The next night, Hudson, Bronx, and Angela all ended up in Brooklyn. There was still no sign of them.
David and Fox went out again. It was something they couldn't avoid. It was Elisa's night off and she was visiting the castle to see how things were going here. She went up to talk to Sil and found none of the gargoyles there. Not even Bronx.
Owen told Elisa that he needed someone to watch Alex for a few hours while he had to go look at security precautions and some business affairs.
"Chamberlain needs to get something to eat. Can Elisa watch Alex?" Sil asked.
"Yes, of course. He seems to like you." she said.
"Yes. Does. Be back soon." Sil stated and left the nursery. It was a warmer night for once and Sil had only his lightest robes on.
Elisa held Alex and talked to him some while waiting for Sil to come back.
…...
Demona was on the outside wall. She had something big strapped to her back. She looked inside and saw her most hated rival, Elisa Maza, holding a red-haired toddler. Demona didn't know that Xanatos had a child now. She barely watched TV herself she was so busy. But this night, she was going to have some revenge!
She took up a position on the outside and took the bazooka off her back. She aimed on the outside wall of the nursery. She fired.
There was an explosion on the wall. It was so loud that it could be heard all over the castle and upper floors. Sil heard it from the kitchen. He went to go see what it was.
Elisa had covered young Alex with her body. They were both thrown across the room. Elisa's back had hit the wall while still covering Alex. The kid started crying at the top of his lungs, he was so scared at what happened.
Demona now stepped into the room. She saw the detective on the floor, now unconscious, with a crying baby in her hands. She glared and walked over to them.
"This is the end, Detective Maza! Tonight, I rectify all that has gone wrong in my life." Demona growled at her. She started to take aim on Elisa and Alex.
Chamberlain made it back to the nursery. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. There was a great big, gaping hole in the wall. Then, he noticed on the far wall, Demona was holding a bazooka over Elisa.
His face turned into shock. After what she had tried to do to him, he was going to get his revenge too!
He snuck around behind her and using some of the stuff taught to him in training, he slammed into her from behind. "Leave… them… alone!" he yelled.
Demona instantly dropped the bazooka, but now she was having to try to fight off the angry Skeksis. She turned to face him. "If you defend these humans, then you are an enemy now, Chamberlain!"
"Never was your ally to begin with!" Sil growled at her. He held his talons ready. He didn't always carry his dagger with him in the castle. This time, he was fighting hand to hand.
They began to circle one another. Sil tried to remember his training that he had about gargoyles. She was much bigger than Gelfling and she could offer him a good challenge, but she was immortal and he wasn't. He also wasn't quite as young as he used to be.
She charged at him and one of her taloned hands tried going for his throat. Her eyes glowed red.
He saw her move and moved out of the way, to his right. He wasn't used to fighting a female gargoyle. He had only seen a male's eyes glow white most of the time whenever he saw their eyes glow. Not that he hadn't seen Angela's eyes glow.
Elisa managed to wake up again for a moment, and she pulled out her gun, while trying to manage. She saw what was going on. She aimed on Demona.
The bullet missed Demona, but it distracted them both. Chamberlain saw another chance and he tripped her up with his tail. It knocked her down onto her back. She snarled.
Elisa fell unconscious again. Alex was crying. He was okay, just scared.
Sil tried to get the jump on her. He wasn't going to let her go so easily. One of her hands found his flank area on the right side and she dug her talons into his flesh, even through his clothing.
Sil cried out and let go of her. He backed off from her. Then she jumped away from him. Sil tried to hold the injury, but he underestimated his enemy.
Demona jumped onto the next wall and then twirled herself through the air. Sil looked up, but not in time. Her legs found his stomach and she kicked him so hard that he went flying into some other debris in the room.
His right arm and shoulder connected with the debris and the wall, making a loud CRUNCH! sound. He also hit his head too.
Chamberlain was now on the ground, laying on his injured side.
Demona was now satisfied that he was out of the picture. She picked up her gun and went over to him first.
