Price Of Love– Mirandabelle
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Disclaimer: Charmed is the property of WB and Aaron Spelling Productions, and I do not own the actual idea or storyline.
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Summary:
Three young witches all eager to fall in love little realizing
that they're about to wind up in the middle of some pretty serious
trouble! Max, James and Brendan, Prue Piper and Phoebe's new
boyfriends seem too good to be true, and the feeling appears to be
mutual until a premonition on Phoebe's part wakes them up and starts
a very interesting ride, resulting in three broken hearts - but not
to whom you might think.
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The next afternoon Brendan, Max, (without his plaster cast or crutches) and James met in a dark, underground cavern with many other men and a few women. One man was taller than the rest and he dressed in a long black robe. "Soon, the day will come when the Charmed Ones meet their fate." The tall man said slowly in a deep voice. "Step forwards the three who are to be responsible for this act." Max, Brendan and James stepped forward. "You have all won the hearts of a Charmed One I presume? Excellent, tell me now, do they suspect anything?"
" Prue did at first, but yesterday morning, her sister, with the ability to freeze time, froze me and pricked me with a pin to discover if I was a demon or not, but I have been pricked before, as we all have, and the bleed-spell worked."
" Very good, Max. You others?" He motioned to Brendan and James.
"Phoebe had a vision, which lead her to believe that Max was a demon, but however, she had a bowl of hemlock which, made her vision a false one. But at the time, she did not know this, making all three sisters suspicious and careful. I knocked over a glass vase and deliberately cut my fingers on a shard and used the bleed-spell."
" Good, and you James?"
" I haven't needed to use any spell, yet, I just lead Piper to believe I had never been kissed and she fell for me. She doesn't suspect a thing, I played the nervous-first-time act right down to blushing and stammering."
"Brilliant, but the Charmed Ones, this way will only have to battle one of us at a time. This brings the possibility that the Power of Three will be too strong for just the one of us, three on one. You must all attack at once, if three witches must fight three demons, it will probably be everyone for themselves, one on one. But not immediately, increase their trust. We have a new member of the Love Demons," the man ended the conversation abruptly. "Step forward Shane and be sworn in." A blonde man came in and looked a bit nervous.
"Repeat what I say Shane, I solemnly swear to never love another mortal and to follow in the footsteps of past Love Demons who have striven to find a love slave forever and succeeded and to avenge the deaths of failed Love Demons." Shane repeated the words slowly, the hesitation in his voice leaving as he continued through the sentence.
"I solemnly swear to never love another mortal and to follow in the footsteps of past Love Demons who have striven to find a love slave forever and succeeded and to avenge the deaths of failed Love Demons." "Good Shane, so now you wont need this." The leader nodded and several demons surrounded Shane and pinned him to the ground.
The man now transformed into a demon, and plunged his clawed hand deep into the writhing man's chest. Shane cried for help and the leader withdrew his hand, and held, high above his head Shane's heart, which was still beating. Shane screamed with pain as the heart was thrown into a fire, and for the first time, he transformed into the demon. Still howling with rage and pain the new Love Demon stood up and the leader announced, that Shane was now, a Love Demon just like the others, and was ready to go into the world and find a love slave.