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There Is A Reason For Everything
Chapter 6: All Powered Up
Penny stood up. "Stay here with Marissa. I'll be right back." Penny whispered, then she walked out of the room. "I wonder what Grams is gonna do?" Phoebe asked. "Ditto." Piper said.
Penny opened the door and smiled at the brunette standing at the door. "Is this the Halliwell residence?" The woman questioned. "Why yes, it is. I'm Penny Halliwell." Penny replied, as she held out her hand. "Hello Ms. Halliwell. I'm Agnus. Sister Agnus." Sister Agnus replied, as she shook Penny's hand. "Won't you come in?" Penny asked. "I'd love to." Sister Agnus said, with a smile. She walked into the Manor slowly and Penny shut the door. "The girls and Paige are in the other room. If you'll follow me, please?" Penny said, as she lead Sister Agnus down the hall to the living room.
Paige plopped down on the couch and waited then she saw Sister Agnus and Penny walk into the room. "Sister Agnus!" Paige said, with a happy tone. "Paige! I missed you, dear!" Sister Agnus replied, as she walked over and hugged Paige. "Me too!" Paige said, as she broke the hug. Paige looked from Sister Agnus to Phoebe. "That is my friend, Phoebe Halliwell." Paige said, as she pointed to Phoebe. Sister Agnus turned to look at who Paige was pointing at. "Well hello, Phoebe, it's nice to meet you. I'm Agnus. Sister Agnus." Sister Agnus said, joy was evident in her voice. "Thanks." Phoebe said, with a hug grin. "Those are here sisters. Prue and Piper." Paige said, as she pointed to Prue and then Piper. "Nice to meet you." Prue said. "Yeah, me too." Piper said, shyly. "Now see Paige, I told you that you'd meet friends." Sister Agnus said, as she placed her hands on her hips. 'I found waaaay more than that!' Paige thought. "Uh, yeah, I guess so." Paige said, trying to not make herself seem too happy. Sister Agnus looked down at her watch. "Paige, we should probably be getting back..." Sister Agnus began, but was cut off by Phoebe's cheerful voice. "Sister Agnus...umm, I know you just met us and all...But Paige and I are such good friends already that we were wondering if maybe...umm...if it is okay with you and Grams, if Paige could sleep over?" Phoebe asked, then she looked at Penny and grave her a pleading look. Sister Agnus looked as if she was thinking it over and then turned to Penny. "Well...I don't know. Paige doesn't have any clothes and I don't have time to get any for her, toni...." Sister Agnus began, but was again cut off by Phoebe. "She can borrow mine! I mean we just like a year apart and I bet anything I have will fit her!" Phoebe chirped. "Phoebe, it is very rude it interrupt Sister Agnus like that." Penny warned. Phoebe lowered her head. "Sorry...I was just a little...over excited." Phoebe apologized. Sister Agnus smiled. "It's perfectly okay. I know how fun can be...Well, I guess it is okay with me...If Ms. Halliwell is okay with it." Sister Agnus finally gave in. Penny smiled. "Call me Penny, and it is perfectly okay with me. If she wants to, she can come over again after school. If you'll allow her to." Penny suggested. Sister Agnus turned to Paige. "Well, would you like that?" Sister Agnus asked. Paige beamed with joy. "Yes! Totally!" Paige said, without knowing that she was yelling it. "Paige, you're yelling." Sister Agnus pointed out. Paige's face turned red. "Oooops....Sorry." Paige said, lowering her voice a considerable amount. "Well then, I'll just get going." Sister Agnus said. She gave Paige a final hug and then followed Penny out of the room. "Be good, Paige." Sister Agnus called. "I will!" Paige called back. Phoebe turned to Paige and held up her hand. Paige thought for a minute. 'High five! Jeeze, you haven't been around people your own age in forever!' Paige mentally yelled at herself. Paige smacked Phoebe's hand. "This is soooo awesome!" Phoebe said, with delight. Moments later Penny walked back into the room. Phoebe eyed Marissa and then looked at Penny. "Grams, who is that?" Phoebe asked. Penny realized she had never got the chance to introduce Marissa. "Girls, remember the whitelighters I was telling you about? Marissa is our whitelighter." Penny said. Marissa smiled. "Hello girls. My name is Marissa Sparks." Marissa greeted. Suddenly Marissa looked up at the ceiling. "Oh, The Elders are calling me, I have to go." Marissa said. Marissa disappeared in a flurry of glowing, blue and white orbs. "Will I be able to do that, someday?" Paige asked, as she stared at the