Bloodsport/Synopsis

## Bloodsport

The Urban Animal rescue team approaches the house they've identified as where the devourers live, and where they're keeping their friends, a large Victorian mansion set high upon a hillock on the property. The teens are standing at the foot of a long staircase that leads up to a side entrance next to the turret on the old house. Phoebe comments that the sight of the house is terrifying, and an unhappy Fletcher, armed with a crowbar, agrees with her. Charlotte is looking unusually subdued, and Paulo is terrified anyway thanks to the witches' spell. He wonders if this is a good idea, and Fletcher says it isn't … but they're doing it anyway. With Fletcher leading the way, the teens head up the stairs toward the house. Phoebe hoists the bat she brought with her when they approach the door.─────────────────────

Down in the basement of their house, the three witches dance widdershins around the magic circle with their crescent blades held in their hands, reciting the binding ritual. The center of the blood-anointed circle glows with a rosy light, and the outer ring of the circle radiates a pale green. Joe's limp body hangs above the red portion of the circle, suspended from ropes and a very heavy chain. The familiar sound of a ringtone sounds from a pouch tied to the rope belt at Ellie's waist, startling the woman and interrupting the dance. Cersei grouses at her for the phone, telling her she's been posing as a teenager too long. Ellie informs her that it's the house's security alarm. Ellie grows concerned while looking at her phone, reporting that it's not good. The video feed shows that Charlotte, on one knee with lockpicks in her hand, has infiltrated the house with the other three. Ellie tells the others that Joe's friends are here. Angered at the news, Diana argues that they were supposed to be split up. Cersei chips in that this is exactly what they need not to happen. They needed Joe to be vulnerable.

Encouraged by the dissension among the witches, Sean throws a thumbs-up and a smile to Sienna, Huddled in her cage, Sienna is losing faith in an escape and looks lost and hopeless, trying hard to hold back her tears.

Diana tells Ellie they don't have time for this. They have to complete the binding, not screw around with some meddling kids. Ellie argues that they may be 'meddling kids', but they fought three soul parasites and didn't die. That's exactly why they wanted the kids apart. If they wake Joe up before the binding is finished … he'll kill them all.─────────────────────

Upstairs, the four teens in question reach the foyer. Charlotte wants to know where Rat Janitor is, and Fletcher assures her he's coming. She accepts that, saying it's awesome, then says in the mean time they shouldn't split up. She looks back and sees it's already too late: Phoebe has taken a walk. Fletcher shows some concern for that, and Paulo asks if they got her. Fletcher says no, changing that to probably no. Annoyed by the drama, Charlotte just opens up and yells for Weird Girl. Phoebe pops her head out of a room off the foyer and tells her, first, she shouldn't yell when they're in the middle of a home invasion, and second, they need to see this, so the group joins Phoebe in the room she discovered.

Inside, the room is brimming with hunting trophies of a variety of unusual animals. It doesn't take long for them to figure out where the trophies came from. Paulo turns aside saying he's going to be sick, and Charlotte is stunned, horrified by what she sees. Fletcher asks the question, and Phoebe allows as there's only one thing they could be. They're chimera.

Diana startles the group by saying yes, confirming Phoebe's words, finishing with they certainly are. She has come up behind them with her face shadowed in her hair and poses with her crescent blades held in her crossed arms. Showing strong emotion for the first time in a while, Fletcher angrily asks where Joe is, and uncharacteristically, Charlotte asks for Sean instead of Joe. Thoroughly agitated by what she had seen in the room, Phoebe demands to know what this is, then changes her mind and asks what they are. Diana answers, rather succinctly, "We're you."

She explains they're humans caught in a world where they can't compete, at the mercy of creatures they can barely understand, which she assumes should sound familiar. She tells them it doesn't have to be that way. They felt the power. They want to be close to it. They want to feel it. They want to have it. Charlotte feels the pull of the spell that's been put on her, and she's not happy about that. Diana finishes her spiel by saying reasonably they're just the ones who figured out how. The gang clearly isn't buying into this, and Fletcher angrily ask if this is where she offers to give them whatever they want. With a bloodthirsty grin she answers no, she's just going to kill them, pointing her bloody crescent blade at the group. With a satisfied grin, she tells them they shouldn't have come alone.

"They didn't."

The voice coming from behind her causes the startled Diana to whip her head around to see who it is, anticipating no one should be there, but instead a horde of yellow-eyed rats is coming through the door left open by the teens' entry into the house. One of the rats sits up on his haunches and announces, "Neither did I." The silhouettes of other, taller adversaries appear behind the rats, causing Diana serious concern.

Appearing behind the rats is Jaeger in his full white wolf form, snarling and slavering, with his two White Wolf packmates right on his heels and coming in hot.