"Andy, what was that back there?" Lucio asked walking at a fast pace next
to Andy.
He didn't answer straight away, pondering the question. "I've got no idea."
"How did you do it?"
"It's a mystery to me, but right now the important thing is to find Prue."
"I wish I had some kind of magical powers."
"I don't."
Lucio glanced at Andy. "Then what would you call the thing you did back there." Andy didn't look back, he didn't have an answer.
"We still need to find the Shadow."
"Have you ever thought that it might be you?"
Andy stopped walking. "How could it be me?"
"The Shadow has magic, as I'm guessing you know already, but it's very unique and if you ask me I would say your magic is one of a kind, I've never seen anything like that before."
"It's not me," he replied shaking his head and walking on. If it was Andy then...well he didn't know what that meant. He did, but he didn't. It would mean that he didn't have to waste time searching for the Shadow, but how could he, a simple mortal, have magic? Unless there was something his parents weren't telling him, he was sure he had nothing to do with anything supernatural.
Paige shut her bedroom door behind her, leaning against it. She knew Piper was suspicious of her now, and she was either going to have to tell Piper the secret or come up with something else. Her eyes diverted to the book lying on the floor. That wasn't where she had left it. And there was an eerie silence to her room; no meowing or anything.
Sera wasn't anywhere in sight. That cat was weird for sure.
Paige moved from her door to the book, bending over to pick it up. It was open on the very last page. As far as she could remember there had never been anything written on that page, it had been blank. Now there was something scrawled quickly on it. It read:
'The time has come, the prophecy is being fulfilled. She may have found herself again, but he will change that soon enough for it is unacceptable. She will be truly evil, no return available, not even with the Shadow. She can never leave Amory Tara and can never be no more or no less than what she is, an Axel.'
It didn't make sense. None of it did. Maybe if Paige went to see Andy he would understand it as he knew everything it said.
The blue ink looked to still be wet and to her surprise, when she swiped her finger over the writing it smudged.
A man suddenly appeared in her room. The same man she had seen in the attic. He grabbed the book from her hands, reading what she had just said. She would have done something if she wasn't frozen in place.
She imagined herself moving, but her muscles failed to do so. She couldn't bring forth any words either.
"Interesting, well that's all good news." He said to himself shutting the book closed. It then disappeared in a cloud of gold smoke surprising both of them. "What the...?"
Paige found some reassurance that he didn't know what had happened, which meant he wasn't supposed to have the book. But obviously she wasn't to have the book either.
She finally managed to move. "We're going to get Prue back."
He looked at her. "Really? Well your not the only person trying to get her, but let me tell you this, there is no way she's ever coming back. You read what the book said."
She was puzzled, who else was trying to get her sister back? Besides Piper, Phoebe, Grams and her own mother?
"Andy," she realised. She hadn't meant to say her thoughts out loud. "He's in your world isn't he?"
"The name sounds familiar, oh yes, Andy Trudeau, I've just seen him."
She felt her heart skip a beat. Andy had gone by himself to get Prue, he hadn't even told her that he was going to do it. That was why he had wanted the book the day before on his own. She was mad that he was doing it alone, but also worried for what might happen.
She saw that he was just about to disappear like before but she jumped towards him, wherever he was going she would go with him.
He looked shocked as she came towards him but disappeared in time and she landed on the floor passing through the air where he had just been.
"Ouch..." Paige rubbed the side of her leg, the one she had fallen on with a thud. "I was so close as well."
"Paige?" Piper and Phoebe came bursting through the door. "What was the loud thud?"
"And why are you on the floor?"
Paige brought herself to her feet. 'Great, now how am I supposed to explain this?" She thought to herself.
Briar and Prue walked down the street. Everything was still in chaos after Isis's arrival. They could both see the palace emerging, sitting in the middle of the city.
Isis appeared out of nowhere standing right in front of them.
"How long does it take for you to catch up with me?"
"If you hadn't left Prue when she fell off the horse we wouldn't need to catch up with you," Briar said.
