The Power of 5
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Chris's House:
Chris had woken up. It was 6am on the dot. He didn't want to wake up but he knew what to much sleep to your body could do. He remembered how he had forced himself yesterday to fall asleep. His head was hurting. Obviously his mind needed a serious time out. He was working himself too hard and his mind was reacting by making him think he could hear voices. So he went to sleep. When he got home yesterday he just slept. He remembered his mom bringing cookies and later on streak and mash with veg. He just about finished it and went back to sleep. He wondered if his Mom was wrong in not letting him stay at the hospital but his bed was more comfy anyway. He had slept through most the day and the night. His mind had to be rested now.
He got up and went to the bathroom. His head seemed fine. No voices, no headache, no nothing. He seemed fine. His hypothesis looked to be right. Although he would haft to give it another couple of hours. He felt really awake and decided to take a long shower. He would talk to the guys later about what he missed in class. Luckily for him, Harry was a complete geek and recorded all their lectures so Chris could listen and take notes. After coming out of shower he fixed himself up and went downstairs. It was now 10 passed 7. Wow he took long he must of needed that shower. He saw his mother in the kitchen making scrambled eggs.
"Morning Mom." Chris said while going into the fridge for some juice.
"Morning baby. How's your head?" She asked but kept looking at the food.
"All better. Well at least for now." He said while pouring a glass of orange juice.
"See all you needed was mama's cooking." Cathy said in smooshy baby type voice.
"What ever you say mom." He said while raising his brow but smirking too.
"Want eggs honey?" She asked.
"Yeah I'm starving." Chris said while put a hand over his stomach.
"Well cause you just about ate last night and barely had anything yesterday. We should of stopped of at the deli but I did my shopping like I said so feel free to snack away. Oh and our not going college today you can go back next week. The doctor ordered bed rest. Just in case." Cathy said.
"Mom I cant miss class today and tomorrow. I'll have way to much to catch up on." Chris stated in frustration.
"Honey the doctors couldn't find a problem but your headache still happened and caused you to pass out. Besides I called your Professor he will take notes he doesn't want you dying in his class so you aren't missing out ok. So you stay put mister." She said in a very mother way.
Chris groaned.
"You know any other child would be happy for some days off." Cathy said in high pitch voice.
"I am not any other child." He said and walked out the kitchen.
"No your not Christopher. Far from it." Cathy said in a low sinister voice.
Later on His brothers and sister had got up, they all had breakfast and they had gone to school. Cathy had gone to work so Chris was by himself. He decided he would be productive with his day. He turned on the stereo and started to clean the house. His mom would appreciate it. He also decide he would make dinner. Chris could be such guy mom at times it was unreal but it was who he was. His morning was spent cooking and cleaning. When he was done it was already 1 in the afternoon. He still wanted to take it easy so was fighting himself to not read or study. He decided that he should play some PS1 seeming as he had time. He usually would only play if his brothers pestered him and even then most of the time he didn't.
He had to admit he liked the time by himself to just play. It was quite relaxing considering he was shooting zombies. He played for several hours before the door bell rung. He looked at he clock it was coming up for 4 o'clock. His mom should of been back by now or maybe it was Aidy. He paused the game and got up. He opened the door to see his ex neighbour who used to lived couple doors down.
"Brittany! Oh gosh hi. Long time no see. What are you doing here?" Chris said surprised to see her and hugged her.
"Hi Chris looking good." She said in seductive tone whilst tilting her head to the side and smiling.
Chris hadn't seen Brittany since he was 14. Her and her dad moved to Chicago. He had to admit she looked good.
"Can I come in?" She said.
"Yeah of course." He said and opened the door wider to let her through.
"Wow this place hasn't changed a bit, and it smells good." She said looking around.
"Uh yeah well I just cleaned up, lucky too if I hadn't you would seen the skip this place was." He said with a nervous chuckle. Why was he nervous. "So what are you doing here Brittany? Not that I'm not happy to see you but like you why you here?" Chris asked again. Silently he was cursing himself. He was rambling
"Oh well we're in town for two weeks visiting the old folks and I thought I should walk down memory lane." She said while giving him a sultry look.
"Wow well its great seeing you. You look amazing. How's your dad and life in the windy city then?" He said while slightly blushing.
"Chris I was hoping I'd see you today and I don't want to talk about Chicago or my dad. In fact I don't want to talk at all. I just want you." Brittany said as she move forward and took of her jacket. She was wearing a low crop top and mini skirt with high heels and he could see the stockings.
