Hey everybody! Welcome to my Charmed/W.i.t.c.h. crossover fanfic. I had some complications with What the Future Holds, so I decided to start up a new story that I thought of on Independence Day during a terrible storm while watching Charmed (which, of course got knocked out because of the rain.) Charmed is one of my all-time favorite shows and W.i.t.c.h. is one of my favorite books so I figured it would be cool to combine them!
If you have watched Charmed before and know what it's about, the setting is during the time when Prue had died and Piper and Phoebe just got a new sister, Paige, which makes the three witches the Charmed Ones again. The Charmed ones risk their lives every day to fight demons and save innocent lives. Phoebe is dating the demon-turned-good, Cole, while Piper is married to their white-lighter, Leo. The Source is alive and well and is trying to do anything to gain more power and kill the Charmed Ones so that he can rule over the world with evil.
If you haven't seen it and don't understand what I've been talking about so far but you're still interested in reading this story, then you can check out my profile page to see what it's sort of about. For the setting of W.i.t.c.h., it is nearing the end of summer for the Guardians and they are dealing with their new enemy, Nerissa. As a note, I've combined the Council of Candracar from W.i.t.c.h. and the Elders from Charmed since they are basically the same thing. Now, onto the story!
Chapter 1: In the Dark
Taranee's POV
Taranee yawned and stretched herself out on the grass outside the Silver Dragon. It was so warm out this evening and after the meal that Hay Lin's parents had just fed the girls for dinner, Taranee felt incredibly full and sleepy.
"Hey! Don't fall asleep on us Taranee!" Irma yelled as she snapped her fingers in Taranee's face and she jumped out of her summer doze.
"You didn't have to scare me." Taranee told her as she rubbed her eyes.
"Sorry, but we're all exhausted too. I didn't really think about it." Irma said.
"Well that's nothing new." Cornelia sniffed.
"Shut up Corny!"
"Stop calling me that! How many times have I told her that, Hay Lin."
"Oh, I don't know. I'm too tired to think. Just please stop arguing." Hay Lin replied boredly. Cornelia sighed and sat up.
"Oh okay. So, we came here to talk about Nerissa-"
"How she won't stop bugging us! I haven't had a single decent night's sleep since that old hag started coming after us." Irma replied grumpily.
"I don't think any of us have." Taranee sighed.
It was true. The Guardians hadn't been sleeping well lately and it wasn't because of staying up late watching T.V., talking on the phone, or thinking about boy troubles. Every single time the girls closed their eyes, they had a nightmare, horrible images in their head that wanted to hurt them if they didn't give in to their newest enemy. And who was this new enemy who had made a drastic invasion of their lives?
"Nerissa," Will whispered. It was the first time that Will had spoken since before dinner and Taranee was surprised.
"Are you okay, Will? You don't look too good." Taranee asked her with concern.
Will shook her head.
"No, I'm not okay. I feel terrible." She whispered and sighed.
"I'm putting you guys through all of this and I hate it. Nerissa only wants the Heart of Candracar, and if she was only torturing me-"
"It doesn't matter Will." Cornelia said firmly. "We're standing by you no matter what."
"Yeah, we're a team, and the Heart of Candracar matters a lot to us too." Irma said.
Yeah, but you don't have to worry about all the pressure of holding it; the pain of thinking that you might also end up like Nerissa did.
"Don't think that Will!" Taranee cried out to her.
"Hey! Those are my private thoughts and I never asked you to bud in." Will snapped.
Taranee fell silent and the girls looked at each other as Will sighed.
"I'm sorry, Taranee. I've been feeling a little uptight lately." Will shivered. "And really cold."
"Maybe you're sick. Or is it all because of Nerissa?"
"I don't know actually," Will answered as she held her head. "Maybe both."
Taranee moved to the side and felt her forehead.
"Well, I think you definitely have a fever at least."
"You should head back home. Actually, I think we all should." Irma said as she got up and stretched, giving a hand to Hay Lin."
"Yeah, go get some rest Will. And maybe you're mother should pick you up." Hay Lin said encouragingly.
"Ha, as if!" Will said with a dry laugh. Hay Lin looked at her pointedly with concern and Will shrugged.
"Alright already, Mom. See you guys…"
Will stood up and started walking away and Taranee looked on after her. The sun was going down quickly and if Taranee didn't get home soon, there was going to be a serious lecture from her mom.
"Okay, let's get going then." Taranee said as she stood up too. A feeling of security left the group as they walked together under the sinking sun, as if the darkness waiting for them in their sleep had already begun to creep in on them.
"I wonder what will happen to us." Cornelia whispered.
Taranee looked up into the dark-blue sky.
"I don't know, Cornelia. I really don't know."
Will's POV
"Aacchooo!" Will sneezed and sniffed.
Maybe they were right, Will thought. I think I am getting a little sick. Well that's at least one normal thing in my life that nobody has tampered with…
Will kicked a stone across the sidewalk and slowly walked through the Heatherfield Park.
