Gordon and the Gargoyles
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Chapter 3: Demona's Temptation
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10:47 P.M.
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Peyton stood next to Brooklyn and Broadway as Lexington finished welding the two pieces of metal together.
Broadway asked, "Isn't it finished yet? You've been here every night for a week."
Brooklyn agreed, "C'mon, you've ridden one of these before."
The little olive gargoyle scowled at his older rookery brothers, "You've rode a horse once, can you build one out of spare parts?"
Brooklyn shrugged.
Peyton looked over at the contraption Lexington made, "Wow Lex! I've seen a lot motorbikes, but this is the best motorbike yet!"
"Well, If it weren't for your engine repairs and tips on fixing cars, this wouldn't be possible." said Lexington.
"Just needs one more finishing touch."
Peyton rushed over to her Ninja Turtles tote bag and grabbed the following items: a stencil of a gargoyle she made herself, a fan, some tape and several cans of her spray paints.
The seven year old taped the stencil to the front of the motorcycle and spray painted the logo in red and cream in order to match Brooklyn colors. Then, she used the fan to dry her masterpiece.
Broadway and Lexington stood by Peyton and admired her work.
She said with a smile, "Now it's perfect."
Brooklyn then walked over and grabbed a helmet from the wooden table and poked two holes in the top.
"Why bother with the helmet, your head's hard enough." Broadway teased.
Brooklyn wrapped his wings around him, partly covering his legs which gave it a leathery look and Broadway helped him put on a black leather jacket. The red gargoyle grinned, "Hey, it's all part of the look."
"You look pretty rad Brook!" said Peyton.
"Thanks kid." replied Brooklyn.
The olive skinned seven year old then ran to the doorknob and put on her teal leather jacket that had a bunch of different patches and pins on it and grabbed her blue Hot Wheels motorcycle helmet and put it on her head. She went over to her cameo colored electric motorcycle that was by the tool bench.
"You know how to ride that thing?" asked Broadway.
"Of course I do." replied Peyton as she wheeled the motorcycle a bit closer to the larger one and turned it on with the keys that came with the electric motorcycle, causing the engine to rumble. "I replaced the fake engines and wiring with a real motorcycle engine so it's almost like a real motorbike."
Broadway opened the front hood of the small motorbike and Brooklyn looked into it. No doubt about it, it was real motorcycle engine.
"Wow.." they both said in surprise and amazement.
"Cool right?" the seven year old smiled.
Lexington stood up the bike and placed down the kickstand and triumphantly grinned, "There, it's ready."
Brooklyn sat down.
"Alright!" Brooklyn grinned as he put on his aviator sunglasses.
Peyton did the same and put her futuristic like sunglasses over her glasses.
"Let's do this." Peyton grinned.
Brooklyn turned on the bike and the engine began to rumble.
"You ready kid?" asked Brooklyn to Peyton.
"Let's roll daddy-o!" Peyton replied as she held onto the hand bars in front of the bike.
Brooklyn then sped out of the garage with Peyton behind him. The two gargoyles ran a bit after him, watching the two speed away through the gate and onto the road.
Broadway and Lexington cheered for a moment at the little gargoyles accomplishment before they quieted down and silently looked at each other.
"Hey, don't we get our turns?" asked Broadway.
Lexington shrugged.
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11:20 P.M.
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"So, this is your first joyride Peyton?" Brooklyn asked.
"Yeah!" she exclaimed. "This is soooo cooool!"
Brooklyn smiled as they sped across the avenues of New York.
"Oh, this is great!" Brooklyn shouts into the air. "I LOVE THIS BIKE!"
"JOYRIDES ARE AWESOMMMEEE!" Peyton added with a large grin.
The two sped down a doughnut shop where two policemen were enjoying their doughnuts with coffee, but when they saw Brooklyn and Peyton speeding down which caused them to spill their coffee, they buckled up and drove behind them.
Peyton then heard the sound of sirens and turned around.
"Brooklyn!" she cried. "It's the cops!"
Brooklyn looked confused, that is, till he looked at the rear mirror and noticed.
"Oooh, not good." the red gargoyle said as he shook his head. "Not good."
He then turned to Peyton and said, "Step on it kid!"
"Coming Brook!" she replied and drove fast enough to catch up to him, they sped into an alley. The cops behind them shined a light on them. Peyton then saw a ramp.
"Now what?" Peyton asks the red gargoyle.
"Kid, you said last week that you hooked on a grappling hook onto the front of your bike right?" asked Brooklyn.
"Yeah." replied the seven year old.
"Hook your motorcycle onto mine." said the red gargoyle. "And whatever you do…..don' .go."
Peyton pulled a small lever on the front of the bike that activated a grappling hook to pop out from the front of the bike and hook onto the left side of Brooklyn's motorcycle (almost like a side car for a motorcycle). The electric motorcycle held onto Brooklyn's bike like super glue.
"Hold on kid." Brooklyn exclaims as he sped up the bike more and rode onto a ramp. Peyton screamed as she held on tight to the bikes handles. Brooklyn then opened up his wings and softened the landing, once they were back on the ground, they skidded to a halt.
Peyton caught her breath as she released her electric motorcycle from Brooklyn's motorcycle.
"Nice save Brooklyn." Peyton said shakily. "That was to close for comfort."
"No kidding." Brooklyn replied as he wrapped his wings around his legs.
