Inside an abandoned garage, Lexington is working on a custom motorcycle with Brooklyn, Broadway, and Athena's help. Brooklyn and Broadway wait impatiently as Lexington finishes up.
"Isn't it finished yet?" Broadway asked, "We've been here every night for a week."
"Come on, you've ridden one of these before," Brooklyn said.
"I wouldn't say "ridden". I would say that Lexington crashed it into a wall and almost blew up with it," Athena told Brooklyn.
Once finished Lexington pulled the bike upright and put the kickstand out, "You rode a horse once. Could you build one from spare parts?"
Brooklyn shrugged and went over to the table. He grabbed the helmet and poked two holes on the top of it before placing it on his head.
"Why bother with a helmet?" Broadway asked jokingly, "Your head's hard enough."
Brooklyn wrapped his wings around his waist and put a leather jacket on, "Hey, it's all part of the look."
"There. lt's ready," Lexington told Brooklyn.
Brooklyn sits on the motorcycle before putting on sunglasses, "All right!"
Brooklyn revies the engine before kicking back the stand and speeding off out of the garage. Lexington and Broadway cheered Brooklyn before they stopped and looked at one another.
"Don't we get our turns?" Broadway asked.
"Maybe not tonight, but perhaps tomorrow night. Let's head back to the castle," Athena said. The three prepared to leave and return to the castle, but what they didn't know was that they were being watched.
They returned to the castle and join Goliath, Hudson, and Bronx in the TV room. Hudson and Bronx were watching tv while Goliath was reading a book with a few more beside him.
"Where's Brooklyn?" Goliath asked.
"He's out joyriding," Broadway replied.
"Joyriding''?" He asked in a confused voice before continuing his book.
Athena looks at her watch, "I better get going. I have a shift tomorrow afternoon and I promised Jason that we send sometime before that, but I'll see you guys tomorrow night," She leaves the room and hides down to the lobby of the Eyrie Building. Athena gets into her car and drives home.
Brooklyn rode through the streets having the time of his, "Oh, this is great! l love this bike."
He then rode past a cop car, going well past the speed limit. The cops turn their siren on and begin pursuit. Brooklyn sees them coming in his rearview mirror and escapes by driving into an alleyway and up a ramp formed by some trash, spreading his wings, and gliding over a wall, bike and all.
"You want to call that in?" The cop asked his partner.
"Call what in?" He replied with disbelief of what they saw.
The cop looks down at the box of donuts before tossing them out the window, "That's it. I'm off sugar."
Now safe from the police pursuit, Brooklyn refolds his wings and spots some fellow bikers driving by, "Yes! Kindred spirits." He drives up alongside them.
"Hey, righteous hog, man," One complimented on his motorcycle.
"Glad you like it."
"Where'd you get it?" Another asked.
"My friends and l made it," Brooklyn answered. He then removes his helmet revealing that his horns were not apart of his helmet.
"What? lt's a freaking monster! Get him!" The first biker shouted before he and the rest go to attack Brooklyn.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Brooklyn asked before they gather around and started punching him. Brooklyn throws them off him. His eyes glowing white and his jacket ripped off revealing his wings," You want a fight? You got it."
A biker runs towards Brooklyn with a metal wrench but Brooklyn catches him before throwing the biker to the motorcycles causing them to be knocked down. Brooklyn fends them off until one of them pulls out a gun and points it at him.
"Enough! Let's see if you're bulletproof, freak."
The shadowy figure that's been trailing Brooklyn swoops down and strikes the biker's arm with its tail. The stray bullet misses Brooklyn, but hits the bike, making it explode into flame.
"My bike!" Brooklyn yelled enraged.
When the one biker pulls his gun again and starts firing, Brooklyn's unknown friend pulls him out of the line of fire and into a back alley. They climb up the side of a building to safety. Now out of bullets and the only one still conscious, the biker hops on his motorcycle and drives away, disappearing into the night. Brooklyn follows the other gargoyle to the rooftop.
