protect the people, he quickly ran to Zelda, grabbing her by her rope bounds before she could fall any deeper, Dr. Nefarious and Alistair, yelling as they fell, and then faded into the crevice's darkness.
Optimus quickly ripped the ropes with his talons, and then went to go check the crevice to try and find Alistair and Dr. Nefarious. He peered downwards, then realized that they were both already good as dead, frustration beginning to kick in. "I've been denied everything! EVEN MY REVENGE!" he roared out, in anger, to the heavens and sky, and then bowed his head in defeat.
Zelda then walk up to him, feeling regret for misjudging him and his clan. She knew she had to make amends for it, "O-optimus, I-I am s..." but the calling of a child soon interrupted her.
"Optimus! Optimus! You got to come quickly! Bra'tac and the others also my Daxter are trouble!" it was Link who spoke.
The sight Optimus came upon had him angrily confused, for what he saw was what was left of his clan, now turned to stone.
"Stone? At Night?" Having been fueled by anger earlier from the sorrow he felt, he did not wish to lose any more precious ones. "What sorcery is this?" Optimus said, gritting his teeth to prevent another outburst of anger.
"Sorcery indeed!" Atem, still upset at the loss of Zelda, walked up to him in anger. "And now, you shall join them!" But then, Zelda walked out from behind Optimus's wing, shocked by what Atem had done. Atem was shocked as well, but not for the same reason, "Zelda?" he said, tears coming from his eyes, but a horrified expression on his face.
"Oh, Atem, what have you done?" Zelda said sadness in her voice as see the gargoyles and Daxter has also turned to stone.
Atem dropped the book in utter shock, the book opening up to the page with the torn piece. He then fell to his knees in utter shame, unable to even look up at her or the statues, "I...I thought you were dead your highness. I was...mad with grief," He then remembered seeing a ottsel among them when he turned them to stone. "and damned an innocent to stone!"
Optimus had enough, he then grabbed Atem by the collar, and shook violently, "Reverse the spell!" he then raised him to his face, seething now with anger, "Bring them BACK!" he roared, claws extended.
Atem was now down casted, as he realized what he had done. "I can't, the page with the counter spell had been burned!"
Optimus looked down at the book, seeing that it was indeed missing a page from its contents. In sadness, he dropped Atem down on the ground on top of the spell book, feeling as if he had lost enough, that he just wanted to give up. He looked up at his petrified comrades, then with a sigh, he said, "Now...I am truly alone!"
Zelda looked towards Atem, a look of pleading in her eyes. "You turned them to stone, forever?"
Atem, who could barely look at her, then stated, "The terms of the spell is that they would sleep... until the castle rises above the clouds." They then both looked towards Optimus, wishing they could do something to help him.
Help indeed they did, for all of the people helped to carry the statues back to the castle, and set them in their proper places. "We've done you a great wrong Optimus." Zelda stated, wishing to apologies for what she had done.
Optimus was now setting up his Master Bra'tac, in his proper spot, an angry scowl on Optimus's face. Atem then continued on for Zelda, "I know that no apology could be enough, Optimus. I wish there was something I could do!"
Optimus then stared at them both, his face still upset, but more emotionless. "What will you do now, Princess?" he asked.
"I am going to take my people to my uncles. It is no longer safe for us here." she said.
"I have... a request." Optimus said while folding his wings and turning his face from them, not wants them to see it.
Zelda, eager to do something to make up for her past sins, simply said, "Name it."
Optimus then, with his face still an emotionless mask, turned around and said, "The eggs in the rookery will soon hatch... they will need guidance."
Zelda smiled at the request, at the chance of redemption, and then answered, "Very well! We will watch them as if they were our own!"
Optimus then looked towards Atem, ready to ask something. "I have a request for you as well, Magus!"
Atem then stared straight into Optimus's eyes, guilt, and sorrow on his own eyes, and then gently said, "What do you ask of me?"
Optimus then showed a face filled with determination, and then boldly said, "Cast your spell... one... last... time!"
Atem and Zelda had a look of shock on their faces, not expecting him to say such a thing.
The ruined castle Wyvern, nighttime.
The castle was completely devoid of life now, not a living soul occupying it. Along the sides of the castle tower, posed seven different gargoyle statues and one ottsel statue, each with their own differences in shape, pose, looks, and personalities. They were looking out from the castle, watching for any attacker, poised to scare any off.
