One thousand years ago superstition and the sword ruled, it was a time of darkness, it was a world of fear, it was the age of gargoyles, stone by day warriors by night. We were betrayed by the humans we had sworn to protect, frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years. Now we are in Manhattan, the spell is broken and we live again. We are defenders of the night we are GARGOYLES.

"Moving Forward"

Previously on Gargoyles, the Manhattan clan are waiting on there new clan members to arrive throw pucks mirror. After seeing there mates the the clan are taking terns watching the mirror for the Avalon clan to make there appears.

While Demona was making calls to have the gold melted down the mirror began to glow again.
"Come on guys the mirror is glowing, you don't want to miss them coming throw." Lex yelled out excitedly.
"Did I miss it?" Elisa asked out of breath as she made her way to Goliath's table with her six year old twins.
"Mama what is happening" little Max and Marry Canmore asked their mom while everyone rushed up to the mirror in their excitement.

"Well sweeties all the gargoyles got a gift for helping Alex with his magic, and one of them is the clan from Avalon is coming to live here" Elisa answered their question patiently.

Before they could ask more like they always do a gargoyle as big as Goliath stepped out of the mirror. "Gabriel!" Angela ran to him. As soon as he heard his name his opened his arms and wings to catch her. Once she was in his arms his wings wrapped around her also.

"I take it that as you missed me" Gabriel laughed with Angela.

"Ha! How about that lad" Hudson said and put his hand on Goliath's shoulder. "It seems as if your daughter and my grandson were always meant to be together. These are happy days Lad."

Goliath laughed with his old friends "Yes that is quite funny just wait till Coldstone and Coldfire get here."

After he came through the portal, Gabriel and Angela stepped off to the side speaking quietly to each other.
"What did I miss?" Demona sat back down next to Goliath and kissed him deeply. Elisa felt a slight twinge at seeing that. She no longer wanted Goliath for herself, but she would always remember how she would have given anything at one time to be the one sitting next to the gargoyle leader and kissing him like that.
"Gabriel came through the portal my beloved. It would seem that Angela has found her true mate." Goliath grinned at her while he took her hand in his.
The rest of the clan came through one after the other. The first was Ophelia who was greeted by Broadway. Then three gargoyle beasts came out helping a small female with her mountain of books. Lex ran up to help with the ones in her arms. "Thanks, Queen Titania said I could take these ones" Star thanked Lex for his help and smiled warmly at him.

Lex was so nervous and Brooklyn could see how tongue tied the young gargoyle was.
"Hey Lex, why don't you go show her where she can put all these books, I don't think Goliath would mind her using the library." Brooklyn winked at him and then turned back to his conversation.

"Right um… follow me it's right this way. We'll be back for a more proper introduction." Lex led Star off to one of the empty private offices.

The rest came through the mirror in pairs the last being Princess Katherine and Tom. With all of the clan in the mirror vanished everyone spread out and Goliath was able to greet the princess and her guardian. He came up to her and greeted her warmly. "Your highness, it is good to see you, we had your old chambers setup for you."

"Thank you that is very kind of you. We do not wish to impose." The Princess said as she shook the large gargoyles hand. "they are here to become a part of your clan after all."

Before he could say anything Hudson noticed young Mary looking at Katherine like she always did before asking a question. "What is it lass?"

That gave her the opening she was seeking. "Are you a princess or a queen?"

The princess got down on her knees to be at eye level with the little girl. "I'm a princess but Demona over there she is a queen" Katherine gestured to Demona standing next to Goliath. Demona looked shocked by that and was about to deny it just as Katherine pointed to Demona's crown "See that? She has a crown, she is the queen of the Wyvern clan and any gargoyles left in Scotland." Mary's mouth ran a mile a minute to her mom but all anyone was able to catch was her saying that she was wanting a different Halloween costume.

Demona blushed a deep crimson as she looked at Katherine "That is a very high compliment for I am no Queen your highness."

Katherine held up her hand "This is how my father told me the story of your kind, Goliath was king and his mate was queen of all the gargoyles. If I was not so disrespectful to your kind when I was young you would have known back then."

"Even Macbeth referred to you as the queen of gargoyles my love." Goliath pointed out while he held her closer to him. She grinned at that but didn't know what to say so she just kissed him again. Katherine could not believe that she once thought they were only beasts.

"When I told the eggs stories about you and Goliath it was always his queen or his angel. That is also how we picked Angela's name; after all she looks so much like you. We never told her that she might be yours and Goliath's, because we didn't want to get her hopes up. When they were growing up I wanted to give her a crown but we didn't have the materials or the talent to make her one".

Goliath looked at his angel of the night then looked at the princess "She really is our little princess." all three looked at Angela who was still in Gabriel's arms.

After an hour of everyone introducing themselves Owen came out and informed everyone that dinner was in the great hall.

After the last ten years the Manhattan mayor added to the police department, which allowed for all of the gargoyles to have a place in the department and the crime rate decreased exponentially because of it.

Just before all forty gargoyles and nine humans sat down to eat Owen showed the police chief in.
"Chief, you're just in time. Would you like to join us?", Goliath offered and he got up and pulled a chair out for him.

"I would love to after all it would save me from having to go home to my wife's cooking." He chuckled and sat next to Goliath. "I'm guessing you guys are having a family reunion".

"No its more like a welcome home party this is the rest of the Wyvern clan. With them coming of age their guardian Tom and Princess Katherine brought them home. After living on Avalon for a thousand years it's time they come back to the mortal world." Goliath told the police chief. Demona squeezed his hand to get his attention then.

"That is amazing so will all of you will be staying here in Manhattan? If so just let me know if or when and I'll have forty gargoyles patrolling every night. We could end crime in just a few nights. We'll tell the rest of the department tomorrow night at the Halloween NYPD ball in the park that you're all involved this should be fun."

"It will be." Goliath agreed and then turned back to his angel. "What's wrong?" he asked her suddenly.

"Nothing at all my love, I was just hoping that we could get some time alone." She winked at him.

"Very soon my angel, let me just say my farewells." Goliath grinned at her while he went to speak to Elisa.

"Don't take too long." She grinned at him while lowering her halter top seductively before she got up and headed back to the tower.

"Elisa, it was very nice of you to make it." Goliath said as he gave her a quick hug.

"Do you ever wonder what it could have been like for us to…" Elisa began.

"Don't start that again. We're friends now and I'm very happy to keep it that way." Goliath said when the hug ended.

"I wouldn't change anything either. I'm very happy with my new life but sometimes I wonder…" Elisa began again.

"…What things could have been like?" Goliath finished for her. I do to sometimes, but then I think about the fact you have the children you always wanted and I am with my angel and I can't think of a better way things could have turned out." As they said their goodbyes Goliath headed off to the tower to join his angel

Editor: rbrooks25