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The Nightmares Saga Chapter 7: "Retribution "
Goliath had to do a double take before realising that it was actually Elisa on the floor in the room beyond the window. Elisa had been too weak after another bout of vomiting to make it to her bed before collapsing on the floor face down. Luckily her hands were in front of her as she fell, breaking her fall.
Goliath's eyes burned white with worry for his love. He used his massive physical strength to smash the window and enter the room. As the window smashed into many pieces, the alarm that had once alerted Dracon's goons of Elisa's first escape attempt sounded a second time. Not caring what that sound was, Goliath rushed to Elisa's side on the cold tiled floor of the room, lifting her up and placing her on the bed. He whisked a stray hair away from her face with his hands, being as careful as possible not to scratch the already bruised and lacerated skin on her beautiful face. He quickly inspected herface and immediately saw numerous cuts and bruises that were plain on her cheeks. He also noticed instantly that the colour was gone from her face, and that she seemed to have lost nearly ten pounds. His worry grew with these realisations. He held her hand and stroked it passionately.
"Elisa, please wake up. You look so pale. What have they done to you?"
His eyes burned more with concern than anger. He looked up at the door to the bedroom as he heard the sounds of a battle outside. The others have found Glasses perhaps, Goliath thought. They will not disturb my reunion with Elisa, then. He looked back at Elisa's still form lying on the bed.
"Please, I have missed you so very much. I have been a shell of my former self without you. I…"
Goliath stopped, as he saw Elisa's eyelids fluttering open. A smile graced his noble face for the first time in over a month. Though the sounds of gunshots and bodies flying were heard, to Goliath, the only person in the world right now was Elisa. He stroked her hand once more, and her eyes flew open at the sensation of his hand on hers. She gasped upon seeing him, her eyes still wide. Realising that it was Goliath, she relaxed somewhat.
"Goliath? Am I dreaming? I must be…no that's impossible…oh god…I'm hallucinating…yeah, I'm hallucinating now…oh god…" Elisa rambled almost incoherently. Goliath touched a talon to her mouth.
"No, you are not dreaming. I am here to take you home to Manhattan. You are safe now, my Elisa." He said, cupping her cheek with his hand. Elisa nodded, with a grin on her face that, too, had not been on her face in over a month. She reached up and hugged her saviour. The hug was sweet and loving. As they hugged, Elisa said a silent prayer in her head. Thank you God for bringing him here to find me, she prayed.
"Goliath, I can't believe you found me. I thought I would never see you again. I thought I would never be able to tell you…" She paused. He let her go slightly to look at her.
"What? What did you want to tell me?" Goliath asked, having a good suspicion what it was.
"That I—" Elisa was interrupted by the sound of the door to her room opening, and the sound of a gun cocking. She and Goliath turned towards the door, still holding each other in their embrace. Tony Dracon stood at the door, looking dishevelled and wheezing from lack of breath.
"Let go of my wife, monster!" Dracon spat, with his gun pointed at Goliath and Elisa.
Goliath's eyes widened with surprise. He looked at Elisa for confirmation or denial of this allegation. She looked down at her left ring finger sadly. She held up the hand to Goliath to show him.
"He forced me. I would never marry an asshole like him willingly." Goliath glared at Dracon.
Goliath knew that she had been kept against her will, but being forced to marry Tony Dracon was strange torture, and it enraged Goliath to know that Elisa had endured more than a month of this brand of torture. He looked at Dracon with the most anger he had felt for anyone in a millennium, and began.
"You are the monster here, taking Elisa from her home, and marrying her against her will." He stated, uninterested in the fact that Dracon had the gun pointed at him still. He reached down to pick Elisa up from the bed, when Dracon spoke again.
"Let her go, you fucking weirdo. Don't make me do this." He pointed the gun away from Goliath and now had it aimed at Elisa. Goliath saw this, and straightened up. He looked into Elisa's eyes, which were now beginning to fill with tears. She knew that he had to fight Dracon in order to win her freedom completely. She nodded very slightly to Goliath, and at seeing her motion, he lunged at Dracon. The gun had no time to go off, because by the time Dracon knew it, Goliath had already taken it from his steady hand and had thrown it across the room.
The fight between Dracon and Goliath first began in Elisa's bedroom, but Dracon, scared for his life, began running through twisting and turning hallways in the house with Goliath chasing him on all fours. Goliath followed Dracon for at least ten minutes until he reached a strange and dark room. Without any idea as to where Dracon was within this room, Goliath had no choice but to venture further into the room and find him. Nothing could be heard but the whirring of machinery and beeps of computers functioning all around Goliath.
"Come out, coward! I am not leaving until I have you and you pay for your crimes against Elisa!" Goliath roared into the blackness of the room.
"She is MINE!" Dracon could be heard yelling from somewhere in the room."You can't take her away from me! Her home is with me now! She is my wife now!" His voice dripped of psychosis and delusion. Goliath shook his head as he took another few steps into the room.
"No! Elisa's home is with her loved ones in America. I am going to take her home and away from you! Come out so that I may show you my wrath!"
