urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:timedancersTimedancersBrooklyn and FamilyBrooklyn2007-04-07T04:10:36Zurn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:timedancers:772War of the Demon (the Homefront)2007-04-07T04:10:36Z2007-04-07T04:10:36Z"It's not fair!" Nash whines. "Everybody else is out there fighting, and we're stuck here. 'Guard the Castle,' he says. You don't see Mom or Dad or anybody else stuck here guarding!"<br />"Now, Nash," Maggie says, trying to calm the boy. "I stayed behind too. Goliath said this was important, remember? He trusts you."<br /><br />The boy continues his pacing back and forth across the balcony overlooking the city.<br /><br />"Naaaaash!" Tachi whines. "You're makin' me dizzy!"<br /><br />Owen simply regarded the spectacle with his own usual quite reserve. <i>They also serve...</i>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:timedancers:651Time Tripping2007-03-25T03:48:16Z2007-03-25T03:48:16ZIt was an ordinary enough night at Castle Wyvern, high above Manhattan. The sun had just set and the Gargoyle Clan that inhabbited it--Goliath, Elisa, Hudson, Brooklyn, Lexington, Broadway, Angela, Gregory, and Bronx--were awakening, bursting free from their stone shells with roars and glowing eyes.<br /><br />For some reason, one of them, the red, beaked Gargoyle called Brooklyn, seems slightly out of sorts, staring at the city before them.<br /><br />"You okay, Brooklyn?" Broadway asks.<br /><br />"I'm... fine," he says. "Just fine."<br /><br />A look passes between Goliath and Elisa, mates, leader and second of the Clan. Brooklyn had been melancholy for far too long of late. But nothing so far had been able to snap him out of it.<br /><br />"I think... Maybe I'll just stay out here for a little. I'll grap some grub later."<br /><br />"If that is your wish," Goliath says, as he and the others start to head into the Castle.<br /><br /><b><i>FWOOOSH!</i></b><br /><br />The sound of flames seems to break through the night air. High above, even higher than the castle, a great flaming sphere can be seen, falling toward them...