Chapter 6 - Tanya and Tara
Tanya looked down at the little bundle in her arms and quickened her pace. She turned a corner and nearly ran into into the man who was standing there.
She drew back in surprise and was about to say she was sorry when she looked up. The man's face was shadowed by a dark cloak. But he looked down at Tanya and pushed his cloak back. He had a dark face that was handsome in a sinister way, with a long, thin jagged scar tracing a pale line down his left cheek from his eyes nearly to his jaw. His dark shock of curls complemented his glowing hazel eyes. He lifted his strong, dark hand toward Tanya and she gasped.
She quickly turned and fled. She had to get away, had to protect the satiny little bundle in her arms.
She didn't hear the pounding of footsteps behind her as she skidded around a corner and found herself in a dead ended ally. With a small cry she turned and screamed as a bright golden light flashed in front of her and the demon appeared in front of her.
Tanya backed away, making little sounds of despair. Finally she shook her head and said in a low, velvety purr that rumbled with her fear. "You cannot hurt her!" she said. "I will not let you!" she cried, her breathing labored from her running.
The deep hood of her dark emerald cloak had fallen off her head when she had started running. It swirled around her slender body as she backed up, revealing bare feet adorning the ankles adorned with gold and anklets. Her slender arms which clutched the tiny bundle, were adorned with slave bracelets, brushed with gold. The slender golden chains connected to jeweled rings on her fingers. When she moved bright, sheer bits of gauzy cloth and gold fringe and bright jewels peeked out from the cloak.
The man smiled and said in a deep timbre, "I will have what I came for," he said with a gorwl. Then he lifted glowing eyes and flung a shimmering silvery knife at her. It hit her in the stomache and she fell to the ground with a cry, her deep emerald eyes wide with surprise.
The man laughed, deep and scornful as he leaned over her prone form. "I don't want you to die," he said. "I want you to live and know you failed." He leaned down and lifted the white bundled baby out of her arms.
Tanya gave a soft sob of despair as she felt a heavy blackness fall over her and she drifted into the abyss of unconcienceness.
* * * * * *
Piper walked out the back door of the P3 in the crisp, chilly morning air to put the garbage in the dumpster. As she did she looked to her left, at the dead ended ally and was surprised to see what looked like a person lying on the ground.
Rushing over Piper looked down and saw that there was no doubt as to the fact that it was a human. A girl from the looks of it, though a fine emerald hood had fallen over her face, Piper could see one slender white arm flung acrossed her body and one long slender leg clad in sheer white, gold, and emerald gauze wasbent at the knee, the other was covered by the long cloak.
Leaning over Piper moved aside the hood of the cloak and saw she had been right. It was a young women. When Piper moved aside the rest of the cloak she saw that the scantily clad women was bleeding from a long gash in her stomache which still had a glimmering silver dagger embedded into it. As she reached out to the knife it dissapeared in a burst of golden flame.
Piper gasped and then looked in surprise as the women moved a little and moaned. "You're alive!" she cried as the young women opened a pair of huge, slented, dark emerald eyes.
The women gave a gasp of pain as she tried to sit up.
Piper quickly helped her lay back down and called loudly. "LEO!!!!"
Suddenly there was shimmering blue lights and Leo appeared. "What?" he asked. "What is it?"
"Heal her!" Piper commanded as she stood up and moved away.
With a sigh Leo bent down and placed his hands over her wound. There was a warm white-gold light and the wound closed up.
She sighed and stood up. She smiled at Piper and Leo. "Thank you so much for your help. My name is Tanya."
Piper smiled. "Hello Tanya," she said with a nod. Then she raised an eyebrow. "What happened to you? The knife embedded in your stomache dissapeared demon style."
Tanya nodded. "Yes.....but perhaps we could go somewhere warmer and more private than an ally way?" she asked.
Piper nodded and Leo took hold of both Piper and Tanya and orbed them to the house with the rest of the Halliwells.
