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The Blessed Ones
Chapter 39: A Penny For Your Thoughts

"Up There!" Glenn yelled, as he waved to the ceiling.

"He's right!" Penny yelled.

Leo didn't fight it. He just orbed himself and Piper out.

"No!" The darklighter screamed, as she shot her crossbow, but the arrow went through Leo's orbs, and stuck into the wall.

Paige orbed in, holding onto Prue with one hand and Phoebe with the other hand. "Get the kids out of here!"

The darklighter spun around and aimed the arrow at Prue, Paige, and Phoebe.

Cole shimmered in, holding Persia's hand. He motioned to Glenn to grab Pearl and Pandora.

Glenn followed instructions and picked up Pandora and took Pearl by the arm. "Hurry, this way." He whispered, as he snuck them out of the kitchen, while the darklighter was distracted.

Cole grabbed Phiona and Pam, then shimmered them out.

The darklighter shot her arrow at Paige.

Penny waved her hand, telekinetically redirecting the arrow back at the darklighter.

The darklighter saw the arrow turn and come back at her. She knew that her amulet only protected her from witches' and demons' magic, but not her own magic. "I'll be back!" She yelled, then smoked out, barely missing the arrow.

Penny waved her hand, slowly the arrow down with her telekinesis, then and telekinetically moving it to the floor.

"Thanks, Grams." Paige said, with a look of relief.

"Of course, dear." Penny replied. "Glenn! Cole! Bring the girls back in!" Penny yelled.

Cole shimmered in, with one hand wrapped around Pam's hand, and one hand wrapped around Phiona's hand.

Glenn walked in, holding Pandora.

Pearl followed her father in. "Did you vanquish her?"

"No, she'll be back." Penny said.

"How can we vanquish her, if she's immune to our powers?" Persia asked.

"Maybe mom can call for her amulet and then we can vanquish her?" Pearl suggested.

"Nope. I already tried calling her the amulet." Paige said.

"And the amulet is protecting itself, too." Prue added.

"Where are Piper and Leo?" Phoebe asked, with a worried look, as she realized they weren't there.

"Leo took her Up There." Glenn said.

"But witches can't go Up There." Pam replied.

"But she's pregnant with a half whitelighter baby, and whitelighters can go Up There." Paige reasoned.

"They can't come back until we've taken care of the threat. I won't allow it!" Penny said, stubbornly.

"Should I go tell them?" Paige asked.

"Yes." Penny replied. "The rest of us will focus on this darklighter. Come back as soon as you can."

Paige nodded and orbed out.

"So we should go look at the Book of Shadows?" Glenn asked.

"Right." Phoebe said.

"Glenn, why don't you go get it for us?" Prue asked.

"Sure." Glenn said.

"I'll go with Uncle Glenn, incase that darklighter attacks. 'Cause I can shimmer him out." Pam offered.

"Smart thinking, Pamela." Penny complimented.

"Thanks Great Grandma Penny." Pam said, with a smile. She loved being praised, especially by someone who was so hard to please, like her great grandmother. She walked over to her Uncle Glenn.

"We'll be right back." Glenn said.

Glenn and Pam walked out of the room.

Paige orbed back into the room. "Ooooh. The Elders are not happy about this!"

"Too bad. Piper and the baby need to be safe." Penny said.

Paige laughed. "That's exactly what I told them, word for word."

"Like grandmother like granddaughter." Prue said, as she motioned from her grandmother to her baby sister.

Glenn and Pam walked back into the room; Glenn was holding the Book of Shadows.

Penny waved her hand, telekinetically taking the book from Glenn, and having it float to the kitchen table. She flipped through the pages, until she came to a page with a picture of the amulet that the darklighter was wearing. "I knew it!"

"What, Grams?" Prue asked, as she walked over to Penny and looked at the page.

"I knew I'd seen that amulet before." Penny replied. She pointed to the page that the book was opened to. "'The Ruben Amulet. A powerful amulet that allows the wearer to block witches' and demons' magic. However, it cannot protect magic used by warlocks, darklighters, or whitelighters. This is a highly coveted amulet and will protect not only the wearer, but it will protect itself.'" Penny read, from the book.

"How was this amulet created?" Paige asked, curiously.

"Apparently it started out as an ordinary amulet, created by a demonic blacksmith. Then he sacrificed a powerful witch and powerful demon, blessing the amulet, or cursing it, however you look at it. Unfortunately for him, it backfired and he was unable to use his own magic, for he was a demon. Then somewhere thoughout the course of history, the amulet was stolen and now it has resurfaced." Penny explained.

"No wonder she escaped, when you turned the arrow back at her." Phoebe said, to her grandmother.

"So all we have to do is trap her long enough to kill her with her own arrow." Cole said.

"Exactly." Penny replied.

"But how?" Phoebe wondered, aloud.

"I think we should make a few potions, in case we need to protect ourselves from anymore of her attacks, that our powers may not work on." Penny replied.

"Ummm, maybe we should get rid of these first." Cole said, as he pulled a darklighter arrow from the wall.

"Right." Penny replied.

"I got 'em." Cole said. He formed an energy ball in his hand, tossed the arrow into the air, then hit the arrow with an energy ball, exploding the arrow into nothingness. "Phiona, if you please..."

Phiona waved her hand, letting orbs shoot from her palms and surround the darklighter arrow on the ground, and then holding it in the air.

Cole charged up another neon yellow energy ball and sent it flying into the second darklighter arrow. As soon as the energy ball hit the arrow, the arrow was no more.

"Thank you." Penny said. She flipped through a few more pages and finally stopped. "We'll need these ingredients."

----11:55 P.M.----

Phoebe had her legs crossed and her eyes closed, as she levitated in mid air, meditating.

Pennny paced the room. "Where is she?"

"Don't worry, Grams. She'll come and we'll vanquish her. We always do." Phoebe said, from her position in the center of the air.

"Don't get cocky, Phoebe. That's how you get yourself vanquished." Penny scolded.

Phoebe opened her eyes, unfolded her legs, and levitated to the ground. "But Grams, we're the Charmed Ones."

"You're not as powerful without Piper." Penny countered.

"We still have the Power of Three." Phoebe said.

Penny shook her head, growing more irritated by the second. "That amulet is very powerful."

"So are we." Phoebe said.

"Phoebe...." Prue warned, as she saw the look in her grandmother's eyes.

"What?" Phoebe asked.

Paige bit her lip, deciding to stay out of this one.

Glenn barely knew Penny, but he knew that her look meant something bad. "Phoebe, maybe you should listen to your grandmother. She's been practicing her magic much longer than you."

"Glenn..." Cole warned.

Penny spun around and glared at Glenn. "Stay out of this." She waved her hand in annoyance, sending a lamp flying at the wall. "Men! They always think they an just butt in!"

Prue narrowed her eyes and reversed the lamp, just before it could crash into the wall, and she telekinetically sent it back to the table. She shook her head at Glenn.

Glenn shut his mouth and took a seat on the sofa.

Penny spun back to Phoebe and opened her mouth to scold her again, when the room filled with puffs of black smoke.

"Uh oh..." Pam said.

When the smoke was gone, the room was filled with darklighters, all aiming their loaded crossbows at the group in the center of the room.

TO BE CONTINUED....