The Once and Future Evil
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2029
The Halliwell manor stood proud and menacing in the night. While the other houses in the street had fallen into decay, the Halliwell manor had remained the same. The only difference was that there was that the manor was now surrounded by large black metal fence, based in grey stone. On the front porch of the manor stood two guards, dressed in black suits, carefully scanning the street for trouble. Light was burning in the manor and heavy metal music could be heard outside.
Suddenly, a small flying probe hovered down the street, it stopped and scanned the area. When it found nothing, it flew off.
Across the street, in an abandoned house, a column of orbs materialized on in a second floor bedroom. The orbs took the shape of a young man with wavy dark brown hair and brown eyes, twenty-five year old Chris Halliwell. Beside him appeared a young woman, about twenty-one years old, with long straight brown hair and hazel-colored eyes. Her name was Melinda Halliwell and she was the spitting image of her mother, Piper.
As Chris ducked down and sneaked to the window, a pink light appeared in the room in the shape of a heart. The light expanded and took the shape of another young woman. She had long wavy dark brown hair and chocolate brown eyes. Her name was Prue, twenty-two and oldest daughter of Phoebe and Coop. Like both her parents, she was stunningly beautiful. She had inherited the cupid way of teleportation form her father, which was called beaming.
"How is it looking?" Prue asked as she ducked down next to Chris.
"Like we expected." Chris said as he looked out the window. "There is minimal security, looks like he's not home."
"Good, then at least we have a shot of pulling this off." Prue said.
"We need to move quickly, as soon as he knows something is wrong he'll be there." Chris said.
"Don't worry, this will work." Prue said confident.
"It had better, we're running out of options." Chris said doubtful, he then turned to his sister. "Melinda, are you up for this?"
"Of course." Melinda said, though she sounded unsure. "We have to do this, there is no other way."
"Okay." Chris said. "We all know what the plan is. He probably has spells preventing us from orbing in directly, so we'll have to go in the hard way."
"We know, Chris." Melinda said. "We storm in, you and I distract the guards…"
"While I go to the attic and get the book." Prue finished her sentence.
"Right, as soon as you find the spell, rip it out the book and head back down, we have to get out of there as soon as we can." Chris said.
"Got it." Prue said.
"Are you ready?" Chris asked Melinda.
"Ready as I'll ever be." Melinda said.
"Good enough." Chris said and took her arm, orbing them both out.
They reappeared in a swirl of orbs right in front of the gate. Chris immediately flung his arm, telekinetically slamming the gate open. A magical barrier appeared to be shattered. The guards both formed energy balls in their hands, throwing them at the two witches. Melinda quickly raised her hands, freezing the energy balls mid-air. Chris flung his arm again, sending the energy balls flying back at the demons, vanquishing them both on the spot.
"We have to hurry." Chris said as the two of them walked up the stairs.
Prue appeared next to them in a pink flash of light and walked with them to the front door. As soon as they reached the door, Chris pushed his hand forward, sending a powerful telekinetic blast at the door, breaking it down.
As the three witches entered the manor, demons poured in from every direction possible, each preparing either a fireball of energy ball. Before they could throw them, Melinda froze them.
"Prue, hurry!" Chris said.
Prue nodded and ran toward the stairs, getting up as quickly as she could. Meanwhile, the group of demons was already starting to resist the freezing. Melinda and Chris both reached into their pockets for potions and started vanquishing them one by one.
"Warn him!" One of the demons yelled to another as he unfroze.
The other demon nodded and shimmered away.
"No!" Chris yelled and he threw a potion at the shimmering demon. The potion flew through him and smashed on the floor. The demon smiled as he disappeared completely.
"He's coming." Chris said to Melinda.
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Prue ran through the upstairs hallway. She had not encountered any demons yet, but she was sure the attic was well guarded. She took a second to mentally prepare before she headed up the stairs and kicked open the attic door.