"Broadway? Lexington?" Brooklyn called out.
"None of the above," The gargoyle steps out from the shadows revealing to be Demona.
"Demona?"
"Don't be afraid. l just want to talk," She said in a soft voice.
"Uh-huh. Yeah, last time we met you just wanted to blow me away with a bazooka," Brooklyn told her as he back away.
"That was then."
Brooklyn opens his wings and hops on the railing, "And this is goodbye."
"Wait. Please. I'm sorry, Brooklyn. l know l shouldn't have shot at you.l was crazy with rage and fear. lf you only knew what I'd gone through for hundreds of years, dealing with the humans."
"Hundreds of years? l thought you were under the sleep spell like we were."
"lt's a long story. Centuries long. I'd like to tell you about it, if you'll let me."
"l don't trust you, Demona."
"Wasn't this like old times? Fighting together, side by side? Comrades in arms?" She walks closer to him.
"Stay back," Brooklyn demanded.
"l saved your life just now. Doesn't that at least entitle me to a moment of your time?"
"All right. I'm listening."
"I want to help you, help all the gargoyles. Those humans you just met, what did you do to provoke them?"
"I did nothing! They just attacked me!"
"Exactly, that's what humans are like."
"But Goliath said once they get use to us…" Brooklyn said before Demona interrupted him.
"They were use to us a thousand years ago! Did that stop them from betraying us and destroying our kind?"
"I… I don't know."
Demona jumps and stands stop the railing, "You don't know the depths humanity can sink my young friend, but I do. Over the centuries I've seen horrors that would blast your soul. Come, let me show you what mankind is really like."
Demona holds out her hand to him. Brooklyn hesitates for a moment before taking her hand. The two jump off the railing and glide over the city. Demona takes Brooklyn to a roof overlooking an alley where a woman is being mugged.
The mugger runs away with the woman's purse as she screams for help from the police," Help! Police! Police!"
Brooklyn moves to help , but Demona stops him," What would you do? Capture him for human justice? He'd be out of jail and back on the streets in a day."
She takes Brooklyn to a family home where a husband and wife have a terrible argument about their son.
"His grades stink! His friends are hoodlums!" The man shouted.
"What do you care?! You're never home," The woman screamed at him before throwing a vase at his head which he managed to dodge. What neither of them noticed was their son crying as he ran out of the house.
"They can't even share their own homes without fighting, and you think they will share this world with us?" Demona asked.
Finally, Demona shows Brooklyn a crime scene that police are investigating. A chalk outline of a body is drawn on the pavement. A handgun is placed inside an evidence bag. Figures load a body wrapped in a sheet into an ambulance.
"They hold each others lives completely without worth, do you really think they would except us with open arms?"
"No," Brooklyn replied with a defeated sigh.
"And this is not the worst of it, we must make Goliath see the truth, humanity will never trust or except us."
"But not all humans are like that. Elisa is our friend and Athena, a human you and Goliath raised," Brooklyn pointed out.
"Perhaps the police woman and my daughter are the exceptions that prove the rule, but can she keep you safe from the rest of humanity? Only we can protect each other, Brooklyn. We must be united and strong and willing to deal with the humans as they would deal with us. Goliath thinks we can hide in their midst like mice and hope for their understanding. This is not possible. Remember a thousand years ago we we treated as monsters by the humans. Athena, My daughter and your beloved niece was treated like an outcasted by her own kind. Remember what happened to Goliath, Lexington, and my daughter? They hunted like animals because Lexington trusted the pack.
"How did you know?" Brooklyn asked.
Demona ignores the question and dares him, "If you think I'm wrong then show yourself to them." Brooklyn makes no move and merely looks down at the humans below them.
"Very wise, Brooklyn," She praised, "They would have shoot you down like a dog."
"Let's say your right, what do we do?" Brooklyn asked, "Goliath still believes that human will accept us eventually."
