OK so i have a new chapter to this, now before you read this i'm just going to say that i wasn't really happy with how this came out but it's the best i could do. if the general consensus is that it sucks, then i will rewrite it, otherwise enjoy and leave a nice review with a little advice and/or Praise, if you're gonna send a flame i suggest you read the first AN.
Harry stood in the woods watching as a demon stood by a fire watching the aurora borealis with interest. He was later joined by another demon and the two began talking, Harry listened in with his enhanced senses he picked up years ago.
"Oh, I have waited a life time for this." The demon Harry knew to be Cronyn rejoiced
"The Aurora Borealis is a rare sight indeed, sir." His henchman replied
"It's much more than that. Two centuries ago when I became an apprentice, I devoted my life to sorcery and the black arts. And do you know why?"
"No, sir".
"In the hope that an ancient prophecy, which my mentor kept hidden, would one day come to pass."
"Has it?"
"Well, look up. The signs are converging. The future of all magic hangs in the balance. And only I know it."
"And now I know it too, sir." And now so do I, Harry said in his mind
"Oh, yes you do. That's why you're going to help me by attacking the Charmed Ones tomorrow with fireballs." Cronyn told him placing a hand on his shoulder
"Fireballs? No-no-no, fireballs are useless against those witches."
"Well, actually, you'll be lucky to have any fireball power at all if things happen the way I expect them to."
Harry had enough and so he shimmered out of the woods to a place he never thought he would need to go.
"Welcome home, honey. Or should I say your highness? Because from now on we are your loyal subjects." Harry heard a voice he didn't recognize say.
"We even turned your bedroom into a royal throne room." Said Paige, who Harry had no trouble recognizing
"Let me take you there now, my queen." Harry didn't recognize the voice but he knew it was their whitelighter Leo as he was the only male to live in the manor
"Alright, knock it off before I cut your heads off. I don't want any special treatment." Said another voice Harry didn't recognize.
"Piper, we love you, let us love you." And there was the first voice again.
Harry chose that moment to walk into the hallway and disturb there little moment, "I do hope you'll forgive me ladies but I'm sure Piper can do without one of your love for I am in need to talk to Paige," Harry said as he recognized Piper and introduced himself at the same time
"Harry what are you doing here?" Paige asked ignoring the wary looks on her sisters' face and Piper's twitching hands.
"I already said I need to talk to you so can we please talk?" when she nodded Harry grabbed her and orbed out leaving the shocked sisters and confused whitelighter.
Harry and Paige reappeared on top of the golden gate bridge where they immediately went to other sides, one out of instinct the other out of space issues (guess which). "So how ya been Paige?" Harry inquired as he leaned against the cool metal.
"Can we please just get this over with, Piper is due any time and I need to be there." Paige said as she too leaned against the metal
"Well far be it from me to exchange pleasantries before business but I suppose time is of the essence really." Harry took a breath before continuing, "Tonight, for an unknown amount of time, magic is going to be down. I don't know why or how all I know is that nobody will be able to use it, not me not you not anybody."
"Why are you telling me this?" Paige asked recovering from the shock.
"They're making me choose a side, and I pick a side that looks out for what's right any day."
"But, your powers." Paige asked referring to when they first met.
"Magic is just magic Paige; it's how you use it that defines you. Now come on before we don't have the power to orb back." With that they both orbed back to the manor.
Arriving at the manor they found a dead body, a pissed Phoebe and no Piper, "well it appears as though we're right on time." Harry said as he examined the body with a frown.
"Magic is down Phoebes and we have no idea how to fix it." Paige explained seeing the confused look on her sister's face.
"And how did he know this was gonna happen?" she asked pointing to Harry, "no offence" she added as an afterthought.
"Oh none taken. I heard rumours going throughout the underworld, nobody knew why all they would talk about is which witch they were going to kill as long as they didn't have their powers, and so after that I went digging and found a sorcerer who was preparing although it wasn't like the others, he mentioned a prophecy and that's when I left. I always hated them" he seemed to say the last part more to himself than to the others.
