Valhalley of the Dolls
Phoebe grinned as she inhaled the beach air, and the clearly excited people around her. Smash Mouth ended their song and Phoebe turned back to the interviewer, Chad, from the KQSF Summer bash. "Give it up for Smash Mouth Ladies and Gentlemen! This is Chad and we are back with the stunningly beautiful Phoebe Halliwell," Phoebe let out a laugh and ran a hand through her short hair. "So what's your secret? Are you psychic?"
"I'm sorry…" Phoebe said.
"Well you have to be psychic or something! I mean your column has sky rocketed from your recent advice…how else do you explain it?" he rephrased.
"Well I guess I'm just really in touch with what people are feeling," Phoebe answered. Chad nodded and smiled.
"So how about you give us a preview right now. Tell me what I'm feeling," he goaded.
"Well you'll just have to send in a letter and find out," she said, shooting him a wink.
"Ok...well how about this. There's this girl and she's really attractive. But I'm afraid if I ask her out...she might say no. What should I do?" he replied. Phoebe suddenly felt a tingling sensation.
"Why don't you just ask me and find out," she snickered.
Chris sighed as he lazily flipped the pages of the Book of Shadows with his telekinesis, writing down various notes about demons that may come after Wyatt and possibly turn him evil. Being so engrossed in the book he didn't expect a portal opening up and a Valkyrie popping out of it. His eyes nearly bulged out of his head. What was she thinking, teleporting in broad daylight?
"What are you doing here?" Chris asked nervously, and kept his eyes on the attic exit to make sure none of the Charmed Ones could see what was going on.
"Freyja sent me…she is wondering what is taking you so long," Mist sighed, shaking her head at the young Whitelighter.
"She sure worries a lot for a mythical creature," Chris muttered.
"She isn't the only one that is worried Chris. He is an Elder, Chris how much longer do you really expect us to keep him?" she asked in a tired voice. Chris looked at her strangely at the tone of her voice. It could only mean one thing.
"Please don't tell me he is complaining," Chris sighed.
"I swear…you banish the guy to an island full of gorgeous woman and he complains," Chris grumbled.
"Look…I haven't finished what I came here to do yet and until I do…I need Leo out of the way," he explained after taking a breath.
"I just hope you know what you're doing," Mist whispered. Chris took a step or two closer to her.
"You know I'd never hurt you," he breathed, cupping her cheek.
"I know…but you would if you really had to," she answered just as footsteps reverberated on the stairs.
"Chris?" Piper called out.
"You'd better get out of here," he murmured, kissing her gently on the lips before she reopened the portal and disappeared.
"Do you have any laundry?" Piper asked, appearing in the doorway.
"Huh? Oh…no I'm good. Thanks," he answered.
"Oki doki," she said cheerfully and headed downstairs again.
Chris looked at Piper's retreating form and was in shock to see her so chipper. Shaking his head he sensed where Phoebe was and orbed to a deserted area.
Phoebe walked over to Chad with an apologetic look on her face. "I'm sorry if I embarrassed you out there…" she sheepishly ran a hand through her short hair. "I do not know what is wrong with me…it must be the heat or something…"
"I am glad it was just the radio," Chad told her with a smile.
"I really do not know why I answered like that. It was…"
"Dead on," Chad chuckled, "It was exactly what I was feeling…nervous about asking you out," Phoebe let out a small laugh.
"Really? You were? Maybe I should just ask you out to take the pressure off," Realizing what she said; she let out a nervous chuckle, "I do not know what is the matter with me today."
Just then Chris waved his hand, getting her attention.
"Chris!" she exclaimed, feeling relieved to see a familiar face.
"We need you back at the Manor," he said in a low voice. Phoebe turned around to look at Chad.
"How about we do lunch?" she offered and he nodded. With that Phoebe and Chris orbed home.
"The spell is in the book. I'll go get Piper," Chris said, heading in the direction of the kitchen.
Phoebe looked over the page on the Trok demon. The spell seemed pretty simple. All they had to do was summon it to their plane and have Piper freeze it. She looked up when she heard to pairs of footsteps.
"Just...stay here. I'll go get Prue," he sighed and orbed out of the Manor. Chris reappeared at a photoshoot, Prue bend down behind the camera. She turned around and nearly knocked the tripod over.
"Don't do that," she spat.
"Sorry. Look we need you...demon vanquish," he said, lowering his voice at the end of the sentence.
"Now? I'm in the middle of a shoot," she hissed.
"Hey...demons don't keep schedules," he retorted. She glared at him.
