Part 6

"Well it's about time!" Piper said, as a figure began to form from blue and white orbs.

"What took you so lon....!"Phoebe stopped mid-sentence as instead of Chris she now saw Garentax standing before them.

"Inspecting someone else?" he asked. Phoebe looked at the quartz gemstone round his neck and briefly wondered who or what was in it.

"How did you orb?" Paige asked, realising at the last moment what a stupid question that was. It was obvious that whoever was in the gemstone had the ability to orb.

"Oh I can do much more than that!" the demon replied, throwing his arm out in front of him. The sisters managed to see the gemstone glow before they were hurled across the attic and crashed into the cabinet.

Piper was the first to pick herself back up and she instinctively flicked her hands in an attempt to freeze him.

Garentax laughed at her and shook his head in mock pity, "haven't we been through this before? I do no freeze!" he said and then looked at the three of them and grinned. "But you can!"

The sisters frowned as the gemstone glowed and Garentax flicked his left hand. Piper looked at him in triumph but then noticed that both Paige and Phoebe were frozen.

"What the hell?" she cried, waving her hand in front of her sisters faces.

Garentax stood there in shock. *Why didn't she freeze boy?* he asked Chris telepathically.

Chris grinned, *because you can't use her own power against her!*

Garentax looked puzzled by this but suddenly growled in anger he clinched his fist and Piper began to choke as if she was being struggled. Once she passed out Garentax unleashed the telekinesis to send her flying into the wall.

He closed his eyes and suddenly another of him appeared behind frozen Phoebe. The astral projection held out his hand and a knife orbed into it.

At that moment Phoebe unfroze, "What hap...!" she began only to be cut of as her face contorted into pain and shock and she looked down to see the knife point sticking out of her.

Inside the gemstone Chris gasped and squeezed his eyes shut to stop tears from appearing. "I'm sorry Aunt Phoebe!" he muttered sadly as he let himself slide slowly down the wall to the crystal floor.

"Lamp!" Garentax's astral projection heard the shout and then felt something hard hit him in the back of the head. He looked over to see a now unfrozen Paige, standing by his real body.

"Knife!" she cried holding out her hand as the knife orbed out of Phoebe's body and into her outstretched hand. She then thrust the knife into Garentax. His astral projection vanished and Garentax awoke yelling in agony. He glared at Paige with a mixture of pain, anger and shock and then promptly shimmered out of the attic.

Paige ran over to her injured sister, "Oh my god phoebe! Leo!!!" she yelled at the ceiling.

Leo appeared and looked at the state of the attic, "What's going on?" he asked.

"Just heal her, quick!" Paige cried desperately. Leo quickly placed his hands over the knife wound and a familiar golden glow appeared around the wound which began to heal immediately.

Phoebe groaned and sat up slowly, "What happened?"

"He froze the two of you that's what happened!" Piper's voice came across the room as she just came round. She was holding her head in pain which was sporting a large cut. Without waiting to be asked Leo quickly moved and healed her. Phoebe and Paige quickly filled Leo in on what had been happening.

Piper smiled in thanks, "What I don't understand is why I didn't freeze?" she said.

"I don't know!" Paige said, "But I did get what we needed to vanquish him with!" she continued, holding up the quartz gemstone by the piece of cord.