Thanks for all the lovely lovely reviews! I'm grinning because it makes me
so happy! Yay! Anyway I've been writing again today, instead of doing my
homework..oops..but I've still got 2 hours to make a start hmm.well here's
a bit more for you to read and let me know if you like it. Oh yeah for the
end part the cat isn't Kit, and they haven't got her.
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Paige went round a corner and checked behind her to make sure Grams wasn't following her or something stupid like that. She had no intention of going to school, how could she when she had other more important things to do? She continued to walk down a familiar road and soon came to a Wicca shop, just what she wanted.
She entered the cramped room, she had been in here before and was used to the fragranced air from incense and the range of things available. She was also always amazed by the amount of books the store had.
"It's good to see you again Paige, you haven't been in here for awhile," the elderly shop keeper said walking up to Paige.
"I know, I've been busy with some things."
"Is there anything you're looking for today that I could help you with?"
"Well I need a spell or something to help bring someone back."
"You'll have to be more specific dear, there are spells to bring back dead people, to find someone lost, and plenty more."
"She was taken and I need to get her back."
"Do you have an idea of where she might be?"
"Yes, sort of, but I know she might be somewhere else as well."
"Hmm.I'll just look in the back, see what I can find."
Paige looked through all the shelves of dusty old books. Most of the spines were worn away, making it impossible to find what information they held inside.
She then felt drawn to one book, sort of like she had been drawn to go to the attic, but this felt more close to her heart, like it burned to look at the book. It was a rather thick book but not too big and of a reddish brown colour. Paige brought the book out of its place to have a closer look. The page edges were tinted black which seemed unusual as from most books she had seen the popular colour was gold.
It didn't have any text on its spine or front cover, as she ran her hand over it, the texture was rough and bumpy. Carefully she opened the first page and it creaked, like it hadn't been looked at for years. The pages themselves were cream coloured, blending into black at the tips. Briefly looking through the pages she could tell that the writing inside was hand written with perfection and occasionally there were images to help explain whatever point was trying to be put across.
"I'm sorry dear but the spell that I did have in mind required some special candles and we've sold out," Maude the shop keeper explained returning into the main room.
"That's ok, but I'll take this." Paige slipped the book onto the counter and paid for it. Then she stood outside wondering what to do next. She was eager to read what was in the book but where could she go to do that? Golden Gate Park would be empty. She could go there, sit under a tree and no one would bother her. So she slowly made her way there, walking at a relaxed pace, she didn't need to rush.
Isis burst through the door, startling Prue. Instantly she knew something was wrong.
"Are you ready?" He grabbed the packs.
"Yeah."
"Good, follow me."
As Prue walked behind Isis her mind was concerned with what had happened, or maybe she was just being paranoid. The people she passed stared at her, well more her dress, which made her slightly self-conscious but she tried to ignore them. She was used to doing this at school.
Two guards took the packs from Isis and continued to walk but he stopped and turned to Prue holding something in his hand.
"There's one last thing I need to do." Prue saw that it was a bracelet he was holding. It was completely black leather with a simple clasp and in the middle there was a small silver bead type thing that was designed with intricate lines and symbols.
She put out her wrist sub-consciously knowing it was for her. And he put it around her wrist. As first it was loose and she was afraid that it might fall off but suddenly it tightened itself against her skin, completely, so that she wouldn't be able to slip it off.
"Don't worry it's supposed to do that." Isis calmly said.
"What's it for?"
"To make you even more stunning," they continued to walk but this time side by side. She couldn't admit that she felt his words were true.
"Do you know how to ride a horse?" She nodded her head. "That's good, very good indeed."
Paige didn't know how many hours had passed but she guessed it was about lunch time as the sun had just gone from its highest point during the day.
The book was very interesting so far, she was still trying to figure out who wrote it and what purpose it was supposed to serve. So far it had explained about another world outside the Heavens, the Armaya, and the Casimir.
