A/N: This chapter was getting really long, so I decided to move the Paige sub-plot back again. Hope you can all be patient while I iron out some destiny's here. Cheese-Fairy: Yes there will be an all out battle between Prue and Dantalian. Thanks again for reading!
Eternally Charmed: The Angelic Ones
"LEO!" Prue bellowed loudly with a mother's pain coursing through her voice as she and Andy appeared in the attic. "LEO!". Amanda lay lifeless in Andy's arms as he walked her to the couch and set her down in his lap. Prue fell on her knees still continuing to wail.
"LEO I NEED YOU NOW!" Prue then buried her head pressing her head Amanda's. "You're going to be okay. You have to be" she whispered until Andy's voice broke her of her sorrow.
"Prue, give me something to stop the bleeding!
Prue jumped up quickly gathered as many old rags and blankets as she could find.
"LEO!"
Piper was the first to enter through the doorway. "Prue? What's going on?" Her face paled instantly at the sight of her niece laying still and bleeding in her father's arms.
"We need Leo!" Prue pleaded pressing all the bedding she could find to Amanda's wound. "Just hang on, baby hang on!"
Piper moved to Prue's side, helping her sister apply pressure. "Leo can't hear you. He went with Phoebe to see they could convince Paige to come home."
"Call Natalie" Andy's voice cracked slightly in time with Prue's. She was already ahead of him. Even before she could finish spitting out the syllables of the loathed whitelighter's name Natalie appeared.
"What happened?" Natalie's healing hands were instantly upon the first witch-tracer child sending healing orbs into her soul.
Prue and Andy said nothing letting Piper break their awkward silence. "Dantalian"
Prue looked away from Andy and tenderly began to stroke her lifeless daughter's hair. Blood was still seeping profusely from Amanda's nightclothes. "Why isn't it working?"
"Datalian's magic is strong" Natalie replied sensing the depth of evil oozing from the wound. "I'm sorry Prue" Natalie's head bowed as she regretfully watched the child she had selfishly protected since birth take her final breath.
"Mine is stronger" Prue replied without missing a beat. Rising to her feet she walked over to the scared circle. Piper, help me with the candles. Piper followed her sister curious.
"Prue what are you doing?" At this point, Piper could see that the situation had just become personal.
"Saving my child" Carefully Prue lit all of the candles and then stepped in the center of the circle, raising her hands heavenward. "Witches of the Halliwell line, I call for your power to travel through space and time. Come to me, settle here so we may save one we hold dear!"
The sound of thunder cracked over their heads as bright white starbursts exploded onto the scene. The magic of Halliwell witches, some of the past some from the future all descended into the room swirling over head.
"Piper, go get Melinda" Prue ordered.
"I don't understand-" Piper started hesitant before she met her sister's commanding glare.
"Just Go Get your Daughter!"
Piper turned without another word to bent of fetching her child.
Fighting back her own sense of anguish, Natalie rose to her feet and spoke stoically. "Prue you can't do this. It's personal gain"
"It's justice" Prue hissed stalking through the circle towards her dead daughter. Kneeling Prue caressed Amanda's forehead. "Don't worry. I'm going to fix this and you are going to have the life you were meant to lead" Tenderly she kissed the spot she'd touched and met Andy's grief filled eyes.
"Prue-"
"I won't lose our daughter" Prue then rose to her full height as Piper entered the room with a still sleeping Melinda wrapped in blankets.
"She's still sleeping?"
"You didn't say you needed her awake" Piper had literally scooped the child from her bed, blankets and all.
Prue looked heavenward at the spirits she had summoned and watched as they floated over to Piper and Melinda.
"Prue what's happening?" The spirits then formed a wall separating Piper form her daughter, stealing the child from Piper's arms.
"Honestly, I'm not quite sure" Prue's lips pursed meeting Pipers steel response.
"YOUR NOT SURE?"
"Not Exactly!" Prue replied meekly.
Melinda was now floating in the center of the room where the Halliwell spirits had formed a slow moving funnel around her. Gradually the funnel started to pick up speed, traveling with a tornado's power so that Melinda was hidden deep within it's eye. A massive blue light started to glow from the center of the funnel meshing the whirlwind into a solid explosive mass. A blinding light formed causing Piper, Prue, Natalie and Andy to all shield their eyes until it gradually started to fade.
Piper squinted seeing the form of a lovely women standing in the dwindling light. She was dressed in Angelic white with long sandy brown hair, and Piper's brown coffee colored eyes. "Melinda?"
The young women looked at her hands and then down her young adult body. "Aunt Prue, what happened to me?"
