Thanks so much for the great reviews for the last chapter. Some people brought to my attention that in regards to Piper's character that they don't want her to become the person that she was before Prue died. No worries, Piper will remain the same strong, stubborn women she is in canon, her life may depend on it. So I hope you enjoy this chapter!
(Halliwell Manor)
The attic was silent as the sisters worked on a strategy to face off with the Saber coven. The sisters were in deep thought as the processed the lecture or in some of their cases reality check that their Grams gave them a couple of hours ago. Grams had brought theirs fears and personal struggles to the front and confronted them about and even though her methods maybe weren't what they were expecting, but they got the job done and brought them closer together.
" What have got so far?" Prue asked her sisters from where she was sitting on Aunt Pearls couch next to Paige who was scrying over a map of San Francisco.
" Well not to be a worry wart." Paige said, dropping the crystal on the seat next to her. " But there is a ton of evil running around the city, I can't pinpoint their location without something of theirs to draw on.
" There has to be a way for us to find them, I mean they found us right." Phoebe said from where she sitting next to the potions table trying to write a spell to use against the Sabers. " There has to be a way."
" How about a spell to help us narrow down a location Pheebs?" Pipers asked her as she was brewing some potions at a small table in the middle of the attic. She an arsenal surrounding her and the potions ranged from mild stun potions to poisons to skin eating acids, she was ready for anything.
" I can't believe you made that many potions." Paige said as she looked over at Piper's worktable. " I doubt we'll use all of them."
" You never know and besides we need to win this." Piper said flipping her hair over her shoulder out of the way.
" Demon vanquishing isn't a game." Paige said to her as she shook her head with a smirk on her face.
" It is if you're good at it." Piper smirked back.
Phoebe rose from her seat and walked over to where Paige had laid down the scrying supplies. " Lets try this." Phoebe said as she picked up the crystal and let it hang over the map. " I need two sisters please." Prue and Paige moved over to her put their hand on top of hers as Phoebe started chanting.
Scrying secrets be revealed to me
Blessed by the power of three
Find those that I seek
Of that which the prophecy speaks
The crystal started spinning as it swung around the map searching for those that needed to be found….
(Saber Manor)
The occupants of Saber Manor felt the protective charms that protect the house alert them to the fact that someone was trying to find its location magically.
The brothers came from their respective areas in the house to meeting in the living room to discuss what to do next.
" Do you think it's the witches?" Alex asked as wiped sweat from his brow. He and Antonio were down in the basement sparring when they felt the wards alert them to what was going on. He stretched out his sore muscles as he sat down on the nearest thing close to him, which happened to be Ash's favorite chair, which earned him a glare from his older brother.
" Who else would be trying to scry for us?" Alec asked him back as the answer was obvious. " They must be planning an counter attack."
" That makes no sense." Ash said. " They have only seen two of us use our powers, why would they attack now."
"Maybe they're trying to lure us into a trap." Antonio reasoned. " Or at least we can let them think they are."
" What did you have in mind?" Alec asked him seeing the workings of a plan getting ready to present itself."
" Well we reverse the trap and set one of our own. " Antonio said to him. " That's only if Alec and Ash our up to it,"
" Of course we are." They said in unison.
" Then lets get ready shall we?" Antonio smirked as he and his brothers left to get ready for their plan. "
(Halliwell Manor)
"What is the problem?" Piper asked her sisters. The scrying crystal hasn't stopped spinning for the last five minutes and it was getting concerning. " Why can't we find them?"
Prue turned to look at her sister, who was a second away from blowing something up. She got up from her spot next to Paige and moved to grab Piper's hand as she dragged her over to the other side of the attic to offer her whatever comfort she could.
" Piper honey, you need to calm down." Prue said running her hand through her sister's hair. " Don't worry we'll find them."
" We got them!" Phoebe yelled from where she was sitting next to the map.
" See, I told you." Prue said to Piper with a smirk on her face.
" Cute, lets go see where those bastards are." Piper said grabbing her sister's hand and dragging her to their other sisters.
" So what did you guys find out?" Prue asked Phoebe and Paige.
" They're located near the outskirts of Presidio Heights." Phoebe said looking at the map for confirmation.
" Presidio Heights your sure Pheebs?" Prue asked her. " That's one of the richest neighborhoods in the entire city. How could they afford to live someplace like that when the eldest looked barely over the age of twenty-five?"
"Maybe it's a family home like ours?" Paige suggested. " They are from a long line, maybe they just inherited a lot of money from their family over the years."
" It doesn't matter how they got it." Piper said getting fed up with the conversation. " They live there, now what do we do now?"
" The same thing they did to us, we storm the place." Paige said getting up from her spot next to Phoebe.
" Paige you can't be serious." Prue said to her in disbelief. " That would never work.
" Why wouldn't it?" Paige asked her. " It worked against us."
" She has a point." Phoebe said siding with her baby sister. " They wouldn't be expecting us and we would have the Power of Four, it would be a match."
Prue shook her head at her youngest sisters. She couldn't help but feel as though they were about to walk into a trap. She turned to Piper in hopes that she could get her on her side.
" Piper what do you think about this?" Prue asked her with desperation leaking into her voice.
Piper turned her head if only not to see look her older sister was giving her. She couldn't deny Prue anything, but this was different.
She agreed with Phoebe and Paige, but I how could she tell Prue that when she was obviously expecting her to side with her on this.
