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Coling For Help Part 2

"How dare you-," Thrask began.

"Aw… shove it," Emma rolled her eyes and pulled out a piece of paper, beginning to chant the spell written there, "Through minds that link, I shall now sever, To aid us now in our endeavor,"

Everyone who hadn't just appeared looked around, confused by the sudden rhyme. The demonic members of the Tribunal and Gabriel Ashlocke however, did not look so surprised. The super mutant stood up from the table almost running towards Emma in rage and creating an energy blast in his hand.

"CEASE!" Adair bellowed. The energy blast fizzled out immediately and Gabriel looked at his empty hand in horror, "Need I remind you, Mr. Ashlocke, that you are not all powerful in our court!"

"Damn…" He muttered under his breath before stomping back to his table and sitting down.

Leo turned around to the elders of the Tribunal, "Your honours, we have reason to believe that your evil counterparts have been conspiring with the opposing council to make sure that Phoebe is not returned to the world,"

"What?" Phoebe got up from her slightly slouched position and listened.

Brennan answered, "Those guys…" He shot a look at Thrask and Crill, "Ordered gargoyles to let Gabriel pass through the barrier between life and death. They're the reason he's here and why he knows so much about your history,"

"Is this true?" Aramis stared at his demonic counterpart.

"We have the right to choose whom ever we want, Gabriel needed the information of the history of the Charmed Ones and we gave it to him." Thrask shot back with a sneer, the four members really didn't get along with each other.

"I ask a punishment of some sort is given for this forbidden mind link," Leo faced towards the two elders. Adair and Aramis looked to each and nodded,

"The trial shall continue,"

"What?" Piper stood up along with Paige, "How can let this go on when it's been proved that they were cheating?"

Paige folded her arms, "So much for a fair trial…"

"Despite their means, what Thrask says is true and we have no way to prove that Gabriel was given extra information on top of your history. The connection has been severed, the trial shall continue,"

The youngest and oldest Charmed Ones opened their mouths to speak again, but Phoebe took their hands and pulled them to their chairs, she faced the floor as she did so, "No, it's alright. I guess I'll have to put all my faith in our lawyer," She looked at Cole with a trusting look and nodded, he nodded back and stood up.

"If this trial is indeed to go on, let me begin a new leaf. I would like to remind the courts of the Charmed One's impeccable caution when it comes to using their powers in public situations," He waved his hand and a hologram appeared.

The security of San Francisco Museum suddenly froze at his desk as Piper and Phoebe walked in, the eldest sister had her hand up towards the man, indicating she had been responsible for his lack of movement to the intruders dressed in black.

"So far so good," Phoebe whispered.

"Oh yeah?" Piper responded as they continued to walk down the runway. They reached the balcony and took in a breath when they saw lasers weaving along the floor, protecting the chalice that was encased in a glass box.

"Wow… If we pull this off, Paige owes me Prada," Phoebe looked at the scene wide eyed.

"And babysitting, for a year," Piper added. She cringed and raised her hand again, freezing the security precaution and walking down the stairs.

There was a time lapse. Phoebe stood with her arms in a meditating position and Piper seemed to be willing her to do something, "Okay, deep breath. Clear your mind. Think positive, think positive. Ready, ready, ready? Okay, after you," She offered. Her sister rolled her eyes before suddenly diving into the web of lasers; she vaulted over the first one and rolled along the ground, standing up just inches away from one in front of her face. She crouched down and slithered under it, "Easy…" Piper warned. Phoebe wavered for a second before bringing her leg up and stepping over the next one, "Careful!" Her sister hissed. The next set proved to be trickier, forcing Phoebe to get down onto her back and slide along the floor. She reached the final one, decided to lift her legs up and do a backward roll over it from her lying down position. She steadied herself with her hands and stood up, turning around cautiously,

"Okay…" She said, out of breath and moving her fringe from her face, "Now what?"

Piper opened her mouth to stay something, but instead she gestured at the glass box, shattering it to pieces and then gesturing again quickly, freezing the pieces in mid air,

"Nicely done," Phoebe commented.

The hologram ended and Cole began to talk again, "So as you can see, everything that could've gone wrong, didn't go wrong," He said before sitting back down.

Gabriel clapped slowly from his table, "First of all…" He began as he rose, "I would like to thank the opposing council for bringing that particular event. Let's see what happens if I let that hologram play for a little longer, shall we?" He waved his hand and the previous hologram started from where it left off.

Phoebe cautiously tread towards the chalice, making sure she didn't disturb any of the frozen glass shards. She placed her hands around the goblet firmly before lifting it from the pedestal, unfortunately, there had been an alarm placed under the artifact and a siren began to go off, along with the lasers which disappeared. The glass unfroze and fell to the ground, Piper gestured to her sister and they began to run out of the building.

