All the characters appearing in Gargoyles and Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles are copyright Buena Vista Television/The Walt Disney Company. No infringement of these copyrights is intended, and is not authorized by the copyright holder. All original characters are the property of SN.

Note: I'm disregarding the events in the "Goliath Chronicles", with the exception of "The Journey" because I do not wish to use the rest of the "Goliath Chronicles" as canon to my story. This story takes place mostly between "Demonic Interlude" and "New Year".

Ten days in three Gargoyle's Lives

by Tribun

Email: joachim_henkel

Authorised by SN/TVfan

Email: Sam_Nary

Note: This is no closed story but many bits and pieces of Amy's, Candy's and Caroline's Lives as Gargoyles. They are all set from December 20th(day of their changing) to December 29th 1999(day where...well, that would be a spoiler).

December 20th

They finally had shed all their winter clothing. Most of it was ruined anyway, and throwing it on a pile in the corner was not hard for them. Candy was glad that she had decided to wear shorts under her jeans, because her jeans now looked like a total mess.

All three of them were comfortable with a shirt, and Amy and Caroline had simply cut off their jeans a bit over their knee spurs. It was intimidating to see, that they had claws that could fabric. But now the remaining part of their jeans fitted them perfectly. Then they had to wait.

Candy was bored. Elisa was only gone for ten minutes to fetch the clan, and it seemed like eternity. Ignoring Trixie's sniffing on her leg, she tried to see, how her friends fared. Caroline was walking around in circles, and stumbling because of her altered feet from time to time. Amy was staring on her beak the whole time, touching it with her hands, testing how many teeth she had. Candy thanked God, that she had still a normal face. If you can call it normal that I have no eyebrows and all these little horns...

And then there are these things...Looking at the wing membranes she knew that she had gotten the short end of the stick in that case. She would have preferred normal wings. These things had cut clean through her clothing at the sides. Why it not fell off, made her wonder. Maybe magic...? But not that I'm complaining. Brrrrr...just the thought that I could be forced to walk around naked makes me shudder!

Amy was really pissed. That beak she had grown was something, she most likely would never get used to. It always hovered in the lower third of her field of view, and it's weight already had given her a stiff neck. I look like a freakin' BIRD! Oh, the humiliation! I really wonder how I'm supposed to eat and drink with this thing? I can now only drink with a straw!

She had now far more teeth than before, and her tongue seemed to be at least three inches longer. Her nose was now only a small thing sitting on top of her beak. Functional, but not beautiful. Breathing through it was a bit more complicated than with her old nose. Then she realized something. My parents will freak out, when they see me in this form! If they even recognize me... This beak erases how I looked before. Only my voice is still the same.

Caroline ignored everything around herself. Pacing she thought about what had happened to her. I've seen 'Dragonheart', but this is simply ridiculous!She was referring to her tail with the row of scales, which made her look like a dragon a bit. The three big horns on her head only helped to reinforce that picture.

Oh God, what will Lawrence think of me now?! I look like a fuckin' freak! And I bet, my parents won't be interested even by this!Frustrated she kicked the wall, only to make some of the stone break apart. Oops! Looks like I'm stronger now. Good, because when I see that psycho bitch again, I can give her a beating.Caroline then simply dropped into a chair and yelped when she felt her tail protesting against the weight on it.

"Shit, this will be a long wait..." Caroline sighed while she placed her tail in a more comfortable position.

After they had talked a little more with Lex and Brooklyn, Amy's growling stomach had demanded to be filled. The girls had to admit, that they hadn't eaten anything since noon, when they were still humans. Obviously their stomachs had emptied themselves much faster and now they were hungry. So the kitchen was their next destination.

"Can anyone of you three cook?" Brooklyn wanted to know, since he and Lex weren't so good at it. When they shook their heads, Brooklyn sighed. "Oh well, pizza will it be then! One of the few things I can make, without burning down the kitchen!"

