Previously:

"Need to know something, little demon?" Phalog asked, raising an "eyebrow".
"If you'd be so kind as to answer... and why'd you call me that?" Kyra demanded after blinking in surprise.
"You remind me of Demona is all. Now what do you want?"
"I want people to quit saying that for one." Kyra snarled, giving him the most evil eye that anyone'd ever seen up to that point in history.

"The other clones? You mentioned those before, who else was cloned?" Kyra asked, crossing her arms.
"Everyone. The clan, Demona, and Elisa." Brooklyn answered, looking towards the castle.
"Why Elisa and Demona?" Kyra asked, obviously confused.
"To make the perfect mate I guess." Brooklyn shrugged. "That's what Phalog called her anyway."
"Her?"
"Her name's... was Delilah."
"The woman who turned against Samson? Nice name."
"Yeah, well neither Elisa or Demona liked her. It was a bit... disconcerting for both of them. They never did like each other, ever since they first met."

Kyra growled and glared after him(Phalog), about to take off after him until Brooklyn touched her arm. "We better get back before Goliath has Elisa send out the SWAT team..." he said and they took off.
"Brook, what do you suppose his other choice is?"
"Why do you care?" Brooklyn asked, visibly aggravated.
"I'm just curious." Kyra shrugged.
"Well I'm not sure... but I have a few ideas..." Brooklyn said the last part quietly, looking over at her. She missed it.

Just as Kyra was about to release the blast, something hit her. She turned immediately after regaining her wits and glared at the shadow that fired at her. It wasn't a Quarryman, he would have fired at Phalog. Maybe it was a gargoyle lover who didn't know that this one was bad... Then she saw it, the shadow had wings!
"Impossible!" she released the blast at the shadow instead of the statue. It ricocheted right back at her for some reason. She didn't dwell on that, she just ducked and watched the blast hit a real statue, one that never lived. She hoped. The sun glinted off of whatever had made the power ricochet as the shadow came out into the light. It was a gargoyle made completely of steel. He didn't look too friendly. "Who made you?"
"Xanatos." the robot said in a surprisingly fluid voice. This thing had a brain. "Now mind telling me why you think this statue needs to be dust?"
"Mind telling me why you ricocheted my blast into that one?" Kyra pointed to the remains of the stone.
"It was meant for you." the robot answered.
"No. It was meant for him." Kyra snarled betweeen her teeth.
"Why don't you tell me why you want him dead and I'll decide if you can kill him."
"He wants my clan dead." Kyra said, kicking Phalog's stone form. "So I'm getting to him first."
"Clan? He didn't mention any humans in the plan." Kyra gave the robot a glare that peirced whatever soul it had and gave him a pretty good idea what she meant. "You're not human." It said simply.
"Not entirely." she corrected with a nasty grin. "Now, can I kill him?"
"No, I think not. I need him." the robot said and raised a weapon loaded arm at her. "He didn't happen to mention whether or not he wanted you alive, though."

"Phalog? Why on earth would you need to kill him? You don't seem like the type to kill for the heck of it anyway." Xanatos asked, raising an eyebrow sharply.
"He threatened the safety of the clan... and he called me a Demon." Kyra replied, glaring off to a wall.
"Ah... well that makes it perfectly fine to kill him without even telling Goliath..." Xanatos said dryly.
"All right, all right. I'll tell Goliath about it, but try to find out why that 'Coldsteel' thing was with him, okay?" Kyra said quickly and sighed, storming back out of the room.
"You know it's funny, Owen." Xanatos mused after the angered girl left.
"What's that, sir?"
"Kyra's more of a combination of Demona and Detective Maza than Delilah ever was."

Time & Hope

Phalog was wandering around the city, looking for a way to get Goliath where he would be helpless. He had come back to Manhattan with Demona after the "scuffle" with Goliath, Elisa, and Angela in Paris. That's one of the main reasons that Avalon sent the trio of friends home (another was that Xanatos and his son were in trouble). Then he and Demona had nearly perished in a fire, but somehow, he'd made it through, and of course, since Macbeth wasn't the cause of the fire, Demona made it too.
