A/N: Remember I don't own Charmed except for my characters and their descriptions. I am not getting money for this so don't worry. Enjoy the second part.
Part 2
An Artist's Dilemma
Eddie Aryanian was one of the best artists of the entire school. He had good grades and was a pretty well developed character. He was in school musicals, played on the basketball team, and was one of the heads of the Literary Magazine "Illusion" at his school. He happened to go to the same school as the Progeny, the three newly gifted witches who fought demons, warlocks, and especially nightmares. What Eddie did about a week from now would cause an interest in him, one that would make the Progeny have a dilemma...
It was Friday. The glorious day that led to a three-day weekend. The break-up between Sebastian and his girlfriend of three months Laurie-Anne hadn't been that bad a break-up. She had decided that he wasn't good enough and moved on to Eddie Aryanian. She probably sensed something wrong with him ever since he gained his power of transfiguration. The day dragged on and it was lunchtime where Sebastian, Catty, and Roan met at their secluded table so no one would overhear.
"This is weird. No dark forces have been in the area since Roan's girlfriend tried to kill him." Catty was saying in a hushed voice. She was short and petite but had a pretty good mean streak and was into protecting the innocent.
"Well I think the Whitelighter's are giving us some few good days off from fighting. We have midterms coming up anyway, and I'd hate to not being able to study with all the dark forces trying to kill us...again." Sebastian told them and they agreed.
With midterms coming up spells and potions would have to wait. Luckily Sebastian and Catty had been formally exempt from them being that they had 92 averages in the classes they despised but did perfectly well in. They would be helping Roan study for it was a sheer miracle if he had passed with a 66.
"Well lucky for you two...." Roan started to say. But there was a rustle in the bushes, and they turned to it and saw the forms of Laurie-Anne and Eddie making out, consumed in their lovemaking, well sort of.
"Um excuse me." Catty told the two lovebirds. She hated people showing affection with another unless she was apart of it and with her attitude it was easy to see why she didn't have a boyfriend.
"Excuse me what?" Eddie retorted back at her. "We're kissing and if you don't like it go somewhere else." Dismissing them with his hand.
"What? Hey! We were here first. Now take your bags and leave, go, vamoose. This is one of the only shady places on the grounds of the school and we were having a
private talk." Sebastian argued with them. Laurie-Anne stopped Eddie from saying something and pulled him away with a kiss.
The three cousins (to each other except Roan and Sebastian) could hear them talking in lone tones.
"We were there first. He had no right to push us off and you took me away just because he was your frikken ex-boy toy. I should keep his mouth closed and yours for letting him do that. I was so humiliated."
"Come on Eddie. They were there first and you know it. God. I don't know why I decided to date you anyway. You can be such a moron sometimes." She told him.
"A moron huh? Well how about when a moron...."and there was a loud smack. They could hear the brunette crying.
Sebastian started to get really angry, and the other two didn't seem to notice. He could feel himself getting stronger and slightly bigger but nothing else. He raced through the brush and tackled Eddie sending him into submission.
"How dare you attack Laurie!" he cried in a blind rage. He sent a uppercut but hit his lip causing it to start to bleed. He got up and walked to Laurie who fell into his arms, a bruise forming on her cheek.
"Are you okay?" he asked softly and she shook her head and began to cry in his shoulder. Eddie began cursing as he wiped the blood with his hand away from his face. He would get back at Sebastian Halliwell if it were the last thing he ever did.
The school day ended and after receiving a demerit for fighting, Sebastian and Laurie-Anne was a couple again. Over and over again she asked for forgiveness for leaving him and he kept forgiving her.
"Mom is going to kill you. You know that right? Her perfect angel getting a detention for fighting. Its' like your first ever and I don't believe you got that angry. What was in your head when he hit her?" Roan asked inquisitively.
Meanwhile Eddie was sitting in the senior parking lot alone and looked around for anyone and took out his sketch book and continued of a demon (who is known as a basilisk). A larger version of the evil creature whose stare from yellow eyes could petrify you at a glance.
"That's a wonderful drawing. You certainly do have the talent now that I have seen it in action." A voice said and Eddie looked up. It was a dark but airy voice and it was a guy.
Eddie looked up to see an elderly man, about in his sixties with a package in his right hand and a devilish smile. He didn't have a right hand that was covered in a colored scarf. He started to get up but the man stopped him.
"I have been watching your work. It is very good, and it is so good I want to give you a present. I saw the scuffle between that boy and you. My gift could let you have the power to doom him to death." The man said in the same airy voice.
"What do you want in return sir?" Eddie asked in a drawling voice.
"The satisfaction of.... a Halliwell...dead." The old man said in a lower mumbling voice.
"What?"
"The satisfaction that you will have fun with your new present young man."
And he handed the boy a package. It was a sketchbook and a long and slender red pencil with black lead. He turned to the first page and he placed the picture of the basilisk there to keep it stored.
