Chapter five: Death in the air

Piper stuck up her hands and froze everyone that was awake. Taking a deep breath she spoke, "well at least my powers still work." She dug into her pocket and pulled out the Tebber. "Can youbring up any book," she asked it?

"Yes," the computer voice answered.

"What about books that are not published, that are self wrote by someone?"

"Yes," the computer voice answered again.

"Okay, then can you bring up The Book of Shadows, a book my family passed down to me and my sisters?"

"Searching…found," The Tebber projected the book in front of Pipers face. Satisfied that it was indeed The Book of Shadows, Piper nodded.

"Close," The projected screen disappeared. She had frozen everyone because she was worrying about her powers not working, and once they were frozen she decided to see just how powerful the Tebber was.

Raising her arms, she unfroze everyone. I should have used the book to see who's died; well I guess I'll have to find out the old fashioned way. The girls and I are going to have to tell everyone about our powers, since were such a small group, Piper thought to herself. It'll save us trouble if they find out later, when we have to use our powers in a dire situation.

"Hey, Piper, you okay? You got quiet all of the sudden." Cordy asked, concern showing on her face. Cordy of course had not noticed that she and Harm and Andy had been frozen a moment ago.

Startled Piper jumped out of her thoughts, "yeah, I'm fine. Just thinking about…well you know, I was wondering where we landed, and who that smell belongs to."

They had indeed stopped moving. So they most of landed on a safe planet.

Andrew looked to the side of him at Harm and Cordy, he looked scared. "I hope Xand's alright. You two said he was here too."

Cordy and Harm nodded. "Yeah, but I'm sure he's fine," Cordy looked at the sleeping Willow. "Will's fine, and we're fine, Piper and her sisters are fine. So why shouldn't Xander be fine."

Piper looked at her sisters and Willow, "yeah their fine. They're breathing normal and everything." She thought about what Cordy had said. "So as far as we can see the younger people are fine." Prue is fifteen, but she's still pretty young. So it might only be an older person or persons who's died, she thought.

The others nodded. "You have a point Piper. When do you think these guys will wake up? I'm thinking we should head out, once were sure all the ones that will wake up, are awake." Cordy looked at the four still asleep on their side of the ship.

"I'm thinking we should speed up their waking." Harm hesitantly stepped out of her cubical, and walked over to Willow. "Um, Piper you'd better wake up your sisters."

Piper nodded and slowly stepped out of her cubical. She thought quickly about something, and nodded to herself. With a slight flick of her hands she froze Harm, Andy and Cordy.

Running to the youngest Halliwell, she pulled open the glass door. "Paige, wake up!" Paige's eyes fluttered open, and she yawned.

Paige looked around her, and noticed the frozen people "so your powers still work?"

Piper nodded, "yeah, go wake Phoebe up." Paige nodded and went to Phoebe's cubical, opened the door and shook the girl. "Wake up!"

After Piper and Paige had woken the other two girls, they stood looking at each other. As Piper had said, they were all fine. "Seeing as I was the first Halliwell to wake, I'm in charge," she saw her older sister look at her. Smiling she shook her head. "Just for a moment," She pointed to the frozen people. "They're not going to stay frozen forever, so we have to hurry."

Phoebe looked confused, "why did you freeze them in the first place?"

"Well I panicked, and I wanted a few minutes alone with you guys. We have some things we need to do, that they can't see, at least yet."

"Yet," Prue walked over to the frozen blond, and waved her hand in front of her face. "Okay, go on, we have about five minutes, then we have to get like we were before Piper froze them.

"Well we need to check our powers. I already know mine work. Prue you go first."

"Oh, that is a good idea." Prue thought about The Tebber in her pocket and willed it to her hands.

Piper beamed as she saw Prue's Tebber land in her hands, "Good, Paige, try and Orb behind me."

Nodding, Paige did just that, yelling "boo," when she landed behind Piper.

"Good. Phoebe, have at it."

Phoebe, put her hands on her hips and pouted. "Now Piper Halliwell, you very well know I can't will myself to have a vision whenever I want."

"Well touch something."

Sighing, Phoebe, did just that, thinking it would not work. As she touched the brown haired boy, she was hit with a powerful vision.

