Gah! UPDATE! FROM HELL!
Puck: I'm too cute to let my story rot in some file vault.
Lexington: Um, it's technically both of us.
Puck: What?
FS: The story involves both you AND Lex.
Puck: Che, whatever...(rolls eyes)
FS: (whispering) Soon enough, you'll change your words...
CHAPTAH!
STARTO!
"A...Gargoyle?" The red-head sneered, though he looked even angrier than when Reka had thrown books at him. Puck could feel Lex's questioning gaze, and prayed the Gargoyle was smart enough to play along.
"Yes! And despite what you think, I made a rather nice choice." It had meant to sound flattering towards the clan, but it served only to fuel the Sprites interest.
"Oh? Do explain yourself, Fey Puck." He winced, and was about to spout off nonsense when Reka jumped in.
"Well, you see your gaynesses-" The Sprites were the only ones who didn't find this funny, "- Lexington is a very suitable mate for a Fey like Puck. He's very strong willed, and clear-minded. The perfect balance to Puck's insanity." The 'insane' Fey shot his student a bemused look. "Lexington is also good with children, and watches Alexander Xanatos when Puck is too tired and needs rest."
The Sprites looked doubtful, and sent each other a look. "A very...interesting developement. We will contact the Lord and Lady to discuss this further." They walked to another corner of the room.
Meanwhile, Puck and Reka were in a huddle with the Gargoyles and Xanatos family. Reka was shooting the Fey a look that clearly said he wished the iron had killed Puck.
"Puck, I really don't want to get roped into this-" Lex started to say, when the Fey grabbed his hands and whimpered.
"PLEASE! Just play along, I don't want to be sold in Avalon! Oberon might keep me himself and chain me in iron! Hell, he might feedme iron if I'm correct in my assumption of how pissed he is at this point!" The fey whimpered, feeling the burns on his arms beginning to react again, and Goliath placed a hand on the Avalonian's shoulder.
"He promised you would never see Avalon again, but if he is attempting revenge, we will protect you Puck." The baritone rumble helped calm Puck down, enough for him to notice he was still holding Lex's hands. They were warm, he realized, having expected the Gargoyle's skin to be cold like the stone they would be in-cased in during the day. He let go when Lex pulled away, and stared at Goliath.
"If you're sure, Goliath. I guess I could go along with it." Puck squealed making the Sprites look over, and nearly choked his pretend to-be in a hug.
"Thank you!" He whispered, and let go. Just in time, as the Sprites, who both held mirrors showing the faces of Oberon and Titania. Puck felt his instant good mood go bad.
"My Lord. My Lady." He bowed with a sort of curtsy, and Lexington copied him almost perfectly.
"Puck, is it true? You have chosen a Gargoyle as your Other?" Lex shivered when Oberon's voice, coated in poisonous honey, floated from the mirrors.
"Yes, my Lord. I am capable of choosing my mate for myself, by myself." He literally spat the word at Oberon, who scowled. Titania, meanwhile, was watching Puck with an interested stare.
"A union of Fey and Gargoyle blood...The child would be terribly powerful..." Puck scowled as he saw the same greed in her eyes as when she first saw Alex. But, he kept his stance, knowing that it was his only loophole out of this ordeal.
"I'd imagine so, but that is hardly reasoning for my actions." Titania smiled, and it made Puck shiver violently.
"Oh? Then, what is your reason?" FUCK! Reka cringed as the mental shout wormed through his connection with his teacher. Reka took over.
"Well, Miss Titania. It's very simple. So simple, one would never have seen it coming." Reka stalled, but when everyone's eyes were on him, he panicked as well. He took a deep breath. "Puck fell in love."
If he was still near a table, Puck would've slammed his head on it and screamed. As things stood, he settled for an uneasy smile at Lex, and the Gargoyle was merciful enough to smile back.
"Love? Puck is capable of no such thing." Oberon dismissed it so quickly, Reka stuck up his middle finger without thinking. "But, if it truly a union of 'love'," He spat the word in contempt as Puck had spoken, "-then I shall give one month, at the day that Spring begins here in Avalon, for you to provide proof of such 'love'. If such proof is not given, Puck shall be forcibly brought back to Avalon, and you as well Halfa." Reka again stuck his finger up, this time not by accident.
