The party went on until nearly sunrise. Everyone enjoyed themselves immensely except Lexington who sat brooding in a corner for most of the night. Angela walked up to see what was bothering him.
"I'm the only one that's alone." Lex replied to her questions. Angela looked around.
"You're never alone. You'll always have all of us with you." She said trying to comfort the small gargoyle.
"It's not the same has what you and everyone else has." Lex said as he buried his face in his laptop.
"Then what do you intend to do about it. Are you going to be an alpha male and go co-mingle with those females from Katana's clan or are you going to hide in this corner like a hatchling.
"You're right." He said closing his laptop. "The night is not over and there are plenty of females over there to talk to." Lex then sighed "And be rejected by" He added as an afterthought.
"Thinking like that never helped anyone. Now, c'mon I'm going to introduce you to a few that I have met."
After Angela took Lexington around and was confident he would at least make a friend he walked back over and noticed that Demona was huddled over a piece of paper. Then she realized that it was the one she had left with her when she was In a coma. It was the song that Demona had been writing for centuries.
"I was considering performing this tonight, but I don't know if I can." Demona said as Angela approached.
"It looks like you wrote it so more than one person can sing it if you would like I would be happy to sing it with you, and I believe we could talk Katana and Elisa into it as well." Angela said as she put her arm around her mother.
They both studied the paper for a few moments until Angela said "I'm going to go talk to them." She left then to get the others.
Elisa and Katana came back moments later with a smiling Angela. "They said they would give it a try and they all sat their studying the paper.
"It appears simple." Elisa said.
"Agreed, I think the four of us can do this." Katana stated as she handed the paper back. Making up her mind Demona walked up to Owen and showed him the paper and what she had in mind.
"I think it's a great idea I will work some lights and some instrumentals to match for you." He said changing into Puck.
She went to talk with the girls one more time before Puck asked everyone to have a seat.
"Tonight" He said as he created a microphone and instrument set out of thin air on the stage. "We have a performance that I believe you are all going to want to see. The song you are about to hear was written by Demona herself." As he said that he heard a few surprise remarks from the audience.
"Now I will step off of the stage and let them get to it." He said joyfully has he started a multi colored light show on and around the stage.
As Demona climbed up the stage she found she was getting more and more nervous and was about to back out, but something inside her told her she could do it. It was only later that she discovered it was strength given to her by the link she now shared with Goliath.
"I have written this song over the last few centuries for the love of my life. I hope you all like it." Puck then began the instrumentals and Demona began to sing with the other girls doing chorus lines.
"Stay With Me"
[Verse 1:]
Raindrops, Fall From, Everywhere
I Reach Out, For You, But You're Not There
So I Stood, Waiting, In The Dark
With Your Picture, In My Hands
Story Of a Broken Heart
[Chorus:]
Stay With Me
Don't Let Me Go
Cause I Can't Be Without You
Just Stay With Me
And Hold Me Close
Because I've Built My World Around You
And I Don't Wanna Know What's It Like Without You
So Stay with Me
Just Stay With Me
[Verse 2:]
I'm Trying And Hoping, For The Day
When my touch is enough
To Take The Pain Away
Cause I've Searched For So Long
The Answer Is Clear
We'll be OK if We Don't Let It Disappear
[Chorus:]
Stay With Me
Don't let Me go
Cause I Can't Be Without You
Just Stay With Me
And Hold Me Close
Because I've Built My World Around You
And I Don't Wanna Know What's it Like Without You
So Stay with Me
Just Stay With Me
[Verse 3:]
I've searched my heart over
So many many times
No you and I, is like no stars to light the sky at night
Our Picture Hangs Up To
Remind Me Of The Days
You Promised Me We'd Always Be
And Never Go Away
That's Why I Need You To Stay
[Chorus:]
Stay With Me
Don't let Me go
Cause I Can't Be Without You
Just Stay With Me
And Hold Me Close
Because I've Built My World Around You
And I Don't Wanna Know What's It Like Without You
So Stay with Me
Just Stay With Me
[Fades:]
oh.. oh oh
don't leave
so I stay waiting in the dark...
As the song came to an end the stage turned back into the normal altar. Demona looked around nervously when Goliath began to applaud. Then slowly everyone else joined in and soon the noise in the room became deafening with the cheers from the assembled crowd.
"Before everyone goes I just wanted to thank you all for accepting me back into your lives and I hope to prove I am worthy of your trust again." Demona paused for a moment and then "While were discussing new beginnings I would like to tell you all that I am leaving the name Demona behind."
The crowd was stunned for a moment and no one made a sound as Demona continued.
"I decided that in order for this to be a true fresh start I should give myself a name like the rest of my clan has." She paused again letting her words sink in to the stunned crowd.
"My new name is Adela. It means Angelic warrior. The crowd again began to cheer.
"That's a great idea, Lass. Congratulations on this new start. Just remember this doesn't happen every day so don't waste it." Hudson said smiling warmly at her. He didn't need to tell her what would happen if she did
Goliath came up to the stage and holding his angel in his arms kissed her deeply causing the room to become loud again. Angela grinned as she stepped off of the altar.
Macbeth approached the altar. "That's not as fearsome sounding as what I named you, but it does fit you." Macbeth grinned at her as he shook hands with Goliath. "Maybe now you don't need to be so fearsome anyway." He chuckled as Gruoch came up to offer her congratulations to the couple as well.
While they spoke Broadway came up and hugged Angela. "That was really good Ange, I didn't know you could sing like that." Broadway said as he stared at her in admiration for a moment before she leapt into his arms and kissed him hard.
