Super Witch
Season One
Lost Orbs
1.10
The dingy darkness of the apartment showed the state that the occupant had been in for the past two weeks. The curtains were drawn and the floor was littered with wine bottles and empty beer cans. A figure moved on the floor, rustling beer cans and sending wine bottles rolling across the carpet. Then there was a knock at the door and the figure groaned. She got to her feet clumsily and turned the latch.
"Oh my god! Paris?!" The shocked voice of Billie Jenkins exclaimed, looking in disbelief at the state that her friend had gotten herself into.
"Let's get this place cleaned up,
Let the object of objection become but a dream,
I cause this scene, to be unseen."
Billie's words echoed around the room as the curtains sprung open and the bottles and cans littered around the floor vanished making the apartment look clean and tidy again.
"What's happened to you Paris?! I mean I knew about Prue and Cruise and everything but you're stronger than that! What happened to the Paris that nearly missed her graduation because she was so hung-over from the night before?!" Billie told Paris smiling after thinking of the fond memory.
Paris laughed holding her head in her hands. She remembered that too, 31st May 2002, she had held an early 16th birthday party for herself, her grandma had hardly approved but she was Paris Turner, what did she care. She suddenly came to her senses and noticed Billie had cleaned up the rest of the house and was cooking her a fry up with a glass of orange juice ready on the breakfast bar.
"...well I'm thinking of white ties for the boys, seen as though I'm wearing a white dress." Phoebe Halliwell informed her sisters as she sat at the dining table of the Halliwell Manor.
"Woah! You haven't even told me the date yet! Please say it's after February, and then at least I'll have been able to get rid of my baby fat!" Paige said looking genuinely shocked even know Piper and Phoebe knew she was joking.
"And isn't it a bit of a bitch slap to where white at your third wedding?" Piper said, holding back a laugh.
Paige snorted into her coffee which dribbled all down her baggy maternity top.
Phoebe looked at Piper sarcastically.
"Seen as though I murdered my first husband ten months after our wedding and my second one lasted less than a month I think the bitch slap will be alot softer than you think Piper!" Phoebe retorted angrily standing up and walking into the kitchen to make herself some more coffee.
"Do Henry and Prue not mind you staying here?" Piper then asked Paige, it had been two weeks since Paige and Henry had had their row and the tension had gotten too much for Paige she had packed a bag and stayed at Piper's for the past week.
"I hope you don't mind or anything, you know with Wyatt starting normal school last week and you busy with your restaurant..." Paige began.
"Angelo, it does have a name Paige." Piper laughed just as Leo came walking down the staircase holding Chris in his arms.
"Ha, I tell you what if you're gonna be having another one Piper then Wyatt definitely needs his own bedroom!" Leo said placing Chris in a highchair and making his way over to the fridge in the kitchen to get a bottle where Phoebe was still standing making some more coffee.
Paige spun her head round looking at Piper with a look of shock and surprise.
"What, you're, pregnant... again?!"
Piper spun her head round to face Leo, her long brown hair flicking Paige's face as she did so.
Leo gave a confused smile and proceeded to hide his face with the fridge door.
"Well, it's very early only about a week or so, due around June I think." Piper began looking slightly down trodden at her sister being told the news before she had wanted anyone to know.
"Nice of you to tell me by the way Piper, this reminds me of the time when you borrowed my skirt back in..." Phoebe started still seething at Piper's tongue-in-cheek comment about her wedding.
"Not now Phoebe." Piper said as she turned back to Paige.
"So it looks like you'll have a little cousin to play with!" Piper grinned as she rubbed Paige's belly.
"I just hope I can protect this little one without my powers." Paige said waving her arm at her coffee cup which should have glowed with orbs and slid across the table but as she expected, nothing happened.
"Sure you will, you can still orb can't you? And the Elders have told you what you have to do, vanquish Laston." Piper said holding Paige's hand.
"Oh yeah, that would be so simple if only there was a way to vanquish Laston!" Paige snapped.
"And even if we have to write a spell or something, it'll need the Second Prophecy and me and Prue aren't speaking and we both don't have our powers, our only other hopes are Paris who has turned into a depressed drunk, Billie who has more things going on than us right now and Selina who I haven't even seen for over two weeks!" Paige ranted.
Phoebe then walked back into the dining room with Leo and Chris following.
"Just moving away from this happy topic of conversation, the date is Valentine's Day." Phoebe smiled.
