Hey guys! I'am so sorry i haven't been able to update my story. I have finals coming up and i have been a very busy bee trying to get everything sorted. Lame excuse i know but what can you do?
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Anyway here you go, the next chapter.
Chapter Nine: The Knights of the dining room table
The doctor was still frozen in the doorway while Chris, Phoebe and Jenny looked at the visitors, they were dressed from head to toe in metal with long dark cloaks on the top. Merlin, the one claiming to be Arthur's wizard was dressed in a long green hooded robe. Chris stood with his arms folded across his chest, how the hell were they going to explain this? Letti walked into the room and bumped into the doctor causing him to unfreeze both of them looked at the little group of visitors and the doctor jumped with fright. Seeing that the men were in fact not from the hospital Letti lifted her hand and pressed a pressure point behind the doctor's ear causing him to pass out and slide to the floor.
"What magic was that?" The sandy haired man asked as he watched the young female step over the doctor.
Letti looked at the men and then turned to her family; she quickly hugged Jenny and then pulled back. "What on earth is going on?" She asked confused.
"We're not quite sure." Chris answered. "They just appeared claiming to be well, Merlin and I'm guessing those guys are knights."
"You would be correct in thinking that Sir Christopher." The man with dark hair answered. He stepped forward and bowed before them before taking Letti's hand and kissing the back of it. "Lady Scarlett it is an honour."
"Huh?" Letti asked slightly confused, she pulled her hand back and turned to face her mother. "Lady Scarlett? Sir Christopher?"
The second of the older men turned and looked at Jenny. "Lady Genesis may I ask how are you feeling? We hope our little quest did not upset you too much."
"Oh no." Jenny said. "I'm perfectly fine now." She turned and looked at Phoebe. "What the hell do we do?"
"Paige!" Phoebe called. "We need to get them home fast."
Chris sighed and made his way over. Each of the men shook his hand much to his dismay. Paige appeared in the doorway and the four time travellers made their way over to her, kissing the back of her hand and bidding her good day.
"Paige you need to get them to the manor." Phoebe explained. "Turns out they just popped over from King Arthur's time."
"We can't go there yet." Paige said. "The Elders have paid a visit."
"What?" Phoebe asked confused. "Oh I don't care, they're causing a scene and the doctor is gonna wake up any second so please orb them home."
Paige nodded and walked over to where Chris stood, they linked hands, Paige took a hold of Merlin's hand and Chris grabbed a hold of Sir Kay by the shoulder. "I suggest you double up." Sir Lionel and Sir Bediver joined on the outsides.
"Where are we gonna take them?" Chris asked.
"Your Grandpa's." She answered as if it was nothing. "We'll go pick up my Dad along the way."
Bell walked into the room in time to see her boyfriend disappear in a shower of blue and white lights with his aunt and some men she looked down at the doctor and stepped over him before speaking. "What did I miss?" She asked.
"A lot." Jenny answered with a small smile.
"Thank god you're ok!" Bell said as she skipped over and hugged the teen.
*****
Patty stood with a look of pure annoyance on her face, she was letting Coop and Henry talk to The Elders and she folded her arms across her chest and turned on the spot. A soft sound echoed throughout the room, followed by blue and white lights. Seeing the lights disappear Patty let out a gasp causing the other people in the room to look at her.
"Oh my god." Henry breathed out as he looked on in shock.
"I'll go tell the others." Coop said with a smile before hearting out of the room.
The Elders looked at each other, Sage was rather angry looking, and Kevin had a smile plastered across his face. Sandra turned and looked at Leo, she shook her head and then orbed out of the attic Sage following. Kevin stood watching for a moment and then nodded in respect before orbing out of the room. Patty and Henry dashed over to where Wyatt was placing Kayla down on the sofa.
"I can't believe it!" Henry said happily. "Where did you guys find her?"
"The wood at the park." Wyatt answered. He turned and looked at his grandmother; he stood up to his full height and hugged the woman tightly. "Thank you." He said quietly.
Piper stood with happy tears in her eyes, she squatted down and looked over Kayla the young female looked exhausted. "Honey is there anything you need?" She asked sweetly. "Apart from a vanquishing potion?"
"Wyatt." She answered.
"It's ok baby I'm not going anywhere." Wyatt said with a massive grin, the young witch lighter walked over and sat down on the edge of the sofa before taking a hold of Kayla's hand. He kissed her forehead, taking his lips away he rested his forehead against hers and smiled while looking into her eyes. "We're gonna make who ever did this pay." He vowed. "I promise."
Kayla closed her eyes over and shook her head slightly. "Wyatt don't." She begged. "Just let it go."
"Let it go?" Henry asked confused as he watched Wyatt sit upright again. "Kayla they put you through hell and they put the family through hell. Wyatt was a zombie..."
