Disclaimer: I do not own Disney's Gargoyles or Inuyasha. They belong to their rightful creators.
AN: Hey everyone. I'm so glad that a handful of readers had reviewed my newest story. I'd like to thank Kira, dragonsavior, Natsumi Tsuchi-Ookami, Fireflymaiden, SilentCritic, Beautiful Phantom, Tandokude, iheartanime43, The Spiked Dragon, BananaFlavoredEskimo, Ajangel0, Reggie, vampirekagomejc, and FireFox ShadowWolf.
For votes on pairings, just tell me whom you want in your review and I'll count your vote.
Now the pairings are:
Kagome/Brooklyn: 2 (people already started voting when this just go posted)
Kagome/Goliath: 1
And for secondary pairings:
Angela/Broadway: Permanent
Elisa/Sesshoumaru:
Elisa/Kouga:
Anyways, please vote and I hope you enjoy this next chapter.
Chapter One
In present day, eight years after his sister never returned home, Souta was spending his free day surfing the net for any leads on how to help Kagome wake from her stone slumber.
Yes, a few months after Kagome went missing, Souta found an old scroll that was written by his sister's monk friend, Miroku, describing what had happened during and after the time of Naraku's demise and soon found out what truly happened to his sisters. After reading the scroll, he went in search of his sister's stone form and had found it set in front of the shrine's main building structure.
About three years after Souta had found out what had happened, Sesshoumaru and Shippó came to visit and tell Kun-loon, Higurashi-jíji (Grandpa Higurashi), and Souta what had happened and why Kagome never returned through the well. Once Souta and his family were told this, as well as still not having found a counter curse for Kagome, Souta offered- no he pleaded for the two demons to let him help in their search for a counter curse that will awaken Kagome from her now five hundred year slumber.
The two demons allowed him to do so, but only as best as he could during his free times.
Now… after four years of research and searching almost the entire Asian region, Souta still couldn't find anything. Not even Kagome's demon friends, who Souta met soon after Sesshoumaru and Shippó, had not found anything.
At one time, Souta did find a lead in Scotland involving a place called "Castle Wyvern". But when Sesshoumaru and Shippó went to Scotland to check the castle out… the two of them came back with nothing and word that the castle wasn't even there anymore. Like someone took a chunk of the cliff it was on and took the castle along with it.
Souta was almost beyond ticked when he heard this.
Who could've taken a HUGE old Scottish castle like that?
Just as Souta was about to look up Scottish legends and magic for anything that was connected to Castle Wyvern and to a counter curse for Kagome, the younger Higurashi sibling got an instant message; a friend of his who lived in Manhattan, New York- their pen name being "GreenGlyder".
Not too recently, Souta had sent an email to all his online friends who came from Scotland, asking about what happened to Castle Wyven. He hadn't received word from any of them until GreenGlyder IM-ed him, asking if he was still wondering what had happened to the castle.
Souta typed him a quick reply, asking, "Do you know what happened to it?"
GreenGlyder replied, "Yeah. A billionaire by the name of David Xanatos bought it about a year or so ago and had it moved to the top of his Skyscraper her in Manhattan."
After a disbelieving pause, Souta turned his webcam on to show his online friend what he's doing, before replying, "WHAT?!"
"Yeah, sorry man. What? Were you going to take a trip to Scotland to see it and write a paper about its history?"
Souta sighed after reading the message and made eye contact with his webcam, knowing that GreenGlyder was watching him. Glancing at his keyboard, Souta typed, "No, I just…" he then paused, seemingly hesitant to tell his online friend about his sister and the "counter curse search".
When GreenGlyder typed "You just, what?", Souta went ahead and answered, "… I'm looking for the Grinorum Arcanorum; an old spell book that used to belong to the last wizard of the castle, Magus."
(I'd like to thank Alex Lyons3 for telling me the correct spellings for the name of the spell book and the name of the wizard. Thank you so much.)
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On the other side of the world, in Manhattan, New York within Castle Wyvern, Lexington was on his laptop completely speechless that his online friend from Tokyo, Japan was looking for the Grimorum.
Everyone who was in the same room with him stopped what they were doing when they notice how quiet he was.
Brooklyn stood from his seat where he was reading a book Fox had recommended for him to read and made his way to where his rookery brother sat with his laptop, asking, "Lex… hey, you okay?"
Lexington didn't seem to hear him as he replied to his online Tokyo friend, SunsetMonk, a.k.a. Souta as to why he was looking for the spell book.
