Unique deflection – The demon's going to be the cause of concern for the characters, and maybe the kids are just using the powers that they've inherited from Paige, you never know!
Ravenix – Emma's in this chapter a bit more, but there's not much action! And as far as powers and the demon… they're all part of the mystery, but the twins names are Melinda and Emma.
Princess Pinky – Yeah, it was unlike the awkwardness Piper and Phoebe had with their exes; I hope you liked, since I know you're huge Paige/Glenn shipper! And the orbs were the baby's form of Wyatt's shield, but I think the shield is just going to be a thing of their childhoods. Ugh… Dan, I agree! And Connor's just a little devil lol! I'm glad you liked Pamela, that girl's got spunk! And makes a bigger appearance in this chapter, and you never know, you might just get your wish ;) Loved the opener to your new fic btw!
Phoebe turner – The evil sisters are in this chapter! Enjoy!
Prince Halliwell – Oh yeah, he's going to be really powerful! And Dan's buggered off, don't worry, I can't stand him either! And I know! I had completely forgot, I had uploaded the chapter and then I reread some of the chapters in your story! And I plan on making the shields a childhood thing, since I can't imagine Wyatt with a force field at 24! And as far as I have planned, Aidan's still an Elemental, so Grant has access to him…
Piperfairy – Meh… Do we care about Jason when Phoebe's with Brennan now? No! Lol and Phoebe's a psychic powerhouse!
Aniaka – Ah! She's onto me:runs: lol about your comment on Phoebe! And Emma and Pam are cool, everyone seems to like them! And there's a Piper centric chapter coming up after the next chapter! I know I've been a busy bee with too much time on my hands, that's why I've been so quick! The father of Paige's children? Not telling! Lol!
Ignorance Is Bliss
The attic door burst open, Emma and Piper walked as fast as they could as they carried an injured Pamela towards the edge of the attic. They set her down and Piper ran over to the Book of Shadows, Emma shook Pamela and shook her head at the oldest Halliwell looking frantically through the tome.
"He's gonna be in here in a matter of seconds and it's now you start looking at that thing?" She snarled.
Piper ignored her, "Paige! Get your ass down here!" she shouted to the ceiling. The baby sister appeared in a flash of orbs with Phoebe and Brennan.
"I thought we agreed that she wasn't going to be part of this! She can only levitate!" Piper exclaimed as she pointed at Phoebe.
"She refused to stay behind," Paige said sheepishly.
"Piper, I'm got going to sit here and watch you all die! You need the Power of Three!" The middle sister protested. Piper rolled her eyes,
"Fine! Paige, heal Pamela, Emma, get the potions, you two…" She gestured wildly at Phoebe and Brennan, "Kick some ass!"
Everyone went to their places, Paige let a glow from her hands flow across her niece as Emma ran across the room towards a table covered with potions, but he flamed in in front of her before she could get there.
"I was expecting a bit more of a fight…" He smirked.
"And you'll get one…" Piper growled, throwing up her hands and blasting the demon into a tornado of swirling molecules. Emma ran through the separated being and reached the potions on the table, "Brennan, blast him!" the oldest yelled another order, Brennan fired two tesla coils just after the demon reformed, he was able to deflect the attack and sending Brennan sailing into a pile of cardboard boxes. He then turned to Phoebe and smirked.
"Let's weed out the weak, shall we?" A fireball appeared in his hand.
"I couldn't agree more…" She snarled, levitating into a horizontal position and kicking him in the chest, sending him to the floor as she slowly lowered down, "Paige!"
"Crystals! Circle!" the youngest Charmed One ordered as she finished healing Pamela. The five crystals sitting in the chest of drawers orbed out and orbed back in around the demon.
"Okay Pheebs, time to test that new spell of yours!" Piper shouted as Emma collected more potions.
