Diclaimer: Same as Before
Amanda: Stopping to catch her breath as Mari ran around trying to evade Dyana and her large kitchen knife
Piper: So she's finally off your tail?
Amanda:panting For… the time…. Being… yeah…
Phoebe: Well, don't expect that to be too long… Points to Dyana who is looking at Amanda threateningly.
Amanda: Well, I gotta go! Start the chapter! Bolts off as Dyana dashed after her.
Sora: I'm glad I'm not them.
Paige: Maybe I should orb them out?
Cole: Nah.
Paige: Why?
Cole: It's too much fun to watch.
Phoebe: Cole! Slaps him playfully
Paige: And you call your self a former laywer.
Cole: Innocently What?
"Good witches, huh?" Sora asked skeptically after hearing their explanations. He wasn't quite sure he believed them, but they seemed like decent people.
"Yup." Phoebe said, getting up and hooking her arms around her sisters, "We're the Charmed One's; the protectors of the innocent."
"And we're the Enchanted One's!" Mari said, reaching for her friends and pulling them in, "We're in training to be the next Charmed Ones."
Before anyone could reply, a jingling sound rung out through the room. Leo looked at Piper apologetically, but Piper looked away angrily.
"Piper, I'm-"
"No. Go ahead." Piper said making Leo feel horrible.
"Piper."
"No Leo. They need you for some reason. Now go."
"I love you." Leo said.
"Mhhmmm…" Piper nodded, and Leo orbed out.
"Piper!" Phoebe said, "Do you have to be so hard on him?"
"What?" Piper asked, "I can't want my husband home for more then an hour?"
"Piper…"
"Back to what we were saying." Piper said, ignoring her younger sister, she turned to face Sora and the others, but blushed slightly as the teenagers all looked oddly at her.
"Well Leo was right." Phoebe said, "Your stuck here with us until we find a way to send you back to your world-or-worlds." Phoebe turned to her half-sister Paige and gave her a shrug.
"Man, this is going to get confusing…" Paige said.
Everyone laughed at this remark.
"Well, I'd better go under for a while and see what I can dig up." Cole said, getting up and going over to Phoebe. He kissed her on the cheek and shimmered out. Phoebe pouted and said, "You meanie."
"I have one question…" Amanda said, "If what he says is true… then Barbus sent him here…"
"Yeah." Paige replied.
"…Barbus is the demon of fears…"
"Yeah." Piper said.
"…So all his powers are to make your worst fears come to life…."
"Basically." Phoebe replied.
"So how can he send him here? How did Barbus muster up the power to send him to our world-without having help from another demon. I mean, as far as Leo said, Meylik and The Queen wanted to keep us APART. So they couldn't have hired Barbus to SEND him here… So Barbus was working on his own… So he used his fear to bring him here…" Amanda looked at Sora, causing him to flinch, "So your worst fear is…?"
"What?" He asked, "Like I know!"
"You should." Phoebe said, "Everyone has a worst fear, wheither it be high places, death or spiders. Something here caused Barbus' magic to send you here… to our world. Your worst fear. Now what is it?"
"Ah. Maybe I can answer that…" They all heard Barbus' voice ring out through the room. Seconds later, Barbus shimmered in behind Phoebe, startling her. Everyone watched Barbus angrily as he situated himself in the arm chair.
"What makes you think coming here won't seal your fate?" Dyana asked.
"We can vanquish you!" Mari added.
"By defeating your worst fears." Barbus replied smoothly, "Something of which, only ONE of you knew how to do."
"Prue." Piper muttered under her breath.
"Yes Piper. Only Prudence could defeat her worst fear. But she's dead, isn't she?"
Piper glared at Barbus angrily as he grinned, revealing large teeth.
"Your right in saying I'm on my own with sending him here." Barbus said, "I had to do that for the… kicks."
"Kicks?" Sora demanded.
"Your worst fears come to life." He said, "The person you care about has been taken away from you."
"I TOLD you he had a fear!" Amanda muttered to Mari triumphantly.
