I, Frankenstein

I.FRANKENSTEIN

I was cast into being in the winter of 1795

a living corpse without a soul.

Stitched, jolted, bludgeoned back to life by a madman.

Horrified by his creation, he tried to destroy me.

But I survived, and found my way back to him.

Elizabeth!

A life for a life, that is what I wanted.

I took that of his beloved new bride.

He pursued me to the far north.

I was immune to cold.

But... he was not.

I buried him... in his family cemetery.

it was more than he deserved.

I thought it was the end...

but it was actually... just the beginning.

We have been waiting for you.

You will come with us.

Wait! Naberius wants him back alive.

That was the last of them.

What do you suppose it was?

I do not know. I've never seen a human kill a demon before.

And with such strength.

It's been a long time since I've seen demons this far north.

There must be something special about it.

Something Naberius wanted.

"Victor Frankenstein".

The rumors are true.

It's alive.

It's alive!

Your Majesty!

It's no more than a wild beast, Your Majesty.

Destroy it, and be done with it.

So, you understand reason.

Where am I? How did I get here?

The creatures that attacked you, what did they want?

- I don't know! - We heard him speak of Naberius.

- Seems he wants this thing alive. - If Naberius wants it alive...

All the more reason to destroy it.

Gideon.

"Him"... not "it".

My name is Leonore, High Queen of the Gargoyle Order.

This is Gideon, my most trusted warrior.

You were attacked by four demons under the command of a dark prince called Naberius.

Fortunately, Ophir and Keziah were on watch near by.

They realized who you were and brought you here.

To our home.

The Gargoyle Order was commanded into being by the great arch-angel Michael.

It is our sacred duty to wage war against the demon horde.

666 legions of hell-spawn creatures,

unleashed by Satan after his fall from Heaven.

Humans think of us as mere decoration.

They do not know nor could they conceive the brutal unseen war being fought around them every day.

A war that one day could determine the very fate of all mankind.

You have now been drawn into this war.

I care not for the world of man.

Yes, we've heard the stories of you.

Shunned by your human creator, lost and alone.

You would be welcome here.

Until we know why Naberius wants you,

I ask that you stay with us, safe within these hallowed walls.

- I will follow my own path. - Your Majesty...

This thing murdered Victor Frankenstein's wife.

All in the heat of passion,

Driven by emotions he was never taught to control.

He maybe more human than he realizes.

I understand Frankenstein never offered you a name.

I would like to call you... Adam.

I promise you this, Adam. Each of us has a higher purpose.

Yours is simply yet to reveal itself.

They are but some of the scapulars of our fallen brothers and sisters.

We have always been out numbered in battle.

After many hard-fought victories, our ranks have thinned.

Demons however... remain strong.

To help you survive against them.

The Queen has asked us to provide you with weapons.

Demons can only be descended with sacramentals.

Blessed objects, such as the crucifix or holy water.

Any object can sacramental,

by marking them with the blessed symbol of the Gargoyle Order.

- Descended. - When a demon is killed,

it's spirit descends to hell, where it remains trapped for all eternity.

How do you descend a Gargoyle?

We are sacramental beings of light and good. We ascend.

And only in the hands of godless creatures that have no souls.

You do not want those. There are blunt and crude...

And are far too heavy to weild.

Adam, you have strength, and speed and stamina...

Far beyond that of any human. You could use those gifts.

Take sides in a war that you're already a part of.

I do not care how many demons he descended.

You should have let me destroy it.

I am not blind to the risks.

The fact is... Adam is alive,

and all life is sacred.

- It's not human born. - Neither are we, Gideon.

Here...

Lock this in the vault.

It must never fall into Naberius's hands.

It is but a book, your Majesty.

It is written proof that God is no longer the sole creator of man.

Adam.

If ever you should change your mind,

you will always find refuge here.

Trusting others is a mistake you only make once.

And so I resolve to seek out the farthest corners of the Earth.

Where no human, demon or gargoyle would ever find me.

So many years passed I lost track of time.

Yet I do not grow old and die, as humans do.

Victor Frankensteins final curse.

I thought Naberius demons had forgotten me.

But I was wrong.

And I unleashed all my rage upon them.

I had hidden long enough.

Now I will hunt those who were hunting me.

I return to the place I had left so long ago.

The human world had changed in the time I had been gone.

But some things... had not changed.

If the demons could find me in the wilderness,

It was only a matter of time before they found me here.

Which is why I had to find them first.

Naberius, where is he?

Police!

Put down your weapon!

Good evening, Mr. Wessex.

Where does life begin and where does it end.

Tonights experiment represents a combination of three years of work...

Time is fleeting Dr. Wade, and I'd ask that you not waste mine.

Commence reignition sequence.

DCI in the right ventricle. Discharge outlet three joules.

For the record, subjects heart is currently dormant.

Fire current in three, two, one.

Clear and shot.

Muscle spasms in the upper torso and legs looks good.

Intracellular atrial electrical activity.

- Ventricles activated. - Atrial Fibrillation.

Place an ectopic beats. Start of irregular heartbeats.

Ventricular Fibrillation. The subject is in cardiac arrest.

- Top loading 50 joules. - Load raised to 50.

- Increased heart rate. - Load raised to 100.

- The pulse is weak! - Double it again!

- I can't! - Double it!

- That'll kill it! - It's already dead.

200 joules.

Live.

There's a heart beat.

- Switch to life support. - Life Support functioned.

Sinusual established rhythm.

It's breathing.

Sir, we have a situation.

You're certain?

No, sir. But the way it attacked...

Strong and fast, like a Gargoyle.

It descended seven of us. I managed to fight it off.

I think I wounded it... I think it's wounded.

It descended seven demons?

Yet you escaped?

- Well, I thought you'd want to hear this. - Yes, you presumed.

You presume to know what I want.

Well, considering how long you've been hunting the creature...

And you thought I want you to tell me about the creature,

rather than capturing it yourself was the choice you made.

Interesting.

Do not ever...

presume to know what I want.

Is that understood?

Forgive me,

Prince... Naberius.

Ophir, if you think...

No.

No!

When do you begin... the final stage?

Mr. Wessex, our bodies are the most complex organisms in the universe.

Animate a single rat is one thing...

but a human is still far out of reach.

Is it? What do you know of a scientist,

by the name of Victor Frankenstein?

Frankenstein is a myth.

A horror story made up to scare children.

All scientists are skeptics, Dr. Wade...

However I would've suspected that a scientist in your particular field,

would have to wonder if such stories just might have some basis in fact.

Electricity couldn't be harvested in the 1790's,

let alone channeled into a human subject.

And where did he go? Why did he disappear?

If he really reanimated a human corpse,

Why not share this technology with

the rest of the world, to save lives and cure paralysis?

Perhaps he wasn't as magnanimous as you are, Doctor.

Every scientist keeps a record.

Even when their experiments end in failure.

But there ought to be at least a record of his work somewhere.

Drawings or a set of notes, something.

Just because something is yet to be found,

does not mean it does not exist.

But if Frankenstein... was real,

if he really did... reanimate a human,

would it help you to study it?

Yes, absolutely.

But Mr. Wessex, it would have to be over 200 years old by now.