Leo was just about to speak when there was a crash from upstairs.
Piper stood up along with Paige and Paige grabbed Piper's arm and orbed out. She orbed back in outside Phoebe's old bedroom, where Billie lived. The door was ajar and they could hear someone rattling round in her bedroom. Piper looked at Paige and mouthed the words: one, two, three. Paige kicked the door open and Piper waved her hands, there was an explosion and a colossal crash. Then the smoke cleared and they saw a skinny, topless boy lying unconscious in a heap where the mirror used to stand.
"Oh my god!" Paige said running over to the boy holding her hands over his cut chest, then remembered she couldn't heal anymore.
Paige then grabbed his arm and orbed out, orbing back in in the living room where Leo, Phoebe and little Chris were sat. Piper then came running down the stairs with a first aid kit in her hands.
"I told Billie to tell us if she's bringing someone home!" Piper said dabbing at a graze on the boy's forehead.
"Your gonna have to do something before he wakes up ya' know. He could remember everything." Leo said bending down to look at the unconscious boy.
"Billie! BILLIE!" Phoebe screamed to the ceiling.
There was a glow of purple light and Billie appeared looking apprehensive.
"What?!" She replied looking confused.
Then she noticed the unconscious boy on the sofa.
"Oh my god! Reece!"
"Oh, Reece? So he has a name does he, that's a start. At least we can fill out his death certificate!" Paige said angrily looking daggers at Billie.
"He's not dead, just knocked out. And what did we tell you about bringing boys home! I nearly blew his head off!" Piper sighed.
Phoebe then looked at Reece in his semi-dressed state.
"Let's hope that's the only thing you blew off!"
Leo howled with laughter as Reece's eyes started to flutter.
"What, Billie? Witch!"
Piper's expression turned from mild happiness to shock and confusion in a split second as she was catapulted into the air.
Billie then grabbed Reece's burnt arm spinning him round to see his eyes glowing red.
"Noo!" Billie screeched as she flew backwards smashing into the front doors which buckled under her weight.
Phoebe then levitated upwards and came thundering down onto Reece bringing him crashing to the ground just as Leo darted into the kitchen with Chris in his arms.
An athamae then appeared in Reece's hand and he charged for Billie who screamed and held up her hand. Reece flew backwards sailing the length of the hallway and through the arch into the kitchen landing on the island smashing the fruit bowl and glasses that had been left out there.
Piper picked herself off the ground and ran into the kitchen just as Reece lunged at her with his knife. She yelled and held up her hands to protect her face. There was a rushing sound and Reece stopped in his tracks. Piper had frozen him.
"Do you even talk to your dates before you sleep with them?!" Paige said to Billie exasperated.
Opening Credits
Selina and her sister, Rochelle were sat having breakfast, Selina all ready for school.
"So, are you sure you'll be okay? I mean with all these demons and things? Will your Brightlighter be there to protect you constantly?" Rochelle asked Selina still confused over the lengthy conversation that they had had the previous week over Selina's disappearance.
"Whitelighter, Rochelle, and I do have powers of my own, I can defend myself."
"I just don't want anything happening to you too." Rochelle said pulling Selina into an awkward hug as memories of their late sister came back to them.
Selina then broke the hug, picking up her school bag and making her way to her car.
Paige and Piper were sat in the basement of Paige's house. They had a map of Los Angeles open on a table with a crystal hovering over it, being held by Paige who in her other hand was holding a chunk of flesh.
"I don't see how this'll work. I haven't scried for anything in such a long time!"
"Paige, your charge slept with a warlock that tried to kill us and there are probably more of them!" Piper retorted.
"You're not the one with a chunk of flesh hanging from her hand!" Paige smiled.
The crystal then glowed and pulled itself towards an apartment block.
"Oh god, that's Paris's apartment block!" Paige said standing up and walking over to a pot which was bubbling next to the Book of Shadows.
Tirus
A Powerful warlock often used as honeytraps for higher level demons enemies.
In This Night And In This Hour,
We Call Upon The Ancient Power,
Vanquish this hitman,
And send him back to where he began.
"I'm sure Prue wrote that." Piper said adding some more ingredients to the potion.
"Is there any reason why a semi-naked teenager is frozen in our hallway?" Prue Halliwell said, her heels clicking on the wooden stairs. Her state of depression and reclusiveness had evidently affected her dress sense. She was dressed in an old jumper, and a knackered pair of jeans.
