Adela sat in her cell for a long time after Death left her to think about the choices she made. She began to realize that even though she knew in her heart that she loved Goliath she knew that she had run to him for protection. When she was shot and nearly died it was the first time that she truly felt fear. When Goliath entered her mind to fight off Death she knew that he would always protect her.
It's not Goliath that is the problem. It's everyone else. I know that they'll never truly accept me. She thought miserably. Elisa was never truly my friend either. She was just being gracious in front of him.
"Of course I'm not your friend." Adela looked up in surprise to see Elisa standing in front of her. "You stole Goliath from me. I was there for him all those times that you were not, and yet he still chose to be with you." Elisa squatted down next to Adela and smirked at her. "You don't deserve him." Elisa back handed her hard across the face and began to walk away. "You never did." She emphasized her words by slamming the door shut. Looking at her palms she was happy to see the circles were still glowing.
He still loves me. Adela closed her eyes and tried to rest when another voice caught her attention and caused her to open her eyes. She was surprised to see Brooklyn standing there staring at her.
"We never should have trusted you. The moment we think you've changed you join the horsemen. I should have known better, but I let my guard down. I will never let you near us again. Do you hear me witch? NEVER AGAIN!" Brooklyn shouted and turned to leave. Adela could feel the tears welling up in her eyes.
"Haven't I done enough to prove myself to you yet?" Adela's said in a barely audible tone. Brooklyn glared at her a moment before he stepped forward.
"You'll never change. Nothing you do will ever show me that you've changed." Brooklyn snarled and then left the room.
"What am I going to do?" Adela put her head in her hands and began to rock back and forth. She heard footsteps coming towards her, but she no longer cared.
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"Mary, again I am so sorry about…" Gruoch began but Mary quickly interrupted her.
"It wasn't your fault. I've met men like them before. I'm just glad you came in when you did." They both walked into the house and Mary gave her a quick hug before she ran upstairs to change. Gruoch was glad she ran upstairs at that moment because the door opened and Macbeth and Luoch helped Matt walk in and laid him on the couch.
"What happened to him?" Gruoch asked when she saw the bandages on him. Macbeth looked at her and his eyes widened in surprise.
"He was attacked at the club. What happened to you? Whose blood is that?" Gruoch cursed and looked down at her dress. She sighed deeply before she told him the whole story about what happened.
"We were dancing with these guys. I just wanted her to relax so it was my idea. I'm sorry." Gruoch went to the cabinet and pulled out a bottle of wine and a glass. She poured one and downed it in one gulp.
"What happened?" Macbeth walked forward and stopped directly behind her. He reached up and rubbed her arms and she leaned back against him.
"The two men became aggressive. Zack, the one who wanted to dance with me pushed me into the nearby closet. Before I could say anything he was reaching his hands up into my dress and used a knife to cut off my undergarments. I tried to scream but he covered my mouth and that's when I felt him enter me. It felt as though he was ripping me in half and he just kept slamming into me. Finally, he shuddered and I nearly became sick when I realized he had filled me." She shook at the memory but Macbeth held her tighter to him. "He dropped the knife then and I was able to reach it…I thought for a moment that he was Gilcomgain and I…well, then… I..."
"You can tell me." Macbeth said in her ear and she nodded. "I cut his hand and he backed away in surprise then in anger I stabbed him twice. Once, to make sure he could never violate another woman and the second was in the chest. I'm pretty sure he's still alive but he'll never do that again." She said bitterly but a victorious grin crossed her lips when she finished speaking. She then told Macbeth about her stealing Zack's shirt and running back to the dancefloor to find Mary. She told him about what she heard when she entered the bathroom and that she killed the other guy by slitting his throat.
Luoch ran from the room and up the stairs to check on Mary. Gruoch and Macbeth followed close behind to make sure that they would be okay.
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Adela looked up and was shocked to see Goliath walking towards her. Before she could speak he began to speak.
"Don't give up Adela, You need to fight him. You need to come back to me." Goliath reached down and she noticed the circle on his palm was beginning to fade. "The answer is much closer than you realize my angel."
She accepted his hand and hugged him close to her. "Why is your mark beginning to fade my love?" Her voice quivered as she asked the question.
"Because I am losing you to Death, the more he convinces you to give up on me the closer we get to losing our bond." Goliath said sadly.
"He's not wrong about me rushing things." Adela pointed out and Goliath backed up a step but held onto her shoulders. He looked her in the eye and she could see the love for her within them.
"If you choose to come back we can discuss any changes you feel are necessary, but if you don't then I will miss you dreadfully however I will understand." Goliath turned to leave and Adela grabbed his arm.
"I love you. No matter what happens please know that I always will." Adela looked at him and he saw the tears in her eyes.
