Chapter 10
Gmx didn't want to run away from the cop she really wanted to be her friend but had to take all the jobs she could to get money. Finally when she was out of sight of the cop she turn down an alley and caught her breath. There down the alley was a very small rotten door that reeked of decay. The sign on the door said 'Condemned Till Further Notice'. Making sure no one was looking Gmx went inside the building and closed the door softly behind her.
"Gmx," shouted a shadowing figure. Slowly Gmx turned toward the shadow and cast her gaze down becoming interested with her shoes. "Gmx, where were you last night?" said the figure as it began to walk toward Gmx.
"I can explain Joe I…" said Gmx not being able to finish her sentence.
"Explain that you skipped a job." said Joe sarcastically in anger.
"But," said Gmx trying to get her opinion in.
"No but's about you worthless wench." said Joe coldly slapping her face. "Do you really want your brother back Gmx or is that just a small dream to you?"
"I do want my brother back." said Gmx grinding her teeth and trying not to lose her temper.
"Well what happened why didn't you come?" he asked a little less harsher as he plopped down on an old couch that had green mold growing on the seat.
"I was trying to get here but a gargoyle came and showed me to his friends," Joe gave a very angry look as he let his head slip down and pulled it back up in a going on movement. Joe then motioned for her to continue waving his hands. "I really did try getting away from him but couldn't so that's why I wasn't here."
"Oh and sure the gargoyle gave you new shoes too." said Joe sarcastically looking down at her feet.
"No he didn't I found them." Gmx lied hoping he would be fooled.
"Well then I guess I better start seeing some improvement freak." said Joe smiling evilly.
He knew he had hit a soft spot for Joe knew why Gmx was better than any other human. She was the first one to come to him and tell him what she was. Joe of course didn't believe it until she turned into a gargoyle in front of his eyes. Joe then made sure she would only work for him. Gmx's eyes drew away from the ground as she stared at Joe with her red slit eyes.
"That's it I'm thru with trying to do stuff for you I bet I could find a better job anyway." said Gmx ragging before she could touch the door though Joe spoke to her so only her ears could hear.
"Okay Gmx, thanks for that big secret you gave about you being a freak of nature. When do you turn into a monster at night right. Also your brother's name is what Melvyn. Just wondering so I can call the cops and say a teen broke into my shop trying to steal money." Joe said smiling slyly. He knew he had her in the palm of his hands. Gmx just clutched the door handle tightly trying to hold back her tears. "Stupid wench you should have know better than to tell your secret to me." said Joe unemotionally moving closer to Gmx grabbing her by her collar and throwing her into the trashcans. Gmx got up and shivered as he came closer to her. "Now get back to work before I really do tell your secret." Joe said in a menacing way.
Joe just handed her a piece of paper telling her what destruction to cause when and where. Gmx turned the door open and left the building. Damn him! Damn him to hell! Gmx thought. Trying not to lose self control or cry she jump up onto a building sat down and cried sobbing because of her life. Her life was a piece of crap nothing was going right, and her brother she needed him right now. Thinking to herself she remembered her parents and got enough courage to with stand today. She would do all the jobs and prove to Joe she was not just some stupid wench. Gmx then began to go to her missions and cause chaos.
Damnit where could she be? Thought Elisa as she was driving her car. Elisa had been driving all day trying to find Gmx. It was almost night time and if Gmx wasn't at the castle she knew she would have to tell her secret to the clan which is something she wasn't prepared to do.
"Well I guess I better just head to the castle." said Elisa as she drove to Xantos. "Damn these stairs. I need to tell Xantos to make an elevator here." Elisa was finally back to her own comfortable chair. If she was going to go up stairs at least her chair would be there to let her relax. Elisa reached the top and was shocked at what she saw. Her chair was missing from it's usual place.
"Great my chair is missing." said Elisa fuming. The most comfortable chair was missing.
Elisa then looked over the area and found her chair but someone was already in it. The person was rolled up in a little ball trying to get comfortable in the small space. Slowly Elisa went over to the person and tried to see who it could be. She looked over and saw it was only Gmx smiling softly in her sleep. Her hair was in her face and Elisa moved her bangs out to see her smile more, her fang was hanging outside of her mouth. Elisa then walked away from the comfortable chair and got a beaten up metal fold chair out of the closet and sat next to Gmx. Just when Elisa was getting comfortable Gmx woke up and stretched out of the chair.