"Billie has appalling taste in men, that's why." Paige said coldly; still angry at Prue.
Billie then followed Prue's footsteps and walked down the steps.
"Got a potion yet?" Billie asked chirpily.
Piper turned round looking sarcastically at Billie.
"Do you wanna get your ass down here and make it?"
Laston paced his lair smiling, his plan was nearly complete. He had obtained two of the three powers that he needed. He waved his hand and in a shower of golden orbs, Reece stood there.
"Is it done?"
"Yes master, she is infected."
"Good, you may leave."
Reece then blinked out.
Laston smiled and orbed out, filling the dark cavern with gold light, soon the Super Witches would have no help, at all.
Paris walked along the busy streets of Los Angeles carrying several bags full of clothes. There was nothing like shopping to cure a hangover.
Paris then noticed a pair of jeans in a window, she smiled to herself pulling Will's credit card out of her purse and walked into the shop. She plucked them out of the window and walked over to cashier.
"They'll be $100." The woman said and Paris held out Will's credit card.
The woman swiped it and gave it Paris back along with her jeans in a bag.
Paris smiled at the cashier and turned on her heels and walked out of the shop. She then turned after coming out the shop down an alleyway which was a shortcut back to her apartment.
As she turned the corner protruding onto a main road, a figure in gold orbs appeared. Paris would have recognised that face anywhere.
"Going somewhere?!" The familiar voice of Laston smiled at Paris as she backed away.
Paris threw her shopping bags down on the floor and conjured a fireball in her hand.
"You're not having my powers; I have some demon blood, get over it!" Paris said sarcastically raising the fireball above her head.
"You cannot stop me Paris, I already have two out of the three that I need and a witch with three months of training is going to prevent me from taking them?!" Laston laughed; there was nothing funny about the situation however.
"So there must be something else Laston? What will you do if you ever get my powers then?"
"Demons should never have to be afraid of showing their faces."
"Well, have you ever looked in a mirror?!" Paris smarted.
"You have no idea what you're getting yourself into." Laston raged as he conjured a ball of golden orbs.
"Who do you answer to then Laston?!" Paris shouted.
"I don't work for anybody, I dream of the day demons can be free to roam this planet!"
"Keep dreamin'!" Paris smirked as she threw her fireball at Laston just as he threw his orb ball. They collided in mid air creating an explosion which sent the pair of them hurtling in opposite directions.
Paris picked herself up advancing at Laston who held out his hand, Paris flew backwards again as Laston's telekinetic power threw her into the wall. Paris groaned and slumped to the ground, a sharp pain arose in her right arm.
Laston walked slowly over to her, enjoying the control he had over her.
"You know what Paris, you remind me of a bowling ball." Laston sniggered
"What?!" Paris said dazed and confused.
"Yeah, you're picked up, used, and then thrown in the gutter!" Laston laughed.
That was it, Paris yelled into the air and a wall of fire erupted in the alley, seemingly hinged onto both walls, it advanced at Laston who strangely smiled even more, holding out a gold wand resembling Prue and Paige's duff ones.
The wall of fire stopped and was sucked into the wand like a vacuum cleaner. Laston then walked towards Paris again.
"Didn't your mommy ever tell you never to play with fire?"
And with that he clicked his fingers and a fireball appeared in his hand, smiling, he orbed out...
Paige ran around the house frantically searching for the warlock that had been frozen in her hallway just a few minutes earlier. Billie was supposed to be keeping watch!
The wind was strong in the graveyard; Prue sat cross-legged, her head in her greasy, unkempt hair.
Patricia Penelope Halliwell
Beloved Daughter and Mother of Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Paige.
1950-1978
The word 'Paige' had obviously been added in afterwards as the text wasn't as weathered as the rest of the gravestone. Prue stared at the word and then started scratching at the grave and wouldn't stop. Tears trickled down her eyes but were blown away by the cold September wind. She thought about the argument she had had with her sister and her charge. What happens if Paris was in trouble? Who was supposed to protect her then? She had grown so fond of Paris she thought of her like a surrogate daughter.
Suddenly, Prue's head started to ache a charge was in trouble and she was excited at the prospect, Paris needed her.
Prue screwed up her eyes and orbed out.
Paris sat slumped on the sofa of her messy, dingy apartment. The curtains were closed, the room motionless apart from the heavy breathing of Paris herself. The darkness was broken by a glow of blue light as Prue appeared.
