Post by adzpower on Sept 3, 2016 8:51:33 GMT -5
Charmed Reborn Chapter Eight: Hurricane Shax
Piper sat in the waiting room at the hospital, she had been waiting for over an hour, she was here to get some tests done, she hadn’t wanted to tell her sisters but her and Leo had been trying for a baby the past couple of months and nothing seemed to be going their way so to speak.
She knew it wasn’t always easy, and that it wasn’t always an instant thing for most couples, but she had a strange feeling about it in her stomach every time she thought about it, like something wasn’t quite right.
So she’d made an appointment with a fertility specialist who would hopefully perform some tests and see if there were any problems.
The past couple of weeks had been difficult, ever since Prue got home from England Phoebe had been distant, back to spending a lot of time shut in her room, or the attic, and Prue was starting to lose her temper. So as usual, it was up to Piper to try and keep the peace and mediate between the two of them.
“Piper Halliwell?” a nurse called.
“Yes, that’s me” she replied.
“This way” the nurse said pointing towards an open room.
Another hour later and Piper had seen the specialist who had ordered some tests, mainly routine ones just to check that everything down there was working well.
She was just about to walk out of the hospital when something caught her eye, it was a memorial, a shrine if you will, to Dr Griffiths, the heart surgeon that Shax had murdered at the manor all those months ago, Piper shook her head, they still hadn’t managed to track him down, not that they had tried very hard, they’d had a lot of distractions in recent months. But Piper was feeling determined, they’d get him back for what he’d done if it was the last thing she did.
The Source flamed into his throne room, his soldiers gathered and already waiting, his top lieutenants bowed their heads, they were all there, the grimlocks, the furies, the warlocks and even the vampires had been invited.
The Source snarled, he hated the vampires, they had tried to betray him centuries ago, if it hadn’t been for his faithful Seer he would never had known, he looked behind the almighty chair in the centre, there she was, he had plucked her from squalor a long time ago, and since then she had been his most devoted servant, he hated to admit it but he owed her a lot.
“You all know why you’re here” he boomed.
“The Charmed Ones have caused us too much in recent years, and now it is time to put my plans into action, we must destroy them from the inside out”.
He began to laugh, it sounded pure evil.
“Shax!” he called loudly.
The Source’s most devoted assassin stepped forward, bowing as he did so.
“Kill them” The Source commanded.
Shax began to smile before wind carried him away into the air.
The Seer spoke. “Shax will never kill The Charmed Ones, he isn’t part of your plan anyway is he?”
The Source chuckled.
“Always observant aren’t you, or could it be that you’ve seen his fate?”
He continued, “Shax’ goal is not to destroy a Charmed One, only help capture one. Again”.
The Seer felt something stir behind her, a man materialized into the room, a very, very tall man, she gasped as she recognised who it was, someone The Source had imprisoned long ago, she had seen him during her own imprisonment down in the dungeons, she never thought he would resort to this though.
The Source directed his next command to the tall man, “Go, lay in wait, and when he fails, capture the prize”.
The tall man bowed and de-materialized.
“You think it wise to unearth him?” The Seer questioned.
“I will do whatever it takes” The Source screamed.
The Seer shrank back and bowed her head in compliance before teleporting back to her own chambers. This could mess with her own plans, she had to warn the witches. Her eyes began to glow white.
“Phoebs, you in there?” Prue asked outside Phoebe’s bedroom.
No reply.
Prue sighed, this had gone on long enough, she wiggled her finger and unlocked the door telekinetically before pushing it open.
Phoebe was sat on her bed, her hair dirty, her face free of make-up, she looked utterly miserable. Prue felt for her, but she needed to know what was wrong before she could do anything to help.
“Phoebe, please just tell me, what is wrong with you?”
Phoebe began to sob as she lowered her head into her knees.
Prue rushed over to console her.
She began to speak.
“I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I’ve been feeling this way for a while, but recently, it’s been worse”.
“What’s been worse?” Prue asked.
“I feel hollow, empty, stuff that I usually care about means nothing to me anymore”.
“Stuff like what?”
“You, Piper, Cole, Mom, everyone, everything”.
“What do you feel for us now?” Prue wondered.
“Hatred”.
Prue was shocked, she’d never encountered anything like this before, worse than anything, she couldn’t tell if this problem was magical or mental. Phoebe had spent so much time down in the underworld that perhaps it screwed with her brain.
Prue tried to sound confident, “We’re gonna fix this ok?”
