Hey! How's it going? I hope y'all are having a good day. Don't ask why I'm so chipper because I don't know. At any rate, I wanted to get this chapter up as soon as possible because I… just did. I don't really have a reason. Some of you will be able to tell by the name of this chapter what it's about, but I'm not going to spoil it for you if you can't. Read on, loves!
Prince Halliwell- Thanks! No, Abby wasn't a reincarnation of the other, she was just there as an aid to get Percy over her hate for the holiday. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I still need your help for IABBW. Hell, I need all the help I can get with that. I need to get Carry on the Heritage out of the way first. I'm almost afraid that Laur won't be able to help because she barely has time to get her own fic updated let alone help with mine. I guess we'll see when we get there though…
TVCrazed- Well thank you for that compliment! McDonalds? Were you hungry for that at the time or what? Personally, after seeing Super Size Me twice, I really don't like McDonalds very much…
Bloomin Daisy- Thank you! You guys are so nice!
s.halliwell24- I think you mean at the end of season 5 people were saying that it's not right for Piper to not be sad about Leo. I think that's right in most circumstances, but they were like six, so they hadn't developed the ability to realize that these things have to happen sometimes and move on. If they had been a little older, then I would have said no memory dust, but being the age that they were, it was probably appropriate until they were old enough to deal with it on their own. Thanks!
Confessions of a Halliwell: The Diary of Persephone
Chapter Five: Evil Encounters on the Other Side of the Mirror
Did you ever wonder what life is like on the other side of the mirror? I mean, think about it. When you walk up to the mirror, there's another person looking back at you. It looks like you, talks like you, does the things you do, but is it really you? When you walk away, where does it go? Does it go with you, just waiting until the next time that you look into a reflective piece of glass or does it have its own life and do its own things? Sometimes these questions are better left unanswered. Sometimes it's best to stay on your own side of the mirror.
It was mid November and we'd already started our Senior year, finally! Of course the entire class of 2024 was very excited at the prospect of getting out of San Francisco Valley High, including my cousins, Kyle, Leah, Atli and I. The only thing that could possibly make it suck was a two month long ongoing war with an army of Kazi demons who were hiding their king very well. Even Atli was using all of his powers to help us, but to no avail. They attacked at any time, resulting in exhaustion and paranoia among our family. Even the strongest of us were breaking down.
"I think we should get the book and take it to Magic School, that way it's safe. The Kazi's can't get it there," Mom suggested one day.
"And then what's next? Are we gonna move to Magic School too?" Prue asked angrily.
"Well we probably should! It's the only place that they can't attack us at all hours of the damn day!" Mom shot back.
"I'll be damned if I let a demon run me out of my own fucking house!" Prue yelled.
"You guys," I said.
"And what are you gonna do when one of them catches you off guard? What if you get killed?" Mom asked.
"I am not going to get-"
Hey!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. Mom and Prue stopped arguing and turned to look at me. "I understand that you guys are frustrated. Tensions are high and we're all menstrual at the moment. We've been at it with these guys for two months and they're not even close to stopping. Obviously their objective is to break us down and make us more neurotic than usual so that they can kill us. We can't have that. We have to stick together and in order to do that we have to stop arguing."
"You're right. I'm sorry," Mom said.
"Yeah, and we probably should move the book and ourselves to Magic School for as much time as possible. There's probably more resources there to find the Kazi king anyways," Prue said, finally giving in.
"Cool. I'll tell the others. We'll grab some stuff and go there," I said, orbing out.
"Ew! Magic School? I have to sleep at Magic School?" Patience asked in disgust.
"Oh come on, Squirt, it's not that bad," Preston said.
"Yeah, just think of all the awesome books they have there!" Parker said in excitement. We all turned to look at him.
"Parker, honey, I love you, but sometimes I think you're too dorky to be related to me," I said.
"Besides the books, just think of al the magic that we can do there. Without classes, without consequences, just spending the night we can actually see the whole school and have a little fun. There's bound to be gadgets in there that are just waiting for us to play with them," Preston said, a devilish look in his eyes.
"Whatever. If it'll keep me from getting killed, I'll do it," Patience said.
"You know, you are just like your-" I started, but before I could finish I got a face full of water. I spluttered and wiped it off on my shirt, looking at her furiously.
"I told you not to say that," she said with a grin. That night, we all set up shop at Magic School. A conjuror was able to get us some beds in the library. We helped our parents look for ways to find the Kazi king until it was time for bed. When they were all asleep, Preston got up and walked out into the hall. I shared a look with Patience before we both got up to follow him, grabbing Parker on the way.
"What are you doing?" I asked in a whisper.
"It's time to see what kind of magic Magic School is all about," Preston replied.
"I don't think that's a very good idea," Parker warned.
"Well after seventeen years of knowing each other, I hope that you realized by now that I really don't care what you think," Preston said cheekily.
