Heya Readers!
This chapter took way longer then I excepted, this went through so many drafts! And with everything that has been happening this year, I was really struggling mentally and emotionally. I don't want to go into detail, but I thank you all for being patient. ❤
I should mention this, I went back and did 2 minor changes in chapters 1 and 2. I wasn't too happy with Amalthea's bedroom, so I got rid of the window wall and added a balcony, I thought a different layout would work better for future chapters. And I added the scene from episode 3 where Xanatos is talking to Goliath about the stolen disks. The reasons I added that was to get a bit more of a backstory to Amalthea's mom. But I swear that's all I did!
This is why I don't usually do back and re-read by stories, I end up regretting choices I make and changing things! ಥ_ಥ
I should have also mentioned this sooner, while I have watched both season 1 and 2 of WITCH I have not read the novels. So I apologize if I get something wrong. I am doing my own take on this crossover with adding new characters and different mythical beings.
With all that said, I hope you enjoy chapter 3!
Around the same time Amalthea got home, the three gargoyles returned, landing on the tower. The elder gargoyle and the beast were waiting for them, since it was almost sunrise, "It's about time you lads came home," he said.
The three younger gargoyles had the biggest grins on their faces: as they went on to talk about their first experience of their first night out. "This city is a fascinating place!" "There are underground tubes with giant metal-" "Lights so bright they turn night into day-" "All kinds of food!"
The elder smiled at their excitement, but then noticed that Amalthea wasn't with them, "Where is the las?"
Once he said that their good mood turned sour, as they frown looking down, "We... don't know." the green one said.
"She said that she forgot an important arrangement tonight." the red gargoyle narrowed his eyes, the feeling of being lied to strung in his heart. She said the other night what she wasn't busy and would stay with them, so why all of a sudden leave?
The sounds of fast foot steps got their attentions, as Amalthea ran up the stairs. She was out of breath, but smiled when she noticed the them, "Oh good, you're back! How was the rest of your night?" she walked toward them, only to get the cold shoulder from them. wings and shoulders slumped down, and their eyes were full of hurt and confusion. Amalthea looked in worry, "Guys... is everything ok?"
"Where were you?" the red one asked, narrowing his eyes at her. His brothers might not have had the courage to ask details, but he did, "Why did you leave us?"
Amalthea sighed out; knowing she would have to lie her way out again, "I'm sorry about tonight, I completely forgot-"
"No, you said you had nothing going on tonight! Why do you keep going off and disappearing on us?" he shouted slightly, taking a step towards her.
Amalthea held her hands out in a peaceful manner, not stepping back. That's when the elder gargoyle stepped in, "We have more pressing matters at the moment," he walked over to them, "Did you happen to see Goliath tonight?"
"He hasn't come back yet with Elisa?" Amalthea asked, her eyes widening. Worry was now painted on everyone's face, during the day once they turned to stone, they were defenseless and vulnerable. Amalthea frowned at the sight of her worried friends and tried to reassure them, "Hey, don't worry. Elisa will watch over him, it's her job to protect people." That got them slightly smile, feeling a bit of that worry leave them.
Suddenly, sunlight broke through the horizon, and once the light touched the gargoyles they all turned to stone. Amalthea sighed in relief and out of tiredness, looking back at the red gargoyle, she noticed his eyes were still glaring, no bout he'd still be upset about her ditch and holding back the truth. "I'm sorry..." she muttered and left.
Rae quietly opening her front door, peaking her head inside. No sign of mom-cop, she quickly sneaked in and shut the door. But just wanting to make sure, she tip-toed to her mom's room. The door was still opened, and when she looked inside, her mom's bed had not been slept in.
Rae figured that she was still out with that mystery guy and sighed a relief, "Oh good..." and went to her room. Since she stayed up all night again to fight evil, she wanted nothing more but to sleep in until dusk. Getting into her pjs she wrapped herself in her blanket and closed her eyes. She was asleep for a moment, until she thought, Wait... if mom's not back yet, then... She eyes snapped opened, and she stood up frantically, her cheeks her bright red, "UAGH WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME!" she screamed banging her hands on her forehead, "Come down Rae! Mom isn't like that! She is way more dignified then any other woman you've ever met!"
After banging her head a couple more times, till a red mark formed, she glanced at her phone by her pillow, "But... why isn't she back yet?" picking it up she sent out a text, "Hey mom, you're not home yet?"
She waited for a moment before getting a reply, "Rae I can't talk right now, I'm working."
Rae blinked a few times, before raising her brow, "Working? Did something happen...?"
Amalthea only got a few hours of sleep; her mind wouldn't let her rest as the memory of the fight that happened only hours ago. Groaning she stared at her ceiling, lifting the Heart of Kandrakar over her head. She watched as the jewel absorb the sunlight that was cracking through her balcony. "That power... I've never felt that before."
In the first year of being the new guardian, the council of Kandrakar and Queen Elyon had told her and the others that one time Kandrakar was attacked by Elyon's older brother Phobos. He almost got away with it, if it wasn't for his servant Lord Cedric, who betrayed him by devouring him and gaining all his power. The Guardians: W.I.T.C.H. was able to defeat him, by becoming one with their auramers, basically becoming their elements. They almost didn't turn back into humans.
Amalthea knew that her mother, the former guardian before her, had never been in a position in doing that. However there was the fire... Amalthea closed her eyes tightly, refusing to cry. It was five years ago, but she still hadn't let it go, sometimes she wonders in her father felt the same way.
Shaking her head, she focus her mind on more important matters: the gargoyles were getting suspicious of her. Over the past three years, she was able to keep her guardian powers a secret from her father, but she knew the gargoyles were gonna be a bigger problem. The only question was, do they trust her father? Hell, she didn't even trust him, because of who he was. And while he told her about the gargoyles after she found out the truth, her gut told her he was still hiding something.
Narrowing her eyes, she stood up in bed, "I need to find out." jumping out of bed and quickly getting dressed she headed towards his office. Quickly checking the time on her phone she saw it was 2pm, meaning he was probably talking to Owen about new developments to the company. She only had a few minutes to get as much information as she could.
Quietly opening his door, she peeked inside, it was empty. Shutting the door behind her, she walk over to the security camera monitors that were on his wall. She narrowed her eyes, not seeing anything out of the ordinary. she placed her other on the monitors, using her Quintessence she brought them to life, "Gentlemen, I need you to do something for me," she said to the security cameras.
"Miss Amalthea, you are not allow in your father's office, let alone tamper with our work," one of them spoke back in a deep male voice.
"I understand that, but this is more important then a "who's in charge" argument," Amalthea politely explained, "My dad is keeping something from me, if had to guess, it's something either bad, or dangerous."
"Your father's orders are to keep his private work in the dark, and our job is to make sure no one goes snooping around." the other said in a more business-man voice. It then focused the camera in the office to show Amalthea snooping around.
Amalthea frowned, "Well then, this is quite unfortunate for you. Because you are now aware of my powers and by knowing this, you are now a threat to me," Placing her hand back at on the monitor, she sent out a painful shock. The security cameras grunted in pain, "If you don't want me to do permanent damage, you will give me access to your cameras and delete the footage of me." it didn't take them long to agree. They erased the footage and gave her free rage of there cameras.
"Fine, but be quick about it."
"Thank you," looking at the screens, she found her father and Owen were in the library talking, "I don't have that much time..." pressing buttons and moving switches, Amalthea did a quick surveillance over the entire building. All seemed normal in the rooms she was allowed to explore the other day, but she wanted to see her father's private rooms. His laboratory being one of them. Amalthea narrowed her eyes at the screen, his lab looked more like Dr. Frankenstein experiment lab. "Well that's suspicious," switching onto a different screen in the father's storage room, and saw multiple things that were covered by fabric, for the shape they looked like winged statues as big as Goliath, "What are you planning?"