"Are you okay? You called for me?!" Prue asked hurriedly, worried.
"Called for you?! Why would I ever call for you! The person who is supposed to 'look out for me', the person who is supposed to 'protect me', well you did a great job at that didn't you Prue! In the last few months I've lost some of my friends, my boyfriend, a baby, and my powers!"
"You lost the baby! What? When? How?!" Prue spluttered, shocked by this news.
"I was pregnant Prue, I thought you knew! Anyway, it's gone..." Paris tailed off.
"What do you mean gone?! It can't of just walked out of your womb honey you must have done something!"
"I got rid of it if that is what you mean!" Paris screamed at Prue standing up.
"Oh, and what?! You got rid of your powers as well? Jumped on the band wagon did you?" Prue said sarcastically.
Paris then dived at Prue taking her to the ground, Prue screamed and clawed at Paris's face. None of her martial arts moves were coming into effect now; this was just two girls having a brawl.
Paris got up and picked up one of the empty wine bottles and swung it hard at Prue's face, Prue orbed out and then back in behind Paris pushing her into the sofa. She toppled over it and fell in a heap behind it.
"I don't wanna fight you Paris! I came here to make amends!" Prue screamed as Paris got up and threw another wine bottle at Prue, she ducked and it shattered on the wall behind her.
Paris then started to cry as Prue vaulted the sofa and held her arms to her sides.
"GET OFF ME! LET GO!" Paris screamed as she struggled to break free of Prue's grasp.
"I think we need to talk..." Prue said calmly.
The wind rippled through Paige's hair, she loved it up here, she felt so at peace. The vast expanse of San Francisco graced Paige's eyes as she searched the horizon, the sun beginning to set on the city. Paige closed her eyelids; she put a hand on her stomach and felt her babies' presence, trying to tap into their power. Paige's lips curved into a smile as she felt the tingle of orbs surrounding her body and felt her feet lose connection with the ground, she crossed her legs as she began to hover, blue and white orbs surrounding her legs, keeping her afloat. Paige drowned out the sound of the cars beeping below her and the howling wind, but she could just hear the faint sound of jingling orbs. Paige used the power of her babies to tap into her sensing power. Sandra and Odin had arrived.
"I was wondering when you were going to come and speak to me." Paige said brutally. Her angry tone was not hidden in her voice.
"We would like to speak to Prue along with you Paige." Odin said, staring up at Paige, who looked very overpowering, hovering almost ominously above the bridge.
Paige opened her eyes.
"How do I know that I can trust you?" Paige said; her tone rich in sarcasm.
"The first thing you ever orbed to you was a candle, your favourite colour is orange, and you often lie and say you love Piper's extravagant cooking, when really you would settle for a McDonalds." Sandra smiled, her eyebrows raised.
Paige blushed, and finished hovering, the orbs vanishing into nothingness and her feet connected with the rafter again.
"What is going on? How can Laston just rob our powers like that? What were those wands? I couldn't find anything in the Book of Shadows? And how can we still orb? And how come I can still use my babies' power?" Paige reeled off her questions at a tremendous speed, and the Elders began to reply.
"Laston is, extremely... powerful," Odin began, shooting a rather shifty look at Sandra, "He used the ancient power of wands. In the beginning of time, magical creatures often could only channel their powers through wands, epicentres of extreme magical focus. He must have used very ancient magic, even before the time of Melinda Warren; the powers are bestowed on the wands after use, not on the user, although they are still emotionally tied to the user. By the sounds of things, Laston blessed the wands with a potion to rob you of your Wiccan powers. Your power to orb however is from your Whitelighter side. Your babies? Laston may have robbed the temporary powers that you were channelling from your twins through yourself, but he hasn't stolen the babies themselves, and they possess Wiccan powers themselves Paige. Meaning you can channel your magic through them."
Paige stood there, her mouth slightly open, processing all this information.
"So that means, that Prue is powerless, yet I can still use my powers?" Paige said, simplifying Odin's mass explanation.
"Yes, although you will probably find it harder to channel your powers through the twins, it takes a lot of concentration Paige." Sandra said, her face slightly pale, she looked sick.
"... so basically Paige, you need to destroy them wands to get your powers back, I'm sorry I don't know what else to do, Laston is powerful, very powerful he has never crossed us in centuries I don't know why he has chosen now, but you are one half of the Second Prophecy, Paige. Surely that means something." Odin reassured a worried Paige.
