As promised! Here is chapter four! Enjoy!!

Brooklyn's ears shot up at the blast, "Oh no!"

Quickly, he jumped off the car and continued his sprint through the traffic.

Stella watched the gargoyle bolt off the hood and her mind cried out, "It couldn't be! It just can't be! That was just some messed up-"

*****

"-nightmare."

Brooklyn ran faster then he ever had in his life! He followed the screams and pleas that led him near Central Park.

Everything seemed to slow down and freeze when the gargoyle senses picked up a strong scent of blood, "Shit!"

It wasn't long before he found himself standing at the source, "Damn it all!" he clenched his claws into fists, as he looked around for the armed man. But he was long gone.

"EEKKK!!!!!"

Brooklyn turned his head to a woman screaming at him, "It's the monster!"

A dangerous snarl appeared across his lips as he spread his wings and took off into the air.

"Sometimes I really wonder why we help these humans."

^~*~^

The taxi cab had finally made it to their building, "Never again!" her mother announced after paying the shaken driver, "I'm reading the manual for that damn microwave TONIGHT!"

"I have no problems with that." Stella agreed after they reached their floor on the elevator.

"I'm taking a shower first!" her mother announced after taking off her dripping wet fur jacket, "then I'm going to read the manual."

Stella watched her mother head towards the bathroom, "What a night." she told herself as she walked into her room and turned on her TV.

She began to change into her pajama's when she froze at the familiar voice of Nancy Winter's voice echo in the room.

"And this just in, two men have been found dead near central park 'after what appears to be' from a deadly mugging."

Stella listened as they switched to another reporter who was standing right outside of Central Park.

"This is Reggie Nelson, and as you can see behind me," as he pointed to the Ambulances and Police vehicles, "their is quite a Commotion down here from a recent murder."

The now dressed teen sat on her bed and watched the News report silently.

"Witnesses say they had spotted a man with the gun as he ran out in traffic and had later apparently shot and killed two innocent civilians!"

Stella felt her body go cold, "Was that what he was looking for?" as her blue eyes flickered at the memory of the gargoyles fiery white eyes, "He seemed to be chasing something."

A stir of panic then got caught in the girls throat, "I...I hope he didn't get shot."

"Police have yet to find the culprit but may have found a lead," as he read his recent report, "after his gang members had been arrested some have been cooperating with the authorities and the police feel they will have him soon. Which is good news for the victims families."

"That'll lighten up their sentence." she sighed to herself, reaching for the remote, "Then they'll finish what their 'leader' started."

"But unfortunately this happens a lot in New York," Reggie continued unfazed by the girl holding the remote, "But what really surprised this news caster was the fact that a GARGOYLE was sighted at the scene!"

*Thunk* Came the sound of the remote hitting the ground as it slipped out of the girls hand, "That was him! He was trying to catch the guy!"

An anger started to rise in the girl, as Reggie started listing off all the insane possibilities of the Gargoyle being the cause of the murder.

"I mean think about it folks! Creatures don't belong here-"

Stella hit the 'power' button on the remote and bit her lip, "What a bunch of crap!"

"You alright, honey?" her mother came in wearing nothing but a white robe and a towel in her hair, "I heard yelling."

"I'm fine." she lied, "I found out the man who ran in front of our taxi killed two people JUST NOW!"

Stella's mother sighed, she understood what her daughter was feeling, "Don't get too worked up. I'm sure they'll put that man behind bars."

"That's NOT the point!" she thought to herself, "I just...am annoyed that this city doesn't seem to care about life."

Stella's mother blinked as her daughter continued, "They seem all excited when they announce someone's been killed on the streets."

"This is New York."

"I know."

Her mother stared at her a moment, "Get some sleep, Stella." as she flicked off the lights, "I'm right next door if you need me."

Stella waited till her mother had gone back into her room, "I hope he's okay."

Suddenly, the girl reached down and took out the Phoenix shield and stared at it, "What are you? A fortune cookie?" she asked the golden Phoenix that shimmered at her, "How is it that I meet something out of science fiction when I found you? And that dream! I know that gargoyle was exactly like that baby! Besides being older."

She stared at the shield, "I'm going crazy! There is no way this shield has any power!"

"You shouldn't doubt magic, Stellaluna."

Stella's eyes grew wide as she darted her head back and forth around the room, "Who? Who's there? C'mon whose messing with my sanity NOW?"

A familiar chuckle echoed in her brain, "Grand...GRANDMOTHER?!"

"HUSH! Do you want your mother to hear you?"

Stella blinked then sweat dropped, "Uh, all she'd see is her psycho daughter having a conversation with her dead relative in her mind."

"Exactly! So shush! I have something to tell you."

"What?"

A small pause came to her grandmother before she continued.

"That shield you now have in your possession is called the Phoenix Gate."

"The Phoenix Gate?" she stared at the shield, "Okay, so what's it do?"

"So impaitent! You haven't changed much have you?"

"Well let's see...I was 8 when you died. So yeah not really."

A sigh was her response.

"You're so much like my son. Now listen! The Phoenix Gate is a very powerful talisman! You must NEVER let anyone have it! Especially, the one named Puck and the Children Of Oberlin."

Stella formed a confused look, "Children Of Oberlin?" she blinked, "Puck? Isn't that what they use in Hockey?"

"Focus!"

"Okay!"

"I was only able to show you a smudge of what the Phoenix Gate can do. It was risky...but you performed perfectly."

"Wait! You used the gate? When?"

"The other night when you were sleeping."

This is when the teenagers jaw dropped, "You mean-That dream was from you?!"

"It wasn't a dream, Stellaluna. It was real."

"Ha! Yeah right! Do you expect me to believe that I ACTUALLY waltzed through time and met that baby gargoyle? Next, I suppose you're going to tell me he's my future husband!"

"JUST SHUT UP AND DO WHAT YOU ARE TOLD, YOUNG LADY!!!"

"Yes, grandmother!" Stella coward at her grandmothers bellow, "I will do as you say...." she paused, "What DID you say?"

"Listen carefully...."

As promised! A new Chappy by Monday! ::Gets smacked by Stella::

IT'S MONDAY NIGHT!! Everyone's done reading stories!!

Please forgive me! This Chapter was HARD! And the proof reading and spell check and more proof reading. (Falls over from exhaustion)

I will get more chapters up before-

Stella: AHEM!

Before to long. (-_-;)

Thank you all!!!!

Stella: PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!!! *Whispers* She's desperate.

Eyezra T: .