Chapter Ten
"Bianca!" Chris called, as he saw his girlfriend sitting on the ground with bleeding from her wounds.
Josh, who was also concerned at the sight before him said "You go to see to her. I'll see to the witch."
Chris hurried over to where Bianca was and knelt down beside her. He looked down with concerned at his wounded girlfriend.
"Are you okay?" Chris asked.
"Nothing to worry about," Bianca said, though her wince and weakened voice showed the lie in her words.
"You just hold on, I'll get Wyatt here as soon as I can," Chris told her, placing one hand on her shoulder and the other over her wounds, looking into her eyes with both love and concern.
As Chris was about to call for his older brother, a golden glow appeared in the hand that was placed over the wound. Both Chris and Bianca looked down in time to see the wounds beginning to close over and disappear. They looked at each other in shock as the wounds finished healing.
"You can heal!" Bianca exclaimed in shock.
"Hey how is she?" Josh asked as he walked across alleyway with they young witch next to him.
"She's fine," Chris replied, still in shock at his new power. He then stood up pulling Bianca up with him.
"Thanks to your cousin. He healed me," Bianca told him.
"Wait, Chris healed you? He has another power?" Josh asked incredulously.
"It would appear so," Chris replied. "We can deal with that later. What's your name?" He asked the witch.
"Callie," the young witch replied, still dazed after all she had just witnessed.
"You look like you pretty confused. You didn't know about magic before today did you?" Bianca asked gently.
Callie shook her head.
"We should continue this back at the mansion," Josh suggested.
"He's right," Chris agreed. "I'll take Callie, Bianca you take Josh."
Bianca nodded in agreement, as Josh pulled a face. They then orbed and ashed back to the mansion.
At The Manor
They arrived in the lounge room of the mansion where they found Prue and Belle waiting on the couch.
"Where have you guys been?" Belle asked as both she and Prue stood up.
"Yeah we got home from class expecting you here ready to make plans only to find the place deserted. And who is this?" Prue asked speaking a million miles an hour.
"This is Callie. We were scrying for a witch under attack and found her," Chris explained.
"Oh are you okay?" Prue asked, taking a breath.
"Yeah, just confused I think," Callie answered quietly.
"Yeah and Bianca got hurt and guess who healed her?" Josh asked them.
"Who?" Belle and Prue asked in unison.
"Chris," Josh answered
"What?!" Belle asked. "I thought you didn't have that power."
At the Prue exclaimed "You got another power?!"
"It would seem that I do," Chris answered both of there exclamations.
"So you have what five powers now? What happened to equality?" Prue asked, both jealous and please for her older brother.
"You'll have to take that up with the powers that be," Bianca piped in with a grin on her face.
"Anyway," Chris started, wanting to deflect attention away from him. "We've got a more pressing issue, you know the demon attack that we interrupted."
"Chris is right. I don't think that demon's going to be giving up," Bianca added.
"Do you know much about the demon that attacked you?" Prue asked, turning to Callie.
Callie shook her head. "He just showed up when I was walking to work and forced me into the alley way. He shoved me to the ground saying he wanted my power when they showed up," she nodded her head toward Chris, Bianca and Josh.
"What sort of power do you have?" Belle asked.
"I don't know," Callie answered.
"Until today, Callie didn't know about her powers or about magic until today," Josh explained to his cousins.
"Oh, I guess this has been a pretty confusing day for you then," Belle said, to which Callie nodded. "Don't worry I know what you're going through. Why don't you come with me and I'll get you a glass of water."
Belle then led Callie to the kitchen leaving the others to talk in the lounge room.
"So do you know much about the demon?" Prue asked them.
"Just from what we saw today," Josh replied.
"He definitely had clawed hands," Bianca said, wincing at the thought of the wounds she had received.
"He could also shimmer. Other than yellow eyes he was human looking and had blond curly shoulder length hair," Chris said describing what he could remember.
"Well I guess that is something to work on," Prue sighed. "So I guess now we do more research."
"We should see if there is some way to try to trap him before vanquishing him," Josh suggested.
"You're right. If we could we might be able to get some more information on this new Source," Chris agreed.
"In the mean time I think it might be best for Callie to stay here until we take care of this demon. Especially with her not knowing about her powers," Bianca said.
"She's right. I'll go find Belle and Callie and tell them. We'll take care of making up a spare room for her," Prue said, heading for the kitchen.
"And we should hit the book," Josh said heading for the stairs.
As Bianca started to follow, Chris captured her hand and turned her around into his embrace. "Are you okay?" he asked looking at her with concerned.
"Shouldn't I be asking you that, you're the one with the new power," Bianca replied softly.
"And you're the one who got stabbed," Chris countered.
"I'm fine Chris," Bianca replied, trying to reassure her boyfriend.
"I can't even describe how I felt when I saw you on the ground. I don't know what I'd do if I lost you," Chris said, opening his heart.
"It's a good thing then that you didn't have to find out," Bianca half joked, as Chris leant in to capture her lips in a gentle lips.
They continued stand there in the middle of the lounge room in a sweet embrace. As Chris started to deepen the kiss Josh came back down the stairs.
"Are you guys coming?" He asked walking back into the room.
Chris and Bianca pulled apart, slightly annoyed at being interrupted. "Yeah, coming," Chris replied as they followed Josh to the attic.
In The Underworld
"The first part of your plan worked well sir," Carden said to Wyatt as they walked towards a particular cavern. "I even managed to wound one of them. I think they'll be too worried about me for a while to worry about you."
"You've done well Carden. Though it's interesting," Wyatt said thoughtfully.
"What is sir?" Carden asked.
"You said you injured one of them and yet they didn't call for me to heal them. That is a mystery," Wyatt explained.
"I can't answer that sir, I definitely injured her though," Carden responded.
Wyatt waved his hand dismissively to Carden as he reached his destination. "Keep up the good work," he said dismissing his demon. He walked into the cavern to the demon he had been wanting to see.
"Well Minx, do you have it?" Wyatt asked the demon in front of him.
"Yes my lord," she replied. "The potion is ready. When you drink it should bring all your powers back. It may even give you some extras."
"What do you mean 'should' and 'may'?" Wyatt asked menacingly. "It had better work if you value your life."
Minx stood up straight, sure of her position in the underworld. "This has never been tried before my lord, it is experimental. We both now that I'm the best when it comes to potions, it's why you sought me out in the first place," she said looking him straight in the eye, handing him a cup with the potion in it. "You should drink it sir."
Wyatt looked at her angrily, not pleased with her back chat. However, rather than take her to task for it, he followed her advise and drank the potion.
They both waited a few seconds, and then Wyatt felt something stirring in him, a new power awakening.
"Well has it worked sir?" Minx asked, wanting to know if her potion was a success.
To answer he question Wyatt grew a fireball in his hands throwing it just a few centimetres above her head, watching it smash into the rocks behind her. "Does that answer you question," Wyatt answered, noticing that she hadn't flinched at the fireball. "You have pleased me greatly," he said, walking out of the chamber.