Clowing Fire
Chapter Three: Last Leaf
The fact that all men die and souls live on is mystery til this very day. But one can be living and dead all at once.
It astonished Azcadelia as the living-room had flourished before her. It felt like centuries since the home had been filled. She gathered all of her younger siblings and sat them down. Trying her best to gathered her thoughts against furious and curious ears. To tell the story of all years hence. To bring back memories she drowned in water. But death always finds a way dealing with life in the end. So Azcadelia took a breath and slightly whispered a sigh, "give me one firm spot to which to stand and I will move the earth."
All in fury sisters Cordelia and Minvera jumped up "What's going on?" Azcadelia shook her head and tried to keep herself calm. The ill tempers in her family were gonna get them killed some day.
"Archimedes said that however that was Z most favorite line to quote"
"You are the last dying leaf. You girls are the last of our kind. The last Halliwells pure at heart." Chris spoke up.
"What does that all mean? So we are all sisters?" Selene lingered. "How could we not remember," and the elder Halliwells were silent.
"Not exactly..." Chris began to explain before getting cut off by another.
"We did what we thought was best. In times of great tragedy..." they heard Viper voice as she ascended from great flames. She stood beside her sister Azcadelia and held her hand. "Hello brother," Viper said softly.
"Sister," Chris said kissing his baby cousin on the forehead. Often calling each other sister and brother because there bond was once so strong.
"Ummm, the story?" Selene pondered intrigued. The mermaid Goddess.
"In times of tragedy. Sister against brother and brother against sister. Came a time of great madness. Where we were no longer pure at heart and our gifts had selfishly blinded our good nature. We saw it just to correct the problem..." Viper trailed with her story.
"The power was so great making us feel alive and having no fear. A twice blessed felt it even to destroy all four," Azcadelia continued.
"To children?" Demetria asked. Petting her giant white snake.
"Yes, but I could not let the twice blessed vanquish them all. They were merely teenagers, innocently little girls corrupted only by one." Chris explained to his kin.
"You guys talk as if there were more of us," Cordelia stating.
"Because there were, many long gone. The Halliwell legacy right. We never truly live happily ever after..." Azcadelia said.
"How can our family be so broken?" Cordelia asked.
"Because we stop believing in ourselves. With that came punishment, exile for some and even death. We all made choices and with them came consequences," Viper answered.
"Exile?" Demetria spoke up, intrigued.
"Yes, even in death some with side with Z. They think she is the true heir to our kingdom." Azcadelia answered.
"And she's not? Oh great power of hers. That you wont even dare say her name..." Minerva challenge.
"Silly child. Do not question such a thing because even greatness can be terrifying. She is the void, the chaos and the destruction. She will swallow anything in her path. For the crimes mother and father sought fit for her. We all pay the price forever. And when she wakes the reign of all Halliwells will awaken just for this war." Azcadelia stated strongly.
"And why would the twice blessed want to kill her?" Selene questioned.
"To save her from her own pain," Chris answered. "And she won't stop coming for her own blood until we have paid the price,"
"Wyatt Halliwell? That was his name.." Selene announced.
"Doing your research," Azcadelia smiled and Selene shrug.
"Our brother will never be with us again nor will he join us in this war..." Azcadelia said.
"Why not?" All questioned.
"He doesn't practice magic anymore," Azcadelia answered.
"Why not?" all questioned again.
"Because he killed her. With his own bare hands and that is enough pain to last you a lifetime," Azcadelia exclaimed.
"But why is Z trying to come back now?" Minerva asked.
"To gain what she has lost," a whisper came, revealing the virgin oracle.
"What!?"
"When Wyatt killed her. She transferred all her powers into your four. She called you the guys the eclipse. She transferred all of her light, her power into you four." Kallisto explained.
"But now she's come to seek her revenge," Viperdena said.
"But what did we ever do?" Demetria asked.
"Sweetheart you didn't have to do anything. This was not your fault. This war between good and evil and power started way before you were thought of" Azcadelia answered.
"But why?" Selene questioned.
"Because she bestowed her divine essence upon you and she cannot just take her power back. She has to absorb it. Devour you into herself." Kallisto explained.
"How long do we have?"Minerva asked.
"When the blood eclipse arrives," Chris answered.
"So we're helpless?" Demetria asked.
"Only if she finds a way to come back first," Viper informed."We need to start with delaying her arrival. Out of sight. Any sight?" Viperdena asked turning to the oracle. "Whether your on the winning side or the losing side. This is still your family, your blood and your legacy. So what do you see," Viper barked.
"Viper..." Azcadelia trailed off getting between the two.
"No!," Viper flames emerging around her body. "Kallisto is a Halliwell. From the beginning to the end. Now we have all paid a price and I wont sit back and watch an elder Halliwell vanquish the remaining of us."
"Tisk Tisk, Don't make me angry," Kallisto said with a smirk. "I am surely still a Halliwell." The house becoming extremely cold. Fire against Ice. And Viper laughed, a sinister laughed only a devil could give.
And there was silence between the two when Kallisto blew out Viperdena fire with her cold breathe. And everyone in the room was freezing beside the three chosen ones. And Kallisto closed her eyes. And gold bracelets around her legs appeared, glowing with fire. And her eyes turned smokey grey as she inhaled a powerful vision.
"from where one came and one began. There's only no ends to blood within. To find the answers you must start with death because all things living are not alive yet." Kallisto softly spoke and disappeared within the wind.
"There's your answer bestowed upon thee," Azcadelia confirmed, stalking off to find a old friend.
"Can she ever just give us the answers," Viper shouted dramatically exploding in flames during her exit. And there Chris stood before the younger generation. Vowing not to make the same mistake as before. At that very moment he realized how many times would he die for his family. And how many times will his siblings suffer heartaches over family that claims to be foe. But before could the very last leaf of a dying old tree be so pure to restore the balance upon even weakest of the meek.
Hey guys chapter three has been revised and updated. I am revising multiple chapters before I upload any new ones. Side note: I have removed Adona and Amp character from the story. So the only younger Halliwell generation will be Selene, Demetria, Minerva and Cordelia. Current Older Halliwell generation: Chris, Azcadelia, Viper and Kallisto.