There were three demons in the attic, all surrounding the thing she was after, the Book of Shadows. Before the demons could attack, Prue closed her eyes and focused. A small pink light appeared on her forehead, as she fired it at the demons it expanded in a wave of pink energy. The energy wave knocked down the first two demons, but is dissipated before it could reach the third.
The demon screamed angrily as he threw a fireball at Prue, who gracefully avoided it. As he threw another, Prue tapped into her power of empathy, challenging the demon's emotions and using his powers against him. She held out her hand deflected the fireball.
The demon ducked and the fireball instead blasted out one of the attic widows. Prue focused and summoned another fireball to her hand. This time she struck the demon, sending his crashing into the back wall but not vanquishing him. Prue quickly threw a potion from her pocket to finish the job.
With her opponents down, Prue quickly ran toward the book and started flipping through the pages.
"Come on, come on." She whispered to herself.
She could hear the demons knocked out by her psionic blast moaning. Her power could only knock people unconscious, and from the sound of it, the demons were already starting to wake up.
"Yes!" She finally called out as she found the page she was looking for.
Prue tore out the page and folded it, before putting in her jeans pocket. She could hear fighting downstairs and she knew they were running out of time. She quickly headed back downstairs.
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Chris kept flinging his arms around, telekinetically sending demons flying through the room as well as deflecting incoming attacks. Meanwhile Melinda was trying her best to protect him by freezing the demons that he couldn't see. Unfortunately they became more resistant to her power each time she froze them, allowing them to unfreeze faster every time. They had run out of potions and the demons seemed to be coming at them endlessly.
"I have the spell." Prue called out as she came running down the stairs.
Before she could reach them, however, she was knocked back by a powerful energy blast. Chris quickly spun around to see him standing in the door opening. Wyatt, his brother and current ruler of all evil.
Wyatt was twenty-six, he had short dark blonde hair and green eyes, he had always looked the most like their father. Chris wondered how someone could look so familiar and so unknown at the same time. The Wyatt he had grown up with was gone, corrupted by his power.
The demons had seen their ruler as well and stopped attacking, waiting for his command.
"Leave us!" Wyatt spoke calmly but intimidating.
The demons quickly shimmered away. Meanwhile Melinda ran toward her cousin, seeing if she was alright. Chris stood frozen in his place.
"Wyatt." He said, trying to remain calm.
"Well, isn't this the little family reunion." Wyatt said. "If you wanted to come by, all you had to do was ask. But instead you break into my home and try to steal from me."
"None of this is yours, not the manor or the book." Chris said. "It belongs to all of us."
"No. It belongs to me." Wyatt said. "I am the oldest heir, I am the most powerful."
"Not everything is about power." Chris said.
Wyatt laughed. "Of course it is, power is all that matters. But you wouldn't know that, would you? You are weak."
"I'd rather be weak than driven mad by power." Chris said.
"I see." Wyatt said. "You still believe that I have been corrupted, that my power has turned me evil. Don't you get it. I am beyond good and evil, it's all about power."
Meanwhile Melinda had helped Prue and supported her as they walked toward Chris. Prue was still weak from the energy blast and leaned on Melinda.
"We have to get out of here." Melinda said.
"You're not going anywhere, sister." Wyatt said.
Melinda, who had not yet had the courage to face Wyatt directly, turned to her oldest brother.
"You hurt her, she needs help." Melinda stated.
"None of you are leaving until you tell me what you are planning." Wyatt said. "You must have had a good reason for taking this risk. Have you finally found a way to stop me for good?"
"We're not planning to kill you, Wyatt. We're not like you." Melinda said.
"Melinda!" Chris whispered warningly.
"Then what are you planning? Will you try to seal me away, strip me of my powers?" Wyatt asked mockingly. "You know there is only one way you can ever be rid of me."
"There is another way." Melina said. "It doesn't have to be like this."
"I see." Wyatt said, suddenly realizing their plan. "Of course. You still live in the illusion that something made me this way, that I was turned evil. So what? You think you can go back and prevent that?"
