Written by: Ranitagoyle
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To Disclaimers: Gargoyles are the property of Disney and
Buena Vista. I am not making any profit off of this story. Sailor
Moon is the property of Naoko Takeuchi/ DIC Productions. This is my
first fanfiction so please go easy on me. On Gargoyles: Takes
place after Hunter's Moon trilogy. On Sailor Moon: Before the
healing of the Four Weird Sisters.
This is a direct continuation of the last story. I would
like to thank MaraJ, VonDoom, Don Redmond, Lisette, and
ShadowGrg for their compliments on my story.
Chapter 2: Sailor Moon Falls to Her Death? Time For Explanations!
Upon hearing their leader's screams, the scouts each stop fighting. Goliath seeing what happened quickly dove off the edge; wings pulled as far back as possible to gain speed. He quickly caught her and spread his wings to reduce his speed.
"Now, are you ready to talk about this attack?" asked Goliath.
Sailor Moon couldn't say a word; she just quietly nodded in fear that the gargoyle might hurt her. Goliath glided down to the parapets below and gently set Sailor Moon down. The scouts quickly rushed to make sure their friend was all right.
"Sailor Moon, are you okay?" asked Sailor Venus.
"Yeah, just a little shaken up from the fall," said Sailor Moon. Looking at Goliath, "Thank you..uh..,"
"Goliath. My name is Goliath. This is my clan. We would like to know who you are and what are you doing in this castle?"
"I'm Sailor Moon and we are the Sailor Scouts."
"Nice to meet you. I'm Brooklyn. This is Broadway, Lexington, Angela, Hudson, and this guy over here is Bronx." Bending down to pet the dog gargoyle, who was barking at the calling of his name.
This is Sailor Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus," said Sailor Moon.
Elisa emerged from behind Goliath. "I'm Elisa Maza. Please forgive my frankness, but are you the Japanese exchange students staying with Xanatos?"
"Yes, I think your right, Elisa. They do have a Japanese accent," said Goliath.
Everyone saw the tense looks growing on the scouts' faces, so Angela decided to break the tension. "Do you want to come in and sit down?"
Looking at the gargoyles with an untrusting glare, Sailor Jupiter quietly asked, "Can we trust them?"
"I have a good feeling about them. I don't sense any negative energy from them," said Sailor Mars.
Looking toward Goliath, Jupiter said, "Well, if Sailor Mars trust you, I guess we can too."
The girls took a sit in the sofa while the gargoyles stood, setting their wings on their shoulders like a cloak.
"Could you girls please revert to your human forms before guys' eyes come out of their heads," said Angela with a slight grin on her face.
The scouts saw the embarrassed look on Brooklyn and Lexington's faces and agreed. "Hello, my name is Serena; this is: Amy, Raye, Lita, and Mina."
"How did you do that? Are ye sorceresses?" asked Hudson.
"No, we're not sorceresses, but we do have powers," said Amy. "Our powers come from the planets. Like myself, I have the planet Mercury, so I'm called Sailor Mercury."
"I get it! You use those things you held up to channel your powers into you, right?" asked Lexington.
"Yes, we use our power sticks," Amy pulls out her power stick, and nods to the others to do the same. "They are made especially for us so no one else can use them," Mercury hands her stick to Lexington. "As you see, there is a symbol on my stick, that's the sign of Mercury."
"When we saw you transform Serena held up something different than these, a crystal, what was that?" asked Goliath.
"I think I'll let Serena explain our history and the crystal to you since it belongs to her," said Amy looking toward Serena.
"Um, me? Well, I guess that will be ok. This is a story that goes back a thousand years," explained Serena.
"Hey, Goliath that was during our time," said Broadway.
"Your time?" said Mina.
"We'll tell you all about it. Please continue,' said Goliath.
"A thousand years ago, the Silver Millennium stretched from Mercury to Pluto, and beyond. All of the Solar System was a part of it. All except the Earth and the Sun. The Moon Kingdom was the center, the heart of the Silver Millennium, and Queen Serenity ruled wisely over all the planets. She had a daughter, Princess Serena, who was brought up to rule in her footsteps. Princess Serena was in love with the Prince of Earth, Darien. They had planned on getting married. Unfortunately, before they could, Queen Beryl and an army of brainwashed soldiers from Earth attacked the Moon Kingdom. The Sailor Scouts were the bodyguards of the Princess of the Moon, and they fought as hard as they could, as did Prince Darien and but one by one they fell. When Prince Darien died, Princess Serena threw herself after him and died as well. Her mother, Queen Serenity, could not stand to see them both die. She used the last of her strength to collect the souls of the people who had died and send them to be reborn on Earth," As Serena told the story she felt as if she was telling her whole life's story. The gargoyles were now sating down on the floor enjoying her story. The way Goliath and Elisa sat together reminded her of Darien and herself before he broke up with her. "None of those who were reborn had any memory of their previous life. But just in case, she sent guardians who could wake their Sailor powers, in case they were needed. Their job, to find the Moon Princess, and defend the Earth. You see those two cats you see over there?" Serena said pointing toward the two cats. Which earned Serena a stern look from Luna.
