A/N: Yay, chapter 22.This chapter is a play on, "The Wizard Of Oz."I hope I can fit everything I wanted to into this fic. Okie dokie, onto reviews. charmed-greek: Aww, wow! Happy birthday! lol Thanks for the compliments. :) RJF: Oooh! I forgot about Atharia...I just might be able to work her in somehow. Thanks for the super awesome suggestion. Hmm... :-D (P.S. I just went to your profile page and saw how you've made the links for your pictures, where you just have to click on the name of the character. How'd you do that? It's probably a stupid question, but I've never figured that out.) Phyre: I'm still trying to think of a new power for Persia, because I'd like to give her a new power before I give Phiona one. But then again, I don't want everyone to be too powerful. charmedsisters: Emma DeLauro - Telempathy, empathy, premonitions, psychokinesis, pink orbing (empath orbing), telepathy, psionic blasts. Alternate Pamela - Telekinesis, possession, molecular acceleration (exploding), cryokinesis, premonitions. The-Cheese-Fairy: Awesome! I'm so glad you got good mental images of Egypt. I really love Emma and Alternate Pam too, so there will be more of them. Prince Halliwell: I know, I considered what to do for that chapter for a long time and then it hit me. And since those statues were magically protected, it would have to take someone extremely powerful to magically pull them out of their hiding spot and who better to do that than a super powered mutant witch-immortal empath? lol

Every Halliwell Counts

Chapter 22: The Wizard Of Paws

"Oh oh! Paige, get Emma out of here!"

"I'm fine," the immortal empath replied, as she struggled to her feet. "Who is that?"

"The Egyptian Sun God," Prue hissed.

"An Egyptian God?" Emma bore her eyes into the Sun God.

----Flashback----

A haze of sand swirled in the desert sky, impairing the vision of the woman that trudged through the storm. She was wearing a golden breastplate that covered the top half of her body, leaving her stomach exposed to the gritty sand that was flying through the air, a skirt of the same material slanted across her legs, making a jingling sound as she walked. A simple silver band encircled her head and strings of gold beads hung from it, but they only went around half way so she could see.

The woman could hear the neighing of horses, the shouts of the soldiers and the thundering hooves of her chasers; she had to speed up if she wanted to escape. Finally seeing the place where she could be safe, a humongous stone creature stood proudly in the desert, the sphinx was magically sealed, if she got there, she would be safe. But fate stood in her way; she tripped in the thick sand, getting a mouthful of the grainy substance. The soldiers and their horses surrounded her, their eyes veiled under the shade of their helmets.

"Die sorceress!" One of them shouted as he raised his spear, the others roared in approval. The sorceress stood up proudly, spitting the sand out of her mouth and moving a strand of her red hair from her eyes.

"I would rather take my own life than lose to the likes of you!" She shouted at the leader, a searing globe of mental energy sprung from her forehead, hitting the ground and creating a ring of roaring fire around herself. She mumbled something in Egyptian before laughing manically, "We shall meet in another life, and I shall have my revenge!" were her last words as a hieroglyph burned into her forehead and the flames consumed her.

----Flashback----

"Emma!"

The redhead's eyes flashed open just in time to see a ball of pure solar energy heading straight for her. Her hands flew up to her face in a Paige like fashion and her body was enveloped in a rosy pink glow of orbs and she vanished, allowing the solar ball to fly across the desert.

Paige's eyes were wide. "I wish I could do that!"

"Paige!" Phoebe snapped, slugging her little sister in the arm. "More pressing matters at hand!"

"Right!" Paige flicked her wrist and the ground beneath the massive Sun God fizzled into whitelighter orbs, only to vanish leaving a gaping hole for him to callapse into and once he'd dropped, orbs filled the hole to redeposit the sand.

"You buried him alive?"

"Like it hasn't been done before," the witchlighter snorted.

"That won't stop him," Pearl said, her dark eyes locked in front of her. "But this will hurt him," she hissed and she thrust out her arms and a beam of golden energy shot from her body, in a fashion reminicent of how the female member of the Fantastic Four used her power.

Ra materialized in a solar ball, only to have a beam of sheer power hurl him off his feet. "Isis!" He hissed through clenched teeth. He knew that only one being possessed that power. His body slid across the sand and he could feel his skin being scraped away. When he slowed to a stop, he instantly pulled to his feet and his wounds vanished. He stared forward, where the attack had originated. But to his surprise, all he saw was a young girl who seemed to be dressed as Isis. "What..."

Emma pink orbed in, next to Persia.

"We have to keep those statues from him," Persia informed. "I don't know where to keep them, in order to keep them from him, though."

"I have an idea," the mutant witch grinned.

"What are you..." Persia stopped mid sentence, as Emma pink orbed away. "Curses!"

A pink glow illuminated ground on the opposite side of The Sphinx, at the immortal empath appeared. She looked up at the everlasting, blue sky and cleared her throat. Her plan would work! She squinted her eyes, trying to remember. "To call upon the Great Atharia..." Emma paused, trying to remember the exact wording. "Let her magic soar through time and space and take her with my power and bring her to this place!" A brilliant flash of light appeared before the empath, blinding her just as it had done the first time. She brought her hand to her face, shading her eyes and then she smiled when the light faded. "Atharia."

"Emma?" The ancient Egyptian Sorceress replied, looking curiously at the mutant witch.

"It's good to see you again."

"Why have you summoned me?"

"I have to help some friends and I need your help."

"How?"

"I need you to help distract Ra, while I take the ancient statues of the Egyptian deities from this world into my world, where Ra can't reach them."