Phoebe looked hopeful which broke Prue’s heart, how could she have been so blind?
“You mean it?” Phoebe asked.
Prue nodded, no way was she going to let her sister go through this, at least not alone anyway.
She pulled Phoebe into a hug but Phoebe cringed away as she gasped, being sucked into a premonition, Prue stood back waiting to hear what her sister was seeing.
In the vision Phoebe saw Shax, The Source’s assassin attacking Inspector Cortez at what looked like the hospital. The vision ended and Phoebe looked up at her concerned sister.
“Call Piper, we need to get to the hospital”.
“Sad isn’t it?” a voice said from behind Piper.
She whirled round, it was Inspector Cortez, Piper had to stop herself from rolling her eyes.
“Are you following us now Inspector?” she asked, smiling.
“Not at all, I just came to pay my respects, you see I feel guilty for not yet finding this man’s killer, perhaps you’ve got some guilt of your own?” he asked pointedly.
“Very smooth Inspector, but no, I was here for a doctor’s appointment when I noticed the memorial on my way out”.
“I see” he replied.
“You haven’t called any of us down to the station yet, so I’m betting that you’re the only one at the station who suspects we have anything to do with this murder, correct?” Piper questioned.
His silence was all she needed to hear.
“So then how about you leave us the hell alone” she said politely before walking out of reception towards the exit.
“Well I’ll just head up to talk to some of his colleagues once again, see you around Ms Halliwell” he said as Piper stalked off.
As she was about to reach the door her phone started to ring, she picked it up without glancing at the caller ID, wondering who it was.
“Piper thank God” Prue’s voice said.
“Can you meet us at the hospital? Phoebe had a vision of Shax attacking Cortez there”.
Piper’s blood ran cold, “Oh no” she said as she ran back into the hospital desperately searching for the Inspector.
“Piper, Piper!” she could hear Prue’s voice on the phone, she raised it back to her ear.
“Prue, I’m already at the hospital, dammit I was just talking to him”.
“You are?” Prue said, confusion clouding her voice.
“I’ll explain later but get here as fast as you can, I’ll go look for him”.
“Be careful” Prue said before she hung up.
Piper ran back to the reception desk and asked the nurse there if she had seen Inspector Cortez, she hadn’t.
Piper was totally lost, she had no clue where he could be. Until she felt the chill.
Piper looked around the corridor, she looked at the sign on the wall, “Cardiology”, Dr Griffiths had been a Cardiac surgeon and Cortez said he was going to talk to some of his colleagues, she must be headed in the right direction, when in doubt, follow the wind.
She could feel it everywhere now that she’d noticed it, Shax was here and he was close, she ran into the entrance to the department and saw Cortez talking to a nurse by the reception desk.
A chill ran through Piper, from head to toe as the doors behind her exploded and a huge tornado swept in, Piper ran towards Cortez, hoping to get to him quickly. He looked behind her in disbelief.
“What the hell is that?” he asked, clearly frightened.
“Uh, it’s a demon, and we need to go, now!” Piper yelled as she took the Inspector’s arm and ran with him to the other end of the unit, luckily it seemed to be empty, she guessed a lot of people were going elsewhere for their surgeries now that this hospital no longer had their expert.
“This way!” Piper called back as she kicked open the fire exit door and dragged Cortez through with her.
Shax followed quickly, as they made their way down the pathway out of the back of the building the tornado whipped past Piper and Cortez and Shax rematerialized in front of them.
“I always thought evil magic existed, but this is something else” Cortez breathed as he took Shax in.
Piper looked closely, he seemed to be even more terrifying to look at than last time, bulging blue muscles, long white hair and a trailing blue cloak.
Piper’s phone was ringing again, she handed it to Cortez and ordered him to answer.
“Uh, it’s your sister” he said, looking irritated.
“Tell them we’re around the back” Piper said hurriedly.
Cortez just stood there, Piper rolled her eyes and turned her head back around.
“Let me put it another way, if you want us to live then tell them!” she barked.
Cortez quickly whispered their location over the phone before hanging up.
Shax wasn’t going to wait any longer, he was hungry for the kill.
He raised his arm and shot a blast of wind slicing through the air, it looked sharp enough to cut through metal, let alone two humans.
Piper raised her arms and froze the wind mid-air.
“How the hell did you do that?” Cortez questioned.
Piper ignored him and raised her arms again, blowing Shax away into the air and further down the path.
