The Clan Begins to Grow

[reluctant_gargoyle]

The sun had only set an hour ago, and the Clan members assigned to patrol tonight had yet to begin that.  So the courtyard of the castle is empty when Elisa materializes back in it.  Materialized with company.  Company that going to be moving in.

She'd met a hatchling in the Nexus.  One that was undoubtably from this universe.  And one very much in need of a Clan and a place to call home.  So she'd done what any of them would have done: invited him to join them.  Gargoyles looked after their own, after all.

She did, however, realize rather belatedly that she should have told him that the Castle was on top of a skyscraper.  Still, she presses on, calling out, "Guys!  Come on out here!  There's someone here you need to meet!"

And so they come.  Brooklyn, Lexington, and Broadway.  Angela.  Hudson, with Bronx on his heels.  And, of course, Goliath.

Needless to say, all are quite shocked.

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[spinstales.livejournal.com]

And this is what happens when Gregory jumps the gun. He dives down at the third mugger not even thinking about the danger. Instead he's snarling like a very angry kitten. Not very scary to other Gargoyles but probably plenty scary to the poor woman who had been attacked. And as Gregory is sailing down he aims his feet at the back of mugger number three.

If the kick lands in just the right spot the angle would send the mugger face first into the trashcans. Of course Gregory didn't know that. He didn't know the mechanics of fighting. Just that he couldn't sit by.

[elisa-garg.livejournal.com]

Which is what it does. Pretty lucky for the kid's first time out.

Elisa is already recovering, getting to her feet dispite the ringing in her ears. Of course, the fact that the woman is now screaming even more, now that the number of Gargoyles has doubled, is not helping.

"Please... calm down," Elisa says. "We're not going to hurt you."

"You... can talk?" Surprise overrides fear.

"Yes. We can talk. Just like you. We're not going to hurt you. We're just going to climb on out of here and be on our way. But do everybody a favor and call 911, okay? There's a payphone over there..." She points off to a spot a little off the mouth of the alley.

The woman starts to move, and pauses, for just a moment, at the mouth. "Thank-you," she says, before moving out of sight.

[spinstales.livejournal.com]

He gives a tiny smile. Then it fades and he flushes brightly. "I'm sorry I didn't stay put but...He hit you!"

Yeah restating the obvious to Elisa. But the young Gargoyle can't help it. She was Clan! Didn't that mean he had to help her out? Watch her back and stuff?

"Are...You ok?"

[elisa-garg.livejournal.com]

"It's all right, kiddo," Elisa says, grinning slightly. "I'd have done the same thing."

Yeah, she should probably be telling him he needed to have stayed put, but what kid's doing to listen to that? Besides, it wasn't like he was a human kid, but a Gargoyle one. And the others had talked before about how much sooner hatchlings accepted responsibility and learned to fight than human kids did.

"I'll have a headache 'till dawn, but nothing a day's sleep won't fix," she says.

[spinstales.livejournal.com]

"Well....That's good. 'Cause I'm pretty sure I'd do that for anyone," and he is quite serious dispite the lopsided grin.

Yeah, he did do lotts of chores back at the farm. And had been studying a great deal. It was just that he wasn't supposed to fight. After all his Dad didn't want him to fight if he didn't know how.

"That's good. Better than something worse," he says while glancing towards the street. "We should get up to the roof. The cops might come and...Um, I think they might not be so understanding."

[elisa-garg.livejournal.com]

"I can tell," she says.

Might depend on the cop, but Gregory can meet Matt at a more structured time. So Elisa just nods and starts to climb. "Yeah. Let's head back to the Castle. I think you've had enough excitement for one night."

[spinstales.livejournal.com]

He grins and starts to climb up after her. He's actually a bit surprised at how easy it is to climb up the wall. "I think so too. It...It's been a very long night."

[elisa-garg.livejournal.com]

And so back to the Castle they go.

((Probably a good place to wrap this tread line up?))

[spinstales.livejournal.com]

(( Heh. Yeah. And either tomorrow or Thursday I'll post the thing with Gregory's father coming for a visit.))

[elisa-garg.livejournal.com]

((Sounds like a plan. I'll look forward to it!))