Post by adzpower on Sept 3, 2016 8:54:13 GMT -5
Charmed Reborn Chapter Nine: “In Which it all Goes to Hallihell”
Prue Halliwell sat in front of her mirror applying make-up, she was excited, it had been two weeks since her and her sisters had finally vanquished Shax, one of The Source’s top assassins, and they hadn’t heard anything since, at first she was wary, but now she was enjoying herself, tonight especially should be a good night, as her friend from England Will was in town and wanted to meet up for dinner, she couldn’t help but blush, she liked him a lot, and there was the whole witches united against warlocks thing that helped them to bond. She had a good feeling. One she hadn’t had since Andy died.
She heard a knock on her bedroom door.
“Come in!” she answered.
Phoebe popped her head in, Prue smiled, she was proud of her sister, whatever she was feeling before had started to fix itself, Phoebe was getting back to normal and she was happy for her younger sibling, Phoebe never gave up no matter what.
“You look beautiful!” Phoebe squealed like a teenager.
She raced over to Prue’s dressing table to help her pick out a lipstick.
“Hmmm” Prue wondered.
“I could go for red and slutty or pink and proper” she mused.
“Well since this is kind of your first date, I’d go with the slutty” Phoebe said mischievously.
“I conquer” Prue replied applying the red lipstick.
She was going to meet Will at a local French restaurant downtown, she’d never been there but had heard great things, and thank God too, she was starving!
Phoebe helped her into a slinky black dress and guided her downstairs in what Prue called her “skimpy heels”.
“I don’t know how you walk in those things” Phoebe said in awe.
“I practiced using my astral self, to avoid injury” Prue laughed.
“Tut-tut Prue using your powers for personal gain?” Phoebe asked.
“Nah, only for Will’s gain”.
“Ooh you go get him girl!” Phoebe cheered her older sister on as she walked down the steps to her car.
Phoebe sighed and walked back into the manor, she felt more at peace these days, the odd bit of wooziness but aside from that she was just happy to feel more like herself again.
“That damn Seer!” The Source thundered as he marched into his throne room.
He looked at his top lieutenant now Shax was gone, Titus and snarled.
“Any word of her?”
“No my liege, we had heard talk of some harpies spotting her in the east, but nothing since” Titus replied.
“She is using her power to disrupt my hold on the witch, this will not stand!” he bellowed.
He turned around to face the tall man, “And you better fulfil your end of the bargain, capture the witch for me, so that I may resume control of her, or else”.
The tall man bowed his head and glimmered out of the underworld, searching for his prize.
“My liege, why would The Seer help the witch?” Titus pondered.
“Your guess is as good as mine, but she’s definitely up to something, she wouldn’t be interrupting my plans unless she had schemes of her own”.
The Source sat on his throne and put his hands together, trying to deliberate his next move.
Phoebe sat on the couch watching some TV, mindless fun, she sure had missed this in the underworld, and she had the house to herself, Piper was at P3 tonight.
If only Cole were here, last Phoebe had heard he was dodging some bounty hunters that The Source had sent after him, he didn’t like to spend much time here in case he bought those demons back with him, putting her and her sisters in danger. She loved that man.
“Flowers?” Cole said behind her.
Phoebe whirled around, joy filling her chest at the sight of Cole standing in front of her with a mixed bouquet of gorgeous flowers.
“Cole!” she shrieked as she jumped off the couch and straight into Cole’s arms, she had missed him so much.
“You’re just in time” Phoebe teased as she grabbed his arm and pulled Cole upstairs towards her bedroom.
“Miss Phoebe are you trying to seduce me?” Cole wondered.
“Always” she winked at him.
The next morning Piper sat with Leo in the hospital waiting room, she was waiting to be called in for her results, the doctors had done scans, blood tests, and she had only told Leo about it, her sisters had prodded but she’d told them she was there looking at the memorial to Dr Griffiths, she didn’t want to make something out of nothing and get them worried for no reason, Lord knows they had enough to be stressed about already.
