Gordon and the Gargoyles
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Prologue (Part 4)
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Saturday, October 8th 1994
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7:07 A.M.
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Nobody cared if it was cloudy outside that Saturday morning.
Nobody cared if it looked like if it was about to rain.
Some of Peyton's family members, the police force, Elisa, Derick, Mara, Matt and Peyton showed up for the funeral and burial of Peyton's parents Katelyn Joyce and Dominic Jacob Gordon.
The funeral was held at the Christ Church.
The family members including Peyton's own grandparents from her father's side flew in from Brazil to New York, her older cousins Ashley, Jaiden, Jack and Max, her grandma Frieda from her mom's side and her aunt Penny and her uncle Eric.
Each of the family Peyton knew and loved shared a few words about Katelyn and Dominic and memories with them either good or bad…..even Peyton wrote herself a speech to say at the funeral with her pet frog Seymour by her side.
After the service was over, everyone headed to the Moravian Cemetery for the burial.
The bishop opened the caskets to reveal Peyton's parents lying peacefully.
After a prayer and a twenty-one gun salute by the police force, both of Peyton's parents were buried next to each other. With flowers, cards, balloons and Peyton's drawing she made to them.
Peyton cried in Derick's arms, hiding her face in his chest and Derick wrapped her arms around her.
Elisa looked at Peyton. She probably had no one to take care of her now, she looked at the number of her family's social worker Charlotte Fenske that was written on a piece of paper and decided to take matters into her own hands.
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4:30 P.M.
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Charlotte Fenske was typing on her computer when she heard the door open. Her olive green eyes peered over the computer and saw Elisa come over to her desk.
"Mrs. Maza, you wanted see me?" Charlotte asked.
"Yes," Elisa said. "…I want to gain full custody of Peyton Gordon."
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One week later…
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Elisa led Peyton to her apartment.
It had been exactly one week since the death of her parents.
"Elisa?" she asked. "Why are we going to your apartment?"
"Well, there's something you should see.." Elisa told her. She opened the door and let Peyton in.
A cat's meow was the first thing she heard. Peyton looked down and saw a grey cat sniffing her leg.
Elisa giggles and said, "That's just Cagney, she won't bite.."
Peyton knelt down to the cat and reached her hand out to her and said, "Hi Cagney…I'm Peyton.."
Cagney meowed and walked towards Peyton's hand and she pet the cat gently on the head.
She then got up and asked Elisa, "So? What's this surprise you had for me?"
Elisa showed her the white door that was on the left side of her apartment.
"See that white door over there?" she asked placing her hands on Peyton's shoulders.
"Yeah.." she replied. "Why?"
"Why don't you go on ahead and open it.." Elisa said.
With a curious look on her face, Peyton walked over to the medium white door and opened it to reveal a dark room. She turned on the light and she let out a gasp in shock, her cerulean blue eyes widened to the size of saucers.
All the stuff that was in her room from her old apartment…was all right there in this room.
Her bed!
Her tire shaped toy box!
Her shelves that were filled with books!
Her desk with her computer!
All her posters!
Her pet frog's terrarium!
Everything she had from the glow in the dark planet stencils that she hung up to the ceiling to her duffle bags, suitcases, luggage and backpacks.
All of it was here!
"All my stuff!" Peyton said happily. "It's all here!"
She heard a croak and looked inside a shoe box and saw her frog Seymour croaking happily as could be.
"Seymour!" she cried with a smile.
Seymour leaped into Peyton's arms and Peyton gently wrapped her beloved pet into a gentle hug.
She then turned to Elisa and asked, "B-But how did you get-?"
"I spoke with your family's social worker," Elisa explained. "And I got to gain full custody of you so…your living with me from now on.."
Peyton gasped again and leaped into Elisa's arms and hugged her with all the love in her heart.
Elisa was surprised at the hug but then wrapped her arms around her.
"Thank you.." Peyton whispered as she hugged Elisa.
Elisa didn't say anything else but continued to hug.
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Since that grateful day, Peyton's life was changed for the better! She was a lot more happier in school and she and Elisa were starting to get along nicely. Sure, she continued to work at her cousins pet store and did her after school sports, but she was feeling much better now that she had a home to come to. But, something would happen to Peyton that would once again, change her life….
