Brutal Vengeance

By Princess Alexandria

******Chapter 1: Demona******

Dominique Destine pushed the tape into her VCR and closed the door to her office to see it.  Her heart was beating a little more quickly because she had thought that he was dead, but it was obviously him that addressed this.  She'd recognize his artistic handwriting anywhere.

"Ms. Destine, I'm leaving now."  The receptionist called into her office through the closed door.

"Just Go!"  Dominique yelled back in irritation as she sat with the remote in her hand.  It was the middle of winter, and the sun set wasn't far away, but some instinct told her that she needed to see this tape right away, and she'd learned to follow those instincts. 

The tape started and she watched as the screen filled with that gargoyle.  She hissed in her hatred of him, and the bitter feeling of betrayal just seeing him made her feel.  "Thailog."

Thailog smiled into the camera while standing up straighter.  "Doubtless you are surprised to see me.  I've been busy finding a way to pay you back for all you've done for me."  The sneer on his lips as he spoke made it clear that he wasn't sending a thank you note.  When he turned Dominique could see the ruined stumps of his wings, the only visible evidence of that fight they'd had.  She had thought she'd killed him.

Dominique's body stiffened up in alarm as she noticed what was behind him. "Angela." Her voice called out to her unconscious daughter helplessly. Her mind barely managed to grasp the fact that this was a tape, and that whatever that male had planned had already taken place. Her panic made it hard to breath as she watched him walk up to Angela while she was so helpless.

"I am sending this tape to Demona and Goliath, so that they can see what their little girl is up to. She's alive…" His eyes started to glow in anger, "but if you ever want to see her again, you will need to watch the tape, watch and listen, because I'm a fair person. I'll leave you clues, and maybe you can find her… and Detective Maza." 

The camera turned smoothly to reveal the Detective chained to the wall, with a black eye and a split lip, but Demona took no pleasure in Elisa's obvious discomfort now. Her eyes didn't even blink as she studied everything she saw carefully, desperately hoping to find something that he forgot, something that would give her a place to start. She had to find Angela fast, because one thing she knew about Thailog was that he was a cold and cruel male.

******Chapter 2: Goliath******

Goliath's eyes sprang open as the sun moved out of sight on the horizon. The stone encasing him broke and fell to the ground as he roared out. His eyes quickly traveled to the empty place on the wall where Angela should be. She hadn't made it home before the sunrise, and he had images of danger running around in his head. She almost never failed to make it home.

When he heard footsteps behind him, his heart lifted, expecting to see Elisa telling him that Angela had stayed the day at her home. He turned and the smile left his lips as Xanatos stepped out into the courtyard. "Goliath…" The dark-haired human's voice was serious and concerned as he stepped closer. Xanatos' voice dropped in volume, obviously not wanting the rest of the waking clan to hear him. "I got something in the mail for you today." Goliath's eyes stared into David's and what he saw there alarmed him. "It's a tape. I… I recognized the handwriting, so I watched it. Thailog has Angela and Elisa."

"Where is this tape?!" Goliath found it hard to breath, and the urge to fight or scream was hard to resist. David nodded once and moved to lead him inside. Goliath started to move to follow.

Brooklyn walked up to them before they made it inside. "Should we start patrols without her?"

"No, stay here." Goliath could see his second was puzzled by the command. He'd tell them about this after he knew what was going on. Xanatos lead him into Owen's office, where a large television sat on the wall.

David stepped closer to the television and moved to press play on the VCR before pausing. "I want you to know that I will do everything I can to help. We're already working on trying to figure out where they are being held." He then hit play and moved to leave. Goliath just nodded his thanks. "Goliath… we will find them." David spoke softly before leaving him to watch.

Goliath sat almost as still as he did as he was stone, while staring at the screen. Tears bleared his vision as he watched his clone, and heard his daughter's scream as another wing finger was broken. He could also hear Elisa screaming for Thailog to stop, which only seemed to amuse the clone. Thailog reached out to break the last wing finger.

"Well, it is almost daylight here now." Thailog addressed the camera as if hosting a talk show, with a smile and high spirits. "We will be starting this again as soon as the sun sets. You've just got to love gargoyle regenerative powers." The tape went black, and Goliath still stared. That monster was torturing Angela as he was watching this tape. He might have even started with Elisa, who Thailog had ignored tonight as he ripped Angela's wings, and broke her bones.

After watching the entire tape, he realized that no clues were given. He had no idea where they were being held captive. His pain filled scream shook the windows.

The loud knock on the door drew his attention, so he got up and went to unlock it. David must have locked it for him. Brooklyn looked tense, "Demona is heading this way."

Goliath took a deep breath, "Good."