He heard his stomach growl.
"I could go for some grub." the red gargoyle said.
"Leave that to me.." replied the olive skinned seven year old.
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1:14 A.M.
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"Thanks Jason! Good luck finishing your crossword puzzle!"
"Anytime Ms. Gordon!"
Peyton walked to the back of the alley way of a Nathan's Hot Dogs restaurant with a large paper bag with her.
"Ok, Brooklyn, I got 'em." said Peyton calling out for Brooklyn. "You can come out now."
The red gargoyle glided down from a fire escape and wrapped his wing around his legs.
Out of the paper bag came four cardboard containers, two with chili dogs and two with medium bacon ranch fries, and two medium plastic cups with lids containing lemonade. Peyton handed two containers and one plastic cup to Brooklyn and kept the other two containers and other cup for herself.
"Your gonna love these Brooklyn." said Peyton taking out her chili dog from its container. "These are called chili dogs. They're hot dogs with chili on top of them."
Brooklyn sniffed a bit before taking a bite.
"Try it with the bacon ranch fries." said Peyton with a mouth covered in chili as she put a few bacon ranch fries on top of her chili dog.
Brooklyn put some fries with his chili dog and took another bite. He licked his lips in satisfaction as he kept eating his chili dog.
After the two finished their chili dogs and fries, Peyton asked him, "Good right?"
"Yeah! Amazing!" exclaimed Brooklyn as he wiped his mouth, so did Peyton.
"And this Brooklyn is what we called lemonade." explained Peyton. "It's a drink made from lemon juice, it's really sour but I still drink it!"
Brooklyn held up his cup and Peyton did the same.
"Cheers!" said Peyton as she declared a toast. They clinked their cups together and drank their lemonade. Peyton let out a belch and so did Brooklyn. They stared at each other before they bursted into laughter.
As Peyton was throwing out their trash in the nearby dumpster, they heard the sound of motorcycles. Peyton and Brooklyn looked and saw a whole gang of bikers riding down the streets.
"Woah…" said Peyton in astonishment. "Bikers…real live bikers!"
"Yes! Kindred spirits!" exclaimed Brooklyn.
Peyton put back on her helmet and hopped back on her electric motorcycle and rode towards them behind Brooklyn.
"Hey, Wait for me!" the girl called out as she ride behind the red gargoyle.
One of the bikers noticed the two and stopped the other bikers in front.
"Hey, righteous hawk man." said one of the bikers. He got off his motorcycle and walked towards them with his buddies following behind. Brooklyn turned off the motor and got off for him to get a better look while Peyton hopped off her own electric motorcycle and took off her helmet, her curly brown hair was a bit messy from the helmet being on her head for a while.
She lowered her sunglasses that were in front of her real glasses and said like a western cowboy, "Evenin' boys."
One of the bikers, who was big and buff (almost like the Hulk, minus the temper and the green skin), walked over to Peyton and snorted with a wicked grin, "I think you're in the wrong group kid. This ain't a place for toys."
"This isn't a-" Peyton started to argue. "Well I mean, it is a toy, but check out the engine."
Peyton opened up the hood and the giant biker walked over and leaned down to get a closer look.
He laughed and said, "Like I'mma believe that this thing has a-"
He looked into the hood of the cycle and just as the olive skinned seven year old had said, there was a real motorcycle cycle, rumbling lowly.
"U-U-Uh….." the large biker stammered. "W-W-What I was gonna say was, uh….nice ride kid."
"Thank you." Peyton replied in a tone of satisfactory.
The leader of the bikers went over to Brooklyn's motorcycle and commented, "That's some cherry rig bro."
"Glad ya like it." replied Brooklyn.
"Where'd ya get it?" asked another biker.
"My friends and I made it." replied Brooklyn.
"Took us a week to do it, and I added the stencil on the front." added Peyton beaming with pride.
"Hey, cool." the leader of the biker gang said.
"Yeah, it is a wicked ride." said Peyton.
The leader laughed a bit and said, "Hey, y'know..you and your pal here are OK kid."
"Really?" asked Peyton astonished. "Sweet! I'm Peyton, and this big guy here is Brooklyn."
"Pleasure." said another biker and he and Peyton spit-shaked (which Peyton didn't mind doing at all, in fact she liked it).
Brooklyn took off his helmet as Peyton as making friends with the other bikers, but that was kind of a bad move…OK, it was a totally bad move.
The other bikers became astonished and shocked of Brooklyn's appearance, not in a good way though.
"What th-?" It's a freaky monster!" said the leader.
"What? No." said Peyton. "He not a monster, he's my friend!"
"You know this guy?" asked one of the bikers.
"Yeah!" Peyton protested with angry eyes.
"Well 'in that case GET 'IM! And get the girl to!" the leader of the bikers ordered.
Peyton's eyes went wide but she held her ground.
"Uh oh.." she said lowly.
Suddenly, all the bikers piled onto Brooklyn while the leader grabbed onto Peyton's wrist.
"Don't worry kid." said the leader with a wicked grin. "This ain't gonna hurt a bit."
Peyton had to act fast, she did a roundhouse kick and a jab-cross combination, knocking the leader of the bikers to the ground, and rushed to Brooklyn's aid.
"Ack!" yelled one of the bikers. "Why you lil-"
"Leave her alone!" yelled Brooklyn as he threw the bikers off of him, his green eyes glowed white. "You wanna fight? You got it!"