While the pizza was in the oven, Lex handed out cans with soda. Brooklyn had to tell poor Amy, that she did have to use a straw, which was the only way for her to drink with dignity. Well, she could tilt her head back and down it into her throat in one move, but that is not a very nice looking way, and a ticket to belch city.Brooklyn made sure, that he not said this aloud.

Candy couldn't wait to eat something. While Trixie was already busy with something that looked like a nice bone. The drinks were nice, so she opened the next can. Then another one. When she saw Caroline looking strange at her, she stopped drinking. "What?"

"Candy, that was your fifth can of soda! Do you plan to fill yourself up with it?"

Damn, I haven't even noticed that!All of a sudden she felt strong pressure on her bladder, and a certain urge. Of course, all the drinks from the day now want to be out! "Damn...! Brooklyn! Lex! Where the heck is the next restroom?!"

Lex looked a bit uncomfortable for a second. "Ehh...the third door to the left down the corridor..."

She barely heard the rest of the sentence. She raced out on all fours, closed the restroom door behind herself, nearly ripped her bisected shorts into shreds when she pulled them down and was finally able to relief herself.

She felt embarrassment coming up while letting nature go it's way. Of course, I HAD to make myself a clown right on the first day with these guys! I've run on all fours without thinking about it...I feel like a animal! And I wonder, how I will get my shorts back on?

To her luck the shorts behaved as if they weren't nicely bisected, and when she returned, no one said anything about he incident. When the pizza was ready, the next problem came.

"Brooklyn! How I'm supposed to eat with that thing?" Amy indicated to her beak. "Maybe this is normal for you, but for me this is torture!" She had bitten on her tongue at least a dozen times and was nearly driven to frustration

Brooklyn knew what she was complaining about. He had to explain to her that she had to press her tongue down while chewing. He also had to help her how to eat without looking ridiculous or losing her dignity. It would be much harder than he thought it would be...

December 21st

Coming out of a black void, all three of them screamed, in relief as much as in terror. The void vanished when something bursted off their skin. Surprise made then nearly fall off the parapets when they heard their own roars. Their eyes wide, they needed some seconds to get over the shock.

"*Glup* We were that...?" Caroline whispered. Oh god, I become a animal!

Elisa jumped down to their level of the tower, already seeing their distress over this situation. "Every Gargoyle roars when he or she wakes up. You should have seen my surprised reaction when I first awakened from stone sleep.

"So we have to get used to it?" Caroline was not very comfortable with the idea of roaring like a female lion, but what choice had she? "It was a bit confusing...one second there was dawn, and now we have dusk. I remember only tiny bits of my dreams..."

"Gargoyles don't dream like humans. The nature of stone sleep makes us forget most of our dreams. Trust me, I speak from experience..." Elisa stopped when she noticed Owen standing beside her. "Yes?"

"There is a development concerning the parents of , Axel and Nexus."

"Aaaaahhhhhh! Shiiiiit!" Amy cursed while she tried to use her wings to slow down her descent. But it did not work and she fell beak first on a roof. To hold height while gliding in a straight line was easy, but maneuvers to change direction or height were a different matter. "*Cough* Brooklyn! This sucks! These wings don't like me! How have you managed to use them?"

Brooklyn tried hard, not to laugh. "I hatched with them, used them for years, so it is no shame for you to be unable to use them properly now, on your first night." He helped her up.

Dusting off her clothing, she sighed. "Ok, another try! I bet, this time will be a bit easier. The more I practice, the better I get." Without waiting for Brooklyn she jumped off the roof and opened her wings.

Brooklyn followed her. This time was already better, and she managed, not to crash into any buildings or get caught in hard updrafts. I just wonder, how Candy is faring?

Candy was faring much better, since the structure of her wings made her arms the primary parts that she had to control for gliding. The only thing that was annoying her was, that her arms started to become stiff. "Lex, a short break, ok? My arms start to tire."

Landing on a skyscraper roof, Candy tried to catch her breath, while Lex just watched her. "You've made good progress, but you are lucky. Gliding is easy with webbed wings. You just have to get used to stiff arms."

