The Charmed
Season 2 Chapter 2
Chapter 13: "A Family Affair"
"Duck!" Adam yelled as he threw the Trilliance in the air and attempted to blow it up to release his parents but to no luck did it work.
"Great," Arielle sighed. "All this work and the damn thing will not open."
"Well, don't give up," Michele said. "If anything there is probably some moral witch lesson you have to learn before it opens up."
"Or we could just try the Power Of Three spell?" Rachel suggested.
"Now why did we not think of that before!" Adam whined.
The group made a triangle around the Trilliance.
"The Power of Three Will Set Us Free. The Power of Three Will Set Us Free. The Power of Three Will Set Us Free," they repeated.
The front emerald on the Trilliance lifted open and seven lights came out and landed in the Manor living room. Paige, Prue, Piper, Phoebe, Leo, Wyatt, and Chris were all back!
"WE DID IT!" Arielle and the group exulted.
"Holy crap!" Adam called out.
"YOU DID IT!" Prue ran towards them. The Halliwell family gathered in the center of the living room; everyone astonished that everything turned out great.
"Well show us your powers!" Phoebe said excitingly after 30 minutes of hugging and "how are you-ing"
Arielle said, "Well I have premonitions and..."
"That is a great power if I do say so myself," Phoebe interrupted.
"And I have the ability to blind demons with this," she said as she demonstrated the mace whisper. "I can also sense demons and witches."
"I freeze time and can do this!" Rachel said as she threw an electrical sphere at a teapot, as it shattered.
"Thanks honey but you did not have to break the teapot," Piper nodded.
"I can also orb, but not on command," she said.
"Oh well I will have to teach you the tricks of trade," Paige reassured her.
Adam called out for a muffin on the dining room table. The muffin orbed to him. Then he telekinetically threw it in the air and blew it up.
"Show off," Arielle coughed under her breath.
"I can not believe it. My three babies, the next Charmed Ones," Prue was ecstatic.
"So how did you vanquish the TRYO?" Leo asked.
"Well, they kind of vanquished themselves. One betrayed the other and it gave us the opportunity to kill them while they fought. We did lose a casualty though, in fact she was our whitelight, our friend," Adam looked down.
"Aww honey I'm sorry," Phoebe sympathized. "That will be the one thing you will not get used to."
"I hate to ruin the whole family reunion, but you do know there is a very important decision to made," said Alysse.
"Huh?" asked Adam.
"She's right. There can not be two sets of Charmed Ones. One of you three have to give up your rights as Charmed Ones. You will still keep your powers though," Leo said.
"Why?" Arielle questioned.
"Because the whole point of the Power of Three was to keep it at three people only. There was only a second generation because fate made it so," Alysse finished Leo's explanation.
"Well, we will talk about that later," Piper calmed everyone down. "For now, let's all relax. I'll make dinner! Wow it has been a long time since I could say that."
Adam went with Piper to make dinner since he was the chef while she was gone. Rachel and Paige went to go practice orbing. Arielle and Phoebe had a long talk about premonitions. Leo confronted Prue.
"Do you know what you have to do?" He asked her.
"Well I feel I should protect my children, but then they will never grow up knowing their magic like we had to do," she answered.
"Let me just say the Elders have something else in mind," Leo said.
Back in the kitchen, Adam asked Piper, "So what was it like in the Trilliance?"
"Well, it was like a long sleep; coma like actually," she answered him.
"Weird," he said.
Michele finished setting the table and they were all ready to eat.
"This is delicious!" Prue kept repeating.
"Adam is quite the cook," Piper grinned.
"Aunt Phoebe can you please pass the..." Arielle was trying to say when a demon shimmered in.
"Oh come on!" Paige was upset. "Can't they give us some sort of break?"
Adam went to blow it up, but Piper tried to also and their powers just collided with each other.
"Whoops, sorry" Adam said.
The demon, who wore a black trench coat, and held a long wooden staff that he implanted in the living room began to speak a demon spell. A wave of magic swept through the house, unbeknown to the witches. Then he shimmered out.
