Temple

John Constantine paid the driver who had so graciously given him a ride off-road, so he could investigate something deep in the forests or Oregon in North America. He had cast this detection spell years ago. He had always thought he'd done the spell wrong until a few days ago when it went absolutely mad and directed him to the middle of nowhere in Oregon.

Constantine tromped through the woods muttering an incantation to direct him to the exact spot where something magical had occurred. He paused for a breath, when he heard voices up ahead. He immediately hid behind the nearest tree. He peered from behind it. He was too far away to see anything. He slowly crept closer until he saw what he had been looking for.

A crumbling temple made of gray bricks stretched as far as he could see. Granted, he couldn't see much due to the density of the forest and the sparse lighting. He wanted to take a closer look, but the temple was being trampled on by some sort of government organization. That's when he spotted the label on the back of one the people's uniforms. A.R.G.U.S. Of course they would be here. They always spoiled the fun. At least he didn't have to hide anymore.

John sauntered down the small hill leading to ancient temple. One of the A.R.G.U.S. agents noticed.

"Excuse me, sir," she said sternly as she walked up to John. "I'm going to have to ask you to leave the premises."

"It's alright, luv," John said, holding up his charmed card. "I know Director Lyla Diggle."

"Oh, I'm sorry, sir," the agent said, reading his card. "I didn't realize you were from the UK unit."

"No worries," John said. He walked down the corridor of the ruined building. He could tell it had been magnificent. It looked like it had been a cathedral, or a castle, or a temple of some sort. The place was also bursting with energy. Normally, a person couldn't detect this energy without some sort of device, but John Constantine had been doing this a long time. He could feel the power running through this ancient structure.

Constantine came to the edge of the forest and into what appeared to have been a large antechamber in the now-ruined temple. In the center of the meadow, several A.R.G.U.S. agents had set up a few instruments and were reading and recording measurements from them.

"I'm afraid you won't get much information from those," he said, causing the agents to jump and turn around.

"I'm sorry," one of the agents asked. "Who are you?"

"I'm John Constantine," he said walking to the center of the meadow and knelt down. He looked down at the ground and wiped the dirt off of the gray stones peeking through the grass. "See these scorch marks," Constantine said, referring to the way the grass was burnt to reveal the inscribed stone. "It appears someone wanted to read what was under here."

The agents exchanged a look and then turned to Constantine. "Sir," the same agent said. "Are you supposed to be here?"

"Of course I'm supposed to be here. Without my help, you people will never figure out what really happened."

The agents exchanged another look. "And what really happened here?" one of them asked.

"It looks like there was some sort of summoning," Constantine said, rubbing his thumb over the black imprint of a hand. He then looked up to see another black hand imprint on the other side of the circularly written runes.

"A summoning?" another agent asked incredulously.

"That's right, luv."

"What kind of 'summoning'?" a third asked.

Constantine fingered the runes thoughtfully, "I'm not really sure. These runes are old. Scary old. I can't even recognize them – and that's saying something."

"What's going on here?" an authoritative voice asked.

"Director!" one of the agents addressed, slightly surprised. "John Constantine is helping us analyze these runes."

"Hello, Lyla," Constantine said, standing up.

"Constantine," Lyla returned with a professional nod. "It's been a while."

"Yes, it has," Constantine turned to look at the runes. "You got quite the situation here."

"Yes, we've been picking up massive energy readings."

"I'm afraid that's all you're going to find here."

"What do you mean?"

"Whatever happened here is over."

"What did happen here?"

"From what I can tell, it appears to be some sort of summoning."

"Summoning? Summoning of what?"

"I don't know, and that scares me," Constantine stated. "Not only that, but I can't identify these runes. They're ancient, Lyla. Incredibly ancient and incredibly secret."

Lyla looked at the ground thoughtfully, "You said what happened here is over. How do you know that?"

"As I said earlier, this was just a summoning. All these energy readings you are picking up are just residue from what occurred here. And based on those readings, something massive happened."

"You said it was a summoning."

"It was. It was a massive summoning."

Lyla studied Constantine, "What is it?"

"This temple," Constantine began. "I should have known it was here. Something this old and this powerful doesn't just slip under the radar. It had to be hidden."

"But now it's not."

"Exactly. I think someone uncovered it for this summoning."

Lyla looked around and sighed, "So, we're just wasting our time out here."

"Yes, I'm afraid we're going to have to learn more about this location and the myths tied to it if we're ever going to learn what this temple really is."

"Alright," Lyla said. She turned to the agents monitoring the equipment

"There's something else, isn't there?" Constantine said. "You lot normally don't get into this sort of thing unless something big happened."

Lyla looked at him thoughtfully.

"Don't lie to me, luv. I can help you."

"If you come back to A.R.G.U.S. HQ and help us, I'll show you what we found."

"You know I don't like being confined. By rules. By the government. And stuck in a building."

"I know, but you'll want to see this."

O

"Nice to see you, John," Oliver Queen said, shaking Constantine's hand when he arrived to A.R.G.U.S. HQ. "Lyla told us about the mysterious temple."

"Mysterious doesn't even begin to cover it," Constantine said.

"Lyla told us you said there had been some kind of summoning?" John Diggle asked as Team Arrow and Constantine followed Lyla down the corridors of A.R.G.U.S.

"Yes, a massive one by the energy readings," Constantine replied.

"Oo," Curtis Holt said. "A summoning. That sounds pretty evil."

"Most of the time they are, but occasionally summonings can be good," Constantine said.

"Is it bad that I kind of hope it's an evil summoning?" Rene Ramirez said. "Things have been pretty boring lately."

"Rene!" Thea Queen reprimanded.

"What? I'm just being honest!"

"Alright," Lyla said, as the group finally reached their destination. They walked into what appeared to be the central cortex of A.R.G.U.S. HQ. Agents clacked away on computers all surrounding a table and a giant screen mounted on the front wall of the room. "Here's what I wanted to show you." Lyla nodded towards an agent at a computer. An image lit up on the giant screen in front of them.

It was a basic view of Earth from space. Suddenly, a small blip appeared on the screen and entered the Earth's atmosphere.

"The ship was extremely well concealed," Lyla explained. "It was using tech we've never seen before. We didn't notice it until four hours after it arrived."

As the blip hit Earth, the picture zoomed in to show it traveling to North America. The screen zoomed in more to show it going to the United States. It zoomed in one final time to show it stop in Oregon.

"I'm guessing that's where that temple thingy is," Felicity Smoak said.

"Your guess is correct," Lyla confirmed. "Ten minutes after this unidentified flying object landed, another one landed here ten minutes later."

"You know you can just call it a UFO," Curtis said. "I mean, that's what it stands for."

"So, when did these bogies, excuse me," Dinah Drake said and looked at Curtis. "UFOs leave?"

"That's the thing," Lyla said. "They didn't. They're still on Earth."