Chp.17
Nightmare
"Why is it that no matter what, I know I'm going to be able to find you here?" Draco asked her.
They were at the lake again, the same place Paige always sat in.
"I don't know." She answered, resting her head on his shoulder. "I just like it here. It's nice."
"Nice?"
"Yes nice."
"I just expected some poetic, philosophical description of it."
"Me and poetry don't mix……Well, except for writing incantations and spells, but poetry-poetry isn't my thing."
She looked out over the lake. "I wish I could just stay like this. Demon-free."
"But you can't?"
"They're gonna be there like a shadow all my life. It's a rather depressing thought isn't?" She said smiling.
He looked down at her with very serious eyes.
"What?" She asked confused.
Without giving her an answer he pressed his lips against hers.
----'----
"I am starving." Paige informed them as she sat down next to Ron at the Gryffindor table for dinner.
"So everything's back to normal?" Hermione asked happily.
"No, but I'm still hungry."
"Ahh, the whole apocalypse thing?"
"Yeah. I have a feeling we all need to make a visit to Dumbledore again. There's a lot of explaining to do."¨
"Cool. Hey, whatever happened in potions, you know when you ran of?" Harry asked her.
She moved a little closer so only they could hear her.
"You know that potion we were making? Well, like I said, it was a binding potion. It would've taken away my powers, and I kind of jumped to conclusions and left."
"What?!"
"Yeah, I know. I totally freaked out. I couldn't stay, I mean, I'd be powerless if we had tested that potion."
"Did you tell Dumbledore?" Harry asked.
"Yeah, and Snape was there. He said the reason he paired me up with Neville was so that the potion wouldn't be made properly and it wouldn't have an effect on me. I swear, you should have been there, Phoebe totally snapped on him!"
"'S 'bout yme someome diwd." Ron said.
"Huh?"
"Swallow I said, it's about time someone did."
"Uh huh, you know it would have been easier to understand without the food?" Paige said jokingly.
Ron blushed deep red.
Then it came, the silence before the storm.
It almost sounded like every person in the Hall drew their breaths and Paige knew it was coming.
In a split second the door of the Great Hall flew open and trough them Phoebe came hurling trough the air.
"PHOEBE!" Paige yelled and ran over to her side. "Phoebe are you okay, what's happening?"
"I'm fine Paige, but we have a problem."
Paige followed her sister's gaze to the doors.
"What the hell?"
In-front of them stood a tall man. A demon. His face was mutilated, with deep scars all over. His skin was a weird sort of green, with blue stripes. (Picture Beltazor only blue and green.) He was smiling an evil smile, his fangs showing.
His black clothes and coat covered most of his body. His hands were missing a finger on each, and they had long claws.
In one swift movement he attacked them.
"ENERGY BALL!" Paige screamed and the ball appeared in her hand. She threw it back at the demon, who with another move of his hand sent the energy ball into the wall.
"Did you see that?" Phoebe asked.
"Yeah, and I'm seeing that too." Paige replied as another ball came flying towards them.
"ENERGY BALL!" Paige screamed again and again she sent the energy ball towards the demon, who again sent it into the wall.
"We can't do this in here, someone will get hurt!" Paige said.
As she said that a third energy ball came flying.
It hit the ground in front of the causing a big explosion.
"Phoebe! cough what happened?! Cough" The dust started to settle and they got a better view.
"Where's the demon?" Phoebe asked confused. "Dumbledore you need to get everyone out of here!" she screamed at the Headmaster who was already creating an escape way.
Fourth energy ball sent Phoebe flying to the other end of the room, hitting the wall over the Staff table.
"PHOEBE!" Almost every student was out of the Hall, through the entrance Dumbledore had created. "Phoebe!" She yelled again.
But before she could make it over to her sister, the demon grabbed her from behind, and shimmered her out of Hogwarts.
----'----
Dumbledore's Office
"How the hell did this happen?! She was supposed to be safe here!" Piper screamed.
Her, Phoebe, Leo, McGonagall and Dumbledore were inside his office.
"Piper calm down, everything will work out." Leo said.
"No it won't Leo! A demon's got her! What if something happens to her?! I can't loose another sister! She's just a kid, we were supposed to look after her!"
"Ms.Halliwell I assure you, everything will work out." McGonagall said to her,
"NO! Everything will not work out. A demon has our sister, who could possibly get a demon to attack us? Cole! He tricked us! He knows we're coming after her, and he'll be waiting for us, ready to kill us." Piper screamed angrily.
"We need to find her." Phoebe stated simply.
"Oh, you don't say?!" Piper spat sarcastically.
"Hey, don't snap on me!"
"Don't snap on me either!"
"I'm not!"
"Well, I'm not either!"
