1692 five families with untold powers formed a covenant of silence. In the colony of Ipswich, one family disappeared without a trace, while the other four stayed strong. They were brought in to trouble with the first ascending, but what will happen when more trouble comes bringing their problems with them.
Picture this for me. There are four guys, all seventeen but one, and they're all different in their own way.
First there's the youngest: Tyler Simms. He has brown hair with blonde highlights that he now wears in a shaggy manner, and he stands at exactly six feet. Tyler, like I said earlier, is the youngest of the four, and he is the quietest. He's somewhat socially awkward at times and can state the obvious, and he knows it. His self-consciousness causes him to try too hard to impress the other three and act anxious around girls. He's a peacemaker and very uncomfortable with tension. This is what causes him to go to any length to preserve the peace within the four guys.
The next is the second youngest: Pogue Parry. He stands at about six foot four or so, has long medium brown hair that stands out of his face, and strong facial features that are very straight forward. Pogue can be described as rude, rowdy, ready for anything, and the life of the party. He's in love with the feeling of adrenalin and living on the edge. He spends most of his free time racing his motorcycle in ways that could only be imagined. He's a very stubborn friend no matter how tough the situation is.
The second eldest is none other that the smartass prankster of the four: Reid Garwin. Reid has platinum blonde hair, blue eyes, and stands around six feet. Reid is the devious and mischievous one of the group, and he is the wild card. He's always looking for trouble. He has little luck with the ladies, but that still doesn't stop him from hitting on them. He's a major hot-head who enjoys pushing anyone's buttons. His antics can lead to a fight, which in his opinion makes it all the better. Unlike the rest of the group, he doesn't mind "using". He's secretive and headstrong, and because of this he often "uses" whenever he thinks others aren't watching him. Although he is reckless he is still a loyal friend. He treats Tyler like a sidekick though, but this is only because Tyler takes his bluffs as real threats.
Last, but not least, is the eldest: Caleb Danvers. Caleb has short brown hair, stands at six foot four, and has soft brown eyes. Caleb, as the oldest, is the leader of the group. He's extremely competitive and expects nothing but the best from himself. This drives him to be a great swimmer and student. His future is already paved thanks to his intelligence, hard work, and stubborn will to win.
These guys are different in very many ways, but there is one thing that they have in common. They're all…I guess you could say…witches, or warlocks, whichever you prefer. They're known as the Sons of Ipswich, for they are the descendents of the founders of the original Ipswich colony of Massachusetts back in the 17th century. These four form a Covenant.
The Sons of Ipswich crowded around the top of the cliff as they watched a bonfire party going on at the bottom. They did this at every party, and waited for all four of them to arrive before going down. Reid was the last to arrive, as usual.
"What are we still doing up here?" Reid asked while edging closer to the edge of the cliff. "Why don't we go down in our special way?"
"It's not safe for me any more Reid," Caleb said as he looked down at the bottom. What Caleb means is that since he is eighteen he has "ascended". This means that his powers have completely matured. This maturity causes the power to be more powerful. There is a problem with this though. The matured power is "seductive", which means that they can be addictive. If you use the power to much then something bad can happen. That thing is that your body ages. Every time they used their powers, following the ascending, their body gets older with each time, but they would stay the same age. For example, Caleb's father was forty-four when he died, but he looked like he was ninety. This was because he used his powers too much.
"I'm sure one jump won't kill you," Reid said. "So let's just drop in." Reid walked straight over the cliff without a blink of an eye and not one of the guys stopped him. The youngest, Tyler followed him.
"Caleb, I understand why you don't want to, but its one jump and you've been good about not using," Pogue said while starting over the cliff.
Caleb sighed before following his friends over the cliff. He felt the familiar rush of air over his face, and when he landed on the ground he squatted from the impact and then stood up straight and joined his friends as they walked towards the party. The group walked over a hill with a stride that just automatically was in sync.
"Hey," Sarah, Caleb's girlfriend, said while giving him a kiss. Sarah, with her long blonde hair, stands at about five foot four, almost a full foot shorter than Caleb. Sarah is very studious and feisty. Before she started dating Caleb she was a first-class flirt, and made, at the time, super-serious Caleb laugh, and that was more than once. "Where were you guys?"
Reid looked up to the cliff and Sarah knew what he was talking about. At the beginning of the year Sarah found out what the four were. This was only because she was in danger.
How about I explain? In the verse there was a mention of five families. Well the fifth line of the covenant didn't disappear. It came back at the beginning of the year when a guy by the name of Chase Collins came to Spenser, the school the group went to. He was apart of a bloodline that thirsted for power. Chase lived up to that known love. He loved using his powers so much that he got addicted to it. This happened, though, before he found out what the side effect was. This drove him to try and steal the powers of the next member in the covenant to ascend. The next was Caleb. Chase tried to trick Caleb into "willing", giving over, the powers to him. In reality this would just make Chase more powerful, but he thought it would help him stay young. Chase threatened that if Caleb didn't will his powers over to him then he would kill Sarah, Pogue, Reid, Tyler, and Caleb's mother. Caleb went to fight him and won, but police couldn't find Chase's body.
"I thought you were going to refrain from using," she said.
"I'm fine, Sarah," he said smiling, "Jumping won't do anything."
"Yea, Sarah," Reid said while throwing his arm around Caleb's shoulder, "he'll be fine."
"This coming from the power junkie," she said with a smile because they knew she was joking.
"Hey who's that?" Tyler asked while nodding towards a group of six girls that were in a group near the fire. "I don't recognize them."
"Oh, they're new. They live on my floor. I haven't really talked to them yet though," Sarah said while looking over at the group.
