Charmed 11
A/N: This is chapter is going to be a lot like Buffy. With some alterations. Warning: Character death.
[Scene: Nikki is in the attic.]
A voice: Nikki. (Her mom appears in front of her in a bright light.)
Nikki: Mum…What are you doing here? What's going on?
Nikki's Mom: Death is your gift.
Nikki: What?
Nikki's Mom: Death is your gift. Love will lead you to your gift.
Nikki: What are you talking about?!
(Nikki's mom disappears)
Nikki: Mom!
[Scene: Nikki's bedroom. The alarm goes off. Nikki sits up straight waking up.]
Nikki: It was just a dream. Just a dream. (she turns off her alarm and throws off the covers and gets out of bed.) I've just dealt with to many demons. That's all. I hope..
[Time lapse: The Kitchen. Nina is cooking and Nikki is poking at her food distracted. Natalie comes rushing in.]
Natalie: Overslept again!
Nina: Your breakfast is on the table. Nikki, honey, are you OK?
Nikki: What? Oh, I'm just a little distracted…I had a weird dream..
(Nina and Natalie sit down next to her)
Natalie: What was it about?
Nikki: Well, I was in the attic and mom appeared and she said that Death was my gift, and that love would lead me to my gift.
Nina: What's that supposed to mean?
Nikki: I have no idea. I mean of all the gifts I could have had, Death?
Natalie: Is death even a gift?
Nikki: I don't know. (She stands up) I have to get to work. (She leaves before they can say anything)
[Scene: VIP. Four men are sitting at the table. Tasha, Val, Johnny, Quick, and Kay are talking to them.]
Man #1: I'm Dan, these are my associates Sam, Warren, and Fred. (They raise their hands respectively)
Val: Well, I'm Val Irons, this is Tasha. That's Kay. And Over there are Quick and Johnny. Nikki should be here soon.
Warren: We have a very important meeting tonight and we need some security.
Sam: You kniw, to make sure things go smoothly.
Tasha: We understand.
(Nikki enters)
Nikki: Sorry I'm late.
Val: It's ok. We were just talking to our new client. This is Dan, Sam, Fred, and Warren. They run Four. An investment firm. We're running a security thing at a meeting tonight.
Fred: We have to go now anyways. We have to prepare for the meeting. (The four men leave.)
Johnny: Are you okay Nik? You look out of it.
Nikki: I'm fine. I just didn't sleep well last night.
Tasha: We should go have a look around at The Four. Start to ste up security.
(They all agree and leave)
[Scene: The Four. Nikki and Johnny are going over the layout with Kay on her computer. Nikki's cell rings.]
Nikki: (answreing it) Hello?
Nina: We have a problem…
Nikki: Not another one…Can't you do it without me?
Nina: Not really. It's a prophecy. Something about a hellmouth, a sacrfice, flowing blood, and the end of the world. Leo orbed in a minute ago to tell us we had until tonight.
Nikki: I'm a little busy. We have to run security for a meeting tonight.
Nina: I'm sorry. I'll go ask the end of the world to wait another night.
Nikki: Fine, fine. I'll be there soon. (She hangs up) I have to go.
Kay: Another demon?
Nikki: The end of the world. (She grabs her jacket) Sorry to leave you like this, but these things are rather impatient and all..
Johnny: Do you save the world on a daily basis?
Nikki: I stop demons on a daily basis. I only save the world on a weekly basis.
Kay: Alright. We'll make an excuse for you.
Nikki: Thanks.
Johnny: Be careful.
Nikki: (She smiles) I will. (She leaves.)
(Tasha enters.)
Tasha: Where's Nikki?
Kay: Family emergency.
Johnny: She won't be here tonight either.
Tasha: Why am I not surprised?
[Scene: A headquarters of some sort. The four buisness men are there.]
Warren: Could you come up with stupider names?
Dan: Like we could have told them our real names. And it was on the spot.
Fred: Yeah, War, Strife, Death and Famine would raise some suspicions.
Sam(Strife): Really? You think? We're only here to end the world.
