Out of the Collective
(Wyatt, Chris, and I are in Chris's room watching a video)
INTERNET VOICE: "B**** is over exposed and I'm sick of it... What's up navy? This is Rihanna... Your a slut and he's a slut too! ""Why are we watching this?" I ask Chris. "Just watch it. He's hilarious." Halfway through the video mom comes in. "What are you guys still doing here? I thought you guys left with Melinda." Mom says. "What are you talking about?" Wyatt asks. "I told you repeatedly that today a few of my friends are coming over to show off their new line of lingerie." Mom says. "Now why would we leave when a bunch of half-naked women are coming over?" Chris says. "She does clothes for men. Now will you guys please go? They'll be here any minute." Mom says. "We're gone." Chris says.

(Scene changes to the underworld. Inside a destroyed lair of the collective which are a powerful group of warlocks. Agnor is returning from his day long witch hunt. He searches around finding scorch marks everywhere.)

Agnor: Hello! Is anyone here?
(A pile of rubble moves and a man pops up from beneath it.)
Demon: Agnor? Is that you? I thought everyone was here when he attacked.
Agnor: Lomon, what happened? Who attacked?
Lomon: One of the charmed ones child. Although I don't know which one.
Agnor: Is everyone gone?
Lomon: I think a few of us were able to flee , but I'm not sure exactly how many.
Agnor: What about the other lairs?
Lomon: This one was the only one attacked. Agnor, what are we going to do.
Agnor: We do what we always have done. We will hire some bounty hunters to take care of the problem.
Lomon: Who shall we hire?
Agnor: Well, since seven out of ten of the children have whitelighter blood, we shall hire some darklighters. One for each if them.

(Back to Zac's life. The three boys are leaving the mall)
"What are we suppose to do now?" Chris says. "I don't know. Lets just drive around town until we find something." Wyatt says. As we walk to Wyatt's car, Chris picks up a flier on the ground. "Look at this. Their is a Wicca gathering in Muir Woods. It starts at 1:00. If we leave now we can make it." Chris says. "Why would we go to that. It's probably just a bunch of phonies pretending to be witches." I say as we get into the car.
"It's better than Wyatt's idea of riding around town... Look, we can just stop by. If we don't like it we can leave." Chris says. We eventually give in and go to the Wicca gathering.

(Back to Agnor with a few evil guest.)
Agnor: What is this?
Lomon: These were the best we could get who weren't afraid to go against the charmed ones' children.
Agnor: They'll have to do.
Lomon:(Sigh)
Agnor: Ok, I want everyone one of you to capture one charmed child and bring them back here. Now off you go.

(Back to Zac and his brothers in the park.)
"We're leaving now. " I say. "Relax! No one us going to judge you." Chris says as he takes off his shirt. "Not only is it illegal to take your close off in public, but it's also very weird. I don't know any of these people." I say. "You're only given one life to live so why not take chances." Wyatt says as he starts to join Chris. I eventually loosen up and join my naked siblings. As we join the circle I get a few glances. "I actually don't think this is a good idea." I say feeling self-conscious. "C'mon. Your have nothing to be ashamed of." Chris says. I take a deep breath and step inside the circle. "Welcome everyone. My name is Rain and I will be leading us today." She says in a cheerfully relaxed tone as I glare at my brothers. "Before we start, I would like for all of us to close our eyes and and breathe deeply to level our chi. Ready? Begin." I close my eyes and start breathing in and out. I would have stayed like that for a few hours if the sound of branches breaking didn't snap me out of my trance. I turn around quickly to try and hide till I see men in all black with crossbows. "Everybody watch out!" I yell. As the darklighters load their bows all the other "witches" run away. The darklighters shoot at us. Wyatt and I deflect ours back as chris orbs away. As the last darklighters reload, I try to get my clothes. "Zac, no time for clothes just get home." Wyatt said. When I orb home I'm on some kind of platform with curtains blocking me from the rest of the house and music blaring. I walk out from behind the curtain and a dozen eyes stare at me. Before I knew it the whole room froze. I run quickly to grab a pillow off the couch to cover my lower area. "ZACHARY ALLEN HALLIWELL DO NOT PUT MY PILLOW THERE!" Mom says. I turn away from her and throw the pillow back on the couch. "What were you thinking? And why are you naked?" Mom says in a hurried blur. "I don't have time to explain. You just need to get all of your friends out before darklighters arrive."I say just as Melinda orbs in front of me. "Darklighters are come... EEEEWWWW!" Melinda squeaks. "Zac, go put some clothes on." Mom says. As I start to run up the stairs Aunt Paige orbs in front of the stair case with Aunt Pheobe, and all my cousins. "Piper darklighters are..." After a moment of silence I break through them and run up the stairs where I am again interrupted by Wyatt and Chris fully clothed yelling in sync "Darklighters are coming!" They push me upstairs as they go down to the rest of the family. On my way up I hear Aunt Phoebe say something like "Are you sure he's only thirteen." As I run to my room dad pops his head out of his room. "Zac, what's going on?…And why are you naked?" Dad asks. "No time for that. Just stay in your room. I don't know how much whitelighter you have in you but I don't want an arrow to go through you either way." I telekinetically move him onto the bed, freeze him, jam the door shut and to ensure his safety, I put an orb shield around the room. As I get back down stairs mom quickly makes me remove my clothes and stand back where I was. After the room unfreezes, I run behind the curtains while mom gets the guest to leave. "As the last guest leaves Aunt Paige says "DUCK!" Although to no one in particular we all duck. The arrow flies over Chris's head into the grandfather clock. We all look up just in time to see a darklighter put sunglasses on and throw a potion. I see a blinding white light then nothing at all. "I can't see!" I yell. "Neither can I!" Said someone. I kept hearing cries of pain wondering what they were till I felt something shoot into me. I felt like all my magic left my body along with my will to live. As I fall to the ground in pain, I feel someone yank the arrow out of me. My hearing becomes fuzzy and I blackout a few times. When I finally wake up for good I'm on my bed. My body is slowly numbing with pain spreading from my wound. I had a massive headache and I was burning up. I was under so many blankets. I had to get out. I started to try, but my body wasn't responding. "You're finally awake!" Dad says. "I'm so hot. I'm sweating." I say in a whisper. Dad takes the cloth from my forehead , soaks it in ice water, wrings it out, and places it back on my forehead. "Dad, I can't feel anything. Am I gonna die?" I say as my body stopped being numb and started tingling. "No you're not. Sam is about to get here. Now just relax till he does." I'm not exactly sure when my body caught fire but shortly after I felt the fire go down to tingles, then back to numbness, then my body was back to normal. I quickly got out of my bed and quickly orbed my bloody/sweaty sheets into the washer. I thanked Sam, hugged my dad, and took a quick shower. As I step out of my shower I hear knocking on my door. "Zac, when you get dressed come up to the attic." Mom says. When I get to the attic I find everybody up there. "About time you joined us." Chris says. "So what's the deal with these darklighters? Have we found out why they are after us?" I say. "Yes we did. As we were killing that darklighter, he started talking about something called the collective." Mom says. "What's the collective?" I say. "All the book says is that they are a large group of warlocks that hire hit men to kill someone that has wronged them. In payment the warlocks split the power of the killed victim. But we have time to talk about that later. Everybody form a circle around the three of us and join hands. We have to do a cloaking spell. " Mom says. I grab Parker and Henry's hand and we form a circle around the moms.