"Lexington, what's wrong?" Angela then asked as Lexington waited for SunsetMonk to reply.
The smaller gargoyle of the clan waved his claw in a 'wait' gesture as he received a reply that said, "You probably won't believe me but… what happened to the gargoyles in the castle's legend… is the same thing that happened to my sister."
Brooklyn read this while looking over Lexington's shoulder and couldn't help but ask, "Is this some type of a bad joke, Lex?" This made Lexington jump a little from surprise.
As soon as Lexington caught his breath, he took a glance at what the webcam was picking up from Souta's end and saw that his Japanese human friend had a straight face. A sure sign that he was serious. He then answered to Brooklyn, "No, he's not joking… but wait…"
He then started typing to Souta, "But wait, Sunset, I thought you said that your sister went missing about eight years ago… unless you finally found her…"
By this time, Angela and Broadway joined Brooklyn to stand behind Lexington. Broadway then read what was written so far on the IM and asked after he saw the picture of the webcam, "You have a human friend on the internet?"
"Yeah. He said he's from Tokyo, Japan…" Lexington answered, keeping an eye on the webcam and watching Souta scratch his head, as if trying to think of an excuse but saw him just sigh before he typed, "Her being missing is just something for the police, her friends, and her old admirer from her school days. My family and I have known where she was since a few months after she never physically returned home."
Lexington gave a pause which Souta answered, "You know the Legend of the Shikon no Tama I told you about that was tied to my Family's Shine's history?"
"Yeah?"
"Believe it or not… that entire legend is my sister's life story from after her fifteenth birthday."
The small green gargoyle's eyes widened a bit before he quickly typed, "Do you mean that…?"
"Yeah. The priestess of the legend IS my sister. She was transformed into a gargoyle and was force into an eternal stone sleep… much like the gargoyles of Castle Wyvern's legend. I have this strong gut feeling that tells me that there may be a connection between my sister and the gargoyles of Castle Wyvern."
Lexington scratched the back of his head nervously as Fox came up next to him and read the most recent messages and said, "David is in Japan on business right now. I could give him a call about this…"
"Thanks Fox." Lex said in gratitude as the red-haired woman told him what to ask his friend for information, such as the location of his sister and such.
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From Souta's end, the young teenager received the reply, "Hey Sunset, don't worry I believe. I really do. I happen to have a friend who knows David Xanatos and said that he's in Osaka on business. She offered to give him a call to ask him to stop by your place to talk to you about your sister. But she needs to know where you live in Tokyo and such."
Without hesitation, Souta gave him the information that was needed and was told from GreenGlyder that he would contact him again in a few moments.
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Back with Lexington, Fox gave her husband a call asking him if he could stop by the Higurashi Shinto Shrine in the Ginza district of Tokyo for a stone gargoyle that may have a connection to the Meigus's spell on Goliath's clan a thousand years ago.
After awhile, Fox hung up with a satisfied smile and said to Lexington, "He said that he'd stop by as soon as he was done with his business partner in Osaka."
Lexington grinned before typing the good news to Souta. He couldn't help but laugh at how excited Souta looked and the way he was dancing. He heard Angela and his brothers laugh too as Lexington received a reply from Souta saying, "Thank you so much, Glyder. You don't know how much this means to me and my family." There was a small pause before he added, "Damn, man… I love you so much right now I could kiss you! XD"
Lexington, and his brothers, just laughed more as Angela just shook her head before she went back to her seat.
Once Lexington was done laughing, he decided to log off so that his friend could tell his family the good news.
After Souta gave his okay, he asked, wanting to make sure of something, "Do you really believe me? About my sister and everything?"
Lexington reassured him that he did before saying his goodbyes and logged off.
When he had finished closing his laptop, he heard Brooklyn asked, "You really believe him, Lex? I mean… what if it's another trap to get the spell book?" The crimson gargoyle wanted to be cautious, not because he was second in command of the clan but because he wanted to look out for his rookery brother.
"Yeah, I do believe him. I've known him online for a little more than a year or two and he's done nothing but tell me the truth. And besides… I've read about the legend that's connected to his family's shrine and history. And a lot of things that were written do seem to have some sort of connection with us, despite the five-hundred year difference in timelines and locations." Lexington answered, looking at Brooklyn in the eye.
"Either way, Lexington, Xanatos will talk to your friend and we'll see if what's been said is true." Goliath spoke, looking up from the book he was reading.
Meanwhile, back in Japan…
Another chapter done, and I hope you guys enjoyed it.
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