"Aaahhh," she said as she saw Elisa sitting next to her. Seeing another person was enough to give anyone a freight.
"Good morning to you to." said Elisa sarcastically.
"Damnit, you scared the living crap out of me." said Gmx catching he breath and getting out of the chair yawning.
"How did you get up here anyway? The security is not allowed to let anyone in except people with badges or people who work here." Elisa asked questioningly.
"I have my ways." said Gmx uneasily and a little cranky at the same time. Elisa decided not to get into a fight and just stay out of her way.
"How many hours of sleep do you get?" asked Elisa curiously.
"I just get like three to zero hours of sleep because the sun gives me enough energy I don't need to sleep a lot." said Gmx boringly.
"Does that mean your like an energizer bunny that uses the sun as energy." asked Elisa a little confused.
"Of course Captain Obvious I just keep going and going and going." said Gmx sarcastically as she mimicked the energizer bunny. "Well I guess I better get ready to meet everybody." As she turned her gaze to the outside it showed a bright orange sun slowly descending into the horizon. "Oh better take these off." Gmx said as she untied her new shoes quickly and standing barefoot to where she was tied up.
Slowly the sun descended down and the dark of night came. Gmx started to breath faster and begin her transformation as the other gargoyles were breaking out of their shells. The other gargoyles yawned as they all stepped down from their perch to ask the new gargoyle questions. Gmx just stood their leaning against the stone block having already destroyed the chains.
"How the hell did you break the chains off?" asked Broadway one of the guy gargoyles with teal skin.
"Well I broke them before the sun came up but not enough time to run away before I turned to stone." said Gmx lazily trying to make the lie sound real. Elisa just stared at her wondering why she wouldn't tell them about what really happened in the morning. Guess she's just not ready to tell her secret yet. Elisa thought silently to herself as she began to get tired.
"I gotta get some sleep guys if you need anything just call me." said Elisa as she started to go down the hall of stairs.
"Bye Elisa." they all said as she left.
"So where are you from?" asked Lexington.
"How did you get here?" asked Goliath.
"Are there others like you?" asked Angela.
"Where do you live?" asked Hudson.
They were all surrounding her and making her not able to breath. Must have air. Thought Gmx as she leaned up against a wall. She saw Brooklyn go through the crowd of questioning gargoyles. He then was being squeezed by the other gargoyles as he whispered softly for only her to hear.
"Hey," said Brooklyn leaning over Gem. "Want get out?" Without hesitation she left the surrounded crowd of gargoyles holding Brooklyn's hand. Gmx followed Brooklyn out into the cool night sky flying by his side. As she was flying she noticed that she was flying to close to Brooklyn and still holding onto his hand. She quickly retreated away from him hoping she wasn't blushing.
"Thanks for saving me from your friends." said Gmx looking at Brooklyn's pool of brown eyes.
"No problem." he said relaxingly as he looked into her crystal eyes.
Am I falling for this Gargoyle no way can't be. He is kind of cute though, wait a second what am I saying I'm human, well at least part human and human and gargoyle don't mix. Gmx sighed as she thought.
"Hey where are we going?" asked Gmx curiously as they went deeper into the city to a place she had never seen before.
"We gargoyles go on patrol and help the humans." said Brooklyn sighing. Gmx just shifted her gaze toward the ground not caring at all of what he said of humans. "I know you don't like to help humans but I want to show you that there are good humans in the world."
"Got that right." As Gmx flew ahead of Brooklyn and followed a high pitched scream with her super hearing.
"Come on lady hand over the goods." said a thug. The lady couldn't speak as she was being pushed against the wall.
"Ten dollars!" shouted the thug. "We mugged you for ten dollars. Sorry but we have to kill you for so little money."
"I don't think so jack." said Gmx smiling evilly at the thug showing off her fangs. Gmx then ran at the thugs with her super speed and knock them all out before Brooklyn showed up. The leader of the thugs cut her arm but she still kept fighting until she knocked him in the trash can. Trying to be nicer she approached the woman and gave her back her money. The woman startled by her movements backed up until Gmx handed her money back. She waited for the woman to scream or say monster so Brooklyn could see that the humans were bad.