"This ends here. First, I'll kill you, and then the detective." the gargess growled at him.
Sil managed to look to his left upward. There she was, about to do away with him, but then, out of nowhere, there was a laser that shot at her gun and made her drop it. She turned.
There in the doorway were up to six robot gargoyles. Owen was in control of them.
"Back away from him or I will allow them to shoot." the blonde man warned her.
All the robots had their lasers ready to shoot at her. She couldn't be killed, but she didn't want to be injured either. She glared and then turned and ran for the hole in the wall and took to the air, letting loose her banshee-like scream.
Sil felt a chill go down his spine as his vision suddenly blacked out on him. He could feel pain before he was out, but he couldn't move.
Owen had the robots put their lasers away, but he kept them for if he needed them.
Blood from Sil's side wounds covered the wall and floor.
Owen went over to see if everyone was alright. He picked up Alex first. He checked for a pulse on Elisa next. She was alive, but unconscious. He called 911. She would need an ambulance.
Owen then went over to Sil and he had a look at him. Seeing the blood was not good. He put Alex in his crib so he could take a proper look at him. He had to get him to the infirmary before the paramedics arrived. He had one of the robots come and pick him up.
The robot carried him to the infirmary. Owen also called Hudson and Angela and David and Fox that they needed to come home immediately. Demona had attacked their home and they were needed.
"What happened?" Angela asked.
"Your mother attacked Alex's room and Detective Maza was injured, as was Chamberlain. They're both unconscious. I'm calling in help for Maza now." Owen declared.
Paramedics arrived by helicopter for Elisa. They stabilized her and took her to their copter, where she would be flown to Manhattan General. She was alive. That was what mattered.
Owen then went to the infirmary where Sil was. He began going through Sil's robes to look for signs of injuries. He found liquid on the right side flank. There were holes there too. When he saw the flesh, it was torn to pieces! He put on some temporary bandages. Sil's clothes had been a blood blocker for the time being till Owen had gotten the new ones on.
He checked Sil for a pulse. He had one. He also saw blood on his head. He might have a concussion.
When he checked for more injuries, when he felt the right arm, there was some uncomfortable movement in the bone that shouldn't be there. It was obvious; the Skeksis had a broken arm.
Owen also called Dr. Sato that he would need to come help Chamberlain with some injuries again.
Sato responded. He was there soon, as were Hudson and Angela and Bronx, and the Xanatos'. Alex was fine. Maybe some bruising, but nothing worse for wear, unlike his babysitter.
The robes had to come off to examine Sil properly. Some towels were applied to Sil's flank area to stem bleeding. His robes would need washing and stitching back up again. The wounds were deep in his side.
Dr. Sato also got a good look at Sil's arm and shoulder. The arm and shoulder both were broken.
Sato went to working stitching the wounds first. There would have been no organ damage, but just flesh damage. He applied a bandage to Sil's head. He put a good sized bandage over the side wounds, but it was impossible to wrap some all the way around his waist with his spikes in the way. Tape would just have to hold the bandage in place.
Then, hooking Sil up to a breather and hooked up to an iv to keep him out, there were x-rays taken of the arm. Together, Owen and Sato set Sil's broken arm and shoulder. Sato began preparing a cast on the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
Chamberlain would need a lot of rest for a while. He had lost a lot of blood. His gums started looking pale and Sato had to give him his blood transfusion. Sil got back his blood supply. That should help.
He was taken and put in one of the recovery rooms. He was laid on his back. His left hand had the IV in it. A sling was also wrapped around Sil's neck as it would support the broken limb.
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On Thra, the Chanter had the same assortment of injuries and his clan were shocked at what had happened to his arm and his side. Most mysterious injuries and how they happened. The Healer took care of him the best he could.
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Angela decided she would sit with Sil.
Hudson wanted to know what happened.
"I wasn't in the room, but heard the explosion from down in my office. Demona was carrying a bazooka and she shot through the wall. Detective Maza was in there with Alex and Sil. Elisa and Alex were thrown into a wall from the blast and she protected him. I got in there to see Sil fighting Demona. Only he will be able to fill in the rest when he wakes up." Owen explained.
