UPDATE!(flies through the air and crashes into a metal poster)

Puck: What the crap is she on now?(watching as FS flies through the air by jumping around the walls)

Reka:(reading the Grimorum) Hell if I know. Probably went crazy after she got that new Japanese cookbook.

JAP-SNACKIES! (flies over-head)

Puck:(sweatdrops) I hope she stops soon. I want her to update the story soon.

CHAPTAH!

STARTO!

Fire...Smoke...Hot, too hot... A figure, standing above him...

"Eh? you want that thing?"

No, get...away...Crawling away, something's weighing him down...

"No problem then. I'll just cut it out of you!"

Smoke...Choking...pain...

"NO!" Puck screamed as he shot up. having been laying down on the couch in the library. The Gargoyles, Elisa, Reka, and Fox looked over at the Fey's outburst. Puck had his hand out, as though to grab some invisible thing, and his expression was of terror.

"Puck!" The white-haired Fey blinked, and saw a dark form blocking the light from the ceiling. Goliath had been trying to snap him out of it for a few moments now.

"Hey Fairy-Boy, you sounded pretty freaked there." Elisa said, but her tone was less than teasing. Reka shot up from where he had been translating spells in alarm.

"Puck, are you...crying?" His vision suddenly swam, and Puck rubbed a thin hand at his face to discover he was, in fact, crying. He furiously wiped at his face, when he felt something nudging his middle. He looked and found Lexington offering him a box of tissues.

"Here. These have lotion on them, so it'll be better for your face." The small Gargoyle offered, and Puck was about to scowl and smack the box away, when he remembered his lord's words from two nights ago. He inwardly scowled as he realized they were probably watching for him to slip up and reveal his plan, so instead he took the box and uttered a small murmur of thanks.

"So, what about your dream frightened you?" Goliath asked patiently. The Fey shivered, remembering the over-whelming fear in his dream. It couldn't have a premonition, could it?

"Oi, baka-sensei. What happened?" Puck shook his head, curling into a ball. Reka knew better than to pursue the question, so he asked a different one.

"Hey?" The Fey took a moment, then uncurled to look at his apprentice. "I've been wondering. What happened to Yalunia's second daughter? Was she banished because she helped the Gargoyle?"

Puck could only shrug. "No ones knows. The story is so old, patches of it are missing, and that very patch has been gone for a long time. Some say she was turned to stone like the Gargoyle, and others say she was put to death." Reka tilted his head.

"What do you think?" Puck sighed, and layed back down.

"Honestly, I have no opinions left after all that's happened in this decade of my life. You humans-" Here he stopped to motion at Fox and Reka, "- and the Gargoyle clan have taken my knowledge of things and not only torn it apart, but stomped on it, set it on fire, and used it as fertilizer." Elisa laughed at the description.

"Though if I was asked honestly, I think she left her world and settled down on Earth, with her human boy." Reka blinked. Then grinned.

"I thought you hated cheesy romantic endings?" Puck rolled at the obvious jibe.

"I mean, some of her magic must be influencing the human world, otherwise they all would've died from their own stupidity by now." Elisa and Fox growled.

"Nice." Reka made a face, knowing his tutor was about to get killed.

"Hey Puck, do you need anything? Me, Brooklyn, and Broadway are gonna go out to get some food." Lexington asked, pointing his thumb at his siblings, who were waiting by the window.

Puck was about to say 'no', but was struck by a bizarre and sudden urge to say something else. "Yes, actually. If you could find some Chinese food. And maybe some place you could get chocolate?" He said this with an oddly blank expression.

Lexington nodded with a smile, and ran to the window, swooping out of sight a moment later. The expression broke, and Puck looked over to his grinning apprentice with a dark look.

"Just because you can influence me through magic, does NOT mean you should do it every chance you get." Reka grinned and flipped the hand-held mirror he was holding into his other hand.

"But that also doesn't mean I CAN'T." Puck glowered at the Halfa a bit harder. "Oh, relax. He's trying to do this for your sake, remember? Just be a little civilized for now."

Puck snorted, folding his arms. "Or what?"

Reka grinned almost evilly. "Or karma might make you actually fall in love." Puck snorted in disgust.

