Paige's Princess Phase Part 2
"Paige, what are you doing?" Phoebe asked.
The youngest Charmed One waved her hand, "Leave us!" all of the men in the room nodded and walked out of the doors, carrying large palm leafs and trays of fruit. Phoebe managed to steal an apple from one of the passing trays and take a bite, which got her a slap from Piper on the arm.
"Isn't this great? Look at this dress!" Paige twirled, the material jingling as she moved.
"I would call it underwear, not a dress," Piper made a face at what her sister was wearing. The top part of it covered the top part of her chest, while leaving her back and abdomen exposed to see. Metal hot pants covered the lower part of her body, with strands of diamond strings running down from her waist and to her ankles.
"Don't be such a prude, Piper! They treat me like royalty here, I love it!"
"Well, sorry Princess, but the ball is over. Where are your clothes?" Piper scanned the room quickly.
"You're not listening to me…" she bowed her head,
"C'mon, you've a new nephew to meet and a new brother in law to judge!" Phoebe smirked at her, while moving her fringe out of her face.
"I know, but-,"
"Ah, screw it. Let's just go home," Piper began to walk out with Phoebe.
"No,"
The older sisters turned round and stared at their younger sibling. "Sweetie, what are talking about?" Phoebe frowned.
Paige walked towards them with a scowl, "I'm not going back, Phoebe. I'm happy here,"
"Paige…" Piper whispered.
"Honey, don't you want to go home? Why? I've missed you…" Phoebe pleaded
She sighed, "You two have everything going for you. Great guys, cute children, jobs you love… My job is hell, all I am is an aunt, and my love life…"
"Why haven't you come to us about all this? Paige, we would have helped you!" the middle sister exclaimed.
"If you haven't noticed Phoebe, you've kind of hard to track down since… oh, I don't know, forever! Piper agrees with me, she's probably more pissed than I am! And what would you have done anyway? Go and yell at my boss? I haven't needed protection like that since the third grade!"
Phoebe turned to the molecular standing beside her, "Is that true? Do you hate me?"
"We'll have words," she replied simply before grinning sweetly at her baby sister, "Paige, you have two choices, you can come back by us dragging you by the hair, or you can stop playing Cinderella and move your ass!"
"Sorry," she backed away, "But you guys leave me with no choice," she waved her arm aggressively towards her siblings and they went into the air and flew through the doorway, landing on the stone floor.
"At least we know what power she got left with," Phoebe said as she stood up.
"Figures she'd get the useful power…" Piper scowled as she brushed off her trousers.
The witchlighter then clicked her fingers, "Throw them in the dungeon!"
Masses of the hooded figures came from either end of the corridor floating towards the two witches. A gentle but foreboding hum resonated from the creatures as they hovered towards the two.
"Uh… Pheebs? Now would be a really good time to do that little "change direction" trick of yours!"
"I can't, there's too many! Turn us invisible!"
But before Piper could take Phoebe's hand, they were captured by the creatures, their cold hands hurting their shoulders as they forced them along the hallway and down a dark flight of stairs.
"Okay, I think our best bet is to do a "divide and conquer" thing," Brennan suggested to Pamela, Emma and Leo. They been talking for the past hour about how to sort out all of their demonic problems, the Charmed Ones were in another world, the Leaper Demon was still on the loose and a Shocker Demon had taken over Brennan and Phoebe's new place.
"How about you two scry for the Leap Demon while Leo and I take care of the Shocker Demon?"
Both Pamela and Emma grimaced, snorted and did everything to show that they disapproved of this slightly bias plan.
"Are you kidding me? You two can only shoot lightning for an offensive power, which is exactly what that thing needs to get a power boost! Reverse the roles you said and we're fine," Emma folded her arms.
Brennan laughed, "There's no way I'm going to hide behind the two of you in the fight for my home!"
"Brennan," Emma walked towards him, "The Shocker Demon can only be vanquished by the Power of Three, and the last time I checked, a run of the mill witch and an elder were not the Charmed Ones. Me and Pamela, however, are closer to being to that kind of power, she's the daughter of a Charmed One and I'm not your average witch!"
