Author's Note: I apologise for making you wait such a long time. I hope you find this chapter being worth the wait. I also want to apologise if any of you find this chapter either too long or too short. I thought a little over a thousand words was okay in between too short or too long.
Chapter 22 Wyatt Matthew Halliwell, Twice Blessed No More.
The portal the coin opened sent Wyatt directly over to the order's base. Standing alone holding the old sports bag which holds the fractions of the Cronus' Sundial which he, his brothers and Bianca had collected together. Wyatt had to admit to himself the Order's base was better than he thought it would be.
"Alright show yourselves," Wyatt yelled, he wanted to get this over and done with as soon as possible. The Order wasn't going to get what they wanted he is Twice Blessed and he's going to remind them of that. Elijah appears before Wyatt floating high above him trapped by three circular binds of energy that manifest as red magical energy one of binds is around his belly forcing his arms behind his back. While the second is at the bottom of his feet forcing them together and the third around his neck making it difficult to breathe never mind talk. "Don't worry Elijah, I'll get you out of here,"
"Drop the bag," The leader of the Order demanded as he/she revealed herself with Xander and Parker by his/her side.
"PARKER!" Wyatt gasped.
"Hello cousin," Parker smiled.
"You turned your back on your own family for a bunch of demons!" Wyatt snapped.
"They offered me something none of you ever could if you were in my position you would have done the same," Parker says.
"I would never turn my back on my own flesh and blood," Wyatt snapped.
"Bored now, just hand over the pieces before your lover is nothing but a squished body," Parker demanded. Wyatt sighed before throwing the sports bag over to Parker who catches them with ease.
"I wouldn't get attached to them for too long cousin, I'll be getting them back in just under a minute," Wyatt said.
"Is that so, I'm afraid you would have to vanquish all of us," Xander responds, seconds later about twelve demons appeared next to their leader, Xander and Parker the twelve being a mere fraction of the true Order's members.
"Sorry it has to be this way Wyatt," Parker apologised her voice not conveying any true sincerity.
"No, you're not but you will be," Wyatt replies, he then raises both of his hands out towards his enemies and he releases a powerful wave of energy, Parker responding quickly uses telekinesis to rip the four pieces of the sundial Wyatt and his brothers and Bianca acquired out of the sports and sends them high into the air near Elijah. Suddenly Elijah vanishes leaving behind the one piece of the Order acquired for themselves. Parker also uses her telekinesis to redirect the energy wave Wyatt has conjured up to the five fractions of Cronus' Sundial bringing about something Wyatt had never considered. The twelve demons toss an amulet each towards the fractions. And the fractions within milliseconds absorb them completely. Wyatt finds his legs crippling under an unnatural weight.
"Didn't see that coming did you, Wyatt," Parker laughed.
"What's happening?" Wyatt shouted. Parker touches the amulet of Amara Sanderson with her hand channelling only the amulet's power from her free hand she releases a powerful concentrated beam of energy manifesting as a purple light towards the pieces. The combination of Wyatt's magic and the magic of Amara Sanderson's amulet draws the fractions of the sundial closer together quickly restoring the ancient magical artefact.
"The Sundial is feeding off powerful magic to restore itself that of the twelve amulets the demons have just offered. As well as the magic Amara Sanderson left behind in her amulet and the power of the Twice Blessed of course," Parker explained with a twisted smile on her face.
"I'll get you for this," Wyatt snapped.
"No, you won't," Parker replies, seconds later Wyatt lets out a loud and painful scream as a stream of white and blue orbs is ripped from his body entering the five fractions of the sundial. Then a stream of gold light is ripped from him making him scream even more before finally a small silver gem of light is forced out of his body and absorbed by the fractions. The amulet of Amara Sanderson the gem cracks slightly. The fractions are then fused together releasing a powerful explosion of magic throwing everyone present across the base knocking them unconscious. Before Parker falls unconscious she sees Cronus' Sundial float down to the ground. With a flick of her wrist. The Sundial seemly vanishes but is in fact cloaked.