"Thanks Jero! We owe ya!" Broadway crowed quietly as a small Asian boy hefted another sack into the behemoth Gargoyles arms. Brooklyn was weighed down by now as well, his arms full of teas and sodas. Lexington had flown off earlier with the excuse of getting his fake lover some chocolates.

"No problem guys. All this extra food would probably go to waste during the weekends." Jero said, wiping sweat off his brow. He pointed to the new sack. "In there are some rangoons that I know Miss Fox loves. And I made sure to include some forks for Mister Xanatos. That man does not know how to use chopsticks." The last was muttered, but the brothers heard it anyway and laughed.

"Take care, you guys! Tell Hudson I said Yo!" He called as the two took off into the night. There had been furious winds all that week so far, that all the Gargoyles had to do was jump up and be caught by a gust to go anywhere in the city. They wondered if a certain Halfa had anything to do with it.

They met with Lex just a few blocks away from the Eerie Building. He had a box of chocolates, wrapped in a blue box with gold trim. He waved to the others careful, carrying the box with his teeth.

Reka grinned as he saw the Gargoyles approaching. Time for 'karma' to make an interlude... He then muttered a very strong control spell on Puck. The Fey straightened and froze, his eyes glowing pink from outside influence. Goliath frowned; Reka was up to something, and that was never a good thing.

"Hey, we're back!" Lexington shouted as he flew in first, followed by Brooklyn and Broadway, who had to be tugged through due to his groceries. Puck suddenly jumped up and embraced Lexington, who dropped the chocolate in shock.

"U-UH? Puck, whats-" Lexington cut himself off as Puck began petting his wings almost sweetly, which quite frnkly freaked him out. The Fey was acting very weird, almost childishly innocent.

"Has anyone ever told you how pretty your wings are?" Puck giggled as he spoke, his eyes glowing pink. Lexington's face was nearly as red as Brooklyn's, who was clutching a nearby pillar for support; he was laughing too hard to stand.

"U-Uh, no? You're the f-first to mention that..." Reka was cracking up wildly, and Elisa and Fox were both enjoying this as well. Goliath, though, felt that this situation was a bit far; Reka was sure to pay for it.

"Your scales are also really pretty." The intoxicated Fey snuggled against the Gargoyles skin. "Pretty green, like leaves. You're a pretty Gargoyle, did you know that Lex?" David had just walked in and stopped, frozen as he took in the scene: Puck was pretty much snuzzling(1) poor Lexington, who'd turned red enough to resemble Brooklyn, who was laughing while hanging off a pillar drunkenly, the other Gargoyles looked either confused/angry/amused, and his wife, Elisa, and Reka were all cracking up horribly on the couches.

"I'm just going to pretend I never walked in on this. Reka, whatever you did to Puck, undo it." The brunette pouted, but snapped his fingers. A shattering noise, followed by a burst of pink light, erupted from the Fey, who snapped to attention, his face going bright red. He moved away from Lexington, who stared at him Fey did not move for several moments, during which Reka got up from the couch and stretched.

"Well, Puck-baka's back to himself, so let's-" Reka was cut off by Puck suddenly bursting into tears and fleeing the room. Lex jumped up, glared at Reka, then went after the hurt and upset Fey. The brunette stood, stunned, before slapping a hand over his face.

"I only did a Emotion-Flux Spell. It was supposed to be funny."

Lexington looked through several rooms before he found Puck huddled in the very corner of one just underneath the garden. He quietly approached the crying faerie, not flinching even when Puck threw a book at him.

"GO AWAY!" The Fey's voice echoed around the room, but Lex crawled closer until he could hold a hand out to the distressed ex-Avalonian.

"Reka was messing with you...It's not like he'll get away with it." Puck shook his head, and continued his hiccuping sobs. Lex frowned, then he realized he was still holding something. He squated down next to the Fey.

"Um, here." Puck waited a few moments, before looking. It was a box of chocolates; the ones Reka had made him ask for in the first place. He wheezed, but took the box, and slowly opened it. The sweet smell helped him calm a bit. He looked up and nodded to Lexington.

"Thank you." Lex wriggled about until he was sitting next to the Fey, who nibbled on a bonbon. Puck held up the box. "Have one. You were the one who got them, after all."

Lex thanked him, and picking up one that was filled with a dark chocolate. It cracked, but he managed to get it in his mouth before his claws sliced it in half. Puck, who had been watching this humorous feat, began to laugh.

