The Charmed
Chapter 8: "Saved By The Bell"
Adam and his school friend, Alex, were at Eastern High School on their way to English class.
"Ugh I am so tired of all this homework," Alex said.
"Yeah I know what you mean," Adam answered.
"We need to study for our vocabulary test, would your mom mind bringing you over to study?" Alex asked.
"Uhh," Adam paused, "she is away on vacation."
"Oh okay, what about your dad?" Alex replied.
"He's...with her," Adam said trying to get out of the conversation as quickly as possible.
As they were walking, a sophomore bully named Cory stepped in their way.
"Hey freak! Give me your lunch money now before I knock your skull in," he said.
"Get over yourself," Adam replied ignoring him and nudging him out of the way.
Cory grabbed the back of Adam's shirt and threw him into a locker.
"Haha loser," Cory laughed and walked away.
Adam, filled with anger, noticed the crowd of people who witnessed this. An idea came to him. He waved his hand and a locker slammed open and knocked Cory in the face, who fell down screaming in pain, holding his nose. The crowd that assembled began to laugh hysterically.
Adam chuckled and got off the floor to find his World History teacher, Mrs. Hassall, staring back at him.
"Adam, you're going to have to come with me. You have a lot of explaining to do," she said.
Adam followed her into her classroom, nervous that she caught him using magic. They walked inside, as Mrs. Hassall turned to close the door to make sure no one over heard them.
"How did you do that?" she asked.
"Do what?" Adam said.
"You do not have to be nervous. I know how you caused the locker to open. I saw you wave your hand," she answered.
Adam was speechless.
Mrs. Hassall turned to him and said, "Here watch this." She walked over to her briefcase and took out a brown satchel. She pulled out what looked like dust and threw it into the air. The dust turned into 2 doves.
"Your a gypsy?" Adam said surprised.
"That's it!" she said. "Now your turn"
Adam did not know what to say. His teacher was a gypsy, a magical person who could tell fortunes, make illusions, and an expert in potions and remedies."
"I'm a ......Charmed one," he blurted out.
"Haha yeah right. Seriously, you expect me to believe that a Charmed Ones is a 15 year old?" she repeated.
"CHRISTINA!" Adam yelled.
Adam's whitelighter orbed in the classroom.
"ADAM WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE IS A TEACHER HERE!" Christina yelled.
"It is okay. She is one of us. Do me a favor and orb Arielle and Rachel here. We may have a breakthrough in this magical stuff interfering with our lives," he said.
Christina orbed out, only to return with Arielle and Rachel.
"Is this more like it? We are the Charmed Ones," he said.
"Prove it," she said.
Adam turned to Rachel and Arielle. They understood what was going on right away. Adam telekinetically waved a globe into the air. Rachel froze it before it could fall and Arielle expelled her fiery mace whisper into the air. Rachel unfroze the globe, threw an electric ball at it and Adam blew it up.
"How is that?" Arielle asked.
"Oh my god! The stories are true. You ARE the Charmed Ones!" she said with glee.
"Yep. I am sure you know the story with our parents by now. And we may need someone to cover for us if demons break out while we are in school. Is that okay Mrs. Hassall," Rachel said.
"Sure of course..ehh..please call me Michele, it is easier for all of us," she answered.
"Does this mean your husband is a gypsy too?" Arielle asked.
"My husband...has been enslaved, by the TRYO. He was an upper level gypsy and they are using him, brainwashing him, to do evil. I have not seen or heard from him since he left for the Underworld," she answered.
"Oh...I'm real sorry. We'll do anything we can to bring him back," Adam replied. "For now, if you want, you can live with us. It would be easier if we had an adult figure living in the house."
"I don't know. I'll definitely think about it though. It does get lonely living with two cats," she replied.
Just then, the group heard commotion. They ran around the corner to the next hallway to see Cory in a fury with a thin freshman, your typical nerd. He was circling him like a vulture in a dessert.
"WHERE ARE THE CHARMED ONES," he yelled.
"I don't...know....what...your...talking...about," the kid wailed.
Adam looked at Arielle, both thinking the same thing.
Cory pick up the kid by the neck and threw him into a locker.
"HEY!" Michele yelled.
Cory looked up and noticed he was being watch. He then stormed off in the opposite direction.
"Guys, couldn't you have done something," Michele asked.
"Yeah but that would have exposed our magic. Plus we have no clue what is going on. Cory is an ass, but he is not that furious," Rachel said.
"Christina, orb us back to the Manor," Adam calmly demanded.
