"Bitter Sweet Occurance" By Ryley Breen AKA Shadow Master
email : rybreen@theberries.ns.ca
As Goliath studied the door to the room Elisa's thoughts drifted back to the time that Goliath, Hudson, Bronx and herself had gone to investigate the apparent reemergence of the Pack. They had apparently been cornered in a run down apartment building, but as they later found out the Pack had set a trap for them in hopes of field testing the their new bionic and cybernetic accessories. She had felt so helpless then, going up against them when they were human was hard enough. Though even if she had had this gargoyle body back then it probably wouldn't have had any effect on the outcome.
"No need to try and sneak in Goliath" , said a voice from a hidden speaker, "I've been expecting you" .
The sound of Demona's sly voice snapped Elisa from her thoughts and made her eyes glow a scarlet red.The renegade gargoyle was really beginning to get on her nerves.
"Now,now Detective you'll get a chance at me eventually" said Demona.
There was a low buzzing noise and the door leading into the penthouse swung slowly open. Uncertain of what awaited them Goliath took point while she took up the rear as they entered the proverbial 'lion's den'. The entire room was pitch dark, so much so that even their glowing eyes could not illuminate more than a few feet of the room. It looked like your run of the mill penthouse, with the exception of having a lot more windows. The darkness was shortly eliminated as a laser blast flew across the room and just about singed Elisa's skin.
"Down!" yelled Goliath as he pulled her behind a plush couch.
Two more shots flew over the top of the sofa as they stooped close to the floor.
"This is no good, we can't stay here" , said Elisa,"this couch won't give us much protection against that laser gun" .
"Agreed, I suggest we try coming at it from two directions" said Goliath and immediately took off towards the right side of the room.
Without questioning him she took off in the opposite direction. Elisa couldn't help but wonder if this was exactly what Demona wanted. As she reached approached the laser turret she saw that it seemed to be purposely avoiding any direct hits on Goliath. Unfortunately it wasn't being anywhere near as accommodating for her as it took all her speed and agility to dodge the deadly red beams. This was a trap all right and he apparently was the target. This wasn't exactly something to be happy about but it at least gave him an idea of what Demona had planned. Obviously she wanted him alive either as a test subject for the sphere or because she wanted to kill him with her own two hands. Though she seemed to care little about what happened to Elisa, that much was shown by the laser fire. He was about a foot away from the laser when he heard it. With lightning speed a bolt of electricity shot across the room and struck him in the side. He let out a cry of pain as he fell against the wall and try as he must he couldn't move anymore. Suddenly the laser fire stopped and all was quiet, the quiet of the dead you could almost say. Goliath's mind strained to command his limbs to move but they didn't even twitch.
"Goliath!" yelled Elisa as she ran toward him.
She didn't get two feet before she was shot by a tranquilizer dart.
"Elisa!"Goliath roared as he redoubled his efforts to move.
The dosage must have been fairly high because she dropped to the ground within seconds. He strained to move but it proved both futile and senseless. All he could do was wait, wait for whatever fate Demona had planned for him.
"Perfect" said Demona with a short laugh.
Both Goliath and Maza were out and now she could proceed with phase two of her operation. The Mercenaries had captured the remaining gargoyles and placed them in the main hall next to the sphere. All were tied down with chains and cables so that they couldn't escape, not that it would help them any. With Titania's sphere in her hands there was no place on earth they could hide from her. All who opposed her in the past would perish and she alone would emerge the ruler of the world. Unfortunately she first had to test the sphere's abilities before she could risk using it for her ultimate goal. Goliath's clan would prove to be the perfect test subjects except for Angela. Though she knew that he daughter had too much of Goliath's stupidity and concern for the humans in her, she was sure that with time Angela would learn the same lesson about humanity as she did. Reaching up to the intercom Demona instructed that Goliath be taken to the main hall and said that they could do what they liked with Maza. Though she wanted to deal with that infernal gargoyle/human herself, Demona figured that she should let those pathetic humans have their fun since in a few hours they would die along with the rest of the human filth. At the conclusion of her conversation she proceeded down the dark hall to see how Brooklyn and the rest were. No doubt they were conscious now and probably mad as hell. The thought of those fools struggling against their bonds brought a smile to Demona's face. She would enjoy practicing on them, for each of them on one occasion or another had thwarted her plans.
