Hello again readers! And welcome to chapter 2! I should have mentioned this in the last chapter, This story will go through the hole Gargoyles series with added original ones from WITCH. There will also be old characters from WITCH and some new ones that are my OCs.
I should also mention that I've never been to New York, so I'm listing off places that I really want to visit. I'm also adding a new ultimate power to each of the guardians, don't worry everything will still be the same, I just want to add something in for fun :)
Replying back to fmwave comment: It has been a long time since I watched the hole series of Gargoyles, but thanks to Disney+ I can rewatch it. I do remember Puck and his role with Xanatos, but to keep things brief, Xanatos and Elisa will be in the dark for the longest time, not knowing their daughters are guardians, until close to the end. Also Rae will meet the gargoyles, but that will also be a secret from Elisa.
Hope that answers anyone's questions. Sorry for any grammar errors, I am dyslexic, so I try my best.
Anyway, hope you enjoy!
Outside of her apartment building Rae was checking her phone waiting for Amalthea to reply back. It was the first weekend of the month, and usually their group of five would be watching cheesing teen-romance movies and criticizes on how bad they are. Plus Rae figured that Amalthea needed a chance to chill from moving. Plus there was also the topic on the castle's mystery and whether she found anything. But not soon after the night started, there was a accident at the Eyrie Building; stone rubble falling from the top of the building and smashing down on the streets. It was a miracle no one was hurt. Rae's mom told her that was called to the seen and would be home late, also adding a "I better see you home before I get back!" warning.
Rae frowned as she looked at her text screen, "Hey what's happening?" no reply. Twenty minutes later, "Thea you there?" ten minutes, "U dead?" still nothing. "GRRR! WHY WON'T YOU PICK UP?!"
"Whoa, someone's heated up," came a voice. Rae looked up to see her friends; Vidia, Emily and Naomi, "And I thought fire was my thing?" Vidia smirked.
"Not funny Vi," Rae frowned.
"Something wrong Rae?" Naomi asked kindly.
Rae sighed, "I haven't heard anything from Thea. We're suppose to hang tonight, but now there's something going on at Eyrie."
"What kind of stuff?" Emily asked, tilting her head.
"Apparently stone ruble had fallen from the top of the building, landing on the streets. But since Eyrie is so tall, no one knows what really happened."
Naomi started to worry, "Oh no! Do you think Thea was attacked? What if she needs us!"
Vidia tried to calm her friend, "Don't worry, Thea has the heart and she's totally capable to taking care of herself."
Rae narrowed her eyes at her friend, "I know that! But if she was ok, way hasn't see replied yet?!" she pushed her phone in Vidia's face, showing the text message.
The group was in silence, not sure what to do. Do they rush over at and help? They had their guardian powers, but without Amalthea and the heart, they can't transform. But just before Rae was about to call a taxi, her phone buzzed. Lifting it up so everyone could see, Amalthea replied, "Sorry! Some drama went down at the new building... But I'm ok! Everything is fine! :) "
the group sighed out in relief, Rae texted back, "What happened?"
"Some mercenaries attacked us, but then they left... I think they stole something. But my dad isn't saying anything."
"Are we still meeting tonight for our movie marathon?"
"I can't sorry."
Rae raised her brow, "What why? What are you doing?"
"...Babysitting."
Amalthea sighed, ending her text. She didn't like leaving her friends high and dry, but with the sudden new guests living at the castle, she had to make sure they weren't gonna been seen or cause trouble. She lead the three younger gargoyles to one of the elevators. As the doors opened and she walked inside, she noticed they were hesitant to enter, "It's ok, this is called an elevator. This will take us to the kitchen." she smiled, reassuring them. The gargoyles looked at each other, before the red one went in first, then the others followed.
Once everyone was inside Amalthea pressed the button, "These numbers show what floor we're on, and we can either go up or down. However this elevator only lets us go down a few floors, not to the bottom of the building," the doors closed and down they went.
Before they had entered the elevator, the small green gargoyle had watched Amalthea use her phone, wondering what it was and what she was doing, "What is that?"
Amalthea glanced at him, noticing he was looking at her phone. She lifted it up, "This is called a cellphone, it's...used for talking to people from far away, and sending messages." she tried her best to explain to them. Since they were a millennium behind technology. "Watch, you use your fingers on the screen, and type what you want to say," she typed "Hi" to Rae.
The three gargoyles crowded her, mesmerized by the tiny device in her hands, "Wow," the red one said.
"And so, another human got your message?" the green one asked again, Amalthea nodded.
"Yep." and to her amusement, Rae texted back with a "Hu?", "See, my friend just replied back."
"Fascinating..."
Amalthea giggled, "You can just say 'cool'."
"Cool?" the blue one asked.
"It's a short way to say something or someone is fascinating."
"Cool," the red one tried it, making Amalthea smile.
"That's not all it can do," Amalthea turned on the camera and set it to selfie. Holding it up so all of them were in the shot, she smiled making a peace sign with her hand, and clicked. The gargoyles blinked after the flash went off, "See, it can take pictures," she showed them one she just took, she was the only one smiling while they were looking at the screen in confusion, "It's like, freezing a moment in time." Amalthea could see their minds being blown.
The doors opened, as the gargoyles stepped out they were amazed by the giant kitchen. Everything was brand new, and the equipment were newest models. "Wow, look at all this stuff! it's fantastic! No - wait, cool!" The green one said, glancing at Amalthea nodded her head smiling, making him grin.
