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Here Come The Water Works Part 2
'Well, well, well, Prince Aidan, I never thought I'd see you again!' he said with a sneer. All the colour drained from Paige's face as she looked up to the Elementals face, he was burning with rage as he looked towards the man.
'P-Pr… Prince?' Paige whispered.
'Sorry General, but our reunion's going to have to be cut short!' he shouted, letting go of Paige and pulling a vial out of his pocket. He smashed the potion onto the ground and ice spread at an amazing speed, freezing all of the knights into place, 'Run!' Aidan ordered, grabbing Paige's hand and bolting into the alley with Piper and Pamela. They ran right to the bottom, skidding to a stop when they reached the dead end.
They were trapped.
'Uh… Okay this would be a good time to think of an escape plan!' Piper said shakily. Pamela gestured towards the wall, attempting to blow it up and make a quick escape route, but the wall glowed and the blast had no effect. Aidan suddenly reached into his shirt, pulling out a pendent, which had the family crest on it. He held it up to the light and said muttered something. The pendant glistened in the sunlight and four glyphs appeared on the ground, they shone in a bright blue colour as they began to swirl around Aidan.
'Come closer!' he shouted, his eyes still closed as if he was concentrating on maintaining the circle of white light beneath him. The girls did as he said and moved onto the glowing disk, there was a bright flash and they disappeared just as the squad of knights charged down the alley. The general pushed to the front of the guards and cursed.
'Damn! He still has the royal pendant!' he cursed and heard the clanging of armour behind him, 'Keep the castle completely surrounded! And don't let Queen Undine out of your sight!' all of the soldiers nodded and ran off, leaving the man seething in the alleyway………
Paige looked around. They were in a tunnel that seemed to be built with the same stone and magic that the buildings on the surface were made of. The royal symbol decorated the walls, spaced out evenly and casting a watery pattern on her face as she passed.
'Where are we? A sewer?' Pamela grimaced at the thought of being in a sewer.
Aidan laughed, 'No, these tunnels can only be accessed by the royal family. They here as an escape route in case of an emergency,'
'So I take it running from invincible knights qualifies?' Paige spat.
He looked at his feet, 'I deserve that…'
'You told me that you were given up as child and spent most of your life in an orphanage, to me; your entire life has been a lie. How could you? Did the fact that you're magical royalty just slip your mind?'
'Could you have handled it, Paige? Who says I need to tell you every detail about my life?'
'No one!' she stomped towards him, 'But you just down right lied to me!'
'If you hadn't went snooping around my private life then this wouldn't have happened!'
Paige's eyes flashed with anger and she brought her hand across his face, 'Your so-called 'private life' put hundreds of students in danger today! And what you call snooping is me, yet again, cleaning up after one of your secrets!' Aidan recoiled from the slap the said nothing, Paige let out an ironic laugh, 'That's what I thought…' she stormed off down the tunnel with tears streaming down her face.
'Paige! Paige, come back! You don't know where you're going!' Piper shouted, 'I'll go get her,'
She stopped running and fell to her knees in tears. Paige could hear footsteps coming from behind her, she squeezed her eyes shut, 'Aidan, I really don't want to…' she saw her sister kneel down in front of her, 'Piper… Just leave me alone,'
Piper smiled, 'Heh… I leave my sister to rot? C'mon,' she pulled her sister to her feet and wiped her eyes in a motherly fashion, 'Well, no one can say you're a pushover. His cheek's still red!'
'He deserved it…' she growled, the anger still hadn't burned out in her voice.
'Honey, getting lost in a labyrinth isn't going to help,'
The young Halliwell laughed and took her hands over her face, 'I'm sorry, it's just that all this…' she waved at the glyph on the wall, 'Is so overwhelming…'
'I know. It is for all of us, but the sooner we sort this out, the sooner we can get out of here, so c'mon,' she began to drag Paige back in the direction which they had come. The four of them stood basking in the watery sheen, deadly silent and standing awkwardly until Pamela broke the ice.
