THE CHARMED
Chapter 6: "VIDEO GAMES ARE BAD FOR YOUR BRAIN Pt.3"
Adam and Rachel both opened their eyes wondering if the spell worked. They were in the living room, but Arielle and Christina were nowhere in sight.
"Where are we?" Adam asked.
"Well this looks like the living room but," Rachel was cutoff by the sound of Piper.
"AHH" she screamed at the sight of the two strangers. "Demons!"
"Us? We aren't demons," Adam said.
Prue and Phoebe came running downstairs.
Adam turned to Rachel and said quietly, "We shouldn't let Mom know we are her children or she could effect our futures. Don't say a thing to her."
"Who are you two and how did you get inside my house?" Prue asked.
"We are witches from the future," Adam answered.
"And we need your help," Rachel added.
"How so?" Phoebe said.
"Well our sister, Arielle, is dead. And we need to find a way to resurrect her," Adam said.
Paige orbed in. "Gosh what is going on here."
"We can't help you," Piper said. "We only did it once under an emergency. You can't fight Death."
"But you did," Adam fired back.
"Yes but we had to in order to fight Malen," Paige said.
"Prove you're witches. Show us some powers," Phoebe said.
"We can't," Adam answered. He knew if he showed he had telekinesis, things would seem a bit odd.
"Then leave our house," Prue said.
"Sorry, we can't. Who is Malen?" Rachel butted in.
"Wow you do have an attitude. How old are you? 13,14?" Phoebe asked.
"Practically 15, now can you please just help us?" Rachel said.
"Malen WAS the strongest Source of All Evil ever created. The Power of Three could not vanquish him. He was too strong and Paige's powers haven't been with her as long as ours, so they didn't grow as strong as they needed to be. We resurrected, I mean saved, our sister in order to destroy him." Piper answered. Prue gave Piper at look that showed she didn't like the word "resurrected".
"Try meeting the TRYO," Adam said.
"TRYO?" Prue questioned.
"The Source of our time. Think of Malen, except add 2 sisters," Rachel explained.
"Impossible, the Source was supposed to end with Malen," Paige said.
"Nothing is impossible with magic," Adam fired back.
"Yeah well you haven't shown you can do magic so you will be leaving now!" Prue answered.
"But we need you help!" Rachel said.
"And we can't trust you yet!" Piper answered.
"Well we aren't leaving," Adam said.
"Oh yes you are!" Prue swung the door open and telekinetically threw Adam and Rachel out.
"Ouch. Now I know how those demons feel when you throw them around everywhere!" Rachel said rubbing her head as she stood up.
"We need a new approach. We need to get one of them on our sides." Adam said.
"That's it! Paige is half whitelighter. We should be able to summon her!" Rachel said.
"What about Leo?" Adam asked.
"Even better!" Rachel said smirking.
"LEO! LEO! LEO!" they shouted.
Leo orbed in front of them. "Who are YOU?" he asked.
"We'll try to explain it as well as we can," Adam said.
"We are future witches. Actually we are Prue's children. We need your sister's help, but she doesn't trust us yet. We tried to show her our powers but thought that could alter the future. Our sister, Arielle, is..dead. We need to resurrect her or we can't save the future you." Rachel said.
"Not to mention we need our sister back," Adam added.
"Whoa. Slow down," Leo said. "Prue had three children?"
"Yes," Adam said, "Prue delivered the 2nd Generation Charmed Ones. The New Charmed Ones. One big CHARMED family."
"Okay I get the hint. Why didn't you ask Prue in your past, I mean present lives?" Leo asked.
"We would tell you, but then we would have to kill you. Something happens, nothing deadly, but something does happen. We can't ask any of you so we came back here to ask." Rachel explained.
"All we need to do is ask Piper how she resurrected Prue so we can get out of here!" Adam said.
"Show me your powers. One of you should be able to use telekinesis." Leo said.
Adam turned to a wind chime and waved his hand. The chimes shook rapidly and rang loudly.
"Okay I get the hint!" he yelled. "Let me orb to Piper, bring her here, and explain it all."
Within 2 minutes, Piper and Leo orbed back.
