Powers
Chapter Three: A Death Worth Dying
Disclaimer: See Chapter One
Date: September 5, 2032
Premonition
"Melinda!" Pru screamed as she ran towards the kitchen. A demon closely following her, running on foot.
"Give us the witches." the demon yelled as she continued to run, but she stopped and turned around, and faced the demon.
"Why do you want my children!" she screamed angrily.
"That is business for the Source, not you Charmed One." he snarled.
"Well, I am a Charmed One, so back off."
"You're not Charmed without your brothers." He shot a fire ball at her. She orbed out, and reappeared in the kitchen, where her heart sank, she saw Melinda laying in a pool of blood, and a demon standing over her dead body.
"Where's Warren?" she yelled, as tears stung her eyes.
"He is now with the Source embracing his destiny, as the Source's heir."
"No", she yelled, as the demon through the athame at her, and it implanted itself in her heart, where she fell to the ground. Her eyes cold, and dead.
Premonition Fades
The framed picture of Melinda and Warren, that she was holding fell to the ground and shattered when her eyes opened from her horrifying premonition.
"Melinda! Warren!" she yelled as she ran upstairs to get the children, who had just gotten home from school. She found the two in their bedroom, both playing with their Gameboys.
"What Mommy?" Warren asked calmly, not noticing his mother's ragged breathing, and composure.
"Nothing sweetheart, why don't you two come downstairs and play in the living room with those." Pru suggested.
The two kids reluctantly agreed. They took their gameboys, and followed Pru downstairs. The two kids planted themselves on the couch in-between their mother, and continued their game. Ten minutes later, Cole walked in the house. He threw his keys on the coat rack outside the front door, placed his briefcase on the ground, and hung his coat on a hook.
"Hey." he smiled, as he saw his wife and children.
"Kids, stay where I can see you." she said, as she went over to Cole.
"I had a premonition about ten minutes ago."
"What was it about?" he asked, as he kissed her cheek.
She explained everything that she saw, and Cole looked very upset.
"How can Warren be the heir to the Source?" she asked angrily, "He is the spawn of a Charmed One."
"And Belthazar."
"True, but how can that be? He is so innocent, and why not Melinda?"
"Melinda reflects more of you, especially in her powers. Orbing-telekinesis, is a witch and whitelighter power, pure good. Warren's is shimmering, which is a demonic power."
"But how can he be the Source's heir, I thought you can't predict it."
"Normally you can't. Demonic folklore says that a Source can choose a family member to be their heir, but the first five Source's including the present one, have no family left."
"But why Warren? My family is all witches and whitelighters. Yours are demons, but not the Source."
"I have no family left that are demons. The Frankinor, my mother's last name, line will end with me, well not technically it will end with Melinda and Warren, but not if they have kids, but demonically it would end with Warren because he has demon powers. My mother, Elizabeth was killed in 1963 by a witch in Maine, I am all that's left. Warren must be special or something."
"He can't be the Source. He's a Charmed One." Pru argued.
"I know he is. When Mike gets home, we will have him orb to the Elder's and find out."
"Cole, take the kids to get ice cream or something. I don't want them in the house, in case the demon comes."
Cole nodded, and went to the get the children.
Pru was sitting in the kitchen, furiously flipping through the Book of Shadows, when Sander came home, and threw his messenger bag on the table, and telekinetically slammed the door. He was mad.
"What's with you?" she asked him.
"Everything. I am missing two thousand dollars from the club. I left it in my office, and wham it's gone."
"Do you think one of the employees swiped it?"
"I don't know, I was hoping to use the lost and found spell in the book, and why are you using the book?"
"Premonition, and we think Warren is the Source's heir."
"What? He's a Charmed One." Sander said not believing what his sister was saying.
"I know, but this isn't right. Cole explained some things to me, but they aren't adding up. We are missing something."
"How about we summon the Source, and ask the bitch?" Sander said, as he put coffee on.
"Yeah right, because then I would want to vanquish her, and I can't risk, Warren becoming Source at eight and a half. "
"That is true." Sander said, as he looked at the pain in his sister's face.
Sander's blue eyes opened wide, and in his mind everything slowed down. Images flashed through his brain, unlike premonitions, they were of the present time, what other's were doing around the city, and the last image was of a demon, en route to the manner.
"We are about to have company." Sander said, as a demon shimmered in unexpectedly.
In one swift motion, Sander was standing up, and had the demon telekinetically pinned to the wall. His face straining as he tried to hold to demon.
"Pru do something." he said, as his outstretched hand wobbled as he used his power.
Pru knew she couldn't do much with her powers, so she flipped through the book, but the book started flipping for her to a Forcefield Spell.