"I didn't either." She said as they caught their breath. "But for them I was willing to try anything." Angela smiled as she led Broadway towards the exit.
"Where are we going?" He asked suddenly.
"The party is over and I thought we could use some time to ourselves." She grabbed his hand but didn't need to lead him again as he was speed walking to the terrace.
Brooklyn and Katana were about to leave has well when they saw Lexington talking to a short silver female gargoyle. She was just a little taller than Lex, and she wore a bright blue halter top and matching loin cloth, she had white hair that went down to her middle back and the shape of her eyes emphasized her oriental background. The irises were a deep blue color and seemed to draw Brooklyn in as he looked into them for a moment.
"Hey Lex, are you ready for the movie?" Brooklyn asked as they waited for him for a moment.
"No, I think I will spend some time getting to know Silvara a little more." Lex said as the silver gargoyle reached her hand out to them.
"I'm Silvara, and it's nice to meet you finally Brooklyn. Katana speaks very highly of you." Brooklyn shot Katana a questioning look and she just nodded as he shook hands with Silvara.
"It was nice to meet you Silvara, we should get together soon and get to know each other." Brooklyn said as he and Katana went to leave.
She sat back down with Lex and cuddled close to him as they looked at something on his laptop.
After nearly everyone had left Elisa walked up to Jason, and threw her arm around him.
"So, my future husband shall we be leaving to? I can think of much better things we could be doing now." She said as she kissed him quickly.
"That was a nice thing you did up there." He said as they headed for the exit.
"Oh, that. They needed an extra voice that's all." She laughed as they got to the elevator and kissed as they waited for it to come up.
"So, Adela huh?" Jason chuckled as they stepped into the elevator.
"Yeah, I guess the name Demona had too much mileage." Elisa laughed as she kissed him again as the elevator doors closed.
Soon, everyone had left except Goliath and Adela.
"Why did you wish to change your name?" Goliath asked as soon as they were alone.
"Well, there was so much bad blood tied to the other one, and I thought if I am truly going to reboot my life then I should choose a new name as well. Do you not like it." She asked as she looked up at him expectantly.
"It's a great name." He kissed her passionately as they headed for their chambers. "One of these nights we are going to have to begin patrolling again." He pointed out as she began to close the door.
"Maybe, but not tonight she purred seductively has she slowly removed her dress as the door shut.
Across town as Goliath and Adela consummated the joining of their souls David Xanatos was standing in Jonny's warehouse looking over all the crates that they had used to fool Thailog and Lester into falling into their trap.
"Why did you call me up here Xanatos?" Dracon asked stepping into the warehouse with a few of his bodyguards.
"I would think you'd be more grateful Dracon, especially since I rid the city of your competition." David grinned at him.
"Why do you think I came?" Dracon grinned back "But I still want to know why you dragged me out here in the middle of the night."
David nodded to Jesse who grabbed a crate and put it down in the middle of the room, then pried the lid off with her hands.
"Strong girl you got there." Dracon said as he came up to examine the contents.
"In these crates are more weapons and drugs then you could have collected in a lifetime." David said as he pulled out a laser rifle.
"Just one question…Why are you helping me?" Dracon asked as he looked into the crate and quickly did the math in his mind about what the several thousand other crates must be worth to.
"Because my new friend there will always be good and evil in this world, and I want to insure that I am on top of both." David smirked at him. "Now, here's what I want. All of your operations go through me. I keep thirty percent of all takes, any big targets like politicians go through me first, and lastly if I need something done you do it without question. Do we have a deal?" David asked reaching out his hand.
"Normally, I would be put out by those demands, however…" Dracon said as he picked up two very large rifles and put them in his personal bag. "You know just the right way to bribe me." He finished with a laugh.
"Very good, now to protect my interests I have a few more helping hands that will be joining your group." Just as he finished the sentence three people suddenly landed in front of Dracon. One was an older man but appeared to be very strong and dressed like a wolf. The other two had razor sharp claws on the ends of their fingers and were dressed like animals as well. They both had long brown hair and the male of the two had a cybernetic right eye. The female wore a fur coat over her uniform.
"Who are these people?" Dracon asked becoming upset.
"The very best mercenaries' money can buy. This here is Wolf, and these are the twins." David said as he pointed to Jackal. "This here is Jackal and his sister here is Hyena. They are the best mercs in the world and they are at your disposal, but will also be making sure my requirements are being met. Oh, and one other thing. The gargoyles are off limits. They are my new friends and I owe them that much."
"Controlling the good as well as the bad huh?" Dracon chuckled. "Very well, Xanatos. You drive a hard bargain, but we have a deal." Dracon shook David's hand and David and Jesse left the warehouse and Dracon began planning his new operations with his new allies.
David arrived back at home and went to his office to check on a few things.
"Where were you?" Fox asked as she came out to greet him.
"I just had a few things to pick up at the office." David said as he kissed her quickly and began loading his computer.
Fox was a little suspicious. David wouldn't lie to me. I'm just being paranoid. She thought to herself as she went back to check on Alexander as he woke up screaming.
Suddenly Puck appeared in the middle of the office. "I can't believe I am finally free to be me." Puck said as he sighed happily and slumped in the chair opposite of David.
"Puck, I would prefer Owen when you are in my home." David said as he went back to working on his files.
"Very well, Mr. Xanatos while I am here I will keep on this disquise." Owen said as he cleaned his glasses before putting them back on. "But know that it is only because I have come to think of you has a friend, and has your friend I think I should advise you that your new business venture is risky at best, disastrous at worst." Owen stated as he got up to leave.
"Risky but necessary" David admitted as Owen left. He shot a worried a glance toward his bedroom and then shut his laptop and went to bed for the night.