"Wanted by evil
Dark as night
We cloak you now
In witches light
To give you time
To flee or fight
You now are hidden
From evil's sight."

Darklighter: Just give me one more chance. I know I can take them.
Agnor: There is no way you could get all of them by yourself.
Darklighter: I was the only one that came back. That should prove how powerful I am.
Agnor: That doesn't prove how strong you are. All it proves is how lucky you were. And besides, I don't give second chances. (Agnor lifts his hand and shoots an energy beam at the darklighter, vanquishing him.)
Lomon: What do we do now?
Agnor: I don't know. Bring in a soothsayer. Maybe one can help us.
(Lomon leaves and returns with a woman soothsayer in chains. Lomon pushes her down on her knees in front of Agnor.)
Agnor: Tell me your name soothsayer.
Soothsayer: Trill. My name is Trill.
Agnor: Well Trill, help me find a way to destroy the kids.
(Trill's eyes close and the room becomes silent)
Trill: Destroy the decoy and follow the trail. Beware of fire if you wish to prevail. Bring back the children to put on display. A Wiccan burning shall end the day.
(Trill opens her eyes and the eerie silence disappears.)
Agnor: Thank you. That will be all.
(Lomon drags Trill back and locks her away.)

"So let me get this straight. The clones you make won't be cloaked?" Aunt phoebe says. "Correct. So while the clones are being chased, we have time to find a way to destroy the collective. Is everybody ready to be cloned?" I say. Everyone nods. I focus my energy and wave my hand across the whole room. Seconds later clones started to step out of the host bodies. There was a bunch of chatter between the originals and the copies until we all heard a loud whistle. "If you are a real person follow me. Everyone else stay here and act like you are doing something productive." Mom says. The originals follow her down stairs into the living room. "Ok so what is our first plan?" Prue says. "The first thing that is going to happen is all of the children are going to leave this place." Aunt Phoebe says. "Leave? I though we were going to stay and help!" Kat says. "We just want you guys to be safe. We can handle it from here." Aunt Paige says. "The whole point of the cloaking spell was to let you guys flee without being tracked. So I want all of you guys to go away." Mom says. "I mean it! Now go! As people start leaving, Henry and Parker come over to me. "What are we going to do now?" Parker says. "I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to see Vanessa." Before they could rebuttal, I orb to Vanessa. When I get into her room, I find her asleep in her bed. I hear footsteps approaching the door and quickly hide myself under the bed. The door opens and I hear an unfamiliar male voice muttering to himself. I keep hearing kill and girl flung around. The last thing I heard before I pieced things together was "Kill her now." I quickly orbed out from under the bed and landed on the man. We both fall on the ground and something black flies out his hand. I assume its some sort of weapon. I sit on his chest and pin his hands on the ground. "I will give you one chance and one chance only to leave and never return." I say. He begins to struggle and breaks out of my grasp in seconds. He telekinetically slams me against the ceiling then sends me towards the wall. Before I hit it, I orb in front of him. I hitch kick him in the face then telekinetically slam him against the desk knocking everything off. "So I guess you don't want to take my offer?" I say. He gets up and sends Vanessa's desk chair flying at me. I front flip over the chair using levitation. As I land in front of him, the chair hits her armoire and smashes into pieces. As I was about to round house his face, We were both flung against opposite walls. I sit up and form an energy ball in my hand. "Zac, stop!" Vanessa says. "But he's a demon... Or something." I say. "I'm the demon (groan)? Says the boy with the energy ball (groan). Vanessa, can you please help me kill him?" The other guy says. "I'm sorry, but that's not going to happen." I say. I get ready to throw the energy ball at him when I hear "Zac stop! That's my cousin!" Vanessa says. "Oops!" I say as I crumple the ball in my hand." My bad." I get up and walk over to him and pull him up. As soon as I let go of him, he falls to the ground with a whimper. "My leg! I think it's broken." He says. "Don't worry. I got this." I kneel down and heal his leg. "What the hell are you?" He says in an astonished tone. "You got a week?" I say jokingly. This time when I help him up, he stays standing. "Zac, you have to leave! My parents can't catch you up here!" Vanessa says. "I'm not leaving till I get a kiss." I say. She walks over to me and as our lips almost touch, I'm yanked back by my shirt collar. The next thing I know I'm in a dark room and a cloth smothering my face. I start struggling, but with every move, I breathe in. After a few seconds I slow down till I finally black out.

