Gordon and the Gargoyles
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Prologue (Part 3)
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Friday, September 30th 1994
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6:45 A.M.
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The scent of buttermilk, oranges, and hash browns caught the scent of Peyton's nose as she was finishing up tying on her green and teal polka dotted bandana on her hair. After she fed Seymour's breakfast of flies and grabbing her Rugrats themed backpack, she went down stairs to find Derick putting some pancakes on a plate and set it at the table.
"You made me breakfast?" Peyton asked.
"Of course I did." Derick said, going over the couch bed to fix the sheets. "I had some time left over and I thought I would fix you something to eat before you went off to school."
"Cool, thanks Mr. Maz-I-I mean Derick.." she thanked as she took her seat at the table and began eating. On her plate were blueberry and chocolate chip pancakes that were drizzled with maple syrup, homemade hash browns and glass of orange juice in her favorite Lion King cup she got at McDonalds.
But as she was eating, her head began to feel a bit more warmer than usual.
Peyton got up from her table to grab her Princess Jasmine ice pack for her head and went back to the table to eat, Derick noticed this.
"Pey? What's with the ice pack?" Derick asked, concerned.
"Just had a bit of a headache.." she said, stuffing her pancakes and hash browns into her mouth.
Derick felt her forehead.
"Hm, must've went down." he said. "But put your ice pack in your lunchbox for good measure."
"Sure Derick.." Peyton said.
After her breakfast, she proceeded to back her Lion King lunchbox with the food she was gonna eat for the day.
She fixed herself some dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets, a can of Chef Boyardee mini ravioli that she put into her matching container, a little container of raspberries, filled up her Lisa Frank themed water bottle that had a jaguar on it with water, an apple, another little container with carrot sticks and two Hostile cupcakes.
She stuffed the food she prepared into her lunchbox and by the time she finished that, she heard the school bus horn outside and hurried outside.
"Bye Derick! I'll see you after school.." Peyton called out to Derick as she rushed down to the school bus.
"I'll keep an eye on your frog and make sure to keep you updated on your missing folks." he called out back.
"OK! Thanks Derick!" she replied and hopped on the school bus and drove off.
After Peyton left for school, the house phone rang and Derick picked it up.
It was Elisa.
"Hello?" Derick answered. "Oh, hey sis. You-You did? You found them? Where are-"
Derick heard Elisa phone call and it didn't sound good.
"…Oh man…"
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8:22 A.M.
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As usual, Peyton was the 1st one out of the school bus, but something was off. As Peyton got off the bus, her eyes began to sting and her headache was back, she put the ice pack back on her forehead and rubbed her eyes with her other hand.
She walked into the building and into the hallway of the school house.
"Morning Lame-don.."
Peyton turned around and saw three little girls that were the same age as she was.
Their names were Maddison Collins, and her friends Caroline (Carol) Davidson and Annabelle Andrews.
Maddison was the girl that was in front of her two friends. She had apricot skin, straight blonde hair with curled tips and sapphire blue eyes. She wore an orange hair bow on the right side of her hair, a golden beaded necklace around her neck, a pink t-shirt with silver lining that had a picture of a tiara and it said in red 'Born to be Rich', strawberry pink pants, grey socks and red bell-buckled shoes. She carried around a Sailor Moon themed backpack with a Polly Pocket lunchbox.
Behind her on her left was her friend Carol who had pale white skin, white hair that was in pig tails supported by two blue hair ties with beads (like Bubbles's hair from the 2016 version of Power Puff Girls) and brown eyes. She wore a mint green t-shirt with yellow lining, a blue skirt, grey socks and blue bell-buckled shoes. She carried around a Barbie themed backpack with a My Little Pony lunchbox.
And behind her on her right was Annabelle who chocolate brown skin, long black hair that had two strands sticking out on the top (like Buttercup's hair from the 2016 version of Power Puff Girls) and a braid on the back that was supported by a red hair tie, and hazel eyes. She wore a peach colored sleeveless t-shirt with a large yellow pocket in the front, purple pants, grey socks and yellow bell-buckled shoes. She carried around a Little Mermaid themed backpack with a Care Bears lunchbox.
Those three girls may seem nice and sweet on the outside but on the inside, they were cold hearted and mean and a bunch of monsters. Basically they were the 'Mean Girls' of New York. The reason they were like this is because their parents worked for the same advertising company and they made millions and millions of dollars every day of the year. That's why the three friends lived VERY close to each other in giant mansions with butlers, giant bedrooms, limousines, fancy vehicles, personal chefs, and so much more. They claimed they were so rich they were richer than David Xanatos himself. Although they had all these riches and luxuries that money could buy them, they were spoiled, selfish, rude, bossy, ungrateful, and unkind. They didn't like people who weren't like them and liked people who were rich like they were.
