Harry pulled on his cousin Wyatt's power of Orbing and sent a thought to his mother and cousin explaining that he heard a scream from the eight people in his mind. He told them to Orb back to the Halliwell Homes and meet him at Piper's home. When he and his two family members arrived at their home, Lily immediately brandished her wand and instructed for Harry to call upon an energy ball and Wyatt to stay behind her and her son.
'Homenum Revelio' she incanted as she waved her wand after checking for any Muggle's walking on the street.
"What's going on Aunt Lily?" Wyatt asked as he looked up at his aunt with fear in his eyes.
"I don't know sweetie, but the spell I just cast is supposed to reveal human presence within the area. Thankfully it's picking up your brother, sister and cousins but none of the adults. Follow me, it seems they're all in the attic." Lily answered as she led her son and nephew up the stairs, her wand pointing out and a flood of curses ready to escape from her tongue if they ran into danger. As they opened the door to the attic, Lily ducked as a large burst of flame flew towards her, singing the very topmost hairs on her head in the process of the avoidance of the attack.
"AUNT LILY!" several voices sounded in happiness.
"Children, thank god you're all safe! Is anyone injured? Come here and I'll heal you" Lily said, her mothering instincts going into overdrive as she saw the terrified looks on her nieces and nephew's faces.
"I'm sorry for almost hurting you Aunt Lily" a quiet voice said meekly. Lily turned and saw her twin's eldest twin daughter, Tamora, looking down ashamedly.
"Oh hunny, you don't need to be sorry! You did excellently! You saved your sister, brother and cousins from what could have been a threat and I am very proud of you in showing such courage and control" Lily said comfortingly as she wrapped the young 6 year old in her arms.
"Chris, what happened? Where are all the grown-ups?" Lily asked her eldest nephew, who had been stood with the younger children of the family as her, Harry and Wyatt walked in the room.
"It was so scary Aunt Lily, Mom, Aunt Phoebe, Aunt Paige and Aunt Prue all rushed in the home and told Dad and Uncle Coop to take us all to you at Hogwarts but before they could even start Dad collapsed and just seemed to dissolve into Orbs like he does when Mom blows him up in training. A…And then everyone just seemed to vanish like they Blinked away" Chris explained emotionally with tears in his eyes.
"What about Uncle James, Uncle Paddy and Uncle Moony?" Wyatt asked as he checked on Melinda.
"Uncle James took them to a Magical part of the Amazon cause it's a full moon tonight" Melinda replied for her brother.
"Harry darling, could you call him? Moony wouldn't have turned yet, they most probably went during the day to scout for an area and ward against humans entering as a precaution" Lily asked of her son as she went about healing everyone, regardless if they were obviously injured as a precaution in case there was any internal injuries.
"DAD" Harry called into the air and in a swirl of orbs, James appeared in the attic.
"What's happened?" James asked gravely as he took in the fearful expressions on his family's face.
"My sisters and their husbands have gone missing. I need Harry, Wyatt and Chris to help me look for them, could you keep an eye on the others?" Lily asked before a portal opened out of the Triquetra drawn on the far wall of the attic. She and James brandished their wands and Harry tried for a connection with his Aunt Piper so he can pull on her Molecular Immobilisation power. After proving to be unsuccessful, which worried him even more he pulled on one of Hermione's Demonic Powers she had inherited from her father, after asking her permission of course. He pulled on her powers of electrokinesis and got ready to attack whoever came through the portal. Three young men walked out casually, one had long, ear length dark hair and a tall and slender physique while, the second looked almost exactly like James, though his eyes matched those of Harry's and Lily's and the third has short, styled blonde hair and a tall and slightly muscular physique.
"Mum, what's happened? We just got home from vanquishing a demon and none of the others remember Aunt Piper, Phoebe, Paige or Prue or Uncle Coop, Andy and Leo. Only Uncle Henry, Padfoot, Moony, you and Dad are around" the second man says as they walk through the portal.
"Harry?!" Lily exclaims, looking at the young man in wonder.
"What, you haven't seen the adult me yet? I'm sure I've come to Hogwarts during the Seige to help out, all us Halliwell's did." The blonde man, who they established to be the future version of Wyatt said.