"Ok guys. How about we take twenty," she called. People nodded and started to mill about.
"This better be fast," she grumbled.
They orbed home and found Piper in an apron with the hugest smile on her face. "Hi Prue," she said giddily. "Weren't you supposed to be at a photo shoot?" she asked cocking her head to the side.
"Yeah…but I had to take a break so we could vanquish the Trok Demon," Prue sighed, marveling at Piper's attitude.
"Oh ok," Piper said with a small chuckle, "so when are we vanquishing it?" she almost sounded excited to vanquish a demon.
"Ok who are you and what have you done with my sister?" Prue asked as they walked towards the stairs. Piper let out a laugh and lightly smacked Prue.
"Oh Prue you are such a kidder," Piper said. Prue put a hand on Piper's head and she looked at Prue, "What are you doing?"
"Checking to see if you have a temperature, because you have been acting weird ever since Leo left."
They ran into Phoebe on their way up the stairs.
"Ok...let's get this demon vanquish over with. I have a lunch date," Phoebe said, dragging her sisters upstairs to the attic. Phoebe closed her eyes, concentrating and the Trok Demon shimmered into the attic. Its two heads looked around in confusion until they spotted the sisters.
"Piper, freeze it!" Phoebe squealed. Piper threw her hands out but blew up one of its heads instead.
"Oops," she said with a giggle.
Phoebe held the spell out and they all recited it.
"From other worlds, far and near, let's get him the Trok out of here," they chanted and he blew up, leaving demon residue on the floor.
"That was awesome!" Piper exclaimed with a laugh.
"Piper that was not awesome," Prue snapped. "That kind of mistake could mean a matter of life or death," Prue looked at Piper who looked like she was going to let out another guffaw any second.
"Piper…any reason why you thought that blowing up a demon's head instead of freezing him would be ok?" Phoebe asked.
"Um…I don't know," Piper said chuckling a little bit. Prue exchanged looks between Phoebe and sighed. Piper was definitely not acting like herself.
"Ok…Chris can you orb me back so I can finish my photo shoot?" Prue sighed, looking forward to getting back to work.
"Uh…yeah," Chris said, grabbing Prue's arm and orbed back to 415.
"Thanks," Prue gave him a smile and headed back towards where her camera was and Chris sighed, orbing back to the Manor. He was met with an angry Phoebe.
"Come here," she dragged him away far enough away from Piper so she wouldn't hear. "We are not doing anymore vanquishing for a while," Phoebe stated firmly.
"Wait, why?" Chris asked. Phoebe just pointed at Piper who was just humming a little tune while she did chores.
"She is really chipper," Phoebe spat.
"So she's a little happy. What's wrong with that?" he asked, arms crossed over his chest.
"What's wrong is that is not Piper! Especially not after Leo just left to become an Elder," Phoebe fumed.
"Look…what do you want me to do about it?" he shot at her, growing a little nervous.
"I want you to find Leo. I have a feeling he knows what is wrong with her," Phoebe answered and suddenly felt a strange feeling wash over it. It felt like anxiety.
"What are you anxious about?" she asked. He raised an eyebrow at her.
"What are you talking about? I'm not anxious," he lied. Damn her empathy power.
"Look, I need to go call Chad and cancel our lunch date. We need to figure out what is wrong with Piper," Phoebe ordered.
"Wait…you're canceling on some guy who asked you out?" Chris questioned.
"No…I'm canceling on some guy I asked out," Phoebe retorted, dialing his cell phone number. She got no answer and so she tried thee restaurant. She spoke briefly with the hostess before hanging up, looking disgusted.
"He cancelled on me," she declared.
"Ok…so…you were just calling to cancel on him," Chris commented.
"No see…I called him first and got no answer. He called the restaurant. He stood me up," she explained. Chris just looked at her and took a step back.
"I'm going to find him and figure this out. See if you can find Leo," she called.
"Right," Chris muttered, eying Piper nervously.
"Chris, could you fold the laundry? I am going to go get Wyatt to a play date," she said grabbing her purse with Wyatt in her arms. Chris just nodded his head, "Thanks," she said, and practically bounced out of the Manor.
Phoebe drove to the KQSF Beach Bash and found Chad ordering a hotdog. "You do know that they have hotdogs at the Bayview Café," Phoebe said, her arms folded over her chest.
"Hey…umm…what are you doing here?" Chad asked nervously.
"That's funny, cause I was about to say the same thing," Phoebe snapped at Chad.
"Listen…I can explain," he said lamely.
