Disclaimer: I do not own the series 'Charmed' (unfortunately). The
characters I own are the ones you haven't heard of. This was set for when
Prue was still alive.
Chapter 8 The demons stood at the five points of the pentagram, hands held, chanting. The red pentagon shape in the middle glowed brightly then dimly, bright, dim, bright, dim, bright. The chant got louder as it did faster, the middle of the pentagram getting brighter. The centre opened and a woman rose up, surrounded by electric blue smoke. The fire faded as Natalie fixed her hair. She grinned triumphantly, "Everything is going to plan!" she reported. She knew that her bosses were going to ask her what was going on with the cursed mirror. The shortest demon had his doubts. He was pretty certain that Natalie wasn't telling the entire truth, "No mishaps or problems?" Natalie's grin faded slightly. She tried to keep upbeat, "Errrrrrrrm. no, no problems at all." One of the other demons eyed her sceptically. Natalie shifted slightly. The glare made her feel a bit uncomfortable, "Well, one of the sisters didn't take the bait. She was suspicious of the mirror so she didn't look in it in order to be affected by the spell." "I knew it!" boomed the shortest demon, "I knew you were going to mess this up." Natalie gulped. If she didn't say something, she would be destroyed mercilessly. She needed an excuse and she needed it fast. "Hold on!" she exclaimed as fiercely as she could, "the witch that is still good has no active power to speak of. The other two will probably kill her soon enough." "We will not take the chances!" The oldest one shouted, "Either you kill her, or your time will expire before hers!" Natalie laughed nervously. She knew very well that this demon wasn't bluffing and he would kill her if she failed. "You have an ultimatum," the tallest one growled fiercely, "you will kill the witch by the end of the week." Natalie stood on the spot, not even daring to breathe. "GO!" he barked. He pointed at her and she disappeared with a shriek, followed by a puff of smoke. * * * * * * Prue blinked into P3. Piper stood in front of her and tilted her head at her. "I don't see the book," Piper smirked, "Unless they have an invisible one I didn't know about." Prue shook her head sarcastically, implying that she reckoned Piper was an idiot. She had been so absorbed in destroying the Manor, she forgot about the book. She felt so stupid at the thought that Piper had remembered the book and she hadn't. She was half tempted to fling Piper at the wall- that'll shut her up. No, Prue thought, we could destroy the witch if we work together- I'll destroy her after that. Instead, she smiled sweetly and replied, "No, sister dear, if we want the book, we must make them pay first." Piper frowned, for crying out loud! Her mind screamed, the woman is a complete idiot! Its not like I don't know that she forgot the book- her cover is completely dumb! "Like what? You're just wasting our time. We can kill that witch in the blink of an eye." Prue rolled her eyes, "No, Piper- that's so easy that it's boring. We should warn them that we're coming- that way, we get chase- and an appetite for magic and evil deeds." "So, what did you do?" Piper asked. She still wasn't convinced. Prue was talking complete nonsense. Didn't she yell at Piper for not getting the Book of Shadows? Didn't she pretty much brag that she could do a way better job? Prue was just giving an excuse for not getting the book- and a very bad excuse at that. "I destroyed the witch's kitchen and set her living room alight." She replied. Piper rolled her eyes. We could easily kill the witch, get it out of the way, and then there'll be plenty of innocents to kill. Piper grimaced at Prue. She motioned her arms forward and a gale force wind blew into P3. The wind knocked Prue off her feet and she slammed into the burnt remains of the notice board. Prue blinked out and reappeared behind Piper. She immediately both her hands around Piper's neck and held tightly, strangling her and cutting off the circulation to her head. Piper began to feel really dizzy as less and less blood reached her brain. She instinctively threw her arms back, grabbed Prue's shoulders, stomped on Prue's left foot and in an instant, flipped Prue forward- slamming her on the floor. Piper felt proud of herself, I've never had a judo lesson in my life, yet I managed to flip someone who has! Hah! She pointed at Prue and she morphed into a chew toy. Piper picked up the object and hurled it behind the counter. "Idiot." Piper muttered under her breath. All of a sudden, Leo shimmered in beside Piper. He was holding a disk-like weapon. Piper smiled at him. "Kill the witch." He murmured in a determined tone. * * * * * * Phoebe was getting jumpier by the minute. She