"Okay, if we're gonna go, then let's hurry up because we still have school tomorrow," Patience said. Preston nodded and led us past the long hall of classrooms and down a dark hallway. We went to the end and he cautiously opened up a small door. Inside was only one thing: a mirror.
"Hey! I'm liking this already," I said, running over to it. My eyes got wide as I saw the reflection. On the other side of the mirror, staring straight back at me, was a person who looked like me, but dressed completely different. She had on a tight black leather skirt and a black halter-top. Her hair was shoulder length, completely straight and tapered with green tips. I looked at her, then at myself, then her again.
"What is your problem?" Patience asked. She looked around in confusion as there was an echo. She walked up beside me and looked at herself in the mirror. "Oh my god," she and her reflection said at the same time. Her counterpart was wearing tight leather pants and a black t-shirt. She had straight hair down to her thighs and thick black eyeliner on.
"I know you guys are beautiful, but do you think you could be unstuck on yourselves for just one second?" Preston asked, coming over to us. Patience and I stepped back so that he could see his reflection too. His curly hair was longer and messy and he had a tattoo of a triquatra on his right bicep, as well as an eyebrow ring.
"Do you think this mirror shows us what we would look like without a fashion sense?" I asked. Again there was an echo.
"What are you guys talking about?" Parker asked. "Holy shit," he whispered as he too looked at his reflection. His hair was buzz cut and he too had a triquatra on his arm. Instead of an eyebrow ring though, he had a tongue ring. Before we could look at ourselves any long though, a group of Kazi's shimmered in, hurling fireballs.
"How the hell did they get in?" I yelled as I ducked one. I threw a fireball at one of the demons, missing him. I didn't notice the portal appear on the wall behind me as a Kazi came up and attacked me with his fists. Before I could do anything, I was pushed back into the portal, Patience, Parker, and Preston soon to follow. We landed hard on the cold stone floor of… Magic School? Only this time we weren't alone. Standing there staring at us in confusion were our reflections, or so we thought.
"Who are you?" the dark Patience asked.
"We're the Archers. Who the hell are you?" Patience retorted.
"We're the Archers," Dark Parker said.
"The hell you are! I would never dress like that," I said.
"Yeah right! I would never dress like that," my other half said.
"They must be evil," Preston said.
"They must be good," the other Preston said at the same time. Everyone stopped as realization dawned on us.
"We're in a different reality," Good Patience said.
"How did you get here?" Evil Parker asked.
"Well, we were standing there looking in that mirror," Good Parker said, pointing to the mirror we had just been looking in, "when we got attacked by a bunch of Kazi's and pushed into a portal."
"Wait, were you guys who we were looking at?" my evil twin and I asked at the same time.
"Must have been," the two Prestons said.
"Okay, this is just freaky," the Patiences said.
"Tell me about it," the Parkers said.
"We really need to-" my twin and I started, but then we stopped and looked at each other.
"Stop," I finished.
"How did the Kazi's even get into Magic School? Good isn't allowed," Evil Patience pointed out.
"Actually, evil isn't allowed in our Magic School, but I see your point," Good Patience said.
"It must be them," Evil Preston said.
"Who?" my twin and I asked.
"The ones we have to fight," Good Preston said.
"They have to know about the different realities. That's why the Kazi's only attacked at one Magic School," Evil Preston finished.
"They wanted to create an imbalance," Good Parker said in understanding.
"Probably to make us vulnerable," Evil Parker said.
"No," both Patiences said. We all looked at them.
"We're stronger with all eight of us," Good Patience said.
"It's not us they wanted to make vulnerable, it's our parents, or more specifically yours," Evil Patience said.
"But how will that help them beat us?" I asked.
"Because of the imbalance. It'll screw up our world, which will screw this one up too. The worlds are parallel. Whatever happens in one happens in the other," Good Parker explained.
"Which means your parents are in danger too," Good Preston said. The evil Archers looked at each other before sprinting out of the room. We followed them back down the darkened hall, down the main hall, and into the library. We found all of the evil parents sleeping just as we had left the good parents.
"What are you guys doing?" Prue asked, sitting up. I had to keep myself from gawking at her appearance. Black seemed to be the favorite color of the family, but Prue took it to a whole new level. She had about ten pounds more eyeliner on than Evil Patience, plus mascara and eye shadow. Everything about her seemed darker, making me want to keep my distance. Good Patience looked horrified at seeing her mother like this, even though it wasn't really her mom.
"We have a bit of a problem," Evil Patience said.
"Who the hell are they?" Prue asked angrily, ready to send us flying across the room.
"They would be part of the problem," Evil Parker said.
"You might want to get everyone up, Prudence. This isn't good," Evil Persephone said. I shared a look with the good Patience.
"Prudence?" I mouthed. She shrugged. About a half an hour later, when everyone was awake and thoroughly pissed off, we sat around at a very large table to explain what had happened. It was quite a sight to see all of my family members in their evil states.
