Chapter five

I do not own gargoyles or blue seed

The image no longer became an image as it began to climb up the brick wall. Brooklyn followed close behind thinking to himself. What is this thing? He then knew what it was as it began to reach the roof and shown in the light for only an instant. It was a gargoyle like him. It was unlike any gargoyle he had ever seen before. The gargoyle took off from the roof and began to fly higher. He flew higher too, to get a good look at the gargoyle. Slowly he could now make out the image as a female gargoyle one who had long chestnut straight hair in her face covering her eyes. Brooklyn also saw that her skin was a red and peach color and she seem to even have regular human clothes. She didn't just have a stupid loin cloth. She had blue jeans, a black T-shirt, and black biker gloves on her hands. Brooklyn knew he had to talk to her this is what Goliath had said about being the right moment, so he called out to her.

"Hey, you there wait a minute." said Brooklyn hoping that she would stop and talk to him. She then took up higher into the air.

Great! She thought to herself. I have a tag along.

"Oh so she wants to play tag does she? I'll get her in no time." said Brooklyn as he began to follow close behind her.

Brooklyn kept on her every move. She went straight down into a dive trying to lose Brooklyn. Brooklyn then took a straight dive down and was right behind her. The gargoyle then did a looped de loop to get behind Brooklyn, but Brooklyn was too fast and was still on her tail. She wasn't looking where she was going and almost ran into a building. She then had to turned around and land on a roof top. The gargoyle carefully landed on the roof top with grace. Brooklyn landed right beside her in a similar way. The gargoyle tried to run away again and take flight, but was caught by Brooklyn's arm holding onto her claw like hand. Her body was then stopped in mid air and pulled back to the roof top.

"Let me go you beast." She said harshly trying to slash him with her tail. Brooklyn just avoided the block by jumping backwards. He let her hand go only for a moment and then caught the hand again.

"Please wait I just want to talk to you." said Brooklyn in a kind voice trying to get her to talk.

"Really then talk to this." She said as she punched him right in the mouth. Brooklyn feel backwards and landed on the roof hard scrapping his back. She then ran full speed to the edge of the roof to take flight and get away from Brooklyn. Just as she was about to jump in the air Brooklyn caught her again. This time though he held her arm firm and didn't let her go.

"Let go me!" She said in protest as he began to take her to the other side of the roof

"No, I'm going to take you back to a place where you can feel free and not out-cast. You know where there're are others like you." said Brooklyn hoping this would make her easier to take. Unfortunately it did not.

"Like hell you will." She said trying to let go of his arm until she was too tired and asked "Where are we going now Orangey?" They both opened their wings, took off from the roof and began to fly to the destination.

"We are now going to Xantos place where the castle is?" He said this because she looked so confused. He thought she would be confused because there are no castles in New York except that one. It was the only castle that was rebuilt on top of a skyscraper. "By the way," He said. "I do have a name."

"Really." She said in a sarcastic voice. "What is it? Idiot, Jerk please tell me when I getting warm." taking a sigh and thinking. This is going to be a longer trip than usual.

"My name is Brooklyn," He said in an angry tone. "and you better start acting nice or…"Brooklyn then stopped talking and looked at the female gargoyle laughing. As soon as he had said his name she started to crack up and laugh.

"Why are you laughing?" He asked wondering what was so funny.

"Your name is Brooklyn! Why don't I just call you Brooklyn Bridge or better yet." She then mimicked in a taxi voice. "Ah where you wanna go? Brooklyn street please." She then went back to laughing again harder this time and almost lost her flight balance.

"Oh and I suppose you have a better name, come on tell me." said Brooklyn getting angry at this gargoyle.

"Well my name is Gem and you better not laugh at it." said Gem in an unpleasant tone.

"Does that mean you were involved in that robbery?" He asked suspiciously.

"Of course not you idiot," She said in a offended way getting angered easily as her lips formed into a pout. "Why would I do such work with scum bag humans."

"You know," He said. "not all humans are bad. Some actually try to make a difference." She took his remark and answered.

"Would you trust a human to help you? Do you really think they'll accept you?" She asked in an angry tone raising her voice. "The reason the humans only accept you is because you protect them from danger." Gem said sighing and try to get back down to her regular voice.

"That's not true." He said trying to make a point to her. She just shook her head and then glanced at him with her crystal eyes.

"The humans would probable examine you if you didn't protect them." She spoke softly to him with anger. "They probable would also dissect you into pieces to see how you work. Why you are what you are. For you would just be another science experiment to them."

Trying to get out of this conversation to not make the problem worse he said. "Well were almost there."