Piper grabbed Cortez’ hand and they began to run again, they made it to the corner and almost collided with Prue and Phoebe.
“Oh thank God” Piper exclaimed in relief.
“Could you use some help sis?” Phoebe asked, smiling.
“You could say that” Piper answered.
Shax was up again and gliding on the wind towards them, Prue raised her hand and made the previously frozen blade of wind shoot into Shax, knocking him to the ground.
He stood, smiling. “It’s been a while since I’ve had a good fight” he boomed menacingly.
“Team-up?” Prue asked Phoebe.
She nodded and together they ran to Shax, Prue holding Phoebe’s hand as she levitated partially into the air and performed an air spinning kick into Shax’ head, sending him reeling back into a brick wall.
Prue then launched herself into the air with her telekinesis, and landed with her legs around Shax’ neck pulling him down to the ground so that Phoebe could levitate back into the air and perform a devastating elbow to the stomach, leaving Shax gasping for air.
“Why am I always the cheerleader?” Prue heard Piper ask in the background.
She smiled as she used her palm to smack Shax in the nose as he stood, black blood came streaming out and ran down his face. He licked his lips, apparently enjoying himself.
Shax raised his arm and send wind pulsing through the air, sending Phoebe flying back into a car window, leaving a spider-web of cracks on it.
Prue turned back round after checking that Phoebe was ok, she began to engage Shax in hand to hand combat.
It was a fight to behold, Shax raised his hand, Prue countered it, Prue raised her leg to kick him only for Shax to knock it back down. They were equal Piper thought as she watched through her covered face, she could hardly bare to watch exchanges like this so she always covered her eyes with her hands and watched through them whilst gritting her teeth.
Phoebe got to her feet and ran back to Piper, unfolding a piece of paper as she got to her sister.
“The vanquishing spell” Piper acknowledged.
They needed Prue to come back so they could say the spell and get this over and done with, in all the chaos Piper had forgotten about Cortez who she assumed was hiding behind her, of course not she thought as she turned to her right to see him advancing towards the duelling duo with his gun out.
“Put your hands up, you monster!” he shouted as he let loose a few rounds into Shax’ chest, Prue dove to the ground to avoid the shots and crawled her way back to her sisters.
“What do you think you’re doing?!” Prue shouted at him as she got up.
“Putting a murderer to bed” he answered.
But it was no use, Shax took the bullets as though they were made of paper, he advanced on the Inspector.
“Ok now!” Phoebe said as she scrambled to get the piece of paper in a position where all three of them could see it.
They began to chant.
“Evil wind that blows”
Shax raised his hand smiling.
“That which forms below”
He let loose one final, cutting blast of wind at the Inspector as he began to explode.
“No longer may you dwell,
Death takes you with this spell!”
The sisters could only watch in horror as the blade of wind cut Cortez clean in half, his top and bottom halves falling to the ground with a slump.
Shax screamed his final scream as he cascaded into a shower of fireworks, leaving a huge crater in the ground where he once stood.
Piper turned away and began to vomit at the sight of the body.
Prue rubbed her back comfortingly.
Phoebe looked at Cortez, she didn’t know why, but she was fascinated by the remains before turning back to her sisters, shaking herself back to normality.
“You ok Phoebe?” Prue asked.
“Yeah, just feel bad for him is all, he was only doing his job”.
Prue nodded. “I’ll call Darryl, someone needs to clean this up”.
The Seer smiled, her plan had worked so far, Shax had not gotten in the way of that, now she had to get the tall man away from the sisters, she had already planted a vision in Phoebe’s brain without noticing, she could probably do so again without raising suspicions.
“I know it was you Seer” a chilling voice said behind her.
She gasped as she whirled round, face to face with The Source, all her power of premonition and she hadn’t seen this coming.
“I don’t know what you mean my liege” she said calmly.
He grabbed her by the neck and lifted her off the ground.
“You forget Seer, I am tapped into Phoebe’s mind now, I see what she sees, try to influence what she does and where to take her next” he hissed.
“She didn’t get that premonition naturally”.
The Seer didn’t know what to do, but she knew she couldn’t die, not now, not after all these centuries and all her careful planning.
She did as women have done for centuries when confronted with an angry, violent man, she kneed him where it hurt the most.
She dropped to the floor and teleported away in a wave of indigo light.
Years later they’d say you could hear the scream of rage The Source let loose across the whole Underworld for miles.