"It's payback time" said Demona and with a loud, maniacal laugh she proceeded towards her ultimate triumph. Or so she thought.
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"Ohhh" , Brooklyn moaned as he slowly came to, "what happened?"
As he looked around he was easily able to asses the situation. Obviously Demona knew that they would come after and had set up traps for them, but why?
"Are ye alright lad?" asked Hudson who was on the other side of the room.
"Yeah nothing a bottle of aspirin wouldn't cure but if Demona has her way none of us will be O.K much longer" said Brooklyn as he strained to break free.
Sadly there was apparently still some tranquilizer drugs in his system.
"It's no use lad, these chains and cables are two strong" , said Hudson as he tested his own restraints, "I doubt even Goliath could break these blasted things".
That didn't bode well for the rest of them, not one little bit. As he gazed around he saw that both Elisa and Goliath had not been captured.
"Well at least Goliath and Elisa are still free" , said Broadway in a cheerful tone.
"Not any more!" , said Demona as she wheeled Goliath into the room on a high tech stretcher.
"This is bad, very bad" ,thought Brooklyn, "now it is up to Elisa to save the world as well as us" .
"What have ye done with Elisa?" asked Hudson with a growl.
"Oh don't worry, Detective Maza will be joining you shortly" , said Demona with a chuckle, "she's just getting better acquainted with a few old friends from the state penatentury" .
All of the clan let out a slight gasp as they realised the meaning behind Demona's statement.
"What do you plan to do with us?" asked Lexington hoping he wouldn't regret hearing the answer.
"Goliath and the rest of you have long been a thorn in my side. Every time victory is within my grasp you six show up and ruin it" , said Demona with bitterness, "I should destroy you now but that would be a waste of a valuable resource. After I rid the world of every last human I will use the power of the sphere to bring you around to my way of thinking" .
"Oh yeah, this is bad" , thought Brooklyn, "only a miracle could save us now".
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Sampson cursed at himself as he got out from under the van. They had gotten to their destination about fifteen minutes ago and Sampson had decided to wait a few minutes before peeking out to see if things were safe.
"Cough, cough. A lot to go through for two gargoyles" thought Sampson as he wiped the dirt off his body.
He was in a rather large parking garage and aside from the van the entire was empty. As he looked around the room he spied a company logo painted on the wall.
"Nightstone industries eh, figures" , he thought as he crept toward the elevator, "It would take a fairly well heeled place like this to support that goon squad".
Once he got to the elevator he saw that the mercenaries had gone up to the twentieth floor and apparently gotten off. He knew that he would need back-up for this job but as he searched for his radio he got the sinking feeling that he wouldn't be getting it. He looked down at his belt and discovered that his radio was missing.
"Damn, must have fallen out on the ride here" , muttered Sampson as he pressed the elevator button, "it looks as though I'm on my own" .
Once he got in he began loading his pistol, and checking every so often what floor he was at.
"Heh, saving three gargoyles in less than two days" , thought Dave, "why is it I always get the weird jobs?"
The elevator chimed and Sampson flattened himself against the side of the car. As the doors slid open he prepared himself to hear the sounds of guns cocking and bullets flying but there was nothing but silence. As he peeked out he saw that the lavish hallway was bare except for a few lamps on the walls.
As he looked at his surroundings he let out a slight whistle and muttered" I'm definitely in the wrong business!"