The Heavens was easy to guess, the place where every person and thing went to after their death. But the book also said that there was not just one heaven, there were many for different people. It depended on what you had done in your life and which heaven you deserved to be in. The Armaya was the equivalent to hell. But unlike the Heavens, there was only one Armaya, if you deserved to go to hell there you were cursed to stay in there for all eternity. The Casimir was the land between those two, where everything lived, Paige thought that that must be the normal world, where she was now. The other world that the book talked about was called Emory Tara. The book went into detail that the whole place was ruled by one man and one man only, which seemed unbelievable. The man was referred to as Ciel, and the land was full of magic. Mostly bad magic though, but there were small pockets of good witches and other people throughout the land.
And that's as far as Paige had gotten so far, she wasn't a fast reader unlike Piper and she could just sit here all day and read the whole book, but she knew that she couldn't, she needed to make sure she got home the same time that she would if she had been in school.
One thing that stuck out in Paige's mind was that Ciel had a son who was destined to find a young woman to turn evil and do his bidding for him. Paige wondered who it would be and what the girl would end up doing.
She got up to her feet stretching out her cramps and heading over to a grocery store to find something to eat, she still had enough cash on her to buy something.
Isis stopped in front of two of the largest doors Prue had ever seen. "Now you have to walk through with me, you might feel light headed as you pass through so be careful."
As Isis opened the two doors blinding white light shot out so that Prue had to shut her eyes against it but she sensed that Isis was walking through so she directed her feet to go straight.
It felt like walking through a strong wind against the way it was blowing, but it also danced around her. The pressure hurt her lungs and head, it was hard to breathe and with one more step it ended.
Prue opened her eyes to be facing a hallway that looked exactly the same as the one she had been in.
"We're not in the underworld anymore," Isis explained. "Come on," he took her hand and pulled her past everything.
"But it's all the same."
"No, this is my palace, this is another world."
They came to two metal doors with a guard standing to the side. Seeing Isis he opened it.
Prue's breath got caught as she looked out. It was another world. Not far off where the gold palace gates that were closed, but Prue could see and hear millions of people waiting outside. Wooden buildings stood up against each other and opposite others making the streets below narrow.
"What is it?"
"This is where you belong, this is your land, and all those people over there have been waiting for you."
They stepped outside into the warm air. It was like nothing Prue had seen before. From the palace entrance to the gates were small gardens where small plants and flowers grew happily. It didn't feel evil here, how could it?"
The bracelet pulled stronger against Prue's wrist and she felt a sense of duty to help these people with whatever she was meant to do.
As the tall gates opened and Isis and Prue stepped through followed by four guards behind them who were heavily armed the street fell to a hushed silence.
Prue stopped walking and took in everything that was within her view. The floor was cobbled and a dirty brown grey. People lined both sides, in shabby clothes their faces, hands and bare feet dirty, they looked frightened but curious as well.
In the white dress Prue stood out more than she had in the underworld and palace, eyes darted towards her from every direction.
Isis placed a hand lightly on her back and urged her to continue walking.
"What do all these people want me to do?" Prue whispered.
"You'll find out, but first I need to train you." It was always "you'll know later" and "you don't need to know yet" but Prue wanted to know now.
"Tell me right now," her voice was harder and stronger than she had wanted it to be.
Isis looked into her blue eyes that were ice cold. He smiled and looked away from her.
Prue frowned, he didn't answer her just smiled, did he think she was foolish saying what she had? Prue looked back at the street lying in front of her with all the expectant glances from the people. She didn't look at any of them eye to eye, for some reason something was telling her not to.
Paige sat at a bench finishing off her sandwich and the book lying on her lap. She had two more hours till she needed to get home. She still couldn't decide whether she should show the book to her family. It's not like she needed to, it was just something she privately read. Piper and Phoebe would probably laugh at her and Grams didn't know that she went into that Wicca store even before she knew she was a witch herself.
At least her English would be happy that Paige finally found an interest in books than magazines. Paige felt like the book was trying to show her something, that something she wanted to know what right in front of her, but she didn't know what it was. Maybe over time it would become clear.
Paige opened the book and the pages fluttered in the wind and opened themselves to a page. Her eyes inspected it, on the right page there was a drawing that was painted and looking longer at it Paige saw that it was a river with lush green trees standing proudly. Why would there be an illustration of a river?
Paige quickly scanned the writing and read that it was about a special ring that was lying at the bottom of the river, waiting for someone to find it. But it said that only the true person would be able to first find the secret river and then hopefully find the ring.
