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The Rise of Vampires
Intro
The story is set in Salem, Oregon in the year 2021 where Piper and Leo (mortal) live with their boys and daughter, Wyatt, who is 18 and a senior in high school; Chris, who is 16 and a sophomore; and Asyra, who is 13 and in seventh grade. Phoebe and her husband Coop (cupid) live in a house of their own about five minutes from the Manor with their three daughters, Melinda age 14, Prudence age 12, and Penelope age 8. Paige and her husband Henry (mortal) are living at the Manor with their children, Henry Jr. age 13, and the twins Hailey and Hannah age 11. Unlike Piper and Phoebe, Paige had decided to send her children to Magic school where she was teaching advanced magic. Paige and her children are the current guardians of the Book of Shadows because Piper was not ready to admit that her children were more than capable and plenty willing. Piper and Leo had moved to Salem the year Chris entered sixth grade hoping that maybe by getting away from the manor and the Book would allow the kids to have a chance at a normal child hood.
The Cullens, everyone's favorite vampires, are also living in Salem. Bella did not want to move too far away from Charlie when it was time to leave Forks, Washington. Carlisle had of course found a job at the local hospital easily without any questions. Esme is running her own business as an architectural consultant. Bella and Renesme are pretending to be high school sophomores at age 16. Edward and Alice are pretending to be juniors ages 17 and 16. Jasper, Emmet, and Rosalie are pretending to be seniors at age 18.
Chapter 1
It was a fairly nice spring day in Salem, Oregon, that is to say it was not raining or precipitating in any other way. None of the students at the local high school were paying any attention, especially those with the last name of Halliwell, Wyatt and Chris. There were still four periods left before school let out and students were already planning on how to take advantage of the dry weather. Wyatt and Chris were disappointed because they already knew exactly what they would be doing, vanquishing a darklighter that had attacked them last night before bed.
"Christopher, do you have the answer?" asked Mrs. Mays, Chris's chemistry teacher.
"What ma'am?" Chris said when his head snapped up in response to hearing his name. He hadn't heard a word she spoke for the past ten minutes.
"I asked who discovered the gas law stating Pressure1xVolume1=Pressure2xVolume2, and please try to pay attention in class." She replied slightly annoyed, but she was not too concerned seeing how he had the third highest grade in all her chemistry classes, only toped by Bella and Renesme Cullen (of course), this fact annoyed the 5'10" witchlighter.
"Yes ma'am. The answer would be Boyle." Chris answered. It wasn't that he found the subject boring, he liked the class, but Mrs. Mays's voice just made it so easy to tune out everything.
Jump over to Mr. Clary's classroom
Wyatt was staring out the window in calculus wishing for the bell to ring and end this nonsense that was called derivatives. The young twice blessed witchlighter did not like math. Besides the subject, he also disliked, or rather he didn't trust, Jasper and Rosalie Cullen who were sitting on the opposite side of the room, closest to the door.
"Wyatt, I suggest you pay attention if you wish to pass this class, I would hate to see you spend your summer with me repeating it." Mr. Clary stated. He was very disappointed in the lack of interest from the older Halliwell. Chris currently had an A in his pre-calculus class and Mr. Clary hoped that Wyatt might be able to share some of his younger brother's enthusiasm for math.
"Sorry Mr. Clary, my head is just pounding from the ringing in my ears." Wyatt replied.
He was desperately hoping that it was not the Elders calling him for duty while he was at school; they had this argument last year and came to the agreement that they would have to wait until at least 3:00pm, unless it was an absolute emergency (translated as either the world ending or one of his siblings dying).
"Do you need to see the nurse?" Mr. Clary asked slightly concerned.
"I don't know if it will do any good, but it couldn't hurt, so may I please be excused?" Wyatt replied. He was planning on instead going to the bathroom and orbing Up There.
"Yes you may." Mr. Clary said.
Wyatt hurriedly ran to the bathroom and promptly checked to see that he was alone. Satisfied that no one was in there, he orbed out reappearing seconds later Up There (the Elders' dwelling).
Back to Mrs. Mays classroom
Chris was staring at the whiteboard when he sensed Wyatt orb away through the link that they shared with each other and their little sister, Asyra. The bond allowed the brothers to sense what the other is feeling and communicate telepathically with each other. The link also told them where each other were so Chris knew where Wyatt was going.
"Wy, what is going on?" Chris and Asyra asked through the link at the same time. (Italics means thoughts, italics in quotations means telepathic communication)
"Don't know yet. Chris, if I'm not back before the period is out get my stuff from Mr. Clary's room and tell him I am in the nurse's office waiting for the Tylenol to work." Wyatt replied. "And don't worry Ray, if it is important I'll let you know, but try to pay attention in class until then."