Dan(Death): Oh shut up. Is he going to be here?
Fred(Famine): Yep.
Warren(War): Nothing had better go wrong or else the Source will have our heads.
[Scene: The Manor. Living room. Nina and Natalie are there with Leo. Nikki enters.]
Nikki: Give me the abbreviated version.
Natalie: Apparently there's this thing called the hellmouth. Kind of like a link between our world and the underworld. There's a ritual that can only be performed tonight to rip the fabric seperating all worlds and it requires the blood of a whitelighter/witch. The merge will stop when the blood stops flowing.
Nikki: Except that there's a lot of blood in a person.
Nina: Yep.
Nikki: And it's our job to save the world…again.
Nina: Yep. Except Leo won't tell us how.
Nikki: (Sitting down) So we keep these people from cutting the sacrafice..
Natalie: I can try scrying for the hellmouth..
Nikki: Okay. Leo, do you know anything about the group that's going to try and end the world?
Leo: The four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Nina: I can't find them in the book of shadows.
Nikki: Maybe no other Halliwell witches have come across them.
Leo: You can't let the world end.
Nikki: We know that.
(The book does it's page flipping thing and opens to the page about the hellmouth)
Nina: How does it do that?
Natalie: I don't know, but what does it say?
Nina: It says that The Hellmouth literally means the mouth of hell..Its a center of mystical convergence, where supernatural things tend to happen more often like demons and warlocks and the general nasty people who like to kill us.
Nikki: Lovely
(Natalie stands up)
Natalie: I'm gonna go do that scry…(She goes upstairs)
Nikki: Nina, I'm gonna use your laptop and see if I can find anything on the four horseman from folklore and legends and myths.
Nina: That's a good idea. I'm gonna keep going through the book to see if I can find anything useful. It may not have a vanquish, but a distraction would be nice.
Nikki: Okay. (Nikki goes upstairs)
[Cut to Natalie in the attic is scrying for the hellmouth.]
[Cut to Nina in the living room writing down the ingrediants for a few potions that may help.]
[Scene: Nikki is in the attic.]
A voice: Nikki. (Her mom appears in front of her in a bright light.)
Nikki: Mum…
Nikki's Mom: Death is your gift.
Nikki: You said that before, but what do you mean?
Nikki's Mom: Love will lead you to your gift.
Nikki: What are you talking about?! Who's going to die?
(Nikki's mom disappears)
Nikki: Mom! How is death a gift!?
[Scene: Manor. Natalie comes running down the stairs with the map. Nikki wakes up.]
Natalie: I found it! I found it!
(Nikki comes out of the kitchen yawning.)
Nikki: You found the hellmouth?
Natalie: Yes I did. Honey, are you OK?
Nikki: (She goes and sits on the couch) I fell asleep while I was reseaching the four horseman (Leo orbs in)…I had that dream again…
Nina: Oh honey..
Leo: What dream?
Nikki: I keep having this weird dream where mom comes to me and she keeps saying that Death is my gift, and that Love will lead me to my gift. Do you know what that means?
Leo: It sounds like something you need to figure out for yourself.
Nikki: I hate that.
Leo: Have you guys gotten anywhere?
Natalie: I found the hellmouth.
Nina: I have some potions that might be helpful in a plan of attack, and while I was writing one down the book did it's page flipping thing..
Natalie: I love that..
Nina: And it opened to a page detailing the ritual..
Nikki: I found a ton of articles on the four horsemen. Of course they all said the same thing. Probably why I fell asleep. So what's it say?
Nina: Nothing we don't already know… The blood flows, the gates will open. The gates will close when it flows no more I think the gates mean the walls between the worlds, and when the sacrafice is dead the walls will be put back up…but since the sacrafice is human that's too long
Nikki: The sacrafice is our innocent. We're not letting him or her die.
Leo: If the gates open we won't have a choice.
Nikki: No. Leo, there is always a choice.
Leo: There is a greater good involved.
Nikki: I'm not going to let our innocent die.
Leo: Natalie, where's the hellmouth?
