Part 50: The Warning V

Max stared hard at the door willing Liz and the others to walk through it, but it never happened. They had been gone for almost three hours and he was going out of his mind with worry. He had not been pleased when Caleb insisted that only the four of them go and that the rest of them stayed at the house waiting. He wanted to go with them to protect Liz and make sure that she stayed away from danger, but then as Alex pointed out, Liz was more powerful than he gave her credit for.

"You know staring at the door will not make them come back any faster." Tyler said startling Max out of his stupor.

"In case the others did not tell you already, worrying is my job." Max sighed making the other guy laugh.

"I know I can feel how worried and stressed you are. Maria assures me that I will get used to it after awhile." Tyler laughed.

"What do you mean?" Tess asked sitting up in her chair.

"Oh I am sorry I thought you knew." Tyler said his blue eyes flashing dangerously. "Maria and I have the ability to read people's emotions they just sort of wash over us in a wave and if we concentrate we can pick them apart. We can even manipulate feelings at times, depending on the person and the situation, it is not really a strength of ours so much as a reaction." Tyler said.

"How can you manipulate people's emotions?" Isabel asked leaning forward. The five watched in awe as a ring of fire flared in Tyler's eyes before they turned jet black but then returned back to blue.

"Nothing is happening." Michael grunted but stiffened, he swore the room changed temperature. It was a tingly feeling that put him off center, he could feel the fear well inside of him and then it was gone.

"What the hell was that?" Max asked.

Tyler whooped and spun around looking proud of himself. "That was my power. I am best at making people feel uneasy and fearful."

"Is that useful?" Tess asked.

"Very. It can put my enemy into a tailspin with worry and it is useful when trying to extract information out of people. It is also damn fun causing turmoil." Tyler let out a deep sigh. "Only down side is that I feel the fear coming off other people. At first I had a hard time with making people fearful because their fears bounced back onto me sending me into a pit of fear. Eventually I learned to block the emotions I am sending out." Tyler said.



"Cool." Tess breathed.

"Maria's much more friendly." Alex giggled and Tyler laughed.

"What is it?" Michael asked.

"She can make certain people feel very amorous. She wanted to try it on you all but she liked you too much to try. Instead she did it to Jim Valenti and hooked him up with her mom. She might say she is sickened by the relationship but since she is the one who set it up she is really okay with it." Alex said.

"So what Jim is feeling for Amy is all magic?" Isabel asked feeling terrible for the Sheriff of Roswell.

"No the feeling has to be there to begin with in order for our powers to work. You all were already on edge and I was able to manipulate that. Maria knew that Jim had a thing for her mom so she played with him sort of gave him a nudge in the right direction." Tyler explained.

"We can't create something out of nothing. The two of us are not that powerful." Maria said coming into the room.

"Liz and Caleb are the most powerful, before that it was…" Tyler cleared his throat not wanting to continue.

"Who?" Michael asked never one for tact.

"Ah it was Serena and Chase." Maria whispered. "They were the oldest. Chase had his father's powers as well and Caleb has his father's powers making the two of them wicked powerful."

"What about Liz?" Max asked.

"Liz was always controlled with her powers, freakishly." Maria grumbled. "But ah that changed a little over a year ago."

"What happened?" Isabel asked.

"She met you." Reid growled from the doorway. "She met you and since you all made her feel like a bad person, indebted to you forever, she lost part of herself. Liz is a fraction of what she used to be and we are looking to bring her back." Reid snarled.

"Liz is not different…"

Maria cut Max off glaring at him. "You do not know the real Liz." Maria spat. "She hides herself around humans and all of you. She never felt comfortable letting the inner beast out to play." Maria huffed.



"The Liz we are seeing now is so…"

"Reserved." Caleigh suggested coming into the room.

"I was going to go for uptight but reserved works as well." Reid laughed.

"Liz is a firecracker and so is Caleb. The two of them have had so much emotional trauma that it has blocked their powers. Now that they are the oldest they are the grandmasters of witches." Tyler said as the front door banged open. The group jumped to their feet and bolted to the foyer where six raged people stood.

"Nancy, mom?" Maria asked looking at the two women who looked as if they had raced in a marathon.

"We were set up." Caleb explained.

"They were waiting for us and mom and Amy showed up just in time to kill the two." Liz said.

"Yeah after you and Fait decided to liquefy and fry the Horaci." Amy grumbled making the two girls blush.

"Wait what about the other one?" Caleigh asked.

"It seems Gorman knew that they were going to come back so he set a trap for them in the basement that was where we found the second one." Caleb explained.