"Good, cause that is why I drove all the way here," Phoebe said darkly. "You know, I was hoping you can help me understand something that has baffled woman kind since the beginning of time. How come you guys don't ever call us after asking us out….or even a better question cancel at the last minute and stand us up,"
"Look…I'm sorry, but something really important came up," he lied. Phoebe suddenly felt intimidation wash over her, but it felt like it was coming from him.
"Are you intimidated by me?" Phoebe asked.
"Wha…what?" he asked in a shocked voice.
"Because you weren't when you asked me out," Phoebe pointed out.
"Hey…you asked me out," Chad stammered.
"So you are saying that you didn't want me though? I know you did, I felt it," Phoebe stated.
"I...I don't know what you're talking about," Chad babbled. Phoebe glared at him as a new emotion swept over her.
"It just...hurts so much," she whimpered, fighting off tears. A few feet away a little was holding her scraped knee.
"It hurts so much, Mommy," she sobbed. Phoebe's eyes bulged and she sprinted back to her car. She got in but didn't go anywhere.
Back at the photo shoot, Prue was wrapping up for the day.
"Good job you guys," she called and headed for her car, camera bag and tripod in hand. She arrived home to find Chris now hauling a baby carrier into the next room.
"Whose baby?" she asked.
"Ask Piper...I don't know anything," Chris answered, setting the baby down.
"Oh Chris...you missed some socks," Piper called from the laundry room.
"Laundry?" Prue snickered as he gave her a withering glare.
"It's really not funny," Chris snapped as he orbed to find Piper.
Prue let out a chuckle as Chris went back to laundry duty, and went upstairs to go look for the memory spell so she can restore Piper's memory. This chipper attitude was becoming torture as she clearly ignored the fact Leo was gone. Then it hit Prue, Leo must have charmed her. "Oh…Leo when you show up here, I am so going to kick your ass for drugging my sister up on happy pills," she muttered angrily.
She grabbed a pen and a sheet of scrap paper and scribbled down the spell, and ran back downstairs. "Hi Prue," Piper said happily as she was bent over Wyatt.
"Well their mommies couldn't pick them up for a while, so I offered to baby-sit until they could," Piper said happily. "And look how happy Wyatt is, having so many friends over."
"Piper…what are all these babies doing here?" Prue asked in a tight voice.
"Piper...he's like ten months old. The concept of friends...doesn't exist yet," Prue remarked just as Prue walked in.
"Having fun?" he asked and Prue glared at him.
"Look...we need Leo. So you need to go bring him down here," she demanded.
"I can't," Chris answered.
"Excuse me?" Prue spat.
"Look I didn't want to tell you this but the Elders haven't heard from Leo in a while," Chris said carefully.
"A while...how long is a while?" Prue demanded.
"About five weeks," Chris muttered. Prue looked livid.
"Five weeks?" Prue thundered. "Leo has been gone for five weeks and you just decided not to tell us," she said poking Chris on the chest. Prue took a deep breath and exhaled slowly through her nose. "Fine…I will work on kicking your ass later, but right now we need to restore what Leo has done to my sister," Prue said unfolding the piece of paper.
"Is that a memory spell?" Chris asked her.
"Yeah…" Prue answered immediately. Prue chanted, "Powers and emotions tied, a witch's heart is where it hides, help her through her agony, bless her with her memory." A white mist came from Piper, and the spell was complete. "You ok Piper?" Piper turned around, a confused smile on her face.
"Um…do I know you?" she asked.
"Very funny Piper," Prue sighed, not really in the mood for jokes. Piper turned back around and saw the kids in the playpen.
"Aww…how cute. Yours?" she pointed to Wyatt.
"No, yours," Prue answered, now a little worried.
"Well isn't he just adorable, yes you are," she cooed at Wyatt.
"Nice spell," Chris whispered in Prue's ear.
"Don't even you tempt me," she snarled.
Piper gave them another dazed smile. Suddenly a fly buzzed past her and she tried to swat it away but ended up blowing up a lamp instead. The explosion made her jump.
"Wh-what...happened? Did I do that?" she gasped.
"Uh ok...why don't you just go in there and sit down...relax. And keep your hands down," Chris instructed her.
"Great...what do we do now?" Prue groaned. Suddenly a thought dawned on her. She sprinted up the stairs and returned with a scrying crystal and maps.
"You're going to scry for Leo when he could be anywhere?" Chris asked.
"Do you have any bright ideas?" she snapped, looking around for something to scry with.
Prue looked towards the playpen and saw Wyatt orb a pacifier from one of the other kids and an idea hit Prue. "Hey Wyatt…how about you come play with Aunt Prue for a minute?" she asked, taking him out of the playpen.