She then focused on some of the castle catacombs that weren't completely finished. It was completely dark, with barely any sunlight peeking through the stone walls. Amalthea was about to give up, when she finally caught something. A figure, or father, a stone figure, "What is that...?" Amalthea squinted her eyes, trying to make the camera zoom in more. Her eye-sight adjusted quickly to the dark and she could fully make out the figure. It looked like a stone gargoyle, only it's body was more feminine, 'she' had wild crazy hair and wore a loincloth outfit, "Dose dad know about you?" Amalthea asked, though she already knew her answer. Like hell, her father wouldn't triple check on construction, and not find the seventh gargoyle.
"Miss Amalthea your time is up, your father is coming," the monitor spoke up, showing Xanatos and Owen walking down the hall to his office.
Amalthea quickly shut off the screen she was using, and set everything back to normal, "Thank you," she quickly said, and ran out the room.
Naomi yawned out loud, trying to stay awake as she was attending to her plants. She was lucky that her grandparents thought she was asleep last night, she was able to tele-transport from her bedroom and back. The downside was that she automatically woken up at 8am. She yawn once more, while watering her amaryllis, "I hope Thea is feeling alright..."
She glanced over to her small plant pot that housed her tiny Zamballa sapling, that was given to her by Iornhood when she and the others first visited Zamballa. It was sleeping peacefully. She was entrusted to grow and raise it, till it was ready to go back to it's home planet. Natalie then glanced down at her free hand, and thought back to Amalthea's hysterical strength, "I wondering if I could do something like that...?"
"Naomi!" she jolted awake from the sound of her grandmother downstairs, "Breakfast is ready!"
"Oh-ah, coming!" Naomi set the watering-can down, and quickly petting the Zamballa sapling, it nuzzled in her palm, purring in it's sleep, "You be good Bala, I'll be back soon," she smiled.
She closed her bedroom door and walked down stairs, But once she got to the bottom, she was shoved back by a small figure that ran into her and hug her around her legs. Her little sister, "Naomi, Naomi, guess what!" the five year old looked up at her with the biggest smile on her face.
"What? What happened Leena?" Naomi smiled back.
But just when Leena was about to tell her, her twin brother Ajay rush over to them and interrupted, "There was a large lighting bolt last night! It sky-rocketed up to the sky! It was aliens!" he cried with excitement.
Leena frowned, looking at Ajay, "No! Alien's don't have lightning powers! It was obviously a witch of wizard!"
Naomi toned out the twins arguing, as her mind was now panicking. She went into the kitchen that was attached to the living room. There, on the TV was the news report talking about Amalthea's Quintessence-hysterical strength power last night, showing footage from security camera, and videos people took on there phone, "Oh no no no no no no, this is bad." she mumbled under her breath.
"Crazy huh?" her grandpa said, watching the TV while sitting down at the kitchen table.
Naomi's grandma was cooking on the stove when she finally turned and smiled at her eldest grandchild, "Morning sweet-pea, kanda poha is ready."
"Thank you Nana," Natalia smiled, dishing herself a bowl. Glancing back at the TV she pulled out her phone, "Thea needs to know about this."
Vidia did a couple of warm up stretches before jogging though Central Park, with her pitbull on his leash running next to her. Even though her body was hurting all over from last nights brawl, her older sister would start asking questions on why she didn't do her run in the morning. The hot sun felt good on her skin, as she kept up her pace. That was, until she spotted someone familiar.
Sitting by the sidewalk on the grass, was Rae's mother, Elisa Maza. But she wasn't sitting by herself. Vidia stopped next to the woman, "Elisa?"
Elisa looked up, and smiled at the familiar face, "Hey Vi, how've you been?" Vidia's pitbull parked happily at the familiar face, wagging his tail, "Hi Nugget! Who's a good boy?" Elisa smiled, petting his head.
"Oh-ah good. Can't complain," the teen shrugged. She then glanced at what Elisa was sitting next to. It was a very large gargoyle statue, taller man and large wings, "Soooo, that's new," she pointed at it.
Elisa took a glance, "Yep." Nugget narrowed his eyes and growled at it, clearing not a fan of the new statue in his beloved park.
Vidia then narrowed her eyes at it, "Wonder why it's here," She had a sinking feeling in her gut that that might be one of the gargoyles that were living with Amalthea. But what was more puzzling, was that Elisa was just sitting next to it, as if she was like waiting for something to happen. Then she remembered what Rae told her last night; her mom went out on a date, Dose this mean... Elisa knows about them?
"Well, I better get back to runnin'," Vidia smiled, pulling Nugget away from the statue.
Elsa smiled back, "Alright, good to see you Vi," but before Vidia took off Elisa asked, "Hey, can you text Rae and tell her I'm gonna be out of the rest of the day? I would, but my phone got ruined," She pulled out her phone from her jacket; the screen was black, and the speaker made a static noise."
Vidia raised her brow, "Dropped it in water?" to which Elisa sheepishly nodded yes, "Hey no worries, everyone dose it a least once in their life." Vidia waved bye as she and Nugget ran off, leaving Elisa with the stone statue.
After seeing the gargoyle statue on the security camera, Amalthea decided she needed to see it for herself. Taking the elevator that lead down to the catacombs, Amalthea walked through the artifact room. The hallways were pitch black that Amalthea had to resort to using her flashlight on her phone. She carefully watched her set, trying to dodge old rushed armor and weapons.
"Geez, he spends all this money, you think he'd finish construction," Amalthea grumbled, ducking her head of any spiderwebs she came upon, "Now, where are you?" turning around a corner she looked both ways down the hall, taking a guess that the secret gargoyle was hiding down deeper, so no one would find it. taking the left and waking down more stairs, she didn't have to go searching long for what he was looking for. Amalthea gasped out in surprised, when her flashlight showed the gargoyle's stone face. She sighed feeling stupid that that scared her. Looming the light all over the statue, she got a better look at 'her'. She was definitely taller then teenage girl, and also wore jewelry.
"Why are you down here?" Amalthea narrowed her eyes at female gargoyle. She couldn't roll out the possibility and her father doesn't know about her, because that's very unlikely. So the other idea must be that he's hiding her from the other gargoyles and will show them that she is alive as well, "To gain more of their trust..." it was so obvious, of course he would do this, the question is why though? Why was Xanatos trying so hard to gain the gargoyles trust? She had a few ideas, but now if he was to show 'her' off to the other's he would have the upper hand of the gargoyles trust, and already the other's were questioning her and her bizar disappearing. If it comes down to the gargoyles choosing Xanatos over her, then them learning the truth about her would be catastrophic.
Suddenly her phone went off, startling the poor girl. Checking it, she saw it was Naomi, "We have a big problem!"
"What, what's wrong?" Amalthea texted back. Were the shadow creatures back?
"Your hysterical strength broke the news! Everyone in the city saw it!" she then sent her a video that was filmed off someone's cellphone. And sure enough, it caught the Quintessence lightning bolt shooting in the air, causing a shock-wave that broke streetlights and building windows, and video ended with the guy cursing up a storm over what the hell just happened.
"Oh crap no..." Amalthea felt herself shrink down in shame and embarrassment. Great job in hiding your guardian powers Thea!
"What are we gonna do?!" Naomi started to panic, as she constantly sent out frantic texts.
Amalthea took a deep breath, "Tomorrow, as soon as school is over, we go to the council and figure something out."