"Alvivio, Demetio, return at once." The two Sprites bowed with a sneer, and disappeared from sight. Reka sighed in relief, only to be pulled into a head-lock by his teacher.
"What was that 'love' nonsense about? Do you realise how bad a position we're all in now?" The white-haired Fey snarled at his apprentice as he twisted the locks of brown hair with his fist. Reka managed to pull away and scowled back.
"I got you a month of time to figure something out, I thought you'd be happy!" Puck began pacing wildly, muttering to himself in several languages, including some not even Goliath had heard. After a few moments of his teacher going crazy, Puck walked up to Reka and clamped his hands on his students shoulders.
"A month is not even enough time! Maybe to find a spell, yes, but it would take days to find the exact one, and even longer to learn it correctly, and of course we'd need ingredients, and a place to prepare the damn thing, and-" Goliath stopped the ramblings of the Fey by placing a clawed hand on his shoulder. He released Reka, who had been shaken with every other word.
"Puck, we are willing to help you." Puck blinked.
"Yes...Yes, you can. You can help research the books, and your young-lings can gather ingredients once we have a list. But..." He put a hand to his forehead. "You turn to stone during the day. You aren't much help then, unless..." He trailed off, then shot over to the Grimorum, and began rapidly leafing through it.
Reka walked over and tried to read his mentor's thoughts. "What in Avalon's name is getting you so excitedly?"
Puck apparently found whatever he had been looking for, and and slammed the book down. "HERE!" He shouted, making everyone jump. Elisa, who had just entered, fell down the steps in alarm.
"What in sweet New York are you on tonight, Puck?" She asked as Goliath helped her up. Puck showed the group a page that depicted a crude Gargoyle, who was sitting under what looked like the rays of a badly drawn sun.
"The Daylight Spell. I found it a few nights ago. If Reka, Alex, and I can cast it correctly, you guys will be able to walk around in daylight for a few days. You'd have more time to help me!" The Gargoyles were more excited with the idea of walking around under the sun. Goliath and Hudson imagined being able to see the park when it was lit by sunlight, instead of streetlamps. Brooklyn and Broadway thought of the food carts Reka had told them about that went up and down the streets. And Lex, of course, was eager to see the mechanical aspects of the city at work.
"One problem, Einstein." Reka had his arms folded. "Alex is a baby who's only word is 'Mama', and you've been zapped of your powers." David jumped and turned to his wife.
"When did he say 'Mama'?" Fox looked away grinning.
"My, did he say that? Oh yes, now that I remember, he did. It was this morning, after you took off for work." David sputtered at the devious looking woman. It was hard to remember sometimes that Fox was part Fey, and the Fey loved to pull tricks on humans.
"You could've called me! We have each other on speed-dial! And that meeting was boring!"
"And it wasn't so much 'Zap!' as it was 'Zwoosh!' There IS a difference." Puck was, meanwhile, attempting to salvage his dignity. Reka's smirk indicated it was a poor attempt. Especially since his mentor was using those silly noises.
"Can someone please tell me what's going on?" Elisa asked, and was met with silence. Then...
"Lass! When'dja get here?" She face-palmed, shaking her head.
"I heard the keywords spell, Puck, help, Puck, and zap?" She rattled off in a suspicious tone. The Fey glanced at her.
"Why am I mentioned twice?" Elisa shot him a look.
"Because anything that deals with you is bound to be trouble." While his mentor scowled at the human, Reka suddenly was struck by realization. He turned to the Fey.
"Why were they so surprised you picked Lexington?" Puck stopped scowling long enough to give a serious face.
"Well, have you heard a fairytale where a fairy tries to go through a cave to get back to its forest, only to be eaten by a gargoyle who hates shiny things?" Reka nodded, then his jaw dropped in horror.
"That-That was a true story? I thought you were joking!" Puck shook his head.
