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AN: First off, I'd like to point something out about the pairings. If the votes turn up that Goliath wins for both Kagome and Elisa, I'll pick which pairing to use on my own… no matter the amount both pairings have.
Now that I'm watching some of the episodes to the Gargoyles series, I realize how much Brooklyn is always turned down when he just wanted to help. Not to mention I see him as one of my favorite characters next to Bronx and Goliath among the gargoyles.
I'd like to thank Taeniaea, vampirekagomejc, MIMI, Gothic Miko Princess, AnimeMoonlightGoddess, Reggie, KagHieiLuver, Nobodies Perfect-Not Even You, BananaFlavoredEskimo, Menchi-kun, lildevil0644, Rebel Reader Bitch, KannaKyomu, Tandokude, Itoma the god of water, XxHisLilLoverGirlxX, SilentCritic, vampirekagomejc, Shinsei Tondo, MIMI (reviewed twice), Beautiful Phantom, Wings of Tears, Sweeteen19, Demonic kunoichiKagi, hermonine, WhitDemoness11, zoe tamagachi, IchikoKitsuneKoumori, Silver, barra Darthirii, Fan, Anon, Ana, lyn, iheartanime43, Shadowfox, Kagome Yuki Niwa, squeefan, and Natsumi Tsuchi-Ookami.
For Kagome pairing
Kagome/Brooklyn: 16
Kagome/Goliath: 22
For secondary pairings
Angela/Broadway: Permanent
Elisa/Kouga: 11
Elisa/Sesshoumaru: 4
Elisa/Goliath: 4
I tried to do a recount of the votes because I wasn't quite sure. Anyways, Goliath is in the lead with Brooklyn down by 6 votes. And Kouga looks like he winning for Elisa. Keep the votes coming in, and please enjoy the next chapter of "Awakening with Sorrow"
Chapter Three
"Wait. What do you mean by shrine gargoyle?" Elisa asked. She didn't know what was going on. It was probably on something that they were talking about while she was on duty.
"A friend of Lex's from the internet said that he has a gargoyle statue at his shrine in Tokyo that he believes is his sister." Broadway answered, not really believing any of it even though Angela seemed to think otherwise.
"So there's a chance that another gargoyle will be coming here?"
"That's right. I'm thinking that David and our guests will explain when they come. I also think it would be best for you guys all to be present but not in plain sight." Fox suggested before adding, "I have a feeling something may go wrong… and it's not with Lexington's friend or his family."
"Alright. We'll stay close of something goes wrong." Goliath agreed.
"So we may have another lass in the clan…" Hudson spoke.
"That's if the shrine gargoyle is the real thing." Fox pointed out while handing Alex to Lexington. Her son always had a liking for the smaller gargoyle.
"I'm sure that she's the real thing." Lex said, letting Alex wrap his arms around the green gargoyle's neck before adding, "Not to mention that every legend has some truth to them."
"Lex's got a point." Brooklyn said. "There is a chance of another gargoyle who went through the same thing we did."
"But remember Brooklyn, the gargoyle SunsetMonk told me about used to be human before she was turned to stone." Lexington reminded his crimson brother before adding, "and not to mention she was born in this era until she was dragged five hundred years back."
"Time travel… the Phoenix Gate?" Goliath asked, now curious about this new gargoyle.
"No, I don't think so. I'm sure my friend, SunsetMonk and his family will explain what had happened." Lex assured.
And with that, everyone became anxious to see this friend of Lexington's and his family, as well as the gargoyle who may be a new member of their clan.
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"I assure you, Mrs. Higurashi. Your daughter will be just fine in this crate. It was specifically designed with contours to cushion her form and prevent any damage during the flight." Xanatos reassured Kun-loon for the fifth time since he had pick up Souta and his mother and grandfather.
The woman was obviously very worried and anxious about her daughter finally awakening from her stone sleep. She didn't want anything to go wrong and wanted her baby girl back, even if she wasn't human anymore.
'A mother's true love for her child…' Xanatos thought absently as Souta gave him an apologetic smirk.
The Higurashis and Xanatos were waiting at the private airstrip waiting for Sesshoumaru to arrive with Kagome. Kun-loon and Jí-chan were so relieved yet excited to hear that Xanatos was willing to help and soon started packing light for their trip to New York.
And soon, early morning the next day, Sesshoumaru came in with his chopper to pick up Kagome's stone form. Souta had told him that they'd meet him at the airstrip before leaving the shrine.
Now they were currently waiting for the demon lord to arrive. During their wait, Xanatos allowed Jí-chan to wait inside the aircraft to rest. Old age was catching up to him, especially when he waited eight years to seen his granddaughter again and was almost in his nineties in age.
Souta knew that he was determined to see his granddaughter again even if he had to outlive most of his family.
The sound of a chopper could be heard as they all looked up to see Sesshoumaru coming him with Kagome hanging below the chopper, wrapped securely around her. The pilot must've saw the crate as he started to lower Souta's gargoyle sister into it as carefully as he could. Once Kagome was securely inside the crate, Souta helped Xanatos unhook the cable that was connected to the harness that was wrapped around Kagome's body.