Natalie: Oh yeah. Well, I couldn't scry for the hellmouth exactly, so I did a scry for the four horsemen and they have to be close by right? (She sets the map on the table.) There.
(Nikki studies the location for a minute.)
Nikki: That has to be wrong.
Nina: Why?
Nikki: That's an investment firm. VIP is doing security there for a meeting tonight.
Nina: What firm is it?
Nikki: The Four….Oh my god…But why would they have asked VIP there?
Leo: Maybe they want VIP to make sure no one disturbs the ceremony?
Nikki: What time is it?
Nina: four-thirty, why?
Nikki: Alright. We have some time. Let's go make those potions of yours. (They get up and go to the kitchen.)
[Scene: With the VIP gang.]
Tasha: Okay, he'll be there soon. (She hangs up the phone) Johnny, Warren wants you to go up to the office to explain the security system.
Johnny: Ok. (he stands up) I'll be back soon.
(He leaves)
[Scene: Back at the manor. Nina, Nikki and Natalie are making potions. Leo is there.]
Leo: All I'm saying is that if we're too late to keep the ritual from starting your gonna have to make a sacrafice.
Nikki: We are not sacraficing our innocent.
Leo: If you don't many more lives will be lost.
Nina: Why is it blood anyways?
Leo: Blood is life.
Nikki: It's always blood.
[Scene: Back at The Four. Johnny is walking down a hallway to go meet with the four men from before. A man jumps down from the ceiling behind him. Johnny turns around.]
Johnny: Where'd you come from? (The man aims a punch at Johnny's face but he ducks. While Johnny fights off the man another one comes from behind and hits him with the butt of an Athame knocking him out.)
Man #1: Why didn't he orb?
Man #2: It doesn't matter. (They pick up Johnny and carry him down to the basement.)
[Time lapse. Scene: Tasha, Val, Quick and Kay are waiting for Johnny.]
Quick: Where could he be?
Kay: Maybe it's taking longer than planned…
Val: This place is so big and confusing…maybe he got lost.
Tasha: He's not you Val.
(Val makes a face at Tasha.)
[Scene: Manor. Kitchen. Same as before.]
Nina: Do you really think this is going to work?
Natalie: I dodn't know..But Nikki's right, we can't sacrafice our innocent…
Nikki: I'm glad some…(She doesn't get a chance to finish her sentence because she collapses and loses conciousness.)
Nina/Natalie/Leo: Nikki! (They rush over to her to try and wake her up)
[Scene: Nikki is standing alone in the middle of the kitchen.]
Nikki: What the..? Where is everybody?
(A bright light flashes in front of her and Grams is standing there.)
Nikki: Grams? What's going on? Oh don't tell me…Death is my gift. And Love will lead me to my gift.
Grams: Love is like a dagger which leaves your soul to bleed.
Nikki: What? What is it with the supernatural and cryptic!?
(Grams disppears in a bright light.)
Nikki: Hey! Wait!
(The scenery fades into the basement of The Four building and Nikki can see Johnny chained up to a wall.)
Nikki: Johnny… (She runs over to him and puts her hand on his arm) Are you OK? (He doesn't answer. She looks confused and looks at her hand which is now covered in blood. She can now see slashes on his arm and stomach) Johnny!
[Scene: Back in the kitchen. Leo left to go ask the Elders what's going on. Nina and Natalie are sitting next to Nikki.]
Nikki: Johnny! (she sits up, almost knocking into Nina and Natalie. She looks around breathing heavily and scrambles up)
Nina: What is it?
Nikki: We have to go now!
Natalie: We can't go now, the potions aren't done.
Nikki: You don't understand! They have the sacrafice….it..it's Johnny.
Nina: Nikki, calm down…we'll save him..but we can't go rushing in unprepared..
Nikki: (calming down) Your right…as always..
[Scene: The basement. The two men who jumped Johnny from before are sitting at a table. Johnny is unconcious and chained to the wall. He starts to regain conciousness.]
Johnny: Wha..? (he realizes he's chained up and struggles against the chains) What's going on?
(The two men stand up and walk over to him.)