“Piper Halliwell?” Dr Cameron called.
Piper liked her, she was an expert in in the field of fertility and knew she’d come to the right place for her tests.
“Please sit” she directed to Piper and Leo.
Piper waited, anxious at what was about to be said, her hand was trembling slightly, but Leo took hold of it and held it still for her, he really is an angel Piper thought as she turned to look at her husband and nod her thanks.
“Well first things first, in terms of your blood tests there is nothing wrong with you, nothing abnormal, all hormones in normal ranges”.
Piper breathed a sigh of relief, the mind goes to dark places when it looks like your health is in danger.
“But” the doctor said pointedly.
Piper’s heart started to race, she knew something was wrong, she’d always trusted her intuition.
“Please, just tell us” she asked.
“Your scans indicated a lot of scar tissue around the womb area, also in the lower part of your stomach, this kind of trauma usually only occurs when you’ve been in a lot of fights, or thrown around a lot” the doctor began to glare at Leo who frowned.
“Oh God no, it’s not Leo’s fault, I’m just really clumsy, I own a club, lots of spillages on the floor, lots of stairs”.
“Hmmm” the doctor said.
“Well, anyways, what does that mean for us?” Piper queried.
The doctor sighed.
“It means you are going to have a difficult time getting pregnant” the doctor surmised.
Leo squeezed Piper’s hand, which only made her feel worse.
Once the appointment was over and they’d gotten back in the car Piper hung her head and began to sob.
Leo took her hand and kissed it.
“Don’t worry honey” he said quietly.
“I just don’t understand, we went to the future and saw our daughter”.
“I know, which means we still probably will someday” Leo said.
“I hope so” Piper said between sobs.
She lowered her head into Leo’s shoulder and wept.
“Prue?!” Phoebe yelled as she wandered around the manor, Piper had left early this morning and she hadn’t seen Prue since last night, she was desperate to know how her date had gone with Will.
Phoebe made her way back upstairs and knocked on Prue’s bedroom door.
“Hello?” she asked as she peered in.
Nothing. The bed hadn’t even been touched.
Looks like the date had maybe gone a little too well Phoebe thought as she smiled and made her way back downstairs for something to eat.
The phone started to ring, Phoebe raced down to answer.
“Hello?”
“Uh Hi, I was wondering if I could peak to Prue?” a British man asked.
“Oh, you must be Will” Phoebe teased.
“Haha, I guess she mentioned me, which is a good sign, but we were supposed to meet for dinner last night and she never showed, I thought maybe she’d tried to leave a message and it hadn’t gone through?” he asked hopefully.
Phoebe went cold.
“Um, ok that’s weird because last time I saw her she was all dressed up and on her way to go see you”.
“You know what? I’m gonna go talk to my other sister and our whitelighter and I’ll call you back ok?” Phoebe said as she slammed the phone down, panicking.
“Leo!” she yelled.
Leo orbed in looking concerned.
“What’s up?” he asked.
“Prue’s missing, come on let’s orb to P3 I need Piper’s help” she said whilst grabbing a jacket.
“Uh, sure. But I don’t know how much help she’s gonna be to you right now”.
“Why?” Phoebe asked.
Piper looked up at the ceiling of her club, she never noticed how blue it was before, blue for a boy, pink for a girl, not like the baby she would ever have.
She grabbed the whiskey bottle lying near her, wanting to drown her sorrows some more, she figured she was entitled to one day of sorrow before getting back on the saddle.
“Is anyone here?” a voice called.
Piper poked her head up from behind the bar and spotted a young woman walking down the steps towards the bar.
“Oh, someone’s here” the girl said, relieved.
Piper stood, feeling fairly embarrassed.
“How can I help you?” she managed to get out.
“Well I was just looking for some information, I was asked to come and speak to a Piper Halliwell about a case of domestic violence”.