"It would mean something if I had my powers back, I wasn't six months pregnant and I hadn't fallen out with my husband and my sister!" Paige retorted leaning against the arched red rafter behind her.
"You will make up with Prue and Henry, it's in your destiny and as for having no powers and being pregnant, well I'll leave it to you to realise how powerful your babies really are."
"I can't tap into the babies' power for long; I could barely hover just before!" Paige whined. It wasn't like her to whine recently. Prue's appearance had toughened her up, made her realise that she didn't have the protection of the Power of Three anymore.
"You are carrying them Paige, that bond between mother and baby is the most powerful magic." Sandra said, her face looking forlorn.
Paige orbed into the living room of her house to see Henry and Piper there with mugs of coffee in their hands.
"Henry." Paige said shocked, not expecting him to be there.
"Paige." Henry replied curtly.
Piper looked up at them both then put down her mug on the coffee table and said:
"Think I better leave, I'll speak later Paige." Piper then walked towards the front doors putting a warming hand on Paige's shoulder as she left.
"Billie and Selina are in the basement." Henry said blankly sipping some more coffee.
"Oh, right I'll go say hello." Paige said turning round and proceeding to walk down the steps to the basement, however, she turned round and sprinted towards Henry gripping him in a tight hug.
Henry hastily put him mug down on the table and hugged her back; they stood their hugging for at least another five minutes until Henry whispered:
"I'm sorry babe; I just want the best for us. All of us." He added rubbing Paige's baby bump.
As Henry and Paige embraced in the hallway, there was a shower of orbs and Prue and Paris appeared in shimmering blue lights. Paris was leaning on Prue, her eyes flicking in and out of consciousness.
"She's drunk." Prue said, letting her rest on the sofa.
"I gathered." Paige said, Henry's arms still wrapped tightly round her.
"You two made up then?" Paige said, nodding at Paris's snoring figure on the sofa.
"Uh huh." Prue said, gulping.
The two sisters stared at each other, and Prue let a slight snort. Then so did Paige, and before long the girls were laughing. Laughing. Paige strolled over and hugged Prue.
"I'm sorry, this is so stupid, let's just be friends." Prue said, squeezing Paige, feeling her baby bump pressing into her own stomach.
"Friends." Paige said, smiling.
Meanwhile, downstairs Billie and Selina were grouped around a small puter cooking pot, a green potion bubbling inside.
"This should stop him blinking." Billie said to Selina, who was listening intently, taking notes.
"Thanks for teaching me this stuff Billie; I don't know how I'd learn without you." Selina said, flipping her long black hair behind her shoulder.
"Least I can do, I had somebody teaching me when I came into my powers, and I'm just, returning the favour, in a way." Billie smiled adding some herbs to the bubbling mixture. It created a light explosion and Billie began pouring it into vials.
"So we're doing all this, just to vanquish your warlock boyfriend?" Selina said, taking a couple of vials.
"One-night-stand. Not boyfriend. Piper taught me not to make that mistake." Billie said, busying herself attaching vials to her potion belt.
"What?" Selina asked confused.
"Oh, never mind." Billie said picking herself off the small chair and making her way towards the staircase. She picked up a huge map of San Francisco and a scrying crystal, putting the map on a table and picking up the t-shirt that Reece had left at the Halliwell Manor the night before, she rubbed the crystal onto the fabric and proceeded in hovering it over the map. As the crystal swung in a circular fashion, Prue and Paige came down the stairs.
"Someone's busy!" Paige said.
"We're not." Prue said, disgruntled. Paige had just briefly explained how Laston had robbed them of their powers.
"What?" Billie said, still concentrating on the circling crystal.
"Laston has our powers, they're in our wands. And our only hope is to get close enough to him to destroy them." Prue groaned.
Billie looked up at the sisters.
"What? How? Were those wands to do with it? Was it a trap?" Billie asked, not noticing the crystal pulling towards a certain point on the map.
"Yep, that evil bastard is gallivanting around with our powers, and Paris's. Something his up, there must be a bigger plan, something he can only achieve with our powers."
"So what you sayin'? We're the only ones packin' now?!" Billie exclaimed.
Just as Paige opened her mouth to reply, the crystal pulled Billie's arm to the corner of the map. Reece was at the beach.
"Can you still orb?" Billie looked up at Paige who nodded and walked over to Billie.