But, at the top of the tower, one lone gargoyle, crouched downwards, no expression what so ever, except sadness, on his face, looking as though he has given up on life, given up on hope, and given up on dreams. Just accepting his stone prison, willing to be enslaved by stone then face harsh loneliness. Just giving into silent stone, peaceful sleep, the worries of the world no longer a burden, now… and forever.
Scotland, present day.
The castle had been standing in place for almost over a thousand years, aged and desolate, vines and moss covering the weather worn stone, flora growing on top of the castle, birds residing in the empty areas. For as long as this castle has stood, no man had ever dared tread on the soil of this castle, fear born of superstitious reasons, until now that is.
"At last! Castle Wyvern!" A man stood at the long opened gates of the castle, staring at the marvel and beauty of the sight. The man, who is anthromorpthic wolf, has grey fur but white patches of fur where his eyes and mouth. His eyes is purple, his fingers have slightly long claws, and he was wearing a black trench coat, and had on a black business suit underneath. He also has eye patch on his left eye.
The sight, though, that caught most of his attention, was the moss and vine covered gargoyle statue at the top of the castle tower, so he ran in, knowing he had to get a closer look at the statue.
He jumped over ruble, and fallen pillars, ran up a flight of stone stairs, and made it to the top of the tower, barely even out of breath. He stopped when he reached the top, staring straight at the gargoyle statue. He then walked towards the statue, and then pulled some vines of the face area, to reveal the face of Optimus, at saddened peace. "Magnificent!"
Then two more male wolfs appeared from the stairs, walking straight to the first wolf. The second wolf has brown fur. The third wolf fur is silver. both of them are wearing black Armani suits. The first Wolf then spoke, an excited tone in his voice, "Make the offer now, Howl, this instant!"
The silver wolf, Howl, then spoke with a voice devoid of emotion. "May I say one last time, Mr. O'Donnell, that the cost for this little venture will be astronomical."
"Start hiring crews, I want to begin as soon as possible!" Mr. O'Donnell replied.
Howl began to dial in numbers on his cell phone to hire the necessary workers for the job, then the brown wolf, Fang spoke "It may prove difficult to find the necessary man power. This castle has a bad reputation. The locals consider it haunted." he said, a bit of strain from frustration.
O'Donnell simply smirked, then replied, "You know the remedy for that, Fang! Pay a man enough..." he began to touch the statue carefully, not want damage it with his claws, studying the delicate design of it, then finished what he was saying, a look of satisfaction on his face, "and he will walk barefoot into hell!"
They were using much equipment for the job, from old style tools to new style machines. They had the latest model of construction man-sized mechanical-suits, used for carrying stone slabs and crates, a man piloting it. Steam cleaners to clean a millennia's worth of moss and dust, welding lasers to carefully cut the slabs of stonewalls, and cranes to move the higher up heavy objects. The men opened a crate full of padding, then, using the crane, lowered the now cleaned statue of Optimus carefully into it.
Little by little, the all took apart the castle, loading the parts into the eighteen wheeler transportation trucks. Multiple helicopters whirled overhead of the deconstruction zone, lifting up bigger junks of the castle, held together in place by straps and restraints, carrying them off to their destination.
Manhattan, New York.
A black and red helicopter whirred above the great city, the logo, O'Donnell , with a giant 'O', placed on the side of the copter. Sitting inside, almost smirking to himself was the rich O'Donnell himself, his purple eye surveying the city. The copter began to fly higher, up into the clouds, whirring around a tall building, and the biggest in the whole city. At the top of the clouds, on top of the huge building, sat the newly constructed and made Castle Wyvern, structurally placed on top of the building, resembling a castle floating in the sky, above the clouds.
The helicopter landed precisely in the castle's courtyard, taking care not to harm any part of the structure.
The sun was beginning to set, slowly falling into the western sky. O'Donnell stood atop of the tower of the castle, standing next to the statue of Optimus, watching the sun as it set.
He peered over to the statue, and in a monotone voice, stated, "Don't disappoint me." The sun had then completely set, shadowing the castle in a blanket of darkness. The clouds above the castle began to darken and stir, lightning beginning to strike, thunder beginning to sound, and a slight drizzle of rain began to fall.
