The sun set and Elisa and Mr. Xanatose were there to see the gargoyles wake up.
"Stone all night; definitely a gargoyle." Xanatose said
"Well that's a relief. Maybe it's the real deal then." Elisa said "Besides how much trouble is one kid?"
The gargoyles started to break out of their skin. "Hello Goliath." Elisa said warmly.
"Elisa." Goliath said hugging her.
The trio flew around below and he smiled as he watched Bronx and Dawn jumping around below them. Then frowned as he noticed the girl falling back onto the pavement over and over again.
"Come on Dawn!" Lexington said "I could glide when I was about your age. Even Broadway could, and he was a late glider"
"Yeah it's a wonder he gets off the ground now with all that extra weight?" Brooklyn teased Broadway. "Very funny." Broadway growled
"Just get a good draft!" Lexington instructed.
Dawn jumped and fell right on her face again. She sighed "I guess I'm not ready yet." She called up to them.
"Try jumping out instead of in." Brooklyn yelled.
"I'll fall." Dawn said.
"We'd catch you if you did." Angela said "Give it a try."
Dawn took a leap and fell down twords the ground and true to their word they caught hre and brought her back up.
"You'll get it eventually." Angela said incouragingly.
"Let's eat I'm starved!" Broadway said "come on."
Goliath watched them go. "I could off the top of the castle to the next flight at half her age." Goliath said
"Well having to hide inside all the time probably hasn't let her have much of a chance to try." Elisa laughed "She's got great teachers Goliath."
"Yes. I'm very pleased. I couldn't wait till tonight. It has been too long since this castle heard the laughter of hatchlings." Goliath said "I cannot help but wonder though could there be more? I feel as though we should have been looking just incase."
"I figured you'd feel that way and it's already taken care of." Xanatose said walking in "I've got a team off in Scotland now. They're going to check every cave in all of Scotland. No stone will be unturned." Xanatose told Goliath.
Goliath looked at Xanatose for a moment "Thank you." He said finally. "Lexington, Brooklyn." Goliath called "Time for patrol."
"OOOHH." The two moaned but went off with Goliath and Elisa.
"What is a patrol?" Dawn asked.
"Well we protect the city and all the people in it at night." Angela said
"Cool. Like super heroes of the Tele?" Dawn asked
"No. We try not to be seen." Broadway said "people wouldn't-"
"I know they wouldn't understand." Dawn interrupted impatiently. She'd heard that so many times before in her life. "So then why?"
"It's what Gargoyles do lass. We protect things. In the old days we protected this castle now this island is our castle." Hudson said "as he headed off to watch television."
"So you guys go every single night?" Dawn asked
"Pretty much, but we usually take turns." Angela said
"I want a turn!" Dawn said excitedly "I want to help too!"
"You can when you're bigger." Angela said with a smile
Dawn jumped up and down "Well I'm just a little shorter then Lex so it won't be long at all right?"
Broadway and Angela shook their heads and laughed as Dawn ran around the castle.
"I've never been around younger gargoyles before." Angela said "Only you guys and my rookery brothers and sisters. She's so cute."
"Yeah, I guess hatchlings are kind of cute now that we're older. My brothers and sisters, that come from the batch before your rookery siblings, got annoying a lot of the times though. Maybe someday-" Broadway said.
Angela smiled and the two held hands. "-maybe."
Dawn felt awkward so she ran down the stairs twords where Hudson had disappeared too. He was watching TV while Alex was in his playpen. Bronx lifted his head as Dawn came down and barked happily. "What you doing?" Dawn asked.
"Watching the baby." Hudson said.
Dawn peaked over at Alex. "He looks too little to get in trouble."
"You'd be surprised lass." Hudson said "Besides Alex isn't any normal baby. He has magic as well, not to mention life here is not always the safest."
"Who'd want to hurt him? He's kind of cute in a squishy way." Dawn said poking Alex. The baby laughed and burbled.
Fox looked uneasy as she watched this from the next room. A child gargoyle was poking her baby! A strange child gargoyle was poking her baby. She walked in "Time for bed Alex." She said picking up the baby. She walked off with the baby. Dawn sighed and turned and watched some T.V. but after a while she got bored. This was pretty easy for her because most of the kids shows came on during the day. She finally got so antsy that she got annoying. "Why don't you give Bronx some exercise? Outside" Hudson said
Dawn grinned and went ran outside and Bronx went with her. She jumped from point to point in the castle but never glided. After a while they both collapsed on the top most point panting heavily. "You know what Bronx?"
The dog looked at her and wagged his tail.
"I think I'm going to like being part of a clan." Dawn said looking up at the stars "I just Moria could be here too." She said sadly. Bronx rested his head on her stomach and Dawn scratched him behind the ears lazily. "You'd like Moria. She is smart. She probably knows almost everything in the world. And she cooks the best sausages ever. She can sing like a bird and type like a hurricane. She wrote a bunch of books you know, but not with her real name. She called it a pseudonym. Pretty cool, huh?" She paused a moment "I wonder when gargoyles die if they go to heaven too? I hope so because Moria's probably there. I bet she's an angel Bronx. Too bad she can't give me gliding lessons huh? As smart as she now she can probably soar like an eagle."