"What world?" Emma's past life asked.

"We're in an alternate reality, where my best friend's niece has befriended the alternate child of an alternate Charmed One."

Atharia nodded her head. "What're you waiting for?"

Emma grinned and made her way around The Sphinx, just in time to see Persia fly past her. She cringed as she felt the air rush against her body and then her empathic powers forced her to feel the pain that the electrokinetic felt as she crashed into the ground.

"Ra," Atharia said with contempt as she saw the Sun God. "He was never a favorite in my world either. Isis never liked him much." She pursed her lips and a globe of psionic heat blasted from forehead and fly straight into Ra, knocking him off his feet. "Hello, Ra."

Emma held out her hand, pulling the Child Of Light to her feet. "I'm going to take the statues to my world. Pamela and I can watch them until you need them."

Persia bobbed her head, allowing her brown locks to slide around her head. "Okay."

"Ball thingy!" Paige yelped, redirecting a solar ball that had been sent at her niece with her teleorbing.

Persia laced her fingers together and faced her palms outwards, releasing such a powerful blast of electrokinetic energy that it literally knocked her off her feet. She frowned as watch Ra absorb her attack. Her eyes traveled to Emma and then she blinked, realizing that there appeared to be two Emmas. "Emma?"

Emma flipped around, her eyes wide. "What?"

"Who is.." Persia pointed a finger at Atharia. "...that?"

"A past life," Emma wagged her finger at the Child Of Light. "Shh!" The glowing portal from earlier had faded away, due to its lack of use. So the empath quietly chanted the return spell and another glowing blue Triquetra errected in front of her. The mutant stepped forward and took a deep breath, summoning her psychokinetic abilities and fighting against the ancient magic that protected the the statues.

A deep, throaty growl errupted from Ra as he threw out his arms as if to catch something ten times his side. A ripple of heat spread across the desert and then the yellow sun turned a deep, scarlet red. Ra's face, nearly as red as the sun, formed into a tight and wicked grin. "I will take control!" Beams of sheer heat began to strike down, hitting the sand. The natural reaction of sand when hit with enormous amounts of heat was to melt and form into glass. So when the crimson beams hit, large irregular blobs of glass formed on the desert. But as the temperature rose, sand slowly began to melt by itself, forming sheets of pure glass upon the Egyptian landscape. Ra smiled triumphantly as the witches began to fall, not being able to take the growing heat.

"And you call yourself a Sun God," a cynical voice mocked.

Ra looked up to see Atharia standing proudly, about ten feet away.

Atharia looked up at the glaring red sun and a globe of psionic heat appeared above her forehead. She smiled as the globe that normally would release heat began to absorb the extreme temperatures and grow massively larger.

Prue squinted her eyes as she lay, literally being baked alive, on the scorching ground. She could see Emma, fighting in the partial shade of The Sphinx, to lift the statues with her power. She could also see that the portal was wavering. She blinked once or twice, before emitting a poweful wave of telekinetic energy at the statues.

"Take this!" Atharia mocked, as she sent her massive globe of heat filled psionic energy at Ra. The force of her power, heightened by Ra's own attack, caused his skin to ripple and pop as it pounded him into the ground. The ancient Sorceress looked up at the sky and saw the sun fade back to its original yellow glow as the heat rapidly dissipated.

Emma, recovering quickly from the heat, forced her powers to pick up the statues with the help of Prue's power and hurl them into the portal. She quickly dashed in after them, just as the portal closed.

"I believe my work here is done," Atharia said as she gave a solemn nod to Prue before vanishing in a blinding flash of light.

Ra rose to his feet, severely injured and it would take a while for him to magically heal. His body began to glow in solar heat before he shrank into a massive ball of solar light, and vanished.

Phoebe scrambled to Persia's side, shaking her daughter. "Persia, sweetie, are you okay?"

Persia lifted her head in pain. "Yeah, yeah. I'm good." She murmured. "We've gotta get back home so we can touch bases with Bastet." With her mother's help, she pulled to her feet.

"Not if we have her," a familiar voice mocked.

Phoebe's eyes shifted upwards, traveling to the top of the head of The Sphinx. She gaped when she saw her older sister standing proudly with another woman who looked similar to Bast, but with the head of a lioness. "Piper?"

Piper pursed her lips, stepping aside to reveal a glowing cage fashioned to look like a pet carrier.

"No!" Phoebe gasped. "Piper, you can't do this!"

"Can't I?" Piper flicked her wrist in irritation. "You can't win this time," her eyes shifted to her older sister. "None of you can!"

The woman with the head of a lioness, Sekhmet, ran a large paw across the side of Piper's face. "Such a good kitty," she purred. The Day of the Feline was growing near and she could feel her and Ra's power growing. As soon as she could be annointed the Cat Goddess, then she and Ra would finally rule both the magical and mortal worlds. She pointed her remaining claw at Bast, the fury that she was so famously known for, blazing in her eyes. "I'll finally have what you stole from me!" She roared, literally. The Goddess threw her arms into the air and the eyes on The Sphinx flashed a yellow color, before the Egyptian desert let out a painful growl. Suddenly The Sphinx flashed a golden color and its giant mouth opened up. Golden lights began to encircle Piper, Bast's cage, and Sekhmet before they dissolved into a stream of golden energy and flew into the mouth of The Sphinx. The land groaned again, before The Sphinx's mouth clamped shut and it's eyes flashed yellow again, signifying that it had been magically sealed after Bast and Sekhmet's entrance.

TO BE CONTINUED...