In the beginning, nearly every type of paranormal entity had been hunted, shunned, and murdered in cold blood. The world, did not take kindly to finding out the things in their movies and story books were actually real.
It had only been two years ago, that the world had started creating laws to protect the paranormal world. She firmly believed the only reason any laws were in place, was due to the fact that the paranormal entities stopped fighting each other and unified. They decided to start an all-out war with the rest of the world.
The thought terrified the “normal” people of the world and laws quickly passed across the globe giving them protection. America had the most accepting laws by far and began to see an influx of paranormal entities flooding its borders.
Harley had been married at the time of the shift. She remembered the look on David’s face that first morning. She was sound asleep when she thought she heard a muffled scream.
She had. David seemed nearly terrified that her long honey blonde hair had turned the deep red color of cooling blood. He had been up watching the news and had come back into the bedroom to check on her. Anything that wasn’t normal, or explainable by science had always thrown David off kilter.
That his own wife might be something other than human was unacceptable. Paranormal beings around the world began to come out of the proverbial closet.
More than sixty percent of the people had no idea they were paranormal until the shift. The world went wild, as newly transformed people suddenly became super-powered paranormal entities. Many of them had no clue how to control what they had become.
Some event had taken place while the world slept. It stirred what was locked deep inside many people. Those deep inner thoughts, those daytime fantasies, and even longing dreams while they slept, had now become a reality.
For Harley, it had awakened generations old magic. She found out later she came from an ancient line of witches that had been “asleep” for over a hundred years. No one in their family knew about it. Though all the women in her family had awakened that day, none of them carried the amount of power that she seemed to have.
Harley was still researching her heritage, but there seemed to be more questions than answers about the paranormal world. Her blood red hair was one of those questions. She knew it had something to do with her bloodline, but no one else’s hair in the family had turned.
He hated her from that moment on. Their marriage was over that morning. While he hadn’t gone out and filed for divorce he had moved out of their bedroom saying that he didn’t know if it was safe or not.
He convinced her that she could be dangerous to herself and others because she had no idea what kind of “creature” she had become.
It had taken months for most of the paranormal entities to sort out what they were. She had felt an undeniable draw to the craft she already practiced, only now she was much more powerful.
She had always been a witch. She was just a different kind of witch now. Not every practicing witch had paranormal powers, in fact, only about one in ten thousand actually had any kind at all.
Harley’s magic went beyond chants, spells, and rituals. It became a being of its own. Something she could draw upon as innately as one drew a breath.
David died in an accident the following year. She had been devastated. In some ways, she still was. She never stopped loving him, although he seemed to hate her.
Life with him had been miserable. She had hoped he would come to his senses and go back to being the wonderful loving man she thought he always was.
Looking back, though, there had been problems the whole time. She had just not seen them. She had been so in love with David, she thought it was just normal.
Harley was a curvy girl and David was the captain of the college football team. He was an all-star who was slated for the pro’s before he had a career ending injury his senior year.
As the miles went by she continued to think of her life with David. Life was much better without him, at least that is what her head said. Her heart always told her differently.
Harley tucked away the memories and pulled out newer ones. She studied everything she could about the paranormal world after the shift. She had needed to know what she was and what was now in the world.
Gargoyles started out as architecture designed to move excess water from the roof. Most were designed with spouts coming out of their mouths. The Catholic Church used gargoyles to illustrate evil.
During medieval times gargoyles were believed to be protection against evil. The church believed they would keep away the terrible spirits.
It is believed that they came alive each night after sundown and became the protectors of the buildings they were attached too.
Made of stone, gargoyles were thought to be unstoppable warriors in the fight against evil. They were noble warriors who fought on the side of God.
These stone warriors were often carved with horns, wings, claws and ferocious faces. Some with beaks, others bordered on being handsome.
When the shift occurred, the gargoyles became real. Some of them with little intelligence were sold to the highest bidder in the form of employment, while others were higher in intelligence and became every bit as functional as a vampire or werewolf.
Either way, they were incredibly strong and nearly impossible to kill. Their skin was as hard as stone, and they had magical protections. All the