Amalthea was too focus on the green and blue gargoyle that she didn't notice the red one touching the stove, "What do does this do?" he asked, placing his hand on the stove top, while fiddling with the gas handle.
Amalthea turned her head, her eyes widen, "No no no - wait!" she ran over to him, and lifting his hand, just before the flame could burn him. But the poor gargoyle was so shocked, he scurried backwards, knocking into the green gargoyle, who was pushed back, hitting the kitchen shelves. Big pots and pans fell on top of him, making a loud crashing sound. Amalthea winced, "Oh, I hope dad didn't hear that..." she pleaded, before looking at the two gargoyles, "Okay, lesson one in the kitchen: do NOT, put your hand over the stove."
They nodded, understanding, but they still wanted to look around some more. That's when Amalthea noticed one gargoyle was missing. The blue one had found the freezer room, and was grabbing as much food as he could carry which was a lot. But the green gargoyle didn't notice, and closed the door on him. "Hey! Let me out! It's cold in here!" the gargoyle cried for help.
The three rushed over to the door, "We'll save you!"
"You push and we'll pull." The two gargoyles struggled as they tried to pull the door open. Amalthea wondered how she could help, glancing down at the heart of kandrakar, should she use her magic again? The blue gargoyle didn't have much time; the teen went behind the two gargoyles away from their sight, she pointed her finger at the door, "Quintessence." she quietly said, and a small static-bolt shot from her finger into the door handle.
At the same time, the blue gargoyle pushed his hole body against the door. The door flew open, and the all three gargoyles tumbled into each other, Amalthea jumped to the side as they tumbled back, crashing into the shelves. Glass plates, cups, blows and silverware crashed on the floor, shattering. Amalthea had to cover her ears, and look away. Once the sounds had stop, she opened her eyes, the kitchen looked like a hurricane came through, She sighed out adding, "Lesson two: don't get locked in the freezer."
"Got it..." the gargoyles groaned out.
The four group of friends all sat around in Rae's apartment bored out of their minds, "Sooooo, what should we do now?" Emily asked. Since Amalthea wasn't gonna be joining them, the group didn't feel like watching movies without her.
"There's a rave going on down town," Vidia shrugged, leaning her back on the couch.
"That not something everyone likes Vi," Rae said.
"Do you think maybe we should do some training?" Naomi suggested, to which Vidia shook her head.
"We can't without Thea, and we can't fold to Meridian without the heart." The seemed to be out of luck.
Suddenly Vidia heard someone trying to communicate to her telepathically, "Vidia, there is a problem in your city!" She quickly sat up.
"What's wrong?" Naomi asked.
"Someone's talking to me," she shushed her friend, trying to focus, "Your majesty? Queen Elyon?"
"A portal has been opened. The shadow creatures that have been attacking you are now in your city! You must catch them!" She sounded very worried.
"Alright, don't worry. We're on it," Vidia ended their conversation, and turned to her friends, "We've got a problem."
When Xanatos saw the mess in the kitchen, he ordered his daughter and the gargoyles out. "That was embarrassing..." Amalthea groaned, her face all red.
"We're sorry about the mess Amalthea." the red gargoyle lowered his head, as did the other two.
Amalthea gave them a pity smile, "It's alright. I get it, your home has really changed, so naturally you'd want to look around."
"This world is so different now." the green one said.
"Don't worry, with a little time you guys should get use to it." As the group found the elder gargoyle, and started to head to the courtyard, Amalthea heard Vidia calling her telepathically, "Thea you there? We have a situation!"
"What is it?" Amalthea asked, narrowing her eyes. She had stopped following the gargoyles, who kept walking.
"Trouble in Central Park. A portal has been opened, and apparently those shadow monsters we've been fighting have come trough. We need you here now!"
"Okay, I'll meet you guys there," the red gargoyle noticed Amalthea had fallen behind them, she looked very serious all of a sudden, "Amalthea, are you ok?"
The human looked back at the gargoyles, she cheeks slightly blushing, "Oh-ah, yeah I'm good! I uh- need to go... suddenly," she started inching backwards, while smiling sheepishly, "You guys continue looking around! I see you when I get back! Later!" she gave a quick wave before running down the hall, leaving the gargoyles confused.
Amalthea had to run all the way to her room. Her father had set up cameras all over the castle and building, and she couldn't tella-transport without him seeing it. Locking her door, she wrapped the pendent around her hands, focusing on Central Park. She had done tella-transporting before, but is was a skill that took years to prefect. Taking a deep breath, she vanished from her room.
After meeting a new human named Elisa Maza, Goliath was asked to meet Xanatos in his office. The gargoyle walked in to the modern room, where he saw Xanatos sitting at his desk, "It is almost dawn, Xanatos. My friends and I must sleep soon."
"This won't take long. I'm asking for your help, Goliath," Xanatos said, pulling out a disk case, "That team who attacked us earlier stole something very important from me. The box they took contained three of these disks." Opening the case he handed the disk to Goliath for him to examine it.
"Disks?"
"Think of them as magic talismans, each one containing hundreds of spells. It is vitally important that you and your friends get them back for me."
"Perhaps you should use a... a detective," Goliath suggested, as he thought back to what Elisa had told him about her job.
He handed the disk back to Xanatos, who gave him a raised brow but smirked, "You are learning fast. But I can't go to the police, I've already had to forestall an investigation of the fight. Think of the trouble it would cause if they learned of you and your friends. You could be locked up for study or even worse," he explained, getting up from his desk, walking over to the gargoyle, "Remember, you're the only gargoyles left. Humans will fear you."