They sat in silence for a minute and the whole entire family simultaneously asked "Book of Shadows?"
Paige and Rachel orbed to the attic to look for the demon they saw.
"There he is," Rachel found him. "His name is Lex, the Demon of Black Magic. Lex is a high level demon with the black magic power to manipulate objects and people. Vanquish is unknown."
"Oh lovely," Paige said.
"Well, we may as well summon him," Rachel suggested as they went to walk out of the attic door, but it was locked.
"Hey guys let us out, we found the demon!" Paige called out.
There was no answer.
"Hey, this isn't funny!" Rachel called out.
They both tried to orb but to no avail did it work.
"Looks like his black magic is already in effect," Paige sighed.
Just then, a chair came flying at them.
"Woah!" Rachel yelled and ducked.
"What was that?" Paige asked.
More junk, like books and old records, were also flying in a chaotic rage.
"What is going on?" Paige hid for cover.
"I don't know. It is like a poltergeist or something," Rachel said.
"That must be what the book means, he created a poltergeist," Paige concluded.
Meanwhile, Adam, Piper, Arielle, Alysse, and Michele were downstairs waiting. Leo took Prue and the kids to the Elders for an unknown reason, and Phoebe was going to work to explain her absence from the past few months. She hoped to be back in time to find out who the demon is.
"What is that noise!" Piper jumped out.
They ran upstairs to the attic and heard Paige and Rachel screaming for their lives. The attic door would not open.
Adam and Piper both went to blow it up, but once again it collided.
"We have to stop doing that," Adam noted. "Be my guest."
Piper blew up the door, but as she walked in the books came swarming at her. The only book that remained still was the Book of Shadows.
"Why didn't you guys orb out?" Adam asked.
"Okay I will say this fast. Lex is the Demon of Black Magic. He released a poltergeist, an evil spirit that posses the house and objects in it to attack us. For some reason, we could not orb out. Lex can manipulate the minds of people so maybe he manipulated our magic." Rachel quickly stated.
Piper kept blowing up books left and right.
"Alright, well the attic is open, feel free to leave anytime soon!" she said frustrated. The two girls rushed out of the attic, which now had no door, and the group ran downstairs.
"Well how are we supposed to stop it?" Adam asked.
"We need to vanquish the demon," Rachel answered.
"Yeah but the house will just move everything we use to scribe for him. This could get tricky," Arielle was pessimistic.
A table lifted from the living room and caught Arielle off guard.
"ARIELLE!" Adam cried out, as he ran to her. She was out cold.
"She'll be fine," Piper said. "She is probably safer on the ground anyway."
"Lex is an upper-level demon," Rachel remembered. "We need to get to the positions."
"I'll go make a potion," Paige said as she went to the kitchen.
"The map is in the attic," Adam told them. "I could always go up, and blow anything that comes my way. Aunt Piper, you need to stay here for Arielle and Rachel. Alysse can come with me."
"Good job," Piper was impressed. Adam and Alysse heard a scream coming from the downstairs, as they made their way to the attic. It was Paige. Alysse orbed to the kitchen.
Three knives were stabbed into her stomach.
"Damn Poltergeist!" Alysse ran to her. Adam telekinetically took out the knives, and Alysse healed her.
Paige got up slowly. "Guess I will not make a potion after all," she said.
"What we need desperately is the Book of Shadows. Evil can not take on the Book of Shadows so it will not run away from us. For now, Piper or Rachel, one of you needs to be on the look out to freeze things," Arielle acknowledged.
"Michele, have those gypsy bombs ready," Piper told her.
They made a circle, with their faces pointing outward.
"We all can not get up the staircase in our "O" formation," Paige said.
"Then orb me to the upstairs," Adam said. "I can blow things up and we can both call objects to us so it should be easy,"
Paige understood and orbed them to the attic.
Piper saw their new vase fly at Arielle.
Rachel made an electric ball and threw it at the vase.
"Nice shot," Piper said.
