Well, here ya go. The next chapter. I hope the you are all enjoying this. Remember a review from you is a review for me. ;}
Again I what to thank kitty love for being my beta.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Gargoyles.
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Jacqueline was still asleep when the three gargoyles came tapping at the window the following evening. All three were agitated and looked around wildly for her.
"Jacqueline!" All three called out at once.
"Hey guys." Mike came out of the living room. He took one look at them and knew something was wrong. "What's the matter? Looks like someone has died."
"If we don't stop this, someone may." Lexington told him. "Where's Jacqueline ? We really need to talk to her."
"She's asleep. She was attacked yesterday."
"What? How did that happen?" Brooklyn narrowed his eyes.
"She has been working on the cure for sometime now. She may have a breakthrough and wanted to let the others know and apparently these guys have something against you and had seen her with you and labeled her as a traitor." Mike said as he flopped down on the couch.
"Where is she?" Brooklyn asked as he stood over Mike.
"She's in there. Asleep. But I warn you, you will have better luck waking a hibernating bear then to wake her." Mike pointed to the room that held the lab. "I'm going to need therapy after this is all over," he mumbled as Brooklyn disappeared into the room.
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Jacqueline was deep in a dreamless sleep when she felt someone shaking her. She peeled her eyes open then they flew open when she saw that Brooklyn was only and inch from her and was shaking her, an annoyed look on his face.
"Boy, Mike was right when he said that you were a deep sleeper." He stood up and looked down at her.
"How long was I asleep?" She asked as she yawned her, tongue curling as she stretched like a cat.
"Likely all day."
"Really? Hmmm." She stood up wincing at her sore muscles.
Brooklyn caught sight of the gash on her right cheek. He walked closer and peered at her face. "Whoever got you got you good. Which one? Talon?"
"No. Fang." Her blue eyes met his and neither moved nor said a word until a voice broke through their thoughts.
"Hey, hey! Come on guys! We have to go." Lexington shouted at them.
Jacqueline backed up a step and turned to her table were she had lined up several sets of the injections. She grabbed up the three needles and one after the other quickly injected them in the crook of her arm. Each one a stronger mix then the other.
Brooklyn winced each time she jabbed her arm with the needle. Something on her arm grabbed his attention. The moment she threw the needle away he took her arm. The once pure white of her skin was now swollen and bruised horribly.
"Jacqueline…" he breathed her name out not finding the words.
She pulled her arm away, "What? You thought that there wouldn't be bruising?"
"Why are you still working on a cure?" he asked.
"Well, I did promise Maggie and plus I worked so hard on it…."
"Guys! Come on!" This time it was both Broadway and Lex.
"Oh! We better go." Brooklyn20started to the door.
"Just where are we going?" Jacqueline asked as she followed him. Suddenly a powerful cramp seized her belly and she bent over. It passed just as quickly and she stood back up hearing Brooklyn finish the sentence, "tell you along the way."
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"Talon now blames Goliath and Sevarius for his mutation. Sevarius for mutating in the first place and Goliath for stopping Sevarius from giving him the possible cure." Brooklyn finished.
"So this Goliath is your leader?" Jacqueline asked.
"Yeah. We have told him about you and he had said at the monument to keep an eye on you. He figured that since you weren't hanging around the others that you aren't mixed up in this agenda against us," Lexington said was he zoomed over Jacqueline.
"Hard headed male. I had mentioned to him before in private that maybe him losing that possible cure is not you guys' fault, that it may have been due to male ego. So why now are you all having me fly to….where are we going?" Jacqueline asked as she caught a draft and ceased flying and rested as the thermal carried her.
"Well, we believe that Talon is going to do something stupid and Goliath is acting strange. He told us that he would be gone for a few days. Talon had then found out that Sevarius did fake his death, but still believes that Goliath is helping Sevarius." Broadway joined in.
"This is just like those dumb soap operas. Ok, so what is the plan?" Jacqueline now was getting a headache.
"Right now we just head to the clock tower."
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The large clock tower loamed large in front of them. All this time and they were only a few blocks away. Jacqueline thought ruefully. They came in to land when a thick Scottish male voice rang out.
"Watch out lads! It's a trap!"
Suddenly two blasts of electricity shot out from nowhere. The two blasts hit Broadway and Lex, narrowly missing Brooklyn and Jacqueline. They cried out and dropped but caught a wind back up and rejoined them in the air. Around the side of the clock tower came Fang and Claw. Both were snarling and their own eyes were glowing white.
"Oh shit." Jacqueline lets the word slip.
Brooklyn flashed an amused look then veers out of the way as Fang and Claw dived in amidst the group. Fang spotted Jacqueline "Well, look who it is…Jackie." And with a hateful grin dived after her.
Jacqueline flew high into the air with Fang hot on her tail. She turned in mid air while still rising and aimed a bolt of lighting at him. She missed but the next one didn't. It paralyzed him for a moment then he was after her again.