'Not to break up the chit chat, but what's our plan?'
'Our plan…' Aidan walked away slightly, 'Is for you guys to reverse your spell and leave this to me,'
'Nope. No way,' Paige responded calmly.
'Paige, if you think I'm going to let you get hurt then you've got another thing coming!'
'Aidan, if you think I'm going to let you go alone then you've got another thing coming!' Paige mimicked him with raised eyebrows. Aidan put his hands behind his head and sighed, 'Face it. You're not getting rid of us,' her sister and niece came to stand at either side of her to get her point across.
'Ugh… Alright, but this place isn't like the outside, magic is amplified here so watching your gestures,' he looked at Pamela in particular.
'Great, just what I need, another power boost…' the teen rolled her eyes and they began to walk down the tunnel.
General Kahn took a deep breath as he opened the glass doors of the royal chambers. The doors were filled with water that cast an aquatic glow across the floor, the entire palace was filled with doors and glass sculptures like this, it really was a magnificent piece of magical architecture. Queen Undine stood proudly in front of her throne, icy blue eyes staring at the person who was entering, she was a beautiful woman with dark blue hair flowing gracefully to her lower back and pale skin making her smile even more delightful. She must have looked like the reincarnation of an ice queen, but her people knew that she was deeply compassionate and would do anything for her people. Today however, her face was like stone as she watched General Kahn kneel in front her. She narrowed her eyes as an uneasy smile spread across his face,
'Your Majesty, I-,'
'Silence!' she boomed, making the soldiers in the chamber jump slightly, 'Do not pollute my halls with the lies that flow from your silver tongue! I could sense the malice in your heart and betrayal in your mind as soon as it was spawned! I know that you have found my son within the city walls and I will not let you harm him!' she glanced at the soldiers in the room, 'Detain him!'
The clanking of armour rattled through the hall as the soldiers surrounded the traitorous general, holding their spears at him with the tips glowing like when they had charged magic school. The general smirked and waved his hands, the knights screamed in pain and steam began to seep from the small crevices in their armour, all of them exploded at the same time and left no trace of them ever being there.
Kahn let a smug look cross his face; 'I've ruled over your army for a century, I know all their weaknesses.'
Undine snarled at her foe and her eyes began to glow, ice crusting over them as her expression darkened, 'How dare you trifle with the gods! You shall feel the wrath of your treachery ten fold! Aquilo ventus!' she shouted, holding out her hands and a chilling wind sprung forth from her palms, the harshness of the cold slashing holes through the General's clothes and skin.
'You can't stop me… Undine.' He was on his knees in exhaustion, 'Your kingdom will be mine!'
She wasn't about give up, her eyes darting around the room and looking for weapons. Undine smiled when she realised that the walls were covered with swords, maces, athames and more destructive tools. She brought her hands in front her and side to side of each other, making a gesture by raising her small and index fingers, 'Incede! Incede!' she chanted. Slowly all the weapons began to float off of the wall and fly at Kahn, whirring and spiralling towards their target. Kahn breathed in and his body dissolved into water, the weapons passing through the watery figure and hurtling into the opposite wall.
'How did you learn of that ability without my knowing?' she let her arms fall to her sides.
'I've been training for this confrontation…' he growled, 'And I've been getting some outside help,' he wiggled his fingers and an energy ball appeared in his awaiting palm with a crackle.
'Demon…' Undine's eyes widened in realization as he threw the energy ball, 'Reverto!' she screamed, the attack bouncing off her raised hand and flying back at the General, who stumbled back while holding his newly injured shoulder.
'I shall return! And with the blood of your precious son on my hands!'
'You shall not harm a hair on his head as long as I breathe!'
He grinned manically, before shimmering out and leaving the Queen to try and form a plan, and the first part of her plan was locating her son in the tunnels.