"Okay, that's enough," Leo pushed Emma and Brennan apart, "If can't even decided on where everyone's going, then we have no chance without the sisters!" The elder decided to take control, "Emma, scry for the Leaper Demon. It won't be expecting an attack since it thinks that you're all dead, I'll go with you to vanquish it." He turned to his niece, "You go with your uncle to the house, just freeze the demon with your ice powers, maybe it will hold until your aunts get back?" he suggested.
"What do you think I am? A human freezer? My ice doesn't last for long, it vanishes after about an hour since it's magical, it doesn't melt like normal ice would,"
"Well… Maybe you could shatter it after it's frozen,"
Pamela rolled her eyes, "Fine, I'll try, c'mon newbie," she hit Brennan on the arm, "Let's go hunting," she walked out of the attic door leaving her uncle with a confused look on his face.
"Don't underestimate her. She may look young, but she's got the mental age of a twenty five year old," Leo warned him.
"I heard that!" Pamela's voice came from the attic stairs.
Emma stifled a laugh, "Busted…"
Brennan chuckled and walked out of the door with his hands on the back pockets of his jeans.
"Paige! You get your ass down here and let us out!" Piper slammed on the wooden door of her and Phoebe's cold stone cell, the only things standing between them and freedom was a stubborn sibling and a think wooden door with a small barred window. The oldest sister shot a glare at Phoebe, "Aren't you going to help?" she asked. Phoebe was sitting on a stone bench with her eyes closed in concentration. Her eyes snapped open, filled with anger.
"I am helping. I'm bombarding her with telempathic messages, but someone keeps yelling!"
"Well, my way is better!" Piper said uncertainty.
"Oh really? Unless Paige can hear you through stone walls, I think me constantly being in her mind is better,"
"Ugh… Who am I kidding? We'll just need to wait until a guard comes,"
"Why? So you can yell at them?" Phoebe smirked.
"No… trust me, I have a plan,"
"Care to enlighten me?"
"Just get your Pheeb radar on the look out for guards," she went back to looking out of the small window.
"So, I guess now is as good a time as any to talk about what Paige said,"
"Before or after she threw us on our asses?" Piper replied tonelessly.
"I mean when she said that you're angry at me,"
The witch fell silent, "Of course not! You followed your dreams, I'm happy for you,"
"Yeah, you see, someone who couldn't get visions of you emotions might believe you. I'm a different story," Phoebe folded her arms.
Piper turned around to face her, "What do you expect from me Phoebe? You leave for a year and a half and you think I'm going to be okay with it? I didn't know what had happened to you, you could have been dead, you could have been captured by demons, you could have been on the moon for all I knew! You don't realise how much you've missed! Emma moving into the Manor, us finding Pam, Aidan even left Paige!"
Phoebe sat down in shock after the last one, "Oh God… That's explains a lot,"
"And the fact that you come back with a new family makes this even worse! I'm happy for you and all, but we have had a lot on our plates and you've just ignored it, and-,"
"Piper." She had to say something to grab her sister's attention.
"What?" She put her hands on her hips.
"I think I have a way to get Paige back." She got back up, "When I was sending messages to her, I got a hit off of something beneath the surface of her mind,"
"Would did you sense?" Piper folded her arms.
"Pain. I mean real pain, something she could only get from a great loss,"
"Obviously. Her boyfriend of a year and a half leaves her for a trident and a crown! I would have blown up both of his-,"
"You don't understand me! She's completely suppressed her emotions, in a normal family, that would be fine, but as we both know, suppressing your emotions in this family can be a lethal killer,"
"What's your suggestion? Or do you even have one?" Piper muttered.
"Believe it or not, I'm still a witch. And yes I do have a plan, but you show me yours and I'll show you mine,"
"Wow… Welcome to Pleasantville," Pamela smirked as the street passed by the car window.
"Yeah, it's a really nice neighbourhood, I just hope there's a house to move into after we fight this thing," Brennan replied as he turned into the driveway. The two of them walked up the path into towards the door, until they were hailed from someone next door.
"Yoo hoo! Neighbour! Hello there!" a plump, auburn haired woman called from the other side of the fence.
"Um… I'll go check inside. You deal with Miss Jolly over there," Pamela whispered, her uncle gave her a dissatisfied look, "Hey, this is your house, go make nice! Keys," the teen held out her hand and Brennan put the keys in it.
"Hi, nice to meet you, I'm Brennan," he shook hands with the woman.
