AN: Sorry about the delay in updating, if Fanfiction.net wasn't being evil, than my own internet service was. Thanks for telling me about the no anonymous reviews, I didn't even know I had it checked. Anyhoo, I know the girls haven't totally freaked out about having powers, but they don't have any fear since haven't had to vanquish anything….yet. Please R&R
Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed or any of the powers that go along with the show. I wish I did, but I don't. I do own the characters of Ainsley, Tani, Sonya, and Rory, anyone else is sadly not mine.
CHAPTER TWO:
"It's done, it's done, it's done!" Sonya sang, waving a VHS tape in the air happily Wednesday morning.
"Stop waiving the tape around before you break it," Ainsley warned, grabbing the tape from her hands, "We've finally finished the darn project and I'm not going to let you fling it across the commons with joy."
"But if I do, Tani can just freeze it for me," Sonya argued.
"I'd love to, but right now I think you should just put it down because I have no control over my power," Tani said.
"Hey, you successfully froze AV yesterday," Ainsley said.
"On accident," Tani countered
"You just have to relax and control will come," Sonya said.
"That's great advise coming from the one whose stress relief comes from flinging books across rooms," Tani joked.
"I haven't done that in twenty-four hours," she defended.
"Rory, what are you doing?" Tani asked, ignoring Sonya's response.
"Nothing," Rory said without looking up. Her eyes focused on the bowl of milk left over from her cereal, which she touched lightly with her fingertips.
"You've been staring at your bowl for almost five minutes," Ainsley said.
"I'm trying to heat up my milk, but nothing's happening," Rory explained.
"Just relax," Sonya advised.
"I haven't done anything since Monday night and I can't practice at home with my brother always around," Rory continued, ignoring Sonya.
"So you practice in the middle of the commons?" Ainsley asked.
"No one's looking at this table and it's not like I'm doing anything," Rory dumped the milk into a nearby garbage can, "It's hopeless."
"No it's not," Tani said.
"You just have to relax," Sonya added.
"Says the one who used her power yesterday," Rory said to Tani, ignoring Sonya, "Ainsley even had a premonition this morning."
"Of what?" Tani asked.
"My grade on the Pre-Calc quiz," she said glumly, "Trust me, I would have been better off not knowing."
"But you still saw something," Rory argued. She went to write something in her assignment notebook, but it slid across the table, stopping in front of Sonya.
"Now will you listen to me?" Sonya asked.
"Yes," Ainsley prompted.
"Like I've been saying, you have to relax and allow the magic to flow through you," she then squinted her eyes at the book and it slid back in front of Rory.
"When did you get that control?" Tani asked.
"Last night," she answered, "I did a little meditation, centered myself, and practiced."
"I'm jealous," Tani complained.
"Don't be, I made you all tapes of meditative music based on the element you were each born under. I'll give them to you at the babysitting thing tonight," Sonya said referring to the support meeting for grandparents raising grandchildren, where they volunteered to watch the grandchildren so the grandparents could talk.
"Why are we doing this again?" Ainsley asked, not looking forward to a night filled with rambunctious kids.
"Because we're good volunteers," Tani said, then added quickly, "And because no one else signed up."
"Hey, Tani, maybe you could practice you power by freezing the kids," Rory suggested.
"And Ellan," Sonya added, referring to the adult sponsor of their youth group, who they really didn't like.
"I do need practice," Tani grinned evilly.
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"Thanks for the ride, Mrs. Nakamura," the four girls said, piling out of the Durango.
"Tell me again, why we're here so early?" Rory asked, watching the car pull away and surveying the empty parking lot.
"Ellan wanted us to get here early," Sonya walked to the doors and knocked, "I'm sure the janitor will let us in."
"We're here for the grandparents raising grandchildren meeting and we were wondering if we could drop this stuff off inside?" Tani asked.
"Sure thing," the janitor said, opening the door and then going back to her work in the other part of the building.
"Thanks," Tani smiled, and the girls walked into the main room of the building.
"Let's bring the games right into the basement," Sonya suggested.
"Sounds good," Tani said as they headed toward the stairs in the back of the room.
"Already working, I see," Ellan greeted with false cheeriness.
"We were just bringing these games downstairs," Rory said.
"Could two of you help me get some more games out of my car?" Ellan asked.
"Sure," Rory smiled and grabbed Tani's arm, pulling her toward the door.
"We're going to bring these downstairs," Ainsley said following Sonya down the stairwell.
"This is the lovely basement, which will be filled with six hyper-active children in less than an hour," Sonya said with a flourish, sliding the stack of board games across the table.
"I still can't believe you talked me into this. I don't even like little kids," Ainsley said fixing the stack of board games. Upon touching one of the games that belonged to Tani, she closed her eyes and gasped suddenly.
"You okay?"
"No," she shook her head, "I had a premonition of Ellan attacking Tani and Rory."
"Let's go," Sonya said, heading for the stairs with Ainsley on her heels.
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"I some games and coloring supplies in the trunk," Ellan said, leading the girls to her car. She popped open the trunk, but instead of pulling out some games, she pulled out an athame.
"What the hell?" Rory jumped back, shocked by Ellan's now evil face.
