The title for this chapter includes a play on 'sensible'.
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The Sense-able Witch:
Piper stood up off the bench but tripped on a stone,
"crap!" she exclaimed, beginning to get up but accidentally putting her hand in a patch of mud, "ewe," she cringed, stumbling slightly as she stood up.
"Piper's all muddy!" Prue told Paige, yelling, Paige sighed and scribbled something down on the notepad in her pocket,
"I'm not the blind one," Prue read,
"did Grace take your common sense as well as your hearing sense?" Piper asked, Paige made a laughing motion, though no sound came out. Piper gave up trying to walk back into the house and sat back down on the bench.
"Demon," Paige tried to say, forgetting she couldn't hear,
"what?" Prue asked, failing to lip read and looking at her sister strangely,
"why did you say what?" Piper questioned, but they soon go their answer when they were blasted off the bench by a midnight blue electric sphere. Prue squinted at a piece of the broken bench, flinging it through the air and grazing their attacker's arm,
"where is it?" Piper asked, Paige grabbed hold of her sisters arms and pointed them in the right direction, but Piper gestured just as Leo ran out from the kitchen, blasting her husband instead if the demon. Leo erupted into orbs before reforming unconscious on the ground, giving the demon the chance to flame out before any of the sisters could use their powers again.
Not much later, the charmed ones sat on the couch in the attic, with Phoebe flipping through the book using the brief description of the demon which Leo gave her.
"Are you sure it was a demon?" the Angelic Seer asked, all three of her sisters nodded,
"energy balls and flaming in/out," she read off Paige's notepad,
"he was powerful," Prue stated,
"now I wish I was deaf," Piper muttered, as the volume of her big sister's voice still ringed through the ears.
"I think I've found him," Phoebe said, running her finger across the page,
"who is he?" Piper asked,
"Borx," Phoebe replied, continuing to read through the information, her eyes widening when she came across something in it, "I've gotta go," she told them, practically running from the attic, once again, leaving the charmed ones behind.
Meanwhile, Gabrielle sat in her office, which was one of the many new ones in the recent extension of the Bay Mirror building, when Phoebe stormed in,
"you evil…." she began, reaching over the desk and grabbing Gabrielle by her throat.
"You're insane!" Gabrielle exclaimed, managing to get Phoebe's hand of her neck and stepping back,
"I'd rather be insane than be the one to bring a demon back into the world," Phoebe hissed,
"you need to go back home, you might find some of your marbles there," Gabrielle growled, Phoebe went to grab the fashion columnist again but she got there first, blasting the Seer with a burst of blue light.
"I thought your only power was cloning?" Phoebe said, Gabrielle glared at her enemy, charging up another blue blast,
"two can play at that game," Phoebe snarled, empathically channelling Gabrielle's power and creating her own blast.
"Originals are always better," Gabrielle stated, releasing her blast at the same time as Phoebe, creating an explosion from the crossfire and throwing the two women backwards,
"you won't get away with this," Phoebe promised, running from the room.
"Witch bitch," Gabrielle cursed, glancing around at the mess the explosion had created.
At the penthouse, Cole sat reading a book about the Warren line, which he had gotten from Magic School, to Cassandra,
"abwa dabwa." she giggled, gesturing at the book and trying to telekinetically-shimmer it, but failing.
"That power has never really worked has it?" Cole said, she shook her head, "looks like we'll have to wait until you can speak properly," he continued, tickling his daughter under the chin and making her laugh, shimmering out and in rapidly while doing so.
Back at the manor, the demon from before had flamed back in and was attacking the charmed ones in the attic,
"Leo! Andy!" Piper yelled, before getting struck with an energy ball and flying backwards into the wall, smacking down to the floor unconscious. Andy ran up the stairs to the attic and tried to open the door, but the demon was holding it closed somehow, so the warlighter dissolved into red orbs and re-materialised next to the demon.
"Ah, ah, ah," the demon shook his head and wagged his finger, causing Andy to move in slow motion before completely freezing,
"uh oh," Prue said, throwing out her hands and releasing a kinetic wave, blasting the demon through the closed door, causing it to break apart into large splinters. Leo orbed in and shook Andy slightly, unfreezing him,
"did Piper freeze you?" the Elder asked, Andy shook his head,
"the demon," he replied, looking through to where the demon was getting up.
"I hate all heavenly beings," Borx, the demon, growled, hitting Leo and Andy with energy balls, before flaming over to Prue, Piper and Paige, flaming back out with them.
