REALITY TRIP 2
CHAPTER 11: GARGOYLES
Everyone after that usual flash and shifting feeling which thankfully was easy on their stomachs they found themselves on top of a castle of all things. It was nearing sundown by the looks of things as they were in an old grey stoned castle that looked like no one was around. Scott scratched his head looking around, "Well things look fine here, after all the last medieval place we were at was pretty good."
"Yeah cause someone was king and married to his queen Jean," Jubilee joked and then felt a rush of wind. "Man is it me or is it windy here?"
"Yeah it is," Blink looked around and frowned something about the sky didn't seem right to her. "Hey is the sun just a bit bigger in this world or is it just me?" She also noticed the lack of clouds but then again some times that happened as well.
Everyone looked and Wanda went to the side of the wall and looked down. "Whoa…Uh…You guys may not believe this but we're in the sky."
That got everyone running to the edge of the wall and looked down. They were actually above the clouds and by the looks of things they were on top of a large skyscraper in some major city. "Hey are we in New York?" Paige asked as she looked around she wasn't sure but it kind of looked like she could make out a few landmarks.
"Yeah I think we're in Manhattan," Jean had been here enough times to know the place a bit better then Paige.
Scott looked down and then around the place, "Okay who in their right mind puts a castle of all things on top of a skyscraper this high up? And the first one to make a 'man's home is his castle' joke will get and extra training session." He warned as Jubilee and Vince had both been thinking that and then just shrugged.
Jamie felt like he should know this and started to look around and then noticed several stone gargoyles there. He looked closer and then he knew those statues and he knew right away where they were, "Guys we're in that Gargoyles cartoon!"
He remembered that one it had been a few years since it went off the air but he still remembered it. Paige had seen it as well and took another look as well, and even Vince was grinning, "Ah now it makes sense why we're on a castle that's on a building."
"Ya know this?" Rogue asked him.
Vince just grinned and shrugged, "Hey it was one of the few actually cool cartoons Disney made that wasn't so kid oriented."
"Disney? We're not going to break into song or anything are we?" Wanda asked him crossing her arms there was no way in hell she was going to do that since all those Disney cartoons usually had singing in them at one point. In fact first person to break into song she was hexing just out of principle.
"It wasn't that type of show," Paige rolled her eyes as she looked at the statues seeing who was here and which season they were in. She found a female Gargoyle and she pointed. "Cool look Angela is here we must be either in the final season or soon after. Ya know she was always mah favourite."
"I always liked Brooklyn the best," Jamie said looking at a Gargoyle that looked like he was part dragon or something with a long beak-like face.
"Same here kind of sucked how they jerked him around in the show with his love life," Vince said seeing Goliath there the largest one on the top.
"Can someone explain what you're talking about?" Clarice asked not getting what the three of them were talking about or why they were looking at the stone statues.
They went into a quick explanation on the show that these statues were real Gargoyles that in this world magic was real and that their kind turned to stone in the day to 'sleep' and at night came alive. They went into how they were cursed into stone and woke up in the 20th century thanks to David Xanatos who was the bad guy but after he married and had a kid which they saved he put an end to their feud and now let the Gargoyles back to their castle and original home.
They went into a few things like Oberon and the other Fay that were in their lives, people like Macbeth who really was the actual person that Shakespeare made a play about still alive, Demona the renegade Gargoyle. Elisa Maza the NYPD detective that was their ally and the romantic interest of Goliath up there.
"Hey guys take a look," Vince pointed at the sun and then sat back to watch. "Okay this is going to be really cool."
Paige and Jamie both eagerly awaited what was next as the others looked at the statues. At first there was nothing when the sun set but there was then several cracking sounds. Suddenly cracks started to show up all over the statues as the forms within burst free with roars as they shattered free sending pieces of stones all over the place.
"Okay that was way better then the show," Jamie was grinning ear from ear as was Paige.
It was then that the Gargoyles saw the mutants and they jumped down from their perches as they looked at what they thought were humans in the castle. Goliath the large purple one with a black mullet walked forward towering over them all at his impressive seven feet of height. "Who are you? How did you humans get in here?" He asked in his very deep voice.
"Hey look at the girl doesn't exactly look human," Broadway a blue and bald gargoyle with a potbelly looked at Blink as he looked a bit closer. She was a little shy at how close she was but after living with Kurt, Beast and her own reflection she was used to such things.
Bronx a gargoyle like dog was already sniffing them out as his nose wasn't sure what he smelled. They looked human but their smell was off, it wasn't like the Fay or anything else so he was a bit wary of the newcomers.
