Over a thousand years, the gargoyles and sorceress waited to be awaken from their stone slumber.
" Finally." A man in his early thirties, stood in front of Castle Wyvern. after a few second, he ran into the castle and up the steps of the tallest. Once at the top the man went right to the gargoyle.
"Magnificent." Pulling away the vines, the man smiled in an accomplishing way.
"Make an offer this instant Owen."
"If I may say one last time Mr. Xanatos, that the cost of this operation is going to be catastrophic " Another man with bold hair, Owen, walked up to the so-called Xanatos.
"Hire a crew, I want to get this done as soon as possible."
"It may take some time, this place has a bad reputation." Own said as he got on his cell phone.
"You know the answer to that Owen, pay a man enough and he will walk right into hell." Xanatos took his attention away from the gargoyle and walked to the stoned Sorceress. Looking closely Xanatos saw the chain around her neck was rusted and about to break from the heavy green emerald stone it held.
"It seems we will have to get that fixed my dear." Taking the rusted chain and stone from her neck, he handed it to Owen, who was not off the phone.
"I want you to take this and get it fixed up. I have feeling she will want it right back when she wakes." Looking at the stone girl one last time, Xanatos and Owen descended down the steps to prepare everything back in Manhattan.
~Two months later~
Everything was finally in place on top of largest building in New York city that was above the clouds, Xanatos's corporation.
Xanatos waited on the top of the tallest tower with the one gargoyle and sorceress watching the sun set. When the sun vanished beneath the clouds, the magic began to happen.
Like swishing on a light, the sorceress's mind awoke. Her body quickly un-stiffening its self, the feeling of fresh rain hit her now non stone skin. Opening her eyes, Zaus could not help but smile. For she was not a stone statue anymore, and Goliath stood before her, his back to her as he awoke from his stone slumber, not realizing the man behind her.
"Goliath!" Zaus ran to her friend, wrapping her arms, the best she could, around him. He returned it with no hesitation. Their moment was broken by the sounds of their other friends waking below them.
Goliath picked up the girl before jumping down to the level beneath them. Once on the ground, Goliath set her down as the other gargoyles gathered around.
"Your Awake. Your Alive! We are together again!"
"Your Alright!" Zaus gave each one of them a hug. When she got to the red gargoyle, she gave him the longest hug. He did not seem to mind at all. A wired siren like sound broke their small moment.
Instead of seeing opened sky, or free land, they eyes landed on many other structures of some sort. Very tall structures with bright lights and lots of noise.
"What is this? Where are we?" The old gargoyle asked, as they all stared out into the strange place.
A pone the sound of approaching foot steps, all turned to see and tall man with tan skin, face-shell hair, slightly long hair in a low pony tail, wearing a coat.
"Are you the one they call, Goliath?"
"Yes." Goliath was very hesitant, every one got into fighting stance, not trusting this strange man.
"Excellent."
"Who are you? What do you want with the Gargoyles?" Zaus wanted to know what was going on, and she knew they gargoyles did as well.
"My name is David Xanatos and all in good time my dear. Let us go inside and I'll explane everything." The man, named Xanatos, turned on his heel and began to walk away. All were hesitant, but soon followed.
They soon found them self in a big room filled with many strange things.
"How long has it been?" After a few minutes of silence Goliath finally spoke.
"This may come as a shock, a Thousand years has gone by since the spell was cased."
The red gargoyle placed his clawed hand on the sorceress shoulders, for she had begun to fall back words from the shock.
"Before we continue, I believe this is yours my dear." Xanatos walked to the girl, pulled his right hand from his pocket and held out an oval shaped stone green emerald half the size of her hand. It was a choker like necklace with black silk fabric and silver edging on the side of the stone. Seeing the stone the sorceress's hand flew to where her emerald should be, but found it gone
"When we found you, the chain was about to break, so we fixed it."
With a small nod she took the necklace and put it around her neck. It was not to tight or to loose, and the fabric felt nice against her skin.
"I learned about the castle in a book the came into my position. The Magus who cursed you wrote the whole story in there." Xanatos gestured to the Grimorum Arcanorum that was on a stand with a glass casing over it.