Man #1: Don't even bother to try and orb out of the chains, they're magic proof.
Johnny: Orb?
Man #2: Don't play dumb with us.
Johnny: What do you want with me?
Man #1: Why your going to help us end the world. Well, at least your blood is.
Johnny: I'm not helping you do anything.
Man #2: That's the beauty of this…it doesn't have to be willing.
[Time lapse: Hours later, Nina, Nikki, and Natalie are finished making potions. There are groups of different potions on the table. ]
Natalie: Okay, these is the potion to induce sleep, those one is to repel an evil threat and that one puts out a fire
Nikki: What kind of potion does that?
Natalie: That's water.
Nina: It might be useful. (She points another one) Okay, these create an 'obscuring mist'.
Nikki: These creates an explosion, and those scalds the skin.
Natalie: And the last one freezes them, right?
Nina: Right.
Nikki: (Looks at her watch) It's eight now. We should get down to the firm.
(They all grab some potions and leave.)
[Scene: Back with the VIP gang.]
Kay: Maybe we should look for Johnny…
Tasha: Your right. Let's split up. Kay you stay here in case he shows up.
Kay: Right.
(The rest of the gang splits up to find Johnny)
[Scene: Val is searching down a hallway for Johnny, when she sees an open door. Her curiousity getting the best of her she goes into it and sees the four buisness men from before. She hides behind the wall and listens to their conversation.]
Dan(Death): We have two hours til' the ritual.
Warren(War): Is he ready?
Sam(Strife): Yes. Javna and Grickni are watching him.
Fred(Famine): Just make sure VIP doesn't get in the way. Why are they here anyways?
Sam(Strife): We needed to get him here somehow.
Fred(Famine): There had to have been other ways.
Warren(War): You weren't exactly volunteering any ideas earlier.
Dan(Death): Oh stop arguing. We have an apocalypse to arrange.
Val: (hushed) Oh no..(she turns and runs out, but knocks some boxes over)
Dan(Death): What was that?
Warren(War): Probably just some rat demons.
[Cut to Val running down the hall]
Val: This is bad, this is bad, this is bad. (She finally makes it back to Kay) Kay! Kay! Your not going to believe what I just heard!
Kay: What?
Val: The guys we're working for are trying to end the world!
Kay: Oh my god!
[Scene: Quick is walking down the hall Johnny had been in earlier when he sees the basement door open.]
Quick: Now why would that door be open..(He goes inside and goes downstairs. He sees the two men sitting at a table and Johnny chained to a wall.) Excuse me. (he pulls out his gun) I believe you two were about to let my fiend here go.
[Time lapse. Quick is now chained next to Johnny.]
Johnny: (sarcastically) Thanks for the rescue.
Quick: Oh shut up.
[Scene: Tasha is walking down another hallway, when her cell rings. She answers it.]
Tasha: Hello?
Kay: We have another problem.
Tasha: What is it?
Kay: I think you should come back.
Tasha: Fine.
[Time lapse: Tasha walks up to Kay and Val.]
Tasha: Well?
Val: The guys that hired us are very bad people.
Tasha: What are you talking about?
Val: Well, I was going down the hall looking for Johnny, and I saw and open door and snuck in and listened to them talk about some sort of ritual to end the world. And they needed a guy for it. Which is why they hired us. At first I thought it was Johnny but..
Tasha: But?
Kay: I can't reach Quick.
Tasha: Oh..
[Scene: The basement.]
(Some more men come downstairs and they head towards Johnny and Quick)
Javna: It's time.
(They unchain Johnny and Quick and start to drag them out.)
[Scene: Back with Kay, Val and Tasha. Leo, Nina, Nikki, and Natalie come running in)
Nikki: What time is it?
Nina: Eight-thirty.
Nikki: That doesn't leave much time…
Kay: Nikki!
(The three sisters go over)
Natalie: Will this take long because we're short on time?
Kay: The guys that hired us are trying to end the world.
Nina/Nikki/Natalie: We know.
Tasha: I thought you had a family emergency..
Nikki: I'll go back to dealing with when we're done here.