spot that Marissa just stood at. "You mean orb anywhere?" Penny asked. "Mhmm." Paige mumbled. "Well, you might. If you work at your powers." Penny said. "That is soooo wicked cool!" Paige said. Paige looked around the room. "Hey, throw something at me!" Paige said, as she looked at Phoebe. "Huh?" Phoebe asked. "Throw something at me, so I can do that light thing again." Paige said. "It's called orbing." Penny corrected. "Yeah, that orbing thing." Paige said. Phoebe shrugged and grabbed a pillow and hurled it at Paige. Paige watched the pillow and then orbed out. After the pillow had smacked into the wall, then orbs swirled around where Paige had stood moments before, and Paige orbed back in. "That is so cool! I just wish that I could control it..." Paige said, then she winced slightly and sat down on the couch. "Oh..and I guess a little too much of that, orbing stuff, can also give a girl an upset stomach." Paige said. Paige clutched her stomach for a second. "Feels like I have a gazillion butterflies in my stomach." Paige whimpered slightly. Penny smiled. "Like I said, you're new to your powers. That sickening feeling will probably go away after a little practise." Penny said. "How about the rest of you? Would you like to try and practise your powers?" Penny asked. Piper was skeptical. "Well....what's my power called again?" Piper asked. "Temporal stasis, or better known as the ability to freeze molecules and/or time itself." Penny replied. "For example..." Penny said, as she eyed a vase book on the floor. "You could stop something in mid air...." Penny said, then using her eyes, she telekinetically sent the book flying at Piper. Piper's eyes became wide and she held up her hands to shield her face. When nothing hit her, Piper slowly put her hands down, and then stared at the book that was sitting in mid air. Piper walked over to Phoebe and looked at the book from a different angle. It almost looked like something that had been paused the T.V., but in a 3-D form. "That is so cool!" Phoebe said, as she walked over to the book. Phoebe reached out to touch the book and before she could get her hand close enough, the book went flying past Phoebe and hit the wall where Piper had been standing. Phoebe jumped back, in shock. "What happened?" Phoebe asked. "Piper's power is still very new. Her freeze doesn't last very long and so the book unfroze." Penny explained. Piper looked at her hands, not sure what to think of this new ability. Prue looked at Penny. "And I can move things with my mind?" Prue asked. "Yes. But only when you get angry." Penny replied. "Oh, well isn't that useful?" Prue said, sarcastically. Phoebe was curious to see Prue's power. 'Mhmm...' Phoebe thought. "So Prue...Ya looking forward to getting all big and balloon shaped?" Phoebe asked, with a wicked grin. "Why you little...." Pure began to yell as she eyed Phoebe and a picture that was behind Phoebe, but before she could finish, the picture behind Phoebe came crashing to the floor. Phoebe spun around and saw the picture. Phoebe slowly picked up the picture and replaced it back on the wall, luckily it hadn't been broken. "That must have been your power!" Phoebe said. Prue looked confused. "But how?" Prue asked. "You were angry and your power was channeled through your eyes. Since you can't use your power on Phoebe, it hit the picture behind her." Penny said. "Well, how does my power work?" Phoebe asked. "Well, when you touch an object you'll see an event that will most likely happen in the future. Sometimes that has happened in the past or that is happening right now, in the present. The object usually has something to do with your premonition. But, that is only how I've seen and heard the power work. Who knows, it may grow even stronger." Penny said. Phoebe sighed. Her sisters had these awesome powers that could grow to be so much more and all she has was some non-active power. Phoebe brushed by Piper and as her hand touched Piper's arm, Phoebe felt a rush of energy run through her body, she gasped as her mind was filled with images.
*****Premonition***** A woman with long, light colored hair looked as if she was screaming in pain as she was consumed into flames, in a small alley. A man from earlier, Pyro, was watching with a sickeningly happy grin on his face. The woman dropped to the ground, dead, then Pyro grabbed a full moon shaped neckless from the woman's neck. Pyro disappeared in a swirl of flames, just as the Charmed Ones and Penny, with Piper leading the way, ran into the small alley.
