Grendel had recovered from the attack on his mind.
"That was strong magic" he mumbled as he was hovering once again.
The magic had canceled his Verzie spell. It takes the right amount of power in the opposite direction at the right time to break a spell effectively enough to cause damage to the other user.
Something stirs on this island thought Grendel as he frowned and it looked at Happyville.
"Who or what could it be?" he wondered. "It's too soon to tell. I'll have to wait for him to show himself to us." mumbled the old man.
A small popping sound told Grendel that someone was at his door. He waved his hand, opened the door and let Fury and Rooney in.
"Excuse us, sir." started Rooney.
"We've encountered something in Happyville!" said Fury and he took out the spare cape.
Grendel lowered himself to get a closer look. "Hush now."
As he opened the cape and saw the rubble, he studied it. And some more.
And some more.
He then grabbed a handful of it and threw it up in the air, mumbled some sort of spell and as Fury looked at the remaining stone, it joined the rest in the air.
A big ball of stone formed, but slowly took the shape of the monstrous Gargoyle the crusader bashed into pieces earlier.
It remained plain stone though.
"So it was a Gargoyle... with strange markings on its forehead. Hmm..." mumbled Grendel as he walked around the flying stone object.
"Rooney, dear, can you handle me that piece of paper there, and a pencil? To you left." he said.
When she gave it, along with the pencil, he thanked her, put the paper on the forehead and scratched the markings on the paper.
The Gargoyle turned back to rubble and was put back in the cape and closed.
The mage selected a book from his library, opened it at the right page and began reading.
He lifted an eyebrow and opened a second book, began reading and turning pages.
Now both eyebrows were raised and a third book was opened.
Pages were turned to search the right page. As the old man began reading, his eyebrows went down into a frown and four more books were picked from their shelves.
Rooney and Fury were still standing and watching the research of Grendel. As more and more material landed on the desk, and Grendel was less and less visible, the two decided to sit and wait it out.
Lokima still couldn't believe it. Iucounu was captured by Densetsu in person! Densetsu... THE Densetsu!
The smokers were bad, but in fact, they were a small organization under him!
Sora was only child's play compared to Densetsu!
This is horrible! I have to tell Grendel, Athena, Dances and Kerin what happened. Especially Dark Lord Kerin, since he's Densetsu's sensei.
She reactivated her Haste and her Stealth and ran further upwards in the Evil Tower.
"Aha! Found it." said Grendel. Fury and Rooney stood up and saw the mage show up behind his wall of books.
"I know here this beast was made!"
Four eyes and four ears were aimed at Grendel now as he explained.
"The markings on the Gargoyle is ancient magic. Magic that is bound my signs and runes. The user has to be either very old, reincarnated or summoned from the dead. So I looked up the second marking on its tail and found its origin, Babylon." said the man
"But Grendel," started Fury," Babylon is long gone and lost!"
"And it has been discovered again, under a different name though. Sheranian. Since everyone in those ruins is dead, I had to search deeper, for the stone your Gargoyle is made of." he continued.
"It can only be made with half a dozen ingredients. Each ingredient can be found in Sheranian though, and it has to be kept in dry dark and in the air.. Sheranian is dark, dry but not aired, since everything was buried.
Also, the stone Gargoyles were never seen in there since it was excavated last year. So I researched old Babylonian history to find out if there could be something that is buried, but not flooded with sand. I found a huge castle, owned by Count Ergoth Sheranian of Babylon."
"Ergoth?" said Rooney, "Wasn't he banned from life? He can't do this kind of things, he's well and truly dead, sir."
"True, he was banned from life because he was experimenting with stone to bring it to life. All documents on the experiments themselves are effectively destroyed, but the nature is still known." said the old mage.
"The people of Babylon sealed Ergoth away in a tomb and buried it deep beneath the castle. They places four stone guardians and imbued them with magic to stop anyone from waking the banned mage." he continued.
"Ergoth is the only magician who still knows the plans of the experiments. He kept them hidden... in his mind."
"But then... who could have opened his tomb?" asked Rooney.