"I cannot waste any time, and you're here now," he grabbed Prue's arms pulling her towards the palace.
"Let go of me!" She roughly pulled her arm away from him causing him to turn to her. "I hate you."
He searched her eyes then glared at Briar. "You've failed. She's not broken," he spat.
Briar smiled. "You're too greedy for your own good, trying to get other people do to your bidding, and it didn't work."
Isis seized Briar's shirt pulling him up close. "You will pay for this." He pushed Briar making him land on the floor.
Prue slapped Isis's face angering him further. "I won't surrender to you."
"Oh yes you will," his big arm came around her waist pulling her against him, her back against his chest. A knife was in his hand and he held it up threateningly against her neck. "And look who's coming to save you."
Andy was coming up the road with someone else. As soon as he saw Prue relief was visible on his face but then he saw Isis, and the knife. He walked boldly towards the both of them the other boy at his heels.
"Remember who's in control," Isis whispered into her ear. She felt the knife up against her skin, but not close enough to draw blood. "How nice to see you again Andy."
"Don't you dare hurt her," Andy's eyes had fire dancing in them again.
"Can't you see she's already hurt?"
Andy took in the dress and the blood on it. He looked into her eyes, his own were wet. "What have you done to her?"
"Just a bit of fun really, wasn't it Prue?" He pressed the knife harder. She was scared to talk, knowing that if she moved she would get cut.
Briar got to his feet. The people all around were watching in amazement and curiosity.
"Well?"
"Um...you see...er...I...and yeah."
Both Piper and Phoebe couldn't make sense of that, raising their eyebrows. "So...?"
"I'm going to have to tell you I think."
"Tell us what?"
"I should probably tell Grams as well," Paige walked past them out her room.
"You know, I swear she gets weirder every day," Phoebe said before following Paige with Piper in tow.
"And I think your right."
"What was the noise upstairs?" Grams asked as Paige came in the kitchen.
"I fell over. But that's not important, there's something I should have told all of you before now," Paige started as Piper and Phoebe took a seat at the kitchen table.
Paige went into detail about the book, and letting Andy read it and Sera's fascination with the book, and everything else she deemed appropriate to tell her sisters and Grams.
"Andy's gone to get Prue back, Isis has seen him. I think we need to get to Aren and help Andy."
Phoebe was laughing. "I'm sorry, but this all sounds like something out of a story book."
"It's true whether you believe it or not. Grams what do you think?" Paige turned her attention away from Phoebe.
"It makes sense, and explains a lot, but why didn't you tell me before?"
"I don't know."
"So how do we get to Aren?" Piper asked.
"I can orb there," Paige suggested.
"You can't be serious," Phoebe was beginning to stop laughing.
"What's not to be serious about it?" Grams stared at Phoebe.
Phoebe was silent now. "Doesn't it all sound just a little bit too much unrealistic?"
"Nothing is unrealistic in magic; you'll come across all sorts of things now you're the Charmed Ones. And nothing is impossible either before you say that as well. We have to get Prue back before she is turned evil."
"Leo, to be their whitelighter you must carry out your duty to whatever extend that it might lead to. You are to make decisions that are not to the benefit of the Charmed Ones, but to the benefit of the whole universe. One mistake and that could make a difference to everything. Do you understand?" The Elder's voice was harsh and loud, echoing through the walls.
"Yes."
"And you wish the Charmed Ones to be under your responsibility and guidance?"
"Yes."
"You believe that you can rise the Charmed Ones to the greatness that they are to be in the future?"
"Yes."
"Then you are now the whitelighter of the Charmed Ones from now until forever unless events occur for you to be stripped of your position. This is agreed from all the Elders and witnessed by the Rising Court."
"Thankyou," Leo walked away from the line of Elders sitting in official chairs and through the walnut doors. He was nervous and anxious inside. He was now the whitelighter of the most powerful witches; more than he had ever hoped for.
But he knew that he had a challenge up ahead. The Charmed Ones were only in their teen years which meant they would be easier to teach, hopefully. Now he needed to get to them.