When I wake up I'm strapped to a wooden stake with sticks of wood piled around me. I try to orb but I can't. "No point in trying to use magic, young witch. We placed an amulet around your neck which defuses your power." A random man says. "In a few seconds you will be brought out to a big arena where the collective will watch you and your family burn at the stake." I start thrashing about until I start moving. "Looks like its about to begin." The man says. After I go through a tunnel, I emerge into a room lit brightly with torches. I look around and I see my siblings and cousins being brought in on conveyor belts into the room. We all stop when we form a circle around a fire pit in the center. As we come to a stop, a man walks out on a ledge and quiets the whole crowd. "Welcome everybody! Today is a monumental day for evil. Tonight, we burn the charmed legacy!" Everybody in the room cheers until the man quiets them down again. "Ladies and Warlocks, please welcome the one who made this all possible. My companion, Agnor!" Another man comes out while the crowd cheers again. "Hello my fellow evil doers. Who's ready to start this witch trial?" Agnor says. The crowd starts yelling "kill them" and "burn them". "Hold on for a second." Agnor says. "What fun would it be to just watch them burn?"the crowd starts to get angry. "Before we watch them die, we have a pre-show for you guys." As he says that, a metal gate opens. "Earlier today we choose nine of our best behaved slaves. They all chose a different child to torture. Whichever child takes the longest to burn, the slave that tortured them will be set free." As he finished the sentence, a slave is placed beside each of us. "Begin the torture!" Agnor says. A girl steps in front of me and takes a knife and makes a slit on my cheek. "Do your worst. No matter what you do, I will escape." I say. "That's good! I'm here to help you do that. Trust me. " She says as she breaks one of my fingers. "Why should I? Your actually hurting me." I say. She takes something and jams it in my side. I didn't know what it was till it started electrocuting me. I cry out in pain till she stops shocking me. "I have to make it look believable." She says as she slits my other cheek."So here's the plan, I'm going to cut the rope of the amulet and as it falls you freeze the entire room. Once you do that, I'll place a fake one on you. After that your parents will take over. Any questions? No? Good." She says as she cuts the rope. I quickly freeze the room and about a second after that my mom and aunts orb in. They don't even acknowledge us and quickly go to work putting crystals around the entire room. After the cage is set up all three of them walk to the center. "Hey honey!" Mom says as she passes behind me. As she undoes the knot, the room comes back to life. "The charmed ones are here. Quick! Kill'm!" A random warlock says. As multiple projectiles come flying at us, I put up and orb Shield around my family (including the slaves). As my mom and aunts join hands, the arena tries to flee, but get zapped back by the crystal cage.

"Forces of darkness
Gathered tonight
You're now destroyed
By witches light
With all our power
We sisters decree
The collective is vanquished
By the power of three"

Suddenly, everybody in the whole arena starts to burn till there's nothing left but a pile of ash. I let my shield down and all the slaves vanish including Trill. After we untie everybody and we all get healed we orb back up to the manor. Our parents told us all how Trill came to Aunt Phoebe in a vision and told her all about the plan on how to destroy the collective. After a while everybody who doesn't live at the manor leaves to go home. As I crawl into bed and shut my eyes, I hear a voice say "Goodnight everyone!(giggle)" I blow it off as an ancestor and slip into sleep.