The Gift ~ Part 2

By M.J.

Disclaimer: I do not own charmed, the WB do, I am only borrowing the characters and story created by Constance M. Burge for my story.

Prologue: This is set near at the end of the forth series, when the source is killed and Cole is dead. But I have left out the part when Phoebe gets her fireball power, as it is given to her from Prue. I have added this before they have the choice of giving their powers up as they have not yet filled their destiny. Sorry for my poetic licence.

Summary: They into the new Evil charmed one's, and Phoebe makes a special potion to change the way the Coven see them, but as with all magic, there is a consequence and with Phoebe's laziness comes a price, which could seem both a good thing and a bad.

Notes: I think I will add another part to this story as well, and maybe this will end with a cliffhanger? I'll see what I am thinking when I get there.

Rating: PG-13

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Leo had orbed them back to the Manor, It had been a lot more exhausting than they had expected, they were only up against one Witch and yet they still only barely got through it alive. Paige was still sleeping, absolutely exhausted from their ordeal, Piper wasn't much better and Phoebe had went up to the attic to work on some potions, they might be needing.

Phoebe looked around in the Book of Shadows, through the section her and Paige had went through that morning. Searching and looking for anything else that might be of use to them, and stop them from dying or getting hurt. She tried making a potion to make them blurry so the demon, witch or warlock couldn't see them very well, obviously an advantage.

"Three cusps of Goldenrod and Willow extract" Phoebe said the ingredients out loud to herself as she rummaged through her newly obtained ingredient set. It was more like a big basket with lots of little compartments, it basically had everything they would need, but it would need to be restocked soon.

"Huh, Eye of Newt? How stereotypical!" Phoebe growled and searched through her little basket, when she opened that little box there where none in it, but right beside it was 'Eye of Dragon' so she decided to use it anyway, to save her having to go to the other side of town to get the proper eye, eyes are all the same anyway!

Phoebe mixed the eye in with the rest of the ingredients, this was one of the nice smelling potions, most of them were unbearable. She poured it into a little bottle, and then the rest was poured down the sink.

She read the next bit in the Book of Shadows, She did as it told her, and held the bottle in her hand and chanted what was in the book.

Vision to see,

and form appear.

Now shall fade,

and come unclear.

Phoebe looked around the room wearily, "No big -Boom-" Phoebe waited another second and then she decided that there wasn't gonna be one, she put the lid on the little bottle and slipped it into her pocket. Finished her notes in her potion book, and then hid it away inside her little ingredients case, and then put it into the wardrobe.

Paige and Piper were just getting back to being able to talk and think by themselves. Leo had orbed up 'there' to get the latest info on the evil coven. Paige and Piper sat on the sofa and continued with their small talk as Phoebe walked down the stairs.

It was pretty surprising how she had gotten over Cole, Paige thought. It had only been a few weeks and in that time she seemed to have gotten over him completely. But Phoebe wasn't like that, she buried all of her thoughts and feeling of cole deep inside herself, she didn't want to confront them and 'Get over' them. She still loved him, and he wasn't gone or dead or vanquished. He still lived in Phoebe's heart and that was the most important thing of all.

So she continued on with her life, still not coming to terms with what she had to do, even her baby, that she had to kill. It didn't really hit her, hidden away inside, under lock and key, never to be opened or thought about again.

She was walking through the hall when the front door burst open, and three mysterious, enigmatic robed figures stormed in. Phoebe halted herself, "Piper, Paige!!" She screamed and they came running in from the livingroom. The Robed figures, let down the hoods that covered their heads and hair from the light.

It was revealed that they where all men, about twenty odds. The arranged themselves like a mirror image of the charmed ones.

"And you would be?" Piper asked, her aggravation easily showing itself in the tone of her voice. "We are the evil charmed ones!" The central man replied to her. "No that's not what I meant sweetie, you are ............." Piper grinned pathetically and sent a telekinesis blast at them and they flew back out of the door in which that had arrived. "Trespassing! And now....... you're not," Piper finished.

"Didn't we destroy the evil charmed one's already?" Phoebe pondered. "You did?, well they obviously passed on to un-dead people, that are coming back, right now!" Paige's voice tightened as she finished her sentence and the Evil charmed ones where back in the hall.