"Hello there! I'm Bella Hunter! And who was that young girl with you?" she asked kindly, but Brennan saw right through it. Nosey neighbour.
"Oh, that was my niece, Pamela. She's just looking around,"
"I see! I assume you're married? Not many people can afford to live in this area with one pay check,"
Brennan resisted the urge to say something he would regret, "Yeah, my wife Phoebe is… well, she's off in another world at the moment,"
"Oh good!" she looked like she was about to say something else, when a crashing noise came from the house. Brennan nodded respectfully and ran into the house, leaving a very suspicious neighbour.
Brennan run the stairs and found Pamela trapped in a dome of electricity while the demon floated above her, channelling lightning into the dome. The elemental thought quickly and attempted to blast the Shocker Demon with a tesla coil. It screamed at first, but it's pain faded and it began to grow bigger and bigger. Suddenly, a lightning bolt shot from Brennan chest and hit the demon, it was absorbing his powers!
Pamela tried to blast the dome that was keeping her pinned down, but the shield was slowing down molecules faster than she was accelerating them. She knew that there was only one thing to do, standing up, she waved her arm out into the air, a ripple of energy broke the bubble immediately and freed the Halliwell. Pamela blew at the demon, a cloud of chilling frost flying from her mouth and engulfing the Shocker Demon. The lightning stopped pouring from Brennan's chest and he fell to the ground.
Pamela helped the larger man up and blasted the demon on the way out, the ice shattered and the electric being crawled back into the plug socket. Brennan regained his feet at the bottom of the stairs and walked out the house with a slight hobble in his step. The to of them drove away at an amazing speed, unaware of the watchful eye of Bella Hunter looking at them through her window.
Leo and Emma orbed into the deserted warehouse on the docks, the Leaper Demon had been extremely hard to track down since he could use his own portals to escape and leave this dimension. They heard the strangled screams of someone nearby and ran towards where they were hearing the noise, which was probably fisherman with his "catch of the day"
Sure enough, the demon was choking a man who was wearing fishing clothes. Emma sneered at the back of the creature and threw a vial at it, the demon dropped its victim to the ground, he was unconscious. She threw another potion at the Leaper, but it destroyed it with an energy ball and sent Leo flying into a crate with a telekinetic wave.
Emma fired a psionic blast towards the being, hitting it with powerful psychic energy but even that wasn't enough as the demon just stumbled back a few steps. Attacking again, the psionic tried to wake up Leo from the wooden rubble that he was lying in.
"C'mon, you're a damn angel for Gods sake!"
The elder slowly began to come to and noticed the Leaper advancing on the two of them. He fired a quick bolt of electricity, blasting the demon into the air and landing on the ground. Emma pulled Leo to his feet and two barraged their enemy with lightning and psychic strikes. After taking enough punishment, it wisely shimmered out and left Emma with clenching her fists.
"Dammit!" she growled underneath.
"How much do you think he saw?" Leo gestured towards the knocked out fisherman.
"Ugh… I'll take care of his memory, you better take care of his wounds," Emma said weakly. He complied and knelt down next of the man, a glow shining from his hand sand healing the bruises on the man's neck. Once to came to, Emma fired a psionic blast at his head and he fell to the ground again.
"What do you do?" Leo eyed the limp body on the ground uneasily.
"He'll wake up when we orb out, with no memory of the last hour. Let's to meet with Brennan and Pam and see if they did any better than we did…" he walked over to her and they orbed out with a sigh.
The Leaper Demon shimmered into the Mulwray household, sniffing the air and grunting to itself after finding what it was looking for. Letting out a roar from the blank space where his mouth should have been, a snake of electricity slithered out of the plug socket and took on the form of Shocker Demon, who prepared itself for an attack.
"Relax my fellow demon, I'm not here to stir you from your home," the Leaper said.
"How dare you enter my domain, what business do you have with me?" the electric demon replied.
"The witches. They have attacked you, have they not?" the Shocker sparked with rage and he took this as an answer, "They attempted a two pronged attack, but how about we attempt a two demon attack?"
"Going against the Charmed Ones? Suicide! Especially with all three back together!" The Shocker spat.