"We can capture her and make her tell us what she did with Angela." Brooklyn's eyes started to glow, as his hands clenched.

"She didn't do anything. She is welcome here now." Goliath spoke wearily as he started to walk down the hall to go meet her when she landed. "We're going to need her help. Thailog has Angela and Elisa."

"What?!" Brooklyn's voice rose, "She actually is working with that bastard to kidnap her own daughter! That is even lower than I thought her capable of!"

Goliath glanced over at his second, and the hatred in his eyes was eerily familiar. "No, Demona isn't involved in that. I… want you to keep this quiet until I have time to talk with Demona alone. I don't want Broadway rushing off to search the city. We will find them, and we will make that monster pay… but we are going to need Demona's help."

Brooklyn nodded quietly as his eyes stopped glowing. "I don't know how I'll explain her just dropping by, but I'll keep it quiet for now." Brooklyn reached up to put a comforting hand on Goliath's shoulder, "We will find them."

Goliath stood alone on the castle wall waiting for Demona to land. Thailog had said that there were clues, and Demona knew that bastard better than anyone else. Once she touched down he could see the tension in her body. Her face showed her worry and anger clearly. "Come, we need to talk." He turned to lead her to the office he had just come from.

****** Chapter 3: Elisa******

The detective clenched her fists helplessly as she paced the stone floor. Angela and her had been searching for the missing gargoyles in the warehouse district when Thailog had managed to capture them. Most of the clones had disappeared, and they really should have suspected that he was alive and had something to do with it. The only clone that didn't leave the Labyrinth unexpectedly was Delilah, but she'd been shaken and unwilling to talk about whatever it was that frightened her so badly. If Elisa had figured it out faster, she could have realized that Angela was a target. She could have made sure the female wasn't put at risk. Elisa had to forcefully push her self-disgust so that she could focus on other things.

Elisa sat down on the cold stone floor and stared at Angela. The gargoyle's face was frozen in a mask of pain. Thailog had tortured the female until shortly before dawn, and then left Elisa chained to the wall for the day. Listening to Angela's screams of pain had been the hardest thing that Elisa had ever had to endure in her life. Her throat was sore from her own screaming, pleading with him to stop. That monster completely ignored her.

The chain around Elisa's ankle was thick and heavy. It ran through a hole in the wall, and Elisa had spent time trying to see what was in that hole. It looked like there was a spool of chain. That made sense. She was chained almost flush to the wall while he tortured the girl that Elisa thought of as her best friend, and sometimes in her heart, she felt like Angela was her own family. Now she was given enough slack to be able to reach the toilet and sink in the corner of the room and was able to just enough to reach Angela.

Elisa glared at the chains that were holding the stone female to the stone slab. Even her tail had been chained to her leg, so that Angela really couldn't move anything at all. He'd forced Angela onto it shortly before sunrise and laying on her injured wings had caused Angela even more pain. The wings had been brutalized, and it wasn't hard to see his motivation for that. Angela was being tortured because of Thailog's hate for Demona, who had destroyed his own wings. Angela didn't deserve to ever be treated like this. Hell, even Demona wouldn't have deserved this. Elisa caressed the stone face of her friend, taking in the look of pain and fear frozen on her. "Oh Angela."

Elisa's tears dripped onto Angela's neck, so Elisa leaned back and tried to wipe them away. Now wasn't the time to break down. She was going to have to be strong, and help the girl through this. Thailog made no secret of the fact that this whole thing was being taped and sent to Angela's parents. There had to be a way to secretly let them know where Thailog had taken them. He'd edit anything obvious out. Elisa sighed and stared down at Angela while she tried to figure it out.

She had to rest so at some point she laid down beside Angela on that slab and let sleep have her briefly, while she faced the door, keeping Angela behind her. She hadn't seen any humans here, but she wasn’t going to risk any of his henchmen coming in to kill the girl.

Once she heard the cracking of stone Elisa rolled off the slab and waited. The moment that Angela regained consciousness and realized that it hadn't been a nightmare was so hard to see. Elisa moved forward to caress Angela's hair soothingly. "They'll find us. You just need to stay strong a little longer. Goliath will get us out of here." She leaned down and kissed Angela's browridge, all the while screaming on the inside. Even if Goliath figured out where they were right away after seeing the tape, it would take hours after sunset for him to get to them. She didn't tell Angela any of that though. Or the fact that while Thailog had claimed that he'd give the others clues, Elisa hadn’t seen him do that last night.

The sound of heavy footsteps echoed down the hall, and Angela's terrified expression broke Elisa's heart yet again. The clank in the wall startled Elisa and she turned to look at it just as the chain started to be pulled back to it, dragging her away from Angela. It pulled painfully on her ankle, so Elisa had to try and move faster than the chain to get to the wall.

