In the town, three teens walked down the pathway. The trio was Luz, Willow and Gus, "I still don't understand why we are here", Willow said to Gus, "I thought you said you had a lead".
"Right I think we should have some lunch before we do anything else", Gus clapped his hands together and marched towards the pub.
"Always thinking of your stomach", Willow grumbled under her breath, drawing a small laugh from Luz. She suddenly stopped, "Luz, are you alright?" Willow asked with concern in her voice.
"Yeah, I think so", Luz began, "just a bad vibe that's all".
"That's the third time today mate", Gus called out, "I think Eda needs to know about this".
"Yeah I'll do it when we get back", Luz replied absentmindedly. A few minutes later, the teens were sitting in the pub, "I think I'll have the Shepherd's Pie with extra chips", Gus said as he looked through the menu.
"How can you still be hungry", Willow shook her head, "we only had breakfast two hours ago".
"I'm a growing boy", Gus shrugged.
Suddenly the pub was rocked by several powerful explosions. Wooden splinters flew everywhere, bottles shattered on the floor and all the windows were blown out. The trio threw themselves to the ground as quickly as possible, "a monster?" Gus asked the others.
"Seems like their type of attack", Luz replied.
"But in broad daylight though", Willow added.
"Well I'm not going to hide in here", Gus announced and quickly ran for the door, closely followed by Willow and Luz. Outside there were people running in terror and the smell of smoke filled the air. Gus spotted a familiar face heading in his direction, "Boscha ", he called out, "what's going on?"
Boscha had a look etched on her face, told he trio that this was serious. "I'm not sure", Boscha stammered, "some kind of creatures, I've never seen anything like it".
"That's the residential area isn't it", Luz asked her three eyed friend.
"Yeah but don't go down there", Boscha called out but it was too late, the trio were already halfway down the road.
When they arrived, they found several bodies lying in the street, all residents of the town. They looked around expecting to see Emperor's coven but instead they were in for a nasty surprise. Marching through the village were dozens of black bodied humanoid creatures. Their bodies were styled to look like a tuxedo which the trio found a little strange. Their dark coloured heads were completely featureless except for a white patch where their mouths should have been, "What the bloody hell are these things?" Gus exclaimed.
"I'm not sure", Luz replied, "I've never seen anything like them before".
"I don't fancy asking them", Willow fired a stunning spell at the nearest creature. To her horror the monster absorbed it without even flinching. He fired another stunning spell but again this had to effect, "Erm little help", she said to the others.
"Love to", Gus replied, "but nothing's working on them". Whatever spell they tried, the black suited creatures kept closing in on them. They used everything in their repertoire, apart from an unforgivable but they still kept coming. The nearest creature lunged for Luz but the black haired teen was able to dodge out the way.
"We need to run", Luz called out and they slowly began to back away.
"No arguments from me", Gus replied and turned around, only to come face to face with more of the creatures. "Come on that's not fair", he cried.
"Quickly between those buildings", Willow pointed to a gap between two burning houses. The trio moved as quickly as they could, shielding themselves from the heat of the fires.
"They're right behind us", Luz shouted as she looked over her shoulder. One of them grabbed her ankle and she fell face first to the ground.
"Luz!" Gus cried and stopped to help her up but in the process one of the creatures punched him in the stomach before kicking him in the chest. The dark skinned teen tumbled down an Earth bank, landing on a pile of branches.
"I've had just about enough of you", Willow said and grabbed a fallen tree branch and smashed it over the head of the nearest creature. It let out a horrible cry and fell to the ground completely immobile. She offered her hand to Luz and helped her up, "That seems to be the secret", she found a branch and offered it to the girl, "hit them as hard as possible".
"I'm not sure if I can", she stammered.
"They just took out Gus ", Willow replied, "use that as motivation".
"I heard my name", Gus crawled up the bank. He had blood pouring out his mouth but he was ready to fight, "that one's mine". He hit the nearest creature so hard that his branch broke in half. Another one tried to sneak up behind the Gus but Luz came to his rescue and smashed her branch across its back.
Gus smiled in appreciation before noticing that another creature was charging in from her right hand side. He lowered his shoulder and flipped the creature over his back. The creature sailed into the air and it landed face first on the ground. Ignoring the pain in his ribs, Gus grabbed a broken branch and stabbed it through the creature's body, permanently immobilising it.
Three of the black suited creatures jumped towards the trio and instinctively, Liz thrust her hand towards them. To her shock, a small fireball flew out of her hand and struck the creatures. They cried out in pain before turning to ash, "Luz what did you just do?" Gus asked.
Luz looked at her hand, "I have absolutely no idea".
"Come on, lets get back to the owl house " Willow said.