"Ah, but it's not the Charmed Ones we're after, just the ones that attacked us. You seem to still be alive after a confrontation. Double the demon, double our chances,"
The hovering demon seemed to be thinking for a moment, "Very well, alert me when the time is right," he disappeared in a crackle of electricity and the Leaper shimmered out.
Piper hadn't moved from the cell door since she and Phoebe had formed their plan, the middle sister was sitting in a meditating position, focusing her telempathy to alert then to the first guard that came anywhere near them. Both of them had sat in silence for a long time, both thinking about what they had said to each other and about how to get out of their prison.
"Hey Pheebs, I've been thinking… Do you think it's possible that our powers sorta got… thrown from us during the cross over?"
Phoebe opened her eyes and raised one eyebrow, "Excuse me?"
"Think about it! We used a demonic portal! Anything could have happened,"
"What do you want to do then?"
"Um… Let's try calling for our powers, Phoebe?" Piper frowned at her sister whose eyes glazed over.
"There's a guard coming," she announced.
"Okay! Okay!" Piper went over to her sister and grabbed her hand, turning them both invisible. The guard fumbled with keys and opened the door with a screeching sound, after seeing no one was there, his eyes widened and he ran out of the cell, leaving the door open. Reappearing with a smirk, the two witches tip toed out of the stone room and walked down the corridor. They were forced to stop and hug the wall when two conferring floating beings walked by, their hoods still covering their faces.
"It's almost time for the sacrifice,"
"Yes, once we lead the witch down here, our leader shall rise again,"
They continued to float along leaving the two invisible women gaping on shock. Piper let go of Phoebe's hand the two of them returned from their invisible form.
"Oh God… We have to find Paige and fast,"
Piper smiled as if to say "Obviously!" and ran up the stairs with Phoebe in tow.
Paige sat on the long luxurious couch on her throne room, one of her many new servants worshipping her, one was rubbing her feet, one was gently waving a palm leaf and another was picking her grapes. Any other woman would have thought that this was a dream come true! But not Paige. She had been wracked with guilt ever since she had sent her sisters to the dungeon, especially Phoebe since she hadn't seen her in such a long time; it was then she made a decision.
"Bring my sisters to me immediately!" she clicked her fingers.
"No need, Princess," A voice came from behind the door, before it blew up became a shower of wood splinters. Piper and Phoebe walked through the cloud of floating sawdust, Piper had her hands up, indicating she had been the cause of the explosion, "We'll come to you…" She finished her sentence.
"Piper…? How did you escape? And how did you get your powers back?" Paige stood up.
"Calling for our powers. They were redirected during the flight, but we got them back," Phoebe explained smugly.
Suddenly, all of the men in the room fired energy ball after energy ball at the two intruders. The sisters protected themselves by freezing and using telempathy to redirect all the attacks, the onslaught ceased after most of the men had been killed by their own energy balls, but after the dust had settled, Paige was no where so be seen!
"How did they escape?" Phoebe looked around the battlefield.
"Beats the hell out of me, we would have seen them pass us by the door," Piper replied.
They looked around for a minute until Phoebe sighed and pointed to a gaping hole at the back of the room, "I'm willing to bet my new house that that leads to wherever they're sacrificing Paige,"
"And I'm not willing to bet against that. Let's go,"
Leo walked back into the attic after being on the phone to Seth's mother, asking her if she could keep Wyatt for a little longer until everything was sorted out. Brennan and Pamela had been unsuccessful in their crusade, as had Emma and Leo, they had probably only pissed off the powerful creatures and would have to wait until the three girls got back until they could do anything about it.
"Is Denise going to keep Wyatt for a little while longer?" Emma asked, Leo nodded.
"Um… Okay, why don't we just trap them in the crystals until my aunts get back?" Pamela thought aloud, they had all been thinking of ways to vanquish both of their demonic problems.
"But what's to stop the Leaper from just opening a portal and going somewhere else? Ugh… we can't contain it, we can't vanquish it, we're powerless," The psionic flopped back in her chair.
"When did you give up so easily?" Brennan said with disgust.
"Since I was brought into the world where evil isn't always human like the old days…" she glared at him. Pamela looked between the two with confusion.
"Okay, seriously! What is it with you two?"
"Nothing," they said in unison.
