A/N: The play of this chapter, as you must all know, is from the movie, "Jurassic Park". Phyre: Yes, yes, and yes. lol All your questions should be answered by this chapter and it should be less confusing than the last chapter. ;) Umm, I hadn't planned on getting pictures of the people, but if you really want, I guess I could look. I'm just a little worried that you might not like how Phyre looks. Then I'd feel bad. The-Cheese-Fairy: Actually, that'll be answered in this chapter, so keep reading. ;) To everyone else who reviewed, thank you SO much!
The Children Of Light
Chapter 17: Jurassic Parker
Paige's eyes nearly bulged out of her head. "W-what did you just call me?"
Glenn quickly walked up behind his wife, wrapping his arms around her waist, for support.
Phyre quickly regained her composure and took a few strides towards the couple. She hesitantly held out her hand. "My name is Phyre Fargo."
"Phyre?" Paige and Glenn repeated at the same time.
"P-h-y-r-e. Yes." Phyre repeated. She pulled her hand back and closed her eyes, taking a deep breath.
Fargo. Pearl thought, as she stared at Phyre. That's Brandon's last name. I wonder if they're related? She mentally asked herself. Not having caught that Phyre had called her mother, 'grandma'.
"Maybe....maybe you should take the kids out, so we can discuss this privately?" Prue asked, as she gazed at Andy.
Andy nodded. "Come on, girls. We're going to go get some cookies and milk!" He motioned his arm as the children, except Persia, cheered wildly. They all, including Persia, followed him out of the basement. Andy made sure to shut the door behind him.
"Leo.." Piper whispered, as she nudged her husband.
Leo nodded, kissed Piper's cheek, and orbed away.
Phoebe eyed Cole.
"Right." Cole gave Phoebe a quick peck on the lips and shimmered out.
"Okay, just what exactly do you mean?" Prue asked, taking charge. She folded her arms across her chest and sending heated looks towards Phyre and the other two strangers.
"Like I said..." Phyre replied, just as firery as Prue. "I'm Paige and Glenn's granddaughter!"
Glenn stared at Phyre, intently gazing into her eyes. "She does have my mother's eyes, Paige."
Paige seemed taken aback, as her gaze rested on Phyre's pale face. "But how?"
Phyre bit her lip. "Well....I suppose it would include romance between two people...Uh, when two people love each other..."
Paige rasied her hand. "Okay, hold it right there Missy! Don't you dare get smart with me! You're the one who has a lot of explaining to do!"
A grin spread across Phyre's lips. "What? You can't take a little humor?" She flicked her head back, making her dark hair flip behind her.
"She means, how did you get here? Why did you come?" Glenn persisted.
Phyre looked slightly hurt. "I was summoned."
"Summoned?" Piper echoed.
"Yes."
"By who?" Phoebe asked, joining the conversation.
"It's kind of confusing, so we just refer to her as one of my cousins once removed."
Prue frowned. "Okay, smarty, and just who would that be?"
"Pandora." Phyre replied, simply.
"Pandora?" Prue asked, flabbergasted.
"Yeah. She summoned all of us." Phyre replied, as she motioned towards the other teen and the woman.
"So, for the sake of argument, you're telling the truth....Who are the rest of you?" Prue asked, as she narrowed her piercing blue eyes at the teen and the woman, who was dressed quite strangely.
The woman tugged at the edges of her very large and puffy, pale yellow dress and curtsied. Then she held out her hand. "My name is Grace. Grace Greenburg."
Grace. Phoebe thought, as she sifted through her memories. "Wait a minute! Are you from the eighteen-hundreds?"
Grace smiled. "The year in my time is eighteen-thirty." She held up her ring finger. "I'll be married this upcoming month."
"Congratulations." Piper automatically replied.
Prue threw a warning glance at Piper.
Piper glared back. "What? Can't someone wish someone else happiness?"
"We don't know them." Prue defended.
Ignoring Prue's comments, the other teenager stepped forward. "I'm Parker."
"Parker?" Phoebe asked. "What's your last name?"
Parker shook her head. "We don't want you knowing too much of the future, now do we?"
Phoebe raised her eyebrows, skeptically. She didn't want to trust this girl so easily, but she felt so connected to her. "I think they're telling the truth, Prue. I don't feel any lies of distrust coming from them."
"They're are plenty of spells and potions that can block an empath's power, Phoebe." Prue rebuttled.
Piper smirked, earning her an angry look from her big sister.
"What?" Prue inquired.
"You're acting like Grams."
"What?" Prue exclaimed, clearly confused.
"When we went to the past....Grams thought we were warlocks and she wouldn't give up the idea. So she continued to ask us all these questions..." Piper filled in, as she closely watched her sister's face to see if she'd sparked the memory.
Prue's face flushed a red color. "I am not acting like Grams!" She spouted, even though she knew it was true.
