Chapter 2: Teen angst
The book laid on the stand, in its rightful position. The attic was as it was a few moments ago but there was still something significantly different. Wyatt walked over towards the attic door. Gram's old mirror was propped up against the back wall and as Wyatt passed it he noticed something was clearly not right. He was older, yet couldn't remember anything from the past. He turned around quickly and noticed Chris attempting to pull himself out of the baby chair as now he was far too big for it. Wyatt thought this must be Chris' doing mainly because he was the most obvious one there to blame.
"What have you done now?"
"Me? I haven't done anything…well at least I don't remember doing anything"
"That's part of the problem…neither do I"
Chris walked over towards the mirror "Oh my god…we're teenagers…looking good!"
"Yes…what ever you say… This must be some kind of spell…hang on a minute…if I'm here and you are there where is mum and dad, not to mention Phoebe and Paige?"
Moments later a chuckle emerged from behind them, Chris and Wyatt turned around towards the window and noticed four kids.
"Um…who are they?"
"Why don't you just as them dork?"
Chris knelt next to the little boy and asked him "Um hi there…who are you?" and to this he replied "Hi…I'm ten…who are you?"
"I'm called Chris…Chris Halliwell but I asked you your name not how old you were"
The three girls said in unison "That's amazing that's our name too!"
"Uh-oh just as I thought…it's them isn't it…I take it the boy must be dad"
"No way…how ever could you tell"
"No need to be sarcastic Wyatt"
"Oh shut up complaining, it must be some kind of spell they cast"
"I was just wondering, how comes we can't remember anything from the past yet we know about spells and speech for that matter?"
"Must be something in the spell or summit like that"
"Well check it then, one of them must have it…check mum…eugh that sounds so creepy when they're 10"
Wyatt attempted to be friendly "Now which one of you is called Piper?"
A long haired girl appeared from behind the other two "I am…I am"
"Now…can I have whatever is in your hands?"
"Whhhhyyyyy"
"Because I need it"
"Whhhhyyyy"
"It's very important"
"Whhhyyyyy"
"Oh just give it to me will ya!...Wyatt swiped it out of her hands and to this she started crying"
"Oh look what you have done…It's ok Piper, we'll give it back to you soon…that meanie wont be nasty to you any more"
"Oh for heavens sake...who are you? Mrs Doubtfire?"
"No its called being nice"
"Who cares...now, lets have a look at this"
Chris got up to try and help by Wyatt pushed him back "By lets I mean I'll"
"Oh yeah I forgot you were the all-powerful one"
"That's right and don't you forget it! Now what was mum doing….ah its quite obvious…she was trying to see why we were fighting"
"You sure? Let me have a look at that" Chris nicked the piece of paper out of Wyatt's hand and began to read the spell "Oh and to do so she was going to ages us a few decades"
"Yes…well done Chris…now why did it go wrong?
"Um………."
"Oh for crying out loud, its because of the third line… 'Through 20 years time shall be moved'…It doesn't specify which direction and it seems as though in this case it went both ways, it brought us forward and them back"
"But is says 20 and we don't look that old and if it was split up to different time directions it still doesn't work out"
"Yes…that's because time was moved 30 years and of course that still means at least 20 years has been also"
"I think my head is going to throw up"
"Amateur"
"For crying out loud, I am still a great witch you know!"
"That may be but I am better!"
"Perhaps that's why we used to fight, because you were so egotistic!"
"The most powerful being on the earth has the right to be"
"Arrogance will be your downfall"
"And weakness will be yours…not to mention the fact you're a big sissy"
"I am not…."
"Oh save it…I'm going to have a little fun!"
"What kind of fun?"
"You'll see…ill be back in a couple of hours…see you then"
"But…." Before Chris could finish, Wyatt orbed out, leaving him with a house full of ten year olds…how fun! He knew that Wyatt wouldn't be back for absolutely ages so he realised that he was in charge of restoring the balance…which would be fine apart from he had no idea how to do that.
"Well I guess you're stuck with me then"
"YAAAAY"
"Can we play tag?"
"Ok but…." The kids ran out of the attic "not in the house", the words failed enthusiasm.
Chris sat down with a piece of paper and a pencil and tried to scribble down ideas for a new spell but not for long as downstairs he heard a large crash. The children screamed and as quick as he could he orbed downstairs. A large swirl of darkness materialised into a cloaked demon, with a swoop of her hand she showed what her powers could do as she cut the dining table in two.
"Kids run upstairs!" Chris called for Wyatt but he did not answer.
"wh…who are you"
"None of your business ignorant witch" The demon readied her hand to deal a fatal blow towards Chris. He then realised that apart from orbing he had no idea what his powers were so he tried every gesture he could think of. He managed to swoop the vase off the dresser and noticed he must be able to move things but when he tried it against the demon it did not work.
"I'm immune to your puny efforts"
Again Chris tried other gestures until something finally worked. He made his hand gun-like in shape and a glisten of ice shot out onto the staircase. He tried it one more time whilst focussing his magic and a blue ray blasted out knocking the demon to the floor. Confident he could do the same with the other hand he tried again except this time it was different, he seemed to be able to produce what looked like electricity "COOL!" He used both hands at the same time but before the twirling elements could reach the demon she dematerialised into the air.
"Damnit"
Wyatt orbed in "You kinda caught me at a bad time, I had just met Susie, total babe, when I heard you calling in the background. What was that about"
"Um take a look around, I believe its quite obvious"
Ice covered the flood and a large scorch mark was burned into the rug
"I missed some action? But…how….how the heck did you get rid of a demon?"
"I found some unexpected powers"
"like what…making clouds and puppies?"
"no…like this!" Chris directed his ice power at Wyatt and Wyatt orbed out before he was flung into the spindles of the stairs"
"what was that for?...more importantly what was that!"
"from now on…just call me ice man…better yet Electrofreeze"
"Why electro freeze, you can only make ice"
"Nope I can emanated electricity as well…cool huh?"
"Yeah right…a little shock and some cold never hurt anyone"
Wyatt orbed back out but his little comment did not put Chris down at all, as after all he just saw Wyatt as jealous……
