A/N: I am still in desperate need of a beta and the beloved reviews.

Please, I need both to know what I could do with this. While I already have three other chapters written up, I would still love to have some ideas on what you, my beloved reviewers, would want to see done.

As always, I own nothing and am glad I don't. Charmed would still be going with the Next Generation and HP wouldn't have married who he married in the books.

So… without farther interruptions…Chapter Nine.


Paige was flabbergasted to say the least. While Ron had a looked at the young man in confusion and anger, Paige was beginning to shake in fear. The Hollow had been banished, vanquished, and downright destroyed. The Hollow couldn't be back again.

Could it?

It had taken everything the sisters had the last time the Hollow had been summoned and they had paid the price for it. Phoebe had died a tragic death because of the Hollow's powers. Paige remembered the night that Phoebe had died. It was right before their final confrontation with the Ultimate Power of Billie and Christy. Someone, the Charmed Ones had never found out who had summoned the Hollow and sent it into a low level demon. The Hollow had been so strong then that they even had to fight with Billie and Christy to get rid of it. Now Billie was all that was left and she was out searching for her inner powers and Christy was dead. The Hollow was impossible to control so who ever had summoned it had a death wish or was extremely desperate.

Or both.

"Why Ms. Mathews, it's good to see you again." The Hollow possessed Draco Malfoy said. At the confused look that Paige was giving, Malfoy laughed and said, "Oh yes my dear. I can see past your puny spell. Don't worry that much though. You won't be alive much longer to worry about anything. Flipendo!"

Both Paige and Ron were thrown back into a table. The young woman sitting there screamed, "What the bloody hell?" But when she saw Malfoy, wand drawn, muttering swiftly, she jumped back and ran out the door. People started running for their lives as well and Ron stood up and drew his wand.

"Stupefy!" Ron screamed. A red jet of magic flew out of his wand towards the Hollow. The Hollow effortlessly flicked his wand and the jet of magic dissolved.

"Is that all you got?" The Hollow asked Ron. "This body really enjoys fighting you, you blood traitor."

"Why you!" Ron roared. "Tarantallegra!"

The Hollow didn't have time to react. Its possessed body started dancing. No matter what he tried, he could not counteract the spell. The owner of the three Broomsticks, Madam Rosmerta, pointed her wand at the Hollow and said, "Finite Incantatum!"

Ron turned around to glare at Madam Rosmerta and that was all the time the Hollow needed.

"Stupefy!" The Hollow screamed. The jet of red magic shot out of the Hollow's wand and went straight for Ron's chest.

"Stupefy!" Paige said, trying to orb the spell away from Ron. The spell was surrounded by orbs and she sent it back at the Hollow. The Hollow tried to dissolve it like it did last time but it wouldn't dissolve. There was a loud crash as the Hollow was sent flying threw the wall and into the street.

"My, what powers." The Hollow stated as he stood up from the ground and dusted himself off. "I would say that you would have better luck next time but there won't be a next time."

He started to utter the spell that would have ended everyone's life but Paige threw her arm out towards the forest and shouted, "Wand!"

The Hollow's wand was orbed into the forest and he looked at Paige like he could have struck her down right then and there. Paige had to remember that even wizards could use wandless magic and that it was the Hollow who was capable of much more deadly magic but the Hollow didn't do either. He might have attempted something if it wasn't for the fact that he was surrounded by witches and wizards on all sides.

"Damn. So close." The Hollow said, disappearing in a disarray of ash.

"Bloody hell!" Ron said walking threw the hole in the wall. "What's the matter with you? I thought you were going to keep your magic on the down low?"

"You'll notice that I didn't intervene until you started getting your butt handed to you back there." Paige said. "And, incase you haven't noticed, that was the Hollow. It's my kind of magic."

"Are you off your rocker?" Ron demanded. "That was Draco Malfoy. Granted, he was always a git, but I never would have pegged him attacking someone in bright daylight."

"That's because it's the Hollow. Jeez, I just told you that." Paige said, aggravated that Ron couldn't understand.