"Do you think I took this job for the pay?" she asked switching the athame from hand to hand, "No, I've been waiting. I knew you four would inherit the powers of the Charmed Ones and I was waiting so that I could destroy you," with that she lunged at Rory, but Tani froze her before the blade could touch her friend.
"That was close," Rory gasped.
"Yeah."
"We have to warn Ainsley and Sonya," she said and they raced back into the building. They burst through the doors to see Ainsley and Sonya rushing toward them, "We think Ellan is a Warlock."
"We know," Sonya said.
"Premonition," Ainsley said in explanation.
"What are we going to do?" Tani asked.
"You can't do anything," Ellan telekinetically opened the doors as she entered, "You can't escape me."
"She won't freeze anymore," Tani said waving her hands, "Why won't she freeze?"
"I told you, you can't stop me," Ellan laughed evilly.
"You guys, go downstairs and think of something," Sonya ordered, "I'll hold her off."
"You'll hold me off?" Ellan mocked, advancing on Sonya, while her friends darted to the basement.
"Yeah, I will," Sonya shot back. She took a deep breath and squinted in Ellan's direction. Ellan flew against the wall and Sonya ran toward the basement.
"Sonya?" Ainsley called, upon hearing someone on the stairs.
"Yeah, it's me," she said jumping past the last couple stairs, "I threw her against the wall, but I'm sure she'll be back."
"I bet that's her," Rory said, referring the sound of the opening door, "What do we do now?"
"Storage room," Tani said, and they raced inside. They closed the door and Tani began pushing a bookshelf in front of the door.
"Wait, let me," Sonya interrupted.
"Sorry, instinct," Tani stepped away and Sonya moved the shelving unit by knocking it on it's side in front of the door.
"That was smooth," Ainsley said, referring to the stuff that had spilled all over the floor in the process of the move.
"Sorry, it's not my fault I don't have control," Sonya defended.
"You can't hid from me," Ellan's voice filtered in through the door, "Your powers aren't strong enough," she said as the bookshelf began sliding away from the door.
"Crap!" Tani said, "Now what?"
"Nothing," Ellan burst through the door, "I destroy you."
"Not if I can help it," Sonya tried to move her, but failed.
"I'm too powerful for you," Ellan laughed and a ring of fire exploded around the girls.
"This sucks," Ainsley declared as the ring of fire slowly began shrinking around them, "Rory try your power."
"What am I going to do, give her hot flashes?" she asked wryly.
"I don't know, just try," Ainsley ordered.
"See nothing. Why the hell did you have to make us witches?" Rory glared at Sonya.
"This really isn't the time, Rory," Sonya shot back.
"Look, we can't fight, we have to think," Tani said, "What did the book say at the bottom of the page?"
"The page that was about us?" Ainsley asked.
"Yeah," Tani nodded, "Something about the power of four."
"Protects evermore," Sonya finished.
"That's it," Ainsley agreed, "The power of four protects evermore."
"I hate to break it to you, but that didn't do anything," Rory watched the flames move closer.
"We have it say it together," Sonya said.
"The power of four protects evermore," the girls began to chant, hands linked. They felt a strong wind blow through the windowless storage room, extinguishing the flames and swirling around Ellan. They looked on in awe, but continued chanting.
"You may be able to stop me, but more will come. You cannot stop us all," Ellan declared before being engulfed in the now tornado-like wind.
"The power of four," Sonya whispered, once the dust had settled.
"Holy s**t," Tani said.
"Yeah, that sums it up," Ainsley agreed.
"We have to make sure everything's cleaned up before Deb gets here," Sonya said, her rational mind returning as she realized they needed to cover everything up before the woman who ran the meetings arrived.
"Ellan, are you down here?" Deb called just as the girls were closing the doors to the storage room.
"No, just us," Ainsley answered.
"Hi girls, have you seen Ellan?" Deb asked.
"She went out to her car to get something from her trunk. Didn't you see her?" Deb shook her head and Sonya continued smoothly, "We brought these games down while she went out to her car."
"Well, I haven't seen her," Deb said, "But her car is in the lot, so I'm sure she's around here somewhere."
"You don't think anything happened to her," Rory said, playing the part of the concerned volunteer.
"No, I'm sure something just came up," Deb assured her, "The grandparents and grandchildren will be getting here soon, so we better get ready, okay?"
"No problem," Tani said, "We'll wait for the kids down here."
"I'll check in with you later," Deb said before heading up the stairs.
"Do you think she bought it?" Ainsley asked, once Deb was out of earshot.
"Let's hope she did, or we're screwed," Tani said.
"Yeah, demonic attacks I can handle, but murder charges might push me over the edge," Sonya joked.
"On the bright side, if we were arrested I'm sure we could bust out pretty easily," Ainsley laughed.
"Tani could freeze the guards and Sonya could physically break us out," Rory added.
"Oh yeah, make us do the work," Tani complained.
"That's what happens when you get the active powers," Ainsley said.
"Hey, no complaining, at least your power did something," Rory said, "Mine did nothing."
"But you're scrappy," Sonya argued, "You'll fight well."
"Okay, I think this conversation needs to stop," Tani decided, "I hear the kids coming and the last thing they need are more wild ideas.