"Just let it go!" Kayla shouted loudly as she moved to sit up.
Henry closed his mouth over and looked at her with a sad look on his face. Kayla looked at Henry with tears in her eyes. "I'm sorry." She said quietly before putting her head in her hands as she broke down into sobs. "I just don't want them to hurt anyone else."
"Kayla honey," Patty said softly. "They won't hurt anyone, we won't let them." She looked at Piper who sat down on the other side of Kayla and pulled her into a hug. She placed her hand on the side of Kayla's head as the young girl sobbed into Piper's chest. The attic fell silent for a moment but the peace was disturbed when shouts filled the air.
"I can't believe you dragged us into this!" A male voice called. "I baby sit for my grandkids not these people!"
"I have to agree with Victor on this one." Another male voice sounded.
"Come on Dad please?!" Paige's voice rang through out the air. The group of people walked into the attic, Chris leading them and a group of men followed with Victor, Sam and Paige bringing up the rear.
Chris looked around the room confused, his eyes landed on The Elders and drifted to his grandmother and then stopped on the young lady sitting next to his mother and brother, crying into Piper. "Oh my god!" Chris cried. "Kayla?!"
"What?" Paige, Victor and Sam voiced as they stopped arguing and turned round to look at the group in the attic.
The strange men who had arrived in the hospital pushed their way past Chris and made their way to the centre of the room they looked at the Elders bowing their head in respect before turning to look at the three people sitting on the sofa. Taking his hood down Merlin got down on one knee, the others following his example.
"Lady Piper, My King and Queen it is but an honour." Merlin said bowing his head.
"Lady Piper?" Piper asked confused as Kayla turned to look at the men kneeling in front of her.
"King?" Wyatt asked.
Chris sighed. "Ok so we have a little magical emergency these guys think you are King Arthur."
Sir Kay stood to his feet. "Not King Arthur, but the one to take the throne. The New King." He stated.
"Oh my mistake." Chris said sarcastically. "Whatever way you look at it, we have a problem."
Wyatt stood up to his full height and lifted his hands in the air as if he was being held at gun point. "I'm not a King." He stated.
Merlin stood up along with Sir Bediver and Sir Lionel, he walked over to Wyatt and slapped him hard across the back of the head.
"What was that for?!" Wyatt cried.
"Acting like a child." The old man spat. "Now," He turned and looked at Kayla and bowed again. "My Queen..."
Kayla stood up. "Enough!" She shouted. The whole room fell silent. "I can't deal with this right now!" She cried. "I want to see my Mom."
"Coop's gone to get her." Leo said softly.
"My Queen if we have upset you..." Sir Lionel started.
"Stop calling me that!" Kayla shouted she turned and looked at Wyatt. "I'm sorry I can't do this right now." She walked quickly out of the room sobbing again.
"Kayla!" Wyatt called after her. He jogged towards the door and as the men from the past started to follow he turned round and looked at them. "Not you." He said before exiting the room.
"What great plan have you got up your sleeve now old man?" Sir Bediver asked as he took a seat on the pink sofa.
"The King has spoken." Merlin said folding his arms across his chest. "And until he has comforted his Queen we do nothing."
Chris sighed and slapped his head with the palm of his hand. "Pain killers." He muttered. "I need pain killers."
*****
Wyatt caught up with Kayla shortly after he had gotten to the first floor hall, he reached out and placed his hand on her elbow causing her to stop walking and turn round to look at him. He smiled weakly and brought his other hand up to her cheek. "Baby you've got to take it easy." He said softly.
"I know." Kayla said with a sigh closing her eyes over for a brief moment. "I'm just a little highly strung right now." She looked at Wyatt. "I'm scared Wy, what if they come back? what if they hurt someone else trying to get to me?" she asked almost begging for a comforting answer. "I don't want anyone else to...I don't wanna loose you."
Wyatt pulled Kayla close and held her in his arms kissing the top of her head. "Baby no one is gonna take you away. I won't let them; anyone comes near you I'll vanquish their ass before I ask any questions. They're not getting you and they're not getting any one else."
"Wy." Kyla said looking up at the man she loved with all her heart through watery eyes. "Promise me you won't go seeking revenge just yet."
"Kayla I..."
"Promise me Wyatt." Kayla begged. "I just got you back I don't want you to be taken away again. Please."
"Ok ." Wyatt said with a nod of his head. "I promise."