"You are going to use Wyatt?" Chris asked with a sarcastic chuckle. Prue instantly shot him a dark look, and Chris immediately stopped laughing. Chris heard the front door slam and Phoebe came in.
"Hey Piper…you wouldn't believe what happened to me today, I got a new power," Phoebe said happily, "What power do you ask? You remember that Empath we helped a while back? I think I got his gift…or maybe an extension of my premonitions…"
"Actually...she doesn't. Know anything that is…about anyone," Chris said, walking into the room.
"Why?" Phoebe asked, looking baffled.
"Prue here cast a memory spell but instead of restoring her memory it took it away," Chris answered.
"Can you blow things up too?" Piper asked. Phoebe bit her lip.
"Prue!" she bellowed and stormed off in search of her oldest sister.
"In here," she called.
"Why does Piper have amnesia?" the youngest Halliwell demanded.
"It wasn't supposed to happen that way. I think it reacted to whatever magic Leo used on her and accidentally took away her memory," Prue answered, the scrying crystal landing in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
"Aw…you feel extremely bad for doing that to Piper, sorry," Phoebe said instantly feeling Prue's guilt.
'Thanks…I think," Prue said, as she looked where the crystal landed. "Leo is somewhere in the Indian Ocean?" Prue sighed.
"What is Leo doing there?" Phoebe asked baffled. Suddenly she felt guilt hit her loud and clear coming from Chris. "And why do you feel guilty?"
"Chris just told me Leo has been missing for five weeks," Prue snapped answering for Chris.
"What?" Phoebe shouted, feeling Prue's anger.
"I didn't want to worry you, ok," Chris retorted. Phoebe and Prue just glared at him.
"Well we will have to use a potion to get there," Prue sighed.
"Why are you even looking? I mean the Indian Ocean...there is nothing out there but water," he added.
"He is our brother-in-law. We're going to find him," Prue spat as she and Phoebe headed for the kitchen.
"Oh...I have a new power," Phoebe said as they disappeared.
"I guessed that...what is it?" Prue answered.
"Empathy," Phoebe answered.
"Better you than me," she sighed.
Phoebe gave Prue a small pout and Prue chuckled as she gathered the potion ingredients. "You are so enjoying this aren't you?" Phoebe asked as Prue got the potion ingredients.
"You are going to have so much fun being an empath Phoebe," Prue said chuckling. Soon the potions were ready, and Prue asked, "You ready?"
"Yep…" Phoebe said, taking one of the potions in Prue's hands. They threw them on the ground and instantly they were enfolded into smoke and appeared into a jungle like setting. Back at the Manor Chris kicked a toy out of frustration, Wyatt instantly putting his shield up.
"If anyone should be protecting themselves, it should be me from you," she spat at the little boy. Back on the island the sisters stood up, staying close together.
"Ok...where are we?" Prue asked, looking around. Phoebe didn't answer. She looked around and heard footsteps, a sudden emotion flooding her. She tackled Prue into the bushes and began cutting off air to her windpipe.
"Phoebe, have you lost your mind?" Prue gasped, Phoebe finally snapping out of it and letting her older sister go.
"Sorry...I must have been channeling what they were feeling," Phoebe apologized, helping Prue up. They moved silently towards a large cave. When they entered it they came upon a large bamboo cage with a very familiar looking person pacing around inside.
"Leo!" Phoebe called. He turned around to see Phoebe and Prue standing there.
"Prue, Phoebe," Leo said in a relieved voice, "it is good to see you. Hey you cut your hair," Leo commented seeing Phoebe's really short hair.
"Yeah…do you like it?" Phoebe asked happily running a hand through her hair.
"Hey you two, talk about style later," Prue retorted. "What are you doing here?"
"Somebody put me in here," Leo said angrily, "Watch out," Leo said suddenly.
Prue and Phoebe turned around and met with two angry women dressed up in armor, and they sent Prue and Phoebe flying with telekinesis. "Hey since when can Xena use telekinesis?" Prue muttered as they came closer to them.
Just as they were about to come attack the sisters, swords flew out of Leo's hands and they stabbed the women, instantly vanquishing them.
"You need to get out of here before they find you. It's not safe here," Leo called to them.
"You can't use magic inside the cave. Hurry," he called to them. They started to run.
"We'll be back," Phoebe shouted as Prue threw the potion and they were transported back to the Manor.
As soon as they were teleported home, Chris was there waiting for them. "You guys could have been killed, you know that?"
"You know, it would not have been that big of a deal if you orbed us there?" Prue snapped.