*****Premonition***** Phoebe's eyes fluttered open as she tried to catch her breath. "Pheebs? Pheebs are you okay?" Piper asked, her voice was full of worry. Phoebe coughed a few times. "Did you see something?" Penny asked. "Y..yeah." Phoebe muttered, as she gasped for breath. Prue ran into the kitchen and returned moments later with a glass of cold water. Phoebe took a sip of the water. "Thanks." Phoebe said. "Any time, Pheebs." Prue replied. Piper and Penny helped Phoebe onto the couch. "I saw...A woman. It was all in black and white though. She looked like she was screaming and she was covered in flames. That guy from earlier, Pyro or whatever, was watching her with this horrible grin on his face. Then the woman fell to the floor and was dead. That Pyro guy ripped a neckless, in the shape of a full moon, off her neck and disappeared in flames. Right after that, the four of us and you came running in, Piper was leading us." Phoebe said. "So, you must have touched Piper to get the premonition." Penny said. "Yeah, I guess. I slid past her and then it hit me." Phoebe said. "Where did we run into?" Penny asked. "It looked like an old alley. With dumpsters, boxes, trash, and stuff." Phoebe answered. "Okay, that helps. I bet there are only like a billion alleys with dumpsters, boxes, trash, and stuff in San Francisco." Piper said, with a sarcastic tone. "Hey, don't be mad at me. I'm just tellin' ya'll what I saw." Phoebe said, in a defensive tone. "I'm not mad at you Pheebs. Just..this is all so sudden and that premo...whatever Grams called it, doesn't give us much info." Piper said, in a softer tone. "Actually there were a few vital clues. Phoebe said the woman was wearing a full moon neckless. That means she probably belongs to a coven who wear the same full moon shaped necklaces. We need to find the coven to find her." Penny said. Piper looked even more confused. "But how do we find that?" Piper asked. "The Book of Shadows. It has a lot of information on demons, warlocks, witches, whitelighters, prophecies, covens, and much much more." Penny said. Penny walked out of the room and walked up the stairs to the attic. Piper looked at her sisters with a puzzled look on her face. "Ooookay then...." Piper said, as she waited for Penny to come back. Moments later Penny walked back into the room, holding a large leather bound book. The book had a large symbol on it and read, The Book of Shadows. Penny flipped through the pages of the old, yellowed pages. The pages made a crinckling noise as she turned them. After what seemed like forever to the four girls, Penny looked up, and smiled. "Found the coven...." Penny said. TO BE CONTINUED....
A/N: Thoughts, suggestions, ect, ect, ect....
There Is A Reason For Everything
Chapter 6: All Powered Up
Penny stood up. "Stay here with Marissa. I'll be right back." Penny whispered, then she walked out of the room. "I wonder what Grams is gonna do?" Phoebe asked. "Ditto." Piper said.
Penny opened the door and smiled at the brunette standing at the door. "Is this the Halliwell residence?" The woman questioned. "Why yes, it is. I'm Penny Halliwell." Penny replied, as she held out her hand. "Hello Ms. Halliwell. I'm Agnus. Sister Agnus." Sister Agnus replied, as she shook Penny's hand. "Won't you come in?" Penny asked. "I'd love to." Sister Agnus said, with a smile. She walked into the Manor slowly and Penny shut the door. "The girls and Paige are in the other room. If you'll follow me, please?" Penny said, as she lead Sister Agnus down the hall to the living room.
Paige plopped down on the couch and waited then she saw Sister Agnus and Penny walk into the room. "Sister Agnus!" Paige said, with a happy tone. "Paige! I missed you, dear!" Sister Agnus replied, as she walked over and hugged Paige. "Me too!" Paige said, as she broke the hug. Paige looked from Sister Agnus to Phoebe. "That is my friend, Phoebe Halliwell." Paige said, as she pointed to Phoebe. Sister Agnus turned to look at who Paige was pointing at. "Well hello, Phoebe, it's nice to meet you. I'm Agnus. Sister Agnus." Sister Agnus said, joy was evident in her voice. "Thanks." Phoebe said, with a hug grin. "Those are here sisters. Prue and Piper." Paige said, as she pointed to Prue and then Piper. "Nice to meet you." Prue said. "Yeah, me too." Piper said, shyly. "Now see Paige, I told you that you'd meet friends." Sister Agnus said, as she placed her hands on her hips. 