The Halliwells and Aidan had been walking in the tunnels for at least an hour; they would take the odd turn now and again. Pamela had even got so bored that she had tried to see a pattern to the way Aidan was leading them in, but after forty turns she gave up and went back to moaning.
'Aidan, do you know where we're going?' she asked wearily.
'Yeah, I remember,' he replied.
Pamela stopped dead in her tracks, 'You remember? Don't you have some sort of magical unforgettable knowledge about this place? Please don't say you've been going on instinct!'
He cringed, 'Well…'
She sighed and dropped to her knees dramatically, 'Great, I'm going to die in a sewer,'
'No one's dying in a sewer!' Piper waved the suggestion away, 'We're dying in a tunnel,' she added flatly, stopping to sit down.
'We need to keep moving,' the elemental urged.
'Why?' Paige challenged him, 'You said only the royal family could get in here, what's the danger?'
'And I think we're doing pretty well considering that we've been deprived of light and oxygen,' the oldest sister argued.
'That's exactly why we need to move!' he looked around, 'It's only a matter of time before we run out of air!'
'How ironic,' Pamela stood up, 'The Royals come here to stay alive, only to die here,'
'It's not that far now,' Aidan began to walk again, 'It should be just up here,'
'Where are we going exactly?' Paige caught up to him; their march had now resumed.
'The palace. We can talk with my mother, Undine and tell her about Kahn,' Pamela frowned when she heard the name Undine.
'Kahn… Would that be the general?'
'Yeah, he's always been like this. He's also the main reason I ran away all those years ago,'
Paige linked arms with him, 'Why did you run away?'
He sighed, 'Kahn has always wanted this kingdom for himself, but he's never had the power to do it. When I was born, he though that he could use my power to dethrone my mother. I spent years evading his attempts to kill me, accidents in combat training, poison in my food, even just coming into my room at night and coming after me with an athame. No one would believe that a general would try to kill the prince of the country he was sworn to protect; I spent my entire childhood dodging assassination. There was one person who believed me though,'
'Who was that?'
Aidan smiled, 'My father… well, not my real father. He hadn't been the richest man, Kahn had even tried to stop the marriage between him and my mother, saying that royalty didn't go with poverty,' he clenched his fists, 'Our plan was to escape the city and go to the world outside. There's a warp gate in the centre of the palace, it's the only way in and out of the city, besides your spell of course. Anyway, Kahn caught us and before I could help my Dad fight the soldiers off, he pushed me into the warp gate and held the soldiers off long enough for me to be untraceable,' he looked up with tears in his eyes, 'I remember the very last thing he said to me, 'Live a full life for me,' when you're eight years old that doesn't really mean much, but those words have stayed with me all my life and they're the reason I've became what I am today,'
Paige kept silent after hearing this confession, 'I'm sorry.' She blurted out.
'For what?'
'Well, for giving you such a hard time earlier, and for… well…'
'Slapping me?' he grinned.
'Yeah, you didn't deserve it and-,'
'No, I did. You put me in my place, I shouldn't have talked to you like that,' he put an arm round her shoulders and pulled her closer, kissing her head, 'I love you,' she smiled and put her arm around his back.
'Uh… guys?' Pamela interrupted, 'Sorry to break up the love connection, but do you realise that you're about to walk into a wall?'
The couple wrenched themselves from each others eyes to look in front of them, seeing that a solid brick wall blocked their path, a royal glyph shining threateningly on them.
'I thought you said you knew they way,' Paige tried to confirm it.
'I do. This wasn't here before,' he felt around the wall with a frown, 'Piper, do you think you could phase this wall?'
'Uh… I dunno, normal stonewalls are no problem but if it's magically enforced…' she touched the wall.
'I don't think it's magical. Do you guys here that?' they all fell silent to listen.
Piper narrowed her eyes, 'It's like running water, except it's a lot of it maybe? A waterfall?'
