Chapter 6: Avalon
The kids were all still feeling very sad and not knowing what to do. They were on a new planet, parentless, and had no idea what was waiting for them when they left the ship. One thing they were thankful for were the little computers they nicknamed The Tebber. The Tebbers would help them survive since it could materialize food, entertainment and as someone found out clothes and survival gear.
Gathered into the control room, (a tight fit) the kids set, either in the cockpit chairs or on the floor.
Sighing, Prue looked at all the sad faces. "Well I know it's a sad time for us, but we need to move on." The others looked up at the fifteen year old, fear clearly written on their faces. "I know, I know, it's a scary thought, but we can't live on this ship forever." The ship was not built for living and the smell was getting worse as the time passed.
The youngest, Dawn, looked at Prue, her lips trembled. "But What...I mean..." she paused, thinking, "who's our mommies now?"
Buffy grabbed her sister into a fierce hug, "Oh, Dawnie, well all take care of each other. Sort of be each others mommies." A tear fell down Buffy's face.
"Ah, Buffy, that is your name?" Buffy nodded. "Buffy's right, we all have to look out for each other. The oldest of us should be more in charge, but we'll all work together." Prue looked to the others, "do you all agree? Do you think it's fair?" The younger children thought for a bit, then nodded.
"Okay good, now how old are you all?" Prue asked.
Willow smiled and spoke up, "I'm ten and Cordy, Harm and Xand are ten as well." She pointed to each person as she named them, in case anyone forgot their names.
Andrew looked at his fellow Sunnydale schoolmates, "I'm nine. Cordy, Harm, Will and Xand went to the same school as I in Sunnydale."
Buffy pointed to Dawn, "she's four and I'm ten."
Kendra face glowed bright red as the others turned to her. She was very shy, and was not used to being around people. "I..I'm nine." she whispered.
Spike smacked Angel, which made him scowl, "Me and girly name here are thirteen, and were also foster brothers." Angel's scowl got even bigger, but he kept quiet.
"Right okay, well as I've told you, I'm Prue and I'm fifteen, my sisters," she pointed to her sisters, "are nine, eleven and thirteen."
"Okay so now we know everyone's ages, now what?" Xander asked, looking at Prue.
"Okay, seeing as I'm the oldest, I'm in charge, and I'll appoint two others to help me out. Of course everyone here is equal, but we need someone to lead us." The others nodded. It seemed fair, as far as they were concerned.
"I pick Piper and," she looked at all the other thirteen year olds. She did not know any of the others, so she would have to pick someone on faith that they would make good leaders. "And I pick..." she looked again, the only other thirteen year olds were the quiet Angel and his brother Spike, who seemed to be a trouble maker. Prue was thinking she trust one of them, she was really not sure.
"You seem to be having trouble picking the third leader," Willow voiced, noticing Prue's gaze go from person to person, she was even looking at the ten year olds. She just was not sure about Spike or Angel.
Prue frowned, looking at Willow, "yeah. I picked my sister, Piper because I know her and she's very fair, level headed and she really cares for others. Please don't be offended, but I don't know the rest of you well enough to trust if you can be a good leader."
"Offended," Harmony looked at her friends, then at the quiet Kendra, then her gaze passed over Angel and Spike. She looked back to Prue. "Were not offended, you have every right to feel that way. You don't know us. For all you know we could be demons." The Halliwell's stiffened up at hearing that. They knew about demons.
"Oh, were not though," Willow said when she noticed how the four dark haired girls were acting.
"Oh we know...but speaking of demons," Piper was about to tell everyone of the Halliwell's powers, but Prue gave her a sharp look. "But Prue, you know we have to...they need to know, before the find out on their own."
Prue shook her head, not ready to share their secret. Sighing, Piper flicked her hand and froze everyone.
Paige and Phoebe, looked at their two older sisters, they were all for going along with whatever they decided.
After much talking, Prue was defeated, she knew what Piper wanted to do was the right thing to do. "Okay so we tell them. How do you think they will react?"
Piper chewed her bottom lip. "Well at least one of them, maybe more of them has powers of their own. I can sense it." She was not sure what kind of power she was sensing, but she knew it was there.
"Well there's a twist. I never would of guessed it. You'd think I'd be the one to sense it, seeing as I have the visions." Phoebe, looked at the frozen kids and wondered who Piper was sensing.
"Okay, one or more of them have powers, so maybe they'll take it well." Prue took a deep breath, then motioned for Piper to unfreeze everyone.
After Piper unfroze everyone, she sighed, thinking about how to tell them.
"Hey, what are you two talking about?" Spike asked.
"More like fighting about." Angel spoke up.
"Welll, you see, um, my sisters and I have a big secret. A big secret that's kept in the Halliwell family."
"Uh huh, go on." Andrew said, hanging on to every word Piper was saying.
And it seemed everyone else were hanging on her every word as well.
Piper flushed deep red, and tried to speak again, but her words would not come out. Geez Piper, get a hold of yourself. You are one of their leaders, you can't go and let yourself get all embarrassed. Piper thought to herself.
"Hehe, cat got your tongue, Piper," Paige laughed.
"Hush," Piper scolded the youngest Halliwell. Clearing her throat, Piper started to speak again. "As I was saying, my sisters and I have a secret...we can do things, that almost nobody else can do."
"And what things can you do?" Andrew wanted to know.