paced up and down the corridor, holding the peas on her shoulder. Every now and again, she glanced behind her- on the lookout for her sisters, Leo and Andy. Andy is really taking his time up there! Phoebe thought. Suddenly, the front door opened and Phoebe sensed a person behind her. Instinctively, she spun round and kicked as hard as she possibly could. "Phoebe! What the-?" Andy jumped back just in time, before Phoebe's foot came in contact with his side. Phoebe lost her balance and slipped. She quickly raised her right arm and she rose back up again, a perk of the power of levitation! Phoebe thought. The bags of peas hit the floor. Phoebe picked up the peas, "Sorry Andy, but I'm a bit jumpy lately- you know- my sisters being evil and everything." Andy shrugged at Phoebe, "It was my fault Phoebe, I shouldn't have sneaked up on you." "Speaking of which, Andy, since when did you come through the door?" "I thought me orbing in would cause you to attack before you knew it was me." Phoebe grinned and tied the peas to her injured shoulder- that way she can use her levitation power without dropping the peas- therefore wasting time picking it up again. She shifted the peas until she was sure that they would stay put. "What did the Elders say Andy?" Phoebe asked, changing the subject to the actual point instead of meaningless blather. Andy's face turned serious, "Well there's good news and bad news. Good news is that the. 'water thing' is actually an active power for you to try and fend off your sisters for a bit- they won't attack just yet. The bad news is that, the photo of you and your sisters is an extension of your spirit- if that gets destroyed- so will you. Keep it with you at all times." Phoebe rolled her eyes. "Well that's just great!" Phoebe exclaimed, "I have an item in the household that has the power to destroy me and my sisters, the only power I have to defend myself from them is bucket loads of water!" she accidentally raised her right hand at Andy and she flew in the air and a rain of water showered over Andy- drenching him from head to toe. Andy pulled his best 'I'm not annoyed' face, "Geez Phoebe," He said, "control your power- or at least, don't make me your target!" Phoebe looked embarrassed as well as defensive, "Andy- why don't you try getting an power that you have to master in five min- oh!" Phoebe gasped as a premonition formed in her mind. Phoebe and Andy were being cornered by Leo, Piper and Prue- Literally. Both of them were levitating in the corner of the burnt living room. Piper opened her mouth and shouted, 'Die Witch, Die!' a fire swirled around Phoebe, the flames licking her skin. Phoebe screamed in pain. the premonition ended. The vision felt so real, the impact made Phoebe sit down on the stairs. She rocked from side to side. "A demon I could've handled. Another witch I could've handled, but not Piper, Prue and Leo!" Andy sat down beside Phoebe- still dripping wet. "What did you see Phoebe?" Andy asked worriedly. Phoebe grabbed Andy's arm and ran up one flight of stairs and stood outside her room. Phoebe told Andy about her vision. "So, I figure," Phoebe concluded, "That my vision can't come true if we're not in the scene of the crime." Andy wasn't convinced, "So. we're just going to avoid the living room until we've saved the others?" "Give me some time to think!" Phoebe cried, exasperated. There was nothing like seeing your beloved relatives watching you fry to give you that burst of adrenaline to make you think extra quickly without considering consequences. Andy stared at Phoebe thoughtfully. He was sure there was an easier way to solve this. "Phoebe, are you sure the Book of Shadows didn't have any information to do with your current." he tried to strive for a word, ".situation?" "No," Phoebe replied, "I think I would have noticed something about evil siblings. Somehow, I don't think Melinda Warren had to deal with something like this." Andy glanced at Phoebe, confused. "Who?" He asked. Phoebe just shook her head. There was no time to explain. "Never mind," she replied, "my point is that I didn't find anything." "Phoebe, maybe it isn't Prue and Piper you should be battling, but the demon who did this to them." Andy advised, "Did you find anything on that front?" "Well." Phoebe thought, "there as something in there about a switch demon." Both Phoebe and Andy ran upstairs to the attic to consult the Book of Shadows. As they rushed through the door, the pages of the spell book were flipping like mad and abruptly stopped on the page of about the switch demon. Phoebe sighed, "Look," she complained, "it's not being explicit at all. It could at least say what it actually means." Andy pointed towards the page. The words were writing themselves! Phoebe leaned over to read the message.