The elemental grinned and nodded, 'That's the entrance to the palace,' he felt the wall again, 'Kahn's trying to stop us,'
'But how?' Paige joined in the touching of the wall, 'I though you said only the royal family can get in here,'
'Yeah, but others can still get to the entrances and exits, he's blocked it off, but he hasn't taken the time to infuse it with magic.' He breathed out a laugh, 'What does he take me for? I know these tunnels like the back of my hand! I spent most of my childhood hiding in them,'
'Yeah, well…' Piper placed her palm firmly on the stone, 'Stone won't stop us,' she breathed in and the wall began to distort, allowing everyone else to walk through the solid object. The molecular classed witch walked through last, phasing her own body so she could move into the next area.
'Wow, this is… Wow!' Pamela walked around, admiring the extravagance of the room. Many statues of a beautiful woman lined a pathway, which led to a large waterfall that roared loudly, echoing around the hall and making the group's ears ring slightly. A magnificent structure surrounded the crashing water, framing it perfectly and making it look as if a god created the waterfall! Little did the girls know, it had!
'Alright,' Piper led the way towards the waterfall, 'Where's the entrance?'
'Right here…' Aidan stood in front of the waterfall and brought his pendant out of his shirt again. Paige went up to him with fearful eyes,
'Wait a minute, you want us to go through that?'
'No,' he turned to her smiled, 'I want you to go up it!'
She gaped, 'Hold on!'
He didn't answer, instead he began to chant something that made the necklace glow, 'Patefacio porta illis quisnam sceptrum!' he chanted. The ground began to shake and a part of the ceiling fell. The Halliwells squealed in surprise and sunlight burst through the hole, meeting the waterfall and making a rainbow across the natural wonder. There was a bright flash, which caused everyone to cover their eyes. After the glare had vanished, the girls gasped in amazement when they saw that the water was now running upwards instead of falling downwards!
'Oh my God…' Piper breathed.
'Okay…' Paige didn't really know how to react, 'Um… I didn't know you speak Latin,' she added stupidly.
'It's just up here…' he said hoarsely as he we walked slowly towards the torrent of water. When he got close enough, his body began to glow and he turned into a small globe of white light, which travelled up the way and disappeared when reaching the top. The others followed him uneasily, not sure where this would lead.
Kahn shimmered into his quarters in the higher-class part of the city. He still nursed his wound as he walked over to the table in his bedroom, picking up a bottle of scotch and taking a swig of it, pouring some on the gash in his shoulder to ease the pain. A soldier burst through the door with two others behind him, they marched in line and stopped once they reached the centre of the room.
'Sir! The troops are waiting to move on the city as soon as you give the command!' he relayed the news.
The General clasped his hands together and put his feet up on the table as he sat down, 'Good. What of the Prince?'
The knight hesitated before answering, 'He's… evaded our grasp and made his way into the castle,'
Kahn stood up with wide eyes and breathing heavily, 'I cannot defeat both mother and son! Storm the castle! Eliminate him!'
He punched his chest in response, 'Yes sir!' he marched out of the room with the others. The general sighed and flopped back into his chair while pouring more alcohol on his wound.
Aidan and the Halliwells appeared in a cloud of white lights; Pamela stumbled slightly and blinked a few times as she shook off the motion sickness of moving in such a unique way.
'Whoa… Just wait until my lunch jumps back down my throat,' she tapped her chest slightly and swallowed.
'I'm so glad you share everything with us,' Piper grimaced at her niece.
'Okay, where are we now?' Paige looked around the room they were now in. it was pretty simple compared to the other amazing structures that they had seen to far. There was an empty window letting in the sun and wind, and an oak door with simple patterns on it.
'We're in the palace.' He answered simply, heading for the door and placing his palm on the handle while fishing in his shirt for his pendant once again and holding it out in the air so it glimmered in the sunlight.
'What are you doing?' Paige asked, she didn't get an answer.
