Chapter Eighty-One: Detective Elisa Maza
"Check out this kitchen!" Max said walking into the kitchen from an elevator with Broadway, Lexington and Brooklyn.
"Oh look at all this stuff! It's fantastic" Lexington said.
Broadway then opened a walk in freezer than gasped as he began to collect as much food as he could but Lexington closed the door not realizing Broadway was in it.
"Hey! Let me out! It's cold in here!" Broadway yelled.
"We'll save you!" Lexington said.
"You push we'll pull!" Brooklyn said.
"Boys watch and learn" Max said moving Brooklyn and Lexington away as he clicked the unlock button and pulled open the door as Broadway crashed into him and the others as they crashed into the kitchen.
"Ow..." Max groaned with the heavy gargoyle on his back.
Meanwhile!
"Excuse me Mr. Xanatos there seems to be a problem in the kitchen with our new guest" Owen said approaching David and Detective Maza outside.
"I hopped I answered all your questions satisfactorily Detective Maza, Owen will show you out, excuse me" David said walking away.
"If you'll come with me" Owen said as Elisa spotted Hudson with his back to them on top of a nearby wall looked down at the city.
"It there a problem detective?" Owen asked.
"That stone gargoyle up there I could have sworn I saw it move" Elisa said.
"Ha yes this old place is rather spooky at night I thought the same thing more than once" Owen said opening an elevator, "goodnight detective."
"Goodnight" she said stepping in as the doors closed then got off in the castle to explore.
"Goliath I can understand you not trusting of humans and I can understand that and I can understand if your suspicious of me but I promise I would never do anything to harm you or your friends" Jason said.
"Wait!" Goliath said covering Jason mouth as they looked around the corner to see Elisa coming up the stairs then turned around hearing something following as she pulled out her gun.
"Alright pal! Put your hands where I can see them, nice and easy" she said as Bronx emerged from the darkness growling as she gasped and got read to shot as Goliath took her gun and her eyes widen seeing him crush the gun in his hand.
Elisa then back to the edge and tripped as she fell over screaming.
"Oh no!" Jason said looking over the edge and was about to summon his keyblade glider and saw Goliath fly down "wait for me!" he said summoning his glider and flew after him.
Goliath then caught the woman and spread his wings to land on a nearby building to set her down as Jason landed across from them.
"Okay just take it easy" Elisa said.
"What were you doing in my castle?" Goliath asked.
"Y-you can talk? Who-what are you?" Elisa said.
"It's okay he won't hurt you, he's the good guy" Jason said.
"My kind has no names but you humans call me Goliath."
"Your kind? You mean there's more than one of you?"
"Barely" Goliath growled about to leave.
"Wait don't go uh look we need to either get back down to the street or up to the castle since you can fly" Elisa said.
"I can't fly, I can only glide on currents of wind" Goliath said.
"Hmm I did not know that" Jason said.
"And there are none strong enough here to lift us back up" Goliath said.
"So were stuck here?" Elisa said as he picked her up and put her on his back.
"Hold on" he said as he began to climb up the building they stood on the edge of.
"I can do something like that" Jason said using ledges to give him good lifts to follow after them.
"Trust me" Goliath said noticing Elisa grip on his neck tighter.
"I don't believe this" she said.
"You get used to it" Jason said.
Once they were back up at the castle Elisa jumped off his back to catch her breath as she gasped when Bronx growled at her.
"I forgot about him" Elisa said.
"He won't hurt you" Goliath said petting Bronx head, "now once again what are you doing here and please don't fall off the building this time."
Meanwhile!
"A fine mess you made of that kitchen lads!" Hudson said as he and the others left a hall.
"And thanks for messing up my back!" Max said cracking his back then groaned.
"Look!" Lexington said pointing up as they saw Jason and Goliath with Elisa, "Goliath is talking to that human."
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"So a thousand years ago you were betrayed by the one human you trusted...dose anybody else know about you?" Elisa said.
"Only the man we call Xanatos he brought us here" Goliath said as the other joined them.
"This can't be happening" Elisa said as Brooklyn sniffed her.
"Is this a new friend Goliath?" Brooklyn asked.
"Boy I hope so" she muttered.
"This is Elisa Maza uh detective?" Goliath said.
"She a uh guard of this time! We call them cops or police" Jason said.
"Second class N.Y. P.D" she said holding out her bandage.
"What exactly does a detective do?" Hudson asked.
"Well uh when somebody does something wrong I find out who and arrest them" she said.
"Who said what's wrong?" Goliath asked.
