This isn’t a ‘magic girl’ story in the traditional sense…

Four childhood friends gradually fell out of touch— life happened and distracted them from reaching out to each other.

Dr. Brian Halim Johnson became an authority in child psychology, oftentimes taking on patients that no other psychologist could get through to. His methods are fairly rudimentary, but his gut-feeling, instinctual insights are uncannily spot-on.

Benjamin Franklin LeRoi became a chemical engineer at a top lab. His one-time fiancé had left him shortly after they moved into a house together, leaving Ben with just his work to fill his time.

Taylor Bernard Davidson, always the life of the party, became an office manager with a myriad of systems he put in place to keep his ADHD in check. He never left their small hometown, though; meaning he has a limited dating pool an way too much baggage with everyone in 50 mile radius.

Gary Weisman also stuck around their small hometown, even sparing a night or two away from his veterinarian practice. He was the one with the special touch— able to calm any animal, able to diagnose any ailment an animal might have, and had the most cost-effective treatment options available for pets and farm animals like.

One misadventure involving a dog-fighting ring brought Brian, Ben, and Taylor to Gary’s grave. The three surviving friends bemoaned having fallen out of touch and missing out on time with each other— and Gary, especially.

However, while working late the night before he was going to leave for the funeral, Ben had the strangest, most terrifying experience he’d had in adulthood. A legitimate monster was in the hallway at work; grotesque and giant body, fangs, weirdly long and nimble tongue. He frantically called the on-duty security guard while the monster tried to break into his lab, but, when the guard arrived, there was absolutely no monster. Ben would have shrugged the experience off as some deranged manifestation of grief due to exhaustion— except the doors were severely damaged and it turned out that a neighboring lab lost a bit of proprietary inventory.

While at the funeral, Ben received a call from the police back home, wanting him to come in again to ‘revisit’ his statement. He had to cut his homecoming short.

Taylor and Brian, though, decided to tag along.

Unknown to them, Gary’s ghost decides to join them.

Back at Ben’s house, a home-invasion involving a wholly unexpected, other nightmare of a beast propels the four— yes four— friends into the fantastical world hidden from most people as they try to untangle the mess Ben unwittingly got himself into.

Urban Fantasy - Magic Girl in all the wrong ways

Content warning for mentions of dog-fighting