/Flash/

The boy walked up to Paige, and smiled. He then introduced himself. Paige smiled, then her eyes widen as she watches the boy fall, hitting his head on a glass door. The door shatters and the boy lies on the ground, his head in an unnatural angle. The person in the cubical is also on the floor, facedown.

Coming out of the vision, Phoebe shudders. "Yeah, they work." Seeing the boys face start to stir as Piper's hold on them wavered she whitened. "Fast everyone, back to your places"

Piper gulped, but luckily they were fact enough to get back to their spots. Piper unfroze them, then she walked over to Paige's cubical opened the door and acted as if she was waking the girl up. Paige opened her eyes, and yawned. "Hey, we made it."

Piper nodded, playing along. "Yeah we've landed somewhere. Go wake Phoebe up."

Harm, shook Willow, and the girls eyes popped open in fright. "Shh, it's okay Will, it's just me." Harm pointed to Cordy and Andy, and the four girls. "And those guys, those four are sisters. Once they're all awake we can introduce ourselves."

If this was Earth, Willow would have been surprised at how caring Harmony's was being. But this is no longer earth. We have to care for each other, like family. Will smiled and stepped out of her cubical.

"Yo, Phoebs wake up!" Paige yelled loudly. Phoebe acted like she was jerked awake, "Geez Paige, do you have to yell. You scared me to death." Actually Phoebe was scared to death, thinking about the vision; she had about the boy, and that person laying face down.

"Sorry," Paige muttered. She walked away from Phoebe, and waltzed over to Willow, "Hey Wil…will," She smiled, "I did not really catch your full name."

Willow laughed, "Yeah I kind of feel asleep. My name is Willow, but I am called Will by my friends."

"So can I call you Will? Oh and I'm Paige." Paige bounced up and down on her toes, looking at Willow.

"Yes, of course. We're all going to be friends." Willow noticed she had everyone looking at her and blushed. "Don't you guys think you should wake that girl?" She pointed to Prue, who was still pretending to sleep.

"Don't bother," Prue spoke up. "Paige's yell woke me up." Prue opened her eyes, then her door opened. Stepping out she smiled at everyone. "I guess we should go see if others are awake."

The others nodded and waked out of their sleeping area, and went down a long hall into another sleeping area. "Wait," someone spoke."

Everyone stopped and looked at Andrew. "What," Cordy asked?

Andrew blushed. "Well we did not introduce ourselves to Piper's sisters." He looked at Paige, and started to walk towards her, smiling, "I'm A…"

Oh no, it's about to happen, Phoebe thought.

"…ndrew." Andrew said as he stumbled and fell, Paige's eyes widened as she watched the boy fall.

Phoebe ran and caught the boy before he hit the glass door. But the weight of the boy knocked her over. She slammed into to the door and it opened slightly.

"Ewww," everyone shouted covering their noses as a disgusting smell assaulted them.

Phoebe knew what it was, and fell. Andrew also fell into her lap. She looked up at the boy and tried to smile. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, embarrassed, but fine. What is that smell?" Andrew stood up and pulled Phoebe to her feet.

Phoebe sighed looking at the door. "You know what it is. The smells stronger here, but we could smell it before we got here."

"Oh, gosh…" Cordy had tears running down her face. She had just had a vision of what was in there, she could see it was a body, but she could not tell who it was. "It's a dead body! Someone died!"

"Who," Paige asked her voice small and scared?

"I…I don't know," Cordy was trembling, and more tears fell from her face. "But we have to find out."

Prue looked at everyone and could see nobody really wanted to open the door, so she walked up to the door taking charge since she was the oldest in the room. She gently pushed Phoebe and Andrew aside. "I'll do it."

She was about to open the door, then though better of it. "You all stand back, let me look first."

Everyone did what she asked, so she opened the door and almost gagged.

There was in fact a body in the cubical, and it looked like it had been dead for a very long time. Smelt that way too. It was face down. "Oh gosh, who are you," she said out loud as she knelt next to the body and turned it over.

The face was totally decayed. No way could anyone tell who it was. "It's a guy," Prue could tell. She pinched her nose as she reached into his pockets, pulling out a wallet.

Opening the wallet she paled, seeing a picture of a small redhead. "That's Willow," she pulled the picture out and read the back. "Willow Rosenberg, age three."

