Author: LC Champlin

Demona and Macbeth are back, and they have their sights set on Coldstone. Despite Macbeth’s multiple attempts to kill Demona during the last four episodes, they’re now working together. Something big is afoot. The clan must rescue Coldstone and stop whatever the immortal duo is planning. But are they walking into a trap? They don’t have a choice.

Demona and Macbeth died in 1057 AD. Briefly. Via the Weird Sisters’ magic, both will live until one kills the other. Now 900 years later, Macbeth is at the end of his rope. Life damages the living – even the immortal. He wants to rest, and that will require him killing Demona. She, however, has other plans, such as destroying humanity.

Meanwhile, Team Xanatos and the gargoyles are in mortal danger. In order to save themselves and New York City, they’ll have to get Demona to cooperate. Like getting blood from a stone, you say? Not if you turn the stone to flesh first. It will take super-human, gargoyle, and natural effort, though.

With Demona’s help, Macbeth is pushing the English from Scotland. But an overheard word can change the fate of nations. Again Demona is the betrayer. The Hunter returns to finally claim his victims. Death will have to wait a few centuries for them, though.

In the present, Macbeth confronts Demona in the Eyrie Building. He’s tired, and he’s not going to take any more of Demona’s schemes. Lives hang in the balance, depending on what the apathetic former king does next.

The Weird Sisters cast their spell on Demona and Macbeth. Now their fates are sealed. Allied, Demona and Macbeth clash with King Duncan in battle. In the present, Xanatos prepares to set the sky ablaze with the help of the gargoyles. While they’re away, though, an unexpected visitor sneaks into the Eyrie Building’s great hall. This trespasser could cost everyone their lives and doom the city to its stone sleep.

New York City awakens after its night of stone sleep. Those people Demona killed will never wake again. House Xanatos learns how to break the spell, then prepares to save the metropolis. Meanwhile, Macbeth ruminates on the betrayal that led to his bargain with Demona and the Weird Sisters. At last we learn how he and Demona are still alive after 1000 years. Hint: three sisters, identical except for hair color, had a hand in it.

Macbeth’s history unfolds, revealing the loss of his childhood sweetheart, Gruoch, to Gillecomgain, aka The Hunter. Gillecomgain grows too cocky for Duncan’s liking though, leading the prince to manipulate Macbeth into attacking him. Enter Demona. She also has a bone to break with the Hunter.

In the present, Xanatos arrives at Pack Media Studios just as Demona prepares to shatter stone Owen. Despite David’s skills, he’s no match for the 1000-year-old warrior, especially when she uses Owen as a human shield.

Who should come to Xanatos’s aid – accidentally – but an old acquaintance. He’s not a happy camper, and Demona is about to experience the brunt of his rage.

Did you miss the first half of the episode review? Read City of Stone part 2.

It’s up to David Xanatos to save himself and Fox , who’s now a statue, from becoming charcoal in a chopper crash. But his troubles are just beginning: Demona’s spell turned (almost) the entire population of New York City to stone. The gargoyles are in the same boat, with Elisa turned to stone. They find help from an unlikely source. Meanwhile, Demona roams through the city, blasting people to dust with her laser rifle. Macbeth is also on the hunt. He’s remembering how this all began for him and how it ended for the Hunter. This is only part 2 of 4, so the action is just heating up! Xanatos and Demona will face off, as will Demona and Macbeth. To make things even more interesting, three fae are nudging events to benefit themselves.

Demona’s history continues to unfold. It’s going to tangle with a youth’s; his name is Macbeth of Clan Moray. A man who Demona considered no better than an animal will bring them together – with his sword. He’s the Hunter, and he’s come to assassinate the High Steward of Clan Moray – Macbeth’s father. While the masked man may appear to be doing it just for fun, he’s actually acting at the behest of royalty.

Back in the present, Xanatos, Fox, and Owen are about to see what Demona’s spell really does. Hint: it’s nothing like Demona promised, and it may cost all of them their lives.

Read part 1 of City of Stone part 1’s episode review.

After stealing the Phoenix Gate and using it to make an abortive attempt at changing the past and thus the future, Demona realizes she’s outmatched and so surrenders. Ha! Never! She’s scheming new schemes and dreaming old dreams. This time, she’s using the spells she tore from the Grimorum Arcanorum to take one minute of life from everyone who sees and hears the spell. She’s convinced David Xanatos that she can confer those minutes upon herself and him. They’ll have a big audience, too: anyone in range of a TV. Besides that, she’s ruminating on her history, beginning with the Vikings’ attack. Turns out she and Macbeth – yes, our Macbeth – were contemporaries. Meanwhile, Xanatos is discovering why the episode’s title is City of Stone and why you don’t give Demona even an iota of trust. There’s magic afoot today, and nothing is as it seems.

David Xanatos and Fox have sworn their Vows. Now they and David’s surly father Petros are in 975AD Scotland, courtesy of the Phoenix Gate. David and Fox aren’t on honeymoon yet. No, they’re here to guarantee Xanatos’s past, present, and future with the help of a coin and the Illuminati Society.

Demona and Goliath are abroad as well. Unlike Xanatos, Demona wants to rewrite her history. Her younger self offers the chance to avoid the mistakes of youth. Namely, letting the humans betray her and destroy Clan Wyvern. Never mind that she was a betrayer too. We’re about to learn how time travel works in the Gargoyles Universe. Hint: this ain’t Star Trek.