"Yeah, what about them?" asked Broadway.
"Well, they are our guardians. Would you please introduce yourselves?" said Serena.
The black cat stepped forward and surprisingly to the others spoke. "I am Luna" "I am Artremis."
Everyone in the room except the scouts were shocked to hear the two cats actually talking.
"Now I know the world has finally gone wacko! Gargoyles, Fairies, Ancient Spirits, Talking Cats, what's next?" said Elisa.
"What is she talking about?" asked Lita.
"Just part of our story. Please continue," said Broadway.
Serena continued her story talking about their search for the rainbow crystals, Beryl enslaving Darien's mind, the final battle with Beryl and the Negaforce, about Alan and Ann and the Doom Tree. She told them everything up to the present excluding Darien breaking up with her.
"And now we're here to stop Rubeus and the Weird Sisters from sucking the energy out of people here." finished Serena.
"Yes, Ah think Ah remember hearing about tis Moon
Kingdom of yurs, when I leader of tha clan. It went something like this:
'Once a Princess lived on the moon in the sky.
Her beauty was the one who caught the Prince of Earth's eye.
Deeply in love the two did fall and a wedding date was announced to all.
Their Destiny already was sealed by fate, came an evil whose power was great.
Scout, Prince, Princess one and all, the whole entire kingdom did fall.
The Queen of the moon in grief then declared, that the children of the Moon would be spared.'"
"Ah yes. I just barely remember hearing that story, but I thought that it was a myth," said Goliath.
"Well, these lasses are proof tha' the story is more tha' a myth," said Hudson indicating the Scouts.
"Well, at least we know what we're up against. I told Goliath about the attacks last week, but we were not able to get to the victim in time," said Elisa.
"Now what's your history, Goliath, and what did you mean 'during your time'?" asked Serena with a hint of curiosity.
"Well, a thousand or so years ago, we lived in Scotland in this very castle. We made an agreement with the captain of the guard, he would guard us during our stone sleep and we protect the castle during the night. He betrayed the princess and my kind by siding with Hakon. When we awoke that night we found that our brothers and sisters had been murdered. I decided that who would save the humans and have our revenge. The Magus used a spell to turn my friends to stone out of grief over the death of the princess. He did not know that I had rescued her from Hakon. When I returned I found my friends to be stone at night! I demanded that he turn them back, but the page with the counter spell was burned. The terms of the spell were that they would sleep until the castle rose above the clouds. I moved my friends to their perches on the castle, and asked the Magus to cast his spell one more time and to care of the eggs in the rookery. A thousand years later, Xanatos bought this castle and set it atop his skyscraper." Goliath told the girls all about their adventures up to Hunter's Moon excluding the part about Elisa's kiss.
"Well, that explains why I felt a strange magical presence around Owen, he's the Shakespearean trickster Puck, and the child, he is part fairy," said Raye.
"You mean that you can sense magical forces?" asked Brooklyn, who was impressed by the raven-haired warrior-priestess' abilities.
"Yes, it is part of my training to become a priestess at my grandfather's temple," explained Raye.
"Your story also explains why I got magical sense from
you and the other girls," a voice came from the door. Everyone
turned to see Owen and Xanatos standing at the door. The girls stood in
completely shock and the color drained out of their faces as they
realized that their secret identities was no longer a secret. Xanatos seeing
the worry on the girls' faces decided to reassure them. "Girls you've
got nothing to worry about, I've got secrets of my own that I
wouldn't want
anyone to know about," he said looking toward the
gargoyles and the girls understood that their secret was safe.
"I think we need to get back to business. Is there anyway we can track these monsters when they appear?" asked Elisa.
"I could use my computer to set up a program to track negaverse energy waves but I'm not sure that my computer last enough memory to do the job," said Amy as she typed on her Mercury computer.
"Amy, I think that I can help you with that," said Lexington as he took Amy hand and led her to his supercomputer station.
"I didn't know you worked on computers too, Lexington," said Amy, who was thoroughly impressed by the gargoyle's skill.
"Please just call me Lex."
"Well, while they work on that, who's hungry?" said a very hungry Broadway as he walked toward the kitchen. When he said that Serena's eyes lit up with joy. "Oh me me me me!" said Serena as she rushed quickly after Broadway.