There was something it Wyatt's voice, Chris noticed it, it was doubt. Maybe this could really work.
"If you're so sure that it won't work, then why are you suddenly getting nervous?" Chris asked with a challenging smile.
"You will never get a chance to try." Wyatt said. "Hand over the spell you took, or die."
"Never." Prue suddenly said, having regained full consciousness. "We will stop you, we will reverse what you've done."
"So be it!" Wyatt said determined and held out his hand to create an energy ball.
As he threw the energy ball, Chris flung his arm and directed it back against Wyatt. The energy ball hit him full in the chest, but Wyatt only stumbled back slightly. The energy ball barely had any effect.
"Go!" Chris yelled. "Use the spell, don't wait for me!"
Chris turned to Wyatt and put all his strength in a single telekinetic attack. He pushed his hands forward and send Wyatt flying across the room.
"Go now!" Chris yelled again.
Prue grabbed Melinda by the shoulder and beamed her out in a flash of pink light. The last thing Melinda saw before she disappeared was Chris getting hit by an energy ball. She screamed.
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Melinda was still screaming as they reappeared in a deserted loft. It took her a while to regain herself, though she was still crying.
"Chris." She whispered tearfully.
"Melinda, I need your help." Prue said, who had pulled the spell out her pocket, as well as two white crayons. "We have to hurry, who knows how long it will take before he finds us."
"But Chris…" Melinda said.
"If this works, all of this will have never happened." Prue said. "We have to focus of that right now."
"You're right." Melinda said as she wiped her tears.
Prue handed Melinda a crayon and they started to draw a triquetra, the symbol for the power of three, on the wall.
"What is this place?" Melinda asked.
"An old whitelighter hideout." Prue asked. "Chris and I once discovered it while on the run."
The girls finished the symbol and took a step back. Prue held out the spell page in front of them and they both started to chant.
"Hear these words
Hear the rhyme
Heed the hope within my mind
Send me back to where I'll find
What I wish in place and time."
The symbol of the wall crackled with blue energy as a time portal opened.
"God, I hope this works." Prue said.
"It has to." Melinda said determined.
Together they stepped into the portal and were transported away. The portal closed behind them, leaving an empty room.
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2018
There was a sudden loud knock on the door and fifteen year old Wyatt heard his mother's voice through the door.
"Wyatt! Hurry up. You're going to be for school! Again!" Piper Halliwell shouted.
Wyatt yawned and turned around, it was way too early after gaming half the night.
"Wyatt, I am not warning you again!" Piper shouted.
Unwillingly, Wyatt managed to get himself out of his bed and slowly made his way to the bathroom while rubbing the sleep from his eyes. When he reached the bathroom he found it locked. He could hear the shower running.
"Hey, open up!" Wyatt said yawning.
"I'm not done yet." His little brother's voice sounded from the bathroom.
"Well, hurry up!" Wyatt said. "And you'd better not use up all the hot water again, you little geek."
Wyatt went downstairs and to the kitchen. His little sister Melinda, ten years old, was sitting at the table eating cereal, while Piper was busy preparing everyone's lunches.
"You don't have to make my lunch, I'll get some at school." Wyatt said as he prepared a bowl of cereal for himself.
"Do you have any idea how expensive that stuff your school calls food is?" Piper said not taking her eyes of the sandwiches. "And it's completely unhealthy."
"Whatever." Wyatt said and sat down next to Melinda.
"You'd better hurry, you're going be late." Piper said.
"How can I hurry with Chris taking his hour-long shower?" Wyatt said annoyed.
"You could try getting up a little earlier. You've been late five times this month already." Piper said.
"So? Why can't I just orb to school? I'd never be late again." Wyatt said.
"That's personal gain and you know it." Piper said. "I have to go take Melinda to school and then I have to stop at the restaurant. Melinda, go get your coat."
