a/n: sorry it took so long guys! My computer got a virus on it and my
internet got shut off and then I went home for the weekend so I couldn't
post it since I wasn't at my computer...and then after a weekend of
contemplation, I had to make some changes, so here it is, enjoy!
Chapter 14
Morian formed another energy ball in his hand and threw it at her. Paige quickly shouted "Energy ball!" and it appeared in her hand. Instead of throwing it back at Morian she threw it at the closest warlock to her. Though she was surprised, Isabelle took full advantage of the opportunity laid out in front of her. She blew an ice mist at Wyatt knocking him aside. One of the warlocks threw an energy ball at her which she deflected. "Go!" she shouted at them, "Get out of here!"
"We're not leaving without you and Chris!" Paige shouted back as Piper exploded the remaining warlock. Suddenly a force field went up around Isabelle cutting her off from the girls. Isabelle turned and faced Wyatt.
"Paige, orb in there and get her!" Piper said.
"Don't bother, Paige, it wouldn't work even if you tried." Wyatt smirked. Isabelle stared at him unsure of what he was gonna do to her and he stared back. "Morian, go and get Chris. It's time the both of them take their rightful place at my side."
"But sir,"
"Go!" he shouted and Morian shimmered away.
"We won't join you." She said coldly.
He didn't respond to her, just held her gaze. Two more warlocks appeared in the room. "There were two more, where are they?" he asked them still not breaking eye contact with Isabelle.
"Sir only the two of them came."
"Only two? They came willingly?" he asked finally looking away from Isabelle to the warlock.
"Yes, they didn't even fight."
"You idiot! Didn't you learn anything from their history?" he shouted, "The Charmed Ones never give up willingly."
"Our history?" Paige asked raising her eyebrows.
Wyatt sighed and looked at her, "Magic is practiced freely now, no more hiding or dying trying to hide what you are."
"It's only practiced freely for those who follow you!" Isabelle shouted.
He glared back at Isabelle. "It could be practiced freely for everyone if they would stop fighting us." He replied coldly.
"You say that as if we were on your side." Chris said walking into the room behind Morian. He glanced at Piper and Paige then looked back at Wyatt. "Let her out of there Wyatt, you know she won't do anything."
"You act like you know what's going on Chris. The fact of the matter is Isabelle is in danger, that's why she's protected by my force field." He said.
"What?" Paige started, "The only danger she was in--" when she stopped suddenly. She heard Chris inside her head, "Don't Paige, just let us handle this." She looked at him with a totally weird expression. "Trust me guys." She heard, and then she felt Piper's hand grab her arm. She glanced at Piper out of the corner of her eye. It looked like Piper had heard him too. She looked at Isabelle and it looked as if she knew what was going on as well.
"What are you talking about?" he asked Wyatt keeping him distracted from Isabelle as she cautiously moved behind Wyatt. Chris told Piper telepathically, "Piper, when I give you the signal blow up the closest warlock to you." He saw her slightly nod out of the corner of his eye.
"I told you Chris, she's in danger." He replied, as Isabelle locked her eyes with Chris waiting for the go ahead. She now stood directly behind Wyatt and he remained completely unaware she had even moved.
"Paige, I need you to take care of the other warlock," Paige heard. "I'll take care of Morian."
Wyatt continued talking, "when will you get it? I'm trying to protect the both of you."
Chris looked directly at Isabelle and she nodded slowly levitating up into the air. She held out her hands beginning to form the mind connection with Wyatt as Chris shouted "Now!" Piper blew up one of the warlocks as Paige attacked the other. Morian tried throwing an energy ball at Isabelle but Chris blocked it with his telekinesis. It hit Morian as Chris threw him into another wall with a wave of his arm.
Once Wyatt felt Isabelle inside his head the force field cutting them off from everyone else fell and went up around him instead, throwing Isabelle back into the wall. "Paige, orb Piper out of here!" Chris shouted as Isabelle stood up unfazed by colliding with the wall and quickly ran his side. He grabbed hold of her and they orbed to the roof as Paige and Piper appeared there as well.
"Damnit! I was aiming for the Manor!" Paige shouted.
"You can't orb to the Manor from here." Chris said, "Izzy get us out of here."
"Everyone grab hands," she said. They did so and she levitated them down to the street below. "Come on!" she shouted as they hit the pavement. Chris and Isabelle ran down the ally and Piper and Paige followed them to the sewer cover. "Chris!"
"I got it." He said as he moved the cover away opening the sewer up. "Go," he said to Piper and Paige pointing at the sewer as Isabelle started climbing down herself.
"We're not going in there!" Paige said looking down at the sewer hole.