Just when he wanted to continue, his communicator came to life. "Here Elisa. All back to the Eyrie! Lex, bring Candy here ASAP! There is a situation that involves her personally!"

December 22nd

Candy, Amy and Caroline not looked forward to what would come in the next two hours. After their talk with Brooklyn and Lex, Elisa literally had snatched them away from the boys. She had told them that together with Angela, she would try to explain them even the finest changes forced on them. The ones, that weren't obvious to the eye.

"Because just now we are unable to do anything in the war against Nightstone, and I have some free time." she had said. Now they waited in a living room for them. That there was a chalkboard standing at a wall only reminded them of school, and a growing suspicion what would come.

Finally the two female Gargoyles came in, and locked the door behind them. "Ok," said Angela. "Together with Elisa, we will try to get you up to date with your new physical and psychical aspects."

...nearly two hours later...

All three of them blushed heavily, when they left the room. Some of the explanations were downright embarrassing!

It had begun harmless when they had explained that they had to eat more meat and some vegetables were taboo now. Angela said that they could eat rew meat now, but quickly added, that cooked meat was in any case better.

Elisa had explained that they had never to brush their teeth again, and that their skin cleaned itself with stone sleep. But their hair still made a shower necessary. When they explained the urge to protect, they had not believed them at first.

They explained the now finer senses of seeing, hearing and smelling. It went on that way for some time, before the embarrassing aspects came. They blushed again, when they thought about the explanation of the erogenous zones of a Gargoyle that were between the wings and at the base of the tail. And then came some details, that were a bit to explicit for their taste...

"I think they did this on purpose, so that we won't have too many questions about thatlater. Still, it went a bit too far into detail..." Amy said, then looked to Candy. "Of course you can't get enough of that. I wonder how long it will be before you start to put one of the guys under your microscope."

Candy only shrugged her shoulders.

December 23rd

Caroline went down the corridors, not caring where they would lead her. It was frustrating to hear her two friend complaining that they aren't fighting with the clan. Couldn't they understand, that they were simply not made for fighting?

I never asked to be a Gargoyle! I'm a human, just placed in the wrong body by some psycho witch who tries to kill humans as a sport! I just want to be human again! Is that such a hard to understand wish?!

Still sulking, she walked by a calender. Looking on it she saw, what date the next day was. "Christmas... oh, great! Lawrence and I had already planned for that day, and now we can forget it. *sigh* At least I can celebrate with him here, but it isn't the same."

She was still angry, that her parents had simply cast her aside, as if she was a puppy that you can leave at the side of a road and forget about it. This was the last time, they have done it, because most likely she would never see them again anyway. Just wait, one day I come back and take your stinking place apart! Brick for brick, so that you have to live on the streets!

Depressed, she decided to return to the courtyard. Maybe the beasts were asking for attention, and it would take her thoughts away from her problems.

"Amy, would you please stop walking in circles? It makes me more nervous than I'm already!" Candy complained.

"Sorry...bad habit." Looking to the Nightstone building, she again felt the knot in her stomach. "It is just, I image them being beaten bloody by these...these...maniacs. I constantly fear that something will happen...I feel as if I could throw up every second!" And I hope it won't come so far. Just the thought of that stuff in my beak...*Yuck!*

"I know what you mean Amy, I feel so damn helpless too. But Carlonine was right, even if we are reluctant to admit it. We wouldn't be a big help now. Just remember how often we stumbled because of our different feet. Or do you remember how you tipped over your own tail?"

Amy not needed to be remembered of that. It was most likely one of her worst moments of the last three nights. "Ok, ok! I see your point!" Amy then again started to walk in circles.

Candy only sighed.

December 24th

When the woke up from their stone sleep, the roars of the clan already told them, that they had made it. They wasted no time and ran to the clan, clearly relieved that they had come back alive. Running up the tower stairs, they bombarded the clan with countless questions.

"Stop! I will explain it all to you!" Goliath calmed them down after he had descended from his tower level. "We did defeat Sevarius, he is now in the dungeon, and Coldsteel is destroyed. Come in, and we will tell you the rest."