"The trap should still be in place as well as any others that Gorman set up." Pogue said pushing is way into the sitting room protectively holding Liz to his side. "Hey you alright?" His breath tickled her ear.

"Yeah just tired and scared. I will tell you more after we fill in the others." She whispered back giving him a small kiss more for her comfort than his.

"Okay so what happened?" Maria asked.

"Well aside from the set up we learned a few things." Faith said.

"We found the potion Gorman was working on and with Amy's help we should be able to finish it." Liz said grinning at her second mother.

"It is ancient Aztec pre empire and Amy seems to be able to make out the pictures." Faith said beaming at the older witch who just grinned.

"We also found out what Gorman was doing right before Kate showed up." Pogue said tightening his hold on Liz, the images from the basement roaring through his mind.



"What?" Tyler asked.

"Experiments." Caleb sighed.

"He was capturing Horaci and storing them in the basement, and then he would try out different potions and spells seeing which one worked best. We found his notes and his ah failed attempts." Pogue said. Maria gasped and clutched Reid's arm tightly her imagination running wild thinking of all the possible horrors the older man came up with.

"How would this Gorman guy be able to do that?" Michael asked. "I mean from what all you have said this guy was in his seventies." The witches shared a look before Liz nodded at Caleb.

"Ah well Gorman was our keeper and he was in his seventies but incredibly powerful. He would have to be in order to take care of us." Caleb explained. "See it takes a certain magical strength to be able to handle us, especially when we go bad." He grimaced thinking of his father and how Gorman had to take care of him at the end when his body was failing him due to his radical use of magic.

"After numerous tests he found that there is another spell to get rid of the Horaci and it is less of a magical drain." Nancy filled in her eyes showed just how tired she was but the older woman kept on plugging. "We believe that this banishment spell is what is going to kill Acolmiztli. Problem is that the spell is far more complicated than just a simple potion."

"What do you mean?" Caleigh asked.

"I mean that the spell that Gorman found, the ritual, it calls for a lot more power than I have ever seen before." Nancy whispered.

"Not only that but we have reason to believe that the only way to kill this god is if he rises first which means there will be a lot of Horaci around." Amy added.

"Basically it is going to be a hell of a fight." Liz said.

"And Liz and I need to be at full strength for us to even have a fighting chance." Caleb ground out.

"This fight calls for a massive power surge and the potion is what binds it all together." Liz said.

"Wow this is bad." Reid grumbled.

"Bad yes but we can do this." Faith said her face hard as she stared at her friends. "We are the strongest of the strong, and this dude had no idea who he is messing with." Faith ground out.

"I'm in." Tess said and Alex nodded the other aliens agreeing as well.

"Good because we are going to need your help." Nancy said.

"Alright guys I know this is a lot to dump on you in one night but you all need to get some sleep. You will be no good if you are going to be dead on your feet." Amy said pointing towards the stairs. Maria pouted but she did what her mother told her and grabbed Reid's arm dragging him upstairs with her.

As she stomped up the stairs the group could hear her muffled voice. "If I have to go to bed you have to come with me. Serves my mother right for sending me to bed."

"Great just great. My daughter is going to have sex just to spite me." Amy grumbled as her and Nancy left as well followed by Tyler and Caleigh.

"Come on Tess you owe me a game of gin." Alex said making the blonde laugh as she was dragged away by Alex. Isabel stared after the two feeling sick. She had started to notice the time the two of them had been spending together and how comfortable they were with each other, the small touches and long stares they shared.

"Isabel you coming?" Max asked startling his sister out of her thoughts. She looked around and saw that only Pogue, Liz, Faith, and Caleb were left and she quickly left with her brother.

The four waited until they heard the twins reach the top of the stairs before they turned to each other. "We need to unlock your powers." Faith deadpanned and Caleb nodded in agreement.

"Yeah I was going to talk to Pogue about that." Liz blushed.

"You sure you are ready for this?" Pogue asked looking from his girlfriend to his best friend.

"Pogue you know I am ready, I am so tired of being weak." Liz said kissing him softly again watching as his eyes fluttered closed and he pulled her closer. Caleb and Faith turned away letting the two of them have their time.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Caleb asked Faith knowing he was asking a lot of her and was putting her through a lot. Faith moved to sit on the edge of his chair squealing when he pulled her down into his lap.

"Caleb you are one of my best friends that alone would make it alright for me, but you need to do this and well…"

"Thank you." He whispered running his hand through her long brown hair. He pulled her closer and watched her as she wrapped her arms around him. He brushed a quick kiss over her lips, "But I would prefer to sleep with you before we do so in front of our friends."