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"What the hell was that?" Paige asked, still lying under Piper and a bit muffled.

Chris didn't have time to respond.

In a matter of seconds, the ice that had covered his mother's body melted.

Piper took a long gasp of fresh air as the ice melted from around her face. The inch or two of ice that had been between her and Paige disappeared and was now water on the floor. Piper didn't even have time to acknowledge the fact that she was still alive when she fell forward straight onto Paige.

She coughed raggedly trying to get oxygen back into her system as she shook. The freezing cold chills were still inside of her bones still leaving aftereffects from the ice. She rolled off of Paige trying to not cut off her sisters oxygen as long as she laid on top of her.

Then Piper sat up and tried to focus on the hazy room around her.

"Piper? Piper, help me," Paige gasped.

Piper looked back at her sister, "Hey, I wasn't on top of you for that long and I don't weigh that much," she started.

Then, she saw what she had done.

The large kitchen knife that she had been holding in her hands during the fight that she had intended in use to kill the girl had gone straight into Paige's stomach when Piper had melted. It now was sticking out of her sister's stomach as Paige gasped in pain. Blood was all over Paige's shaking hands where she had touched her wound.

"Oh, god. Leo!"

Leo orbed in instantly.

His face was drawn in concern and fresh worry. Piper could only do a slight jabbing motion with her finger towards Paige and he knew what she meant. She was too in shock to say anything else.

He immediately healed Paige.

"I felt the power from up there. It was intense. It started an earthquake," he explained helping Paige to her feet.

She brushed herself off. She still was a bit shaken but she took a breath and composed herself, "Thanks, Leo." she said.

Paige looked at the chaos of the house with her hands on her hips. Glad, she was alive but still a little bit annoyed that she hadn't been powerful enough to stop what had happened.

The house was a mess. The front doors were blown out. One lay in the kitchen the other in the sitting room. Their glass was all over the floor from the blows that they had received on the way into the house. The front doorway was now like a ragged gaping hole open to the world, and the smell of fire and something burnt was still crisp in the air.

It was going to take a long time to clean this place up. Let alone, explain to the doorman what had happened to the doors. That's great, just great.

"Okay, what the hell just happened? All I got was the abridged version from Chris saying that you guys needed help. I didn't expect to orb into a war zone. Or hell, get stabbed!" Paige said, spazzing out.

"Is everyone okay?" Chris asked, getting up from the floor. His initial shock at what he'd just saw leaving him at the finality of the situation.

"Quick headcount," Piper ordered.

"Um, I'm good now thanks to Leo. Piper you're good a bit icy though. Chris you're obviously okay. Uh, evil girl is down for the count. But what about Wyatt?" Paige said, filling everyone in.

Piper, Leo, and Paige quickly started into the hallway by the stairs. There Wyatt laid against the landing of the stairs. His long dirty blond curls were falling in his very pale face and he laid there crumpled.

He was uncommonly still. They were all so used to him always moving around and being on top of things that just the sight of him laying there helplessly on the stairs was enough to put any of them in shock.

"I don't like this," Chris said checking Wyatt since he was the closest one to him. "He's alive. He needs healed, Dad."

Leo knowing that his son was in worse shape then was let through on the surface quickly walked up the first few steps to where his son was lying. He hadn't seen his son this bad in years.

Ever since Wyatt had become a teenager he had started keeping things to himself and started to take on everything he could. Wyatt had, in the matter of years, tried to become some version of superman for the family. Wyatt had always known that he was strongest and he'd tried to use that power as much as he could to help the family. Even when he'd been wounded - which had been once in a slight while - he would keep the wound if it wasn't fatal to remember how he had messed up.

Leo had worried about Wyatt more then Chris because of this. Chris knew what he could handle and when he handled it he handled it well. If he was hurt he called for help. He accepted help faithfully but Wyatt wouldn't accept Leo's help a lot because of his broken pride. Leo knew that every single time Wyatt was hurt and needed to be healed it stung his pride.

"I don't get it. Wyatt's like twice blessed how could he not take on a girl!" Paige asked, disbelieving what she saw.