"I'm coming with you," Prue said firmly.
"No Prue, you have no powers," Paige began, "at least I can still use mine, just not as effectively."
Paige walked over to Billie and Selina, taking both of their hands as Prue stood there, downtrodden.
"Paige, you are going to need me? We might need the Second Prophecy to defeat this guy? Or the power of the Super Witches?!" Prue started as the three women held hands.
"I know sweetie, that's why I'm picking up Piper on the way." Prue sighed as Paige smiled sweetly before orbing out along with Billie and Selina, the orb process took longer than usual before all the orbs dissipated into nothing.
Prue sighed again, she wasn't being stuck here alone. She then screwed up her eyes. If what Paige had told her was true, she should still have her Whitelighter powers. Slowly, very slowly. Prue's feet began to glow with blue orbs which then consumed the rest of her body and she disappeared, leaving the basement, empty.
The dim light flickered around the cavern, reflecting on the golden grandeur that littered the room. In front of an ostentatious throne stood a black-cloaked demon, recognisable as Laston towering over a crouched figure.
"Take my pain away." The familiar voice of Cruise whispered. His face was gaunt and pale, he was a broken man.
Laston smiled. He clearly had a degree of psychological control over Cruise; he was a puppet on a string.
"I will Cruise, and soon, you will help me in creating a new world. One where nobody has to be ashamed of who they truly are."
"Like Paris? A Witch?" Cruise said, staring into Laston's eyes.
"And like you, if you wish.." Laston said ominously.
Cruise narrowed his eyes, a confused expression arising.
"You mean, become like her? Have, have powers?" Cruise said, getting to his feet, Laston was noticeably taller than him.
"We can't have you leading the new world with me defenceless can we? I have something prepared, just a little cocktail of powers I've picked up over the years."
Cruise stared at Laston, his mouth agape. Laston smirked and held out his hand:
"Power ball!" He called, and a glowing white sphere orbed into his hand, golden orbs dematerialising slowly around the sphere.
"Just a little something I picked up off a power broker a while back." Laston smiled, holding out the sphere to Cruise, he took it and examined it in his hands. At the same time, Laston produced three golden wands from his back pocket, the three wands that contained Prue, Paige and Paris' powers. He selected one and pointed it at the sphere in Cruise's outstretched hand, it shot into his chest from the power of Prue's telekinesis and Cruise began to rithe and contort before emitting a red glow and returning to normal.
"Try it out." Laston said as Cruise turned round and conjured an energy ball, he threw it at the wall before shimmering out and then back in again behind Laston. Cruise landed on the rocky floor with expert precision, he smiled at Laston before his eyes suddenly rolled back in their sockets and turned a misty shade of red.
"Evil is present in everybody. I'm just giving you a little helping hand." Laston boomed as he then handed over the three wands to Cruise.
"I need you to point these at me, that's all. The presence of magic in your body will do the rest." Laston commanded.
Cruise looked uncertainly at Laston as he pointed the three wands at him. Suddenly, jets of colour shot from the golden tips of the wands. Two streams of blue orbs and one stream of vibrant orange fire. They pierced Laston's chest one by one and Cruise watched in surprise as the jets finished entering Laston's body and he flexed his neck and back.
"I don't need those silly little wands anymore." Laston said waving his hand at them they glowed with a goldish-brown colour and orbed out of Cruise's hands.
"Hmm, blue and gold." Laston said, amused at the fact the colour of his orbs had changed after being fused with those of Prue and Paige's.
"Test your new powers Cruise, I want to see if you'll assist me when we take the mortal world."
Cruise's eyes narrowed, the deep bags under his eyes, noticeable in the candlelight, he conjured an energy ball and threw it at Laston, he telekinetically deflected it and conjured a fireball, launching it in Cruise's direction who yelled and shimmered out. He shimmered in again a few moments later, still flustered at Laston's outburst at him.
"Perfect." Laston smiled sadistically.
The wind was vicious as four figures orbed in, the wind whipping their hair. Paige, Piper, Billie and Selina stood there, potions at the ready in an impressive stance. Paige got use to her surroundings and suddenly had déjà vu of releasing Phoebe as a mermaid here almost half a decade ago. How time flew.
"He's there!" Billie cried as she saw Reece walking briskly behind a woman he evidently wasn't aware of his presence.
