Ripples appeared in the air, depositing the See'r, Zankou, and a whimpering Alyeia in an acient Egyptian tomb, adorned with gold treasures. Zankou stood with his hands behind his back, admired the centuries of wealth that now surrounded them.
"My it certainly is beautiful, but do you mind telling me why we are here?"
The See'r held Alyeia close to her chest, letting the child rest her head on her shoulder. "Because, this child has done nothing but cry for there days! She has suffered a tremendous lose at Prue's attempt to hide her father. I wish for her to find some resolve!"
Zankou scratched the side of his cheek in mock wonder. "Funny, I thought that when you bound her powers that you destroyed the link that our little Leige shares with her father and sisters"
"Evidently not" the See'r hissed, stroking Alyeia's fine dark hair with her fingers. "Her powers are much stronger than I anticipated"
"And I take it you do not want to end up like her mother?" Zankou hinted knowing that Alyeia's first kill had been to slay her biological mother, Dantalian"
"Ayleia would never harm me," the See'r returned, resting her cheek on the top of Ayleia's head.
"You positive about that?" It seemed to Zankou, that the little Leige had already used her power of mind control to get the See'r to do her bidding. First by having the See'r come up above ground out of hiding and moving directly across the street from the Halliwells, second by attending Phoebe's funeral, and finally third by allowing Ayleia to have contact with the littlest Angelic one, Austin.
"Ssh! Someone is coming! We must hide!" Quickly the See'r and Zankou ducked behind several large golden Eyptian statues at the sound of approaching footsteps. Ripples again appeared cloaking the demonic threesome and leaving behind nothing but the See'rs set of all seeing eyes.
"I still don't get why we're doing this," Making deals with demons was never a safe bet. Piper kept her arms crossed over her chest as she rounded the corner, entering the tomb with Paige and Prue. The three sisters were clothed neatly in casual attire of jeans and tank tops.
"Piper, I already told you, it's the only way I can save Andy," In Prue's mind the only way to save her husband was to keep him hidden from the Elder's until she could figure out a way to clear his name and solve destiny's riddle.
"Mmm…Andy's still a wanted man" Paige reminded looking up the glimmering gold jewels that decorated the ceiling.
"I still don't like it" Piper huffed placing her hands on her hips. "I mean who are we to disturb the spirit of a Goddess?" The Devine mother of all Egypt to be exact. Pocessing the power to raise the dead and heal the dismembered, Isis was a mighty force to be reckoned with.
"Piper, she's a Goddess who has been imprisoned by a demon!" In her hands Prue held an ancient piece of parchment paper the words were written in Arabic. In it words contained the hidden location of Isis imprisoned soul.
"And a demon wants to free her!" Piper reminded as they crossed over to a giant slab and spread the parchment out across the rough textured surface. "How do we know that once we free her, Jeric isn't going to use her to destroy us?"
"Did someone mention my name?" Jeric materialized from a pile of sand, keeping his hands clasp behind his back. His appearance was neat as ever, dressed in a crisp black shirt with matching Dockers.
"We were just trying to decipher, a parchment scroll we found from the Book of Shadows, apparently it holds the location to another tomb where the demon, Beezus, has Isis " Prue answered slamming her hand down across the center of the paper as Jeric lunged forward. His long fingers touched the corner of the parchment causing a little section to degenerate.
"What have you done to it?" Anger flooded Jeric's eyes as he snapped his hand back, feeling like it had touched a hot poker.
"Just a little insurance," Prue had used a special potion to lace the fine fibers of the parchment so that it would degenerate, if touched by demonic hands. "Now I want to see that my package is safe"
"Package?" Paige's lip jerked upward, "Did she just refer to Andy as a package?"
"Prue's way of dealing with grief" Piper grumbled as Jeric pointed a to a life-size tomb adorned in Gold.
"Over there, your beloved is resting like a king"
Paige watched as Prue's mouth took the shape of the slightest frown. "Good" her big sister answered adverting her eyes back down to the parchment. The youngest Charmed one follow suit listening intently as Jeric started to translate the ancient symbols.
"Help me"
Paige looked up as the sound of a child's voice tickled at her eyes. "Did you guys just hear that?"
Prue and Piper tore their eyes away from the paper. "No, what did you hear"
"It sounded like a child, a little girl"
Both and Piper and Prue looked over their shoulders scanning the surrounding of the tomb. "I don't think there are any children here" Piper answered flatly before turning back to Jeric's explanation.
"Help me, Paige. I need to free to my Daddy"
Paige's dark eyes shifted back and forth as they transformed into the shape of black almonds and then revert back their normal hue. Mechanically the youngest Charmed One walked away from the slab and crossed over to Andy's tomb.
"Paige?" Piper called over her shoulder as Paige deftly placed her fingers upon the gold tomb that held her brother in-law and suddenly orbed away.
"PAIGE!"