"I don't think so…" he smirked again, a powerful light shot from his hands, the crystals scattered and the blast sent everyone in the room flying, everyone except the person who had been standing behind him. Emma threw potion after potion at him, each of them making a small burn in his clothes, he growled behind clamped down teeth and threw out a fireball…
Phoebe's eyes returned from their blank white state as she came out of her vision gasping for breath. Seeing into the future at will was probably one of her most draining powers, that why she rarely used it, as it took a lot more power to conjure what will be instead of what was. She leaned on the table in the kitchen of her house, still trying to catch her breath, cursing herself for not having the strength to see the rest of the battle with the mystery demon. Brennan came down the stairs wearing his leather jacket with the red and white stripes down the sleeves; he gave Phoebe a quick peck on the cheek before heading the door.
"Hey, where are you going?" She asked with a frown.
"I found some supernatural activity with the scrying crystal and I'm going to check it out,"
Phoebe sighed, "Hold it; you went searching for trouble, again?" Her eyes widened.
"I'm just doing my bit to make the city safer for Connor…" He kissed her forehead and went for the door, but she wasn't going to let him go that easily.
"Hold it! How about spending some time with your family instead of trying to protect us?" it was when he turned around that she was hit with an empathic emotion, she gasped in realization, "Oh my God… You're bored here, aren't you?"
Brennan sighed, "I'm not bored, I'm just a little… restless,"
"Why? Are we not exciting enough for you?" Phoebe said in disgust,
"It's not that, it's just… There was always action when we were in Mutant X, we always had some mission to do, and it's not like that here…"
"So you're saying that it's boring here?" She glared at her husband.
"No, but I need time to adjust!"
"And you need to spend that time fighting demons?"
He sighed again, "Look, I'm leaving, hopefully you'll have cooled down when I get back!" he stormed towards the door and opened it forcefully just as Piper was about the ring the doorbell. Phoebe stomped towards the door,
"Yeah, that's right! Run away!" She shouted as Brennan sped off. The eldest sister stood there awkwardly,
"Uh… fight?" She smiled.
Phoebe rolled her eyes and invited her sister in…
Paige walked along the isle as she looked at all of the dogs in the cages; the pound was a mass of barking and whining from all of the different animals. Emma and Pamela walked behind her, giving suspicious looks to all the mutts in the cage.
"Okay, when I said you needed a roommate, this isn't what I had in mind," Emma pulled a face at a Doberman that was clawing at its cage.
"Oh, c'mon Em, didn't you have a pet when you were a kid?" Paige knelt down to look at a dog with great effort as her stomach was getting in the way.
"Yeah, I had… a sheep and a goat," Pamela and Paige gave her a strange look, "My parent were very "against technology" I lived on a diet of lamb and goats milk," she grimaced at the memory.
The Halliwell teen stifled a laugh, "And I though my childhood was screwed up…"
"Aw…" Paige knelt down to see a dog with a small body and huge eyes, "She looking at me,"
"Yeah, she's also looking at two to three weeks tops, look at all the health problems this thing has!"
The witchlighter stood up and glared at her niece, "Okay, what's your problem with dogs?" she folded her arms and rested them on her belly.
"Nothing, I just don't see how you're going to look after one, you work full time and you're pregnant,"
"Oh c'mon, it's not as if I'll be pregnant forever and I can walk it in the morning, spend the night with it, and take it out night! What's the problem?"
Pamela held her hands up in defeat, "Nothing! I just want to make sure you know what you're getting yourself into…"
"I believe I'm getting the "A dog is for life, not for Christmas" speech off my niece! I think I can… Oh my God!"
"What?" The two witches said in unison, checking Paige's stomach.
"I found the perfect dog!" she ran past them and went over to one of the cages, a small blonde Labrador sat pawing delicately at the cage, it looked up to the youngest Charmed One with big brown eyes and whimpered, Paige's heart melted instantly.
"Oh, I want that one!" She said like a small child.
Emma looked at the information board hanging on the cage, "Wow… Grab her fast, she's house trained, no illnesses… I'm surprised she hasn't been picked up!"