"Goliath must be made to see the truth for the good of all of us. There is a way, the Magnus's spell book, bring it to me, there is a spell of truth in it's pages, with it I can open Goliath's eyes, once Goliath understands the rest will follow."
Brooklyn takes one last saddened look down at the departing paramedics and police before gliding away, and Demona smiles, knowing she's won him over.
At Athena and Jason's home, The two are practicing their combat skills on one another. Jason tries to punch athena, but she doges and grabs ahold of his hand. She pulls him forward as she pivots on her right foot by stepping back with her left foot. She drops her hip and turns her arm until it is directly underneath Jason's left armpit. She snaps her hip by twisting counter-clockwise. She tugs his right arm closely to herself for control as she throws him over her hip, landing on his back. Athena holds his arm as she places a foot on his chest.
"I believe you have won," Jason said.
"Yep. I thought you had me for a second," Athena told him as she helped him off the floor.
The two heard the phone ring and Athena went over to answer it, "Hello?"
"Hey, Athena," Elisa greeted.
"Hey, Elisa. What's up?"
"I'm on my way to your place to pick you up."
"Why?" Athena asked.
"I got a reminder that Xanatos' jail time is almost up and I think it would be best if the guys heard it from both of us. You know that there going to have to find another place to sleep," Elisa replied.
"I know, let me get changed and I'll meet you outside," she said before hanging up.
"What's wrong?" Jason asked.
"Elisa told me that Xanatos is going to be out prison soon and that we need to tell my family. She's going to be here soon, so I'm going to go change," Athena replied.
Athena went to their room and changed before going to the front door and outside. Elisa pulled up a moment later and they drove to the Eyrie building.
At the tower of the castle, the rest of the clan waited for Brookyln's return before the sun rises. A short while later, Brooklyn returns to the castle.
"How was your joyride?" Goliath asked.
"Illuminating," Brooklyn answered.
"Goliath," Elisa called out as she and Athena came up to the tower, "I'm glad we were able to catch you before dawn."
"Yes, Elisa. Daughter," Golaith greeted, "Is something wrong?"
"There will be, Xanatos time in jail is almost up. He'll be out of jail in a month," She replied.
"So you've said before why does this concern you?"
"Father, it concerns you and the clan," Athena told him, "You have to find another place to live. I would suggest that the clan live at my home, but there are somethings that would not mix well with three certain gargoyles' curiosity. But Elisa and I might have found the perfect place."
"There is no need for that, Xanatos has been beaten, the castle is ours now," Goliath argued.
"How do we know that? What if he tries to reclaim it?" Brooklyn asked.
"We will deal with it if and when it happens but until then we are not leaving our home."
"But Goliath…." Brooklyn begins to argue, but sunrise prevents him from saying more as they turn to stone.
"Why do you have to be so stubborn?" Athena asked as he looked at her father in his stone sleep.
"I believe that would be one of life's greatest mysteries. Come on, let's go," Elisa said.
After leaving the Eyrie building, Elisa took Athena back home.
"I just don't know how we're going to convince my father to leave the castle," Athena said.
"Don't worry. We'll find a way," Elisa told her.
"I hope so," Athena got out of the car," See you later."
"Bye."
Athena closed the passenger door and waved as Elisa drove away before going inside. Athena and Jason spent the morning before her shift in the afternoon going out to breakfast at a diner they went to during their first time in New York in the 20th century, the Capitol Restaurant. When they were finished, Jason and Athena took a walk around central park reminiscing about the memories they've had in New York through the centuries. After sometime, Athena's shift was about to begin and Jason drove her the precinct.
After her shift was done, Athena saw that the sun was setting and her family would be waking up soon. She took a taxi to the Eyrie building and went to the top of the castle's highest tower. The sun sets once more that evening and the gargoyles reawaken.
Goliath steps down from his pedestal and hugs his daughter, "Good evening, daughter."
"Good evening, father," Athena smiled.
