Night of The Witch

**Night Of The Witch** is the third episode of Season 1 of the permanently revived Tales of Bianca, as well as a Halloween special. It is the first Halloween special of the series as well as the third episode of the series overall.

## Synopsis

It's Halloween in Jade Creek and everyone is having the time of their lives. Especially young witch Danielle Shepherd who has just recieved her familiar. At a Halloween part at her place, she and Kyle meet and he learns her secret.

## Plot

It is the eve of Halloween. Danielle’s mother, Eliza, and her fellow coven of witches and warlocks are getting ready for Danielle’s ceremony tomorrow to choose her familiar. They choose an old crypt as the location for the ceremony, dressed up in robes and setting up candles and drawing archaic symbols on the floor. After the setup is all done, Eliza asks her coven where Danielle is, though, like her, they also seem to have no idea.

Cut to the local pizza place. Danielle is hanging out with a few friends, having a very good time as Kyle watches her, loving her beautiful smile. Bianca is also there and ignoring a few boys hitting on her, obviously wanting to just kiss her and shallowly hook up with her. Bianca then approaches Kyle and asks him if he’s gonna ask Danielle out or continue to watch her like a pervert. Kyle quietly says "Okay, first off, I'm not a pervert. And, second off, that's Danielle Shepherd. She's one of the richest girls in town! A girl like that wouldn't want anything to do with an accountant like me."

Bianca scoffs and says "Come on, Kyle. Just go and ask her out on a date. What's the worst that could happen?" Kyle retorts "Her saying no and I experience soul crushing embarrassment." Bianca rolls her eyes and looks over at Danielle. She compliments her beauty, remarking "I see why you've fallen for her. She is pretty beautiful." Danielle, unaware of this conversation, continues having a good time with her friends until a good looking, older woman walks into the arcade with a stern look on her face. Danielle's smile fades and she nervously tries to act oblivious. "Oh crap... hey, Thea! It's a really great night for some arcade games!" Thea rolls her eyes and tells Danielle to get up; they're leaving now.

Danielle and Thea soon arrive back at Danielle’s house, where her Familiar ritual is going down. Danielle is brought to the ritual site and sighs before putting on a hooded cloak and concentrates to perform a summoning spell for her Familiar. After a while, a strange creature appears in front of her; she successfully summoned a Familiar, and everyone present applauds her for her success. Danielle smiles at the strange creature and it reaches its hand out to touch hers. Once they touch fingers, the creature squeaks and glows brightly, making all of the coven members avert their eyes. When the creature stops shining, Danielle looks at it and it's taken the form of a bearded dragon lizard. Danielle picks it up and holds it close to her chest. Eliza tells her to ask for its name and Danielle does so. She looks at her mom and says "Plutarch. Its name is Plutarch."

The following night, Kyle is at home, carving a pumpkin while Bianca is in her room getting ready for a Halloween party that is being held at Danielle’s house, unbeknownst to Kyle. Bianca smiles as she puts on her costume, which is that of a sexy vampire, ironically. Kyle later goes to her, and is wowed by Bianca’s costume, saying she looks amazing, which makes Bianca smile cutely at his compliment and cutely says she hopes lots of people at the party like her costume.

Kyle then asks where this party is going to be at. Bianca smirks cutely and says that the party is going to be held at Danielle‘s house, which makes Kyle’s eyes widen in shock as he then says he’d like to go…then he realizes what he just said and covers his mouth, but it’s too late, as Bianca giggles, figuring that the only reason he wants to go to the party…is to see Danielle, and she starts to tease him about it, specifically about him maybe staring at Danielle some more like he did back at the pizza place.

He chuckles softly then tells her to quit teasing, but she cutely says that she’ll tease him whenever she wants to, then he asks if all vampires are such big teases like herself. Bianca chuckles and says “Only the pretty ones are. Luckily, there’s tons of them”.

Kyle chuckles then says that really doesn’t surprise him, to which Bianca chuckles cutely and says he’s so silly sometimes. Kyle quickly throws together a costume (a crazed businessman with blood on his shirt) and the two drive off to the party. The entire mansion is full of costumed, young people. Bianca gets eyed up by a few guys and girls and winks at them. She walks over to one particularly good looking guy and they start flirting. Kyle looks around for Danielle and sees her, dressed as Little Red Riding Hood, talking with some friends. He takes a deep breath and slowly walks towards her, ready to make his move.