"And betray us..." Goliath growled, "What would you have us do?"
Xanatos then walked over to his security camera screen, "My sources have discovered that those thieves were hired by a multinational company called Cyberbiotics," pulling out a CD disk, he pushed it into the player and turned of the screen. It showed a few of New York Harbor, and the Statue of Liberty.
Goliath was in awe, "Amazing. It's like a... a living tapestry."
"You naivety is refreshing, Goliath," Xanatos smirked, as he showed Goliath images of a tower on the harbor, an abandon subway stack, and a giant air fortress, "The stolen data are being held at three different locations. The first is a research center on an island in the bay. The second is deep beneath the city, heavily fortified base. The third is been kept in a huge air fortress that flies in a holding pattern over the city. All three places must be hit simultaneously, so none will be able to notify the others. It seems an absurd amount of protection, I know, but rest assured the information is that important."
"Why do you want us to help you?" Goliath asked.
"This must be done before their scientists break the encryption codes, before they translate the spells," Xanatos tried to explain in a way Goliath would understand.
Goliath thought for a moment, before finally making a decision, "This is much different than protecting the castle. It will endanger the lives of my charges, I cannot risk that."
Surprisingly Xanatos nodded, "I can understand that. You never want the ones you care about in danger," the man then took a glance at the two framed photographs on his desk.
Goliath, now looking at more detail on the desk, looked at the photos. One was of Amalthea and Xanatos that was taken recently at a party he had hosted. Xanatos was dressed in a black tuxedo, while Amalthea was dressed in a knee-short red sleeveless dress, with her hair tied in a curly ponytail. But the other was a mush older picture; Xanatos looked much younger wearing cheesy Hawaiian shirt and shorts. Amalthea was a child, her hair was only shoulder-length and she wore a pink bathing-suit. But there was third person: A beautiful woman with long platinum-blonde hair that glistened like starlight, fair-skin, and deep blue eyes. She wore a light-blue floral beach dress and a sun hat. They were on a beach, all smiling, they looked very happy.
It didn't take long for Goliath to put 2 and 2 together, "Is that woman...?"
"My wife," Xanatos frown, "I had left for a business trip, but while I was gone, our house...caught on fire. When I heard the news I tried to get back as soon as possible, but it was already too late. Thea was with Elisa Maza, safe and thankfully unharmed, but Cynthia... didn't make it. No one knew how the fire started, and all Thea said was someone broke into the house, and that Cynthia told her to run. To this day, I wonder what kind of monster could do such a thing..." Xanatos stared at the photograph, it was no lie to Goliath, he could see that the tragedy still scarred the man.
"I can... understand what it's like to lose a mate." Goliath lowered his head, thinking of his angel.
Xanatos decided to get back to the matter of hand, "Well, for now, just think about my request. I'm sure our enemies mean to use this information for some terrible purpose," Xanatos walked Goliath to the door. As the gargoyle left for the tower, Xanatos turned his attention to the secret door he had on his wall. It opened, but all that showed was a dark shadowy figure, "Don't worry, everything is going according to plan," he smirked.
Central Park was completely dark and empty, with only the streetlamps shining. Rae, Vidia, Emily and Naomi had all tella-transported ahead of time. They quietly looked around, trying to see if they could spot any of the monsters that lurk in the shadows. Vidia formed a fireball in her hand for extra light.
Amalthea finally transported next to them, taking a breath, "Sorry guys."
"No worries, we just got here ourselves," Rae smiled.
Suddenly all around them they heard bushing rustling, the sounds of something running on the grass, the street-lights flickered, and there was an uncomfortable growling that didn't sound like a normal animal. "They're here," The girls gathered around Amalthea, she held up the heart of kandrakar, "Guardians Unite!" the pendent glowed purple as it's magic surrounded the five; their clothes changed, and they sprouted wings on their backs.
One by one they said their elements. Rae: "Water" - Amalthea: "Quintessence" - Vidia: "Fire" - Emily: "Air" - Naomi: "Earth"
The growling got louder, and the monsters showed themselves, or at least as much as they could. Their forms were a shadowy smoke, that morphed and shaped, with glowing yellow eyes, some had more then others. The guardians have fought them before, but have not yet won a victory. They weren't like regular monsters or demons they've faced before, these shadow creatures suddenly started showing themselves throughout Meridian, and were just manly attack people or creatures with mythical powers, including Queen Elyon and her family. And even when guardians seem to win, their numbers keep growing.
The guardians took to the sky. Vidia was the first to attack, "Fire!" making a fist she shot a blue fireball at one of them, but it molded it's body, missing the attack.
Naomi touched the ground, "Earth!" giant vines grew and tried to wrapped around the monsters, but to no avail, "My powers still don't have any effect on them! It's like trying to catch smoke with your bare hands!" she panicked. One of the monsters turned it's attention on the her, it got down on it's hands and started running at her, growling like a wild dog. Naomi gasped out covering herself for the attack, but luckily Emily was faster, taking a deep breath, she blew it away from her friend.
"So physical attacks won't work; like normal types don't work on ghost types!" Emily stated, making a Pokémon reference.
Rae was next; covering her arms in water. She swung her water arm tentacles, hitting one monster. It roared out, as the water cut through it's body like a knife. At the same time Vidia tried again, attacking the same monster with her flamethrower. The shadow monster, started to breakdown, falling to the ground in a dark puddle mess. But as soon as it looked like it was dead, another one came up and absorbed it, growing bigger.