"This is bad! This is bad!" Piper said in a high voice as they ran, not noticing Darryl, Inspector Sheridan and Agent Kyle Brody ran out from the shadows in their pursuit.

"So you see, the so called caution that Mr. Turner has been praising the Charmed Ones for, seems to be non-existent in this case," He continued to walk around, "And in this one," He waved his hand again.

"Dr. Williamson, we can help you but you have to stop hurting people," Piper warned the white coated man as they stood in the abandoned building with Prue and Phoebe standing next to her. The man smirked and raised his hand, revealing a scalpel in his palm,

"If you say so…" He smirked and went to throw it, but Prue raised her hand and used her power, sending the scalpel flying into the wall behind the doctor, "You should have stayed away," He said, throwing out his arm and making a circular saw blade fly towards the three witches. Piper yet out a yelp and jutted out her hands, freezing the metal disc before it could reach them.

Phoebe began to panic, "Okay, Piper, freeze, him, him, him,"

She hesitated before gesturing towards him and freezing him, but he slowly began to move again and fought through her power, returning back his normal speed.

"It's not working,"

"What ever you do, do not unfreeze that thing," Prue cautioned, but she had to quickly raise her hand when Dr. Williamson sent another blade flying at them, the two were locked in a telekinetic fight, "Okay, he's really, really strong,"

"I don't know how much longer I can hold this," Piper said, her hands still raised in the direction of the saw blade.

Her younger sister's voice went high, "Piper, you do not let that go, okay, you do not let that go!"

"Okay, yelling does not help,"

"Piper, when I tell you to, just let go," Her big sister advised.

"What?" Phoebe questioned.

"But…"

"We're done playing around, hit the deck now," Prue said strongly before throwing out her arm, making the blade she had been holding back fly into the wall. She pulled her sisters to the ground and the frozen blade regained movement and ricocheted off the wall behind then, whirring straight into Dr. Williamson and striking him the chest. He pulled it out with the last of his strength and fell to the ground, dead.

Piper and Phoebe stood up after the hologram was finished, "That isn't fair! We didn't have a choice! He was killing innocent people!" The middle sister protested.

"Ah…. Yes. But if Piper had just went down the hospital for a check up, the good doctor never would have been injected with your blood and been driven mad by your powers,"

"You're the last person who should be talking about people gone mad…" Emma spat.

Piper looked defeated at this. Dr. Williamson had always been a burden on her conscience, as she felt responsible for his death, and now that she knew she was, she felt even worse, "We tried to save him…" She choked out.

"But it wasn't enough." Gabriel replied sternly before sitting back down.

"The court shall rest to review the current evidence. There shall be a brief interval," Thrask boomed before a chilling hum broke through the silence and the Tribunal disappeared…

"Cole, what is going on? I know you're a better lawyer than this," Phoebe asked her ex-husband.

"I am. Why do you think I'm letting him get all these arguments out? He'll eventually run out of ammo and that's when we strike, he won't be able to contradict our arguments and we'll be able to win, it's quite simple," He replied with a smile.

"I just hope you know what you're doing," She said warily.

"Have I ever let you down?" She gave him a look, "It's probably better you don't answer that question,"

"I hate the way he's looking so smug…" Brennan growled at the super mutant who was sitting at the opposite table, smirking and waving at the group.

"Well, Leo went to go get anymore information from the elders, so hopefully he can come up with something," Piper stated.

"You shouldn't rely on just that," Aidan advised, "We should start coming up with some ideas in case Leo doesn't find anything," The elemental had a lot of faith in his old friend, but they would have to have a back up.

"What are you doing?" Pamela snorted at her youngest aunt, who was staring at Gabriel with an intense look, "I didn't think dead psychotic super mutants were your type," She smirked.

Paige broke the stare and glared at her niece, "For your information, I was checking him out with my power, making sire he wasn't hiding a dirt little secret on the astral plane,"

"Did you get anything?" Pamela and Emma said in unison.

The witchlighter gave them a strange look, "What's with the duet? Should I have seen something?"

"I don't know…" The psionic began with a worried look, "I've just been getting this really creepy feeling from him. Like, whatever happens, he'll win,"

The Halliwell teen nodded at this, "Yeah, I don't whether it's because your premonition power is gone…" She said to Phoebe, "But I think mine is becoming more active or something, because I've been getting that same vibe,"

"Do you think you could get close enough to get one? A premonition, I mean," Brennan asked his niece.

She raised an eyebrow, "Are you kidding? If I step out this chair, the Tribunal will incinerate me!"

"Well, the Tribunal isn't here right now, are they?" Brennan glanced at Gabriel, "What's the worse that can happen? If he attacks you, Paige can heal and he will be sent back to wherever the hell he came from. All you need to do is touch him,"

"I'll go with you," Emma offered, "Maybe my premonition power can strengthen yours and it won't hurt to have a little back up,"

"Okay, but how do we know that he hasn't used one of his powers to find out our plan? He could already be prepared for us," Paige interjected.

