Chapter 8!
March 23rd 2005. 3:45pm. Day: 3. 1 day before Piper's execution!
Richard returned to the group after breaking up with Paige, to tell everyone some information about how Piper got kidnapped. He then mentioned looking after a man with boils and green skin- a mangle but claims to of not known that. While Leo orbs them away, Phoebe and Paige walk into the potion room to conjure up a potion for the mangle to drink and tell the truth.
Leo however is in the sitting room with Richard and the mangle who claims he has no idea what a mangle is. Suddenly Richard traps Leo's feet in some powerful goo, making it impossible for Leo to move or even orb- if he does he gets a nasty shock.
Richard then morphs into the mangle's leader- Mandark! Other mangle demons then approach Leo with knives. In the potion room, Phoebe in her curious ways pulls down a square panel in the room, and Richard along with his brother come falling down on Phoebe. Both men are dead as Paige screams with horror, but suddenly mangles and Mandark appear in the door way as the girls find out the truth of him.
Paige orbs away quickly to go to the book of shadows, until Patty suddenly appear to help her daughters out. But is it really Patty? Or Mandark playing another trick? What does Mandark have to gain with capturing Leo? With one day before Piper is killed, will she be saved in time? Find out in this brand new chapter!
"Mum? What are you doing here?" asks Phoebe confused but happy at the same time. Paige sighs happily knowing that there is a new way of finding Piper. "Here to save Piper, but right now we need to save your whitelighter" says Patty approaching the two girls. Paige steps in front of Phoebe suddenly spectacle with this whole thing, and looks seriously at Patty. "Are you really Patty?" asks Paige, Phoebe looks at her shocked at her comment and then annoyed.
"Are you out of your mind?" asks Phoebe, "Look Mandark tricked us once, I just don't want that to happen again" says Paige protectively. Patty smiles gently as Phoebe understands what Paige is saying, and looks at Patty differently. "Wait I can tell, hold on" says Phoebe concentrating on her mother. Her empathy powers come into effect as she senses nothing but pure of heart and smiles. Paige looks at her sister and smiles back, "its mum" sighs Phoebe relieved. "Why didn't you feel that before with Richard slash Mandark?" asks Paige. "I don't know I didn't feel anything which was why I wasn't so sure on him" says Phoebe.
"Fair enough" smiles Paige nodding her head. "So in your own time" winks Patty smiling at her daughters. Paige and Phoebe laugh as they walk up to their mother and give her a big hug. "I've missed you" says Phoebe in her baby voice, "Mum where's Piper?" asks Paige. Patty breaks away the hugs and ushers them towards the Victorian couch across the room. Paige and Paige follow their mother and sit on it, as she stands in front of them locking her hands gently shut and looks down at her daughters.
"She isn't in San Francisco or this world even" says Patty, "Huh?" asks Paige confused. "She's in this galaxy just somewhere far" continues Patty. "The only way to get there is to travel via a mangle portal, otherwise there is no chance of you getting there" says Patty. "Alright how do we get there?" asks Phoebe, "Well I know a potion that will bring gas into the room. So vial that the mangles wont be able to stand it, and hopefully they will open up their portal to their world, and you can walk through it to go and save Piper" smiles Patty, "Alright but what about our powers? Would we be able to enter?" asks Paige.
Patty looks awkwardly at them, "That's just it...No witch is able to enter, unless her powers have been taken away from her" says Patty. Paige and Phoebe look at one another, "Alright well what if we do try and enter?" asks Phoebe. "A force field will shoot out and kill you" replies Patty with a 'Not so good' face. Phoebe mimes 'Ouch' with her lips as Paige looks at her mother. "Alright but is there away to shut that down?" asks Paige, "Yes but that's why we need Leo. After you girls save him, me and Leo will try our best to break away the force field" smiles Patty.
While Phoebe laughs, Paige is still unconvinced, "Alright but if we save Leo, then wont the mangles escape from the mansion? We can't go to "mangle land" or we will die, so best bet is to unlock the force field, save Leo, travel to "mangle land" save Piper and kick all those mangle arses" says Paige. "Not only that we have to get back Piper's powers" adds in Phoebe, "Ah so true. Mum how do we get her powers back?" asks Paige.
"Well Mandark has them magically locked away, so it will need a powerful spell...a power of three spell" says Patty. "Alright so what do we do with the whole saving Leo, and hope the others don't escape?" asks Phoebe. "Well I'll distract a number of mangles and make sure they can't hear the commotion. I'll freeze them while you girls save Leo. Me and Leo will work on the spell as you girls lock the mangles up. Once me and Leo have the force field down, you girls use the gas potion to move them back to their world" replies Patty.
"And you're so sure that this gas thing will work?" asks Paige, "Well it's the only chance we have of saving Piper at this moment in time" says Patty. Phoebe and Paige nod their heads in agreement, "Alright now Leo has his feet trapped firmly in some powerful goo, and can't orb away so..." Patty then hands the girls a blue liquid potion from her pocket, "Throw this potion at the goo to weaken it, then..." she then pulls out a small green bag of gold dust, as Paige takes them slowly, and Phoebe the potion. "Throw this dust on it to weaken it some more.
"Then..." repeats Patty handing them some paper with a small incantation on it. "Both of you say this spell" says Patty. Phoebe with her free hand takes the piece of paper from her mother and reads the small sentence. Raising her eyebrows Paige does the same, "With this spell we set you free?" asks Phoebe. "I know, but it does work" says Patty.