"Come on babe, you ain't better then the rest of us. You're just an animal like the rest of us." he sneered as he hit her in the air.
Jacqueline hissed then smacked his furred face, claws did digging in. "No, I'm not." she
snarled.
Fang just grinned at her then grabbed her close and let several shots of electricity hit into her body. Jacqueline grunted each time a bolt hit her body. Just then a loud roar sounded near them. Fang let go of Jacqueline and she felt herself drop. She tried to flap her wings but her muscles was paralyzed. She closed her eyes as the wind rushed by. Suddenly she felt herself slow then she landed on hard ground. She opened her eyes and saw Brooklyn kneeling by her.
"You okay?"
"Hmmah," she moaned out nodding her head. "I'm going to skin that cat!" She snarled weakly.
Brooklyn let out a half laugh. "Glad to see it hadn't hurt your lovely personality." He smirked.
Jacqueline let out a laugh but it was cut short when a bolt of lighting hit near them.
Brooklyn snarled at the laughing figure of Fang, then took off after him.
Jacqueline gritted her teeth and tired to rise but then collapsed. She tried again and this time felt hands help her. She stood and looked into gold eyes.
Maggie.
Tears ran down her face as she helped Jacqueline to lean against the side of the clock tower. "I didn't mean to tell them where they lived."
"You told them? After the fact that you knew what they would do?" Jacqueline said trying to get movement back into her body.
"But…"
"Maggie, grow up. This is not a game. We were changed and if you had ever paid attention then the thing to do is live…with…it." she paused thinking about her own words. She shook her head. Her agenda with Sevarius was different.
"But…" Maggie tried again but Jacqueline brushed her off. Her eyes went to the sky and saw the three gargoyles darting around avoiding the blast of lighting the came from Claw and Fang. She wanted to go and help but she was still staggering around, she didn't think she could fly at the moment. She looked around and saw a dog-like gargoyle and an older looking tan gargoyle. Both were tied up in chains. She staggered over to them and collapsed in front of them, coughing. She pulled herself up and gave the tan gargoyle a half smile. "I'm Jacqueline." She then took the chains and pulled apart a link and the gargoyle did the rest. The chains fell apart and he stood, ripping the chains off of the other one. Then he turned to her and helped her into a sitting position.
Just then, Brooklyn smashed Fang into the floor as Broadway and Lexington wrapped Claw in the iron fence railing. After they had bounded the other two and the dog like gargoyle watching them did Jacqueline have enough energy and control over her muscles.
She was glaring at Maggie.
"What were you thinking? I thought that you'd grown out of the scared little girl that I had met?" Jacqueline all but shouted at her.
Maggie cringed, but spoke up. "Talon only wanted a few words with them…"
"Is this a few words? Right now he is being hotheaded. I thought he was a cop?"
"Hey, he's trying his best! None of us asked for this!" Maggie shouted back.
A growl sounded low in Jacqueline's throat, "I understand that-"
Brooklyn held up a hand and stepped forward, "It is not Goliath that is behind all this but Xanatos. Maggie, understand that we have known Xanatos much longer and know that he tells lies left and right."
"But didn't he hire Talon when he has human?" Maggie tried to argue.
Jacqueline's temper began to wear thin, her fur began to crackle with a electric charge.
"Listen here, you br-
"Jacqueline!" Brooklyn sighed. "Fine." he walked over to where Fang and Claw was and tore off the fence and chains, giving Fang a daring glare before he waved a hand. "You're all free to go. Return to Xanatos, but remember don't turn your back on him."
Jacqueline and Fang's eye met in a silent battle. "See you latter Babe." he chortled before he and Claw took off.
"Maggie, I should let you know. I may have found a cure. It's not perfect yet, but I will let you know when it is. But grow up in the meantime." Jacqueline told her before Maggie too took off.
"This has been some night…." Lex commented.
"And by the looks of it, it's not over yet." The old gargoyle said as they watched the three forms meet up with a fourth and take off high speed.
"I have a feeling something bad is going to happen." Broadway said.
"You and me both brother," Jacqueline said. "I'm following. Any one else?" she didn't wait for a answer but headed to the edge of the tower.
The other three followed right after as she took off and gritted her teeth against the heaviness of her limbs.
"Oh and by the way, that is Hudson and that is Bronx." Broadway said pointing to each of the other gargoyles.
"Nice to met ya, bye." She waved to them for a moment hovering in the air then taking off after the fading forms, Brooklyn , Lexington and Broadway following.
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They followed though they had lost the sight of the four mutates. But Jacqueline pushed on. She was still following their scents. "Oh, no, no, no. Why here? Of all places?" They had arrived at the old Gen-Tec lab.
The gargoyles shared a look, then Jacqueline took a deep breath and headed to the old hole that she had made awhile ago. They followed her as she followed her memory. It wasn't long before they came upon a scene and the one person that Jacqueline hated most in the world.
Anton Sevarius.
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