"Well we have a justice system, laws, penalties, assents that the people decide" Elisa said.
"You mean the humans deiced" Goliath said looking out to the city to see the sun was getting close to rising, "you have to go now!"
"Wait! Will I see you again? I'd like to know more about you, look you saved my life so I owe you let me help you understand this city, you need to know how it works" Elis said.
"If we are to defend the castle I suppose we need to be prepared for whatever out there" Goliath said.
"Yeah and Max and I only know a little about cities, we know nothing but this wo-city" Jason said.
"Very well" Golaith said.
"Good, tomorrow my day off and I'll meet you in the afternoon at-"
"After dark!" Goliath interrupted.
"Why am I not surprised? Okay, here after dark" Elisa said.
"No not here over there on that rooftop" Goliath said pointing to a nearby building.
"Why there?" Elisa asked.
"Why were you sneaking into the castle?" he said.
"A good detective trust no one" Elisa said.
"That's one thing we have in common" Goliath said as Elisa headed for the stairs.
"It seems that much has changed from what we knew" Hudson said.
"Yes and if we are to survive in this new world we need to learn about it and the humans who rule here" Goliath said.
"Goliath" they heard David call as they saw the man at the top of some stairs waving.
Later Goliath and Jason meet David in his private office as David sat in his chair behind his desk.
"It is almost dawn Xanatos my friends and I must sleep soon" Goliath said.
"This won't take long, I am asking for your help Goliath that team who attacked us earlier stole something very important to me, the book they took contained three of these hard disks" David said showing them a disk.
"Disk?" Goliath repeated.
"Think of them as magic talismans, each one contains hundreds of spells, it is vitally important that you and your friends get them back for me" David said.
"Perhaps you should us uh detective" Goliath said handing back the disk.
"Yeah getting back disks with data with who knows what on it seems a little fishy to me" Jason said.
"You're learning fast, I can't go to the police I already had to postpone an investigation during the fight, think of the trouble it cause if they learn of you and your friends, you could be locked up for study or even worse, remember you're the only gargoyles left humans will fear you."
"And betray us, what would you have us do?" Goliath asked.
"My sources have discovered that those thieves were hired by a multination company called Cyberbiotics" he said turning on a T.V. and played an image of a building a little way from the statue of Liberty.
"Amazing! It's like uh...a living tapestry" Goliath said approaching the screen.
"Your naive ways is refreshing Goliath, the stolen data are being held in three different locations the first is a research center on a small island in the bay, the second is deep beneath the city in a heavily fortified base and the third is being kept in a huge air-forts that flies in a holding pattern over the city, all three places must be hit simultaneously so none will be able to notice to notify the others."
"Are you kidding?" Jason said.
"It seem absurd for a mount of protection I know but rest assure the information is that important."
"Why do you want us to help you?"
"This must be done before their scientist break the inscription codes uh before they translate the spells."
"This is much difficult than protecting the castle it will endanger the lives of my charges I cannot risk that" Goliath said.
"Think about my request, I'm sure our enemies seek to use this information for some terrible purpose against you and your friends" David said.
"Hmph" Jason grunted about to leave the room with Goliath.
"Jason a word?" David said as Goliath left and closed the door.
"What?" Jason said.
"Your weapons the Gargoyles call them Keyblades and from what I learned from my informants they have the power to vanquish darkness or light and unlock any lock or seal it and each 'world' like this one you and your comrade came to, has a keyhole."
"Yes but that supposed to be a secret I don't know what your intentions are Xantos but I will not use my keyblades to help you, once I find the keyhole Max and I are gone" Jason said.
"I could help you find it" David smirked.
"Let me guess for something in exchange right? Not interested I can find it myself" Jason said.
"Think it over" David said.
"Maybe" Jason said leaving the room.
'I sensed that other person hiding in there Xantos that heart is so full of darkness, no way I am helping him or whoever he's really working for' Jason thought as Xantos looked to a hidden door that opened up and glowing eyes looking at him.
"Don't worry, all is going according to plan."
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"How odd" Max said seeing the setting and looked to all the Gargoyle now statues again.
"Why do they do that scary poses?" Jason asked.
"To look intimidating?" Max said.
"Maybe" Jason said.
"Who do you think Xantos was working for that you sensed?" Max asked quietly.
"I don't know but a heart that dark cannot be trusted and if Xantos is working for whoever that is then there is no way I am trusting him either, we need to find a way to convince Goliath and the others Xantos is the bad guy here, but we need proof" Jason said.
"That maybe harder than we thought" Max sighed.
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