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Chapter 9

"Okay, let's go there!" Jordyn exclaimed excitedly. She grabbed at Paige's hand, but Paige pulled away.

"Wait. We'd better be prepared before we go. There are probably demons there; we need to take vanquishing spells with us."

Jordyn nodded resignedly "Damn you Ky, you're right. I guess they can wait a little longer. You get that stuff ready; I'll take Dale to Mrs. Coot next door. We can't just leave him here either. Aunt Piper would totally murder us."

She left the attic and called out "Daley, come on, we need you to go to Mrs. Coot's for a couple hours. Let's get your videos!"

Paige looked after her. Obviously, these kids were perfectly capable of creating a contingency plan for situations like this. That really was a little unsettling. They were so young, but seemed so accomplished. What sort of life did their kids have, filled with magic? But what she had seen of them, they seemed happy enough, accepting everything as just part of life. Though she guessed it probably was just that. But then, that was the price that had to be paid for magical powers.

She flipped through to the back of the Book where there were several pieces of paper, obviously spells waiting to be copied into it. She noted that two of them were simple vanquishing spells and stuck them on the floor next to herself, along with a general vanquishing potion that was mixed up in the cupboard next to the podium. It seemed everything was a lot more organised these days. But then, there were more people to look after it with all the kids helping out. Hopefully once they rescued the kids, then they could find out where the Aunts, Jesse and Rinna were. For that, they were going to need more than the simple verse; hence the potion.

Paige ventured back downstairs to the basement bedroom, and picked up an empty backpack she found, taking it back with her to use for holding everything. It never hurt to be organised. And if they dropped any of this stuff because their hands were too full, well; it would not be good!

She stuffed everything in, reading over the spells and deciding that they were pretty well covered for vanquishing most anything. As she was just finished, Jordi returned, and grabbed her hand again.

"Ready this time?"

At Paige's nod, they orbed out and re-materialised in a dark cavern. Of course; demons weren't all that original with their lairs. In the centre were Wyatt, Pacey, Riley and Clayre, bound together. Caly was levitating up near the roof, with a demon hanging off her ankle, obviously trying to pull her down. Jamie and Melinda she couldn't see.

A hand tapped her on the shoulder, and Paige had to bite back a yelp as she spun around and saw the two missing kids. Jamie was looking very grim, Melinda copying the look without much success. She just looked like she was trying not to laugh. Which, watching Caly floating around kicking at the demons, wasn't too surprising.

"Thank god you two got here!" Jamie hissed, "We'd started to think you'd never notice we were gone. We walked straight into a trap. That rope? It's got power-blocking spells on it. I teleported out with Mel before they got us, and Caly floated, but the others were too slow. Got spells?"

At his cousins' nod, he grinned viciously. "Then let's blast these buggers!"

Together the four of them gathered around the simple spell that Paige was holding. Jamie raised his eyebrows, "Oh god, the corny one," he laughed quietly, "Oh well, it does work I guess, though I feel like a complete loser reading it."

Paige had to admit, it was corny. But hey, beggars didn't have time to look for good spells, or make them up. At least it seemed this one had been tried and tested. It should work.

They stepped out from behind the rock outcrop that was hiding them and chanted in unison;

"Let these Demons, here to make trouble.
Be gone from this world now
On the DOUBLE!"

It had the desired effect, all the demons turned to stare at them, and the one holding Caly let go. Quickly they repeated they rhyme as the demons closed in on them. Finally, with the last word of the third time, the demons blew up, and they were all forced to duck the disgusting goo that resulted.

Jamie punched the air, "Oh yeah!" he crowed.

He pulled a knife from his pocket and sliced the roped binding his cousins. At Jordyn's look he shrugged, "Well, I thought it might come in handy." But he handed it over to his cousin with a sigh when she held her hand out. No-one ever let him have any fun. It was surprising they hadn't yelled at him about swearing earlier. It sucked being 10.

Wyatt took the lead of the group again. "Okay, now we're all here let's try sensing the adults, combined power, got it?"

At his siblings and cousins grin nods, he closed his eyes and began sensing, one-by-one feeling the other kids lay a hand on his hand or arm and combining their power with him.

It took only a few seconds with the amount of power they had put together. They yelled as one, "Got them!" and split into pairs, orbing out of the chamber. Jordyn again grabbed at her twin, following. Recently it seemed they were always the last!

They re-materialised in what looked suspiciously like an ancient torture chamber. With Piper and Phoebe surrounded by a rather large group of nasty-looking demons wielding various sharp instruments. Jesse was holding Rinna close, standing between the two sisters. He was fairly useless in these situations, having no powers of his own. But he was the first to notice them, and his eyes went wide.

Paige winced. Hopefully the demons hadn't noticed that, or they were liable to turn around and see what he had. Them, of course. Which wouldn't be too good for them.

She pulled the vials of potion out of the backpack and silently handed them around, counting down from 3 on her fingers and getting the spell ready where they could all see it.

As her last finger touched her palm, they all lobbed the vials into the circle of demons and clustered close, reading the words on the paper

"Those who would our loved ones harm
Now we vanquish with this charm
Leave this realm and don't return
In the underworld may you BURN!"

This one had a faster effect, with several of the demons popping into smoke immediately. But they just didn't have enough potions. There were more demons than expected. Riley jumped in with his aunts, pelting the remaining demons with electricity bolts; Pacey shifted into a demon and caught them off guard, killing a couple with their own powers. Jamie teleported and Melinda orbed with him, going to retrieve more potion. Wyatt orbed parts of the roof down onto the demons, not killing them but doing a pretty good job of distraction.

Paige wished she knew how to properly use Kyra's powers, but she summoned up images of potion bottles flying towards the demons, resembling the ones that had killed their comrades, causing them to duck and allowing Piper or Riley to blow them up.

After what seemed like an eternity, Mel and Jamie came back and threw the rest of the potion at the demons as they chanted. The remaining enemies puffed into smoke the same way as the others had.

All the kids rushed to the adults, checking them over as the adults did the same to them. Then the entire group orbed/teleported/ grabbed a lift back to the Manor. Paige collapsed into a chair and many of the others followed suit. Well, that had been hectic. And surprising in how well a group of kids were so organised in the evil-fighting scene.

She decided that now was probably as good a time as any to explain what had happened to her, before anything else happened which delayed her getting back to her own time and Kyra back in her own body.

"Guys, I have something that I need to explain, which you might not believe," she started nervously, raising her voice over the dim of excited young voices.

The room went quiet, and she began her explanation, "See, I may look like Kyra, but I'm not. I'm Paige Halliwell, but not the one you guys know… one from before most of the kids were born."

There were shocked looks on the faces surrounding her. Piper blinked. "Wh...What? How? Kyra, do had better not be making this up or you will be in serious trouble young lady."

Paige shook her head, "believe me, I'm not. You see, I cast a spell that probably wasn't very smart of me…"

She was cut off as Jordyn fell into a dead faint on the ground.

Authors note: Sorry about the corny action. I'm really not great at writing action scenes! And as for the spells… but heh, I don't write poetry thankfully so everyone safe from seeing too much more of it! All reviews are greatly appreciated, and surely if you've taken the time to read this, it doesn't take much longer to press the little button and tell me what you think?