"Uh Brittany as much as you are smoking hot right now um, you know my mom and brothers and sister are gonna be home soon and I have got to study so..." He said but she had come forward and a put a finger on his lips.
"Shhhhhh. You can't resist me Chris. I know you want me. Tell me you want me." She said in a sultry whisper in his ear.
Chris was shocked. He couldn't believe that Brittany was here for a booty call. Something Chris screamed telling him to resist but he didn't want to. He couldn't.
"I want you." He said with a glazed look on his eye.
"Tell me you need me." She said while caressing her hand all over him.
A"I need you." He said in trance.
She took his hand and lead him up the stairs and into his bedroom. She started to kiss him before removing his top and pushing him back on the bed. She turned around and locked the door and began to do a little dance and strip until she was just in her bra and panties with the stockings. She then climbed on top of him and began kissing him.
'Chris if she sleeps with you, afterwards she will kill you'
Chris's eyes opened in shock. A beautiful girl was on top of him, kissing him but something about the entire situation felt wrong. There was also the fact that he had just heard his mothers voice in his head suggesting that Brittany was going to kill him. It was like he was waking up. Not because of the thought of being killed but the way his mother has spoke set him on edge. Something about her voice the way she had said that was almost sinister sounding but his mother wasn't here was she?
"Brittany? Brittany what are you doing? Brittany stop!" Chris said while shoving her off.
"look at me and tell me you want me." She demanded while cupping his face.
'Don't do it Chris' Cathy said in his mind.
Chris heard his mother again. His eyes scanned the room. She wasn't there but her voice was enough to make something tick in him. To realise that he was in trouble. His eyes landed back on Brittany while her hand was still gripping his face. She noticed the craze look in her eyes and the strange feelings Brittany was making him feel were gone.
"Brittany you should go." He said moving his face from her grip and moving off the bed whilst putting his shirt back on. He then picked up her clothes off the floor and put them on the bed.
"Are you rejecting me?" She asked in a deadly voice.
Something about the way she said the sentence did not sit right with Chris. It made the hairs on the back his neck stand.
"Look we shouldn't do this. I'm sorry. It was really good seeing you again Brittany but you need to go." Chris said looking away from her.
Brittany got up from the bed and Chris regretted his words instantly. Brittany's facial expression darkened and then all of sudden a strange shriek was let out but that's not what Chris was worried about it was the fact that her tongue was long and looked like the end of scorpion tale of that had pincers on it.
Chris backed up away from Brittany his heart Pumping. He felt like he was about to pass out but he couldn't afford to under the circumstances.
"How dare you reject me." She screeched at him. Once again the tongue sticking at.
"Bri- Brittany calm down. Please calm down. Th-Th-This isn't right. I'm not that type of guy. Ok I actually like romance. Ok I'm not rejecting you. Id just rather talk to you. I haven't seen you in almost 5 years." Chris said hoping she would understand. He was backed up to the door and was covering his movements of trying to open the door. He remembered that she had locked it and how he was positioned his arm wouldn't be able to reach up and unlock the door whilst behind his back.
He looked at time. It was already 20 past 4. Someone must be coming home by now. Oh god please let someone come home he thought to himself. Chris was scared. Brittany looked like she wanted to kill him and right now she didn't seem human. What was happening? Why was everything strange going on all of a sudden?
"Not good enough." She said in deadly voice and came running at Chris.
There wasn't enough time. He couldn't turn around unlock the door and run out before she reached him. She was only a meter away. Chris just closed his eyes and prepared for the worst.
It was the strangest feeling he ever felt. It was only for a second that he felt it but he did. It seemed to tug from his ventriculus or as it was more commonly known as the stomach muscle. Feeling started there and it was like he was just ripped into shreds but it didn't hurt. It was like he turned into millions of atoms or even billions of subatomic particles and he was floating through a type of veil before his body came back to whole.
When Chris opened his eyes he was astounded. He seemed to be downstairs in his living room.
If he had time he would of contemplated on how he could break the laws of Physics and transfer his energy from his bedroom and to his living room but he didn't. Instantly after the weird feeling he heard the roar from upstairs. He sprinted towards the front door but it was stuck. Why wouldn't it open? He then ran towards the kitchen and tried to get out of the back door but it wouldn't budge. He tried the kitchen window but this too was stuck as if someone had glued it shut. He could still hear noise coming from upstairs. He was getting really scared. He pulled a knife from the draw and shoved in his back jean pocket. It was small so it fit without hurting him.