"Oh come on!" Vidia shouted, and started chucking blue fire at it. which it only absorbed it into it's body.
"Vi stop, that's not helping!" Amalthea shouted. She was in deep thought, trying to think of what to do, she didn't notice one had snuck behind her.
Rae turned her head to her leader and notice the mass that was forming behind, "Thea look out!"
Amalthea turned, the shadow monster lifted it's arm and swung at her. The guardian went flying to the ground into a tumble, but she managed to stop herself landing on her feet. Amalthea groaned in pain, she could taste blood, but she wiped it off her lip. She glared at the shadow, her hair sparked with lighting, "Quintessence!" she screamed out, firing lightning from both hands. It was a direct hit, the shadow monster screeched in pain, but it fled back to the others.
Emily flew down towards Amalthea, "You okay?"
"Yeah..." pushing herself back up, she glared at the shadows, "Let's finish this!" Emily nodded. Being the fastest flyer she spin around the shadow monsters, gathering them all up in a tornado. "Vi!" Amalthea shouted. Vidia smirked, and fired at the tornado turning it into a blue, spinning flamethrower. "Naomi get ready! Rae, it's you and me now!" Naomi moved further away from the tornado, as Amalthea and Rae flew over it. The shadow monsters were trapped inside, they howled in pain, unable to escape the flames. "Ready?" Rae nodded, the two guardian lifted both their hands and shouted, "Water!" "Quintessence!" water and lighting shot down inside the tornado, the shadows whaled out, as they were slowly disintegrating. "Naomi now!" Naomi smashed her fist down on the dirt, the ground from under the tornado opened into a black-hole, and the shadows were sucked inside. The tornado blew up in a heatwave and ground closed up.
The guardians waited a moment, but they didn't hear anything. They did it. Sighing in relief, the four flew down laying next to Naomi. "That was...intense." Rae panted.
"Yeah...but hey, we beat them this time!" Emily cheered, making everyone smile.
"Good planning Thea, trapping them underground." Naomi commented.
"Yeah, but it's not over." Amalthea stood back up, "We can only ever banish them or cage them, but never destroy them..."
"So they're still wondering underground in New York?" Vidia dread.
"For now. The shadow monsters take a while to recover. Tomorrow will send them back to Meridian." Amalthea summon the heart from out of her soul, clutching it in her hand, the six girls turned back into their original forms. Standing up and stretching out their sore bodies. But before they were about to transport home, Amalthea then decided to tell them, "Hey guys, remember how I told you about the castles myth?" they nodded, "Well... it's real. And now I'm living six ancient gargoyles." the girl's eyes widened.
"...Cool!" Emily smiled.
"Not cool! What if they're dangerous?!" Rae narrowed her eyes.
"They're not, trust me! When we were attacked earlier tonight, they protected me and my dad. And they seem nice," her friends didn't seem so sure, Amalthea rolled her eyes, "Ok, how about when they get settled, I introduce you guys?"
"Question, are you introducing us or the guardians?" Vidia asked.
That's when Amalthea took a pause, and sighed, "I don't know, my dad is really pushing their leader into trusting him. For now, I'll keep watch on them."
They all nodded in agreement. Vidia, Emily and Naomi transported back home. Before Rae was about too, she turned to her friend, "Can you promise me that if anything bad happens, even if it's minor, you call me?"
Amalthea gave a small smile, "Of course I will." the two friends quickly hugged and said goodnight before transporting home.
Amalthea was transported back in her room. She sighed out, looking herself in her vanity mirror; she was sweaty, dirty and her hair was all frizzed. How she wanted nothing more then to crash on her bed and sleep, but she had to check on the gargoyles first. She quickly ran to the tower, just before the sun was about to rise. The three gargoyles heard her come up from behind, and turned their heads.
"Amalthea, where did you go?" the red one asked.
"Oh-ah, I had a scheduled meeting that I couldn't get out of..." she lied, which she learned very well from her father.
"And, why are you all dirty?" asked the green one.
Amalthea glanced down at herself again, feeling red in the face, "It was an self-defense class, and I didn't have time to change into more...appropriate clothes." she shook her head, changing the subject, "What about you guys? Were you board without me?" that got them to smile.
"We met a new human, she called herself Elisa Maza."
Amalthea's eyes widened, "Wait, detective Elisa Maza? She was here?"
"You know her?" Goliath asked, walking up from behind them.
The teen looked up at the tall gargoyle nodding, "I've know her since I was a child. I'm also best friends with you daughter, Rae. What was she doing here?"
"Apparently we had caused a commotion from below the castle, and she was investigating." Goliath narrowed his eyes.
"Well you don't have to worry about her, she very trusting. That's coming from someone who's known them for a long time." Amalthea smiled, but in her head she was panicking. Oh crap oh crap oh crap! Now Elisa knows about them?! I can't tell them about me and others being guardians now! This could get us and her in danger!
"She said that she would like to meet with me again." Goliath sounded unsure.
Amalthea snapped out of her panic, and gave him a small smile, "Well, I think you should go for it. You guys are gonna need to know the ins and outs of this city." Amalthea leaned her back against the railing on the tower.
"Maybe you could show us?" the red gargoyles said, "Tomorrow night?"