"What was up with that skirt Leo was wearing anyway?" Phoebe asked chuckling.
"At least it wasn't plaid," Prue muttered. Phoebe let out a laugh, and Chris just stared at them.
"I don't believe this. It's like neither of you guys are taking how much serious danger you could have been,"
"We are in more danger since Piper is now brainwashed," Prue retorted. "So we need Leo back so we can get him to reverse the magic he has done to our sister." They headed upstairs and Chris followed after them.
"Now where are you going?" he called after them.
"To check the Book to figure out what we're up against," Prue shouted back. Chris bit his lip. This wasn't going to according to plan and man did he hate when his plans got derailed. He looked in on Piper and she was amusing herself, looking at the picture lining the room. Without another word he disappeared in orbs. He reappeared in an alleyway where a Valkyrie was leaning over a wounded cop.
"Chris," she commented, recognizing the young whitelighter.
"Plans have changed," Chris said calmly. She looked at him in confusion.
"Forgive me," he breathed and made a fist.
The Valkyrie let out a gasp and was brought to her knees. She gave Chris a shocked look and was vanquished. Chris grabbed the pendant from the fallen Valkyrie and sighed. If his plan was going to work he would need two more Valkyries.
About thirty minutes later Chris orbed back with Valkyrie pendants. "Ok…this way you girls can get into Valhalla undetected, but you guys are going to have to bring a soul of a warrior to get them to trust you if you have any chance of saving Leo,"
"A warrior's soul…" Prue mused for a little bit. "How about Darryl? He is a cop…" Prue thought after a second.
"Good luck with that," Chris muttered, wandering off in search of Piper. He made sure to keep the pendants hidden from the sisters. He couldn't risk them realizing what he was doing too soon.
"Hey how about a little help here. You could at least orb us to Darryl," Phoebe called. Chris waved his hand in their direction and they disappeared in orbs. They found him collaring some thug.
"Prue…Phoebe…what are you doing here?" Darryl asked.
"And how did you get here?" he added.
"Uh…it's complicated. Look, we need your help," Prue answered.
"Sure, anything," he answered.
"It's about Leo. He's being held captive on this island and the only way we can get in and be believable is if we bring them a warrior's soul," Phoebe began to explain.
"Why do I have feeling I'm not going to like this?" he muttered.
"Look it's just…for a few hours," Phoebe replied. Darryl's hook his head and turned around, starting to pace. Prue pulled a potion from her pocket and tossed it at him. His body collapsed and Darryl's spirit began to wander around.
"Uh Darryl," she called, pointing down. He looked down to see his body.
"Oh man. Am I…" he started to ask.
"No. It will be fine," Phoebe assured him, his soul being sucked into an urn.
Chris sighed as he went in search for Piper. He finally found her watching Wyatt play in his playpen. Chris needed to convince Piper that she was a Valkyrie so she could blend in better with the rest of them.
"Hi…Chris right?" she said in a confused voice.
"Yeah…How about I try to help you with your memory?" Piper just nodded. Chris grabbed one of the pendants, and got prepared to convince her she was a Valkyrie. Chris just slipped on the pendant around Piper's next and instantly she was dressed up in Valkyrie armor. Instantly Prue and Phoebe were poofed into the Manor.
"Um…Chris what did you do to Piper?" Phoebe asked.
"Made her think that she was a Valkyrie…"
"She is so going to kill you when she gets her memory back," Prue snickered.
"Yeah? Why's that?" Chris retorted, his hands shoved in his pockets.
'Because she hates wearing those costumes as much as we do," Phoebe answered.
"Well...in that case, you're going to kill me too," he said with a smirk, extending his hand with 2 more pendants.
"I can't believe we're doing this," Prue grumbled as they each put on a necklace.
"Great…costumes again," Prue sighed.
"It doesn't look too bad…" Phoebe said. "At least we got room to fight in these costumes. At least we aren't in togas again," Phoebe said grimacing as she thought about being the Goddess of Love.
"So how do we get to Valhalla?" Phoebe asked. Piper put a hand on her own pendant and a portal appeared. "Well ok…" and the Charmed Ones stepped through the portal.
The girls reappeared on Valhalla and headed for the main cave. Freyja looked up as they entered and stood.
"Who are you? I do not recognize you," she demanded.
"Perhaps you'll recognize this," Piper said coolly, unlocking the urn, letting Darryl's spirit out.
"A warrior's soul," she continued.