He ran into the living room and tried the windows but once again he couldn't open it. He saw it was dark outside but people were still passing buy. He banged on the window but no one took notice. He noted it was quiet and that was never a good sign when someone was trying to kill you. He turned around to see Brittany standing in the living room with a devilish smile across her face. Only a table was separating them.
Before Chris could even utter a word, Brittany had sprinted across the room and leapt over the table. She landed right in front of Chris and stuck out her tongue.
All of sudden Brittany burst into flames. Chris couldn't believe it. Brittany had just died but what was worse is that he had seen how and who. His mother was standing there and she had thrown a ball of what looked liked pure purple energy .
"Mom!" Chris said terrified. He felt like he wanted to cry.
"Hello Chris." Cathy said in a menacing voice.
"Mom what's going on?" Chris said in a weak voice.
"What do you think kid? You were gonna be killed by horny demon because you didn't hit it." A voice said that sounded way too familiar. John guiles walked in the room with what Chris was sure was known as an Athame. He didn't have an interest in them but he had a book on medical knives and although an Athame was not a medical knife Chris had looked other knives and studied them. He also looked at books that would demonstrate knife inflicted wounds and the differences between the wounds. Chris always had a first for knowing things before he needed too. He was only in college studying science but he had a lot of information already for when he would get into med school.
Cathy was sure that Chris's eyes were gonna pop out his skull. The look of pure terror on his face was delightful.
"See Azazel I told you my idea would work." Cathy said still in her dark voice.
"Yes Danika you were right, although maybe we should of let him continue just a little bit. I mean I would hate to die a virgin." He said I taunting voice.
"No my baby is gonna stay pure for his death." She said also mocking him.
"Mom?" He said whilst fighting back the tears.
"Mom." She said mimicking him "I'm not your mom. I never have been." She said so cold it made Chris jerk.
"Mom stop it please." He said in a small plea.
"She just told you she is not your mother and she never was." John said with a toothy grin.
"Then who are you if your not my mother?" He said finding his voice and looking directly at her.
"Your nightmare. Your murderer. Your whatever you like as long as it ends with pain." She said while flashing him an evil smile.
"Why are you doing this?" He said in panicked whisper.
"Because we want your powers." John said in heartless tone.
"Yes he said powers. You have them although it wasn't the power I expected but it does trick besides it's the other half we're mostly interested in but your witch side will come in handy indeed." Cathy said in response to Chris's face of disbelief .
"What are you talking about?" He shouted in frustration.
"You Chris are a witch. Your also something called a whitelighter. In other terms your an angel. Your every mothers dream. Your mother and father was a witch and whitelighter. However this type of union is forbidden so they gave you up however we took you in and raised you until your powers came but annoyingly they came very late but there here now, so now you die." Cathy said very serious looking.
"Your both insane. I don't have powers." Chris said more to himself. He knew he was lying but he couldn't help it logic was screaming at him not to believe.
"Yes you do Christopher. Although I thought you would be able freeze seeming as you were born second but telepathy is a very useful power on it's own and boosted by your heritage it will be very powerful and as for your whitelighter powers they will be golden. You see there are other whitelighters that are more powerful than yourself. There called elders. Elders are the top angels and they live in the heavens but only whitelighters can get into the heavens. We're gonna use your powers to go into heavens and kill some elders. Once we have their powers we are gonna steal some more and then takeover a little place called the underworld and then every other realm too and that starts with you Chris. You should be proud." John said with a twisted smile.
"Your lying!" Chris Declared.
"Not at tall Chris. How do you explain your headache. I realised after your sudden headache someone must of awakened your powers. I thought if it wasn't freezing as that's not a mental power then it was telekinesis but I've seen that reaction before and realised it wasn't so Azazel did a little tester when you were in the bathroom yesterday talking to the man with the cheating wife. That was him. He's so good at shapeshifting. Adam would know Azazel played your Daddy. Adam took that one hard. Any who Azazel wanted to kill you yesterday but I said to wait just to see if your whitelighter powers had manifested. I wanted to make sure we hadn't made a mistake and taken the wrong child. So I decided to let Brittany who was a succubus make those powers manifest. Her mother fell in love with human. Pathetic really. He raised her tried to keep her good. She killed her daddy years ago. I was so proud. I asked her to come and told her she could feast on you. You like a good boy rejected her so she tried to kill you and you orbed. So now its time to kill you." Cathy stated with pure evil in her words.