The group of five orbed to the Manor with only 5 minutes of school left anyway.
"Wow, nice house. I wouldn't mind living here!" Michele commented.
"Thanks, our aunts are great decorators!" Arielle said cheerfully.
They walked up to the attic to look through the Book of Shadows.
"Why are we up here?" Arielle asked.
"Well, how else would Cory find out about us. I have a strong hunch that he is being possessed," Rachel answered.
"Michele meet the Book of Shadows. Book of Shadows, this is Michele!" Adam introduced.
"Hello Michele," Arielle said jokingly as if the Book of Shadows answered back.
As they were flipping through the Book, Arielle's hand touched a page that made a premonition occur. She saw a Shadow figure jump into Cory, taking over his body,
"What's wrong Arielle?" Michele asked.
"Premonition. I saw a Shadowy figure jump into Cory," Arielle announced. She looked at the page she was touching and noticed that the demon on that page was the correct match. It was an all black figure, more closely related to a man's shadow. He had glowing yellow eyes.
"And that would be him!" Arielle said. "Virus, the Demon of Shadows. Virus is a demonic Shadow creature that possess a human, enveloping himself around the host's brain. "
"Well okay all we have to do is get Virus out of Cory and blow him up," Adam said.
"He can only be destroyed while in the host," Arielle further read.
"Just kidding," Adam said, looking more frustrated,
"Well what are we supposed to do?" Rachel asked.
"We have to keep a look out on Cory to make sure he doesn't harm himself or other people. He is your Innocent now," Christina commented.
"Grrreaat," Adam said. "Just what I need. An innocent with an attitude."
As he was speaking five demons blinked into the attic. They had black leather suits on with different weapons of choice.
"What the hell!" Arielle yelled.
One demon had a crossbow, Another had a long sword, The female of the group had two sais. The biggest demon had an axe, and the last demon had an athemay, a smaller dagger.
"Rison's Cube!" Michele blurted out.
"WHAT?" Adam asked.
"Rison's Cube. It is a crystal cube located in the Underworld. Once it is opened, swarms of assassins keep being created out of the cube, like a demon machine. The only way you can stop production is too..."
She was cut short when one of the woman's sais struck into her chest.
"MICHELE!" Arielle cried out. Christina ran to heal her as the demon with the crossbow shot an arrow at her. Adam guided the arrow away from her. Arielle turned to the Sai Demon and threw her mace whisper into her face. The Sai Demon backed away in pain, but quickly recovered. Arielle punched her in the face and that did the trick. The Sai Demon was unconscious. The axe demon was battling Rachel. She flew an electric ball into his stomach and he went flying. Rachel froze him in midair, to finish the job later and help against the others. Christina was done healing Michele who got up and used her gypsy magic to create a bomb and threw at the axe demon who blew up. Adam turned to the athemay demon.
"ADAM TRY AND SUMMON THE ATHEMAY," yelled Christina.
"Huh?" Adam questioned. "ATHEMA!"
The athemay orbed into Adam's hand. He looked puzzled, but threw it at the Athemay Demon and the demon disappeared into death. The sword demon just missed Arielle, giving her a nasty cut. Arielle went to punch him, but he blocked it and threw her across the room. He turned to Rachel and went to strike her, but Rachel ducked.
Arielle and Adam came from behind and the three of them were now surrounding the Sword Demon.
"Who wants to do the honors of getting this one?" Arielle asked, smirking.
The sword demon exploded.
"I do," said Michele. She had used her gypsy bomb to blow him up.
"You do come in handy!" Adam said.
Adam turned to the sai and crossbow demons, and blew them up.
"Damn we are good!" Rachel expressed.
They walked out of the attic to go find Cory, when they gaped in horror at the sight they saw.
"Oh my god," Rachel said.
In the downstairs of the manor, about 60 demons with different weapons were ready to fight.
"Rison's Cube?" Rachel asked.
"Oh yeah," Michele answered.
Christina orbed them all out of the Manor to Michele's apartment.
"Looks like we need a new plan!" Rachel commented.
"Half of us half to go the Underworld and destroy the cube before , and the other half need to find out how to knock out Virus from Cory," Arielle thought.
"Okay well how bout Adam and Michele will get to the Underworld and destroy the cube, since Michele's gypsy magic and Adam's power to blow things up will probably help a lot to break the cube, and Arielle and I both have defensive powers so we don't harm Cory yet still keep him under our control," Rachel said.
"You know going to the Underworld is way risky. The Demons there have powers you have never even seen before!" Christina added.