* * * * * *
Phoebe looked up as Leo orbed in and was about to give a cheery hello when she noticed that he not only had Piper with him but a young women as well.
With a sigh she acknowledged that her day of fun had just went down hill. "I'll go get eveyone together she said and bounded out of teh kitchen.
Five minutes later the Charmed ones and their charmed daughters sat in the living room along with Leo, Brett, and Cole.
The mysterious young women smiled and everyone noticed her slightly pointed eyeteeth. "As I alread ytold Piper and Leo, my name is Tanya." She stood up for a moment. "Would you mind me taking of my cloak? It's getting rather warm."
"Go ahead," Phoebe said.
Tanya smiled again and unhooked the gold brushed brooch at her thraot and took of her cloak.
Cole, who had been drinking a bottle of water choked and nearly spit the water out. Even Brett and Leo's eyes bugged out.
Her shapely body was barely covered in sheer harem pants and tiny shirt that reminded Phoebe of Princess Jasmine on the mvie Aladin only sheer. The waist of her pants was so low it was surprsining that nothing indecent showed and it was trimmed in gold fringe. Wrapped around her belly was a double strand of shimmering jewels.
Prue finally asked. "What happened?"
Tanya smiled sadly and told them the events of the night before. "And after he stabbed me he took the little Princess." For a moment she fell quiet and then she lifted her eyes. "She is the Princess of the Feline's. The demons will need all the baby Princesses. Their blood will be the drink that awakens the leader of the Blood Sisters."
"You know about that?" Ebony asked in surprise.
"Sure," Tanya said with a nod of her sleek black head. "All the Protectresses have been ordered take the Princesses and run. We were ordered to flee to the land of dreams where the demons couldn't touch us but I don't know how many of us will make it if any."
"What are the Protectresses?" Bri asked.
"They are those who protect the princesses. The princesses usually end up more attached to the Protectresses than their parents because we take care of them. We are there constantly. We are supposed to give ourselves up in the event that the Princesses are in danger." She sighed. "But I have failed." Tanya said sadly.
"Of course you haven't." Biancae said.
Piper agreed. "You haven't failed until you give up!"
* * * * * *
Ares watched as the demon went after a young women in a long golden cloak. He had watched the night before when the dark haired women was running from the same demon and had done nothing, for it was against his natire, but then he had seen Prue talking with her sisters and Tanya, the women the demon had taken the Feline baby from her.
Now though he saw the women running and like Tanya, this women, whom he had recognized as the Canine Protectress Tara, found herself in a dead ended ally. When she turned her rich, heavy yellow cloack swirled around her and the silvery bundled baby in her arms let out a small wail of despair. The demon threw a silvery knife and it embedded itself deep into her leg. She fell with a cry of pain and the demon snatched the baby away.
Ares watched as the demond blinked away and waved his hand. Tara found herself transported to the Halliwell house.
* * * * * *
Everyone looked up as another young women appeared in the room. She appeared stadning but immediate collapsed on her bloodied leg.
Tanya stood up and cried out. "Tara!"
Tara looked up, her honey colored eyes bright and angry as she said vhemently. "He took the Princess, Tanya!"
Tanya nodded sadly as she knelt by her friend along with Leo who healed her wound. "He took Fela too."
Tara looked saddened and then sighed in relief when the pain in her leg dissapeared and she stood up. "Thank you," she said. Then she removed her richly colored cloak, revealing an outfit similar to Tanya's only richer in color and jewels; it was done in black, gold, silver, and baby blue. The jewels around her belly were diamonds and she wore a white gold circulit and white gold slave bracelets.
Tanya bowed to her friend politely and then turned to the others. "Everyone, this is Tara, Protectress of the Canine Princess, Kana." Tanya smiled. "The Royal House of Canine's and the Royal House of Feline's have been in bad standings for some times but we are the two most powerful famalies of the animal kingdom. The Canine's are more powerful in strength and grandeur whereas the Feline's find strength in their aloof darkness and mystery. They prefer elegance to flash. But despite bad standings between the houses the Protectresses are usually cordial if not downright friendly. Tara and I are the best of friends."