Crick! Crack!
O'Donnell looked, and noticed that cracks began to appear on the statue of Optimus, a look of confusion on his face.
Instantly, the stone shattered, revealing very light purple skin, red and blue armor, and two Blue glowing eyes underneath. O'Donnell looked on in shock, eyes wide and mouth agape, backing away in surprise.
Optimus began to stand up, stretching every joint, eyes returning to normal blue, unaware of O'Donnell 's presence. Then, he glanced at his skin, realizing he was awake, and then with great excitement, as well as finishing his stretching, he roared and laughed at the same time.
As he did, the other gargoyles began to awake as well, roaring and shaking the stone off their flesh.
Bra'tac woke first, widening his arms in a yawn, silver wings spread far out.
The next to awaken was the elf gargoyle, Jak also yawning, but grumbling as well, tail swishing all about. Daxter instead of yawning just fell of the shoulder and lay on the ground.
Next was Ratchet, yawning as he was stretching, this tail stiffing in to straight line.
The rest of the gargoyles pretty much followed the same gesture, stretching and yawning as they awoke, Zilla Roaring as he did. The rain seemed to stop, disappearing like magic.
O'Donnell looked at all of them, expression of shock gone, and a smile taking its place. "Yes." he whispered to himself.
Optimus jumped down from his perch landing between Jak and Bra'tac, a stoic smile on his face, a look of confusion on all the others. "You're aliv...er.. awake!" Relieved joy coated his voice for a moment.
Everyone began to laugh in joy, happy they were still alive, "We're alive, we're together again! Believe it!" Ratchet yelled, turning around and hugging Clank, whose is now being crashed a little. Kiba instantly ran to Zilla, roughly scratching his side, grumbling with excitement.
Jak looked to his shoulder to see if Daxter was there but he wasn't. He turned to the ground, he went over him to check on him.
"Hey are you ok?" asked as he picked up, Daxter spoke.
"I never knew that turning to stone has weird feeling, I just hope that never happens to me again." answered as he got up on his feet.
Zilla's head instantly bolted up looking out from the castle, seriousness all over his face. "What's wrong, boy?" Kiba asked, gasping instantly in shock at what he saw, "What the? What is this?" What he saw was the sight of a building with a needle on top, sticking out of the clouds. Then, the clouds began to clear, revealing many lighted buildings, lighted streets, and many people below along with cars passing by.
"What are those things?" Clank asked, after prying away from Ratchet and amazed at what he saw.
"Have we all died, and gone to some kind of weird hell or something?" Kiba asked.
"What kind of s-sorcery is this?" Ratchet asked, fear in her voice.
"What are they?" Jak asked while Daxter got up on his shoulder again.
"Wow look at the lights!" Daxter said
"Where are we? I hope there's food down there!" Beelzemon said worriedly.
"Calm down everyone, there's have to be an answer for this!" Bra'tac calmly said, trying to ease everyone's tension.
Zilla began to whine and whimper, but then instantly began to growl, after hearing a footstep behind them.
O'Donnell walked out of a castle door way, hands in his pockets, looking towards Optimus. "You are the one called Optimus prime?" he asked in a curious voice.
Optimus, untrusting of this man, growled out in question, "Yes?"
O'Donnell 's smirk then widened as he said, "Excellent! Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Wolf O'Donnell. It is a pleasure to meet you."
Castle Dining Hall.
"How long has it been?" Optimus asked patience with this man is growing thin.
"This might be a shock." Wolf stood near the fireplace, wearing a black relaxed business suit, pausing a bit from his answer, a look of saddened understanding on his face, "Over a thousand years has gone by since the spell was cast." All of them were shocked, having to take to his advice of remaining calm. They were all speechless, not knowing what to say.
Wolf continued, "I learned about the castle and you nine from an ancient book that came into my possession." He walked over to a podium with a glass case, and inside was a large book. "The Magus who cursed you wrote the whole story down in there." They then looked to the book, and recognized it as the same book as the one Atem used.
Wolf walked back towards the fireplace to continue in its warmth. "Now! I'm sure you have questions!" He said, looking towards them to ask away.
The gargoyles and the ottsel began to look at each other, checking to see each other's reaction. Not wanting to seem rude, Bra'tac decided to ask the most obvious question. "So! How did you do it? How did you break the spell?" He asked calmly.