"Okay, you two stand in front of the cage while I go talk to the guy, I don't want anyone getting her first," She walked off to find one of the caretakers.
"Looks I'll have time to get ready for my date after all…" Emma smirked.
"You've got a date?" Pamela raised her eyebrows, "Who with?"
"Grant," She beamed, "He asked me out when he saw me at the library in Magic School,"
"Who would have thought that a good looking guy would pick up in a library?"
The psionic laughed, "Yeah, we've been flirting forever so I guess it's about time,"
"Are you gonna tell Aunt Paige?" Pamela wore a neutral expression.
She had to think about it, "No… I think with her experience with Elementals, she'll just fill my head with doubt,"
The teen nodded, "Good point… Speak of the angel…" She smirked when Paige walked towards them.
Emma mouthed "Not a word" to Pamela before moving out of the way to let the caretaker into the cage…
Paige jumped off from the large stone she had been sitting on; she paced around a meditating Phoebe and was beginning to lose her patience while Piper leaned against the wall with her arms folded. The youngest evil sister finally stopped pacing lost her temper,
"What's taking so long?"
"Paige…" Piper began.
"Every second she spends with her eyes in different times is another second wasted!" she spat, Phoebe's eyes returned from their white state.
"What did you see?" Piper asked, getting up from the wall.
Phoebe gritted her teeth, "Nothing, I went as far as I could in both directions, and I couldn't find him,"
"What's does that mean?"
"It means we're screwed…"Paige growled, "Maybe we should just cut our losses and come clean with our counterparts, you know, maybe they can help us,"
"After everything we've did to try and get their powers? I don't think they'll help,"
"But surely if we explain to them…" Phoebe began.
"No! We'll defeat this guy, take his power, and then go back to our world!"
"Unless he's the Nameless One…" The middle sister murmured.
Piper rolled her eyes, "The Nameless One doesn't have a form, we know that!"
"So these are the joint leaders of the Underworld I've heard so much about… What a bunch of idiots," A voice echoed through the cavern, the three Charmed Ones looked around edgily, before seeing the demon flame in. Phoebe and Paige stood at either side of Piper, ready to fight if they had to, "Relax girls, I'm just here to blow your cover," He threw out his hand, a gaseous substance flew out, and hit the three evil Charmed Ones, it didn't seem to do any damage.
"What did you do?" Phoebe snarled.
"I just lifted the guise of evil you've been wearing,"
"You know? How do you-," Paige was cut off.
The demon smiled, "I share the same gift as your sister," he gestured to Phoebe, "To sense the true emotions and thoughts of people,"
"We didn't come here to lose to some no name demon, we'll take your powers along with our counterparts," Piper said heartlessly.
"Do you really have the heart to kill the Charmed Ones? You're on the side of good, the only reason you want to kill them is so you have enough power to kill whatever evil that took over your world…."
Paige stood with her nostrils flared before taking action, "Dark matter! Circle!"
A pile of black crystals stood one of the pillars; they disappeared in white orbs and reformed in the shape of a circle around the demon, trapping him in a cage with blood red bars.
"Did you see that?" The witchlighter looked shocked at what she had just done.
"White orbs… He lifted the power masking potion," Phoebe answered, realizing that their cloak of fake evil had been broken. The demon grinned from his prison, releasing a blue light from his hands, but the cage stood strong and he looked angry,
"Dark matter, stronger than your average magical crystals," Piper looked confident, the demon gave her smug look before around twenty other demons shimmered in, one of them kicked a piece of the dark matter away from the circle and set free their leader, advancing on the no longer evil Charmed Ones…
Phoebe and Piper sat in the coffee shop while Connor slept in the stroller, eldest Halliwell had been drinking her coffee silently while she listened to her sister moan about the argument she had had with Brennan, Piper knew from experience that that if had a fight with your partner, you really only wanted someone to listen.
"So, am I out of line for bitching at him?" Phoebe asked.