The switch demon is in the hidden twelfth plane, which is between the physical and the astral plane. The solution lies in the reflection. Unfortunately, more than one witch is needed to cast the spell. The potion requires thyme, billings root, rosemary and lavender oil. This is the spell to vanquish the switch demon: Phoebe grabbed a note pad nearby and wrote down the spell and the ingredients. She put the pages in the pocket of her blue jeans. She glanced at the book again. "Well, at least I can get the ingredients for the potion." Then she murmured half to herself, "There's thyme and rosemary growing in the garden, Piper's lavender bath oils and billings root is ginger- and it's in the spice cupboard. But then there's the case of getting my sisters back to normal." Andy spoke, "Won't vanquishing the switch demon return Prue, Piper and Leo back to normal?" Phoebe scowled at Andy. Hadn't he been reading the book? "That's my problem. I need to vanquish that warlock to save my family, but I need to save my family first in order to vanquish that stupid evil dude! Help!" Phoebe's words all came out in a rush and she sat down on her Grams' old rocking chair and put both her hands on her face and groaned unhappily, "Why can't the Book of Shadows be specific- we don't have time to figure this out!" Andy wasn't listening. He was reading the switch demon page over and over again. Between the physical and astral plane. he thought, reflection. maybe. "Yes!" Andy grinned in triumph. Phoebe looked up and frowned, "What?" she asked, "You're acting like you have answers." Andy smiled again, "I do!" he replied, "well, half of them. I remember hearing about a plane, which is inside the mirror. Do you think that's what the Book of Shadows means?" Phoebe was speechless, but nodded enthusiastically. She was really impressed. When Andy was alive, he was never that fast in giving answers or interested in the supernatural. Probably since he was a mortal inspector and he had to find more logical explanations for everything! Plus, he wasn't a whitelighter at the time. Phoebe ran over to Andy as the Book of Shadows did its flipping thing.
Chapter 8 The demons stood at the five points of the pentagram, hands held, chanting. The red pentagon shape in the middle glowed brightly then dimly, bright, dim, bright, dim, bright. The chant got louder as it did faster, the middle of the pentagram getting brighter. The centre opened and a woman rose up, surrounded by electric blue smoke. The fire faded as Natalie fixed her hair. She grinned triumphantly, "Everything is going to plan!" she reported. She knew that her bosses were going to ask her what was going on with the cursed mirror. The shortest demon had his doubts. He was pretty certain that Natalie wasn't telling the entire truth, "No mishaps or problems?" Natalie's grin faded slightly. She tried to keep upbeat, "Errrrrrrrm. no, no problems at all." One of the other demons eyed her sceptically. Natalie shifted slightly. The glare made her feel a bit uncomfortable, "Well, one of the sisters didn't take the bait. She was suspicious of the mirror so she didn't look in it in order to be affected by the spell." "I knew it!" boomed the shortest demon, "I knew you were going to mess this up." Natalie gulped. If she didn't say something, she would be destroyed mercilessly. She needed an excuse and she needed it fast. "Hold on!" she exclaimed as fiercely as she could, "the witch that is still good has no active power to speak of. The other two will probably kill her soon enough." "We will not take the chances!" The oldest one shouted, "Either you kill her, or your time will expire before hers!" Natalie laughed nervously. She knew very well that this demon wasn't bluffing and he would kill her if she failed. "You have an ultimatum," the tallest one growled fiercely, "you will kill the witch by the end of the week." Natalie stood on the spot, not even daring to breathe. "GO!" he barked. He pointed at her and she disappeared with a shriek, followed by a puff of smoke. * * * * * * Prue blinked into P3. Piper stood in front of her and tilted her head at her. "I don't see the book," Piper smirked, "Unless they have an invisible one I didn't know about." Prue shook her head sarcastically, implying that she reckoned Piper was an idiot. She had been so absorbed in destroying the Manor, she forgot about the book. She felt so stupid at the thought that Piper had remembered the book and she hadn't. She was half tempted to fling Piper at the wall- that'll shut her up. No, Prue thought, we could