"Then why are you considering giving up on us?" Goliath began to vanish and Adela desperately clung to his arm but fell to the ground when he completely disappeared.
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The gargoyles began to burst from their stone shells as they woke up. Goliath shook his head and tried to forget the dream. That was a dream wasn't it. Goliath thought that he could still smell and feel his angel in his arms.
"Could it have been real?" He thought out loud. Brooklyn looked at him for a moment.
"Could what have been real?" Goliath shook his head and grinned.
"It was probably nothing. I had a strange dream." Brooklyn chuckled and they headed towards the war room to make their preparations for the night. Angela and Katana joined them in the war room.
"We know where they are so we should attack." Angela stated when they all sat at the table. Goliath looked over the group before he responded.
"It's too dangerous to attack at this time. We don't yet know what happened to Broadway or what happened to Adela." Goliath replied.
"Of course we know." Brooklyn ignored the looks of warning that Katana directed towards him. "She left us and ran to them." He finished.
"I don't believe that she would do that." Katana replied. Brooklyn rolled his eyes but Katana ignored it while she continued. "She is my friend. Since her return she has done nothing but try to earn our trust back. She's even saved everyone here many times over the last half decade."
"We all know what she has done for us, but thank you Katana." The room became silent after Goliath spoke. No one could think of what to say next. After a few minutes Angela finally spoke up.
"So, what are we going to do? We can't just leave her with them." Angela asked and everyone looked to Goliath looking for an answer.
"We gather what allies we have and we get her back." Goliath informed them. Brooklyn looked concerned, but Angela and Katana just nodded.
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Adela tried to think of a way to get away from Death when she heard footsteps next to her. She looked up and was surprised to see she was looking at a mirror image of herself.
"We need to talk." Adela looked at her doppelganger as it walked closer to her. "Why did you get us into this? If you had stayed away from that damned mate of yours then we could have fought Death and won."
"I am tired of being alone. I want to be with my mate." Adela stated angrily. Her double laughed and sat next to her.
"You didn't mention the rest of your clan." She pointed out.
"I want my mate and Angela. The rest of them can stay or go and it wouldn't bother me at all." Adela said after a moment.
"And in that lies the problem. Goliath cares for everyone in that clan as if they were his blood. You know this so you need to make a choice. Decide that will never work for you and stay here or choose to go back and break free from here. This is your mind and you have the power to expel him, but you must be the warrior again instead of his mate for now." Adela thought about it for a long time after her mirror image disappeared.
"She's right. I need to be Demona one last time." Adela stood slowly and her eyes began to glow red while she focused on the door. She felt satisfaction when the door to her cage blew apart and she walked through it. "Come and get me Death if you have the courage to face me." She shouted.
"You just couldn't leave it alone could you. Very well, if you're going to try to expel me you better bring all you got." Death drew his sword and waited. Demona's eyes began to glow brighter and a suit of golden form fitting armor appeared on her along with a large mace for each hand.
"This is going to be fun." Demona smirked and leapt forward.
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"You should have found the third seal by now. Where is it?" Demona asked impatiently.
"We believe we're very close now. We need some help. Come and take a look at the map." War lead Demona to the back room to look over the map. "Now, you can see by the markings here that we have searched almost the entire temple, but…" Demona turned and raised her arms and flung Pestilence and Famine away from her. She had heard them slowly sneaking up on them and decided to play along with War's game. She turned and grabbed War by the throat and slammed her up against the wall.
"You're lucky that I love you." Demona kissed her roughly and released her dropping War to the ground. "Do that again and I will have no choice but to kill you." She noticed a box on the corner table. She opened it and found the third seal inside. "This my love, is why I keep you around." Demona laughed and broke the seal. "Find me the fourth before I change my mind."
Famine came forward and grabbed the sides of Demona's head. A bright white light flashed and Famine fell to the ground and Demona backed into the wall as she put her hands to her head.
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Adela pinned death to the wall and kneed him in the midsection hard. She heard a snap when one of his ribs broke. Death became enraged and the reaper used his power to hurl her away from him. He clutched his side and rushed forward to attack. Adela raised her mace up just in time to block the blow that was meant to sever her head. She rolled away and barely blocked another attempt to take her head off with her other mace. The slash was so strong that she was knocked onto her back. Death leapt forward hoping to end the battle quickly when they heard a loud bang and Death's sword was knocked out of his hand.
"It looks like I'm just in time." Elisa aimed her gun and fired two more rounds at the reaper knocking him to the ground. She reached down to help Adela up. Adela glanced at her suspiciously but reluctantly accepted her help.
"What are you doing here?" Adela picked up her maces and tried to catch her breath. Elisa looked at her and was about to respond when Death rose to his feet and began to chant.
