A/N: Succubus-69: Yeah, I know, the title is weird. But I wasn't sure what to call it so I just found a few strange words and threw them together and they seemed to work. 600 years is far, but they've only been as far as 10 years and thats not to far. I think 600 years gives you more to work with. Anything could happen. Let me tell ya, that's what I love about fantasy.
Scrawn: Well I'm glad you're happy I unbolded the font. I'm here to keep the readers happy and if unbolding the font does that then I'll make sure it's unbolded ;)
ProtectionPaige: Thanks for reviewing, I really like your Paige stories and I hope you write more
Daal Sonder Maal
Paige is lying in a bed restrained by shackles formed by electricity. She's unconcious and completly unaware of what has happened to her. The room she is in is very small and only contains her bed and a window. Upon looking out the window you can see she is in a tall building. The scene below is not as futuristic as most people would expect. There were no hover cars, just people walking the streets. And the houses and other buildings were not brilliant architectural designs, just old, shabby pieces of work. It seemed almost gray outside. Maybe it was just because the sun was slowly fading away, or maybe that's how it always looked. Paige was slowly beginning to awaken and as she did a figure moved into her room.
"Ah, glad to see your awake. You've been out for nearly a week now. Almost thought we'd have to shock you to get you up." The nurse moved towards Paige and examined her.
"Where am I?"
"Your in the hospital."
"Why am I here? What happened to me?"
"You were brought in by some of the emperor's guards. You must have had a horrible accident because you were nearly dead. What happened, I have no idea. You didn't have a mark on you. We'll be able to discharge you soon. But we've been given direct orders to release you to the emperor."
"The emperor? What is going on here?"
"I think you're still a little confused. Don't worry it'll pass soon."
"I think you're the one who's confused. I need to go home." Paige tries to get out of the bed but is held back from a shock from the electric shackles. "Ahhh."
"What's wrong with you? You know better than to try to get up when you're restrained. You could really hurt yourself. You're not going anywhere until the emperor comes to get you. You'll be staying right here until then. Now if you find yourself needing something, give a holler and someone will come round. I'll be back at the end of my shift to check on you again." The nurse left the room. And Paige lay there even more confused than ever. She tried orbing but found that she couldn't.
"What's wrong with my powers?" She was met with silence. "Leo." But he didn't come. Now Paige was starting to panic. She had no idea where she was, she was all alone and her power wasn't working. She told herself to remain calm. She wasn't going to get out of here by panicking. She turned to look outside the window. It looked different outside and she couldn't figure out where she was. The confusion was to much for her. She closed eyes and attempted to go to sleep hoping she would wake up in her own bed in her home with her sisters and this would all be a dream that would turn into a faded memory in time. But she couldn't sleep and she couldn't wake up from this nightmare she was having. The thought of her sisters brought happy memories. She wished they were here. She needed them to tell her she would be ok. That she would be home soon. No matter how independent she seemed she was always grateful for the company her sisters provided her. She never liked living alone. It terrified her. She needed the presence of human company, being alone was just too much for her. She wanted her sisters so bad. She willed them to appear before her. But they didn't come, just as Leo didn't come when she called. She felt so alone and lost, she could almost cry. But she had to stay strong for herself in order to figure out how to get out of here and how to get home. Her thoughts were interupted as three people orbed in front of her. She looked up excited, her eyes so full of hope. Her wish had been fulfilled. Her sisters were here
"Piper, Phoebe, Leo. I'm so glad you're here. I've been so...." But when the orbs reformed it was not her sisters and Leo here to rescue her. Instead, three faces she had never seen before. And she felt the disapointment fill her heart. But then it filled with hope, these people had access to magic, maybe they could help her.
"Who are you?" There were two men and a woman. They looked like they were in their late twenty's. The man in the middle stepped forward.
"My name is Devon. These are my cousins, Riley and Gypsy. We're here to help you."
"Help me how?"
"We're going to send you home."
"Are you all whitelighters?"
"No I'm half whitelighter, half witch, just like you. Gypsy is half witch, half darklighter. And Riley is a witch." Paige looked at Gypsy surprised.
"You're half witch and half darklighter? How'd you get that past the Elders?" Gypsy hesitated for a second not sure what to say.
"I couldn't really say. I don't know myself. But you won't have to worry about me. I may have evil blood inside of me but I'm good. I would never use my crossbow on a whitelighter." Riley fidgeted nervously, checking his watch every few seconds.
"Devon, we should probably get her out of here now. Someone could walk in the door any minute."
"Relax Riley, let me just get her loose and we'll be out of here." Devon removed a small metal cylindar from his pocket. He brought it up to one of the shackles on Paige's wrist and a laser came out and the electric shackle faded away. He removed all the shackles from her other wrist and ankles. He helped her off the bed and the four grab hands and Devon orbed them out.
He orbed them into a small house. It was dimly lit, and felt very warm and welcoming unlike what they looked like on the outside. There were a few futuristic gadgets that Paige didn't recognize. There was a kitchen leading off the living room. There was a whirring of an unusual looking machine, maybe a dishwasher. There was a small robot rolling in all directions across the kitchen floor. Paige couldn't tell what it was doing, but it looked very determined to get its job done. The furniture seemed pretty normal, nothing to out of the ordinary. But the fabric was such a clashing of colors and patterns. The carpet was extremely bright, almost like a light. In fact there seemed to be light coming from it.
