Door opens, Outsiders come In.

(BlackOut, should I post, or wait for you?)

(You can post)

Chen walked downstairs, following that beautiful sound. He was vaguely aware of the two others following him, but didn't really care all too much. Every fiber being was calling to go downstairs to the basement. Then he saw them.

They were People. But they were more beautiful and attractive than any being the man had ever seen. The sheer concept of beauty was embodified by these beings. But they didn't seem human. Some of them did, but they looked like the most voluptuous humans he had seen. Red lust and envy rose in him.

We can never be as powerful as Them, as beautiful as them, as intelligent as them, what's the point? But they're here, so we beg to be their servants, which is all we can do...

Then as he was walking, he stepped on an iron horseshoe. He blinked, snapping out of the spell. He bent over, picked it up, and put it in his pocket. One of the beings smiled beatifically. "Hello." it said in a voice of honey. Chen saw it's body was male, but something about it implied both genders, as did all of the others. The lust and envy were there in him, but he could resist. He no longer had the urge to run toward them, begging for servitude.

The iron. That's what it was...But the others, they didn't have this iron....

(Pretend none of you have iron, except maybe Blackout, since he wears a costume.)

The people were..... beautiful to say the least. Nevr had Sean seen such beauty in his life. It was mezmerizing. Entrancing beyond anything. They had the most interesting bodies. Not male or female. Were they some sorta eunichs? Whatever they were, Sean wanted only one thing. To be like them. Worship them and serve them. An odd thought to say the least. He never had the desire to bow down to anything. Never was the one for religion. Not that he was against who people bowed down to. Just wasn't what Sean chose to do with his life. Now he suddenly had the urge to worship these beings? He wwanted them. Also he somewhere deep in his heart envied them. They were perfect. Beautiful beyond compare. What was he? Katana of water falling into a puddle on the ground. He walked past the asian man. Unable to turn away fromt he beings. They willed him to come. Voices sweet like honey. Melidous to his ear. He was enrapt by it. As he approached them.

Ace followed the Asian man down the stairs into the basement where the enchanting music was coming from, "Not knowing where I am and following a man into a basement where there is music , geez I hope this isn't a trap" thought Ace. His thinking stopped when he laid eyes on some of the most beautiful creatures he had ever seen. They reminded him of his first crush except 50 times prettier, these creatures seemed to have genders but almost barely indistinguishable changes 

He briefly noticed the Asian man holding a horse shoe and looking confused and the emo-looking guy enveloped in one of the creatures eyes, it was strange these creatures who he would generally not be attracted to had him crawling all over them.

Black stood surveying the remains of the bus wondering if emergency services were on their way to the scene. The smoke drifted up into the darkened sky from the vehicle as Black circled it looking for the cause of the accident. Stopping in front of the windshield he kneeled down, the mangled body of the driver was still strapped into its seat. The bod slouched to the side and droplets of blood dripped from the open stump where the man’s head once was. Poor bastard he thought looking over the gruesome scene in front of him. He had seen his fair share off auto accidents in his time and this injury was out of the ordinary. This wasn’t just a bad accident someone killed this man, that’s what must have cause the crash.

Black turned his head to see if anyone was around but there was no sign of anything. Who killed this man he thought and with what. Searching the area around the driver turned up something odd. An arrow, very strange choice and honestly quite impressive. "That had to be one hell of a shot" he muttered grasping the arrow between his index finger and thumb gingerly. He raised it to eye level looking it over carefully. His was indeed the murder weapon, it was entirely coated in blood and bits of brain matter still clung to the shaft.

“Interesting, hey did you guys see anything strange before the crash?” He called over to the survivors without taking his eyes off of the arrow. “Guys?” Black turned to see that the three men were gone. Carefully placing the arrow back on the ground he stood up and started to look for the survivors. Where the hell… he stopped seeing that the door to the house was now wide open and he assumed that all or at least one of the men had gone inside. Black walked across the lawn toward house, quickly stepping up the front stairs he entered the house to find the three men.

Then Chen grabbed the emo boy and the other man. They would snap out of the trance, now being barely able to resist. The iron horseshoe. he realized. The iron was the thing keeping them from being mesmerized. One of the beings hissed, and even that hiss was simply unfair for humans. But they could resist now.

Chen started to walk away from them, and they started to run toward them...

Time Out.

An old, bearded man suddenly appeared in front of them. He wore blue robes decorated with mystic runes, and his hat (and what a hat it was! Pointy and easily as tall as the man's head itself) followed the same theme. He wore tinted glasses, making it impossible to see what color or shape his eyes were. Despite all this, he wore a kindly expression, perhaps that of a nice, but a bit eccentric, grandfather.

BlackOut, Chen, Sean and Ace suddenly saw that everything had stopped moving...except them and the old man.

"Hello." the man said, in a slight British and Celtic accent. It was a strange mix of the two. "I believe this current situation is puzzling for you."

Ace was about to reach the elven creatures when he was pulled away by the Asian man, he snapped out of the trance that had fully engulfed him, he noticed the Asian man had a horse shoe in his hand "The iron, that's whats snapping us out of it!" thought Ace.

The creatures that he was attracted too a minute ago started hissing," Ummm I think we should run" said Ace as they ran as quickly as they could, in unison that is.

Time out

Everything around them stopped and a man that looked like a wizard he saw in a old movie "Colour of ..... I cant remember the rest, was it sorcery" thought Ace,
"I believe this current situation is puzzling for you." the man said in a british-Celtic accent 
The phrase reminded him of a game he played on a retro console " Professor Layton, well my memory isn't messed up" thought Ace.
Ace nodded " Yes it is, What are these things and where did they come from?" Ace asked with intent

(BlackOut, should we skip you?)