That thought was cast aside as Sampson heard a loud crash and the sound of a person being struck. He looked around the hall for a clue, a hint as to where the sound was coming from. Then he saw it, at the end of the hallway he saw that a door marked "Gym" was slightly ajar and light was seeping through the cracks. As the lone officer creeped down the hallway the sounds of the beaten became clearer and he was able to identify the victim as being female. Then to his surprise a loud cougar like growl rang throughout the floor. That was the final piece in the puzzle as Sampson realized that the victim of the abuse was a gargoyle. Once he reached the door he peered through the crack to try and estimate just who was in there. Only about a half of the room was visible but that was all that was needed. All the hoods he had seen at the store plus three more, though now they were relatively unarmed. As he gazed up to get a look at the gargoyle they were beating his jaw dropped to the ground. It was the same gargoyle that he had helped the night before.
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"Unnh" grunted Elisa as she was struck in the gut.
Things weren't making much sense to her but one thing was for sure, she couldn't take much more of this. The last thing that she remembered was being hit with a tranquilliser dart and falling to the ground and everything going black.Then she had been rather rudely awaken with a slap to the face. Somehow she had apparently been taken to a gym and strapped to the punching bag.Demona obviously wanted her to suffer a little before being sent to meet her maker. Another blow connected except this one hit her ribs and she almost felt it crack. She had tried from the first moment she was awake to break free but both the restraints they had placed on her and the drugs she had been pumped full of were doing there job. Once more she let out a loud gargoyle roar in hopes of scaring them off but it only made them laugh all the harder as they beat her. Elisa gazed about the room, hoping that there was something she could somehow use to her advantage. Nothing that could be of use to her was anywhere near her, letting out a sigh of defeat her eyes fell to the ground. That's when she saw it, two squinty eyes peering through the space left by the ajar door. Struggling against the pain she strained to match a face to those eyes. Suddenly she matched them, it was officer Sampson from the hospital. Somehow he must have discovered about Demona's plan and come to stop it. Unfortunately him knowing just that wouldn't help her any.
"How can I get free to help him?" thought Maza.
As if in answer to her question the officer burst through the door and startled the nine thugs to the point of being speechless. Not wasting anytime Elisa yelled" shoot at my restraints!" Without so much as a 'you got it' four shots rang out and Elisa fell to the ground. Pain lanced through her sides as she struggled to her feet. Those punks had definitely cracked a rib or two, that would restrict her movement quite a bit. Elisa's pain was the least of her worries as she gazed across the room and saw that Sampson was surrounded.
Knowing that they had a better chance of surviving tonight if they worked together, she swallowed her pain and with a bone chilling yell roared" It's payback time!"
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"She can't take much more of that" thought Sampson as he closed his eyes with each blow.
The gargoyle was pretty much out of it and if she was going to be any help to him he had to get her out of there. Taking a deep breath Sampson slammed the door open and leveled the gun at the heads of the abusers. Surprisingly the gargoyle was apparently still conscious and yelled to him" shoot at my restraints!" Not needed to be told twice he shot four bullets at the techno gear that held her to the punching bag.Apparently they had done quite a number on her as he saw her grip her rib area with pain once she hit the floor. He hoped that she wasn't to badly hurt because he was in big trouble. The commando's(and I use the term lightly)had surrounded him and he didn't need to be told that he was up to his neck in it now. Suddenly he savage roar shattered the silence as he saw the gargoyle dive into the nine hoodlums with a vengeance. She was taking on these punks two at a time and looked to actually be having fun.Unfortunately no matter who is fighting, one person against nine people didn't stand a chance. That was proven when just as the gargoyle vixen brought one of the thugs above her head one of the others took a short steel bar and hit her square in the stomach. That one blow brought the brave warrior to her knees and it looked as though she was finished as he saw the gorilla bring the bar up above his head for another swing. With surprising quickness Sampson raised his gun and shot the steel bar right out of his hand. He had pulled off an amazing shot but it had cost him,for now the remaining four punks returned their sights to him. He was down to his last bullet and he was damn sure that these four sorry-excuses-for-human beings wouldn't let him reload.