About twenty-minutes later, Leo, Andy, Cole, Kyle and Phoebe were gathered in the foyer, while the kids played in the conservatory,
"I can't believe the demons are back," Kyle said,
"me either," Phoebe agreed, though she was partially lying as she already had an idea about who had brought the demon back.
"I've got an idea, maybe if Grace has their senses, then she might also have some of their magic," Leo said,
"what?" Andy asked,
"you think Grace can somehow use the stolen senses inside of her to tap into their powers and use the power of three as the power of one, through her?" Cole said, Leo nodded.
"It's worth a try," Phoebe said,
"we're not sending my daughter to the underworld by herself," Andy protested,
"she won't be by herself," Phoebe assured him, he nodded with a half smile.
"Gracie, can you come here?" he called her, she toddled over,
"you're going to go somewhere to help your mommy and aunt Piper and aunt Paige," he told her,
"by myself?" she asked, Phoebe crouched down to her niece's height,
"no, I'll be coming with you," she replied.
"Now, we were wondering if you could use auntie Paige's voice to try and orb?" Leo asked, also crouching down,
"okay," she said, closing her eyes and opening her mouth, "stupid Elders," she said one of her aunt Paige's favourite things, using her aunt Paige's voice, then she grabbed Phoebe's hand and they disappeared into blue-white orbs.
They orbed into the underworld,
"mommy!" Grace exclaimed, spotting her mother and two of her aunts locked in a cage,
"stay back," Phoebe instructed, leading her niece round behind a large boulder and hiding behind it.
"When I say I want you to gather all the charmed magic from them okay?" the angelic seer asked, Grace nodded and watched as Phoebe stood up,
"hey, Borx, come here!" she yelled. A prism of flames formed the demon,
"looks like capture three get one free," he grinned, tossing an energy ball towards Phoebe,
"now!" she ordered, Grace shot up from behind the boulder and made a big gesture with each hand, releasing pellets of light from her palms. The pellets shot through the gaps in the cage and into the charmed ones,
"senses," the little girl whispered, Phoebe nodded,
"lets take care of this guy," Prue said, waving her hand and blasting the door of the cage open, before launching numerous pyrokinetic spheres at Borx, though they only wounded him.
"Now it's my turn," Piper said, shooting an explosive icicle, but just wounding Borx further,
"it'll take more than that to vanquish me," he growled, flaming out,
"lets go," Paige said, orbing herself, her sisters and her niece out.
The following morning, Prue and Andy sat having some breakfast, while Grace played with her dolls in the living room,
"I can't believe how powerful she is," Prue said, "she took our senses,"
"yeah, she's pretty strong, but the Elders are sure she'll just keep getting stronger," Andy told her, "at another good thing is that Leo erased her memory of her seeing him naked through Piper's eyes, which means that that memory won't be torturing her for the rest of her life."
"Well worrying about her powers is for another day, today, and for however long it takes, we need to figure out how that demon got back from wherever Zeus banished him while bringing about Utopia," Prue stated,
"the Elders have no idea, no one does, there was no other demon to bring him back, so it must have been someone good, or someone who says they're good," Andy said, Prue shrugged and took a sip of her coffee.
Somewhere in the underworld,
"this place really is empty," Borx said, as he glanced around the rocky chamber he was standing in,
"it certainly is, but you can fill it up again, you can bring back all the demons, but not unless I return your full powers, and I will do that, if you cause enough destruction to ruin Utopia," a voice told him, he turned to see a familiar face, the face of the being who had brought him back.
"I will, I promise," he said,
"you better," she growled,
"don't speak to your uncle in that manner," he hissed, she shook her head and sighed,
"you're about as much my uncle as Hecate is my mother," she said, a confused look appeared on his face, "forget it," she said, reversing the spell which had brought her down here and returning to the above world in a swirl of golden clusters.
"She's a vicious little girl," Borx laughed, "I never once thought that a woman like Gabrielle would ever get married, never mind conceive the devil child."
To be continued….
Next chapter- Phoebe pays a visit to Narnia, to see how things are going since she ruled there over three years ago. But this gives Gabrielle an idea, and with a little bit of magic she gets Phoebe out of the way for awhile. Borx attacks again. Paige learns that Gabrielle is the daughter of Hecate.
'Lost In Narnia…Again' should be up soon.
PS. The last few chapters have been my rather rubbish attempt at a Grace subplot, I didn't really like them but I hope you did!
PS2. This fic will be a bit shorter than it's prequels, it'll be about thirty chapters, maybe thirty-five, but, one way or another, the feud between my homemade super bitch and the angelic seer will come to an end at the end of this fic.