"Excellent," Freyja complimented and they led Darryl into the cage. He turned to look at Pure and Phoebe. Phoebe gave him the thumbs up sign just as footsteps walked towards him. Darryl spun around and was caught off guard. He dove to the ground where his opponent's helmet came off, revealing Leo.
"Leo?" Piper called out, her memory starting to return to her.
Leo looked at Piper momentarily before weapons were thrown in the cage. Leo flourished a sword. "Grab a weapon Darryl…" Leo tightly whispered. Darryl quickly grabbed a weapon.
"Leo…I don't want to fight you…" Darryl stammered.
"Just hit me…" Leo whispered.
When Darryl didn't do anything, Leo landed a punch across his jaw. Seeing that Darryl wasn't going to fight back, and that Piper's pain came back all at once. "Take the fall,"
"What?" Darryl asked. Leo head butted Darryl and he fell.
"Stay down," Leo whispered tightly. Leo raised his fist in the air and the Valkyries gave him disappointed looks.
"What is he doing here?" Piper's voice rang out. "What are we doing here?" Piper asked in a freaked out voice.
"Piper…Shh…" Prue said quickly as the head Valkyrie started to look at them suspiciously.
"What are you talking about?" Freyja demanded.
"Nothing," Phoebe muttered. Prue stood up.
"We're sorry for bringing you such an inadequate soul. We could…get rid of him for you. You know…send him on to the here after," she offered, hoping they'd buy it. They seemed to and she and Phoebe led Darryl away from the cage. Just as they were about to leave Prue sent a bunch of the Valkyries flying and Leo followed him, dragging Piper along with them.
"We need to hurry," Prue said, touching her pendant.
Piper just stayed where she was, pulling her arm away from Leo. "Piper, come on…" Prue said as she headed for the portal.
"I'm not going…" Piper said in a neutral voice.
"Piper…" Leo started. Phoebe let out a tiny inaudible gasp as she felt Piper's pain…and anger hurtling towards Leo.
"How dare you?" Phoebe suddenly shouted pushing Leo.
"Phoebe…"
"Leo…how dare you leave us, me, your son?" Phoebe yelled, landing a punch across Leo's jaw.
"Phoebe what are you doing?" P rue demanded but Phoebe didn't answer her.
"You can't just walk away from us. We're your family," she continued to shout and this time Leo ducked her jab. As quickly as the emotions had flooded her, they were gone and Phoebe was taking deep breaths.
"Look we need to go now before they catch us," Darryl stated and the four of them jumped through the portal. Piper stared after them as four warriors jumped through the portal just as it closed. Freyja and a few other Valkyries arrived and escorted Piper back to the cave.
Back in San Francisco, they reappeared in the ally. They walked over to Darryl's body and his spirit looked nervous.
"How do I do this?" he addressed the sisters.
"Oh you can just step right back in," Prue answered as Leo orbed them back to the Manor. Darryl stepped back into his body only to about thirty seconds later be thrown into a car by the warriors.
As soon as Leo orbed them to the manor, they were met with Chris. "Geez it is about time! I was starting to….Where's Piper?" Chris asked. Before anyone could supply an answer, Leo's face contorted into a mask of rage, and he started hit Chris in the face.
"You son of a bitch!" Leo forcefully pushed Chris on the wall, "Why'd you do it?"
"Do what?" Chris asked. Leo wasn't satisfied with this answer, so he threw Chris across the room.
"Leo that's enough!" Prue shouted at him. Chris tried to orb away from the crazed Elder, but Leo grabbed Chris once again, and tossed Chris against another wall, crashing into a cabinet.
"Leo that is enough!" Phoebe shouted at him. "This hostility is giving me a major migraine."
"Been playing Gladiator too long have you Leo?" Prue snapped at Leo, heading towards Chris to help him up.
He wiped a trickle of blood from his nose and eyed Leo wearily. He kept his distance as he looked between Phoebe and Prue.
"So…where is Piper?" he repeated.
"She…didn't want to come," Phoebe answered.
"Good news is, she got her memory back," Prue offered.
"Well her emotions anyways," Phoebe corrected.
"You need to find her and get her back here. She can't run around like a Valkyrie forever. She has a duty as a Charmed One," Chris ranted.
"Uh…don't blame us future boy. You were the one who convinced her she was one of them," Prue snapped.
"You did what?" Leo spat.
"Back off," Prue hissed, keeping a steady grip on his arm.
"Leo, he is the reason we were able to save your ungrateful ass," Prue snapped at him.
"Where did Chris get those pendants anyways?" Leo asked, still itching to hit Chris again, and Phoebe felt it.