Then a virus turned all the clones to stone...
But Phalog had been awakened from the virus. He already ran into two young Gargoyles and he decided to wait for a while before he let any more gargoyles know about him. He knew that Brooklyn wouldn't let Kyra get Goliath upset over a fight. Besides he wanted to know what Goliath's clan was up to first.

Kyra went on patrol alone that night, Goliath decided she was old enough to know what to do about most of the problems she would have out there and that she was over Chris enough that her emotions wouldn't rule her battles. She glided silently over the sleeping city. Perige, as usual was right above her. She landed on a rooftop to rest. Perige landed right by her.
"Don't you have a life other than watching over me all the time?" Kyra asked him sarcastically.
Ever since he got the jewel from Demona, Kyra was glad to have Perige by her side. It was just that having him there every moment of the day was slightly annoying. Being inside or underwater was the only way she could be away from him. She went straight to the Harlem river, far from Micheal's gang, after she rested. She hadn't seen Dulci in a few days and brought a treat for her. Little did she know when she landed at the riverbank, that eyes were watching her, not in a threatening way, but in curiosity. Perige was tense and nervous, he sensed an unwanted being nearby.
"What's the matter?" Kyra asked, "I don't see anything." Perige cried out in warning that someone was near, but she still didn't see anyone. "Sometimes I think you're just a big hooked-beak chicken." she said, shaking her head. Then she took a whistle out of her satchel and blew into it, it was extremely high pitched. Soon after, a dolphin swam over quickly and jumped high, splashing Kyra with the cold river water. "Yeow, that water's cold! How do you stand it?" Kyra exclaimed and gave Dulci her treat. "I guess as long as I'm wet I might as well go in with you."
Kyra put her jewel on and jumped in the deep water, going straight down to the bottom, the amulet allowed Kyra to stay underwater longer. Dulci followed and Perige kept an eye out for trouble on the shore as Kyra swam through the water currents.
Dulci often let out a high pitched sonar. Kyra could understand Dulci sometimes, along with Perige and the wolves, Fang was part wolf, so she could "hear" him too. Kyra knew through Dulci when it was time to go up. She couldn't really "breathe" underwater, but she could hold her breath as long as Dulci.
Kyra surfaced for air immediately after her lungs began to wear out, jumping out of the water with Dulci and spun to shake the water off herself in the air, landing on the river bank. The creature watching her was amazed! No gargoyle could do that, even he couldn't. Kyra looked at the sky, it was beginning to lighten.
"I hate daylight savings time." she sighed, "See you later, Dulce. Come on Perige, Goliath will be worried if we don't get back before morning."
As Perige and Kyra flew off, Dulci gave a shrill whistle of surprise and dove under as Phalog came from behind a bush.
"So, the young girl in Goliath's clan has pets." he said to himself, "That may make things a little more difficult."
When Kyra got to the castle, Goliath and Nip were waiting. "What took so long?" Goliath asked.
"Dulci insisted I swam with her." Kyra answered.
"How does she do that?" Brooklyn asked, coming out with the others.
"By getting me completely soaked!" Kyra laughed.
"Go in now, Kyra. You need to sleep before you go down to the streets." Goliath said and Kyra went in with Nip while Perige stayed outside, perched on a parapet.
Later that day, Kirstie and Kyra went to the park to Rollerblade. Nip running underfoot didn't help Kyra keep her balance, but she managed not to fall. After the twins skated, they went down to the river to play with Dulci. During midday, they swam in the cool water, keeping an eye out for danger.
That night, Angela and Kyra went out to check out a report of a gargoyle roaming around midtown. Kyra was a little "skittish", the description didn't match Demona, and the others hadn't left the tower all night.
