For the Children
By Cosmic Inspiration
Disclaimer: The Gargoyles animated series is the property of the Walt Disney Company and Buena Vista Animation, originally created and co-produced by Greg Weisman. The Gargoyles Saga is the creation of TGS staff of fan fiction writers and artists who give consent to use their stories and characters to other fan fiction writers with the condition of acknowledgement. No copyright infringement is intended and not authorized by the copyholders, this writer makes no profit from these stories and only writes for fun entertainment and love of the series. All OCs are the property of the author Inspiration.
Author's note: This story in my gargverse takes place a few days before the events of the TGS episode _Turncoat_. As I always try to make clear, my goal for most of my stories is to be faithful to the original series and TGS, but it is all my own interpretation and I acknowledge where stories and characters are from to the original creators.
It was a night that had changed her life forever, but then she had never known. Had she known then, what it had nearly cost her may never have happened.
But she couldn't have known, all simply because she was afraid. She had let fear guide her decisions.
She believed him and everything he said. But he had lied to her, just as she had lied to herself. All she wanted was to keep her family and children safe, and for a time she was sure she had succeeded.
When her children were small they would cry out for her presence and reassurance when they became afraid of the dark, and the scary monsters they were sure were out to get them from the dark closet or under the bed. She always told them with surety and confidence that there was no such thing as monsters and there was nothing to be afraid of from the dark. As they grew older that old fear of the dark and the scary monsters that hid in the dark steadily faded, even after they took to the excitement of an action show called _The Pack_, a show she did not originally approve of because of its heavy violence.
It had been that way until one fateful night her family had the fortunate chance to actually meet the members of the Pack, and her children had been so excited to at last meet their idols. If not for the sight of seeing two of the most frightening looking creatures she had ever seen she would never have believed it to be real. Her husband reasonably insisted that it had just been a publicity stunt for an upcoming movie for the Pack, though she was sure it had all seemed very real, for the monsters she had seen moved too quickly and too smoothly to be costumes or some sort of special effect, though for a time she had no choice but to believe her husband's assumption.
Then there came that night not two years later when a video recording broadcasted by WVRN showed a group of monsters fleeing from a destroyed police station, and two of them she recognized as the same ones she had seen fighting the Pack. For nearly two years she would off and on hear of rumors of creatures flying around out there in the city, though she just dismissed it as an urban legend like everyone else. Yet part of her was sure it was true, having seen two of them herself; one of them almost having attacked her son.
Memories of her children crying out for their mother had flooded back to her and her need to try and reassure them there was no such thing as monsters in the dark.
But she was wrong.
There were monsters.
And now these monsters had a name: Gargoyles.
Gargoyles are the very monsters children fear will get them in the dark, and she had to protect them from these monsters that threatened her own children for it was her duty as a mother. And there is no creature fiercer in nature than a mother protecting her young.