Paige scrunched up yet another piece of paper and threw it into the rubbish bin, where it joined another 20 pieces of discarded paper that Paige had attempted to write a spell on. She just couldn't get the wording right and she didn't want to cast a spell on her daughter without being sure it would turn out exactly like she wanted.
"Maybe there's already a spell in the Book to help me," Paige wondered out loud. Rachel looked over at her mother curiously. Paige smiled as she went over and picked her daughter up, "Come on baby, Mommy needs to go find a spell to help your sister." Then she orbed the both of them to the attic in the Manor.
Paige walked over to the Book of Shadows and began to flip through the pages with the one arm that wasn't holding Rachel. She continued to flip through the book until she came to a spell that sounded promising. "Awakening Spell," Paige muttered to herself, "...remove the cause of this disease." She grinned, "Success! Well, that eternal sleep part seems off...although Sam is sleeping more because she's sick..." she mumbled to herself. "Oh well, close enough."
Paige quickly wrote down the spell on a piece of paper and orbed herself and Rachel back home, hoping that Henry didn't notice that they were gone. Paige orbed into Rachel and Samantha's room and went over to Samantha's crib quickly. The toddler was still fast asleep, just as Paige had expected. She gently set Rachel down on the floor beside her and took one of Samantha's hands in hers. Paige then began to recite the spell she had written down,
"Troubled blood with sleep's unease,
remove the cause of this disease.
Sleep eternal nevermore
and shift the source of illness borne
to this poppet whom none shall mourn."
For a moment nothing happened. Paige sighed, "Well that was a great spell," she thought aloud. Suddenly, a gold light glowed around Samantha and she opened her brown eyes, looking up at her mother with a smile. "Hey you," Paige smiled, lifting her daughter out of her crib and into her arms. She felt Sam's forehead and realized that the fever was gone, the spell had worked. "Wow..." Paige breathed, "I'm good."
"Oh, Sam's awake," Henry said as he walked into the room.
Paige turned around to face him, "Yeah, she's feeling heaps better too. The fever's gone and everything."
He placed a hand on his daughter's forehead, "Wow, that's strange. I wonder how she-" He thought for a moment before glaring at his wife, "Paige..."
She grimaced, "What?"
"What did you do?"
"Nothing!" she insisted.
"So our daughter just miraculously got better all by herself?" Henry demanded.
"Yeah," Paige nodded, "it happens."
"Not in this family," he retorted. "Look, whatever you did...is it safe? I mean, there's not gonna be some weird side effects is there? She's not going to grow another head or something?"
She rolled her eyes, "No!" She sighed, "Geez Henry, I helped our daughter get better. I did something good. Can't you just accept that?"
"Okay, okay," he replied. "As long as nothing weird happens."
"Nothing's going to happen Henry," Paige insisted.
Henry just looked at her skeptically, "Right..."
"Do you think Wyatt's going to be okay?" Piper asked Leo as they came through the front door of the Manor along with Chris, Melinda and Charlotte.
"He'll be fine," he insisted, as Chris let go of his hand and ran into the living room. "We've got to let go sometime Piper."
"He's right," Charlotte agreed, hanging up her coat.
"I know," Piper nodded, lifting Melinda from her stroller and into her arms. "But it still doesn't make it any easier."
"Honey, don't worry so much. I mean, Wyatt's been going to pre-school for over a year and he's been fine," Leo remarked.
"No he hasn't Leo," she argued. "Don't you remember demon Mandy who used Wyatt to resurrect the Source?"
"Who did what?" Charlotte asked.
"Nevermind, long story," Piper replied. "I'm going to go put the baby down, I'll be back." She then began to make her way upstairs.
Charlotte and Leo followed Chris into the living room, where he had already taken out his building blocks and has begun to build a tower.
Chris smiled, "Daddy will you play with me?"
"Sure buddy," Leo said, sitting down on the floor beside his youngest son. "What are we playing?"
"We have to make a tower then the dinosaur comes and smashes it," he grinned, holding up a green, plastic dinosaur.
"Uh, okay..." Leo replied as he began to build up a tower of blocks.
"Wanna play Grandma?" Chris asked Charlotte.
"No thank you sweetie, I'm not really in the smashing towers kind of mood today unfortunately," she smiled, sitting down on the lounge beside Chris and Leo.
Leo and Chris played for a few minutes, before Chris got bored and announced, "I want a dinosaur."
"Well you can't because they're extinct kiddo," Leo replied with a laugh.
"What's ex-teeked?"
"Extinct," he corrected him. "It means there's none of them left, they've all died."