A silence arose for a few moments but it was broken by Leo who chose that minute to enter, "What's with the leftovers?" he said gesturing to the dead body in the hallway oozing green blood.
"Well, his magic ran out just like ours". Paige explained
"Okay, so we have no powers, demons have no powers and wonder boy over there has no powers. What is going on here?" Phoebe said in slight panic
"I don't know. I just got a call from a charge and her powers are down too. So I unplugged the phone just in case we get any more calls. I don't want Piper to panic."
"It's like I said, magic is gone EVERYWHERE." Harry clarified, he couldn't say anymore as the doorbell rang
"Oh, god, what time is it? That's probably dad." Phoebe whispered in panic
"I'll get the unicorn." Leo stated.
"I'll take care of the body." Harry said moving to the body and hefting it on to his shoulder he then put it in the closet hanging on a coat hanger by his jacket.
Paige and Phoebe answered the door as soon as Harry had closed the closet door. The door opened to reveal a man who was obviously their father Victor and a woman beside him.
"Phoebe, Paige, I'd like you to meet Doris." The man named Victor explained to the girls
"Doris?" Phoebe repeated
"My new wife and your new stepmother."
Harry just walked into the kitchen to avoid the upcoming drama, when he walked in he decided to make himself a sandwich while the girls finished with their family issues. Paige came in moments later and stared at Harry who was calmly munching away on his sandwich.
"How can you eat at a time like this?" Paige asked incredulously
"Well what am I supposed to do, listen to how your family is crazy?"
Paige stayed silent not knowing how to answer, eventually she was saved by the doorbell ringing, and she got up and went to answer it with Harry following her close by.
"Can I help you?" Paige asked as she opened the door
"To save magic? I hope so." A man answered, Harry suspiciously disappeared at that moment.
Harry watched as Paige and Phoebe talked to Cronyn listening in just in case he was needed, nobody had noticed that his hand was always dangerously close to his belt the entire time he had been in the manor.
"You can't fix this by yourselves. That's why you invited me here to your backyard. But together, together we can interpret the signs." He hear Cronyn say to the two sisters as they sat by a table
"Okay, so what do you propose that we do?" Phoebe asked
"Where's Harry?" Paige asked looking around but she was ignored
"A summit between good and evil to discuss the crisis. Of course, there'd be certain rules. No guns, no knives, etc., you know." Cronyn answered Phoebe but he stored the part away that there was another person here in the back of his mind
"The exit's that way, so if you wanna just... "Paige trailed off with a whistle
"We don't have much time. The longer magic is down, the harder it is to restore. (He pulls out a business card which reads "Cronyn, Sorcerer - Evil Magic for All Occasions" and hands it to Phoebe.) My cell phone's on the back in case your sister changes her mind.""
"Cronyn huh? Since when do sorcerers have cell phones?" Phoebe asked interestedly
"You think that's bad? I've got a taxi waiting out front. Call me." Cronyn said grumbling causing Paige to laugh as he left the manor.
"I don't trust him." Paige said as soon as he left the manor.
"You're right not to." Harry said as he walked out to the backyard, "he's the sorcerer I overheard talking about magic being out for the day. If he knew about this then he would also have come sooner rather than now while they are defenceless." He finished as he sat down next to Paige.
"So a sorcerer wants to arrange peace talks for the whole magic crisis." Phoebe summed up for them
"Oh, yeah, and you're actually considering it." Paige added
"Well, of course I'm considering it; the future of magic is at stake here, not to mention the future of my niece. And what else do we have right now? There's no powers, no book, no Elders."
"Phoebe's right. Without magic, Piper and the baby are vulnerable, we can't protect them." Leo concluded as he entered the room.
"Okay, fine, but if there's a meeting we're going in heavy, in case it's a trap." Paige then turned to Harry, "you coming with us?"
So that's how an hour later Phoebe Paige were sitting in a pizza pub with Harry on the other end watching the scene, Cronyn was talking to Paige and Phoebe while everybody in the pub was watching, the sisters hadn't noticed though because of the position in which they sat. Suddenly the entire pub went quiet.