"What is she doing? This had better not be a trick, " Jeric thundered darkly at Prue. "I too have insurance" As Prue had protected with the parchment, Jeric had taken measures with tomb ensuring that he was only being the capability to open it. "If the tomb is opened before Isis is free, Scarabs will devour your husband"
"That can't happen" the hair began to stand up on the back of Prue's neck sending a shiver down her spine. If the mummification spell were to be broken before it's time the poison from Mandela's arrow would kill Andy instantly, "I'll find her"
"How?" Piper repeated, "How are we going to find Paige without Leo and Andy?"
"I can track the tomb" Jeric responded, offering out his hands to the remaining sisters. Tentively, Piper and Prue laced their fingers with his allowing the demon to sand them away.
"What is happening?" Breaking the Seer's power to mask Zankou stepped out from his hiding place gazing about the tomb in surprise.
"Ayleia" the Seer whispered noting that her common law daughter was gone. "She has used Paige to seek out her father"
Orbs appeared in a dark underground cavern, revealing Paige and the tomb. Given the power to turn into a flurry of dark ash, by her mother, Dantalian, Ayleia had cleverly management to direct Paige to take the tomb to a well-known demonic cavern.
"Where am I?" Paige blinked trying to clear her head from the fog that surrounding it. "How did I get here?" She looked briefly at the tomb and then adverted her gaze. Ayleia was standing before her, with her two forefingers stuffed into her mouth. The little demoness was dressed in a clean white cotton dress, with matching white socks and white sandals. Her delicate black hair was pulled up into two ponytails sitting on either side of her head.
"Who are you?" Paige's brow knitted for a moment before the name came to her mind.
Alyeia
"Alyeia" Paige repeated breathlessly. The witch rubbed her temple, feeling a strange pull towards the child. "How did you-
Paige didn't get to finish her thought. Three spinning mounds of sand appeared exploding, Prue, Jeric and Piper onto the scene. Piper's fists were balled, ready to roar.
"Paige, what is wrong with you?"
"That!" Paige threw out her palm pointing sharply at the child. "She brought us here"
"Alyeia" Prue dared to breath as recognized the deep blue hue of Andy's eyes staring up at her. "But how?"
"The future Queen of the underworld is all seeing" Shimmers, deposited both the Seer and Zankou directly behind the sisters, with the Seer already firing a huge ball of fire at Piper.
"Piper!" Pulling back her arm, Prue flung it forward sending the blazing ball of death back into the direction that came. Zankou was quicker however countering the blast the with a flame of his own canceling the first. An explosive blast of heat rocked the cavern sending flickers of fire back in the directions from which they came.
"Aw, crap, I think that got one of my eyebrows" Piper rubbed the area above her left eye before Zankou threw the next blast. "Okay, that does it!" Flexing her fingers, Piper sent an explosive force directly into Zankou's chest, blowing the demon to bits. "You care to try that again?" Feeling superior, the witch, closed her hands calling back the molecules she'd just destroyed, reassembling Zankou. "Didn't think so!" She opened her hands a third time, and destroyed him for good, sending his ashes slaying all over the cavern walls.
Piper flexed her nostrils and curled her hands into fists glaring at the Seer, "care to be next?"
"I won't leave here without Alyeia" The Seers eyes flashed red as she lifted her arms, firing electrical bolts from her palms.
"Orbing Force Field!" Paige cried raising a palm of her own and sending shoot burst of protective orbs over her two older sisters, as Piper and Prue ducked in effort to avoid the surge of electricity.
"You three are no match for the Source of All Evil!" The Seer again aimed her palms this time sending the blast directly at Paige. Knowingly, Alyeia stepped directly into the path of the bolts causing the Seer's eyes to widen.
"No my Liege!" she begged with fright.
"Alyeia!" the youngest charmed one dove for the child knocking her to the ground as the bolts struck Andy's tomb. Paige rolled for several moments until she felt Alyeia ash from her arms exploding into a black cloud of flurries.
The little demoness reappeared before the Seer, glaring darkly.
Slowly the See'r started to back away with fear dripping from her voice "No..no…Alyeia…I would never choose to harm to your father. The blast was meant for Paige!"
Alyeia closed her eyes and the Seer started to run an invisible rippling probe started to form from Alyeia's eyes. The transparent object flew forward, striking the see'r in the back.
The force field disappeared prompting Prue to give Paige a hand up. Huddling together the three sisters and Jeric watched the Seer start to scream in agony before exploding into oblivion.
"Oh Crap" Piper hissed as the little blue eyed angelic/demon raised her lashes to them. The molecular witch gave Prue a nudge forward.
Prue glared stumbling slightly. Straighten she tucked a strand of hair behind one ear. "Alyeia, Hi" she smiled showing the gaps in her teeth, "Remember me?"
Ayleia looked down at the ground hesitantly before sending an empathetic blast, which sent her Stepmother sailing across the cavern into the Northwest wall. Like Prue, Ayleia had not forgotten her time in the womb of the witch who vanquished her biological mother.
"Geez that kids got kick" Piper bit off noting that her oldest sister was out cold, "I can't wait to see what happens after we get her home"
Jeric frowned glancing at Paige. "Perhaps it's best if we continue our quest for Isis later"
"yeah, later…much later," Paige nodded sheepishly and pursed her lips pulling them into an embarrassed smile.