Well hello again. Glad to see you stuck around. Aren't you happy now that I
made Kara alive again? Wasn't that a surprise? Well, i'll be keeping Cole
and Phoebe busy through the whole story, so just sit bakc relax, and see
what happens.
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Chapter-4 Return Visit
Cole and Phoebe stood there, gaping in shock. They had just been mourning this girl who, to their knowledge, had been dead for over a year. Cole had shed so many tears, crying over his lost daughter. Phoebe has been depressed since her daughter that she never got to know, died. Now, she stands in front of there, calmly as though nothing had happened. As if Cole had never wrapped his arms around her cold, lifeless body, and sobbed his despair.
"Woo-hoo, mom, dad?" Kara said, smiling, as she waved her hands in front of her parents' face. They then snapped out of their state of shock. Since they were so caught by surprised, they didn't even notice that Kara had moved directly in front of them. Cole and Phoebe continued to stare at their daughter, confused, surprised, and most of all, happy beyond belief. Cole was the first on to be able to regain his voice.
"Ka...Kara?" Cole said, the words strangled in his voice.
"Yeah Cole?" Kara answered, turning to him. She looked up into his eyes, that were a near mirror image of her own. When Kara smiled, Cole lost his mind in the sense of overwhelming happiness. He dropped to his knees and hugged her so tightly, Kara thought she would pop.
"Cole, Cole. Could you lessen your grip a little? I think you're going to squeeze me to death." Kara gasped. When he let go and looked at her, she felt this warm fuzzy feeling.
"Mom? Are you all right? You look a little pale." Kara said, noting how her face looked. It was actually true what Kara was saying. Phoebe had turned a little pale. She then just lunged and hugged Kara, nearly as tightly as Cole did.
"Phoebe, ah, can't...breathe." Kara said, as her words were again strangled by the embrace of her mom.
"Oh, sorry honey." Phoebe apologized. She held her daughter at arm length, and looked her over. "I'm fine. Now, what we really have to worry about is Cole here." Kara said, indicating her father.
"What? Why?" Cole said. He was still processing everything. The only thing getting through was Kara...alive....back....how? Cole stood there, again in shock. He didn't realize that Kara had guided both him and Phoebe to the couch to sit down.
"How?" Cole blurted out.
"I'll explain it later. Oh, I've missed you both so much!" Kara said, suddenly changing the subject. She then jumped in between the two, and hugged them both. Cole and Phoebe were both surprised, but then hugged their daughter back. For a long time, Cole and Phoebe had been happy, but not completely happy. Now, with Kara in their arms, they were happier than they had been for an entire year. Paige then came down, to talk to Leo, who she had seen at the base of the stairs.
"Leo I......¦" Paige began, but stopped abruptly when she saw Cole and Phoebe hugging someone at the couch. When she approached them, she gasped.
"Kara?!" Paige exclaimed, shocked and surprised.
"Hi Aunt Paige." Kara said, her voice slightly muffled from the bodies of her parents. When Paige looked closer at Cole and Phoebe, she saw they were actually crying. They didn't seem to be crying out of sadness, but of happiness. It had been a long time since she's seen that from Phoebe, because, whenever she got a glimpse of Phoebe crying, she was always swallowed by despair.
"Okay, okay. We've got to get up now, or else I'll be buried alive!" Kara called out from underneath Cole and Phoebe. Phoebe wiped her eyes with her hand and when she looked at Cole, she was reminded of why Kara had come. She saw his eye, but it was now completely red.
"ColeâE¦" Phoebe said, not trying to alarm Kara. Cole than instinctively covered his eye with his right hand.
"Don't worry Cole, I know what's going on. I think everyone would want to know, so, Leo, Piper, Paige. Would you like to join us here?" Kara said, a little bit of her cockiness showing through. Phoebe was reminded of when they first met Kara, and how she seemed to be a little arrogant, but still had this warm feeling about her.
"Well, as you can see, something is wrong with Cole's eye." Kara said, looking at Cole's red, right eye. The only thing that wasn't red was his blue iris that seemed very out of place among the blood red color surrounding it.
"Don't you mean there's something wrong with Cole altogether?" Paige muttered underneath her breath. Phoebe, Cole, and Leo shot her looks that made her put her hands up in defense. 'Of course Cole and Phoebe would defend Cole, but Leo? Oh, it must be because Kara is still a high-level being of good' Paige reasoned. Paige rolled her eyes at that thought, and blushed when she realized that Kara had seen it and grinned at her.
"Well as I was saying. Cole's right eye, as you all know, holds the gate that he was assigned to guard. There seems to be something disrupting the gate, which is a big no, no." Kara said, pausing. Cole looked at Kara, asking her to go on. Then, as if he knew what she was thinking, he stood up and went to the kitchen. Everyone, including Phoebe, wondered why Cole had suddenly gotten up. When he came back, it was apparent what he had gone in search of. Cole handed her the glass and urged her to continue.