"Did it just get very quiet in here?" he heard Phoebe ask while Paige looked for him.
"You don't think we'd pass up the opportunity to take out the Charmed Ones, now do you?" Cronyn said as they all surrounded the two.
Cronyn grabbed a demon and hissed, "Don't let them out alive." With that he turned and walked out of the door.
Harry wasn't about to stand there and watch as the only hope for the good of the magical world was beaten down, so he walked out of his hiding place, put two fingers into his mouth and whistled causing everybody to turn to him. "Are you really gonna miss out on an opportunity to kill me?"
The demons took a minute or two but eventually they all recognized him for who he was and turned on him. "RUN!" Harry screamed to the two witches as he pulled out an athame from his belt and stared the others down. Phoebe made for the door and Paige looked reluctant to go but in the end she did.
"So, the collector shows his pathetic face on the very day the powers he took from us are useless. And not only that but it seems he's finally chosen which side he is on. He's with the witches." The demon in the lead growled to him, his voice becoming deadlier with every point he made.
"Look on the bright side guys. When I kill you, there won't be any powers for me to take." Harry said, he didn't wait any longer before he stabbed the demon in the lead in the heart with the athame and bulled through the rest. He didn't have to keep fighting to the door because a moment later the window smashed and a red bottle came out with a piece of string attached to it, the piece of string was on fire…..everybody's eyes widened as they all ducked for cover while Harry, who was closest to the exit ran for it.
He just got out of the door when an explosion came from behind him knocking him off his feet and blasting him down the street, right at the feet of two women who he thought would be long gone by now. "You should have gone after Cronyn." Was all he said as he stood up and followed them to the car.
"Yeah but we have no powers so we kinda need you right now at the moment buddy." Paige said looking him over as they walked noting the scratches, bruises, cuts and burn marks all over his exposed body.
"You're powers will return when the baby is born, knowing Piper's condition moments ago that could be any minute." Harry said not telling how he came to this knowledge.
They pulled up to the house and snuck in the back door, the moment they entered they heard Piper scream. Harry turned to the girls, "you go do what you have to, I'm going to find Cronyn and give him a piece of my mind." He didn't listen to their whispered protest as he pulled an athame out from his belt and made his way into the foyer where he say Cronyn heading up the stairs. "OI Cronyn!" Harry called hoping to get his attention and stop him from going up the stairs.
Cronyn drew a knife and turned to Harry, his eyes widened as he saw who it was but he smirked as if realising something, "you have no powers to protect yourself Collector and the witches are too busy right now to help you." He dropped the bag he was holding and walked down the stairs.
"Maybe not," Harry retorted as he flaunted the athame in his hand, "but you forgot how I got them in the first place."
Cronyn slashed at Harry with his knife but Harry avoided it very nearly. Harry countered by throwing the knife catching Cronyn in the eye. "You demons and sorcerers all use knives and athames but not one of you is any freaking good with them." He was stopped from any more gloating by a thud on the stairs, both of them turned to see Piper lying down in obvious pain.
Doris walked down the stairs, "she caught me off guard." She said not seeing Harry until it was too late; Harry wrenched the athame from Cronyn's eye and threw it straight at Doris's heart. She fell over the banister beside Cronyn.
Phoebe and Paige chose that moment to reappear; Paige threw some dust over the two demons while Phoebe recited a spell. "Beast of legend, myth and lore, give my words the power to soar, and kill this evil evermore."
Cronyn and Doris blew up into a thousand pieces along with Stanley shortly after. Piper screamed to draw everybody's attention to her causing everybody to spring into action once more,
"Paige throws me that bag of dust while you and Phoebe help Piper." Harry commanded, nobody disagreed with him so Paige threw him the satchel of unicorn dust while she and Phoebe carried Piper over to the table in the living room.
Harry made his way over to Victor and poured some dust on his hands, he then healed Victor much to the shock of Leo who had just arrived on the scene. "Come on daddy let's go give birth." Harry said as he walked past Leo and over to the girls with Leo and Victor
"Very good. Okay, relax, relax, you're okay." They heard Phoebe saying as they reached them.