destroy the witch if we work together- I'll destroy her after that. Instead, she smiled sweetly and replied, "No, sister dear, if we want the book, we must make them pay first." Piper frowned, for crying out loud! Her mind screamed, the woman is a complete idiot! Its not like I don't know that she forgot the book- her cover is completely dumb! "Like what? You're just wasting our time. We can kill that witch in the blink of an eye." Prue rolled her eyes, "No, Piper- that's so easy that it's boring. We should warn them that we're coming- that way, we get chase- and an appetite for magic and evil deeds." "So, what did you do?" Piper asked. She still wasn't convinced. Prue was talking complete nonsense. Didn't she yell at Piper for not getting the Book of Shadows? Didn't she pretty much brag that she could do a way better job? Prue was just giving an excuse for not getting the book- and a very bad excuse at that. "I destroyed the witch's kitchen and set her living room alight." She replied. Piper rolled her eyes. We could easily kill the witch, get it out of the way, and then there'll be plenty of innocents to kill. Piper grimaced at Prue. She motioned her arms forward and a gale force wind blew into P3. The wind knocked Prue off her feet and she slammed into the burnt remains of the notice board. Prue blinked out and reappeared behind Piper. She immediately both her hands around Piper's neck and held tightly, strangling her and cutting off the circulation to her head. Piper began to feel really dizzy as less and less blood reached her brain. She instinctively threw her arms back, grabbed Prue's shoulders, stomped on Prue's left foot and in an instant, flipped Prue forward- slamming her on the floor. Piper felt proud of herself, I've never had a judo lesson in my life, yet I managed to flip someone who has! Hah! She pointed at Prue and she morphed into a chew toy. Piper picked up the object and hurled it behind the counter. "Idiot." Piper muttered under her breath. All of a sudden, Leo shimmered in beside Piper. He was holding a disk-like weapon. Piper smiled at him. "Kill the witch." He murmured in a determined tone. * * * * * * Phoebe was getting jumpier by the minute. She paced up and down the corridor, holding the peas on her shoulder. Every now and again, she glanced behind her- on the lookout for her sisters, Leo and Andy. Andy is really taking his time up there! Phoebe thought. Suddenly, the front door opened and Phoebe sensed a person behind her. Instinctively, she spun round and kicked as hard as she possibly could. "Phoebe! What the-?" Andy jumped back just in time, before Phoebe's foot came in contact with his side. Phoebe lost her balance and slipped. She quickly raised her right arm and she rose back up again, a perk of the power of levitation! Phoebe thought. The bags of peas hit the floor. Phoebe picked up the peas, "Sorry Andy, but I'm a bit jumpy lately- you know- my sisters being evil and everything." Andy shrugged at Phoebe, "It was my fault Phoebe, I shouldn't have sneaked up on you." "Speaking of which, Andy, since when did you come through the door?" "I thought me orbing in would cause you to attack before you knew it was me." Phoebe grinned and tied the peas to her injured shoulder- that way she can use her levitation power without dropping the peas- therefore wasting time picking it up again. She shifted the peas until she was sure that they would stay put. "What did the Elders say Andy?" Phoebe asked, changing the subject to the actual point instead of meaningless blather. Andy's face turned serious, "Well there's good news and bad news. Good news is that the. 'water thing' is actually an active power for you to try and fend off your sisters for a bit- they won't attack just yet. The bad news is that, the photo of you and your sisters is an extension of your spirit- if that gets destroyed- so will you. Keep it with you at all times." Phoebe rolled her eyes. "Well that's just great!" Phoebe exclaimed, "I have an item in the household that has the power to destroy me and my sisters, the only power I have to defend myself from them is bucket loads of water!" she accidentally raised her right hand at Andy and she flew in the air and a rain of water showered over Andy- drenching him from head to toe. Andy pulled his best 'I'm not annoyed' face, "Geez Phoebe," He said, "control your power- or at least, don't make me your target!" Phoebe looked embarrassed as well as defensive, "Andy- why don't you try getting an power that you have to master in five min- oh!" Phoebe gasped as a