I finished my English project *takes a bow* Yay! Now I can actually go on with the story as normal. And, I've got this chapter done, so I am letting you sink your teeth into it. Enjoy!

Everyone was in the "book room" trying to figure out what to do. Prue and Hallie were looking in the Book, but so far they had found nothing. Piper was staring out the window and it seemed to the others that she was thinking. Phoebe and Lynn were sitting on the couch in the room, and Jess stood against the wall.
"Find anything yet?" Phoebe asked.
"No." Hallie answered a little depressed.
"Hey, did you guys feel that?" Jess asked moving away from the wall.
Hallie nodded and Lynn said, "Yeah."
"I didn't feel anything." Piper said looking away from the window.
"Me neither." Phoebe said.
"Not me." Prue said.
"We did. That's odd. It was like a-a-a buzz. It's hard to explain, but...whoa!" Jess was talking, but she was interrupted. She had begun to float.
"Oh my god. Oh my...what's going on?" Jess asked a little confused and scared.
Hallie reached up for her, but she couldn't reach her and a few blue sparks shot from her fingertips.
"Ah!" Hallie exclaimed and looked at her hands.
Lynn stood up and then felt really dizzy.
"Whoa, you guys. I feel like I'm gonna...gonna...f-f-faint." Lynn said, then collapsed.
"Whoa! What is going on?" Phoebe asked.
Then, another Lynn appeared next to Lynn's body.
"Ahhhh!" Phoebe screamed.
The second Lynn didn't say anything. It just bent down next to Lynn and waved a hand in front of Lynn's face, then faded away into a small orange energy ball and entered Lynn, which made Lynn's body glow for a second.
Lynn opened her eyes and sat up.
"W-w-what happened?" Lynn asked.
Prue pulled Jess down from the air.
"I think I know." Jess told them. "We must have gotten more powers back."
"More? I thought we were done." Hallie said.
"We must not be. I mean, I haven't flown and hovered since I was seven. Hallie, you haven't sparked like that since you were nine, and Lynn, your Protector hasn't ever come out." Jess told them.
"Your what?" Phoebe asked.
"Her Protector. Protectors are a part of the mind that isn't used. It gets stronger and when the physical body is in trouble, that part of the mind sends out the Protector. It's kind of like an astral projection, only you can't control it. It basically comes out when someone is knocked out. That's why the person may not even know that they've got a Protector." Jess explained.
"Why did we get them now? They would have come in handy say like a couple years ago." Hallie said.
"I don't know. Maybe it's got to do with Rick and his demon." Jess answered.
"My head hurts." Lynn said.
"That's probably from the fact that a piece of your mind was over stressed when your Protector came out. An aspirin and a nap should take care of that." Jess told her.
Lynn put her hand on her head and went to her room.
"How come you guys get all the cool powers? And ones that you can control." Phoebe said.
"Some people, oh like the Elders, thought it'd be a nice, sick joke to put the three of us through all this crap, so they gave us powers." Jess answered.
"I know how you feel." Piper replied.
"Alright, so what if we beat this Rick kid before he summoned his little demon. I mean, if we beat him before anything happens, then I guess we're in the clear. Right?" Prue asked.
"I dunno...maybe. I mean, there is really never a good way to go along with these things. They just happen how they happen." Hallie replied.
Just then, Ashley popped her head in the doorway.
"Hi everyone." She said cheerily. "What's going on?"
She didn't see any cheery expressions, so she went to halfway somber like the rest of them.
"What is it?" She asked.
"We got powers." Jess explained.
"More?" Ashley asked.
"Yeah. It's kind of depressing. I mean, we've still got to beat this thing." Hallie replied.
"Oh, well, I'll go make some tea. Maybe it'll help" Ashley said and went down to the kitchen.
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On the other side of town...
Rick had decided. He would summon a demon that would be able to defeat them...at least he hoped it would.
Rick was preparing for his summoning, when he felt someone behind him.
"Not you again." Rick groaned, annoyed.
"Yes me again. Go on, open the book." The ghost told him.
Rick put his hand on the cover then opened the book.
The ghost became a little more solid.
"Thank you. When will you open it next?" The ghost asked.
"I won't. I won't need to open it anymore. My plan is happening tonight. You'll have to find someone else." Rick said coldly.
"No! We had a deal! I gave you the book and in return I got my life back!" The ghost practically screamed.
"Wrong. The deal was that you gave me the book and whenever I opened it, some of my life force and energy went into you. Our deal never said that I had to bring you back. You should really be more specific." Rick replied evily.
"You are truly evil. I see being raised by good mortals hasn't affected the inner you." The ghost told him.
"Well, the inner me has become the outer me as well." Rick replied.
"Weak?" The ghost said.
"I am not weak!" Rick yelled with anger in his voice.
"They've gotten more powers. You can't beat them now. Weak. You will become that and it will destroy you. I've seen it all before." The ghost told him.
"I'm sorry I ever summoned you." Rick said.
"I've heard that one before." The ghost replied.