Val: Quick and Johnny are missing.
Nikki: Damnit. I told you.
Natalie: I'm still confused on that a bit….I mean Johnny knows about us… wouldn't he have told us, or at least Nikki, about himself?
Leo: It's possible he's unaware…
Nikki: It doesn't matter right now.
Leo: Maybe, if we're too late to stop the ritual from starting…Nina or Natalie should stop it…
Nikki: We're not sacraficing Johnny.
Leo: Your letting your feelings get in the way.
Nikki: Leo.
Leo: What?
Nikki: Shove it.
Tasha: What are you talking about?
Nikki: Kay can explain.
Nina: We have to go save the world.
Nikki: First we have to find out where they're doing the ritual…
[Scene: A huge metal tower, basically build out of scaffolding. It stretches into the air above the firm. Johnny is chained up and standing at the end of the platform with the city lights behind and below him. Quick is chained nearby.]
Johnny: Unfortunetly I think I know why I'm here, but why is he here?
Grickni: To watch. It's always amusing to watch people watch their friends die.
Quick: Your not going to get away with this.
Javna: We already have.
[Back with Kay, Val, Tasha, Nina, Nikki, Natalie and Leo. Kay breifly explained about them being witches while the sisters tried to figure out where they need to be. The four horsemen come walking out.]
Death: We have to go. We should be back shortly.
War: Just make sure that the meeting isn't diturbed.
Famine: We'll be back before it starts.
Nikki: (Cutting off Tasha who was going to tell them off) Yes sir. (The four men leave)
Tasha: Your just letting them leave?
Nikki: I'm following them.
Natalie: You're a genious!
Nina: Stay here.
(The four leave following the four horsemen.)
Tasha: I'm following them
Kay: It could be dangerous…I've seen some of the stuff they deal with..
Tasha: If these people have Quick and Johnny, it's our buisness.
Val: I'll come with you.
Kay: (reluctantly) I'm going with.
Tasha: Kay, you don't have to.
Kay: I'm not staying here by myself.
(They leave following the sisters.)
[Scene: The courtyard below the platform. The four Horsemen are about to go up the stairs. Nikki throws an exploding potion in front of them blowing them away from the stairs. The three sisters and Leo stand out in the open. Tasha, Val and Kay are hiding behind some bushes watching. ]
Nikki: I don't think so.
Death: What are you doing?
Nina: We're saving the world,
Natalie: and kicking your ass.
Strife: Who do you think you are?
Nikki: You can refer to us as the Charmed Ones.
War: We don't have time for this. (He waves his arm and they all go flying into a brick wall. The four turn and start for the stairs again.)
Nina: No way! (She uses her power to fling them away from the stairs)
Famine: Feisty little things you are, but we don't have time for you! (The two groups run at each other and start fighting. Fists, legs, potions and people go flying.)
(Strife slips away from the fight and goes for the stairs. Natalie sees him and throws a freezing potion at him.)
Natalie: Ah ah ah. (Strife becomes covered in a thin layer of ice and can't move)
War: I've had enough of you potions! (He waves his arm and the potions in their hands go flying into the wall.)
Natalie: (Whispering to the other two) That was my last potion…
Nikki/Nina: (whispering) Mine too.
Natalie: Crap…
(Strife unfreezes, and being pissed off throws them into the wall again.)
Tasha: (Jumping out of the bushes with her gun) Hold it right there!
Nina/Nikki/Natalie: You followed us?!
(While the girls are ditracted Death starts to run up the stairs)
Leo: Girls!
Nikki: I'll get him! (She runs up after him)
War: This mortal thinks that weapon can hurt us?
Strife: (laughing) She's not to bright is she?
(Tasha fires several shots at the three remaining horsemen. They have no effect.)
Tasha: What the hell?
War: Now it's my turn! (He uses his power and Tasha goes flying)
(Natalie suddenly realizes something)
Natalie: Nina! I can't believe how stupid I am!
Nina: This isn't the time to realize your faults.
Natalie: Ha ha. No remember the pell we wrote to vanquish the Source if he attacks?
