A/N: Thanks to everyone for the reviews on the last chapter! This chapter focuses on Prue, Andy and Datalian. I will try to incorporate Paige's subplot into the next couple of chapters
Eternally Charmed: Orbs of the Dark Side.
"Prue?" Piper sighed with relief when her sister orbed in with her three children and Natalie. "I'm so glad you're back, we need you to help save Paige"
Prue shook her head and left Austin's diaper back slide from her shoulder. "I can't Andy's in trouble" Quickly she shoved the sleeping infant into Piper's arms.
"Andy?" Piper started to retort until Austin subconsciously passed her an empathic premonition. Piper gasped feeling her body go taut.
Prue was standing in the underworld, facing a pregnant Dantalian her arm pulled back ready to telekinetically strike. Her face was hardened with anger. "Please don't try to stop me"
Andy stepped in front of Dantalian protectively. "I can't let you do this Prue" The crossbow appeared in his hands magically firing as Prue's arm can forward turning the arrow upon her beloved. The arrow struck Andy in the chest and exploded instantly turning both him and Dantalian into dust.
"What did you just see?" Prue demanded watching Piper's face pale. Piper blinked and swallowed harboring disbelief. "I think I just saw you kill Andy":
Oh…oh…no" Prue's hands covered her mouth and then ran through her hair. "That can't happen"
"Prue why would you kill Andy?" Piper asked still perplexed as she laid Austin the tiny bassinet that once belonged to Grams.
"Because he has given Dantalian his seed" Natalie spoke with her usual authority causing Piper to whirl.
"His seed?"
"According to a vision I had from Austin, Dantalian is pregnant with Andy's child" Prue answered as a sleepy, Ally tugged on her pant legs. "I's thirsty Mommee" Ally yawned tiredly.
"Natalie take her"
Natalie nodded and promptly picked up the tired tot, reaching for Amanda's hand. "C'mon Amanda"
Prue's hands fell to her oldest shoulders "Amanda is staying with me. I need her to help me find Andy"
"Of course" Natalie carried Ally from the room with Piper and Prue's eyes trailing.
"Dantalian is pregnant with Andy's child are you sure?"
"A daughter, Ayleia" Prue returned watching Piper's eyes grow wide.
"Whoa…Andy actually-" Piper's voice stopped at the sight of Prue's backstabbing glare. "No of course not…it was a spell it had to be a spell"
"I don't know" Prue answered lifting Amanda into her arms. "All I know is that I have 48 hours to get rid of this…demonic…thing" her voice trailed as her lips formed a smile looking into Amanda's bright but sleepy eyes. "Can you find Daddy for me?"
Amanda wrapped her arms around Prue's neck and nodded before resting her head on her mother's shoulders. Hers eyes closed tightly, searching for Andy's trail of orbs. Blue lights began to form around them and in an instant they were gone.
Dantalian's Lair
"You're finally here" Dantalian pulled her flute from her lips smiling as Andy appeared before her.
"You're the one who's been calling to me?" No, that didn't seem right. He'd gone up against Dantalian before and never did he feel like this.
"Not me" Dantalian continued to grin rubbing her basketball-sized belly "Your fourth daughter".
At first Andy's grin was coy with amusement, "no you see, I only share children with Prue"
"Don't believe me? See for your self" Dantalian raised her hands inviting the use of Andy's infrared vision.
"It's not possible" The tracer replied stubbornly.
"Isn't it?"
Provoked, Andy's eyes narrowed creating his infamous infrared beam, normally he used it to see through things in the hopes to flesh out demons. This would be the first time, he'd ever attempted to use it on a living creature.
The red beam hit Dantalian's stomach and automatically bounced back turning from red to purple, creating a portal in the center of distance that stood between Andy and Dantalian. Slowly the purple beam turned to cosmic light dancing about the tracer.
"Can you feel it? It's the presence of your life" Dantalian taunted seeing that Andy was becoming overwhelmed. The beam swirled around him like a hypnotic dance.
The essence that surrounded him was soft and vulnerable with a strong hint of evil.
"She has your power to conjure and orb as well as infrared right sight"
"She's evil" Andy repeated robotically
"And She's yours" Dantalian's grin turned to slight chuckle and then fell at the sight of blue orbs.
"NO! That's a lie" Prue stood behind Andy holding Amanda. She started to squint dangerously pushing the purple beam back, away from Andy. "Don't listen to anything she's says" Prue told Andy as the beam seemingly tried to resist her telekinetic pull.
"Humph!" Prue growled squinting harder causing the purple light to fly back inside Dantalian's impregnated womb.
"Prue that's my daughter" Andy retorted narrowing eyes of his own.
"No…No it isn't" Prue swallowed. "It was created from evil and evil can't love"
"A little jealous are you?" Dantalian bravely stepped forward so that Andy was in the middle between she and Prue. "She isn't all evil…you felt it in her presence"
Prue felt her jaws clamp shut for a moment. "You didn't feel anything" she growled, praying that somehow Austin's vision wouldn't come true.
Andy just looked at her helplessly, "If she's real then Amanda can feel her too"
"Andy no" Prue started to shake her head, "Amanda is just a child"
"Amanda is her half sister" Dantalian put in hinting.
Reaching for his daughter, Andy took her from Prue's arms. "I need you to try to sense her"
Amanda looked at her father with big blue unsure eyes and then looked back to Prue, "Do she have orbs?"
Andy nodded glancing at Dantalian who nodded approvingly.
"Can I an invis-orb?"
"Sure" Andy smiled stroking down a fallen hair.
Amanda smiled back and closed her eyes. In an instant she turned invisible and then a swirling set of clear looking obs.
Once again the purple beam emerged from Datalian and swirled; only this instead of playfully swarming around Andy, it attacked Amanda with a vengeance engulfing the clear orbs whole.
Amanda screamed in pain and became whole. Blood now covered the pink fuzzy nightgown she'd been wearing. A blood covered sliver tipped athame, with the engravings of the Tracer floated in midair then dropped to Andy's feet.
"Amanda!" Prue's face flooded with ruthless malice as her daughter lay limp in Andy's arms and without warning, the high priestess drew back her back and sent both Datalian and the purple beam sailing into the wall.
Unfazed, Datalian sat up rubbing her belly as if to calm the angry child inside. "It appears little Ayleia does not like her older sister"
"Why you!" Prue was about to retaliate again when Andy stopped her.
"Prue, we need to Amanda to Leo now"
Begrudgingly, Prue nodded allowing Andy one last look at Dantalian before they orbed away.
Tossing her head back, Dantalian sneered victoriously continuing to rub her stomach. "Well done, my child. You have not only managed to scorn the Priestess, but you have lured yourself into your father's heart"