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Saturday October 22nd, 1994
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5:36 P.M.
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It was the final playoff match of the soccer season for Peyton's after school soccer team.
It was the Samurai Soccer Champs vs. The Graceful PeKICKsaus's (A/N: Don't ask, they picked their own names).
The Samurai's needed one more goal to win the championship but the PeKICKsaus's were way ahead of the Samurai's by nine points, curtesy of who you ask? If you guessed the PeKICKsaus's team captain Maddison Collins, you're right!
Thanks to Maddison and her team mates, they're team was going to win the playoff's but the Samurai's didn't wanna call it quits, They trained all throughout the soccer season and used every ounce of strength they had and they had to but their minds together and come up with a strategy so they could win. And they're team captain, Peyton, had a brilliant plan of attack.
She took Seymour out of her Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers duffle bag and placed him in the pocket of her soccer shorts and rushed back to the field.
The coach blew the whistle and it was on like Donkey Kong!
Carol was the first to kick the soccer ball and the others started charging right for it.
Peyton ran across the field and with the other team mates behind her in a rush to catch the ball from Maddison and her team.
The PeKICKsaus's on the other hand were killing it out there…..of course they could use some advice from their team captain, if Maddison wasn't so busy talking on her hot pink Polly Pocket stickered flip phone with the personal chefs about what she was gonna have for dinner.
"No, not the actual animal moose Randell," explained Maddison over the phone with her personal chef. "Chocolate Mousse. And make sure that turkey has EXTRA dark meat in it, you know how mother gets when she eats to much white meat.."
Annabelle and Carol panted as they sluggishly ran towards Maddison.
"N-Now what Maddie?" panted Carol. "T-Those stupid Samurais are gonna beat us at one point.."
"Yeah.." said Annabelle, "What's the….game plan or whatever?"
Maddison looked over at her two friends.
"Hold that thought for one second Randell.." she said quickly as she kept her personal chef on hold, "I don't know, just keep….kicking or p-punching or whatever soccer players do so we can win!"
"Aye Aye Captain!" Carol and Annabelle saluted in unison before they rushed back to the field.
"Now," said Maddison before she put her personal chef back on the line. "You were saying?...Yes, I do want extra sharp cheddar for the mac and cheese….AND NO BLACK OLIVES IN THE SALAD RAINDELL, YOU KNOW DADDY'S ALLERGIC TO THEM!"
Meanwhile, Peyton and the other team mates were reaking it out in the field, sure they were trying their best, but no matter how hard they tried, they kept losing the ball to Carol, Annabelle and the other team mates on Maddison's team.
"Captain!" one girl with red braided pig tails said to Peyton. "Now what?"
"Guys!" called Peyton to the other team mates, "We gotta put my plan into action!"
She looked at Seymour croaking in her pocket.
"It's time we gave Maddison and her little Rag Tag Crew a piece of their own medicine.." she said flashing an evil looking smirk.
The other's smiled and followed along Peyton.
Peyton and her team mates kept their eyes focused on the ball…
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Player 75 (AKA: Peyton) was kicking the ball towards the giant left goal of the giant soccer field near Copacabana Beach in Brazil where Player 34 (AKA: Maddison) was busy talking on her flip phone instead of blocking the goal while the other players on the pink team's army of Democorns (Unicorns and Demo Dragons combined) were aiming to take the ball away from Player 75's team of an army of sea serpents. Peyton saw her frog Seymour and put her plan into action.
She snuck behind the goal and release Seymour from her pocket and he hopped onto Maddison's leg.
"And another thing," said Player 34 through her flip phone. "For the appetizers tonight, fresh dinner rolls, the finest churned butter.."
Two Democorns, one with a short white main and white scales (AKA: Carol) and the other with braided black main and scales (AKA: Annabelle) , rushed to the goal and then, they saw something that maid their eyes go wide.
"Uh.." said the white mained Democorn. "Maddison?"
"Not now, I'm busy ordering dinner.." Player 34 said to her. "Now, as I was saying, freshly churned butter, teriyaki chicken bites.."
"Maddison," said the black braided democorn. "Whatever you do, don' .out!"
Player 34 scoffed and started to ask as she put her personal chef on hold again, "Why wouldn't I wanna-?"