'Fulsi, meus cruor,' he muttered under his breath, but his quiet words had a big effect as a brilliant blue light burst from the pendant and shone powerfully through the room. The light dyed down and became a soft glow as Aidan opened the door, the others followed him out of the door and began to walk down the hall, which was as grand as the rest of the city and far more fitting for a palace. The elemental walked briskly, weaving through the labyrinth of hallways before stopping at two massive glass doors that were filled with water.
Pamela nudged her youngest aunt, 'Looks like it's time to meet the parents!' she whispered excitedly, Paige just hit her on the arm.
The large doors groaned and creaked, as they swung open slowly. The girls walked in awe as they looked at the magnificent hall, sunlight streamed in from stain glass windows that were dotted around the top of the walls and a grand throne stood in the middle, beautifully carved and encrusted with diamonds. But there were signs that a battle had taken place in the chamber, scorch marks on the floor, small patches of ice were on the floor and an array of weapons were embedded in the wall.
'Just who are you?' a voice said. Everyone spun around to see who had spoke, they saw a woman with beautiful blue hair and she wore a powder blue dress that went just past her ankles with thin straps holding it up around her shoulders.
'Mother! I-,' Aidan ran towards her with everyone else.
'Subsisto!' she yelled and raised her hand. The three Halliwells stopped in their places, frozen, while Aidan continued to run.
'Our magic doesn't work on those we share blood with…' Aidan said with a pleading look while showing the woman the pendant that still gleamed with a blue light. Her face immediately softened and her arm lowered, a tear streamed down her face as she realised who stood before her,
'Aidan… My son…' she whispered.
'Yes, it's me…' he murmured back, before walking up to the blue haired maiden and hugging her, he pulled back and looked at the witches who were suspended in time, 'Mother, please release them. It is the Charmed Ones and their niece,'
'The Charmed Ones? I thought I felt a power that rivalled my own enter the city, but I assumed it was Kahn.'
Aidan clenched his fists at the sound of that name, 'I'll take care him, but unfreeze them,' he glanced at the three women.
Undine nodded and made a turning gesture with her hand, 'Permoveo,' the girls resumed running but stopped when they realised their surrounds had changed.
'Were we… frozen?' Paige looked around with a confused expression; her sister and niece were doing almost the same thing.
'Greetings,' Undine said, placing a hand on her heart, 'I apologise for mistaking you as intruders, but I have been extremely cautious ever since my confrontation with General Kahn,'
'Did he hurt you?' the queen's son asked.
'No. I was able to force him into retreat, but I fear that he has formed an army of his own. Although the royal guard are still loyal to me, the others I am unsure of,'
'Wait a minute… I'm still trying to get my head round this, what's the name of your plastic surgeon? Because you look young enough to be Aidan's younger sister!'
Piper and Paige's heads spun round and glared at her 'Pam!' they scolded her in unison.
'What?' she shrugged.
'Remember that talk we had about you putting your foot in your mouth?' Piper asked her hysterically.
Pamela frowned for a minute, then she grinned nervously, 'Oh! Is this one of those times?'
'Uh… Yeah!' Piper answered loudly, 'Sorry, my niece has no tact whatsoever,'
Undine smiled kindly, she was slightly amused, 'It is quite alright. When one is a Goddess, you are immune to the ravages to time,'
Paige looked at the woman in raw shock, 'You're… You're… A what?'
'I knew it.' Pamela announced, 'We were studying godly beings in my Magical Creatures class, you're the Divine Spirit of Water, Undine,'
Paige grinned stupidly and walked backwards to her niece, 'Why didn't you tell me this before?' she hissed.
'I just remembered, I'm sorry!' she whispered back, shrugging.
A soldier appeared in a pillar of water in the middle of the group, looking around for the queen. Everyone except from Undine took a fighting stance, judging from their experience with the knight of Atlantis. The queen raised her hand and the others dropped their stances.
'What news do you have for me?' she asked.