Amalthea thought for a moment, she had only known them for nine hours, but she already felt comfortable around them. Maybe that was because she was a guardian and traveling to different worlds and meeting all kinds of creatures. She couldn't explain it, but besides her friends and family, she just clicked better with none human-beings, and magical creatures, minus the ones that try to kill her. "Sure I have nothing happening tomorrow night. Is that okay?" she glanced at Goliath, we was still their leader.
The large gargoyle looked at the four, already seeing the bond they had. He sighed, "Very well, put you stay in the shadows and don't let anyone see you."
"Don't worry, I'll watch them." Amalthea smiled. The sun was about to peek over the city, the gargoyles took their places on the tower, just like they did when they were still asleep. As sunlight touched their bodies, Amalthea watched in shock, as they turned back into stone. "Wow... See you guys tonight." she said, before heading back into her room.
Rae had transported back home way before her mom got back. She had taken a shower and gotten into her pjs, but even though her body was telling her to sleep, her mind kept her up. She trusted Amalthea, more then anyone, and yet couldn't stop worrying about the gargoyles living in the castle with her. And after what happened tonight with those shadow monsters... "No... No, you have to have faith it her. She's the leader. She knows what she's doing." Rae told herself.
Just then she heard the front door open, and the sound of her mom walking in. Elisa opened Rae's door to see her daughter in bed, but not asleep. "Oh, Rae. I thought you'd be asleep."
"No, I couldn't get to sleep." her daughter sighed, "Thea wasn't able to come over tonight for movies, so we decided to scheduled for next weekend."
Elisa frowned, "Oh I'm sorry," That's wired, I didn't see her at the castle... does she know about the gargoyles? "How was your night?"
"Uninteresting," Rae shrugged, "You?"
"Same," Elisa lied. Whether Amalthea knew about the gargoyles or not, she didn't want to get her daughter involved. In case something bad were to happen. "Well, you're lucky it's Saturday. So if you need to sleep-"
"Thanks, 'night." Rae quickly said, pulling the covers over her, and heard on her side away from her mom.
Elisa frowned, looking annoyed. But the detective decided to like this one go, and shut the door.
Amalthea slept in for most of the day, until it was late afternoon. Opening her eyes, yawning she slowly forced herself out of bed and went to take a shower, since she didn't last night after her battle.
Once done and dried she dressed herself; she went to a private high school where the students were suppose to wear uniforms, so that's what Amalthea usually wore. White long-sleeve dressed shirt, with a dark navy jacket and skirt that went above the knees and a matching navy tie. She pulled up her thigh-high black stockings and put on her brown school shoes.
Sitting in front of her vanity she tired her long wavy platinum-blonde hair into a half-up half-down braid. Lastly she put the pendent heart around her neck.
The heart had not stopped glowing since last night, which was bothering her. The thoughts of last nights battle was consuming her mind; those shadows are still out there, recovering, before they rise up from the dirt. But they were only after powers from mythical beings, so they should only target her and the other guardians. But... what about the gargoyles? Sure they were from strong, but other then being a mythical creature from folklore, they didn't posses magic. But what about the magus' book?
She rushed out of her room to the great hall, having only a few hours before sundown. But before she could reach the room, she ran into Owen, who was holding a plate of breakfast food, "Ah, Miss Amalthea, I was just about to bring you-"
"Thank you Owen," Amalthea quickly took the plate, and continued her power-walk towards the great hall. Owen raised his brow, as he watch his mistress walk by, but left it since his order was complete.
Inside the great hall, Amalthea set the plate of food on the table, and took the book from the stand. She quickly checked the time, 7:23pm, only a few minutes before sundown. Staking up her cheese fired-egg, bacon on two pieces of toast she made a breakfast sandwich. She started eating as she quickly flipped through the book's pages, trying to find a clue, or a journal page from the magus. But there was nothing that could help her or saying that the spells only work on sorcerers.
"Great," Amalthea grumbled, swallowing her last bite, "Nothing about shadows or powers..." she thought that maybe a thousand years ago since magic and mythical creatures existed, then maybe human's knew about Meridian or the guardians. But now she had a new concerned, if the book didn't say anything out the limits on using spells... "That means anyone can use this book..."
she leaned back from the book on the table, staring at it, "This book is too dangerous... I need to take it to Queen Elyon." but she wondered how she could without her father noticing it's absence.
Suddenly her phone's alarm went off, 7:56pm. Amalthea quickly put the book back on the stand and headed for the tower.
She made it just in time, the gargoyles had already awoken from the stone slumber, stretching out their bodies, roaring out. "Hey guys," she greeted them.
"Good evening Amathea." Goliath greeted her.
The teen smiled, "You guys can just call me Thea," she looked over to the three younger gargoyles, "So, you guys ready to go?" to which they nodded excitedly.
The four of them glanced at Goliath, just making sure it was still okay to go exploring, "Keep to the shadows and don't let anyone see you." the all nodded.
The blue and green gargoyle flew ahead off first. Amalthea thought she would have to follow them on foot, but the red gargoyle, took her hand, pulling her onto his back. She gasped out, feeling her cheeks blush. She heard him chuckle, "Don't worry, I won't let you fall."
"Wait wha-" without warning, they jumped off the tower going into a free-fall. Amalthea didn't scream, since she was use to flying as a guardian, but she tightened her hold around his neck. She felt the cool night breeze blow in her face and through her hair, as they caught up to the the others.
"Wow look at all the lights!" the green one grinned, "And the buildings are as tall as mountains!"
Amalthea giggled, "Yeah, New York gets especially bright at night. So, what do guys want to do first?"