End of Chapter Eight, stay tuned for Chapter Nine: “In Which it all Goes to Hallihell”.
Piper sat in the waiting room at the hospital, she had been waiting for over an hour, she was here to get some tests done, she hadn’t wanted to tell her sisters but her and Leo had been trying for a baby the past couple of months and nothing seemed to be going their way so to speak.
She knew it wasn’t always easy, and that it wasn’t always an instant thing for most couples, but she had a strange feeling about it in her stomach every time she thought about it, like something wasn’t quite right.
So she’d made an appointment with a fertility specialist who would hopefully perform some tests and see if there were any problems.
The past couple of weeks had been difficult, ever since Prue got home from England Phoebe had been distant, back to spending a lot of time shut in her room, or the attic, and Prue was starting to lose her temper. So as usual, it was up to Piper to try and keep the peace and mediate between the two of them.
“Piper Halliwell?” a nurse called.
“Yes, that’s me” she replied.
“This way” the nurse said pointing towards an open room.
Another hour later and Piper had seen the specialist who had ordered some tests, mainly routine ones just to check that everything down there was working well.
She was just about to walk out of the hospital when something caught her eye, it was a memorial, a shrine if you will, to Dr Griffiths, the heart surgeon that Shax had murdered at the manor all those months ago, Piper shook her head, they still hadn’t managed to track him down, not that they had tried very hard, they’d had a lot of distractions in recent months. But Piper was feeling determined, they’d get him back for what he’d done if it was the last thing she did.
The Source flamed into his throne room, his soldiers gathered and already waiting, his top lieutenants bowed their heads, they were all there, the grimlocks, the furies, the warlocks and even the vampires had been invited.
The Source snarled, he hated the vampires, they had tried to betray him centuries ago, if it hadn’t been for his faithful Seer he would never had known, he looked behind the almighty chair in the centre, there she was, he had plucked her from squalor a long time ago, and since then she had been his most devoted servant, he hated to admit it but he owed her a lot.
“You all know why you’re here” he boomed.
“The Charmed Ones have caused us too much in recent years, and now it is time to put my plans into action, we must destroy them from the inside out”.
He began to laugh, it sounded pure evil.
“Shax!” he called loudly.
The Source’s most devoted assassin stepped forward, bowing as he did so.
“Kill them” The Source commanded.
Shax began to smile before wind carried him away into the air.
The Seer spoke. “Shax will never kill The Charmed Ones, he isn’t part of your plan anyway is he?”
The Source chuckled.
“Always observant aren’t you, or could it be that you’ve seen his fate?”
He continued, “Shax’ goal is not to destroy a Charmed One, only help capture one. Again”.
The Seer felt something stir behind her, a man materialized into the room, a very, very tall man, she gasped as she recognised who it was, someone The Source had imprisoned long ago, she had seen him during her own imprisonment down in the dungeons, she never thought he would resort to this though.
The Source directed his next command to the tall man, “Go, lay in wait, and when he fails, capture the prize”.
The tall man bowed and de-materialized.
“You think it wise to unearth him?” The Seer questioned.
“I will do whatever it takes” The Source screamed.
The Seer shrank back and bowed her head in compliance before teleporting back to her own chambers. This could mess with her own plans, she had to warn the witches. Her eyes began to glow white.
“Phoebs, you in there?” Prue asked outside Phoebe’s bedroom.
No reply.
Prue sighed, this had gone on long enough, she wiggled her finger and unlocked the door telekinetically before pushing it open.
Phoebe was sat on her bed, her hair dirty, her face free of make-up, she looked utterly miserable. Prue felt for her, but she needed to know what was wrong before she could do anything to help.
“Phoebe, please just tell me, what is wrong with you?”
Phoebe began to sob as she lowered her head into her knees.
Prue rushed over to console her.
She began to speak.
“I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I’ve been feeling this way for a while, but recently, it’s been worse”.
“What’s been worse?” Prue asked.
“I feel hollow, empty, stuff that I usually care about means nothing to me anymore”.
“Stuff like what?”
“You, Piper, Cole, Mom, everyone, everything”.
“What do you feel for us now?” Prue wondered.
“Hatred”.
Prue was shocked, she’d never encountered anything like this before, worse than anything, she couldn’t tell if this problem was magical or mental. Phoebe had spent so much time down in the underworld that perhaps it screwed with her brain.
Prue tried to sound confident, “We’re gonna fix this ok?”
Phoebe looked hopeful which broke Prue’s heart, how could she have been so blind?