"What I suggest you do young man is write your name on that piece of parchment with the pencil I just gave you and have fun with your new friend." The old man said.
"Thank you...Thank you...sir..." and at that moment Eddie dropped his pencil and when he looked up the old man was gone. He did what the old man said and there was an iridescent glow of the picture and three feet away from him the basilisk he had just finished waiting for his command.
The old man watched the boy petting the demon-like creature. It had been so easy wooing the boy to accept the gift. Hopefully the demon would kill the target Sebastian Halliwell and the other two would crumble without him.
"Sorry Mom." Sebastian said.
"I know he did a very bad thing and I am happy you avenged her but why did you have to leave a mark? I mean I didn't know you were...that strong..." and their mother sat down shaking a little.
"Aunt Phoebe? Are you alright?" Catty asked her.
"Catty, leave. Go find your father and get him here at once. I have to talk to him about something." And with a flash of light the girl was gone.
"Sebastian, rest and go to bed. You've had a long day and I will talk to your teachers about the detention, Roan you too. You guys are going to the club tonight to see Lifehouse aren't you? You'll need your rest." And they nodded going upstairs.
"What got mom all freaked out Seb?" Roan asked. After watching her pause every word before they were frightened for her.
"I don't know. Maybe it has something to do with my powers. Maybe I have super strength or something." He said and collapsed on his bed falling into a deep slumber, Roan right behind him on the bed across from him.
A few hours later, fully refreshed the two boys dressed in their best: Sebastian wearing his Armani wardrobe: collared shirt, khaki pants, and leather jacket, where his brother was the Gucci king wearing the same articles but a deerskin jacket. They had driven with their Aunt Piper and Catty.
"Now you guys behave yourself in front of the band. And yes Catty I will make sure they sign your autograph book. Don't worry." Piper told them.
Catty was an addicted Lifehouse fan. She had posters across her walls and a book on their hobbies, goals, and lifestyle. She had wanted to go to the concert in the downtown area but couldn't afford it and was thrilled when her mother had booked them for her club P3. The three entered going down the stairs and were able to actually meet the band. They shook hands and Catty even got a kiss from the lead singer.
About half an hour later the club was full of adults and teens that were eager to see this righteous band play their stuff. Sebastian was dancing with Laurie-Anne when he felt a tap on the shoulder and he turned thinking it was Catty.
"Yeah?" he asked loudly over the noise.
It was Eddie. He was wearing a leather jacket and dark blue jeans accompanied that he had a wife beater on his upper body. He had a mischievous grin on his face and yelled over the yelling of the anxious crowd.
"Can we talk outside? I want to make amends in a place where we can here each other." Eddie asked.
"Sure." He answered turning back to Laurie-Anne who nodded smiling and made way to the bar to get a non-alcoholic drink.
Going up the stairs through the large amounts of people, the two ended up in the back alley of the club. It was dark and the street lamp was out making it very creepy and scary.
"Any reason why we had to make amends back here?" Sebastian asked. And then he felt it, a dark energy in the alley. He watched Eddie giggle insanely, and he started to speak.
"I brought you here to kill you Sebastian Halliwell. The one who ruined my life, you will die."
"Oh really?" Sebastian replied. He turned to see a large demon like creature with its eyes closed standing before him. He knew what it was from pictures: a basilisk. He knew from the book of shadows how to defeat a basilisk by making it look at its reflection and unfortunately there were no mirrors around.
"A basilisk. Creative Eddie. You must of received supernatural help if you can't deal with a problem yourself." He told him.
"How dare you! Basilisk, open your eyes and release your evil magic." Eddie shrieked before running away into the line of people waiting to enter the club.
The beast slowly opened his eyes and Sebastian jumped against the wall. Could he do it? Could he transfigure a piece of crap into a mirror? He had only been able to transfigure himself but he knew he could turn into a mirror but he might become broken.
He grabbed a lead pipe that was lying on the ground and concentrated for everything that depended on it. He breathed in and the magic flowed turning the pipe into a mirror the same size. Sebastian breathed.
"Hey ugly! Take a look at this!" he said and placed the mirror in front of the demon whose eyes were shining yellow. There was a burst of light and there was stone statue standing in front of the male witch. He then took spoke a five minute spell and the figure crumbled into dust and billowed far away from the alley.
There was a poof of smoke and a girl that Sebastian had never seen before stood before him. She smiled at him and walked over to him.
"Hiya. I'm Danii, the whitelighter of the Progeny. Quite an honor, sorry if I scared you. I really haven't mastered orbing so I poof and its' not a big deal." She said taking out her hand to shake his.
"Why didn't you try and help me?" Sebastian asked.
"I had just found out that the basilisk was going to attack you. I'm new at being a whitelighter. I've only been doing this for about thirty years or so. Cut me some slack. At least you are all right and that's good. We have to find who sent it after you." Danii told him.
"I know who, Eddie. He sent the beast at me." He told her.