"Well, what is a Hollow?" Ron demanded.

"I'm not really sure what the Hollow is but it is a magical being from my part of the magical spectrum and it takes powers and uses them against you. It is almost impossible to defeat and we almost failed last time."

Ron could see a tear forming in the corner of Paige's eye and was getting ready to ask but Paige beat him to it.

"We lost our other sister to the Hollow a few years back. The Power of Three is a powerful thing, but the Power of Four was always what demons feared the most. Our sister Phoebe could see the future and was an empath but she couldn't see the danger of what was happening. Someone released the Hollow and it almost killed us all. She sacrificed her life to save us all."

"I'm sorry." Ron said.

"It's ok. We still see her from time to time." Paige said. At the confused look Ron was giving her, she went on to explain. "We can summon people back to life with our magic. It isn't permanent but it will make them corporal for a time."

"Now I know you've lost it." Ron said. "Magic can't bring people back to life. Merlin even said it was beyond him and he was an extremely powerful wizard."

"But he wasn't a witch." Paige said. "Wiccan magic can bring people back to life for a period of time so that we can ask them important questions and get help."

"Well can we go now?" Ron asked. "I have released Rosmerta from the curse and erased anyone's memory of the Hollow or your magic so let's get back to Hermione."

Paige looked around and saw empty expressions on everyone's faces. Ron had done that while she was talking.


"Piper! Prue! We're back!" Paige said, orbing back to the bookstore with Ron. "And we have some major problems."

"What's wrong?" Prue asked, running from the back room that Piper and her were in.

"It's the Hollow." Paige said. "It's back."

"Impossible." Piper said. "We just got rid of it like a few years ago. It can't be back already."

"Well it is possible and it's more powerful then it was before." Paige said. "Not only is it more powerful, it also seems to be gaining a form of it's own. It has a memory now that exceeds its last summoning. He could remember me and see past the spell we used when we hid ourselves from everyone who wasn't family."

"Did you say something called the Hollow was back?" Hermione said, walking out of the restricted section.

"Yeah, and its Draco." Ron said.

"Wait, the Hollow is Draco?" Hermione asked. "It possessed him?"

"Well, yes kind of." Paige said. "The Hollow takes over people when it is summoned. Its like it needs to feed off of magical powers."

"Well then we need to stop it before it gets an Innocent." Prue said, standing up and heading to the Book of Shadows.

"Like Hell we do!" Piper said. "He is terrorizing a wizard society and they are magical. They are not Innocent. We need to get to Egypt. We did some digging while ya'll were gone, and we discovered where an ancient library is hidden that may have a way to get rid of the magical gem and restore the natural balance."

"Piper," Prue said. "If what Paige said is true, it could mean that the Hollow is gaining a corporal form."

"So what? Let it regain it's rightful form. Maybe we can vanquish it for good this time." Piper said, sounding indifferent.

"Piper!" Prue said.

"She may have a point." Hermione said. "If it regains it's body, then you could fight it a lot easier then if it could switch bodies all the time. Plus, if we can find the library, we could find a way to fight the Hollow better as well."

As everyone looked at Hermione as if she had grown a beard and another head, she turned towards the restricted section and pulled out her wand. She made clockwise motions towards the door and a blue light followed her wand tip. She did that three times and then stopped at the top of the circle. She then moved the wand counterclockwise three times and a brown light followed her wand tip.

"I had to seal the restricted section." Hermione explained. "If anyone besides me tries to open that door, they will be warned to stop. If they continue, they will loose the use of their eyes and hands. If they try to continue on again… There wont be a fourth attempt." Hermione said a vindictive smile on her lips.

"Okay then lets go." Piper said, grabbing hold of Paige's arm as did Prue and Ron. Hermione grabbed Ron's hand just as they orbed out.


AN: Thanks to all who have kept with me. This chapter was soooo hard to type up haha. I kept changin things, saying this wouldn't happen. Then I remembered…Alt. Reality xp… anyway, please review and continue to read this.

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Cody Rahl.