"Hello Ladies." Thailog spoke as soon as he opened the strong steel door that he had on their cell. It really was overkill, since neither of them could even get to the doorway.

"Leave her alone." Elisa growled at him. Her eyes held barely contained rage at the thought of him hurting Angela anymore. "She's never done anything to you."

"Oh, but she has." His eyes started to glow. "Demona tried to kill me for HER. Demona left me for dead and crippled my wings, FOR HER!" The way his voice was rising, and the strange way he was speaking made Elisa stare with wide eyes for a moment before covering it up. This clone sounded like he'd gone insane.

He calmed his voice and the way he easily switched to the mockery of polite conversation sent shivers down Elisa's spine. "So, I'll torture Angela FOR Demona. It's all really quite fair. Don't worry, I won't neglect you, but human's don't heal as well, and I plan to keep you around for a while."

"Don't you dare touch her." Angela's voice was weak and shaky, but her eyes burned red as she stared defiantly at their tormentor.

Thailog turned to look at Angela and Elisa noticed the girl flinch. "You can't move, so why do you even bother threatening me?" Elisa's heart started to pound even faster as he started to walk over to Angela.

"NO!" Elisa yelled out as Thailog backhanded Angela across the face. Thailog turned to look at Elisa and the cold killer she saw in his eyes terrified her.

"I've had enough of your screaming protests my dear." He stepped up to Elisa and pulled out a ball gag from a bag tied to his belt. Elisa tried to keep her mouth shut, but when he pressed on her jaw, she was forced to open her mouth or he might break it. "Don't worry, I'll let you scream later." He pushed her hair off her face and kissed her cheek gently. She tried to flinch away from it, and his satisfied look at that response chilled her.

He then marched over to Angela while pulling out another gag, and Elisa found herself pulling on her leg trying to get the heavy chain to release her so that she could go to Angela. He forced the gag into the girl's mouth and then leered at Angela in a way that had Elisa ignoring the pain in her own leg as she struggled to get closer.

"You are really quite beautiful. Your mother must be proud." Thailog then slipped his talon under Angela's tunic and started to cut it away from her slowly. Elisa screamed as much as she could through the gag for him to stop, but none of her words were understandable. Angela was struggling with her chains trying to flinch away from him as he pulled the ruined tunic off her body and just stared down at her.

**** Angela's Chapter *****

Angela felt her heart pounding in fear as his sharp talons ran along her skin while he cut off her clothes. She could tell what he wanted to do to her. His eyes held a sick hunger. She tried to flinch away, even though she knew it would stop him.

His hands were warm as he caressed her breasts after taking her clothing away, and she felt waves of revulsion. "You're very pretty. It must disgust you to have me touch you. I am after all your father's clone." He smirked, while saying what she'd been thinking.

She pulled on her arms and tried to close her legs, but the chains were too strong. Finally she stopped struggling and got a determined look on her face. He was doing this to torture her mother. She wasn't going to give him the struggles and fear he was after. The thought that he was taping this and sending it for her parents to see sickened her even more and she felt shame, real shame that she was naked, that he was touching her.

The hard pinch to her nipple had her scream in pain, while he continued to pull it away from her body. "Pay attention to me bitch." He hissed and then lowered his face over her's to stare into her eyes. "No, don't look away." His eyes were burning with insanity. Angela flinched back, and hated that she could see her father in his features. She started to struggle again as she felt his hand traveling along her skin down to her sex. Tears started to fall from her eyes silently as he slid those talons along her sex and then pulled on her pubic hair. Elisa's screaming barely registered as she felt him pushing his tail into her sex. Angela tried to scream, tried to plead, but the pain was horrible as he ripped past her virginity.

"Looks like your fat boyfriend never got past first base." He leered at her and she felt him pull out, leaving pain behind. "Good, means I can be first." Oh God no. Angela started to shudder with her tears. He'd taken her virginity. He'd taken something that was supposed to be given in love.

"Master?" the clones voice at the door made Thailog step back. Angela gave Malibu a pleading look for help, but his leering at her body made her hope sink.

Thailog tilted his head and studied the clone. "Have you ever seen a naked female?" Malibu just shook his head no while continuing to stare openly at Angela's breasts. Thailog turned to look into Angela's eyes with a cruel smile. "Get your brothers. I want you all to get to touch a female. It isn't right that you are being denied that privilege."

Angela shook her head back and forth, pleading with her eyes for him to not do this. Elisa's chain made loud noises as the detective was obviously protesting loudly when the clones came in to surround the stone slab. Angela wanted to sink into that stone as the clones started to caress her carelessly, leaving small cuts on her breasts.