Brooklyn spread his wings out as the other bikers got scared, Peyton got in a boxing stance and narrowed her eyes at the bikers.
One of the bikers took out his wrench and charged for Brooklyn and Peyton, the seven year old tripped the biker and punched his stomach as he landed on the bike, causing the other motorcycles to topple over. Brooklyn grabbed the other biker and tossed him aside, landing on the other bikers.
"What's the matter with you guys?!" asked Peyton as she stepped on another bikers foot. "He was just trying to fit in!"
"Get 'em!" the leader ordered again and all the men piled up on Brooklyn and Peyton, but with Brooklyn's strength, he threw the men off of them.
"ENOUGH!" the red gargoyle growled as he stood in front of Peyton.
The leader stood in front of the red gargoyle and Peyton and took out his gun. "Let's see if you're bullet proof, ya freak." The men that were nearby them ran away, the leader was about to shoot until something caught him off aim but he still managed to shoot at Brooklyn though, grabbing Peyton and wrapping her carefully under his wings, he dodged quickly to the side. The bullet flew right by Brooklyn's motorcycle and exploded.
All Peyton could say was, "Woah…"
"My bike!" growled Brooklyn in frustration.
"….Now your gonna get it." said Peyton to the biker leader with a glare and narrowed cerulean eyes.
Brooklyn and Peyton turned only to find the mysterious creature landing with her back turned on them and facing the biker leader.
The one the girl and the gargoyle faced had a chain with him and swung it at Brooklyn, wrapping around his arm and pulling on it and Brooklyn pulled on it causing the biker to fall down. The mysterious creature faced the blonde haired biker, it grabbed the bikers collar and tossed him aside violently, knocking him unconscious.
The leader took another chance and shoots at them. Brooklyn wrapped Peyton in his wing as the bullets fired. The mysterious creature grabbed Brooklyn by the arm and ran into an alley while Peyton quickly hopped on her electric motorcycle without putting on her helmet and drove off behind them, the creature started to climb up the walls with Peyton on Brooklyn's back and the girls electric motorcycle parked in the alleyway, the two gargoyles jumped into the air and glide a good distance away from the scene with Peyton holding onto Brooklyn tight.
The creature flew farther ahead from them and landed on a nearby rooftop. Brooklyn landed with Peyton. Peyton made her way to the creature but it hide itself behind the chimney.
"Hey! Wait! C-Come back….I just wanna say thank you for saving our tails back there!" Peyton tried to talk to the creature but the creature kept backing away from them.
"Broadway? Lexington?" Brooklyn asks as if thinking they were playing a trick on him and Peyton.
"None of the above." It says.
"Wait a minute.." said Peyton, she turned around and from out of the shadows came none other than…..
"Demona?!" asked Brooklyn in disbelief.
"I thought you were dead!" added Peyton.
"Don't be afraid you two.." said Demona. "I just want to talk."
"You'd better get away from Brooklyn and me!" threatened Peyton as she got in a boxing stance, her cerulean blue eyes were narrowed with anger.
"Pey's right, last time we met, you wanted to blow us away with a bazooka." Brooklyn tried to say with strength but it didn't come out as well as he hoped. He neared the railing as he grabbed Peyton by the arm and he's ready to take off.
"That was then," Demona said trying to talk them into staying.
"And this is goodbye!" said Brooklyn, quickly flipping over and jumping onto the railing with Peyton on his back. "C'mon Pey."
"Wait! Please!" said Demona, stopping the red gargoyle and the little olive skinned girl. "I'm sorry Brooklyn and to you as well Peyton. I know I shouldn't have shot at you both. I was crazy with rage and fear. If you two only knew what I've gone through for hundreds of years dealing with the humans," Demona looks at her with 'sadness'.
"Hundreds of years? I thought you were under the sleeping spell like we were," thought Brooklyn.
"He's right Demona, you couldn't have survived for a thousand years." added Peyton. "By now, you should've been old with grey hairs and wrinkles all over your body like my great grandma."
Demona glared at Peyton a bit before turning to Brooklyn.
"It's a long story. Centuries long." Demona said in 'pain'. "I'd like to tell you it, if you two will let me," she looked at Brooklyn and Peyton with kind eyes that could betray them twice.
"I don't trust you Demona," replied Brooklyn, shaking his head.
"Me neither. " added Peyton standing close to the red gargoyle.
"Wasn't this like old times?" asked Demona. "Fighting together, side by side? Comrades in arm?"
"Stay back!" cried Brooklyn as he gently kept his grip on Peyton's wrist.
"I saved both of your lives right now. Doesn't that at least entitle me to a moment of your time?" Demona asked the red gargoyle and the young girl.
Brooklyn lowered his wings and let go of Peyton's wrist but he remained on the railing.
"Alright, I'm listening."
While Demona was telling her story, Peyton decided that it would be a good idea to keep an extra close eye on Demona, in case she would betray them both.
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*In the French Narration Voice* 50 Minutes Later…
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"I want to help you Brooklyn. Help all the gargoyles," Demona stated again. "Those humans that you and the girl met, what did you both do to provoke them?"
"We didn't do anything," Brooklyn growled with his anger rising. "They just attacked us."
Demona laid a claw on Brooklyn's shoulder but he's tense of Demona's touch and replied, "That's what humans are like."
