So this is chapter eight, hope you like. Please review/criticise, I could really use your input. Thanks.
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Chapter Eight – Demons, Outer and Inner
As Paige heard Piper's cell start to ring suddenly she got this pulling sensation from somewhere, not natural but like in her mind. That was when she first realised Phoebe and Liv were calling her; her sensing abilities were really starting to get stronger the more she learnt.Her body was telling her to orb back to the manor, only problem they were in the middle of the café.
"What?" She heard Piper yell down the phone. Paige, took this opportunity, and grabbed her eldest sisters arm and dragged her into the alley behind the café, she then orbed them both back to the manor. They landed softly behind a upturned table in the attic, to her left was Phoebe laying unconscious and Liv trying to heal her.
"Where have you been? I've been calling for ages, Phoebe needs healing. No one has taught me how to do that yet, it is weak at best. Now Paige, could you?" Liv yelled over the noise of energy balls being thrown into the table they were behind. Paige suddenly felt panicky, her healing power was blotchy, sometimes it worked and sometimes it did not. Liv must of seen her panic.
"Why don't we try sharing our healing power so that it is more effective?" Liv smiled when Paige grabbed her hand. For some reason Paige felt like they had done this often. As soon as they combined their healing power a bright glow showed and a minute later Phoebe was healed. She looked a little confused and then realisation hit her, demon.
With a sudden force Piper was blown across the room and hit her head on the highest beam of the attics old ceiling, she fell unconscious. Then Paige ducked underneath an old couch as a energy ball was thrown her way, she took a look at the demon. It was Zixon and two minions. 'Great just what I need' She thought sarcastically. She saw two energy balls hit Phoebe and Liv. She was the only one conscious in the room. She leapt out of the way as an energy wave was sent her way. She was thrown several feet and her head was spinning. She flung her hand out wanting to call for the athame but instead out of her palm descended a silver and green orb towards one of the minions, he went up into flames. 'What the hell?' She thought silently and then looked up to see the other minion shimmer out with fear but Zixon just stood there smirking.
"Soon you will be ready, but not yet. I can wait." He said and shimmered out.
XXXXXXX"What does he mean soon you will be ready? Ready for what?" Piper asked furious that her baby sister had to take the demon on by herself.
"I don't know, he is freaky. I don't like him. Perhaps if we were to take a holiday, lets say in the Bahamas, he might just forget about me and leave us alone." Paige whined. Michael had not been present when the attack occurred but was sure it was the first time his mother had used her new power. It was weird to see her here now so unsure about her power, in the future she was very powerful, more powerful than her sisters, and she was the one that took charge. She was not the whiny, she knew how to deal with demons. As he thought that another thought occurred if she did then why was she dead now?
"Paige, this could be serious. And Leo, why does Paige get another active power when all I have got is levitation, and to be frank that isn't that useful. It is so unfair." Phoebe started to moan. 'Give it up all ready.' Michael thought. Suddenly he was drawn into a flashback of his childhood:
Michael was sat on the front lawn with Liv and Ruby, he was just eleven years old. A demon had attacked the day before so it was lucky that they were aloud on the lawn.
"MM, come inside now. It is time for your SP lesson." His mother called. simple potions, he hated that lesson. He found it boring, it was Liv that was good at them. That was one way she took after their mother, although he got her cool orbs. Although his were silver and red not green.
"Oh, mum do I have to?" He whined.
"Yes, angel. Its for your safety, you'll need it one day." She smiled. He frowned. She smirked and pretended to ignore him then suddenly turned around and started tickling him. She was so good at surprising him. That was one of the happiest times of his life, skipping a lesson to play hide and seek with his mother. But little did he know in nine short years everything would change.
"Maybe we should tel…" Phoebe muttered almost to herself. But it caught everyones attention. Phoebe knew he suddenly realised and by the look on Piper's face so did she. Everyone in the room looked a little surprised at what Phoebe had said but all seemed to know what she was talking about…apart from Paige.
"Tell who what Pheebs?" Paige asked, he knew his mother knew they were all keeping the same secret.
"What? Oh I just thought maybe we should tell the…the mail man that we don't have gas, so that he won't keep posting those fake bills. Yeah fake bills." She said, but unfortunately his aunt was a awful liar.
"Fake bills? Phoebe we do have gas…and the mail man is a woman." Paige said accusingly. "So why don't you tell me what you are all keeping?" Paige asked. As she did a demon shimmered in. It was one they thought they had defeated years ago. Barbas.
"Ah we meet again Paige, you and I have not crossed paths merely enough." He smiled seeing their shock. He waved his hand and smiled. He knew their fears.
"Piper, Piper, Piper your fears never change, always your children. And Phoebe the loss of a sister still too much for you. But you Paige last time I saw you your greatest fear was Prue, having to live in her shadow. Never being good enough but now what is this…a demon?" Piper looked at Paige, she was afraid of a demon. Why? Ofcourse demons could be scared but they always pulled through.
"I am not scared of a demon. I think you've gotten to old Barbas." Paige told him disgusted by the idea. He laughed.
"No not a demon, half demon one particular. Poor little Paige scared to love him, in case he turns out like Beltazor, evil." Barbas laughed. Piper grabbed her sisters hands and started to chant the power of three spell. Last time they had used it to defeat him. He burnt up in flames, they were all shocked at how easy it was. Before he was gone though he yelled. "Paige, ask them what they are all keeping from you. I dare you. Confront your fears." Barbas then disappeared.
XXXXXXXXPaige hadn't got much sleep, she knew Barbas was right on both accounts. She did like Jack but was worried he would be like Cole, unable to resist. And she also knew all her family was keeping something from her and that it was important. She needed to find out what, it had started to divide them, she got the feeling when she walked into a room they would all hush. Piper came into the kitchen and turned the light on, she was slightly startled that Paige was sitting there in the dark.
"Goodmorning Paige, why are you in the dark?" Piper asked. Getting a mug of coffee from the machine.
"Couldn't sleep. Tell me what's going on Piper, I know you guys think it is better to keep it from me, but if Wyatt and the others came back to stop something we didn't know about wouldn't it make more sense to tell me so that I can try and prevent it?" Paige asked pleading to get through to Piper, she needed to know before she felt pushed out of the family. Piper sighed, a sure sign she was going to cave in.
"Alright, I don't know everything though. I'll tell you what I know." She took a sip and waited for her to continue. "last week I found out something about Liv, she is related to us, to you. She is your daughter, Paige. And Michael her younger brother. She told me that we don't vanquish Zixon and he comes back in the future and kills you." Piper swallowed and so did Paige, she had a daughter and a son and they didn't tell her. "Also, apparently you have some sort of power that is stronger than Wyatt's, that is why they want you. They want you to rule the underworld, when you refused they tried to kill us and the children, you were killed by Zixon by accident and therefore he was vanquished. They want to prevent that. They are very fond of you." Piper sighed signing that she had finished. 'Oh my god!' Paige sighed too.
"Piper…they are here to stop me from dying. And no one thought to tell me? I can't believe you, I wouldn't have kept something this big from you. This puts my life in danger Piper and you kept it from me." She said and then orbed out.
She found herself in the most unexpected place of all…
To be continued…PLEASE REVIEW! So did you like it? Please review and criticise, I would really really like to know what you think, would you have done anything different?