'It's Kahn, your Majesty! He's mobilised against the royal guard and is laying waste to the city!'
'No…' she whispered, running towards a blank wall and waving her hand at it, 'Seorsum,' the bricks of the wall began to move apart and reveal a balcony on the outside. The city spanned for miles as the castle was in the centre, smoke and screaming could be seen and heard in distance, Queen Undine looked on in horror before turning to the soldier.
'Give the order! Let Kahn feel the fury of the Royal Guard!' the soldier nodded furiously and splashed out.
General Kahn looked around the destruction he was causing and a disgusting smirk spread across his face. Women running from the growing inferno's with their children as his soldiers laid waste to the beautiful buildings with magical fire.
'Sir! We saw one of the Royal Guard escape! He may have alerted the Queen!' a soldier came up to him with fear in his voice.
'Oh, I know for a fact that he has alerted the Queen. It won't be long before the Prince knows the truth and comes after me…' he smirked.
A small child who was running through the plaza in a desperate attempt to find her mother, she was holding a teddy bear while running through the debris from all of the fallen houses. She tripped on a large fragment of stone and fell to the ground, her bear skidding across the ground as she began to wail.
'Excuse me…' the General said, drawing his sword as he advanced on the child.
The little girl saw the man looming above her and cried even harder, 'Leave me alone!' she sobbed.
Kahn was wordless as he prepared to drive his sword into the little girl's back, but she suddenly disappeared in a surge of water and Kahn's blade met with the ground. He put his sword back in its sheath and growled,
'Undine…'
Aidan was grabbing various weapon that were suspended from the wall in the throne room, murder flashed in his eyes every time he glanced at a sword. Paige was following him around frantically and trying to make him calm down while Pamela and Piper sat with the little girl they had saved from Kahn's sword. Her attempts failed miserably as he continued to collect weapons.
'Stop!' she stood in front of him with a face like thunder, 'What do you think this is gonna accomplish?'
'I'll be avenging my stepfather's death…' he said, walking around her to get another sword. Paige sighed; she wouldn't get through to her boyfriend when he was like this, so that left one option,
'I'm coming with you,' she announced. He stopped dead in his tracks.
'What? Paige, I don't want you to get hurt because of me,'
'Look out there!' she gestured toward the grim skyline that could be seen from the balcony, 'If you're going out there, I could be useful. I can heal people and with my power amplified here, my telekinesis is probably as strong as Pam's power boost! Aidan, you can't put me before hundreds of people, you maybe able to carry that on your conscience but I can't!'
Aidan sighed but let a small smile onto his face, they were as stubborn as each other, 'Okay, fine. But stay close to me and don't go wondering about the city,'
Paige rolled her eyes, 'I'm not that stupid!' they both headed for the door.
'My son! Wait!' Undine ran up to them carrying a large metal box that looked very heavy, but Paige just assumed that lifting heavy objects was another perk of being of Goddess. She opened the box and revealed its contents; Paige gave it a strange look while Aidan's jaw dropped.
'Is it a pitchfork?' Paige asked with her nose wrinkled.
Aidan rolled his eyes, 'No. It's…'
'The Trident Of Neptune,' Undine finished, the trident was definitely the most gorgeous object that Paige had seen since coming here. The Atlantian symbol lay at the base where the three prongs met and the handle was carved in a way as if the very seas had been spun around it. The prongs gleamed with majestic beauty and the base had one sharp prong at the bottom for taking out enemies that came at you from behind.
'I thought only the heir of Poseidon could wield this,' Aidan gave his mother a confused look.
Undine nodded slowly, 'That is true. You truly are the Child of the Gods, my Prince,'
Aidan sent a shaky hand towards the box and slowly picked up the trident while dropping all the other weapons that he had picked from wall. He held it up to the light and stared at the magnificent weapon, before swinging it around in a professional manner.
'It's like this was made for me!' Aidan exclaimed.