"Who are you?" He asked again letting his tears flow.
"I am the demon that killed your real adoptive mother and took her place. She begged and cried but I killed her anyway and took her identity as Cathy Payne. I had Azazel here become john who beat you and your siblings here so your powers would manifest but they didn't so I had the misfortune of still looking after you vile creatures and I still have 3 more to go." Cathy said with disgust present in her tone.
"What is wrong with you?" Chris said trying to buy time.
"We don't want to be ruled. We want to do the ruling. So we came up with an idea. Find some of the most powerful witch children out there. Take them. Raise them. Wait for their powers to manifest. Kill them. What do you think happened to Adam. I only told you he left for New York so you didn't think he was dead. Been in the basement for however long. He begged. He cried. It was pitiful really. His power was called pyschokinesis Very rare but powerful. There are many witches in the world but a lot of them are lower level or there powers are just weak. You, Adam, Aidy, JJ and Jason are not. Aidy and the twins are from powerful bloodlines and we are gonna take their powers too but now yours are gonna be taken. It wasn't fun raising youbut this is the end of an era. Goodbye Chris." Cathy said emotionless.
She then formed another ball of energy in her hand and began to advance. John did the same. He couldn't believe it. He was gonna die at the hand of his mother and ex step father. No not his mother a woman who had pretended to be his mother his whole life who didn't even care about who she killed like his brother and the woman who was meant to be his mother.
All of sudden Cathy threw the ball. Chris ducked. John then moved forward and was about to stab him. Chris closed his eyes. He wasn't gonna get out of this.
All of sudden he felt a breeze across his face and heard a crash. He opened his eyes to see three women in the doorway. He saw john in the corner of the room. He seemed to have crashed into the tv and was unconscious.
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Chris's House: The Sister's and Chris
"Come on step on it Prue. Its gone past 4 o'clock." Phoebe said anxious.
"I'm going as fast as I can Phoebe." Prue said slightly annoyed.
"Phoebe you don't know when this guy is going to get attacked and we can't save him if we're dead." Piper said firmly.
"I know Piper but we cant let him die." Phoebe stated.
"We're not going to Phoebe but I've ran a red light and I'm speeding. I want to prevent a death not cause one." Prue said while focusing on the road.
They drove for 10 minutes before they found the street. Prue parked. The sisters got out the car with Phoebe picking up the baseball bat.
They walked up to number 45. "What do we do now?" Piper asked unsure of what to do.
"Um that's a good question. Should we knock?" Prue also said uncertain of the next course of action.
Phoebe moved away from the door. She looked around and saw people but they weren't paying attention to her and her sisters. Phoebe walked across the front lawn and did her best to peer through the window. She gasped as she could see her premonition playing out in front of her eyes. She moved back toward the door.
"He's in trouble, we need to get in now." Phoebe said rushed.
Prue seemed to be getting control at least a little of this power. She imagined putting a key in the door and then grabbing the handle and twisting it. She squinted her eyes and the door opened.
"Prue did you do that?" Piper said confused as the door opened.
"Yeah." Prue said.
"Ok come on." Phoebe said and walked in. They tried to be as quiet as they could and got to the living room and saw a blonde woman throw a purple ball. The Chris guy duck and saw the other guy about to stab him.
"Prue." Phoebe said in a voice that said do something.
Prue squinted her eyes and the man with the knife went flying into the tv and looked unconscious.
The woman and Chris looked to see what was happening.
"Aahh let me take a very estimated guess. The charmed ones? Am I correct?" She said tauntingly.
"Damn straight." Phoebe said with a confidence she didn't have.
"Let him go." Prue said in a strong voice.
"Or what?" She sneered.
"Or deal with us." Prue said in a threatening tone.
"Haha Haha oh how the mighty charmed ones come here and think they know what their doing when they've only just received their powers. You make me laugh and tell me how are you gonna kill two demons with them when there barely there." She said whilst laughing.
"Let him go." Phoebe also said fiercely.
"Your just babies and you come here making demands? How foolish. I think I'm gonna enjoy killing you." Cathy said evilly.
She grabbed Chris and threw him into the wall. He wasn't unconscious but the throw knocked the wind out him. She then created two energy balls in the palms of both her hands and threw them at the sisters. Phoebe ducked out of the way. One of the balls was coming toward Pip and she stuck her hands out in response. The ball froze in mid-air as did everything else in the room.