Fortunately he didn't need to as the gargoyle goddess launched a second attack on her onetime captors. She still seemed to be a bit sore but she still was a sight to see.
"Why should she have all the fun!?" thought Sampson as he holstered his pistol. With little time to act Sampson grabbed one of the remaining goons by the arm, spun him around and gave him a right hook that would have made George Foreman proud. That left one for each of them to handle and the two that were left seemed none two pleased the turn of events. In a flight of panic one swung a pitiful hay maker at the gargoyle which she easily ducked. Taking advantage of the unbalanced hood she grabbed him by the throat and threw him across the room. Surprisingly,when the remaining thug saw that his comrade had his clock cleaned his eyes rolled to the back of his head and he fainted clean away.
"Thanks for the help" said the gargoyle as she took a barbell and wrapped it around two of the commandos.
"Hey no problem" said Sampson as he cuffed another two to a pipe.
Without another word the female gargoyle charged out of the room.
"Hey what's the matter?" he yelled as he took off in pursuit.
As the final words fell from his mouth he suddenly got the feeling that he didn't want to know.
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There was no time to waste, no telling what Demona had done to Goliath during her absence. Elisa charged down the hall with to her surprise the officer in hot pursuit.
"What's the matter?" he yelled.
"You wouldn't believe me even if I told you" said Elisa as she opened the doors to the stairs.
"Hey, I've seen a gargoyle, metal robots and street punks armed like navy seals" , said the officer, "I'm willing to believe in the Loch Ness Monster right now" .
Elisa let out a slight chuckle at his mention of the Loch Ness Monster. She, Goliath, Angela and Bronx just saved two of them from Sevarius only a month ago.
"Alright, if we don't find the renegade gargoyle and stop her every human is going to die" , said Elisa,"and I don't just mean in the city, I mean the entire human race" .
"How the devil is she going to do that!?" asked the officer in amazement.
"Magic, how else?" replied Elisa in a matter-of-fact tone.
It was obvious he hadn't completely absorbed that but his dumbfoundedness wasn't the chief issue here.
"We have to find out where she's going to cast the spell" ,said Elisa as she counted the floors as they climbed, "and I think I have an idea where" .
The officer only looked at her in questioning gaze."She'd want to cast it someplace where she could get the best view of the chaos she created" said Elisa as she reached what she hoped was the right floor.
"This renegade is a sick one isn't she?" he asked.
"As sick as they come and maybe a bit more" said Elisa with a frown.
As she took a quick peek out the door to look around. Instantly a laser beam streaked through the air and just barely singed Elisa's long black hair. Frightened momentarily by how close she came to getting her head shot off she quickly backpedalled into the stairwell.
"Right floor!?" asked the officer as he cocked his gun.
Still a bit upset by the deadly spotlight, all Elisa could do was nod.
"So what do we do now?" , asked the officer, "no way we can stop that sick phsyco with that overgrown pea shooter out there".
Agreeing with him she checked her pockets and was surprised to find that the flare gun that Xanatos had given her back at the tower was still there.
"I have a plan" said Maza in a calm fashion.
"What do you plan to do with that pop gun?!" exclaimed the officer.
"Call reinforcements" she said as she made her way down one floor.
Fortunately when she poked her head out this time there was no laser fire. Elisa quickly made her way to the nearest office and was thankful that it had a window. Smashing the window to pieces Elisa gave the officer a quizzical glance as she pointed to the window.
"Hey, I didn't see a thing" he said with a smile.
Taking careful aim she fired the flare gun and watched as the sky lit up like a giant light bulb. Smiling she gazed at the Xanatos tower and thought" ironic that the one person who can help us is the man I hate the most" .
