Amulet of Kess
By wendigo3

A powerful amulet is in the hands of a witch whose allegiance can be questioned. Can the girls protect their secrets while helping a friend that may turn on them at any moment, and still have time to save the entire world?

Warning: Paige gets a cool new power

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Phoebe eyed the Christmas tree apprehensively as she walked out of the main room into the hallway where Piper was standing, "What is the tree still doing up, I thought Paige was going to take it down last night,?" Piper smiled weakly as she raised her hand slowly, "Don't worry, Paige had an emergency and she had to go to work, I told her that I'd take it down." Phoebe's head lowered to where Phoebe could see her feet, "Sorry, I don't know what's wrong with me today, my hormones are all out of whack. Ever since I woke up I've been running on energized, cubed!"

Piper walked over to the phone and picked it up as it rang, but she calmly put it back down when she spoke, "There wasn't an answer, that's funny." A strange feeling came over Phoebe as her hand quickly threw itself up to the wall. Phoebe flinched suddenly as her vision forced her to levitate in the air. The vision of Paige running from a demon at her office wasn't too bad, but considering a dark lighter was following her with a bow and poisoned arrows scared Phoebe to death. Paige threw up her hand causing a strange silver mixture extended from her hand.

The mixture hit the door as she closed it, preventing the arrow and flying fireball projecting through the air to hit the door without causing damage, instead of destroying it as it should have done. Paige gently turned around as she started to go down the stairs, but she turned quickly when the dark lighter appeared. Before Paige could use her powers a dark lighter projected an arrow at her as a fire-throwing warlock appeared next to him.

The arrow hit her in the chest as a fireball was thrown at her, pushing her to the bottom of the stairs with blood gushing out of her body. The dark lighter and warlock both smiled as Paige was unconscious, unable to defend herself, and practically dead.
The premonition ended suddenly as Phoebe grabbed Piper's hand and slowly took control of her powers and lowered herself down, "No time to explain, we have to get to Paige, I'll explain on the way." Piper quickly nodded as Phoebe pulled her quickly from her position to the outside and in the car.

Paige turned the corner desperately searching for a place to orb out, but everywhere she turned people were there. She had to hurry and tell her sisters that a powerful amulet was in the possession of a local witch and in need of help of protecting, but she couldn't let people see her powers. She stopped suddenly when she saw a dark lighter, holding a bow and armed with arrows, appear, and next to him a warlock with a glowing red fireball extending from his hand. People around them seemed to be oblivious to their presence, so Paige quickly turned away from them and ran into the Women's bathroom. She made her way into a stall and started to Orb out but she touched the door of the stall and a strange metallic glow grew on it. She pounded and found it unable to be broken, and then a few seconds later the metal vanished. The door suddenly opened and a pair of arms pulled her out.

Paige screamed slowly as Phoebe and Piper stood next to her, "Has your new power activated yet?" Paige nodded, "It just did, if you call that a new power, a warlock and a dark lighter are after me." "We know, I saw a premonition, I'm just thankful that we got here before my premonition came true." The warlock and the dark lighter walked in, surprised, to find Paige standing next to her sisters. A fireball flew at Piper who was unable to use her powers to stop it.

Paige pulled her arm up quickly as a mirror vanished from the wall and appeared in front of Piper in Paige's arms. Before the fireball hit it the silvery mixture engulfed the mirror giving it a protective coating which absorbed the fire blast from the warlock. Paige dropped the mirror to the floor while it still remained unharmed as the warlock and dark lighter were frozen by Piper's power. The shield vanished from the mirror, returning it to normal, "That is so cool, I wonder what that has to do with your white lighter and witch powers?"

"I'll ask Leo later, but I can't seem to orb." "You just have to concentrate, its like that when you get a new power, just close your eyes and concentrate and orb us to the manor," Piper said, as she threw up her hands and blew up the dark lighter and warlock at the same time. "That was different," Piper said, as a large black mark appeared behind them. "I thought evil doesn't leave...," Paige began, until they were all orbed out suddenly.

Leo stood over the book of shadows turning the pages when Paige, Phoebe, and Piper orbed in. "There you are, the elders told me what happened, I'm glad you're okay." Piper turned to Leo, "Paige has a cool new power, do you know about it?" Leo shook his head, "They didn't say anything about a new power, maybe they decided to give it to you after I was sent to open the book to the page about the Amulet." "That's why I was trying to orb to you when the baddies appeared, a coworker of mine is a witch, don't worry, she doesn't know about us, but she has this amulet around her neck and I know I've seen it in the book before."

"Amanda runs a local witch shop on the east side of town, the amulet was passed down to her from her ancestors, apparently the amulet can render a witch invisible but as far as I know she hasn't been able to unlock it yet." The girls surrounded Leo and looked at the detailed Picture in the book of shadows. The silver amulet looked exactly like the one that Amanda was wearing fifteen minutes earlier.

"It's called the Amulet of Kess and was forged by a witch, evil has been searching for the magic of the amulet for centuries so many will be sent after the one who has control, if evil gets a hold of the amulet they will be able to cloak themselves from the physical view of witches for the entire time they are in possession of it." "I think we may have to tell your friend who we are, Leo, can you orb up and talk to the elder's about Paige's new power, we're going to try to teach her how to relax so she can use it with her other powers." Leo nodded as she vanished in bright blue lights.

Paige looked at her sisters nervously, "I'm not so sure if its such a good idea that we tell her, you don't know her like I do."