Chapter Eighty: City of Gargoyles
"Whoa, check this place out" Jason said standing on the roof of a building as they looked out to a large city.
"Over there! Look!" Max said seeing cloud on the highest building and boulders and sensed uneasy there.
"Something must be happening" Jason said seeing red bolts of energy in the clouds.
"I bet it's the Unversed! Come on!" Max said as they jumped on Jason keyblade glider and rushed to the building.
"Oh my god" Jason said seeing that the highest building had a castle built on the top of it.
"The sun is setting" Max said as they landed and noticed a gargoyle statue and approached it.
"This gargoyle I sense a light in it!" Jason said touching it.
"Don't touch it!" they heard a man yelled and turned to see as man with down hair tied in a ponytail approach.
"Who are you?" Max said.
"David Xanatos now your turn to return the introduction and to explain how you got up here."
"Jason and this is Max" Jason said looking to the setting sun.
"Hmph nearly time, don't disappoint me" David said looking at the statue as the sun fell and it became night as the clouds began to gather and thunder roared as it began to rain as they heard a cracking noise and looked to see the gargoyle had blue glowing crack forming as the rock shattered to reveal skin and hair as the gargoyle feet crushed the rock under it as it growled and its wings stretched as the gargoyle roared into the sky as the other statues began to shatter and awaken.
"Yes!" David said.
"You had something to do with them coming to life didn't you?" Jason said as they saw the large gargoyle jump down to the others down below.
"Your awake, we're alive! Were together again!" Goliath said as they all looked down past the cloud to the new time they've awaken to and the city that they now were in.
"What is this? Where are we?" Hudson said as they turned to see David approach.
"You are the one called Goliath?" David asked.
"Yes..." Goliath said.
"Excellent" David smirked.
"Look out!" Jason yelled jumping down and slaying an Unversed that snuck up on them as the Gargoyles eyes widen.
"His weapons!" Hudson said.
"Keyblades! Two of them!" Goliath said.
"You know about the keyblades?" Jason said.
"Interesting" David smirked.
Later David lead all the Gargoyles and Max and Jason to another room while he explained why he broke the spell on the gargoyles.
"How long has it been?" Goliath asked.
"This may be a shock, a thousand years has gone by since the spell was cast" David said.
"Dang" Jason said.
"I learned about the castle from an ancient book that recently came into my possession" he said gesturing to an old book in a glass case, "the mage that cursed you wrote the whole story down in there, now I'm sure you have question."
"How did you break the spell?" Hudson asked.
"It was designed to end when the castle rose above the clouds" David said.
"Ah that explains this castle on top of this building" Jason said.
"The eggs in the hatchery?" Lexington asked.
"Gone I'm afraid, you are the last of your kind" David said.
"Why have you done all this?" Goliath asked.
"Yeah what do you achieve from awakening them, you must want something out of this" Jason said.
"I was fascinated by the mage story I wanted to see if it was true and now that I know it is I want to be your friend, there is much we can do for each other Goliath."
"Such as?" Goliath said.
"Well there is..." David began as they heard helicopters outside, "odd, I'm not expecting anyone, you'll be safer if you stay here" he said leaving the room.
"So uh how do you know about the keyblades?" Jason asked.
"We had once seen a man who wielded such a weapon but that man was evil! He planned to put our world into darkness but left, something about a war a Keyblade War" Goliath said.
"The first Keyblade War" Jason said thinking.
"Well we have no intention of that uh Goliath Jason and I are looking for the keyhole, you see those monster you saw before are called Unversed, from what we know a masked boy has been releasing them into all the worlds and from what Jason and I learned sealing the keyholes kick those things out" Max said.
"So your good guys?" Broadway asked.
"Yeah we are, do you know where the keyhole is?" Jason asked as the gargoyles shook their heads "I thought so...listen I don't trust that guy one bit, let's say we listen to what's going?" Jason said as they left the room.
Outside a helicopter let down men in suits each holding guns as they began to spread out.
"Secure the area!"
"What do you want?" David said as a gun got pointed at him.
"You'll know soon enough" he said as the others pointed guns and the Gargoyles stood in the darkness of the hallway watching the scene with Jason and Max.
"What's going on? Who are these people?" Brooklyn asked.
"They're attacking the castle! That's all we need to know!" Hudson growled as the other gargoyles growled and their eyes glowed.
"Okay we take care of these clowns and get some answers from David!" Jason said summoning his keyblades as they charged out and began to fight.
(A.N battle theme Dismiss should be played now.)
"Get out of here David we got this!" Jason said as David moved away.
(Objective: Team up with Goliath and the Gargoyles and get rid of the castle intruders!)
"Goliath!" Jason said as the Gargoyle wrapped his wings around him as Goliath eyes glowed and spread his wings as a light came out as Goliath roared.
"Rah! Ha! Rah! Be gone!" Goliath yelled swinging his claws into one of the shoulders.
"Let's go!" Jason yelled charging his keyblades into another enemy, "Ha! Rah! Ya! Take this!"
"Guh! Ugh! Ah! Ack!" the man grunted before hitting the ground.
One of the men then threw a grenade at the gargoyles as Lexington caught it and tossed it over his shoulder
"Look out!" Jason yelled teleporting over to the gargoyle, "Reflega!" Jason yelled casting the barrier around him the gargoyles as the grenade caused a massive explosion.
"These weapons!" Hudson said looking at a gun on the ground, "we must be battling sorcerers!"
"Even so we will protect this castle it's all we have left!" Goliath said.
"Catch!" a man said throwing another grade to them as Jason dropped in.
"Batter up!" Jason yelled hitting the grenade back at the man as the man jumped out of the way as the grenade explode.
Jason then saw David point an odd looking gun at one of the men as he was tackled and his gun fired a red laser that hit the top of the castle and made some of the stone fall down the building.
"Who are these clowns?" Max yelled locking swords with one of the men as another ran from inside the castle.
"I got it!" he yelled holding up a case.
A flare was then shot into the sky as the helicopter returned and the men retreated in the helicopter.
"They took something, what they take?" Jason said.
"I've never seen weapons like those before and that flying creature that carries them off" Brooklyn said.
"A dragon without a doubt" Hudson said.
"It wasn't a dragon it was a machine of some sort" Lexington said.
"You are correct, it's called a helicopter those weapons they were shooting at us, guns, those round things that created big explosion, grenades, and of course the can of gas they threw" Jason said.
"Thank you, without you and your friend who knows what those thugs might have done" David said.
"Someone I once trusted said the same thing to me and then destroyed my people" Goliath growled.
"Hmmm I see I have to work hard to earn your trust" David said as Goliath growled and David pulled out his phone and punched in some numbers "Owen we'll need a clean-up crew outside."
"Why were we attacked?" Goliath asked.
"The richer you are the more enemies you have and I'm very rich" David smirked.
"Obviously if you were able to move a castle on top of a building" Jason said.
"This is your home as well as my headquarters and I hope you consider working with me to keep it safe" David said as Goliath looked around.
"It's your decision lad but we have nowhere else to go" Hudson said.
"This castle is our home, no matter where it is taken, we will stay here" Goliath said.
"Excellent you been used poorly by men in the past but all that is about to change, trust me" David said.
"You broke the spell of sleep that imprisoned us Xanatos and for that we are grateful but we will never trust humans again" Goliath said.
"I can tell this relationship is something were all going to have to work at" David said.
"I don't trust this guy" Max whispered.
"Nor do I Max but until we find the keyhole it looks like we might have to stick around here" Jason said.
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