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He had been waiting for hours and there had been no word from Goliath and the rest of his clan. Did they suspect that he would want the sphere and would rather be killed than allow him to get him hands on it. Xanatos had hoped that his rather generous reinstatement of them into castle Wyvern would have dispelled most of the doubts as to his feelings toward him.Maza was probably now trying to persuade him not to call for help. Not that he blamed the detective, had he been in her shoes he probably would have done the exact same thing. True if he had been in her shoes he would probably be a captain right now but that wasn't the point. Suddenly there was a bright flash of light and a small smoldering object began to slowly descend from the sky.
Almost as if on cue Puck materialized and exclaimed"I knew Goliath wouldn't let us down!"
Xanatos merely raised and eyebrow as he open up his Goliath battle armor.
"You know you're as bad as the Sisters when it comes to humor and that isn't good" said a frowning Puck as he floated toward the window.
"Where did the flare come from?" asked Xanatos as he clicked his helmet into place.
"It came from the Nightstone building" , said Puck as he returned to his cheerful self, "apparently Demona is having a party and forgot to invite us".
Pressing a button on the wall Xanatos watched as the window in front of Puck began to slide open.
"Then what are we waiting for!?" asked Xanatos as he ignited his backpack and soared out the window.
"Oooh a race!!" , exclaimed Puck,"this is going to be fun!" .
Not a nanosecond later Puck vanished in a flicker of magic.
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"Unnh" groaned Goliath as Demona struck him in the stomach.
She had waited a long time to do that to him. Ever since she returned to the castle a millennia ago she had wanted to punish him for his stupidity. A few years ago when she heard that the castle was to be moved to Xanatos she had first been enraged at the defilement. That rage had passed once Xanatos revealed to her the terms of the spell. The thought that she would soon be reunited with her beloved again filled her mind. She felt a joy she had not known for a long time, but that happiness was destroyed when she saw how Goliath acted. He still wanted to protect the humans, even after the destruction of his clan he wanted to protect them. When she heard him say he had to meet a human friend he had made she was shocked,even after she had tried to persuade him otherwise. Demona knew from that point on that he would oppose her and that he would have to be dealt with.Unfortunately getting rid of him was like trying to get rid of a stain,they always reappear just when you think they're gone. Suddenly the door swung open and two of the humans she had ordered to take care of Maza barged in.
"Ms. Dominique, Ms. Dominique the other gargoyle has escaped", said the first nervously, "the cop we ran into set her free!"
"Impossible, I thought you and the rest were guarding her" , yelled Demona," ooohhh, that's what I get for sending a human to do a gargoyles job. Activate the security drones!"
"Y-y-yes mam!" stammered the first guard as he followed the second more silent one out the door.
Apparently she had made a mistake hiring common thugs for her commandos. She had thought that with the weaponry that she gave them they would be able to handle the simple task of dealing with Maza. Well the security drones should take care of her and once she was done with Goliath and his clan she would deal with the human race.
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Sampson looked at his temporary partner and said to himself once more" it sure has been a weird night" .
So far he had helped to quiet down a mob,got his car shot to hell trying to stop seal team-wannabe's and now he was helping a gargoyle stop genocide. Not that it had been any less weird before but compared to this all the rest was about as serious as jaywalking. Just a few minutes ago he had seen the gargoyle shoot a flare out the window and say that she was brining reinforcements. Sampson didn't know what those reinforcements were but he hoped that they were packing some heavy artillery. Suddenly he heard what sounded like a motorised wheelchair in the hallway. Being careful not to give whatever it was a large target he opened the door to the office and peeked out.
"Holy shit!"he yelled as he ducked back in the office and closed the door.
"What is it?" said the gargoyle.
"We have company and it doesn't look to friendly" said Sampson.
The puzzled gargoyle walked over the door and took a look for herself. Slamming the door shut the gargoyle looked at him as if saying 'you weren't kidding'.
"Maybe we'll get lucky, maybe it won't come in here" said Sampson as he tried to produce a smile.
That one ray of hope was shot to pieces as the door was riddled with laser fire.
