The following night the Gargoyles awoken to pouring rain, lighting and thunder crashed.
"Well no patrolling tonight," Brooklyn states as he and the others went inside the castle.
it was hard to glide in rain,
"Kagome, we got a problem." Inuyasha states as he came within hearing distance of the gargoyles
"what?" Kagome asks,
"It's Shippo," Inuyasha answers, "I think the storm is causing the brat to have nightmares."
Kagome nods in understanding, She remembered Hiten and Manten the thunder brothers, the demons that killed Shippo's father. "Hiten and Manten,"
"Oh those two. No wonder the brat's terrified." Inuyasha replies,
Kagome quickly went to Shippo's room in the castle, and found a shivering lump under the covers. "Shippo?"
Shippo peeked out from under the covers and saw who called him, he sprang from the bed to Kagome's arms,
"The thunder brothers are dead remember? Nothing's going to get you in the castle not while there's eight gargoyles to protect the castle." Kagome states, "And let's not forget a demon slayer, a perverted monk, a half-demon, a priestess, and a two-tailed cat."
"But the storm..." Shippo whines into Kagome's folded wing,
"reminds you of them and their power. I know. I was there too." Kagome finishes, she shuddered at the thought of being used as an ingredient for a hair potion.
"Kagome? Is he okay?" Brooklyn asks as he looked into the room
"He's scared of the storm." Kagome replies as she rubbed Shippo's back,
"It's just a thunderstorm." Brooklyn states,
"It's not the storm itself that he's frighten of, it's what it represents to him," Kagome responds, "To Shippo, the storm reminds him of the Thunder Brothers, two demons who controlled thunder and lighting. They murdered his father for a sacred jewel shard."
Brooklyn came closer and patted Shippo's head, "Come on, I'm sure that Xanatos has some hot coco, we'll fix some up."
Shippo looked up, "With those funny white puffy things too?"
Brooklyn looked to Kagome for a translation,
"Marshmallows." Kagome answers,
The three went in search of hot coco, once they had three mugs full
Brooklyn also found some chocolate bars, gram crackers and another bag of marshmallows, which Shippo just loved the S'mores sandwiches.
"Brooklyn," Kagome growled, "You're going to deal with the aftermath!"
"How was I to know, he would be hyperactive on a sugar buzz." Brooklyn replies, then roared in pain as a statue was on his tail.
Kagome released the statue from Brooklyn's tail, "Be glad, he didn't use his smashing top"
"where would he go?" Brooklyn asks, as he rubbed his tail.
"Where else?" Kagome asks, "to torment someone."
"Hidden Cloud!" Shippo exclaims as he placed a leaf on his forehead and disappeared. He went up to Inuyasha and began chewing on the said half-demon's ears.
"Shippo! You're dead brat!" Inuyasha exclaims, as he began to chase after the said 'invisible' fox kit.
Kagome and Brooklyn spent the night chasing Inuyasha, who in his turn was chasing Shippo threatening the fox kit with a painful death.
Meanwhile on the mystical island, Midoriko walked into the Hollow Hill or as it was known by Oberon's Children as the Hall of the Sleeping King, on the altar wasn't Arthur Pendragon,
"my Arthur, you sure have changed." Midoriko states in a teasing manner, on the stone altar was the Magus, he appeared to be sleeping. The Priestess walked up the steps, avoiding any magical traps. She looked at the old man, "So you are the one, Kagome's indebted too."
Midoriko nods to herself, as she held up her hands and used her magic to create stone gargoyles resembling both Goliath and Kagome to guard the Magus in death. "Tis the least, I can do." she turned and disappeared from the Hill to go back to Castle Wyvern, she decided Kagome should be allowed to pay respects to one who aided her.