"Your true calling, I think," Prue answered pushing the unsure toward the couch where Amanda still lay lifeless in Andy's arms. "You need to heal your cousin"
Adult Melinda looked at her mother and beloved Aunt with doubt. "I'm not sure I can"
"The key is love" Piper said in a coaxing manner.
"But she's dead" Above all things, Melinda knew that even white lighters couldn't heal the dead
Prue's hand fell to the young women's shoulder. "If we're lucky that shouldn't matter"
Adult Melinda looked at her hands one more time before placing over her cousin in such a fashion she'd seen her father use many times before. Much to her surprise a gold healing light started to flow from her finger tips engulfing Amanda's entire being.
"You did it" Andy felt his body jump involuntarily when Amanda gasped and started to cough. The wound to her abdomen completely healed.
"Of course she did" Prue beamed joining Andy on the couch as they both pulled Amanda into their arms and held her tightly.
Piper's teeth sank into her bottom lip as the spiritual light descended from Melinda causing her to morph back into her toddler form.
Melinda whined tiredly allowing Piper to scoop her into her arms. "Okay does somebody want to tell me what just happened here? Maybe a little explanation Prue?"
Prue just grinned allowing Natalie to speak. "That's suppose to be a well kept secret"
Piper's brow knitted" But the secrets out of the bag and unless you are planning to hit me with memory dust you better start speaking now!"
"I'll give you an explanation Piper" Angelic lights started to form in the center of the room transforming into a corporeal, Penny.
"Grams?"
Penny smiled at Piper and Prue with her usual amount of warmth and pleasantries. "You and your sister have given birth to the Angelic Ones"
"The angelic ones?" Piper shook her head, "Grams I don't understand. I thought since Prue was the oldest her children were in line to be the next Charmed Ones."
"They are" Penny answered coming to face to face with the confused witch "But together along with Melinda, they make up a new power known as the Angelic Ones. Leo Angel half, make Melinda equivalent to that of her half angelic cousins. Austin being the only true Angelic child"
Piper's head still shook, "Grams I still don't understand"
"Piper, Piper", Grams laughed, "what isn't there to understand? This is destiny" Natalie entered the room carrying Austin and dragging a cranky Ally behind her.
"I want Cake!" Ally grumbled.
"No cake" Natalie whispered giving the child an impish pinch to her thigh, "It's time to hear of your destiny.
"Me no want destiny!" Ally howled kicking at the nanny white lighter
On Penny's word, Natalie handed Austin to Prue and assembled Piper next to the couch along where Ally had crawled up next to her father.
Penny then smiled with pride, "Hence your first glance at the almighty Angelic Ones." Penny then touched Melinda's hair. "You have an angelic Guardian healer " and then moved to the cranky Ally. "The angel and guardian of time"
"I want cake!" Ally grumbled again burying her head up against Andy's chest making the others laugh until Penny moved onto Austin.
"The Angelic Seer"
"The Guardian of Wisdom and Prophecy" Prue whispered smiling as Amanda struggled to sit up in her fathers arms.
"And the Angelic Protector of innocents"
"The Warrior of the Greater Good" Andy replied.
Penny smiled proudly. "Congratulations my darlings, you now the destiny of the Charmed Prophecy you were born to lead"
"My daughter is going to have the power to heal the dead" Piper whispered tearfully, pressing her face to Melinda's.
"Only when the Grand Design will allow her too" Penny added before motioning to Prue.
"I'm going to put Austin back bed to bed" Prue said quickly. "Grams, would you mind taking Ally"
"Of course" Penny bent over and pulled the feisty-hearted Ally into her awaiting arms.
"I'll be along in a minute" Andy said wanting to spend some more time with Amanda.
Together, Prue and Penny walked back to the nursery
"You know dear there will be consequences for the use of your powers to further personal gain. The Angelic Ones were not exactly set in stone yet" Penny said settling herself into the large rocker.
"So let them fire me" Prue reached for a pacifier and carefully slid it into Austin's mouth.
"They might do worse than that" Penny's eye brow arched as Prue then took Ally from her arms.
"Let them all I care about right now if vanquishing that demonic spawn that tried to kill Amanda"
"I agree with you darling" Penny sighed wary of Prue's impending plan, "but have you thought about Andy? That's his child. If you vanquish it you might lose him…for good this time"
"Not if I can change time to where she never existed" Prue replied whispering softly to Ally. "Take me back to the moment when your demonic sister was conceived"
Ally nodded stifling a huge yawn before creating her time traveling astral flash leaving Penny to sit alone in the rocker.
"Good Luck, My Darling"