Wolf leaned back on the mantel piece, a smug look on his face. He then said, "It was designed to end when the castle rose above the clouds."
Ratchet stepped forward next, gathering the courage to ask the next question, "What about the eggs in the rookery?" he said, very nervous to ask this question.
Wolf's face had sullen, and with a sad but sturdy tone, had answered. "Gone, I'm afraid. You are the last of your kind." All of them had an expression of shock or sadness on their faces, realizing they were truly the last.
Optimus then decided, although still taking all this in, to ask his question that had been nagging him since he saw this guy. "Why have you done all this?"
"Yeah! Why did you free us?" Kiba added.
"I am curious to know how you would benefit from this." Jak stated, looking at him incredulously.
"Nobody just helps someone without expecting something in return!" Clank asked.
"Yeah I agree with the little guy about that." Daxter agreed with Clank.
Wolf smiled smugly again, and then said, "I was fascinated by the Magus' story. I wanted to see if it was true. And, now that I know it is...I want to be your friend." he began to walk towards them, his smug smile widening, his eye narrowing. He then walked up to Optimus, standing face to face with him, a friendly expression on his face. He then placed his hand on Optimus shoulder, against Optimus's chagrin, and then continued, "There is much we can do for each other, Optimus!"
Optimus angrily stared at the hand, and then with the same serious expression looked back towards Wolf. "Such as?" he asked with such venom, if words could kill, then they would.
Wolf was about to answer, when a humming sound of a aircraft sounded overhead. He looked up, and then narrowed his eye. "Strange. I'm not expecting anyone." he began to walk towards the stair way to the castle roof. "You'll be safer if you stay here!" The gargoyles looked at each other, wondering what was going on, and decided to follow.
Wolf made it to the castle courtyard, looking around for the source of the noise. As he came out to look, an unmarked Black phantom shined a light down on him, temporarily blinding him. The Phantom maneuvered closer, a gravity left appear in front of Wolf. Eight Elite's wearing and equipped with an arsenal and large array of weapons on their person, slid down the left, aiming their weapons at Wolf.
"SECURE THE AREA!" one yelled, a black armored Elite. The other soldiers were checking the area of the outer part of the castle, guns pointing towards where they looked.
"What do you want?" Wolf asked calmly, showing no fear to the soldiers.
"You'll know soon enough!" The black armor elite said boastfully, gun aiming for Wolf. The others after checking the area, closed in on Wolf, their guns aiming for him as well.
Optimus and the others were watching this from the shadows of the hallway passage, completely unseen by the intruders.
"What's going on? Who are these people?" Clank asked shakily.
Ratchet angrily growled, "They're attacking the castle, and threatening Wolf! That's all we need to know!" He then jumped out, charging for the soldiers.
"Ratchet, wait! Grr! That impatient Young one!" Optimus tried to stop Ratchet, but was too late, so they all charged out to the face the soldiers, but Daxter stayed behind since he cannot really fight.
"WHAT TH...!" The Elite's tried to fire on Ratchet, who jumped in the air, pouncing one of the Elites to the ground. Another soldier aimed his plasma raffle towards Ratchet, who turned in time to avoid the shots, and then charged on all fours towards the man.
When he was close enough, he brought his furry tail around, sweeping the elite legs from beneath him. The elite quickly caught himself into a barrel roll, landing on his feet, and then charged right for Ratchet. Ratchet was caught off guard, losing his footing, and was pushed backwards.
The Elite aimed his gun to fire, but was caught off guard by and Jak taking him down to the ground, surprisingly angry at the elite. "LEAVE MY BROTHER ALONE!" Jak yelled.
Optimus charged for the black elite on all fours, appearing right in front of the soldier. 'That creature in the black armor must be the leader. If I take him out, the rest will follow.' Optimus thought.
Optimus went to upper kick the soldier, but the man quickly blocked with his carbine raffle, only stumbling him back. Optimus quickly followed the attack by swiping his tail towards the soldier's legs. He saw the attack coming, so reacting quickly, he jumped to avoid the attack, kicking Optimus in the face as he did so.