"No. Rookie...the person who gave him the power to summon the creature and what I mean is this is your average mortal. He shouldn't have that kind of power. I'll be back in a few." She said poofing out of sight leaving a small white cloud as her trademark.
"Good riddance." Sebastian mumbled and made his way back inside the club. There he pulled Catty and Roan to the side to explain what had happened a half an hour before. "Eddie summoned a demon."
"What? How could he do that? That's impossible for mortals to be able to summon a demon. I could feel an evil's presence inside but not outside." Catty exclaimed furious that she had miss the battle.
"What we need to do is find out who gave the jerk the power to do what he did." Roan said in a small whisper that they hardly heard.
"I met our whitelighter. Her name is Danii and she is...basically...a klutz. She can't orb, her powers are wacky, and she has an attitude. She follows like the "whitelighter" guide to making demon killing boring for witches." Sebastian told them.
"I've heard of her. I think I met her once. Dad took me up there and I met a whole bunch of whitelighters. Being that I am one of the only children of a whitelighter and a witch most of them stayed away but there was this girl and her name was Danielle and she asked questions. I can't remember really. Too foggy, must be the councils' work but in thinking I believe we can find out who sent Sebastian the demon kit. Let's go home to the BoS." Catty said rapidly.
She mumbled she'd orb them out as soon as the coast was clear and after telling their mothers' where they were headed they went to the back exit and into the same alleyway that Sebastian had been standing moments before. In a flash they were gone.
What they didn't know that someone had been watching them.
They landed pinpointed in the attic. It was a first for the girl who was a white witch. (That is what she called herself, no reference to Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe). The book was already open and there was a drawing with strange symbols covering the picture.
"What is it?" Roan asked them clueless to what it was. He could tell the Sebastian was entranced by the picture or photo in the book. He had a strange connection with the book, the house, with...probably almost everything.
"I can read what's in the picture. It's weird you know? I mean one second its gibberish then I can read it like it was a second language to me." He said placing his hands on the picture.
"What does it say Seb?" Catty asked nervously. She was shivering and it wasn't cold doing it, it was absolute fear.
"It say's "This is the Artist's Dilemma. Once every ten years the Dilemma is given to a mortal tainted with darkness. Its whereabouts before being given to the mortal is unknown and only know that whatever is drawn rises from the pages.
"Okay. Now we know what it is but who gave it to him. I can't have been another mortal, that's just stupid. It would have to be either a warlock or a demon." Roan suggested.
"Not a warlock, because if it was a warlock he would of use the powers of the book anyway for his own means Roan. No. I am pretty sure it was a demon. What about that demon that we fought the day we got our powers? Could he have some bigger role in this whole thing?" Catty asked consciously.
"It was probably him but we don't even know where he is. All we know is that there is a Neo Triad trying to kill us and the demon is probably trying to go after me first because of my power of transfiguration. Oh I didn't tell you. I can transfigure objects into other objects. That's' how I defeated the basilisk. "
"Your powers are growing more rapidly. Mom and Aunt Phoebe's powers didn't change or they didn't get a new power until about a year after they first received their powers. We've only had our powers for about six months and your power has already rapidly grown." Catty told Sebastian.
"I don't know. Maybe there is something mutating my magic. I don't know..." Sebastian said.
"We'll figure it out dude. I mean you can't be different. Mom's husband was a human and my powers haven't changed at all. All I do is shoot mind bolts and stuff." Roan told him placing a hand on his shoulder concerned.
"Yeah. We should check it out." Sebastian said turning the pages of the book. There was a brightly colored page that stood out from the rest that said "A Witches Power"
A witches power will grow almost once the power is gained. It may become more powerful in the way that it is used or it may become something more entirely. My power happened to grow so much that instead of using my mind for telekinesis I could use my hands and then a few months later I gained the power of astral projection. For one whose power is growing rapidly take care and be wary of the problems you might cause.
Sincerely,
Prue Halliwell.
"Aunt Prue? Wow. This page is really old. Aunt Prue died while our mom's were pregnant with us." Catty announced.
Interrupting the silence there was a puff of smoke. Where the smoke billowed was a female form that was petit but not perfect. She was now wearing overalls, and her brownish blonde hair was in a ponytail. She smiled at them.
"Guys, this is Danii. She's our whitelighter. Danii, Roan. Roan, Danii. Danii, you probably already know Catty." Sebastian said sighing.
"Hello again Catty. Nice to meet you Roan, wow nice dig." Danii said excitedly. She had never been in a witch's house before and it was really amazing for her to see everything.
"Our problem is that we have a crazed art student on our asses who is pissed off at Sebastian just because he gave him a black eye." Roan told her.
"It's more than that. Now that Eddie has the book his darkness has grown way out of proportion and he's channeling that into his artwork. The more dark he gets the worse and harder to kill his creations are." Catty exclaimed.
"How are we supposed to defeat him? Do we say, "Please Eddie, can we have the sketchbook because we don't want you to kill anyone or mess up our town more than it already is...?" Roan asked in a sarcastic tone.