"Not easy to eat with claws, is it?" His voice was low, cracked with the strain of having been crying before. Lex stared, but it broke into a sheepish smile.

"Yeah, not really. But human food is so delicate." He defended. Puck snorted in good humor, and reached for another.

"I got used to eating such strange things when the world began to develope. I'm more accustomed, I suppose." Lex glanced at the Fey, who seemed more tired now.

"Puck?" The white-haired faerie looked at him in mid-bite. "What...What was it like? I mean, living in this world as it came to be?" Puck closed his mouth and looked forward.

"...Lonely." Not expecting that answer, Lex stared more, hoping Puck would elaborate. "I watched as stone buildings became wooden, wood turned to stone again, then metal and stone mixed together. I watched as humans grew more conscious of themselves, and the world around them. But, I watched as the number of our folk dwindled from human kind's side to a mere wild few. We ruled this world first, but humans were so fragile we began to leave, thinking we were much too dangerous to them. I stayed, and suddenly I was alone in this world."

Lexington knew that all too well. Watching as his clan left him as an infant in the Scotland castle, the feeling of not belonging as he watched his 'brothers' dote about the humans. Even Goliath, to him, seemed distant.

"I watched as humans changed, as they changed what was around them, but never for the better." Puck curled up into himself again, feeling the urge to cry. He'd never spoken to anyone like this before, but with all the stress he'd experienced over the last few days, it felt good to just let it out now. "Sometimes, I picture this world as a cocoon that's sufficating the thing inside. And I think, what if it's me that's inside? I..." His voice cracked, and suddenly Lex's arms and wings were around his shoulder.

"I feel like I'm sufficating as well." He shook, then began to cry quietly into Lexington's shoulder. He felt ridiculous, letting his emotions run like this, but with the Spring Gathering, Oberon's threat, and just now Reka's prank, he just couldn't hold it in.

The green Gargoyle stroked the white locks as the Fey shed tears on his skin. Reka's spell must've done a number on Puck for him to be this open, Lex thought. He shifted the Fey so that Puck was curled up against Lex's chest, and his wings and arms were completely covering the tiny, suddenly fragile body.

Every time something went wrong, it was up to Goliath to solve it. If he couldn't do it, then the hope fell on Hudson, and if even he couldn't help, then you were pretty much screwed. But now, Lex was the one being depended on. True, Puck had dragged him into this, but with the Fey in this state, and a deadline approaching fast, Lexington felt, and knew, he would take care of it.

Deep, even breathes against his neck, told him that Puck had fallen asleep. He unfurled his wing and stared at the faerie. Puck was supposed to be ancient, but even with his powers and emotions drained he resembled near more than a child scared into crying himself to sleep. White hair seemed to flow down the Fey's face, skin complexed to a near snow-color. And he was so thin, too. Curled up like this, Lex could probably carry him without a problem.

He did so, making sure no one saw as he carried Puck to the guest room Elisa sometimes slept in. He tucked in the blanket, and turned to leave, when-

"Don'...Don' go..." The sleepy murmur came, and Lex, though his stomach yearned for chow mein and teriyaki chicken, he went to the bed, and climbed up on the comfy chair to watch over the Fey as he slept. This time, Puck did not encounter any nightmares, or premonitional dreams.

"WHAT?" A glass was thrown at the red-headed Sprite, who attempted to crawl away. He was picked up by the neck, and stared into Coyote's face. He'd been stupid to come when the Avalonian was drinking.

"You run that by me again." The Sprite cleared his throat.

"Ex-Avalonian Fey Puck has chosen a Gargoyle as his other. He will not be coming to the Spring Gathering." The Sprite was tossed to the floor, and crawled away quickly.

Anansi and Banshee were sitting at the table, playing cards. "Why's it so important that Puck comes back here, anyway? I thought everyone hated him?"

"Puck is a Bearer. It's only natural that some want to put his ability to use." Banshee cooed quietly. Grandmother descended the steps, looking to the two as to why there was blood on the florr, and why Coyote was upset. Anansi explained it to her, and she tilted her head still confused.

"I was promised Puck by Lord Oberon. I will have him, even if I have to drag his ass back here myself!" Coyote swore as a howl shattered the windows of his room.

Ooh, thickening of ze plot! What a tweest! READ AND REVIEW!