"Well, she's not exactly normal, Paige." Piper said, rising to the defense of her oldest son.

"Yeah, but why didn't he call Excalibur? He could have killed her instantly with that." Paige asked.

"Paige, it all happened so fast. Besides, Wyatt won't call Excalibur for just anything. He knows how powerful it is and he doesn't abuse it because of that. Plus, at the time, he thought, like the rest of us, that she was just some evil force that he could vanquish." Piper told Paige in exasperation. She almost felt like she was speaking to a child without reasoning as she did so.

Piper was annoyed. Paige knew that ever since Wyatt had been a boy Piper had drilled into him the fact that he didn't need to use the Excalibur every time he fought. That he should only use it in times of great need. Otherwise, he would just be abusing the power that had been handed to him.

Plus, her talking about how gifted he was didn't discern the matter that he was lying there unconscious before them. Her baby boy was hurt.

"What is she Leo?" Chris asked, changing the subject knowing that if he didn't Piper and Paige were going to have a major blowout.

"I'm not sure. I can't get a read on her, but whatever she is she is just as powerful as Wyatt if not more so." Leo told Chris.

"Well, that's comforting," Paige responded, sarcastically.

Piper looked at the girl who had changed her into a pound of ice. The chills running through her as she shook. More powerful then Wyatt? That didn't seem right. How could only one person be so powerful? Not even her sisters and her were that powerful. Maybe together they could be, but alone they weren't.

She wanted to kill the girl...If it was a girl. It was just laying there on her hardwood floor bleeding from a small gash on the side of its head. She felt so disgusted as she looked at it. It had tried to kill her son she should just kill it while it was sleeping, but something dark inside of her wanted to savor the kill.

"It's still breathing," Piper whispered, raggedly.

Paige looked confused then realized who Piper was referring to ,"It?"

"I'm not saying it's human after what I just witnessed," Piper informed Paige staring at the girl on the floor. If looks could kill the girl would already be murdered.

"Is the baby okay," Leo asked.

"She's fine. She's kicking like there's no tomorrow though." Piper said touching her stomach gently.

For a moment, she found a slight peace knowing that her baby was okay.

"Which there very well might not be," Paige said, frowning.

"Stop being so pessimistic. You'll find a way to stop this evil. You always do," Leo told her placing his hands over his sons chest to heal him.

"I say we get the crystals and cage her in. Since we can't defeat her yet we should get some answers from her," Chris told them. He stood in the doorway of the hallway with his arms crossed over his chest. His face was expressionless at the moment making Piper worry even more about her youngest son.

He'd seen what the girl could do and they had sent him away to get everyone. When he had finally came back to help them nothing had worked. He'd barely made a dent against the girl's power. He must have been beating himself up for it. Especially now that Wyatt was hurt because of it.

Piper wanted to go to her son and put her arm around him to offer him some comfort, but she couldn't. She didn't know if any comfort would help after what she had just witnessed let alone been through. So she stood beside Paige and nodded.

"Yeah, like why she's fond of blowing up people's houses," she agreed.

"Or creating human ice sculptures," Paige added.

"It's a good idea, Chris. "Leo said as he tried healing Wyatt by placing his hands on Wyatt's head this time.

"Hey, maybe we can find out how she has so many powers. She's my age. She should only have one. She just showed us three ," Chris informed them, disgusted.

"Four if you count her immunity to our magic," Paige added.

Leo stood up beside Wyatt with a confused expression listed all over his face as he looked down at his oldest son. Everyone stopped bickering and looked over at him. Waiting for Wyatt to wake up and tell them that he was okay. But he didn't he just laid there motionlessly like nothing had changed.

"Why isn't Wyatt waking up? Leo, why isn't he waking up?" Piper asked, trying not to panic so quickly. Maybe it was nothing. A short delay with magic or something. He wasn't dead so he had to heal. Why wasn't he waking up? "Leo?"

"Piper, calm down. Leo healed Wyatt. He's just resting. Right, Leo?" Paige asked with her hand cupping her sisters elbow as Piper stood there shakily in shock.