"Welll, maybe it'd be best if we show you." Prue said. "We have powers, and this is my power. Now please don't be afraid or anything. Were telling you now, because in the future we might have to use our powers in front of you all." Prue, concentrated, on the little tin can that was laying on the floor. She moved her hand out and away from her body, really fast and flung the can against the wall.
Everyone gasped, Cordy was not as shocked as the others. She had always assumed there were others out there with powers.
"Wow," was all Andrew could say.
"Phoebe has visions, by touching things, or sometimes they hit her when she's not touching anything." Prue pointed to Phoebe. "Paige can orb herself and others."
"What's that mean?"
"Paige, show them."
Paige nodded to Prue, and shut her eyes and thought about the outside of the room, and the next minute she was gone. The room was filled with more gasps.
She reappeared in a few seconds. "You see when I orb, I become a ball of light, that looks like an orb."
"Okay, what can Piper do?" Willow asked. No one seemed to be afraid. They all seemed very fascinated by the girls powers.
"I freeze time. I'd show you, but you all would not be able to see, cause you'd be frozen."
"So you all understand what we are?" Prue asked. Some nodded, others shook their heads. "Were witches, good witches. We can do spells and stuff."
"Okay, so your witches, you have powers, you can do spells, cool. Okay now it's my turn to spill a secret." Cordy smiled. Feeling a little relieved to be telling everyone about her visions. Her friends already knew, of course.
"Oh, cool more secrets." Piped up Spike. Angel rolled his eyes at his brother.
"Well I don't think I'm a witch, but I have visions. I've had them ever since I can remember." Cordy, thought back to her vision of Earth's end and shuddered. "Sometimes I have very scary and graphic visions."
"Oh, you're a witch all right," Harm teased, then she gasped, looking at the Halliwell's, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean any disrespect."
The girls laughed, "Don't think nothing of it. Most people think of witches as old long, nosed hags, with black pointy hats." Piper said.
"Okay, any more secrets...cause we need to leave, and set up camp somewhere. Figure out where we are, if we can." Prue, looked at everyone. When nobody spoke she looked at the two vision girls. "Either of you, think you can sum up a vision. Maybe you'll see what's out there."
Both girls tried their hardest to get a vision, touching things and everyone. Suddenly, Phoebe tensed as a vision hit her.
/Flash/
Everyone was walking through a beautiful forest. Everything about where they was so different from Earth. For one thing the trees were every color of the rainbow, the sky looked like pink, blue and green cotton candy. The animals that could be seen looked like Earth animals, except their colors and other small things about them were different.
The group passed a bubbling purple stream, into a little grove. Phoebe felt a tap on her shoulder, and a voice spoke, "Welcome to Avalon." (A/N this is my own version of Avalon, not the one you go to in a certain book series.)
/Flash/
Coming out of her vision, Phoebe looked at everyone and told them about her vision.
"Avalon," Prue looked at Phoebe, "That's the name you heard, right."
"Uh huh, and someone spoke it. So this planet is inhabited by some speaking thing."
"Was it a friendly voice?"
"I could not tell. It was a soft whisper."
"Okay, so here's what we know...This place is called Avalon, if we can believe the voice. There are speaking inhabitants. It looks a lot like Earth, except for the colors. Well the forest looked like a Earth forest." Willow got out her Tebber. "You think these are intelligent?"
"Maybe, ask it?" Prue wondered just how much these little computers could do.
"Okay, computer, can you tell where we are?"
The computer beeped and buzzed, then spoke. "I have the ability to analyze your currant whereabouts."
"Oh, cool, tell me about the place we are right now."
"You're in a Earth like environment. The air is breathable. No hostile creatures are near."
"Is that all?"
"Yes, that is all I can detect at the moment, Miss Willow Rosenberg."
"Eik, you know my name!"
"Yes, we computers are programed to know everything about our owners. For instance, you weigh 78 pounds, you have a crush on Xa..."
"...Okay, I understand." Willow shouted, blushing.
"Well it's now or never, lets go." Prue led everyone through the ship, and out the ship's door.
Once outside, everyone blinked their eyes, getting used to the bright suns. That's right suns. The sky had two suns overlapping each other.
"Well, that's something you don't see everyday," Buffy said as she looked up, whiling shielding her eyes.
"My eyes hurt," Dawn wined, her eyes closed tight.
"Sunglasses!" Paige said into her Tebber, right when she finished talking a pair of sunglasses appeared. "Ah, that's better," she said as she put them on.
Everyone else followed her lead and soon had pairs of their own sunglasses.
"Well, lets go." Prue told everyone.
"Hey wait," Willow called to Prue, "You never picked the third leader."
"Oops, forgot." Prue looked at everyone, thinking hard. "Actually, I think you'd make a good leader, Willow. You seem very smart, and level headed and caring."
Willow blushed, "Wow, you really think so." She looked at the older boys, "But what about them, they're older then me?"
Spike looked at Angel, then at Willow. "That's all right, love. Leading's not my cut of tea."
"Prue's right Willow, you'd be a good leader." Angel spoke up.
"Well then it's settled, Piper, Willow and I will be in charge." She smiled, feeling a bit better.
"Now lets go." Prue told everyone. Nodding they all started to walk away from the ship, and it's dead inhabitants.
(A/N I'll stop this chapter here. I hope you liked. Please review!)