The ring held great power called the Demi Xia that was made by an old magician who lived thousands of years ago. The ring was meant for the woman that would be chosen by Ciel's son, the right woman anyway and with it she would have complete control of Emory Tara.
"Wow it would be great to have that much power," Paige said quietly to herself. Paige had no idea when the book had been written but she would love to know if the woman had found the ring already or if someone had to still be found. That's if the book wasn't a pack of lies. She also wondered how someone would be able to find a ring in a river.
Two hours later.
Piper and Phoebe came through the manor's front door. "Grams we're home," Phoebe loudly said shrugging off her jacket.
"You must be early because Paige isn't back yet," Penny came into the hallway from the kitchen.
"But we saw her bus up here as ours turned onto Prescott."
"Where is she then?"
"Maybe she missed the bus, you know what she's like," Phoebe flopped on the couch. "I'm so glad it's the weekend, the first week back was really tough."
"That's just because you're so dumb," Piper sat next to her and flicked on the TV.
Patty wasn't there at that moment but Grams wished she was. "Where are you Paige?"
As if on time Paige hurried into the manor.
"Hey Paige where've you been?" Phoebe asked.
"I er missed the bus."
"You should have rung me, I could have picked you up," Grams was so glad that Paige hadn't gone missing, for a moment she had thought that was what had happened.
"What have you got there?" Piper gestured to the book Paige was carrying.
"Oh it's just something my teacher gave me to read."
"It looks old, what's it about?"
"Oh it's a story, I'm going to do my homework," Paige rushed up the stairs she didn't know why she lied about the book; it was just the first thing that came into her mind.
Inside her bag she felt something move about and purr. She carefully put her bag on her bed and opened it and was utterly surprised when a small white kitten climbed out meowing.
"Hello, where did you come from?" Paige picked it up. It must have gotten into my bag at the park.
Then she noticed the metal plate on its collar, it didn't say who it belonged to but it had a symbol that Paige remembered seeing somewhere. She opened the book she had gotten from the Wicca store and turned a few pages and there on one of them was the same symbol.
The cat meowed and jumped out of her arms and landed on the book.
"That's weird."
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Is it me or is this like not Charmed anymore? Hmmm.I really hope you like it! P.S. I started another fic called The New Year if you want to have a quick look. Thanks
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Paige went round a corner and checked behind her to make sure Grams wasn't following her or something stupid like that. She had no intention of going to school, how could she when she had other more important things to do? She continued to walk down a familiar road and soon came to a Wicca shop, just what she wanted.
She entered the cramped room, she had been in here before and was used to the fragranced air from incense and the range of things available. She was also always amazed by the amount of books the store had.
"It's good to see you again Paige, you haven't been in here for awhile," the elderly shop keeper said walking up to Paige.
"I know, I've been busy with some things."
"Is there anything you're looking for today that I could help you with?"
"Well I need a spell or something to help bring someone back."
"You'll have to be more specific dear, there are spells to bring back dead people, to find someone lost, and plenty more."
"She was taken and I need to get her back."
"Do you have an idea of where she might be?"
"Yes, sort of, but I know she might be somewhere else as well."
"Hmm.I'll just look in the back, see what I can find."
Paige looked through all the shelves of dusty old books. Most of the spines were worn away, making it impossible to find what information they held inside.
She then felt drawn to one book, sort of like she had been drawn to go to the attic, but this felt more close to her heart, like it burned to look at the book. It was a rather thick book but not too big and of a reddish brown colour. Paige brought the book out of its place to have a closer look. The page edges were tinted black which seemed unusual as from most books she had seen the popular colour was gold.
It didn't have any text on its spine or front cover, as she ran her hand over it, the texture was rough and bumpy. Carefully she opened the first page and it creaked, like it hadn't been looked at for years. The pages themselves were cream coloured, blending into black at the tips. Briefly looking through the pages she could tell that the writing inside was hand written with perfection and occasionally there were images to help explain whatever point was trying to be put across.
"I'm sorry dear but the spell that I did have in mind required some special candles and we've sold out," Maude the shop keeper explained returning into the main room.