He didn't answer straight away, pondering the question. "I've got no idea."
"How did you do it?"
"It's a mystery to me, but right now the important thing is to find Prue."
"I wish I had some kind of magical powers."
"I don't."
Lucio glanced at Andy. "Then what would you call the thing you did back there." Andy didn't look back, he didn't have an answer.
"We still need to find the Shadow."
"Have you ever thought that it might be you?"
Andy stopped walking. "How could it be me?"
"The Shadow has magic, as I'm guessing you know already, but it's very unique and if you ask me I would say your magic is one of a kind, I've never seen anything like that before."
"It's not me," he replied shaking his head and walking on. If it was Andy then...well he didn't know what that meant. He did, but he didn't. It would mean that he didn't have to waste time searching for the Shadow, but how could he, a simple mortal, have magic? Unless there was something his parents weren't telling him, he was sure he had nothing to do with anything supernatural.
Paige shut her bedroom door behind her, leaning against it. She knew Piper was suspicious of her now, and she was either going to have to tell Piper the secret or come up with something else. Her eyes diverted to the book lying on the floor. That wasn't where she had left it. And there was an eerie silence to her room; no meowing or anything.
Sera wasn't anywhere in sight. That cat was weird for sure.
Paige moved from her door to the book, bending over to pick it up. It was open on the very last page. As far as she could remember there had never been anything written on that page, it had been blank. Now there was something scrawled quickly on it. It read:
'The time has come, the prophecy is being fulfilled. She may have found herself again, but he will change that soon enough for it is unacceptable. She will be truly evil, no return available, not even with the Shadow. She can never leave Amory Tara and can never be no more or no less than what she is, an Axel.'
It didn't make sense. None of it did. Maybe if Paige went to see Andy he would understand it as he knew everything it said.
The blue ink looked to still be wet and to her surprise, when she swiped her finger over the writing it smudged.
A man suddenly appeared in her room. The same man she had seen in the attic. He grabbed the book from her hands, reading what she had just said. She would have done something if she wasn't frozen in place.
She imagined herself moving, but her muscles failed to do so. She couldn't bring forth any words either.
"Interesting, well that's all good news." He said to himself shutting the book closed. It then disappeared in a cloud of gold smoke surprising both of them. "What the...?"
Paige found some reassurance that he didn't know what had happened, which meant he wasn't supposed to have the book. But obviously she wasn't to have the book either.
She finally managed to move. "We're going to get Prue back."
He looked at her. "Really? Well your not the only person trying to get her, but let me tell you this, there is no way she's ever coming back. You read what the book said."
She was puzzled, who else was trying to get her sister back? Besides Piper, Phoebe, Grams and her own mother?
"Andy," she realised. She hadn't meant to say her thoughts out loud. "He's in your world isn't he?"
"The name sounds familiar, oh yes, Andy Trudeau, I've just seen him."
She felt her heart skip a beat. Andy had gone by himself to get Prue, he hadn't even told her that he was going to do it. That was why he had wanted the book the day before on his own. She was mad that he was doing it alone, but also worried for what might happen.
She saw that he was just about to disappear like before but she jumped towards him, wherever he was going she would go with him.
He looked shocked as she came towards him but disappeared in time and she landed on the floor passing through the air where he had just been.
"Ouch..." Paige rubbed the side of her leg, the one she had fallen on with a thud. "I was so close as well."
"Paige?" Piper and Phoebe came bursting through the door. "What was the loud thud?"
"And why are you on the floor?"
Paige brought herself to her feet. 'Great, now how am I supposed to explain this?" She thought to herself.
Briar and Prue walked down the street. Everything was still in chaos after Isis's arrival. They could both see the palace emerging, sitting in the middle of the city.
Isis appeared out of nowhere standing right in front of them.
"How long does it take for you to catch up with me?"
"If you hadn't left Prue when she fell off the horse we wouldn't need to catch up with you," Briar said.