"You don't really have a choice Paige!" Chris shouted as he saw a warlock appear at the other end of the ally. Reluctantly they both climbed down the sewer and Chris quickly followed using his telekinesis to cover up the hole again. Once they all reached the bottom of the ladder Chris and Isabelle started running again and Piper and Paige followed. After a while when they finally stopped, Chris hugged Isabelle, "I'm so sorry!" he said not forgetting what he had almost done to her.
"Forget it, I knew it wasn't you." She said pushing him off, "We have to keep moving. We need to get back and stop it before it happens."
"Hold on here!" Piper said. Both Isabelle and Chris looked back at them. They had almost forgotten that they were running with Piper and Paige since they were so concerned with getting away. "What is going on?" she asked looking totally lost.
"How the hell did you get in our heads like that?" Paige asked.
Isabelle and Chris looked at each other. Then Chris answered, "Telepathy, it's one of my powers. Normally Wyatt can sense when I use it, but he hasn't been able to in a while, not since he turned."
"You can read peoples minds?" Piper said incredulously, "What other powers do you have?"
He sighed and looked at Isabelle, "you might as well, they already know who you are." She said.
"You told them?" he questioned not believing this.
"I kinda had to if we were gonna get you back!" she shouted with an edge of annoyance in her voice.
"You shouldn't have been trying to get me back!" he countered just as annoyed.
"What was I supposed to do, Chris? Let him kill you! I wasn't about to lose another family member! Haven't we lost enough!" she fired back at him.
Chris remained silent, he felt guilty. They had lost enough. First their moms, then Leo and their cousins, and finally her dad, the only one they had left was Richard and this one chance to fix everything. But how were they gonna do that? "Whatever," she said rolling her eyes when he had nothing to say, "It's not like it matters now, we have to get back and vanquish Morian."
"How are we even gonna do that? Morian didn't come into our lives until much later." he asked.
"Yeah but what you don't know Chris is that Morian's the one that sent the demon that killed them. We have to stop that from happening."
"What does that have anything to do with it?"
"Piper is the only one who can give Wyatt Excalibur, no one else, not even Leo. We can't let her die!"
"Uh...thanks for your concern Izzy but I'd like to know what's going on here first. What powers do you have now Chris?" Piper said.
Chris sighed, "I'm another twice-blessed child like Wyatt but I'm not as strong as he is. All of us are pretty powerful, I think Paige's girls would have been pretty powerful too if they had lived. They were supposed to be the next generation of Charmed Ones, but they died when they were just kids. I can't exactly read people's minds just talk to them telepathically."
"Wait how did you guys even get here?" Isabelle asked suddenly.
"We cast a spell, you didn't think we were just gonna leave you two here did you?" Paige said.
"So then where's Phoebe? I can only assume she's here too." Chris said.
"We left her and Leo with some girl..her name was Carrie..I think." Piper said.
Chris and Isabelle looked at each other. "They're with Carrie?" Chris asked.
"And she let you guys leave like that?" Isabelle questioned.
"Well she didn't really have a choice, when she couldn't come up with a better plan Paige and I just left. We wanted to get to you guys and get out of there and fast." Piper said.
"Alright we'll go to the refuge, get Leo and Phoebe and then get back to the past to take care of Morian." Chris said.
"Or we could just...Leo!!!!" Isabelle shouted, "Bring Phoebe with you!" A second later Leo and Phoebe appeared.
*****
Carrie led Leo and Phoebe into the refuge and the first person they saw was Richard. He looked just as shocked to see them as they were at seeing him, Carrie obviously wasn't though. "I thought you were-" he began.
"They are." Carrie cut him off, "They came from the past, in attempt to get Chris and Izzy out."
"Chris and Izzy?" Richard questioned looking at her.
"He got 'em and they need our help, now."
Richard nodded then looking at Phoebe and Leo asked, "Where's Piper and Paige?" he knew they hadn't come alone.
"They went to the fortress, alone." Carrie said before either of them could answer.
"And you let them?" Richard asked looking back at her.
"They left before I could stop them!"
Giving them one last look he turned and quickly walked inside shouting to everyone who heard, "We have to move out now! No questions just go!"
"Richard wait!" Phoebe ran to catch up with him. "What is going on?"
"What's going on?" he repeated, "We're gonna stop him, I'm not about to lose Paige before I have to."
"But Richard, wait---whoa." She was saying when he suddenly threw an energy ball at the nearest dispensable object. He was pissed off--at everything. Wyatt had destroyed his whole life and he had been praying Chris and Izzy would be able to save it. Now it seemed they hadn't been able to. "I thought you didn't use magic." Phoebe said.
"That was then Phoebe, a lot has changed since then." He replied coldly.
"Whoa," Leo suddenly said, "Isabelle. She just called for me."
