OF WHITELIGHTERS AND ANGELS
By fickleminded
DISCLAIMER: I do not own the characters of Charmed. If I did, then Chris would be working for me… If you know what I mean… Hehehe… Now, on with the story…
CHAPTER 2: The First
"It must've gotten to them before you did," Aria said as she moved around the bodies on the ground. "It came faster than I thought," she sounded frustrated.
"What is 'it' exactly?" Phoebe asked, not understanding everything yet. Aria looked at them. They looked back, expecting an answer.
"The great threat that I was summoned to warn you about. 'It' is The First. The first ever evil that roamed the earth," she answered. Leo looked at her in confusion.
"But The First was imprisoned eons ago. How could it come back?" he asked.
"By going against time and changing everything," she answered. Everyone, except for Aria, looked over to Chris. He blinked.
"What?!"
Aria sighed. "Not his doing. Piper, by going back in time to save your sisters, you changed time and released The First and 'it' wants to wreak havoc on the world again. 'It's' already here," she explained.
"What do you mean?" Piper asked, looking up from the corpses on the ground.
"Judging from the looks of the damages here, I'd say 'it' came for them about a day or two after I was summoned to warn you," she answered crouching down over one of the Elders.
"And how long was that?" Phoebe asked, looking up at the girl. Aria hesitated. She reached out to the Elder's eyes as she shut them close. She stood and moved farther to the other dead Elders.
"A month ago," she simply answered.
"A month ago? Why hasn't 'it' struck? What's 'it' waiting for? An invitation?" Paige asked getting confused by the minute. Everyone fell silent as they studied the damage.
Sudden realization hit Aria hard. "Dea!" she exclaimed as she flew from one Elder corpse to the other. The sisters looked at each other before looking back at the frantic angelus looking for the said Elder. Chris and Wyatt just stared at her. Leo, on the other hand, realized why she was frantically looking for Dea so he helped Aria, turning over the other corpses.
Sensing the urgency of Aria and Leo's search, Phoebe snapped out of her stare. "Look now, question later," she simply said as she too, looked for Dea. The others shrugged and followed suit.
After checking and rechecking every Elder, they still haven't found Dea. "Either 'it' took her or the other angelus sensed the danger and pulled Dea out of here before 'it' could," Aria said, kneeling over one of the corpses.
Piper hesitated before questioning the angelus. "What is Dea's connection to all of this?" she asked, standing from being crouched down over one of the Elders.
"There is only one way to contact or summon an angelus—and Dea has it," Leo said, looking at the girl. Piper looked at Leo.
"So you mean to say that if this thing has Dea or the thing that can summon an angelus—,"
"The Triquetra Amulet," Aria corrected. Piper looked at her before continuing. "If this thing has Dea or the Triquetra Amulet, 'it' can what? Destroy the world?" she asked, not knowing the consequences.
"Eventually, 'it' will. The amulet can sense where an angelus is and can summon it. If 'it' has the amulet, 'it' can find each and every angelus in the world and kill it. There would be no means of warning and protecting magical beings," Leo explained. Silence rang in the air after.
Aria looked up and turned to a door that magically appeared behind them. The others noticed it. "Where does that lead to and how did it get there?" Phoebe asked, feeling nervous of what might come out of it.
"That's the door that leads to Utopia," Aria said as she made her way over to it, being careful of not accidentally stepping on the bodies laying on the ground.
"UTOPIA?! As in what the Avatars wanted?" Piper demanded looking at Leo. Leo just smiled.
"No. The Avatars knew nothing of the real Utopia," Aria answered. She turned back to the door. "I hear Ava calling me," she whispered.
"Ava? Who's Ava?" Wyatt asked. Aria turned to them before grasping the knob of the door.
"Ava is a fellow angelus. She might be trying to contact me or Dea. She knew I was summoned a month ago. Maybe she has the answers we need. I'm going to find out," she said, moving to open the door.
"Wait!" Paige exclaimed. Aria and the others turned to her. "What if this is a trap? What if this… First… is trying to trap you? To call on you? To kill you?"
Everyone looked to Aria. She shrugged. "There's only one way to find out," she said as she opened the door. A bright light came from it and everyone had to shield their eyes from it. "Go back to the manor. You'll be safe there," she looked to them. She could see worry etched on their faces. She smiled. "Don't worry. I'll be fine." And with that, she entered the room and closed the door behind her, leaving the Charmed Ones, the Charmed sons and Leo. The door disappeared instantly after Aria had closed it.
Piper sighed. "Well, at least she warned us of whatever is to come. Let's go and wait for her at the manor," she said, grabbing onto Wyatt. As everyone latched on their 'orbing partner', "Does she know how to get to the manor?" Phoebe asked, before particles of blue light moved them to the manor.
…TBC…
AN: There's chapter 2. I'm sorry for incorporating 'The First' from Buffy the Vampire Slayer into the story. I couldn't think of any demon name so I just picked 'The First'. And just so you're wondering why the sisters didn't realized the name of the amulet is the name of the sign on the Book of Shadows, don't worry. They will.
Anymore questions, clarifications, violent reactions, please review or email me at liv.
