Ben's POV
I didn't do much sleeping last night. I did a lot of thinking. By 3 in the morning I was in the attic at work. I needed to make Cole's power stripping potion. Him still having his demonic powers made me nervous. I stood at the pot and added the ginger, dandelion and chickweed. Then I stirred it and let it cool, following the instructions from the Book of Shadows with caution. Whilee I waited for the potion to cool I began to flip through the book, just looking at all of the different entries that were made. It's amazing how mush magic this family has come in contact with over the years. I continued to flip through I saw something that caught my eye. The page for the Shax. It read
'Shax. The Source's Assassin. Demonic hitman called out for only the top assignments by the Source.
Corporealises out of wind and air, method of attack is a ferocious blast of wind that can be lethal to its victim.'.
At least there is a vanquishing spell here the only problem is there is no way to track him down. What we need is a summoning spell. Spell writing has never been one of my strong suits. I'll have to get the girls to help me with that. I went back to my potion. It looked to be cool. So I poured it into a vile a put it in my pocket. To be safe I made a second vile a kept it in the attic. I didn't want anything to go wrong. By now it was about 6 in the morning and I was wide awake. So I took a shower and changed into some clothes Leo gave me last night, then I headed downstairs. Piper was standing over the stove cooking breakfast. It smelt amazing and made me remember how long it's been since I ate something. Leo was reading the paper and Prue was drinking so coffee and reading a 415 magazine.
"Morning" I said as I walked in. They all smiled at me
"Good morning. Do you sleep well?" asked Prue putting down her magazine to look at me.
"Yeah, I slept fine" I lied. There was no need to tell them what I was doing last night. I'm not six I don't have to explain my every move to them.
"Good, How about some breakfast?" Piper said. She got us all set up with the eggs she made. We sat down at the table and ate while maintaining some small talk.
"Good morning all" said Phoebe as she walked in with Cole. They got their breakfast and sat down with us. Not wanting to waste any time I decided to bring up the power stripping potion.
"Cole, when your finished I-" I started to say when Phoebe cut me off.
"Dad, Why don't you call him Dad?" she asked studying me. There was no reason to call him 'Dad' because I didn't really see him as mine for the same reason I didn't call her 'Mom'. It was nothing against them. I just didn't really see them as Mom and Dad or really even as parents. To be a parent you have to do some parenting. But I wasn't in the mood to argue with her or spill out my feelings for that matter.
"Fine Dad, when your finished I have the power stripping potion ready for you." I said finishing my original statement.
"Ok" he answered.
The rest of breakfast past uneventfully. There was mostly small talk which I was very glad for. I wasn't ready to start answering all of their questions I knew they had.
"Alright, I'm ready" Cole said as he finshed his meal. We all moved to the living room.
"Ok, for this to work you need to turn into Belthazor" I said looking at Cole. He nodded and morfed into Belthazor. I was really a scary sight. It's disturbing that one second someone could be this normal person and the next the second the can turn into a monster in front of your eyes. I threw the potion at Belthazor. Flames surrounded him and he screamed. The flames then disappeared and Cole dropped to his knees. Phoebe ran to him.
"Are you ok?" she asked pulling him into a hug.
"Yeah, I think so" he answered softly.
"Ok on to the next order of business. I have a demon for you guys to vanquish." I said knowing that we have to keep moving on. I need to tell them about the Shax.
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~Hope In A Bottle~