'It was. Use it well, Aidan, heir of Poseidon, and my beloved son,' she whispered, before watching her son and the woman he love run out of the room.
The little girl sat on the floor staring at her shoes, Pamela joined her so that she could talk to her more easily. She was a little uneasy, as the only experience Pamela had had with children was with her cousins who were boys! But she had been a little girl at one point, how hard could it be?
'That's a very pretty dress,' Pamela spoke softly, not wanting to alarm the girl.
'My mommy made it for me…' was her reply, she brushed some of the dirt off the pink fabric of the dress. The teen decided to do something drastic. She scooped up the girl and sat her on the extravagant throne, kneeling down to her eye level once she was sitting comfortably.
'You know, since you're wearing pink dress and you're sitting on a throne, I think I'm gonna call you Princess Pinky!' Pamela grinned.
The little girl smiled at her new nickname and began to warm up to the young Halliwell, while all the time Pamela was saying in her head,
'Who says parenting's a hard job?'
Paige stood back up from kneeling down to heal someone, Undine had told her that she was to direct everyone to the palace for safety. She had been amazed at how amazing Aidan was with the trident, he was easily taking out all the enemies in a mere matter of seconds. It was if him and the trident had been born for each other!
He blocked the spear that was coming at him by getting the head stuck between the prongs, he then pulled the trident up, making the soldier lose his balance and then he drove the trident into the knight's back, killing him.
'He's just up here, I can sense the pleasure he's getting from watching this massacre…' Aidan growled as he ran down the street with Paige closely behind. Another wave of soldiers came at them, but the youngest Charmed One waved her arm and an epic telekinetic blast came forth, damaging some of the buildings and sending all of their attackers flying.
'I love having amplified powers…' she said to herself before catching up to Aidan. She skidded to a stop when she saw that Kahn and Aidan were facing each other, Kahn had his sword out while Aidan spun the trident above his head threateningly. The evil General merely smirked,
'So, your mother finally handed over the Trident Of Neptune to you! This will make my victory and taking your powers so much sweeter!' he grinned before charging at the Prince of Atlantis.
Piper and Pamela sat tending to Princess Pinky, it was the only thing they could to take their minds off the fact that they felt so helpless. Undine sat been quiet for the last few minutes, her eyes were closed and she was in deep concentration so the Halliwells took no notice of her until her eyes sprung open.
'What is it?' Piper stood up from the crouching position she was in.
'Aidan…' she closed her eyes and tear trickled down her cheek, 'He needs me,' and with those words, she disappeared in a bright blue flash and left the others speechless and clueless as to where she had gone.
All Aidan could do was block and parry helplessly as Kahn kept up his assault with demonic speed. Neither of them were winning but it seemed that the General was now getting the upper hand as Aidan hadn't managed to get a hit in for a while. Paige stood at the edge of the fight, she didn't want to make her presence known in case she distracted her love or gave Kahn the upper hand somehow.
'I'm the one who taught you how to wield a weapon!' he roared, 'The student shall never surpass the teacher!'
Aidan gritted his teeth, at a loss what to do next. Suddenly, the trident began to glow and small whisps of light flew into it, making it even more powerful than before! At first he was confused how it had happened but then after sensing something, he realised that his mother had given up her life to help him defeat Kahn. Aidan's eyes began to water at the thought of his mother's sacrifice.
'Mom…' he turned to Kahn with tearstained eyes, 'DIE!' he ran at the General with a burst of supernatural speed and impaled him on the three prongs of the trident. Kahn coughed, blood splattering from his mouth as he done so, light began to seep from his mouth, nose and eyes as he began to die.
Paige realised that this would end with a big blast that would kill Aidan! She ran out and tried to warn him but it was too late, Kahn exploded and last thing Paige remembered was a flash.
'Paige, Paige, wake up,' Aidan's voice said to her.