"Let me see bro. The book says that the only way to send the book back into the void where it originates is to destroy it. It has been burned, frozen, and even puréed in a blender. As long as that and the pencil that is used to draw is gone the keeper of it will have hardly any more powers except ones that he designed before the destruction of the book." Sebastian told them.
"Let's try a find spell," Danii suggested. "I mean if you want to."
"Why don't we just scry for it? I mean if it is mentioned in the Book of Shadows it should be easy to find." Catty suggested. "Your idea is good Danii but scrying for it is more practical."
Catty removed her pendent from her neck and placed it on top of the design of the book, the crystal glew from a dark blue to a bright majestic purple, then returning the dark sapphire. She lifted it up by the beads and took out the map that was under the book. The sapphire began to swing and the pages of the map book turned on its own accord. Suddenly one point of the map started to glow the purplish color.
"Let's go. I know that area. Danii, Catty, can you girls transport me and Roan separately to that place on the map?" Sebastian asked.
"No." Danii said. "By doing that I'd be violating so many codes. I can't sorry. I'll be watching you in battle but I can't interfere unless one of you gets hurt. Sorry." And there was a puff of smoke signaling she had once again vanished.
"I've only known her for half an hour and she is beginning to annoy the heck out of me." Sebastian groaned to Roan.
"Guys. Something happened. The book is still where I scryed for it but something is fighting the scrying spell, the person wants to keep it hidden. Let's go now. I may be weak when we get there."
"Alright. I'll try to create a link between us so you won't be that worn out when we face him. He may have an army of creatures to fight against us and we may expect this to be a trap." Roan told her and uttered some words that were very low and a glow surrounded the two cousins.
"Let's go." Sebastian told them.
The three of them took hands and there was a blast of white light that filled the room and the three were gone.
Meanwhile in the back alley of the magic shop, Eddie was having the time of his life creating imps and unrecognizable demons that stood at attention in waiting. He was ordering them in these lines and telling them the plans to kill Sebastian Halliwell.
"As soon as he gets here I want him dead...no...I want him writhing in pain so I can kill him myself." He said as he was holding the Artist's Dilemma. He suddenly flew backwards about three feet and three people stood in the entrance of the alley.
"Give us the sketchpad Eddie." One said.
"Yeah before you hurt someone." A feminine voice that was familiar said.
"I'm sorry everything led to this Ed." A voice that was Sebastian Halliwell told him.
"Pain! Give them all pain!" Eddie screamed, while the demons flew at the three figures he drew a staff of power. It materialized in his hand.
He stood up proud and tall. His body was changed. Because of the sketchbook he had drawn himself in the likeness he wanted to see. He was now slightly taller and more muscular, he had golden hair as that of a super saiyian but with his staff he was more powerful than even a level one. His eyes stayed the same cold hazel that it had before he had changed and he believed he was all-powerful.
The staff glew in his hand as he fired bolts of energy at the two who were with Sebastian, but suddenly there was a fourth figure who charged at Eddie and took the sketchbook out of his hand, its pencil flying out of sight.
"I got the sketchbook," the girl said.
She threw it towards Sebastian, but it was caught by one of the many creatures. They howled and screamed trying to give it back to their master but writhed in pain, instead for Roan had sent bolts of mind energy at their undeveloped brains causing them complete annihilation and pain.
The demon dropped the sketchpad and Catty ran and dived for it, throwing the pad up in the air before vanishing under hundreds of little imps. There was a maniacal laugh that came from Eddie.
"Catty!" Roan shrieked at the pile of monsters.
"Catty? Catty...." Eddie said in disbelief. He fell on his knees and began to cry. He had liked Catty, a lot. He had wanted to ask her to the spring fling at the school, but now he'd never get the chance.
"Missing something Eddie?" the voice said again. He looked up to see the sketchpad ripped in half, his creations fading away to nothing. It was Catty.
"No! You can't do this! No! It's not fair! I will get even and I will kill you all. All of you!!" Eddie screamed in a rage before vanishing in thin air.
"At least that's over with." Catty said and sighed softly. She never had let her double "die before." It was a horrible experience because she believed that her clone was attached to her by the mind or by the heart. She didn't know but had felt some kind of pain that was more emotional that physical.
"Sebastian? What's next? Do we try and find Eddie and get him help or do we go and find the demon who gave him the sketchpad." Roan asked.
"Neither. We are going to take the remains of this...." Sebastian told them, pointing to the dismantled sketchpad but something happened. It vanished in a hazy orange glow.
"Oh great...can't wait till another artist's dilemma." Roan said and rolled his eyes causing the three of them to laugh hysterically. Returning home Phoebe called through the house:
"Sebastian. You got a letter from New York."
"What?" He asked in wonder. He found the letter on the top of the mail pile and ripped it open.
"What's up?" Catty asked.
"I won a essay contest and I get to spend 3 months in New York City because of it." Sebastian told them.