"Thank you." said the woman as she ran off in the other direction. Gmx just gaped at the woman then at Brooklyn who was leaning against the wall. Gmx was lost for words no one had ever done that for her just said a simple 'thank you' usually it would be a scream or shout of 'monster', 'freak'.
"Did you see that she didn't scream or anything." said Gmx excitedly jumping up and down.
"Told you some humans weren't bad. Did you get cut by that knife?" asked Brooklyn as he tried to see if her arm got cut.
"No." said Gmx as she showed him her arm which was not cut at all.
"How about we get back and let the other know about your discovery?" said Brooklyn.
With that they both climbed up the wall and flew off back to the castle. They soon were greeted by the other Gargoyles who yet again began to harass Gmx about her past. Finally the whole clan got on her nerves that she just told them the story.
The story was she lost her whole family by humans who shattered her family in the day. The only reason she survived was by not getting back to their hideaway on time. She used to live in Maine and that she didn't know if there were others like her. She only knew that her family was the only gargoyle clan. After her family's death she move to New York because she wanted to take revenge on the humans in New York. The gargoyles then stopped and stared at her. She quickly finished saying that she now was going to help the gargoyle because Brooklyn made her see the good in some humans. Brooklyn's face showed a small tint of red. Both of his brothers then started to pick on him.
After Gmx had explained her story all the gargoyle then left to do some more patrol on the city. Gmx was paired with Brooklyn to patrol the west side of the city. They spent the rest of the night helping defenseless humans. It was almost sunrise when they had to return back to the castle.
"Come on Gem we got to return." said Brooklyn.
"Okay." said Gmx as she and Brooklyn then flew back to the castle. When they reached the castle they were greeted by a man.
The man was tall and dressed in a fancy business suit. He also had his hair in a short ponytail and had a mustache. The man then approached Brooklyn and Gmx.
"Allow me to introduce myself. I am Xantos the owner of this building." said Xantos as he made a fake smile staring at the new gargoyle.
"Hi, I'm Gem." said Gmx trying not to smack him across the face. She could feel that he was evil as she quickly let go of his hand.
"I mean you no harm." said Xantos trying his hardest to welcome her but not succeeding.
"Thanks." Gmx said gruffly as she left the man called Xantos.
"Hey wait up Gmx." said Brooklyn running after her. "Why were you so mean to Xantos, he just wants to help you."
"Listen Brooklyn not to be mean or anything but that Xantos guy tried to kill you a few years back right?" Brooklyn just nodded his head in agreement. "I just can't trust him for what he did to your clan." What am I saying!? Am I now protective of his clan. Damnit I need to think and sort this out.
"Can you at least try to trust him?" said Brooklyn with his puppy eyes. Damnit I hate it when he does the puppy eyes that was the only reason I have been helping the humans anyway.
"Okay, I'll try but I'm not going to like it." said Gmx as she got next to her stone slab waiting to be tied up.
"What are you doing over there?" asked Brooklyn.
"Waiting for you to tie me up what else." said Gmx with sarcasm.
"You want to be tied up." Said Brooklyn with sarcasm as he leaned against the wall.
"Aren't you afraid I might get away." Gmx asked.
"No I trust you." said Brooklyn. "Come perch next to me."
"Okay." said Gmx as she sat next to Brooklyn waiting for the sun to touch her skin. When Brooklyn turned to stone Gmx got off the perched and took in the pain of her transformation.
"Morning Gmx." said Elisa smiling.
"Morning to you too." said Gmx grumpily.
"So you going to stay here are do I have to chain you down." said Elisa sternly.
"You don't need to chain me down. I'll be back when the sun is down." said Gmx as she headed for the door.
"Where do you go during the day?" asked Elisa curiously.
"None of your business." said Gmx angrily as she went down the stairs.
Elisa just let her go. She knew she had been through a lot and didn't need a cop bugging her every five minutes. Wait a second she can look up Gmx's record and see if Gmx is in the Luck Game. Elisa then rushed to the police station in her red car. She parked her car and rushed into the station looking for Morgan.