"Fair folk used to have miniature forms, that you humans called 'fairies'. But, when one of Queen Yulania's daughters wandered into a cave that separated the kingdom into halves, she was devoured by a rogue Gargoyle, who'd gone mad from a poison he swallowed. Queen Yulania was Titania's great-great-great grandmother, and supposedly was the true ruler of the Third Race." Eilsa gulped and sent an uneasy glance to her companions, who were horrified that one of their kind would ever even think of such a deed.
"That's when the Fair Folk began exploring the human world, to find safe passages away from the Gargoyle monster, and when Yulania's second daughter sought shelter in a human's house, she begged them over and over to protect her. 'Don't let me be eaten!' She cried. The human's child asked her why and from what. 'The Gargoyle!' She screamed. 'The Gargoyle eats fairies and children! He'll eat me and you too!' The humans were so scared, they agreed to let her stay until morning."
"When the daughter returned to her kingdom in the morning, she was told by her mother that the Gargoyle had been cursed by the darkness of night, never to see the day. When she asked what her mother meant, Yulania refused to say. Now, each of Yulania's daughters had been given a gift known only to fairies at the time. The first had the presence of Kindness, while the third had the presence of Courage. The second herself had the presence of Curiosity. Now, she was far too afraid to go to the cave alone, and went to the human world."
"She sought out the boy and when she found him, she saw that he'd gotten bigger. 'Boy! Child, or should I say adult?' He looked and saw thatit was the fairy he'd met as a child. He greeted her and asked what she was in a rush for. 'Come with me! The Gargoyle has been trapped! We can explore the cave now!' He was interested as well, and agreed. What they found in the cave, though, was not what they expected. The Gargoyle had been imprisoned in stone."
"The boy was outraged. 'What cowardice is this?' he said to the fairy. 'He isn't a monster, he was a friend in my world! He ate a horrid poison that was killing my village in order to protect us! He didn't mean to hurt your sister!' The second daughter was overcome with guilt and grief. She flew to the stone creature and cried to him. 'I have not much power to give, but I can set you free for a small time.' Saying as follows, she casted a spell.
'Oh creature that sleeps in stone,
the dawn may never greet.
But when the moon and stars above
allow us both to meet.
Set free by night's sweetest embrace,
though the dawn never greets your face.
See the day never more now,
but greet the night with this vow.'
After she cast the spell, the sun sunk below the trees, and with a mighty roar, the Gargoyle wrenched free of his prison. The boy greeted his friend, who wept for what he'd done, and apologized to the second daughter.
'Though I may never see your light again, please allow me to protect the light that I can see.' That was when Gargoyles were banished from Avalon. So they could live in the human world, to not only salvage their pride as noble creatures, but in hopes that some day they could return to Avalon." Puck ended.
Reka, Lex, Alex, and for some reason Broadway burst into tears. Puck's eyebrow twitched, as though saying 'wtf?'. Reka suddenly launched himself at Puck, hugging his mentor awkwardly.
"T-Th-That's so sad~!" The Halfa cried, Puck trying to decide whether to strangle his way out, or use magic. Meanwhile, both Xanatos and the other Gargoyles were contemplating the story.
"Banished...That's why we turn to stone? Because of that one Gargoyle?" Brooklyn was beside himself with anger(A/N: Brooklyn's Rage, haha XD) while Hudson stared down at Bronx. Goliath shook his head.
"Not because of him. He ate the poison to protect the human village, just as we once defended the castle." Elisa gently stroked the red and black wings of her companions.
"But you guys are in a better position now. If we work this plan of Puck's just right, we might even get the curse to be lifted!" That made everyone brighten. Puck stopped trying to scrape a still-crying Reka off of his waist to stare at her.
"If it works. Detective, that was near the creation of human kind, and time passes differently in my world. The grudge has existed for a very long time. It'd take a miracle." Elisa put her hands on her hips.
"Good thing we have three miracle workers right here, then."
Just so everyone knows...I totally made up the fairy story. Don't bother trying to google it, because it is pure bulls***. On that note, READ AND FREAKING REVIEW PEOPLE! Or Puck will dump crabs down your back, and Reka will set you on fire.