"Ok ok ok ok... Ok." Naomi seemed to have calmed down.
"Don't worry too much Naomi, this will all get sorted out." Amalthea smiled, ending the text. Hopefully it was enough to convince her anxious friend. She sighed tiredly, before she got a different message. It was her father.
"You awake?"
Right, he hasn't seen me all day, Amalthea remembered before replaying back, "Yeah, sorry I slept in for the hole day." she suddenly got a sinking feeling, Oh no... he must have seen it well. How could he not, his office was now on the tallest building in the city! Amalthea was starting to get a headache.
"It's not a problem. Dinner is ready, would you like to join me?"
Amalthea paused for a moment, and looked back at the female gargoyle. Last time she confronted her father about the gargoyles, he openly explained to her his plan, but with this... "Better keep this to myself until further notice," she decided, "Sure, be there in a minute."
Suddenly, her phone went off again, Rea was calling her. Groaning in pain from her headache, Amalthea answered, "Hello?"
"MY MOM KNOWS ABOUT THEM!?"
As the hole day passed, and no Elisa coming home or even calling her daughter, Rea started to get worried. The text she got was that Elisa was working, and while that made sense the wired part was that she never came home to sleep, eat or change clothes? Rae would have gone out to look for her, but unfortunately her mother had a evil sense of humor of not telling her own daughter where she was going last night.
Her best bet was that she might find her own at the police station, but before she was about to leave to go mind her mother, her phone buzzed off. "It better be you." Rea frowned, checking her phone but was more upset to see that it was Vidia. Sighing angrily she answered, "Yeah?"
"Worrying about your mom?" Rae could hear the smirk in her voice.
"Quit mind reading, it's weird! And why are you calling me?"
"I ran into your mom, she's at Central Park."
Rae took a moment to let her mind process the new knowledge. Sighing in relief she slumped down on the couch, "Oh my god... Why was she there?"
"No idea, but something was definitely off."
Rae raised her brow, "What do you mean?"
"She was sitting next to a large gargoyle statue in the park."
"... What?"
"Yeah, and the weird thing was, she looked like she had been sitting there for the hole day. Like she's waiting for something to happen to it. Now, I know there has never been a gargoyle statue in the park, but do you think-"
"That that is one of the gargoyles Amalthea was talking about?" Rae finished Vidia's sentence. It suddenly all made sense, why her mom was at Eyrie Building the other night, the so called 'date' she had, "Oh my god..."
"Rae? You still there?" Rae could only hear white noise as she tuned Vidia out, "I gotta go," she hung up. Running her hand threw her hair her mind went for blank to road rage. She quickly called Amalthea.
"Hello?"
"MY MOM KNOWS ABOUT THEM?!" she didn't mean to scream, but she couldn't hold it back.
"Y-Yes... I think?" Amalthea sheepishly replied.
Rae frowned, "You think?"
"Well, the gargoyles mentioned that they met her the other night after the attack, but I didn't see her in time when we were finished our battle. Goliath said your mom was going to give him a tour around the city-"
"Who's Goliath?" Rae snapped, she wasn't mad at her friend, she was furious that her mother was now involved.
"The leader of the gargoyles, he's the only who has a name. Rae I sorry I didn't tell you sooner, I didn't know what to do, I haven't seen your mom yet so I thought I'd asked when I do."
Rae took some deep breaths, trying to calm down, after a minute of silence she asked, "What's done is done. What do we do now?"
"There has been a slight change in my plan. The gargoyles are starting to lose their trust in me, and my dad is planning something. I don't know what, but I'm sure that he will get the full trust after its done."
"So what about us? Are you going to tell them about the guardians?"
"...It's hard to say. Sorry I have to go, my dad's waiting for me. But Rae, if your worried that they will harm your mom, I can promise you they would do anything to her or anyone who's kind and trusting."
With that said, Amalthea hung up. Rae leaned her head back on the couch, staring at the ceiling, thinking about her mother, "Damn it... Why do you always have to make everything your business?"
Amalthea scrunched up her hands into fists, staring at the large dinning room doors, too nervous to open them. Just relax Thea... maybe he won't bring it up? She preyed, and opened the doors. Entering the dinning room, she saw her father was already sitting down at the end of the table, just finishing a phone call with someone.
Xanatos glanced up when he saw Amalthea come in, "Excellent, I'll have a look at it this evening, goodbye," he ended the call, before turning his full attention to his daughter, "I'm glad to see you're awake Thea," he smiled.
"Yeah, sorry I've been sleeping in more offend this weekend," Amalthea said, taking a seat the other end of the table.
"It's quite alright, I'm glad to see you are forming a friendship with the gargoyles,"
A friendship that is breaking, Amalthea thought, as Owen brought them their food. She took a glance out the windows, the sun was slowly setting, she only had a few minutes to get anymore information out of him, "So dad, I wanted to ask about the other night, when the attack happened, do you know what those people were after?" she asked in a worried voice, trying to sound more concerned rather then snooping for answers.
Xanatos stopped cutting his steak, and look up at her. His demeanor was the same, but he gave her a reassuring answer, "You don't have to worry Thea, they just stole some private data, nothing serious." he said, taking a bite of his steak.
Since when is stolen data not serious to you? Amalthea slightly narrowed her eyes. That's when she thought about Elisa, did her father already know that she is now in the picture? Should she bring her up?
But while Amalthea was deep in thought, and trying to keep a calm demeanor, her father could tell something was bothering her, "Is everything alright Thea?"
Amalthea felt her shoulders tested up, "Y-Yeah, there's just - a lot of stuff on my mind," she wasn't technology lying, while also not telling him the reason why. She looked down at her plate and started to eat, hoping that he would drop it. Thankfully he did.
But but not before saying, "You know, you can always come to me if you ever need something Thea." Xanatos said in a soft, genuine voice. That got his daughter to look him in the eye; his brows were frowned together, and while he kept a straight face, his eyes looked soft and more honest.
They stayed quiet for a moment, just staring at each other. Finally Amalthea said, "I know dad,"
Suddenly her alarm went off on her phone: it was now 8pm sundown. Amalthea finished her last bite of dinner, before standing up, "I should... go greet the gargoyles now."
Xanatos stared at her for a moment, before nodded ok, before going back to his usual smug self, "Don't stay out too late, you have school tomorrow."
"I know," Amalthea rolled her eyes, exiting the room.
Amalthea walked up to the tower, just in time to see Goliath finally return. The gargoyles greeted him, happy to see he was alright. Amalthea wanted to join them, but hesitated, feeling that it was not her place, especially now that the gargoyles were doubting her friendship.
"We were worried about you." the elder sighed in relief.
"What happened?" the younger ones asked.
"It appears we have enemies," Goliath narrowed his eyes, "I was ambushed by the same humans that attacked the castle the other night. Given what happened, I wish you had accompanied us Hudson." he said to the elder gargoyle, making everyone confused.
"Hudson?" the red one asked.
"Aye, it's my name. And what you make of it?" he raised his brow at the younger gargoyles.
"Its a fine name," the blue one sheepishly said, backing up to not anger him.
"Hudson. I like it." the green one commented.
That's when the red gargoyle said, "We should choose names too. Names that suit our new lives here."
Goliath smirked, "Oh, and what might that be?"
the gargoyle thought for a moment; thinking back to last night, all the places Amalthea showed them, all with unique names, "Um.. Brooklyn. I'm Brooklyn."
The blue one then named himself, followed by the green one, "Broadway."
"Ohh, Lexington. Do you like it?"