She stood up, wiping a tear from her face. Leaving the cubical she shut the door. The rest came up to her. "Who is it?" They all wanted to know.

"Um, I don't think you guys want to go in there." She looked at Willow, wondering how to tell the girl, that her dad was in there.

"Why," Willow's voice was scared, she had caught Prue's look?

"Um, this is why," Prue handed the wallet to the girl.

Puzzled, Willow took the wallet and opened it. Seeing the picture of herself she choked. Tears fell down her cheeks. She looked up at Prue. "He's my dad."

All of Willow's friends gasped. "We're so sorry, Will," they each told her.

"Thanks," Willow took a deep breath, and wiped the tears off her face. "I'm alright. I mean I'll be fine.

Prue smiled at Willow, "Put the wallet with your stuff. I'll go back in and get anything else he has. If you want me to, that is."

Willow smiled and put the wallet in her pocket. In a quiet voice she said. "No, I will. I want to see him."

"Okay."

Willow took a deep breath and went to her father's cubical and slowly opened the door. She heard loud gasps as the others saw her father. Looking down, Willow choked back her tears. Bending down she laid her hand on her father's chest. Oh daddy, I'm gonna miss you, but I'll go on. You raised a strong girl. I love you daddy. She reached into his pockets, and found nothing, but his Tebber. She took the little computer out and put it with her own.

Standing back up, she turned and faced the others. "Okay, let's go look in the other cubicles. I'm pretty sure that there will be more that had died. This smell is too strong to belong only to my dad."

And that's just what they did. They looked through the rest of the cubicles in this sleeping area and discovered that, so far all the grownups were dead. First there was Will's dad, then her mom, next was the Halliwell's gram and then their mom, Cordy's mom and dad, and Harm's mom, then a lady they did not recognize.

Everyone was quite shaken, and there was not a face that was dry, as they left the dead and went to another sleeping area. In the next area they were greeted by more children. All of them were alive. Out of all the children only one of them was awake. A little brown haired girl was sitting on the ground, and hugging her knees. She was sobbing.

Prue looked at everyone, and mouth 'stop crying' they all understood and stopped. Walking up to the girl, Prue knelt down and softly spoke, "shh, what's wrong?"

The little girl, started to talk, "I'm scared, because nobody but me was awake," she looked up at Prue and threw her arms around Prue's neck, sobbing.

"Shh, were here, and they'll wake up soon." Prue stood up and looked at the children that were asleep. "Okay, people, wake them up, gentle like."

The next few minutes were spent wakening everyone up, and introducing each other.

"Okay now that we are all awake and we know each other's names, I think it's time we told you," she pointed to Kendra, Buffy, Dawn, Xander, Angel, and Spike, "something. We're all alone. So far any adult we've found is dead." She got a few gasps at that.

"That's right, my mom and dad, the Halliwell's gram and mom, Cordy's mom and dad, Harmony's mom, and a lady none of us recognized," she pulled out the lady's wallet. "This is her wallet. Anyone recognize it?"

Willow handed the wallet to Buffy. Buffy opened the wallet and looked inside. "No, this is not our mom."

Buffy started to hand the wallet to Xander, but Willow spoke up. "She's not Xander's mom."

"Oh," Buffy handed the wallet to Angel, who in turn handed it to Kendra, "Spike and I don't have mothers. And are foster mom died with the rest of Earth."

Kendra took the wallet, but she already knew it was not her mom, "My mom disappeared when I was very young."

"Oh, well that's everyone. So I guess," She took the wallet from Kendra and read the lD. "Ms. Rena Glass was all by herself." Willow sighed, wondering if any of the adults made it. She put the wallet in her pocket next to her mom's and dad's.

"Let's go look and see if anyone else survived." Prue led the way to the next sleeping area, and saw two bodies lying in the isle. The others in their cubicles were all dead as well. "Nobody made it. Adults, I mean." She saw the look on Buffy, Dawn, Xander and Andrew's faces as they too learned that their parents were gone. "I'm really sorry."

Everyone went to their parents and said their goodbyes.

A/N So what's everyone think? The next chapter will be about them leaving the ship, and seeing where they landed. Please review! Anycomments, thoughts, ideas?