"Well… If he's constantly hunting and not taking advantage of the rare magical break we've been having recently then yeah. You know our family; trouble always finds us if we look for it and since he's part of that family…"
"Ugh… But I know that I'm going to end up apologizing, I always do, I just feel guilty for shouting at him,"
"Phoebe, he's thirty three, not three, you don't need to feel guilty for putting him in his place,"
"I guess… So anyway, where's your gang today?" Phoebe folded her arms on the table.
"Uh… Emma and Pamela went with Paige to go looking for roommates, the boys are at a friend's house, and Leo's been with the Elders all day trying to figure out who the mystery demon is,"
"There's nothing in the Book of Shadows?" The middle sister frowned, Piper nodded,
"Which means one of two things, no one in our family has come up against him…"
"Or he predates the Book and we have no idea what we're dealing with," Phoebe finished solemnly, "Roommate? I thought Paige said that she didn't want of need one?" she took a sip from her coffee mug.
"Me too, but I guess things change…"
Emma looked nervously at the clock in Paige's kitchen; she had two hours until Grant would ring the doorbell at the Manor and be ready to take her to a fancy restaurant. The puppy was sniffing around its new home; Paige had taken the initiative to buy everything before she got the dog so she was prepared.
"Have you got any names for her?" Pamela said as she petted the little dog.
"No… But I'll think of one appropriate for her, she's blonde, she's cute, I'm there's tons of names!" Paige grinned as she picked up her pet and it started to lick her face.
The psionic decided this would be as good a time as any to escape, as her friend was currently occupied.
"Uh… Paige, I gotta go," She began to walk towards the door.
"Okay!" She shouted, still distracted by the wriggling mutt in her hands.
Emma smiled at her luck and made a quick escape…
Leo stood at the top of the Golden Gate Bride with a couple of the other Elders, they had been debating about the demon that had been released a week ago, the others assumed that the sudden death of demonic activity was because the Underworld was in chaos with another demon making a play for leadership against the Evil Charmed Ones.
"How is it possible that we haven't heard about this demon before? Elders have been around for thousands of years!" Leo exclaimed.
"There are few demons that predate our knowledge, and it's usually the most powerful…" Sandra said lowly. Orbs began to form and Kheel appeared,
"We may have found something…" He said.
"What is it?" Odin asked,
"The demon that was sealed shortly before the Hollow, and from what Brennan and the young Halliwell tell us, the being was released from a box,"
"It can't be the Nameless One…" Sandra breathed, "It doesn't have a physical form!"
"But Pamela said that the demons sacrificed themselves to revive it, maybe it got a physical form by absorbing the essence of the demons?" Leo suggested.
"It is possible, although only followers of the Nameless One have the power to do that, and they're extremely powerful, your niece and brother in law were lucky to survive,"
"That's the thing, they shouldn't of, apparently someone or something orbed them out from afar,"
"What?" Odin breathed, "What whitelighter would have been there?"
"Me…" A voice echoed, Andy appeared in a swirl of orbs, "Me…" he repeated.
"Andrew… Why?" Sandra looked at him with a shocked expression.
"I sensed my daughter in danger and I wasn't going to let her die, no matter what rules you've set to keep her away from me," he growled.
"How dare you disobey our orders!" Kheel gritted his teeth.
"If I had obeyed your rules then we'd have two dead witches on our hands!"
Leo looked at his fellow Elders, "You forbade him from seeing Pamela?" he clenched his fists.
"We thought it would distract him from his duties, he's lucky that his daughter didn't lose her powers," Odin sneered.
"Pamela is part of my old life! She shouldn't be punished for my actions as a whitelighter!" Andy roared.
"We will have to deal with this later Andrew…" Sandra said sympathetically before orbing out with the rest of the Elders.
Andy growled and shook his head, Leo went over to him and but a hand on his shoulder, "I'll protect her… Don't worry," Andy gave a nod of thanks before orbing out…
Brennan came in the front door, he had been going over everything that he had said to Phoebe before leaving and he still thought that she was in the wrong. She just couldn't understand that he needed time to adjust.