Paige opened her eyes but closed them again due to the brightness to the place she was in. the only thing she could see was white, but Aidan's voice had come form somewhere and she was determined to find hi8m, especially after remembering what had happened before she black out, or whited put in this case.
'Aidan?' she called, walking around the endless whiteness for a few seconds before Aidan appeared in front of her, 'Aidan, what's going on? Are we…' she was afraid to finish her sentence.
'No, we're not dead, we're just on a neutral plane. I brought us here when we were knocked unconscious,'
'Why?' she looked to him with wide eyes.
He hesitated, 'To say goodbye,'
Something inside of the Charmed One cracked as she heard those words. Why was he doing this? What was going on? None of this made sense to her, she hoped it was a horrible nightmare and she closed her eyes. He hadn't even explained himself and already she was having a panic attack.
'What do you mean? Goodbye? Aidan, you're scaring me,'
He put his hands on her arms, 'Paige, the city was been practically destroyed by Kahn, the citizens are in turmoil and in pain, and my mother used her life force as a Goddess to help me kill Kahn… I need to stay here and sort things out. It's my dut, it's my heritage,'
Paige's eyes were filled to the brim with tears, she couldn't believe this, 'But why does it have to be you? Why… Why can't you come home with me? Ple… Please… Please, don't leave me all alone Aidan, I can't survive without you…' she whispered and clung on to his shirt.
He pulled her into a hug, 'Paige, I would give up all the magic in the world to make you happy… I love you more than anything in my entire life, it's because of you that I am able to carry this burden,'
'But… But… These people, they don't need you like I do! Please! Don't go!' she screamed and pounded on his chest, while clinging tightly to him.
He continued to hold her, 'I can't put you before hundreds, even thousands of people, you said it yourself. These people need me right now, a lot more than you do. You have your sisters, Pamela, your nephews…'
'It's not the same…' she murmured, looking up in the process. This was beginning to sink in, 'Will I ever see you again?'
Aidan looked at his feet and fell silent, 'Probably not…' tears now streamed from Paige's eyes silently.
He cupped her face gently and kissed her one last time. Savouring it by putting his hand on the back of her head intensifying the kiss, which was deeply returned by Paige who never wanted to let go of him. He finally stopped and backed away,
'Goodbye Paige… I'll always love you… Live your life to the fullest...' he whispered, before vanishing into the white and leaving Paige's life forever.
Pamela walked into the kitchen while reading up on a book that she had to study for her Litriture class. She was doing her best to understand it by herself as Aidan had usually been the one to help her with her Litriture homework, but now she would probably never see him again… None of them would.
Piper was stirring up a feast as she kept four pots on the go at the same time. Her niece looked up from her book to see what was happening and why this room was probably the best smelling in the house.
'Um… Emma isn't back yet, and we never eat that much, who's this all for?'
'Oh, it's for Paige, she hasn't really been taking care to her self lately so I'm just helping out in anyway I can,'
'How is she?' Pamela asked, knowing that her aunt hadn't come out of bedroom of her apartment in two days.
'She's as well as can be expected…' Piper responded.
'In other words, she's a wreck,' the oldest Halliwell nodded sadly at her niece;s comment.
'Could you put that pile of Paige's clothes in the washer please? I need to go check on the boys,' Pamela nodded in response and put her book down while Piper ran upstairs. The teen walked into the alcove and began to throw the clothes into the washer, she was surprised when she heard a clang after throwing in a pair of jeans. She frowned as as she pulled the jeans back out to see what had made the noise. There was a plastic object sticking out of the pocket and it must have hit off the metal in the washer. Pamela sighed and pulled out the object and almost dropped it when she realised what it was, it was a pregnancy test! She quickly had a look at it and put her hand over her mouth when she read it.
In big bold letters in the small screen, it read…
POSITIVE
What a way to end the P & P Finale! Eh? Anyway, I'm sorry my responses where so short! But I'm very tired and I wanted to finish this!