"That's not true!" exclaimed Peyton. "Not all humans are bad! They're also good humans out there like me and Elisa! Goliath said that they'll get used to Brooklyn and the others an-"
Demona cut the seven year old off and said, "They were used to me and Brooklyn a thousand years ago."
She then turned to Brooklyn and asked him, "Did that stop them from betraying and destroying our kind?"
Brooklyn was hesitating on that answer.
"I-I don't know." he replied.
Demona jumped up and stood on the railing next to the red gargoyle and the girl.
"You two don't know the depths to what humanity can sink in, my young friends. But I do. Over the centuries I have seen horrors that would blast your souls." she said.
Peyton hesitated for a moment before she replied, "Fine. But I've got my eye on you Demona."
Demona just rolled her olive colored eyes at the seven year old as Brooklyn let her hop onto his back (not literally though) as they flew off into the city.
They soon land on a rooftop and a scream caught the three's attention, Brooklyn and Peyton looked down to see a mugger running off a women's purse.
"Help!" she cried. "Police! Police!"
Brooklyn was about to fly down and stop the mugger till Demona placed a claw on his shoulder.
"What would you do?" Demona asked. "Capture him for human justice? He'd be out of jail and back on the streets in a day."
Brooklyn and Peyton looked at her with narrowed eyes as they flew off again.
Demona and Brooklyn flew off into the city and then stopped in front of a large window at the side of a house. Inside the house were two parents arguing.
"Look, his grades stink, his friends are hoodlums!" the father argued with the mother.
"What do you care?! You're never at home anyway!" replied the mother as she took a vase and throws it at the father. The father ducks just in time and the vase brakes at the impact at the door.
"In modern times Brooklyn," said Peyton. "We call that a divorce. Its when parents do like each other anymore and start arguing all the time."
Soon, the red gargoyle and little girl hear a door slam shut and saw a teenage boy run away from his home. Brooklyn and Peyton were about to run up to the boy to stop him till Demona stops them.
"Don't," Demona said with glowing eyes. "They can't share their own homes without fighting and do you think that they'll share this world with us?"
Demona, Brooklyn, and Peyton (on Brooklyn's back) climbed up the wall of the house and glided off into another part of the city. They soon land on another rooftop and see a murder scene going on. The police finished taking the evidence from the scene of the crime and the body itself.
Brooklyn asked Peyton, "What's that white stuff on the street?"
"Oh! Elisa told me about that once." said Peyton. "They put tape on the streets or on the floor to mark where the corpse is."
"Exactly," replied Demona as she turned to Brooklyn and said, "They hold each others lives completely without worth. Do you really think they'll accept us with open arms?"
Demona then gestured to the crime scene below them. Police sirens could be heard coming from each direction.
"…Maybe…" Peyton said shyly.
"…What was that child?" Demona asked.
"I-I said maybe they could…" Peyton said. "Once they got to know Brooklyn and the others of course."
Demona just stared at Peyton before turning to Brooklyn and said, "And this is not the worst of it. We must make Goliath see the truth. Humanity will never accept nor trust us,"
"But not all humans are like that!" Peyton protested.
"Yeah." agreed Brooklyn. "Elisa and Peyton here are our friends."
"Perhaps Elisa and the girl are an exception to this world but can they keep you safe from the whole world?" asked Demona.
"If I had to, I would." Peyton said, hugging Brooklyn's arm. "And Elisa would do the same to!"
"That's not true!" Demona protested. "Only we gargoyles can protect each other. We gargoyles must be united and strong. And willing to deal with the humans as they would with us!"
Demona held out her fist and her olive eyes glowed red as she continued, "Goliath thinks we gargoyles can hide in their mists like mice and hope for their understanding. This is not possible! Remember what happened to Goliath and Lexington? They were hunted down like animals because Lexington trusted the Pack!"
"Wait, how did you know about all that?" Peyton asked Demona.
Demona only ignored her and gestures down below.
"If you don't believe me Brooklyn, then show your yourself to them." she said as she pointed down below.
Brooklyn only stayed put with Peyton by her side, but Brooklyn however, was totally convinced of Demona's words.
"Very wise, my young friends." Demona said with a grin. "They would shoot you down like a dog Brooklyn."
Brooklyn winced at the sight at the thought of that happening to any of them, including Peyton and said,
"Lets say your right. What can we gargoyles do? Goliath still believe that humanity will accept us, eventually."
"Goliath must be made to see the truth for the good of us all." replied Demona. "There is a way Brooklyn. The Grimorum Arcanorum."
Peyton was confused at what Demona just said.
"What's a Grimorimum A-Acracnia.." Peyton started to ask.
"The Grimorum Arcanorum." replied Brooklyn. "It's a spell book the Megus used to put us in that stone sleep for a long time."
"What's in that book?" Peyton asked.
"It holds a collection of spells and charms that were written ages ago." Demona asked.
A real spell book?!
"Wow, Cool!" the girl exclaimed. "But, uh..how's a spell book gonna make Goliath see the truth about humans?"
"Simple." Demona replied. "Brooklyn, bring the Grimorum to me. There is a spell of truth in its pages. With it, I can open Goliath eyes. Once he understands, the others would follow."
Brooklyn and Peyton look down at the crime scene below, the police cars and ambulance trucks started to leave.