"I cannot waste any time, and you're here now," he grabbed Prue's arms pulling her towards the palace.
"Let go of me!" She roughly pulled her arm away from him causing him to turn to her. "I hate you."
He searched her eyes then glared at Briar. "You've failed. She's not broken," he spat.
Briar smiled. "You're too greedy for your own good, trying to get other people do to your bidding, and it didn't work."
Isis seized Briar's shirt pulling him up close. "You will pay for this." He pushed Briar making him land on the floor.
Prue slapped Isis's face angering him further. "I won't surrender to you."
"Oh yes you will," his big arm came around her waist pulling her against him, her back against his chest. A knife was in his hand and he held it up threateningly against her neck. "And look who's coming to save you."
Andy was coming up the road with someone else. As soon as he saw Prue relief was visible on his face but then he saw Isis, and the knife. He walked boldly towards the both of them the other boy at his heels.
"Remember who's in control," Isis whispered into her ear. She felt the knife up against her skin, but not close enough to draw blood. "How nice to see you again Andy."
"Don't you dare hurt her," Andy's eyes had fire dancing in them again.
"Can't you see she's already hurt?"
Andy took in the dress and the blood on it. He looked into her eyes, his own were wet. "What have you done to her?"
"Just a bit of fun really, wasn't it Prue?" He pressed the knife harder. She was scared to talk, knowing that if she moved she would get cut.
Briar got to his feet. The people all around were watching in amazement and curiosity.
"Well?"
"Um...you see...er...I...and yeah."
Both Piper and Phoebe couldn't make sense of that, raising their eyebrows. "So...?"
"I'm going to have to tell you I think."
"Tell us what?"
"I should probably tell Grams as well," Paige walked past them out her room.
"You know, I swear she gets weirder every day," Phoebe said before following Paige with Piper in tow.
"And I think your right."
"What was the noise upstairs?" Grams asked as Paige came in the kitchen.
"I fell over. But that's not important, there's something I should have told all of you before now," Paige started as Piper and Phoebe took a seat at the kitchen table.
Paige went into detail about the book, and letting Andy read it and Sera's fascination with the book, and everything else she deemed appropriate to tell her sisters and Grams.
"Andy's gone to get Prue back, Isis has seen him. I think we need to get to Aren and help Andy."
Phoebe was laughing. "I'm sorry, but this all sounds like something out of a story book."
"It's true whether you believe it or not. Grams what do you think?" Paige turned her attention away from Phoebe.
"It makes sense, and explains a lot, but why didn't you tell me before?"
"I don't know."
"So how do we get to Aren?" Piper asked.
"I can orb there," Paige suggested.
"You can't be serious," Phoebe was beginning to stop laughing.
"What's not to be serious about it?" Grams stared at Phoebe.
Phoebe was silent now. "Doesn't it all sound just a little bit too much unrealistic?"
"Nothing is unrealistic in magic; you'll come across all sorts of things now you're the Charmed Ones. And nothing is impossible either before you say that as well. We have to get Prue back before she is turned evil."
"Leo, to be their whitelighter you must carry out your duty to whatever extend that it might lead to. You are to make decisions that are not to the benefit of the Charmed Ones, but to the benefit of the whole universe. One mistake and that could make a difference to everything. Do you understand?" The Elder's voice was harsh and loud, echoing through the walls.
"Yes."
"And you wish the Charmed Ones to be under your responsibility and guidance?"
"Yes."
"You believe that you can rise the Charmed Ones to the greatness that they are to be in the future?"
"Yes."
"Then you are now the whitelighter of the Charmed Ones from now until forever unless events occur for you to be stripped of your position. This is agreed from all the Elders and witnessed by the Rising Court."
"Thankyou," Leo walked away from the line of Elders sitting in official chairs and through the walnut doors. He was nervous and anxious inside. He was now the whitelighter of the most powerful witches; more than he had ever hoped for.
But he knew that he had a challenge up ahead. The Charmed Ones were only in their teen years which meant they would be easier to teach, hopefully. Now he needed to get to them.