Chapter Six
"Billie, what happened?" Leo asked, rushing into the attic.
"They took Paige," Billie said. "They're all gone." Leo, not wanting to give up, helped Billie off the ground.
"We can't give up," he said. "We've got to try our hardest to get them back."
"What do you think we can do?" Billie asked. "You have no powers, and I'm only one person against eight of them."
"That doesn't mean you give up," Leo said. "You can beat this, you've just got to try."
"And what, lose my life and yours' trying? Do you really want your sons growing up without a father?"
"Of course not," Leo said. "But I don't want them to grow up without a mother either."
"It's show time in just fifteen minutes, Piper," Sauran said, smiling at his prodigy. "Are you ready for this?"
"Of course," she told him. "I can't wait."
"Do you have a plan of action?" he asked.
"Freeze and explode," she said.
"What if they attack you first?" Sauran asked. "Before you can freeze."
"I'll just attack faster," she said. He smiled again. He then led her out to a large, dark room. Piper saw that her three sisters were there waiting. A few lights turned on in their stadium, illuminating that battle ground. The four sisters each took their spots.
"When we sound that bell, fight!" Sauran yelled.
After a moment, the bell rang and the sisters fought. Prue, going after Paige first, astral projected and made two of herself. Paige orbed behind the real Prue and kicked her. Piper attacked Phoebe. She froze Phoebe in time, but it didn't last as long as she wanted. Phoebe unfroze after a few seconds and lunged at Piper.
"This is brilliant," Roxxie said. "I love it!"
"I must say, quite entertaining," Sauran said. "Why limit it to only ourselves?" He stopped the sisters, and then he went to spread the news of the fight.
"This is no use, Leo," Billie said. "I can't find them anywhere by scrying." She closed her laptop and walked over to him.
"There's got to be something you can do," Leo said. "Can't you write a spell to take you to them."
"Come to think of it, if I reword the 'to call a lost witch spell', I might be able to take myself to them." She went over to the Book and opened it up. She immediately noticed a small pink post-it note attached to a page. It said:
Billie,
This spell should come in handy.
She looked down at the spell and smiled to herself. She couldn't get off track though. She quickly found the spell and started to reword it. Finally, she stopped and went to the middle of the room.
"Wait, I'm coming with you," Leo said.
"I can't put you in danger, Leo," Billie said. "You'll be too vulnerable."
"I'm going with you," he said firmly.
"Fine," she said. "But if you get hurt, Piper will kill me." She looked down at her notepad and started to read off the spell.
Power of the witches' rise
Course unseen across the skies
I come to you, who need me dear
I come to you and settle near
The stadium was now filled with demons of every kind. They all came to watch the ones kill each other that they haven't been able to do. Sauran was quite pleased with himself. He was making quite a profit off of this. The bell rang again, and the sisters went after each other again. Like before, Prue went after Paige. There must have been some kind of rivalry there. Piper tried to freeze Phoebe again, but much to Sauran's dislike, it didn't work.
"Freeze!" Piper yelled in frustration.
"Not today, sis," Phoebe said, levitating and kicking her. Piper fell to the ground, but quickly got up.
"Fine, if you don't freeze, I guess you explode," she said. She tried blasting her sister, but Phoebe used her empathy on it. Piper's anger backfired and the attack hit her instead. She went flying across the battlefield and landed on the ground.
"You'll never be the witch I was," Prue said to Paige. She flung her arm and the telekinesis threw Paige onto the ground. "You'll never be as strong as I was."
"Oh yeah," Paige said. "Heart!" She held out her hand, slowly awaiting the arrival of Prue's heart. Prue gasped and grabbed at her chest. Suddenly, in the middle of the field, Billie and Leo appeared in shimmering, white lights. Billie took a quick look around.
"Paige, no!" she yelled. She flung Paige back, and luckily, the orbing stopped. She then flung Phoebe away from Piper.
"Billie, the spell," Leo said.
Dwelling through the darkest mind
I take your powers so to bind
Lose control and let them free
Minds released and let them be
Cjinx gasped as her grip was lost over the sisters. Paige quickly ran over to Piper, who was severely wounded from her own power. She healed her and then helped her up.
"Uh, guys," Prue said. "We have a problem!" The demons in the stands, realizing what had just happened, were raged. About twenty energy balls came flying down. Prue and Billie deflected as many back as they could.
"Energy ball!" Paige yelled, orbing one back at its thrower. "Energy ball!"
"Enough!" Piper yelled, freezing the area. They walked over to Sauran, Cjinx, Roxxie, and Brunt. "Oh, are you so dead." She unfroze those four and one by one, blew them up. When she tried it on Cjinx, it didn't work. "Oh yeah, we need some demons to crystallize you again, don't we?"
"No!"
"That was fun," Phoebe said, later that night.
"What?" Paige asked. "How can you say that was fun?"
"Well, not exactly fun, I guess, but I did get the chance to have my powers back. That was nice, while it lasted. I wish that serum that Sauran had wouldn't have worn off so quickly."
"Paige, I'm…sorry about what I said," Prue told her. "About you never being as great as me."
"It's okay," Paige said. "You were being controlled."
"Yeah, but that wasn't exactly controlling what I said. I'm hoping we can start over." Paige smiled and gave her older sister a hug.
"Of course," she said. "I'm so happy I finally got to meet you."
"It's great to meet you too," Prue said. "But I have to go back…to being dead. This isn't my time. It's yours'."
"Prue, you were brought back to life," Piper said. "Can't you just stay alive?"
"No, Piper, sorry," she said. "I wish I could, but I can't. I need to go." Piper wiped her eyes and gave Prue a long hug. Phoebe joined in the hug and then pulled Paige in with her.
"Aw," Billie said. "It's so sweet."
"Billie, get over here," Phoebe said. "You're in this too."
"No, that's okay," she said.
"Nonsense," Prue said. "I haven't had the pleasure of formally meeting you."
"Well, I'm Billie," she said.
"Thanks for, you know, saving our lives," Prue said. "You're a great witch."
"I learn from the best," Billie said, smiling at the sisters. "By the way, thanks for the tip, Paige."
"What tip?" Paige asked coyly.
"Alright, let's put Prue back in the ground before anyone notices her missing," Piper said. "I don't want the personal gain blame put on me."
"Well," Prue said. "Goodbye." A tear slowly traced a path down her cheek as she disappeared in bright lights.