Explanation



"And that's supposed to mean...?" asked Phoebe.

"Well, O.K, look at it this way. You would think right now that someone or something has put some of the elements into your bodies. But maybe not...." Leo explained.

"Leo, I have... absolutely... no idea on this Earth what you are talking about." Phoebe stated firmly.

"O.K. I'm going to go check with the Elders and I'll be back. Are you okay to be left alone?" questioned Leo.

"Yeah, yeah; go ahead. Just hurry back." Phoebe said.

As Leo orbed out, instead of blue lights came flowers. Flowers fell all throughout the house and everything smelled perfect. Vines started growing on the furniture. Wrapping itself around chairs and tables. Out of the vines sprouted perfect looking roses and 4 leafed clovers. The chairs that were gripped firmly by the vines turned to rock. Water came pouring out of the fireplace like a small spring. It was then clear to Phoebe that her house had just been turned into a tropical forest. Vines came chasing at Phoebe and very lightly lifted her off her feet. She sat on them very comfortable when there was a loud splashing noise coming from the spring. She needed to get down, but she didn't know how.

"Um... down. DOWN!" shouted Phoebe. But nothing happened.

She just sat there trying to get down. Then she had a feeling in the pit of her stomach. It churned and yet felt very pleasing. A wind picked her off of the vine and carried her down gently. Her red socks gently touched the ground and she tried to make her way over to she what the noise was. It was extremely difficult. She felt prickles on her feet and she was sure she was bleeding. Still she kicked her way through when it happened again. She was lifted off of her feet. This time she was more in control. She started to get the control of it and flew over to the fireplace feeling the light breeze caress her face. She landed and looked at the spring. It was really beautiful. The water was hitting the floor in front of it, which was now a small pond and little lights were glimmering off of it. Then she saw it. Water was rising out of the pond and forming into human form. First the head came out, but it still looked like water. Finally, the feet came out and it started to look more human. Phoebe instantly recognized it as Paige. At long last, Paige was stand in front of Phoebe. This time she looked more sane.

"Paige! Where have you been? What happened!?!" Phoebe shouted loudly.

"Calm down..." Paige said. She started swaying side to side. "Listen..." Paige spoke softly.

"Listen to what?! You listen to ME! Or I might actually kill you... what HAPPENED TO YOU! What ARE you? Did some one put possess you? How'd you turn into water?" Phoebe asked repeatedly not stopping until she got an answer.

"Phoebe... I AM water." Paige explained.

Phoebe couldn't help but notice Paige's waist. Her wardrobe was changed completely. She now wore a tan dress. It wasn't tight in fact, it looked as though it was just a sheet that had a hole for the head and was tied together by a brown string. . On her waist hung a small cup, like it said in the book of shadows. Her hair was just let down completely and she was wearing no footwear. Her eyes stared at Paige's feet. Little fishes were swimming up to her. Phoebe had strange and eerie feeling inside of her. She wanted to hurt Paige. When Paige was looking around Phoebe slowly picked up a rock and held her hand straight up in front of her, palm up, hand flattened out. Phoebe focused her eyes on the rock and it suspended itself in midair with one wave of her hand the rock flew out towards Paige. Although Paige wasn't looking a huge dolphin shot itself in front of Paige where the rock was about to hit. The dolphin was a most beautiful thing. The water glistened off of its stomach and it gliding very smoothly.

Phoebe's mind raced back to the Book of Shadows. "...Water's ruler is Necksa. She is loved and protected by all that is water..." Phoebe muttered under her breath. "...loved and protected..." Phoebe didn't know what made her screamed it because she wouldn't have said it otherwise. "NECKSA! YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED IN HERE! YOUR UNWORTHY BLOOD IS PERISHABLE! GET OUT! GET OUT! GET OUT!" Phoebe flung her hands at Paige. Water shot out of the water to protect Paige but it wasn't enough compared to the power Phoebe was possessing. At those last motions Paige was shoved backwards into the wall and knocked unconscious.

Phoebe ran over to Paige and knelt down. She was crying for she did not like what was happening. It was only that morning that they were preparing for her date. She placed her hands over Paige not expecting that anything would happen. And just like Piper had before, she woke with a start.

