Part 3: Returning Home
Piper stood unmoving and then she blinked and shook her head, she nodded slowly. Whatever spell they had been under seemed to have come of Paige and Phoebe as well. I looked down at Wyatt again, who was now crying softly.
"I know, I'm getting kind of pissed of by this to. But food doesn't seem to like us at the moment." I said to him. Then I remembered orbing the potion, maybe I could orb us out of here and back…there, so that they could see us. I prayed this would work and then did it.
"We're back." I said. No one looked in my direction except for Leo and Chris, Leo then looked at his younger son.
"You got that to?" He asked.
"Yeah, she orbed in here. But if she orbed in here then where is she?" He said. Piper froze for a moment.
"A mimic demon, it must have been." She said.
"A mimic demon?" Chris asked.
"Yes. A mimic demon can mimic the power of any enemy; hence its name. But it can also force one of its enemies to overuse their power, causing their enemy to kill themselves or to use their power in various ways that they've never done before, resulting in different consequences." She explained.
"Looks like we might actually get out of here soon." I whispered at Wyatt's sleeping form.
"We'd better go look at the book." Phoebe said. They all hurried up the stairs.
"We'll just wait right here for you." I muttered. They came down a few minutes later and after a moment Leo orbed back into the room.
"Did you ask them?" Piper asked him.
"Yeah, it's very rare for a mimic to come out in the open and attack someone like this. They say that they're probably still here; they can hear us and see us. But we can't hear or see them. The Elders said that the mimic was probably working with a Shah demon, they are able to cast power specific spells." He said. My eyes were starting to close and I was all but falling asleep on my feet, so I made for the sofa and moved to sit down in it. It flew out from under me and crashed into the wall, I landed on my butt. Wyatt awake with a start, sniffling and sounding like he was going to start crying.
"Shh, it's okay, go back to sleep." I whispered. Chris, Leo and the others stared at the sofa, then Leo cleared his throat.
"They also said that not long after the spell was cast over them that they wouldn't be able to touch or go near anything without that object flying away from them." He said.
"I knew that already, thanks." I muttered.
"So how do we break the spell on them?" Chris asked.
"We have to kill the mimic demon." Piper said.
"Or maybe we can look forward to some company here." I whispered to myself.
"You better do it quickly. According to the Elders they have twenty four hours before they disappear forever." Leo said. Okay, I didn't need to know that part. I thought.
"Well we already had a little chat with the one we think is this demon. He should still be in the same place; the problem is that he's not alone." She said.
"You guys are just filled with good news today, aren't you?" I said. I sat down in the middle of the floor, figuring that it couldn't fly away from us; I was right. I hugged Wyatt close to me as I lay down. Might as well get some sleep, it wasn't like I could do much else.
I woke up to the sound of Wyatt yelling. He had crawled away from me and was now sitting staring fearfully up at a demon that stood over him. I leaped to my feet.
"Leave him alone!" I yelled. A ball of energy grew in my hand as I threw it at the demon, but he moved out of its way and it exploded against the wall. At the sound Chris and Leo came running into the room.
"What's going on?" Chris asked. He and Leo looked around; they still couldn't see or hear us.
The demon leaped at me and I phased, he passed right through me. I ran for Wyatt and crouched next to him, an invisible hand slammed me across the room, where I slammed into the coffee table, and it broke under my weight. Another ball of energy flew at the demon as he moved to grab up Wyatt, it exploded against him, but that was all. He glared over at me.
"Stupid White Lighter." He snarled. He lifted one hand in my direction and I flew up into the air, it felt like a vice was wrapped around my chest.
"I'm not finished with you yet." He said to Wyatt. Then he strode over in my direction. I hung above him, unable to break free, I had tried phasing through whatever it was he had done to me, it hadn't worked, and neither did orbing.
"Still in the game." I said to him. It had been something Chris and I used to say to each other when we were kids. He stared up at me, incomprehension clear in his eyes. I clapped my hands over his head and concentrated, power surged from my fingertips right into his skull. He jerked and spasmed, but managed to pull away. He lurched backwards towards Wyatt. A sword appeared in his hands that he brought crashing down against Wyatt's shield.
"No!" I screamed at his back. This could be the demon that turns Wyatt evil. He looked back at me and smiled. Then he suddenly started screaming, as his flesh started to writhe, then he exploded. I dropped to the floor. I didn't waste time trying to figure out what had happened.
"Wyatt!" I yelled and crawled frantically in his direction, I breathed a sigh of relief when I found him unharmed, but he was still crying.
"It's okay, he's gone now. It's alright." I could hear a whispering in my ears, that of my mother and aunts as they were vanquishing the mimic demon, but I didn't know that at the time. Then it felt like a wave of warm air washed over me.
"There they are." Chris said.
"The girls did it." Leo said as they came over to us. I handed a screaming Wyatt to him and stood up.
"Are you both alright?" Chris asked. I dusted myself off as I smiled at him, pretending that nothing was out of the ordinary.
"I'm fine, but he's hungry. You better go and feed him." Leo nodded and walked to the kitchen with his son.
"Are you alright?" Chris asked as soon as we were alone.
"I told you already I'm fine." I snapped.
"No you're not. Look, I know it isn't easy to think of him as an innocent, but he isn't the Wyatt we know. If we can stop whatever demon's after him then he won't turn evil and that means that he will be a totally different person." He said.
"I know that. Why do you think that I didn't just leave him to that demon that attacked us just before they broke the spell!" I was in a bad mood because I knew he was right. He sighed loudly, as he put both hands on my shoulders, forcing me to look him in the eyes.
"I know this is hard. But if we do this right then…" He didn't finish, he didn't need to.
"That doesn't mean I have to like either of them." I said.
"I'm not asking you to. But they are family, so don't kill them or anything." He said.
"I'm not the one who forgot we're family." I muttered to myself.
"You should go get some sleep. You look like you could do with it." He told me. I opened my mouth to argue with him then decided against it.
"And don't orb."
I glared at him and did the exact opposite of what he said, orbing straight upstairs to the bedroom. I heard his sigh as I left the room and felt a little guilty, I loved my brother. I've had a lot of times where I felt like no one wanted to know about me. He wasn't like that; whenever I had a problem or I was upset he seemed to know and would talk it over with me. I kicked the bed in frustration. Why do you have to make him angry? He's the only one who cares about you and you try and alienate him! I thought angrily. I glanced at the clock on the nightstand. It was past midnight, I hadn't thought it was that late. I peeled off the jeans, kicked off my runners and crawled under the covers. I guess I was more tired than I thought I was because I was asleep within moments.