As they got closer to midtown, Kyra got a strange feeling, Perige was crying out as he had the last night, and that meant that someone had been out there. Whoever they were, they knew about Kyra. Angela could tell something was bothering Kyra, but she wanted to be sure before she told anyone, especially Goliath.
At any point, both of the girls were in danger, not knowing who they were looking for put them at a disadvantage, because whoever was out there, they knew the girls were looking for them. Angela heard a sound down on a rooftop and they decided to take a chance and check it out.
"See anything?" Kyra asked, her voice betrayed her nervousness.
"No, it's too dark, I hate new moons." Angela answered.
Perige screamed a warning that danger was too close for them to be on the ground. "Easy boy, what's wrong?" Kyra asked calmly.
"Sounds like he's upset about something." Angela replied.
"I can't understand his cry. It sounds like danger, but it's too frantic." Kyra said, "Perige, tell me again, but more slowly. I can't understand you." Perige cried out again, but softer. It almost sounded like he was really talking to Kyra. Unknown to anyone but the clan and Elisa, he practically was. "Uh, Angela, we'd better go, now."
"Why, what'd he say?" Angela asked.
"It was a danger cry, we don't want to be on ground if there's an attack." Kyra answered and they glided off quickly, with Perige above them.
Goliath was surprised that they returned so soon. Kyra simply explained that they didn't find anything. Since it was near Demona's territory, they didn't dare stay long enough for her to find them.
Later that night, Angela came up to Kyra, "Why didn't you just tell Goliath that we were being followed?" she asked.
"There's no reason to worry Goliath." Kyra answered plainly. "Yet."
"Worry Goliath about what?" Elisa asked.
"Do you have to sneak up on us like that?" Kyra asked, surprised.
"How else am I supposed to find out what you guys are up to?" Elisa answered.
"She's got a point." Angela said and sighed.
"So, what are you hiding?" Elisa asked.
"We can't tell you, because we don't want to worry you and Goliath about what's probably nothing." Kyra answered straightly.
The next night, Angela, Brooklyn, Lexington, Broadway, and Kyra, or the "Brat Pack" as Demona now began to refer to them because of their constant annoyance, were out chasing each other around the rooftops while Goliath kept watch. Nip, Fang, Cana, and Lupus (Scratch and Tuma were with Kiesha and Kirstie, since six dogs would be too much trouble) watched as each of the teenagers tried to knock the others out of the sky, it was a fun game, and it taught them how to dodge and make air attacks. Kyra dodged everyone, and got Lex to fall, but try as hard as she did, Kyra just couldn't knock Brooklyn down.
"Grr... Just you wait, Brook, I'm gonna get you!" Kyra cried and dove at Brooklyn.
He laughed and dodged her barely, swiping at her with his tail. She flapped her wings and moved out of the way just in time, then climbed back above him for another try. She dove down with a sharp cry and managed to hit him, but he used her force to propel her off of him in midair and send her crashing backfirst into the courtyard. It wasn't a hard hit, but her tail hurt to say the least.
Brooklyn landed and laughed so hard he almost fell over. "Give it up Kyr, I'm the one guy you can't best."
Kyra sat glaring up at Brooklyn with wounded pride and backside and snarled, "Just watch me. No guy my age can keep better than me forever."
Goliath looked at Kyra with slightly narrowed eyes, thinking about her actions and words... and how they mirrored events of the past, when he and Demona had been Brooklyn and Kyra's ages...
Brooklyn laughed and helped Kyra up, then shared a hug with her to break off the harsh feelings. "Sorry, Kyr.... I hope it didn't hurt."
"Only my pride. But that'll heal when I kick your butt tomorrow night." Kyra said proudly with a smirk.
"We'll see." Brooklyn said and slapped her a high-five then went to prepare for dawn.
That day, Kyra was walking down the street with Fang, dangerously close to the eastern side of the city, when she saw a girl she recognized. The girl was from the gang, and as far as Kyra knew, still was. She was only a year younger than Kyra was, but nearly as tall. The girl's name was Jasmine, but the boys called her Jazzy. Kyra called her Jazz.
