Wyatt halliwell – Lol, I'm still deciding on the dog names, and what a twist, eh?
Unique deflection – Yeah, what a surprise! And I'm still thinking about the dog name
Phoebe turner – Thanks! And you'll need to wait and see about Aidan!
Prince Halliwell – Do you remember the power masking potion from the chapter "Witch Swap" in A Power Divided? Well, they used the fixed version of that to make themselves look evil! Yeah, I agree with you about Piper, but she has a love and children, so I've been struggling to fit her in. Interesting theories about Aidan, I still haven't made up my mind about the dog names. Keep an eye on that vision, it means a lot in the future…
Andy20 – Thanks for the suggestion! You'll need to wait and see about Phoebe's powers!
Piperfairy – They used a refined version of the power masking potion from a chapter in the previous story and it was the Evil Charmed Ones, but they've been pretending all this time.
Pangea – Hi! It's good to see new readers! I've decided on a new power for Paige but I'm going to bring it in after the twins are born so people don't think she's channeling their powers.
Princess Pinky – Lol, you're going to hate me by the end of this chapter by the way, thought I'd warn you! And thanks, I don't usually think I'm good at describing woman's clothes since I'm a guy lol! The Nameless One's sticking around I'm afraid, and I think they should get a pet in the show lol! I hope you enjoy/enjoying your trip! I can't wait for an update on your new fic!
A/N: I'm going to refer to the counterparts as "Evil" so it's less confusing, but they're not evil lol!
Vanquishes That Changed The World
Piper set down the final crystal, it made a humming noise and glowed as it completed the circle and trapped the counterparts. Phoebe sat in the seat next to the window in complete silence with her eyes closed, unbeknownst to her niece and sister; she was casting her minds eye into the past to try and find out happened.
"What are you doing? They're going to die and you're trapping them?" Pamela raised an eyebrow.
"No, I'm using the life support crystals that we used on the Elementals," Phoebe opened her eyes and gave her sister a look, along with Pamela, the eldest sister smirked, "You weren't here…" She pointed to her younger sibling, "And it was before your time," She nodded towards her niece, "The point is it gradually heals them, but traps them at the same time, I'm not going to call for Leo or Paige when that Paige could easily conjure a crossbow and kill them both, not to mention my children,"
Pamela smirked, "But you did call Paige…"
The Charmed One blinked a few times, "Yeah… Well, it's a magic related emergency and she can look after herself since one of her kids has got that orb shield thing going on,"
Orbs began to form next to her as Paige appeared, "Okay, what's the 911?" She placed her hands on her hips.
"The 911 is healing in our cage," Piper gestured at the floor calmly.
The witchlighter gave her sister a shocked look, "You're using the life support crystals? Are you crazy? This is our chance to get rid of them! How you stopped all three with just you and Pam is a miracle!"
"Okay, first of all, slightly offended by the miracle remark, just because you're invincible it doesn't mean you're than us," Piper grinned, "Second of all, they didn't attack us, we heard a crash up here and they were barely standing. Your counterpart made a plea for help, ruined my floor," She gestured to the blood on the floorboard that Paige had coughed up, "And joined her sisters on the ground,"
"Okay, the boys are down," Leo came in with Brennan.
"Thanks honey," Piper gave her husband a quick peck on the cheek before turning back to immediate situation. There was a groan from the cage the witches began to come to, looking around at their surroundings and staring at the glowing wall of the crystal cage.
"One wrong move, I set those crystals to stun," the eldest Halliwell warned with narrow eyes,
The Phoebe in the cage rolled her eyes and turned to her little sister, "Jailbreak?"
"Ugh… Fine! Crystal!" She said calmly. One of the crystals disappeared in white orbs and reappeared in the counterparts hand,
"How did she do that?" Paige whispered.
Piper made a gesture at the three escaping witches, when nothing happened she began to snap her hands open and closed wildly, "Uh… They're not freezing!"
Piper's counterpart rolled her eyes, "Good witches don't freeze," she said.
"I knew it!" Phoebe said triumphantly, "Even when she attacked me and Brennan on the road ages ago, I didn't sense any evil from her!" she pointed at her counterpart.
"Easy for you to say, you weren't dying from a head injury!" Brennan scowled.
Phoebe laughed, "Yeah, and if it wasn't for And… My help, you would have died," she took a deep breath after almost slipping up and saying Andy's name in front of her family.
