logh/gargoyles story - Too Late
Califf, Jennifer (jcaliff@nsai-petro.com)
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:55:27 -0500
This is something I wrote just for the heck of it. You probably get
more out of it if you've watched Gargoyles. For lack of a better title.
. .
Too Late
by Jennifer
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The small boat bearing its four passengers slowly rocked back and forth.
Finally it settled against a small wooden dock, and the four passengers
disembarked. Three of the travelers were definitely not human. Two of
them, one male and one female, had a humanoid appearence, but their huge
stature, the gray color of their skin, and their large bat-like wings
and talons kept them from being mistaken for anything other than
creatures of the night. The third non-human resembled a large hairless
mastiff, but by his bearing this dog would have been more appropriately
found guarding the gates of Hades. The sole human traveler was a young
woman with dark hair and complexion, and who seemed perfectly at ease in
the midst of her unusual companions.
"I wonder where Avalon sent us this time?" asked the female
winged-creature, rhetorically.
"I don't know, but I'm sure we're here for a reason," answered the male
winged-creature.
"Alright, I guess we all know the drill by now," said the human woman as
she shivered slightly in the night air. "Goliath, I'll scout around so
we can find out why we're here. You and Angela follow me, but stay out
of sight. And Bronx," she said, gesturing to the dog-like creature,
"can watch the boat."
Angela, the female-creature, looked up into the night sky and her breath
caught in her throat. "Look!" she exclaimed, pointing up, "I've never
seen so many stars! And they're moving so fast."
"Eliza," Goliath said in a near whisper, "What do you make of this?"
The human, Eliza, watched the numerous points of light moving across the
sky. "Well, they're obviously not stars. Maybe satellites? Or
spaceships?"
"Spaceships?" asked Angela, her voice filled with wonder, "Do you mean
ships that can travel in the sky among the stars?"
"Rowf?" asked Bronx uncertainly. Goliath looked down at his nervous
four-footed friend. It was obvious that Bronx wasn't happy.
"Oh look! Some of the stars are falling!" Angela said excitedly.
The four companions watched, first with wonder, and then with growing
apprehension, as the falling points of light decended onto the planet.
Elsewhere in the Universe, millions of horrified people watched the
transmissions showing the nuclear destruction of the planet Westerland.
The End
jcaliff@nsai-petro.com http://www.topher.net/~jcaliff/iserlohn.htm
Broken mirror, a million shades of light
The old echo fades away
But just you and I can find the answer and then
We can run to the end of the world
-"Small of Two Pieces" lyrics by Masato Kato, end theme of Xenogears