She felt something slimy on her leg and looked down to see Seymour croaking in content.
It was quiet….for about thirty seconds…until..
*croak*
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Player 34 screamed at the top of her lungs and tried to shake the large frog off of her leg, her scream caught the attention of the other Democorns.
"FROOOOOOOOGGGGGGGGGGG!" Player 34 screamed. "FROG! IT'S A GIANT FROG! GIANT FROG! GET IT OFFA ME!SOMEBODY CALL THE POLICE! CALL ANIMAL CONTROL! CALL AN EXTERMINATOR! CALL THE CROCODILE HUNTER! CALL ANYONE! A GIANT FROG IS ON MY FREAKING NEWLY WAXED LEGGGGGGGGG!"
The other Democorns rushed over to Player 34 to aid her….until they saw the giant frog on her leg and they gasped in shock and started to panic and scream at the top of their lungs to.
"IT'S FREAKING HUGE!" screamed Democorn.
"GET IT AWAY FROM ME!" yelled another.
"DON'T LET IT TOUCH!" called the white mained Democorn.
"I'M NOT CATCHING SAMONELLA!" screeched the black braided mained Democorn.
The other Democorns were screaming, hyperventilating and running for their lives.
Player 34 violently kicked Seymour off of her leg, causing to send him flying into the air.
Luckily for the frog, he landed safely in Player 75's hands and with that, Player 75 placed him back in her pocket and her team of sea serpents kicked the ball towards Player 34's goal quickly without the apposing team of Democorns looking.
The sea serpents passed the ball to one another and while Player 75 wasn't looking…
*BONK*
She hit face first near one of the poles of the goal.
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"OOOF!" groaned Peyton as she got back up from the ground.
She checked on Seymour…still breathing and croaking….thank goodness.
Peyton got up and brushed the dirt and grass off of her teal soccer uniform.
She looked at Maddison and her team, she was currently rubbing hand sanitizer all around her right leg and hyperventilating at the 'germs' she had received from the giant frog.
Peyton giggled to herself, trying to stifle in her bursting laughter. But as she was giggling, she noticed the soccer ball in Maddison's goal. The other team mates noticed it to.
She then came to a realization and gasped as she said, "Wait…if the ball went into Maddison's goal without them noticing it…that means…"
The team mates on Peyton's team then saw the number of points for the Samurai Soccer Champs change from ten to eleven.
"THE SAMURAI'S WON!" they cried with pure happiness.
The parents in the audience, even the coach, cheered for Peyton's soccer team.
They won! They actually won! All thanks to not only their teamwork…but to Peyton's pet frog Seymour to!
The team all congratulated their captain and Seymour to.
Peyton thanked them and congratulated them back.
Seymour croaked.
"Seymour says thanks to you guys to!"
The team laughed and cheered in victory and for the first time in a while….Peyton laughed to.
Maddison, on the other hand, growled with furry, her teeth were grinding with anger, her face was turning cherry red.
She turned to Carol and Annabelle and said, "This is so not fair! WE should've won the game, not them!"
They grabbed their water bottles and drank like there was no tommorow.
"Well y'know.." Carol said with her mouth full of water. "It wasn't like they were alone Maddie…"
"Yeah!" replied Annabelle with a ton of water in her mouth. "It was all Gordon and her stupid slimy frog she keeps as a pet! I mean, what the heck are we supposed to do about it?!..."
Annabelle gulped the water and asked, "Kill the stupid frog?'
Maddison paused for a moment before she smiled a wickedly devilish smile. She began to think about how happy she and her friends would be without Seymour hopping around trying to mess up their soccer games and have them become the winning champions of next year's soccer season.
"Maddison?" Carol called out. "Maddison are you OK?"
"Hellooooooo?" Annabelle called out to her friend. "Anybody there?"
Maddison kept her devilish grin as she said in a creepy sing-song tone, "…..Lightbulb…"
Carol and Annabelle looked confused.
"Annabelle….do you still have that meat knife in your backpack?" Maddison asked.
"Yeah," Annabelle replied. "Why?"
"Because," Maddison replied, "We're going on a little killing spree…"
The seven year old blondie picked up her pink flip phone and put Randell on the line.