Gmx didn't want to run away from the cop she really wanted to be her friend but had to take all the jobs she could to get money. Finally when she was out of sight of the cop she turn down an alley and caught her breath. There down the alley was a very small rotten door that reeked of decay. The sign on the door said 'Condemned Till Further Notice'. Making sure no one was looking Gmx went inside the building and closed the door softly behind her.
"Gmx," shouted a shadowing figure. Slowly Gmx turned toward the shadow and cast her gaze down becoming interested with her shoes. "Gmx, where were you last night?" said the figure as it began to walk toward Gmx.
"I can explain Joe I…" said Gmx not being able to finish her sentence.
"Explain that you skipped a job." said Joe sarcastically in anger.
"But," said Gmx trying to get her opinion in.
"No but's about you worthless wench." said Joe coldly slapping her face. "Do you really want your brother back Gmx or is that just a small dream to you?"
"I do want my brother back." said Gmx grinding her teeth and trying not to lose her temper.
"Well what happened why didn't you come?" he asked a little less harsher as he plopped down on an old couch that had green mold growing on the seat.
"I was trying to get here but a gargoyle came and showed me to his friends," Joe gave a very angry look as he let his head slip down and pulled it back up in a going on movement. Joe then motioned for her to continue waving his hands. "I really did try getting away from him but couldn't so that's why I wasn't here."
"Oh and sure the gargoyle gave you new shoes too." said Joe sarcastically looking down at her feet.
"No he didn't I found them." Gmx lied hoping he would be fooled.
"Well then I guess I better start seeing some improvement freak." said Joe smiling evilly.
He knew he had hit a soft spot for Joe knew why Gmx was better than any other human. She was the first one to come to him and tell him what she was. Joe of course didn't believe it until she turned into a gargoyle in front of his eyes. Joe then made sure she would only work for him. Gmx's eyes drew away from the ground as she stared at Joe with her red slit eyes.
"That's it I'm thru with trying to do stuff for you I bet I could find a better job anyway." said Gmx ragging before she could touch the door though Joe spoke to her so only her ears could hear.
"Okay Gmx, thanks for that big secret you gave about you being a freak of nature. When do you turn into a monster at night right. Also your brother's name is what Melvyn. Just wondering so I can call the cops and say a teen broke into my shop trying to steal money." Joe said smiling slyly. He knew he had her in the palm of his hands. Gmx just clutched the door handle tightly trying to hold back her tears. "Stupid wench you should have know better than to tell your secret to me." said Joe unemotionally moving closer to Gmx grabbing her by her collar and throwing her into the trashcans. Gmx got up and shivered as he came closer to her. "Now get back to work before I really do tell your secret." Joe said in a menacing way.
Joe just handed her a piece of paper telling her what destruction to cause when and where. Gmx turned the door open and left the building. Damn him! Damn him to hell! Gmx thought. Trying not to lose self control or cry she jump up onto a building sat down and cried sobbing because of her life. Her life was a piece of crap nothing was going right, and her brother she needed him right now. Thinking to herself she remembered her parents and got enough courage to with stand today. She would do all the jobs and prove to Joe she was not just some stupid wench. Gmx then began to go to her missions and cause chaos.
Damnit where could she be? Thought Elisa as she was driving her car. Elisa had been driving all day trying to find Gmx. It was almost night time and if Gmx wasn't at the castle she knew she would have to tell her secret to the clan which is something she wasn't prepared to do.
"Well I guess I better just head to the castle." said Elisa as she drove to Xantos. "Damn these stairs. I need to tell Xantos to make an elevator here." Elisa was finally back to her own comfortable chair. If she was going to go up stairs at least her chair would be there to let her relax. Elisa reached the top and was shocked at what she saw. Her chair was missing from it's usual place.
"Great my chair is missing." said Elisa fuming. The most comfortable chair was missing.
Elisa then looked over the area and found her chair but someone was already in it. The person was rolled up in a little ball trying to get comfortable in the small space. Slowly Elisa went over to the person and tried to see who it could be. She looked over and saw it was only Gmx smiling softly in her sleep. Her hair was in her face and Elisa moved her bangs out to see her smile more, her fang was hanging outside of her mouth. Elisa then walked away from the comfortable chair and got a beaten up metal fold chair out of the closet and sat next to Gmx. Just when Elisa was getting comfortable Gmx woke up and stretched out of the chair.