"Can we talk?" A voice came from the living room; Phoebe sat with a pitiful expression on her face on the sofa.
"Yeah… Where's Connor?" He asked he sat down on the opposite couch.
"Upstairs, asleep. Look, Brennan, I know that probably have a lot of things to say about this, but just let me speak first." She took a deep breath, "I was wrong to lose it with you earlier and for that I'm sorry for that, but… Please try to see where I'm coming from here, honey, I have fought demons non stop for the past eight years! It's very rare for us to get a break in the battles, and when you… go off looking for a fight, not only do I get pissed off but I get scared at the fact that you won't come back. That whatever demon you went to fight was the one that killed you! Brennan, I've too many people to evil, my Mom, by sister… I don't want you to join them!" Brennan sighed and gestured her come over, she stood up and sat sideways over him so her legs her hanging off the side of the one seater. She put her arms around his neck and looked at him with tearful eyes,
"I love you, and Connor, more than anything in the world, you know that, right?" Phoebe responded by kissing him, he smiled, "Thought so, but constantly fighting evil is the only way I've known for the past four years, and now I have this normal life with my family instead of living in a cave… and it's taking me a while to adjust to this new way life. But I guess I'm sorry to, now that I look back, I don't really know why I want to spend my time chasing demons instead of spending it with you and our baby. And to make up for that, we can spend the entire day tomorrow, just lazing around here, no demons,"
Phoebe smiled at him, "That has to be the best thing you've said all day," She nuzzled into his cheek and they sat there in perfect peace…
Piper sat staring at the fireplace in the living room with a glass of red wine in her hand, she watched the flames dance on the burning wood, it was very rare for her to get this sort of peaceful time, she wondered if it would be like this if they ever defeated evil. Pam walked in with a yawn; she was wearing pajama pants with baggy shirt that looked way too big for her.
"Where did you get that shirt?" Piper frowned at her.
Pamela wiggled her eyebrows, "Wouldn't you like to know…"
The doorbell went and Piper moved to get it, but the fast clicking of heels could be heard as Emma rushed into the foyer, still putting one of her earrings in. She was wearing a black dress that looped around her neck and left most of her back exposed, her hair was worn up, which was unusual for Emma as she always wore it down, small whisps of hair framed her face perfectly. She straightened out her dress, took a deep breath and walked towards the door, before eager voices in the living room stopped her.
"Wait! You can't leave without giving us a twirl!" Pamela smirked.
Emma glared at them both before spinning on the spot hurriedly, then composing her self again and answering the door. Piper smiled as she listened to the exchange to greetings, then hearing the door shut as Emma left. The teen walked toward the window and watched the couple,
"Okay, he opened the car door for her, good sign," She turned around and saw her aunt look distant, "What?"
"Emma and I watched Paige go off in Aidan's car the night he said that he loved her," Piper replied weakly.
"Do you think everything will work out with them?" Pamela nodded at the car outside.
"I don't know… All I can say is that I'm glad there are no more male elementals for us to go through…"
She smiled in response before there was a crash upstairs, "Here we go again…" Piper groaned as she set her wine down on the floor and climbed the stairs with her niece.
They gasped in horror when they saw the Evil Charmed Ones barely standing, their clothes were torn and they were covered in cuts and bruises. Paige stood in the centre, she had obviously been the cause of their escape, she let go of her two sisters and they fell to the ground,
"Help… Us…" Paige said horsely before coughing up blood and falling to the ground next to her sisters…
Uh oh, will they help the counterparts? Read the next chapter to find out… or just read the summary.
NEXT TIME: After hearing the true story of from their counterparts, the Charmed Ones go to another world where everyone leaves in fear of a super powerful warlock. Pamela wonders about Leo's sudden guardian like behavior and will the Mulwrays ever have a day to themselves?
Chapter 8 "Vanquishes That Changed The World" will be up soon!
PS: What do you think i should name Paige's dog? Leave your suggestions in your reviews!