"Why did you bring me here Leo! I have to finish my chicken dish for dinner!" Piper said frustratingly. She turned to Adam and Rachel. "Oh not you again!"
"Let us explain" Adam said. He told Piper everything he told Leo. He showed his telekinesis powers and Rachel froze a bird in mid air.
"I would help you and all, but I am not sure the Angel of Death would be easy on you like he was with us. Last time the whole world was in immediate danger. This time it is indirect danger." Piper said.
"We have to try it out though Aunt Piper. You know how you felt when you lost Prue", Adam told her.
Piper stood there. She sighed and said, "Fine, but there are no guarantees it will work. First, you need to go to the Angel of Death. Persuade him why your soul should be saved. He will agree or disagree, and trust me he is hard to persuade. Then you have to go to the Underworld and find the Pool of Souls. Grab your soul and escape!"
"No way! Not happening!" Rachel said. "It is way to risky!!!"
"It is the only way to save her." Adam yelled back.
"Well I don't feel like dying in the Underworld. There has to be another way!" Rachel argued.
"Well you will already be dead. The only way to speak to the Angel of Death is if you're dead. But you won't be a lost soul like the ones are in the Pool of Souls. It takes 24 hours for you to become a ghost. So you will have 24 hours to find Arielle's lost soul and your lost soul before you both become ghosts." Piper said.
"Well that only gives us like 20 hours because Arielle has been dead for at least 5!" Adam said.
"So which one of you is going to go. I can find a deadly poison that is not a painful death?" Piper asked.
"I will. If anything happens to me, at least you will still have an active power," Rachel said to Adam.
"What happens when we grab our souls?" Adam asked.
"Well Arielle's soul will go to her body, but you will still be in the Underworld, alive. You'll have to use a spell to get yourself out of the Underworld without dying again." Piper said.
"What is the spell?" Rachel asked.
"We destroyed it. You will have to make one up when you're down there. Your powers will still work." Piper answered.
"Let's go for it," Rachel said smirking.
Leo orbed the four of them inside the Manor. Piper quietly got to the cupboard and found the poison.
"Good luck," she said as she gave Rachel the poison. "If you don't mind Adam, I would like you to stay with Rachel while she dies. You two can stay in my room, but don't let any of the other sisters see you."
"Sure...no problem," Adam said.
They went into Piper's room.
"Well here goes nothing," Rachel said.
"Good luck," Adam answered back. "And bring yourself back here!"
"It's a sure thing," Rachel replied. She drank the potion and soon fell back on Piper's bed. She was dead.
Rachel opened her eyes. A man in a black trench coat was standing in front of her. She looked around and saw Adam holding her hand, anxiously and saw her own body, lifeless. She knew she did not have much time and turned to the man.
"You the Angel of Death," she asked.
"Yes I am," he answered.
"Okay well you can't take me to the Pool of Souls," she said eagerly.
"It is only a 24 hour wait period till you become a peaceful ghost," he said cheerfully.
"You know who I am right? I am a Charmed One. I got to save my sister, Arielle, who you took 5 hours ago. If I don't the world is over," she replied.
"Yes I know who you are, but you can't cheat death," he answered.
"But I have to!" she said. "If I do not save Arielle, the TRYO will destroy the world and you and I both know that is not meant to happen by magic!"
"True. Listen, I do not have time for this. Your soul is going to the Pool of Souls. If you can give me any reason why I should not send you to the Pool of Souls, then I will let you go to the Underworld. But so far you haven't so...goodbye!" The Angel of Death said. He snapped his fingers and Rachel's soul was gone.
Meanwhile, Adam sat on the couch impatiently. He looked at the poison potion bottle, still half full.
"Something tells me there is something wrong," he thought to himself. He picked up the potion and drank it.
He too opened his eyes to the Angel of Death. "Where is my sister?" he yelled.
"You mean sisters? They are both in the Pool of Souls. Gosh you Halliwells are quite stubborn." he answered.
"Why did you send my sister there?" Adam yelled back.
"She did not give me a good reason to go down there. As of now, there is no immediate threat to the world so that was the risk she took," he replied more sternly, "After all, you can't cheat death."