"Well Michele's powers are a bit more up to date and if we need help we'll leave right away," Adam rebutted.
"We have no choice, Christina. All who vote Adam and Michele going to Underworld raise your hand," Rachel said.
All of them, except Christina, raised their hands.
"Thought so," Rachel concluded.
Rachel and Arielle left to go hunt down Cory. Christina was about to orb Michele and Adam down to the Underworld.
"Before we go, I have a quick question. How did you know I had that whitelighter only power to orb things to me?" Adam asked
Christina opened her mouth to speak when, what seemed like another whitelighter, came into the room.
"Who are you?" Adam asked.
"The name's Gabrielle," she said. She turned to Christina and placed her hand on Christina's head. Christina began to scream in agony and fell to the ground. Her body seemed to just orb away.
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO HER!" Adam yelled.
Gabrielle laughed and began to say a spell: "Erase their minds, Erase their desires Make me their new whitelighter"
Adam and Michele were frozen. Rachel and Arielle, who were on their way to Cory's house also stood still for a moment. Within a few seconds, they unfroze.
"That's funny, I feel a little bit weird. Anyway, are you ready to orb us to the Underworld Gabrielle?" Adam asked.
"Why should I?" Gabrielle said innocently, deliberately trying to get the answer she wanted from Adam.
"Uhh cause your our Whitelighter? Listen, I know your worried, but we'll be fine." Adam said.
Gabrielle nodded and orbed them down where the Demons live. Christina's identity was gone and is if they never met her. Gabrielle was the only whitelighter, in their minds, that they ever have.
ON THE NEXT CHARMED: -Find out where Christina is -Adam and Michele must beat the RIsons; Cube
Adam turned around and to his astonishment, saw 100 warriors from the Rison's Cube. "Michele..." Adam stuttered. "Looks like we are going to have to fight our way to the cube!" Michele said nervously.
-Cory, infected with the Virus, makes it hard for Rachel and Arielle to help him "Cory wait!" Arielle yelled for him. Cory turned around and a fireball sprung from his hand. "Uh oh," Rachel said.
-Gabrielle has assumed the identity of Christina and is playing two sides....Will the Charmed Ones get out of this big dilemma? Find out on the third to last episode of Season 1.
-Find out why Adam has a power only a whitelighter would have
Chapter 8: "Saved By The Bell"
Adam and his school friend, Alex, were at Eastern High School on their way to English class.
"Ugh I am so tired of all this homework," Alex said.
"Yeah I know what you mean," Adam answered.
"We need to study for our vocabulary test, would your mom mind bringing you over to study?" Alex asked.
"Uhh," Adam paused, "she is away on vacation."
"Oh okay, what about your dad?" Alex replied.
"He's...with her," Adam said trying to get out of the conversation as quickly as possible.
As they were walking, a sophomore bully named Cory stepped in their way.
"Hey freak! Give me your lunch money now before I knock your skull in," he said.
"Get over yourself," Adam replied ignoring him and nudging him out of the way.
Cory grabbed the back of Adam's shirt and threw him into a locker.
"Haha loser," Cory laughed and walked away.
Adam, filled with anger, noticed the crowd of people who witnessed this. An idea came to him. He waved his hand and a locker slammed open and knocked Cory in the face, who fell down screaming in pain, holding his nose. The crowd that assembled began to laugh hysterically.
Adam chuckled and got off the floor to find his World History teacher, Mrs. Hassall, staring back at him.
"Adam, you're going to have to come with me. You have a lot of explaining to do," she said.
Adam followed her into her classroom, nervous that she caught him using magic. They walked inside, as Mrs. Hassall turned to close the door to make sure no one over heard them.
"How did you do that?" she asked.
"Do what?" Adam said.
"You do not have to be nervous. I know how you caused the locker to open. I saw you wave your hand," she answered.
Adam was speechless.
Mrs. Hassall turned to him and said, "Here watch this." She walked over to her briefcase and took out a brown satchel. She pulled out what looked like dust and threw it into the air. The dust turned into 2 doves.
"Your a gypsy?" Adam said surprised.
"That's it!" she said. "Now your turn"
Adam did not know what to say. His teacher was a gypsy, a magical person who could tell fortunes, make illusions, and an expert in potions and remedies."
"I'm a ......Charmed one," he blurted out.
"Haha yeah right. Seriously, you expect me to believe that a Charmed Ones is a 15 year old?" she repeated.
"CHRISTINA!" Adam yelled.
Adam's whitelighter orbed in the classroom.
