Here's Ch.3...hope you like!

Far From Home

Melinda and Harrison fell through the ground and watched as the red portal faded from existence. The got up and looked around at their surroundings. They were on a dark desolate plane with fog swirling at their feet. Mel had no idea where they were, but it didn't look like a very pleasant place.

"You got any idea where we are?" asked Harrison as he looked around cautiously.

"No idea..." answered Melinda as she did the same. "Well, we're doing no good just standing here." she lead the way in no particular direction. She had no idea where she was going, and it was if this place was a constant plane of nothing.

Harrison then grabbed her by the shirt and made her stop dead in her tracks. He motioned for her to be quiet and led her behind a large boulder. "Look over there.." he said pointing.

Melinda looked and saw a group of demons just kind of standing there with no purpose. Where were they? She had a bad feeling that those guys were waiting for them. Not knowing what to do she pointed her finger at one of them and sent him hurtling into a rock wall. The other demons looked in his direction, but otherwise remained still.

"Follow me. Lets vanquish their sorry asses." instructed Mel as she walked out in front of the group. Then it was like a spark lit in their eyes and they all became viciously active.

Harrison came up behind her and to his suprise threw a large blast of fire at the demon. "Oh my god. I've never conjured fire before." he said surprised.

"That's nice, but ah, we have bigger problems." said Melinda as she threw the demons backward with a wave of her hand. She then tackled one and used her electroshock on its brain. To her surprise he just reformed from his ashes!

"Oh god...Harrison come on!" yelled Mel as she grabbed him and ran into the cave. She then used her tk to move a pile of boulders over the entrance. Harrison the used his heat abilities to melt the rocks together.

"Harrison, we're in trouble. That demon sent us to a place worse then where we came from. This is the Plane of Lost Souls. This is where every demon that's ever been vanquished goes."...

"We're where?" asked Harrison with wide eyes as Melinda explained all this to him.

"Plane of Lost Souls. Its a demonic plane where the souls of the dned are forced to stay for eternity. Its like their hell." said Melinda with a sigh. They were in so much danger here. The only instinct left in all the demons here was their killer instinct. And to make it worse, the demons couldn't be killed. They were already dead.

"We'll just have to find a way out, that's all." said Harrison trying to stay positive.

"And what? Go back to our plane and bribe Wyatt with cookies so he doesn't kill our sorry asses?" Melina snapped.

"Don't talk like that. I'm just trying to keep a positive state of mind." he warned her.

"I know you are Harrison, but I'm sorry. This time there is nothing positive to think. Neither of us are strong enough to materialize a portal from thin air." Melinda stated.

"There has to be something! We can't just give up." said Harrison.

Tears formed in Melinda's eyes. "Well, there isn't. Don't you think I want to get out of here, but we can't. I don't know what to do." she cried, "For once the big strong Melinda doesn't have the answer."

Harrison walked up to her and put his hand on her shoulders. "Mel...I never meant...I love you Melinda. Do you want to know why? Because your beautiful, and smart, and strong, but most of all because you never give up. No matter what the odds you always fight back. Melinda, you give me the strength to get out of bed every day, you're my hero." he confessed.

Melinda managed a smile from beneath her tears. It was like his words just washed away all of the pain. Then, caught in the moment, she let something out. "You're my hero."

Harrison smiled brightly at her. "Now why don't we.." he was interrupted as Melinda pressed her lips against his and they kissed passionately. The minutes passed by as they indulged in the heat of their kiss. Melinda slowly broke away.

"I love you to." she told him as she moved her finger slowly down his face. She was then shaken as a premonition came forward.

It was Harrison, he was in Mel's apartment, and he slipped her BOS in the backpack that they had. Her eyes opened wide and she smiled brightly.

"What'd you see?" he asked her.

Melinda ran over to the backpack and pulled out her BOS. She had taken it from Magic School before Wyatt had destroyed it, and she had made some entries of her own.

"You were so worried when you were packing this that you forgot you packed this." she smiled again, "This means we might just have a chance at getting out. It won't be easy, but when have our lives ever been easy?"

"Well, get flipping!" Harrison urged her with a smile.

Melinda sat down against the cave wall and started searching her book. Harrison got to snacks out of the backpack and handed one to her after a few minutes. She silently thanked him, and kept on searching.

This book is too big, she thought. She had been flipping through pages for a couple of hours now. Looking around the cave, Melinda saw Harrison sleeping on the floor. She grinned for a moment before looking back at the page.

"There!" she shouted with triumph as Harrison shot up from the ground.

"What? What is it?" asked Harrison sleepily.

"For the Souls of the dned this plane traps their inner potential, but for the Souls of the Divine it allows them to channel their inner potential. It says here, that the only way out of the Plane of Lost Souls is to access the Crystal of Light which is locked in the innermost chamber of the caves of the dned." said Melinda with a huge grin.

"So, all we have to do is fight our way through an army of undead demons without dying, then summon our true potential and make a portal. Sounds like a challenge." he said.
"Sounds like fun." Melinda added.