"Ah, thank you. Mmm......orange juice. Hey you remembered." Kara said, looking up surprisingly at Cole.
"Of course I remembered. Now please, continue, continue." Cole urged after grinning at the fact that she had thought that he had forgotten.
"Okay. Now, you see, we suspect demonic actions, causing the gate to be disrupted. The gate was made of pure good magic. If it's disrupted, then the evil could be released." Kara said, then taking a sip of her juice.
"Wait, what do you mean the gate was made of good magic? Isn't the whole, thing made of good magic?" Piper questioned.
"No, you see....okay, this is kind of hard to explain. You see, the dimension is something akin to hell. Only we made it as a prison for an evil being. There was only one way in or out, and there was no way to block it. So, it took a very powerful guardian to create a gate in order to seal it up. If the gate were disrupted, then the gate would have nothing to block the being from coming out and he could decimate all things good." Kara relayed the information she had found. All of them sat there speechless.
"By all things good, you mean....." Paige started, not quite grasping what Kara had just said.
"Meaning that anything good, spells, beings, magic, even symbols of good, would be destroyed." Kara answered, a little annoyed that Paige hadn't gotten it. She never really felt that comfortable with her Aunt Paige. Probably because of the fact that Paige never really liked her father.
"Ohh." Paige answered, than quieted. They sat in silence as they processed the information. Kara began to become bored, and fidgeted between her parents.
"Who's the evil being who's disrupting the gate?" Cole asked, knowing that action needed to be taken, not sitting around on their asses pondering what might be.
"Well, first of all, we need to take care of that eye." Kara said, halting him before he could protest.
"How are you going to help him?" Phoebe asked. The sight of Cole's eye was starting to worry her.
"Yeah, it would be nice to see other colors besides red." Cole quipped in.
"Well, I'm going to connect us so that you can use some of my power to help reinforce it." Kara said, holding Cole's face to look into his right eye, inspecting it.
"Um....okay. What do we need to do?" Cole asked.
"Well, could we get like a knife or something?" Kara asked everyone.
"Oh, sure, I'll get one." Leo said hurriedly.
"Oh, no, don't bother Leo. I've got one." Cole said, raising a hand to stop him. He put his right hand in front of him, palm up, and an athame, with an intricate design, beautifully engraved into the golden hilt.
"Wow Cole. Nice athame, very nice." Kara commented, taking it into her hand, looking over the hilt that she held up to her face.
"The best for my girl." Cole said, sounding like a proud and beaming father.
"It's sweet Cole. Now, I have to cast a small spell over it, so your blood won't burn the tip off." Kara said, still smiling up at him. She then bent her head down and started muttering a spell. She waved her hand over the athame and it glowed for a second and then returned to it's gleaming edge. All of a sudden, the blade turned into crystal. It looked even more beautiful now, gleaming with the beauty of gold at the hilt, and crystal of the blade.
"Wow." Piper said in amazement, looking at the crystal.
"Cool." Phoebe said, also looking at the blade, along with Piper.
"Nice, Kara." Cole commented, inspecting the quality of the blade. It was very sharp and smooth.
"Thanks. I work on my craftsmanship." Kara said, also looking it over, much like her father had just done.
"Now, we have to make a small pinprick, and meld our blood together. Since we are already blood-related, we don't need to do the extra stuff for the ritual. So, just a little bit of blood, a few choice words, and we'd be done." Kara said, as she pricked herself on her under arm. Cole stretched his own arm toward her, and she pricked him in relatively the same spot. They pressed their arms together, and let their blood mix.
Kara than said a few words in a language Cole or any of the others didn't understand, and then it was over. Cole looked at his arm, and was surprised to find that there was no mark at all from the prick. He then felt a shiver run down his spine and power ran through him like nothing he'd ever felt before.
"Uh, just wait a few minutes, and the redness in your eye will die down." Kara stated, looking at his eye, waiting. Everyone waited for a few minutes, and Kara was right. The red faded away, showing the pearly white of his eye, and the deep blue iris that fitted him so well. His pupil returned to normal, and Phoebe let out a sigh of release.
Cole grinned at her, telling her that she had shown outward concern for him. She grinned back at him, and slapped his arm playfully. That just made him grin even broader, and in turn made Phoebe let out a smile. Kara saw this and smiled along with her parents. 'Hey, maybe I'll be born here sooner than I thought!' Kara thought happily.
"So, who's this being that's disrupting the gate?" Cole asked Kara, wanting to get back on track.
"Well, his name is....."