"Wow, you are really a hero, fighting against such deadly enemies!" Candy said to Lex, who was clearly uncomfortable with such praise. All of them had worked in that victory. But it seemed not to interest her. "I bet there are some adventures you haven't told me about yet! I'm most eager to hear them!"

"Eh... Well, there are some battles that are still really fresh in my memory."

Brooklyn on the other hand enjoyed the hero-worshiping Amy gave him. After years without female companionship, it felt so good! But pull yourself together. Don't expect her to jump you just because YOU like her!

"Well, I expected Christmas to be just as boring as every year, but looks like I was wrong. And it was really a good timing that defeated them just in time so that we are left in peace for now..." Amy stopped, when the clan looked to her. "Have I said something wrong?"

It was Fox who finally broke the silence "It is just that we had totally forgot the date. You must know we did plan something for Christmas, but then Sevarius attacked and did that to us. We had more important things on our mind."

Amy looked to her. "Ok, not something big, but can't we still celebrate on a small scale, now that this Dr. Frankenstein in securely locked away?"

"Dad! You are crushing me!" Amy laughed. Her father was huge with his two meters and as strong as a bear. For him she was still his little girl, Gargoyle or not. And now he was hugging her. When she had called her parents for the small Christmas celebration, she was a bit uncertain, how he would react, but to her relief, he still loved her.

Finally he put her down. "I could never hurt you, and when I see your friend there it also wouldn't be a good idea." He indicated to Brooklyn. "But I think I have to show you from time to time, that your old man is not as old as you think..." Grinning they made their way to the others.

The mood was already good, the recent victory had risen their spirits, and so the celebration were really open-hearted. Amy noticed her two friends sitting at tables. While Caroline seemed to have a good time with Lawrence, Candy's mom seemed to get slowly annoyed with her daughter's constant stream of chatter.

"I think this is even better than what we have planned. They are not even have to fake a good mood. They are in a real good mood. You have found some real good friends here!" Lawrence commented while sitting at a table with Caroline, a bit apart from the others. They wanted to have that time for themselves.

"Maybe, I'm just glad you came," Caroline said in a relaxed voice.

Lawrence smiled back and responded, "What about a little dance?" He did not need to ask twice. Caroline smiled and practically pulled him into the middle of the room.

Candy's mother meanwhile wondered, if her daughter even needed to breathe in her new form. She had chatted about her adventures the last four days now for already ten minutes non-stop. Lexington looked a bit embarrassed by it, but kept silent. Finally, Candy had to pause, left them shortly to get a drink to moisten her dried out throat.

"Is she always that talkative?" Lex asked when he was sure that Candy would not hear them talking.

"Ehr...no. I have seen her talk non-stop for half a hour. I think she is not really in it at the moment."

Lex only groaned. He really liked Candy, but that was something, he was not looking forward to.

December 25th

*SKLIRR*

"Oh, not another one! Damn tail, why has it to be in the wrong places all times?" Caroline cursed, while she collected the remains of yet another broken vase. This was already the sixth she had broken since her transformation, because when she turned around, her tail behaved like a whip.

She had lost count of things she had accidently knocked down with her tail. Dumping the remains of the vase in the next trash bin, she continued on her way to the room where the other said Candy and Lex hung around.

The way they act around each other, someone could think they are friends for years. And how she always makes these sweet looks to him. Great..she was changed just five days ago, and already thinks of getting a gargie boyfriend!

Finally arriving at the correct door, she wanted to enter, when she heard their voices. Curios she listened to what happened inside.

...inside...

"Candy, is this really necessary?" Lex was not very keen about the idea Candy had to still her thirst for more information about Gargoyle anatomy. "I feel like a guinea-pig."

"Oh Lex please! It isn't as if I ask you to strip or to do something embarrassing. I'm just curios why the skin on our claws doesn't break, when we use them in stone or metal..." Candy then looked at his sides, noticing something she had not paid any attention before. "And how you are able to wear a belt with your wings?"

