Previously on A Tortured Son:
"He wanted to use memory dust on me. He wanted me to forget all the things he did to Chris. How can he do this? He won't erase my memory I won't let him and neither will he hurt Chris as long as I'm around." Wyatt thought bitterly, he felt so betrayed by his own father. Wyatt the called for Chris that it was save to come back and have lunch with their mother and sister.
Chris sat with Melinda on the couch watching TV. His mother was working at the club and Wyatt was still in magic school so it was just him and Melinda at home. The little form of Melinda was curled up next to her big brother so her head was resting on his chest and eyes closed. As Chris glanced down at his baby sister and saw she was sound asleep. He turned off the TV and carefully lifted himself with Melinda in his arms up from the couch. With his little sister sleeping in his arms he made his way up to her room.
Upstairs in her room he laid Melinda down in her bed and covered her with the pink blanket with a violet triquetra on it. After glancing one last time at the sleeping form he sneacked out of the room and closed the door silently behind him. When Chris reached the bottom of the stairs he immediately went flying backwards. He crashed into the wall behind him and slumped to the floor. Although it was hard Chris forced himself to open his eyes but all he could see was a blur and everything around him was spinning rapidly.
He closed his eyes and shook his head in hope that the spinning would stop and luckily when he opened his eyes again nothing was spinning anymore and he could see a demon approaching him grinning like mad. The demon conjured a double edged athame and threw it right at Chris. The Halliwell boy had barely enough time to orb out but he managed it and reappeared behind the confused demon. The double edged athame now stuck in the wall where seconds before Chris was sitting.
"Hey, I am here!" Chris called out and the demon turned around just to see a fireball coming flying towards him. The fireball hit its target square in the chest and the demon was consumed by flames till nothing was left except a pile of ash. In fear that there were more demons he ran the stairs up and burst into his baby sister's room. He found her still sound asleep in her bed, Chris sighed in relief of seeing his sister unharmed and peacefully asleep.
Suddenly he heard footsteps coming from the other end of the room, he turned around to see another big ugly demon. The demon didn't notice that Chris was standing in the doorway because he had his back to him. "HEY YOU DUMBASS! I AM HERE!" Chris shouted to get the demon's attention away from his sister and back to him. The big demon turned around and a grin appeared on his face as he saw the little boy. "Oooh how sweet. You want to protect that little girl." The demon teassed as he continued his walk over to Melinda, who was still asleep.
Fear gripped Chris' heart, he needed to get the demon away from Melinda. He rose his hand and a fireball appeared in his palm. "Get away from her!" Chris shouted and tossed the fireball at the demon. Unfortunately the demon didn't went up in flames and was vanquished instead the fireball was just absorbed by the demon. The demon then turned around with a big grin plasted on his face. "Or what? Are you going to shoot another one of those pityfull fireballs at me?" the demon mocked, making Chris furious. "No, but how about this?" Chris answered with a mocking grin. In swift move he conjured an athame and threw it at the demon. The demon didn't expect that and the athame hit it's target in the stomach, unfortunately the demon again didn't burst into flames but just screamed out in pain.
"You little bastared! Now your little sister is going to pay for this." the demon roared. He held up his hand and with wide eyes Chris saw as the fingernails grew into long sharp claws. Grinning evily the demon turned around ready to strike the still form of Melinda. "Nooo!" Chris called out and disappeared in a flurry of orbs just to reappear in front of his sister just as the demon wanted to stab her.
Chris managaed to orb fast enough in front of his baby sister but the demon still stroke and stabbed Chris in the stomach. Roughly the demon plunged his claws deeper into the little boy's abdomen and Chris cried out in demon pulled his claws out of Chris and with a satisfied grin he shimmered out of the room.
Melinda woke up by her brother's tortured scream. As she looked around she could see Chris lying right in front of her bed. "CHRIS!" Melinda cried and jumped out of her bed and kneeled next to her big brother. "Hey, it's ok. You're alright." Chris whispered but then his head fell to the side as Chris lost consciousnees. Terrified Melinda began screaming at top of her lungs "DAAADDYYY! WYATT! HEEELP!" Nothing happened. She tried again and again but nothing happened.
Melinda didn't know what to do. She was terrified for her brothers life and neither Wyatt nor her Dad responded to her calls. "Chrissy, please wake up." Melinda whined, she stroke her brother's hair and could feel the heat coming from him and she knew that, that was not a good sign.
In the meantime in magic school. Wyatt heard his baby sister calling for him and instantly knew that something was very wrong at home. He jumped up from his seat and wanted to leave the classroom but was held back by the teacher. "What do you intend to do, Wyatt?" the teacher asked in his british accent. Wyatt didn't like him, he always mistrusted the headmaster of magic school.
"I have to go home, my sister needs me." Wyatt responded. "Oh well you can't just skip class, I'm sorry. But I am pretty sure that everything is alright at the manor." Gideon replied. "No nothing is alright she is calling for me over and over again. She needs me and I will go now." Wyatt answered the typical halliwell temper rising. "You will not leave this classroom until the lesson is over understood! Now get back to your seat." Gideon demanded. Defeated Wyatt turned around and sat back at his table.
Leo just wanted to enter the meeting room in the heavens when he suddenly heard his little princess calling for him. He prepared himself to orb out immediately but was held back by one of the other elders, it was Cecil. "Leo, you can't leave. We must attend this meeting it's really urgent." Cecil told Leo. "Well I come later because Melinda needs me. She is calling for me and sounds really despreate. I have to go!" Leo demanded getting annoyed because Melinda's screams become even more desperate.
"I'm sorry Leo but you can't leave, I am sure that it's nothing life threatening and Piper will take care of it. Now we have to go to the meeting." Cecil countered leading Leo further into the meeting room. "No, I have to go. She needs me!" Leo nearly shouted but Cecil didn't let go of him. "When the meeting is over you can go and see her, I promise but now we have to start the meeting." Cecil answered in a calm voice and Leo obeyed, he knew there was no chance now he could get out.
Down on earth Melinda is still calling for her father and big brother. But neither one of them was responding. Melinda glanced down on the still form of her brother. "Chrissy, c'mon wake up, please." Melinda pleaded while tears rolled down her cheeks. "Why is Daddy not coming? He always comes when I call. And where is Wy?" Melinda thought despreatly, she could see that Chris had paled considerably. "WY, DAD. Please come. I need you. Chris needs you!" Melinda tried again. But again nobody came. "Please somebody, help me." Melinda whispered as her voice trembled and she rested her head on Chris chest, tears now freely streaming down her face.