"ADAM WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE IS A TEACHER HERE!" Christina yelled.
"It is okay. She is one of us. Do me a favor and orb Arielle and Rachel here. We may have a breakthrough in this magical stuff interfering with our lives," he said.
Christina orbed out, only to return with Arielle and Rachel.
"Is this more like it? We are the Charmed Ones," he said.
"Prove it," she said.
Adam turned to Rachel and Arielle. They understood what was going on right away. Adam telekinetically waved a globe into the air. Rachel froze it before it could fall and Arielle expelled her fiery mace whisper into the air. Rachel unfroze the globe, threw an electric ball at it and Adam blew it up.
"How is that?" Arielle asked.
"Oh my god! The stories are true. You ARE the Charmed Ones!" she said with glee.
"Yep. I am sure you know the story with our parents by now. And we may need someone to cover for us if demons break out while we are in school. Is that okay Mrs. Hassall," Rachel said.
"Sure of course..ehh..please call me Michele, it is easier for all of us," she answered.
"Does this mean your husband is a gypsy too?" Arielle asked.
"My husband...has been enslaved, by the TRYO. He was an upper level gypsy and they are using him, brainwashing him, to do evil. I have not seen or heard from him since he left for the Underworld," she answered.
"Oh...I'm real sorry. We'll do anything we can to bring him back," Adam replied. "For now, if you want, you can live with us. It would be easier if we had an adult figure living in the house."
"I don't know. I'll definitely think about it though. It does get lonely living with two cats," she replied.
Just then, the group heard commotion. They ran around the corner to the next hallway to see Cory in a fury with a thin freshman, your typical nerd. He was circling him like a vulture in a dessert.
"WHERE ARE THE CHARMED ONES," he yelled.
"I don't...know....what...your...talking...about," the kid wailed.
Adam looked at Arielle, both thinking the same thing.
Cory pick up the kid by the neck and threw him into a locker.
"HEY!" Michele yelled.
Cory looked up and noticed he was being watch. He then stormed off in the opposite direction.
"Guys, couldn't you have done something," Michele asked.
"Yeah but that would have exposed our magic. Plus we have no clue what is going on. Cory is an ass, but he is not that furious," Rachel said.
"Christina, orb us back to the Manor," Adam calmly demanded.
The group of five orbed to the Manor with only 5 minutes of school left anyway.
"Wow, nice house. I wouldn't mind living here!" Michele commented.
"Thanks, our aunts are great decorators!" Arielle said cheerfully.
They walked up to the attic to look through the Book of Shadows.
"Why are we up here?" Arielle asked.
"Well, how else would Cory find out about us. I have a strong hunch that he is being possessed," Rachel answered.
"Michele meet the Book of Shadows. Book of Shadows, this is Michele!" Adam introduced.
"Hello Michele," Arielle said jokingly as if the Book of Shadows answered back.
As they were flipping through the Book, Arielle's hand touched a page that made a premonition occur. She saw a Shadow figure jump into Cory, taking over his body,
"What's wrong Arielle?" Michele asked.
"Premonition. I saw a Shadowy figure jump into Cory," Arielle announced. She looked at the page she was touching and noticed that the demon on that page was the correct match. It was an all black figure, more closely related to a man's shadow. He had glowing yellow eyes.
"And that would be him!" Arielle said. "Virus, the Demon of Shadows. Virus is a demonic Shadow creature that possess a human, enveloping himself around the host's brain. "
"Well okay all we have to do is get Virus out of Cory and blow him up," Adam said.
"He can only be destroyed while in the host," Arielle further read.
"Just kidding," Adam said, looking more frustrated,
"Well what are we supposed to do?" Rachel asked.
"We have to keep a look out on Cory to make sure he doesn't harm himself or other people. He is your Innocent now," Christina commented.
"Grrreaat," Adam said. "Just what I need. An innocent with an attitude."
As he was speaking five demons blinked into the attic. They had black leather suits on with different weapons of choice.
"What the hell!" Arielle yelled.
One demon had a crossbow, Another had a long sword, The female of the group had two sais. The biggest demon had an axe, and the last demon had an athemay, a smaller dagger.
"Rison's Cube!" Michele blurted out.
"WHAT?" Adam asked.
"Rison's Cube. It is a crystal cube located in the Underworld. Once it is opened, swarms of assassins keep being created out of the cube, like a demon machine. The only way you can stop production is too..."
She was cut short when one of the woman's sais struck into her chest.