"Perhaps this isn't the best time to discuss it." Elisa said while she drew a second pistol. An army of zombies began to crawl out of the ground.
"That may be for the best for now, but we will complete this discussion later." Adela stated firmly. One of the zombies rushed towards her and she slammed the mace into its face and the creature collapsed to the ground. Elisa fired a round from each gun and the heads exploded from two more creatures. The rest rushed forward and Elisa looked over at Adela and grinned.
"Are you ready for this Adela?" Elisa winked at her. Adela growled at her in response.
"Call me Demona. Adela is a mate and mother. For now I need to be a warrior." Elisa sighed and nodded.
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"Doctor, why am I being called out of a meeting to come and bail my top scientist out of prison?" Xanatos asked irritably.
"I thought that I could begin a model of the disease from brain tissue from some of the recent infected corpses. There wasn't enough back at the lab so I went out to find some." Sam explained.
"Sam, don't tell him anymore than that. If he discovers how close you are Ziggy says he'll ruin your research." Al advised his old friend.
"Well, let's go. I don't want to stay here any longer." David advised. He finished signing the discharge papers and they left and got into the car. "Owen, take us back to the lab, and did you get those zombies I asked for?"
"Yes Mr. Xanatos, they are locked in the lab. He'll need to be protected when he attempts to get a sample from them." Owen advised him.
"He'll find a way to get it done. Isn't that right Doc?" Samuel just nodded. He was looking at all waiting for an explanation about how he will get the samples.
"I don't know how you're going to accomplish this Sam, but I'll see if Ziggy can come up with something." Al keyed something on the keypad and a blue door opened and he disappeared.
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"Why have you summoned me here?" Arthur, Merlin, and Lancelot watched while a man walked through the blue flame towards them. He was wearing a set of blue plate mail armor. He had a white lightning bolt that travelled from his left shoulder down to his right hip. He wore bright white boots. He had tan skin and white hair that came down to his shoulders. He had a matching beard that came down to his chest. Merlin spoke up suddenly.
"We summoned you milord because the world is in dire need of your help." Merlin bowed low as he spoke.
"Why does that concern me?" The man asked and crossed his arms over his chest. "I am not interested in your petty concerns."
"If all of your followers are destroyed then how will you survive Heironeous?" The deity looked at him and considered his options for several moments. "I will decide what I will do. Pray that I am merciful mortals. Otherwise, I may decide to smite you for wasting my time."
"Lord, before you make that decision we only have one request." The deity stared at him impatiently. "Look around and see for yourself what is happening. After that then whatever you decide will be just." Arthur explained.
"I will take that under advisement." He vanished and Lancelot chuckled.
"Well, that was a good idea. Now, we simply have to wait to see if he decides to destroy us or help us." Arthur glared at the knight.
"If you have a better idea I would love to hear it." Arthur stated angrily. Lancelot just shrugged. "Let us know when you do otherwise we go with this plan."
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The gargoyles left the hideout and headed towards the horsemen's base. When they got there they found that no one was around.
"Where did they go?" Goliath asked when they entered the bunker. "They were here when we last saw them."
"I don't know. How could they have simply disappeared?" Katana was frustrated that they hadn't attacked the night they saw it. They all split up and searched different rooms.
"Guys, get in here." Brooklyn called after a few minutes. The other gargoyles rushed into the room and saw what Brooklyn was staring at.
"Where does this map lead?" Angela asked. She looked over the map and couldn't recognize anything on it. Goliath's eyes widened when he recognized the locations on the map.
"It's Scotland, but why would they have a map that leads them there… Oh, no." Goliath looked through some of the papers on the table. He held one up and read it silently for a moment.
"What is it Goliath?" Katana asked curiously. He handed the paper to her and her eyes widened after she read it for a moment. "The final seal is in Scotland."
"We know where they will eventually go. We could set a trap for them." Angela pointed out. Goliath nodded and they collected the map and papers and then headed back to the hideout to plan.
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When Luoch got to Mary's room he saw that she was sitting on the bed wearing only her panties. She was staring at the wall and didn't appear to hear him enter the room.
"Mary my darling, are you alright?" Luoch sat next to her and wrapped his arm around her. She turned and buried her face in his shoulder and began to cry.
"I know I should be used to that after working for Dracon but…well I had hoped those times were over. I guess this will always happen to me." Luoch got her some clothes to put on and she quickly dressed and laid down. "Will you always love me even after all of this?"
"Of course I will. I have to go and help Matt. Get some sleep darling and I'll be downstairs if you need anything." He kissed her and she returned it passionately and then laid back and quickly fell asleep. Luoch went downstairs to check on his friend. I hope she'll be okay. I wish that there was something I could do to help. He thought miserably.