Oh, I feel really weird now, Will said to herself as she began to feel dizzy. Maybe I should sit down and call for my mom to come get me.
Will fumbled for a few moments with her cell phone and finally managed to dial the number to her apartment.
"Hello, Will? Is that you? Aren't you supposed to be home right now?"
Will sighed. There was always a nagging waiting for her when she came home past dark.
"I was on my way home, but I feel kind of sick and dizzy-"
"Oh honey! Are you okay? Don't worry, I'll be right over to pick you up from where you are. Where are you exactly?"
"On a bench at the Heatherfield Park."
"Hold on, I'll be there soon. Just stay sitting or you might get too dizzy."
"Thanks, Mom. I know."
Click.
Will sighed and sniffed again.
"Great, so what am I supposed to do to pass the time in the dark in the middle of a park?"
The wind was kind of chilly for a summer night and Will hugged her knees to her chest and wrapped her arms around her legs and shivered. She had to remind herself that school was about to start again and that fall wasn't that far off from now.
And still the wind got colder as Will started to actually feel the heat rising to her face.
"Hello, Will."
Will froze in a horrified trance, too scared to turn around.
"What? Don't you want to greet your old friend?"
Will couldn't help herself. She turned around and gasped.
"Nerissa!" she breathed. "How, how are you here? I'm not sleeping, am I?"
"No, not right now." Nerissa said with an evil smile.
Will shivered. There was something about that smile that told Will that she needed to get away, right now!
Will got up and tried to run away, but she fell back dizzily and Nerissa blocked her way.
"No, you aren't going anywhere. You look sick Will. I think you need a rest!"
Nerissa sent a magical energy blast to Will's stomach and she cried out in pain as she fell to the ground.
Nerissa walked up to Will and looked down on her with that creepy smile of hers.
I know that smile, Will thought. It's the one where the bad guys think they have won the battle and all is already lost for the good. Well, do I have news for her!
"So, do you think that beating me up with magic tricks is going to get you what you want?" Will spat. Nerissa frowned in a really annoyed expression and Will only now noticed all the details about her enemy's appearance like her cold blue eyes and long, purple dress, all the way down to her curly, black hair that almost reached down to her feet.
"Hmm, I don't think you understand when you've lost. Maybe I need to remind you."
Nerissa raised her arms and threw a bolt of white lightning at Will's head and she screamed as if it was on fire. By the time Nerissa had let go, Will was feeling numb and very dizzy now as she moved slowly around in the grass.
"This is too easy." Nerissa laughed. "You made it very easy for me, Will. I've been waiting in the dark for a point of vulnerability from you, and look at your situation. You're sick, in a park at nighttime, and without your little Guardian friends. This might be the end of you if you don't cooperate. Think of your mother, your friends? How sad, do you think, they will feel when you don't return home."
Will gripped at the grass in anger and Nerissa's high laugh broke the air again.
"Well, of course, I'd have to do away with your friends soon after anyway, but your mother, your mother could live right now if you want her to, Will. She's on her way here, am I right?"
Will froze and her eyes opened in disbelief. She sat up quickly and threw an energy blast at Nerissa that made her fall back a few feet in pain.
"Ouch, that hurt Will. That shows me that you don't want to negotiate. Fine, I was trying to be nice."
"Nice? If you think threatening to kill my mother is nice, then you have something else coming to you!" Will yelled angrily. Her face was flaring red now and it wasn't because of the fever.
"You will never get the Heart of Candracar!"
Nerissa gazed at her coldly and the only sound between them was Will's heavy breathing and the rustling of the leaves.
"Have it your way then!"
Will's scream echoed in the night as Nerissa's blast of energy collided with her body. Will couldn't feel anything but the pain and numbness as Nerissa swung her around in the air.
"Hey! Put her down you witch!"
Will screamed again as Nerissa released her grip on the energy keeping her up in the air and she fell to the ground with a painful crash.
Will opened her bleary eyes and could see three women that looked about in their 20's run up to the scene.
"Oh nice going Paige! You made her fall." The one with the long brown hair said to the woman beside her.
"Well, I was kind of going for her to stop hurting the girl so I'm sorry, Piper."
Nerissa took one angry look at them and started to run away.
"Oh come on!" the one named Piper whined. "Why do these people always have to run?"
"You guys chase after that woman and I'll help the girl." The one with the light, golden-brown hair said. The other two nodded and started to chase after Nerissa.
Will suddenly saw one of the women up close as she ran over to Will and bent down to see if she was alright.
"Hey, sweetie, are you okay?"
Will couldn't even shake her head. She was becoming way too dizzy.
"Nerissa…no! I-I'm going to faint." Will breathed.
"Shhh, don't worry. We'll protect you."
Will's mind went numb as she blacked out in the women's arms.
Piper's POV
Piper and Paige chased the woman with the long, black hair while darting in and out of the trees.
"Get your ass back here!" Piper yelled as she almost scraped her head on a tree branch.