Cut back to Bianca and the unnamed handsome boy, who are still flirting with one another. He asks her if they can go upstairs for some “privacy”. Bianca grins and tells him she’ll race him to the top of the stairs. He accepts the dare and they start running up the stairs, but Bianca gets there first thanks to her being a vampire. She then presses her back to a wall as the boy makes it upstairs and the two suddenly start hotly making out, ignoring all the other people at the party, who obviously look on as the two make out quite romantically. Soon, Bianca backs into an empty bedroom, still making out with the boy. Bianca is then gently pushed down to the bed by the boy, making her gasp in surprise, then the boy resumes kissing her, forgetting that they left the door open. Bianca suddenly gets horny and seductively tells him “Lock the door”, which he quickly does before laying on top of her and rushedly stripping her so he can see her sexy body. Once her costume is off, he starts kissing her big breasts, commenting on how soft and big they are as Bianca arches her neck and moans softly.

Back out in the party, Danielle is talking with Hatcher about her famliiar. He asks how Plutarch is and Danielle says "Plutarch is good so far. He's just a little miffed about having to be a small lizard. He was hoping to be a fox or a deer." Gavin chuckles and reaches into his pocket, pulling out a small mouse. "Aesop was the same way when I first got him. But after a while, he came to enjoy being a mouse. I'm sure Plutarch will start to enjoy his new form." Danielle smiles softly and says she hope so. Hatcher walks off to get a snack and that's when Kyle makes his move. He awkwardly says "Umm...great party tonight!" Danielle nods in an equally awkward way.

Kyle then clumsily introduces himself and Danielle asks "You're...not good at talking to girls, are you?" Kyle sighs and shakes his head. Danielle smiles a little and says that it's okay; she's not good at talking to guys. Kyle smiles back and they have a cute conversation about their respective costumes. Danielle finds him charming so she asks him if he wants to see "something cool." Kyle nods and the two go upstairs to her room. Kyle is blushing as he thinks "I'm in Danielle Shepherd's bedroom...holy shit, I'm in Danielle Shepherd's bedroom!" The two sit down on her bed and she reaches into her bedside drawer, pulling out a small book with a swirl symbol on it. Kyle asks what the symbol is and Danielle explains "It's the Triskelion. It's a Celtic symbol and it means life and death and rebirth and things like that."

Danielle then slowly opens the book to show Kyle what she can do with it. She starts a small incantation as a tiny flame appears in her left palm. After Kyle says how cool that is, she then puts out the flame and does another spell, this time telekinetically lifting a chair off the ground before setting it back down, wowing Kyle. She then does one more spell, telepathically reading the mind of a boy outside, telling Kyle that the boy is thinking of “getting drunk and doing a hot girl long and hard”. The two groan in disgust at this then laugh as Kyle then tells Danielle that she’s really awesome, which makes her smile adorably at him.

Eliza then abruptly enters the room. Upon seeing Kyle and Danielle together, she angrily pins Kyle to a wall with a telekinetic hand gesture and shouts at Danielle, asking why she’d “dare share her sacred magic with a mere human”. Before Danielle can quit stuttering to answer, Kyle interjects, promising Eliza he won’t tell anyone what Danielle showed him. This seems to be enough for Eliza, but she threateningly tells Kyle, “If I ever see you with Danielle again…I’ll send you into a state of pure insanity with a single look!”

After Eliza storms off and releases Kyle from her telekinetic grip, Danielle apologizes to Kyle about all that. He quickly says she’s forgiven then runs out of the room…only to bump into Bianca, who’s standing in the hallway, back in her sexy costume as she readjusts it and fixes her hair; she has apparently finished her “horizontal tango” with the hunky guy from earlier. The boy is currently still in the room, asleep in the bed and…lacking clothing. Kyle sees this and sighs before humorously saying "I'm not even going to ask, B. I'm going home." Bianca looks a little saddened by this and says "Going home? But why? The party is just getting started!" Kyle insists that he's going home and Bianca begrudingly let's him go but she at least goes out to say goodbye.

Once they get out to Kyle's truck, Bianca asks what this is all about. Kyle explains what happened with Danielle and Eliza and Bianca says quietly "Wow. So Danielle Shepherd is a witch. This town just seems to be a magnet for supernatural shit, I swear!" Kyle climbs into his truck and says "Yeah, well I've had enough supernatural shit for one night. Try not to stay out too late." Bianca chuckles and jokes "Okay, dad." Kyle rolls his eyes and drives back home. He walks inside and collapses into bed. He turns on the TV and begins watching the horror movie The Witch. As he watches the movie, he slowly falls asleep.