Sesshoumaru soon landed after they unhooked the cable and started to seal the crate. After he was far enough from the chopper, he signaled his pilot that he was okay to go. Once the chopper did leave, Sesshoumaru walked up to Souta asking, "Any word from Shippó?"
"I called him last night and he said that he'd meet us in New York since he has to view another Fashion show there. He also said that he'd probably be there before us and will wait at Xanatos' place." Souta had answered before watching some crewmen take the crate Kagome was now sealed in onto the cargo of the jet.
Once they said that she was secured inside the jet's cargo bay, they made their way inside the jet. After they were buckled into their seats, Xanatos gave the pilot word that they were ready to take off.
Xanatos overheard Souta about Shippó meeting them at his home so gave Fox a call to give her a heads up on their early guest.
After that, the flight was long and somewhat silent with Sesshoumaru and Xanatos talking about some potential business matters. Jí-chan was asleep most of the time, along with Souta. Kun-loon was sewing something by hand, a habit of hers to keep her mind off the fact she was flying in a jet.
After they arrived in New Mexico to refuel, they took off to New York. It was about in the early evening when they landed at Xanatos' private airstrip and then moved to Xanatos' chopper to head for his home, again with Kagome in the crate connect to the chopper by a strong cable.
Meanwhile, at Castle Wyvern…
Owen came out to the courtyard of the castle to meet Fox and the gargoyles. Once he was standing next to Fox who held Alex in her arms, the blond secretary spoke, "Excuse me, ma'am but we seem to have a guest. He says that he's one of the guests who was supposed to arrive with the shrine gargoyle."
As Fox was about to ask who the guest was, she heard a young man speak, "Pardon my rudeness but I got so curious about the castle that I couldn't stop myself from taking a look around." The voice caught not only Fox's attention but Goliath and his clan as well.
From the shadows, where Owen just came from, came a young man who looked to be in his late teens or early twenties with long auburn red hair that reached his knees while held back in a low ponytail and had smiling almond-shaped emerald eyes.
The structure of his facial features, they could easily tell that he was Asian. The man was also dressed in a black trench, a dark green dress shirt, and a pair of black slacks. To Fox, he looked someone who came from Avalon but something told her that wasn't true. Something about him didn't feel like any of her mother's people.
The gargoyles froze from being seen by a stranger from outside the castle. They were on edge about him getting scared out of his wits or telling the entire city that they were there, leading the Quarrymen straight to them.
Most of them were sweating bullets by now when the man's sight landed on them, but instead of screaming his head off or going into hysterics, the man just smiled kindly before saying mostly to himself, "So the gargoyles of Castle Wyvern from a thousand years ago are real… heh, looks like I owe Souta-ojiue that horror movie he'd been dying to get."
Fox stood from her seat with baby Alex in her arms and spoke, "Who are you?"
"Sorry, I'm being rude again. My name's Shippó Higurashi, I'm a model and fashion designer from Japan. And I'm here to meet with my family who are coming with what… no, WHO you call the 'shrine gargoyle'." Shippó had answered. He was ultimately ecstatic at hearing that his mother was finally going to be awakened after five hundred years. The kitsune couldn't wait to hold his mother in his arms, telling her how much he had missed her.
"I see. It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Higurashi. My husband, David called me earlier saying that you'd be coming before the rest of your party." Fox greeted, shaking Shippó's hand after he came closer.
"Wait, you're not afraid of us?" Brooklyn asked, being the first to unfreeze. To him, this was one of his rare moments where a human wasn't afraid of him or any of his clan.
He saw the red-haired man turn to him and smile asking, "Why should I be afraid? Just because you don't look human, doesn't make you a monster. Therefore… there's no reason for me to be afraid." His eyes then closed while chuckling before adding, "That's a little something my mother always take to heart, what with her always meeting and befriending demons and such."
"Your mother?" Goliath asked as Bronx made his way to the young man who called himself, Shippó Higurashi. He saw gargoyle dog sniff the new comer before giving a woof and started wagging his short tail, obviously wanting to be petted.
Shippó just looked at the large canine like creature before chuckling and kneeling to scratch Bronx behind the ears. He then turned his attention to Goliath before answering, "Yes. My mother was human when she adopted me. And despite that I wasn't normal, she took me in anyway."
"What do mean by 'despite that you weren't normal'?" Angela asked curiously. For some strange reason, she felt drawn to his almost masculine inhuman beauty. To the female gargoyle, his hair resembled fire and his were like emeralds. She couldn't understand this, especially when Broadway was her beloved.
(NO, I'm not thinking of making Angela cheat on Broadway with Shippó. Shippó is a fox demon- you do the math. And also, think about it. What do Kitsune thrive on?)
She then saw Shippó smile almost as if… he knew what she was feeling and spoke, "Well…"
Before Shippó could finish his answer, the sound of a chopper could be heard. They all turned to the sound to see Xanatos' chopper coming in to land with a crate hanging below it.
They all made their way to where it was to land.
(Damn it, I can't describe how a chopper lands especially with cargo like Kagome. I'm sorry guys, but I'm gonna skip this part to after Xanatos landed with Sesshoumaru and the Higurashis. And Kagome is already set on the ground, still inside the crate.)