"That's ok, but I'll take this." Paige slipped the book onto the counter and paid for it. Then she stood outside wondering what to do next. She was eager to read what was in the book but where could she go to do that? Golden Gate Park would be empty. She could go there, sit under a tree and no one would bother her. So she slowly made her way there, walking at a relaxed pace, she didn't need to rush.
Isis burst through the door, startling Prue. Instantly she knew something was wrong.
"Are you ready?" He grabbed the packs.
"Yeah."
"Good, follow me."
As Prue walked behind Isis her mind was concerned with what had happened, or maybe she was just being paranoid. The people she passed stared at her, well more her dress, which made her slightly self-conscious but she tried to ignore them. She was used to doing this at school.
Two guards took the packs from Isis and continued to walk but he stopped and turned to Prue holding something in his hand.
"There's one last thing I need to do." Prue saw that it was a bracelet he was holding. It was completely black leather with a simple clasp and in the middle there was a small silver bead type thing that was designed with intricate lines and symbols.
She put out her wrist sub-consciously knowing it was for her. And he put it around her wrist. As first it was loose and she was afraid that it might fall off but suddenly it tightened itself against her skin, completely, so that she wouldn't be able to slip it off.
"Don't worry it's supposed to do that." Isis calmly said.
"What's it for?"
"To make you even more stunning," they continued to walk but this time side by side. She couldn't admit that she felt his words were true.
"Do you know how to ride a horse?" She nodded her head. "That's good, very good indeed."
Paige didn't know how many hours had passed but she guessed it was about lunch time as the sun had just gone from its highest point during the day.
The book was very interesting so far, she was still trying to figure out who wrote it and what purpose it was supposed to serve. So far it had explained about another world outside the Heavens, the Armaya, and the Casimir.
The Heavens was easy to guess, the place where every person and thing went to after their death. But the book also said that there was not just one heaven, there were many for different people. It depended on what you had done in your life and which heaven you deserved to be in. The Armaya was the equivalent to hell. But unlike the Heavens, there was only one Armaya, if you deserved to go to hell there you were cursed to stay in there for all eternity. The Casimir was the land between those two, where everything lived, Paige thought that that must be the normal world, where she was now. The other world that the book talked about was called Emory Tara. The book went into detail that the whole place was ruled by one man and one man only, which seemed unbelievable. The man was referred to as Ciel, and the land was full of magic. Mostly bad magic though, but there were small pockets of good witches and other people throughout the land.
And that's as far as Paige had gotten so far, she wasn't a fast reader unlike Piper and she could just sit here all day and read the whole book, but she knew that she couldn't, she needed to make sure she got home the same time that she would if she had been in school.
One thing that stuck out in Paige's mind was that Ciel had a son who was destined to find a young woman to turn evil and do his bidding for him. Paige wondered who it would be and what the girl would end up doing.
She got up to her feet stretching out her cramps and heading over to a grocery store to find something to eat, she still had enough cash on her to buy something.
Isis stopped in front of two of the largest doors Prue had ever seen. "Now you have to walk through with me, you might feel light headed as you pass through so be careful."
As Isis opened the two doors blinding white light shot out so that Prue had to shut her eyes against it but she sensed that Isis was walking through so she directed her feet to go straight.
It felt like walking through a strong wind against the way it was blowing, but it also danced around her. The pressure hurt her lungs and head, it was hard to breathe and with one more step it ended.
Prue opened her eyes to be facing a hallway that looked exactly the same as the one she had been in.
"We're not in the underworld anymore," Isis explained. "Come on," he took her hand and pulled her past everything.
"But it's all the same."
"No, this is my palace, this is another world."
They came to two metal doors with a guard standing to the side. Seeing Isis he opened it.
Prue's breath got caught as she looked out. It was another world. Not far off where the gold palace gates that were closed, but Prue could see and hear millions of people waiting outside. Wooden buildings stood up against each other and opposite others making the streets below narrow.
"What is it?"
"This is where you belong, this is your land, and all those people over there have been waiting for you."
They stepped outside into the warm air. It was like nothing Prue had seen before. From the palace entrance to the gates were small gardens where small plants and flowers grew happily. It didn't feel evil here, how could it?"
The bracelet pulled stronger against Prue's wrist and she felt a sense of duty to help these people with whatever she was meant to do.