"Now I'm sure you have some questions."
"How did you break the spell?" The old gargoyle asked, knowing it was on everyone's mind.
"It was designed to end when the castle rose above the clouds."
"The eggs in the rookery?" The small gargoyle voice was filled with concern.
"Gone I'm afraid. you are the last of your kind" Hearing that broke the sorceress heart, she could see the disappointment in her three friends faces.
"Why have you done all this?" Goliath asked slightly confused.
"I was fascinated my the Magus's story, I wanted to see if it was true, and now that I know it is, I want to be your friend. We can do so much for each other Goliath. " Even tho he was trying to become friends, the sorceress had a strange feeling about him.
Just then a strange sound from outside had interrupted their conversation.
"I wasn't expecting anyone. It will be safer if you stay here." Xanatos excused himself before walking out of the room. Instead of staying put, The gargoyles and sorceress followed him. When Xanatos went out side, the group stay hidden in the shadow of the arch way.
"What is going on? Who are these people?" The red gargoyle looked to his leader when they saw people with strange weapons come from some flying beast.
"They are attacking the Castle that is all we need to know!" The Old gargoyle explained. Goliath roared loudly as they charged out from the shadows.
Tuning to the left, Zaus stood with one of the men pointing its strange weapon at her. With a smirk the man pulled the trigger. Zaus was able to doge most of the shoots, but one of the shoots grazed the her shoulder. Instead of stopping, she reeled her arm back and punched the man in right in the noise. While he was stunned she grabbed one of his arms, twisted it and threw him over her shoulder. Hit back hitting the ground with a loud thud.
Gripping her shoulder, Zaus looked to her right, her expression hardening for a another strange man was silently taking aim at her heavier set gargoyle friend.
"Leave my friend alone!" Running at full speed, she slammed right into the man's side, causing him to lose his weapon. Standing quickly, she dogged a punch to the face and served a hard kick to the stomachs.
Standing strata the sound of something falling at her feet, filled her ears. before she had a chance to looked, an explosion happened, this cause her to fly a feet into the air.
"I got you Lass!" when caught in mid-air, Zaus opened her eyes to see the old gargoyle. As he was setting her down, the sorceress another man aiming his weapon right at the gargoyles back. With the emerald glowing, Zaus threw her wounded arm out. The man was forcefully pushed into the wall, making a slight dent.
A blinding light exploded in the air, causing her to shield her eyes with both her hands. When the light vanish, the men in armor and strange flying beast were gone.
When the light finally vanished, Zaus removed her hands from her face and looked to see her friends talking to Xanatos. Gripping her bleeding left shoulder she slowly walked over to them.
"Thank you, without you and your friends who knows what those thugs might have done."
"Someone I once trusted said the same thing to me, and then destroyed my people."
"I can see I have to work on your trust."
"Why where you Attacked?"
"The richer you are the more enemies you have."
"Zaus your arm!" The small gargoyle was the first to notice the sorceress's presence and injurer.
"It is nothing just a small flesh wound." Her grip tighten to stop the bleeding, but caused her to winch slightly. Blood was slowly running down her arm.
"That looks deeper then a flesh wound. Let me take you in side and have my aide Owen take a look." Xanatos offered. The sorceress looked to her gargoyle friends and could see them all looking at her shoulder, concern in their eyes. With a small sigh she nodded.
"Goliath this is your home, also my head quarters, I hope you will consider helping me keep it safe." The sorceress could see the hesitation in the Clan leaders eyes.
"It is your decision lad, but we have no where else to go." The old gargoyle explained to his friend, and her was right, they had no where else to go.
"This castle is are home, not matter where it is taken. We will stay here."
"Excellent. I know you have been treated badly by man, but that is all about to change. I promise Now, let's get you fixed up my dear." With that said Xanatos led the girl back into the castle.
"You may have broken the spell Mr. Xanatos, we are great-full for that. I for warn you that they will never trust humans again. Even tho I am Human sat well, I will also have a hard time trusting them my self." Seeing the small smirk on his face cause her to glare sharply at the Man walking next to her.
As they entered the same room from before they met a blond man, named Owen, who had a small box with a red cross on it.