Piper thought she had misheard the woman.
“I’m sorry, what?” she asked.
“Ok, I’m gonna level with you, this is my first day of being an actual social worker, my boss sent me here because a doctor at the hospital had some concerns that you were being abused by your husband”.
Piper shook her head, she couldn’t believe Dr Cameron had done this, she was definitely not going to see her again.
She plastered on her best smile.
“I’m sorry to make this so uneventful for your first day but honestly, there is no abuse story here, I am happily married to a wonderful man”.
Piper was starting to slur, “Do you want a drink?” she tried to ask politely.
“Oh, no I don’t drink” the woman added.
“Though I will say I love your club Ms Halliwell, I’ve been here a few times in my spare time, it’s pretty great”.
“Thank you, it’s always nice to hear happy customers”.
Piper noticed a glow over in the back of the room, at first she thought it was a drunken illusion before seeing both Leo and Phoebe orbing in.
“Oh my God!” Piper yelped.
“What is it?” the woman asked, concerned.
“Oh nothing, just a cramp in my foot” Piper said.
“Stood still for too long”.
“Well, I better be going, but if you wanna talk, here’s my card”.
The woman handed it over to Piper who took it sheepishly whilst gesturing with her head that Leo and Phoebe should shuffle their way slowly into the back room to avoid being seen by the woman.
“Paige Matthews” the card read.
Interesting, Piper took a good look at her as she walked out of the club, she was gorgeous, pure white skin and big brown eyes, she looked like one of their ancestors sort of, she didn’t remember which one though.
“Are you two nuts?!” she yelled at Leo and Phoebe as they walked out of the back.
“It’s not my fault, I’m not the one with sensing powers” Phoebe said whilst glaring at Leo.
“Thanks for that Phoebe” Leo grimaced.
“What’s up anyway?” Piper asked as she burped.
Phoebe raised her eyebrows smelling the whiskey.
“Had a rough morning?” she emphasized the morning part in particular.
“I don’t need judgement from my baby sister thank you, just tell me”.
“Prue’s missing” Phoebe said, worry on her face.
The Seer made her way slowly back towards The Source’s chambers, she was cloaked in an invisibility shield, a good friend from the windy city had crafted it for her, she needed to spy, there was only so much her visions would show her.
She wandered into the back of the room, it looked like a meeting was in session.
“You bought me the wrong one!” The Source barked at the tall man, who cowered behind the throne.
What could he mean? She wondered before looking to her right and fought back a gasp, it was Prue, trapped in the same cage Phoebe had been all those months ago.
“What do you mean the wrong one?” Prue asked.
“Silence!” The Source ordered, he waved his hand and Prue’s voice vanished, unable to speak she gave in and sat there, choosing to listen instead.
“This will work fine though, she can be bait, go” he ordered the tall man who glimmered away.
“Are you out of your mind!?” Piper yelled as Phoebe opened her bag and produced the book of shadows.
“We never take the book out of the house!” she continued.
“Piper, please just chill for a second, this is an emergency and I thought I should bring it along just in case”.
“Leo agreed with me” she added.
Piper turned her head to Leo and folded her arms, giving him THAT look.
“You really are trying to screw my day up aren’t you Phoebe?” he asked.
Phoebe shrugged her shoulders and thumbed through the book, she came across a new entry to the book, “To Vanquish Der Grossmann”.
“Huh, this is new” she said whilst looking it over.
The page had a huge picture of a very tall man in rags.
“Says he sucks victims into his being to transport them to parts unknown” Piper read over Phoebe’s shoulder.
“You think this is who took Prue?” she asked.
“Maybe” Phoebe said.
“I dunno though Phoebs, this page is giving me a weird vibe like all those others we’ve seen recently, like they aren’t supposed to be there”.
“Will you see what you can find out?” she asked Leo.
“Sure” he said as he orbed out.
“Well we can’t use this spell anyway, says here it can only be said by another evil being” Piper pointed out.