"Prue's lying." Phoebe replied, smugly.
Prue reached out her arm, roughly smacking the back of Phoebe's head.
"Ouch!" Phoebe snapped, as she levitated high above Prue's grasp. She turned her attention back to the strangers; Grace, Phyre, and Parker. "Get the Book of Shadows."
"What?" Paige asked. "Why?"
"Please?" Phoebe persisted.
"No problem." Parker replied, smugly. "Book of Shadows!" She held out her hands and in a mixture of demonic shimmers and whitelighter orbs, the Book of Shadows formed.
The mouths of each Charmed One dropped into an 'o' shape. "What the...."
Parker smiled, proudly, and held up the heirloom.
"How did you do that?" Phoebe asked. She waved her hands, using the power that she channeled from Prue a while ago, to telekinetically pull the Book of Shadows into her grasp.
"We call it psychokinetic orb-shimmering." Parker replied.
"How?" Phoebe asked, confused.
"She's the Thrice Blessed Child." Phyre replied.
"The Thrice Blessed what?" Paige repeated.
"The Thrice Blessed Child." Parker replied. "I'm fifty percent whitelighter, thirty percent mortal, ten percent demon, and ten percent witch. I'm triple gifted, on my magical sides. Plus I was born on the Wiccan Sabbath, that only happens every one-hundred years."
"She's the most powerful of us all." Phyre replied.
"I would say so. Duplication is a very powerful ability." Glenn commented, as he remembered the double of Parker. He wasn't an expert on witchcraft, but he had studied quite a bit so he wouldn't be completely ignorant of his wife and daughter's heritage.
"Uh..it's not duplication." Parker replied.
Glenn raised his eyebrows.
"We call it, magical separation." Phyre filled in.
Everyone looked equally confused.
"See, I have three main powers, when I'm whole." Parker tried again.
"Whole?" Phoebe asked.
"Yes....My powers consist of orb-shimmering, psychokinetic orb-shimmering, and magical separation. The first two are pretty much like your powers, Great Aunt Paige. But since I'm part demon, they're a mixture of shimmering and orbing. And instead of being telekinetic, I'm psychokinetic, which means I orb-shimmer things that I can't see. Like I did with the Book of Shadows." Parker explained.
"It comes in really handy in we're demon hunting." Phyre commented.
Parker nodded in agreement. "Anyway, I also have the power to separate my magical selves."
"What?" The Charmed Ones cut in.
"Let me show you." Parker's head dropped for a moment. Then orbs formed on her right side, while shimmers formed on her left side, then two more Parkers appeared. "I'm Witch Parker."
"I'm Whitelighter Parker." The Parker who had formed in orbs replied, as she waved her hand.
"And I'm Demon Parker." The Parker who had formed in shimmers replied, as she waved her hand.
"We each have our respective powers." Witch Parker explained. "So since I've completely separated myself from my demon and whitelighter sides, I can't orb or shimmer. I still have psychokinetic powers, though."
"And I don't have psychokinetic or whitelighter powers anymore, but I can still shimmer." Demon Parker replied.
"And I can orb, but I don't have demonic or witch powers." Whitelighter Parker replied.
"And when my whitelighter half is completely by herself, as with my demon side, they can channel any demon or whitelighter power, respectively. Like my whitelighter half did with you, Great Aunt Paige." Witch Prker explained.
"In all respects, I'm pure whitelighter right now. So when we joined together, your partial power to heal worked through my whole whitelighter body, and it became the full power to heal as long as we joined together." Whitelighter Parker added.
"Wow." Phoebe gawked. Then her eyes became wide. "Wait! If you're part demon and part witch...."
Parker's lips formed into a smug smile, as Phoebe caught on.
"That means that you're my....Granddaughter!" Phoebe's eyes filled with tears and as she levitated to the flood, shoved the Book of Shadows into Prue's arms, and then embraced her granddaughter. "Oh my Goddess!" She hugged Parker tightly. "You're so beautiful! And powerful! And...oh!" She stroked Parker's dark hair. "I just can't believe this!"
Phyre smiled at the scene, knowing how much Phoebe meant to Parker. She looked back at her own grandparents and tears spilled from her eyes.
Paige walked over to Phyre and grasped her tightly. "You're so beautiful.." She whispered, sincerely. "I can't believe I'm actually meeting you, here and now!"
Phyre took in a long, deep breath and secured the scent deep in her memory. "I love you, Grammy." She whispered, calling Paige by the nickname that she'd called her grandmother so many times before.
Paige stroked Phyre's cheek. "I don't even know you and I love you so much." Paige spoke softly.
Glenn made his way over to his wife and his granddaughter. "You really are a beautiful girl."
"Thanks, Gramps." Phyre replied, tearfully. She wished things hadn't happened the way that they had, but they did, so she was very glad for these moments with her grandparents.