A cold wind began to blow through the attic, making everyone jump up and look around for anything unusual. Pamela just let out a snort and went to close an open window, but when she got close, something sent her flying into the pedestal of the Book Of Shadows. Brennan went to help up his niece when an electrical dart hit him in the chest and sent him flying into an old dresser, smashing it in the process. The Leaper and Shocker demons appeared out of thin air and advanced on the remaining magical beings.
"How did they turn invisible?" Emma shrieked.
"They must have found a way to tap into each other's powers and become stronger!" shouted as he fired a lightning bolt at the Leap, but it changed direction at the last moment and the Shocker Demon absorbed the lightning. Pamela scrambled to her feet and thrust out her hands, blasting the Leaper back with a small explosion. Brennan recovered as well, sending a tesla coil at the same demon Pamela was attacking. The Shocker tried to attack, put Pamela blew ice from her mouth and froze the electrical spirit in the air.
All of them looking triumphantly at what they had done, until the Leaper Demon got back up and Shocker Demon unfroze, then all of them were thinking the same thing.
Crap.
Piper and Phoebe ran down the stairs of the dark passage way as they attempted to reach Paige. After Phoebe had sensed her down her, the psionic had been taking the lead from Piper as she new the way and was a lot quicker on her feet. They reached the bottom; there was a thick plate of metal in the middle of the dark and dank chamber. Paige stood on the top of it while the hooded figures stood around her, chanting in low voices.
"What are we gonna do?" Phoebe hissed.
"Storm in," Piper said confidently, walking proudly towards the demons and letting from be fully aware of her presence.
"The prisoner!"
"How did she escape?"
"Seize her!" One of the more organised demons cried.
"Paige! Call for your powers and help us!" Piper shouted as the demons ran towards them, she saw Paige nod and her lips, move, she was saying the spell. Phoebe ran out to join her older sister and fired a psionic blast at the firs attacker, who flew back into his allies and knocked them down like bowling pins.
"I told you I would make up for lost time," Phoebe muttered to her sister.
"Killing one demon doesn't make up for that…" Piper muttered back, throwing her hands over Phoebe and blowing up another demon. Paige lit up the area by appearing in a train of orbs,
"Okay, any mass vanquishing spells?" She asked, Phoebe wordlessly took her sisters hands and used the only spell she knew.
"Within this chamber, darkness romes,
Destroy all evil within this dome!"
All of the hooded figures stopped in their tracks, light suddenly bursting from their faces and hands as they writhed in pain. One by one, each of them exploded and left a small scorch mark on the ground.
Paige turned around to face her sisters, tears streaming down her face, "I'm sorry…" she whispered, "I've been so stupid!" she cursed to herself.
Phoebe's eyes began to well up and pulled her baby sister into a tight and loving hug, "No… I'm sorry, none of this would have happened to I had been here, I'm so sorry…" the two of them cried onto each others shoulders until Piper joined in, weeping and babbling with her sisters.
Pamela blew a frost cloud at the incoming energy ball, the Leaper was still going strong and so was his partner, while Brennan tapped all of his power hitting the Leaper Demon while Leo healed a knocked out Emma. Brennan had resorted to slashing both demons with a sword he had found in the now ruined attic. A downed Emma had got up and attempted to fire a psionic blast, but it fizzled out immediately and she fell to the ground, none of could use their powers for this long and Pamela was almost tapped as well. Then, as if something had answered their prayers, the Charmed Ones walked confidently through a recently opened portal, Piper leading them with Phoebe and Paige behind her.
"Time for a Power of Three comeback?" Phoebe suggested with a smirk.
"You read my mind," Piper smirked back without taking her eyes off of the enemy. The three of them knew what to do and began to chant their spell.
"The Power of Three will set us free,
The Power of Three will set us free,
The Power of Three will set us free,
The Power of Three will set us free,
The Power of Three will set us free!"
Both demons let out a piercing scream of agony before disappearing instantly, the three sisters smiled and looked at they're handy work. Paige turned to her sisters.
"Looks like we're back!"
Okay, I have 7 minutes to upload this so this is really rushed!
NEXT TIME: After Pamela goes to extreme lengths to protect a demon, a small chuck of her past is revealed. Phoebe get increasingly annoyed with their new neighbour and determined to make the most of her summer, Emma begins to train of the San Francisco Marathon.
Chapter 3 "Meet The Walkers" will be up soon!