“Too bad Cole’s not still evil” she said.
The meeting was over, the demons cleared out. The Seer made her way slowly to the front of the room, she waved her hand to give Prue her voice back.
“Don’t think I don’t know you’re there Seer” The Source said, sitting in his throne.
“I can smell the mediocrity from here” he sneered.
The Seer took away her shield, it wasn’t going to do her much good now anyway she supposed.
“It’s you” Prue gasped.
“So my theory was right, you have been helping the witches”.
Prue shut her mouth tight, almost kicking herself for dropping The Seer in it, looked like she was already in The Source’s bad books anyway though.
“I will do whatever it takes to put my plans into action” The Seer stood tall.
“That’s what I’ve always admired about you, Lamia” The Source smiled as he used her real name.
“So much ambition”.
The Seer knew this was her only chance, she waved her arm and the magical cage she created came apart, letting Prue free.
“Take this!” she yelled as she threw Prue something.
“Eat it!” she screamed as a fireball hurtled into her sending her to the wasteland.
Prue quickly ate the minty herb and felt instantly perked up, powerful even.
She raised her arm as The Source turned to face her and sent him flying back into a wall on the other side of the room, this was good stuff she thought as she concentrated and astraled her body to the world above.
The tall man materialized into P3, looking around, Piper noticed him first.
“Phoebe!” she yelled as the two of them ducked, the tall man threw a bolt of lightning towards them which missed as they both hit the floor.
Piper stood and tried to blow him up to no avail, it had no effect on him whatsoever, only evil witches could face this monster.
Phoebe stood slowly, telling Piper to hold the book open on the “Der Grossmann” page.
Phoebe moved to stand behind Piper, reading the vanquishing spell from over her shoulder.
“The tall man who feeds on sucking light,
Be gone from this world I say by my might,
Let the darkness take you away,
And be vanquished by these words this evil witch say”.
The tall man looked up in shock as he exploded into flames.
“Phoebe, how?” Piper asked, shocked.
Phoebe turned to look at her sister, Piper gasped as she noticed Phoebe’s eyes had gone completely black, they looked pure evil, devoid of any light.
She didn’t get a chance to say anymore because Phoebe bought up her fist and punched her square in the face, knocking her out, the book dropping to the floor.
Phoebe made to grab it only for it to produce a forcefield made of light and repel her, throwing her back onto the floor.
“Meh, don’t need it anyway” she said to herself as she stood.
Prue felt the familiar sensation of astral travel and looked up, she was in P3, Piper was on the floor, Phoebe stood over her, the book of shadows was across the room.
“Phoebe thank God, is Piper ok?” Prue said as she came rushing over to her sisters.
Prue looked Piper over, aside from a nasty lump on her head she seemed fine, Leo could heal this later no problem.
“You remember that Seer who helped us rescue you before?” Prue asked as she lifted Piper up onto a sofa at the back of the room.
“Well apparently she’s been helping us this whole time, but The Source killed her, she helped me escape” Prue trailed off as she looked at Phoebe for the first time properly.
She was smiling, and her eyes were black.
“Phoebe what’s going on?” Prue asked, horror creeping over her.
“Oh nothing, just realizing my true self, it’s amazing how good it can feel to finally relinquish good, morality is far too confusing” she winked at Prue.
“Oh and good luck by the way” Phoebe said lightly.
“You’re going to need it” she laughed as she teleported away into a huge wave of flame.
Prue sank to her knees, unable to grasp what had just happened. Had she really just lost her baby sister to evil?
Phoebe flamed into The Source’s throne room, smiling.
She kicked a pile of ash to the side as she approached him.
She got on one knee.
“My liege” she said, her eyes full of darkness.
“Rise” he commanded.
“I hear your Seer is dead” Phoebe stated blankly.
“That’s right” he said.
“I guess that means you have a job opening?” Phoebe asked.
The Source smiled.