The next thing they new they where at a lake, they where all in the same formation, but just a different location, and it was darker here, wherever here was. Just setting into night time. The three evil charmed ones, called Kozim, Gregor and Liam, approached the sister they where facing.

It was weird, in a way each of them had an opposite, they where like each other only, different. Kozim stalked Phoebe, "Ya know, I'm really not in the mood for this right now!" Phoebe growled as she levitated high into the air and fly kicked Kozim back onto the ground with a bang.

He instinctively flipped himself back onto his feet, he opened his hand to reveal a small bunch of fire balls, Phoebe looked at them and giggled, they where like grapes only, made of fire. She cocked her head to the side and gazed unamused at him. Then peeped over into the space beside him, and there emitted a huge untamed wretch of a fire, hollering in mid air, only centimetres away from Kozim.

Phoebe smiled and returned her attention to Kozim's gasping mouth in front of her, "Snap!" Phoebe whispered evilly and the ball headed straight towards his head.

Meanwhile, As with Phoebe, Gregor had came towards Piper. He swiftly threw out his hand and an energy ball came from it. Piper blinked her eyes and the field came up around her, but Gregor amazingly placed his hand, palm first out towards it and it changed into a thin Blue silk blanket and fell to the ground. But this wasn't before the energy ball had been refracted, and so it headed straight towards her, but she flung herself high into the air and cartwheeled on return and therefore narrowly missed the ball and it headed into a bush a few metres away. Piper's eyes quickly returned to him, the eyes filled with hate and disgust and she flew herself up and blew up the ground beneath him and sent him high up from the huge crater beneath.

Piper had now managed to get herself up and ready again, and while he was falling back down to the ground she thrust a telekinesis blast at him to make him hit the ground quicker, and he crashed into it, and fell unconscious, "Trust me, I know how that feels!" Piper contemplated, as she, looked around at her other sisters.

Paige however, was another matter. Liam seemed to be a lot stronger than her and she was finding it difficult to defeat him. That was because she couldn't get her gift to work and her other powers just weren't cutting it. She remembered about Phoebe's Potion, and while dodging some serious portals to who knows where, that Liam was opening all around her she managed to open her hand and shout, "Potion," and it appeared in her grasp. She threw it onto the ground, and a huge puff of black smoke appeared, and when it dissipated she noticed Liam searching around all over the place for her. "Yes, finally, something works!" She said. She was surprised that he didn't seem to be able to hear her either.

And his portals appeared all over the place at random. "Time to show this boy what we are made of!" Paige giggled. "Tornado!" Paige screamed. Nothing happened. Paige was getting really annoyed, how come none of her new powers worked. "Light gust," Paige whispered sarcastically.

"-Boom-" Paige was thrust backwards as a huge spiral radiated from her hands, her eyes turned the bright White like always, but Paige didn't really notice any difference when it came to seeing things. "Da slago" Paige growled, and the Tornado, as it was, quickly headed for Liam and swept him up high into the raging swirls.

The last thing she heard was his screaming as the Tornado carried on across the water far out to sea or wherever!

Paige walked over to Piper, "That was rough hey?" Paige said, Paige turned around and looked at Piper, who still seemed to be frantically looking for her sisters. "Hello, Piper?" Paige yelled, and waved her hands in front of Piper's face. But to no avail, Piper didn't notice her.

"It must have been that darn potion, It's made me invisible or something!" Paige looked up at Piper hopefully to see if she had heard or saw her. But Piper walked off, shouting, "Phoebe, Paige, where are you's?"

Meanwhile, Phoebe was still fighting Kozim, and she was winning by far. These extra powers, really gave her, her confidence back. And it was showing itself in the way she handled Kozim.

"Ya know, I'm kinda getting bored here!" Phoebe shouted down at Kozim. She was leering at him from metres above in the air. Phoebe was even scaring herself, the way that she was handling this. She was floating triumphantly above him with her arms folded, really brave and daring.

Kozim was scared, really paralysed with fear of Phoebe. "No response?" Phoebe quizzed him stilly. "Aw well," Phoebe sighed and stretched out her arms above him, "Bye," Phoebe pretended mock sadness as the biting, stinging shards of pain and electricity streamed from her fingertips and coursed through his veins, he felt the life, like everything else be scorched away to nothingness.

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Finis