"Randell, when you and the others have finished cooking, just set the food on the table and tell mother to run a bubble bath for me…" commanded Maddison, "…we're going to be a little…late for dinner tonight.."
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6:41 P.M.
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The kids all said goodbye to the soccer coach after he invited the kids to the ice cream parlor for a treat as a reward (they were going to get ice cream weather they won or lost anyways) for the soccer season being finally over.
Peyton grabbed her orange skateboard that had a picture of David Bowie in a skeleton form with green wheels after placing Seymour in her pocket.
"Hey Gordon.."
Peyton turned around and saw Maddison and her friends standing before her.
"Listen, we wanted to say congratulations for winning the game.." Maddison said in a fake nice tone.
Peyton was surprised, Maddison had never said congratulations to her before in her life.
"Oh…um, thanks….Collins.." Peyton thanked.
"OK here's the deal, we wanted to make a truce with you, y'know, to make up for all that stuff we said about you over the years.." Maddison told her.
"Really?!" Peyton asked excitedly. "OK!"
"Hold up," said Maddison. "We should do this somewhere private. Meet us by the warehouse at the docks at seven thirty. No later than that. And bring your pet frog to, we have a little….gift waiting for him."
"OK, will do!" said Peyton. "Just let me change clothes and I'll be right over."
"No hurry," said Maddison, "Take your time.."
Peyton rushed over to the locker rooms to change clothes while Maddison, Carol and Annabelle giggled evilly as everything was going according to plan.
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7:30 P.M.
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Peyton rode her skateboard down the streets of NYC as she drove over to the docks. She was now wearing a Ninja Turtles shirt with green lining, light blue pants, her usual pair of brown sneakers and she now wore her mom's old locket that Maria had given her after her parents have died. Seymour was croaking peacefully in the pocket of her pants.
When she got to the docks, she was greeted by a note that was tapped to the entrance to one of the warehouses. It was from Maddison (she could tell it was from Maddison because she always writes her notes with a pink glittery gel pen in cursive hand writing).
It said:
Gordon,
Meet us inside this warehouse so we can declare our truce and take your frog out of your pocket and NEVER put him back inside.
Deepest Regards,
Maddison Denise Collins.
Peyton opened the doors to the dark warehouse and started to look around with Seymour in her hands.
"Maddison?" Peyton called out. "You and the others in here? I brought Seymour over like you said!"
She looked all around, no sign of them.
"Not a trace of 'em.." Peyton said to herself. "What about you?"
Not a croak was even heard from her pet frog. She looked at her hands, Seymour wasn't there.
"Seymour?" Peyton called out to her pet frog. "Seymour? Where'd you go buddy?"
She heard footsteps coming towards her.
Peyton rapidly turned around and got into a fighting stance.
Coming out of the darkness were Maddison, Carol and Annabelle.
Peyton saw them and was relieved….at first anyways.
"Oh.." Peyton said getting out of her fighting stance with a giggle. "It's you…I-I thought it was a burglar or something. So….uh…how's about we declare our little feud to come to an end, hu?"
Maddison looked back at her friends with an evil smirk.
"Who said anything about us declaring a truce?" she asked with a devilish grin and an evil look in her sapphire blue eyes.
Peyton's smile turned into a frown and a look of confusion and shock.
"W-What?" she asked confused. "I-I don't-"
Carol and Annabelle leapt on Peyton, pinned her to the wall, grabbing her wrists.
"N-Nonononono what did I do wrong you guys?!" Peyton asked while stammering with a scared look on her face. "WHAT DID I DO?! NO!"
Maddison walked over to the struggling olive skinned seven year old.
Peyton struggled and grunted, trying to get out of Carol's and Annabelle's grasp.
"LET ME GO!" she yelled while struggling.
She looked at Maddison who had an evil smile on her face.
"I-I thought we were gonna be friends.." Peyton said stammering with her lips trembling. "W-Why are you and your friends doing this? I wanted to get your trust.."
"Did you honestly think that super popular rich girls like us would be friends with a ugly and dirty little freak like you?!" Maddison asked in a harsh tone.
Peyton's cerulean blue eyes were glistening and her lips were trembling harshly.
"Pathetic," said Maddison. "You messed up our chances of winning the soccer game and now it's time for you to pay the price.."
