I do not own Gargoyles. I only own Sarah Xanatos.

Story Start

Sarah stared down at the city below with her heart threatening to jump out of her chest. She couldn't stop from jumping when she felt Goliath set his hands on her shoulders and lean over so his face was beside hers. She looked at him from the corner of her eye, and she could see he had a gentle and reassuring smile on his face.

"I'll be right there with you. Nothing is going to happen to you," he said and he kept the smirk off his face when he felt her shiver.

"Ok, you can do this Sarah, just do exactly as he said," she gave herself a mental pep talk before diving off the side of the building, opening her wings, and she smiled when the air currents picked her up and she glided higher in the air. She gasped at how beautiful the city was at night from this height. It was always gorgeous when she was younger and she and her family would fly into the city at night, but this was much more amazing to see now.

"You're doing well," Goliath's voice sounded beside her, which surprised her and made her lose her balance a little bit. He chuckled when she struggled to straighten up and regain the current, so she wouldn't plummet to the city street below.

"Don't scare me like that," Sarah cried out once she was finally stable with her wings and the air again.

Goliath smiled at Sarah, who just focused on the sky in front of her. A chuckle left his lips when he saw her actually pouting and trying to give him the cold shoulder. "My apologies, I only wanted to compliment you. Most gargoyles do not do well with their first flight, but you are doing very well," he said and smiled even more when he saw her stop pouting and give a sigh.

Sarah bit her lip before apologizing about snapping at him. She shyly looked over at him and ignored the skip in her heart when she saw how handsome he was while flying. She had been having thoughts about Goliath more and more recently, but she barely knew him or the others and she didn't want to mess anything up with the clan. Taking a deep breath, she decided to distract her over-imaginative mind, so she asked Goliath exactly how to fly different ways. He had told her about them, but actually doing the flying tricks was different.

The two gargoyles spent the next hour flying around the city, but they did not try anything too extreme in terms of flying since Sarah was still just a beginner with her wings. Goliath enjoyed every second of seeing Sarah fly high above the skyscrapers. His favorite moment was when an air current left her and he had to grab her hand and glide with her to another air current. He thought his wings would fail him when he realized that she did not remove his hand after they reached another current.

"We should return. The others should be back from patrols soon and we both need to eat something before the sun rises," Goliath suggested and with a nod from Sarah, the two gargoyles flew back to the castle.

Goliath landed first but he let out a yell of surprise when Sarah slammed into him instead of landing on her feet. The two tumbled across the courtyard before they eventually stopped. Goliath looked up at Sarah in shock as she stared down at him with a sheepish grin. He could tell that she wanted to giggle at his expression and the fact that she slammed into him instead of landing, but a gunshot ripping through the air and into her side quickly broke their moment.

Sarah gasped at the feel of a bullet jamming into her side. A pain-filled cry tore through the night right before Goliath's enraged roar sounded next. He gently set her to the side of him but he looked ready to rip someone to pieces, and he probably would when he saw the blood running down Sarah's side.

"Get away from him," a voice familiar to Goliath shouted, and his head whipped to the side to see Elisa standing there with a gun pointed at Sarah. "Don't hurt Goliath," Elisa screamed again, but she had a slight crazed look in her eyes.

"Elisa, what are you doing?" Goliath shouted as he stood in front of Sarah, protecting her from anymore bullets that Elisa felt like shooting. "Put the gun down now," he ordered.

Elisa shook her head as tears ran down her cheeks. She didn't even lower her gun when the other members of the Wyvern Clan arrived and stared at the scene in confusion, shock, or outrage.

Goliath tensed when Angela rushed behind him to check on Sarah, whose wound was still bleeding heavily down her side. He growled as he now had his daughter and Sarah to protect from Elisa, who he thought was his friend. "Elisa, as my friend, put down the gun! Sarah is part of my clan and I will not let you hurt her," he ordered as he spread his wings to show he was even more angered than before.

"I can't do that Goliath! She's one of Xanatos' creepy experiments. He turned his own niece into a gargoyle so she could trick you and hurt all of you," Elisa screamed as her hand holding the gun started to shake even more. "I can't let her live! She'll hurt you, all of you. I'm doing this for you," she yelled before she started running towards Goliath as fast as she could. Right when she went to run around him and fire at Sarah, who was trying to get Angela out of the way so she wouldn't get hurt too, Puck appeared between Elisa and the gargoyles.

"Oh enough, you've lost your mind. This is why I say that humans shouldn't know about this world. They can't take it," Puck said as he waved his hand and cast a spell that froze Elisa in place. He twirled his hand again and the gun disappeared from her hand. "I know, I'll get rid of your memories and then you'll never have to worry about losing your mind again," he said with a clap of his hands. Elisa's eyes deadened before she disappeared from sight. "Now, maybe you should get her checked out before she loses too much blood and dies," Puck said to Goliath, who was picking up Sarah to carry her bridal style. "I'll go tell her uncle to get her some help too," he said before he also disappeared from the courtyard.

"Sarah," Angela said weakly before yelling her name when she watched Sarah pass out in Goliath's arms.