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Chapter 9: Spells
The street was dark, the only light visible was from a light pole, standing just in front of them. The streets behind P3 were deserted and the streets were still wet from the rain they had had the night before.
A flash a blue lights dispersed to reveal Phoebe, Paige and Rosanna. They quickly ducked behind a dumpster behind the club. They each looked around for Maria, but didn't see anything.
"Do either of you see her?" whispered Phoebe.
"Not yet." whispered back Paige.
"Me either." whispered Rosanna.
"Could she already be gone?" asked Paige.
"No, she hasn't gotten here yet." said Rosanna.
"What? How is that possible, you scried for her." said Phoebe.
"Cause I used my powers as a Precog to scry."
"I thought you didn't use your powers for personal gain." said Phoebe.
"I didn't do it for me, I did it for Chris."
"You really loved him didn't you?"
"Yea, I did, and still do."
"I'm sorry, for what I did in the future. But since I know I did it, I will try twice as hard not to do it again."
"Thanks. Actually I guess it's better that you did. This time anyway."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone this, but since we have some time, it was Bianca who first came up with the plan to send Chris back here. Ok, actually she came up with the idea to send someone, I'm the one who chose Chris."
"Why?"
"Cause, I couldn't let Wyatt hurt him again."
"What do you mean?" asked Paige.
"The week before Chris came back to the past, Wyatt had spent everyday of that week doing something to hurt Chris, whether physically, mentally or emotionally." she said looking at Phoebe. "Before that Chris hadn't known that I was an Elder, but I had to heal him 4 times that week."
"Wyatt tried to kill Chris?" asked Phoebe.
"Yeah, and if you promise not to tell Chris, I will tell you a little secret."
"Alright."
"The day that me, Chris, Bianca and Maria decided to sent one of us back, I had a premonition. It's why I chose Chris. Cause the day we sent him back, was the day he was supposed to die."
"Oh my God." said Phoebe.
"Did you ever tell Bianca or Maria?" asked Paige.
"I told Maria, but not Bianca. We weren't that close. We were only friends because of Chris."
"I can understand that." said Paige. "I have never gotten along with my ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend."
"Yeah, not an easy thing to do." said Phoebe.
"Hey Phoebe, you know how you promised to not interfere if me and Chris were together in the future?"
"Yeah."
"Well, if Wyatt is evil, make sure you break that promise, alright?"
"Alright, after all, if I keep it, then Chris will die. So yeah if Wyatt is evil in my future, I promise to break my first promise."
"Thanks."
"It is almost midnight, where is she?" asked Paige.
"She will be here in about 5 minutes." said Rosanna. "We may only get one shot at this, so when she gets here, we need to summon the spirits out of her, and do it fast."
"Well I have the crystals ready to trap her, they will work on her right?"
"Yes, the crystals will work to trap her, but it will also protect her from any spell we cast, so after we trap her, we have to remove the crystals, so we can use the spell."
"Gotcha. No problem." said Paige.
"Rosanna, back at the house you said I was bitter and alone, what did you mean?" asked Phoebe.
"Nothing, what I meant was you were alone, cause you just got divorced. And you were bitter for the same reason."
"Wait, I'm married?"
"Divorced."
"To who?"
"Can't tell you that."
"Why not?"
"Cause you can't know, all I can tell you, is that when you meet this man, you will be shocked."
"Why?"
"You'll see."
"You two talk later, she will be here in a minute." said Paige.
"I'm already here." said a voice behind them. All three turned to see a young woman standing behind them, holding a fire-ball. As she looked at all three woman, her face fell on Rosanna. A flicker of pain went across her face, just before she threw the fireball in the direction of Phoebe and Paige. They jumped to the side to dodge the fireball, both landing in the puddle of water on the street.
"Maria! Stop this!" yelled Rosanna.
"Why? I am having way too much fun." she said as she opened her hand to reveal a white glowing mass. "Your turn again, mommy dearest." said Maria as she threw the mass toward Phoebe and Paige again, both where still on the ground, and unable to get out of the path.
"Ball!" yelled Paige, as she sent the white mass slamming into the pavement behind Maria, the force of the explosion sending Maria flying through the air, with her landing on her side with a sickening crunch.
"Paige! Now!" yelled Rosanna.
"Crystals!" yelled Paige, and around Maria four crystals appeared.
Maria rolled over and stood up, her eyes went red with anger, their was blood running down her face, from someplace on her head. "You have to release me at some point, and when you do, I will kill you!"
"Alright, we have to be quick, the spells have to be performed back to back." said Rosanna as she walked over to help Paige and Phoebe up. "If this doesn't work, they we have to trap her again, and wait till morning, after the full moon is gone. Then we would have time before the next full moon to prevent the prophecy."
"Alright." said Phoebe. "I need to catch my breathe for a minute."
"Yeah me too."
"Alright, but one thing, just so you two know, if it comes to it, to protect Piper and Chris, I will kill her. It will kill me to do it, but I would have no choice."