"People, can we please focus on the mortal enemies in the middle of the room?" Piper made a face. The counterpart walked over to Piper and sighed,
"We need to talk,"
The three "evil" witches sat on the sofa awkwardly while the Charmed Ones, Pamela, Leo and Brennan. All of them had just at in silence for around ten minutes and everyone was afraid of talking to one another, Pamela how ever, was not fazed by this,
"So, are you going to tell us why you all landed in a crippled wreck on our floor or are you going to make us guess?" She received a hit on the leg from Piper, as Pamela sitting on the arm of the chair.
Evil Piper smiled wryly, "I miss our Pam's bluntness…" She said.
"There's a Pam in your world?" Pamela said in disbelief, "Am I prettier than her?" This got her another slap on the leg.
"Oddly, you're both the same…" Evil Phoebe smirked.
Evil Piper looked between her sisters, "Alright, who wants to tell the story?" the older ones looked at Paige, who rolled her eyes, "Hey, you were the one that brought us here, you can explain to them!"
"Oh, alright!" She took a deep breath, "We are… just like you, in our world, we were Charmed Ones, fighting demons and on the side of good, until Medlock came,"
"Medlock?" Phoebe frowned.
"We don't know where he came from; he's a powerful warlock that just suddenly came into our lives. We had no warning and we just thought it was a regular demon attack! Well, he drove us out of the Manor, took the Nexus and Book of Shadows and we lived in Magic School after that,"
"Did you ever try to take him out again?" Piper asked.
"Countless times, and we barely escaped with our lives," Evil Paige said solemnly.
"So are you going to explain why you've tried to kill us for the past year and a half?" Paige said cheekily.
"Paige!" Phoebe glared at her.
"Blame it on the hormones," She smirked back
The middle sister waggled her finger, "You can only use that excuse for six more months, milk it!" All three Charmed Ones laughed, knowing the joys of pregnancy. Evil Piper's eyes began to well up, she wiped her tears away immediately and Phoebe put her arm around her shoulders,
"What's wrong?" Pamela's brow furrowed.
"She misses Prue…" Evil Phoebe replied.
"Oh… Did she die just recently in your world?" Piper said sympathetically.
Her counterpart smiled, "No, Prue is my daughter,"
"Uh… Hello? Still got an unanswered question over here!" Paige waved her hand in the air.
"We needed more power so we could defeat Medlock, you girls were just in the world we landed in, nothing personal," Evil Piper said, her steely attitude now back.
"I don't get it, why didn't you just ask for our help when you came here?" Phoebe asked her counterpart, who grinned.
"Oh c'mon, you're just like us, and we knew if three witches looking exactly like us came through a portal wanting to us to go to their world to fight a terrible evil, we'd wouldn't trust them as far as we could throw them. Besides, it was easier on our conscience if we thought of you as the enemy,"
Piper sneered and nodded her head, "She has a point,"
The two sets of Charmed Ones sat there in silence until Phoebe spoke, "We'll help you," both of her sisters gaped at her, "Providing…" She glared at Piper and Paige, "Other Phoebe lets me see her past,"
"Done," Evil Phoebe said immediately…
Emma walked slowly towards the front door with Grant walking along side her, he hands his hands in his pockets as he paced. She had to admit to herself that he really had surprised her, after taking her to a beautiful restaurant, he had driven them down to the beach and they had just sat and talked about everything, their childhood, their dreams, everything!
She smiled seductively at him, "I had a great time,"
He grinned back, ever since they had met they had done this to each other, "Well, I aim to please,"
"You wanna come in?" An innocent smile spread across her face.
He grinned, "As much as I would love to, I can't, me and the other Elementals have got the balance thing to do tomorrow and I need all my energy, which means a god nights sleep. I'll stop by though and we'll sort something out,"
Emma nodded and then narrowed her eyes, "Elementals… Have you picked someone to replace Aidan?"
Grant looked at her fearfully, knowing that she would sense it if he was lying, "Um… We haven't needed to replace him, he's been at every balancing ritual since…" he trailed off as he saw his date's eyes widen.
"He's been in San Francisco? He hasn't even come to see Paige! Or has he?"
"No, he said that if he saw her, he wouldn't be able to leave her," He suddenly picked up on what Emma was planning, "Wait, you can't-,"
"Watch me…"She gave him a dark look before a crash from the inside interrupted her stare. Fumbling with the keys, she swung the door open just in time to see Piper fly into the foyer table and Paige was standing fearfully behind the orb shield one of her unborn children had created.
"A shield won't protect you from this…" The Nameless One growled, waving his arm and sending Paige across the room, but she landed safely on the sofa, unconscious though.