As the tall gates opened and Isis and Prue stepped through followed by four guards behind them who were heavily armed the street fell to a hushed silence.
Prue stopped walking and took in everything that was within her view. The floor was cobbled and a dirty brown grey. People lined both sides, in shabby clothes their faces, hands and bare feet dirty, they looked frightened but curious as well.
In the white dress Prue stood out more than she had in the underworld and palace, eyes darted towards her from every direction.
Isis placed a hand lightly on her back and urged her to continue walking.
"What do all these people want me to do?" Prue whispered.
"You'll find out, but first I need to train you." It was always "you'll know later" and "you don't need to know yet" but Prue wanted to know now.
"Tell me right now," her voice was harder and stronger than she had wanted it to be.
Isis looked into her blue eyes that were ice cold. He smiled and looked away from her.
Prue frowned, he didn't answer her just smiled, did he think she was foolish saying what she had? Prue looked back at the street lying in front of her with all the expectant glances from the people. She didn't look at any of them eye to eye, for some reason something was telling her not to.
Paige sat at a bench finishing off her sandwich and the book lying on her lap. She had two more hours till she needed to get home. She still couldn't decide whether she should show the book to her family. It's not like she needed to, it was just something she privately read. Piper and Phoebe would probably laugh at her and Grams didn't know that she went into that Wicca store even before she knew she was a witch herself.
At least her English would be happy that Paige finally found an interest in books than magazines. Paige felt like the book was trying to show her something, that something she wanted to know what right in front of her, but she didn't know what it was. Maybe over time it would become clear.
Paige opened the book and the pages fluttered in the wind and opened themselves to a page. Her eyes inspected it, on the right page there was a drawing that was painted and looking longer at it Paige saw that it was a river with lush green trees standing proudly. Why would there be an illustration of a river?
Paige quickly scanned the writing and read that it was about a special ring that was lying at the bottom of the river, waiting for someone to find it. But it said that only the true person would be able to first find the secret river and then hopefully find the ring.
The ring held great power called the Demi Xia that was made by an old magician who lived thousands of years ago. The ring was meant for the woman that would be chosen by Ciel's son, the right woman anyway and with it she would have complete control of Emory Tara.
"Wow it would be great to have that much power," Paige said quietly to herself. Paige had no idea when the book had been written but she would love to know if the woman had found the ring already or if someone had to still be found. That's if the book wasn't a pack of lies. She also wondered how someone would be able to find a ring in a river.
Two hours later.
Piper and Phoebe came through the manor's front door. "Grams we're home," Phoebe loudly said shrugging off her jacket.
"You must be early because Paige isn't back yet," Penny came into the hallway from the kitchen.
"But we saw her bus up here as ours turned onto Prescott."
"Where is she then?"
"Maybe she missed the bus, you know what she's like," Phoebe flopped on the couch. "I'm so glad it's the weekend, the first week back was really tough."
"That's just because you're so dumb," Piper sat next to her and flicked on the TV.
Patty wasn't there at that moment but Grams wished she was. "Where are you Paige?"
As if on time Paige hurried into the manor.
"Hey Paige where've you been?" Phoebe asked.
"I er missed the bus."
"You should have rung me, I could have picked you up," Grams was so glad that Paige hadn't gone missing, for a moment she had thought that was what had happened.
"What have you got there?" Piper gestured to the book Paige was carrying.
"Oh it's just something my teacher gave me to read."
"It looks old, what's it about?"
"Oh it's a story, I'm going to do my homework," Paige rushed up the stairs she didn't know why she lied about the book; it was just the first thing that came into her mind.
Inside her bag she felt something move about and purr. She carefully put her bag on her bed and opened it and was utterly surprised when a small white kitten climbed out meowing.
"Hello, where did you come from?" Paige picked it up. It must have gotten into my bag at the park.
Then she noticed the metal plate on its collar, it didn't say who it belonged to but it had a symbol that Paige remembered seeing somewhere. She opened the book she had gotten from the Wicca store and turned a few pages and there on one of them was the same symbol.
The cat meowed and jumped out of her arms and landed on the book.
"That's weird."
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Is it me or is this like not Charmed anymore? Hmmm.I really hope you like it! P.S. I started another fic called The New Year if you want to have a quick look. Thanks