She had never been able to finish her sentence. That was what Ethan remembered as he came to, that and the pain. The ground beneath him was soft, and wet. He blinked open his eyes to rain and closed them again. He stood, the pain still permeating his being. As he took in his surroundings, he realized he was in a back yard. There was a two story, white house in front of him, and the others were sprawled in various places all around the yard. Except Rory, who was dangling from a tree. He heard a door bang open and a girl appeared from around the side of the house. She had bleached blonde hair that was cut pixie style, with bright pink bangs. She wore a simple black dress with knee high combat boots.
"Ari! You killed them!" another girl appeared. She was taller, with black hair, olive skin, and a jean t-shirt combination. A look of horror on her face.
"Oh God! Wait, he's not dead!" she pointed straight at Ethan. The girl with the pink hair rain up to him and was about to shake his hand when she stopped herself.
"Hi, you're Ethan. My name is Calli, we spoke on the phone." Ethan nodded and glanced around at his friends as they started to wake up.
"Okay, what just happened?" Calli pointed towards Ari and sighed.
"Miss 'I know what I'm doing with my spell book' brought you here. We have a problem. I hope your run in with the Jersey Devil wasn't too bad." Ethan glanced at her and frowned.
"How do you know that?" she pointed at her eyes and smiles.
"Seer, like you, which is why no hand shake." Jill was standing up and glancing around. She spotted Calli and marched over.
"What are you guys doing? We could have died!" her shouting brought Benny back to reality who sat up and glanced around. He saw Ari and his eyes went wide. Standing quickly, he walked over to her and began being normal Benny again. All the while Calli and Jill were having an argument about Ari being allowed to use magic on people thousands of miles away. Ethan walked over to Sarah who was helping Erica and Rory back from the edge of death. She glanced up at him and smiled.
"Well, that really wakes you up." Ethan laughed lightly and nodded.
"Are you alright?" she nodded.
"Yeah, I'm good. Just a little shocked." Erica, was not fairing as well, she was looking around with death in her eyes.
"Which witch do I get to eat?" Ethan was about to say Ari when Jill whistled for attention.
"Alright. Well, this moves things forward. Turns out that there was an attack here too. Something is going on and we are gonna figure out what. Benny and I are going to work here. Calli, take Rory and Erica and Matt can take Ethan and Sarah around the town, to see if anything looks off. We need clues as to why all the evil creatures are suddenly popping up, alright?" everyone nodded. Calli walked over to Ethan and smiled.
"It's okay you'll like Matt, he's cool." She gave Sarah a worried look but continued talking. "Just so you know, we've got some of the same things you've got, with a little American twist so be careful." Ethan and Sarah nodded.
"So what were you guys attacked by?" Ethan asked. Calli gave him an annoyed look.
"A hydra. That was the most obnoxious thing I've ever fought." Calli wandered away and that was when the back door swung open again. A boy, no older than Ethan and Benny, appeared. And it all went down hill from there.