"Then again..!" said Sampson as he covered his head.
The gargoyle dove out of the way of the lasers, which were missing her by inches. Both he and the gargoyle knew that they wouldn't last long if that robot got in here.
"Any ideas?!" he asked as he shielded his face from the debris.
"Only one" she said as she grabbed him by the arm.
With little or no effort she slung him onto her back and yelled "Hang on!"
For a moment he wondered what she had meant but all his questions were replaced with undeniable fear as she leaped out the window to the less than safe and less than solid open air.
"I hope this works!" thought Elisa as her taloned feet left the solid office floor.
She had never before had to carry a person like this when she was human much less as a gargoyle.
"Well, there's no time like the present" mumbled Elisa and with a prayer she spread her wings once they cleared the window.
At first they plummeted but only for a few seconds and then they soared high into the sky.
"Had me worried there for a second!" said the officer as he loosened previously tight grip.
Elisa was about to reply when she spotted the metal sides of the Nightstone building slide away to reveal steel-clan look-a-likes. There was one very drastic change that Maza noticed immediately, instead of the familiar Goliath form they now resembled Demona.
"It's not over yet!" , exclaimed, "steel clanners at twelve 'o' clock high".
The puzzled police officer looked behind them and mumbled a few curses that she didn't quite catch.
"I've got to get him to safety" , thought Elisa, "there's no way I can fight those things with him on my back".
Taking a quick look around and found nothing she could just dump him in. That meant that she had to land for a moment and let him, but that also meant being a better target for those walking scrap heaps for a few seconds.
"No choice there" thought Elisa as she quickly went into a power dive.
"What the hell are you doing?!" screamed the officer.
As if to show him, just a few seconds before they were to slam into the roof and become scarlet pancakes she spread her wings and landed with a thud on the roof.
"Stay here and stay out of sight!" ordered Elisa as her scarlet glowing eyes gazed back at the now three approaching steel Demonas, "I'll deal with our playmates!"
Gathering what strength she had with her Elisa dove off the roof and unleashed all the gargoyle ferocity she could marshal at the moment. Like clockwork, just as she approached the robots they opened a compartment on their wrists to reveal lasers that looked amazingly like the ones on Xanatos' robots.
"Demona, can't you think of anything original!?" asked Elisa sarcastically.
As if in answer to her question two more lasers appeared but this time they were mounted on her shoulders. A second later the air became filled with laser fire and Elisa was barely able to dodge the scarlet beams of death. As she searched her memory for a tactic she noticed to her surprise that one of the robots had sneaked up behind her and was attempting to get a target lock on her.
"Not tonight Demona!" said Elisa as she broke into a dive toward the Nightstone building wall.
True to form the robot followed her into the dive still unable to get a stable target lock. Just as it appeared that she would become a pancake Elisa broke out of the dive and soar up parallel with the wall of concrete and steel. The Demona robot was not so lucky, just as it was about to turn away it slammed into the wall and exploded sending bits of debris to the street below.
"One down, two to go!" said Elisa as she searched for the other two.
Unfortunately the other two found her first, one had come up from behind and slammed all one and a half tons of itself into Elisa's back. This blow sent her for a loop and she crashed headfirst onto the exact roof she had just left.
"Ohhh, I'm definitely not going to be able to work tomorrow night" mumbled Elisa as she tried to get her bearings.
Out of nowhere a laser blast streaked out of nowhere and slammed her deep into the shingles on the roof. As she gazed up she saw the two remaining Demona robots hovering in the air in front of her with their lasers trained on her. A look of fear fell upon her face as she realised that death's hand was reaching out for her. Fortunately Death would be cheated that night as a crimson blast shot across the sky and went through one of the robots as though it were onion paper. Looking up to see where the laser had come from she saw a man whom she never expected in her life to be happy to see. Xanatos. As Xanatos approached the building he discovered that he was a bit on the late side as he saw Maza fighting for her life against three steel clan look-a-likes.