Chris gasped, "Why?"
"I don't know. They just did," Leo shrugged.
The little boy thought for a moment before telling his father, "I can make a dinosaur."
"What?" he replied, starting to get worried.
"Look!" Chris smiled, focusing on the toy dinosaur lying on the floor in front of him. Suddenly, the dinosaur grew and changed into a 10-foot tall dinosaur, a real dinosaur.
The dinosaur roared in anger as Leo and Charlotte's mouths dropped open in shock. Leo grabbed Chris and he and Charlotte ran for the foyer to escape the ferocious dinosaur. "Chris!" Leo exclaimed setting his son on the floor and grabbing him gently by the shoulders, "What did you do?!"
"It's a dinosaur!" Chris replied proudly.
"I can see that," Charlotte retorted, staring up at the dinosaur, who had begun to make its way over to them, in horror.
"Chris, quick! Change it back!" Leo exclaimed.
"I don't know how."
"Oh my God," Leo cried as he grabbed Chris and he and Charlotte made a run for it again, this time into the dining room "Piper! Piper!" Leo yelled as they ran past the staircase, with the dinosaur following behind them.
Piper came down the stairs, "What's the-" and was caught off-guard when she saw the dinosaur, "Oh my God!"
"Piper, over here!" Leo called to her from the dining room. The dinosaur looked up and started heading towards Piper.
Piper screamed in terror.
"Blow him up!" Leo yelled to his wife.
"I can't, remember?" she yelled back.
"Well then freeze it!" Charlotte suggested.
Piper threw her hands up in front of her, hoping that her freezing power would work on the creature. Luckily, the dinosaur froze and Piper breathed a sigh of relief. She ran past the frozen dinosaur cautiously and into the dining room. "Would someone like to explain why there's a dinosaur in the foyer?"
"Don't look at me," Leo said. He gestured to Chris, "It was all his doing."
"Chris?" she looked at her husband in disbelief.
"Yeah," he replied. "Looks like he's a bit more powerful than we thought."
"That's an understatement," Charlotte commented. "He just conjured a dinosaur!"
"Must be his Elder powers," Leo explained.
"Wait, he has Elder powers?" Piper asked.
"Yeah, I was an Elder when we had him," he said.
"I know but I didn't think Chris would get Elder powers, just Whitelighter ones," Piper explained.
"Uh, maybe we should focus on how to get rid of the dinosaur," Charlotte suggested. "I don't think it's going to stay frozen for much longer."
Piper bent down to Chris's level and said to him, "Chris, you've got to remember how you did this so you can send the dinosaur back to wherever it came from."
"He conjured it from his toy dinosaur," Leo explained.
"Do we have to start monitoring what toys he plays with now?" Piper sighed, before turning back to her son. "Come on sweetie, try really hard to turn it back into a toy."
Chris squinted his eyes and focused on the frozen dinosaur. He looked back at his mother, "I can't Mommy."
"What are we going to do?" Leo asked worriedly. "We can't keep that thing frozen forever."
"We need help," Charlotte added. "How about the Elders? Can't they easily get rid of it?"
"There's no way I'm going to the Elders," Piper replied, shaking her head.
"Mom's right Piper. They would be able to get rid of the dinosaur in a few seconds," Leo explained.
"Yeah, but what if they do something to Chris?"
"They won't do anything. He's just a kid, kids do this type of thing."
"Yeah I'm sure it's everyday that a 3-year-old boy conjures a dinosaur and the Elders have to come and get rid of it."
"Well we can't just do nothing Piper," Charlotte argued. "I think we should call the Elders."
Suddenly a group of three Elders orbed into the room. One of them announced, "Don't bother, we're one step a head of you."
Piper looked at Leo worriedly, before saying to the Elders, "Okay, it's not as bad as it seems."
Back at Paige and Henry's house, Paige was sitting on the floor in the living room playing with Samantha and Rachel. Samantha had been feeling a lot better since Paige had cast the awakening spell on her and was back to her old self.
Henry sat on the lounge watching his now healthy daughter worriedly. "Paige, are you sure there's no side effects with that spell?"
"For the hundredth time, yes," she replied. "Look at her, she's perfectly fine. Now stop worrying." Paige stood up from the floor, "I'm going to go make the girls a snack, do you want anything?"
"No I'm fine thanks."
Paige then left the room to go to the kitchen, while Henry continued watching his daughters play. He watched as Samantha crawled over to pick up her doll, then crawled back over to his sister. She then saw another toy that she wanted on the floor on the other side of the room. She got back on her knees, and Henry expected her to crawl quite quickly over to the other toy. But quite quickly was definitely an understatement. Samantha shot across the room, nearing the speed of light. She picked up the toy before shooting back across the room in less than a second.
