Sorry it took me so long to update. My computer is busted, so I'm dependant on seconds behind the computer at school to write. That and the fact that I completely changed my storyline are responsible for the delay in update.
Thanks a lot to andy20 and Alyssa Halliwell for reviewing.
Chapter Two – Motion
Piper got up from her bed and walked downstairs. There she found Phoebe feeding Chris, while Wyatt sat next to her and watched television. Suddenly the thought came to Piper that her sister and sons could have easily been attacked while she had been sleeping.
"Don't you dare feel guilty about taking that nap, Piper!" Phoebe hadn't turned her head or given any indication she knew Piper was standing there, so the sentence she spoke made Piper jump.
"You knew I was standing here?" Phoebe nodded. "Of course I knew. You didn't exactly sneak down the stairs, now did you? Besides, I felt a presence behind me with my empathy."
Now that was intriguing. "You what? But I took that potion that Chris bought us to block your empathy!" Finally Phoebe turned to Piper. "I know you did. And I don't know why I'm starting to sense your emotions again, but I even felt that tiny pang of guilt when you saw me and the boys."
"Maybe the potion was only temporary," Piper suggested and Phoebe was just about answer her when she dropped Chris' bottle and remained motionless, like a statue. Piper recognized a premonition when she saw one.
She started walking towards her sister when Phoebe came out of it. "He's on the stairs, Piper!" Piper turned around and immediately flung her hands forward; trying to blow up which ever demon Phoebe had foreseen attacking them.
She only saw a screen of green light that shivered when her powers connected with it, and Phoebe grabbing hold of Wyatt and Chris to drag the two into safety, before she was flung backwards when the energy of her own powers was directed back at her by the green deflecting shield.
Phoebe, who barely managed to run into the solarium without getting knocked over by the suddenly airborne Piper, put both boys in the playpen before turning around to head back to the living room.
The tall, dark and handsome man Phoebe had seen in her premonition was standing right behind her. "Danger, Wyatt!" She had barely spoken the words when the man flung out his hand and telekinetically threw her across the room.
Wyatt, hearing his aunt's words, erected his force field bubble immediately. The demon, who just then was reaching to grab Wyatt, was flung backwards into the wall and grabbed his hand, which was covered in severe burns.
Phoebe, who had seen the entire thing happen, extended her own hands and two jolts of electricity shot towards the demon and he exploded. Phoebe ran back to the boys, to check if everything was alright.
When she was convinced everything was fine with them she ran into the living to check on Piper. She dropped to her knees when she reached her oldest sister, who had a gaping hole in her stomach.
"I need help!" She had screamed this upwards, to Sanctuary, knowing that in the Underworld Leo could not hear her calling. Suddenly a swirl of bright blue orbs appeared and Phoebe's unleashed the breath she didn't even know she was holding.
Her heart, which had been pounding in her throat, fell back down into a bottomless pit when the orbs turned into Paige. Paige, seeing her sister lying there, fell on her knees next Piper too while Phoebe got up and screamed at the Elders to help them.
Paige ran a hand through Piper's hair when she realized that if they wanted any chance of saving their sister, she had to keep Piper from bleeding to death. She put a hand on the bleeding wound, to keep the pressure on it, when suddenly her hands began to emit a yellow light.
"Phoebe!" Phoebe turned around and saw her sister, who for some reason was now capable of using the power to heal all whitelighters have. She kneeled down again and motioned for Paige to try and heal Piper.
Paige held both her hands above Piper's wound and after a few seconds it began to heal. The blood drew back, the flesh grew back and the skin stretched to cover it all and soon it was as if nothing had happened. Only Piper's bloody shirt bore the evidence that she had almost died.
Piper opened her eyes and looked at her crying sisters confusedly. "What's up, guys?" Paige looked at Phoebe, not knowing what had happened either. "We were attacked, remember? I told you to blow him up, but he used some kind of deflecting shield and bounced your powers back at you."
Suddenly Piper as wide awake. "The boys?" Phoebe smiled. "They're fine, thanks to Wyatt's vicious protective bubble. It flung the demon backward when he tried to grab them and burned his hand."
Suddenly Piper noticed a smear of blood next Phoebe's ear. "You're hurt!" Phoebe touched the side of her face which she had fallen on. "It's nothing, just what you get for trying to play catch with a telekinetic demon. Well, if you're the ball any way."
"Where's the demon now?" Phoebe looked up from Piper to Paige. "I vanquished him with my future power," she said, but there was something in the way that she said it that told Piper and Paige that it didn't sit right with her.
"Any word from Leo?" Phoebe shook her head and got up. Paige followed her example and they helped Piper get up as well. "The boys are in the playpen. I need to check out something, okay?"
Confused, Piper and Paige nodded and Phoebe went upstairs. "What's wrong with her?" Piper shrugged while she and Paige walked into the solarium. "What I'm wondering is how I got better. Who healed me?"
"I did," Paige said hesitantly. Immediately Piper hurled around. "What?" Paige nodded. "I healed you. Don't ask me how, but I did. Maybe the Elders couldn't spare someone to come down so they used me as a conduit to heal you."
"I don't think the Elders have anything to do with this," Phoebe said, standing in the doorway with the Book of Shadows in her hands. "The demon that attacked us? I thought it was strange that he had a human form, so I looked him up. He was upper-level."
"That's the second one today you vanquish," Piper said. "I know, but I've never vanquished an upper-level demon with my own powers before. None of us have. We always used a potion with his or her flesh, or I would channel his own powers back at him. But I vanquished this guy with my own power."
"What are you getting at, Phoebe?" Phoebe sighed. "Don't you get it? Vanquishing upper-level demons on my own, feeling your emotions despite the potion you took, Paige healing you out of the blue? I think we've had some huge advancement in power, and that's why I think the Elders have nothing to do with this. I think something's going on, something big…Something huge!"
"You're partly right. It's not the Elders who gave you this advancement in power, but we do have everything to do with it," a familiar voice sounded behind Phoebe, and she swirled around. There, with his robes dirty and a cut on his arm, stood the Elder Appylus.
T.B.C.