"The Seige? What's that?" the young Harry asked, wondering what will happen to his school.
"Sorry kid, that' future information, we can't tell you that" the older version of Chris replied.
"Mum, I think it might be best if you send younger me and Wyatt back to Hogwarts to defend it incase whatever got your sisters come looking for you" the elder Harry said as he looked at his younger self with worry.
"No way, I've already warded Hogwarts so heavily that no one with evil intentions against any of the faculty or the students can't come in. I'm not leaving mum alone." The younger Harry said in protest.
"Harry, wasn't it just the other day two Demons came in to Hogwarts and attacked our friends? You know yourself that while some of your Powers are bound, you're still the best defence that place has got cause Hermione still haven't mastered all of the powers she inherited from her father. You, more than anyone, need to be at Hogwarts" the elder version said sternly as he, along with the future versions of his cousins, locked hands and chanted something in such quiet voices, not one other occupant of the room could hear. In a swirl of white lights all of the children, the two Hogwarts students included and James were taken to the Scottish castle, leaving the three young adult men and the remaining Charmed One.
"So, what's our next step Aunt Lily?" Wyatt asked after the others had left the attic of Piper's home.
"Why don't we try scrying for Dad, while Aunt Lily and Harry try the 'To Call a Lost Witch Spell'?" Chris suggests as he takes out a map of the city, followed by an atlas, incase they don't turn up in San Francisco.
"Good idea honey, no wonder why your mom and Aunts said you were a good Whitelighter for them when you came back before" Lily praises her nephew as she walks towards the Book of Shadows. As she approached the book, it flipped open and the pages started to turn to the one that they would need. Lily felt a familiar presence as it did this and said
"Thank you Grams" to the air after the pages finished turning.
"That actually won't happen for me now Aunt Lily, I didn't need to come back in time because Wyatt didn't turn evil because Dad stopped Gideon from his plans. But thank you anyway" Chris says as he lays the map of the city down on a table and begins to scry while his brother holds the hand that is holding the scrying crystal to lend his own Powers to support him. Harry returns from the kitchen with the required Yarrow Root, pinch of Rosemary and Sprig of Cypress, and a mortar and pestle. Lily adds the ingredients to the mortar and, in unison with her son, begins to grind them with the pestle and begins to chant
'Power of the Witches Rise,
Course unseen across the skies,
Come to us who call you near,
Come to us and settle here' and after the two prick a finger on their left hand, which allows the blood to flow directly from the heart, they say in unison once more
'Blood to Blood, I summon thee,
Blood to Blood, return to me'
The four relatives waited with baited breath for the tell tail swirl of white lights to show the success of the summoning spell, which unfortunately never came. However, with a cry of triumph, Wyatt and Chris managed to locate their missing father, who was still in the Manor according to the brothers scrying effort. Lily, being his charge due to her being a Charmed One, started to call out his name.
"LEO!" There was no reply.
"LEO!" Lily shouted frustratedly. A bunch of orbs came from below, and formed her brother-in-law, though he was passed out, unconscious on the floor.
"DAD!" Wyatt and Chris shouted as they ran to his side. Both started using their Healing Powers on him, as did Lily and Harry, who'd obviously unbound the powers that the Elders had bound just the other week.
Leo's eyes fluttered open and the four part Whitelighters stepped back from the full Whitelighter man. He stood and, after seeing the elder versions of his sons, threw his arms around them in a tight embrace.
"Uncle Leo, what happened?" Harry asked as he waved his wand and sent the maps back to where they are stored, while Wyatt put the scrying crystal back in its place by hand. Lily had found that while Wiccan and Wizarding magic are very similar and can mix very well, some parts of Wiccan Magic, such as the scrying crystal, and some potion ingredients, will war with the Wizarding Magic if cast upon it and it usually ends in spontaneous combustion.
"Your mother and aunts had come rushing home and told me and your Uncle Coop to get the kids to safety. When I turned around though, your Mom's eyes flashed red, as did the others. Prue, or at least I think it was Prue, used telekinesis on my connection to my Powers and started to tear it from me. Whitelighters have a unique ability though, one that can only be used in dire emergencies, where they place themselves in a magically induced coma. They can still be called upon by their charges, though the charges are then responsible for reversing the coma. There was something off with Prue's powers though, it was almost as if she were a Warlock instead of a Witch." Leo explained as he eased himself into a chair that Lily had conjured for him.