End of Chapter Nine, stay tuned for Chapter Ten: “Phoebs?”
Prue Halliwell sat in front of her mirror applying make-up, she was excited, it had been two weeks since her and her sisters had finally vanquished Shax, one of The Source’s top assassins, and they hadn’t heard anything since, at first she was wary, but now she was enjoying herself, tonight especially should be a good night, as her friend from England Will was in town and wanted to meet up for dinner, she couldn’t help but blush, she liked him a lot, and there was the whole witches united against warlocks thing that helped them to bond. She had a good feeling. One she hadn’t had since Andy died.
She heard a knock on her bedroom door.
“Come in!” she answered.
Phoebe popped her head in, Prue smiled, she was proud of her sister, whatever she was feeling before had started to fix itself, Phoebe was getting back to normal and she was happy for her younger sibling, Phoebe never gave up no matter what.
“You look beautiful!” Phoebe squealed like a teenager.
She raced over to Prue’s dressing table to help her pick out a lipstick.
“Hmmm” Prue wondered.
“I could go for red and slutty or pink and proper” she mused.
“Well since this is kind of your first date, I’d go with the slutty” Phoebe said mischievously.
“I conquer” Prue replied applying the red lipstick.
She was going to meet Will at a local French restaurant downtown, she’d never been there but had heard great things, and thank God too, she was starving!
Phoebe helped her into a slinky black dress and guided her downstairs in what Prue called her “skimpy heels”.
“I don’t know how you walk in those things” Phoebe said in awe.
“I practiced using my astral self, to avoid injury” Prue laughed.
“Tut-tut Prue using your powers for personal gain?” Phoebe asked.
“Nah, only for Will’s gain”.
“Ooh you go get him girl!” Phoebe cheered her older sister on as she walked down the steps to her car.
Phoebe sighed and walked back into the manor, she felt more at peace these days, the odd bit of wooziness but aside from that she was just happy to feel more like herself again.
“That damn Seer!” The Source thundered as he marched into his throne room.
He looked at his top lieutenant now Shax was gone, Titus and snarled.
“Any word of her?”
“No my liege, we had heard talk of some harpies spotting her in the east, but nothing since” Titus replied.
“She is using her power to disrupt my hold on the witch, this will not stand!” he bellowed.
He turned around to face the tall man, “And you better fulfil your end of the bargain, capture the witch for me, so that I may resume control of her, or else”.
The tall man bowed his head and glimmered out of the underworld, searching for his prize.
“My liege, why would The Seer help the witch?” Titus pondered.
“Your guess is as good as mine, but she’s definitely up to something, she wouldn’t be interrupting my plans unless she had schemes of her own”.
The Source sat on his throne and put his hands together, trying to deliberate his next move.
Phoebe sat on the couch watching some TV, mindless fun, she sure had missed this in the underworld, and she had the house to herself, Piper was at P3 tonight.
If only Cole were here, last Phoebe had heard he was dodging some bounty hunters that The Source had sent after him, he didn’t like to spend much time here in case he bought those demons back with him, putting her and her sisters in danger. She loved that man.
“Flowers?” Cole said behind her.
Phoebe whirled around, joy filling her chest at the sight of Cole standing in front of her with a mixed bouquet of gorgeous flowers.
“Cole!” she shrieked as she jumped off the couch and straight into Cole’s arms, she had missed him so much.
“You’re just in time” Phoebe teased as she grabbed his arm and pulled Cole upstairs towards her bedroom.
“Miss Phoebe are you trying to seduce me?” Cole wondered.
“Always” she winked at him.
The next morning Piper sat with Leo in the hospital waiting room, she was waiting to be called in for her results, the doctors had done scans, blood tests, and she had only told Leo about it, her sisters had prodded but she’d told them she was there looking at the memorial to Dr Griffiths, she didn’t want to make something out of nothing and get them worried for no reason, Lord knows they had enough to be stressed about already.