"The last one is easy. There are small slits where my wings meet my waist where I pull my belt through. Hudson said, that they were made with a sharp sword with every web-wing, so that they can wear normal clothes."

Candy looked shocked, then paled. "With a sword?... Your... wings?"

Lex already saw that he would have better said nothing about that. "I don't remember it! I was fresh out of the egg when they did it, and I don't know it any other way than wearing a belt. So please don't panic on me!"

...outside...

Caroline quickly left. What she had heard was enough for her to knew, that she doesn't really wanted to be in there now. Hanging around with Amy and most likely Brooklyn, looked like a better idea at the moment.

December 26th

"Ahhhhhh! Yes! I needed that!" Amy held her head back, while the cool water spayed on her from the shower head. It was her first shower in nearly a week. Stone sleep held them clean, but today she had decided that she needed this. And it really calmed her nerves.

Today was maybe the worst night in her life since her transformation. The clan was out on patrol, but when they had come back early, she already knew that something was amiss. And she was right. Brooklyn was shot through the wings several times by a fanatical Quarryman, who had faked a theft just to get a Gargoyle into his aim. Brooklyn said that it would heal with sunrise, but she was still fearing, that he wouldn't be able to glide again.

Now with the cool water of the shower calming her finally down, she was again able to think clearly. She remembered how her subconsciousness had told her that if Brooklyn would be unable to glide anymore, he couldn't catch her in mating flight. Whatever that exactly was. She was now ashamed that she had even thought about him that way. Her altered biology had sent signals to her brain, that made her wonder, if her way of thinking was somehow altered.

Brooklyn is my friend! That my body already plans for him being the one who will mate with me makes me uneasy. How should I act around him? Well, not that I have a great choice of future boyfriends now. Thank God that he is a really nice guy. And these muscles... He is clearly one of the strongest guys I ever met. I...When she felt herself becoming warm between her legs, she stopped her thoughts.

STOP IT! Don't you dare to think that far already!Scolding herself she turned off the water and left the shower. Looking at herself in the bathroom mirror while drying her hair she sighed. Life was never easy. And she had no idea, what surprises would still wait for her.

"Well Amy, you left your boring life in a suburb, to get a exciting one. Why aren't totally excited with it?" But she already knew the answer. It was still hard for her to adjust. The worst was behind her, but she still had some problems.

Life can be a bitch sometimes... But I have to deal with that.

December 27th

Candy was sure, she would never do this again. It had been a really stupid idea. And now she had to endure the consequences. She again felt embarrassed, when Angela wrapped the bandages around the base of her tail, her shorts removed.

"Candy, what had made you to do that? You should have known that we can't use our tail the way apes can use theirs. Hanging from that pipe with only your tail wrapped around it was a really stupid idea!"

"Well, I had no idea that this would happen, since I'm now so much stronger and tougher. OW!" She yelped, when Angela fastened the bandage around the base of her tail. Some of the skin was ripped and bloody and the bone that connected her tail with her spine hurt really bad.

Angela only shook her head. "Well, I think you now know better. Remain here in bed and don't even try to wear your shorts. It will be healed tonight." Angela then pulled the blanket over her for the sake of dignity, before she left the room.

Candy tried to be comfortable on the bed. Ouch... Well, at least I won't do this again, that's sure. At least Lex isn't here to see my embarrassment... and my naked butt.She would be more careful next time when she wanted to experiment with her new form.

This is boring... But still better than hanging around in an empty castle.Caroline thought while gliding over Manhattan. Only the Guatemalans, Candy and Angela were still at the castle, while the others patrolled. She had no idea where she was headed, but to be honest, it also not interested her much.

Why the clan did the things they did was still a mystery for her. The whole protection thing was still alien to her, apart from that instinct, Elisa had told her of. This urge to protect scared her a bit. It felt for her, as if it would try to influence her free will.

I would give EVERYTHING to return to my human form. But then, I would be dependent on my asshole parents. But this isn't really a good thing for future plans. Ah, shit! Why must life be a bitch!?