"You're an Elemental! Do something!" Emma hit Grant wildly until his body suddenly dissolved into sand, it swirled like a tornado before turning into a stream of the grainy substance, flying at The Nameless One then taking the form of a sandstorm. The demon waved his limbs at the sand that was hitting him and impairing his vision,
"Enough of this… Subsisto!" He shouted in Latin, the sand halted in its hovering place and he flamed out of the trap. Emma looked around, everyone was knocked out! There was no one around to help her. The Evil Charmed Ones came out of the living room; they stared at the demon fearlessly in the eye and began to chant,
"Power of Three will set us free,
Power of Three will set us free!"
The demon rolled his eyes and raised his hands above his head, creating a large fireball the throwing it at the Charmed Ones. It hit dead on and all three were sent flying back into the living room.
He turned to Emma and grinned, "Looks like it's just you and me, red,"
The psionic glared at him the fired a mental blast at him, and it had a surprising effect. The demon's body faded away for a split second, but in that second, a dark cloud of evil stood there. Emma gasped as she realized that this was The Nameless One's true form, it released a shot of black energy that sent Emma flying through the front door, smashing the windows and making the doors fly off their hinges as they were being forced open the wrong way. The demon's body came back and he groaned as he held his forehead before flaming out.
Paige came to and looked around, she was thankful to have landed on a soft surface as Phoebe had told her about the miscarriage she had had with Connor during a plane crash, she had been lucky to get him back after that. Quickly noticing that everyone was starting to wake up, she frowned at the sand that was suspended in mid air.
"Ugh… Is everyone okay?" She squinted around.
Leo looked around before noticing his wife lying in the wreckage of the table, "Piper!" He scrambled over to her body and began to heal her, "Paige!" He shouted, noticing Emma was dying in the doorframe. Paige rushed to the aid of her best friend, releasing a healing glow over her chest and was confused when it didn't work,
"No… No, this can't happen!" She noticed blood oozing from underneath the psionic, Paige turned her over cautiously and found why she wasn't healing, a broken piece of wood had impaled her, "Wood shaft!" the wood orbed out of Emma Back and Paige went back to healing.
Brennan gently shook his wife awake and Phoebe's eyes flickered open, she leaned up and wrapped her arms around his neck, "That was too close!" she whispered as she nuzzled into his neck,
"I know…" He pulled her into a hug and brought her to her feet.
The Evil Charmed Ones got up and Evil Phoebe looked at her counterpart, "Do you believe us now?"
All six Charmed Ones stood in front of a triquetra that had been drawn onto the wall of the attic while the others were downstairs with the book trying to find a way to unfreeze Grant, they had tried spells, potions and even the two Pipers had tried to use their power of reverse it, but nothing was working.
Evil Phoebe pulled a sheet of paper from her pocket and gave it to her counterpart, "Use this spell to open the portal,"
"Why can't you guys do it?" Paige frowned.
"Because Medlock will sense us opening the portal, you guys will be able to open it undetected,"
"I dunno… I'm still not sure about you going," Piper nodded to her youngest sister,
"Oh c'mon, you wanted to go everywhere when you were pregnant with Wyatt! I have the force field, I have the right," She smirked.
"Yeah Piper, she's packin more heat than the rest of us with my little nieces growing in her belly!" Phoebe said in a baby voice as she rubbed Paige's stomach, who quickly swatted her sister's hand away. The Phoebe stood in the middle of her two sisters and held out the spell so they could see it,
"In this place and in this hour,
We call upon the ancient power,
Open the door through time and space,
Create a path to another place,"
The portal opened, a buzzing sound went through the entire attic as the Charmed Ones walked through…
For once, they had a smooth landing, walking into the attic of this world gracefully as the portal closed behind the six witches. The attic looked exactly the same, apart from the fact that it was completely empty and only the Book of Shadows remained on its pedestal next to the window.
"Wow… I can see you guys aren't big on clutter," Paige sneered at the hollow room before her counterpart shushed her.
"The guards will be us if you don't shut up!" She hissed, but it was too late, three demons shimmered in and began to throw fireballs. One of the twins raised the shield of orbs immediately, protecting Paige the people who immediately surrounded her. The counterparts immediately sprung into action, Piper blowing up one of demons while Phoebe charged at the other, levitating into the air and jumped over the demon, then levitating again and hitting the demon in the back with a back turn kick and making him landed on one of the weapons that now filled the attic, vanquishing him. Paige merely deflected a fireball and vanquished the third, while the Good Charmed Ones stood in awe,
"Can we do that?" Phoebe's eyes bulged.