"That is true," Adam said smirking. "But it wasn't my time yet. I committed suicide; therefore I wouldn't be cheating death. Rather, I'd be cheating emotions, the cause of suicide."
The Angel of Death turned his head, "You are a lot like your Aunt Piper. That is the same thing she said to me when Prue died. Very well, I will let you try once. Only once! If you fail, there will be no one to save you." He snapped his fingers and Adam's soul vanished.
Adam looked around. He wasn't in Piper's bedroom anymore. He stood in front of what looked like a never-ending pit. He heard ghostly moans and saw swirling figures of souls. The pit was fluorescent green, and very eerie.
"Okay now how do I do this," he said as he checked his watch. He only had some odd 18 hours left. "Uhh Arielle, Rachel can you hear me?"
A bunch of ghostly moans replied his call.
"Well that doesn't help too much," he thought to himself. An idea came to him. He would ask a personal question and hope to hear the right moans. "This better work," he pondered.
"Arielle! Rachel was the one who stole your blueberry cobbler!" he yelled.
He heard one single moan. A soul started to rise from the pool. She looked like Arielle, except without color. It seemed the soul was having trouble rising from the pool.
Adam waved his hand and Arielle's soul telekinetically rose from the Pool. Ghosts can't have magic performed on them, but souls can; he remembered Piper telling him.
He said the spell Piper gave him to send a soul back to its owner. "ARIELLE, RETURN YOUR BODY, RELIEVE YOURSELF, OF THIS GHOSTLY WORLD."
Arielle's soul vanished.
"RACHEL! I MADE WELL DONE BURGERS FOR DINNER!" Adam cried out, knowing Rachel disliked well-done hamburgers. He heard the moan and Rachel's soul levitated on top of the Pool.
"RACHEL, RETURN TO YOUR BODY, RELIEVE YOURSELF, OF THIS GHOSTLY WORLD."
Rachel's spirit vanished.
"Okay now how do I get myself out of here?" Adam spoke out loud. He walked away from the Pool and started towards a tunnel. A guardsman appeared with a long sword. He stabbed Adam, but the sword went through him.
"Oh yeah! I forgot my own soul," Adam thought to himself as soon as he realized the sword was through his body. He used telekinesis and used the sword against its owner. The guardsman fell dead, with the blade through his chest. Adam ran back to the pool and found his own soul, tricking it to believe Beyonce was near. He looked at his hands and saw color, making sure to pinch to see if he was alive.
"Ok now I really have to get out here," he told himself. He walked down the tunnel and bent down in the sand to write a spell out to get him back to Piper's room.
"SEND ME OUT OF THIS UNDERWORLD, AND GET ME BACK TO REALITY, MY SOUL HAS BEEN FOUND, NOW GET ME OUT OF THIS SACRED WORLD." It didn't rhyme but it worked.
Adam awoke.
"YOUR BACK!" Rachel cried out, giving him a huge hug.
Piper came in the room. "Oh thank goodness your okay."
"Did it work?" Rachel asked.
"I guess so, if your back," he answered.
"How did you get the approval from the Angel of Death?" Piper asked.
"I used a little bit of my own Halliwell magic," he replied winking. Piper knew what he meant.
"Okay we got to get back to our real world. How do we do that?" Rachel asked.
"Well you completed your task so you should go back anytime now," Piper answered. "Before you leave, give your Aunt Piper a hug," she said smiling.
They had a group hug and within a few seconds, Adam and Rachel vanished.
They were now back in the Manor.
"YOUR BACK!" Christina came orbing in. "Did it work?"
They turned to Arielle, who remained lifeless.
"Oh my gosh, it didn't work," Rachel said.
Arielle opened her eyes. "JUST KIDDING!"
"YOU ASS!" Rachel said smiling.
The Charmed Ones were all back and definitely alive.
"Remind us never to die again," Arielle said smiling.
"Sure thing. But right now, let's just eat!" Adam said.
The group of four left the house to get a bite to eat. Things were back to normal...For now. ON THE NEXT "THE CHARMED" -the Charmed Ones get new powers, however one of their powers causes catastrophe in the house as Rachel turns into a demon.