"What did I tell you? Stop it now Leo Wyatt, and drop the subject. Alright, Leo, I know how upset you are. And by know, I mean I literally know. But you're way off base here. Chris has been the model Whitelighter since you've been gone. He's done nothing but good,"
"He's sent us after so many demons, he has been too good," Prue jumped to the young Whitelighter's defense. Leo sighed, but relented for the moment.
"Alright fine. So where is Wyatt? Can I see him?" Leo asked.
"No you can't. He is at Sheila's until we can figure out how to save Piper," Prue said to Leo.
The foursome trooped up to the attic, ready to consult the Book. Prue began flipping through the entry on Valkyries. Meanwhile, on Valhalla they sat in the cave, examining Piper.
"She is Valkryie, but it's not pure," one of them said.
"Part witch?" Freyja asked and the other nodded.
"She wouldn't be the first sister to convert," another offered. The alarm sounded, letting them know several of the warriors had escaped the island.
"They've gone to the city," Mist said.
"I'm from the city," Piper offered. With that they created a portal and stepped through, ready to retrieve their runaway warriors.
In the attic Phoebe was forming a plan to try and get Piper back to them. "I don't understand, why don't we just storm in there and just get her back?" Chris sighed. "It's not like we don't know where she is,"
"Because they would be expecting that, that's why," Leo snapped angrily. "It would be suicide,"
"We got you out didn't we?" Chris shot back.
"But we lost Piper," Leo rebutted.
"Okay, enough! Knock it off, I'm reeling from Piper's anger still, and I don't need this right now," Phoebe said to them, starting to rub her temples.
"Sorry," Chris apologized. Phoebe sighed, and turned to Prue.
"So how's it going?" Phoebe asked Prue.
"I am almost done. Um, I don't mean to burden you with my emotions, but I don't see how reversing the memory spell is going to help."
Across town the Valkyries emerged in an alleyway. They looked around and knew they were close. They spotted one of the warrior's knives protruding from a homeless man.
"We can scry for them.." Piper suggested.
"You mean like a witch can?" one of the others scoffed.
"What do you need?" Freyja asked and Piper pointed to the knife. The head Valkyrie summoned it. Just then a burly looking biker walked.
"Well what do we have here? A Xena convention?" he laughed.
Kara stepped forward towards the biker guy. "On your knees," she commanded.
"Excuse me? I got a better idea. How about you get on your knees instead?" he said snickering. Kara waved her arm at him and instantly he started to writhe in pain.
"Who are you to talk to us this way?" she said stiffly.
"Kara," Freyja started, but Kara started to rant.
"You don't command us. We command you," Piper walked over to her and grabs her hand. "How dare you?"
"This isn't Valhalla. You don't have dominion over men here," Piper explained.
"Then how do you control them?" Kara asked.
"You don't," Piper answered. The biker stood and rushed back inside only to be joined with a bunch of other guys. A short tussle ensued with the girls successfully procuring the guys' clothing and motorcycles. Darryl was at the scene and caught sight of Piper riding off. He immediately flipped open his phone and dialed the Halliwell's number. Phoebe picked up on the second ring.
"Hello?" she spoke.
"Phoebe, it's Darryl. This is going to sound really crazy, but I just saw Piper riding off on a motorcycle," he said.
"A motorcycle? You're sure?" Phoebe snorted and Darryl assured her he was sure.
"Thanks," she said and hung up. She turned to face her sister, brother-in-law and the young Whitelighter.
"Darryl spotted Piper," she announced.
"Cool…where is she?" Prue asked, grabbing her coat.
"It seems like they are on the run," Phoebe said. "Piper and a couple other Valkyries drove by near the police station, and towards some warehouse,"
"Alright Leo…lets try and find Piper, but when we find her, you'd better leave, we don't want Piper's emotions to overload Phoebe again," Prue said.
"Wait...I can take you," Chris interjected, feeling left out.
"I think you've caused enough problems as it is," Leo spat.
"Sorry, Chris. But we need Leo for this," Phoebe said, shooting him a sympathetic look. He sighed and disappeared in orbs.
"Boy is he moody," Prue commented as Leo orbed them to a warehouse. When they get there they found the warriors that had followed them fighting the Valkyries.
Piper focused on a hub cap and it flew to her and she blocked an attack from a warrior, and lets out a kick.
"Oooh, way to go Piper!" Phoebe cheered. Prue smacks her arm, "What? She's kicking ass," Piper turned to her sisters, finally seeing that Leo orbed them in.
"Leo…orb out of here now," Prue commanded, and he reluctantly obliged. "Piper…" Prue said in a calm voice, but Piper threw out her arm, and sent Prue flying into the gate. "Ow," she said, standing up.