*****
The orbs rained down in the hall of the manor and disappeared leaving Skye, Henry Jr and Jason. Henry was holding the golden box in his hands, he quickly walked through to the dining room and placed it down on the wooden table. Jason quickly grabbed a place mat and lifted the box up, set the place mat under it and then placed the box back down. Skye and Henry looked at him weird was he the only one who didn't want to endure Piper's wrath when she found out there was an old dusty box on her good dining table? A bad feeling began to churn in the pit of Skye's stomach with a nervous sigh she reached into the box and carefully lifted out the roll of paper that had 'Halliwell' written on it, taking a deep breath she pulled on the black and gold ribbon causing it to fall from the scroll. Carefully she opened up hoping that moving the paper wouldn't damage it in anyway. Her eyes began to skim over it and she found she didn't understand a word of it, the way it was written made it seem like a spell almost, a story...
Her eyes widened, in her hands she was holding a prophecy! A prophecy about her family! "UNCLE LEO!" Skye yelled at the top of her voice causing the two males at her sides to jump six feet in the air.
"Jesus Skye what is it?!" Henry Jr asked miffed that his little cousin had scared him like that.
"You guys this is bad!" She shouted causing Henry Jr and Jason to wince at the volume of her voice. "The rhyming, the story telling! We just found a prophecy with our names written on it!" She screeched.
"What's going on?!" Wyatt shouted coming charging down the stairs with his mother and father behind him, Kayla at his side.
"Nothing much." Jason said sarcastically. "We found a dusty old box and now Skye is freaking out because she thinks it's a prophecy."
"And we've gone DEAF!" Henry Jr shouted.
"And how did you guys find this?" Piper asked eyeing her nephew, niece and Jason, her almost nephew suspiciously.
"We were looking for something that could help us find Kay..." Skye paused and looked at the girl confused.
"La?" Kayla said with a small smile.
"KAYLA!" Skye screeched really loudly as she ran forward and captured the girl in a bone crushing hug.
"SKYE!" Came the pissed chorus as the eardrums in the room were popped.
"I'm so glad you're ok!" Jason said as he hugged his best friend tightly. "I've missed you so much!"
"Another day with suicidal Wyatt and I was thinking about coming to join you." Henry Jr teased as he pulled the dark haired girl into his arms. "You are in so much trouble for scaring us like that! Grounded even! I mean it you can't leave the manor!"
"No complaints here." Kayla said with a small smile. "I've missed you guys too."
Wyatt smiled and had a look over his Dad's shoulder as the wise Ex-Elder looked down onto the old paper. "What does it say dad?" He asked.
"This isn't good." Leo said sadly. "Piper call your sisters get everyone and I mean everyone over here." He ordered. "And send your mother back we can't risk her."
"Leo you're scaring me." Piper said her voice full of fear.
"I'm scaring me too." He said softly. "Honey just do it please."
"Ok you heard him..." Piper started to order but she stopped upon hearing the gasp from the stairs. Everyone turned to see Kathryn Grace come charging down them with Bell and Coop a little behind her. Bell smiled at Kayla with watery eyes as she watched the worried mother run to her daughter.
"Mom!" Kayla cried happily as the woman reached her. She threw her hands out and wrapped them round her mother tightly.
"Oh Kayla!" Kathryn sobbed into her daughter's shoulder. "Oh I've missed you so much!" She said pulling back and kissing her daughter on each cheek. She smiled and squeezed her again before turning to look at Wyatt and latching herself onto him. "Thank you!" She sobbed into the young man's chest.
Wyatt laughed a little and hugged his future mother-in-law back. "I promised."
"Yes, yes you did." Kathryn said with a smile as she went back to hugging Kayla.
No one had the heart to break up the scene, Piper and Leo stood closer together and the eldest Charmed One placed her hand round his and squeezed it tightly.
*****
Paige groaned in frustration as she rubbed her temples with her hands she looked at her son and shook her head. "It said Halliwell and you picked it up, you brought the frigging thing home so we could all see that there's another prophecy written about us."
"Paige." Henry warned.
"What?" She asked with a groan. "God my head is killing me, first we have knights then a prophecy what next, Alice in Wonderland?"
Henry Jr laughed a little causing Skye and Jason to glare at him. "What?" He asked. "This is where I get it from!"
"We know." Jason said with a sigh.
Chris ran a hand through his hair as he sat reading over the old bit of paper. "It can't be that hard to work out can it?" He asked. "I mean come on we're the most powerful beings in the world a teeny-weeny prophecy can't be that hard. Can it?"
"Ok then Mr. Smarty Pants." Bell said with a look. "Start deciphering."
"Fine." Chris challenged. He read over the piece of text a few times before reading aloud. "Three times three shall stand all powerful united as one circle. Dark as day, bright as night, four shall ride on bravest steed. "He looked to his girlfriend and then to his family. "Well three times three is nine." Chris stated. "So that means us," he said looking to his siblings and his cousins. "I guess. And the four shall ride on bravest steed." He looked to the visitors from the past. "You guys." He looked at Bell with a triumphant smile.
"Ok then do the rest." She said folding her arms across her chest. The others looked at her weird. "Sorry, I'm feeling a little cranky." She like Paige began to rub her temples.
