Disclaimer: All the characters appearing in Gargoyles and Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles are copyright Buena Vista Television/The Walt Disney Company. No infringement of these copyrights is intended, and is not authorized by the copyright holder. I don't own them, and am using the characters without permission. I'm not writing this for profit, only out of my love of the series.

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 were sworn to protect, frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years.

Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken and we live again.

We are defenders of the night.

We are Gargoyles.

Author's Note: Once in a while, a truly unique show comes along that entertains, educates and sucks the viewers in the way that Disney's Gargoyles did. It was the first exposure that I had to legends of old, ancient gods and Shakespeare references in a way that made me want to learn about them without having it shoved down my throat. With lovable characters and a great cast, even as a child I could not wait for the next episode. Above all else, it always had a great story and a moral hidden in the episodes in a way that is truly lacking in today's cartoons.

Not only did it have a large fan base while it was on the air, but it continues to grow a fan base through it's older fans passing it along to the next generation. I am proud to say that both my boys love the show, and I couldn't be more pleased.

In 2001, I underwent surgery on my shoulder that kept me sitting at home, in a sling or a brace, for almost a year. Let's just say that I had a lot of time on my hands. It was then that I ran across a Gargoyle's marathon on the Disney Channel, and I re-fell in love with the show. I was inspired to take some of my favorite episodes, and write them from a different point of view. One of my favorite episodes was The Hunter's Moon. I took that episode, and wrote it from Elisa Maza's perspective...and I just kept writing, taking the series in a whole new direction.

I began writing fan fiction for the Gargoyle's universe under my pen name of Starr Williams on the fan site . If anyone, other than myself, ever actually reads this, please don't judge me by some of those writings...I blame the pain meds I was on for making me think I was funny in some of them. There are a few that are truly cringe-worthy.

Now, in 2013, I am a little older and (hopefully) wiser, and got the urge to re-read what I had originally written. There were some good ideas hidden in there, but I had skipped opportunities to go into detail, and saw an option to take some ideas in a whole new direction. Admittedly, I am choosing to skip season 3 of the series, known as "The Goliath Chronicles". This is a personal choice of mine, and no reflection on that season… I really liked the first episode, "The Journey" and later on, the episode called, "For It May Come True". Unfortunately, I didn't care for most of season 3, so for the purposes of my writing, I chose to ignore it. What is fan fiction for, if not to pick and choose where you start writing, and where you take the story from there?

Enter NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Every November, a challenge is issued to writers to write (or begin writing) a challenge to complete the required 50,000 words in 30 days was too much to resist, and I somehow managed to rewrite the whole thing from scratch, using all new ideas. I hope you all enjoy it!

Set in Walt Disney's Gargoyle Universe, The events of the Hunter's Moon is about to shake up the clan and their human friends, leaving all it touches changed. Some for the better, some not so much.