"Daughter, you have spent a great time in this new world while we slept. Perhaps you could show me as you did with Brooklyn, Lexington, and Broadway?" He asked.
"Of course, father."
Goliath picks her up before jumping off the tower and gliding through the night sky. During the tour Athena gave her father, she told him the history of most of the places they visited and what memories she had of them. When they returned to the castle, Goliath sat on his pedestal and Athena sat on the one to his right.
A short while later, Brooklyn flew over to them and landed on the pedestal to Golaith's left.
"Goliath, I found the most fantasinating place," Brooklyn said with enthusiasm.
"How so?" Goliath asked.
"It's just like the world we came from. It's called the cositers, maybe you and Athena could see it?"
"I've heard of it. It could be perfect for the clan," Athena said to her father.
Goliath smiled and picked her up before following Brooklyn across the city. They landed at the cositer, a beautiful place with stone walls, columns, and a garden with a stone path.
"It's beautiful, I wish we'd brought the other," Goliath said.
"It's good you didn't cause we wanted you here alone."
Goliath and Athena turned behind and saw Demona stepping out from the shadows with a spellbook in her hand and Brooklyn goes to her side.
"Mother?"
Demona smiled at her daughter, "Hello, my child. I am glad you decided to join."
"Demona, how did you survived?" Goliath growled.
"I always survive," She snapped at him.
"Brooklyn, what is going on here?"
"Just listen, Goliath, please, she has something very important to say to you," Brooklyn replied.
"He's right, Goliath. Listen and obey," Demona said before she opened the book and Athena realized that it was the Grimorum Arcanorum. The book started to glow green as she spoke the incantation," Sine dubio, instantatum."
Goliath runs towards her, but a green fireball shoots from Demona's hand, striking Goliath and enveloping him while Athena shields her eyes from the light. Goliath roars in pain then stops, his eyes glowing a strange green.
"Father?" Athena looks at him, consumed with worry, before looking at Demona with hatred,"Release him from the spell now!"
"What's happening?" Brooklyn asked confused, "I thought the spell was suppose to open his eyes."
"It will, watch,"Demona turned to Goliath, "Humans are our enemies."
"Humans are our enemies," Goliath repeated, devoid of emotion.
"This wan't the plan! I wanted to free his mind not enslave it!" Brooklyn snapped at Demona.
"I think this was her plan along, Brooklyn. Wasn't it, Demona?!" Athena asked as she summoned the sword she was given centuries ago and had kept.
"You are correct, Daughter. You wanted him to know the truth, Brooklyn," She replied,"Now what we tell him will be the only truth he knows."
"You're insane! Give me that book!" Brooklyn charged at her.
"Brooklyn wait, you must trust me," Demona said holding the book away from him.
"I was a fool to trust you," His eyes glowed white and he attacked her.
"Goliath, restrain him!" She commanded.
Goliath goes to stop Brooklyn and he grabs him, allowing Demona to escape.
Brooklyn breaks free of Goliath's grasp and tries to reason with him, "Goliath! It's me! Brooklyn! Stop!" But Goliath ignores and tries to attack him.
"I'm sorry, Father. Emocha Objectia," Athena's hands are covered with balls of bright blue glowing energy and fires them at Goliath, knocking him back.
Goliath gets back up and purses Athena and Brooklyn. Brooklyn breaks down a door to escape and they hide from Demona and the lumbering Goliath.
"Wait, Brooklyn," Demona said in a soft voice, "I won't hurt you, don't you see this is the only way? This is only temporary. He will obey whoever holds the spell, we can protect him from his native until we reach our goals. My daughter, I know that you bear the bane of humanity like your father, but can't you see that the humans have not changed in the millenia you have lived through."
Athena steps out from behind a column and walks toward Demona, "Perhaps you are right, Mother. The humans are still as barbaric as they were a thousand years ago."
Brooklyn steps out from hiding," Athena, what are you doing? Don't you know what she has done?"
"All she has done, Brooklyn, is merely show me and my father the truth of humans," She replied.
