Atticus's aunt and uncle in New York City were walking together with their adoptive daughter named Penny as it was a beautiful night, well, it was for a while, until there was a strange explosion on a building and it began to rain heavily.
"Uh-oh, it's raining." Penny frowned.
A building seemed to be exploding.
"That's not all," Jeffry said before looking to his wife and daughter. "You two head home, I think I need to do a little work."
"Be safe, Daddy." Penny said.
"I will." Jeffry hugged her nice and tight before dashing off to the scene of the crime.
The police were soon involved as Jeffry rushed over to check things out as he was an inspector. A woman in a police cruiser soon came out and looked up at the building as well. Jeffry recognized the woman instantly.
"Get back! Get back!" An officer told the civilians.
"Maza 23rd, what's going on here?" The woman demanded, showing her badge.
"You got me, detective," The officer replied. "It must be one heck of a party up there."
"If it is; it's getting out of control." Jeffery said.
Boulders then seemed to fall from the dark sky.
"Look out!" Jeffry told the woman before holding her back so she wouldn't get crushed.
"Thanks for the assist." The woman said.
"No problem," Jeffry replied. "You're Elisa Maza, aren't you?"
"That's me," The woman nodded. "And you must be the famous detective I've heard about."
"Oh, I wouldn't call myself famous..." Jeffry smiled shyly before looking up. "This looks supernatural... I wonder if I should call my nephew."
"Uh, by any chance, is your daughter adventurous?" Elisa asked.
"She can be," Jeffry replied. "She was once adopted by this nasty woman who only used her so she could get the Devil's Eye diamond." He soon saw where Elisa was looking and had a feeling he knew why she asked about Penny.
"I hope Daddy will be okay." Penny whispered.
"Me too, sweetie..." Stacy soothed her daughter. "He's quite the detective himself, your cousin Atticus wants to be just like him someday."
Penny soon felt something telling her to go up to the building and see what was going on. She then stopped walking.
"Penny?" Stacy asked her adoptive daughter.
"Uh, um... I'm sorry... But..." Penny said before letting go of her hand. "I think I need to go."
"Go where, sweetie?" Stacy asked before she saw Penny rushing into the building where the commotion was happening. "Penny, get back here!"
Penny soon ran over to the building.
"PENNY!" Stacy panicked for her adoptive daughter. She soon hurried to try to get Penny before anything bad will happen.
Penny didn't fight her instincts as she kept going.
"Jeffry, Penny just went inside!" Stacy told her husband.
Jeffry soon went wide-eyed.
Stacy trembled and shook nervously. "I-I don't know why she went in there, she just did..."
"That's not the only strange thing..." Elisa said as she looked at a boulder in front of her. "Look at these claw marks."
"Claw marks?" Jeffry asked as he started to examining the claw marks.
More boulders fell down and the two adults soon rushed out of the way, Jeffry taking his wife's hand.
One boulder landed on a fire hydrant and made the water shoot straight into the air.
"What could be strong enough to leave claw marks in solid stone?" Elisa wondered.
In a magic high school classroom...
"Hello, students, today, we're going to learn about gargoyles." Mr. Snipe announced, pulling down a poster of said creature.
"Boo-ring~..." Cassandra rolled her eyes.
"Shh." Atticus shushed her.
Cassandra glared to him.
"Our story begins in the year 994 AD," Mr. Snipe began to lecture while Cherry had trouble staying awake while daydreaming. "A castle in Scotland is under siege from a band of Vikings..."
Cherry started to daydream of how the battle looked.
There was a big ruckus all right. Men were in castles on opposing sides trying to take each other down. One side had archers while another side had catapults and swords.
"Whoa, I am good." Cherry said.
The side with the arrows soon crumbled down due to the catapult launch.
"STAND FAST!" A man yelled out. "WE CAN HOLD 'EM BACK!"
"Aye, and catch boulders with our teeth while we're about it." An archer deadpanned.
"Wow, my imagination is better than I thought." Cherry said.
"Cherry? Cherry!" Mr. Snipe's voice called out.
"SHOOT!" Cherry glared as she then woke up. "Uh, yes, Mr. Snipe?"
"Just making sure you're paying attention, "Mr. Snipe told her before writing on the board. "Now, where was I?"
Cherry blinked slowly, looking quite sleepy.
"Wake up, Cherry..." Sabrina told Cherry.
"Maybe this is how I'll learn..." Cherry smiled sleepily. "After all, I read a history book about Pocahontas, and... Suddenly... I..." she then soon fell asleep in her desk again.