As the four of them approached Reece, the tide came in rapidly and soaked their feet. Reece neared the woman who still hadn't noticed he was tailing her and conjured an athamae from nowhere, he brought it swinging down on the woman just as Paige screamed:
"Piper now!"
Piper thrust out her hands, opening her fingers outwards from her palms which creating an explosion on Reece's side, sending him careering sideways into the sea. The woman he was following turned round and screamed as Reece pulled himself out of the water and threw the athamae at her. Piper then stuck out her left hand and the knife froze in mid-air, accompanied by a rushing sound.
Billie and Selina ran towards the woman just as Reece growled and threw out his hand, Billie mirrored him and the two of them both flew backwards after suffering from one another's telekinetic attacks.
"What?! What's going on?!" The woman said running away from Selina who struggled to keep hold of her. Selina groaned then concentrated her sight on the woman and held out her hand, a blue force field appeared in front of the woman who was knocked backwards, her sandy blonde hair integrating with the sand itself.
As Piper and Billie advanced on Reece and Selina contained the petrified woman inside a force field, Paige stepped forward from her landing spot towards Reece. He turned to look at her and with one sweep of his arm; he sent Billie and Piper flying backwards, over Paige's head. Paige squealed and but a warm hand onto her baby bump, breathed heavily and held out her hands.
"Fight this bastard!" Paige cried as a jet of bright, concentrated white light flew from her left palm, and then to her surprise a jet of black, misty light flew from her right palm. The two beams of light hit Reece squarely in the chest, he was sent catapulting towards the sea as Piper and Billie watched in amazement. Paige then fell to her knees, the effort of using her unborn babies powers too much for her.
Piper ran over and knelt down next to Paige as she breathed heavily.
"What the hell happened there?!" Piper exclaimed as she watched Reece plummet into the ocean at least fifty metres away.
"I dunno, it must be, must be the babies powers, maybe they can control light and dark? I dunno. Reece!" As Paige finished talking, she held out her hand in front of her and called for Reece. His limp body appeared in a swirl of orbs in front of the two of them as Billie ran over. All of a sudden, the sound of shimmering orbs sounded again and Piper and Paige turned round to see Prue standing behind them looking rather proud of herself.
"Prue what are you doing here? It's too dangerous!" Piper cried just as Reece stirred, the force of Paige's light blasts had knocked him unconscious.
"No it's not, come on, the spell!" Prue said as she helped Piper pull Paige to her feet.
"Billie has it?" Paige said as they saw Billie helping Selina to contain the terrified woman, who was intent on running away.
Piper sighed and threw out her hands, the woman froze and Selina deactivated her forcefield and came charging over with Billie. The five of them stood there, Reece at their feet.
"All we need is Phoebe and we have a full set, kinda." Billie said jokingly, trying to lighten the mood.
However, Reece suddenly blinked out. The sharp noise made Paige jump. The girls turned round, their long hair flicking in unison. As their backs were turned, Reece blinked back in and plunged an athamae into Prue's back. She screamed, the pitch of the scream hurting Paige's ears as she turned round and stared Reece in the eyes, realising what had happened.
Their reaction times were very slow; it was as if time itself had slowed down. Piper spun round next, she and Paige gazing into Reece's eyes as they heard Billie and Selina scream and Prue fall to the floor.
Anger. That was what Paige felt first. Pure anger.
Not thinking about what she was doing, Paige drew her arm back and brought it swinging upwards in a very Prue-esque manner. Reece's eyes widened as he was catapulted into the air, sheathed in orbs, and hit the ground with a cataclysmic crash into the sand.
"So much for not having your powers." Piper muttered, shocked at Paige's telekinetic outburst. The sisters then turned towards Prue who was fitting on the floor.
"We need someone to heal her!" Piper said quickly turning round to see Reece getting back to his feet. Piper stared back at her big sister, her face was pale but her eyes were fixed, deep. It was if she was trying to tell them something.
As Paige and Piper knelt by Prue, Billie produced the vanquishing spell from her pocket and she and Selina read aloud.
"We bring death, to another,
destroy the soul of Billie's lover!"
Billie and Selina watched as Reece groaned clutching at his head, it slowly turned to a violent shade of red, but then to their surprise returned to normal, Reece then conjured a shower of knives and sent them telekinetically flying at the women, panicking, Selina held up her hands and creating a force shield which rebounded the athamaes, some of them piercing Reece who screamed.