"Because you lose your powers when you're vanquished." Cole began, "Right now, it's only his soul that's here. It's the same for me; it's a bit like an astral projection,"

Pamela looked at everyone before sighing and standing up, "Okay, I'm going in," She straightened out her top before walked towards their enemy with Emma following close behind. She walked to the table confidently and placed both hands down on the glass surface and bent down to face him, "You're not going to win,"

He leaned back, "Well, not with you shoving your cleavage in my face," The super mutant smirked and moved closer, "You certainly are well developed for a seventeen year old. You must get it from your mother, what ever happened to her, I wonder? Getting banged up then dying? That must suck,"

Pamela gave him a disgusted look brought her fist across his fist, punching him hard in the jaw. But the contact pulled her into a powerful premonition.

Lots people were crowded in the basement of the Manor, Gabriel stood in front of them all and was looking down into a hole in the floor. He seemed to chanting something. There was a bright flash and dark gaseous creature flew out of the hole, it floated in front of Gabriel's face before entering him through his eyes. The mutant was shocked and stumbled back, and when he had opened his eyes, he was completely black.

She came out of the premonition as her fist left his cheek; it seemed that he hadn't even noticed the sharp intake of breath. Pamela blinked a few times before regaining her composure, "If you ever say anything like that about my mother again, a pair of hedge trimmers and your non-existent balls will be getting a little closer, you understand me?"

She spun around, her brown-blonde hair swishing behind her as she stormed back to the table. Emma came up beside her,

"Did you get anything?" She whispered.

"Yeah, he's after the Nexus,"

The dark attic was inhabited by three Strand members, who had been ordered by their leader to keep an eye on the Book of Shadows, as none of them had been able to touch it since they stormed the Manor. Light suddenly flooded the room and Emma, Leo, Brennan and Aidan appeared in orbs and water. The three mutant witches began to advance on the intruders, but Emma released a psionic blast at one whole Brennan and Leo blasted another with lightning. One released an energy ball towards Aidan and he lazily waved his hand, sending a wave of numerous icicles towards his attacker. They destroyed the energy ball and pinned the Link to the wall by sailing through his clothes and impaling themselves into the wooden surface.

"Damn trespassers…" Emma rolled her eyes and went to grab the book, but it glowed as she went for it and blasted her back onto the floor, "What the hell?"

"It must sense your desire to get it out of the house, only a Halliwell can do that," Aidan informed her.

"I told you it wouldn't work," Leo said quietly.

"Looks like it's time for Plan B!" Brennan announced, outstretching his hands and making electricity spark in his hands. Emma caught onto his plan and a pionic blast shone above her head.

"Looks like violence is the answer," Aidan stated. The Trident of Poseidon came whizzing though the door, it had obviously sensed its master and had came back to him, it has been followed by two Links, who were then hit by Emma and Brennan's powers.

The foursome walked out of the attic. Leo quickly made gestures at the fallen members and they disappeared in a swathe of orbs…

"Where the hell are they?" Phoebe hissed to Piper.

"How should I know? Look, we're better just to keep going with the case and not relying on the others finding something," Piper returned.

Paige nodded in agreement, "Yeah, let's just continue. I think we can win this one,"

Her older sister snorted, "Paige, my future is at stake here, we will need one pretty impressive hologram to win this thing,"

Cole suddenly clicked his fingers and laughed, "Of course! Why didn't I think of it before?"

"What has he been smoking?" Pamela gave him a strange look, "I want some,"

"No, I just thought of something that can win this thing!"

There was a chilling hum and four faces of the Tribunal came back into view. They looked down on the people sitting at the two tables and nodded their heads, "The trial may resume,"

Gabriel waved his hand, "I rest my case, I think I've shown that Phoebe shouldn't be allowed to remain in this world," She shot him a glare.

"I have one more hologram to show, your honours," Cole stood up, but Phoebe pulled him back down.

"I'm trusting you here," She warned. He nodded and stood up again.

"I think that I can sum up the skill and caution of Charmed Ones when it comes to exposure in just one hologram. One that proves they have the intelligence, ingenuity, and skill to clean up their own magical messes. The reason this hologram is so important, is because it begs the question 'Where were the Cleaners when this happened?'" He waved his hand and the final hologram of the trial began to play.

Prue and Piper were running down the street. Their eyes were scanning every crevice, opening and wide open area that was there. Piper looked around and sighed, "Maybe Phoebe hurt him worse than she thought," They continued to run.

"No, he gotta be around somewhere, he wouldn't leave without getting what he came for," Prue replied.