“Piper Halliwell?” Dr Cameron called.
Piper liked her, she was an expert in in the field of fertility and knew she’d come to the right place for her tests.
“Please sit” she directed to Piper and Leo.
Piper waited, anxious at what was about to be said, her hand was trembling slightly, but Leo took hold of it and held it still for her, he really is an angel Piper thought as she turned to look at her husband and nod her thanks.
“Well first things first, in terms of your blood tests there is nothing wrong with you, nothing abnormal, all hormones in normal ranges”.
Piper breathed a sigh of relief, the mind goes to dark places when it looks like your health is in danger.
“But” the doctor said pointedly.
Piper’s heart started to race, she knew something was wrong, she’d always trusted her intuition.
“Please, just tell us” she asked.
“Your scans indicated a lot of scar tissue around the womb area, also in the lower part of your stomach, this kind of trauma usually only occurs when you’ve been in a lot of fights, or thrown around a lot” the doctor began to glare at Leo who frowned.
“Oh God no, it’s not Leo’s fault, I’m just really clumsy, I own a club, lots of spillages on the floor, lots of stairs”.
“Hmmm” the doctor said.
“Well, anyways, what does that mean for us?” Piper queried.
The doctor sighed.
“It means you are going to have a difficult time getting pregnant” the doctor surmised.
Leo squeezed Piper’s hand, which only made her feel worse.
Once the appointment was over and they’d gotten back in the car Piper hung her head and began to sob.
Leo took her hand and kissed it.
“Don’t worry honey” he said quietly.
“I just don’t understand, we went to the future and saw our daughter”.
“I know, which means we still probably will someday” Leo said.
“I hope so” Piper said between sobs.
She lowered her head into Leo’s shoulder and wept.
“Prue?!” Phoebe yelled as she wandered around the manor, Piper had left early this morning and she hadn’t seen Prue since last night, she was desperate to know how her date had gone with Will.
Phoebe made her way back upstairs and knocked on Prue’s bedroom door.
“Hello?” she asked as she peered in.
Nothing. The bed hadn’t even been touched.
Looks like the date had maybe gone a little too well Phoebe thought as she smiled and made her way back downstairs for something to eat.
The phone started to ring, Phoebe raced down to answer.
“Hello?”
“Uh Hi, I was wondering if I could peak to Prue?” a British man asked.
“Oh, you must be Will” Phoebe teased.
“Haha, I guess she mentioned me, which is a good sign, but we were supposed to meet for dinner last night and she never showed, I thought maybe she’d tried to leave a message and it hadn’t gone through?” he asked hopefully.
Phoebe went cold.
“Um, ok that’s weird because last time I saw her she was all dressed up and on her way to go see you”.
“You know what? I’m gonna go talk to my other sister and our whitelighter and I’ll call you back ok?” Phoebe said as she slammed the phone down, panicking.
“Leo!” she yelled.
Leo orbed in looking concerned.
“What’s up?” he asked.
“Prue’s missing, come on let’s orb to P3 I need Piper’s help” she said whilst grabbing a jacket.
“Uh, sure. But I don’t know how much help she’s gonna be to you right now”.
“Why?” Phoebe asked.
Piper looked up at the ceiling of her club, she never noticed how blue it was before, blue for a boy, pink for a girl, not like the baby she would ever have.
She grabbed the whiskey bottle lying near her, wanting to drown her sorrows some more, she figured she was entitled to one day of sorrow before getting back on the saddle.
“Is anyone here?” a voice called.
Piper poked her head up from behind the bar and spotted a young woman walking down the steps towards the bar.
“Oh, someone’s here” the girl said, relieved.
Piper stood, feeling fairly embarrassed.
“How can I help you?” she managed to get out.
“Well I was just looking for some information, I was asked to come and speak to a Piper Halliwell about a case of domestic violence”.
Piper thought she had misheard the woman.
“I’m sorry, what?” she asked.