Optimus landed with a thud, and then looked up to see that the leader was aiming his weapon towards him. Before anything happened, Wolf karate chopped the gun out of the leader's hand, grabbing him by the arm, and threw him over his shoulder. The soldier caught himself, and then got into a fighting stance facing Wolf.
Wolf went to move towards the fallen gun, but then a blue elite blocked his way. The elite were ready to fire his gun, when he noticed Wolf looking in another direction to his left.
The elite turned in time for a claw to come and slash the gun in half and away from his hand. It was Beelzemon, who was approaching the soldier while growling at him. The soldier got in a fighting stance ready to face Beelzemon, while Wolf began to move away from the fight.
"Nice outfit, skinny!" The blue elite remarked.
Beelzemon's face instantly went to one of rage, bearing his fangs. "WHAT'D YOU CALL ME? I'LL SHOW YOU!" Beelzemon angrily charged toward the man.
The blue elite pulled out an energy knife, swiping it back and forth, forcing Beelzemon to back away to avoid it. The elite then toppled Beelzemon over, forcing him on his back. The blue elite then charged to stab Beelzemon while he was down, but Beelzemon thought quickly, using his legs to throw the man over his head.
The blue elite with the knife rolled himself over, then got to his feet. As he did, Bra'tac had spotted him, staff already.
"A blade, huh? Let's see how you do against me!" Bra'tac calmly stated, then charged with the staff, knife, and staff clashing.
Zilla and Kiba were double teaming on a red armor elite, but before Zilla could pounce the elite, the red elite pulled out a gun shaped weapon with a wide barrel. It shot out a large net, catching Zilla in it, who struggled to get free.
Kiba charged the elite next, aiming to swipe his claw at him, when the elite pulled out a taser gun, shooting it right at his chest.
"Huh?" ZAP! "YAAAHHH!" Kiba yelled in pain, as shocks of electricity flowed through his body.
Instantly, Clank appeared, grabbing the man, and tossing him to the wall, knocking him out. The taser stopped shocking Kiba, allowing him to catch his breath. "I believe the phase is 'You owe me one', Kiba!" Clank said.
"Yeah, yeah!" Kiba was still disoriented. Clank then walked up to the still tangled Zilla, tearing the net up, cutting Zilla loose.
Jak, Beelzemon and Ratchet then came to see if Kiba was all right, but as they did, the black armor elite took out a grenade, pulling the pin, throwing it right at them. Beelzemon quickly caught it, and then looked at the egg shaped object. Passing it off as nothing, he just tossed it behind the group, not expecting anything to happen, and then returned to helping Kiba out.
BOOM!
An explosion went off, sending the group flying in different directions. As this was going on, Wolf ran up the castle wall's stairs, heading to a side wall. He pushed a switch, opening a secret compartment, revealing a high-class laser rifle.
Optimus was facing down an elite, who was aiming a plasma pistol straight at him, ready to fire. He cocked his gun, and was about to pull the trigger, when a red beam of light appeared near his head, creating a hole in the wall. It then moved upwards, cutting off pieces of the wall, dropping them on the elite, almost burying him alive.
Optimus looked towards where the beam came from, seeing Wolf with the laser rifle, smirking towards him. Optimus then moved to fight someone else. As he did, Wolf took aim at another soldier who was aiming his gun on a higher part of the castle.
Ratchet began to chase down another elite who's armor is pink, and when he caught up with the person, trapping them in a dead end, he realized something. "Aw man. I have to fight a woman."
The elite that he was fighting against was indeed a woman, which was noticeable by her long black pony-tail hair, and feminine figure. The woman then aimed her gun towards Ratchet, slightly upset at that comment.
She fired it off, plasma shoots ricocheting off the stone ground. Ratchet quickly jumped, then dodged by leaping off the castle wall. The girl elite looked over the wall to check to see if he fell, and when she could not find his body, she began to look more for him.
Instantly, gliding out of the clouds, Ratchet flew up then down towards the female soldier, catching her off guard, and tackling her to the ground.
Her gun landed in front of Optimus and Bra'tac, who were now observing it. "These weapons are strange. Are we dealing sorcery?" Bra'tac calmly asked.
"Even if we are, we must protect this castle! It's all we have left!" Optimus stated.
At that moment, the black armor leader then threw a grenade towards Optimus and Bra'tac, "Here, CATCH!" He yelled mockingly, the grenade landing a few feet behind them. They quickly jumped for cover as it went off, sending them farther away.