Everyone nodded. "I see," Prue said. "Well, Tara, how did you get here? You don't have transportation powers do you?"
Tara shook her head. "No I don't. If I did I would have transported away with Kana."
Tanya nodded. "Yes. Tara and I and any of the others would do anything to protect our Princesses."
"How many others are there?" Bri asked curiously.
"Well," Tanya said slowly. "There are many in the animal Kingdom but the ones the demons are after are ones who have whole famalies. You see, Kana, is the Princess of the Cananine's and not just domestic dogs but anything withint the Canine family. It is the same for Fela."
Tara nodded. "So, they already have the two most powerful Princesses, Kana and Fela. They'll also go after Baily and Princess Cubby, the bear princess and her Protectress, as well as Margo and Princess Bria, the Bird Princess and her Protectress. Those four are the most important. And you see, they need their teenage blood. It will awaken the leader of the Blood Sisters and bring her into her true powers."
"Teenage?" Phoebe asked.
Tara nodded. "Yes."
"But I thought they were babies!"
"They are. But as animal princesses they grow quickly. Within days they will be teens and then they will have their blood!"
"Is there anything we can do? There has to be something we can do!" Phoebe said.
"I can't think of anything," Tanya said.
"Nor I," Tara admitted.
Sadly everyone queited. What were they to do?
As they sat pondering there was a frantic cry outside and the front door slammed open. In stumbled a cloaked young women holding a bundled baby.
Behind there came the same demond who had taken the first two babies.
Prue gave a surprised cry and put her hands out, sending the demon flying backwards.
Piper threw her hands out on front of her and blew the demon up but though he dissapeard in soaring golden flames they knew he wasn't dead.
Everyone looked at each other. "Book of Shadows," they all said at once.
Tanya looked down at the little bundle in her arms and quickened her pace. She turned a corner and nearly ran into into the man who was standing there.
She drew back in surprise and was about to say she was sorry when she looked up. The man's face was shadowed by a dark cloak. But he looked down at Tanya and pushed his cloak back. He had a dark face that was handsome in a sinister way, with a long, thin jagged scar tracing a pale line down his left cheek from his eyes nearly to his jaw. His dark shock of curls complemented his glowing hazel eyes. He lifted his strong, dark hand toward Tanya and she gasped.
She quickly turned and fled. She had to get away, had to protect the satiny little bundle in her arms.
She didn't hear the pounding of footsteps behind her as she skidded around a corner and found herself in a dead ended ally. With a small cry she turned and screamed as a bright golden light flashed in front of her and the demon appeared in front of her.
Tanya backed away, making little sounds of despair. Finally she shook her head and said in a low, velvety purr that rumbled with her fear. "You cannot hurt her!" she said. "I will not let you!" she cried, her breathing labored from her running.
The deep hood of her dark emerald cloak had fallen off her head when she had started running. It swirled around her slender body as she backed up, revealing bare feet adorning the ankles adorned with gold and anklets. Her slender arms which clutched the tiny bundle, were adorned with slave bracelets, brushed with gold. The slender golden chains connected to jeweled rings on her fingers. When she moved bright, sheer bits of gauzy cloth and gold fringe and bright jewels peeked out from the cloak.
The man smiled and said in a deep timbre, "I will have what I came for," he said with a gorwl. Then he lifted glowing eyes and flung a shimmering silvery knife at her. It hit her in the stomache and she fell to the ground with a cry, her deep emerald eyes wide with surprise.
The man laughed, deep and scornful as he leaned over her prone form. "I don't want you to die," he said. "I want you to live and know you failed." He leaned down and lifted the white bundled baby out of her arms.