"Alright then, lets get rolling" smiles Phoebe. The three women hold hands as Paige orbs them away and into the mansion. They appear behind a wall in the hall way, a few feet away from the sitting room where Leo is slowly getting cut with the knives. Shouting with pain he gets shocked. Phoebe and Paige close their eyes as their whitelighter is getting hurt. "What now?" whispers Phoebe. Patty then notices about 5 mangle demons outside and decides that distracting them wont be an option. "I've got my handful, you girls know what to do" says Patty and slowly creeps up and into the outside. Phoebe and Paige watch as Mandark raises his palm in front of everyone telling them to stop. "Alright now we do the next thing" he grins. "What do you want with me?" asks Leo in pain and bleeding. "Oh only for the charmed ones to come and save you. Us hurting you in until they come and we kill them" smiles Mandark. "Lets go says Paige orbing away and behind Mandark. Paige looks behind her and grabs a vase, quickly smashing it on his head.
As the mangles watch, Mandark falls down to the ground. As they raise their knives, Paige raises out her right arm. "Knives!" she shouts. The knives quickly orb out of their hands and towards hers, as she moves her hand side wards, and the knives shoot back at the mangles sticking into their hearts. Before they can say anything, they burst into flames. Phoebe smiles before running forward towards Leo, more mangle demons show up coming running towards them. Mandark opens his eyes and quickly trips over Paige as Leo looks around confused.
"Get out of here!" he shouts, "No way" says Phoebe slamming the potion onto the goo around Leo's feet. She notices the cuts more clearly and cringes her face, "Paige dust!" yells Phoebe looking towards her sister as Mandark had her by the throat. "Bad little witch!!" he shouts as Phoebe kicks his arm upwards. Shouting with pain he drops Paige to the ground, as Phoebe levitates into the air and spins around kicking Mandark hard in the face. Flying side wards he crashes into a glass table and is knocked unconscious. The other mangles approach as Phoebe goes towards them with her fists raised.
"Use the dust on Leo!" shouts Phoebe as Paige gets up to notice the goo is no longer dark green, but light green. The electric starts up again, but is not so painful as the other ones. Paige slowly staggers up and grabs a handful of dust from the green bag and throws it on the goo. It sticks into it, slowly melting inside of it flashing bright gold. "Done it!" shouts Paige as Leo looks to his face. More electric strikes in his body but he can hardly feel it. "Hurry girls" shouts Leo, as Phoebe spin kicks a handful of mangles forcing them to the grounds. "Phoebe!" yells Paige.
Phoebe turns around and runs over to her quickly grabbing her hand, as Paige pulls out the spell. "With this spell we set you free!" says Phoebe and Paige in unison. The goo flashes bright white and slowly evaporates into thin air. Leo smiles but his stomach is still hurting. "Hey you helped me heal before Leo, so lets try again" says Paige kneeling down beside him and holding his hand. The two then place their other free and on top of the other and over Leo's wounds and the two concentrate.
Phoebe looks to her side and notices her mother getting hit in the face by a mangle, while 4 of the others remain frozen. Phoebe looks shocked and worried quickly levitating towards the window, and while screaming smashes through it while kicking the attacking mangle. Phoebe gets slightly cut as she lands on the floor and picks up her mother. "You alright?" she asks and her mother nods. The mangle demon quickly brings forth a blue swirling portal and jumps into it. Phoebe and Patty leave it as it disappears quickly behind them.
They look through the broken window as Paige and Leo are standing up together smiling. "Healed him I see?" laughs Phoebe. "Yea but Mandark manages to escape as did the rest of the mangles. Right wusses" says Paige tutting. Leo smiles and looks at the girls, "Yea Paige was able to heal me again with my help. She told me everything and good idea may I add smiles Leo. He then orbs outside followed by Paige, as Phoebe and Patty turn towards them surprised. Patty you ready to go?" asks Leo and Patty smiles, "Alright girls, you orb these freaks into the attic and cage them up. Me and Leo will try our best to take away the force field for you" says Patty. The girls smile and kiss her gently on the cheeks, "We love you" says Phoebe. "I love you too" replies Patty.
Leo holds onto her hand and orbs away. Paige walks over to the mangles and grabs two of them while Phoebe does the same. "Wait what we do about Richard?" asks Phoebe, "I called the ambulance" says Paige upset. "I'm really sorry honey" says Phoebe upset. "It's ok, lets get these home" says Paige orbing away with the two mangle demons. Phoebe stands there confused, as Paige orbs back alone and holds Phoebe as they orb away with the other two mangle demons.
4:15pm. Day: 3
Mandark is pacing his room annoyed and frustrated, with Stuart standing close by him as well as Gabby. "Don't worry sir things will be alright" says Stuart. Mandark slowly pulls out a knife and throws it at Stuart, as it sticks into his head. Gasping with pain, Gabby gets out the way slightly surprised. "The plan is ruined and I don't need you any more" says Mandark. Stuart then bursts into flames as Gabby smiles at her boss, "Well just remember that Piper will be dying tomorrow" reminds Gabby. He smiles as he looks at Piper's screen and grins. She's pacing around in her room with the old ragged clothes scared, cold and hurt. "I guess that's something to smile about" he says.
To be continued...
I would like to say, that this is my favourite so far heh. But I'm afraid I will not update unless I get more reviews, I'm sorry but I'm not doing a story for just one person.
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Thanks for reading, and lets hope that a chapter 9 will happen.