“Ok, I’m gonna level with you, this is my first day of being an actual social worker, my boss sent me here because a doctor at the hospital had some concerns that you were being abused by your husband”.
Piper shook her head, she couldn’t believe Dr Cameron had done this, she was definitely not going to see her again.
She plastered on her best smile.
“I’m sorry to make this so uneventful for your first day but honestly, there is no abuse story here, I am happily married to a wonderful man”.
Piper was starting to slur, “Do you want a drink?” she tried to ask politely.
“Oh, no I don’t drink” the woman added.
“Though I will say I love your club Ms Halliwell, I’ve been here a few times in my spare time, it’s pretty great”.
“Thank you, it’s always nice to hear happy customers”.
Piper noticed a glow over in the back of the room, at first she thought it was a drunken illusion before seeing both Leo and Phoebe orbing in.
“Oh my God!” Piper yelped.
“What is it?” the woman asked, concerned.
“Oh nothing, just a cramp in my foot” Piper said.
“Stood still for too long”.
“Well, I better be going, but if you wanna talk, here’s my card”.
The woman handed it over to Piper who took it sheepishly whilst gesturing with her head that Leo and Phoebe should shuffle their way slowly into the back room to avoid being seen by the woman.
“Paige Matthews” the card read.
Interesting, Piper took a good look at her as she walked out of the club, she was gorgeous, pure white skin and big brown eyes, she looked like one of their ancestors sort of, she didn’t remember which one though.
“Are you two nuts?!” she yelled at Leo and Phoebe as they walked out of the back.
“It’s not my fault, I’m not the one with sensing powers” Phoebe said whilst glaring at Leo.
“Thanks for that Phoebe” Leo grimaced.
“What’s up anyway?” Piper asked as she burped.
Phoebe raised her eyebrows smelling the whiskey.
“Had a rough morning?” she emphasized the morning part in particular.
“I don’t need judgement from my baby sister thank you, just tell me”.
“Prue’s missing” Phoebe said, worry on her face.
The Seer made her way slowly back towards The Source’s chambers, she was cloaked in an invisibility shield, a good friend from the windy city had crafted it for her, she needed to spy, there was only so much her visions would show her.
She wandered into the back of the room, it looked like a meeting was in session.
“You bought me the wrong one!” The Source barked at the tall man, who cowered behind the throne.
What could he mean? She wondered before looking to her right and fought back a gasp, it was Prue, trapped in the same cage Phoebe had been all those months ago.
“What do you mean the wrong one?” Prue asked.
“Silence!” The Source ordered, he waved his hand and Prue’s voice vanished, unable to speak she gave in and sat there, choosing to listen instead.
“This will work fine though, she can be bait, go” he ordered the tall man who glimmered away.
“Are you out of your mind!?” Piper yelled as Phoebe opened her bag and produced the book of shadows.
“We never take the book out of the house!” she continued.
“Piper, please just chill for a second, this is an emergency and I thought I should bring it along just in case”.
“Leo agreed with me” she added.
Piper turned her head to Leo and folded her arms, giving him THAT look.
“You really are trying to screw my day up aren’t you Phoebe?” he asked.
Phoebe shrugged her shoulders and thumbed through the book, she came across a new entry to the book, “To Vanquish Der Grossmann”.
“Huh, this is new” she said whilst looking it over.
The page had a huge picture of a very tall man in rags.
“Says he sucks victims into his being to transport them to parts unknown” Piper read over Phoebe’s shoulder.
“You think this is who took Prue?” she asked.
“Maybe” Phoebe said.
“I dunno though Phoebs, this page is giving me a weird vibe like all those others we’ve seen recently, like they aren’t supposed to be there”.
“Will you see what you can find out?” she asked Leo.
“Sure” he said as he orbed out.
“Well we can’t use this spell anyway, says here it can only be said by another evil being” Piper pointed out.
“Too bad Cole’s not still evil” she said.