Demona just smiled evilly and nodded.
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6:17 A.M.
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After dropping off Peyton's electric motorcycle at the side of Elisa's apartment, Brooklyn glided back to the castle. Goliath, Hudson, Bronx, Broadway, and Lexington stood at the top turret as they saw Brooklyn land on a pedestal and Peyton climb off his back.
"Hey guys!" Peyton greeted with a grin.
"How was your joyride?" Goliath asked.
"Um, illuminating." Brooklyn reported dully.
"Goliath!"
The large lavender gargoyle turned to see Elisa coming up the stairs.
"I'm glad I caught you before dawn." she said.
"Hi Elisa!" Peyton greeted while waving.
"Yes, Elisa is something wrong?" Goliath asked.
"There will be," she replied in a worried tone. "Xanatos's sentence is almost up. He'll be out of jail in a month."
"Already?" Broadway asked, quite surprised. "It felt like he was in jail only a week ago."
"Time flies when your having fun Broadway." Peyton replied.
"What's that mean?" the aquamarine gargoyle asked her.
Peyton was just about to answer his question till she heard Elisa say, "…It concerns you. You'll all have to find another place to live. But don't worry, I think I found the perfect place."
"There's no need for that. Xanatos has been beaten. The castle is ours now!" Goliath stated.
"How do we know that?" Brooklyn asked Goliath. "What if he tries to reclaim it?"
"We will deal with it if and when it happens," Goliath said as he walked over to Brooklyn. "But we are not leaving our home!"
"But Goliath-"
Brooklyn was about to make his point till the sun came up, and the gargoyles turned to stone.
Elisa noticed and saw the sun rise from above the clouds.
She then said to herself, "That's one way of avoiding a conversation."
Peyton looked over at a fresh picture she took from her camera.
"I think I'll try to paint this and surprise Hudson with it later tonight." Peyton said happily.
Elisa laughed and said, "C'mon Peyton. You got some homeschooling to do."
"Coming!" Peyton replied and followed Elisa down the castle steps.
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6:59 P.M.
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Peyton rushed up the castle steps and looked out the balcony. She just came from putting up a new painting she did as a gift for Hudson in the TV room where he always sat, and it wasn't a better time that she made it to the top of the castle; the gargoyles were waking up!
Goilath and the others skins began to crack and a series of roars filled the air. Peyton watched with delight.
The seven year old greeted the gargoyles with hugs and laughter as Bronx licked her face before he ran down the castle steps to catch up to Hudson.
Broadway yawned before suggesting, "Let's get some breakfast."
"I made waffles for you guys." Peyton said as she climbed on the aquamarine gargoyles back.
"You coming Brooklyn?" Lexington asked the red gargoyle.
"Maybe later." Brooklyn replied.
Shrugging, Broadway, Lexington, and Peyton head off to the kitchen to get their food.
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8:38 P.M.
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"OK, so the chocolate chip waffles are Broadway's, the banana walnut waffles are for you Lex, the blueberry waffles are for Brooklyn if he wants it later, and the other plate of chocolate waffles are mine."
Peyton took out the plastic covering for her waffles she made earlier in the day before she popped them in the microwave.
"What do you think guys?" Peyton asked. "I didn't know which type of waffles you wanted so I mixed and matched a few of the toppings for you."
Lexington scarfed down a huge piece of his waffles in his mouth and licked his lips with satisfactory, syrup trickled down his chin a bit.
"These are great Peyton!" the little olive gargoyle said with his mouth full of his waffles.
Broadway practically swallowed his waffles whole, chocolate was displayed all over his mouth and claws.
"I agree!" said Broadway with a mouthful of waffles as he licked the chocolate off his claws and mouth.
Peyton swirled some whipped cream on top of her waffles before she took a piece into her mouth.
"Mm..Brooklyn doesn't know what he's missin'!" said Broadway as he was scrapping some of the chocolate off of his plate and onto his fork.
"Yeah," added Lexington as he took another bite of his waffles. "Wonder why he looked upset when we woke up?"
"I bet he's a bit grumpy cause he's hungry or somethin'" suggested Peyton. "I know I do."
Broadway wiped his mouth clean of the chocolate from his waffles, "Me to. I I didn't have food in my stomach, I don't know what I'd do with myself."
Lexington rolled his eyes at Broadway as he ate his waffles.
Peyton only smiled as she licked the whipped cream off her fork.
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11:46 P.M.
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"Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the business."
Goliath was perched on one of the pedestals on the top turret of the castle with his eyes closed, deep in thought, while Peyton was reading aloud to her Shrelock Holmes book she checked out earlier in the day.
The seven year old paused as she saw Goliath deep in though and thought his eyes were closed due to him trying to concentrate.
Peyton shyly asked him, "Um….I-I'm not disturbin' you or anything right?...Goliath?"
"Hm?"
Goliath turned to Peyton and replied, "Oh, no Peyton, you're not disrupting me. I was…only thinking to myself."
"About what?" Peyton asked.
"Random times in the past in Scotland, our new lives here," Goliath replied. "I've also been pondering about the book you were reading aloud."
"I like reading out loud." said Peyton as she sat beside Goliath with her book open. "It helps me make what I'm reading more understandable. Do…do you read aloud sometimes to Goliath?"
"…..Only when I'm in the castle library or when no one is around I read aloud." replied Goliath. "What is it that your reading Peyton?"