"G-Good Morning Maddison.." Peyton said in her nicest tone possible. "So, what'd you guys do after, um…school yesterday?.."
Maddison rolled her eyes and she grabbed her books out of her locker.
She scoffed and replied, "Well, after school, Dudley came to get us in my daddy's new limousine.."
"It was so shiny and purple!" Carol interrupted happily.
"Anyways, after Dudley picked us up, we went for our horse riding lessons to practice for the competition we have coming up soon, then we did our water aerobics before we went golfing at the new golf course that my daddy's bosses friend opened up last week." she said. "Then we went to the nail salon and got ourselves a mani-pedi.."
"Check out our acrylics, I loved the polish we picked!" Annabelle said, putting her acrylic nails in Peyton's face, Maddison and Carol did the same thing. Maddison's nails were painted hot pink with a white flower painted on the ring finger, Carol's nails were painted lavender with a white butterfly painted on the ring finger, and Annabelle's nails were painted dandelion gold with white polka dots on the ring finger.
"OK.." Peyton said, gently taking Annabelle's hand away. "Anything else, anything…interesting?"
"We went to the mall for an after school shopping spree, we got new jewelry, new toys and new clothes to!" said Carol.
"That sounded like-"
But Peyton was interrupted by Maddison.
"Not only the mall, we headed to Dairy Queen before we head back to the mansion for our supper.." she said, gloating with a smirk.
"I got the Royal New York Cheesecake Blizzard.." Carol said.
"I got the Vanilla Cone.." Annabelle said. "And Maddison got the Caramel Sundae.."
"That's right.." Maddison said. "So, what did YOU do after school Lame-don?"
Rude tone or not, Peyton replied back at Maddison with a big grin on her face.
"Well, after school yesterday, I went to my cousin Jack's pet store and got 30 whole dollars for cleaning the dirty bird cages and fish tanks! After that, I went to gym class and swung like the acrobats did at that circus that came over here two weeks ago before heading to the playground and -"
Maddison interrupted her again.
"Rolled around in the mud like a fat little pig?" she teased.
"No," Peyton said. "I-I hung out at the jungle gym while my mom and dad went to the supermarket to get some things…and I'm not a fat little pig Maddison, I work out three days a week.."
Maddison rolled her big sapphire blue eyes in annoyance.
"Yeah, whatever." she replied rudely.
"But for some strange reason they didn't come back after that, but I met a couple of detectives named Elisa and Matt and they gave me a ride to the police station and they said they're gonna find them and after that, her brother Derick gave me a ride to Steak N' Shake for dinner and took me home. He even made me breakfast this morning before I got on the school bus."
The three seven year old girls had horrid looks on their faces.
"What?" she asked, confused at the rich girls looks on their faces.
"You had a police officer take you home?!" Maddison said, she was completely disgusted. "You know they touch dead bodies all the time?!"
"Well, I'm sure Derick washed his hands before he-"
Maddison interrupted her for the third time in a row.
"Whatever Gordon, keep this up and you'll not be invited to our slumber party next week….Oh, wait! You never were invited in the first place anyway!"
Maddison and her friends laughed as they walked down the hallways to the classroom.
Peyton felt feverish and placed her hand on her head and said, "I got a headache.."
"Yeah," said one chubby copper haired third-grader boy to Peyton. "Maddison can get pretty annoying when you're trying to talk to her and she always has to interrupt with her stupid comments."
The boy walked down the hall to his classroom.
Peyton sighed as she grabbed her bag and lunchbox and headed to class.
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8:45 A.M.
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Today was something different about Peyton this school day.
All morning, she had trouble reading the math, science and history problems on the assignments that Mr. Jeffery left for the substitute and she even had trouble reading the topic of the bell ringer she got every morning and, which was most shocking of all, she had trouble reading the pages of one of her reading books. Her vision was becoming blurry and her eyes were stinging alot and her head was feeling even more feverish than before. This had never happened before, so, she asked the substitute is she could go visit the school nurse to check out what was happening.
"Whatever.." he said to Peyton, and with the hall pass, she left.
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"Alright Peyton, dear." said Nurse Jackie, the school nurse with beaming brown eyes. "All you have to do is read the eye chart.."
Peyton put one hand over her left eye and read the eye chart….well, at least tried to read it.