"Calm down you two. We're not solving anything like this." Leo told them. "We need to concentrate on finding Paige."
"How? You can't sense her. How are we getting to the Underworld, how do we even know she's there?"
"We just have to guess.
----'----
Head Dorm
"Did you see that thing?! It was bloody blue and green!"
"That doesn't matter Ron, point is, and it attacked Paige and her sister. That thing was a demon." Hermione said.
"Demon?! Like those things Professor Halliwell talked about?" Harry asked her confused.
"Uh huh. I mean don't you pay attention? This is what Paige and her sisters do, they fight of demons, and warlock and"
"And killer ex-husbands?" Draco spat. "He's the one who's behind this, it's obvious. They were after Paige and now they've got her."
"You don't know that. She could still be" Hermione said, it sounded like she was about to cry.
"She would have come here if she was, we all know that."
"We should see Dumbledore, he's the only one who can answer us." Harry said and walked out of the dorm. The others followed.
At the statue of the Gargoyle they could hear yelling from inside the office.
"You reckon that's her sisters?" Ron asked.
"Definitely."
"So, password? 'Mione?" Harry asked.
"Oh! Fizzing Whizzbees." At the sound of the password, the spiral staircase appeared.
"Headmaster we need to talk to you."
Everyone in the room turned around and looked at the four teens.
"Yes, I expected this. But this is not the best time either." Dumbledore said calmly.
"Where the hell is she?!"
"You shall receive that information Mr.Malfoy. Not only because it does not concern you or you friends and second because, quite frankly, none of us are quite sure of were Ms.Halliwell is located at the moment." Dumbledore said as calm as always.
"You're saying you don't know where Paige is?" Hermione asked.
"Yes that's what we're saying! Like we know were demons end up when they shimmer off." Piper said angrily. "I've had it, you and you" She pointed at Leo and Phoebe. "We are going home, we're getting the Book of Shadows, we're going to scribe for Paige and then get rid of the Source. For good."
"And none of you are following us!" Phoebe added. "If any of you four meddle in this, I will flunk you all, clear?"
And then they Orbed.
----'----
Somewhere in the Underworld
"Auu, my head." Paige muttered rubbing her head.
'I must have been knocked out.' She thought.
She looked around herself, taking in her surroundings.
'Okay, I'm in a dark cave. That just leaves like every mountain and the entire Underworld.'
She stood up. She looked around at the walls keeping her locked in.
'Great a cage without a door.'
She stretched her fingers out and lightly touched the bars.
"OUCH!" she yelled and snapped her hand back.
Jolting pain had just gone trough her arm.
"I see you're awake." A voice said. She knew that voice, but how? "Remember me, witch?" The woman asked.
"You're the Seer." She answered breathlessly. "But…But we vanquished you!"
"Silly little girl. You think a simple spell could kill me? Never. But you, the tiniest pain and you flinch."
"Yeah, electric bars, way original there." Paige muttered sarcastically. "Anyway, I thought you worked for the Source?"
"I do child."
"But Voldemort was supposed to catch me."
"You speak his name? Perhaps, you are not as scared as I thought."
"Yeah, and I'm way smarter too. You really thought a cage could keep me here. I'll just Orb myself home now, nice seeing you again."
Paige closed her eyes and focused on home.
She opened them up again.
"I'm still here, how?" She asked the Seer.
"You didn't think we were so unprepared? Try all you want child, you cannot escape."
"SEER!" A voice bellowed from behind her. "The Dark Lord told you not to go near her!"
"I do not take orders from your lord. I only obey the Source."
"Man are you gonna have trouble finding employment once we vanquish his ass." Paige muttered.
"Silence!" the man yelled at her, pointing his wand at her.
"The Source made it clear he did not want her harmed. I suggest you pay more attention to orders, or you might find yourself dead." The Seer said, and as silently as she had appeared she left.
The wizard muttered something about the Seer under his breath.
"You know, I'm sure she know what you just said. And if she doesn't, she'd love a reason to fry ya." Paige said mockingly, hoping to annoy the man.
"Be quiet you stupid little girl."
"I know you are, but what am I?" Mentally Paige was laughing her head off. She was being so childish.
----'----
Head Dorm again
"We have to find her." Harry finally said, stating what everyone else was thinking.
"But how mate? I mean, she could be anywhere, she's probably not even in the bloody country." Ron argued.
"And since when did that stop us? Remember the Department of"
"Harry, that was in London. And we already knew where we were going, we don't know that now." Hermione argued.
"Then we follow her sisters."
"How are we going to do that Malfoy?" Harry asked, he sounded almost curious.
"We just need to get to their house and follow them from their."
"And if they see us? Do you know how much trouble we could cause?!" Hermione said furiously.