He suddenly saw the shadow of Dracon running past him, running through the door, and closing it behind him, leaving Goliath trapped in this room. Instantly, the lights came on, and Goliath saw that he was surrounded by televisions. Most were showing surveillance of Elisa's room, but two others were of the grounds. Goliath saw the televisions of the grounds were capturing his clan members fighting Dracon's guards, and winning. He also saw that Xanatos had gotten his exo-suit and was helping in the fight against Tony's guards. His attention then was drawn to one of the televisions that showed the events in Elisa's bedroom. Tony had gotten there, and was holding a tranquilizer gun. Elisa was about to escape through the window when he arrived there. Goliath could hear everything that was being said as well.
"Don't even think about it, Sugar. I don't want to hurt you again," Dracon said, with his usual malicious tone. "…but I will if necessary." He had the gun pointed at Elisa's back. Elisa put her hands up in the air and turned to face him.
"Tony, the place is surrounded with gargoyles. You can hear them kicking the asses of your employees right now. Do you really think they won't get you?" She suddenly remembered that Goliath was not with him.
"Wait, where is Goliath? What did you do to him!" Elisa asked desperately. Dracon's smile widened.
"He's watching this right now. Wave to him, Wifey." He pointed to where the camera was located in the room. Goliath saw this and roared with rage.
"You fucking prick. He better be alright or—"
"Oh, he's fine. I'm not sure you will be, though."
"What the hell does that mean, Dracon?"
Pointing the gun at her arm nonchalantly, he fired a tranquilizer dart at her.
"That. We have been married for over a month, and we still haven't consummated the marriage. I think it's about time." Elisa's eyelids instantly became heavy and her knees grew weak. Falling backwards, Dracon was there to catch her. He picked her up and put her back on the bed.
"You f-f-fucking…asshole. Get…away…from………me…" Elisa burbled incoherently as she slipped in and out of consciousness from the effects of the tranquilizer.
Goliath's rage was quickly becoming unbearable as he saw the horror of the scene in front of him. He smashed one of the television screens with his fist and ran towards the door that Dracon had closed behind him. Goliath pounded on the door with his fists until the door finally flew off its hinges as if it were made of plastic. Surely Dracon knew that locking a door like that one would only stall Goliath temporarily from getting to Elisa.
Getting down on all fours, Goliath ran desperately through the maze that had led him to the surveillance room. Dracon knew that the only way to have any time alone with Elisa was if he ran through the house and the series of hallways that all looked similar in order to throw Goliath off and have him become lost within the hallways of the house.
Meanwhile, Dracon had already stripped Elisa down to her bra and panties when she temporarily regained consciousness.
"Dracon…stopppp…for the sake of my child…" Elisa managed to say.
Dracon became infuriated. He took hold of her throat in his hand and lifted her up from the bed.
"You bitch! That's MY child!" Dracon turned his diamond ring around again and slapped her harder than ever before on one cheek, causing her to spit out a bit of blood as his hand made contact, as well as a long cut to form on her already bruised and battered face. Tears escaped her eyes from the pain the new cut caused her.
"…and I own you, so I can do whatever I want to you, whenever I want to do it. If I want to fuck you right now, I will!" Dracon shouted, throwing Elisa back onto the bed like a rag doll.
Elisa knew what was about to happen, but she lacked the physical strength to prevent it. She did, however, possess enough mental strength to stall him until someone could come and save her from being raped.
"…r-r-real smooth raping a w-w-woman who can't fight back…you are nothing more than a coward." She said, spitting the blood that was pooling in her mouth from the slap onto his suit.
He looked down at her and laughed a mocking sort of laugh.
"I'm not a coward. I just know what I want. And right now I want to teach you another lesson. Your husband will be the last man who you ever sleep with or fantasize about. I'm going to show you right now…"
He began undressing himself, beginning with his jacket, dress shirt and was about to undo his belt when Elisa realised that her words didn't delay him as much as she would have liked, so she changed the tactic.
"H-h-how do you know that I w-w-won't go and seduce one of yooour lackeys laterrr on down the road? That Glasses guy…is pretty s-s-s-sexy." Elisa said, slurring her words because of the tranquilizer.
Dracon stopped unbuckling his pants, cocked his head, frowned and grabbed her throat again. The pressure on her larynx caused her breathing to become laboured. Her hands went to her throat to help ease the pressure caused by Dracon's hands, but did nothing. His face contorted with fury.
"I knew you were a whore. I should just kill you right now. I have a pretty good fortune from my Uncle Joe's will. I really don't need you anymore…Plus, there's nothing in the will that said I couldn't kill my wife after the wedding…"
He squeezed tighter upon her neck. She nearly stopped breathing when he finally thought against killing her.
"No, I might decide to kill you after I'm done having my fun…we'll see."
He let her down and went back to unbuckling his belt. She gasped for air again as he released his hold on her neck. There were now distinct handprints on her neck from his latest attempt on her life. These would definitely turn black and blue in the coming hours.