"Well it looks like Meatball Head has found somebody that shares her interest in food," said Raye with a sneer. "I have to say the same for Broadway, no one can eat as much as he can," said Brooklyn. "You want to bet on that?"
"Hey!" said both Broadway and Serena as they heard what Brooklyn and Raye had said about them.
Angela decided to join Broadway and Serena to have breakfast.
"The rest of you welcome our guest while Brooklyn and I will go on patrol," said Goliath.
"Hold on a minute! You're not going without Mina and me. These guys are far too dangerous to handle only. Your punches will not stop it from using their attacks," said Lita.
Goliath sighed. "Very well. You may come along as long as you stay out of sight."
"We better transform, we can move faster that way," said Mina.
"Jupiter Star Power!"
"Venus Star Power!"
While the girls transformed, Goliath and Elisa decide to talk outside.
"Do you think they are telling the truth?" asked Goliath.
"I think that Serena and her friends are to be trusted. I could sense while she was telling the story that she was depressed about something. Her story was one of romance, don't you think?" stated Elisa.
"Ah yes. So much trials and suffering, yet they overcame them." Said Goliath.
"Kinda like us, huh, Big Guy." said Elisa as she was squeezing his upper arm.
"Yes, but they are so young to know such turmoil," said Goliath.
"Let's get rolling! Ya ready, Goliath, Brooklyn?" said Sailor Venus.
"Yes," turning toward Elisa, "I'll see you later tonight."
"Wouldn't miss it Big Guy," said Elisa as she turned to leave the castle to go to work.
"Uh, if you could get us down to the roofs below I would be grateful," stated Sailor Venus looking over the parapet to the long descent.
Brooklyn grinned at the fear Sailor Venus was showing over the height. "Sure, no problem." He picked her up into her arms and dove off the parapet. She started to scream as Brooklyn waited to the last minute to spread his wings. "You did it on purpose, didn't you?"
"Who me? No, I wouldn't do a thing like that," said Brooklyn with an 'oh so innocent' smile.
"If you try that on me you're in for the shock of your life," said Sailor Jupiter.
"I wouldn't dream of it. Just climb onto my back and we can be off," said Goliath. Jupiter jumped onto Goliath's back as he was about to spread his wings preparing to glide. "Hold on tight," said Goliath. As Goliath dove off the edge he could feel Jupiter tighten her grip on his neck. He still couldn't believe that these teenage girls were such fighters.
Goliath with Sailor Jupiter in tow glides to catch up with second-in-command.
"Brooklyn, I want you and Sailor Venus to cover the West Side while we cover the East Side. Meet back at the castle in an hour," commanded Goliath.
"Venus call us on the communicator if there is any trouble," stated Jupiter.
"Okay, but make sure you do the same," said Venus.
As the two groups of Sailor Scout/gargoyle start their patrol, a figure in the shadows watches the gargoyles with scouts lease the castle in the sky. 'Mmhm that was interesting. Why are they with them?'
At the Castle
Broadway, Serena, Angela, and Raye were eating the dinner.
"Mmm! Broadway, you can cook as good as Lita. That was delicious," said Serena.
"Well, we wouldn't know since you practically ate all the food. I'm surprised Angela and me got to even taste the food. By the way, Broadway, what little I tasted was indeed delicious," said Raye.
"Yes, Broadway it was delicious," said Angela.
"Thank you. I appreciate you compliments very much," said Broadway with a big grin on his face.
"Serena please forgive my frankness but you do eat a lot. How do you stay so thin?" asked Angela.
"That's okay, Angela. Let's see, I jog to school every morning," said Serena.
"Jog! You mean sprint. You are always late for school. I'm not surprised you are so thin. It takes a lot of energy to keep up with your daily sprint," said Raye. The two gargoyles sat in shock at the harshness of Raye's words.
"Raye stop! You know what happens when you upset her," said Luna. When Luna and Raye started putting their hands and paws on their ears, the gargoyles wondered what was going to happen. They soon found out.
"Waaaaaahhhhh! Raye, why are you so mean to me!" wailed Serena. But before Raye could apologize, Serena was up and out of the room. "Look what you did, Raye. I thought you were her friend. Friends don't try to upset others," said Angela with her eye turning blood red. "I am going after her," said Angela as she ran after the blond meatball-headed girl.
"Serena will be fine," said Raye, crossing her arms over her chest. 'I'm sorry, Serena. I didn't mean to make you cry.'
When Angela finally caught up to Serena, they were in the courtyard.
"Serena, are you alright? Did Raye hurt you feeling?" asked Angela, who was still shocked at the girl's behavior toward Serena.