Peyton put in a Goosebumps bookmark on the page she was reading before she handed the book over to Goliath and the lavender gargoyle began to skim one of the pages.
"It's called Sherlock Holmes." said Peyton. "It's about a detective and his partner who lived in the Victorian times of London, and they solve mysteries and crimes together. Almost what Elisa does for her job with the police."
Golaith skimmed another page of the book and noticed her bookmark.
"And that piece of paper there is called a bookmark." explained Peyton. "It marks down where a person left off while reading."
The giant gargoyle took out the bookmark and examined it.
"What is this…this, Goosebumps?" he asked.
"Goosebumps is a whole collection of creepy stories," explained Peyton with a grin, "and next to Huckleberry Finn, Goosebumps is one of my favorite book collections! Especially the book about the living dummy."
"Dummy?" asked Goliath.
Peyton giggled and said, "A ventriloquist dummy. I actually have some of the book in my room, if you want I can bring some of the Goosebumps books with me and I can show some of them to you."
"I'd love that." replied Goliath with a smile. "And in return, how about I show you some of the books that I've read next time you come?"
"Yeah!" replied Peyton. "That'd be awesome!"
Peyton was about to continue reading where she left off till she saw Brooklyn gliding towards the castle.
"Goliath," said Brooklyn with a smile. "I've found a fascinating place."
"How so?" Goliath asked.
"It's like the world we came from." Brooklyn explained. "It's called the Cloisters, would you like to see it?"
Goliath smiled and prepared to take off till Peyton asked, "Can I come to Brooklyn?"
"Sure Peyton." said Brooklyn with a smile.
Peyton grinned as she closed her book and put it in her Mighty Morphin Power Rangers backpack before climbing onto Goliath's back and watched the two gargoyles take to the sky.
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12:17 A.M.
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Brooklyn and Goliath soon landed at the Cloisters while Peyton leaped off the giant gargoyle's back and fastened her backpack on to her…well, back obviously.
"Wow.." Peyton said, smiling with amazement.
Goliath examined the Cloisters and smiled.
"It's beautiful," he said as he looked around mesmerized. "I wish we had brought the others."
"Yeah, they don't know what they're missing out on!" said Peyton smiling wide.
"It's good you didn't because we wanted you here alone."
Brooklyn, Goliath, and Peyton turned to see Demona stepping out of the darkness and Brooklyn went to stand next to her.
Peyton was in shock! She completely forgotten that Demona asked Brooklyn to bring the Grimorum to her to make Goliath see the truth in some form! She didn't actually think that Brooklyn would go ahead and do it!
Goliath stared at Demona in disbelief. "Demona. So you did survive."
"I always survive." said Demona as she was flipping through the pages of the book to find the spell she was looking for.
"The Grimorum, Brooklyn what is happening here?" asked Goliath as he analyzed the scene.
"Just listen to her Goliath please." said Brooklyn trying to reassure him. "She has something very important to say to you."
"He's right Goliath. Listen and obey." said Demona as she began to recite the spell. Peyton couldn't understand it though, mainly because it was written in Latin.
"Demona, what are you saying to him?" Peyton asked, hoping nothing bad would happen to Goliath.
But Demona only ignored her and continued reciting the spell. Suddenly, green magic appears in her claw and she shoots it straight at Goliath. The giant lavender gargoyle began to groan till he stood completely still.
"Goliath?" asked Peyton as she slowly came up to the lavender gargoyle. "Goliath are you ok?"
Soon, his eyes open. But, instead of his deep brown eyes, Goliath's eyes opened to reveal that they are green and pupil-less and he was looking very tired and lifeless.
Peyton gasped.
"What did you do to him Demona?!" Peyton asked in a rage.
"I thought the spell was gonna make him see the truth!" Brooklyn said.
Demona closed the Grimorum with a wicked smile.
"It will you two." she said. "Watch."
Demona turned to Goliath and said, "Humans are our enemies."
"Humans are our enemies." repeated Goliath in a dull, lifeless tone.
"What?!" Peyton gasped in shock.
"No. This wasn't the plan! None of this was part of the plan!" exclaimed Brooklyn. "I wanted to free his mind not enslave it!"
"You wanted him to know the truth. Now the truth he'll only know is what we tell him," said Demona, pleased that her plan was a success.
"Your insane!" Brooklyn said enraged.
The red gargoyle lunged onto Demona and Peyton followed behind him, trying to snatch the book from Demona.
"GIVE US BACK THE G-Grimorium, th-th…JUST GIVE ME THE BOOK DEMONA!" yelled Peyton trying to punch her.
"Brooklyn, Peyton, wait!" Demona said in a sweet and calm tone. "You must trust me."
"Peyton was right!" said Brooklyn as he green eyes began to glow white. "I shouldn't have trusted you from the beginning!"
"Goliath! Restrain them!" commanded Demona. "Leave Brooklyn alive but bring the girl to me!"
Soon, the giant gargoyle made his way over to Brooklyn and Peyton.
"I've seen Goliath beat someone else up already!" said Peyton. "How bad can he be?!"
Goliath let out a low growl and Peyton turned to the side and saw Goliath looming over her.
"Uh oh.." Peyton said lowly.
Goliath was about to grab Peyton till Brooklyn grabbed her arm to pull her away to safety.