"Actually we're all mutants." Jean told them which got a reaction given that the only other mutants were those made by a mad scientists, that were warped versions of gargoyles. Pretty soon they explained why they were there. Lexington or just Lex to his friends was the smallest of the gargoyles.
He was also the one that understood technology the most out of them all. He was looking at one of the armbands already, he was already trying to figure out the mechanics of it as the others talked on.
They even started to give off a few examples of their powers, as Jean, Vince and Rogue floated off the ground. The gargoyles had to admit flying without wings was better, in fact they only glided not really flying like birds. Wanda hexed a old stone making the cracks splinter and it fell apart.
Vince actually went into an arm wrestling match with Goliath to compare their strengths. Vince won given that he could life a few tons and Goliath was lucky to lift just one. It was kind of a humbling experience given that the young man was a bit more then half his size.
The girls started to talk to Angelica and it was nice to have some other female company, she missed her rookery sisters and Elisa was nice to talk to but these girls were more 'her age'. Although given that gargoyles lived twice as long as humans she was older in human years.
Amara showed off her fire powers, as Jubilee made a little fireworks show, Blink made a few teleports as well. Paige was asking Angela a lot of questions like what it was like to turn to stone, or what it was like waking up. To gliding to her romance with Broadway, with that the other girls started asking about it as well making the female gargoyle a little embarrassed but she talked it out.
Jamie was doing the same with Brooklyn as his other multiples were looking around the place. It was kind of chaotic for everyone but for the gargoyles it was nice to have people so enthused about them. Normally humans didn't like them but these 'mutants' were very understanding.
The gargoyles in turn had their own questions as well so it turned into a nice hour as they talked things out between the two groups.
"So just when did we land here? I mean does everyone know about gargoyles and you guys? I mean is this after that whole thing with the train?" Jamie asked excitedly as he was talking with some of his favourite characters.
Brooklyn grinned with his large beak-like mouth, "Yeah that was a few months ago and surprisingly things have been getting better. The Quarrymen are still out there of course but at least a few times when we help the people aren't afraid of us." He sighed as how still most of the humans reacted with fear but after years of that they were all kind of used to it. Although helping those that actually appreciated it was nice now and then.
"Sounds like our lives," Scott rested himself on one of the stone steps, "It seems for every friend we make we make about a dozen enemies."
"Aye tis not an easy life but it's well one worth living," Hudson the oldest of them stated. He was a brown one in full clothing and not just loincloths. He had a scar over one eye that was yellow and blinded from years ago. He also carried a nasty looking short sword by his side and spoke with a Scottish accent.
"But all this talk of other realities and such is a bit much for an old timer like me. I think I'll go besides tis the season finally of me favourite show and I would'nea miss it." He moved off and normally Bronx walked with him and he turned to look where he was. He grinned as he was on his back, his tongue hanging out as his back paws kicking the air as Jubilee was giving him a belly rub.
"We should introduce you to the others as well," Goliath stated as he figured they would run into them at some point. They all gathered together and walked into the castle which had internal lighting and a few other more 21st century things installed here and there. They came to a large room that looked like a cross between an office and a museum.
Behind a desk was a man with an expensive suit, ponytail and just screamed out wealth and power. Next to him was a beautiful red head with a small toddler in her arms. She had long hair with a fox head symbol tattooed over her eye. The man Xanatos and his wife Fox looked slightly curious as the new comers came in.
"What's all this?" Xanatos asked as they came in, even after everything he had seen the gargoyles bringing in a bunch of teenagers was a sight that he never thought of seeing.
"It's kind of a long story," Angela told him and he nodded his head.
"Well then Owen is bringing up Elisa so we can hold them off until then." He said and there were a few introductions and then the personal elevator opened up and out stepped two people. The first was NYPD Elisa Maza in her usual clothing, that being blue jeans, a black t-shit and red jacket. She was a beautiful woman with tanned skin and long raven hair. Obviously from her mixed heritage her mother being African American and her father a Native America.
The man with her couldn't be more her opposite if he tried. A blond haired man with short hair, glasses, a nice suit and a stone fist, and with the way he was he couldn't be more of a 'stiff' if he tried. The man made Scott look like a relaxed slacker. "I see we have guest." Owen said seeing the new people.
"Hey look it's Puck," Paige said giggling knowing how 'Owen' was actually the Fay known as Puck. Everyone looked at Paige or Owen then as Owen himself just rose an eyebrow.
"I beg your pardon miss?"
"Wow he always stays in character doesn't he?" Paige asked the David and Fox giving them amused looks as Owen/Puck was looking a little uncomfortable with a child that knew his secret.
"Can someone fill me in on how she knows that? Or who everyone else is?" Elisa asked the clan, given that she was supposed to meet her partner Matt later on when her shift started she hoped this long talk she was sensing wouldn't be too long.