"Finally." said Gem as her eyes began to gaze down at the city below her.

"Nice to meet yea finally. Oh better get landed fast." Said Brooklyn trying to hurry to the castle using his super wing speed.

"Why?" Asked Gem confused.

"Well duh so we don't drop from the sky it's almost sunrise." said Brooklyn in an orderly manner.

"Sunrise?!" she asked alarmed. "Where the building? We got to hurry."

"Don't worry, see that skyscraper?" Brooklyn asked pointing to the Xantos building.

"Yea." said Gem looking at the building.

"That's Xantos' building, and above the skyscraper is the castle." said Brooklyn in a comforting way.

They then landed down on the castle roof. Gem began to look around and was amaze that this castle was still standing.

"Wow I'm impressed someone could keep this castle looking beautiful." she said amazed.

Brooklyn then thought that Gem might not be so bad after all. Pretty soon the other gargoyles were coming back from the night work exhausted and wanting to get some sleep. They all stopped and looked at Brooklyn and the new gargoyle who had was leaning back against the castle wall.

"Hey who is that Brooklyn?" asked a girl gargoyle with purple skin, long skinny wings and a short tail.

"This is Gem," Said Brooklyn. "Oh sorry um, Gem this is Angela" He said pointing to the purple gargoyle. "This is Broadway, Lexington, Goliath, Hudson, and of course Bronx."

As Gem stared at the gargoyles she could see Broadway was a little big and had teal skin and huge wings. She then moved her eyes over Lexington a shrimp, and Goliath the muscular gargoyle. Gem then looked at Hudson and old gargoyle with tan skin, wings that looked as if they had been tattered with, and an old battle scar on his eye. She then looked down to see Bronx a dark blue gargoyle dog.

"Wow I never knew there were other gargoyles out there." Said Lexington pointing out to the busy city.

"Come on now lads it's almost sunrise we'll talk to her later tonight." Said Hudson. All the gargoyles then left the room until it was only Brooklyn and Gem left.

"You really expected me to stay here and not escape please." Gem expressed with attitude and a grin.

"Oh thanks for the reminder." Brooklyn said in a cheerful way. With that he was off he got some chains and tied her up so she couldn't get away. Just to make sure she didn't escape he chained her hind legs and wings to a wall.

"Well, I got to go outside with the others the sun will be rising any minute. See ya later tonight." said Brooklyn cheerfully. "Oh and sorry about the chains and stuff it's just we never have had any new gargoyles here and we want to talk to you."

"Yea right." She said silently staring at him as he went outside to stand on his perch.

He was out the door before he could hear her say it. The sun then began to rise shining it's light on the gargoyles one by one. Gem just stood up waiting for the rays to touch her peach-red skin. She then turned her head to hear a crackling sound outside. She saw Brooklyn and all the other gargoyles had turn to stone.

"Come on just get it over with all ready." She said as though this was a regular task in the morning.

Gem than waited for the orange and yellow sun rays to touch her skin. Slowly the sun rays began to touch her skin and Gem began to breath faster and harder. She was shortly losing her breath as her chest began to burn inside her making her shake. Damn it! She thought Why did this always have to hurt so much? Gem than toppled over in pain to the ground digging her claws into the ground, the chains pulling on her wings and hind legs as she fell down in more pain. Her body was burning as if the sun was heating up inside her. Gem's body was then beginning to change as the sun kept touching her red-peach skin. Very slowly her hind legs were becoming smaller and more human like. Her body was becoming smaller and her tail was disappearing. Her wings then became smaller and the chains that were locked around them fell to the ground. Her wings were disappearing until her back was smooth with no signs the wings or tail had been there. Her face then began to lose it's to red peach color and slowly turn into a soft white peach color. Her eyes change from white crystal to green emerald. She then let out a loud roar until it became softer in a more human voice.

Well at least when that happens my clothes don't get totally ripped. She thought silently. She then looked at her clothes. Her shirt had two holes were the wings were and her pants were ripped in every place. Damn it I forgot to get my shoes off. She then looked at the tattered shoes that were on her feet. Now I have a good reason to get shoes. At least my gloves don't change when I transform. Gmx then took off her gloves for a second rubbed her hand and then put it back on to cover her hands.

"Damn it why do I have to be this way?" she said angrily as she hit the stone that was holding her making a small indent.

"Well, thank God that's over I thought I was going to die." She said silently to herself.

"So was I." Said a familiar voice. Crap. she thought to herself she had been caught transforming in front of someone, no doubt a human. Maybe if I don't turn around she won't be able to recognize me and I can run away. How though your chained down remember a voice in her head said. I guess I'll just have to turn away if the human approaches.