Chapter 6: "VIDEO GAMES ARE BAD FOR YOUR BRAIN Pt.3"
Adam and Rachel both opened their eyes wondering if the spell worked. They were in the living room, but Arielle and Christina were nowhere in sight.
"Where are we?" Adam asked.
"Well this looks like the living room but," Rachel was cutoff by the sound of Piper.
"AHH" she screamed at the sight of the two strangers. "Demons!"
"Us? We aren't demons," Adam said.
Prue and Phoebe came running downstairs.
Adam turned to Rachel and said quietly, "We shouldn't let Mom know we are her children or she could effect our futures. Don't say a thing to her."
"Who are you two and how did you get inside my house?" Prue asked.
"We are witches from the future," Adam answered.
"And we need your help," Rachel added.
"How so?" Phoebe said.
"Well our sister, Arielle, is dead. And we need to find a way to resurrect her," Adam said.
Paige orbed in. "Gosh what is going on here."
"We can't help you," Piper said. "We only did it once under an emergency. You can't fight Death."
"But you did," Adam fired back.
"Yes but we had to in order to fight Malen," Paige said.
"Prove you're witches. Show us some powers," Phoebe said.
"We can't," Adam answered. He knew if he showed he had telekinesis, things would seem a bit odd.
"Then leave our house," Prue said.
"Sorry, we can't. Who is Malen?" Rachel butted in.
"Wow you do have an attitude. How old are you? 13,14?" Phoebe asked.
"Practically 15, now can you please just help us?" Rachel said.
"Malen WAS the strongest Source of All Evil ever created. The Power of Three could not vanquish him. He was too strong and Paige's powers haven't been with her as long as ours, so they didn't grow as strong as they needed to be. We resurrected, I mean saved, our sister in order to destroy him." Piper answered. Prue gave Piper at look that showed she didn't like the word "resurrected".
"Try meeting the TRYO," Adam said.
"TRYO?" Prue questioned.
"The Source of our time. Think of Malen, except add 2 sisters," Rachel explained.
"Impossible, the Source was supposed to end with Malen," Paige said.
"Nothing is impossible with magic," Adam fired back.
"Yeah well you haven't shown you can do magic so you will be leaving now!" Prue answered.
"But we need you help!" Rachel said.
"And we can't trust you yet!" Piper answered.
"Well we aren't leaving," Adam said.
"Oh yes you are!" Prue swung the door open and telekinetically threw Adam and Rachel out.
"Ouch. Now I know how those demons feel when you throw them around everywhere!" Rachel said rubbing her head as she stood up.
"We need a new approach. We need to get one of them on our sides." Adam said.
"That's it! Paige is half whitelighter. We should be able to summon her!" Rachel said.
"What about Leo?" Adam asked.
"Even better!" Rachel said smirking.
"LEO! LEO! LEO!" they shouted.
Leo orbed in front of them. "Who are YOU?" he asked.
"We'll try to explain it as well as we can," Adam said.
"We are future witches. Actually we are Prue's children. We need your sister's help, but she doesn't trust us yet. We tried to show her our powers but thought that could alter the future. Our sister, Arielle, is..dead. We need to resurrect her or we can't save the future you." Rachel said.
"Not to mention we need our sister back," Adam added.
"Whoa. Slow down," Leo said. "Prue had three children?"
"Yes," Adam said, "Prue delivered the 2nd Generation Charmed Ones. The New Charmed Ones. One big CHARMED family."
"Okay I get the hint. Why didn't you ask Prue in your past, I mean present lives?" Leo asked.
"We would tell you, but then we would have to kill you. Something happens, nothing deadly, but something does happen. We can't ask any of you so we came back here to ask." Rachel explained.
"All we need to do is ask Piper how she resurrected Prue so we can get out of here!" Adam said.
"Show me your powers. One of you should be able to use telekinesis." Leo said.
Adam turned to a wind chime and waved his hand. The chimes shook rapidly and rang loudly.
"Okay I get the hint!" he yelled. "Let me orb to Piper, bring her here, and explain it all."
Within 2 minutes, Piper and Leo orbed back.