"I like them," Amalthea spoke up, getting their attention. Seeing as there was no turning back, she walked up to them, "I think they really suit you guys," she gave them an honest smile. And it seemed to work on most of them; Goliath, Hudson smiled, and Broadway and Lexington gave her a small smile, but Brooklyn looked to the side, refusing to make eye contact. He was still upset. Amalthea frowned, clutching her skirt looking at the ground.
Goliath could sense something was bothering them both, and thought of a distraction. He looked down at the gargoyle beast, "I guess he'll need one as well."
"Um, I have an idea." Amalthea raised her hand. Goliath nodded alright, she got down on her knees next to the beast, petting his head, "Bronx, from now on you're Bronx." he tilted his head, but understood.
Owen's throat clearing got everyone attention, as he came out of the shadows, "Miss Amalthea, your father requires you and Goliath."
"He dose?" Amalthea stood back up, raising her brow. Owen nodded, Amalthea took a glance at Goliath before they both followed the butler.
Owen escorted the two of them to the Great Hall, where Xanatos greeted them, "Dad, is something the matter?" Amalthea asked first.
"I wanted you here to witness this Thea." Xanatos smiled.
"Witness?" she already didn't like the sound of that.
"You wished to see me Xanatos?" Goliath cut in.
"Goliath, there's someone here I want you to meet. An old acquaintance, I believe," Xanatos smirked, gesturing his hand at the other door.
"Who?" it opened, and a figure walked out of the shadows. Both Goliath and Amalthea gasped, but the gargoyle was more in shock, as his wings opened wide. There stood the female gargoyle that Amalthea had seen in the catacombs, only now awaken from stone. Her skin was a deeper blue then Broadway's and her crazy hair was blood red. "You're... you're alive?!" Goliath choked on his voice.
"Goliath, my love," the female gargoyle smiled dreamily, opening her wings she reached out to her lover. Goliath opened his own wings, walking over to her they embraced, wrapping their wings around each other.
Amalthea was in total shock, she didn't even notice her father was now standing next to her. As she watched to two of them, Amalthea couldn't help but feel this twinge in her gut; something wasn't right about this, something wasn't right about her.
"My angel! It really is you!" Goliath sighed happily, pulling his mate closer, as she started to stroke the back on his head.
"Oh Goliath. All the days that I've dreamed of you and this moment."
Xanatos cleared his throat, getting their attention, "I'm very happy for you both."
"This man has brought us together, my love. We owe our reunion to David Xanatos." the female gargoyle smiled.
"But... how? You were shadowed by the vikings." Goliath asked his mate.
"No, I feared for you safety, so I left the castle to find you. But I lost my way and the sun rose before I could return," she explained.
"How did you survive all these centuries?"
"When I returned to the castle, the Magus had already turned you to stone. I begged him to cast the spell on me, so that we might awaken together."
Amalthea frowned her brows together, and crossed her arms. She thought back to the spell book, and what the Magus had journal about the six gargoyles. And not once had he mentioned a 7th that was also a female. Call it guardian instinct, but Amalthea felt like something wasn't right about Goliath's mate.
"I saw her a year ago and was so impressed, I acquired her for my private collection," Xanatos explained to Goliath, "Then, after I woke you up, it seemed plausible that a trip to the castle might have the same effect of her."
"With you alive, I can start to live again as well," Goliath smiled at his mate, who smiled back.
"As you said, you and I are one. Now and forever."
"We should let the others know," Goliath and his mate headed to the tower, leaving Amalthea and Xanatos alone.
Once they were gone Amalthea said, "Another thing you didn't think of telling me?" she raised her brow at her father. He was about to speak, but she cut him off, "Not less then 20 minutes ago, you said to me "you can always come to me if you ever need something", yet you consistently keep me in the dark with everything you do!"
Xanatos frowned, "Amalthea, I understand-"
"No you don't! You never understand! You're never honest with me!" Amalthea screamed, clutching her fists. She was furious, not just because he keeps hiding things from her, but he was also using this hole revival as a trump card to the gargoyles. Now Goliath will no doubt put his hole trust in her father: which means if the gargoyles learn the truth about her and her friends, they would put them in danger by telling Xanatos. Amalthea sighed backing away "I need to be alone right now,"
Xanatos watched his daughter swing open one of the doors and slammed it shut. He sighed, pinching the bridge between his eyes, "She's never gonna forgive me after this..."
"Quit grabbing me Em!"
Emily laughed as she forward-threw her older brother the 5th time in Super Smash Bros, "You're getting rusty on your skills Casey!" she nudge him playfully on the arm with her elbow. Casey frowned at her, but then smirked, giving her a harder shove with his foot, knocking her off the couch. Emily yelped, as she lost her focus on the game, releasing Casey's character which gave him enough time to grab the smash ball and fishing Emily's character off, "HEY! That's cheater!"
"Sorry little sis, but you must know that in the world of gaming: you must win at any coast!" Casey said in a deep winner voice.
Emily pouted, but smirked, "That's fine, it just means I have real bragging rights~"
Casey then blinked, just now realizing she was right, "Damn it!" he cursed making Emily giggle.
"Hey, language!" their mother shouted from down the hall, "Casey it's already eight, get to the bay before the next ferryboat leaves without you again!"
Casey groaned, sitting up, straightening out his work uniform, "Have fun on Azkaban," Emily teased.
"Hey, I am one of the leading scientists protecting valuable data that can one day shape the world. As hard as it is for you to believe, I make a lot of money. While you don't have a job~" Emily just stuck her tough out, "Love you too Elm. I'm heading out now mom!" he shouted, before leaving the apartment.
"Em, dad and I are still have online meetings to attended, how about you order pizza for us?" her mother said, from her office.
"K!" Emily replied, taking out her phone to call.
Amalthea stomped down the hall, her anger at her father was reaching new heights. But as angry as she was with him, she now had to make the tough decision on whether or not telling the gargoyles the truth. But now with Goliath finding out his mate is alive, and her very eagerly to trust Xanatos, Goliath will no doubt trust him fully now.
Amalthea stopped walking, looking down at the heart, she held it in her hand as she watched it glow. Frowning she said, "I can't risk the lives of my friends... Being a guardian comes first," she wrapped her fingers around the pendent, closing her eyes tightly, thinking about her three gargoyle friends, "I'm sorry guys..."
She continued to walk to her room, but as she turned the corner, she bumped into someone. Stumbling back a bit she looked up, and her heart sank, it was Brooklyn, who was also shocked that he ran into her. There was an uncomfortable silence between them, nether knowing what to say. Amalthea could tell in his eyes that he was still upset with her not giving him and the others an answer on her disappearance, and that he was not going to drop it until he get's something from her.
"Thea-"
"I'm sorry," Amalthea cut him off, looking down.
"What?" Brooklyn asked. Was she apologizing for last night?
"I'm sorry that I disappeared on you guys last night, that wasn't right," she looked up at him, with a serious expression, "But I wouldn't have done it, unless there was an emergency."
Brooklyn raised his brow, "Emergency? What emergency? And if you needed help, why didn't you ask us to help you?"
Amalthea inhaled and exhaled, now or never, "Brooklyn, there are some things about me that I can't let anyone know. Especially my dad."
Brooklyn took a pause, taking in watch she was saying, "Why? He's your father-"
"Do you trust my dad?" Amalthea cut him off again, narrowing her eyes at him, "Because if you do, everything we've been through in the short amount of time we've gotten to know each other, will be lost."
"...You don't trust Xanatos?"