(In the Attic)
"I got your back," Paige said to Adam, who ran towards the Book.
Papers flew at him.
"What are they trying to do," Adam yelled. "Give me paper cuts?"
"PAPER!" Paige called out. She could only manage to summon 10 sheets.
Adam grabbed the Book and he made it back to Paige. They tried to get out, but remembered they could not orb out of the attic; they could only orb in due to Zex's black magic.
They managed their way out of the room and downstairs.
They got to the living room to join the others. Arielle had just fought off a battle with a rug by tying it in a bow. Piper froze it, because it was her favorite carpet.
"Whew, that was close," Paige said. Simultaneously, every light in the house went out. It was 8:00 PM, so it was already dark outside.
"Greeaaat," Rachel said sarcastically.
"How does a poltergeist make a blockade so you can not get out of a room?" Adam asked.
"Well it is black magic that made a poltergeist but it must have also sent out some sort of force that could control the house," Piper reasoned.
"But then he had the chance to lock Paige and I out of the attic. Why didn't he kill us then?," Adam argued.
"Then he has another plan," Michele concluded.
Adam shrugged and looked up only to see a demon in a trench coat.
"DEMON!" he yelled and blew it up.
"Um Adam are you okay?" Rachel asked.
"Yeah, that demon just appeared out of nowhere," he answered.
"But you just blew up a vase," Paige said.
"Huh?" Adam was confused.
This time Rachel saw a demon, and she shot an electric ball at it. The demon was burnt to a crisp, but she really blew up a coffee table.
"Okay this isn't good. You guys are seeing things, it must be the black magic," Piper said.
"Yeah well we have to be careful before our imagination has us blowing each other up!" Arielle stated.
Just then, Piper, Paige, Adam, Rachel, and Arielle were all seeing imaginary demons. However, the demons were taking on the roles of their siblings. So now, when Adam looked at Piper he saw a demon. No one knew which demon was real, and they were all hesitant to attack.
"Uhh now what?" Arielle asked.
"Just fire at it, and hope whoever you fire it at moves away," Adam said.
Arielle turned to where she thought Alysse stood and saw a demon that looked like Lex.
She contemplated for a minute, and decided to take her chances and blew a mace whisper.
"AHHH!" Alysse fell to the ground holding her eyes.
"Oh my god I am so sorry!" Arielle ran to her, as the demon image vanished.
"This is insane!" Adam cried out.
They could not do the Power of Three Spell because they had no idea who was who.
Adam looked at a demon image. The demon took out an athemay and threw it at him. Adam didn't blow it up, because he wasn't sure if it was just image. The trickery continued, as the demon image was the real Lex. The athemay flew right into his chest. Piper ran to him, and called for Leo, since Alysse could not see well. Leo did not answer and probably couldn't have orbed in with the poltergeist controlling the house.
Rachel tried to rely on her sixth sense. She was able to find Alysse and move her hand over Adam's wound.
"Heal him," Rachel said.
"I'll try," Alysse said. She succeeded.
However nothing changed. It was now 9 PM, and they had accomplished nothing. The demon images were still appearing and they spent the new few hours dodging each other's magic. They were all worn out.
"Are you sure there is nothing in the Book of Shadows?" Rachel asked.
"Oh yeah I totally forgot about it," Adam said,
"Well, can't the poltergeist manipulate it?" Arielle asked.
Piper looked. "Nope, it looks the same."
"Maybe we should look up poltergeists rather than Lex. Maybe the key is getting rid of the poltergeist, then going after him," Paige suggested.
Piper did so and found a page that said, "The poltergeist attacks the heart of your home."
"Wow that isn't to helpful," Alysse said,
"Of course it is," Paige said. "There is one part of the home that holds our true past."
"Where?" Rachel asked.
"The attic," Piper answered for her.
"That must be why we were not able to orb out. Good magic was trying to get us to stay in the attic," Adam pieced together.
They made their way to their attic, but had lots trouble getting there.
They stuck with their strategy to attack any demon image, even if it fake, because you never know.