"Go." Richard said, "we'll hold him off, just go and get back to the past and don't let this world exist." Phoebe stared at him a second, then held out her hand to Leo. He took hold of it and they orbed away.
Chapter 14
Morian formed another energy ball in his hand and threw it at her. Paige quickly shouted "Energy ball!" and it appeared in her hand. Instead of throwing it back at Morian she threw it at the closest warlock to her. Though she was surprised, Isabelle took full advantage of the opportunity laid out in front of her. She blew an ice mist at Wyatt knocking him aside. One of the warlocks threw an energy ball at her which she deflected. "Go!" she shouted at them, "Get out of here!"
"We're not leaving without you and Chris!" Paige shouted back as Piper exploded the remaining warlock. Suddenly a force field went up around Isabelle cutting her off from the girls. Isabelle turned and faced Wyatt.
"Paige, orb in there and get her!" Piper said.
"Don't bother, Paige, it wouldn't work even if you tried." Wyatt smirked. Isabelle stared at him unsure of what he was gonna do to her and he stared back. "Morian, go and get Chris. It's time the both of them take their rightful place at my side."
"But sir,"
"Go!" he shouted and Morian shimmered away.
"We won't join you." She said coldly.
He didn't respond to her, just held her gaze. Two more warlocks appeared in the room. "There were two more, where are they?" he asked them still not breaking eye contact with Isabelle.
"Sir only the two of them came."
"Only two? They came willingly?" he asked finally looking away from Isabelle to the warlock.
"Yes, they didn't even fight."
"You idiot! Didn't you learn anything from their history?" he shouted, "The Charmed Ones never give up willingly."
"Our history?" Paige asked raising her eyebrows.
Wyatt sighed and looked at her, "Magic is practiced freely now, no more hiding or dying trying to hide what you are."
"It's only practiced freely for those who follow you!" Isabelle shouted.
He glared back at Isabelle. "It could be practiced freely for everyone if they would stop fighting us." He replied coldly.
"You say that as if we were on your side." Chris said walking into the room behind Morian. He glanced at Piper and Paige then looked back at Wyatt. "Let her out of there Wyatt, you know she won't do anything."
"You act like you know what's going on Chris. The fact of the matter is Isabelle is in danger, that's why she's protected by my force field." He said.
"What?" Paige started, "The only danger she was in--" when she stopped suddenly. She heard Chris inside her head, "Don't Paige, just let us handle this." She looked at him with a totally weird expression. "Trust me guys." She heard, and then she felt Piper's hand grab her arm. She glanced at Piper out of the corner of her eye. It looked like Piper had heard him too. She looked at Isabelle and it looked as if she knew what was going on as well.
"What are you talking about?" he asked Wyatt keeping him distracted from Isabelle as she cautiously moved behind Wyatt. Chris told Piper telepathically, "Piper, when I give you the signal blow up the closest warlock to you." He saw her slightly nod out of the corner of his eye.
"I told you Chris, she's in danger." He replied, as Isabelle locked her eyes with Chris waiting for the go ahead. She now stood directly behind Wyatt and he remained completely unaware she had even moved.
"Paige, I need you to take care of the other warlock," Paige heard. "I'll take care of Morian."
Wyatt continued talking, "when will you get it? I'm trying to protect the both of you."
Chris looked directly at Isabelle and she nodded slowly levitating up into the air. She held out her hands beginning to form the mind connection with Wyatt as Chris shouted "Now!" Piper blew up one of the warlocks as Paige attacked the other. Morian tried throwing an energy ball at Isabelle but Chris blocked it with his telekinesis. It hit Morian as Chris threw him into another wall with a wave of his arm.
Once Wyatt felt Isabelle inside his head the force field cutting them off from everyone else fell and went up around him instead, throwing Isabelle back into the wall. "Paige, orb Piper out of here!" Chris shouted as Isabelle stood up unfazed by colliding with the wall and quickly ran his side. He grabbed hold of her and they orbed to the roof as Paige and Piper appeared there as well.
"Damnit! I was aiming for the Manor!" Paige shouted.
"You can't orb to the Manor from here." Chris said, "Izzy get us out of here."
"Everyone grab hands," she said. They did so and she levitated them down to the street below. "Come on!" she shouted as they hit the pavement. Chris and Isabelle ran down the ally and Piper and Paige followed them to the sewer cover. "Chris!"
"I got it." He said as he moved the cover away opening the sewer up. "Go," he said to Piper and Paige pointing at the sewer as Isabelle started climbing down herself.
"We're not going in there!" Paige said looking down at the sewer hole.
"You don't really have a choice Paige!" Chris shouted as he saw a warlock appear at the other end of the ally. Reluctantly they both climbed down the sewer and Chris quickly followed using his telekinesis to cover up the hole again. Once they all reached the bottom of the ladder Chris and Isabelle started running again and Piper and Paige followed. After a while when they finally stopped, Chris hugged Isabelle, "I'm so sorry!" he said not forgetting what he had almost done to her.