"Hey, Jazz!" Kyra called. Fang wagged his tail.
"Hey, wild girl (the gang girls teased Kyra with that because she had wild pets), long time no see." Jazz said as she ran up. "What's up girl, still givin' Mikey a hard time?"
"When haven't I?" Kyra asked sarcastically and gave Jazz a "high five".
"Actually, I don't think you've ever given any of the guys an easy time with you." Jazz replied as-a-matter-of-factly. "So you've finally got yourself outta the gang huh?"
"Somewhat. I've been out for a while, but it's been off and on. You know, Mikey captures me, I escape. Why aren't you out?" Kyra answered.
"I'm just too used to this life, I've been in the gang so long I don't know what else to do. Besides, it's not too easy to get out, especially for a girl. You got lucky." Jazz said. "Hey, is that your new dog?" she asked, looking at Fang.
"Yeah, he's really sweet, not exactly a good guard dog, unless Mikey's the problem." Kyra answered, "How did you know I had another dog?"
"Oh, it's all over the gang, Mikey's never been good at keeping secrets." Jazz replied.
"There's one he'd better keep, or else... well, he knows the consequences." Kyra said straightly, petting Fang.
"Which one is that?" Jazz asked.
"I'd tell you, but then you'd have to swear secrecy and with some of those gang-guys it would be like you were lying accidentally." Kyra answered as Fang whined, pulling at the leash. "I can't keep him still for more than a minute." she sighed, then looked at the sky, it was darkening, "I've got to go anyway, see ya, Jazz."
Kyra was glad to see Jazz was still independent, with so many boys and so few girls in the gang, that was the only way you could have a choice. Mikey hated the independent girls, especially since Kyra had influenced most of them. She always hung around the girls, she was smart enough to stay away from the boys. She could easily stop them if they "tried something", but better to be safe than sorry. Since she'd recived the news about Chris, she never let any guys near her except Brooklyn and Goliath.
Kyra spent the night inside, at least for the first few hours. The rest of the clan was out fighting Demona to try to free back the eastern half of Manhattan. They all knew they would lose, Demona wouldn't harm Angela, but she still had a grudge against the others.
Suddenly, something happened that would cause a chain reaction to change Kyra's life forever. An explosion sounded from the south side of town, Elisa was with the clan, so she couldn't help. Nip and Fang were sound asleep, and Kyra was smart enough to know not to wake a nearly grown wolf and an attack dog. Perige was the only one awake, she would have to rely on him if danger struck.
Kyra glided slowly to the scene of disruption, being careful not to alert the nearby humans with her presence. Even when she accidentally knocked a piece of rotting cement wall to the streets, she hid just before anyone could see her. Perige swooped around the building Kyra hid on as if a pigeon was roosting there. Matt, Elisa's partner was there, so Kyra knew even if someone saw her, she would be safe.
She's good, probably even better than last time, thought Phalog as he watched Kyra dive and rise silently above the crowd that was lured to the explosion, There has to be something she can't do, but what? He noticed the sparkling black jewel around the girl's neck and realized she was a sorceress.
"I wonder how long that little sorceress would survive in a fight without her magic." he plotted and smirked.
Meanwhile, the gargoyles were fighting an endless battle Demona would not let them win. When they tried to retreat, for some reason, she would not allow them to go. Angela escaped and Demona tried to stop her, but couldn't. Angela glided back to the castle to get Kyra, but of course, she was gone. Angela looked around, Nip, Fang, Lupus, and Cana couldn't tell her
where Kyra went. Even if they could, only Kyra could understand them.
The others soon returned, explaining that Demona gave up and went away as soon as Angela left, leaving them to retreat. Goliath knew something happened while they were gone, or else Kyra would have been there. Unfortunately, Perige wouldn't come back unless Kyra needed help, they would have to wait.
