Billingsley’s house.
“Do you think we could go to 5th Avenue and check out some of the shops when go into the city for the knitting show?” Belinda excitedly asked Maggie.
“We could eat dinner after the show on the West Side and then stroll over to 5th Avenue before the stores close,” Maggie replied.
“Sounds like a plan,” Belinda beamed.
“You and Drew still averse to playing golf with me and Cal?” Hartwell asked Daniel.
“You guys are so serious when you play,” Daniel abruptly answered.
Hartwell looked at Daniel out of the corner of his eye right eye like a consummate father and probed, “Is that the reason you do want to play with us?”
Daniel looked over at his father and looked away from him, “You guys are too good,” he mumbled quickly as not to be humiliated.
“What did you say?” Hartwell inquired.
Daniel looked for real this time and smiled, “If anyone could hear what I just said, it is you.”
“I’ll play with you,” Brandon said from just behind his sire and surrogate brother.
“Wasn’t that training session fun, Samuel?” Max asked.
“Yes dad, that was the coolest!” his son Samuel gushed.
“I really liked using those brass knuckles,” usually shy and etherial Ariel added.
The group arrived at Billingsley’s pitch black house a few minutes later and each vampire collected their target, unfurled their massive wings and then were airborne and en route to drop-off point: BRONX, NEW YORK.
The group rarely ever made flights anymore because their vampirical powers appeared to be limited to nighttime battles in which their powers always appeared to compromised in some way. So it was nice to get a little fresh rarified air for a change.
The group touched down in the spot that was marked by a single lit torch, which meant that the location was ready for its new inhabitants. The apes still in their human form were placed near each other and Thaddeus picked up the torch as the vampires flew the construction crew out of the park.
Building the new Gorillas in the Midst of the Bronx exhibit at the Bronx Zoo might not prove as difficult for the transition of the apes, who had to get used to entirely new surroundings. A few minutes after the mortals were placed in their new habitat, they transitioned back into their ape form via the last affects of the spell woven by Linda Vinson.
“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, these apes will be familiar faces no more and resume their natural form.”
One by one the apes came back on line, but this time there was no trace of the loved one's that haunted the memories of the people in the House of Hartwell. They started grunting out of fear of not recognizing the scent of their surroundings, but were calmed somewhat when their leader, the ape formerly known as Gabriel Billingsley, came back on line. He led the group into the man-made cave that would now be their home. The other seven members of his ape family went inside and he turned back toward the opening of the expanse of the park and smirked devilishly as his eyes glowed a bright orange to signify that all traces of Gabriel Billingsley in fact had not been eliminated.
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