Amalthea shook her head, "...You don't know him like I do: he's manipulative, controlling, and will do anything or use anyone to achieve his goals," Amalthea remembered her thoughts on why her father freed them, but Brooklyn needed to know, "And if I had to guess, the only reason he broke your curse, was to use you to his advantage."
Brooklyn's eyes widened, not realizing at first just how much her words hurt him. Xanatos wouldn't do that, he's done so much for the clan, he freed them, rebuilt their home, gave them sanctuary, and just recently found Goliath's mate was still alive. He was a good human wasn't he? But that's when he thought about the mission Xanatos had just explained to them: retrieve the data disks from the humans who stole it from the previous night. Was Amalthea telling the truth?
He wanted to believe her... but it was hard too, considering that she was the one keeping him in the dark. In the end, his anger and hurt feelings got the better one him. He glared at the her, "I don't believe you. And I don't trust you."
It was like a harpoon hit her right in the heart. The gargoyle's words hurt her more then she thought. But she played it off, "Fine, then I can't trust you, now that you've become my dad's minion," she snarked back at him, before shoving past him, and headed to her room. Leaving the gargoyle alone to collect his thoughts.
Rae sat at the kitchen table, eating leftover pasta. Once in a while taking a glance at the front door. It was already nine and her mother hadn't come home yet. She kept looking at her phone, waiting to hear from anyone. The teenager sighed out, "Now I know how mom feels when I come home late without a text or call."
Suddenly her phone started buzzing. Quickly grabbing it, she noticed Amalthea was doing a conference call with Vidia, Emily and Naomi. While Rae was upset that it still wasn't her mother, she answered, "Hello?"
"What's with the group call Thea?" Vidia asked.
"Is everything ok?" Naomi asked.
The girl's heard Amalthea sighing over the phone, "I... I wasn't able to gain their trust. My dad had freed another one that he was hiding. And now they trust him fully."
Everyone was silent. Rae narrowed her eyes, "So what do we do now?"
"I don't know, we're... just gonna have to be extremely careful now. The gargoyles turn to stone during the day, so we need to make to sure no portals are opened on earth, keep the fighting in the other worlds."
"What about you Thea? You now live with them?"
"I will just have to avoid any conversation, while maintaining an acquaintance relationship." Amalthea explained.
"Well... we're here for you if anything bad happens," Emily said, trying to lighten the mood.
"And if any of them try's to mess with you, they'll be sorry they chose the wrong side," Vidia threatened.
"...Thanks you guys."
The conference call ended, and suddenly right on cue, Elisa walked in through the door. She noticed her daughter at the table, with a shocked look on her face, before she glared at her mother, "Where the hell were you? you've been gone for thirty-six hours."
Elisa frowned, "Rae I sorry, something came up at the last minute-"
"So you didn't think to come home first, or call me?!" Rae shouted, "You said you went on a date last night? What happened to that?!"
Elisa narrowed her eyes, "That is none of your concern!"
"Did you spend the night with him?!" Rae felt like she was going to gagged, just thinking about her mother and a gargoyle together...
Elisa's cheeks turned red, "NO! Oh my God Rae, nothing happened! Like I told you something came up at the last minute and I wasn't able to come home! End of discussion!"
They were both silent for a moment, trying to calm down, even though arguing was a common thing in their broken relationship.
Rae looked to the side, "Fine..."
Elisa frowned, now just realizing how she must have worried her daughter, "Rae... I'm sorry. I wanted to call you, but I accidentally broke my phone."
"Whatever," Rae stood up from the table, taking her plate and dumping out the remaining food in the trash. Elisa sighed, heading to her room, but then she should, "I'm glad you're ok." she turned back to her daughter, who's cheeks her still blushing and are eyes slightly tearing up.
Elisa gave her small smile, "I love you."
"I love you too, mom."
Brooklyn, Broadway and Lexington flew down towards the tower over the bay, landing on the roof. Lexington took in everything they have seem and smiled at his brothers, "The magic in the century is so...so."
"Cool?" Broadway asked, smiling back.
"Exactly," The glanced at Brooklyn, who had surprisingly stayed quiet throughout the flight, "Are you ok?' Lexington asked.
Brooklyn frowned, still thinking about the conversation he had with Amalthea. Still thinking about what she said; was Xanatos really a bad human? Was he doing all this for them for his own personal gain? Now that he and the others were doing this mission, he was starting to wonder if she was right.
"You still upset about Thea?" Broadway asked.
"You should just let it go, it was probably something privet to her," Lexington added.
Brooklyn looked at them and asked, "Do you still trust her?"
They both glanced at each other, before Broadway said, "She's shown us kindness, something that the other humans haven't done a thousand years ago."
"Why are you asking this?" Lexington frowned.
"There are some things about me that I can't let anyone know. Especially my dad," Brooklyn frowned, deciding to keep it his conversion with her a secret from the others, "It's nothing, let's focus on the mission. We need a way in," The glanced around till they spotted a steal roof door.
Broadway cracked his knuckles, "No problem," and with very little effort, ripped it open. The three gargoyles checked inside the room first before climbing down the latter.
Brooklyn walked over the large elevator, "Xanatos said it's four floors down," gripping the doors, he forced them open. The looked down the dark tunnel.
"Wooh, this isn't like the elevators back at the castle," Broadway said.
"Hmm, not enough room to glide down," Lexington added.
Brooklyn looked at the cables in front of them, "Well, we'll just use these ropes here in the middle," swinging his body on the cable, he slide down the floors, with Broadway and Lexington right behind him. Brooklyn started to count down the floors, "One...Two...Three...Four, looks like this is it," he jumped off the cable, almost loosing his footing on the edge of the elevator floor.
"This is easy, we'll have that disk and be back in time for supper," Broadway smiled at Lexington.
But as Brooklyn pushed open the elevator doors, they found themselves surrounded by men aiming guns at them. The gargoyles sheepishly smiled, while they panicked, "Heh, sorry, wrong floor," the humans opened fired. All three of them dodged and quickly climbed the elevator walls to the next floor.
Broadway sling open the doors, and they jumped inside, taking cover for the men that were still shooting at them. The gargoyles looked down a long hallway with multiple doors, completely lost, "Now what?" Lexington asked.
Casey had heard fire arms go off just down below his floor, suddenly the emergency alarms went off. He readjusted his glasses looking at the other scientist, "The hell's going on?"
"Are there intruders?" one of the men asked.
"Maybe we should evacuate," a woman suggested.
Suddenly something punched through the ceiling. everyone screamed, the lights went out and three large winged monster dropped down. The emergency lights turned on, shining on the creatures as one of them growled like a wild beast.
"Oh my god..." Casey whispered as he tried to hid behind a monitor. Unfortunately one of them spotted him, and grabbed him by the collar, lifting him off the ground. Casey felt sweaty and held in his breath. Is this how he was gonna die?
The monster growled, it's eyes glowed bright white, "Where's the disk?"
Casey lifted his shaking hand and pointed to the main monitors. The shorter, green monster walked over to it and pressed the eject button, "Got it!" it said, grabbing the disk.
There intelligent?! Casey thought, this wasn't just a random attack like from a monster movie, whatever these things were, they were sent here to collect data! The sounds of multiple footsteps were coming towards the room. the monster holding Casey dropped him, and ran to the door, pushing it closed, "I think it's time to go!" it yelled.
The larger one looked around the room, spotting one of the servers. It grabbed it and with incredible strength, ripped it from it's cables. It then threw the server at the window, shattering it, as all three of then ran towards their exit. And just time time, barley missing the secrecy firing.
Casey's heart was still beating, his breathing choppy. One of the guards kneeled down to him, "Are you alright?"
"...I think my life just flashed before my eyes..." Casey groaned.