Outside the house, a male figure was leaving it muttering "Sebastian, be careful. I don't want you hurt."
Part 2
An Artist's Dilemma
Eddie Aryanian was one of the best artists of the entire school. He had good grades and was a pretty well developed character. He was in school musicals, played on the basketball team, and was one of the heads of the Literary Magazine "Illusion" at his school. He happened to go to the same school as the Progeny, the three newly gifted witches who fought demons, warlocks, and especially nightmares. What Eddie did about a week from now would cause an interest in him, one that would make the Progeny have a dilemma...
It was Friday. The glorious day that led to a three-day weekend. The break-up between Sebastian and his girlfriend of three months Laurie-Anne hadn't been that bad a break-up. She had decided that he wasn't good enough and moved on to Eddie Aryanian. She probably sensed something wrong with him ever since he gained his power of transfiguration. The day dragged on and it was lunchtime where Sebastian, Catty, and Roan met at their secluded table so no one would overhear.
"This is weird. No dark forces have been in the area since Roan's girlfriend tried to kill him." Catty was saying in a hushed voice. She was short and petite but had a pretty good mean streak and was into protecting the innocent.
"Well I think the Whitelighter's are giving us some few good days off from fighting. We have midterms coming up anyway, and I'd hate to not being able to study with all the dark forces trying to kill us...again." Sebastian told them and they agreed.
With midterms coming up spells and potions would have to wait. Luckily Sebastian and Catty had been formally exempt from them being that they had 92 averages in the classes they despised but did perfectly well in. They would be helping Roan study for it was a sheer miracle if he had passed with a 66.
"Well lucky for you two...." Roan started to say. But there was a rustle in the bushes, and they turned to it and saw the forms of Laurie-Anne and Eddie making out, consumed in their lovemaking, well sort of.
"Um excuse me." Catty told the two lovebirds. She hated people showing affection with another unless she was apart of it and with her attitude it was easy to see why she didn't have a boyfriend.
"Excuse me what?" Eddie retorted back at her. "We're kissing and if you don't like it go somewhere else." Dismissing them with his hand.
"What? Hey! We were here first. Now take your bags and leave, go, vamoose. This is one of the only shady places on the grounds of the school and we were having a
private talk." Sebastian argued with them. Laurie-Anne stopped Eddie from saying something and pulled him away with a kiss.
The three cousins (to each other except Roan and Sebastian) could hear them talking in lone tones.
"We were there first. He had no right to push us off and you took me away just because he was your frikken ex-boy toy. I should keep his mouth closed and yours for letting him do that. I was so humiliated."
"Come on Eddie. They were there first and you know it. God. I don't know why I decided to date you anyway. You can be such a moron sometimes." She told him.
"A moron huh? Well how about when a moron...."and there was a loud smack. They could hear the brunette crying.
Sebastian started to get really angry, and the other two didn't seem to notice. He could feel himself getting stronger and slightly bigger but nothing else. He raced through the brush and tackled Eddie sending him into submission.
"How dare you attack Laurie!" he cried in a blind rage. He sent a uppercut but hit his lip causing it to start to bleed. He got up and walked to Laurie who fell into his arms, a bruise forming on her cheek.
"Are you okay?" he asked softly and she shook her head and began to cry in his shoulder. Eddie began cursing as he wiped the blood with his hand away from his face. He would get back at Sebastian Halliwell if it were the last thing he ever did.
The school day ended and after receiving a demerit for fighting, Sebastian and Laurie-Anne was a couple again. Over and over again she asked for forgiveness for leaving him and he kept forgiving her.
"Mom is going to kill you. You know that right? Her perfect angel getting a detention for fighting. Its' like your first ever and I don't believe you got that angry. What was in your head when he hit her?" Roan asked inquisitively.
Meanwhile Eddie was sitting in the senior parking lot alone and looked around for anyone and took out his sketch book and continued of a demon (who is known as a basilisk). A larger version of the evil creature whose stare from yellow eyes could petrify you at a glance.
"That's a wonderful drawing. You certainly do have the talent now that I have seen it in action." A voice said and Eddie looked up. It was a dark but airy voice and it was a guy.
Eddie looked up to see an elderly man, about in his sixties with a package in his right hand and a devilish smile. He didn't have a right hand that was covered in a colored scarf. He started to get up but the man stopped him.
"I have been watching your work. It is very good, and it is so good I want to give you a present. I saw the scuffle between that boy and you. My gift could let you have the power to doom him to death." The man said in the same airy voice.
"What do you want in return sir?" Eddie asked in a drawling voice.
"The satisfaction of.... a Halliwell...dead." The old man said in a lower mumbling voice.
"What?"
"The satisfaction that you will have fun with your new present young man."
And he handed the boy a package. It was a sketchbook and a long and slender red pencil with black lead. He turned to the first page and he placed the picture of the basilisk there to keep it stored.
"What I suggest you do young man is write your name on that piece of parchment with the pencil I just gave you and have fun with your new friend." The old man said.