"Food!" the blue gargoyle shouted, as they heard his stomach grumble.
"Yeah I'm hungry too." the red one added.
Amalthea smiled, "Alright, let's make your guy's fist night count! Or I guess second..." she sheepishly smiled, correcting herself.
Rae was enjoying her Saturday evening with a bag of chips re-watching Stranger Things. She took a glance at her mom, who was in the kitchen taking a call. Even though it was Elisa's day off, she still gets calls from her boss about cases. Rae rolled her eyes, and kept watching TV. But if she was being real with herself, she wanted her mom to join her. But lately they've both been busy with their own jobs.
"Understood, I'll check it out tomorrow," Elisa finished her call, and headed for the door.
"I thought today was your day off?" Rae asked, making her mom turned to her.
"It is, but I have plans."
Rae raised her brow, "Plans? You never have plans."
"Well this time it's different," the detective crossed her arms, smirking, "I have a date."
Rae immediately dropped her chip bowl, eyes widened and her mouth gaped, "WHAT?! You? On a date?! With who?!"
Elisa chuckled, "Someone new in the city, I offered to give him a tour," Elisa left it at that, and opened the door, "I'll be back late, are you meeting with the girls again tonight?"
Rae tried to snap out of her shock, "N-No we're not... A date?!" she went on again, only for her mother to leave, closing the door. Rae glared, "You haven't dated in years!" she shouted, hoping she heard her. Rae frowned and stared back at the TV, wolfing down more chips. She was pissed, her mom can't make arrangements to be with her only daughter, then she meets some random guy yesterday and offers to take him out?!
She glanced at her phone that was next to her, pausing her show, she texted Vidia, "You doing anything right now?"
"No, why?"
"I need to hit something!"
"...Let's do it! (¬‿¬) "
The gargoyle were enjoying their little tour around the city, as Amalthea showed them all the hot spots: They landed on-top of the Empire State Building before jumping off it into a free-fall, Amalthea screamed excitedly like she was on a roller-coaster, making the gargoyles join in. They then flew through Times Square, as she showed them where Broadway theatre was. Flying above Chinatown, the Radio City Music Hall, as well as the Lexington Hotel. And lastly she showed them the Brooklyn Bride, and a quick view of the Bronx Zoo, seeing all the animals at a sky-view.
They decided to take a food stop now and again. The three gargoyles watched from up above the building as Amalthea went inside to get them food. A few minutes past and she came out with two large boxes. Hurrying down the building alley, she climbed up the fire escape.
"Aright, now it's kinda hard to find food your usually use to, but I think you might like these," she smiled with confidence, and flipped over the lid of the box, showing a large supreme pizza.
The three gargoyles started to drool as they smelled the fried food, unsure how to eat it. Amalthea giggled, "Like this." grabbing an end if crust she pulled it apart, the cheese stretched out. Watching her take a bite at the end, they copied their friend, each grabbing a slice. the human teen tried to hold in her giggling as they took their first bite of 21st century food, their eyes widened, almost to the break of tears. They wolfed down the entire slice before grabbing another, "Guess it was a good thing I ordered two." Amalthea smiled.
The four friends enjoyed their meal, as the gargoyles pointed at different things and Amalthea told them what they were. "I've never seen or tasted so many wonders." the blue gargoyle said, with food in his mouth.
"Look at that!" the green pointed down at a motorcycle, as it drove past them. But before Amalthea could tell him what it was, he said, "I got to see how it works," and jumped off the building gliding after it.
"Wait!" the red one called out, but his rookery brother didn't listen. Amalthea jumped on his back, as they flew after him, with the blue one behind them.
The green gargoyle flew closer till he was right behind the biker, "What a beautiful device!" he said out loud, the biker heard him. One look from behind and he freaked out, losing control he was lunched off the bike falling on the road. Luckily he was unharmed, as he ran off screaming, "Wait, come back!" the gargoyle landed calling after him.
The others landed next to him, "Goliath said not to let anybody see us." the red one reminded his brother.
"I didn't mean for him to see me. I just wanted to look at his machine."
"It's called a motorcycle. Remember how I told you guys about cars?" they nodded, "Well, this is just like one, except it can only carry one person." the green gargoyle stood the bike back up, "You really shouldn't-" It was too late, he turned the throttle. The bike drove off, as the gargoyle screamed, holding on. "Let go, let go!" Amalthea cried out, as she and the others ran after him.
The green gargoyle did as he was told, letting the bike go, it drove off, smashing into a brick wall, making it explode. They watched as a fire started, "Maybe we better not tell Goliath about this." the red one suggested.
"Agreed," Amalthea nodded.
Down in an abandon subway, Rae was getting her rage out the only way she knew how; vandalizing things. Rae was beating a trashcan with a bat, while Vidia was using her fire powers to melt glass bottles.
"So on the rare occasions she's off work, she chooses to spend time with some random guy she just met!" Rae shouted, as she beats the trashcan leaving large dents, "I mean, she goes off on me when I get home late, constantly asking where I've been and who I've been with. She probably thinks I'm off doing drugs or shit!" she beat the can more and more, her hands were shaking in rage, "Does she not know I have no friends beside you guy!" screaming at the top of her lugs, her voice echoed through the tunnel.
"I hear ya Rae, must be tough having a cop-mom," Vidia sat on a bench, watching the bottle melted into liquid-glass, "Are you feeling this way because your mom is meeting a guy?"