" I'm sorry Prue, but I think we should do this now and get it over with." Piper told her not meeting her eye as she looked at her.
" Fine" Prue sighed in defeat. " But if we're going to do this we are going in locked and loaded and we take no prisoners."
" Prue do you really think you could kill them?" Phoebe asked her. She had never seen her older sister like this before.
" Its like Billy and Christy all over again." Piper answered for her. " We don't want to kill them, but if it's between us and them, I'm choosing us."
" Then lets do this." Paige said grabbing some of the potions of the table in front of her.
" Paige grab the transportation potion just incase." Prue told her.
Paige nodded as she grabbed the potion and put it in the pouch with the rest. She moved to stand next to her sisters as she grabbed Pipers hand that grabbed Phoebes and Prue stood next to her younger sister.
" Lets go." Prue said.
Blue and white orbs descended from the attic ceiling to envelop this sister whisking them away from their home and towards the battle that lay ahead.
(Saber Manor)
The halls of Saber were quiet as could be. That was until a crash was heard in the front parlor of the ancestral home. The bodies untangle to show the two middle Halliwell sisters trying to pick themselves up off the cold marble floor.
"Phoebe gets the hell off of me!" Piper yelled tried to push her sister off her. She was heavier than she looked.
" Keep your voice down, I'm trying." Phoebe said back to her finally getting her self-untangled.
The sisters stood up and took a look around there surrounding and were to say the least impressed at what they saw. They were entranced by the structure of the house from the marble columns that stood in the entrance hall to the marble they stood upon, this house was grander then anything the sisters have ever seen. That was until they noticed that something or better yet someone was missing.
" Where are Prue and Paige?" Piper asked her sister.
" I don't know." Phoebe said worried about her sisters.
" I think we can answer that for you." A voice said from behind them.
The sisters turned to the voice and were confronted by all four Saber brothers.
" Well look here boys, it looks like we bagged us some Charmed Ones." Antonio said laughing with his brothers.
"Oh crap!" the sisters said in unison.
(Outside Saber Manor)
Blue and white figures crashed into the force field that surrounded the manor. The figures yelled as they crashed onto the lawn of the illustrious home.
"Oww crap!" Prue yelled as she landed roughly on her back. " What the hell happened?"
She looked over to her left to see Paige knocked out cold on the ground. Prue scrambled off the ground to her baby sister's side to try to wake her up. She reached to grab Paige's head to lift it off the ground to find the back of her head wet. Prue lifted her hand up to see it covered with blood.
" Oh my god Paige!" Prue said moving her hands over Paige's head. Prue hands glowed yellow as she started to heal her sister.
" OH!" Paige groaned as she opened her eyes and tried to sit up. " What the hell happened?"
Prue moved to wrap her arms around her sister and bringing her into an embrace. " Your okay honey." Prue said trying to comfort her. " You hit your head really hard when you hit the ground."
Paige looked around her and so that there was two sisters missing from this comforting scene.
" Where are Piper and Phoebe?" Paige asked in confusing as she got up slowly from the ground with Prue helping her.
" I don't know." Prue said she closed her eyes trying to sense her sisters. Prue's eyes popped open when she realized where her sisters were.
" They're inside the house!" She exclaimed.
" Well let's go get them." Paige said.
" Paige wait!" Prue yelled at her baby sister as she orbed out.
Paige's orbs met the force field and were once again bounced back towards the ground.
" I was trying to tell you Paige." Prue said as she once again helped Paige off the ground. " I think that they have the house spelled against Whitelighters or orbing."
" The Phoebe and Piper are stuck in their with all four of the Saber brothers and Piper is the only one with an active power." Paige stressed to her.
" I know, so what do we do about it?" Prue asked.
" Why are you asking me?" Paige asked her in disbelief. " Aren't you supposed to be the super witch?"
"Super witch really Paige?" Prue asked her shaking her head. " You've been using the craft a lot longer then I have. So if you have any ideas now would be a great time to share them."
Paige wracked her brain as she processed the situation and what could be done about.
" Okay, how about this." Paige started. " What if we even the odds for Piper and Phoebe."
" What do you mean?" Prue asked her. " We can't orb in there they've protected the house against Whitelighters."
" Yeah but not witches obviously, because Piper and Phoebe got in." Paige said. " What if we cast a spell to bring two of the brothers out here with us."
" That's sounds good in theory." Prue said to her proud of her sister's genius. " Which brothers would we bring out?"
" Well they have our powers right. If we cast the spell right it would bring out Antonio and Alex, the oldest and the youngest." Paige explained. " That way we would stand a chance because we know the others powers."
" Do you have a spell in mind sis." Prue asked her with a smirk on her face.
" You bet I do." Paige smiled back.
We call on the powers
Of our ancestral birth
To bring to us the Sabers
Of first and last born
Orbs circled around the front of the Saber manor as they spit out the form of the youngest and oldest of the Saber coven. They take a moment to pick themselves of the floor as they took in their surroundings.
" How the hell did we get outside?" Alex asked out loud.
" I think we can explain that." Prue said smugly crossing her arms.
" Surprise!" Paige smirked.
The brothers exchanged a look as they took in what was happening.
" Oh crap."
To be continued….
I hope everyone liked this chapter and as always please review!
-Alec
Edited on 6/16/14