"Why did you bring me here Leo! I have to finish my chicken dish for dinner!" Piper said frustratingly. She turned to Adam and Rachel. "Oh not you again!"
"Let us explain" Adam said. He told Piper everything he told Leo. He showed his telekinesis powers and Rachel froze a bird in mid air.
"I would help you and all, but I am not sure the Angel of Death would be easy on you like he was with us. Last time the whole world was in immediate danger. This time it is indirect danger." Piper said.
"We have to try it out though Aunt Piper. You know how you felt when you lost Prue", Adam told her.
Piper stood there. She sighed and said, "Fine, but there are no guarantees it will work. First, you need to go to the Angel of Death. Persuade him why your soul should be saved. He will agree or disagree, and trust me he is hard to persuade. Then you have to go to the Underworld and find the Pool of Souls. Grab your soul and escape!"
"No way! Not happening!" Rachel said. "It is way to risky!!!"
"It is the only way to save her." Adam yelled back.
"Well I don't feel like dying in the Underworld. There has to be another way!" Rachel argued.
"Well you will already be dead. The only way to speak to the Angel of Death is if you're dead. But you won't be a lost soul like the ones are in the Pool of Souls. It takes 24 hours for you to become a ghost. So you will have 24 hours to find Arielle's lost soul and your lost soul before you both become ghosts." Piper said.
"Well that only gives us like 20 hours because Arielle has been dead for at least 5!" Adam said.
"So which one of you is going to go. I can find a deadly poison that is not a painful death?" Piper asked.
"I will. If anything happens to me, at least you will still have an active power," Rachel said to Adam.
"What happens when we grab our souls?" Adam asked.
"Well Arielle's soul will go to her body, but you will still be in the Underworld, alive. You'll have to use a spell to get yourself out of the Underworld without dying again." Piper said.
"What is the spell?" Rachel asked.
"We destroyed it. You will have to make one up when you're down there. Your powers will still work." Piper answered.
"Let's go for it," Rachel said smirking.
Leo orbed the four of them inside the Manor. Piper quietly got to the cupboard and found the poison.
"Good luck," she said as she gave Rachel the poison. "If you don't mind Adam, I would like you to stay with Rachel while she dies. You two can stay in my room, but don't let any of the other sisters see you."
"Sure...no problem," Adam said.
They went into Piper's room.
"Well here goes nothing," Rachel said.
"Good luck," Adam answered back. "And bring yourself back here!"
"It's a sure thing," Rachel replied. She drank the potion and soon fell back on Piper's bed. She was dead.
Rachel opened her eyes. A man in a black trench coat was standing in front of her. She looked around and saw Adam holding her hand, anxiously and saw her own body, lifeless. She knew she did not have much time and turned to the man.
"You the Angel of Death," she asked.
"Yes I am," he answered.
"Okay well you can't take me to the Pool of Souls," she said eagerly.
"It is only a 24 hour wait period till you become a peaceful ghost," he said cheerfully.
"You know who I am right? I am a Charmed One. I got to save my sister, Arielle, who you took 5 hours ago. If I don't the world is over," she replied.
"Yes I know who you are, but you can't cheat death," he answered.
"But I have to!" she said. "If I do not save Arielle, the TRYO will destroy the world and you and I both know that is not meant to happen by magic!"
"True. Listen, I do not have time for this. Your soul is going to the Pool of Souls. If you can give me any reason why I should not send you to the Pool of Souls, then I will let you go to the Underworld. But so far you haven't so...goodbye!" The Angel of Death said. He snapped his fingers and Rachel's soul was gone.
Meanwhile, Adam sat on the couch impatiently. He looked at the poison potion bottle, still half full.
"Something tells me there is something wrong," he thought to himself. He picked up the potion and drank it.
He too opened his eyes to the Angel of Death. "Where is my sister?" he yelled.
"You mean sisters? They are both in the Pool of Souls. Gosh you Halliwells are quite stubborn." he answered.
"Why did you send my sister there?" Adam yelled back.
"She did not give me a good reason to go down there. As of now, there is no immediate threat to the world so that was the risk she took," he replied more sternly, "After all, you can't cheat death."