Kyra explored the ruined building, no one was injured. It was an abandoned building due to be condemned anyway, but something other than a demolition crew caused the explosion. Demona wasn't nearby, or Perige would be calling out and panicking. Suddenly, Perige disappeared. Kyra just shrugged and figured he was hunting pigeons or something. She rested on the ledge of another building before she went home and heard something move behind her. She jumped up, ready to fight and changed to human form, in case it was a cop looking for vandals.
Kyra looked around, it was quiet, too quiet, she hated quiet. She knew someone was up there with her, but who or what?
Kyra nearly fell off the building when Perige let out a cry and landed above her just before Phalog leapt out of the shadows.
"YOU!" Kyra growled, then rubbed Perige's head after the raptor landed gently on her arm and tensed up. Perige didn't trust this creature, he was there to do more than talk. The bird let out an infuriated cry. "Easy boy, it's all right." Kyra calmed the falcon.
Suddenly, Perige gave out a friendly call, it was focused behind Phalog, Kyra's eyes brightened with recognition.
"Elisa!"
Phalog spun around.
"Kyra, don't you know better than to talk to strangers?" Elisa asked rhetorically, making Kyra smile.
"Oh, Detective, this is one of your friends?" Phalog pretended.
"Don't play dumb Phalog, all gargoyles in this city except you and Demona are my friends. And I know you saw her change." Elisa remarked, "Kyra, you'd better go home. Goliath and Brooklyn are worried about you."
Kyra nodded and transformed. "Perige!" she called and went up to the top of the building, the small falcon circled the building once, then followed Kyra away. Elisa gave a sharp glance at Phalog and went down to help Matt calm the humans below.
"She's too well protected." Phalog said to himself after Elisa and Kyra left, "I'll have to get her when she's vulnerable."
Later that evening, Kyra was safe at home, and grounded once Goliath heard why she was gone so long.
"But Goliath, I couldn't help it if he surprised me." she protested.
"No excuses, you can't go out alone until I find out why Phalog's after you." Goliath replied. "You and Brooklyn should have told me when you first saw him!"
"He's not after me." Kyra said as-a-matter-of-factly.
"If he knows you exist and you're in this clan, believe me he's after you." Brooklyn told her. "He's probably been after you since before we saw him."
"This is ridiculous," Kyra sulked, "I'm not a child!" she stormed up to her room.
"Yeah she's a big adult who sulks...." Brooklyn sighed.
"She hates me for it now, but I had to do it." Goliath sighed.
"She'll get over it Goliath, at least up there she's safe." Elisa assured him.
Unfortunately, Elisa didn't know about the small window in the turret room, it was just small enough that no one would think that it was just big enough that Kyra could climb through....
An hour later, Elisa came up to check if Kyra was asleep. She came back down in a hurry, "Kyra's gone!" she cried.
"How could she leave?" Goliath asked, "The only way to leave is to come outside, I would have seen her."
"There was a small window, I think it's just big enough, Kyra probably climbed through." Elisa answered.
"She ran away!" Brooklyn realized.
"Why would anyone leave their home if they're safe there?" Angela asked.
"Sometimes teens leave if they think they aren't being treated right." Elisa answered. "They think they're old enough to take care of themselves."
"I was too harsh on her, I should have realized it wasn't her fault Phalog's after her." Goliath sighed.
"Yeah it's not her fault she's beautiful, smart, and strong." Brooklyn added. "Not to mention she has magic powers."
"Uh oh, that reminds me of something." Angela replied.
"What?" Lexington asked.
"I think he was following us for a while. Remember when we came in late?" Angela answered.
"Then she's really in trouble." Goliath said, "But what can we do?"
"Goliath, this is no time to blame yourself, right now we have to find Kyra before he does." Elisa replied.
"Kyra probably left to cool off, she was pretty mad." Lexington said.
"Which means she'll pay no attention to where she is. There's real danger out there, we've got to find her." Brooklyn replied and they all went out.