Amalthea leaned over her bedroom balcony, her arms crossed under her, as she stared down at the city. She thought back to her conversation with Brooklyn, wondering if he told the others. But she highly doubt that things wouldn't change. Amalthea frowned, looking up at the starry night, "I wonder what you would have done in this situation mom?"
Off in the distance she spotted the gargoyle clan flying towards the castle, and landed on the other tower. "Wonder where they were?" she raised her brow, starting to wish she interrogated Brooklyn more when she had the chance. She then spotted her father waiting for them, they talked for a while, before Goliath flew off again, and if Amalthea had to guess it was to see Elisa.
Amalthea thought back to the storage room, those things that were covered up by fabric; something didn't sit right in her gut. See needed more answers, but it would be risky. Xanatos was probably in his office right now and if the gargoyles were now fully loyal to him, they'd probably be guarding the room.
"I need to find out what's going on," she decided to take the risk. Exiting her room, she quietly and cautiously walked down the wall, headed for the her father's storage room. So far, she hadn't seen Xanatos, Owen, or any of the gargoyles, she even took a few glances at the security cameras she passed by, "This is getting weird..." she whispered, finally making it to the storage room.
The sliding doors were shut, but that didn't stop the young guardian, "Quintessence," she placed her palm of one of the doors, making it slid open just slightly for her to peek in.
She saw her father, and Owen standing in front of the covered figures, "I'm afraid the gargoyles have outlived their usefulness. I can't count on their loyalty, but now, with the data on those disks, I can get their replacements online," Xanatos said. Amalthea's was shocked, although a small part of her kinda saw this was coming. Though it infuriated her that her father would put all this effort into the gargoyles just to wipe them out because they don't follow orders like robots.
Owen then checked his watch, "Three hours till dawn, we need only to wait until they sleep again-"
"No.." a familiar voice cut Owen off. Amalthea's eyes widened when she saw Goliath's mate in the room, "You need to test these replacements now, do you not?" she walked past the two men and grazed her clawed hand over the fabric. She smirked at Xanatos who did the same, the gargoyle pulled the fabric down, revealing a giant metal robotic gargoyle, striking the appearance of Goliath.
"Oh no..." Amalthea panicked, I need to warn them! Suddenly the female gargoyle looked behind Xanatos, and made eye contact with the eye peeking from behind the door. Amalthea quickly hid, she started running back down the hall, but didn't get far. The female gargoyle caught up to her, and grabbed her by the arm.
"Where do you think you're going?" she smirked. But she failed to expect the human to put up a strong fight. Years of fighting the forces of evil paid off. The female gargoyle didn't have time to react when Amalthea uppercut her knee hitting her in the stomach, before the teenager stretched out her leg and kicked her under the chin. Unfortunately the gargoyle didn't let go, she growled in anger, her eyes glowing red, as she pushed Amalthea against the wall, "You brat!"
"Enough!" Xanatos shouted running up to them, he grabbed the gargoyles arm that was holding Amalthea and stood in front of her, "I gave you an order Demona: You are to never touch or harm my daughter." Xanatos glared.
Demona? Amalthea thought, so the female gargoyle also has a name, and fit her personality to a T.
"Well your daughter just over heard everything..." Demona growled, glaring back at Amalthea, who showed no fear.
"Dad, how could you do this?!" Amalthea shouted, focusing the attention on the two family members, "You brought the gargoyles back to life, now you want to exterminate them?! This isn't right!. And you," she turned to Demona, "You're in on this?! You're ok with last of your kind, you LOVER, get killed like animals!"
"Don't try and turn this around human!" Demona shouted back.
"Demona please," Xanatos warned her, she backed down but didn't let the teenager go. Xanatos looked back at his daughter, "Amalthea, I can understand this seems cruel and that you might not understand right now-"
"NOT UNDERSTAND?!" Amalthea screamed, "This is bullshit! I can't believe you! It's one thing to say you can come to me for anything and then hide another gargoyle, put to just kill off them like their meaningless?! Were you just using me too?! To earn their trust?!" she glared glossy daggers at her father, feeling hurt and betrayed.
"Enough!" Xanatos shouted back at her, before sighing, "I understand your upset, but I have, nor will ever use you, Amalthea," he was hopping that she would believe him, but all he got from his daughter was glare before looking down avoiding his glaze, "Take her to her room, I don't want her to get involved with the gargoyles anymore," Xanatos ordered Demona handing her a key, as he and Owen walked back to the storage room.
Demona went out of her way to make sure tugging Amalthea back to her room, would be painful and uncomfortable. Putting the girl in an arm-lock, pushing her along. Amalthea grunted in irritation, but not in pain, she had fought with monsters more threatening then Demona, "You're a cowered, you that?" Amalthea snarked, trying to get the gargoyle angry again, in hoping that she would get distracted and let her go, "It must be really embarrassing, having to take orders from a human again, after a thousand years? But I guess that's all your good for~"
Demona growled under her breath, the young human's words were getting under her skin, but she didn't break. She just tightened her grip on Amalthea's arms, making sure her claws dug into her skin, but not breaking it, "Your pathetic words mean nothing to me," she chuckled. She threw open Amalthea's bedroom doors, and shoved the girl in. Amalthea tripped on her feet and fell on the floor. She glared up at Demona, "Because in the end, you are nothing but a weak, pathetic human~" she slammed the doors, locking it behind her.
Amalthea glared at the doors, standing up, she screamed as she pushed trying to open them, "Goddammit it dad! Why?!" she banged her fists on the wood till her knuckles hurt, her screaming turned into crying, she leaned her forehead on the doors, "I thought... things would go back to way they were..." she sniffed, as her tears fell down her face. But as much as she wanted to cry all her pain and anger out, she knew that would have to wait. Wiping her tears she narrowed her eyes at the doors, "I can't let you do this..." grasping the Heart of Kandrakar, she lifted her other hand and chanted, "Quintessence!"
High on the tallest tower, Brooklyn, Broadway and Lexington were enjoying some peace after their rough mission. Broadway was enjoying dinner, while Lexington was trying out one a laptop that Xanatos lend. Brooklyn stared over the city while wearing sunglasses sighing, "You know, I think I'm gonna like this century," he smiled.
"Yeah, we had a little trouble adjusting at first but, I think everything is going to be fine now," Broadway said. Unfortunately he spoke to soon: out of nowhere a laser shot right at him, just missing him, "Woah!" he cried in shock.
The three gargoyles looked down to where the blast came from and saw Xanatos, Owen and Goliath's mate, but standing behind them were five metal gargoyles that looked like Goliath, "Attack," Xanatos ordered. The metal gargoyles spread their large wings and with rockets on their back, jetted up at the gargoyles. They flew passed them and split up in the sky.
"What are those things?" Broadway asked.
Brooklyn glared up at them, suddenly that talk he had with Amalthea came back, "He will do anything or use anyone to achieve his goals."
Two of the robots flew art the them, aiming their risk-rocket guns, they fired. Brooklyn and Lexington scattered gliding off the tower, Broadway wasn't so lucky. As he was trying to glide down, he was shot in the wing, he fell but grabbed onto the lower level of the tower, but the stones gave-way, he came crashing down on the floor rubble handing onto of him.
"What did I tell you Owen?" Vast improvement!" Xamatos smirked at his butler, "They're steel instead of stone, they don't sleep during the day, they can fly instead of glide, and best of all they're 100% obedient."
The robot that was chasing after Lexington locked onto him, and fired. direct hit, Lexington cried out in pain and he started plummeting down. Lucky Brooklyn caught him, tho was struggling to carry someone that weighed the same as him, while flying. He was an easy target for the robot, it locked onto them, but just before it was about to fire, out of nowhere Goliath swooped down at tackled it towards the tower, exploding.
