When worlds Collide:
Angels of the Night
He soars through the sky like a true angel of the night. With his strong wings spread he feels as if he could fly forever. Flying has always been his favorite part of protecting the city. It's his favorite part of living period. The breeze beneath his wings, allowing him to glide high above the earth, the thrill of flying, he loved it! It was moments like this he lived for.
He looks down at the city below. Then, like a sword cutting through flesh he hears the alarm. Frantically he searches for where the alarm came from. He sees two figures running out of a store. They both have masks covering their faces and they're dressed in black. The two hop on motorcycles sitting in front of the store. They laugh and ride off on the bikes laughing.
"They never learn…" he says with a slight smile. He swoops down upon them, like the angel of the night he is. "Hi boys." He says flying just feet above them.
The look up. "Get away from us you monster!" One shouts. The other pulls out a hand gun. "Get away!" the first one yells again.
"Little old me?" He asks. "You aren't afraid of me, are you?"
"Get the hell away!" The one with the gun screams. He pulls the trigger and the awful bang irrupts from the gun.
Humans and they're guns! He thinks coldly as he dodges the bullet.
"Don't you know it takes more then that to take out a good Gargoyle?" He swoops in again, his white hair flowing behind him.
"I said stay back!" The man with the gun shrieks dropping the gun and pulling out a sharp knife. "Luke, if anything happens to me, take care of yourself, Ok?"
The other man nods. "Sure thing."
The one with the knife looks up at him. "You're goin' down, monster!" He reaches his hand up, and having rather long arms he tears the knife through a wing before Brooklyn had a chance to dodge.
He lets out an awful screech of pain. "Human!" He shouts losing his patience. He swings his arm. With the force of a tornado the man flies off his bike and into a building.
"Hank!! You killed Hank! You evil creature from Hell!"
Brooklyn lands in the road. "That's going to have to take some time to heal." He growled angrily, spreading his injured wing and looking at it. "I won't be able to fly well until tomorrow night." He glares off toward the one remaining man on the bike. "Goliath," he says through his headset. "I might not be returning to the tower tonight."
An angry "why?" comes back through it.
"Because I was watching on patrol when these two guys were robbing a store. One pulled a knife out on me and got me before I could dodge. He got me in the wing."
"It's okay, Brooklyn." He says at an attempt to control his anger, that actually worked.
He takes the headphones off his ears and puts them around his neck. "I'm such a loser…" He mumbles taking a hefty jump and praying he could stay aloft long enough to get atop a building.
He soars above the city, but feels the great pain in his wing. He lands on top of the closes, tallest building he could get to and folds his wings. "Legs don't fail me now…" He mutters running toward edge of the building. When he gets to the ledge he takes an amazing leap and seems to fly to the other building. "Well, this'll work, kind of." He repeats what he'd just done several times, until he got to the clock tower near an hour later.
Hudson, who had been watching the Discovery Channel because he'd seen nearly everything else on, looks at him. "What's wrong, lad?" He asks.
"Knife through the wing."
"Well, dawn will be here soon. Goliath and the rest of them should be here soon." As the words left his mouth Lex, his young, green, more bat-like friend lands on the railing.
"Hi, Brooklyn." He says with a smile.
"Hey Lex." He mumbles.
"What happened?"
"Human with a knife…"
"Ouch… that bites."
Right then their leader lands on the balcony with Alisa in his arms. He sits her down and looks at Brooklyn. "Are you alright, Brooklyn?"
"I'm fine, Goliath. Thanks for asking." As the words left his mouth Angela and Broadway land. Brooklyn gives Angela a meaningful look. Broadway's still his friend, but he never got over losing Angela to him. "Hi, Angela, Broadway."
They both smile at Brooklyn. "Hi, Brooklyn."
"What happened to your wing?" Angela asks, looking very concerned.
He shrugs. "Human."
"Hey, uh, guys, I hate to rack the party but the sun's coming up soon."
The Gargoyles all take their places on the balcony, each one looking fierce and ruthless. Bronx looked at his master then back out toward the raising sun with the look of attack on his face.
Elisa smiles. "Have a nice sleep." She whispers as her friends turn to stone. When they've turned to stone she goes to Goliath and runs a finger down his face. "Goliath, I love you, but fate keeps up apart…" She leans onto him and places her lips on cheek gives him a small, tender kiss. "Later guys." She says, nearing tears. "I'll be back." With one last look and a smile she turns and walks away from the statues, her friends.
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Alisa looks at the setting sun from her perch next to Goliath. She knows they'll come out soon. She looks into Goliath's rock face and sighs. "If only…" She marvels at how the setting sun looks bouncing off him. Knowing the Gargoyles for so long she knows what it's like when they break from the rock so she swings her legs around and moves away from them.
The rock begins to crack and a yell comes. Goliath stands there before. "Elisa!" She says smiling, as he always does.
"Goliath!" She says running into his outstretched arms.
Brooklyn spreads his wings and smiles, noticing that the cut that was on his wing is gone, as he knew it would be. He flexes his wings. He knows he can fly again.
Bronx jumps down from his corner and barks playfully. He's still a puppy, but he's closer to being grown up now. He lets out small growl of loneliness. "Oh, Bronx," Elisa says, "I got you something!" She pulls away from Goliath and walks into the tower. She comes back a few minutes later dragging a huge bone. Bronx's eyes lit up jumps onto the bone. "Thought you might like that." She says with a grin.
"Uh… guys…" Broadway says, "Rainbow portals opening up in the sky isn't normal, right?" He points to a spot in the sky where the moon should be.
Everyone looks at it. "No, Broadway, it isn't…" Goliath says, finding himself entranced by it.
"It's beautiful…"
Right then a golden beam of light comes from the portal. All of the Gargoyles and Alisa are too entranced by the portals to take notice of it. The golden beam comes down around them and transports them to another world…