The belt finally slid off, and was thrown on the floor. Elisa had been allowing the tears to fall while he was preparing to take off his pants. She didn't have any strength left in her to fight him, because of the tranquilizer as well as the choking episode just moments earlier. She was still trying to get her breath back. Her eyes closed slowly until she was almost completely under the influence of the tranquilizer. Her sense of hearing was still intact, but she could not act upon it.
"Wifey, get ready for the best sex of your life!" Dracon exclaimed.
He got onto the bed, and mounted her, with his pants still on. He licked his lips and reached down to unzip his pants. He was about take off his pants when there was a loud banging coming from the door. He turned just in time to see Goliath, with his eyes burning red with wrath, charging towards him as the door was thrown against the wall. Goliath grabbed Dracon by the throat and threw him off of Elisa's still and now unconscious body. Dracon hit the wall with a loud CRACK, and landed on the floor struggling to get up. He had sustained no serious injuries…yet.
Goliath glanced at Elisa, worried that she was unconscious, even after the loud crack that Dracon made against the wall. He pulled Dracon up off of the floor and went through the window, holding Dracon by the neck. Dracon struggled against Goliath with no success. Goliath's massive stature was enough to pacify Dracon.
Goliath walked, holding Dracon in this manner until he looked up and saw Angela, Broadway, Lexington, Brooklyn and Hudson gliding through the night sky. Angela noticed her father and signalled for the others to glide down to join him below. Once on the ground, they all began speaking at once, silenced only by Goliath's simple words and burning eyes.
"Elisa is in this room." He pointed behind him. "Attend to her. I will deal with this animal." Nodding, the gargoyles ran to the window to the room where Elisa was lying on the bed and did as Goliath had instructed.
Goliath was otherwise occupied.
Goliath found higher ground, caught a current of wind, and glided through the air, still holding a struggling and panicking Dracon by the neck.
"Don't drop me!" Dracon said, as they soared high above Sao Miguel.
"Shut up!" Goliath shouted. "It will not be that easy for you."
After flying for a few minutes, getting higher and higher above Sao Miguel, Goliath looked at his prey with burning eyes and considered dropping him over the ocean or a lake perhaps. No, he thought, that would be too merciful for what he was going to do to Elisa, and what he has done to her. He continued flying with Dracon terror stricken until he reached a look-out point for tourists to see the Sete Cidades, a grouping of 7 cities that can all be seen at the same time from this one point on a coastal part of Sao Miguel. He landed on the vista, and dropped Dracon hard on the ground before him. Looking at Dracon like a burglar he had just caught stealing his most prized possession, he draped his wings about his mighty shoulders before speaking.
"You are going to pay for what you have done. Your crimes against Elisa won't go unpunished, Dracon."
Dracon, who already had a bloody nose simply from the altitude Goliath had taken him up to, laughed, as he realised that Goliath could have killed him already, but did not because of his ethics, which were a foreign concept to Dracon.
"Oh yeah, freak? What are you going to do? You are all merciful and noble. You won't kill me!" Dracon said confidently, laughing between his sentences. He wiped the blood falling freely from his nose with his hand.
Goliath grabbed his throat again, brought Dracon's face within inches of his own, and whispered, "I will not be reduced to your level. You are a criminal, a kidnapper, and you were almost a rapist tonight. If I even hear that you are in Manhattan again, my mercy will wane and all that will be left of you will be an unrecognisable body." Goliath dropped him once again. He began walking away from Dracon. He unfurled his wings, preparing to glide off, when he heard the sounds of running behind him. Dracon pulled out a knife that he had hidden away in his pants' pocket and was now rushing towards Goliath, brandishing the knife and yelling, "DIE YOU FREAK!" Goliath allowed him to come closer, and, using his forward momentum, catapulted his body over the edge of the vista in self-defence. Below, Dracon's fall was broken by a pointy-edged gate stopping tourists from climbing over the lower level of the vista. Dracon was impaled on the gate. Shocked, Goliath leapt to the lower level to inspect the damage. Dracon was in a state of shock as well at seeing a long metal rod that was part of a fence sticking out of his stomach. He touched his hand to the rod, and his hand became covered with blood. He noticed Goliath standing there, and said, "She will always be mine, even after I…die…ugh…wow, right through my stomach, huh? Ugh…how ironic…" With those final words, he died.
Goliath still hadn't dealt with the fact that he had killed Dracon, instead of showing him the mercy he thought he would by the time he had flown back to the compound with Dracon's body. He landed, noticing how silent the premises were. He laid Dracon's body on the bed where Elisa had lain. He looked around briefly for any sign of his clan. He then heard a plane high above. Since the evening had been so quiet, except for the sounds of battle, this seemed odd. He glanced upwards to see the Xanatos jet preparing to land a ways off on the Dracon grounds, since there was ample clear land. Goliath walked over to the plane as it touched down for the last time in Sao Miguel. The door swung open and Xanatos came to stand in the door way.
"Is Dracon…?"
"Yes, he is dead. He was impaled on a fence. I brought his body to this house so that his associates may do with him as they wish. How is Elisat?"
"She is still unconscious, no doubt from that tranquilizer dart we found in the room, but she will be alright I suspect."
Goliath sighed in a breath of fresh Portuguese air for the last time.
"Then let us go home."