"Um…E….uh….seven?" she said. "No no no wait, that's a three…or is it a two? M-Maybe it's an eight.."
Without her knowing, Maddison, Carol and Annabelle, who were coming back from the bathroom, were watching Peyton take her eye exam.
"Gordon got in trouble.." whispered Carol in a sing-song voice.
"How can you get in trouble with the school nurse?" Annabelle asked.
The three little girls started to giggle and walk off.
The nurse charted Peyton's results and called Derick over to come pick her up and take her to the eye doctor.
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"What do you see Peyton?" asked the eye doctor while Peyton was looking through a special magnifying glass.
"Nothing." she replied. "It's blurry Dr. Iris.."
Dr. Iris placed a tiny magnifying glass on the giant one.
"Now what do you see?" she asked.
Peyton began to look.
"I see….A GIANT WORM!"
Derick and Elisa began to look around in alarm.
Dr. Iris looked and saw a tiny inchworm on the lens of the glass. She took it off and placed in inside a potted plant and placed the magnifying glass on the giant looking glass again.
"There." Dr. Iris said. "Better?"
"Yeah," Peyton said. "I can see everything perfectly."
Dr. Iris smiled and said, "You just need glasses Peyton, that's why you've been getting all those headaches."
Peyton smiled.
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Dr. Iris took Peyton, Derick and Elisa to a room where there were a ton of glasses up for sale.
"All you have to do is pick out the frames you like." Dr. Iris said.
Peyton saw many frames and tried some on. Some looked like aviator glasses, some looked like the ones the professors in college wore and some looked futuristic.
Peyton tried on a ton but couldn't find the pair that matched her. Until…
"Hey.."
Peyton squinted her eyes a bit to get a better view.
The glasses she found on the shelf had medium circular lenses and a beige framing.
Dr. Iris picked up the glasses and put them on Peyton's face.
Peyton looked at herself in the mirror with the beige frames on.
"Those look great Peyton.." Elisa complemented as Peyton continued to look in the mirror.
"Very distinguished.." Derick said.
So, with that, the beige framed glasses were bought and Peyton even got to pick out a cool case for them.
The case she chose was black and had the Batman symbol on it.
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On the car ride back to Peyton's school, she was feeling much better. In fact, she couldn't stop looking at everything with her new glasses on.
"Wow!" she said amazed. "Look at the airplane way up there! Check out all the leaves on the trees!"
She then said to Elisa and Derick, "Elisa, you're getting grey hairs. Derick, have you always had those bangs underneath your eyes?"
Elisa and Derick looked shocked for a minute their before they turned to each other and smiled.
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The rest of the afternoon went smoothly for Peyton, she could read every worksheet problem and book pages and chapters with ease, she could even read the cafeteria menu at lunchtime….Of course, the day would've turned out smoothly for Peyton, if it weren't for all the teasing she had been getting from Maddison and her friends.
All throughout lunch time, Peyton have been called many things from 'Four Eyes' to 'Nerd Girl' to 'Sparky'. She hated it when Maddison and her friends called her names, (I mean, they've been teasing Peyton a lot since they were in preschool for Pete's Sake) and she wanted to punch them right in their mouths and use the new moves she learned in karate class earlier that week, but, under the 'stupid school code' as she liked to call it made by her Principal Mrs. Rosa, it stated that 'school violence was prohibited and if a student is shown doing violence around a student, a staff member or another teacher, the student must be expelled at once.'
"Curse that stupid school code of conduct.." Peyton thought as she ate her dino shaped chicken nuggets and ravioli with a sigh.
She wanted to beat them up…BADLY with her life…
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2:54 P.M
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*ringing*
Every student rushed out of the school building to the pickup area for the cars or the school bus stop to head home for the weekend.
All except Peyton.
She hopped on the city bus with her bus pass, just as she did every week and headed to her cousin Jack's pet store.
As she sat in her seat on the bus, she looked out the window and looked at the cloudy sky above. She sighed and began to think to herself about her missing parents.
Would they be alright?
Would they be still alive?
What if they're dead?
What if something happened to them and they're in the hospital?
What if they were hurt really badly?
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At Manhattan General Hospital..
Elisa waited outside the hospital room of Peyton's parents for any updates from Chavez.
They went under thirty hours of surgery since the previous night and the doctors tried everything they could to get them back to consciousness, but nothing was working and time was running out.
(15 minutes later..)
Chavez came out with a gold locket with a giant heart shaped pendant in the middle, a deep frown was placed on her face.