Maddison (with a pair of pink rubber gloves on) held up Seymour who was croaking without a care.
Peyton gasped in shock.
"N-No! D-Don't do anything to him! Please, he's my friend!" cried Peyton. "SEYMOUR!"
"Sorry Gordon," said Peyton in a devilish tone. "But that frog of yours has got to go, and I think I have the perfect solution of how to do it so.."
Maddison held up a large meat cutting knife that she got from Annabelle's backpack.
Peyton's eyes went wide.
"What are you doing?!" she asked in shock. "NO! D-Don't kill him! Please! He's the only friend I got!"
Maddison walked outside with Seymour in one hand and the knife in the other.
Peyton got out of Carol and Annabelle's grasp and started to rush over to Maddison.
"Carol! Annabelle!" Maddison called out to her two friends. "Grab Gordon! Don't let her escape!"
Carol and Annabelle rushed over to Peyton and pounced on her before they started to beat her up, giving her bruises on her face and her arms and scratching her right cheek below the freckles and elbows and scraping her legs causing blood to seep through her pants.
Peyton screamed like no tomorrow during the beating.
Maddison violently plopped the frog on the wooden ground of the docks. She held up the knife in her right arm and held Seymour's arm with her left hand.
The night sky was becoming cloudy as if it were about to rain.
"NO! MADDISON! PLEASE! DON'T DO IT!" Peyton cried out loudly to Maddison, but she was too busy to even listen to Peyton.
"And now," Maddison began with the knife held up. "It's time for you…to pay…..the….PRICE!"
Maddison quickly brought the knife down.
Peyton cried out loudly, "SEYMOUR!"
And with that..
*stab*
*BOOM*
Thunder and lightning exploded as the knife was placed in the heart of Seymour. Maddison stabbed the dying frog to no end, blood was spraying across her face and clothes…..but she didn't care…she had finally won the night.
Peyton watched in horror.
Maddison stabbed the bloody meat knife deep into the wooden board of the docks.
Peyton rushed over to her pet frog.
A large puddle of blood was spreading across the wood and blood was covering up Seymour's wounds where Maddison stabbed him.
Peyton looked in complete shock.
"S-Seymour?" Peyton called shakily in hopes that the frog would croak back at her in response.
The frog laid still in his position on the floor as it began to rain.
Peyton tried to find a pulse….but she didn't.
The olive skinned girl's eyes were filling up with tears, a single tear trickled down her face as she looked at her dead pet.
Maddison and her friends stood with pride, all three of them smiling devilishly with their hands on their hips.
"Now you know, not to mess with any of us Gordon.." Maddison said and the three girls rushed inside the warehouse to take shelter from the rain.
More tears fell from Peyton's eyes, but she didn't care if she had her glasses on, she cried hard, her beaten face had tears streaming down as the rain continued to fall.
First her parents were dead and now her beloved pet.
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Sunday, October 23rd 1994
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8:34 A.M.
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"I raised him ever since he was a tadpole…..we did everything together…..we even got our school pictures taken together…..I….I just can't believe he's really gone…"
Peyton and Elisa stood over the makeshift grave that Peyton made for Seymour, they were having a private funeral for the beloved frog. The cardboard tombstone that was written in a dark green Sharpie marker said:
R.I.P
Seymour Jefferson Gordon
Best Frog Friend till the Very End
July 6th 1991-October 22th 1994
"He's not really gone y'know," Elisa said, placing her hand on Peyton's shoulder . "He'll always be in your heart…hopping along in a huge pond in the sky.."
"I know.." Peyton said quietly. She turned to the grave of her beloved pet frog and placed a lily pad on it with a flower that recently bloomed and said, "Keep mom and dad company Seymour…..I hope your much more happier up there…"
They stood at the grave for a long time before calling a taxi to take them back home.
During the car ride, Peyton just stared at the sky for a while.
She wondered after the death of her parents and Seymour the frog and all the bullying she received from Maddison and her friends, that there would be any hope for her left….she didn't think there would be…or would there?
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(& we have come to the conclusion of the prologue of my first Gargoyles fanfiction, now were gonna start getting into the main story where Peyton meets the gargoyles and goes on their missions with them. Thanks to everyone who's been following along to the prologue and now, off we go into the main story! Read, Review and no hateful comments please!)