“You mean it?” Phoebe asked.
Prue nodded, no way was she going to let her sister go through this, at least not alone anyway.
She pulled Phoebe into a hug but Phoebe cringed away as she gasped, being sucked into a premonition, Prue stood back waiting to hear what her sister was seeing.
In the vision Phoebe saw Shax, The Source’s assassin attacking Inspector Cortez at what looked like the hospital. The vision ended and Phoebe looked up at her concerned sister.
“Call Piper, we need to get to the hospital”.
“Sad isn’t it?” a voice said from behind Piper.
She whirled round, it was Inspector Cortez, Piper had to stop herself from rolling her eyes.
“Are you following us now Inspector?” she asked, smiling.
“Not at all, I just came to pay my respects, you see I feel guilty for not yet finding this man’s killer, perhaps you’ve got some guilt of your own?” he asked pointedly.
“Very smooth Inspector, but no, I was here for a doctor’s appointment when I noticed the memorial on my way out”.
“I see” he replied.
“You haven’t called any of us down to the station yet, so I’m betting that you’re the only one at the station who suspects we have anything to do with this murder, correct?” Piper questioned.
His silence was all she needed to hear.
“So then how about you leave us the hell alone” she said politely before walking out of reception towards the exit.
“Well I’ll just head up to talk to some of his colleagues once again, see you around Ms Halliwell” he said as Piper stalked off.
As she was about to reach the door her phone started to ring, she picked it up without glancing at the caller ID, wondering who it was.
“Piper thank God” Prue’s voice said.
“Can you meet us at the hospital? Phoebe had a vision of Shax attacking Cortez there”.
Piper’s blood ran cold, “Oh no” she said as she ran back into the hospital desperately searching for the Inspector.
“Piper, Piper!” she could hear Prue’s voice on the phone, she raised it back to her ear.
“Prue, I’m already at the hospital, dammit I was just talking to him”.
“You are?” Prue said, confusion clouding her voice.
“I’ll explain later but get here as fast as you can, I’ll go look for him”.
“Be careful” Prue said before she hung up.
Piper ran back to the reception desk and asked the nurse there if she had seen Inspector Cortez, she hadn’t.
Piper was totally lost, she had no clue where he could be. Until she felt the chill.
Piper looked around the corridor, she looked at the sign on the wall, “Cardiology”, Dr Griffiths had been a Cardiac surgeon and Cortez said he was going to talk to some of his colleagues, she must be headed in the right direction, when in doubt, follow the wind.
She could feel it everywhere now that she’d noticed it, Shax was here and he was close, she ran into the entrance to the department and saw Cortez talking to a nurse by the reception desk.
A chill ran through Piper, from head to toe as the doors behind her exploded and a huge tornado swept in, Piper ran towards Cortez, hoping to get to him quickly. He looked behind her in disbelief.
“What the hell is that?” he asked, clearly frightened.
“Uh, it’s a demon, and we need to go, now!” Piper yelled as she took the Inspector’s arm and ran with him to the other end of the unit, luckily it seemed to be empty, she guessed a lot of people were going elsewhere for their surgeries now that this hospital no longer had their expert.
“This way!” Piper called back as she kicked open the fire exit door and dragged Cortez through with her.
Shax followed quickly, as they made their way down the pathway out of the back of the building the tornado whipped past Piper and Cortez and Shax rematerialized in front of them.
“I always thought evil magic existed, but this is something else” Cortez breathed as he took Shax in.
Piper looked closely, he seemed to be even more terrifying to look at than last time, bulging blue muscles, long white hair and a trailing blue cloak.
Piper’s phone was ringing again, she handed it to Cortez and ordered him to answer.
“Uh, it’s your sister” he said, looking irritated.
“Tell them we’re around the back” Piper said hurriedly.
Cortez just stood there, Piper rolled her eyes and turned her head back around.
“Let me put it another way, if you want us to live then tell them!” she barked.
Cortez quickly whispered their location over the phone before hanging up.
Shax wasn’t going to wait any longer, he was hungry for the kill.
He raised his arm and shot a blast of wind slicing through the air, it looked sharp enough to cut through metal, let alone two humans.
Piper raised her arms and froze the wind mid-air.
“How the hell did you do that?” Cortez questioned.
Piper ignored him and raised her arms again, blowing Shax away into the air and further down the path.
Piper grabbed Cortez’ hand and they began to run again, they made it to the corner and almost collided with Prue and Phoebe.
