They pulled up to the school and Ethan hopped out of the truck, pacing slowly along the sidewalk. His head hurt, the visions of late were odd, snippets of the big picture, almost like there were bits missing. Calli's car pulled up and she got out. With a few long strides she stood next to Ethan.
"Are you alright?" Ethan shook his head. This was so much for him to handle. This morning he was in Canada, now he was in a town in the United States, with a mystery the size on the continent, and a bunch of people who apparently could all rub each other the wrong way. She gave him a gentle look and reached for his arm. Sarah shouted in the background but it was too late.
The area was dark, slowly becoming more visible, as if focusing on the surroundings. There was a set of double doors that pushed in towards another dark area. On the other side of the doors stood Benny and Jill. Jill took center court of the gym, whereas Benny stood under the basket closest to the double set of doors. There was a dark presence, something ancient.
"Benny! Run!" Jill screamed from where she stood frozen in place. Benny glanced up at something above her head.
"Stay away from her!" there was a deep chuckle.
"A male, perfect. Goodbye Jill." Jill was suddenly thrown against the far wall as Benny was thrown backwards by an unseen force.
Ethan blinked open his eyes to find Sarah and Matt staring down at him.
"What just happened?" Sarah's voice was dripping with concern. Ethan sat up slowly and spotted Calli nearly ten feet away. Apparently, the shock of the vision had thrown them apart. He stood as Calli came to, Ari was helping her to get back to her feet. Calli gave him a look that spoke volumes. He glanced towards the school and swallowed.
"Can we get in there?" Matt and Sarah both glanced toward the school.
"Um, yeah, I mean, the marching band practices like everyday, even though it's spring break, but yeah. Why? Was there something in there that we need to see?" Ethan shook his head.
"No, just wondering. Need to use the restroom. How about you guys go on ahead, the house isn't too far, I'll just go back with Calli and rest." Calli nodded in agreement tossing her keys to Ari. Ari, slid into the drivers seat and took off in search of strange occurrences with Rory and Erica. Sarah and Matt glanced at each other and sighed.
"Fine, we'll meet you guys back there. No more visions." Ethan and Calli nodded at Matt, they waved as he, and Sarah took off in the opposite direction. When both cars were out of sight Ethan turned to Calli, a hardened look on his face.
"We have to get to the gym. Can you get us in?" she nodded and headed to a side door that was propped open slightly. They walked in through the band room and into the maze of halls. Within moments they stood outside the doors to gym. Calli tried the handles and the doors were locked. She glared and then glanced around to make sure the no one was there. Pointing her finger at the lock she whispered.
"Resero." There was a click and the door swung slowly open. Ethan glanced at her in shock.
"Does everyone do magic?" she smiled and shook her head as they walked into the gym.
"No, I know Latin though, and Jill taught me how to use simple magic, like how to unlock my house door when I forget my keys." Ethan nodded as they headed towards center court. He didn't really feel anything like magic, but this was the place from the vision. Calli was wandering around the outer rim of the basketball court, concentration on her face.
"Maybe, if I tried to reveal what's there. Ethan, come here." Ethan walked over to stand next to Calli who was holding her hands out in front of her.
"Alright lets try. Aperire!" there was a spark from between her fingers and then nothing. She sighed and concentrated again.
"Um. Spiritus revelare!" again nothing happened. She placed her hands on her hips and sighed. She jumped a little and her hands went back up.
"Okay, how about this. Revelamini malos magicis!" purple lights danced from her palms and headed around the gym. Ethan smiled as he watched the lights weave in an out of the rafters in the ceiling and then go through the baskets. Suddenly the lights flew straight at the center court mark, where dark smoke had begun to appear. The shiver surged along Ethan's spine causing him to shake, he noted that Calli had the same reaction. The smoke seemed to solidify and then floated towards them.
"You have called, why?" a deep voice from prehistory boomed in the gym. Calli and Ethan shook and Ethan cleared his throat.
"We-we-we weren't s-s-sure if there was an-n-ny magic here. We th-th-thought that maybe we were mistaken, I guess we weren't." he gave a light laugh and Calli joined in. The shiver returned.
"You have disturbed me, but you are too small for me to care about. Be gone before your god changes his mind." The voice seemed to boom right next to their ears. They nodded their heads and ran quickly toward the doors. They had reached them when they slammed shut.
"Oh, and tell the Earth priestess I would like to talk with her. She will know who you're talking about." Ethan and Calli nodded again and rushed from the gym. They ran all the way back to the band room and then out onto the lawn area.
"Okay, so, the problem is a little worse than we thought." Ethan said, breathless.
"Really? Mind sharing?" Sarah's voice brought Calli and Ethan back to reality as they realized that the two groups who had left not moments before were back, and appeared quite angry.
"Start talking you two." Matt growled. For once, the emotions between the vampires and werewolf were all on the same page.