"I WAS working for those two. Until I had a brilliant idea; Why not use your fears for my OWN powers to grow, and so I may over throw them and become the next Source." Barbus said.
"What is it with demons and wanting to be the next Source?" Phoebe asked her older sister.
"I dunno." Piper shrugged, "But he'd really pissin me off."
"Temper temper, Piper." Barbus teased, "We wouldn't want you killing the innocents, would you?"
"Innocents?" Paige asked.
"There are no innocents here!" Mari added.
"Now here, but in their possession there is." Barbus said.
"Innocents…" Amanda muttered to herself. She wondered silently what Barbus could mean.
"Now you're kidnapping random innocents off the streets?" Dyana asked.
"Now that's pathetic." Paige taunted.
"Oh, these two innocents are very familiar to some of you anyway." Barbus taunted, gazing at Amanda and them at Sora.
"Oh no." Dyana moaned, getting the feeling they were about to learn something very bad.
"What?" Mari asked. Dyana motioned her head to Amanda.
"Amanda?" Mari asked, "What does Amanda have to do with the innocents… OH OH OH! I get it! It's Ky-" Dyana slapped her hand over Mari's mouth, leaving a good red mark. Unfortunately for them, Amanda had picked up on what they we're saying and had realized who ONE of the innocents was. She looked up at Barbus and said, "Kyle."
"Apparently it's not true what they say about blondes." Barbus remarked, "They aren't as stupid as they look."
"No we're not." Amanda said.
"We also noticed you looked at him." Dyana pointed to Sora, who looked slightly dumbfounded, "You have another innocent, someone tied to him."
"Apparently what they say about the feminine species is true though;" Barbus laughed slightly, "Their much smarter then men."
"Think Sora." Phoebe said, "Who could they have taken that is an innocent and you know!"
"Kairi!" He said, after 2 minutes, "You kidnapped her!"
"And we have a winner!" Barbus said, "Now excuse me, I have matters to attend to. But I'll be leaving you a parting gift…"
Barbus shimmered out as a huge bulky demon shimmered in and threw an energy ball at the sisters, catching Piper off guard and slamming her into the wall, where she was knocked unconscious. Phoebe and Paige rushed over to her.
"Leo!" Phoebe shouted, "Leo!"
"Amanda! Blow him up!" Paige instructed her. She nodded and flicked her hands. The demon froze in his tracks.
"B-b-but my power!" Amanda whined, looking at her hands and then at the demon. She went to lower her hands but Phoebe shouted, "DON'T!" But it was too late. The demon had unfrozen and back handed Amanda into the side wall, where she caused a mirror to fall on top of her.
"Amanda!" Dyana shouted, "You okay?"
"Yeah!" They all heard Amanda's voice underneath the shattered glass and broken frame, "Just a little PISSED THE HELL OFF!"
"I'll hold him off!" Mari shouted, "You go help her out of there!"
"Right!" Dyana said. She rushed over to Amanda and started to pull off the glass. Mari stood in a fighting position and went to jump snap kick the demon, when she jumped right up into the air and hovered in the air.
"Ah! Ah! Ah!" She shouted, looking at the ground and then at the demon, "GEMME DOWN!"
"LEOOO!" Phoebe cried again as the white orblets came down and Leo materialized, and started to heal Piper right away. Phoebe and Paige ran up to Mari and grabbed one of her ankles each and yanked her down hard- right on top of themselves. The three landed in a heap of arms and legs.
"This was going to easier then I thought!" The demon growled triumphantly and created an energy ball in it's left hand. Sora came up behind the demon slowly and when he went to strike him, the demon whipped around and back handed him into the wall. Then the demon whirled back to the heap of dazed witches of the ground and proceeded in charging it's energy ball. Meanwhile with Dyana, she'd pulled off most of the pieces of shattered glass off of her friend Amanda, just enough for her to push herself out without getting too major of gashes. Amanda looked over in the direction of the demon and gasped, "Dyana! Help them!"