"Oh, brother." Sabrina groaned.
The others looked nervous while Cherry fell asleep in class which wasn't like her.
"Cherry's gonna get it, Cherry's gonna get it~" Cassandra smirked.
Mr. Snipe simply let Cherry sleep as he knew her dreambending powers would let her learn this part of history her own way.
"Mr. Snipe, Cherry's sleeping in class." Cassandra smirked, thinking the perky goth would get in trouble for that.
"Oh, let her sleep," Mr. Snipe said before the scene of years ago was shown with help from Cherry's dreambending powers. "Now, where was I?"
"Um, the vikings were attacking Scotland?" Sabrina replied.
"Ah, yes, thank you, Miss Spellman." Mr. Snipe said before continuing the lesson.
Sabrina smiled sheepishly as she got that right. Cassandra glared at her rival for that.
"So then, catapults hurl huge boulders into the battlements," Mr. Snipe continued to lecture. "The castle's defense is failing. The Captain of the Guard reassures his men that they can hold the castle a few minutes more until sunset, and he glances up at the stone gargoyles perched on the tower."
Cherry's dreambending powers seemed to show what was happening.
"Uh, you all see this, right?" Mo asked uneasily.
"Yeah." Everyone else nodded.
"Just making sure..." Mo smiled sheepishly.
"This is better than reading." Cassandra smirked.
Everyone watched what Cherry could see, but somehow, they were suddenly pulled into the story in the clothing that fit the time period, almost like they had time traveled.
"Oh, hey, guys." Cherry greeted.
"What am I wearing?" Cassandra grimaced. "This looks like a potato sack! Couldn't you day dream me in something more fashionable, Cherry?"
Cherry then held her head and smirked as Cassandra was now dressed like a scullery maid.
"Seriously?!" Cassandra glared.
"Hey, you didn't say you had to like it, besides, this is my imagination." Cherry smirked.
Cassandra glared and soon use her own magic to give her a dress which was like a green version of Princess Zelda's. "Much better." she then approved of her new look with a smirk.
Cherry rolled her eyes to that slightly.
"Are we in Scotland now?" Mo asked.
"Yeah, sometimes I like to pretend I'm in a story when I'm hearing or reading about it." Cherry smiled.
"And this is exactly where the story took place." Mr. Snipe said.
"So, the vikings attacked..." Cherry noticed. "Hard to believe people used to live like this long before any of us had been born."
They soon noticed the vikings invading. Some of them looked up to the castle above which had stone gargoyles on them.
"Attacking a castle full of gargoyles near nightfall," One viking told the other. "This is crazy, and Hakon knows it."
"No, my friend, that's not crazy," The leader known as Hakon glared at one of his members. "Questioning my sanity when I'm in earshot; that's crazy. I say those gargoyles are naught but chiseled stone, and even if they aren't, it's worth the risk for the plunder within. Attack!"
The vikings soon went to invade with their swords and weapons.
"I say we watch them risk their lives." Cassandra said.
"How morbid of you, Cassandra." Sabrina said nervously.
"I'm afraid this all we can do." Mr. Snipe said.
The vikings soon ambushed and invaded the land. Some used hooks and began to climb up the stone walls that held up the gargoyles.
"The sun is about to set, can anyone tell me what this means for the gargoyles?" Mr. Snipe asked.
"They'll come to life?" Patch guessed.
"That is right, Patch, and soon you shall all see Goliath." Mr. Snipe nodded.
The sun soon set which was everyone was waiting for. The stone around the gargoyles seemed to shatter. Hakon soon panicked as the gargoyles were now able to come to life once the sun was gone.
"I can see why they named him Goliath." Patch said as he saw the biggest gargoyle.
"He sure is big..." Sabrina said nervously.
Goliath's eyes flashed as he woke up and looked down to Hakon as he was hanging on.
"Oh, that viking is in trouble now." Atticus smirked.
The other gargoyles soon woke up after Goliath. Hakon was grabbed by Goliath and the viking brought out his sword to fight with. Goliath grabbed the blade in his fist, but he was bleeding due to the cut which made the students grimace slightly while Cherry smirked.
"So, they did get hurt by blades?" Patch asked Mr. Snipe.
"It's best to avoid them, but Goliath is one of the strongest of the gargoyles," Mr. Snipe replied. "Kind of like you are the strongest, Atticus."
"Awesome." Atticus smiled.
Goliath soon swooped down and spread his wings. The other gargoyles did that as well while the vikings tried to avoid them.
"Go, gargoyles!" Mo cheered.
