Ok, one set of good news, two sets of bad news. Good news first; I'm managing to kick my writer's block's ass! Bad news: I have no time to reply to reviews and this chapter is another shorty.
Cast Me If You Can:
Hatred. Love. Envy. Pride. Lust. Phobia could feel them all. And more.
"My head…" she groaned, sitting down at the side of the streets clutching it in her hands, "oh god…" she suddenly gasped, before her eyes were lit up with a gold glow which spread across her body and morphed her clothing into a tight, black, leather, dress with red, 4" heeled, boots and a matching mask.
"Here I come," she sighed, raising her right fist and consuming her own body with glimmering crimson orbs, lifting her into the air and dissolving.
At the Halliwell-Wyatt manor, Piper swirled the amethyst above the map, waiting impatiently for it to drop,
"I don't see why you don't just use the sensing ability I drew you with," Kevin said,
"because I would rather rely on good old witchcraft," she replied,
"but you can sense Buzz Whitelighter…or Leo…whatever in the time it takes for you to blink," he argued.
"Mention Buzz Whitelighter again and I will freeze your eyes so you can't blink," Piper snapped, "and I'm not looking for Leo, I'm looking for Phoebe, although I don't know what good it'll do as it hasn't worked the last six hundred billion times we tried," she added, dropping the bracelet she had been using to try and connect to Phoebe onto the map, before squeezing the amethyst in her hand so hard it broke into several splinters and cut her flesh.
"That's it," she whispered softly, looking down at her blood,
"what?" Kevin asked,
"I know how to find her," she replied, grabbing a bowl they used for potions and adding several ingredients, before letting her blood trickle into the mixture and release a cloud of silvery smoke,
"Blood to blood I summon thee,
Blood to blood return to me…
Superheroes intertwined…
Bring Phoebe here with this…uh…rhyme."
The smoke was lit up with spinning clusters of gold light, before the magical glows separated and took on a form of their own; creating Phoebe. Guised in a tank top, shorts and thigh length boots created out of tight black leather, the soulless seer advanced on her sister and fellow masked being.
"Use your powers!" Kevin exclaimed, running to hide behind the loveseat as Phoebe formed a globe of furious flames,
"on my sister!" Piper screeched, gesturing without another thought as the fireball neared her, causing the flaming orb to explode and release an outstretch of heat and orange energy.
"I am so gonna kick your ass," Piper threatened, her eyes lighting up with a red glow,
"oh I'm so scared," Phoebe grinned, stepping towards her, before being catapulted back as her elder sister released optic heat-rays at her.
At Magic School, Cole had shimmered Summer back from purgatory and they were sitting in the library, though the half demon had one eye set on his Cassie, Patsy and Charley.
"Abwa kadabwa," Cassie giggled, shooting flames from her hands and setting a book which a student was reading ablaze,
"abra kadabra," Patsy mimicked, breathing a cloud of frosty mist and turning the fire to ice.
"I'm boreded," Charley groaned,
"word maker-upper!" Patsy named,
"sweeping beauty!" Cassie called, holding out her hand towards the book, only for a beautiful woman with long blonde hair wearing a gold tiara and a flowing, light blue, dress to shimmer in,
"oopsies," she smiled,
"demon!" Charley yelled, levi-orbing into the air and flying towards the newcomer, only for her to run away and for Charley to return to ground level.
"What did you three do?" Cole questioned, as he and Summer walked over,
"nothing," Patsy lied,
"Cassie shimmered in Sleeping Beauty!" Charley honestly replied, only to receive a smack from her younger cousin.
"Sleeping Beauty?" Cole repeated, as the fairytale woman herself rose from behind the sofa.
Back in the attic, Piper jumped up and slammed her heel into Phoebe's stomach, sending her sailing to the ground,
"bitch!" Phoebe aka the Demonizer spat, launching another fireball and blasting Piper across the room.
"Can I get a big power over here?" Piper asked, looking over at Kevin and sliding a pad and pen across the floor to him,
"got it," he nodded, beginning to jot down a sketch of Piper and Phoebe in battle in order to draw Superwitch a new power. As he finished the illustration, Piper felt a rush of power enter her as she inhaled a deep breath and then released crackling bolts of electric blue energy, throwing Phoebe into the pedestal and splitting it in two as she struck it. The normally clairvoyant woman groaned as she stood and raised a piece of the wood in the air, swinging it towards Piper. For one moment, Superwitch completely took over and more energy surrounded her in a buzzing aura, before moulding itself into a ball between her fists and rocketing towards Phoebe, forcing her through the air and smashing through the window.
Atop Golden Gate Bridge, Leo aka Buzz Whitelighter was watching over the city, waiting for a cry for help to beckon him. A set of scarlet orbs suddenly hit the red metal and built up into Phobia, or the Amazing Empath as she had named herself,
"enemy!" Leo hollered, shooting orbs from the inside of his right wrist.
"Whoa, slowdown," Phobia said, releasing her own orbs,
"your power, it's just like mine," he gasped, clearly astonished,
"that's because I accidentally empathically tapped into it and now I look like an action figure," she explained, fixing her hands on her hips.
"Look at it this way, Halloween's coming round so you know you'll fit in," Prue said, as the two superheroes turned to see the pregnant charmed one standing there,
"does she hide her weapon under her clothes?" Buzz Whitelighter whispered in Phobia's ear, looking strangely at Prue's abdomen.
"Y'know, I thought Superhero Leo would be cooler, but you're really not," Prue said, "Piper filled me in over the phone before, I think I've found a spell to reverse it," she told them, pulling out a piece of paper from her pocket and unfolding it;
"A superhero in new host,
Melt away,
Leave no ghost,
Without a trace,
Your life, I do erase."
Suddenly, Leo's and Phobia's clothes returned to normal, as did Piper's and Phoebe's from where they were back to battling it out in the attic.
"Phoebe," Piper murmured,
"Piper…" Phoebe whispered, pushing her waves of black hair away from her face as she stood and then vanished in a mixture of black lights with a swirling breeze.
"Are you okay?" Kevin asked, walking over and helping her up,
"I've been better," she replied, gazing at where Phoebe had just stood.
Back at Magic School,
"Cassie, send her back!" Cole ordered,
"Sweeping Beauty back!" the little girl shouted, waving her hand at the Fantasy Princess and transforming her into rippling air which shifted through the air and into the correct book.
"That's that done and dusted," Cole said, turning to Summer, "now I should get these girls home,"
"yeah, nice meeting you," she smiled, shaking his hand and watching as he shimmered out with his daughter and half angel nieces. Picking up her belongings, Summer headed out of the library and into the main hall, where three men were standing,
"let's get started," she grinned, throwing the books in her arms down onto a chair,
"candles! circle!" she called, causing the black and purple wax towers to shimmer into a circle on the floor,
"how did you do that?" one of the men asked,
"one of the Halliwell brats used her powers, I absorbed part of their essence, it also means I can do this," she said, shooting a flame from her fingertip and burning one of the men into nothing.
"We needed him!" one of the others claimed,
"he was a slacker, always had been," she simply replied, "now c'mon, our Master won't wait forever."
To be continued…
Next chapter- Halloween is here, and so is an old foe. Hosting a masquerade ball at P3 proves to have been a stupid decision when beings of all kinds can freely walk without being noticed, including one certain female…
"All Hallows Evil" should be up soon. And hopefully it'll be a long one.