"A minute ago, just before she threw that thing at us, she said something about mommy dearest. Is she one of our daughters?" asked Paige.
Rosanna looked from Paige to Phoebe, she hoped telling them wouldn't hurt them, "Yeah, she's Phoebe's."
"What?" asked Phoebe. "I had a vision a few months ago, in it I was pregnant, with a little girl, but this girl hates me."
"No she doesn't, she is just hurt by the divorce."
"Was it nasty?"
"Yeah, but I can't tell you everything."
"OK, but this changes everything, I can't kill my own daughter." said Phoebe.
"Look, even if she dies tonight, Chris succeeding in his plan of not letting Wyatt turn evil, may prevent this night from ever happening." said Rosanna.
"Your right, but please only as a last resort."
"Alright." said Rosanna and Paige at the same time.
"Rosanna? Are you related to us?" asked Phoebe.
"Yeah, kinda. But not by blood. Paige, you married my dad."
"I did?"
"Yeah, you do." smiled Rosanna. "And you two are still married, but I can't tell you who he is."
"Fair enough." said Paige. "Alright, now that we have caught our breathe, let's free her, and cast these spells."
"Yeah let's." said Rosanna.
"Crystals!" said Paige quietly, she was hoping to get the drop on Maria, but just as the crystals moved Maria threw another fireball at Phoebe, sending her flying into the wall behind her. Phoebe fell to the pavement, as Paige as Rosanna ran to her side. As the helped her up, Rosanna said, "We have to hurry, the spell need to work now!"
"Alright, let's do this." said Phoebe, as she stood up and started walking toward Maria, Paige and Rosanna walked behind her, and all three started chanting:
Hear these words
Hear my cry
Spirit from the other side
Come to me
I summon thee
Cross now the great divide
As they watched Maria screamed out as is something was tearing apart her very soul. Resisting the urge to run to her daughter, Phoebe closed her eyes trying to block out the sound. Phoebe opened her eyes, and glanced at Rosanna and Paige who were staring at her in concern, "I'm alright, let's finish this, please God let this work, cause I don't want to kill her."
Maria had stopped convulsing and was know staring at Phoebe with the most piercing blue eyes she had ever seen. But in looking in them, she got her answer, she had no doubt as to who the girls father was.
Paige galnced down at her watch and gasped, "It's 3 minutes to midnight, we have to hurry, where's the other spell Pheebs?"
"You have it."
"No, I don't, I told you to grab it."
"Oh no."
Just down the alleyway a flash of whiteish blue light appeared, at first they thought i was Leo or Chris, but the young man they saw was someone they didn't know, he raised out his hand to Maria, and right before their eye Mariawas lifted up into the air by a gold light. Her hands stretched out, her red eyes flashed white, and her body started convulsing in the air. Just as quickly as it started, it stopped, and the light vanished, and the girl fell to the ground hard.
Phoebe and Paige looked at the young man, Phoebe spoke first, "Who are you? And what did you do to her?"
"Who I am is none of your business, and what I did was saved Piper's life. Maria will be fine, this time." with that he disappeared the same way he appeared, in a flash.
"What just happened? And who was that?" asked Paige as she turned to look at Rosanna." Do you recognize him?"
"YeahI did, but I have never seem him do anything like this. Chris must have done something afterall."
"Why do you say that?"asked Phoebe."
"Cause that was Wyatt."
They heard a moan come out of Maria, "Maria!" yelled Rosanna. She, Phoebe and Paige took off running toward the girl. Rosanna reached her first, and kneeled beside her, and gently rolled her over. There was blood running down her face. She placed her hands on Maria, and proceeded to heal her.
Phoebe and Paige kneeled beside Maria. As they watched Rosanna move her lighted hands across Maria's face, they saw Maria open her eyes. "Wha.. What happened?"
"You really made a mess of things, that's what happened." said Rosanna. "I told you this was a very bad idea." she said as finished healing Maria.
"Don't yell," said Maria as she grabbed her head. "Now, tell me what happened, without the lecture!"
Rosanna helped Maria to her feet. "You did exactly what the prophecy said you would do."
"Oh my God! Tell me I didn't hurt Chris or his mom!"
"No you didn't, we stopped you just in time." said Paige.
For the first time Maria looked at the other two girls with Rosanna. "Aunt Paige?"
"Yeah, although I just learned that part." said Paige.
"Oh, right. I'm in the past, which mean I don't exist yet." joked Maria. "Rosanna? How much do they know?"
"They both know who we are, but not our fathers."
"Alright."
"Hey Maria." said Phoebe. "This is kinda weird."
"Yeah, I'll say. You look younger here."
"Cool. Let's get you back to the manor. Maybe we can talk a little bit before you go back to your time."
"Yeah, something tells me I have caused a lot of trouble. But I think it might be good for me to get to know you better. I mean I know you in my time, but life changes you, this way I get to see you before you had me."
One more chapter, and it reviews some very cool stuff. Like who Maria's father is, and who Paige is married to. Some of you might already have ideas on both, so tune into my next chapter, and see if you are right.