On their way up, Rachel began to hear a buzzing sound. She looked over towards the Manor door, where swarms of killer bees came in.
"Oh crap," she cried out!
The group looked over.
Paige grabbed Piper and Adam, and Alysse took Rachel and Arielle to the attic by way of orbing.
Paige ran to close the door. She locked it.
"Were those bees real?" Rachel asked.
"No clue. Lex is capable of anything," Adam answered.
"Well we do not have much time, let us find this Source of the House," Arielle hurried them.
Adam searched and found nothing but a few pictures.
Arielle and Rachel had no luck either, and Paige and Piper were focusing on the quote metaphorically.
"Hey I found this picture of Prue, Phoebe, and you, Piper," Adam said.
"Oh wow, this is real old. Probably when we first got our powers," she told him.
"THAT'S IT!" Paige jumped. We all got our powers in the attic.
"But you got it in the living room foyer," Piper reminded her.
"Yeah but I first used my powers here. The quote was metaphorical. The attic is the source of home and family," she explained.
"How odd," Adam said. "You would think the kitchen would be the source of home and family."
"Yeah maybe in your world," Rachel jokingly rolled her eyes.
"Well now what?" Arielle asked.
"We shall read the spell that gave us our powers," Piper said.
They all read the spell that gave the original Charmed Ones their powers.
"It all begins with family," Piper smiled.
When they finished reading, all of the objects that attacked them earlier were now peacefully in place. However, that did not care of the black magic. They still were seeing weird images.
"I have an idea," Adam said. "The spell that causes the seen to become unseen. Think it could work?"
"Great idea!" Piper was elated.
Paige, who had used it on several occasions, memorized it by heart. She wrote it down for everyone to say. All of the demon images vanished. The buzzing noise stopped, and all was calm.
One demon was left, and that was Lex.
"You should have killed us when you had the chance," Piper said as she blew him up.
(THE NEXT MORNING)
The Halliwells all sat down at the kitchen and dining room tables, that were pulled together to fit them all. Michele and Piper made pancakes.
"Guys I think we need to talk," Prue said.
"Sure what's up mom?" Adam asked.
Leo took me and the kids to see the Elders.
"Fascinating..." Rachel said sarcastically.
"And they told me my destiny was to become one..an Elder," she kept on going.
"Well what does that mean?" Phoebe asked.
"It means it is my destiny and there is nothing I can do to stop it. I tried to fight back but they told me it was time to pass the Charmed powers on to a new generation," she said.
"But doesn't that mean you will not be living with us anymore?" Adam asked.
"Yes, I am so sorry. But I can visit whenever I want, unlike Leo who is going to be stuck there," she said.
"Why don't we enjoy breakfast and talk about this later?" Piper suggested.
"No I am fine with it," Adam said.
"You are!?" Prue was shocked.
"Yeah I am too," Rachel said. "I am so proud of you mom, and as long as you can visit, then it will be like you are never gone. You are just one call away."
Prue smiled and gave three fifteen year olds hugs.
"Well now that we are on the subject. I think I will be moving out too," Michele said. "I do not want to invade a family."
"Oh Michele do not be silly," Adam said.
"Well it is not just that. I am an adult and I have a job and I need to live on my own," she explained.
"Fair enough," Arielle smiled.
"Plus, I am moving into a condo only 2 blocks from here," she told them.
"Even better," laughed Paige.
Prue, Paige, Phoebe, Piper, Leo, baby Wyatt, baby Chris, Rachel, Arielle, and Adam enjoyed their breakfast together, as a family (
ON THE NEXT CHARMED -Paige gets offered a job to teach a magic school. Phoebe is busy with her writing career and Piper is with the kids at day care when a time portal sends the Charmed Ones and a new friend to the age of the DINOSAURS, BOSTON MASSACRE, and the FRENCH REVOLUTION.
"Okay that is a big dinosaur," Adam said.
The group ran when Arielle tripped over a large tree root in the ground. She fell into the swamp and did not surface for quite some time.
"ARIELLE?"
