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end the chapter. Yes, I know that's frustrating but that's the way it's
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"First of all, Chris, you're not an orphan. Neither are you, Bianca. It's...very complicated." She waits a moment to let it all sink in, but the two of seem too shocked to say anything. "When you two were born, a demon was on the prowl for...certain kids from people like us. Demons, as I can tell you've already seen in the book, are bad people. Magical, like us, but evil. We're witches, good witches—and our job is to protect the innocent from harm with our powers."
"But...how can we...?"
Piper clears her throat, interrupting Bianca. "Six years ago, that demon was literally just coming into the homes of witches and other magical beings and taking the kids to produce evil later on. It was either hand them over or everybody dies, including the little one. We didn't want that to happen to you."
"How did they know where to go?" I ask, wide-eyed. This all seemed like another fairy tale gone reality kind of thing. Were we inside of a fairy-tale? Did people get to read about us? I shiver at the thought.
"Magical vibes off of the house," she explains. "Every house, even with the littlest bit of magic having been used, can be sensed through magic. We tried not to use magic, but we had to—so people wouldn't die. And that's when I came up with an idea to get everyone out of danger—I'd just have to do it quickly."
"What was it?" Bianca demands.
"Sending all of the children-in-question to one spot where they couldn't be sensed." Piper takes in a deep breath. "Chris, I'm your mother, and Bianca, your mother, Lynn, is downstairs waiting to meet you. But you can't go just yet—I have a few more things to explain."
"Yeah," Bianca says crossly, "like why you never came back for us. Why everybody else at the orphanage is gone. What you were doing in OUR forest tonight."
"We were definitely planning to come back for you. It was only temporary. We sent all of the magical children to a single place, disguised as an orphanage. Miss Marie is really a teacher from the magic school, a place where kids like you learn to harness your powers. While you guys were there, we planned on destroying the demon—but he was nowhere to be found. We figured—we, meaning all of the other mothers of magical beings—that it would be better to leave you guys there until he was stopped...which he never was."
"What did he want with us?" I ask. "How come that Wyatt kid didn't go to the orphanage?"
"He wanted to turn you all evil to work for him, as I said before. I didn't leave Wyatt there because he was old enough to defend himself, considering you two came from the two most powerful beings in the world."
"Which are...?" I trail off.
"Me, a witch, and Leo, a whitelighter."
"Which is a..?"
"We'll get to that later," she sighs. "Anyways, we bound all of your powers before leaving you there. Of course, some of you, like Alex and Sammy and a few others, were old enough to remember their pasts. But time passed and their memories faded. Alex's mom couldn't take it, claimed she'd go get her daughter no matter what. We couldn't let that happen. If she took Alex, the demon would connect them—if the mother's a witch, so is the child. Then he would guess we were hiding you all there. So we tried to stop her, and when that didn't work, we...had to kill her."
"You WHAT?" Bianca exclaims.
Piper keeps going. "Anyways, killing her was pointless. The demon already found out, we were too late. You know the demon we were fighting in the forest? That was the demon that tried to take you all. He succeeded tonight. While you two, thank god, were in the park, all of the other children were taken away, and Miss Marie was murdered."
I gasp. Everybody I ever knew, everyone that my life had revolved around was gone. It wasn't fair. They didn't deserve to be taken, they were all good. I knew that nobody could turn them evil.
"B-but you vanquished him, right?" I remember from the park.
"Yes, once he came out of hiding it was easy to do so." I look up and see a single tear running down her cheek, and realize and I'm crying, too, along with Bianca.
"But that doesn't mean that there aren't other demons that will replace him and do the job of making them evil instead."
"My friends would NEVER turn evil!" I shout in their defense.
She only shakes her head sadly. "Chris, they don't know about their powers. Once they're unbound, the demons could tell them that they were on the good side, manipulate the fact that they don't know a single thing about magic. It would work."
"Wait—were our powers bound?" Bianca questions.
Piper nods. "Of course, sweetie. Why?"
"Because we can use them," I tell her, orbing to another side of the room and using telekinesis to levitate the Book of Shadows. "See?"
"Damn it," she mutters. "You guys were too powerful. We should've known that your powers would grow, no matter what we did—"
"Look," says Bianca after summoning the Book of Shadows into her arms from my levitation. "We want our friends back, and you're obviously going to do something, right?"
"No, we can't. Besides, with you two, there really is no need to get them. With you two here, we've got the most powerful sources of magic that we need to stop them if the demons succeed in making them evil."
"There is no WAY that we're going to help you or come anywhere NEAR you if you don't help our friends—we can leave right now, you know." I look over at Bianca, trying to catch her eye as a cue to shimmer away, but she's absorbed in the Book of Shadows. She rips out a page.
"Hey!" Piper yells, "Don't you—"
"C'mon, Chris, let's go." Bianca folds the page and sticks it in her pocket. "We'll find a way to help them OURSELVES."
They orbed out of the manor, leaving a heart broken, confused Piper in their wake.