"Yes, but that's not it. We always fight," Serena managed to say in between the sobs.
"Serena, please calm down and tell me what is wrong," said Angela
"I would rather not talk about it," said Serena.
"Come on, Serena, I am your friend. We can talk about it. I swear whatever you say would leave my lips unless you want me to," said Angela with a gentle smile on her face.
"Ok, but be prepared for a long story," said Serena, who grinned at the gentleness the gargoyle showed toward her. "Well do you remember when I told you about how Darien spent so much time with Reenie?" asked Serena.
"Yes," said Angela.
"Well, there are some parts I left out. You see he broke up with me. He told me that it was over," said Serena starting a fresh set of tears.
"Did he tell you why he broke up with you?" asked Angela.
"That is what makes it so hard. He won't tell me!" exclaimed Serena.
"Serena, just because he broke up with you doesn't mean that he doesn't still love you. I say until he gives you a good reason keep going after him," said Angela.
"Yeah, I guess you're right. So enough about my love life, how about you? Got any boyfriends?" asked Serena with a sly grin on her face.
"Girl, would you believe I got three suitors," said Angela. "Noooo," said Serena.
"Well, it's true. When the guys first saw me they were fighting each other over who got me," said Angela.
"What did you do?" asked Serena.
"Well, I told them that I liked them all, but only time will tell who I will love," said Angela.
Serena and Angela talked about the guys and how Serena could get Darien back.
On the East Side of Manhattan
As Brooklyn finished tying up the burglar, he kept getting the feeling that someone was watching him. He looked up and to his surprise, Sailor Venus was nowhere to be found. "Venus? Venus! Where are you?" whispered Brooklyn. As a hand touched his shoulder, Brooklyn whirled around wings unfurled, talon out and really to pounce on the new attacker. To his relief, it was only Venus.
"Sorry. Didn't mean to startle you. I thought that since you won't let me help you in patrol, I came down to get a closer look," said Sailor Venus.
"Well, that's alright. The only reason I didn't want you to fight was because I thought that you would want to stay hidden," said Brooklyn.
"I understand. We wouldn't want the whole city of New York looking for crime-fighting girls in short skirts now, would we?" said Sailor Venus.
"Haha! Guess you're right. The criminals would break out of jail just to be arrested by them," said Brooklyn.
"Touche! But Brooklyn, I have experience at fighting criminals and hiding from the police, Brooklyn," said Sailor Venus.
"Is that so? Tell me what is your experience with criminals, if I might ask?" said Brooklyn. It was then that Brooklyn's sensitive hearing caught the faint sound of police sirens approaching. 'Well, I guess we can't just stand around here and chitchat. The police will be here in a minute. I hope she doesn't blast me for doing this.'
Brooklyn ran toward Venus, scooped her into his arms and quickly jumped onto the wall sinking his sharp claws in the brick. As they reached the top, Brooklyn readied himself to glide off and continue patrol when Venus stopped him.
"Why did you do that?" asked Sailor Venus, whose heart beat had quicken from being suddenly swept into the gargoyle's strong arms.
"Um...I heard the police coming and thought we should make a quick exit," said Brooklyn, who was suddenly nervous around the girl.
"Oh," said Sailor Venus with disappointment laced in her voice. It was then that Venus noticed how attractive and courteous Brooklyn was. 'Wait a minute, I don't usually think about how cute somebody is unless I start to fall for them. When did it happen? When had I fallen for Brooklyn?' Unknown to her, Brooklyn was thinking the same thing about her. 'Man, she is beautiful in the moonlight. I don't know why you kid yourself, Brooklyn. First, Maggie, then Angela, and now Sailor Venus. Why do you torture yourself?'
Noticing the silence between them, Brooklyn decided that it is time to go.
"Shall we continue patrol?" asked Brooklyn, holding out his hand to Venus.
"Yes, we shall," said Venus, graciously taking Brooklyn's hand.
Brooklyn lifts Venus into his arms and takes off into
the night. Venus started to relax as a feeling of calmness and
safety surrounds her while being held in the arms of the gargoyle she
secretly loved.
As Brooklyn felt Venus relax, a smile comes to his face
as a he looked into the face of the woman he also secretly
loved.
But the peace was not to last. BEEP BEEP BEEP
"Oh no, this is Venus come in Jupiter," said Sailor Venus.
"Venus, hurry! Get to the Westside Harbor. We got big trouble. Call the others! AHHHHHH!"
"Jupiter? Jupiter!" screamed said Venus.
TO BE CONTINUED...
What has happened to Jupiter and Goliath? Will the others get there in time to help?
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