Kyra was gliding across the city, trying to get out her anger. She knew it was wrong to run away, but she was so angry she wasn't thinking right. She knew Goliath would be mad at her for leaving so she couldn't go back. Kyra was scared more than angry, she didn't know where she was. She had been going so fast and was so angry, she didn't look where she was going.
"Where am I?" she asked herself, looking around. "I don't see anything I recognize." Perige cried out, he had followed her, "Do you see anything you know?" she asked him, he seemed as confused as Kyra was. Kyra couldn't see Eyrie Tower anymore. So she wasn't in Manhattan and didn't know which way was back.
Perige didn't know either, he was migrating after a flock of pigeons when he was shot and it was his first year of flight, very little of New York was familiar to him. Kyra heard water so she knew they were near a river, but there were three rivers and a bay bordering Manhattan Island and one of them ran through both territories, which one was she near?
Kyra also heard movement, which she didn't like, was it Micheal or Demona? Kyra hoped it was one of the clan, but she knew it wasn't. Perige cried out a warning, whoever was there, Kyra probably didn't want them around. She jumped back as Phalog came out of the shadows.
"Great. Now Goliath's going to be really mad." she sighed, turning away.
"And why is that, doesn't he know you're here?" Phalog asked, starting to grin. Kyra snapped herself back to look him in the eye.
"Like I'm gonna tell a carbon copy." she retorted curtly.
"Then he doesn't." Phalog deduced, "Good."
"Watch it, pal. I'm thin, but I'm all muscle." Kyra warned, making a fist.
"Oh, I know, I've been watching you fight. You're quite good, better than any I've seen." Phalog said sweetly. She wasn't buying the act.
"And just how many have you seen?" she called his bluff. One of her many talents was dealing with jerks like him.
"Ok, not many, but you are good." Phalog admitted. Kyra thought he was acting again, but she could tell when people were lying. "If Goliath doesn't know you're out here, why did you leave?"
"Because he's treating me like a hatchling." she answered and turned away, "Not that it's your business."
"Oh, but it is." he said thoughtfully. He was up to something, and she knew it, but there was no way Kyra could escape, she was the fastest flyer of the clan though more often a second to Lexington, but he looked even faster on the ground.
Meanwhile, Goliath and the others were looking for her. "Any sign?" Brooklyn called to Lexington.
"Not a one, maybe she drifted into Demona's territory." Lexington answered.
"She's mad, not crazy!" Brooklyn replied.
"Yeah, but when she's mad she lets the wind carry her." Angela reminded him. "She might not even be on the island anymore."
Angela had a good point, so they all went into the eastern side of Manhattan. Goliath went reluctantly, he didn't like stirring up trouble between himself and Demona, but his concern for Kyra was stronger than that and he finally followed.
Kyra was starting to worry, Phalog looked even stronger than Goliath, and Brooklyn told Kyra the clone was even smarter than Xanatos. Possibly a second to Kyra and her magick, he was (by mostly physical means) the most perfect Gargoyle created, the only disqualification that made him second was that Kyra followed Gargoyle rules and Phalog was more human when it came to morals. Then again, Kyra never obeyed anyone unless her life depended on it, and she never would as long as she had say in it.
That thought gave her hope, Kyra was her own self. She could beat anyone, and she certainly wouldn't allow this guy to beat her! Kyra stood bravely, the wind thrusting her hair behind here in one strong gust. Her eyes were narrowed in anger.
"Hey, take it easy, I'm not going to hurt you." Phalog said quickly, "Calm down."
"If you aren't going to hurt me, then what do you want?" Kyra asked, not calming at all.
"You're too quick to judge who you like, just because I'm Goliath's enemy doesn't mean I'm yours." Phalog answered.
"Yes it does. Goliath is my friend, and any enemy of his is a threat to my safety." Kyra replied.
"And why is that?" Phalog asked. He was stalling for time to do something, but what? Kyra decided to play along.
"Because he leads the clan, and I'm in it." Kyra answered warily.
"You look like a strong girl, why don't you just take care of yourself?" Phalog asked warmly.