Nina: Oh my god your right! But we need the power of three and Nikk's busy…
Natalie: We'll have to make do til' she gets back…
(An all out fight ensues)
[Cut to Nikki and Death. He's made it to the top of the platform. Grickni gives him his Athame to start the ritual.]
Death: Time for you to die and take the world with you.
Johnny: Go to hell.
Death: I'd prefer to bring it here.
(Nikki makes it to the top of the stairs)
Nikki: I'd like to launch a protest. (She kicks the Athame out of his hand.)
Quick: Nikki! You have impeccable timing!
(Nikki goes to make a comment when Death uses his power to fling her into a nearby bar.)
Death: You can't stop me!
Nikki: Wanna bet? (she freezes the platform. Quick freezes but no one else.) Well, crap. (She unfreezes Quick because there's no point.) I'm gonna have to do this the hard way..
Death: Are you done with your little parlor tricks? (Quick looks confused)
Nikki: Not quite…(She pulls out her last potion) I lied before..(she throws it at him) I'll just freeze you the hard way. (Death freezes, Along with Javna and Grickni who were standing nearby.) That should buy me some time. (she goes over to Johnny and tries to undo his chains) A whitelighter/witch huh? You didn't divulge this information why?
Johnny: Okay. I'm getting sick of that. Why is everybody calling me that?
Nikki: I'll explain if there's a later. Damnit! I can't get these chains undone.
Death: Your out of time.
Nikki: I'll be right back.. (she runs at Death but instead of tackling him she jumps up and grabs the bar above her kicking him off the platform and jumps down.)
Death: (falling) start the ceremony you fools!
(Javna sneaks up behind Nikki and pushes her off the edge)
Johnny/Quick: Nikki!!!
[Cut to the battle. Val and Kay have joined in.]
(Leo looks up as he hears Nikki scream. He orbs to her and orbs her safely to the ground)
Nikki: Thanks.
(Nina and Natalie run to here)
Natalie: Quick, the Source vanquish!
Nina/Nikki/Natalie: Pruedence, Penelope, Patricia, Melinda,
Astrid, Helena, Laura and Grace,
Halliwell witches stand strong beside us!
Vanquish this evil from time and space!
(They repeat it, vanquishing the four horsemen.)
Nina: We did it!
Nikki: I have to get up there! There's still some demons up there that can start the ritual…
(The people from the firm come out and attack)
[Cut to back on the platform]
(Javna pulls out his Athame and Grickni retrieves his from the ground. They advance on Johnny)
Javna: This is going to hurt a bit. (He slashes Johnny's arm. Johnny chokes back a scream)
[Cut back to the courtyard. The people are easy vanquishes, but there are so many it's taking too long.]
[Cut back to the platform.]
Grickni: My turn. (he slashes Johnny's stomach. Johnny can't hold back his scream.)
[Cut back to the courtyard.]
Nikki: I have to get up there! Leo! (She looks to see Leo is busy with demons of his own)
Leo: I'd help but I can't pull myself away…
(Nikki makes a run for the stairs and sprints up them)
[Cut back to the platform.]
Quick: Johnny!
Javna/Grickni: Let the blood flow..
(Johnny's blood drips over his toes at the edge of the platform. In midair they meet something, and a small circle of light appears, quickly growing.)
Nikki: Johnny! (She runs over and quickly Kicks Javna and Grickni out of the way sending them over the platform.)
Quick: Your alive!?
(Nikki whispers a quick spell and breaks the chains, leading Johnny away from the platform towards the entrance.)
Nikki: Quick, you can break you chains now.
(Quick does so. Johnny stops and turns around)
Nikki: Go!
Johnny: It's started…
(Nikki turns and they can both see the light of the portal. The portal is growing ever larger. A bolt of lightning opens an enormous hole in the middle of the street. People scream and run away. The portal crackles and sends out lightning. a large building gets hit by lightning and burning to a shell in instants. Weird demon creatures in the walls of the building, screaming in pain.)
Quick: I'm not going to ask for an explanation, but how do you stop it?