Evil Paige went over to her counterpart as the shield dropped, "Orb your sisters to Magic School," the Evil witches joined hands and disappeared in a flurry of lights, the others followed suit.
Unbeknownst to them, Medlock blinked in just after they orbed out. After sensing that his guards had been killed, he had come in to see what had vanquished them. He knelt down and picked up the dust that was now his minion, letting it fall through his fingers, "Witches…" he growled, before standing up and blinking out………
The six of them orbed into the Great Hall, it was a definite change from the Magic School that the sisters were used to. Darkness provided a cloak of secrecy to the run down chamber, making it look as if it was trying to hide from something or someone. Black orbs began to appear in front of them and they took the form of Leo, who held out a crossbow, which Good Piper immediately blew up,
"What the hell!" she exclaimed when Leo conjured an energy ball. Evil Piper suddenly walked forward and grabbed Leo's face, pulling him into a passionate kiss, making him extinguish the energy ball and hold her head to intensify the kiss "Is it weird that I feel slightly betrayed by this?" Good Piper asked her sisters, who merely smirked.
"Piper…" He whispered hoarsely as she finally let go of him.
"Oh my God, you're finally back!" a voice came from the hallway, the sisters looked over Leo and Piper to see this world's Pamela walk into the Great Hall, "Oh, are we entertaining shape shifters?" She glared at the Alternate Charmed Ones. Piper snorted,
"Nice to see all Pam's have that wit…"
Evil Piper ignored her niece, "Where's Prue?" She asked her husband.
"With Brennan in the nursery," Leo replied.
"Wait, there's a Brennan in this world too?" Phoebe asked, her counterpart nodded.
Paige looked up, "Does that mean…"
Her counterpart shook her head, "Sorry, I never fell head over heels for an Elemental," Paige's head fell along with her spirits.
"Wait, I don't get it, why are all of your powers evil?" Piper looked at all of the people from this world.
"That would be courtesy of my potion," Pamela said proudly, "All the flaws have been ironed out of course,"
Evil Piper turned to her sisters, "I'm gonna go see Prue, you coming, Pheebs?"
"Are you kidding? I want to see Brennan!" Evil Phoebe grinned and followed her sister and brother in law out of the room.
Evil Paige turned to the good sisters and sighed, "Let's get to work,"
Emma jogged down the stairs; she had decided to get changed out of her dress as it wasn't the best thing to wear if the Nameless One was going to have an encore that night. Pamela threw another potion as the floor, hoping that it would unfreeze tornado of sand that was still frozen in the sun living room while Brennan looked at the Book of Shadows, Leo had went taken the three children to Magic School.
"Okay, that potion was the last thing I had," Pamela threw her arms to her sides in defeat.
"Nothing in the Book either," Brennan closed the tome.
"Maybe there's a release word," Emma suggested, which got her strange looks, "The demon said something on Latin to freeze him, maybe there's a Latin word to unfreeze him,"
"Unless one of us suddenly gains the ability to speak Latin, I don't think that'll do it,"
A wind suddenly blew through the room and Book of Shadows reopened, its pages flying,
"Whoa!" Brennan stood up, surprised.
Pamela waved her hand, "It tends to do that sometimes, don't worry about it," she walked over to see what page it had landed on, "Let's see what we've got here… A list of Latin commands, I thought you said there was nothing in here," Pamela stared at her uncle.
"Well that was before I knew about the whole Latin thing!" He said in his defense.
"Uh huh," The teen replied with a doubtful tone, "Look, here's one, Permoveo!" She made an awkward turning gesture with her hand and the sand began to move again, becoming Grant.
"Where'd the demon go?" he asked, completely unaware that he had been frozen…
A mushroom cloud of smoke billowed from the potion pot as the two Paige's waved away the soot with their arms. The two Phoebe's were working on a spell to vanquish Medlock while the two Piper's sat with little Prue.
"Okay, the spell's done," Phoebe handed it to her big sister, who made a face,
"It's not your finest work, Pheebs,"
"Well, it'll do, even if the rhyme's a bit crappy, besides, I think any spell would kick ass if it has the Power of Six behind it!" She turned to her little sister, "How are those potions coming?"
"Pretty good," She filled a vial to the top, "We're almost ready to go,"
"Mommy," Prue began as she sat in her mother's lap, "Why does that lady look like you?"
Evil Piper looked at her counterpart, "Um… I'll tell you when you're older,"
Prue was five years old, the same age as Wyatt, she had hazel brown eyes and dark brown hair to match, she looked more like Piper than Leo but that was to be expected.