"You really think he would attack us in broad daylight? Evil is usually more incideous than that," The two witches stopped running and stood on the spot. Prue became like a statue and began to listen for something.

"Ah, okay, shh…" She hissed.

"What?"

A tornado began to come up behind them. The two of them heard the wind and gasped, turning around to face the tornado. The wind died down and Shax appeared, he threw out a wind ball from his palm, but Prue deflected it with her power. The attack hit him in the chest but he was unfazed from being hit by his own element,

"Blow this!" Piper yelled. She gestured towards the demon he blew up with a scream and in a plume of blue fire. The leaves that had been flying around fell to the ground, "Okay, is he dead?"

"Well, we didn't really say the spell," Prue replied, looking around for any evidence.

"Well, maybe we don't have to, we don't always. We're lucky nobody saw us,"

"Alright, let's just get back to Phoebe. Come on," She took Piper's hand and led her back down the road.

The view changed to the view of someone looked through a camera. It was watching Prue and Piper run off in a different direction, "Back to me, back to me, back to me!" A woman's voice urged. The camera turned and a woman wearing a red suit was standing there with a microphone, "Okay, I'm not sure what just happened, but whatever it was, you saw it here. Live!"

"So as you can see…" Cole began, "This was probably one of the biggest exposures in the history of magic, yet the Charmed Ones were able to clean it up with their own skills, even at the cost of their sister…" He added solemnly. Gabriel looked stunned and as if he was about to kill himself for not using that exposure against them.

"We shall return with the verdict," Thrask announced, before the Tribunal disappeared…

"I can tell you, that was the most anti-climactic victory ever," Emma told the Halliwells, "I used a spell to expel intruders and the Links are now scattered across the globe," She smirked.

"Thanks, Emma." Piper smiled at her friend.

"Okay, just in case they vote against me…" Phoebe began, "I want you guys to know that all of you are my family and that I love you all dearly,"

"Do you want me to go and get Connor for you?" Leo offered.

"No… I don't want him to have to say goodbye to me." She shook her head before turning to Cole, "Thanks for your help. Is there anything I can do?"

"Well… now that you mention it…"

"I'm not going to resurrect you in any way at all," She warned with a smirk.

He smiled, "All I want is to move on."

"What?"

"I've been trapped in a limbo for four years! I just want it to end, whatever side I go to," He explained.

Phoebe smiled, "Done." She took her sisters hands and chanted, "I call upon the Power of Three, release this spirit and set him free,"

He smiled in response before a white light enshrouded him. There was a bright flash and Cole was gone, "I hope he finds peace…" Phoebe said. She got up and took Brennan's hand; they walked away from the group so that they could talk alone.

"You take of our boy, okay? I'll be watching," She winked with a tear in her eye.

Brennan smiled, "You're not going to get taken. But I'll take care of Connor anyway," He chuckled. Phoebe suddenly jumped up and wrapped her arms around his neck, kissing him passionately and running her hands through his hair while Brennan kept his hands on her hips. She pulled back and smiled weakly.

"I love you," She whispered.

Brennan pulled his wife into a tight hug. He kissed the top of her head, "I love you too…" He whispered back with a choked voice.

The humming sound indicated that the Tribunal had returned. Phoebe composed herself and went to sit down. Brennan stood in between Leo and Aidan, who patted his shoulder sympathetically, "We have reached a verdict," Adair announced.

"As to whether or not Phoebe shall be allowed to return to the world, the judgment is in favour of Phoebe," Every let out a sigh of relief and happy squealing broke out, "However…" The happiness was destroyed by that one word, "There shall be consequences,"

"Phoebe shall be stripped of her memory and all of her powers," Crill said.

"What? My memory?" The middle sister gaped at the demon head.

"And Piper and Paige shall be stripped of half of their powers," Aramis continued.

"What purpose does that serve? I can understand stripping Phoebe's powers but her memory and half of her sister's powers?" Leo raged.

"It shall be up to you to restore her memory, and she will be mortal until we decide whether or not to restore her powers," Thrask explained.

"Piper shall be stripped of her temporal stasis, intangibility and geokinesis abilities," Aramis told them. Piper bowed her head in defeat.

"And Paige shall lose her orbing, healing, and telekinesis abilities," Crill told her. Paige also bowed her head, knowing they couldn't do anything about it.

"Let this be a lesson to you," Adair warned before him and his comrades disappeared…

NEXT TIME: After seeing what they to Phoebe, Emma decides to strip herself of her hidden powers, just in time for a new ability to reveal itself. Piper and Paige are disheartened by losing half of their powers. Brennan tries to restore Phoebe's memory the mortal way, and when a princess from a magical kingdom attempts to steal Melinda and Emma, Aidan's arranged marriage rears its ugly head.

Chapter 23 "For Whom The Wedding Bell Tolls" will be up soon!