The meeting was over, the demons cleared out. The Seer made her way slowly to the front of the room, she waved her hand to give Prue her voice back.
“Don’t think I don’t know you’re there Seer” The Source said, sitting in his throne.
“I can smell the mediocrity from here” he sneered.
The Seer took away her shield, it wasn’t going to do her much good now anyway she supposed.
“It’s you” Prue gasped.
“So my theory was right, you have been helping the witches”.
Prue shut her mouth tight, almost kicking herself for dropping The Seer in it, looked like she was already in The Source’s bad books anyway though.
“I will do whatever it takes to put my plans into action” The Seer stood tall.
“That’s what I’ve always admired about you, Lamia” The Source smiled as he used her real name.
“So much ambition”.
The Seer knew this was her only chance, she waved her arm and the magical cage she created came apart, letting Prue free.
“Take this!” she yelled as she threw Prue something.
“Eat it!” she screamed as a fireball hurtled into her sending her to the wasteland.
Prue quickly ate the minty herb and felt instantly perked up, powerful even.
She raised her arm as The Source turned to face her and sent him flying back into a wall on the other side of the room, this was good stuff she thought as she concentrated and astraled her body to the world above.
The tall man materialized into P3, looking around, Piper noticed him first.
“Phoebe!” she yelled as the two of them ducked, the tall man threw a bolt of lightning towards them which missed as they both hit the floor.
Piper stood and tried to blow him up to no avail, it had no effect on him whatsoever, only evil witches could face this monster.
Phoebe stood slowly, telling Piper to hold the book open on the “Der Grossmann” page.
Phoebe moved to stand behind Piper, reading the vanquishing spell from over her shoulder.
“The tall man who feeds on sucking light,
Be gone from this world I say by my might,
Let the darkness take you away,
And be vanquished by these words this evil witch say”.
The tall man looked up in shock as he exploded into flames.
“Phoebe, how?” Piper asked, shocked.
Phoebe turned to look at her sister, Piper gasped as she noticed Phoebe’s eyes had gone completely black, they looked pure evil, devoid of any light.
She didn’t get a chance to say anymore because Phoebe bought up her fist and punched her square in the face, knocking her out, the book dropping to the floor.
Phoebe made to grab it only for it to produce a forcefield made of light and repel her, throwing her back onto the floor.
“Meh, don’t need it anyway” she said to herself as she stood.
Prue felt the familiar sensation of astral travel and looked up, she was in P3, Piper was on the floor, Phoebe stood over her, the book of shadows was across the room.
“Phoebe thank God, is Piper ok?” Prue said as she came rushing over to her sisters.
Prue looked Piper over, aside from a nasty lump on her head she seemed fine, Leo could heal this later no problem.
“You remember that Seer who helped us rescue you before?” Prue asked as she lifted Piper up onto a sofa at the back of the room.
“Well apparently she’s been helping us this whole time, but The Source killed her, she helped me escape” Prue trailed off as she looked at Phoebe for the first time properly.
She was smiling, and her eyes were black.
“Phoebe what’s going on?” Prue asked, horror creeping over her.
“Oh nothing, just realizing my true self, it’s amazing how good it can feel to finally relinquish good, morality is far too confusing” she winked at Prue.
“Oh and good luck by the way” Phoebe said lightly.
“You’re going to need it” she laughed as she teleported away into a huge wave of flame.
Prue sank to her knees, unable to grasp what had just happened. Had she really just lost her baby sister to evil?
Phoebe flamed into The Source’s throne room, smiling.
She kicked a pile of ash to the side as she approached him.
She got on one knee.
“My liege” she said, her eyes full of darkness.
“Rise” he commanded.
“I hear your Seer is dead” Phoebe stated blankly.
“That’s right” he said.
“I guess that means you have a job opening?” Phoebe asked.
The Source smiled.
End of Chapter Nine, stay tuned for Chapter Ten: “Phoebs?”