Goliath flew towards Brooklyn, "Give him to me!" he said, as Brooklyn handed Lexington to his leader. Goliath flew over to Broadway, removing the rumble off him, before laying Lexington next to him. They would be safe.
Brooklyn swooped down on the castle wall, thinking he was in the clear, "Brooklyn!" hearing his name, he turned and was shocked to see Amalthea running towards him, "Are you ok?!" she stopped in front of him, trying to catch her breath.
Brooklyn was shocked, even though her father had now betrayed them and was attacking them, she ran out where there was danger to see if her friend was ok... Guilt eminently suck in, she was right about everything, and he chose not to believe her, "Thea, I'm so-"
Brooklyn was about to apologizes, but Amalthea spotted the same robot aiming at him, "Look out!" she shoved him out of the way, the robot missed, but it's laser shot in front of Amalthea. It missed but the momentum threw her backwards, Amalthea slipped and fell off the hall. She screamed out as she started falling down the building.
"THEA!" Brooklyn cried, quickly diving down to save her, but she was so far down already that he didn't think he would catch her in time. Suddenly he heard her shout, "Guardian Unite!" a bright flash of purple light surrounded her, almost blinding him. He squinted his eyes, as he got closer the light went away and he saw Amalthea...flying? And for a brief moment, the world stopped: As the gargoyle flew down, he saw his human friend, only she looked competently different.
Her clothing had changed; she now wore a blue, off the shoulder, double slit mini dress that came to her knees, and had a long sleeves with large wrist like a medieval dress, the collar shaped up into a heart above her cleavage. Pink shorty-shorts that hid behind the slits of the dress, green and blue stripped tights and purple calf-high boots with rococo style carved in them. But what really caught his attention were the green, blue and black wings. They both looked at each other wide eyed, Amalthea's cheeks turned pink as her long hair blew around her. Brooklyn was in total shock, he forgot that he was plummeting down the building pretty fast.
"Brooklyn!" Amalthea flew after him, grabbing his hand. She grunted as she tried to pull him back up but he was too heavy, luckily she flew them both towards the buildings pillars. Brooklyn dug him claws in the stone, as Amalthea let go. Brooklyn took a moment to breath, daring not too look back at his friend, did he really see that? Or was his mind playing tricks on him? "Brooklyn, you ok?" he took a moment, before he hesitantly he look to his left, and there she was, just hovering next to him as her wings flapped like a hummingbird's.
"Thea...how - wha?" the poor gargoyle was so shocked he couldn't find his voice.
Amalthea blushed again, and sheepishly smiled, "I told you I had secrets..."
"So..." he looked her up and down, "You're a fairy?"
"Uhh, not exactly," Amalthea suddenly spotted the same robot charging after them, it's risk-gun out. Brooklyn panicked, but Amalthea shield him, holding out her hands to form a triangle she chanted, "Quintessence!" A flash of white lightning shot out from her hands and hit the robot, it exploded, rubble and debris flew passed them and fell to the ground.
Brooklyn's beak dropped, "Woah..." Amalthea's cheeks turn red. Thankfully the sounds of the battle from above them caught their attention.
Amalthea narrowed her eyes, "We gotta get back up there," she looked at the gargoyle, "Brooklyn, can you climb back up to the castle? I don't think I can lift you."
"Y-Yeah, no worries," Brooklyn snapped out of it, "What about you?"
Amalthea glared back up, "I'm gonna end this. Stay safe," she smiled at her friend.
Brooklyn nodded, "You too," he watched in awe as she quickly flew back up the tower like a fairy, "Wow..." Not wanting her to be fighting alone, he began to climb.
Flying back up the castle, Amalthea hid behind the walls, she had to be cautious, her father and Owen were obviously watching the hole battle take place. Up in the sky she saw Goliath was being chased by another robot, but he then back-flipped landing on the robots back, now steering it. Another robot starting following him, Goliath turned the robot around and flew right at the other, and in the last second he jumped off as the two robots collided. The explosion was massive, rubble rained down on Xanatos, Owen and Demona. The ran back inside the castle for cover, which gave Amalthea and opening.
She flew above the castle wall, looking around till she spotted both Broadway and Lexington. She flew down towards them, as the two of them started waking back up, "What's going on?" Lexington groaned, rubbing his head.
"I don't know," Broadway grunted, as they both opened their eyes. Their vision was a little blurry till it got into focus. They saw their human friend Amalthea, only she looked very different, "Thea... is that you?"
Amalthea sigh in relief and smiled, "You guys alright?"
"I think I hit my head..." Broadway groaned, rubbing it. Suddenly the group heard the sound of a jet-rocket coming towards them. Amalthea looked behind her to see the last robot aiming right at them. It fired its laser at them, but Amalthea counteracted the blast with Quintessence, the force shock made the wrist-rocket blow off the robots arm. The robot did a big loop coming around to fire at them again.
Amalthea noticed Goliath and Brooklyn on top of the broken tower, as well as Hudson and Bronx, "Get to Hudson!" she shouted, before flying off after the robot. Even though it was flying right at her, it paid no mind to the Guardian, "Guess you're only programmed to attack gargoyles," Amalthea frowned, as the robot flew passed her and headed toward the rest of the clan, she chanted, "Quintessence!" one more time, shooting off its other arm, And not a second too late, Goliath and Brooklyn pushed off a large portion the tower rubble onto the robot, it fell down the castle wall, exploding. That was the last of them.
Amalthea sighed in relief, and was about to join the group, only to stop and hid behind the wall. Her father and Demona were now taking matters in their own hands, each holding a large weapon, Demona fired her bazooka right at Goliath and Brooklyn, "NO!" Amalthea screamed, the two gargoyles jumped off right as it hit, but were caught in the blast, Brooklyn crashed down next to his clan, while Goliath landed on the end of the castle wall where Demona was.
"What are you doing?" Goliath shouted at his mate.
Lexington and Broadway helped Brooklyn back on his feet, Hudson pulled out his sword about to aid Goliath but Xanatos pointed his gun at them, "Hold it, Let's just let them play out their little drama, shall we?" he smirked.
Amalthea glared towards her father, and glanced towards Goliath and Demona. She couldn't come aid them without the risk of her father seeing her in guardian form, "Got to do this the normal way," she transformed back into her normal self. Wrapping the pendent around her neck, she quickly snuck around the outside, so not to be spotted by Xanatos or Demona.
"Goliath you're a fool. But then, you always were, weren't you? If you'd only taken the rest of the clan away from the castle that night... The plan was perfect!" Demon said, aiming her bazooka at her lover.
"Plan?" Goliath asked.
"It would have succeeded!" Demona went on.
"What plan?"
"I made a bargen with the captain, I was to get us all out of the castle so that the vikings could sack it." She explained.
"What?"
"I would have worked. And after the humans were gone, we wouldn't had the castle all to ourselves! But you ruined it. You had to protect the humans. You made us stay at the castle when we should have been with you! When the vikings attacked, the captain said he would protect us. But I didn't trust him. I stayed alive because I don't trust anyone."
Everyone was socked: so the real reason they were turned to stone, the reason they were the last of their kind, was all because of her. Goliath then glared at his lover, "But why would you do it?"
"You can ask me that? After hoe they treated us? They had to pay! All humanity has to pay for what they did to our kind! Demona shouted glaring at Goliath.