"Goliath! Stop! It's us! Peyton and Brooklyn!" said Peyton as she tried to get Goliath to snap out of his trance.
The lavender gargoyle soon grabbed Peyton and wrapped her up in a bear hug until Brooklyn kicked his back, making him loose his grip on Peyton and she fell onto her feet, brushing herself off.
Soon, the girl and the red gargoyle run through a pair of doors. Brooklyn knocked them down and the two friends entered into a church like area inside the Cloisters and split and hide behind pillars.
Demona and Goliath come in a few seconds later. "Brooklyn, Peyton, wait, I won't hurt either one of you," Demona said, trying to use her sweet voice. "Don't you see? This is the only way. This is only temporary. He will obey who holds the spell. We can protect him from his lack of experience until we gargoyles have reached our goals." The female gargoyle kept on looking for the two.
An idea was put into Peyton's head at what Demona just said.
Brooklyn makes a move to Goliath and tried to knock him unconscious but the giant lavender gargoyle grabbed the red gargoyle's wrist and gets a strong hold on him. "Goliath, you can't let Demona control you, you got to snap out of it!"
The red gargoyle tried to reach for Goliath but the giant gargoyle was hit with a pillar and Peyton rushed to his aid.
"You OK Brooklyn?" Peyton asked helping him sit up.
"I'm fine, I'm fine." assured Brooklyn as he rubbed his head.
Demona came up to Brooklyn and Peyton with the Grimorum in hand. "I hate to do this but you left me no choice."
Peyton gasped in horror as she saw the Grimorum, she was gonna put the exact same spell she used on Goliath on Brooklyn.
The girl was helping Brooklyn up still she felt something hit her head a bit. She turned behind her to find something green sticking out of her backpack. It looked like…..wait….another idea popped into her head.
As Demona was chanting the spell and pointing towards Brooklyn, Peyton grabbed the green stick from behind her backpack and when she pulled it out, she swung the book out of Demona's claws and onto the floor.
That stick that she used to get the Grimorum from Demona was her special green hockey stick.
"Nice thinking." said Brooklyn as he pulled himself up and ran towards the Grimorum.
Peyton slipped on her teal, black, purple, and pink roller skates and started gliding fast behind Brooklyn.
"Goliath!" called Demona. "Stop them! Bring the girl to me but leave Brooklyn alive!"
Brooklyn picked up the Grimorum and flips to the page with the spell as Peyton glided to his side. He tried to rip apart the pages that contained the spell, but the pages were to hard to excise from the book.
"Wait," Peyton said, taking out a pair of blue and red scissors. "Now, try ripping the pages out again."
Brooklyn tried ripping the pages out again and soon understood where this idea was going…and just in knick of time to because by the time the pages were cut out from the Grimorum, Demona found Brooklyn and Peyton and snatched the book from Brooklyn and used her tail to wrap Peyton's ankle around in a tight grasp while she grabs Brooklyn by the throat with her free claw.
"You fools!" she cried. "Do you think I've come this far just to let you both stop me now?!"
The pale blue gargoyle tossed the red gargoyle and seven year old aside and went back to Goliath.
"Goliath!" she called to the zombified Goliath. "Destroy them! I have the book , you must obey."
"You hold the book Demona…" started Brooklyn.
Peyton held up two pages that came from the Grimorum she cut out.
"…but we have the spell!" Peyton finished for Brooklyn with a smirk.
Demona's eyes widened in shock. She turned to the page where the spell once was and saw that it had been excised from the Grimorum.
"Goliath!" Peyton called out to the lavender gargoyle. "Get her!"
The giant gargoyle followed Peyton's orders much like a dog would obey its master and makes a grab for Demona.
The pale blue gargoyle threw the book at Goliath's face and hits him straight in the back and throws him to the pillar.
But that didn't stop him from capturing Demona, but alas, she grabbed a huge tapestry and threw it on top of Goliath as a cloaking device.
Demona quickly grabbed the book and made a break through the window. But because Goliath was stronger than a dump truck (according to Peyton), he was able to rip the tapestry in half and made his pursuit towards Demona.
Peyton placed her roller skates, hockey stick, and scissors inside her backpack and climbed onto Brooklyn's back and made a hot pursuit for Goliath and Demona.
But for Goliath, having bigger wings, quickly caught up with Demona and almost brought her down to the river.
The pale blue gargoyle used the Grimorum to hit Goliath upside the head, causing the lavender gargoyle to let her go and crash land on the grass.
The two gargoyles then got up and faced each other.
Demona then grabbed a huge rock from the ground and threw it at Goliath, but the dazed gargoyle got out of the way and the giant rock hit a tree.
"Even with no one of your own, your still a force to be reckoned with." said Demona, lashing out her claws.
Suddenly, Demona looked up and heard Brooklyn yelling and gliding towards her with Peyton on his back.
The pale blue gargoyle grabbed the Grimorum and stood over the river.
Brooklyn and Peyton found Demona and saw her with the book by the river.
"You've won..This time." said Demona as she held the book.
"NO!" Brooklyn shouted as the Grimorum was thrown towards the river.
Soon, Peyton had another idea.
She remembered that she built a suction-cup gun out of an old NERF gun one of her cousins had when he was little.
"Brooklyn! I'm going towards the river!" said Peyton, taking out the hand made gun from her backpack pocket. "I have something to get the Grimorum back!"