After the explanations, which were getting pretty boring and monotonous by now for them, were finally over it was time to move on. Xanatos looked amused at the whole notion, "You know for a man like myself it's hard to surprise me, especially after everything I've seen and done in the past few years. But dimensional traveling mutants where we were a cartoon is one of the few rare surprises."
"Well you take it better then a few others have," Wanda shrugged which was a nice change of pace.
"I just have one question," He looked to them and then grinned, "Was it a good show?"
That got a few laughs as Jamie nodded, "Oh yeah it was the best, there was supposed to be more but they never got around to the spin-offs for some stupid reason. There's like super fan sites and things. People writing their own stories on you and then a few things based on what was supposed to happen later."
Vince just remembered something about that, hearing how Brooklyn was supposed to time travel to the past in Japan and come back with a wife and two teenager kids. He leaned over to the brown-redish gargoyle. "Oh by the way a future tip, start looking into Japan. It might make things easier down the way."
"Uh…Thanks…I guess," He said not sure what he meant but it couldn't hurt right?
Amara, Blink and Jubilee were already with Fox cooing over the little kid, "Oh he's so adorable, what's his name?" Amara asked as she wiggled a finger in front of him as he tried to grab it.
Fox smiling like a proud mother at her child told them, "His name is Alex and trust me he's adorable but a handful at times."
Scott was looking a little closer to Xanatos as he seemed really familiar. David caught this and looked at the young leader, "Can I help you with something?"
"Oh sorry it's just that…Has anyone told you, that you look and sound a lot like Jonathan Franks? You know the guy from Star Trek The Next Generation?"
Fox heard this and laughed as a few others started to look at him a little closer. "Hey yeah he does. How come we never noticed this before?" Broadway asked the others who in turn shrugged they didn't know, but after it was said they knew that they would always notice this now.
"I told you didn't I?" Fox smiled as her husband gave her a slightly dirty look. She had told him that once since she used to be on TV and had met that actor herself. In fact she once thought the two might have been related.
He looked at the gargoyles and Elisa either trying to hide their laughter or their smirks. He sighed to himself, "There will be no living with them now I just know it."
Elisa stayed for awhile but she had to go on patrol, Goliath went with her of course for her 'protection', although everyone knew that it was more then just that. Angela smiled at the two of them as they left for the roof, for her father to carry her back to her police station.
It was nice seeing her father in love and although the mating of a human and gargoyle was unprecedented, it was just so nice seeing it. Those two were defiantly a match made for each other and for a brief moment wondered if that's how her mother and her father were like before her mother's fall into evil?
Rogue noticed this and touched her arm, "Ya okay?"
"Just thinking is all…Wondering if my father was that happy with my mother when they used to be together," she gave a small sigh.
"Your mother?"
Angela sighed and explained about the complicated relationship, how her mother before she was born (actually hatched from her egg) had loved her father. But then had helped in the betrayal of the humans of the castle so the gargoyles would have it, but then things didn't go as planned. The Vikings smashed most of the gargoyles while in statues and Demona blamed the humans and not herself.
She became immortal and ever since then hated humans. Rogue listened in on this calling over Wanda as the other girl could most likely relate to this as well. By the end of the story all both girls felt for Angela. "Damn and I thought my father was bad," Wanda muttered.
"Yeah your mother reminds meh of my adopted mother Mystique," Rogue growled out.
"So I guess having an evil parent isn't as uncommon as I thought?" Angela joked slightly.
"Nope but at least you got one decent parent, I mean your father seems like a nice guy at least." Wanda told Angela.
"Hey how about tha three of us go someplace nice and quiet so we can bitch about how bad certain parents can beh?" Rogue gave a small smirk as both Wanda and Angela smiled. She led them to a nice sitting room where they could be alone and talk things out. She had never really talked about her mother at least not with others that could understand her. It was really nice to have that.
The rest of the few hours went by pretty well, and it was a nice and relaxing trip for them. Then the bracelets started to give them the warning for the next jump they said their good byes. Angela hugged both Wanda and Rogue, even thought the two of them were a little weary of that kind of thing normally.
But their talked helped and Angela felt a bit better getting some of this off her chest. When the mutants left a few of the gargoyles kind of missed seeing their friends go, Angela knew she would miss the close company of other females. Maybe she should take a trip back to Avalon to see the others soon?
It was then she noticed Brooklyn leaving, "Where are you headed?"
He shrugged, "To the library to look up what I can on Japan, I don't know why but I think maybe I should start looking into it soon."
NEXT UP CHAPTER 12: THE TRIP HOME