"Headache honey?" Piper asked sympathetically.
"Oh yea." Bell muttered.
"Where was my sympathy?" Paige asked. "All I got was "Paige." How unfair is that?" She said doing her best impression of Henry.
"My poor baby." Henry said sarcastically as he kissed her forehead.
"I think I'll go make you guys some tea." Gracie said standing up and exiting from the room.
Chris handed the scroll over to his mother and watched as Bell slid down the arm of the chair to sit at his side on the sofa. He placed his arm around her and kissed the top of her head softly.
Kayla smiled a little at the pair, it was true, and they were so going to be the next Leo and Piper. Subconsciously Kayla leaned in closer to Wyatt bringing a smile to his face; he held onto her hand and flashed his pearly whites.
Phoebe and Letti looked as if they were about to burst into tears there was so much love in the room it was scary. Mother and daughter sat with small smiles on their face hoping that everything was finally going to be ok, all they had to do was get the knights back home and sort out this prophecy then they could move on.
Kayla sat with a small smile on her face as she listened to each family member talk in turn, they were all discussing the prophecy issue. Glancing around the room, not making it to obvious Kayla looked at each witch strong waves of emotions coming off them. Her eyes fell on Bell there was something wrong with her and she couldn't figure out what it was, she was listening carefully but yet there was something about the look on her face. Kayla let out a small sigh causing Wyatt to squeeze her hand slightly she looked up at him and smiled before looking back to Piper as she spoke.
"Don't get too comfy." A voice hissed causing Kayla to gasp. Her head felt strange as if her brain was trying to beat it's way through her skull. Groaning in pain she brought her hands up to the sides of her head as if she was trying to block out the voice and will away the pain.
"Kayla?" Wyatt asked worried as he watched his girlfriend wither in pain. "Baby what is it?" He asked.
"You've got a job to do." The voice hissed again. "Remember that."
Kayla winced in pain again as the voice rang through her ear drums. Feeling strange she slumped to the side as the blackness crept in around her. She went limp and fell into Wyatt's side; she looked up at Wyatt as her vision clouded over.
"Kayla?!" Wyatt called. This was the last thing she heard before it all went black.
Dylan made his way over to Wyatt's side and looked at Kayla he placed a hand to her forehead and turned to Piper, the matriarch. He cast her a worried look. "She's burning up." He stated before turning round to look at her and Wyatt.
Wyatt pulled Kayla into his arms so she was up against his chest, feelings of dread and worry filling him. She was sick, after it all she was sick. Being kept down in the underworld had taken its toll on her, she had been moving around to fast since she had come back to the manor. Wyatt should have sent her to bed to rest when he thought about it, but the thought of leaving her alone scared him.
"What's wrong with her?" Letti asked slightly scared a mix of her own fear and Wyatt's.
"I think it's all catching up with her." Piper said sadly as she stood. "Wyatt sweetie orb her to your old room and get her in bed. I'll go and get a wet cloth and some water."
Wyatt nodded and disappeared in a shower of blue and white lights Kayla in his arms. Chris let out a sigh and glanced at the clock it was coming up for half ten. He glanced around the room and saw that everyone was slowly starting to drift off, Charlie and fallen asleep against Jason as the two of them sat on the floor with their backs up against the sofa.
"Maybe we should call it." Chris voiced with a yawn as he moved to stretch.
Leo nodded. "Good idea son, we all need some sleep."
Sam laughed and stood up Victor at his side. "Lets go then guys." He said turning to the men from the past. "You're staying with us at my bachelor pad."
"Has anyone seen Gracie?" Paige wondered for a moment. "She was meant to be making tea..."
Dylan stood. "I'll go find her, she probably fell asleep on her feet." He said with a small laugh.
"Uh Chris," Jenny said with a smirk. "I wouldn't stand."
"Why?" Chris asked confused, he watched as Jenny pointed at Bell. Looking down the witch lighter saw his girlfriend had fallen asleep with her head on his chest.
"Isn't that adorable?" Phoebe asked with a smile. "I think we should all hit the hay now." She said standing.
"I'll go get Mel." Letti said with a yawn as she stood up.
"I'll come too." Leo said anxious to see his baby girl. He joined hands with his niece and orbed out of the attic with her.
Phoebe sighed and looked at Chris. "I don't like the idea of Mel being left at magic school. It isn't fair."
"I know Aunt Phoebe." Chris said sadly. "I hate it too but she's safe there."
Phoebe nodded. "I guess."
Well there you have it, I wonder what's going to happen next..hmm. Please leave me a little review.
I'm not sure when I'll be able to get the next chapter up, soon i hope but i can't give you an exact date. All i can say is that the next chapter has Mel back in it as she's been M.I.A for a while, you'll find out why and something strange is going on at the manor.
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