"Gramps?" Glenn asked, with a chuckle.
"Mhmm. I couldn't say 'grandma' and 'grandpa' when I was younger, so I said 'grammy' and 'gramps', which stuck with me." Phyre replied, as she wiped her eyes with her sleeve.
Glenn embraced his granddaughter. I'm the luckiest mortal man in the world. He thought. How many mortal men actually get to meet their future grandchildren, before they're even born?
Grace, Prue, and Piper moved to the back of the basement, watching the touching scenes from afar.
"I can't believe it.." Prue and Piper commented, in awe.
"I wonder if we have grandkids, too?" Piper asked, aloud.
"I hope so." Prue replied, as she wiped a lone tear from her face.
"Cole! Cole!" Phoebe yelled, as she trotted by the steps of the basement and flung open the door. "Cole!"
Cole, who was standing across the kitchen, looked at the open door and walked over to his wife. "What? Is something wrong?"
Phoebe could barely hold in her excitement. She grabbed Cole's arm and pulled him inside the basement, quickly shutting the door behind them. "Come meet our granddaughter!"
"What?" Cole asked, perplexed. But as he neared Parker, he studied her features. "Is that..."
"Yes." Phoebe exclaimed, as she wrapped her arms around her husband, with glee.
Cole looked deep into Parker's eyes.
----Flashback----
"She doesn't look like you, Cole. Are you sure she's yours?" Evilyn asked, with a raised eyebrow. She gently stroked Pam's head. "I'm sure this one is yours. I can tell by her eyes. There is always a specific way they glimmer. As far back as our line goes; there has always been the glimmer."
----Flashback----
"What?" Parker asked, feeling uncomfortable by Cole's gaze.
"Your eyes." Cole replied, as he motioned to Parker's eyes.
"They have the glimmer." Parker and Cole replied, as the same moment.
"You told me, when I was really young, about 'the glimmer'. And about Great Grandmother Evilyn took mom." Parker said, with a warm smile.
"But...but that just happened a few weeks ago!" Cole replied.
"Then I must of been summoned back a very long way." Parker said.
Cole wrapped his arms around his granddaughter, holding her in a warm embrace.
The basement door swung open and Andy stood frantically waving his arms. "Prue! Prue!"
"What's wrong?!" Prue yelled, realizing the panic in her lover's voice. She instantly dashed across the basement, up the stairs, and into the kitchen. "Oh my Goddess!" She screamed, stumbling back into the basement and pulling Andy with her.
"Wh-what?" Piper stumbled.
"There's a-a-a T-Rex in the house!" Prue breathed.
"What?!" Piper, Phoebe, and Paige exclaimed.
"A T-Rex?" Parker laughed. "Don't worry, I know how to vanquish it!"
Phoebe's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. "You're this calm when a prehistoric creature...Wait! How?"
Parker shook her head. "Phyre, come on." She took Phyre's hand and the they disappeared in a swirl of shimmers and orbs.
----
Parker and Phyre orb-shimmered in, hand in hand. "Back here!"
The massive T-Rex spun around, snapping its massive jaws at the Blessed Ones' heirs.
Phyre raised her eyebrows at the beast and orb-flew into the air, running in a circle with orbs spinning around her, and sending a powerful kick right into the jaw of the beast. Then she glided back to the ground and the orbs vanished.
"T-Rex in my sight, I banish you back to the prehistoric times!" Parker recited. In a flash of fire and smoke, the T-Rex vanished.
"How did you know to do that?" Phoebe asked, as she made her way into the kitchen.
Parker laughed nervously. "Well, you see....it's sort of a funny story..."
Phyre rolled her eyes. "She summoned a T-Rex from a story book, when she was like three."
Parker smiled innocently, bringing out her whitelighter half.
"I think the real question is, how did it get here right now." Piper said, placing her hands on her hips.
Phiona walked into the kitchen, carrying her baby sister. "I might be able to answer that for you, mom."
Pearl, walking up behind her cousin, held up a story book on dinosaurs. "I think Prissy somehow summoned the T-Rex from the book. Probably an accidental spell or something."
Phyre looked from Parker to Prissy and smirked. "You always were close to Prissy. It must be that whole half whitelighter thing you both got goin' on."
Parker squinted her eyes, psychokinetically orb-shimmering a pillow at Phyre.
Phyre orb-flew into the air, spin kicking the pillow across the room, then floating to the floor. "You so need some new tricks." She scolded, playfully.
Andy wrapped his arms lovingly around Prue's waist. "I think that we really need to get to the problem at hand."
"Which is?" Phoebe and Paige asked, as if nothing was out of the ordinary.
Andy waved his hand at Phyre and Parker. "You know, we have to send them back to the future and to do that, we have to make sure they've served their purpose for being summoned."
"Which was because Daven almost killed us all, with that magical inferno." Cole finished.
TO BE CONTINUED....