'I found waaaay more than that!' Paige thought. "Uh, yeah, I guess so." Paige said, trying to not make herself seem too happy. Sister Agnus looked down at her watch. "Paige, we should probably be getting back..." Sister Agnus began, but was cut off by Phoebe's cheerful voice. "Sister Agnus...umm, I know you just met us and all...But Paige and I are such good friends already that we were wondering if maybe...umm...if it is okay with you and Grams, if Paige could sleep over?" Phoebe asked, then she looked at Penny and grave her a pleading look. Sister Agnus looked as if she was thinking it over and then turned to Penny. "Well...I don't know. Paige doesn't have any clothes and I don't have time to get any for her, toni...." Sister Agnus began, but was again cut off by Phoebe. "She can borrow mine! I mean we just like a year apart and I bet anything I have will fit her!" Phoebe chirped. "Phoebe, it is very rude it interrupt Sister Agnus like that." Penny warned. Phoebe lowered her head. "Sorry...I was just a little...over excited." Phoebe apologized. Sister Agnus smiled. "It's perfectly okay. I know how fun can be...Well, I guess it is okay with me...If Ms. Halliwell is okay with it." Sister Agnus finally gave in. Penny smiled. "Call me Penny, and it is perfectly okay with me. If she wants to, she can come over again after school. If you'll allow her to." Penny suggested. Sister Agnus turned to Paige. "Well, would you like that?" Sister Agnus asked. Paige beamed with joy. "Yes! Totally!" Paige said, without knowing that she was yelling it. "Paige, you're yelling." Sister Agnus pointed out. Paige's face turned red. "Oooops....Sorry." Paige said, lowering her voice a considerable amount. "Well then, I'll just get going." Sister Agnus said. She gave Paige a final hug and then followed Penny out of the room. "Be good, Paige." Sister Agnus called. "I will!" Paige called back. Phoebe turned to Paige and held up her hand. Paige thought for a minute. 'High five! Jeeze, you haven't been around people your own age in forever!' Paige mentally yelled at herself. Paige smacked Phoebe's hand. "This is soooo awesome!" Phoebe said, with delight. Moments later Penny walked back into the room. Phoebe eyed Marissa and then looked at Penny. "Grams, who is that?" Phoebe asked. Penny realized she had never got the chance to introduce Marissa. "Girls, remember the whitelighters I was telling you about? Marissa is our whitelighter." Penny said. Marissa smiled. "Hello girls. My name is Marissa Sparks." Marissa greeted. Suddenly Marissa looked up at the ceiling. "Oh, The Elders are calling me, I have to go." Marissa said. Marissa disappeared in a flurry of glowing, blue and white orbs. "Will I be able to do that, someday?" Paige asked, as she stared at the spot that Marissa just stood at. "You mean orb anywhere?" Penny asked. "Mhmm." Paige mumbled. "Well, you might. If you work at your powers." Penny said. "That is soooo wicked cool!" Paige said. Paige looked around the room. "Hey, throw something at me!" Paige said, as she looked at Phoebe. "Huh?" Phoebe asked. "Throw something at me, so I can do that light thing again." Paige said. "It's called orbing." Penny corrected. "Yeah, that orbing thing." Paige said. Phoebe shrugged and grabbed a pillow and hurled it at Paige. Paige watched the pillow and then orbed out. After the pillow had smacked into the wall, then orbs swirled around where Paige had stood moments before, and Paige orbed back in. "That is so cool! I just wish that I could control it..." Paige said, then she winced slightly and sat down on the couch. "Oh..and I guess a little too much of that, orbing stuff, can also give a girl an upset stomach." Paige said. Paige clutched her stomach for a second. "Feels like I have a gazillion butterflies in my stomach." Paige whimpered slightly. Penny smiled. "Like I said, you're new to your powers. That sickening feeling will probably go away after a little practise." Penny said. "How about the rest of you? Would you like to try and practise your powers?" Penny asked. Piper was skeptical. "Well....what's my power called again?" Piper asked. "Temporal stasis, or better known as the ability to freeze molecules and/or time itself." Penny replied. "For example..." Penny said, as she eyed a vase book on the floor. "You could stop something in mid air...." Penny said, then using her eyes, she telekinetically sent the book flying at Piper. Piper's eyes became wide and she held up her hands to shield her face. When nothing hit her, Piper slowly put her hands down, and then stared at the book that was sitting in mid air. Piper walked over to Phoebe and looked at the book from a different angle. It almost looked like something that had been paused the T.V., but in a 3-D form. "That is so cool!" Phoebe said, as she walked over to the book. Phoebe reached out to touch the book and before she could get her hand close enough, the book went flying past Phoebe and hit the wall where Piper had been standing. Phoebe jumped back, in shock. "What happened?" Phoebe asked. "Piper's power is still very new. Her freeze doesn't last very long and so the book unfroze." Penny explained. Piper looked at her hands, not sure what to think of this new ability. Prue looked at Penny. "And I can move things with my mind?" Prue asked. "Yes. But only when you get angry." Penny replied. "Oh, well isn't that useful?" Prue said, sarcastically. Phoebe was curious to see Prue's power. 