"Because it's easier to have help, and my best friend's in the clan." Kyra answered. She caught a strange look in his eye. She knew he was a loner Gargoyle, but every Gargoyle has a need to be around others.
"I see, and where do you think the clan is now?" Phalog asked.
"I don't know. By now they've noticed I'm gone and are looking for me." Kyra answered.
"And it looks like we've found her." Brooklyn said from a nearby rooftop. Goliath and Elisa stood on either side of him.
"What are you doing with my warrior, Phalog?" Goliath asked.
"Goliath!" Kyra called and was about to run to him, when a lazer blast shot right in front of her. She stopped short and Phalog grabbed her. She screamed, unfortunately, it wasn't her usual pitch, so it wasn't enough to make him release her. "Let me go, you jerk!"
Brooklyn looked across the way and saw Demona. "You! Why are you helping him?" he growled angrily.
"I'm not." Demona answered. "I saw Kyra and was aiming at her for my own benefit." Brooklyn's eyes glowed and he lunged.
"Take it easy Brooklyn, we don't want both of them getting angry." Elisa calmed him.
"Give her up, Goliath, I'm claiming her for my clan now." Phalog said.
"Like hell you are..." Kyra snarled.
"Never. She belongs with gargoyles she trusts." Goliath replied.
"You want her back? Then fight for her, winner gets the sorceress." Phalog challenged.
"Goliath, forget it, he'll kill you!" Kyra remarked in a way that made Goliath know she wasn't changing her mind.
"I won't lose you, or be hurt, I'll win." Goliath replied. "You've more than made up for being against us at first... you don't have to do things like this anymore, Kyra."
"Then you accept the challenge?" Phalog asked.
"No, don't!" Kyra cried, trying to pull away with no success. "It's a trick, you know he'll make it so he can't lose!"
"I have no choice, I won't allow Phalog to have you, your powers are too strong. And Brooklyn would miss you and be horrible to live with." Goliath told her, adding the last part to make her smile. "I accept the challenge, Phalog, but first sign of foul play and I consider it a release of all rules."
"And I swear, if you make it a fight to the death, I'll kill you myself." Kyra warned Phalog. He threw her down and she stood up, hissing at him.
"The rules are anyone can help you but her," Phalog pointed back to Kyra.
"That's not very fair, it's my butt on the line here." Kyra replied as-a-matter-of-factly. He looked back, visibly annoyed at her attitude and rolled his eyes when she grinned sweetly. When he turned away, Kyra lunged to attack, but Demona shot at her.
"Watch yourself." she said.
"Why should you care?" Kyra asked.
"Just stay put, brat." Demona answered bitterly.
"Oh that's it, I'll kill her first." Kyra said and was about to run over and make good her word when Elisa called out:
"Kyra, if you kill her you'll be no better than her."
"Aw, rats." Kyra sulked, kicking a stray rock, her eyes brightened. She picked up the rock and looked at it. It looked big enough... yes, it could work, maybe she could help Goliath after all!
She grabbed a forked stick and took a piece of elastic from her satchel and tied the elastic to either of the forked ends at the top of the stick and tested its stretch. She smiled, Demona hadn't noticed her at all, she was watching the battle. Kyra took the rock and snuck over to the battle that raged down on the ground, to make it easier for Elisa to help.
Kyra jumped down and crept around in the shadows. Even with all the help, Goliath was losing. He was cornered and the others were hurt. Kyra acted normally, taking the rock out of her pocket and putting it in the elastic of the sling shot she made. Just before Phalog could slash at Goliath, Kyra pulled back the rock, aimed and let it go. It flew right to the clone's head and hit it hard. Goliath looked up and saw what had happened, he looked over at Kyra and smiled.
"What happened?" Phalog said, rubbing his head.
Kyra replied curtly, stepping out of the shadows, "Game over."
"Kyra..." Elisa warned. "There were rules."
"And you were still losing." Kyra answered. "I'm not gonna be lost to a creep like this without a real fight!"