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So? So? Cliffy, isn't it? I'm sorry about that. I'll get the next one up soon, I promise. Well, as always, review plz. And thaxs for the ones you've given me all ready.
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Chapter-4 Return Visit
Cole and Phoebe stood there, gaping in shock. They had just been mourning this girl who, to their knowledge, had been dead for over a year. Cole had shed so many tears, crying over his lost daughter. Phoebe has been depressed since her daughter that she never got to know, died. Now, she stands in front of there, calmly as though nothing had happened. As if Cole had never wrapped his arms around her cold, lifeless body, and sobbed his despair.
"Woo-hoo, mom, dad?" Kara said, smiling, as she waved her hands in front of her parents' face. They then snapped out of their state of shock. Since they were so caught by surprised, they didn't even notice that Kara had moved directly in front of them. Cole and Phoebe continued to stare at their daughter, confused, surprised, and most of all, happy beyond belief. Cole was the first on to be able to regain his voice.
"Ka...Kara?" Cole said, the words strangled in his voice.
"Yeah Cole?" Kara answered, turning to him. She looked up into his eyes, that were a near mirror image of her own. When Kara smiled, Cole lost his mind in the sense of overwhelming happiness. He dropped to his knees and hugged her so tightly, Kara thought she would pop.
"Cole, Cole. Could you lessen your grip a little? I think you're going to squeeze me to death." Kara gasped. When he let go and looked at her, she felt this warm fuzzy feeling.
"Mom? Are you all right? You look a little pale." Kara said, noting how her face looked. It was actually true what Kara was saying. Phoebe had turned a little pale. She then just lunged and hugged Kara, nearly as tightly as Cole did.
"Phoebe, ah, can't...breathe." Kara said, as her words were again strangled by the embrace of her mom.
"Oh, sorry honey." Phoebe apologized. She held her daughter at arm length, and looked her over. "I'm fine. Now, what we really have to worry about is Cole here." Kara said, indicating her father.
"What? Why?" Cole said. He was still processing everything. The only thing getting through was Kara...alive....back....how? Cole stood there, again in shock. He didn't realize that Kara had guided both him and Phoebe to the couch to sit down.
"How?" Cole blurted out.
"I'll explain it later. Oh, I've missed you both so much!" Kara said, suddenly changing the subject. She then jumped in between the two, and hugged them both. Cole and Phoebe were both surprised, but then hugged their daughter back. For a long time, Cole and Phoebe had been happy, but not completely happy. Now, with Kara in their arms, they were happier than they had been for an entire year. Paige then came down, to talk to Leo, who she had seen at the base of the stairs.
"Leo I......¦" Paige began, but stopped abruptly when she saw Cole and Phoebe hugging someone at the couch. When she approached them, she gasped.
"Kara?!" Paige exclaimed, shocked and surprised.
"Hi Aunt Paige." Kara said, her voice slightly muffled from the bodies of her parents. When Paige looked closer at Cole and Phoebe, she saw they were actually crying. They didn't seem to be crying out of sadness, but of happiness. It had been a long time since she's seen that from Phoebe, because, whenever she got a glimpse of Phoebe crying, she was always swallowed by despair.
"Okay, okay. We've got to get up now, or else I'll be buried alive!" Kara called out from underneath Cole and Phoebe. Phoebe wiped her eyes with her hand and when she looked at Cole, she was reminded of why Kara had come. She saw his eye, but it was now completely red.
"ColeâE¦" Phoebe said, not trying to alarm Kara. Cole than instinctively covered his eye with his right hand.
"Don't worry Cole, I know what's going on. I think everyone would want to know, so, Leo, Piper, Paige. Would you like to join us here?" Kara said, a little bit of her cockiness showing through. Phoebe was reminded of when they first met Kara, and how she seemed to be a little arrogant, but still had this warm feeling about her.
"Well, as you can see, something is wrong with Cole's eye." Kara said, looking at Cole's red, right eye. The only thing that wasn't red was his blue iris that seemed very out of place among the blood red color surrounding it.
"Don't you mean there's something wrong with Cole altogether?" Paige muttered underneath her breath. Phoebe, Cole, and Leo shot her looks that made her put her hands up in defense. 'Of course Cole and Phoebe would defend Cole, but Leo? Oh, it must be because Kara is still a high-level being of good' Paige reasoned. Paige rolled her eyes at that thought, and blushed when she realized that Kara had seen it and grinned at her.
"Well as I was saying. Cole's right eye, as you all know, holds the gate that he was assigned to guard. There seems to be something disrupting the gate, which is a big no, no." Kara said, pausing. Cole looked at Kara, asking her to go on. Then, as if he knew what she was thinking, he stood up and went to the kitchen. Everyone, including Phoebe, wondered why Cole had suddenly gotten up. When he came back, it was apparent what he had gone in search of. Cole handed her the glass and urged her to continue.