"Thank you...Thank you...sir..." and at that moment Eddie dropped his pencil and when he looked up the old man was gone. He did what the old man said and there was an iridescent glow of the picture and three feet away from him the basilisk he had just finished waiting for his command.
The old man watched the boy petting the demon-like creature. It had been so easy wooing the boy to accept the gift. Hopefully the demon would kill the target Sebastian Halliwell and the other two would crumble without him.
"Sorry Mom." Sebastian said.
"I know he did a very bad thing and I am happy you avenged her but why did you have to leave a mark? I mean I didn't know you were...that strong..." and their mother sat down shaking a little.
"Aunt Phoebe? Are you alright?" Catty asked her.
"Catty, leave. Go find your father and get him here at once. I have to talk to him about something." And with a flash of light the girl was gone.
"Sebastian, rest and go to bed. You've had a long day and I will talk to your teachers about the detention, Roan you too. You guys are going to the club tonight to see Lifehouse aren't you? You'll need your rest." And they nodded going upstairs.
"What got mom all freaked out Seb?" Roan asked. After watching her pause every word before they were frightened for her.
"I don't know. Maybe it has something to do with my powers. Maybe I have super strength or something." He said and collapsed on his bed falling into a deep slumber, Roan right behind him on the bed across from him.
A few hours later, fully refreshed the two boys dressed in their best: Sebastian wearing his Armani wardrobe: collared shirt, khaki pants, and leather jacket, where his brother was the Gucci king wearing the same articles but a deerskin jacket. They had driven with their Aunt Piper and Catty.
"Now you guys behave yourself in front of the band. And yes Catty I will make sure they sign your autograph book. Don't worry." Piper told them.
Catty was an addicted Lifehouse fan. She had posters across her walls and a book on their hobbies, goals, and lifestyle. She had wanted to go to the concert in the downtown area but couldn't afford it and was thrilled when her mother had booked them for her club P3. The three entered going down the stairs and were able to actually meet the band. They shook hands and Catty even got a kiss from the lead singer.
About half an hour later the club was full of adults and teens that were eager to see this righteous band play their stuff. Sebastian was dancing with Laurie-Anne when he felt a tap on the shoulder and he turned thinking it was Catty.
"Yeah?" he asked loudly over the noise.
It was Eddie. He was wearing a leather jacket and dark blue jeans accompanied that he had a wife beater on his upper body. He had a mischievous grin on his face and yelled over the yelling of the anxious crowd.
"Can we talk outside? I want to make amends in a place where we can here each other." Eddie asked.
"Sure." He answered turning back to Laurie-Anne who nodded smiling and made way to the bar to get a non-alcoholic drink.
Going up the stairs through the large amounts of people, the two ended up in the back alley of the club. It was dark and the street lamp was out making it very creepy and scary.
"Any reason why we had to make amends back here?" Sebastian asked. And then he felt it, a dark energy in the alley. He watched Eddie giggle insanely, and he started to speak.
"I brought you here to kill you Sebastian Halliwell. The one who ruined my life, you will die."
"Oh really?" Sebastian replied. He turned to see a large demon like creature with its eyes closed standing before him. He knew what it was from pictures: a basilisk. He knew from the book of shadows how to defeat a basilisk by making it look at its reflection and unfortunately there were no mirrors around.
"A basilisk. Creative Eddie. You must of received supernatural help if you can't deal with a problem yourself." He told him.
"How dare you! Basilisk, open your eyes and release your evil magic." Eddie shrieked before running away into the line of people waiting to enter the club.
The beast slowly opened his eyes and Sebastian jumped against the wall. Could he do it? Could he transfigure a piece of crap into a mirror? He had only been able to transfigure himself but he knew he could turn into a mirror but he might become broken.
He grabbed a lead pipe that was lying on the ground and concentrated for everything that depended on it. He breathed in and the magic flowed turning the pipe into a mirror the same size. Sebastian breathed.
"Hey ugly! Take a look at this!" he said and placed the mirror in front of the demon whose eyes were shining yellow. There was a burst of light and there was stone statue standing in front of the male witch. He then took spoke a five minute spell and the figure crumbled into dust and billowed far away from the alley.
There was a poof of smoke and a girl that Sebastian had never seen before stood before him. She smiled at him and walked over to him.
"Hiya. I'm Danii, the whitelighter of the Progeny. Quite an honor, sorry if I scared you. I really haven't mastered orbing so I poof and its' not a big deal." She said taking out her hand to shake his.
"Why didn't you try and help me?" Sebastian asked.
"I had just found out that the basilisk was going to attack you. I'm new at being a whitelighter. I've only been doing this for about thirty years or so. Cut me some slack. At least you are all right and that's good. We have to find who sent it after you." Danii told him.
"I know who, Eddie. He sent the beast at me." He told her.
"No. Rookie...the person who gave him the power to summon the creature and what I mean is this is your average mortal. He shouldn't have that kind of power. I'll be back in a few." She said poofing out of sight leaving a small white cloud as her trademark.