Henry's eyes widened in shock. After a moment he regained his ability to speak and yelled out, "Paige! Get here now!"
Paige ran into the room, thinking that something terrible had happened, "What?! What is it?!"
"Watch this," Henry replied with a glare as he went over and took the toy off his daughter and placed it on the other side of the room. Just as Henry expected, Samantha shot across the room again, retreived the toy and returned back to the spot she came from.
Paige's mouth dropped open, "Oh my God."
"No consequences hey?"
She grimaced, "Oops."
"What do you mean oops?" Henry demanded. "Paige, you've got to fix this!"
"I don't know how to fix it," she replied. "I'll call Piper and ask her what we should do okay?"
He just mumbled something under his breath in reply and Paige could tell that her husband was annoyed with her. She quickly went and picked up the phone and dialed the number of the Manor.
Piper was just about to explain what had happened with Chris to the Elders, when the phone rang. The Elders looked at her in annoyance. "Don't worry about that, the machine will pick it up," she said to them.
"Look, can you fix this?" Leo asked, gesturing to the dinosaur that was still frozen in the foyer. The phone rang for the third time in the background.
"Of course we can fix it," one of the Elders replied. "It's how it happened that we are more concerned about."
"Please don't blame Chris," Piper started, just as the answering machine came on. After a short message by Piper telling the caller to leave a message, Paige's voice came out of the answering machine, Piper, pick up! I know you're home I can see your car in the driveway! It's an emergency I need your help! And by help I mean magical help...
"Another spell gone wrong?" one of the Elders asked, rolling his eyes.
Piper glared at him before picking up the phone, "What is it Paige? This better be important."
"Believe me, it is," she replied. "My daughter is crawling around the room like she's in fast forward!"
"What are you talking about?" Piper questioned her little sister.
"Um...well, have you ever tried the Awakening spell in the Book of Shadows?"
"You used the Awakening spell on your daughter!" Piper exclaimed, making the Elders, Leo and Charlotte tune into her conversation.
"Samantha was sick and I was trying to make her recover more quickly, so I orbed into the Attic to find a spell," Paige explained.
"Paige, you know better than to use magic for personal gain like that."
At that moment, the dinosaur unfroze. It roared and everyone screamed.
"Do something!" Leo yelled to the Elders over the roar of the dinosaur.
One of the Elders pointed at the dinosaur and within a few seconds it was changed back to its original form, a toy. Everyone in the room sighed in relief.
"What the hell was that?" Paige asked.
"We've kind of got our own situation here," Piper explained. "Chris conjured a dinosaur."
"Wow, his first conjure! You must be so proud."
"No, actually this has caused a big problem," she replied. "Look Paige, just come over here and bring Samantha with you. We'll sort your problem out after we fix ours." She then hung up the phone without waiting for Paige to answer.
"Paige used the Awakening spell?!" Leo asked.
"Doesn't she know how disasterous it was last time you used it?" the female Elder asked.
"She didn't even know we used it before," Piper replied. "We didn't tell her every single thing that happened before we knew her."
"Well you should of," another Elder replied. "If you don't act soon, the disease could start infecting other people."
"I'll go get the reversal spell," Leo announced.
"And take Chris upstairs with you," Piper said. "I don't want him to have to here any more magic talk."
"Not so fast," one of the Elders announced, "We aren't done with him yet."
"What do you mean?" Charlotte asked.
"What do you mean your not done with Chris?" Leo added.
"No not the boy," the Elder continued, "with you." He gestured to Piper and Leo.
"Wait a minute, are you blaming this on us?" Piper demanded.
"As this child's parents you are responsible for teaching him the right time and place to use his magic."
"Frankly, I thought you would have learnt your lesson when Wyatt conjured the dragon a few years ago," another Elder added.
"We do teach our kids when and where it is appropriate to use their powers, but we can't stop them from doing it," Leo argued. "There's going to be things like this that are going to happen, but it's not our fault."
"Maybe that's how you see it," the female Elder spoke up. "But we see these things as a threat to the security of the magical world."
"Therefore," one of the other Elders continued, "we are stripping Christopher of his powers until you teach him how to refrain from using them inappropriately."
"You can't do that!" Piper exclaimed. "You don't have the right to take my son's powers."
"We just did," one of the Elders said. "You have a month to prove to us that Chris can use his powers responsibly. Until then, we will be watching." A second later, they all orbed out.
Piper groaned, "I don't believe this."
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