"Ah, thank you. Mmm......orange juice. Hey you remembered." Kara said, looking up surprisingly at Cole.
"Of course I remembered. Now please, continue, continue." Cole urged after grinning at the fact that she had thought that he had forgotten.
"Okay. Now, you see, we suspect demonic actions, causing the gate to be disrupted. The gate was made of pure good magic. If it's disrupted, then the evil could be released." Kara said, then taking a sip of her juice.
"Wait, what do you mean the gate was made of good magic? Isn't the whole, thing made of good magic?" Piper questioned.
"No, you see....okay, this is kind of hard to explain. You see, the dimension is something akin to hell. Only we made it as a prison for an evil being. There was only one way in or out, and there was no way to block it. So, it took a very powerful guardian to create a gate in order to seal it up. If the gate were disrupted, then the gate would have nothing to block the being from coming out and he could decimate all things good." Kara relayed the information she had found. All of them sat there speechless.
"By all things good, you mean....." Paige started, not quite grasping what Kara had just said.
"Meaning that anything good, spells, beings, magic, even symbols of good, would be destroyed." Kara answered, a little annoyed that Paige hadn't gotten it. She never really felt that comfortable with her Aunt Paige. Probably because of the fact that Paige never really liked her father.
"Ohh." Paige answered, than quieted. They sat in silence as they processed the information. Kara began to become bored, and fidgeted between her parents.
"Who's the evil being who's disrupting the gate?" Cole asked, knowing that action needed to be taken, not sitting around on their asses pondering what might be.
"Well, first of all, we need to take care of that eye." Kara said, halting him before he could protest.
"How are you going to help him?" Phoebe asked. The sight of Cole's eye was starting to worry her.
"Yeah, it would be nice to see other colors besides red." Cole quipped in.
"Well, I'm going to connect us so that you can use some of my power to help reinforce it." Kara said, holding Cole's face to look into his right eye, inspecting it.
"Um....okay. What do we need to do?" Cole asked.
"Well, could we get like a knife or something?" Kara asked everyone.
"Oh, sure, I'll get one." Leo said hurriedly.
"Oh, no, don't bother Leo. I've got one." Cole said, raising a hand to stop him. He put his right hand in front of him, palm up, and an athame, with an intricate design, beautifully engraved into the golden hilt.
"Wow Cole. Nice athame, very nice." Kara commented, taking it into her hand, looking over the hilt that she held up to her face.
"The best for my girl." Cole said, sounding like a proud and beaming father.
"It's sweet Cole. Now, I have to cast a small spell over it, so your blood won't burn the tip off." Kara said, still smiling up at him. She then bent her head down and started muttering a spell. She waved her hand over the athame and it glowed for a second and then returned to it's gleaming edge. All of a sudden, the blade turned into crystal. It looked even more beautiful now, gleaming with the beauty of gold at the hilt, and crystal of the blade.
"Wow." Piper said in amazement, looking at the crystal.
"Cool." Phoebe said, also looking at the blade, along with Piper.
"Nice, Kara." Cole commented, inspecting the quality of the blade. It was very sharp and smooth.
"Thanks. I work on my craftsmanship." Kara said, also looking it over, much like her father had just done.
"Now, we have to make a small pinprick, and meld our blood together. Since we are already blood-related, we don't need to do the extra stuff for the ritual. So, just a little bit of blood, a few choice words, and we'd be done." Kara said, as she pricked herself on her under arm. Cole stretched his own arm toward her, and she pricked him in relatively the same spot. They pressed their arms together, and let their blood mix.
Kara than said a few words in a language Cole or any of the others didn't understand, and then it was over. Cole looked at his arm, and was surprised to find that there was no mark at all from the prick. He then felt a shiver run down his spine and power ran through him like nothing he'd ever felt before.
"Uh, just wait a few minutes, and the redness in your eye will die down." Kara stated, looking at his eye, waiting. Everyone waited for a few minutes, and Kara was right. The red faded away, showing the pearly white of his eye, and the deep blue iris that fitted him so well. His pupil returned to normal, and Phoebe let out a sigh of release.
Cole grinned at her, telling her that she had shown outward concern for him. She grinned back at him, and slapped his arm playfully. That just made him grin even broader, and in turn made Phoebe let out a smile. Kara saw this and smiled along with her parents. 'Hey, maybe I'll be born here sooner than I thought!' Kara thought happily.
"So, who's this being that's disrupting the gate?" Cole asked Kara, wanting to get back on track.
"Well, his name is....."
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So? So? Cliffy, isn't it? I'm sorry about that. I'll get the next one up soon, I promise. Well, as always, review plz. And thaxs for the ones you've given me all ready.