"That is true," Adam said smirking. "But it wasn't my time yet. I committed suicide; therefore I wouldn't be cheating death. Rather, I'd be cheating emotions, the cause of suicide."
The Angel of Death turned his head, "You are a lot like your Aunt Piper. That is the same thing she said to me when Prue died. Very well, I will let you try once. Only once! If you fail, there will be no one to save you." He snapped his fingers and Adam's soul vanished.
Adam looked around. He wasn't in Piper's bedroom anymore. He stood in front of what looked like a never-ending pit. He heard ghostly moans and saw swirling figures of souls. The pit was fluorescent green, and very eerie.
"Okay now how do I do this," he said as he checked his watch. He only had some odd 18 hours left. "Uhh Arielle, Rachel can you hear me?"
A bunch of ghostly moans replied his call.
"Well that doesn't help too much," he thought to himself. An idea came to him. He would ask a personal question and hope to hear the right moans. "This better work," he pondered.
"Arielle! Rachel was the one who stole your blueberry cobbler!" he yelled.
He heard one single moan. A soul started to rise from the pool. She looked like Arielle, except without color. It seemed the soul was having trouble rising from the pool.
Adam waved his hand and Arielle's soul telekinetically rose from the Pool. Ghosts can't have magic performed on them, but souls can; he remembered Piper telling him.
He said the spell Piper gave him to send a soul back to its owner. "ARIELLE, RETURN YOUR BODY, RELIEVE YOURSELF, OF THIS GHOSTLY WORLD."
Arielle's soul vanished.
"RACHEL! I MADE WELL DONE BURGERS FOR DINNER!" Adam cried out, knowing Rachel disliked well-done hamburgers. He heard the moan and Rachel's soul levitated on top of the Pool.
"RACHEL, RETURN TO YOUR BODY, RELIEVE YOURSELF, OF THIS GHOSTLY WORLD."
Rachel's spirit vanished.
"Okay now how do I get myself out of here?" Adam spoke out loud. He walked away from the Pool and started towards a tunnel. A guardsman appeared with a long sword. He stabbed Adam, but the sword went through him.
"Oh yeah! I forgot my own soul," Adam thought to himself as soon as he realized the sword was through his body. He used telekinesis and used the sword against its owner. The guardsman fell dead, with the blade through his chest. Adam ran back to the pool and found his own soul, tricking it to believe Beyonce was near. He looked at his hands and saw color, making sure to pinch to see if he was alive.
"Ok now I really have to get out here," he told himself. He walked down the tunnel and bent down in the sand to write a spell out to get him back to Piper's room.
"SEND ME OUT OF THIS UNDERWORLD, AND GET ME BACK TO REALITY, MY SOUL HAS BEEN FOUND, NOW GET ME OUT OF THIS SACRED WORLD." It didn't rhyme but it worked.
Adam awoke.
"YOUR BACK!" Rachel cried out, giving him a huge hug.
Piper came in the room. "Oh thank goodness your okay."
"Did it work?" Rachel asked.
"I guess so, if your back," he answered.
"How did you get the approval from the Angel of Death?" Piper asked.
"I used a little bit of my own Halliwell magic," he replied winking. Piper knew what he meant.
"Okay we got to get back to our real world. How do we do that?" Rachel asked.
"Well you completed your task so you should go back anytime now," Piper answered. "Before you leave, give your Aunt Piper a hug," she said smiling.
They had a group hug and within a few seconds, Adam and Rachel vanished.
They were now back in the Manor.
"YOUR BACK!" Christina came orbing in. "Did it work?"
They turned to Arielle, who remained lifeless.
"Oh my gosh, it didn't work," Rachel said.
Arielle opened her eyes. "JUST KIDDING!"
"YOU ASS!" Rachel said smiling.
The Charmed Ones were all back and definitely alive.
"Remind us never to die again," Arielle said smiling.
"Sure thing. But right now, let's just eat!" Adam said.
The group of four left the house to get a bite to eat. Things were back to normal...For now. ON THE NEXT "THE CHARMED" -the Charmed Ones get new powers, however one of their powers causes catastrophe in the house as Rachel turns into a demon.