No answer.
Season 2 Chapter 2
Chapter 13: "A Family Affair"
"Duck!" Adam yelled as he threw the Trilliance in the air and attempted to blow it up to release his parents but to no luck did it work.
"Great," Arielle sighed. "All this work and the damn thing will not open."
"Well, don't give up," Michele said. "If anything there is probably some moral witch lesson you have to learn before it opens up."
"Or we could just try the Power Of Three spell?" Rachel suggested.
"Now why did we not think of that before!" Adam whined.
The group made a triangle around the Trilliance.
"The Power of Three Will Set Us Free. The Power of Three Will Set Us Free. The Power of Three Will Set Us Free," they repeated.
The front emerald on the Trilliance lifted open and seven lights came out and landed in the Manor living room. Paige, Prue, Piper, Phoebe, Leo, Wyatt, and Chris were all back!
"WE DID IT!" Arielle and the group exulted.
"Holy crap!" Adam called out.
"YOU DID IT!" Prue ran towards them. The Halliwell family gathered in the center of the living room; everyone astonished that everything turned out great.
"Well show us your powers!" Phoebe said excitingly after 30 minutes of hugging and "how are you-ing"
Arielle said, "Well I have premonitions and..."
"That is a great power if I do say so myself," Phoebe interrupted.
"And I have the ability to blind demons with this," she said as she demonstrated the mace whisper. "I can also sense demons and witches."
"I freeze time and can do this!" Rachel said as she threw an electrical sphere at a teapot, as it shattered.
"Thanks honey but you did not have to break the teapot," Piper nodded.
"I can also orb, but not on command," she said.
"Oh well I will have to teach you the tricks of trade," Paige reassured her.
Adam called out for a muffin on the dining room table. The muffin orbed to him. Then he telekinetically threw it in the air and blew it up.
"Show off," Arielle coughed under her breath.
"I can not believe it. My three babies, the next Charmed Ones," Prue was ecstatic.
"So how did you vanquish the TRYO?" Leo asked.
"Well, they kind of vanquished themselves. One betrayed the other and it gave us the opportunity to kill them while they fought. We did lose a casualty though, in fact she was our whitelight, our friend," Adam looked down.
"Aww honey I'm sorry," Phoebe sympathized. "That will be the one thing you will not get used to."
"I hate to ruin the whole family reunion, but you do know there is a very important decision to made," said Alysse.
"Huh?" asked Adam.
"She's right. There can not be two sets of Charmed Ones. One of you three have to give up your rights as Charmed Ones. You will still keep your powers though," Leo said.
"Why?" Arielle questioned.
"Because the whole point of the Power of Three was to keep it at three people only. There was only a second generation because fate made it so," Alysse finished Leo's explanation.
"Well, we will talk about that later," Piper calmed everyone down. "For now, let's all relax. I'll make dinner! Wow it has been a long time since I could say that."
Adam went with Piper to make dinner since he was the chef while she was gone. Rachel and Paige went to go practice orbing. Arielle and Phoebe had a long talk about premonitions. Leo confronted Prue.
"Do you know what you have to do?" He asked her.
"Well I feel I should protect my children, but then they will never grow up knowing their magic like we had to do," she answered.
"Let me just say the Elders have something else in mind," Leo said.
Back in the kitchen, Adam asked Piper, "So what was it like in the Trilliance?"
"Well, it was like a long sleep; coma like actually," she answered him.
"Weird," he said.
Michele finished setting the table and they were all ready to eat.
"This is delicious!" Prue kept repeating.
"Adam is quite the cook," Piper grinned.
"Aunt Phoebe can you please pass the..." Arielle was trying to say when a demon shimmered in.
"Oh come on!" Paige was upset. "Can't they give us some sort of break?"
Adam went to blow it up, but Piper tried to also and their powers just collided with each other.
"Whoops, sorry" Adam said.
The demon, who wore a black trench coat, and held a long wooden staff that he implanted in the living room began to speak a demon spell. A wave of magic swept through the house, unbeknown to the witches. Then he shimmered out.