"What-?" Dyana asked, then whirled around on her heel an gasped at the scene her friends were in. As the demon went to toss the energy ball at them, Dyana screamed in a rage of fury and the fireball flung from the demon's hand, into the nearest curio cabinet. But that only stopped him temporarily, the demon just charged up another energy ball.
"Dyana go help them!" Amanda shouted.
"But you-"
"Go!"
"I can't!"
"DYANA!"
WHY CAN'T THERE BE TWO OF ME? Dyana thought to herself, hating herself for abandoning on of her friends. Then she gasped and felt her spirit being tugged out of her.
"Dyana?" Amanda asked, trying to reach for her to shake her, but the glass was still over her and if she made any rapid movements, she would probably be dead.
Dyana appeared right in front of the demon.
"Wow, head rush." She said, then realized her surroundings. The demon glared down hatefully at her.
"Ah!" She cried, and her right leg whammed up instinctively and the demon staggered back in pain.
Leo had just healed his wife and embraced her in a hug. Then he let go, and Piper gasped as she saw the demon go to tackle Dyana. She also saw the shattered remains of her mother's antique mirror covering Amanda-giving her limited mobility. Piper shouted, "DYANA DUCK!" And the second Dyana did, Piper blew up the demon. Then she instructed her husband to orb Amanda out of there. He returned next to Piper, already started on healing Amanda's deep gashes from the broken mirror. As Mari, Paige and Phoebe collected themselves and untangled their ligaments, Dyana returned to her body.
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?" Dyana demanded, despite her throbbing headache and blurry vision.
"Oh my!" Phoebe squealed excitedly, getting up, "My, my, my!"
"What?" Paige asked, blowing a chunk of her orange hair out of her face.
"Leo honey… did she just…" Piper looked up at her husband suspiciously. Leo grinned guiltily and said, "Their powers are already advancing."
"And why didn't we know about that?" Piper questioned him.
"Because that's what they called me up there for." Leo shrugged, and withdrew his hands as Amanda stepped out and stretched.
"DAMN that was UNPLEASANT." She said, then whipped around to Leo, "Um.. Leo… one question… WHY THE HELL DIDN'T MY BLOWING UP POWER WORK!"
"It was like that for me when I first got my new powers too." Piper said, "In a month it'll be better."
"But I can't WAIT that long." Amanda moaned.
"Least you don't have to worry about flying sky high!" Mari snapped at her.
"Oh shut up!" Amanda yelled back.
"GIRLS!" Phoebe shouted, "Chill out! Once you learn to control your powers everything will be okay!"
"Wonderful." Amanda moaned, "I can barely control my temper and you expect me to control this freezy power? Leo. Why did they give ME this power?"
"I dunno." Leo shrugged.
"You should." Dyana said, "You ARE a Whitelighter."
"Well… I-"
"Looks like they got you there Leo." Paige teased him. Leo's face turned cherry red. Amanda realized an absence in people and scanned the room. Mari noticed Amanda looking around anxiously, "What's up with you?" She teased her, "You look like you've seen a ghost. Which technically isn't to scary seeing as we're witches and all."
"Hey Leo." Amanda said, "Where's that kid?"
Leo's eyes widened in fear and he scanned the area nervously.
"The demons!" Leo shouted, "They got Sora! The Elders are gonna kill me once they find out! Oh no!"
"Looks like Barbus wasn't just targeting your's and Sora's fears, Amanda." Dyana said, "He targeted all of our fears. He knows them all. That must by why they took Sora. Leo must be terrified of the Elder's wrath."
"Great." Piper moaned, "We're short one innocent, we have a demon running loose, and add that to your new powers. We're soo fucked."
Amanda: This couldn't POSSIBLY get any worse.
Mari: Shut up it can!
Dyana: I like my new power!
Amanda: Yeah, your is easiest to CONTROL!
Dyana: 'sticks out her tongue'
Piper: Calm down, everything will be okay.
Leo: Your new powers are a blessing from-
Amanda: Leo.
Leo: Yeah?
Amanda: Shove it.
Leo: Sorry…
Dyana: Well wanna know what happened to our innocent? Read and Review!