Have fun reading!
"First of all, Chris, you're not an orphan. Neither are you, Bianca. It's...very complicated." She waits a moment to let it all sink in, but the two of seem too shocked to say anything. "When you two were born, a demon was on the prowl for...certain kids from people like us. Demons, as I can tell you've already seen in the book, are bad people. Magical, like us, but evil. We're witches, good witches—and our job is to protect the innocent from harm with our powers."
"But...how can we...?"
Piper clears her throat, interrupting Bianca. "Six years ago, that demon was literally just coming into the homes of witches and other magical beings and taking the kids to produce evil later on. It was either hand them over or everybody dies, including the little one. We didn't want that to happen to you."
"How did they know where to go?" I ask, wide-eyed. This all seemed like another fairy tale gone reality kind of thing. Were we inside of a fairy-tale? Did people get to read about us? I shiver at the thought.
"Magical vibes off of the house," she explains. "Every house, even with the littlest bit of magic having been used, can be sensed through magic. We tried not to use magic, but we had to—so people wouldn't die. And that's when I came up with an idea to get everyone out of danger—I'd just have to do it quickly."
"What was it?" Bianca demands.
"Sending all of the children-in-question to one spot where they couldn't be sensed." Piper takes in a deep breath. "Chris, I'm your mother, and Bianca, your mother, Lynn, is downstairs waiting to meet you. But you can't go just yet—I have a few more things to explain."
"Yeah," Bianca says crossly, "like why you never came back for us. Why everybody else at the orphanage is gone. What you were doing in OUR forest tonight."
"We were definitely planning to come back for you. It was only temporary. We sent all of the magical children to a single place, disguised as an orphanage. Miss Marie is really a teacher from the magic school, a place where kids like you learn to harness your powers. While you guys were there, we planned on destroying the demon—but he was nowhere to be found. We figured—we, meaning all of the other mothers of magical beings—that it would be better to leave you guys there until he was stopped...which he never was."
"What did he want with us?" I ask. "How come that Wyatt kid didn't go to the orphanage?"
"He wanted to turn you all evil to work for him, as I said before. I didn't leave Wyatt there because he was old enough to defend himself, considering you two came from the two most powerful beings in the world."
"Which are...?" I trail off.
"Me, a witch, and Leo, a whitelighter."
"Which is a..?"
"We'll get to that later," she sighs. "Anyways, we bound all of your powers before leaving you there. Of course, some of you, like Alex and Sammy and a few others, were old enough to remember their pasts. But time passed and their memories faded. Alex's mom couldn't take it, claimed she'd go get her daughter no matter what. We couldn't let that happen. If she took Alex, the demon would connect them—if the mother's a witch, so is the child. Then he would guess we were hiding you all there. So we tried to stop her, and when that didn't work, we...had to kill her."
"You WHAT?" Bianca exclaims.
Piper keeps going. "Anyways, killing her was pointless. The demon already found out, we were too late. You know the demon we were fighting in the forest? That was the demon that tried to take you all. He succeeded tonight. While you two, thank god, were in the park, all of the other children were taken away, and Miss Marie was murdered."
I gasp. Everybody I ever knew, everyone that my life had revolved around was gone. It wasn't fair. They didn't deserve to be taken, they were all good. I knew that nobody could turn them evil.
"B-but you vanquished him, right?" I remember from the park.
"Yes, once he came out of hiding it was easy to do so." I look up and see a single tear running down her cheek, and realize and I'm crying, too, along with Bianca.
"But that doesn't mean that there aren't other demons that will replace him and do the job of making them evil instead."
"My friends would NEVER turn evil!" I shout in their defense.
She only shakes her head sadly. "Chris, they don't know about their powers. Once they're unbound, the demons could tell them that they were on the good side, manipulate the fact that they don't know a single thing about magic. It would work."
"Wait—were our powers bound?" Bianca questions.
Piper nods. "Of course, sweetie. Why?"
"Because we can use them," I tell her, orbing to another side of the room and using telekinesis to levitate the Book of Shadows. "See?"
"Damn it," she mutters. "You guys were too powerful. We should've known that your powers would grow, no matter what we did—"
"Look," says Bianca after summoning the Book of Shadows into her arms from my levitation. "We want our friends back, and you're obviously going to do something, right?"
"No, we can't. Besides, with you two, there really is no need to get them. With you two here, we've got the most powerful sources of magic that we need to stop them if the demons succeed in making them evil."
"There is no WAY that we're going to help you or come anywhere NEAR you if you don't help our friends—we can leave right now, you know." I look over at Bianca, trying to catch her eye as a cue to shimmer away, but she's absorbed in the Book of Shadows. She rips out a page.
"Hey!" Piper yells, "Don't you—"
"C'mon, Chris, let's go." Bianca folds the page and sticks it in her pocket. "We'll find a way to help them OURSELVES."
They orbed out of the manor, leaving a heart broken, confused Piper in their wake.