hey hey hey, now what happened to all my reviewers? Thanks to KJ who is still on the kylie bandwagon... all the others need to get back on to the bandwagon - the story gets better i promise and there will be a sequal, just keep the faith in it and keep reviewing. any questions, just ask...
RR&E
Chapter eight
Five hooded men surrounded Prestyn who was seemingly unconscious, sprawled out on an alter. Each man held a crystal ball and stood between two candles each. Cole stood at the head of the group with an athame in his hands. He grabbed his daughter's hand and sliced her palm with it; letting blood drip on to the globe, while chanting;
'Apud hic nocte et apud hora,
Nos vocatio ex vetustas potestus
Dimitto lucrum de suus anima
Mando malus altus intus suus exosso'
Cole chanted the spell again; the globe in his hands fogging with a white mist, as had all the other globes. It seemed as though white mist was too much for the globe to handle, but Cole continued chanting with the small group joining in this time around;
'Apud hic nocte et apud hora,
Nos vocatio ex vetustas potestus
Dimitto lucrum de suus anima
Mando malus altus intus suus exosso'
Prestyn was rising off of the alter embedded in a black cloud and convulsing violently.
Again, Cole and the small group of men chanted the spell;
'Apud hic nocte et apud hora,
Nos vocatio ex vetustas potestus
Dimitto lucrum de suus anima
Mando malus altus intus suus exosso'
Glass shattered; Prestyn fell – hard – on to the alter. Cole looked around and saw that one of the crystal balls had fallen out of the hands of a hooded figure. "Insolence!" Cole rumbled. He hurled a fire ball at the man. After that, crystal ball after crystal ball shattered until there was nothing left. "What the Hell?" Cole asked himself.
"Master…" One of the hooded figures reluctantly began.
"I don't know!" Cole bellowed. "The good must be overpowering the evil somehow."
"So what do we do now?"
"Try again!"
--------
"We've tried enough already!" Piper yelled at her baby sister. Paige ignored Piper and continued to scry. "Paige, stop! Just stop!" Piper snapped, taking away the map of the city so Paige could no longer scry.
"Piper what are you doing?" Paige yelled. "We can't find them without the map!"
"We have tried three times to find him, and we haven't."
"It doesn't mean we won't."
"What, so he has cloaked himself, too, now?" Piper let out.
Paige thought and then shook her head. "No… not himself… not Prestyn either… He's cloaked wherever it is they are; which means she's alive; which means they are still here on earth!"
"Okay Nancy Drew, even so, how are we to find them if the place is cloaked?"
"I don't even think Nancy Drew can solve that one. We need to take this a step at a time."
"We don't have the time for that."
"We don't have the time for it, but unfortunately Piper it is all we can do."
The girls were interrupted by orbs as Leo had come back from magic school.
"How are the boys?" Piper asked.
"Chris is still upset, and Wyatt is curious about the girl who happens to remind him a lot about Aunt Phoebe," he answered.
Piper sighed. "He'll figure it out soon – he's a smart boy."
"Great White Lighter material," Leo admitted with a smile.
"Don't start," Piper glared.
"Uh, how is little Phoebe?" Paige asked, interrupting before an argument could erupt.
"In a word? Curious."
"Well that's Phoebe for you… she has to know everything."
"Yeah only she won't let me get close enough to tell her anything."
"How is she with the boys?"
"Wyatt doesn't like her; she's bossing him around too much," he said with a smile.
"Yeah, Phoebe was a lot like that when she was younger too… can't blame him," she chuckled.
"Any breakthroughs here?" he asked.
"I don't think that Prestyn is dead and I don't think that Cole has cloaked himself or Prestyn…" Paige said full of pride.
"So where does this leave the 'can't sense her anywhere' thing?"
"Paige seems to think that Cole has cloaked wherever it is they are."
"That's possible."
"There's a problem though – how do we find them? More importantly her…"
Leo thought for a little bit, before an idea lit his face; his blue eyes shining, instantly reminding Piper that that was one of the many reasons why she had fallen in love with him inthe first place. Don't get sidetracked! She yelled at herself.
"That's brilliant!" Paige let out. "How sure are you that it will work?"
"Pretty sure."
"You mean as 'pretty sure' as you were that Phoebe would tell us about Prestyn's dream slash premonition?" Paige countered with a cocky grin.
Piper was confused. She had missed the 'brilliant' idea that her husband had had. "Time out!" Piper called. "Now isn't exactly the time to get into that argument. We need to… uh…" Piper had no choice but to spill the beans. "What is it that we are doing? I kind of zoned out."
Paige and Leo looked at the eldest Charmed One.
"You zoned out?" Paige echoed. "Piper we really don't have time for you to zone out when Prestyn is in serious danger!" She snapped.
"I'm sorry; my fault; we'll argue later about it. What's the plan?"
"Paige was only focusing on Prestyn as a person. If she can focus on her scent and her aura, her spirit, maybe it will lead the crystal to a place close by to where she is."
"So we just bust down doors until we find her?" Piper said a little sarcastically.
"You got a better idea?" Leo shot back.
"Just ignore her, Leo. She's been like this all afternoon."
"It brings us that step closer to finding her, Piper; that way we can focus on Phoebe afterwards."
"So I'll take my map back thank you!" Paige snapped, snatching the map back from her sister andsplaying it out on the table in front of her, holding the crystal in her fist. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath and focused before dropping the crystal over the map and watching it swing until it finally dropped on to a location on the map.
"Is it going to work?" Piper whispered to Leo.
"What do you mean?" he whispered back.
"Well technically, Prestyn isn't her charge; can she find her that way by scrying?"
"No reason why she shouldn't."
Paige groaned.
"You didn't find her?" Piper asked.
Paige sighed and looked up from the map. "I found something."
"Well get the keys, get your jacket and let's go." Piper began heading out of the attic when Paige stopped her.
"It's going to be a little harder than that, Piper."
"Stop beating around the bush and tell me the problem."
"It isn't specific. The crystal points out that she is in the industrial area on 7th."
"On 7th!" Piper yelled. "Do you know how big that area is!"
"All the more reason for us to start searching now," Leo commented.
The three of them exited the attic.
Push the button! Push the button! Push the button! Go! Go! Go! Please :)