Nikki: (Quietly) The gates will close when it flows no more…
Johnny: (pained) When what flows no more?
Nikki: Blood…
[Cut to the courtyard]
(Leo, Nina, Natalie, Kay, Tasha, and Val have regrouped.)
Leo: (Looking up.) She was too late…
Kay: You mean..the world is ending?
Val: Isn't there a way to stop it?
Leo: It was triggered by the blood of a whitelighter/witch, and it can be stopped when the blood stops flowing…
Tasha: but Nikki' refuses to sacrafice Johnny…
(Leo nods solemnly)
Nina: Then this is it…
Val: No…Nikki will figure out a way to stop it…she's not just going to let the world end like this..
[Scene: Nikki is in the attic.]
A voice: Nikki. (Her mom appears in front of her in a bright light.)
Nikki: Mum…What are you doing here? What's going on?
Nikki's Mom: Death is your gift.
Nikki: What?
Nikki's Mom: Death is your gift. Love will lead you to your gift.
Nikki: What are you talking about?!
(Nikki's mom disappears)
Nikki: Mom!
[Scene: Back at the platform. Nikki snaps out of her reverie.]
Quick: But that would mean…
Johnny: Then I have to jump..
Nikki: No! There has to be another way…just give me a minute to think!
(Flashback: Scene: Nikki is in the kitchen with Grams)
Grams: Love is like a dagger which leaves your soul to bleed.
(Flashback: Scene: Nikki is underwater being pulled down and she's getting to weak to keep trying to get to the top)
A voice: Nikki, Nikki. You must face your fears, Nikki. You must trust in the greatest of all powers. Love.
(Scene: Nikki is in the attic with her Mom.)
Nikki's Mom: Death is your gift. Love will lead you to your gift.
(End flashbacks.)
Nikki:…I get it…
Johnny: Get what?
(She pulls her sleeve back and grabs a fallen Athame then slashes her arm.)
Quick: Nikki! Isn't there enough blood around here? I'm gonna be sick..
(She turns to Johnny and takes his wounded arm and presses the wounds together.)
Johnny: What are you doing?
Nikki: Saving the world. (she pulls her arm away.)
Johnny: I don't get it…
(Nikki puts her hand on his cheek.)
Quick: Hello? World ending? Should you be flirting? (also clueless to what's going on)
(Nikki pulls Johnny closer and kisses him passionately.)
Nikki: I love you. Tell the others that I love them….and, tell Leo I figured it out and, and that I'm fine. The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. You all have to be strong, and live, for me.
Johnny: (Catching on) Nikki! No! I love you! You can't do this!
(Nikki goes over to Quick and hugs him)
Quick: Nikki, you can't be serious!
Nikki: This is what I'm meant to do…
(Nikki turns and runs to the end of the platform and swan dives into the portal)
Johnny: NOO!!
Quick: Nikki!
[Cut to the courtyard. They look up as they hear Johnny yell.]
Tasha: What's going on!?
[Cut to the platform. Quick is holding Johnny back from the platform. Johnny is hyterical. The portal shrinks to nothingness and disappears.]
Johnny: No! No! Nikki! Let me go! (becoming less hysterical, tears are streaming down his face) Nikki can't be dead..she promised…(quietly) she promised me she wouldn't die…
[Cut to the courtyard. Quick is helping Johnny down the stairs. The demons are gone. And the group that had been on the ground are staring at a fixed point. Quick and Johnny look to see what they're staring at.]
(Nikki's lifeless body is lying on the ground. Nina, Natalie, Val and Kay are sobbing openly and the rest all have tears streaming down their faces.)
Natalie: (hysterical) Leo! Heal her! Heal her! Leo!
Leo: (quietly) I can't heal the dead…
(Natalie drops to the ground sobbing)
[Scene: graveyard, day. It's sunny and pretty with lots of trees and grass. A small bunch of flowers lies on the grass in front of a gravestone.]
The headstone reads:
Nikki Charlotte Franco-Halliwell
1972 - 2002
BELOVED SISTER
DEVOTED FRIEND
SHE HELPED SAVE THE WORLD A LOT