Meanwhile, back at the party, Hatcher is feasting on some Halloween snacks when a familiar voice comes from behind him. "Well, hello professor!" Hatcher groans in annoyance and turns around. It's Dennis, dressed as Ringo Starr. Hatcher replies glumly "Hello, reason-I'm-still-a-drinker." Dennis chuckles at this and says the party is going great. Hatcher says it was going great until Dennis showed up. Dennis says "Awww, come on. I'm just trying to have a good Halloween here, ya prickly pear. Maybe I'll go check out those pumpkin donuts over there." Dennis walks away from Hatcher who breathes a sigh of relief. As the party goes on, a loud howl is heard from the woods. Bianca, who's flirting with a girl in an angel costume, looks in the direction of the howl and says "Sounds like the werewolves are having a good Halloween too." The girl giggles, thinking she's just joking around. The girl tells Bianca that she'll go home with her after the party and then walks off. Bianca walks over to one of the many snack tables and fixes herself a plate. A dark haired young man is watching her with a menacing face.

She notices him and he walks over to her. Bianca tries to be flirty and says "And who might you be, handsome?" The young man says "That flirting shit won't work on me, vamp." Bianca stops and asks how he knows she's a vampire. He says "Come on. You have to remember me." Bianca looks at his eyes and notices that he's giving her the same look the black furred werewolf was giving her on the first night she arrived. A look of absolute contempt. "You were that werewolf. You looked like you wanted to rip me to pieces." She says to which he responds "I still want to rip you to pieces." Bianca gets a little defensive and asks what his problem is. He says angrily "You are my problem. Now Nova and the others might not have a problem with you bloodsuckers but I do. Just know that if you give us any shit at all, I won't hesitate to come for you." Dennis, who is overhearing this conversation nearby, quickly comes to Bianca's rescue. He tries to defuse the situation and says "Alright Buddy, why don't you go somewhere else? We're all just trying to have a good time here."

"Don't tell me what to do, Dennis." Buddy snarls, his eyes going yellow for a second. Bianca steps back but Dennis crosses his arms, asking "Do I need to tell Nova about this? You know she doesn't like it when you have these little...temper tantrums." Buddy angrily huffs before telling Bianca "Don't you forget what I said." Then he leaves the party. Bianca asks Dennis what that was all about and Dennis says "Oh, that's just Buddy for you. He really doesn't like us all that much." Bianca asks why and Dennis says he doesn't know but he does suggest that Bianca stears clear of him. Then Dennis sees a cute looking man and walks over to flirt with him, leaving Bianca to ponder his words.

Later on, after the party has ended and everyone has left, Danielle sits down in the kitchen with a sad look on her face. Eliza walks in and looks at her angrily. She says "I don't know what the hell you thought you were doing tonight but it was stupid." Danielle says that she was just having a good time with a nice guy and Eliza asks angrily "Has centuries of our kind being hunted down by mortals not taught you anything?! You shared sacred magic with a mortal man! You're lucky I didn't make him go insane." Danielle gets up and says "I'm just trying to have a good time, something you constantly deny me!" Eliza raises her hand and Danielle suddenly goes flying across the room. She collapses on the ground and groans in pain before looking up at her mother. Her mother says "You are lucky that I even let this party happen. If you get out of line again, I'll see to it that you don't leave this house for months."

Eliza goes back upstairs, leaving Danielle to weep on the kitchen floor. Back at Kyle's house, Kyle is still sleeping when he suddenly gets a loud ringing in his head. Soon the ringing stops and Danielle's voice appears in his mind. She says "Hey, Kyle. I can't communicate for too long but I wanted to let you know that I had a nice time talking to you. I know my mom said not to be around me but I want to get to know you more. Meet me in town tomorrow and we'll hang out as much as we can." Danielle's voice then disappears from his mind. He smiles a little, realizing he's pretty much just gotten a date with his crush.

As Halloween comes to a close, a large van drives down the road toward Jade Creek. Driving the truck is an anxious looking man and in the back of the van, dog-like whimpering can be heard. Without looking back into the van, he asks "How's she doing back there?" In the back of the van is Rosie, a young blonde witch, is tending to a fully transformed, dark brown werewolf. The werewolf has a bleeding wound in its side and Rosie is trying to do a healing spell on it but it isn't working. Rosie says "We need to hurry, Louie. She's not doing so good! I got the bullet out but...she's gonna go into shock from the silver poisoning." Louie says "No, she won't! We're going to get to Jade Creek and we're going to get her healed!" They keep driving until they eventually enter Jade Creek. Rosie asks "Do you think she'll help us?" Louie says "She has to. Bianca Velasquez will know what to do."

Thus ends the episode.

## Trivia

* This episode introduces Danielle, Eliza, their coven, and the witches of the Biancaverse.
* This episode leads into the Gabriel Tyler arc.