"Good riddance." Sebastian mumbled and made his way back inside the club. There he pulled Catty and Roan to the side to explain what had happened a half an hour before. "Eddie summoned a demon."
"What? How could he do that? That's impossible for mortals to be able to summon a demon. I could feel an evil's presence inside but not outside." Catty exclaimed furious that she had miss the battle.
"What we need to do is find out who gave the jerk the power to do what he did." Roan said in a small whisper that they hardly heard.
"I met our whitelighter. Her name is Danii and she is...basically...a klutz. She can't orb, her powers are wacky, and she has an attitude. She follows like the "whitelighter" guide to making demon killing boring for witches." Sebastian told them.
"I've heard of her. I think I met her once. Dad took me up there and I met a whole bunch of whitelighters. Being that I am one of the only children of a whitelighter and a witch most of them stayed away but there was this girl and her name was Danielle and she asked questions. I can't remember really. Too foggy, must be the councils' work but in thinking I believe we can find out who sent Sebastian the demon kit. Let's go home to the BoS." Catty said rapidly.
She mumbled she'd orb them out as soon as the coast was clear and after telling their mothers' where they were headed they went to the back exit and into the same alleyway that Sebastian had been standing moments before. In a flash they were gone.
What they didn't know that someone had been watching them.
They landed pinpointed in the attic. It was a first for the girl who was a white witch. (That is what she called herself, no reference to Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe). The book was already open and there was a drawing with strange symbols covering the picture.
"What is it?" Roan asked them clueless to what it was. He could tell the Sebastian was entranced by the picture or photo in the book. He had a strange connection with the book, the house, with...probably almost everything.
"I can read what's in the picture. It's weird you know? I mean one second its gibberish then I can read it like it was a second language to me." He said placing his hands on the picture.
"What does it say Seb?" Catty asked nervously. She was shivering and it wasn't cold doing it, it was absolute fear.
"It say's "This is the Artist's Dilemma. Once every ten years the Dilemma is given to a mortal tainted with darkness. Its whereabouts before being given to the mortal is unknown and only know that whatever is drawn rises from the pages.
"Okay. Now we know what it is but who gave it to him. I can't have been another mortal, that's just stupid. It would have to be either a warlock or a demon." Roan suggested.
"Not a warlock, because if it was a warlock he would of use the powers of the book anyway for his own means Roan. No. I am pretty sure it was a demon. What about that demon that we fought the day we got our powers? Could he have some bigger role in this whole thing?" Catty asked consciously.
"It was probably him but we don't even know where he is. All we know is that there is a Neo Triad trying to kill us and the demon is probably trying to go after me first because of my power of transfiguration. Oh I didn't tell you. I can transfigure objects into other objects. That's' how I defeated the basilisk. "
"Your powers are growing more rapidly. Mom and Aunt Phoebe's powers didn't change or they didn't get a new power until about a year after they first received their powers. We've only had our powers for about six months and your power has already rapidly grown." Catty told Sebastian.
"I don't know. Maybe there is something mutating my magic. I don't know..." Sebastian said.
"We'll figure it out dude. I mean you can't be different. Mom's husband was a human and my powers haven't changed at all. All I do is shoot mind bolts and stuff." Roan told him placing a hand on his shoulder concerned.
"Yeah. We should check it out." Sebastian said turning the pages of the book. There was a brightly colored page that stood out from the rest that said "A Witches Power"
A witches power will grow almost once the power is gained. It may become more powerful in the way that it is used or it may become something more entirely. My power happened to grow so much that instead of using my mind for telekinesis I could use my hands and then a few months later I gained the power of astral projection. For one whose power is growing rapidly take care and be wary of the problems you might cause.
Sincerely,
Prue Halliwell.
"Aunt Prue? Wow. This page is really old. Aunt Prue died while our mom's were pregnant with us." Catty announced.
Interrupting the silence there was a puff of smoke. Where the smoke billowed was a female form that was petit but not perfect. She was now wearing overalls, and her brownish blonde hair was in a ponytail. She smiled at them.
"Guys, this is Danii. She's our whitelighter. Danii, Roan. Roan, Danii. Danii, you probably already know Catty." Sebastian said sighing.
"Hello again Catty. Nice to meet you Roan, wow nice dig." Danii said excitedly. She had never been in a witch's house before and it was really amazing for her to see everything.
"Our problem is that we have a crazed art student on our asses who is pissed off at Sebastian just because he gave him a black eye." Roan told her.
"It's more than that. Now that Eddie has the book his darkness has grown way out of proportion and he's channeling that into his artwork. The more dark he gets the worse and harder to kill his creations are." Catty exclaimed.
"How are we supposed to defeat him? Do we say, "Please Eddie, can we have the sketchbook because we don't want you to kill anyone or mess up our town more than it already is...?" Roan asked in a sarcastic tone.
