Chapter 12- The Attack

The night is dark, but it makes no difference to Piper. She is so far gone that night and day seem to blend and all she can think about is the huge hole that seems to get bigger as each day goes by without her son. She makes her way down the stairs of the dark household, and into the kitchen to make a pot of tea. She finds Phoebe there, sitting in the darkness, just staring at nothing.

"Phoebe? Are you ok?"

Phoebe just nods her head. Piper shrugs, too wrapped up in her own pain, and shuffles about, making tea.

Frenex is hovering just outside the window, and he shimmers into the dark house. Laughing silently, he creeps up to Phoebe. The floorboards creak, and Piper and Phoebe whip around.

"Phoebe!" Shouts Piper. She motions to blow him up, but after so many months of inactivity, she blows up the china cabinet next to him. Phoebe's eyes widen and she ducks to the ground and attempts to knock him off his feet. Piper runs to help her sister and Frenex materializes an athame and stabs Piper as she approaches him, and then flings her through the kitchen wall into the living room.

Paige and Leo come racing down the stairs, to see Phoebe attempting to fight him off, and Piper on the ground, bleeding to death. Leo runs up to Piper, and just as he is about to heal her, Frenex notices and flings Leo through the front room window and knocks him unconscious.

Paige runs to Piper and tries to heal her too, and when she can't she becomes frustrated, and pauses long enough for Frenex to stop fighting a tiring Phoebe, and throw a energy ball at her, and knock her out too.

Phoebe is tiring quickly and begins to hesitate a little too long between each attack at Frenex. He takes advantage of this, and in between to round house kicks to the head, Frenex punches her solar plexus and sends her flying into the counter, and knocked out. He decides to kill the oldest first. He makes his way over to a dying Piper, and pulls the athame out, and holds it over her ready to make the final jab.

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Wyatt, after saving innocent after innocent with no mistakes has begun to prove himself in the Elders eyes just before his contract with them ends. He is currently enjoying a bit of down time, when he doubles over in pain as his heart begins to burn with the pain of death and fear.

"Mom." Wyatt whispers. He knows she's in danger, and disobeying the Elders, he orbs down to Halliwell manor just as Frenex is about to stab Piper.

"NO! Athame!!" The athame orbs into Wyatt's hands, and he throws it back at Frenex, vanquishing him. Wyatt then rushes to heal his father and Phoebe and Paige, and finally his mother. His hands glow and she opens her eyes slowly to see her son shining against the light.

"Wyatt. My son." Wyatt starts to shake with emotion, gives his mother a swift kiss and orbs out, back to the land of the Elders.

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