Melinda got up from the table and left the kitchen. Meanwhile Piper packed everyone's backpacks and held on to Melinda's as she walked to the table.
"Oh, be sure to come home right after school." Piper said. "You have to pack for the camping trip."
"Wait, what?" Wyatt said and quickly spun around in his chair. "That's this weekend?"
"Yes. Did you forget?" Piper asked.
"Yeah, mom look, I can't go this weekend." Wyatt said.
Piper sighed and put down Melinda's bag. She stared at him with her typical disappointed mom look.
"Why not? What do you have that is more important than this trip." Piper asked.
"Trevor is having a party this weekend, the whole school is going to be there." Wyatt said. "I can't miss it."
"Wyatt, you can go to a million parties." Piper said. "Your dad is really looking forward to this."
"But why do I have to go, can't they just take the kids?" Wyatt said.
"The kids?" Piper asked with a smile. "And what are you?"
"You know what I mean. The little kids, I'm getting to old for this." Wyatt said.
"Wyatt." Piper said strictly. "Your dad and uncles have been taking you kids on these annual camping trips ever since you were old enough. It's a tradition. And now you want to bail on it because of some party."
"Whatever, I'm not going camping. I am going to the party." Wyatt said stubborn.
"You can either go camping of spend the entire weekend in your room!" Piper threatened.
"Are you serious?" Wyatt called out.
"Yes, I am." Piper said. "I have to get going, so make up your mind. What is more important?"
With that said Piper left the kitchen. A few moments later Wyatt could hear the front door close. Frustrated, Wyatt ate his breakfast. Why couldn't she understand that this party was important? At least more important that a stupid camping trip with his annoying younger siblings and cousins. It just wasn't fair, why was he being forced to go with them?
Wyatt angrily slammed his fists on the table. Suddenly his fists crackled with electric sparks and the table exploded, sending Wyatt flying back against the kitchen counter. He looked up in surprise and saw the table was ruined. Had he done that? He looked down at his fists, they seemed normal. Did his powers just activate on their own?
Suddenly Chris came walking in the kitchen, he was fully dressed, but his hair was still wet. He stared down at Wyatt sitting on the floor.
"I heard an explosion." Chris said. "What happened?"
Chris turned and saw the ruins of their kitchen table.
"Dude, you are in so much trouble." Chris said with a smirk.
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In a dark cave in the underworld, lit by only a few torches with eerie purple flames, a cloaked demon shimmered in. He looked around the cave. In the center of the cave stood a large stone basin, filled with a mirroring grey fluid.
"You wished to see me." The demon said to an apparent empty cave.
"I have something you might want to see." A seductive female voice sounded.
"Don't play games, Seer, show yourself." The demon said.
Three columns of black smoke circled up next to basin, taking the shape of a beautiful young woman. She had long and curly brown hair, olive skin and seductive dark eyes. She was dressed in a revealing black top and long torn sarong, but what drew the most attention was a beautiful purple amulet on her neck in the shape of a flower.
"What news do you have?" the demon asked.
"I have seen a disturbance." The Seer said as she let her hand slide over the basin, rippling the mirroring fluid without touching it.
"Yes, so?" The demon said impatiently.
"A young witch, gifted with more power than you can imagine." The Seer spoke. "His powers growing evermore."
"You are talking about the Twice-Blessed, I assume. If not you are wasting my time." The demon said.
"His powers are growing more rapidly than we could have ever guessed." The Seer said. "So fast that even he has trouble controlling them."
"They are growing too fast, so he is losing control." The demon repeated. "Of course, no one was meant to carry that much power."
"His powers will grow and consume him." The Seer said. "it won't be long before he is completely lost in them."
"Which makes him vulnerable." The demons concluded. "Making this the perfect time to strike. It's a little ahead of schedule, but it will do."
"My payment." The Seer said as she held out her hand.
"Of course." The demon said.
He reached into his cloak and pulled out a small orb glowing in a bright white light. The light of the orb revealed the demon's face. Nomed.
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