"Let me see bro. The book says that the only way to send the book back into the void where it originates is to destroy it. It has been burned, frozen, and even puréed in a blender. As long as that and the pencil that is used to draw is gone the keeper of it will have hardly any more powers except ones that he designed before the destruction of the book." Sebastian told them.
"Let's try a find spell," Danii suggested. "I mean if you want to."
"Why don't we just scry for it? I mean if it is mentioned in the Book of Shadows it should be easy to find." Catty suggested. "Your idea is good Danii but scrying for it is more practical."
Catty removed her pendent from her neck and placed it on top of the design of the book, the crystal glew from a dark blue to a bright majestic purple, then returning the dark sapphire. She lifted it up by the beads and took out the map that was under the book. The sapphire began to swing and the pages of the map book turned on its own accord. Suddenly one point of the map started to glow the purplish color.
"Let's go. I know that area. Danii, Catty, can you girls transport me and Roan separately to that place on the map?" Sebastian asked.
"No." Danii said. "By doing that I'd be violating so many codes. I can't sorry. I'll be watching you in battle but I can't interfere unless one of you gets hurt. Sorry." And there was a puff of smoke signaling she had once again vanished.
"I've only known her for half an hour and she is beginning to annoy the heck out of me." Sebastian groaned to Roan.
"Guys. Something happened. The book is still where I scryed for it but something is fighting the scrying spell, the person wants to keep it hidden. Let's go now. I may be weak when we get there."
"Alright. I'll try to create a link between us so you won't be that worn out when we face him. He may have an army of creatures to fight against us and we may expect this to be a trap." Roan told her and uttered some words that were very low and a glow surrounded the two cousins.
"Let's go." Sebastian told them.
The three of them took hands and there was a blast of white light that filled the room and the three were gone.
Meanwhile in the back alley of the magic shop, Eddie was having the time of his life creating imps and unrecognizable demons that stood at attention in waiting. He was ordering them in these lines and telling them the plans to kill Sebastian Halliwell.
"As soon as he gets here I want him dead...no...I want him writhing in pain so I can kill him myself." He said as he was holding the Artist's Dilemma. He suddenly flew backwards about three feet and three people stood in the entrance of the alley.
"Give us the sketchpad Eddie." One said.
"Yeah before you hurt someone." A feminine voice that was familiar said.
"I'm sorry everything led to this Ed." A voice that was Sebastian Halliwell told him.
"Pain! Give them all pain!" Eddie screamed, while the demons flew at the three figures he drew a staff of power. It materialized in his hand.
He stood up proud and tall. His body was changed. Because of the sketchbook he had drawn himself in the likeness he wanted to see. He was now slightly taller and more muscular, he had golden hair as that of a super saiyian but with his staff he was more powerful than even a level one. His eyes stayed the same cold hazel that it had before he had changed and he believed he was all-powerful.
The staff glew in his hand as he fired bolts of energy at the two who were with Sebastian, but suddenly there was a fourth figure who charged at Eddie and took the sketchbook out of his hand, its pencil flying out of sight.
"I got the sketchbook," the girl said.
She threw it towards Sebastian, but it was caught by one of the many creatures. They howled and screamed trying to give it back to their master but writhed in pain, instead for Roan had sent bolts of mind energy at their undeveloped brains causing them complete annihilation and pain.
The demon dropped the sketchpad and Catty ran and dived for it, throwing the pad up in the air before vanishing under hundreds of little imps. There was a maniacal laugh that came from Eddie.
"Catty!" Roan shrieked at the pile of monsters.
"Catty? Catty...." Eddie said in disbelief. He fell on his knees and began to cry. He had liked Catty, a lot. He had wanted to ask her to the spring fling at the school, but now he'd never get the chance.
"Missing something Eddie?" the voice said again. He looked up to see the sketchpad ripped in half, his creations fading away to nothing. It was Catty.
"No! You can't do this! No! It's not fair! I will get even and I will kill you all. All of you!!" Eddie screamed in a rage before vanishing in thin air.
"At least that's over with." Catty said and sighed softly. She never had let her double "die before." It was a horrible experience because she believed that her clone was attached to her by the mind or by the heart. She didn't know but had felt some kind of pain that was more emotional that physical.
"Sebastian? What's next? Do we try and find Eddie and get him help or do we go and find the demon who gave him the sketchpad." Roan asked.
"Neither. We are going to take the remains of this...." Sebastian told them, pointing to the dismantled sketchpad but something happened. It vanished in a hazy orange glow.
"Oh great...can't wait till another artist's dilemma." Roan said and rolled his eyes causing the three of them to laugh hysterically. Returning home Phoebe called through the house:
"Sebastian. You got a letter from New York."
"What?" He asked in wonder. He found the letter on the top of the mail pile and ripped it open.
"What's up?" Catty asked.
"I won a essay contest and I get to spend 3 months in New York City because of it." Sebastian told them.
Outside the house, a male figure was leaving it muttering "Sebastian, be careful. I don't want you hurt."