A trio of gargoyles soon went to join in.
"This is amazing!" Patch beamed at what he was witnessing. He soon noticed one of the gargoyles that didn't have wings. "Uh, Mr. Snipe?" he then raised his paw to the warlock teacher. "How come that gargoyle doesn't have wings? I thought all gargoyles had wings."
"Oh, that would be the rare wingless gargoyle." Mr. Snipe said.
"Wingless gargoyle?" Patch asked.
"Oh, yes, good eye, Patch." Mr. Snipe smiled proudly.
The wingless gargoyle seemed to only bark.
"Um, he's barking like a dog." Cassandra replied.
"So, you understand him?" Cherry smirked.
Cassandra glared and resisted using dark magic against her.
"If memory serves me correctly, that would be Bronx." Mr. Snipe educated.
"I think he said that he was going to tear the intruders limb-from-limb." Patch translated.
"That sounds about right..." Mr. Snipe agreed.
"He's like a gargoyle dog... I never heard of those before..." Patch said about Bronx.
"He was the very first." Mr. Snipe said.
"Awesome!" Patch beamed. "Bronx is my favorite."
"Dogs..." Cherry rolled her eyes.
"Let's see how this ends." Atticus said.
It was soon the battle between the vikings and the gargoyles, but of course, the gargoyles would win.
"The gargoyles won!" Mo beamed before hugging Atticus.
"Just like history was told." Mr. Snipe said.
Soon, they came back in the classroom because Cherry woke up.
"That was entertaining." Cassandra said.
"Man, I got a headache..." Cherry rubbed her head slightly.
"Still, I didn't know gargoyles had dogs, that was awesome." Patch smiled.
"So, why are we learning about gargoyles today?" Mo asked.
"Well, it's about time for their awakening," Mr. Snipe informed. "Every 100 years, the gargoyles awaken from their slumber. Rumor has it that the clan you saw in Scotland is currently in New York City."
"That's where my little cousin Penny lives!" Atticus gasped. "I have to go!"
"Atticus?!" Mr. Snipe asked.
Atticus soon rushed out and then checked his phone to see he had messages from his Uncle Jeffry which were warning about the gargoyles in town and that Penny had went into the building that they were on for some, unknown reason. He soon ran out as fast as he could.
"Oh, so Atticus can run out of the classroom, but if anyone else does it, we'll get detention for a month." Cassandra glared.
"Isn't today a half day?" Cherry asked,
"That, in fact, it is, class dismissed." Mr. Snipe nodded.
"YEAH!" Mo beamed before dashing out of the classroom.
Everyone else soon ran out of the room.
"Have a good afternoon, class." Mr. Snipe said weakly.
"Penny's gone into a building..." Atticus told his friends. "No one's sure why..."
"Weird, you'd think she'd be linked to the gargoyles or something down there." Mo shrugged thoughtfully.
That gave Atticus an idea before running back into Mr. Snipe's classroom.
Mr. Snipe was soon packing up to leave his classroom and looked over to the student who returned. "Atticus, what are you doing back?" he then asked curiously. "I didn't assign any homework this time."
"Mr. Snipe, were there ever any humans that had a connection to the gargoyles back in the age of Vikings?" Atticus asked.
"Hm... That's an interesting question... Let me check my books..." Mr. Snipe pondered that himself as he sat in his desk and brought out his gargoyle history book. He soon flipped through the book before finding someone who did have a connection with the gargoyles who wasn't afraid of them or think of them as monsters. "Well, there is someone." he then said.
"Who would that be?" Atticus asked the man.
"There was this one little girl who always interacted with the gargoyles, treating them like family." Mr. Snipe said as he showed the picture of the girl in the book.
Atticus took the book to get a closer look at the girl. "That girl looks a lot like Penny..." he said to himself.
"Do you think it might be your Aunt Stacy then?" Mr. Snipe asked.
"It couldn't be," Atticus replied. "Penny was adopted actually."
"Oh, I didn't know." Mr. Snipe said.
"Do you mind if I borrow this?" Atticus asked.
"By all means, just remember to return it to me." Mr. Snipe allowed.
Cherry had everyone else meet at her house with Atticus and the book on the gargoyles which had a little girl who looked a lot like Penny. "I think it's time for another trip into the book." She then said.
"Hm... Might be a good idea... Now, what was that spell?" Atticus wondered briefly.
Everyone paused to think until finally...
"Now I remember," Atticus said before sending them all into the book. "Literarium Terrarium."
And with that, they were transported into the book, and soon ended up inside of the castle.