Chapter 2: Tricks and Treachery
A/N: Thanks for all you reviews. You're so nice. Prue is not the "person" I mentioned in my summary. She's…well…you'll see. Keep reading. Charmed is not owned by me.
"Prue", Paige whispered again. She touched her sister's arm to make sure she was really there. She hesitated for a moment and pulled her oldest sister into a hug. Paige was now close to tears. "I never got to know you."
"I know", Prue said. Paige failed to notice that her expression was surprisingly cold. Paige didn't see her sister form a fireball behind her back. Prue snarled, "You never will!" Prue raised her arm to throw the fireball, and a stunned Paige orbed away just in time. She was about to ask Prue what was going on when Piper and Phoebe came down the stairs wearing grim expressions.
Surprisingly, it was Phoebe who broke down first. "How dare you!" she yelled down at Prue. She levitated in the air and delivered a stinging kick to Prue's head. Piper looked shocked, but Paige looked utterly confused. Prue was unaffected by the blow and continued to advance with the fireball in her hand.
"It's a shape shifter", Piper called down to her youngest sister. "Phoebe had a premonition!" Phoebe was still in a fierce battle with the demon. She lunged at the demon with the athame she was carrying. She had managed to stab it in the chest. It immediately transformed from their dead sister into a gruff looking man with long black hair and malicious looking yellow eyes. Piper took one disgusted look at the demon that dared impersonate her sister and blew him up with a flick of her wrist.
The evil – doer exploded millions of fiery pieces. This left an awkward silence between the sisters. They were all shaken by what had just happened. Piper noticed a nasty looking gash in Phoebe's shoulder and gently touched it. Her sister winced and pulled away. "We should get Leo to take a look at this", Piper said gently.
"Later", Phoebe said quickly. She moved her arm from view. "Do you think that demon was sent by the same person that sent Vidaro?" she asked nervously. Phoebe still had an uneasy feeling about that demon that she couldn't quite shake. There was something she was missing. Something important…something she needed. She didn't know that it was a matter of life and death.
Piper looked at her sister with concern for a moment. She had known Phoebe for her entire life and she could tell that her sister wasn't telling her something. She put it aside for now because they had more pressing matters to deal with. There was an invisible demon after them, and Phoebe's arm was now bleeding quite a bit.
"We'll worry about him later", said Piper soothingly. She was adopting the mothering voice she used with Chris and Wyatt. She was worried about her sister. "For now we're just going to call Leo to make your arm better. LEO!" she yelled.
A swirl of blue-white lights appeared in the center of the room. It was not Leo who had appeared. It was Kyle Brody.
TBC...