Author's Note: Dialogue in bold are telepathic conversations.
Chapter 12 Seer and Vanquishing.
Getting out of the shower, Allen unintentionally sees the right side of his back and catches his brand of the triquetra. The triquetra once represented to him a symbol of hope and purity. Apart of his family but now it's something he loathes. The right third of the brand is deeper than the other two thirds. He quickly moves away from the mirror. And searches for some decent clothes there was no way, he would be wearing those conjured clothes anytime soon. He mutters a spell to make sure that the clothes appear well ironed. After changing into those clothes, he leaves the bathroom with his backpack and returns to the attic.
In the attic, Allen sees a blanket covered Chris and sees Piper sat near him on a chair. Allen coughs to make his presence known. Piper turned her head slightly towards Allen's direction.
"Why are you dressed up so much?" Piper asks.
"I don't vanquish demons in my PJs," Allen answered as he walked towards Chris and Piper, he fetches a nearby chair and drags it towards his brother and mother before sitting down on it.
"You shouldn't be vanquishing demons in the first place, you're not even an embryo," Piper replies.
"I was only captured the once, it's not an everyday occurrence," Allen pointed out.
"Speaking of the future," Piper started.
"We weren't," Allen interrupted.
"Any partners in the future?" Piper questions.
"Wait and see," Allen answered.
"My in-laws, do we get along?" Piper asks.
"Yeah, they love you," Allen replies, they got along would be more accurate. He didn't want to think of his mother's death that hurt too much. This woman wasn't his mother yet. Two separate Piper's that share the same powers and genetics.
Hours passed and to Allen's surprise, he wasn't asked any questions by Piper. Which the boy found relieving but he still found it odd too how attentive Piper was towards a recovering Chris. The older of the two boys present starts to come around.
"W…Where am I?" Chris asks his vision blurry, god his head killed, everything ached.
"You're safe Chris, you're at the manor," Piper tells him.
"Manor?" Chris says still not fully aware of his surroundings.
"You were hurt by the Frost Demon, but we sorted you out. You just need some time to rest. Can I get you anything?" Piper explained first then offered later.
"N…No, I just need sleep," Chris answered before drifting off again.
Hours passed after Chris fell asleep. Yet neither Allen nor Piper left the attic, both were too worried something bad would occur. Eventually, Chris came around for the second and final time. When Chris did come around again, he found Piper asleep on the chair.
"Welcome back to the world of warmth brother," Allen says.
"Shush, what if Piper hears?" Chris responded his tone not really harsh.
"She's asleep, Chris," Allen said.
"So, we can't be too careful," Chris responds.
"We need to summon your demon, so we can vanquish or trap Czuchry," Allen tells Chris. The Whitelighter-witch looks down at himself for a moment and realises he isn't wearing his top.
"My top," Chris stuttered.
"My top have you seen it?" Chris asks.
"No," Allen answered. Chris scans the room for his top and finds it he calls for it making it appear in hand emerging from white and blue orbs. It was still damp, Chris sighed before orbing that top out of the attic into a washing basket and orbing a new t-shirt into his hand. Chris then puts on the t-shirt.
"Never mind, let's get summoning," Chris said as he got out from underneath the blanket.
"NO! You should rest more," Allen protested in a whisper approaching his brother.
"You're my little brother, I'm supposed to be worrying about you," Chris replies.
"We're not your everyday big brother and little brother," Allen said.
"Time to summon unless you want to spend more time in your nursery," Chris teased.
"Say, 'your nursery' one time and you'll live to regret it," Allen threatened, he then noticed Piper waking up.
"Divide and conquer," Allen stated.
"Excuse me!" Chris says.
"If I know crazy Piper, if she sees us now, she will send me to Wyatt's old nursery in case the demon you made the deal with turns out to be traitor. And I'm not going back anytime soon," Allen replied.
"What do you want me to do?" Chris asks.
"I don't know tell her, I've gone to make a sandwich and a drink, anything to keep me from that damn old nursery," Allen answers before running out of the attic.