"Aaahhh," she said as she saw Elisa sitting next to her. Seeing another person was enough to give anyone a freight.
"Good morning to you to." said Elisa sarcastically.
"Damnit, you scared the living crap out of me." said Gmx catching he breath and getting out of the chair yawning.
"How did you get up here anyway? The security is not allowed to let anyone in except people with badges or people who work here." Elisa asked questioningly.
"I have my ways." said Gmx uneasily and a little cranky at the same time. Elisa decided not to get into a fight and just stay out of her way.
"How many hours of sleep do you get?" asked Elisa curiously.
"I just get like three to zero hours of sleep because the sun gives me enough energy I don't need to sleep a lot." said Gmx boringly.
"Does that mean your like an energizer bunny that uses the sun as energy." asked Elisa a little confused.
"Of course Captain Obvious I just keep going and going and going." said Gmx sarcastically as she mimicked the energizer bunny. "Well I guess I better get ready to meet everybody." As she turned her gaze to the outside it showed a bright orange sun slowly descending into the horizon. "Oh better take these off." Gmx said as she untied her new shoes quickly and standing barefoot to where she was tied up.
Slowly the sun descended down and the dark of night came. Gmx started to breath faster and begin her transformation as the other gargoyles were breaking out of their shells. The other gargoyles yawned as they all stepped down from their perch to ask the new gargoyle questions. Gmx just stood their leaning against the stone block having already destroyed the chains.
"How the hell did you break the chains off?" asked Broadway one of the guy gargoyles with teal skin.
"Well I broke them before the sun came up but not enough time to run away before I turned to stone." said Gmx lazily trying to make the lie sound real. Elisa just stared at her wondering why she wouldn't tell them about what really happened in the morning. Guess she's just not ready to tell her secret yet. Elisa thought silently to herself as she began to get tired.
"I gotta get some sleep guys if you need anything just call me." said Elisa as she started to go down the hall of stairs.
"Bye Elisa." they all said as she left.
"So where are you from?" asked Lexington.
"How did you get here?" asked Goliath.
"Are there others like you?" asked Angela.
"Where do you live?" asked Hudson.
They were all surrounding her and making her not able to breath. Must have air. Thought Gmx as she leaned up against a wall. She saw Brooklyn go through the crowd of questioning gargoyles. He then was being squeezed by the other gargoyles as he whispered softly for only her to hear.
"Hey," said Brooklyn leaning over Gem. "Want get out?" Without hesitation she left the surrounded crowd of gargoyles holding Brooklyn's hand. Gmx followed Brooklyn out into the cool night sky flying by his side. As she was flying she noticed that she was flying to close to Brooklyn and still holding onto his hand. She quickly retreated away from him hoping she wasn't blushing.
"Thanks for saving me from your friends." said Gmx looking at Brooklyn's pool of brown eyes.
"No problem." he said relaxingly as he looked into her crystal eyes.
Am I falling for this Gargoyle no way can't be. He is kind of cute though, wait a second what am I saying I'm human, well at least part human and human and gargoyle don't mix. Gmx sighed as she thought.
"Hey where are we going?" asked Gmx curiously as they went deeper into the city to a place she had never seen before.
"We gargoyles go on patrol and help the humans." said Brooklyn sighing. Gmx just shifted her gaze toward the ground not caring at all of what he said of humans. "I know you don't like to help humans but I want to show you that there are good humans in the world."
"Got that right." As Gmx flew ahead of Brooklyn and followed a high pitched scream with her super hearing.
"Come on lady hand over the goods." said a thug. The lady couldn't speak as she was being pushed against the wall.
"Ten dollars!" shouted the thug. "We mugged you for ten dollars. Sorry but we have to kill you for so little money."
"I don't think so jack." said Gmx smiling evilly at the thug showing off her fangs. Gmx then ran at the thugs with her super speed and knock them all out before Brooklyn showed up. The leader of the thugs cut her arm but she still kept fighting until she knocked him in the trash can. Trying to be nicer she approached the woman and gave her back her money. The woman startled by her movements backed up until Gmx handed her money back. She waited for the woman to scream or say monster so Brooklyn could see that the humans were bad.