Rae took a break from her beating, and sat next to her friend and sighed, "I don't know..."
"Ok let me rephrase that; Are feeling this way because of your dad?"
Rae glared up at the brick ceiling, "Hell no. Honestly I don't even remember anything about him, besides that they use to argue all the time. I can't even remembered what he looks like. It's just..." she sighed, "This being a guardian is getting harder and harder to keep secret. And now those gargoyles at Thea's, what are we suppose to do?"
Vidia shrugged, "Trust our leader?" Rae made a face at her, "Yeah, that didn't sound like me. So then you don't trust her?"
"I trust Thea with everything. I've been her friend since the beginning, and I'm grateful I became a guardian along side her. We're just the unfortunate few to have helicopter parents." But Rae was trying to prove Vidia wrong, that little voice in the back of her head was saying, "You not too sure about trusting Thea..."
Suddenly the girls heard a growling sound echoing through the tunnel. They tried to see what was there but it was pick black, accept for glowing yellow eyes. Vidia formed a fireball she shot it down the tunnel, they watched as the shadow monsters from the other night, were crawling on the walls and ceiling, hissing and screeching.
"Run!" they quickly bolted to the exit, the shadows following right behind them, "Message the others now!" Rae shouted at her telepathy friend.
There was only a few more hours of night left before the sun would start rising. Amalthea decided to take them to one more stop, one where she and friends go too all the time: Ray's Candy Store. The gargoyles landed on the opposite side of the road, where they saw a small yet brightly colored store with lights.
"If you guys are ever craving a sweet tooth, you come to Ray's," Amalthea smiled, "I'll get you guys an assortment of everything," she climbed down the fire escape, and quickly crossed the road, heading inside the store. After getting her order of everything deep-fried and smothered in chocolate, she headed back to the gargoyles.
But suddenly she heard Vidia shouting through her mind telepathically, "Thea! The shadows are back! Rae and I are being chased right now, we need you, Emily and Naomi NOW!"
Amalthea gasped in shock, eyes widen. She looked up at the building where the gargoyles were waiting, she felt bad that have to ditch them a second time, mind was racing, not sure what to do. She noticed that the heart was glowing again. But, her job as a guardian came first, "Ok, where are you guys?" narrowing her eyes to the side, she spotted an alley way.
"The abandoned subway next to the creepy park! Hurry!"
Amalthea nodded ok, she quickly climbed up the fire escape, "Hey I just forgot I had an important arrangement tonight, and I'm late," she made up an excuse, "Do you think you guys can make it back to the castle on your own?" she didn't give them a time to reply back. She set the bag of treats down, and quickly climbed down the fire escape, jumping down on the bottom.
The gargoyles blinked, as she ran down the street, "W-Wait, Thea!" grabbing the bag of food, they jumped off the building and glided after her. They were in complete shock, didn't she say that she had nothing going on tonight? Why was she in such a quick hurry? She could have asked them to give her a ride. They watched her turn into an alley way, and followed. But turning inside, they there met with a tall brick wall, a dead end, and their human friend had disappeared. Like she vanished into thin air...
"Where did she go?"
Alamthea had tella-transported, making it to the park. She frowned once she was there, not liking that she had once again ditched her new friends. She decided she'll make it up for them later. The park was very abandon and usually gangs would hang out around these parts, but for now it was like a creepy forests, the trees and bushes her black, and the only source of light were the city buildings. Amalthea kept her breathing quiet and staying calm, listening into anything. She haven't spotted Vidia or Rae yet. "Vidia, you there?" she tried communicating with her, but got nothing.
Just then Emily and Naomi transported next to her, "Guys," Amalthea quietly called to get their attention. They turned around, and watched Amalthea place her finger at her lips signaling to be silent. They nodded ok, the three girls backed up together, their backs watching out for them. Suddenly off in the distance past the trees they saw fire go off, followed by a monster roaring. Rae and Vidia were suddenly thrown through the forest's park and landed on the ground next to their friends.
"Rae, Vidia!" Naomi gasped, falling to her knees to check if they had any injures. Besides the slight bruising and their clothes being scratched and cut up, they her fine.
"You guys ok?" Amalthea asked, helping Rae to her feet, while Naomi helped Vidia.
"Yeah," Rae growled, glaring up ahead. The trees and bushes rustled around, as the shadow monster showed themselves. Hissing and growling, their yellows fixated on the five girls.
Amalthea narrowed her eyes at them, "This ends now," grabbing the heart she lifted up above her head holding it in the air, "Guardians Unite!"
The shadows charged at them, but the guardians dodged taking to the sky. Wanting to redeem herself, Vidia attacked first. "FIRE!" she shouted, using both her hands like a flamethrower, she coated one of the shadows in a blue blaze. It screeched in pain, but didn't disintegrated. "GRRR, DIE ALREADY!" she screamed, adding more pressure.
Meanwhile, Naomi was panicking. She had tried to use the earthquake move again, but the shadows wouldn't fall through the ground, "I feel so useless! My powers still don't work on them!"
Emily flew next to her, "Naomi, lets make a dirt tornado!" they both nodded and got to work. Naomi landed on the ground, placing her hands down. A thick lair of the level of the ground hovered around her, rocks cracked into sands, and the moisture in the dirt dried up. Emily they gathered up the dirt, twirling her hands in a circular motion. The tornado grew and grew as it sucked in four of the shadow monsters.