“Oh thank God” Piper exclaimed in relief.
“Could you use some help sis?” Phoebe asked, smiling.
“You could say that” Piper answered.
Shax was up again and gliding on the wind towards them, Prue raised her hand and made the previously frozen blade of wind shoot into Shax, knocking him to the ground.
He stood, smiling. “It’s been a while since I’ve had a good fight” he boomed menacingly.
“Team-up?” Prue asked Phoebe.
She nodded and together they ran to Shax, Prue holding Phoebe’s hand as she levitated partially into the air and performed an air spinning kick into Shax’ head, sending him reeling back into a brick wall.
Prue then launched herself into the air with her telekinesis, and landed with her legs around Shax’ neck pulling him down to the ground so that Phoebe could levitate back into the air and perform a devastating elbow to the stomach, leaving Shax gasping for air.
“Why am I always the cheerleader?” Prue heard Piper ask in the background.
She smiled as she used her palm to smack Shax in the nose as he stood, black blood came streaming out and ran down his face. He licked his lips, apparently enjoying himself.
Shax raised his arm and send wind pulsing through the air, sending Phoebe flying back into a car window, leaving a spider-web of cracks on it.
Prue turned back round after checking that Phoebe was ok, she began to engage Shax in hand to hand combat.
It was a fight to behold, Shax raised his hand, Prue countered it, Prue raised her leg to kick him only for Shax to knock it back down. They were equal Piper thought as she watched through her covered face, she could hardly bare to watch exchanges like this so she always covered her eyes with her hands and watched through them whilst gritting her teeth.
Phoebe got to her feet and ran back to Piper, unfolding a piece of paper as she got to her sister.
“The vanquishing spell” Piper acknowledged.
They needed Prue to come back so they could say the spell and get this over and done with, in all the chaos Piper had forgotten about Cortez who she assumed was hiding behind her, of course not she thought as she turned to her right to see him advancing towards the duelling duo with his gun out.
“Put your hands up, you monster!” he shouted as he let loose a few rounds into Shax’ chest, Prue dove to the ground to avoid the shots and crawled her way back to her sisters.
“What do you think you’re doing?!” Prue shouted at him as she got up.
“Putting a murderer to bed” he answered.
But it was no use, Shax took the bullets as though they were made of paper, he advanced on the Inspector.
“Ok now!” Phoebe said as she scrambled to get the piece of paper in a position where all three of them could see it.
They began to chant.
“Evil wind that blows”
Shax raised his hand smiling.
“That which forms below”
He let loose one final, cutting blast of wind at the Inspector as he began to explode.
“No longer may you dwell,
Death takes you with this spell!”
The sisters could only watch in horror as the blade of wind cut Cortez clean in half, his top and bottom halves falling to the ground with a slump.
Shax screamed his final scream as he cascaded into a shower of fireworks, leaving a huge crater in the ground where he once stood.
Piper turned away and began to vomit at the sight of the body.
Prue rubbed her back comfortingly.
Phoebe looked at Cortez, she didn’t know why, but she was fascinated by the remains before turning back to her sisters, shaking herself back to normality.
“You ok Phoebe?” Prue asked.
“Yeah, just feel bad for him is all, he was only doing his job”.
Prue nodded. “I’ll call Darryl, someone needs to clean this up”.
The Seer smiled, her plan had worked so far, Shax had not gotten in the way of that, now she had to get the tall man away from the sisters, she had already planted a vision in Phoebe’s brain without noticing, she could probably do so again without raising suspicions.
“I know it was you Seer” a chilling voice said behind her.
She gasped as she whirled round, face to face with The Source, all her power of premonition and she hadn’t seen this coming.
“I don’t know what you mean my liege” she said calmly.
He grabbed her by the neck and lifted her off the ground.
“You forget Seer, I am tapped into Phoebe’s mind now, I see what she sees, try to influence what she does and where to take her next” he hissed.
“She didn’t get that premonition naturally”.
The Seer didn’t know what to do, but she knew she couldn’t die, not now, not after all these centuries and all her careful planning.
She did as women have done for centuries when confronted with an angry, violent man, she kneed him where it hurt the most.
She dropped to the floor and teleported away in a wave of indigo light.
Years later they’d say you could hear the scream of rage The Source let loose across the whole Underworld for miles.
End of Chapter Eight, stay tuned for Chapter Nine: “In Which it all Goes to Hallihell”.