"Thank you, daughter," Demona smiled, "Incendium," A red fireball shoots from Demona's hand, striking Brooklyn and knocking him down. Demona prepares to cast the mind control spell on Brooklyn, "I hate to do this, but you leave me no choice."
Brooklyn begins to laugh, and Demona becomes confused by this, "What are you doing? Why are you laughing, Brooklyn?!"
"I'm not Brooklyn," He smirked before turning into Athena.
"I am," The Athena beside Demona said before turning into Brooklyn. He knocks the Grimorum out of her hands with his tail.
Demona pounces on Brooklyn and retrieves the book, she holds him against the wall, "You fool! Do you think I've waited this far to let you stop me now?" She tosses him aside and Athena runs to him, "Goliath! Destroy him!" Goliath does not move, "I hold the book, you must obey me."
"You may hold the book, Demona, but I hold the spell," Brooklyn said showing Demona the page. Demona gasps and opens the Grimorum discovering the page was missing.
Brooklyn hands the spell to Athena, "Goliath, get her!"
Goliath obeys and attacks her, but Demona avoids him and drops a banner over him to slow him down. With the Grimorum in hand, she leaps up to the second story of the Cloisters. Still following orders, Goliath goes after her. Goliath tackles Demona, but they smash through a window to the outside and she escapes again. Goliath continues his pursuit and Brooklyn , carrying Athena, follows him out the window. Demona tears some pages from the Grimorum, just as Goliath swoops upward and dives down on her. She strikes him with the book and the two crash to the ground. Demona picks up a large boulder and throws it at Goliath. Goliath dodges and the boulder breaks a tree instead. Demona hears a roar and looks up to see Brooklyn flying towards her.
She dodges Goliath charging at her and runs with the Grimorum to the edge of a cliff. She throws the book towards the water below. Forcing Brooklyn to dive down after it instead of chasing her after he quickly placed Athena on the ground. Brooklyn just manages to catch the Grimorum before it plunges into the water. Brooklyn and Athena look up at the sky and saw Demona escaping.
Brooklyn and Athena look at Goliath before Athena says, "Goliath pick me up and let's go back to the castle."
Goliath picked her up and they flew back to the castle. When they arrived, the others asked what had happened and Brooklyn explains to them.
"I've gone through the book page by page, but I don't how to reverse the spell Demona put on Goliath," He said.
"You mean he's going to be like this forever?" Broadway asked.
"I don't know if you can understand me, Goliath, but… I'm sorry, this is all my fault, if I hadn't let Demona talk me into stealing the book…"
"How are we going this help him?" Lexington asked, "We can't defeat the spell."
"I might have an idea. I think it's time we try a little thing called fighting fire with fire. Uncle, can I have the spell?" Brooklyn hands the page over to Athena and she stands in front of Goliath, "Father, I order to not be under the spell."
Goliath close his eyes and shakes his head before opening them, revealing the green is gone and he was back to normal, "Very clever, daughter. "
The clan rejoices for Goliath and praises Athena.
"Goliath, I'm sorry-" Brooklyn begins to apologize, but is stopped when Goliath raised his hand.
"You've apologized once already, Brooklyn. I could hear even though I could not act."
"What Demona said sounded true at the time."
"Of course it did, it's a half truth that she has embraced but it's not the whole truth, come, the sun is rising and I for one could use some rest."
Sunrise is near, so the gargoyles take their positions on the tower.
"Hey, what happened to the motorcycle?" Lexington asked,
"It blew up," Brooklyn admitted.
"Oh…" Lexington said calmly before reacting, "What?!" Lexington's horrified reaction is frozen on his face as the sun rises.
Nathan Kirk (guest): I know that is how it the storyline in the show, but I wanted to make my story to make sense of how I kinda rewrote history. I do realize I'm pulling a Barry (a little reference for Arrowverse fans), but it will all work out in the future. In the meantime, enjoy the story.