"Is it just me, or is there light coming out of the floor?" Riley looked at her in confusion.
"Well what did you expect? We can't walk around in the dark all the time." This was when Paige noticed there were no windows anywhere.
"Riley, she probably doesn't have alot of these things where she comes from."
"We don't even know what time she comes from Gypsy."
"Exactly, so we can't expect her to know everything about our time, now can we?" Devon stepped inbetween the two.
"Listen, we don't have time for this. We gotta find a way to send her back home." He moved Paige to the couch. She sat down on what seemed to be a normal couch except for its horrible color. But then it spoke to her.
"Can I get you anything?"
"Ahhhhh." Paige jumped up scared half to death. She stared down at the couch wondering if she was going crazy and what she was supposed to do. To Paige's surprise Devon answered the couch.
"No, not right now." Paige, a little calmer, sat back down.
"Does all your furniture talk?"
"No, unfortunatly. We're a bit behind in the tech department. But we manage."
"Well next time you'll want to warn me that an inanimate object might just want to strike up a conversation with me."
"Ok Paige..."
"Wait a minute. How'd you know my name and now that I think of it, how do you know I'm half witch, half whitelighter?"
"You're in the history books, see." Gypsy hands Paige a book and that shows a picture of her Piper and Phoebe. She turns a few pages and sees a picture of a man.
"Oooo, who's the cute guy?"
"Oh, that's Wyatt."
"Ok, class dismissed." Paige hurriedly put the book down. "Does the book say anything about me going into the future, here I mean?"
"Yes it does. But it doesn't say how you got back." Gypsy put the book on the shelf. Devon looked back to Paige.
"Gypsy's a history buff. She might be able to track down some records that could help us."
"So tell us where you're from. I haven't found anything that can tell us where you live, and that's very important information that could be a big help."
"Well, I come from the year 2004, and I live in San Francisco, California." Gypsy got up.
"I'll start looking for those records." She dissapeared into the hall.
"Oh man, you're a long way from home." Devon looked to Riley, not sure how to tell her where she was.
"Well, where am I exactly." Devon looked back to Paige. He hesitated a bit, but figured he couldn't put it on hold.
"You're in the year 2615, and you're in a planetary system called Daal Sonder Maal, and you're on the planet Ganymede." He decided to let her absorb that before continuing on. Paige looked shock and worried. She wasn't to sure what to make of this.
"I can't believe this. I'm not even on Earth anymore. I've never been so far into the future before. Well come to think of it, I've never been into the future before. This is unbelievable." Paige stood up and started pacing the room. She was getting more and more worked up by the second. "I can't believe this. I just can't believe this. It was a normal day. I was fighting a demon and then all of the sudden I wake up in a hospital and my taxes are 600 years overdue. I just can't believe this." Riley stood up and grabbed Paige's shoulders.
"Paige, you can't get yourself worked up over this. It'll be ok." Paige took a deep breath and tried her best to remain calm. "Can I offer you a tranquilizer?"
"No, I'll be fine. It'll just take some getting used to." Devon got up and stood next to them.
"Hopefully you won't have long enough to get used to it. The sooner we send you back the better."
"I agree."
"But we need to play it safe. Before we can figure out a way to send you back we have to give you an identity."
"What?"
"Everybody here has an identity. We all have a number and a record. We've all been fingerprinted, voiceprinted, photographed, categorized and have had our DNA mapped down to the very last gene. If you were to get caught without a record, we'd all be in for it. Our emperor is very cautious, he already has his guards on high alert. They've probably noticed that you're missing by now and will be out looking for you. Hiding you like this is highly illegal. We need to take every precaution. That's why you need to go with Riley. He has access to all of the cities computers. He'll create an identity for you which can be removed when you're gone. But we have to be careful. One false move and we're dead."
"Well I vote for staying alive."
"Come with me." Riley lead her down the hall and into a room that had several computers and a few other machines in it. He sat down at one and began typing on it. "Sit down here and look ahead of you." Paige did as he said and was surprised by a flash of light.
"What was that?"
"Look." He pointed to the computer screen where her picture was.
"You could have warned me my picture was gonna be taken. I would have prepared myself better." He ignored her and continued typing. He set down a piece of black plastic in front of her.
"Put your hands on that." She did as she was told and she saw her fingerprints appear on the screen. He removed the plastic and then placed a small box in front of her. "Say your name."
"Paige Matthews." She saw green waves appear on the screen.
"Now for your DNA. I'm gonna need some of your blood."
"Wait a minute. I don't do needles so good." He showed her the syringe he was using. It didn't have a needle on it.
"We don't use needles anymore. That's how the Barbera Plague got started."
"Then how does that work?"
"The end releases a chemical that naturally breaks up the skin, just enough so that blood can escape. The blood goes into the tube. Then a disinfectant containing a chemical that repairs the skin is sprayed over the breakage and thats all there is to it."
"That is so cool. When was that invented?"
"About fifteen years ago. Twenty years after the plague started. There, all done." He placed the blood sample into a machine which analyzed it and placed the resultd into the computer. "Now we don't have to worry about being caught with a fugative. We should go see if Gypsy's found anything."
A/N: This chapter took a little linger to finish then I thought it would. Sorry for keeping you waiting. Now, let's see who knows their astronomy. Where did I get the name Ganymede from? And I don't know if Paige pays taxes, I just threw that in there to lighten up the mood a little. Hope you liked this chapter. But I won't know unless you say something. Review please.