Brooklyn saw the suction cup gun in her hand and saw where this idea was going. With a nod, Brooklyn quickly set her down and she rushed towards the river. She slide down the ledge and waited till she had a good angle to fire.
"Almost…" she said to herself.
The Grimorum hit a rock and with a flick of the plastic trigger, out came a green sticky hand toy attached to a magenta piece of yarn and that sticky hand toy grabbed onto the Grimorum like super glue, the olive skinned seven year old then reeled in the Grimorum and caught it in her hands.
"I GOT IT!" she yelled.
Soon, she felt the rocks cracking beneath her feet, the seven year old looked down and saw that the ledge she stood on was about the crumble and fall. Peyton held on for dear life and tried to keep her balance, but it was no use, the rock broke off and Peyton began to plummet towards the river. She screamed as she held on to the Grimorum tight but at the last second, Brooklyn swooped down the river towards the girl
"GOTCHA!" said Brooklyn as she caught the girl in his arms.
Peyton caught her breath as Brooklyn held her bridal style in his arms, gliding her back up to safety.
"Nice catch Brooklyn." said Peyton, between breaths. "I guess four hands are better than two huh?"
Brooklyn didn't reply but only smiled at her.
Soon, Brooklyn went back to the zombified Goliath and he let Peyton back down on her own two feet. The two then heard Demona screech into the air as she glided away.
Brooklyn sighed and said to the zombified lavender gargoyle, "C'mon…lets go home."
Goliath obeyed and soon the two gargoyles (with Peyton on Brooklyn's back) glided back to the castle.
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6:20 A.M.
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Lexington, Hudson, Broadway, Hudson, Bronx, Brooklyn, Elisa, and Peyton stood in an arc formation with Goliath staring in a daze in front of them.
"I gone through the Grimorum page by page, but I don't know how to reverse the spell Demona put on Goliath." said Brooklyn.
"You mean he's going to be like this forever?" Broadway asked with his fin-like ears dropped.
Brooklyn turned to Goliath as he stared into his green, pupil-less eyes and said, "I don't know if you can understand me Goliath but….I'm sorry. This is all my fault…If I hadn't let Demona talk me into stealing the Grimorum…"
Hudson placed a talon on Brooklyn's shoulder.
"How are we going to help him?" asked Lexington, worried. "We can't defeat the spell."
Soon, Elisa got an idea.
"Wait a minute." said Elisa. "We don't defeat the spell, we use it."
The gargoyle's and Peyton stared at her confused.
"Here," she held out her hand for Brooklyn to give her the spell. Brooklyn noticed a Goosebumps bookmark in the section where the spell once was and quickly flipped to it and gave Elisa the spell.
"I put a bookmark in the Grimorum just in case we needed it." said Peyton.
"Nice thinkin' kid.." replied Elisa, winking.
She walked towards Goliath and said them, "OK big guy. I'm holding the spell and that means you have to do what I say. Goliath, I order you to act for the rest of your life exactly as if you were not under a spell."
The gargoyles and Peyton stared at Goliath and Elisa, waiting for the police officers plan to take action.
After a few minutes, Goliath shook his head and opened his eyes again.
But this time, instead of those green and zombie looking eyes, his eyes returned back to their regular deep brown color and the lavender gargoyle blinked twice before looking at his whole clan.
"Very clever Elisa." praised Goliath.
"It worked!" Peyton said, she rushed over to Goliath and hugged with every ounce of love she had.
"I knew Demona was wrong about you two at least." Brooklyn said, praising both Elisa and Peyton. "Any species that has you both for members can't be all bad."
Elisa laughed and said, "Thanks..I think."
"It's a compliment." Brooklyn and Peyton said at the same time with a giggle.
Brooklyn's smile then turned to a frown as he stared at Goliath and said, "Goliath. I'm sorry.."
Goliath smiled back at Brooklyn and said, "You've apologized once already Brooklyn. I could hear even though I could not act."
"What Demona said sounded true at the time.." started Brooklyn.
"Of course it did." said Goliath. "It's a half truth that she had thoroughly embraced, but it's not the whole truth. Peyton was very clever into watching her back with Demona, you never know when she could turn on us again."
The giant lavender gargoyle saw that the sun was coming up.
"Come," he said. "The sun is rising, and I for one could use some rest."
Brooklyn handed the Grimorum and the spell to Elisa and the gargoyles began to take their positions on their pedestals.
Lexington then asked Brooklyn, "Hey, what happened to the motorcycle?"
"Um.." Brooklyn said, "It…blew up.."
"Oh.." Lexington said.
Soon, he got the realization.
"WHAT?!"
His ocean blue eyes widened and his jaw dropped as the sun came up and turned the gargoyles to stone.
Peyton giggled and said, "Maybe we'll find some of the parts and fix it sometime Lex."
The girl hugged the shocked statue of Lexington and headed down towards the castle stairs with Elisa.
"We'd better tell Mr. Brunette that we need more security on this." Elisa told Peyton.
"Yeah…" she replied.
The seven year old then asked Elisa, "Um…we're not gonna tell them that you used reverse psychology on Goliath, right?"
Elisa giggled.
"Nope.."
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(Well, that's chapter 3 everybody! Again, sorry it took forever to do! School and testing has been driving me bonkers! Read, Review, and NO hateful comments plz!)