"LEO! LEO!" Phoebe shouted. Again, a bright thing of flowers shot down from the ceiling and Leo appeared. It wasn't even as if Leo came down by will. It was if someone had forced him to come down because he was a little unstable.

"What?!" said Leo. He looked around him and saw what had to be the rain forest. "Where are we?" Leo asked.



Phoebe said "Home."



"But then... who... who did this?" Leo catechized.

"YOU did." said Phoebe. But she didn't have time for this. She turned around to Paige once more and asked once more. "WHAT. IS. HAPPENING?"

"I... you... we..." started Paige.

"You have been invoked by... um... them. They made you the rulers of the elements." said Leo.

Phoebe spun around as soon as he had finished. Phoebe didn't believe this.

"Why would "they" do this to us? What's the point? Why do it? Do we need to fight some demons? I mean we can do that WITHOUT being possessed by a couple of really big demons." said Phoebe very snappy.

"I'll explain things in one minutes but first... don't say demons, they aren't demons they are higher beings like "them"... plus... it might upset the Devas'."

"What? There are no little creatures... running..." Phoebe looked around. Little goblin like things were peering out from behind leaves and vines. She cocked her head over to the spring and looked more closely. Little mermaid people were staring straight at her.

"Okay," said Phoebe now getting up from the floor a little freaked out. She pointed her finger at Leo and shouted "EXPLAIN."

"In the book, it said there were 5 different elements. Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Akasha. At the very end it said that there were different rulers of each. The Elders just informed me that they have put those different rulers... into you. Piper, as we can guess is now Djin, the fire ruler. Paige, obviously, is Necksa. The water ruler. By the looks of it, after what I did. I would have to say I'm Earth and you are Air. Which means that you, Pheebs, are Paralda. The air ruler." Leo explained this a few times so till Phoebe had a look of understanding on her face.

"Then what are you? Huh? It didn't say anything about the ruler of Earth in the book. And what about Akasha?" said Phoebe, now with a more firm voice.

"Well, unfortunately there IS no ruler of Earth. Earth, is Earth. It's the ground you walk, everything natural. I am the ruler of it. I control the ground. And Akasha... here we go. She is the reason this is happening. Remember the book... it said she was everything you are, feel, touch, see." said Leo.

"Oh, she's more than that," Phoebe spun around and looked at Paige who was now speaking. "She's nothing, she's everything. It's hard to understand. But when this world was made she wanted more. Naturally you can have more than everything. Now she wants to take the other 4 elements into her possession. The entire universe would be to her disposal. The amount of power that Akasha has was too much. She couldn't be put into human form because no one would be able to hold it. Well, now she is in human form but her power is limited and she wants us. The rulers couldn't let this happen so they ran. The Elders talk to them and put them into us. Now, WE have to stop her. That's why we have to learn to control our powers. But we can't do it without Piper." Paige finished.

"Then why am I... and Leo... still the same?" asked Phoebe.

"We aren't. You and me haven't become like them because they changed the way they are completely. You and me have sane elements... elements that you NEED to exist. So you don't feel any different. You and me are so different, and so powerful, along with your other sisters. But we aren't going crazy. Which is good because by the looks of it, we need as much humanity in us as we can." said Leo.

"Because," Paige interrupted now taking her stand once more, "Akasha is going to come looking for us. That is why we need Piper. Which is the reason I'm here. Piper is going somewhere where it is hot. And you have the power to bring here back here." Paige said.

"And how is that?" asked Pheobe. Phoebe's mind was racing. She had so many questions, but she knew that they had to hurry.

"Well, you see, your power isn't just to fly and levitate objects you know. Yes, you can defy gravity. But still. You alone have to power to create thunderstorms, rainfall... even hurricanes and tornadoes. If you create one... or all... Piper will most likely come running her for some answers." said Paige

Phoebe's jaw dropped. "H-h-hurricanes and t-t--" She couldn't even speak. She crossed her arms and sat down. The only thing is she sat down on literally nothing. She was just floating in midair...

"Okay..." said Phoebe her firmest voice yet, now calm about everything that just happened, "...let's do it."