Landing on a roof, she was not longer able to hold back her frustration, and smashed several bricks to dust, before she finally exhausted her anger. My life is a mess... At least Lawrence is still loyal to me. Otherwise I wouldn't know how to continue.

December 28th

"Wow, that was a really long history!" Amy said, after Hudson had finished telling them of the history of the clan. All three of them had been curios about the clan that had literally adopted them, and when they asked for more information, the old warrior was willing tell them their history, while the others left for duty and the Guatemalans wanted to be by themselves.

Hudson had only stopped one time during his tale. When it came to a battle years before the castle fell. It was hard for him to talk about it, because his mate had fallen in that battle, and that was a wound that most likely would never heal.

"Ya' lads should ask Angela about what she an' the others had done on their 'land while they were wee ones. I bet, that will be interesting for ye' too." Hudson then stand up to leave. "I will be back, just wan' to get me a bit to eat."

After Hudson had left, Amy turned to her two friends. "Wow, these guys are really tough! I think I will like it here!"

"Me too! And all of them seem to have muscles...Schwarzenegger would get envious!" Candy was nearly dreaming. Of course she thought about one Gargoyle in particular.

Only Caroline said nothing. The history had fascinated her, and she was still thinking about what Hudson had told them. Their history was really brutal, with one battle following the next in not much time. They had to fight for their right of existence all the time.

Was this what her life would be from now on? She had gotten a taste of that when Hyena had simply knocked out of the sky. She was not made for such a life, she told herself again and again. But it was not as if she had much of a choice.

Poor Caroline. Her uneasiness really poured out of her. Her life was never easy. First her unbelievable parents, and now this. She must feel really horrible.Amy walked aimlessly through the castle, thinking about her friends.

Candy seems to adapt to this so much better, just like me. But we don't have a boyfriend who is still human...Amy had not thought about that before. It had to be a burden for Caroline, and was most likely one of the main reasons for her lacking enthusiasm.

"Ah, why isn't there a easy solution, when you need one?!" She had no idea how this problem could be solved, and this was frustrating her. It was bad enough to see her friend in that state. But that only Caroline herself could solve that situation only made it worse.

Questioning fate she continued to walk.

December 29th

Each time they woke up, it was more and more easier, and they weren't scared of their own roars anymore. Candy stretched her limbs. Ahhh! Another night. Seems I really get used to all this! This is really refreshing!

Turning to Lexington, she stopped when she saw him staring to her, eyes wide, not saying a word. What is the matter with him?Then Lex blushed deeply, turned around. Candy saw to her friends. Both, Amy and Caroline had darkened cheeks, and Brooklyn was not looking in her direction. What the hell is going on here?!

A cold wind hit her, and gave her an idea. Looking down on herself, she saw that she was stark naked! What was left of her clothing lying in shreds on the tower floor. She shrieked in panic so loud that it could have broken glass, then she put her webbed wings over her front and back, while her whole body blushed in shame.

"Lex, Brooklyn! Don't you even DARE to look!" But at least Lex already saw everything...Another wave of embarrassment hit her, while the males fled that tower level. "Ahhhh, fuck! Why me!? Why now!?"

Angela tried to approach her. "I think that the magic that held your clothes together had worn off. Looks like, you need new clothing..." Angela looked at her wings. "And you need to get you wings pierced in order for you to wear a belt."

Candy paled when she heard the word 'pierced', then fled down the stairs.

"You scared her. Her mother was always against piercings, and she herself fears even the smallest scratch. But I don't see any other way, apart from her becoming a nudist." Amy said, before running down the stairs to find Candy.

Caroline watched her leaving "Is there really no other way for her apart from cutting holes into her wings?" The thought gave her nausea. "I mean, that is a rather drastic method."

"I wish there would be another way. I've seen my web-winged brother on Avalon trying countless things to get around the piercing. But in the end it was the only way for him to wear practical clothing."

Caroline then remembered something from the conversion between Candy and Lexington she had eavesdropped on. "By the way, HOW do they plan to do that?!"

The End