Jak was now facing a green elite, who took out his energy knife, avoiding being cut by the elite's weapon. As he dodged, Wolf was taking aim with his laser rifle at the knife-wielding elite.
"Time to say goodbye." he said.
Instantly, an yellow elite ran up towards him, tackling him as he fired the laser. The shot hit the upper part of a castle wall, causing debris to fall.
From below the clouds, it looked as though red lightening was striking, causing a few pedestrians to look up in wonder. A huge chunk of debris began to fall towards them, all of them yelling and running for their lives. The debris landed heavily on the ground, a few cars and taxis hit while doing so.
A black and white mustang police car pulled up, sirens blaring, next to the wreckage. It's not just a normal police car, it motto is 'punish and enslave' instead of 'protect and serve'.
The driver door of the car opened, revealing a young woman with pale skin, wearing a red jacket, blue jeans, blue sapphire eyes, and long flowing bright pink hair. Then the police car transforms into a giant robot with red glowing eyes. Both looked around the area at the wreckage, and then looked up at where the red lightening in the clouds were.
An explosion caused a gaping hole in the wall, gases pouring through it. Instantly, Kiba, Clan, and Beelzemon ran out, coughing and gasping for air as they did. A few seconds later, one of the elites ran out of it, but then ran in a random direction, being chased by Zilla, threatening to bite, roaring as he did.
Optimus was watching what was happening on a side castle wall, ready to jump in anytime. On another part of the wall, a purple elite took out a grenade, and then threw it towards Optimus. By the time Optimus noticed it, it was too late.
BOOM!
The blast caught him off guard, but he quickly covered himself with his arms blocking it. The blast then sent him flying over the edge of the wall, sending him toward the ground. He quickly tried to spread his wings to glide, but debris was in his way to glide. He saw a flagpole, and quickly grabbed on, unfortunately, the momentum of his fall, along with his weight, caused the flagpole to snap out of its hinges.
As he fell, he did the next thing that came to his mind; he dug his claws into the stonewall, screeching as he slowed down his momentum, until he screeched to a halt, taking in a huge sigh of relief.
On the ground, more debris began to fall, this time, more rampant. The pink haired woman was able to avoid being flattened by one of the stone pieces that fell right in front of her. She then looked behind her to see citizens still standing too close to the danger zone.
"GET BACK!" she yelled, waving her hand for emphasis.
"Sigh! Going to wind up street pizza." she whispered to herself, turning back to watching for debris. She then saw her hand right next a stone piece, but it had four straight lines on it. She felt the lines to better identify them. "Claw marks?" She then looked up towards the clouds, "What could possibly leave claw marks through solid stone?"
A lone white armor elite, was moving quickly through the castle, until he came upon a door, blowing the security lock mechanism, forcing open the door, and then ran inside. Daxter still inside saw the elite and being to fallow.
'Where are you going white one? Daxter thought to himself.
Ratchet charged towards the yellow elite, aiming his attacks for his weak spots, hoping to end the fight. As he charged, the elite grabbed his hand before it touched him, then tossed him to the ground, and then held him down by his arms, the rest of his body straddling him down. The yellow elite were larger than he was, and had more brawn then he did, thus, he could not push him off him.
"Gotcha!" he yelled out boastfully. He struggled to get free, unable to push him off of him.
At that moment, Optimus had climbed back up, seeing him struggle to get free.
"Help!" Ratchet yelled, and instantly, Optimus charged at the yellow elite, pushing him off him, then carried him down to the courtyard.
He lifted the elite off his feet, holding him by the collar of his neck, raising his claw to strike. The female elite came out of nowhere, and then threw a canister that landed by Optimus's feet. It began to release a yellowish gas, choking Optimus's lungs, forcing him to drop the elite. As he dropped the elite, the other elite's ran over and helped the yellow elite out of there, dragging him away.
The white elite ran out the hallway, hugging a black case to his side, running at hasty speeds, on him was Daxter trying claw the face of the Elite. He ran out of the castle, lifting the case over his head. "GOT IT!" he yelled as he grabbed Daxter and threw him off.
The blue elite took out a flare gun, shooting it up in the air. The flash of light from the flare was bright, thus causing the gargoyles to go temporarily blind. The same black phantom from earlier then landed in the courtyard, waiting for the troops of elite to come.