Black entered the house cautiously, slipping in through the open front door and scoping the main room for any sign of the three men. Looking down to the floor he saw a trail of foot prints leading to another open door. Following the trail looked down to see that the door lead to a staircase which he assumed went down to the basement. He started walking carefully down the steps he had only came about half way down when saw the strange scene laid out in front of him. He had come upon the three survivors of the bus crash; they were all standing facing another man who looked like he was straight out of a fantasy movie wearing blue robes decorated with some kind of odd foreign symbols with a large pointed hat. His expression was kindly but given the situation the fact that he had a smile on his face was kind of strange. Behind him were two creatures that seemed to be frozen in time. Black did not know what they were, the creatures looked similar to people but something was off about them he couldn’t put his finger on it but they weren’t normal.

Taking the strange scene laid out in front of him and digesting for a moment he continued down the stairs. There was so much wrong here he didn’t know where to start. “Okay” he said as he stepped of the last step onto the basement floor. “What the hell is going on down here?” He asked still perplexed. The older gentlemen stood staring at him, his expression unchanged. His smile was slightly unsettling and his eyes did not break from Black’s. He felt as through this man was staring right through his mask. Breaking off eye contact he looked down and away then back up toward the three men in front of him. “And who the fuck is this guy?”

The man smiled. "I'm a wizard, Mr. Blackout. Out of respect for your decision to maintain a secret identity, I will not state your real name in front of these other boys." Then the scene changed and they were at a French cafe. Time was no longer frozen, and Chen took a glance at a nearby calender, and nearly fell out of his chair- yes, his chair. They were all now sitting down and there was tea and biscuits in front of him. It was one week ago. In California, it had been May 22. Now it was May 15 here. "Where the hell are we?" Chen asked, and the wizard chuckled.

"My boy, we are in France. Now, as for your other, unspoken question, we time-traveled here to France a week ago. It'll be easier for me to explain this, and I tend to enjoy showing off."

"Now, your first questions will be inevitably be "What on Earth were those creatures?" We prefer not to speak their true names, but we may call them the Lords and Ladies for now. They are beings from another dimension (Outside the dimensions, if you want to be specific), but they always want to come here. Sometimes they succeed. The Johnson farm has been a magnet for them, being a spot in this universe that is incredibly close to theirs. The material iron has been one of your defenses against them. It burns and repels them. It tends to be a powerful repellent. They have incredible powers of illusion as well. That was the basics. What else do you want to know?"

Ace found himself in a french cafe, they were eating tea and cakes and everything was moving again. "France, such elegance" muttered Ace, the wizard man explained who he was and what those things were, he asked if they had any questions." I have a question." Ace said, taking a sip of tea "Who are you all? I'm....." Ace paused -should I tell them my real name- thought Ace "ElectricBlast is my alias my identity shall remain a secret, till later. I enjoy Artemis Fowl, Percy Jackson, The Jetsons and Technology work..... And tea, especially tea" spouted Ace "Oh and I have the power to fire and teleport via electricity, Your turn" Ace finished his tea and sat back in his chair 

Black looked taking in his surroundings, France huh he thought looking down toward the biscuits and tea and grimacing, he was not a fan of tea. Who come to France to drinks tea he thought pushing the glass away from him as though it was poisoned. Looking around he quickly stopped a server as she walked past. She gave him a strange look, and he realized that he was still in full costume. “Je voudrais un cafe au lait s'il vous plait” He smiled as all those years of French in high school finally paid off. She continued to stare and it was starting to get uncomfortable. “A… un superhéros.” he said motioning to his costume slightly unsure of himself. All those years of sleeping through French in high school finally came back to bite him in the ass, as he had pretty much exhausted his knowledge of the language with his first statement.

“I have a question.” He heard as the woman walked away and he turned back to the table. Black sat back his arms crossed as the boy spoke. "Who are you all? I'm..... ElectricBlast is my alias my identity shall remain a secret, till later. I enjoy Artemis Fowl, Percy Jackson, The Jetsons and Technology work.... and tea, especially tea" The boy sat for a second and then quickly added. "Oh and I have the power to fire and teleport via electricity, Your turn." Black shook his head he was looking for some missing kids wasn’t here to play the name game. He started to tune out as the second kid started to speak, but then he realized that he recognized his voice.

Then a light went off in his head “Sean.” He smiled “I knew I recognized you from somewhere but I couldn’t remember where. Long time no see huh?” he said turned to see everyone else at the table looking at him. “What, Mr. Wizard here already told you my name.” They still looked at him as though they were waiting for more. “Alright” he said giving in “I’m BlackOut and um… I can’t stand tea.” He laughed hoping they were satisfied as the server returned with his coffee. “Merci beaucoup Mademoiselle” he smiled. Sitting back he rolled up his mask just enough to free his mouth and took a sip from his drink. “That’s more like it” his sighed contently. “Now down to business, I’m assuming whatever those things were hey have to do with those two boys disappearing correct?”

"Correct." the wizard said, taking a sip of his tea. Chen listened closely, not volunteering any information about himself other than a brief "My name is Chen."

"Yes," the wizard started, "They are. The Lords and Ladies love stealing things from humans. Musicians, children, writers, art, tools, anything. They are proud, arrogant and jealous. They cannot stand to see anyone have anything they don't have, but they are quite sterile, creatively." The wizard then handed each of them an iron horseshoe. "And they cannot stand iron."

He turned to Sean. "Of a sort. I have my own magic."