"Forget it, I knew it wasn't you." She said pushing him off, "We have to keep moving. We need to get back and stop it before it happens."
"Hold on here!" Piper said. Both Isabelle and Chris looked back at them. They had almost forgotten that they were running with Piper and Paige since they were so concerned with getting away. "What is going on?" she asked looking totally lost.
"How the hell did you get in our heads like that?" Paige asked.
Isabelle and Chris looked at each other. Then Chris answered, "Telepathy, it's one of my powers. Normally Wyatt can sense when I use it, but he hasn't been able to in a while, not since he turned."
"You can read peoples minds?" Piper said incredulously, "What other powers do you have?"
He sighed and looked at Isabelle, "you might as well, they already know who you are." She said.
"You told them?" he questioned not believing this.
"I kinda had to if we were gonna get you back!" she shouted with an edge of annoyance in her voice.
"You shouldn't have been trying to get me back!" he countered just as annoyed.
"What was I supposed to do, Chris? Let him kill you! I wasn't about to lose another family member! Haven't we lost enough!" she fired back at him.
Chris remained silent, he felt guilty. They had lost enough. First their moms, then Leo and their cousins, and finally her dad, the only one they had left was Richard and this one chance to fix everything. But how were they gonna do that? "Whatever," she said rolling her eyes when he had nothing to say, "It's not like it matters now, we have to get back and vanquish Morian."
"How are we even gonna do that? Morian didn't come into our lives until much later." he asked.
"Yeah but what you don't know Chris is that Morian's the one that sent the demon that killed them. We have to stop that from happening."
"What does that have anything to do with it?"
"Piper is the only one who can give Wyatt Excalibur, no one else, not even Leo. We can't let her die!"
"Uh...thanks for your concern Izzy but I'd like to know what's going on here first. What powers do you have now Chris?" Piper said.
Chris sighed, "I'm another twice-blessed child like Wyatt but I'm not as strong as he is. All of us are pretty powerful, I think Paige's girls would have been pretty powerful too if they had lived. They were supposed to be the next generation of Charmed Ones, but they died when they were just kids. I can't exactly read people's minds just talk to them telepathically."
"Wait how did you guys even get here?" Isabelle asked suddenly.
"We cast a spell, you didn't think we were just gonna leave you two here did you?" Paige said.
"So then where's Phoebe? I can only assume she's here too." Chris said.
"We left her and Leo with some girl..her name was Carrie..I think." Piper said.
Chris and Isabelle looked at each other. "They're with Carrie?" Chris asked.
"And she let you guys leave like that?" Isabelle questioned.
"Well she didn't really have a choice, when she couldn't come up with a better plan Paige and I just left. We wanted to get to you guys and get out of there and fast." Piper said.
"Alright we'll go to the refuge, get Leo and Phoebe and then get back to the past to take care of Morian." Chris said.
"Or we could just...Leo!!!!" Isabelle shouted, "Bring Phoebe with you!" A second later Leo and Phoebe appeared.
*****
Carrie led Leo and Phoebe into the refuge and the first person they saw was Richard. He looked just as shocked to see them as they were at seeing him, Carrie obviously wasn't though. "I thought you were-" he began.
"They are." Carrie cut him off, "They came from the past, in attempt to get Chris and Izzy out."
"Chris and Izzy?" Richard questioned looking at her.
"He got 'em and they need our help, now."
Richard nodded then looking at Phoebe and Leo asked, "Where's Piper and Paige?" he knew they hadn't come alone.
"They went to the fortress, alone." Carrie said before either of them could answer.
"And you let them?" Richard asked looking back at her.
"They left before I could stop them!"
Giving them one last look he turned and quickly walked inside shouting to everyone who heard, "We have to move out now! No questions just go!"
"Richard wait!" Phoebe ran to catch up with him. "What is going on?"
"What's going on?" he repeated, "We're gonna stop him, I'm not about to lose Paige before I have to."
"But Richard, wait---whoa." She was saying when he suddenly threw an energy ball at the nearest dispensable object. He was pissed off--at everything. Wyatt had destroyed his whole life and he had been praying Chris and Izzy would be able to save it. Now it seemed they hadn't been able to. "I thought you didn't use magic." Phoebe said.
"That was then Phoebe, a lot has changed since then." He replied coldly.
"Whoa," Leo suddenly said, "Isabelle. She just called for me."
"Go." Richard said, "we'll hold him off, just go and get back to the past and don't let this world exist." Phoebe stared at him a second, then held out her hand to Leo. He took hold of it and they orbed away.