'Mhmm...' Phoebe thought. "So Prue...Ya looking forward to getting all big and balloon shaped?" Phoebe asked, with a wicked grin. "Why you little...." Pure began to yell as she eyed Phoebe and a picture that was behind Phoebe, but before she could finish, the picture behind Phoebe came crashing to the floor. Phoebe spun around and saw the picture. Phoebe slowly picked up the picture and replaced it back on the wall, luckily it hadn't been broken. "That must have been your power!" Phoebe said. Prue looked confused. "But how?" Prue asked. "You were angry and your power was channeled through your eyes. Since you can't use your power on Phoebe, it hit the picture behind her." Penny said. "Well, how does my power work?" Phoebe asked. "Well, when you touch an object you'll see an event that will most likely happen in the future. Sometimes that has happened in the past or that is happening right now, in the present. The object usually has something to do with your premonition. But, that is only how I've seen and heard the power work. Who knows, it may grow even stronger." Penny said. Phoebe sighed. Her sisters had these awesome powers that could grow to be so much more and all she has was some non-active power. Phoebe brushed by Piper and as her hand touched Piper's arm, Phoebe felt a rush of energy run through her body, she gasped as her mind was filled with images.
*****Premonition***** A woman with long, light colored hair looked as if she was screaming in pain as she was consumed into flames, in a small alley. A man from earlier, Pyro, was watching with a sickeningly happy grin on his face. The woman dropped to the ground, dead, then Pyro grabbed a full moon shaped neckless from the woman's neck. Pyro disappeared in a swirl of flames, just as the Charmed Ones and Penny, with Piper leading the way, ran into the small alley.
*****Premonition***** Phoebe's eyes fluttered open as she tried to catch her breath. "Pheebs? Pheebs are you okay?" Piper asked, her voice was full of worry. Phoebe coughed a few times. "Did you see something?" Penny asked. "Y..yeah." Phoebe muttered, as she gasped for breath. Prue ran into the kitchen and returned moments later with a glass of cold water. Phoebe took a sip of the water. "Thanks." Phoebe said. "Any time, Pheebs." Prue replied. Piper and Penny helped Phoebe onto the couch. "I saw...A woman. It was all in black and white though. She looked like she was screaming and she was covered in flames. That guy from earlier, Pyro or whatever, was watching her with this horrible grin on his face. Then the woman fell to the floor and was dead. That Pyro guy ripped a neckless, in the shape of a full moon, off her neck and disappeared in flames. Right after that, the four of us and you came running in, Piper was leading us." Phoebe said. "So, you must have touched Piper to get the premonition." Penny said. "Yeah, I guess. I slid past her and then it hit me." Phoebe said. "Where did we run into?" Penny asked. "It looked like an old alley. With dumpsters, boxes, trash, and stuff." Phoebe answered. "Okay, that helps. I bet there are only like a billion alleys with dumpsters, boxes, trash, and stuff in San Francisco." Piper said, with a sarcastic tone. "Hey, don't be mad at me. I'm just tellin' ya'll what I saw." Phoebe said, in a defensive tone. "I'm not mad at you Pheebs. Just..this is all so sudden and that premo...whatever Grams called it, doesn't give us much info." Piper said, in a softer tone. "Actually there were a few vital clues. Phoebe said the woman was wearing a full moon neckless. That means she probably belongs to a coven who wear the same full moon shaped necklaces. We need to find the coven to find her." Penny said. Piper looked even more confused. "But how do we find that?" Piper asked. "The Book of Shadows. It has a lot of information on demons, warlocks, witches, whitelighters, prophecies, covens, and much much more." Penny said. Penny walked out of the room and walked up the stairs to the attic. Piper looked at her sisters with a puzzled look on her face. "Ooookay then...." Piper said, as she waited for Penny to come back. Moments later Penny walked back into the room, holding a large leather bound book. The book had a large symbol on it and read, The Book of Shadows. Penny flipped through the pages of the old, yellowed pages. The pages made a crinckling noise as she turned them. After what seemed like forever to the four girls, Penny looked up, and smiled. "Found the coven...." Penny said. TO BE CONTINUED....
A/N: Thoughts, suggestions, ect, ect, ect....