Benny was sitting silently next to Jill who was explaining about the Jersey Devil.
"The devil is created intentionally by the mother. It requires the thirteenth child's birth, in which the mother must request that the child becomes the creature. Later the transformation happens and it flies away, or eats the entire family, whichever. But I have never seen one outside of New Jersey, thus the name. For it to be so far north is odd, even for the supernatural, it's weird. And you Mr. Benny Rabbit, you never told me that you were training to be a spell master." She glanced over at Benny who was still glaring into nothingness.
"You never told me you were an Earth Priestess." He muttered.
"Yeah, because I told Grandma that I was training to follow in her footsteps. I thought she would tell you." Benny glanced over at her, a look of confusion on his face.
"No, she never did." Both cousins looked at each other, and on a silent cue they jumped from their chairs and ran from the house. Sarah and Ethan watched them go and shrugged.
"So, how are you?" Sarah asked as they sat down at the kitchen counter. Ethan took an apple from the bowl and shrugged.
"I've been better, the bite healed, nicely." Sarah glanced down at the small bandage that graced Ethan's arm and nodded.
"That's good. That's really, good." They sat in silence for a moment. Listening as the sounds of the argument next door ensued. The silence was suddenly broken by the ringing of Ethan's cell phone. He jumped and glanced down and frowned.
"What's that number?" the illuminated screen read +1-360-355-9555. He clicked the talk button and placed the phone next to his ear.
"Hello?"
"Hi, is this Ethan Morgan?" the voice on the other end of the phone was a girl.
"Um, yeah. Who's this?"
"Where's Jill right now?" her voice spiked in urgency and caused Sarah to sit up taller.
"Next door, at Benny's, who is this?" Ethan was headed for the back door just as a shiver ran up his spine.
"That's a problem. You need to get them back to your house. Also, grab the blonde chick and the weird kid. Oh, is Sarah there? Put her on." Ethan turned to Sarah as she followed him toward Benny's house.
"Here, psychic wants to talk to you." Sarah took the phone and began speaking to the girl. The conversation was lost to Ethan as he knocked on the door. Jill answered it quickly and frowned.
"Who's that on the phone?" Ethan shrugged. Benny appeared behind Jill and smiled lightly.
"What's up?" Ethan shrugged again.
"Don't know, some girl on the phone says you two need to get back to my house with Erica and Rory right away." Sarah's face was contorted in concentration as she listened quietly to the girl on the other end of the phone. At the mention of their names, Erica and Rory appeared out of nowhere.
"Need us?" Ethan glared at the two of them.
"Were you two sitting on my roof?" they looked at each other, their faces glowed slightly red and then they shook their heads.
"No, not sitting." Ethan tried to clear his head of the thought when the shiver ran back up his spine. He glanced up at Sarah who was still listening to the phone and then towards Benny and Jill who were giving each other strange looks.
"Did you two feel that?" Ethan asked. Jill and Benny nodded.
"Who is that on the phone?" Jill asked again. Ethan shrugged.
"I don't know, some girl. The number was weird though, it started with one and then had 360." Jill's eyes widened.
"One is the country code. 360 is the area code. My area code. Sarah, name, now!" Sarah asked the girl. She glanced back at Jill.
"She says Calli, and that Ari says to hold on tight." Jill's jaw dropped. She rushed toward Sarah.
"Oh no, give me the phone, I need -" she never finished the sentence. Pain ripped through Ethan's body, he heard the others scream and then everything went black.