"MICHELE!" Arielle cried out. Christina ran to heal her as the demon with the crossbow shot an arrow at her. Adam guided the arrow away from her. Arielle turned to the Sai Demon and threw her mace whisper into her face. The Sai Demon backed away in pain, but quickly recovered. Arielle punched her in the face and that did the trick. The Sai Demon was unconscious. The axe demon was battling Rachel. She flew an electric ball into his stomach and he went flying. Rachel froze him in midair, to finish the job later and help against the others. Christina was done healing Michele who got up and used her gypsy magic to create a bomb and threw at the axe demon who blew up. Adam turned to the athemay demon.
"ADAM TRY AND SUMMON THE ATHEMAY," yelled Christina.
"Huh?" Adam questioned. "ATHEMA!"
The athemay orbed into Adam's hand. He looked puzzled, but threw it at the Athemay Demon and the demon disappeared into death. The sword demon just missed Arielle, giving her a nasty cut. Arielle went to punch him, but he blocked it and threw her across the room. He turned to Rachel and went to strike her, but Rachel ducked.
Arielle and Adam came from behind and the three of them were now surrounding the Sword Demon.
"Who wants to do the honors of getting this one?" Arielle asked, smirking.
The sword demon exploded.
"I do," said Michele. She had used her gypsy bomb to blow him up.
"You do come in handy!" Adam said.
Adam turned to the sai and crossbow demons, and blew them up.
"Damn we are good!" Rachel expressed.
They walked out of the attic to go find Cory, when they gaped in horror at the sight they saw.
"Oh my god," Rachel said.
In the downstairs of the manor, about 60 demons with different weapons were ready to fight.
"Rison's Cube?" Rachel asked.
"Oh yeah," Michele answered.
Christina orbed them all out of the Manor to Michele's apartment.
"Looks like we need a new plan!" Rachel commented.
"Half of us half to go the Underworld and destroy the cube before , and the other half need to find out how to knock out Virus from Cory," Arielle thought.
"Okay well how bout Adam and Michele will get to the Underworld and destroy the cube, since Michele's gypsy magic and Adam's power to blow things up will probably help a lot to break the cube, and Arielle and I both have defensive powers so we don't harm Cory yet still keep him under our control," Rachel said.
"You know going to the Underworld is way risky. The Demons there have powers you have never even seen before!" Christina added.
"Well Michele's powers are a bit more up to date and if we need help we'll leave right away," Adam rebutted.
"We have no choice, Christina. All who vote Adam and Michele going to Underworld raise your hand," Rachel said.
All of them, except Christina, raised their hands.
"Thought so," Rachel concluded.
Rachel and Arielle left to go hunt down Cory. Christina was about to orb Michele and Adam down to the Underworld.
"Before we go, I have a quick question. How did you know I had that whitelighter only power to orb things to me?" Adam asked
Christina opened her mouth to speak when, what seemed like another whitelighter, came into the room.
"Who are you?" Adam asked.
"The name's Gabrielle," she said. She turned to Christina and placed her hand on Christina's head. Christina began to scream in agony and fell to the ground. Her body seemed to just orb away.
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO HER!" Adam yelled.
Gabrielle laughed and began to say a spell: "Erase their minds, Erase their desires Make me their new whitelighter"
Adam and Michele were frozen. Rachel and Arielle, who were on their way to Cory's house also stood still for a moment. Within a few seconds, they unfroze.
"That's funny, I feel a little bit weird. Anyway, are you ready to orb us to the Underworld Gabrielle?" Adam asked.
"Why should I?" Gabrielle said innocently, deliberately trying to get the answer she wanted from Adam.
"Uhh cause your our Whitelighter? Listen, I know your worried, but we'll be fine." Adam said.
Gabrielle nodded and orbed them down where the Demons live. Christina's identity was gone and is if they never met her. Gabrielle was the only whitelighter, in their minds, that they ever have.
ON THE NEXT CHARMED: -Find out where Christina is -Adam and Michele must beat the RIsons; Cube
Adam turned around and to his astonishment, saw 100 warriors from the Rison's Cube. "Michele..." Adam stuttered. "Looks like we are going to have to fight our way to the cube!" Michele said nervously.
-Cory, infected with the Virus, makes it hard for Rachel and Arielle to help him "Cory wait!" Arielle yelled for him. Cory turned around and a fireball sprung from his hand. "Uh oh," Rachel said.
-Gabrielle has assumed the identity of Christina and is playing two sides....Will the Charmed Ones get out of this big dilemma? Find out on the third to last episode of Season 1.
-Find out why Adam has a power only a whitelighter would have