They ran to the phantom, not wanting to waste time, carrying the injured and wounded. "Let's go! We got what we came for!" The black armor leader yelled, jumping on board the phantom, along with his men.
As they jumped on, wolf got to a high point of the castle, aiming his rifle at the helicopter. "I don't think so." Before he could shoot though, the red elite saw him, then threw his energy knife, stabbing Wolf's left hand, forcing him to drop the gun. The phantom then flew away, hiding within the clouds.
The glare from the flare vanished, restoring sight to all the gargoyles. They then gathered in front of Wolf, who was holding his injury to stop the bleeding.
"Huff, huff! I've never seen weapons like those before, and that flying creature that carried them off!" Jak explained, truly exhausted from the night. Daxter was bruised a little but he claimed up to Jak Shoulder and rested.
"A dragon or something like that!" Kiba yelled.
"It wasn't a dragon; it was uh, uh, a machine of some sort." Clank stared up at where the phantom disappeared to, trying to figure out what it was.
Wolf, after make shift mending his wound, walked up to the group, a thankful expression on his face. "Thank you! Without you, your clan and your little friend, who knows what those thugs might have done."
Optimus stared coldly at Wolf, still not trusting of this man. "Someone I once trusted said the same thing to me...and then destroyed my people."
Wolf looked Optimus straight in the eyes, a cool expression over his face. "I can see I'll have to work hard to earn you trust." Optimus then snorted, losing patience with this lupin.
Wolf took out his cell phone, and pressed a few numbers. "Howl, Fang, we'll need a cleanup crew outside, and bring the medic kit as well."
"Why were attacked?" Optimus asked.
Wolf then smugly said, "The richer you are, the more enemies you have! And I. Am very rich!" He then walked up to them, hoping to reason with them. "Optimus, this is your home, as well as mine. I hope you'll consider working with me to keep it safe."
Optimus looked around, peering at the castle, looking at each of the faces of the remaining members of his clan. Bra'tac then placed his hand on Optimus's shoulder, and then calmly said, "You're the leader, Optimus. It's your decision. Just consider that...we technically have nowhere else to go."
"Sigh! This castle is our home, no matter where it has been taken." He contemplated, and then announced, "We will stay here!"
"Perfect." Wolf stated, and then walked over to shake Optimus 's hand. "I know you were treated poorly by man in the past, but all that is about to change! Trust me!"
Optimus tore his hand away from Wolf, and then angrily stated, "You broke the spell that imprisoned us, O'Donnell, and for that, we are grateful! But we will never trust others that are not gargoyles again!"
Wolf stared at Optimus, and then sighed in frustration. "I can tell this relationship is something we'll all have to work at!" Optimus sighed again, with slight growl at Wolf's answer.
Optimus and the other began to walk apart from each other when optimus final noticed Daxter whom is still on Jak shoulder, he would grabbed him and take him off of Jak but he see Jak and Daxter are getting happily he just left them there as they were.
Meanwhile Beelzemon came across one of the elite guns, it is a beam rifle. He went to pick it up and soon as held it by the handle but then he felt some his energy going in to the weapon and it began to glow brightly just enough that he has to shield his eyes. "Whoa!"
A few seconds the light faded for Beelzemon to see that the weapon had changed its shape, size and color, the name of the weapon pop up in his as he whispered it. "Chrono blaster." As he look every inch of it, and he found the trigger, a thought to his mind as he turned to out wards of the castle, pointed in that direction and spoke. "Let's see what this baby can do! CHRONO BLASTER!"
The gun opened up and shot out a purple energy blast the size torpedo, it nearly sent Beelzemon off his feet as it went flying, nearly hitting murkrow that lucky to see it coming and was able to doge it. "Whoa! What a blast! I am keeping this baby." He spoke to himself as he admired his new gun
Ground Zero, below the O'Donnell building.
Police cars were scattered all over the scene, blockades and cars preventing the public from entering.
"What do you figure that was all about, detective?" The former police car asked the pink haired girl from earlier, while looking up at the sky.
The pink haired girl then narrowed her sapphire eyes. "I don't know, Barricade!" Then, in a serious tone, she stated, "But I am going to find out!"
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