"He might have kept Demona busy just long enough for you to get there." Hudson said.
"He did at that." Owen agreed.
"Do you think he's going to be alright?" Angela asked.
"I think so. He has quite the fighting spirit." Owen stated.
"But I hope we can still go out tomorrow night looking for the others again. I'm so worried for them." Angela said, starting to cry.
Hudson hugged her. "We'll find them, Lass."
The clan was down to half strength. Four of their own were missing, and Sil and Elisa were near death. Alex was lucky to be alive.
David watched the video in the nursery what happened in Alex's room. Fox was in with their son, having been worried about him. The little boy was glad to be in her arms.
Dr. Sato would keep an eye on his patient the rest of the night. Sil would be allowed to wake up whenever he was ready.
….
Sil began to regain consciousness around sunrise.
"Hmmm." he whimpered in pain.
Angela looked over at the injured Skeksis. He looked different with the bandages on his head and the sling on his arm. He was down to his gown on.
"Sil, how are you feeling?" she asked.
"Hmm, headache. What happen?" he managed to say. He closed his eyes at the brightness in the room.
"I don't have long. It's close to sunrise for me. But my mother attacked the castle for some odd reason. I was hoping you could tell us." Angela said.
Sil then remembered. He had been fighting Demona. He had been protecting Elisa and the baby.
"Protect Elisa… baby..."
"Sil, if you have a… what they call it…? A concussion? You need to stay awake." Angela said. "But, thanks to you, Elisa was able to make it to a hospital."
Sil opened his eyes. "Is… she…?"
"We are sure she's alive." Angela smiled. "Well, I have to go now. Be back at sunset." She got up to leave the room.
Sil wanted to say turn the lights off, but he couldn't.
After she was gone, Dr. Sato came in to see how he was doing. "I see you are awake."
Sil nodded. He felt some pain in his head and brought his left hand to it. He saw he had an iv in his hand. He looked down at his other arm and he felt the sling on his neck.
"What happen to arm? My gown torn." Sil noticed.
"We had to tear the sleeve off to examine your whole arm. You had apparently hit a pile of debris really hard and your arm and shoulder were broken. With Mr. Burnett's help, we were able to reset your shoulder and the arm. I put a cast on the arm to help it heal. You won't be allowed to get it wet." Dr. Sato explained.
"But why head hurt?"
"You hit your head pretty good too, to where there was some wounds on it. You also have some deep wounds on your side there too, same side as the broken arm." Sato replied.
"What news… of others?"
"I don't know. Right now, I just know that you are my patient." Sato stated.
Owen then came into the room.
"Mr. Xanatos and I have been examining the video from the surveillance camera in the nursery. We saw what happened and we saw that you had been protecting Elisa and Alexander. They are grateful to you. But as for news of the others, we don't know where they are yet." Owen explained.
"And Elisa?"
"She made it to the hospital in time. She has a concussion, but she'll live." Owen replied.
"Do I?"
"A mild one." Sato replied. "You will have to remain awake for the next six hours or so. We can't chance you going to sleep. There's still a chance of dying from it."
"If I die, you will know. My body crumble to dust if die. No! Will stay awake." Sil was determined to stay awake.
"I'll give you some pain meds for the headache and other pains." Sato said.
"Don't feel good." Sil whined.
"It's normal after a fight like that." Owen said.
David and Fox came in just then. "Chamberlain." the man said.
Sil looked over.
"We just want to thank you for saving our son and Elisa. You did the best you could. And we'll also step in to help find the missing clan." David proclaimed.
"We're truly grateful." Fox said.
Sato got some pain meds and he injected them into Sil's iv.
"Guess not working today." Sil said.
"You can't work for some time, with that bad arm." Sato replied. "It needs to heal."
"How long it take?"
"Could take six to eight weeks. Two months. Given that you are older, it takes older folks longer to heal from serious injuries like that." Sato explained.
Sil really didn't like the sound of that.