"Oh oh ok Phoebe go grab him." Prue said as she side stepped the frozen ball that was coming to her.
Phoebe got up and Picked Chris off the floor. He was awake but disorientate. Although she was moving him he didn't seem to be frozen.
She put picked him up to his feet draped his arm over her shoulder. They walked over to the door and the three turned to him. His vision was coming into focus.
"Are you ok?" Prue asked.
"Not really." Chris Said in small voice.
"Just stay behind us ok." Prue said.
He nodded.
"Ok power of 3?" Phoebe said looking to her sisters.
"Yep." Prue said.
The turned away from him.
Just then the room unfroze. The energy ball that came flying toward Prue hit wall. Piper had actually forgotten to move and Prue realised the energy ball was gonna hit her. She squinted her eyes and the ball of raging light went flying back at its creator. It hit her and she went up in a rage of flames before she was gone. She had been incinerated rather than blown up.
"Mommmmm!" Chris shouted and ran over to the spot where she had been vanquished.
"You killed my mom." Chris said in low but clearly upset voice.
"Wait she was your mom?" Piper asked shocked.
"Chris I'm so sorry but your mom just said she was a demon and she was gonna kill you. We had to help you." Phoebe said in a soft nurturing voice as she moved toward him. She put her hand on his arm and he retracted his arm away.
"Don't touch me. You killed my mom and your trying to comfort me." He spat while letting tears flow from his eyes. Phoebe tried again.
"Chris please listen to me, we are..."
"I don't care who you are, what you are or why. Yeah you saved my life but killed my mother nothing you tell me can make that ok now get out." He shouted at them.
Just then a groan was heard. The four witches looked over to the noise. They had almost forgot that another demon was in the room. He stood up and saw them all. He looked at Chris and saw his face and instantly he knew. He knew what they did to his Danika. His Beloved. They vanquished her. No they murdered her.
"You stupid witches." He spat in rage. He formed a ball of fire in his hand but it was huge bigger than the energy balls. It looked like he had merged two fire balls together. All of sudden he thrust his hands forward. The large fireball came flying through the air. Chris and Phoebe were closer to John. The fireball was closer to them. Although Chris was distraught he seemed frozen with fear. Phoebe saw this and instantly dived on Chris out of harms way. Piper also dived out of the way. Prue chose to duck instead of dive. The fireball hit the wall and scorched it. Phoebe had dived on Chris a little harder than she expected. He hit his head against the floor and groaned. He wasn't unconscious but he wasn't properly conscious once again. Phoebe was ok but diving out of the way had managed to cause her pain. Prue stood back up and once more squinted her eyes. Azazel went flying and crashed into the coffee table. He quickly recovered this time.
"So the charmed ones have come to save their witchlighter brother. But only one them has some kick and even then she has to squint her eyes." He mocked. He then picked up the Athame and shimmered out. Prue was astonished he had sort of wobbled or shimmered and he was gone. Piper and Phoebe had watched him from the floor disappear and both got up and came and stood by Prue. The three looked around.
"Is he gone?" Piper asked looking around
"I'm more concerned about where he is." Phoebe said also looking around.
"I don't know but lets not stay and find out. Grab Chris and lets get the hell out of here." Prue said.
"Not so fast ladies. This party is just getting started." Azazel said deviously from behind them. He threw Prue from the back of her hair into the hallway and she went straight into the wall and slumped down it. Piper and Phoebe turned around but he had grabbed them by their throats and through them into the living room. Both hit the wall and also slump down just like Prue had. He had put the Athame in his coat and just pulled it out. He walked over to Prue. Prue was just waking up but was in pain and dizzy from the throw. She could make out that Azazel was standing in front of her. He then picked her up gripped her by the throat.
"So this is the best that the mighty charmed ones can do? Pathetic. And yet you killed my Danika. My beautiful Danika. The love of my life. So now you pay. Demons will know it was Azazel who killed the charmed ones and once and for all rid the world of the filthy, rotten, no good warren line. I will avenge Danika's death and take your powers and live the dream we aimed to accomplish. You, your sisters and your pathetic little brother and don't worry ill find that extra little bitch of a sister yours too. Ill kill her as well. Don't you worry about that all five you will be no more and I will go on to ruling the underworld with all of your powers. Goodbye witch." He said while he pointed the knife at her throat.
Prue couldn't focus properly to push him away. She was going to die. She could feel the knife coming to end her life. This was it.
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AN: Hope you enjoyed