"Well let's go introduce ourselves to the new girls," Reid said. He started walking over and the others followed. Just as they got up behind the group, the five didn't have a chance to notice the newcomers because a very familiar person came up and beat them to the punch of talking to the new girls.
"Hey," the guy said, "I take it you girls are new?" The guy had long wavy brown hair and was slightly attractive.
"Yes, we just transferred," a seventeen year old girl with blonde hair said to none other than Aaron Abbot, a guy that no one in the covenant liked.
"We're hearing that a lot this year," he said, referring to Sarah and Chase who both transferred at the beginning of the year, in a voice that sounded seductive. "So, uh, did you leave anyone special back where you lived?"
"Are you hitting on my sister," a girl with brown hair and looked to have the same facial features as the blonde asked. "Because if you are, then I must say that you're really bad at it."
The girls around them started to laugh a little. "How old are you? Fifteen?"
"Sixteen, almost seventeen, for your information," Reid could tell that the stranger took a quick disliking for Aaron.
"Then shouldn't you be home sleeping? After all, school starts tomorrow," he said in a baby voice. The guy turned around to laugh with his friends over his pathetic excuse for a joke. When he turned back around his head snapped to the side when it came in contact with the brunette's fist; his body followed soon after and he dropped to the ground.
"You private school boys are really bad at attracting girls," the girl smirked as the guy turned his back to get up.
"Reid, don't do it," Caleb whispered to Reid as he sensed that he was going to do something to Aaron by using his powers, but he ignored the order and went to use his powers. Right as his eyes were about to change, though, Aaron started moving around, trying to get to every part of his body as if it were itching. The group of girls started laughing and, slowly, the guys started to join in. With the strange reaction and movements Reid's eyes widened, but he started to laugh soon.
Aaron ran off with his friends and the girls turned around and were surprised to see the four boys and Sarah standing behind them.
"Uh, hi," a girl with dark brown hair said, "Who are you guys?"
"Oh sorry, I'm Pogue Parry."
"Tyler Simms."
"I'm Caleb Danvers, and this is my girlfriend Sarah Wenham."
"I'm Reid," Reid said while sticking his hand out to the girl that punched Aaron, "Reid Garwin."
"Interesting name," the girl smirked while ignoring his hand. Her sister elbowed her to shake his hand so she did. The handshake wasn't even three seconds. Reid grasped the girl's hand, but she pulled it away when his skin touched hers, but it wasn't like an 'I can't believe I'm touching this idiot' type thing; it was more like a flinch. As soon as she removed her hand from Reid's touch she put it behind her back and went on like nothing happened.
Reid raised an eyebrow at the reaction. "I'm, uh, Calypso Davenport, but I prefer Cally."
"I'm Hera Davenport, older sister by about a year. You can call me Ray," the blonde that Aaron was hitting on said.
"I'm Francesca Pomeroy," the girl with dark brown hair said, "friends call me Ann."
"Delaney Marcellus," I girl with dark red hair said.
"Rosalie Quintin," a girl with multicolored hair said.
"I'm Odette Vrooman," a girl with blonde hair and blue highlights said.
"Those are some weird names," Reid said.
"What type of name is Garwin?" Calypso said.
"Cally," Hera said to her sister, "chill. My and Cally's mother was really interested in Greek mythology. Delaney and Ann parent's dreamed of naming their kids those names and Rosalie because when she was born she was as delicate as a rose, which is what her name means."
Caleb nodded his head, "Where did you guys transfer from?"
"We came from Salem."
"As in Salem, Massachusetts," Pogue clarified.
"Yea, but it gets boring when they bring up the Salem witch trials at least once a year," Calypso said while rolling her eyes and shifting her weight to one foot. "I was getting bored with it."
Reid smirked and opened his mouth to say something but a voice came over the speakers to say that the police were coming again, and people started running while laughing and smiling.
"Does this happen a lot?" Hera asked Caleb as they walked up the hill to the cars that were parked in the forest.
"Yea," he answered, "but they've never come this early."
"Well what do you expect after what happened last time," Sarah said mournfully.
"What happened?" Calypso asked from behind them.
"A student was found dead in his car by the police," Tyler said. "It was a student from Spenser."
"What happened to him?" Delaney asked.
Calypso watched as the five old students looked at each other before Pogue said, "No one knows."
The two groups didn't say anything until they got to the cars.
"Hey, how old are you guys?" Calypso asked.
"Well Caleb turned eighteen a few months ago, Pogue and Tyler won't turn eighteen until the end of the year, and I turn eighteen in a couple of weeks," Reid said, almost as if he were boasting about it.
"How many weeks is a couple?" Hera asked.
"Two."
Hera nodded her head and motioned for the five other girls to follow, "Come on girls, we don't need to make a bad impression with the new town. We'll see you guys later." Each of the girls said the same thing and they drove off in a SUV.
"They seem nice," Sarah said while sitting in the backseat of Tyler's Hummer beside Caleb with Pogue on her other side.
"Yea, but what was with that Calypso chick and pulling away from my grip," Reid said.
"Don't know," Caleb said, "which reminds me. Reid why did you do that to Aaron? Don't you think you already gave him enough problems when you had his friend puke all over him at the beginning?"
"That wasn't me," Reid said while looking back. "I didn't do anything to Abbot."
"Well who was it then?"
"I don't know."
"It could have been something non-magical," Tyler suggested from the driver side.
"No, I don't think it was," Caleb said while putting his arm around Sarah's shoulders and looking out the window.
"I'm sure it's nothing Caleb, so don't worry about it," Sarah reassured him.
"Yea, maybe you're right."
"Right or wrong," Pogue said, "we just got finished worrying about Chase, let's not go on to something else. Shall we?"