"She's gonna come to the edge of the park soon and she might try to shimmer or something." Paige breathed.
"Paige, she can only shimmer if she's an upper-level demon. Don't you think she would have shimmered already anyway? It would be stupid to keep running away from us!"
At that moment, the fleeing woman turned around and fired a bolt of magic at the pair and they ducked while a tree got her blast.
"That's it! I'm going to blow her up!" Piper yelled.
"That looked like an upper-level demon power to me. Oh this is ridiculous. Tree branch!" Paige cried out. A broken tree branch disappeared from the ground in a shimmer of blue light and then reappeared in blue light in Paige's hand. Paige threw the branch and the woman doubled over and fell as the branch hit her full-on in the back.
"Nice throw, Sis." Piper said as she walked slower until they came up upon the woman struggling to get up.
"Okay, no wrong moves unless you want to die. What are you doing here and why were you after that girl?" Piper asked.
The woman narrowed her eyes with a malicious grin.
"That girl, has something of mine. I'd watch out for her if I were you. She is powerful and doesn't know how to use her powers for the right reasons. I could kill you both right now if I didn't want you to give her this message for me."
"Pfft, please." Piper said with a roll of her eyes. The woman sneered.
"Tell her that the Heart should go to the one in her dreams to stop everyone suffering and to save her own life." She told them with a smile. "Well, I'd love to stay and chat but I have some business to attain to."
A bright flash of light filled Piper's vision and she held up her arm against its harmful rays.
"Don't just stand there Piper! Try to blow her up!"
"I-I can't!" Piper yelled. All her attacks were bouncing off the light that was quickly fading until they were in nothing but blinding darkness.
"Great, we lost her." Paige sighed as her hands hit her jeans in defeat.
Piper was at lost for words. She had her there, right there in front of her and the woman evaded her attacks and disappeared. What bothered Piper the most was that she would most likely come back…and try to hurt that girl.
"Come on, we've got to get to Phoebe." Piper said and she started running with Paige right behind her.
As they came up to where the benches were, Piper saw Phoebe resting the girl's head along with the rest of her body on a bench.
"Hey, what happened?" Phoebe asked.
"She got away." Said Piper shortly. "What happened here?"
"She fell unconscious almost as soon as I got to her. The only thing she said was about someone called Nerissa and then she said she was going to faint, and then was knocked out. She has a really high fever, Piper." Phoebe said.
Piper looked at the girl sadly and then motioned for Phoebe to start picking her up.
"Alright then, let's take her to the Manor."
Phoebe's POV
"Is she getting better?" Paige asked as she came in and sat some water on the coffee table. Phoebe looked up and nodded as she placed the re-wet cool rag on the girl's forehead.
"She just broke her fever, she should be able to wake up soon."
"Well, there's nothing about a 'Nerissa' or a woman with those clothes in the Book of Shadows." Said Piper as she came down the stairs. Phoebe sighed and shook her head.
"So how are we supposed to find out what we're up against?" Phoebe asked. "Do you think that maybe Leo could-?"
"Hmm, good point. Leo!" Piper called. A second later, blue, shimmering light appeared and a man with sandy brown hair appeared.
"Um, hey. What's going on."
"Oh, a girl was just attacked by an unidentified demon and we just kind of want to know if the Elders know who a person named 'Nerissa' is." Paige told him. Leo nodded and smiled at Piper before kissing her on the lips and shimmering away in blue light upward.
"Perhaps the Elders know something about our mystery woman." Piper said as she sat down on a chair watching Phoebe give the girl some more medicine. Phoebe looked at the teenager in front of her and sighed. That looked like a lot of pain that she had just gone through for a girl who looked to be about fourteen or fifteen years old.
Her hair is so cute, Phoebe thought as she moved her sweaty red bangs off of her forehead. I wonder who she is and what she was doing in the park…
The girl's eyes slowly fluttered open at last and Piper moved in closer with a smile.
"Well, you've finally woken up." Piper said. "Okay, I'm going to go call Dariel and tell him that we've got a girl here who needs to go home." Phoebe nodded and then looked back at the redhead.
"How are you feeling, Honey?" Phoebe asked as the girls looked around with wide eyes.
"Better. What am I doing here?" she asked.
"We had to bring you to our house." Paige told her. "You were sick and fell unconscious in the Park."
"Really?" the girl asked, her eyes even bigger. "I don't remember that."
Phoebe frowned and looked at Piper before looking back at the girl.
"We've got to be able to notify your parents that you're safe now. What is your name?"
The girl looked around at each of the girls, from Phoebe in front of her, to Paige sitting on a chair across from them, to Piper looking over at them, on the phone with the police.
"Hey, the police are on the phone and I need to know." Piper told her. "What is your name?"
The girl's eyes stared in shock and then she looked down at her hands.
"I-I don't know."
Wow! Nerissa's blows finally do something to hurt Will and make her lose her memory. What will happen now? Just read the next chapter coming soon and find out! Oh, and don't forget to review please!