"Kali, Hera, Chronos, Tonic. Air as nectar, thick as onyx. Cassiel by your second star, hold my victim as in tar." she chanted, as a loud sound was heard, and the demon was trapped in an invisible forcefield, similar to that of the crystals.
'Witches, free me." he snarled.
"Why do you want my son?" Pru asked angrily.
"How do you know I want your son?" he riddled.
"I saw it asshole. Remember I see the future."
'Right, you are the weak one."
"Do you like your life? Because if you do, I'll let you go if you answer me." Pru asked.
The demon pulled out an athame and went to bring it to his chest, when Sander moved it across the room, where it implanted itself in the wall.
"Don't try that again." he threatened.
"Now, answer my question." Pru said angrily. She had been angry with demons in her life, but not like this.
"The Source wants your son, to succeed her. He has great potential, and his demon blood is potent, more than your pitiful Charmed crap."
'Well, remember our Charmed crap as you put it is responsible for one Source's death, and don't make me kill her either, it won't end well."
"Go to hell you bitch." he snarled at her.
"Why don't you." she yelled as she pulled the athame from the wall and threw it at the demon.
"Pru, honey, why did you vanquish the evil bastard? We needed him."
"He gave me all I needed. We are going to bind the kids powers." she said with pain.
"What? We decided when they were born that we would never bind their powers because of what Mom did to us , and Grams did to her. They will grow up ignorant, and it will be our fault."
"No, we will do things differently. I will bind their powers, but they will have full knowledge of them, until the Source is vanquished and new one coronated. I can't risk Warren to this hell."
"I understand, but what will Greg think? He won't agree."
"He just might. He had been thinking about binding Halli's powers for awhile. He is burnt out because of this divorce, and all we need is a premonition like the one I had today to come true."
"And what about us? We keep our powers, and what? Leave them defenseless, goddess forbid anything happens to us?"
'Yes, we keep our powers because we need to protect them, until they are old enough."
"And when is that? Mom never intended for us to be witches, and look where that got her!" Sander argued.
"Yes, and you know if we never became witches she would be alive. But I would never have met Cole, and had kids. You would have never met Mike, and Greg would have no Halli and he would have never had Emma."
She was right, Sander just didn't want to admit it. He was stubborn. Magic was the blessing and curse his life was looking for, and the thought of it leaving hurt him.
"Sander, we are binding their powers, not ours. You have nothing to fear."
Sander, Greg, and Pru were sitting in the kitchen writing a binding spell, when Cole came home with the children. They had filled Greg in, and then Cole, who agreed.
"It is the best way to protect them." Cole said, as he got up to have the children come downstairs so they can cast the spell.
"Kids, Daddy and I have agreed it is time to bind your powers." Pru said.
"Mommy! NO!" Mely screamed angrily.
"Melinda, a demon came today to take Warren and make him evil, and I had a premonition, you know what that is. And in that vision, I saw the demon hurt you. We are doing this to protect you."
"Mom, we can protect ourselves with our powers." Mely retorted resiliently.
"We are doing this no matter what. And if it means you hating me forever, then so be it." Pru said, "As long as you're safe."
Sander, Greg and Pru chanted the simple spell.
In This Day, And In This Hour
We Call To Bind Their Sacred Powers
Hinder Them Now, Until It's Time
For Them To Have Them Again
There was a swirl of light, as three orbs circled the room and disappeared. The three kids looked weak, as magic was removed from their bodies.
"I hate you." Mely said angrily to her mother and ran off towards her room.
Halli looked as if she didn't care, and she just followed Mely in a jog. She was angry.
"Mommy, is the Source going to get me?" Warren asked, as tears enveloped his eyes.
"Not in this life, or the next." She said as she hugged him tightly.
"Promise?" Warren sobbed.
"With my life." Pru said. She knew she would give her life up to protect the life of her children. That was death worth dying.
I hope everyone enjoyed, and understands why the children's powers were bound, but knowing Mely, she won't allow it, so we have to wait to see what she has up her witchy sleeve.
Author Note:
Re: Sander's Power of Sensing
Sander has the whitelighter power of sensing. This allows him to sense where his family members are, and he can also hear their call for help, just like a whitelighter. However, his power was influence by his witch half. Therefore in addition to the whitelighter half, he can sense when things are going to happen in the present time, similar to premonition. Images of present time flash in his head and he knows when someone is going to knock on the door, or when a demon is en route to the manor. similar to spider-man's spider sense.
A/N: The forcefield spell is not mine it is from an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where Willow sought revenge on Glory for hurting Tara. I liked it, and therefore borrowed it. The power binding spell however is mine.