"Hurry up and reverse the spell!" Phoebe said frantically to Prue.
"Alright," Prue snapped, "Uh, Spell was cast, now make it pass, remove it now, don't ask how!" The spell didn't seem to have effect since Piper waved her arm at Phoebe and sent her flying.
"Oh nice going Prue," Phoebe groaned standing up, and she turned to Piper, "Piper, I know why you'd rather be one of them. It's because you don't want to feel pain. But if you feel the pain, you can feel the good stuff as well,"
"And you said my spell sucked," Prue commented as Piper just continued to glare at them.
"Well at least my way made more sense," Phoebe remarked. They were cornered and had no way out. Just then a warrior came at them, sending a knife flying towards them. Piper spun around and with one hand froze it in midair. She seemed kind of surprised that it had frozen.
"See Piper...feeling emotion is a good thing. It makes your powers work," Phoebe called out.
"Piper...we need you. Your family needs you. We can't defeat evil without the Power of Three," Prue begged.
"And you are a part of that," she continued, slowly walking towards her sister. Just then Freyja touched her pendant and the portal opened. The warriors stopped what they were doing and looked embarrassed.
"Come," the lead Valkyrie commanded and the warriors stepped through.
"Come on, Piper," Mist called. Piper looked at her sisters and back at the Valkyries. After one more glance she jogged after the Valkyries and back through the portal.
"Great," Prue groaned.
After calling for Leo, they orbed back to the manor. Phoebe started to pace around the manor, "There has to be a way to get Piper out of there…I know it,"
"Well, unfortunately the reversal spell…it didn't make Piper remember who she was," Prue commented. She turned to Chris, "What do the Elders think?" Prue asked him.
"They think that a demon stuck Leo in Valhalla," Chris said, and immediately Leo interrupted.
"But they are not sure,"
"Still it is their leading theory," Chris pointed out.
"Ok…can we please focus on Piper?" Phoebe sighed. Leo turned to Phoebe.
"The Elders believe that your new power is the key to save Piper," Leo said to her.
"What do you mean my power can help save Piper?" Phoebe asked.
"Well, you can feel her emotions. Why not feel and channel her powers as well," Leo explained. Phoebe thought about it for a minute.
"That makes sense," she said after a while.
"We need to go back to Valhalla then," Prue said, turning to look at Leo and Chris.
"Have fun," Chris said, orbing out of the Manor.
"He is so weird," Prue muttered and looked at Leo.
"We come on. Orb us there so we can go save your wife," she snapped. Leo looked a little offended but took hold of the girls.
They arrived and Piper appeared, seeming to have sensed their intrusion.
"What are you doing here?" she demanded, seeing her husband.
"Piper…we are here to come take you home," Phoebe answered for him. Piper was totally against going back. She didn't want to feel the abandonment anymore, the hurt the pain of losing Leo to the Elders.
"I am not going back," Piper said, glaring at her sisters and husband. She waved her hand towards them, but Phoebe stepped forward, and she channeled Piper's feelings, the telekinesis not affecting her. She waved her hand at Piper and sent her flying backwards. She looked at Phoebe in shock, trying to throw her off balance, but once again, it didn't affect Phoebe.
"Prue say the spell," Phoebe said, holding off Piper.
Prue opens up a folded piece of paper and chanted, "Open Piper's heart to reveal, that part which only Phoebe feels, send it back from whence it came, but don't protect her from the pain," Red sparkly lights came out of Phoebe's body, and hit Piper. Suddenly Valkyries shoot out of the bushes and surrounded the Charmed Ones.
"No wait," Piper said, looking at Freyja.
"Did they harm you?" Freyja asked concerned.
"No they helped me. I know what you do here; I understand its purpose so you can trust that your secret is safe. But I think it is time for me to go home," Piper said to her.
Piper touched the pendant that she still wore around her neck and the portal opened. She stepped through it with her sisters and Leo. They reappeared back in the Manor and she pulled it off, returning to her regular clothes.
"Where is Wyatt?" she ask immediately.
"He's with Sheila," Phoebe answered.
"I'll go get him," Leo offered, orbing off only to return moments later with his son in his arms. He and Piper headed upstairs and into the nursery.
"Leo can I ask you something?" Piper asked once they'd put Wyatt down for the night.
"Of course," he said.
"In order for me to figure all of this out...being a single mom...being without you...I need you to not be around," she said as gently as she could.
"I'll always be watching over you and Wyatt," he breathed as he orbed out.