"Let's go home, now." Brooklyn said.
"Not so fast, I don't give up so easily." Phalog said, Kyra turned to face him.
"No. You want me, you fight me." Kyra told him angrily.
"I'd back down, Phalog, you don't know what you're up against." Elisa called.
"Back down? From a mere female? And a young one at that. You've got to be kidding." Phalog replied suspiciously.
"She's not." Demona answered, staying back where she'd been the whole time. "Trust me, I watched her train. Kyra's stronger than she lets on."
"I'm glad you finally noticed." Kyra said, sticking her tongue out at Demona.
"Why do you think I chose you when I thought you were human?" Demona said half-proudly.
"We'll just see how strong." Phalog said and grabbed Kyra.
She struggled to release herself, but she couldn't. She gathered all her strength and pushed back her magic, she wanted to do this without depending on her sorcery. She pulled as hard as she could and still could not release herself. Finally, she built up adrenaline and counter-attacked him by throwing him over herself and whacking him with her tail.
Goliath stared, amazed. Kyra even amazed herself, she didn't think it would work!
"Whoa, that had to hurt!" Broadway exclaimed.
"Remind me not to get you angry at me." Brooklyn joked as Kyra sauntered over to him.
"Cute, now can we go home?" she asked.
"Yes!" Elisa answered, exhausted by the battle.
"How did you do that?" Angela asked, as they left. Demona went off her own way.
"Truthfully, I have no idea!" Kyra answered, "All I know is I didn't use sorcery."
When they got back, Kyra was very tired, it took a lot of strength to do what she did and she had just enough left to get to her room, sit down, and get a book to read. She barely moved for the rest of the night.
Later the next night, Kyra came inside from patrol to play with Nip.
"Nip!" Kyra scolded as the half grown wolf stalked Brooklyn's tail again. "Not chew toy!"
"Bad dog!"" Brooklyn growled, grabbing his tail. Nip whined and sulked, looking guilty.
"Nip-per!" Kyra scolded sternly.
"Judging how hard a time Nip gave you. I guess you can tame anything!" Elisa replied.
"Almost anything. No one's been able to tame the one creature in this city that needs to be tamed." Angela added.
"And it's going to stay that way!" Kyra replied, "I'm not going to even try to tame Demona's evilness!"
"It's almost impossible." Goliath told Angela.
"Not if Demona remembers that somewhere in her beats a pure heart that's been hidden for centuries." Kyra said, rubbing Nip's soft fur. "The fact that she tried to help you guys keep Angela free so long ago proves that she's starting to."
"It's hidden more by the centuries than during." Elisa replied, "She forgot what it was like to have others around that cared for her."
"Like Goliath said, it's almost impossible." Brooklyn joked.
"Brooklyn, promise you won't open your mouth until you get a sense of humor!" Kyra groaned.
"Very funny." Brooklyn said, pretending to turn his back.
"You know better than to do that." Kyra warned him.
"Do what?" Elisa asked.
"The teenagers have a little game, when one turns their back on another, they get attacked." Goliath answered, "It teaches them not to turn their back on an enemy."
"I think they already know that." Elisa replied.
"Yeah, but for some reason I have to keep teaching Brooklyn." Kyra said thoughtfully and tripped Brooklyn with her tail. She had a mean sense of humor, mainly towards the teen boys she knew, she especially practiced it on Micheal. Brooklyn always knew she was joking, though.
"Sometimes I question our friendship." Brooklyn said sarcastically and stood back up.
"Work on the sarcasm." Kyra told him in her little attitude.
"I am." Brooklyn replied.
"Work on the come-backs while you're at it." Kyra said, smiling.
"Kyra, you'd better get some rest." Elisa said after she looked at her watch.
"I'm going." she said it like a little five year old that didn't really want to, but she was pretty tired. Before they returned, Angela and Kyra got in a tangle with a couple of Mikey's robots, Kyra was getting more and more determined to get those away from him!
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