As soon as Wyatt had left, Chris started to hear the ringing that Wyatt had been trying to ignore for the past thirty minutes. He knew that the Elders wanted something and he thought he might have a clue what that something could be. A couple minutes later the bell rang and everyone ran out of the classroom. Wyatt was not back yet so Chris went to Mr. Clary's room and did as Wyatt had asked him then headed to the lunch room.
Meanwhile, Up There, Wyatt was getting frustrated with the ever useless Elders. They never did give any strait answers or enough information, it would be easier to just read the newspaper, you might even find out more that way.
"Okay, so why the heck are you guys jingling me in the middle of the school day? It better be important." said the very annoyed 6'0" witchlighter. Patience was definitely not his forte.
"To be honest, we're not completely sure just yet, but we think the current string of murders and missing persons occurring in the U.S. is something magical." answered Oden, Wyatt and Chris's least favorite Elder.
"I figured as much. Chris told me a couple days ago that he thought the same thing. That still doesn't explain why you couldn't wait till after school to tell me." replied Wyatt.
"Because we thought there might be someone at the school who can help you and your brother figure out what is really happening. By the way, most of the missing were witches, and among the dead were some whitelighters, one was even a witchlighter like the two of you." answered Oden.
"Really? But what else kills a whitelighter besides a darklighter?" asked Wyatt who was getting a little worried.
"We don't know. We have never seen this happen before." answered Oden.
"Fine, Chris and I will get on it after we get rid of a pesky darklighter that tried to kill Chris last night." Wyatt said. With that, Wyatt orbed away.
Chris made his way through the lunch line and headed toward a table where his friends, Jake, Kyle, Matt, the half-manticore that the sisters had rescued in season six, and Abby, Wyatt's girlfriend, were sitting. Matt and his father had just moved to Salem at the start of the semester. He sensed Wyatt orbing back into the boys' bathroom just before reaching the table.
"I'll be right back." Chris told his friends as soon as he set his tray of food on the table. He then dashed off to talk with Wyatt.
"Wonder what that's about?" Jake said to the other students.
"Maybe something to do with Wyatt leaving calculus claiming he had a headache…" Kyle, said somewhat suspicious. Matt was a little behind on this fact sense calculus is the only class they don't have together.
"I'll be right back." Matt said as he got up and followed Chris out the door.
Chris was in a hurry to ask Wyatt what was going on, the fact that he was called during school made Chris a little anxious. He spotted Wyatt walking out of the bathroom.
"So what did the Elders want this time and why couldn't it wait till after school?" Chris asked Wyatt.
"The Elders? What's going on guys?" Matt asked when he caught up with Chris and Wyatt.
"They agree with Chris about the murders and missing persons being magical. They also think that someone here at school can help us figure out what's going on. Apparently though, some of the victims were witches and whitelighters, and one was a young witchlighter like us." Wyatt answered.
"That doesn't sound good." Matt said.
"What? But how is that possible? And who here could possibly help us?" Chris asked very concerned now. As far as they knew, they were the only magical beings at the high school.
"I don't know, but we need to be careful. We should check it out though as soon as we kill that darn darklighter." replied Wyatt.
"Agreed." said Chris. "Maybe you could do a little spying for us in the Underworld?" Chris asked Matt. Matt has been their inside man for many years now. He has to be careful though because he doesn't really have any firepower because his father raised him to be normal, not a demon.
"Yeah sure if that will help." Matt answered.
"Good, now let's go eat." said Wyatt. The three boys walked back to the lunch room to eat some food.
Wyatt and Chris had both finished their lunch when they turned to stare at the Cullens at the same time. They both had the same thought come to mind.
"Do you think they could be the ones who can help us? I just have this feeling they know more than we think." Chris asked. Neither one of the brothers trusted the Cullens. They knew there was something not normal about them.
"I don't know, maybe. If only we knew them a little better…." Wyatt replied. Whenever Edward or Jasper were around he thought he could feel someone else trying to tap into their link. It was very weird.
They both sat in silence thinking about the Cullens and their task. It made the brothers nervous. Finally the bell rang signaling that lunch was over and it was time to go to class.
As soon as the boys got home from school they greeted their parents and orbed to the Underworld to vanquish the darklighter. The darklighter was surprised to see the two witchlighters in his lair.
"How did you two get here so quickly?" asked the angry darklighter.
"We have our ways." said Chris, being a smart-aleck. With that said, Chris used his telekinesis to throw the darklighter across the room. Wyatt just stood back and watched his brother work. "That's for trying to kill me." Then Chris shot him with a lightning bolt.
"Yeah, that's for trying to kill my little brother." Wyatt added. He turned to Chris and said, "That was too easy. Let's go home and deal with our other problem." The two brothers orbed back home, pumped to get to the bottom of the murders and missing persons.