While the two lovers argued, Amalthea quietly sneaked into the tower, behind Demona. She glanced over at her father who was down the stairs closest to the clan, paying more attention to them, then Goliath and Demoa. The guardian was cutting it very close, but she had to do something. At the right moment, she would take the female gargoyle out.
Goliath narrowed his eyes, "There is good and evil, in all of us. Human and gargoyle alike. You should know that, more then anyone! Don't you see? None of this would have happened if it weren't for you!" Goliath growled, pointing at Demona.
"Don't say that!" Demona shouted, refusing to think she is to blame, "Goliath this is your last chance. Humanity is a poison that must be purged off this planet," she slowly started to walk towards him, "Together you and I can create a new world for our kind. You trusted me once. you loved me once. We have found each other again after a thousand years of solitude. Dose that mean nothing to you?" Amalthea could see the pain in the gargoyles's eyes, are small tears started to swell up. He said nothing to Demona, avoiding her gaze. This enraged her, "Very well then. If you are not my alley, you are my enemy." She fired her bazooka at him. Goliath dodged, but the blast force from behind knocked him down. Demona stepped through the smoke, her eyes glowing red, "I have a name too Goliath. The humans gave it to me long ago. You should know it before you die. I am Demona."
Seeing her chance, Amalthea ran into the smoke that gave her cover from Xanatos, "Quintessence!" she changed lighting, hitting Demona right in the back. The gargoyles cried out in pain, but it didn't stop, as she tried to turn around to see you did she was hit by multiple lighting bolts.
Demona was brought down to her knees, she glared up at whoever was attack her, until see saw the human girl she thought was locked away, "You...?"
Amalthea glared at the gargoyle in showing that she was not afraid of her, while trying to make Demona tremble by her power, "Who's weak now? Who's pathetic now?!" Amalthea growled, her hands stadicking with lightning, and while she didn't know, her eyes were glowing bright white again. But unfortunately the smoke cleared, Amalthea snapped out of her power anger, her eyes turning back to normal.
She heard her father shout her name when when he spotted her. Demona then turned her bazooka at Amalthea, Xanatos shouted, "Demona stop!" he ran over to get his daughter out of the way. But just before Demona pulled the trigger Elisa Maza came running out of nowhere and tackled Demona to the ground, the bazooka went off, firing at the top of a tower. Large debris of stone came falling down, one hitting Xanatos in the back, he was knocked out cold.
"Dad!" Amalthea cried, rushing over to the unconscious man of the floor. luckily he was still breathing. The entire top of the tower fell down beside Elisa and Demona, the how castle wall gave out. Amalthea watched in horror as Elisa started to fall, "Elisa!" she screamed. Goliath dove down after the woman, he grabbed holed of her hand, and flew her towards Amalthea. The teenager got up and hugged the detective, who hugged back.
Demona however was not so lucky, Goliath watched as his former lover plummeted down the building, with stone rubble, until the hogged covered his sight. He roared in anger and pain. Xanatos started to regain conscious, but as he tried to stand, Goliath grabbed the man by the collar of his shirt, "She wanted me to destroy humanity," the gargoyle lifted Xanaots off the floor and hung him at the edge of the castle, "I think I'll start with you!" he glared at the man.
But Xanatos just smirked, "Go ahead. Without me, you'd still be gathering moss."
Amalthea's eyes widened as she rushed over, wrapping her arms around Goliath's arm, "No Goliath please! Don't kill my dad please! I know what he did to you and your clan is unforgivable, but please... I don't want to lose him too," fat tears ran down her face, her hands shaking as she looked up at the gargoyle. Once she said that, Goliath remembered the photographer in Xanatos' office. His wife, Amalthea's mother... she wasn't with them anymore, if he killed Xanatos she would become an orphan.
"Don't do this Goliath," Elisa stepped in, standing behind Amalthea, "Because if you do, you're the same as Demona."
"She's right lad," Hudson added, joining their side, "Is that what you want?"
Goliath looked at his in his grasp, then looked down at Amalthea's pleading eyes. As much as he hated the man his was holding, he couldn't bring himself to kill a father, "...No." he pulled Xanatos away from the edge and threw him next to Elisa. Amalthea hugged Goliath around his waste, "Thank you..." she muttered, the gargoyle returned the hug.
Elisa smiled, but then narrowed her eyes at Xanatos, "Goliath, can you please take Thea to safety?" the gargoyle nodded, as he and Hudson walked the girl back to their clan. Elisa didn't want Amalthea, to watch as she handcuff her father, "I hope you're proud of yourself. Thea will never look at you the same way again."
To the detective's shock, Xanatos didn't try to talk smart, instead he frowned and looked down, "Like she ever did..."
Elisa escorted Xanatos out of the building, leaving Amalthea alone with the gargoyles. They were all still in shocked on what had happened to them, but also were worried for their friend. Hudson suggested to the three younger ones that they should try and comfort their friend.
The trio walked over to the edge of their resting tower, where she was staring down at the city, her arms wrapped around herself. The first light of dawn was coming up shortly. Broadway and Lexington looked at Brooklyn, nudging their head, giving the impression that he should talk first. Brooklyn rolled his eyes at his brothers, and turned to his friend. "Thea... are you ok?"
Amalthea lowered her head, "No am not..." her voices was quiet, "Deep down, I had hoped this would never happened. But... my dad's luck finally ran out," she then turned to face them, "I know tonight was full of heartbreak, and things will never be the same again. But, I hope we still be friends..."
The three gargoyles smiled, "We were already friends Thea," Brooklyn said.
"And we will stand by you, like you did for us tonight," Lexington added. That's when Goliath, Hudson and Bronx joined them, nodding in agreement.
Amalthea felt more tears fall down her face, as she smiled. Whipping them away, "Thank you."
But there was still an unanswered question that was bothering them, "Sooo... are you a fairy?" Broadway asked.
Amalthea smiled and went into a giggling fit, before leaning over and burst into laughter, wrapping her arms around her stomach. Brooklyn's cheeks blushed, while Broadway was looking very contused, "No. But I can tell you guys everything tomorrow. And I have some friends I'd like you to meet." she smiled, before looking at them with a serious tone, "But you have to understand, that once I tell you the truth, it must stay a secret in our group. No other human can know."
"...Not even Elisa?" Lexington asked.
Amalthea shook her head, "Especially Elisa, and more importantly, my dad."
The gargoyles were quiet for a moment, taking in what she told them. There were still so many unanswered questions, and after seeing what Amalthea really was, with the kind of power she possessed, they understood why she didn't want Xanatos to know, but why Elisa?
"We understand," Goliath said, stepping forward so that he was in front of his clan. He looked down at the young women, "We are in your debt Amalthea, and we thank you."
Amalthea smiled back at him, "I thank you guys as well," she looked behind her, the sun was rising fast.
The gargoyles took their places on the towers, but not before Elisa came back to thank them again. She stood next to Goliath and Amalthea, "It's nice to know I have more then one human friend in this new world," Goliath smiled down at the women.
"I hope you have more. Lost more," Elisa smiled, "But whether you do or not, I'll always be your friend Goliath. Same time tomorrow night?"
"I wouldn't miss it," Goliath said.
"Good, maybe we can catch a Giant's game." Elisa added.
"Giants?" Goliath asked, right when the sun came up, his confused face frozen in stone till the next night.
Amalthea giggled, before looking at Elisa, "Thanks for the help today," she smiled slightly, but then frowned thinking about her father.
Elisa frowned as well, wrapping her arms around the girl, she brought her into a hug, "It will be ok Thea. No matter what happens, Rae and I will be here for you."
Amalthea hugged tightly, trying not to cry again, "Thank you..." before walking back inside.