----'----
Halliwell Manor, San Fransisco
The three were gathered in the attic.
Phoebe's nose buried in the Book of Shadows, and Leo and Piper tried to scribe for her.
Piper put the crystal down on the map and looked up at Leo "Are you sure you can't sense her?" She asked.
"Yes, 100, she must be in the Underworld."
"Okay, but where?" Phoebe asked, poking her head out of the Book. "I mean, the Underworld is pretty big. As it's former queen, I should know."
There was a long silence as Piper sat there thinking, Leo Orbed to the Elders and Phoebe once again stuck her head in the Book.
After ten minutes Phoebe finally said something.
"Piper, why don't you try the spell you kept using after Prue died, and you came across Paige?"
"Hmm, it's worth a shot." She muttered and went down to the kitchen to get the ingredients while Phoebe found the rest of the stuff they needed.
"Okay, so we have the little cauldron, the other ingredients and the knife. You ready for this?" Phoebe asked her sister.
"Yeah, I can handle this Phoebe."
She sat down in the circle they had made.
She followed each step of the spell precisely.
She slowly dragged the knife over her wrist, drawing blood that fell into the cauldron.
Body to body
Soul to soul
Heart by heart
Blood by blood
Halliwell sister I call upon
Answer my plea
I search for you
Show yourself before me (Sooooo lame! I suck at writing this stuff.)
"I know where she is." Piper said.
----'----
Back in the Underworld
"You should really think about freshening this place up." Paige said.
"I don't care, I'm not usually here." The man muttered.
"Oh! So you're not a demon? Wow, you're a whole lot less scary now."
"Excuse me?"
"Oh, nothing, I just thought demons were scarier than, umm, what are you?"
"A wizard." He answered. He was rather young actually. She always thought all the Death Eaters were old.
"Oh! Oh…No that doesn't ring a bell. Weren't you extinct?"
He glared at her.
"Oh! You're a warlock."
"I'm a wizard." He hissed.
"Warlock."
"Wizard."
"Warlock."
"Wizard."
"Warlock."
"Wizard."
"Warlock."
"Wizard."
"Warlock."
"JUST SHUT UP!" The wizard yelled.
"No, I don't think I will."
"You better shut up or I'll"
"You'll what? Kill me, hurt me? I am to stay un harmed, remember?"
"I would gladly face death to get away from you."
"That's not very nice." Paige said faking a pout. "I don't like you."
"Good, now stop talking."
"I'll do whatever I want!"
"I've had it." He pointed his wand at her. "This will teach you a thing or two. Cru"
Before he could finish the spell a fire ball came flying, hitting the wand out of his hand.
"She is to stay un harmed." The voice hissed. "Leave!" He shouted at the wizard, who instantly disappeared.
The voice stepped out of the shadow and over to the cage.
"Cole!" She yelled. "I should have known you had something to do with this you sick bastard!"
"I just saved your life, I suggest you stop it with the attitude."
"You didn't save me, you're the reason I'm in here!"
"Are you aware of what the effects of the Cruactius Curse (sp?) are?" He asked casually.
"It a torturing spell." She said quietly.
"Yes it is, and that man was about to use it on you. In other words, I saved you."
"Fuck you." She spat.
"Gotta love that Halliwell attitude."
Then, through the 'Door' in the cave came three people, heading towards them.
One a rather short man, who's face reminded Paige of a rat, another man, tall with long blond hair, whom she identified as Darco's father, and the third, who was hooded and cloaked.
"I see you have arrived safely." Cole said, not greeting the men by name.
The cloaked man simply nodded. Through his hood she noticed a pair of red, glittering eyes.
She realise, the man in front of her was Voldemort.
"Where is the army of demons you promised me?" He hissed. "You have the girl, I want my end of the deal."
Cole laughed evilly.
"That 'Army' will not come any time soon." He said still smiling.
"You dare hold back your end of the deal? You dare betray the Dark Lord?" Lucius asked with great anger.
"It seems I do."
"And what is it that has made you change your mind?" Voldemort inquired.
"You see, this sister" He pointed at Paige. "No longer matters. She was important while she was still unable to control her powers, but now that Dumbledore has trained her, she is of no use to me other than bait."
"But we still caught her. We fulfilled our end of the deal, we got the witch you wanted."
"Ahh, but you see this is not the witch I want. If you get me the witch I truly desire then I shall grant my end bargain." He smiled a bit.
"You see, this witch" he pointed at Paige again. "is no longer of any importance, you see, the witch I desire, is Phoebe."
AN : Oh, evil evil Cole!
I hope you all liked it!
snakegirl1122 : Hmm, don't think so, I'm not to keen on the characters getting married at 17 and stuff, no offence to anyone who is, but they just don't seem old enough.
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