"Dad?" Piper said through tears and gasps of breath.
"Yeah, honey?"
"I'm sorry about your demon wife." Harry snorted causing Paige to glare at him and Harry to adopt an innocent face that didn't suite his stubble face at all.
"Oh, hush. Don't think about that." Victor replied with an encouraging smile
Leo walked over to Piper and put his arm around her. "I'm right here, baby."
"Okay. You okay? You're alright. Okay. You're doing great, you're doing great. Push, okay? Last push." Phoebe said to Piper just as Paige turned to Harry and said, "Remind me never to have kids."
"I can't." Piper cried, Harry didn't blame her because she looked exhausted
"You have to. A big one. Big one! Push!"
"You can do it." Leo encouraged
"I can't." Piper cried in desperation
"You can, you can." Phoebe chanted
"Yes, you can." Paige opened her mouth to the group for the first time.
"Okay, push. Push. Come on, push!" Phoebe said in a raised voice to be heard over the screaming
Just as Piper grips the table and pushes the chandelier glows a blue light over the family while Harry watches with interest
"Oh, I guess magic's coming back." Paige remarked as she saw the light.
Harry turned to Paige, "if you're dumb enough to have kids remind me never to be there." He said with a grin.
"Here we go, here we go. Oh, I see a shoulder. Oh, and another shoulder. And an arm OH, and something else, something else" Phoebe was now holding a new born baby which was surrounded by orbs. "Hi, baby. Hi. Look!" she said turning the crying baby to the group.
Five pairs of eyes widened at the same time, "Oh. Is that what I think it is?" Paige said at last.
Harry turned to her with a raised eyebrow and a smirk, "never seen the male anatomy Paige?" he said with a teasing tone.
"Like I would ever tell you." She retorted with an air of false superiority.
"You two can flirt later, Phoebe hand over my baby boy." Piper interrupted causing the two to blush and turn back to the scene, Piper was holding her baby now with a smile only a mother could have after going through so much pain, "You are safe, you are loved, and you are wise." She kissed his forehead, "how ya doing?"
Harry orbed out while nobody noticed except one who followed. The two appeared on top of the golden gate bridge but harry, who had been there first was writing in a small black book.
"Whatcha doing?" Paige asked as she appeared.
"Thinking of how I'm going to get to England, I shimmer I'll be traced. If I orb I'll be noticed. And there are only certain places I can blink to without attracting attention." Harry replied after putting his book away and hovered into the air resting there on top of orbs.
"Why do you have to go?" Paige asked as she joined him in the hovering.
"I have to check in on a few things, and look at something." He answered. The two sat in silence for a few moments before harry broke it, "I found out what I am." He said with a smile
"What are you?" Paige asked.
"I'll tell you if you go out to dinner with me." Harry said with a smirk
Paige seemed to think on it, this guy had helped her and her sisters; he hadn't killed her even though he had the chance, and he was hot. "Okay when and where?" she asked him.
"Tomorrow and, you'll see." He didn't wait for a reply before he blinked out.
Harry appeared back in the apartment he had two weeks ago and nothing had changed. Like the last time he had been there he grabbed the book off the table and began writing in it.
The time for me to choose a side passed and I chose the side of the charmed ones. I only hope with all of my powers I can help them with their struggles. The elders were gracious enough to reveal to me the missing element…what I started off with and how I got there. The rest, such as what I am now was merely a matter of putting the pieces together. The elders didn't like me though the feeling was mutual, they had no reason to dislike me and I had. Just because an elder gave up his powers to me they immediately assume the worst of how I tricked him or stole them from him.
My quest for powers is over. I haven't discovered every power, nor have I acquired enough of them to follow the same line as Balthazar di, not that I'd want to as they destroyed him from the inside. But today my powers were useless as the next generation was born thus a holy day of non-magic was issued to welcome the twice blessed. Paige as agreed to dinner, perhaps dating isn't as bad as it was when I was but a teenager. Maybe it was just the war that made me what I was. Who knows? But better yet, who cares? I am what I am and I'm proud that this time I had a choice in it.