CROSSTIME SLIDE
Gargoyles belong to Disney/ Buena Vista. Original characters are my Wife's and mine from our old CHAMPIONS RPG.
Chapter 2 Awakening
Maria lay quietly trying to determine where she was. A black so deep she wasn't sure if her eyes were even open, air so still she could hear her own heart beating. Jamie was close but she could only feel his presence, not physically, but by the link they had with each other. She wasn't hurting, but she felt weak, and hollow, like some thing was missing, she also had the feeling she was being watched. Without moving she tried contacting Jamie 'Jamie, can you feel where we are? Can you come to me?' 'Maria? What happened? Are the girls with you? Whoever has us they've got me in an isolation cell, no light, no air circulation, and I can't feel the Node or the energy of the Dwoemer, but I do feel a ley line close by.' Maria realized, that was the hollowness she felt. 'Jamie the girls aren't here, I don't think we're on our world either We've been Translated somewhere.' 'Shadow League?' he asked'. 'Maybe, or Silver Legion, but I don't think so, remember the brawl we fell into?' she replied. 'Jamie do you feel like you're being watched?' 'Yes but not by anything living. It feels like a camera or scanners of some sort'.
"Well. Are they awake?" Dr. Sevarius flinched ' Damn, why can't he make SOME kind of sound when he moves?' "Thailog, awake yourself I see. Yes they're awake but neither has moved an inch yet. They are doing something though, scanners are picking up brain activity of some sort." "Some sort? Not very scientific today are we, DOCTOR?" the sarcasm was obvious as Thailog moved to the display panel. "Yes, some sort, Thailog", pointing to the graphic display he continued "If the activity was in this portion of the brain I'd say it was telepathy, but this part of the brain is uncharted, not used by humans." The large gargoyle was silent, "But they're NOT human are they doctor?" Sevarius actually jumped a bit at the coldness in her voice as a second gargoyle entered the control room. Thailog was intimidating but this one was down right frightening, cold and actually radiating hatred as she glared at him. Thailog smiled as he turned to the redheaded gargoyle in the doorway. "Demona, glad you could join us. Shall we see if we can get a response from them Doctor?" With that Thailog turned to Demona, "Let's go meet our guest's my dear. We can introduce ourselves and get acquainted." Leaving the Doctor the two headed to the holding cells.
James lay quietly gathering energy from the nearby leyline "Maria? Can you feel the leyline?" "Barely, Jamie it feels like a small one or it's far off, why?" she replied. "I am going to try and summon you to me as soon as I pull enough energy. Center yourself and get ready, if this works someone is going to be surprised and come running." Sevarius had just turned from the displays to get some coffee from the brewer on the table in the corner, so he missed the changes in both subjects EEG scans as Maria relaxed and centered and James increased his pull from the leyline. The alarm going off as James pulled Maria to him caused the Doctor to jump and spill his coffee. "DAMN! WHAT NOW?" He spun to his displays, the woman was no longer in her cell, every sensor was dead. "Where are you? Where are you?" he frantically asked as he tried to locate her. He did not see the other display now show the presence of two minds in the other cell. At the entrance to the holding area Thailog and Demona were as surprised as the Doctor when the alarms went off. Reaching for the intercom panel next to the door Demona punched in the code for the monitoring room, "WHAT DID YOU DO DOCTOR?" she demanded as the light in the holding area came on as Thailog kicked the door open. Sevarius ignored her yell as he turned on the holding area lights he could now see both cells the woman's was definitely empty but she was not gone she was with the man and both were in defensive stances squinting as their eyes adjusted to the painfully bright lights as they came on. Finally he answered Demona's demands for information "Nothing! The woman just moved to the man's cell but don't ask me how, probably some sort of teleportation ability"
A few seconds after being pulled to Jamie they were both temporarily blinded as the lights flashed on and an alarm blared out. Both of them barely heard a muffled thud-bang, turning towards the sound they saw a very large creature step into the room just on the other side of what looked like very thick armored glass that made up one wall of the 10x10ft room they were in. A second creature stepped into the room both looked like living examples of gothic gargoyles the male standing almost 8ft tall, with dark blue almost black skin, black hair, the female stood just 6ft, red hair, and a lighter shade of blue skin. What Thailog and Demona saw now with the better light here in the holding cells were a female taller than they had realized when they carried them here, she was a full 6ft 7in, hair an almost copper shade of red, green eyes so brilliant they seemed to glow with an inner light, her ears slightly larger than most humans with a definite point to them. Her companion was a foot shorter at 5ft 7in. And instead of the slightly feline features he originally had, now looked fully human of American Indian heritage with eyes so deep brown to be almost black and short black hair. Sevarius seeing the difference in their appearances prepared to release a fine cloud of iron filings as a defense from any Fey magics they tried, as he assumed that was what they were and a sedative gas if they weren't.
"Well, that was a neat trick. Why didn't you just leave us?" The larger gargoyle asked. "Maybe they can't, they don't have a clue of where we are, they were unconscious when they were brought in." the redheaded one said. "Then again maybe we aren't ready to leave, not until we know what you did with our daughter and her friends." returned the man. Who are you, and where are we? This isn't my New York" he asked. 'Jamie, we're still being watched, and it doesn't feel like just mechanical devices. There is a human somewhere keeping his eyes on us.' Maria told him 'and at least four more nearby, back up support you think?' 'Possibly, these two though, they feel confident, maybe a little too much' Jim replied, 'I don't think they know exactly what we are darlin'
or what we're capable of' "Let them make them make the first move love" Thailog and Demona heard the tall woman say. At that Jim and Maria heard a new voice, "Thailog, they are doing it again. It must be some kind of communication, be careful." The two gargoyles looked at Jim and Maria. Maria said "So which one of you is Thailog and what is the others name?" "And who's the watcher?" added Jim.