"Captain?" Elisa called to Maria.
Chavez sighed and said, "…That's it, they're both…..dead.."
Elisa gasped, placing her hand to cover her mouth.
"They did everything they could…the massacre was unidentified and they were not only shot, but hanged to death as well.." Maria said to Elisa, who was still in shock. "But, before Mrs. Gordon passed, she gave me her locket and…and her last words were…'give this to my wonderful daughter Peyton, she'll always have us in our heart'…"
Elisa was almost in tears…what were they gonna tell Peyton?
Elisa then picked up the hospital phone and called Derick.
"Derick. Drive Peyton over to Manhattan General.." she said shakily, "..There's something she'd oughta know.."
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3:17 P.M.
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Peyton sat quietly in the back seat of Derick's car horn, just as she did the night before, she had a rolled up piece of paper by her thy.
"Derick? Why are we going to the hospital?" she asked so innocently. "Are we going to visit a friend or someone in your family who's sick?"
Derick remained quiet as he drove. Once he stopped at a red light, he looked at Peyton. Her cerulean blue eyes were big with concern and curiosity.
He sighed and said, "I don't know Pey…I don't know.."
They got to the hospital around three-twenty due to the rush hour traffic jam, but once Peyton saw Elisa and Maria, she smiled widely.
"Hi Elisa! Hi Ms. Chavez!" she greeted, she rushed over to hug them.
They smiled a bit at those hugs.
"Hey Peyton.." Elisa greeted back, "How was school today?"
Peyton un-rolled the piece of paper and showed it to Elisa and Maria. It was a drawing of her re-uniting with her mom and dad.
"It was great!" she said. "I made this for my mom and dad, where are they?"
Once she said 'mom and dad', Elisa's eyes were glistening with tears again and Derick pulled her big sister into a hug. Maria on the other hand was trying to hold back her tears.
Peyton looked at everyone.
She turned to Maria and said, "Something's wrong…isn't it?"
"Um, Pey.." started Derick. "W-When you went to school this morning, E-Elisa called me and s-said that your parents were unconscious and not responding s-so Elisa called 911 and they rushed them to the hospital…"
"They went under thirty hours of surgery," Maria continued. "And the doctors tried to respond them back b-but it was too late…Peyton I'm sorry, both your parents died fifteen minutes ago.."
Peyton was shocked and her eyes narrowed in confusion and sorrow.
"What?" she asked as if she were about to cry.
"T-They were both shocked and hanged to death and….they're hearts gave out after the surgery.." Maria said, tears were falling from her eyes.
"N-No.." Peyton said shakily. "N-No they can't be dead! NO! MOM! DAD!"
Peyton rushed away into her parents hospital room only to find their bodies lying on the stretchers and nurses unhooking the IV's and heart monitors and left to grab sheets to cover their dead bodies with.
Her cerulean blue eyes were glistening with forming tears and she trembled in shock.
"MOM! DAD!" she yelled, running to her dead father's side.
She then whispered with shaky breaths, "Mom…Dad…Mommy….Daddy…"
Derick, Elisa and Maria watched from the door at the poor little girl trying to get her parents up, but they wouldn't move or speak.
Peyton tried to feel a pulse on her parents wrists but she couldn't find one. She squinted her eyes shut and held her dead mom's hand.
"No..please…." she pleaded with teary eyes. "T-This isn't happening…It's not…MOM, DAD! WAKE UP!"
Her mind began to fill with a ton of memories of her with her parents…
Every Birthday…
Every Halloween…
Every Thanksgiving…
Every Christmas…
Every Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day Barbeque…
Every Mother's and Father's Day…
All the trips to Disneyland, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Hawaii, and Italy…
The times they played and laughed and had loads of fun….
All those memories began to fill up her mind as she held her deceased parents hands.
Tears were pouring down her freckled olive skinned face as she cried hard into her dead mother's lap.
The nurses then took Peyton's hand and escorted her out of the room so that they could cover up their dead bodies.
Peyton rushed to Elisa and hugged her with a broken heart.
Elisa hugged her back as she cried into her chest.
Maria called the local cemetery and funeral home…they said that the funeral could be held the following Saturday, the eighth of October.
Maria planned everything.
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(R.I.P Katelyn and Dominic Gordon *that's the names of Peyton's parents*, as we come to the what hopefully is the conclusion of the prologue, we see what happened to Peyton's frog Seymour and then we start getting into the main story of Peyton's adventures with the Gargoyles. Anyways, Read and Review and no hateful comments plz!)