A/N: Hey, I'm back! With another mad helping of this. Thanks to my reviewers as usual.
'Do you feel it?' Andy asked pacing around the clearing.
'You know, they could have cast a spell to cloak themselves,' Paige thought aloud. 'We could reverse that if we wanted.'
'You could but don't,' he warned. 'There's only two of us here, Paige.'
Suddenly she felt dizzy, so much that she couldn't see Andy clearly. 'Whoa...'
'What?' he asked, concern etched on his brow.
As soon as it had come it'd gone again. 'Nothing. Dizzy spell.'
'We're going home.'
'But we should do a bit more digging.'
'Paige,' he said warningly. 'We need to help Piper.'
'Okay, okay.'
The day had been a complete washout... apart from Phoebe who'd had a thoroughly great time at lunch with Jason.
According to Leo, the Elders were still maintaining the tribe leaders hadn't managed to summon the demon and were dismissive of Marie's dream, they didn't trust a five year old. Then again, they'd never exactly trusted the Charmed Ones either had they?
The only thing Piper found in the book related to the demon, a Mackenbear demon, amongst it's many energy throwing powers it had the ability to cloak itself. So that was one point to Paige and Andy.
And so they were assembled yet again, this time with Wyatt bouncing on his father's knee and Marie sitting by Phoebe.
'Didn't you know these bear demons could cloak themselves?' Piper directed the question at Leo.
'They're not very big on telling me things right now,' Leo complained, obviously without thinking as the rest of the group stared at him. 'I mean, it's busy.'
Piper looked him over. 'Well, now we have a bigger problem.'
'Like what?' Phoebe asked.
'There's no known vanquish for this... thing,' she said, having tried and failed to say the name. 'The only we've got is to cage it somehow.'
'And how do we do that?' Paige queried.
'I think we could be able to bless an unbreakable cage, like the Seer did,' Piper replied. 'And dump him in some sealed cavern.'
'Can we do that?' Paige asked. 'Sounds complicated.'
'No, you can do it,' Chris assured them.
'Do you know something?' Piper questioned him.
'No,' he said unconvincingly.
'You know he can't say,' Leo put in calmly. 'But it's a good plan.'
'Right, then,' Piper stood just as the phone rang. Since she was closest she answered it; 'Hello?... Richard, hi... I'll put her on.'
Paige grimaced as her sister passed her the phone. 'Honey, now's not a good time.'
'I thought you were coming round tonight,' he sounded a little annoyed. 'Did you forget?'
'No, I didn't... forget, like I said, we've got a little emergency here.'
'It's about the Mackenbear demon, Paige,' he added patiently.
'Oh, what about it?'
'You didn't stop it.'
'And how would you know about that?' she asked suspiciously.
'I did a locating evil spell,' he answered in a voice that said he knew exactly what her reaction would be.
'You did a spell?!' Paige shouted, noticing everyone her end jump and exchange looks. 'Why would you do that?'
'To help, Paige, why else?'
'Look, we can't talk about this now,' she sighed heavily. 'I better go.'
'No, wait!'
'What?!'
'I know how you can stop it, or how I can stop it.'
'No, Richard, you're not doing anything,' she hissed.
'Well, when whatever you're doing doesn't work, get back to me.'
Hearing him hang up angered her more, she'd so wanted to slam the phone down in a rage. As she put it down calmly though, she realised doing that would have just alerted the family to the fact that she was less than happy.
Then again, judging by their faces, they'd already got that. Especially Andy for some reason.
'Problems?' he asked with concern.
'Good news? If we fail, Richard says he'll kill him.'
Phoebe exchanged a glance with Piper. 'Oh, honey...'
'No,' Paige resolved. 'We have to sort out this demon out and I'll sort Richard out later.'
'Okay,' Paige whispered. 'Do you hear that?'
'Voices,' Piper answered softly. 'Or at least one voice.'
'Say the spell,' Leo advised.
'Uncloak this evil, let me see
What it's desperate to keep from me.'
A strong gust of wind blew through the clearing causing uproar in the trees above then it blew back the other way revealing one huge grey demon, skin bubbling and bursting every few seconds, chanting away in an unknown language. Andy, the closest person to it, was half it's size, less than a third of it's weight, in other words it was very big and very ugly.
'Whoa...' Phoebe looked high up at it.
The demon turned slowly, catching sight of the quartet and slamming a pudgy arm across, sending Andy flying.
'Paige, the crystals!'
After a glance at Andy's lifeless body she complied with Leo's order, orbing the crystals into a circle around the demon. It struggled against the beams of the light for a moment, filling the air with an almighty screech. Then it settled for a moment.
Giving Paige the opportunity to run over to Andy. It wasn't looking good.