Piper had her hair slicked back in a tight braid. She too had a good bit of black makeup on and had put on a pair of black biker gloves. Phoebe's hair was cut very short and gelled up in a Mohawk. She had fitted herself with a lovely set of brass knuckles upon waking, too. Paige's hair was very similar to her daughters, except her tips were red.
Uncle Andy (probably called Andrew here) had his hair slicked back and seemed to consider his gun his best friend. Leo's hair was spiked up and Cole's looked about ten times curlier and much in need of a shower. Frisco's was long and greasy and pulled back in a ponytail. I cringed at the sight of all of them.
"So what exactly happened?" Prue asked, staring us down like we were evil.
"Well, uh… Prudence," Good Preston started, making sure it was okay to call her that, "we were checking out some of the stuff around Magic School."
"Our Magic School," I clarified.
"When we found a mirror. Instead of showing us our reflections, it showed us this world," Good Parker finished.
"Which is parallel to our own, except demons are evil and the Charmed Ones and Archers are good," Good Patience said.
"And while we were looking in this mirror, we were attacked by Kazi's and pushed into a portal which brought us here," I explained.
"I thought good wasn't allowed in Magic School, or in your case evil," Phoebe pointed out.
"And if the worlds are parallel, how come our kids didn't get thrown into your world?" Leo asked suspiciously.
"We think it's the people that we have to fight against in the final battle. They must know about the two worlds," Evil Patience said.
"And if they were powerful enough to bring Abraxas back, then why not be able to put good in Magic School, or evil as it were?" Evil Percy asked.
"They must have had this whole thing planned out then," Paige said. "Pound us with Kazi attacks for two months until we finally came to what we thought was safety at Magic School."
"But why not switch both sides? Why just send one side over?" Piper asked.
"Because switching both sides keeps things balanced, but sending one side over creates an imbalance," Cole explained.
"We think they want to attack our parents while we're gone," Good Patience said. "And possibly you guys too since we'll all be focused on getting things back in order."
"Then we have to rebalance things," Prue said.
"I found him," Atli announced, orbing in. I was relieved to see that he hadn't really changed much. "I found the Kazi king."
"Starting with him," Prue said. We split up into two groups, my cousins and I along with Andy, Leo, Cole, and Frisco, Looking for a way to get us back to our own world and the others going to get the Kazi king.
"So what does everyone look like in your world?" Frisco asked. I smiled and went over to Preston.
"I need to borrow your wallet," I said. He raised his eyebrow, but gave it to me anyways. I took it back over to Frisco and showed him the pictures of everyone.
"You guys aren't so very different from us," he said. "Even though our morals are different, we still love and we fight for the ones we love."
"Hey guys, I think I found it," Patience said, putting her book on the table.
"It seems like a fairly simple potion," Parker assessed.
"Good, let's get started. The sooner we get you guys out of here, the sooner things can get back in order," Leo said.
"We got the king," Atli said as they orbed in a little while later.
"That's good because we're just about done with the potion that'll send them home," Andy said.
"Someone needs to show us where the king was for when we get back," Good Parker said. His evil twin orbed him out, orbing him back in just as we added the last ingredient to the potion.
"Looks like we're ready to go," I said. We shook everyone's hands, giving thanks and luck as we went. Finally, Patience threw the potion at the wall. It opened up a portal and we all stepped in, coming out into the middle of a battle.
"Where have you guys been?" Mom yelled, dodging a fireball.
"We'll explain later, but we know where the king is. We'll be back," I said as Parker orbed us out. We appeared in a dark cave. The Kazi king looked up in surprise.
"Hey ya little bastard! We finally found you," Preston said. He and I grasped hands, creating a huge fireball and vanquishing him. We orbed back to Magic School quickly to find our parent recovering from the attack. Parker and I helped heal their wounds.
"Will someone please tell us what happened now?" Phoebe asked in exhaustion.
"Okay, but you're gonna want to sit down. This may take a little while," I said. Later that day, I walked into the Mirror Room alone, going up to the mirror.
"Hey," my twin and I said at the same time.
"Did you guys get everything sorted out?" she asked.
"Yeah, we did, thanks to your boyfriend," I said with a grin. She smiled. "You know, your dad was right in saying that we're not all that different from each other. At first I thought that we were. I mean, I'm good, you're evil and we dress way different. But in the end, we both value our family more than anything."
"Yeah, I guess you're not that bad, even if you are good," she said. I laughed.
"No one else can know about this," I said. She nodded.
"Good luck," we said simultaneously. We raised our hands at the same time and launched fireballs at the mirror. I watched as the glass shattered and fell to the floor, then I orbed the pieces away.
"Until next time, anyways."
I'm sorry, I just couldn't help myself! I had to do a chapter like this! You guys knew it was coming. That was just a little practice for my upcoming fic. Anyways, let me know how you guys liked it. Only one more chapter to go! Till next time…
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