"I think we're all set," Evil Paige announced as she shoved a couple of potions into the pouch attached to her hip, "You guys ready?"
"Are you sure you guys wanna go in alone?" Brennan asked, who had just come into the room.
Evil Phoebe walked up to him and kissed him deeply in the same fashion that Piper had done to Leo, "I haven't seen you in two years, I'm not about to die now that I'm just back,"
The middle Halliwell turned to her sister, "I'm starting to get that betrayed feeling you were talking about," Piper held back a choke of laughter.
"Has everyone got their piece of dark matter?" Piper held up the black crystal in her hand, her sisters, along with Piper and Phoebe held theirs up, Paige didn't have one because she part of the plan, "Okay, let's go,"
Everyone huddled around Evil Paige, except for her counterpart who orbed out by herself while the other five orbed out together…
Paige orbed into the foyer by herself, the Manor was deadly quiet for some reason and the floor was completely blank, there was no furniture or anything, just blank space. She walked forwards slightly, clutching onto a potion vial in her hand tightly as she looked around,
"Looking for me?" Medlock walked into the middle living room from the sunroom confidently, "One witch? Well, I was expecting six, but I guess you'll have to do," He threw out an energy ball, which was neutralized by the force field of orbs that extended from Paige's stomach as soon the attack had left his hand, "Impressive! Any more tricks up your sleeve?"
She cocked her head slightly, "Plenty," She waved her arm quickly and aggressively, but the telekinetic blast only made him stumble back slightly.
"I've learned to become immune to the party tricks of witches…" He growled.
"Oh yeah? Well, here's something you might not be so immune to, now!"
The five other Charmed Ones jumped out from five directions, placing a piece of dark matter at each point, blood red strings of light shot from the crystals as they hummed, meeting each other at the top and trapping the warlock.
"You can't stop me with a crystal cage, you tried that last time!" He blinked out, but reappeared instantly and stumbled.
"A dark matter cage isn't the same, it's a lot more powerful," Evil Piper growled. The six witches surrounded the trapped evil being and began to the spell that would hopefully vanquish him and being this world back to the way it was supposed to be,
"Powers of right,
Magic of might,
Beings of light,
Remove this blight,
From our sight!"
The warlock was tortured by flames before a large burst of fire flew from the floor and consumed him, an explosion signified the vanquish. The three Evil Charmed Ones stood in awe at what had just happened.
"We did it…"
Pamela, Leo, Brennan and Emma stood in the attic, Grant had went home as he had to balance the world the next morning and he was thankful that Emma had forgotten her plans of crashing the ritual so speak to Aidan. They were waiting on the sister's return, as it was now five in the morning.
"I thought they said this wouldn't take long?" Brennan paced the attic.
"Yeah, Paige needs to check on her dog," Emma added,
"She has a dog?" Leo's eyebrows rose, the psionic smirked and laughed.
"Aw… Am I interrupting a little family gathering?" Everyone turned around to see the Nameless One standing behind them!
The three Charmed Ones stood in front of the triquetra that was drawn on the recently reclaimed Manor, the alternate family stood in front of them, beaming. The two Pipers hugged,
"Take care of your family," They whispered to each other in unison.
The two Paiges hugged next, "Good luck with the kids," Evil Paige said to her counterpart.
Instead of getting a whisper then they hugged, Phoebe got a telepathic massage from her counterpart, "They'll understand about your powers," Phoebe merely nodded before stepping back. Evil Piper picked up a box and handed it to her counterpart, "Take this, it's a box of dark matter, they should hopefully be able to contain the Nameless One and we don't need them anymore,"
Piper smiled, "Thank you,"
The Charmed Ones of this world came together and said the spell to send their counterparts back to their world.
"In this place and in this hour,
We call upon the ancient power,
Open the door through time and space,
Create a path to another place,"
The portal crackled as the blue energy appeared in the shape on the wall, the three of them walked through, knowing that they had did the right thing…
Reappearing in their world with a smile, the sisters happiness faded when they saw Brennan and Emma's solemn faces while Leo leaned over something on the couch,
"What's wrong?" Piper asked, noticing that Pam was missing.
Emma cleared her throat and talked with a cracked voice, "Pam's not waking up,"
Well, none of you were expecting that, were you? Just when you thought everything was calm… oh well.
NEXT TIME: Fueled by the anger of her niece being in a coma, Piper goes after the Nameless One herself, but he sends a time demon after her and makes her day never end.
Chapter 9 "Time Waits For No Witch" will be up soon!