"Get us out of here!" Piper yelled as she and Paige were nursing Prue, tears forming in Piper's eyes as Prue carried on contorting.
"Paige, help me!" Billie said as she placed a hand on Piper's shoulder and held Selina's.
Paige nodded and screwed up her eyes, she glowed with orbs which slowly grew onto Prue's body while Billie glowed pink along with Selina and Piper, using her power of projection to transport them. They disappeared and Paige and Prue dissipated shortly afterwards.
They rematerialized in the hallway of the Manor where Reece had first attacked them this morning. Phoebe and Leo were standing there.
"We thought you would be back by now?" Phoebe said, not realising that Prue was bleeding to death on the floor.
Piper looked up desperately at Leo and then back down at Prue.
"Oh my god, Prue!" Phoebe said darting forwards, Billie and Selina stepped back away from her as the four sisters embraced on the floor.
"We need somebody to heal her; she isn't as strong as normal Whitelighter's." Piper said, looking up at Paige, a lone tear rolled down her cheek. She couldn't do anything to help, her healing power had gone.
Blood had begun to ooze out onto the laminate now as Prue's eyes closed. Whimpering, Piper stood up to hear a sharp sound and see Reece blinking in behind Billie, Selina and Leo. He jerked his arm and the three of them went soaring into the living room.
"Why, won't, you, just, die!" Piper raged, blasting Reece in between every word. He slumped against the wall that Prue had been blasted through so many years ago and Piper pulled Phoebe and Paige up from the ground.
"Spell." Paige called, holding her hand outwards. Paige could feel the power rise from her stomach, through her arm and into her outstretched hand. Her babies were proving to be an excellent power source. Then a crumpled sheet of note paper appeared in Paige's hand, having been orbed from inside Billie's jeans pocket.
"We bring death, to another,
Destroy the soul of Billie's lover!"
As soon as the words had left Piper, Phoebe and Paige's lips there was an almighty explosion as Reece imploded sending bits of flesh flying everywhere, the chandelier rattled and glowed blue once more, shielding the sisters from flying bits of debris. Piper looked up at the chandelier in shock, what was happening?
Unbeknown to the sisters, miles away, in Paige's basement, the Book of Shadows front cover was glowing, the two leaves that represented Paige and Prue and The Second Prophecy scattered and another two appeared on the cover, bonding with the leaves representing Paige and Prue. Then the book began to flip onto a blank page near the back.
Don't stop embracing one destiny just because another has begun. The Power of Three will return to thee. The Second Prophecy is nearly over, sooner than I expected.
Grams x
The magical words appeared on the page in black spirally writing. Grams was issuing a warning. She just hope her granddaughters received it in time...
"... so I left Billie with Paris,she'll be fine I guess." Prue said, taking another sip of her wine, and then putting it down on her coaster.
Piper never imagined she would every see this. The four of them around the table. Leo, Coop and Henry out drinking, and the sisters enjoying another of Piper's excellently cooked cuisines.
"Well that's a relief, but Prue we need to look out for her, now she's powerless as well." Paige began, her long dark hair falling in curls over her shoulders, her signature red lipstick applied perfectly to her lips.
"Hey! No magic talk at the table!" Phoebe quipped, smoothing down her salmon, silk dress.
"I swear that's mine." Paige muttered, eyeing Phoebe's cocktail dress.
"Hmm, might be, but anyway, you're not going to be able to fit into it now are you sweetie!"
Paige rolled her tongue sarcastically and Prue laughed, and then winced, placing her hand over her stomach, where the knife had pierced her ten days before.
"You okay honey?" Piper asked, standing up and making her way into the kitchen uncorking another bottle of red wine. She poured some in each of her three sister's glasses and then in her own. As she was about to take a sip her glass glowed with orbs and vanished out of her hands.
Piper looked up shocked at Paige, she watched as her wine glass rematerialized in front of Paige and then as she pushed both her and Piper's wine glasses in front of Prue and Phoebe.
"Babies don't like wine remember Piper!"
Prue stared at Piper confused;
"What?!"
Piper half-smiled and began to tell Prue the news of her pregnancy. She did still regret Leo letting it slip, she wasn't definite, and anyway, it was bad luck to tell anybody before twelve weeks, let alone two.
The sisters laughed and joked and enjoyed their meal, forgetting about the terror that was being thought up elsewhere. Laston wasn't going to grace their conversation tonight. They were Charmed, and dangerous.
End of Episode