Tanya gave a soft sob of despair as she felt a heavy blackness fall over her and she drifted into the abyss of unconcienceness.
* * * * * *
Piper walked out the back door of the P3 in the crisp, chilly morning air to put the garbage in the dumpster. As she did she looked to her left, at the dead ended ally and was surprised to see what looked like a person lying on the ground.
Rushing over Piper looked down and saw that there was no doubt as to the fact that it was a human. A girl from the looks of it, though a fine emerald hood had fallen over her face, Piper could see one slender white arm flung acrossed her body and one long slender leg clad in sheer white, gold, and emerald gauze wasbent at the knee, the other was covered by the long cloak.
Leaning over Piper moved aside the hood of the cloak and saw she had been right. It was a young women. When Piper moved aside the rest of the cloak she saw that the scantily clad women was bleeding from a long gash in her stomache which still had a glimmering silver dagger embedded into it. As she reached out to the knife it dissapeared in a burst of golden flame.
Piper gasped and then looked in surprise as the women moved a little and moaned. "You're alive!" she cried as the young women opened a pair of huge, slented, dark emerald eyes.
The women gave a gasp of pain as she tried to sit up.
Piper quickly helped her lay back down and called loudly. "LEO!!!!"
Suddenly there was shimmering blue lights and Leo appeared. "What?" he asked. "What is it?"
"Heal her!" Piper commanded as she stood up and moved away.
With a sigh Leo bent down and placed his hands over her wound. There was a warm white-gold light and the wound closed up.
She sighed and stood up. She smiled at Piper and Leo. "Thank you so much for your help. My name is Tanya."
Piper smiled. "Hello Tanya," she said with a nod. Then she raised an eyebrow. "What happened to you? The knife embedded in your stomache dissapeared demon style."
Tanya nodded. "Yes.....but perhaps we could go somewhere warmer and more private than an ally way?" she asked.
Piper nodded and Leo took hold of both Piper and Tanya and orbed them to the house with the rest of the Halliwells.
* * * * * *
Phoebe looked up as Leo orbed in and was about to give a cheery hello when she noticed that he not only had Piper with him but a young women as well.
With a sigh she acknowledged that her day of fun had just went down hill. "I'll go get eveyone together she said and bounded out of teh kitchen.
Five minutes later the Charmed ones and their charmed daughters sat in the living room along with Leo, Brett, and Cole.
The mysterious young women smiled and everyone noticed her slightly pointed eyeteeth. "As I alread ytold Piper and Leo, my name is Tanya." She stood up for a moment. "Would you mind me taking of my cloak? It's getting rather warm."
"Go ahead," Phoebe said.
Tanya smiled again and unhooked the gold brushed brooch at her thraot and took of her cloak.
Cole, who had been drinking a bottle of water choked and nearly spit the water out. Even Brett and Leo's eyes bugged out.
Her shapely body was barely covered in sheer harem pants and tiny shirt that reminded Phoebe of Princess Jasmine on the mvie Aladin only sheer. The waist of her pants was so low it was surprsining that nothing indecent showed and it was trimmed in gold fringe. Wrapped around her belly was a double strand of shimmering jewels.
Prue finally asked. "What happened?"
Tanya smiled sadly and told them the events of the night before. "And after he stabbed me he took the little Princess." For a moment she fell quiet and then she lifted her eyes. "She is the Princess of the Feline's. The demons will need all the baby Princesses. Their blood will be the drink that awakens the leader of the Blood Sisters."
"You know about that?" Ebony asked in surprise.
"Sure," Tanya said with a nod of her sleek black head. "All the Protectresses have been ordered take the Princesses and run. We were ordered to flee to the land of dreams where the demons couldn't touch us but I don't know how many of us will make it if any."
"What are the Protectresses?" Bri asked.
"They are those who protect the princesses. The princesses usually end up more attached to the Protectresses than their parents because we take care of them. We are there constantly. We are supposed to give ourselves up in the event that the Princesses are in danger." She sighed. "But I have failed." Tanya said sadly.