They sat in silence for a minute and the whole entire family simultaneously asked "Book of Shadows?"
Paige and Rachel orbed to the attic to look for the demon they saw.
"There he is," Rachel found him. "His name is Lex, the Demon of Black Magic. Lex is a high level demon with the black magic power to manipulate objects and people. Vanquish is unknown."
"Oh lovely," Paige said.
"Well, we may as well summon him," Rachel suggested as they went to walk out of the attic door, but it was locked.
"Hey guys let us out, we found the demon!" Paige called out.
There was no answer.
"Hey, this isn't funny!" Rachel called out.
They both tried to orb but to no avail did it work.
"Looks like his black magic is already in effect," Paige sighed.
Just then, a chair came flying at them.
"Woah!" Rachel yelled and ducked.
"What was that?" Paige asked.
More junk, like books and old records, were also flying in a chaotic rage.
"What is going on?" Paige hid for cover.
"I don't know. It is like a poltergeist or something," Rachel said.
"That must be what the book means, he created a poltergeist," Paige concluded.
Meanwhile, Adam, Piper, Arielle, Alysse, and Michele were downstairs waiting. Leo took Prue and the kids to the Elders for an unknown reason, and Phoebe was going to work to explain her absence from the past few months. She hoped to be back in time to find out who the demon is.
"What is that noise!" Piper jumped out.
They ran upstairs to the attic and heard Paige and Rachel screaming for their lives. The attic door would not open.
Adam and Piper both went to blow it up, but once again it collided.
"We have to stop doing that," Adam noted. "Be my guest."
Piper blew up the door, but as she walked in the books came swarming at her. The only book that remained still was the Book of Shadows.
"Why didn't you guys orb out?" Adam asked.
"Okay I will say this fast. Lex is the Demon of Black Magic. He released a poltergeist, an evil spirit that posses the house and objects in it to attack us. For some reason, we could not orb out. Lex can manipulate the minds of people so maybe he manipulated our magic." Rachel quickly stated.
Piper kept blowing up books left and right.
"Alright, well the attic is open, feel free to leave anytime soon!" she said frustrated. The two girls rushed out of the attic, which now had no door, and the group ran downstairs.
"Well how are we supposed to stop it?" Adam asked.
"We need to vanquish the demon," Rachel answered.
"Yeah but the house will just move everything we use to scribe for him. This could get tricky," Arielle was pessimistic.
A table lifted from the living room and caught Arielle off guard.
"ARIELLE!" Adam cried out, as he ran to her. She was out cold.
"She'll be fine," Piper said. "She is probably safer on the ground anyway."
"Lex is an upper-level demon," Rachel remembered. "We need to get to the positions."
"I'll go make a potion," Paige said as she went to the kitchen.
"The map is in the attic," Adam told them. "I could always go up, and blow anything that comes my way. Aunt Piper, you need to stay here for Arielle and Rachel. Alysse can come with me."
"Good job," Piper was impressed. Adam and Alysse heard a scream coming from the downstairs, as they made their way to the attic. It was Paige. Alysse orbed to the kitchen.
Three knives were stabbed into her stomach.
"Damn Poltergeist!" Alysse ran to her. Adam telekinetically took out the knives, and Alysse healed her.
Paige got up slowly. "Guess I will not make a potion after all," she said.
"What we need desperately is the Book of Shadows. Evil can not take on the Book of Shadows so it will not run away from us. For now, Piper or Rachel, one of you needs to be on the look out to freeze things," Arielle acknowledged.
"Michele, have those gypsy bombs ready," Piper told her.
They made a circle, with their faces pointing outward.
"We all can not get up the staircase in our "O" formation," Paige said.
"Then orb me to the upstairs," Adam said. "I can blow things up and we can both call objects to us so it should be easy,"
Paige understood and orbed them to the attic.
Piper saw their new vase fly at Arielle.
Rachel made an electric ball and threw it at the vase.
"Nice shot," Piper said.