premonition formed in her mind. Phoebe and Andy were being cornered by Leo, Piper and Prue- Literally. Both of them were levitating in the corner of the burnt living room. Piper opened her mouth and shouted, 'Die Witch, Die!' a fire swirled around Phoebe, the flames licking her skin. Phoebe screamed in pain. the premonition ended. The vision felt so real, the impact made Phoebe sit down on the stairs. She rocked from side to side. "A demon I could've handled. Another witch I could've handled, but not Piper, Prue and Leo!" Andy sat down beside Phoebe- still dripping wet. "What did you see Phoebe?" Andy asked worriedly. Phoebe grabbed Andy's arm and ran up one flight of stairs and stood outside her room. Phoebe told Andy about her vision. "So, I figure," Phoebe concluded, "That my vision can't come true if we're not in the scene of the crime." Andy wasn't convinced, "So. we're just going to avoid the living room until we've saved the others?" "Give me some time to think!" Phoebe cried, exasperated. There was nothing like seeing your beloved relatives watching you fry to give you that burst of adrenaline to make you think extra quickly without considering consequences. Andy stared at Phoebe thoughtfully. He was sure there was an easier way to solve this. "Phoebe, are you sure the Book of Shadows didn't have any information to do with your current." he tried to strive for a word, ".situation?" "No," Phoebe replied, "I think I would have noticed something about evil siblings. Somehow, I don't think Melinda Warren had to deal with something like this." Andy glanced at Phoebe, confused. "Who?" He asked. Phoebe just shook her head. There was no time to explain. "Never mind," she replied, "my point is that I didn't find anything." "Phoebe, maybe it isn't Prue and Piper you should be battling, but the demon who did this to them." Andy advised, "Did you find anything on that front?" "Well." Phoebe thought, "there as something in there about a switch demon." Both Phoebe and Andy ran upstairs to the attic to consult the Book of Shadows. As they rushed through the door, the pages of the spell book were flipping like mad and abruptly stopped on the page of about the switch demon. Phoebe sighed, "Look," she complained, "it's not being explicit at all. It could at least say what it actually means." Andy pointed towards the page. The words were writing themselves! Phoebe leaned over to read the message.
The switch demon is in the hidden twelfth plane, which is between the physical and the astral plane. The solution lies in the reflection. Unfortunately, more than one witch is needed to cast the spell. The potion requires thyme, billings root, rosemary and lavender oil. This is the spell to vanquish the switch demon: Phoebe grabbed a note pad nearby and wrote down the spell and the ingredients. She put the pages in the pocket of her blue jeans. She glanced at the book again. "Well, at least I can get the ingredients for the potion." Then she murmured half to herself, "There's thyme and rosemary growing in the garden, Piper's lavender bath oils and billings root is ginger- and it's in the spice cupboard. But then there's the case of getting my sisters back to normal." Andy spoke, "Won't vanquishing the switch demon return Prue, Piper and Leo back to normal?" Phoebe scowled at Andy. Hadn't he been reading the book? "That's my problem. I need to vanquish that warlock to save my family, but I need to save my family first in order to vanquish that stupid evil dude! Help!" Phoebe's words all came out in a rush and she sat down on her Grams' old rocking chair and put both her hands on her face and groaned unhappily, "Why can't the Book of Shadows be specific- we don't have time to figure this out!" Andy wasn't listening. He was reading the switch demon page over and over again. Between the physical and astral plane. he thought, reflection. maybe. "Yes!" Andy grinned in triumph. Phoebe looked up and frowned, "What?" she asked, "You're acting like you have answers." Andy smiled again, "I do!" he replied, "well, half of them. I remember hearing about a plane, which is inside the mirror. Do you think that's what the Book of Shadows means?" Phoebe was speechless, but nodded enthusiastically. She was really impressed. When Andy was alive, he was never that fast in giving answers or interested in the supernatural. Probably since he was a mortal inspector and he had to find more logical explanations for everything! Plus, he wasn't a whitelighter at the time. Phoebe ran over to Andy as the Book of Shadows did its flipping thing.