Downstairs in the kitchen, Allen is sat down at the breakfast table sipping coffee, he really needed it. What he didn't need was lack of magic from upstairs. He could tell no summoning had taken place. Chris and Allen's magic were connected, they could sense if one was performing an act of magic. Thanks to their older brother Wyatt. Having enough on waiting around Allen decides to be pro-active getting out of his seat, he stands.
"Bring together the demon and me. The one who Chris sought to set me free, let our magic cross one another's, I invite you now to stay in my humble quarters," Allen chanted, he waited for a few minutes. But no sign of the spell working occurs sighing he turns to walk over to one of the kitchen cupboards.
"Tacky spell clearly didn't inherit Grams' creativity for spells," A voice commented. Allen turns and sees the demonic seer standing before him.
"Whoa," Allen says.
"I've got the answers to your problems and the first thing you say is whoa," Kyra said unimpressed.
"N…No, it's just that you weren't exactly, what I was expecting," Allen responds, while it was true. That she wasn't exactly what he was expecting the spell just didn't really happen to present her in her full glory.
"Did your spell earlier not do me justice? Or can't you handle what you see?" Kyra teased.
"My spells work perfectly," Allen mumbled.
"I smell denial," Kyra smirked.
"Well you know what they say, your sense of smell deteriorates the older you get. And you're pretty ancient," Allen joked. Kyra takes a step closer to Allen.
"Is everyone in your family this tongue tangled and sarcastic?" Kyra asks.
"Only around people, we have to be polite to," Allen answers.
"You would think you would be a little kinder to me, considering I'm your get out of nursery free card," Kyra said.
"This is me being kind," Allen says, Kyra strokes Allen's right arm.
"Wyatt is the handsome one, Chris is the sexy one. So, your defining feature would be…"
"The underage grounded one," Piper interrupted making both Allen and Chris stare in her direction.
"Mom, Chris!" Allen shouted.
"Didn't I ever tell you not to flirt with a demon?" Piper asked rhetorically.
"We weren't flirty, we were just talking," Allen responded.
"Well chit chat is over, I need to have a talk with the demon in my kitchen," Piper said.
"So," Allen replies.
"Adult business, you just go and play. Do something productive," Piper said.
"Play is she kidding me!" Allen says.
"I wouldn't mess with her right now, you've only just got out of your nursery," Chris advised.
"You used to be my favourite Chris," Allen replies before he started to walk out of the kitchen.
"At least one good thing came out of this," Chris said.
"Which is?" Allen asked.
"At least I know which team you bat for," Chris says.
"Screw you," Allen snapped.
The conversation with the Kyra was brief but informative and Piper managed not to blow her up. After Kyra shimmered away. Piper got to work checking which ingredients, she had and which ones she needed to collect.
"Right, you, I need you to get Phoebe and Paige to get the ingredients on this," Piper stated passing him a piece of paper, "While I work on a Power of Three spell," Paige and Phoebe had to head down into the Underworld. Once all the ingredients were acquired. Piper worked on the potion. When the potion was brewed to the correct temperature, Piper fetched an old Athame left behind by a deceased warlock. Piper carefully let a few drops of the potion drop onto the athame transforming it. The athame transformed into a crystal-like dagger.
"Have we got everything sorted?" Paige asks.
"Yes, the weapon is made once we summon here, we'll stab him in the chest the magic inside the dagger will put him in a coma-like state. Then we'll use the Power of Three to seal him away somewhere," Piper answers.
"Let's get this over with, I have a date in a few hours," Phoebe says.
The group of four leave the kitchen making their way up to the attic, once in the attic. Paige orbs all the crystals away into a chest. The group then cast a spell to summon forth their demonic victim. Czuchry appears before them, Paige responding quickly calls for the dagger using Telekinetic Orbing to stab Czuchry directly in his heart. The magic inside the dagger acts quickly making Czuchry drop to the floor.
"Nice reflexes sis," Phoebe complimented.
"Spell time," Chris reminded the sisters.
"We call upon the spirits, to hear our plea and banish this demon to a place that can't be traced, may he no longer dwell on this plane take him to another to suffer indefinitely," The sisters chanted seconds later Czuchry vanishes in a swirl of white orbs.
"While he can't be vanquished, at least he can spend eternity suffering," Phoebe said.
End of chapter 12.