(In the Attic)
"I got your back," Paige said to Adam, who ran towards the Book.
Papers flew at him.
"What are they trying to do," Adam yelled. "Give me paper cuts?"
"PAPER!" Paige called out. She could only manage to summon 10 sheets.
Adam grabbed the Book and he made it back to Paige. They tried to get out, but remembered they could not orb out of the attic; they could only orb in due to Zex's black magic.
They managed their way out of the room and downstairs.
They got to the living room to join the others. Arielle had just fought off a battle with a rug by tying it in a bow. Piper froze it, because it was her favorite carpet.
"Whew, that was close," Paige said. Simultaneously, every light in the house went out. It was 8:00 PM, so it was already dark outside.
"Greeaaat," Rachel said sarcastically.
"How does a poltergeist make a blockade so you can not get out of a room?" Adam asked.
"Well it is black magic that made a poltergeist but it must have also sent out some sort of force that could control the house," Piper reasoned.
"But then he had the chance to lock Paige and I out of the attic. Why didn't he kill us then?," Adam argued.
"Then he has another plan," Michele concluded.
Adam shrugged and looked up only to see a demon in a trench coat.
"DEMON!" he yelled and blew it up.
"Um Adam are you okay?" Rachel asked.
"Yeah, that demon just appeared out of nowhere," he answered.
"But you just blew up a vase," Paige said.
"Huh?" Adam was confused.
This time Rachel saw a demon, and she shot an electric ball at it. The demon was burnt to a crisp, but she really blew up a coffee table.
"Okay this isn't good. You guys are seeing things, it must be the black magic," Piper said.
"Yeah well we have to be careful before our imagination has us blowing each other up!" Arielle stated.
Just then, Piper, Paige, Adam, Rachel, and Arielle were all seeing imaginary demons. However, the demons were taking on the roles of their siblings. So now, when Adam looked at Piper he saw a demon. No one knew which demon was real, and they were all hesitant to attack.
"Uhh now what?" Arielle asked.
"Just fire at it, and hope whoever you fire it at moves away," Adam said.
Arielle turned to where she thought Alysse stood and saw a demon that looked like Lex.
She contemplated for a minute, and decided to take her chances and blew a mace whisper.
"AHHH!" Alysse fell to the ground holding her eyes.
"Oh my god I am so sorry!" Arielle ran to her, as the demon image vanished.
"This is insane!" Adam cried out.
They could not do the Power of Three Spell because they had no idea who was who.
Adam looked at a demon image. The demon took out an athemay and threw it at him. Adam didn't blow it up, because he wasn't sure if it was just image. The trickery continued, as the demon image was the real Lex. The athemay flew right into his chest. Piper ran to him, and called for Leo, since Alysse could not see well. Leo did not answer and probably couldn't have orbed in with the poltergeist controlling the house.
Rachel tried to rely on her sixth sense. She was able to find Alysse and move her hand over Adam's wound.
"Heal him," Rachel said.
"I'll try," Alysse said. She succeeded.
However nothing changed. It was now 9 PM, and they had accomplished nothing. The demon images were still appearing and they spent the new few hours dodging each other's magic. They were all worn out.
"Are you sure there is nothing in the Book of Shadows?" Rachel asked.
"Oh yeah I totally forgot about it," Adam said,
"Well, can't the poltergeist manipulate it?" Arielle asked.
Piper looked. "Nope, it looks the same."
"Maybe we should look up poltergeists rather than Lex. Maybe the key is getting rid of the poltergeist, then going after him," Paige suggested.
Piper did so and found a page that said, "The poltergeist attacks the heart of your home."
"Wow that isn't to helpful," Alysse said,
"Of course it is," Paige said. "There is one part of the home that holds our true past."
"Where?" Rachel asked.
"The attic," Piper answered for her.
"That must be why we were not able to orb out. Good magic was trying to get us to stay in the attic," Adam pieced together.
They made their way to their attic, but had lots trouble getting there.
They stuck with their strategy to attack any demon image, even if it fake, because you never know.