"Of course you haven't." Biancae said.
Piper agreed. "You haven't failed until you give up!"
* * * * * *
Ares watched as the demon went after a young women in a long golden cloak. He had watched the night before when the dark haired women was running from the same demon and had done nothing, for it was against his natire, but then he had seen Prue talking with her sisters and Tanya, the women the demon had taken the Feline baby from her.
Now though he saw the women running and like Tanya, this women, whom he had recognized as the Canine Protectress Tara, found herself in a dead ended ally. When she turned her rich, heavy yellow cloack swirled around her and the silvery bundled baby in her arms let out a small wail of despair. The demon threw a silvery knife and it embedded itself deep into her leg. She fell with a cry of pain and the demon snatched the baby away.
Ares watched as the demond blinked away and waved his hand. Tara found herself transported to the Halliwell house.
* * * * * *
Everyone looked up as another young women appeared in the room. She appeared stadning but immediate collapsed on her bloodied leg.
Tanya stood up and cried out. "Tara!"
Tara looked up, her honey colored eyes bright and angry as she said vhemently. "He took the Princess, Tanya!"
Tanya nodded sadly as she knelt by her friend along with Leo who healed her wound. "He took Fela too."
Tara looked saddened and then sighed in relief when the pain in her leg dissapeared and she stood up. "Thank you," she said. Then she removed her richly colored cloak, revealing an outfit similar to Tanya's only richer in color and jewels; it was done in black, gold, silver, and baby blue. The jewels around her belly were diamonds and she wore a white gold circulit and white gold slave bracelets.
Tanya bowed to her friend politely and then turned to the others. "Everyone, this is Tara, Protectress of the Canine Princess, Kana." Tanya smiled. "The Royal House of Canine's and the Royal House of Feline's have been in bad standings for some times but we are the two most powerful famalies of the animal kingdom. The Canine's are more powerful in strength and grandeur whereas the Feline's find strength in their aloof darkness and mystery. They prefer elegance to flash. But despite bad standings between the houses the Protectresses are usually cordial if not downright friendly. Tara and I are the best of friends."
Everyone nodded. "I see," Prue said. "Well, Tara, how did you get here? You don't have transportation powers do you?"
Tara shook her head. "No I don't. If I did I would have transported away with Kana."
Tanya nodded. "Yes. Tara and I and any of the others would do anything to protect our Princesses."
"How many others are there?" Bri asked curiously.
"Well," Tanya said slowly. "There are many in the animal Kingdom but the ones the demons are after are ones who have whole famalies. You see, Kana, is the Princess of the Cananine's and not just domestic dogs but anything withint the Canine family. It is the same for Fela."
Tara nodded. "So, they already have the two most powerful Princesses, Kana and Fela. They'll also go after Baily and Princess Cubby, the bear princess and her Protectress, as well as Margo and Princess Bria, the Bird Princess and her Protectress. Those four are the most important. And you see, they need their teenage blood. It will awaken the leader of the Blood Sisters and bring her into her true powers."
"Teenage?" Phoebe asked.
Tara nodded. "Yes."
"But I thought they were babies!"
"They are. But as animal princesses they grow quickly. Within days they will be teens and then they will have their blood!"
"Is there anything we can do? There has to be something we can do!" Phoebe said.
"I can't think of anything," Tanya said.
"Nor I," Tara admitted.
Sadly everyone queited. What were they to do?
As they sat pondering there was a frantic cry outside and the front door slammed open. In stumbled a cloaked young women holding a bundled baby.
Behind there came the same demond who had taken the first two babies.
Prue gave a surprised cry and put her hands out, sending the demon flying backwards.
Piper threw her hands out on front of her and blew the demon up but though he dissapeard in soaring golden flames they knew he wasn't dead.
Everyone looked at each other. "Book of Shadows," they all said at once.