Meanwhile back at Chris and Bianca's apartment, Chris and Bianca begin to stir and slowly awaken from the sleeping spell Wyatt placed on them. Chris wipes his eyes free of sleep as he and Bianca get to their feet.
"We have to go after Wyatt before he makes a mistake, he can't fix," Chris says.
"What about George?" Bianca asks.
"The pieces are gone; we're going to need to get them back. Any cloaking spells might not be able to block his connection to them," Chris answered.
"I'm not on about the pieces of the sundial, he has never been in a fight against demons and warlocks yet," Bianca pointed out.
"He's got to start somewhere besides, he has developed some control over his powers," Chris replies. He then walked into his and Bianca's bedroom and sees George still sleeping. Chris shakes George gently but firmly to make the boy stir and awaken.
"Wyatt, he took the pieces," George muttered.
"We know, we have to follow him," Chris responded. George nodded and quickly got out of bed.
"We need to hurry," Bianca spoke up.
Back at the Order's base Parker, Xander and the leader along with the twelve other demons have recovered after almost three hours of being unconscious. Every bone and muscle ached for the demons. Wyatt, however, is still unconscious.
"I say we finish the Twice Blessed," A demon suggested.
"No, it will just be a waste of magic," Parker responds.
"I knew she wasn't fully committed to our cause, she's defending him," The same demon snapped.
"Don't be a fool, the fate he has been subjected to know is much crueller than death, besides he poses no threat to us now," Parker snaps back. A few seconds later three flashes of bright light come and go leaving behind Chris, Bianca and George.
"PARKER!" Chris gasped.
"Opps busted," Parker joked. Chris then spots Wyatt and the two brothers with Bianca run towards Wyatt.
"Chris…" Wyatt stirred.
"Oh no you don't," Parker says with a flick of her wrist, she uses telekinesis to throw Bianca, Chris and George away from Wyatt. Chris and Bianca are thrown into two large stone pillars then fall to the ground. While George is thrown across the room sliding across the floor a bit far from his brothers and the assassin witch. The three get to their feet.
"Parker what the hell!" Chris shouted.
"We've all chosen sides," Xander said. Chris frustrated throws a bolt of lightning towards Parker and Xander while Bianca throws a dozen energy balls. Parker sighed and tapped into the cracked amulet of Amara's power again summoning a forcefield to protect her, Xander and the leader. Bianca is quickly able to vanquish the twelve other demons when George successfully freezes the demons' energy and fireballs.
"Give up Christopher with the amulet of Amara, Parker's power rivals that of the Twice Blessed," Xander laughed. Christopher continues to fire bolts of lightning at the forcefield as Bianca throws energy balls and potions. George feels around in his pockets and finds one of the potions, he brought with him praying it's the right one he throws it onto the ground a little near Parker, Xander and the leader. A white light manifests on the ground after the bottle smashes and travels deep underground and heads for the small piece of stone their enemies are standing under seconds later the ground beneath their enemies explodes knocking Parker, Xander and their leader back into a nearby wall the three fall to the ground and Parker's forcefield fades. George runs over to Bianca, Chris and Wyatt. Parker gets to her feet quickly and efficiently.
"You can't hurt me, your precious master wouldn't be happy," George pointed out confidentially.
"True but it doesn't mean I can't put you out of commission," Parker replied, before banging her right foot onto the ground milliseconds later vines burst out of the ground and quickly wrap themselves around George restricting most of his movement. She then takes in a deep breath and unleashes from her mouth a powerful blast of hellfire! George panicking manages to make a small gesture with his right hand before the vines grow tighter restricting all movement. The boy is successful in freezing the hellfire and Parker but finds that his cousin is quickly adjusting.
"We need to leave now," Bianca shouted.
"No, no we need to save Elijah," Wyatt muttered still not fully conscious.