On their way up, Rachel began to hear a buzzing sound. She looked over towards the Manor door, where swarms of killer bees came in.
"Oh crap," she cried out!
The group looked over.
Paige grabbed Piper and Adam, and Alysse took Rachel and Arielle to the attic by way of orbing.
Paige ran to close the door. She locked it.
"Were those bees real?" Rachel asked.
"No clue. Lex is capable of anything," Adam answered.
"Well we do not have much time, let us find this Source of the House," Arielle hurried them.
Adam searched and found nothing but a few pictures.
Arielle and Rachel had no luck either, and Paige and Piper were focusing on the quote metaphorically.
"Hey I found this picture of Prue, Phoebe, and you, Piper," Adam said.
"Oh wow, this is real old. Probably when we first got our powers," she told him.
"THAT'S IT!" Paige jumped. We all got our powers in the attic.
"But you got it in the living room foyer," Piper reminded her.
"Yeah but I first used my powers here. The quote was metaphorical. The attic is the source of home and family," she explained.
"How odd," Adam said. "You would think the kitchen would be the source of home and family."
"Yeah maybe in your world," Rachel jokingly rolled her eyes.
"Well now what?" Arielle asked.
"We shall read the spell that gave us our powers," Piper said.
They all read the spell that gave the original Charmed Ones their powers.
"It all begins with family," Piper smiled.
When they finished reading, all of the objects that attacked them earlier were now peacefully in place. However, that did not care of the black magic. They still were seeing weird images.
"I have an idea," Adam said. "The spell that causes the seen to become unseen. Think it could work?"
"Great idea!" Piper was elated.
Paige, who had used it on several occasions, memorized it by heart. She wrote it down for everyone to say. All of the demon images vanished. The buzzing noise stopped, and all was calm.
One demon was left, and that was Lex.
"You should have killed us when you had the chance," Piper said as she blew him up.
(THE NEXT MORNING)
The Halliwells all sat down at the kitchen and dining room tables, that were pulled together to fit them all. Michele and Piper made pancakes.
"Guys I think we need to talk," Prue said.
"Sure what's up mom?" Adam asked.
Leo took me and the kids to see the Elders.
"Fascinating..." Rachel said sarcastically.
"And they told me my destiny was to become one..an Elder," she kept on going.
"Well what does that mean?" Phoebe asked.
"It means it is my destiny and there is nothing I can do to stop it. I tried to fight back but they told me it was time to pass the Charmed powers on to a new generation," she said.
"But doesn't that mean you will not be living with us anymore?" Adam asked.
"Yes, I am so sorry. But I can visit whenever I want, unlike Leo who is going to be stuck there," she said.
"Why don't we enjoy breakfast and talk about this later?" Piper suggested.
"No I am fine with it," Adam said.
"You are!?" Prue was shocked.
"Yeah I am too," Rachel said. "I am so proud of you mom, and as long as you can visit, then it will be like you are never gone. You are just one call away."
Prue smiled and gave three fifteen year olds hugs.
"Well now that we are on the subject. I think I will be moving out too," Michele said. "I do not want to invade a family."
"Oh Michele do not be silly," Adam said.
"Well it is not just that. I am an adult and I have a job and I need to live on my own," she explained.
"Fair enough," Arielle smiled.
"Plus, I am moving into a condo only 2 blocks from here," she told them.
"Even better," laughed Paige.
Prue, Paige, Phoebe, Piper, Leo, baby Wyatt, baby Chris, Rachel, Arielle, and Adam enjoyed their breakfast together, as a family (
ON THE NEXT CHARMED -Paige gets offered a job to teach a magic school. Phoebe is busy with her writing career and Piper is with the kids at day care when a time portal sends the Charmed Ones and a new friend to the age of the DINOSAURS, BOSTON MASSACRE, and the FRENCH REVOLUTION.
"Okay that is a big dinosaur," Adam said.
The group ran when Arielle tripped over a large tree root in the ground. She fell into the swamp and did not surface for quite some time.
"ARIELLE?"
No answer.