Hardly feeling the wolf's bite on his bear arm, Kian tossed Tainn across the room, sending her crumpled onto the floor. He grunted before charging toward the Halliwells.
Instantly Xan let out a burst of solid energy, forming the wall between the witches and their animal adversary. Kian pounded on the force-field, as Xan struggled to hold the barrier between them.
"Guys," breathed Xan through gritted teeth, "I don't think I can keep this up for much longer."
"Way ahead of you," uttered Julia, lightning dancing on her palm. "You just let go and I'll-"
"You'll do nothing," hissed Kat, her hand poised with a blade over the wolf's throat as her brother Tony held its body above the floor. "One flick of a finger and the Old One's dead."
Their battle with the bear put on pause, Paige, her nephews and nieces looked in alarm as the she-warlock pressed the athame against their still conscious innocent's neck. "Stop!" cried Paige.
"Lose the lightning and we'll drop the blade," bargained Tony through labored breathing as he tried to suspend the wolf in his arms. With the belief that their side had won, Kian had begun to shift back from his ursine shape. "Hey, give me a hand here," commanded to Tony to his ally, who helped lift Tainn up once he was human again.
"Don't do it," whispered Drew to his youngest sister. His eyes glowed a deep purple, connecting with the wide eyes of Tainn.
"What?" blurted Julia, the electricity in her hands jumping with her sudden outrage.
"Do you want to kill Tainn?" Pru's words fell on deaf ears as Drew continued whispering to his other's sister and his brother.
"You want me to what?" asked Xan discreetly.
Sensing a plan at hand, their aunt began to stall the enemy. "You can't kill her," voiced out Paige to Tainn's captors. 'You need her."
"We need her dead. So her powers can be ours," explained Kat, a saccharine tone creeping into her words.
"Why don't you just blink away? Or... are you useless warlocks who can't blink?"
"Why you-"
Xan's shield vanished, and Julia flung a bolt of energy toward the warlocks. To their surprise, the blast struck Tainn, enveloping her in bright, white tendrils. She shook and fell to the ground, motionless.
The warlocks speechless, their sight switched from the dead Old One to the Charmed Ones. They glared contemptuously at Julia, their strategy having failed.
"Stupid witch. You don't know what you've just done."
"You're one of us now."
Their parting words said, the warlocks changed into a sparrow, a hawk and an eagle, flying over the witches' heads and out the manor.
"No," murmured Paige, in disbelief of their own actions. She ran to Tainn, laying her hands on the fallen wolf. A glimmering emanated from them, but stopped as soon as it had begun; Paige simply could not heal the dead.
"Drew..." gasped Pru.
"I-I don't know-" came Drew's reply. He was visibly shaken, as he only stuttered back when he was a small, insecure child.
"What have I done?" said Julia, her voice cracked with shock.