"Hmmm, I'll have to have Owen file a lawsuit against Demona for patent infringment." thought Xanatos as he prepared to deploy his laser.
Just as he had one of the robots in his sights he surprisingly retracted his laser and simply commanded his suit to hover on the spot for a while.
"What are you scheming Xanatos!?" asked Puck as he came to a stop next to the red steel clanner and copied the robots floating posture.
"I'm just letting dear Maza test herself against these robots to see if I can spot any weakness'" , said Xanatos trying to sound nice, "If it turns out that she requires assistance I'd be only too happy to help her."
"'Only too happy', 'dear Maza'!" , exclaimed Puck in shock, "Xanatos did you drink a snootful of the old 'vino' before we left?!"
"No" , said Xanatos, "I haven't had a drop of alcohol since the baby was born."
"Then you're up to something and I don't like it" said Puck with a questioning frown on his face.
"Excuse me but our alcoholic anonymous meeting will have to wait"said Xanatos as he pointed at Maza's dazed form on a nearby roof.
Not wasting another second Xanatos aimed his laser and sent a streak of light hurtling through the night sky and right through one of the robots.
"Care to finish the last one?" asked Xanatos as he looked at Puck.
"With pleasure. 'Little maiden made of steel, your appearance is truly surreal, your expression be like black tile, so long babe you're going to the scrap pile!" exclaimed Puck and almost instantly beams of green energy flew from his mouth and hit the robot straight in the back.
At first it did nothing but with a little blow from Pucks mouth, it crumbled into a pile of junk on the roof where Maza was watching.
"Well now that that is taken care of let's check on Elisa" said Xanatos as he began to fly toward the lady gargoyle who apparently was not as badly hurt as she appeared to be.
As they approached they noticed another form moving toward her.
"Who is that?" said Puck.
"Hey are you O.K?" Sampson asked as he carefully approached the gargoyle.
"Yeah, nothing that a day of stone sleep won't cure" replied the gargoyle as she got to her feet.
"You were amazing out there" , he exclaimed, "I bet if you weren't so banged up you could've taken on all three" .
"Don't give me too much credit" , responded the gargoyle in a modest tone, "I'm surprised it took them as long as they did to knock me down" .
"Don't be so hard on yourself Maza" , said a digitized voice from behind him, "you did a great job, I doubt Goliath could have done much better".
When Sampson turned around he was surprised to see another steel gargoyle standing behind him, along with what looked like a small floating man with a maniacal grin on his face.
"Who are you!?" Sampson asked as he backed up a bit.
"That's not the issue here officer, we have got to get going, that little game bought Demona another few minutes", said the female gargoyle,"If we don't stop her soon she'll complete her insane scheme!"
"Good Point. I'm afraid you'll have to excuse us officer but the detective and I have a sorceress to stop" said the lustrous gargoyle and with that final word it zoomed off toward the building.
The female gargoyle was about to go and join them but Sampson couldn't let her leave just yet.
He grabbed her shoulder and said" Where do you think you're going?".
"I've got to help Xanatos, no way he can beat Demona on his own" she replied with a determined look.
Sampson had seen that look on many a cop in his years in the force and knew that there was no way that he could persuade her otherwise.
"Then at least take this with you" said Sampson as he took out his fully loaded pistol and passed it to her.
She seemed a bit surprised by this act, though given what happened to her clan a thousand years ago he had expected it.
"You understand this is just a loan until later of course" he said sarcastically as he put the gun in her hands.
That last comment seemed to do the trick as she smiled and put the gun in her tight fitting jeans. With a simple thanks she jumped off the roof and glided after her strange friends. As she flew away he remembered something peculiar about what the robot gargoyle had said to the normal gargoyle. Something about her being a 'Detective' and her last name being 'Maza'?What did he mean by that?
"Well I'll have to worry about that later" ,said Sampson with a sigh, "first I gotta get down off this dang roof" .