Once Xanatos gave his okay for his pilot to leave, Shippó stepped forward to greet his family as Xanatos spoke, "I see everyone had already met the nephew of the family, Shippó Higurashi."
"And who are the rest?" Goliath asked.
"I'll be able to answer that." A dark haired lad, Souta stepped forward before bowing slightly, speaking, "I'm Souta Higurashi, the who asked for the Grinorum to free my sister from her stone sleep." He then turned slightly and introduced his family, "The older woman is my mother, Kun-loon Higurashi. This is my grandfather- Améryuu Higurashi, my older brother- Sesshoumaru Taisho. And you've already met my nephew, Shippó."
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Souta. I am Goliath. This is my daughter, Angela… my second-in-command- Brooklyn… my mentor and our elder- Hudson. Standing next to Brooklyn are Lexington and Broadway. And last our watchdog- Bronx." Goliath had introduced himself and his clan.
There was a silence where Souta and his mother were quietly taking in the appearances of the gargoyles and the gargoyles doing the same for the Higurashis and Sesshoumaru. When Souta's sights landed on Lexington, he smiled ruefully with a chuckle before saying, "Let me guess… GreenGlyder? That's your pen name?"
Lexington just smirked, asking, "How did you guess?"
"A shade of Green for your skin and web-like wings that I'm sure allow you to glide… it wasn't that hard to guess." As Souta answered his online friend, Jí-chan took out a talisman.
Shippó saw this and burned the talisman with his Fox Fire without anyone's notice. Jí-chan yelped in surprise before dropping the burning piece of paper and stomping on it to put out the fire. Souta tried his best to keep from laughing as he asked his grandfather in Japanese, "Jí-chan, were trying to purify them?"
Jí-chan tried to look innocent while lying through his teeth, saying that he didn't.
Souta just shook his head, saying in English that he was sorry about his grandfather and that he was old fashioned about his superstitions about anything and any who wasn't human looking.
"But don't worry, I'm sure he'll get used to you guys after a while." Souta added with a smile.
After he had said this, Goliath accepted his apology in a gruff but good-natured way. How Souta saw him, the large grey gargoyle was like another version of Sesshoumaru but wasn't as cold as his demonic older brother.
"Well, with that out of the way. How about we open the crate to see Miss Kagome?" Xanatos asked with a grin and an arm around his wife.
Owen had handed Souta a crowbar, expecting him to be the first to force open the crate. For a while the teenaged boy looked at the crowbar in his hands and then at the crate before looking to Shippó saying, "Hey, Shippó… how 'bout you do the honors?"
"Me? Why me? She's YOUR sister."
"Hey! She's YOUR mother, now get your skinny ass, Bishonen self over here." After Souta said that, the trio of the gargoyles tried to hold back their snickers. The exchange of words between Goth-looking teen and the model was just too funny, especially when the model was taking "orders" from someone who was younger than him.
Although, Shippó looked really excited to do the honors in opening the crate.
Once the crate was opened, the others sides of the crate fell to reveal Kagome still in her stone form.
Most of the gargoyles gasped at the sight of the new stone gargoyle. They all had to admit that, even though her claws covered her face, she was very beautiful. But she was very small too, maybe a bit shorter than Angela or Demona. Her position just made her look more picturesque in a sorrowful way.
'She looks like she's crying…' Brooklyn thought, almost breathless. Same with Goliath… he had never seen a female gargoyle look so beautiful. Not even since he was still with Demona a millennium ago.
At first, Kun-loon, Souta, and Shippó were almost about to flip, asking, "what happened?" "Why is she still stone?" and "wasn't the curse suppose to be lifted when they brought her to the castle?"
Sesshoumaru stopped them by calmly saying, "There was a delay when Naraku cast the curse. So it's not that surprising for the breaking of the curse to take a while." He then added as a suggestion, "Let's just wait for a while. If she isn't awake by the end of the evening… we'll just have to find another way to wake her."
Souta and Shippó, as well as Kun-loon seemed downhearted that they didn't get the results they wanted right away. Jí-chan went to his daughter's side, trying to give her some reassurance.
After Xanatos had offered everyone some drinks inside, they heard something that sounded like growl. A sound Fox and Xanatos were used to hearing when they went to see the gargoyles wake up.
They all then heard what sounded like stone breaking and turned their attention to the stone gargoyle to see stone pieces crumble bit-by-bit revealing flesh and raven-colored hair. The wings flinched a bit, shedding the rest of the stone skin off- same with the rest of her body. After all the shells of stone had fully shed off, the now awakened female gargoyle lowered her claws from her face revealing a young but mature face. Her eyes then opened, glowing a unique color of bluish lavender before fading to reveal a pair of deep aware yet sad sapphire eyes.
There you go, guys. Another chapter posted. Kagome's finally awake! I hope you guys like it. Now, for Kagome Yuki Niwa, it's time to choose which challenge of mine you'd like to do.
Please review and vote for pairings. Ideas and suggestions are welcome. Flamers with their flames are not.