"Whoever that is we'll find but we need to rethink things," Chris replies. Bianca grabs onto one of George's free fingers with her left hand while she holds onto Wyatt's right shoulder with her right hand. As for Chris, he holds one of Wyatt's hands and orbs all four of them out of the Order's base and back to the apartment. Once gone Parker and the hellfire unfreeze.
Bianca helps Chris lay Wyatt down across the sofa. The three of them were still in shock not just at the condition of Wyatt. But at Parker's betrayal. George was told of how fiercely loyal the Halliwells were to each other.
"You with me, we're going to need more protection wards," Bianca ordered at George. The boy nods and walks over to the kitchen with Bianca.
"Is Wyatt going to be okay?" George asks.
"I've never seen Chris fail at healing before and I don't see it happening now," Bianca answered. As she adds various ingredients into a pan for a protection potion to help further shield the environment. The potion took twenty-minutes to prepare. She then takes the pan off the hob and passes the pan to George and a paintbrush.
"Am I supposed to paint with it?" George joked.
"Yes, just paint around door frames and window frames it spreads by itself afterwards," Bianca instructed. George nodded and got to work it wasn't a long job and after completing it he returned to the living room where he saw Bianca watching Chris finishing healing Wyatt. Eventually, Wyatt was healed completely and fully conscious.
"What happened?" Wyatt asked.
"Someone decided to be an idiot," Chris snapped.
"I had no choice I made a split-second decision," Wyatt responds.
"Yeah one that almost killed you and the rest of us," Chris shouted.
"I couldn't let Elijah die!" Wyatt replies.
"Who the hell is Elijah?" Chris asked.
"Someone important someone I need to save," Wyatt answered, he then tries to get to his feet only to fall back onto the sofa.
"You're in no condition to go anywhere," Bianca pointed out.
"We'll figure out a plan to save Elijah," George spoke up.
"Right now, we have bigger problems, Parker is stronger than ever her power can rival Twice Blessed power," Chris says.
"I beg to differ I'll crush her for what she did," Wyatt replies.
"George go and get the Zbornak Book of Shadows, I want to see if there anything else it can tell us about how the Sundial works," Chris instructed. George did as he was told and fetched the Zbornak Book of Shadows from Chris and Bianca's bedroom.
He passed it over to Chris who opened it and started flicking through the pages before finding the pages that went into more detail about the sundial.
"Oh, this is bad very, very bad," Chris mumbled to himself.
"What's bad, they can't use the sundial even if it's restored without the vessel or their master?" Wyatt asked.
"The book says, the only way to fuse the fractions of the sundial together is for the sundial fractions to absorb powerful magic," Chris answered.
"What exactly happened before we got there?" Bianca asks.
"I unleashed an energy wave towards the demons and Parker, she used telekinesis to redirect the wave of energy towards the five fractions which were floating in the air. The twelve demons offered twelve amulets to the fractions and fractions absorbed those amulets power. Then Parker offered some magic from an amulet she acquired. She mentioned to restore the sundial it needed to feed off some magic," Wyatt explained.
"Not just some magic it needed to feed off powerful magic, no wonder you're so weak even after being healed. The sundial stripped you of your magic, this was planned they mustn't have had enough power on their own," Bianca theorised.
"So, we'll use the spell to call a witch's powers," Wyatt responds.
"It's not that simple the entry states 'Due to nature of how the sundial was split, to restore it the magic offered to restore it will take more than active and supportive powers. The sacrifices used will lose all forms of magic even the fragment of the All where all magic originated from. The sundial will even siphon magical genes,'" Chris responded.
"What are you saying, Christopher?" Wyatt asks fearing he may already know the answer.
"The pieces took every fragment of your magic, even the piece of the All, you were born with and the witch and Whitelighter genes, you were born with. If you were to have children, they wouldn't inherit magic because you're …" Chris started.
"Mortal now, I'm no longer Twice Blessed," Wyatt interrupted his voice low almost a whisper.
End of chapter 22.