"Thank you." said the woman as she ran off in the other direction. Gmx just gaped at the woman then at Brooklyn who was leaning against the wall. Gmx was lost for words no one had ever done that for her just said a simple 'thank you' usually it would be a scream or shout of 'monster', 'freak'.
"Did you see that she didn't scream or anything." said Gmx excitedly jumping up and down.
"Told you some humans weren't bad. Did you get cut by that knife?" asked Brooklyn as he tried to see if her arm got cut.
"No." said Gmx as she showed him her arm which was not cut at all.
"How about we get back and let the other know about your discovery?" said Brooklyn.
With that they both climbed up the wall and flew off back to the castle. They soon were greeted by the other Gargoyles who yet again began to harass Gmx about her past. Finally the whole clan got on her nerves that she just told them the story.
The story was she lost her whole family by humans who shattered her family in the day. The only reason she survived was by not getting back to their hideaway on time. She used to live in Maine and that she didn't know if there were others like her. She only knew that her family was the only gargoyle clan. After her family's death she move to New York because she wanted to take revenge on the humans in New York. The gargoyles then stopped and stared at her. She quickly finished saying that she now was going to help the gargoyle because Brooklyn made her see the good in some humans. Brooklyn's face showed a small tint of red. Both of his brothers then started to pick on him.
After Gmx had explained her story all the gargoyle then left to do some more patrol on the city. Gmx was paired with Brooklyn to patrol the west side of the city. They spent the rest of the night helping defenseless humans. It was almost sunrise when they had to return back to the castle.
"Come on Gem we got to return." said Brooklyn.
"Okay." said Gmx as she and Brooklyn then flew back to the castle. When they reached the castle they were greeted by a man.
The man was tall and dressed in a fancy business suit. He also had his hair in a short ponytail and had a mustache. The man then approached Brooklyn and Gmx.
"Allow me to introduce myself. I am Xantos the owner of this building." said Xantos as he made a fake smile staring at the new gargoyle.
"Hi, I'm Gem." said Gmx trying not to smack him across the face. She could feel that he was evil as she quickly let go of his hand.
"I mean you no harm." said Xantos trying his hardest to welcome her but not succeeding.
"Thanks." Gmx said gruffly as she left the man called Xantos.
"Hey wait up Gmx." said Brooklyn running after her. "Why were you so mean to Xantos, he just wants to help you."
"Listen Brooklyn not to be mean or anything but that Xantos guy tried to kill you a few years back right?" Brooklyn just nodded his head in agreement. "I just can't trust him for what he did to your clan." What am I saying!? Am I now protective of his clan. Damnit I need to think and sort this out.
"Can you at least try to trust him?" said Brooklyn with his puppy eyes. Damnit I hate it when he does the puppy eyes that was the only reason I have been helping the humans anyway.
"Okay, I'll try but I'm not going to like it." said Gmx as she got next to her stone slab waiting to be tied up.
"What are you doing over there?" asked Brooklyn.
"Waiting for you to tie me up what else." said Gmx with sarcasm.
"You want to be tied up." Said Brooklyn with sarcasm as he leaned against the wall.
"Aren't you afraid I might get away." Gmx asked.
"No I trust you." said Brooklyn. "Come perch next to me."
"Okay." said Gmx as she sat next to Brooklyn waiting for the sun to touch her skin. When Brooklyn turned to stone Gmx got off the perched and took in the pain of her transformation.
"Morning Gmx." said Elisa smiling.
"Morning to you too." said Gmx grumpily.
"So you going to stay here are do I have to chain you down." said Elisa sternly.
"You don't need to chain me down. I'll be back when the sun is down." said Gmx as she headed for the door.
"Where do you go during the day?" asked Elisa curiously.
"None of your business." said Gmx angrily as she went down the stairs.
Elisa just let her go. She knew she had been through a lot and didn't need a cop bugging her every five minutes. Wait a second she can look up Gmx's record and see if Gmx is in the Luck Game. Elisa then rushed to the police station in her red car. She parked her car and rushed into the station looking for Morgan.