At first it seemed to have worked, the monsters were trapped, and couldn't break out. But then, their bodies started to morphed together, the shadows shaped and molded themselves into a giant mass. It roared out, breaking the tornado, sending out a shockwave, hitting the guardians, making them fall to the ground hard, Rae ended up hitting her back to a tree knocking the wind out of her. The guardians struggled to pick themselves up as they saw this new monster: it was big and swollen like uncooked dough, it's body that once looked like black smoke was now tar like. It had nine yellow eyes, and four arms with fingers sticking out, it's mouth opened showing off sharp black teeth and tar gooped out.
"Gross..." Vidia gagged at the sight of it.
It roar at them, noticing Rae was the closes, it charged at her, using its arms to crawl over to her. "Rae!" Amathea cried, she pushed herself off the ground and flew over knocking her friend out of the way, sacrificing herself. The creature opened it's mouth and swallowed her.
The guardians gasped in shock, their eyes widened, "THEA!" Rae screamed.
Inside the monster body Amalthea could heard her friends calling out her name. It's now tar body was sticking to her, weighing her down, as she was being engulfed by the tar. She felt all her energy being sucked out of her, as she struggled to breath. Come on...you have to fight back..! she tried to summon her powers but wouldn't work, that's then she realized, ...It's taking...my life-force...
Outside, the others had recovered their fallout, and her now in the air attacking the tar monster with their powers all at once. "It's not working! Why isn't it working!" Naomi panicked.
"We need to get her out there!" Vidia shouted, firing at the monster's head.
"We can't without all five of us!" Rae glared at the fat monster. No way was she letter her best friend die! "Thea, listen to me!" Rae shouted, hoping Amalthea could hear her, "You need to use your quintessence! The only way to kill this monster is by combining our powers together! Thea please! We're guardian! We've fought worse things! Your strong like your mom!" tears run down her face, praying that her friend would fight back.
...Mom.. Amalthea forced herself to opened her eyes. She felt her friends by her side, trying to save her. You're right...I am strong. And I'm not... losing yet! her eyes started to glow white, as her hair flew up and sparked like lightning. Taking her last breath she chanted, "QUINTESSENCE!"
A bright light shun through the body of the monster, it expanded before imploded. Lighting shot out like a shockwave through the abandon park, and up in the sky like a large lightning bolt. It was so big and bright that multiple people witness it.
The three gargoyles saw it while trying to find Amalthea. They watched in shock, "What is that?!" the green one gasped out, seeing lighting shoot up to the sky.
As Elisa and Goliath were enjoying their walk in Central Park, they also saw revised lightning-bolt. "Oh my god..." Elisa gasped, Goliath narrowed his eyes.
Even Xanatos and Owen witnessed it far away, through his office window. He raised his brow, "Curious..."
The rest of the shadow monsters roared in pain, as they were disintegrated by the blinding light. The guardian's covered their faces, but felt nothing. They looked to see Amalthea's body glowing white, her hair floating in the air, and her eyes were solid bright white like lights. Once it seemed like the danger was gone, her glow faded, and the lighting blot vanished into the air, the city heard thunder roaring through the sky. Amalthea's eyes were closed as her wings fluttered her gently down to the ground. She eyes suddenly shot open, inhaling.
"Thea!" her friends landed next to her, hugging her close, "Are you okay?" Naomi asked.
"I-I need...air..." Amalthea wheezed out, her friends let go giving her space.
Vidia looked around the park, the shadows were now gone, "Dude, what was that?"
Amathlea groaned, sitting up, "I don't know... I was so scared and then suddenly, I felt this rush of power go through me. Like something I've never felt before..." she stared down at the heart, it had stopped glowing.
"So, it was like hysterical strength?" Naomi wondered.
"What's hysterical strength?" Rae asked.
"Its a display of extreme strength by humans, beyond what is believed to be normal, usually occurring when people are in life-and-death situations. Maybe, the auramere that your connected to sensed your struggle, and gave you an extra boost?" Naomi thought.
"Either way, that was so cool! Do you think we can all do that?!" Emily smiled, getting all excited.
"We can ask the keeper another day. Right now, we need to head home," Rae looked up, the night sky was slowly getting lighter. She left Amalthea get to her feet.
Vidia, Emily, and Naomi all tella-transported home, but Rae decided to call a taxi for Thea and herself, wanting to make sure her friend got home safe. Rae looked to her left, noticing Amalthea looking out her window. she frowned, "I'm sorry."
"For what?" Amalthea turned to her.
"I let my guard down, and you ended up paying the price." Rae looked down, clutched her fists.
Amalthea gently placed her hands over her friend's hands, getting her to look up, "Rae, it was nobodies fault. And you saved me, I was able to hear you. You pulled me out of there." she smiled, and gently pulled her friend in a hug. She waited for a moment, until Rae hugged back.
"Ok, here we are, Eyrie Building." the driver said.
The girls broke up the hug, and Amalthea got out, after paying her half for the dive. She looked back at Rae and smiled again, "Talk to you tomorrow."
Rae nodded, "Ok, night."
Amalthea walked into the building, but as she took the elevator all the way to the top of Castle Wyven, she was dreading to face her gargoyle friends.
Far away in Meridian, in a dark damp cave away from society, a figure looked at the reflection in a ripple of water, witnessing the fifth guardian destroying the shadow creatures. They growled, slamming their fist in the water, "Curses... I'm gonna need a new strategy..."
Quick Author's note, I don't want to describe what the new guardians look like just yet, I'm saving that for when Amalthea introduces the gargoyles to her friends.