Charmed
Another Side, Another Story
The Oracle, The Witchlock and The Archlighter
(Part 4)
"It doesn't necessarily mean trouble," Prue tells Piper. "It means the Elders might not be allowing Leo to come."
"He also does have other charges sweetie," Phoebe adds. "Try not to panic." She walks toward her and pushes her toward the attic doorway. "Now, it's off to bed with you missy."
"What?" Piper questions. "Why?" She finds herself confused as she tries to stop Phoebe, she flails her arms about, but she fails.
Phoebe pushes her out of the attic and bars her from reentering.
"You have a meeting about the loan today," Prue reminds Piper, moving into her field of vision. "Get some rest."
"Let us nonworking people take care of this," Phoebe tells her and chuckles.
"Are you sure?" Piper asks. She looks from Phoebe to Prue.
"Positive," Prue says. She reassures her with a nod before moving back to the book.
Phoebe hugs Piper. "Good luck."
"Thanks," Piper says. She turns to leave but turns back around. "We're going to discuss that Rite of Passage entry of the Book of Shadows later. We need to figure out what the Power of One means."
"We will," Phoebe says, turning Piper around and pushing her away. "Later."
Piper leaves, and Phoebe smiles and shakes her head. Phoebe goes and stands before Prue, leaning onto the bookstand for a moment, the book between them. Prue flips through the book.
"Searching for Orlin?" Phoebe asks. Prue shakes her head. "You going to be okay?" Phoebe adds. Prue nods.
Prue doesn't look up from the book. She hears Phoebe suck on her teeth, so she realizes she should answer her with words. "I will be, especially now that I have something to focus on." She looks up. She should let her in on what she's doing. "Graham's not a Witch either. He's a Witchlock, half-Witch and half-Warlock. I'm trying to find something on it."
"I don't think you're going to find anything on Witchlocks in the book," Phoebe says, her voice telling Prue she considers that an out-there development. She's surprised to hear such a combination exist.
"I don't think so either," Prue says after looking down and flipping through several more pages.
"Do you think Whitney is a Witchlock?" Phoebe says. "I mean she would have to be, right? She's his sister."
"She isn't," Prue says. "She's calls Graham a Witchlock. I'm thinking she doesn't apply the term to herself."
"And I guess if you had the Elders trying to keep you protected," Phoebe surmises, "you wouldn't be half-Warlock." She adds. "If we believe her."
"I'll have to talk to Graham," Prue says.
"I'll go with you just in case," Phoebe says.
Prue comes from in front of the book. "Don't you have Big Brothers/Big Sisters today, or is it the Soup Kitchen?"
"No," Phoebe tells her. "I go to the Soup Kitchen Monday and Wednesday, and I help Big Brothers/Big Sisters on Friday and Saturday. Don't change the subject." Phoebe gives her a look.
"He reminds me of Brendan," Prue says, gazing off through the attic window before she returns her gaze to Phoebe. "Remember him?" Phoebe nods. "I don't think he'll be any trouble."
"Maybe I'll go talk to Brendan," Phoebe says. "Graham's family name is Donahue. It might lead to something." Phoebe notices Prue, who gazes out the attic window a second time, about to object but refrain from doing so. Prue looks tired.
"Graham will provide answers," Prue says softly. Phoebe notices she seems to say this more to herself. She turns to Phoebe. "Do you mind if I turn in?"
"No," Phoebe says. "Go ahead." She hugs her. "Good night."
"Night," Prue says before she walks from the attic to her room.
Phoebe goes before the book. She places her hands on it before she starts flipping pages. "I'll see if I can find Orlin. Maybe we can summon him, I can write a spell, and we can vanquish him before he gives up Graham and Whitney's location. Fit a vanquish in before Piper's morning commute." She shrugs. "Sounds like a plan." She stops. "Why am I talking to myself?" She reads the Warlock entry, to refresh her memory.
Warlocks
An Evil race of magical beings
They hunt, capture, and kill Witches for power.
Many are former Witches who have chosen and dedicated themselves to the path of Evil, but they can be born into the world with dark magic, inheriting it from their parents.
Afterward, Phoebe searches for Orlin. When that doesn't pan out, she searches for the name Donahue. No luck.
"This book has too many pages," she says, flipping back and forth from the pages at the beginning, middle, and end of the book.
The pages of the book turn themselves.
It falls on a page, the exact one she and her sisters need.
"How do you do that?" Phoebe says, surprised and amazed. She reads the page.
Warlock Clans
Some Upper-level Warlocks form clans by seducing or raping Witches. The Warlocks that become a part of one of these clans are stronger because of their collective tie but specifically serve the purpose of empowering the Warlock that started or produced the clan.
"Going by this our second year as Witches is definitely going to be more
challenging than our first," Phoebe says to herself. "And we have to fight Orlin with the Power of One."
This page of the book informs Phoebe there are more Warlocks Orlin could have assist him and they will all be stronger than Warlocks they've faced in the past. However, the page concerning the Rite of Passage stumps her. If Orlin is one of many and there is a more powerful Evil waiting, the Power of One wouldn't get anything done, which meant it couldn't mean just one of them.
"The Power of Three," Phoebe hears a voice whisper.
Phoebe looks around. "Grams?"