"So that's why the 'To Call a Lost Witch' spell didn't work. They're not witches!" Wyatt said.
"What now?" Harry asked the room, hoping someone would have a plan to save his family.
"Wait didn't this happen before? I think I remember Piper telling me something about her, Phoebe and Prue turning into Warlocks before" Lily asked her brother-in-law.
"Yes it did, Prue had to marry a warlock before the girls turned evil themselves through their connection. Paige wasn't around then obviously, neither were you and so it never affected the two of you. Do you think it could be Dantalian again?" Leo asked his sister-in-law. She walked over to the Book of Shadows once again and flipped through the pages until she came across the entry for Dantalian, next to the page containing the information on Dark Priestesses.
"It could be, we already know that The Powers That Be have overruled the Elders decisions and brought back some old foes. What I'd like to know is why it has affected my sisters, but it didn't affect me again." Lily said as she paced back and forth.
"Maybe the ritual that made them Warlcoks only works in a certain area?" Harry supposed.
"It would have made Aunt Lily evil though as soon as she entered the area, the spell must till be in affect though cause the Charmed Ones powers are so strong that it'd fight against the evil that's inside them, especially with it being the Power of Five and 2 times as powerful as it used it to be." Chris replied
"It can't be based on your connection then, it must have been cast on them locally" Leo explains from his chair.
"So again, what do we do?" Wyatt asks, wringing his whands with worry
"We'll fix this Wy, don't worry" Harry soothes his elder cousin, wrapping an arm around his shoulder comfortingly.
"Well, since this ritual hasn't changed my connection to your mother and aunts, I can use that to pinpoint them and orb there. If she did the same as before, we need to find the Warlock their ritual is tied to. That was the only way for the Dark Ritual to break and make their Magic good again." Lily says before she closes her eyes briefly, looking inside herself for the connection she shares with her elder sisters and twin. She open her eyes and grabs hold of Harry and Wyatt, who quickly grabs hold of Chris and she orbs the four Wiccan-Whitelighters to where she senses her sisters are. As she lands the four scatter quickly as Piper attempts to use her Molecular combustion power on her family.
"MOM! It's me, Wyatt. Please stop this!" he exclaims in shock as he sees his mother and aunts. Pipers eye narrow and she flicks her hands out once more, attempting to blow up her son, who throws up an orb shield around himself pretty quickly. Harry tries to pull on his Aunt Prue's power of Telekinesis to shove his aunt Piper and distract her as his mother duelled a Death Eater that was protecting Dantalian and the other naturally evil beings.
"I can't pull on their Powers, the evil magic inside them has changed their Powers drastically" Harry said as he instead pulled out his wand and sent stunners and knockback jinxes at his aunts, who dodge them almost expertly. Prue flicked her head and sent her nephews flying backwards to the ground. Piper again attempt to use her Molecular Combustion but they are again protected by an orb shield.
"You've gotten quite good at this lately haven't you bro?" Chris said as he pulled out a vanquishing potion they brewed before coming to the location of his mother and aunts for the warlock their connection to evil is tied to. Wyatt shook his head in wonder
"This isn't me. Harry?" the raven haired young man looked to his blonde haired cousin
"Not me either" he replied. The three young men looked around the battlefield until they saw her.
Crouched behind a bush, hidden from the view of her sisters is their Aunt, Paige.
"It's Aunt Paige!" Chris exclaimed happily before grabbing hold of his brother and cousin and orbing the three of them over to her.
"Aunt Paige! How are you not affected by this?!" Wyatt asked the brunette and went about putting his own orb shield around Lily when the Death Eater she'd duelling attempted to send a severing charm at her neck.
"I was, it was only when I saw Piper about to blow you guys up that I broke free, maybe the Whitelighter in me was fighting the evil and finally won when i saw my boys under attack" Paige rationalised.
"Any idea who the warlock who Dantalian tied to evil to this time? We have a little gift for the groom" Harry said with a smirk as he threw the vanquishing potion in the air and caught it in his hand cockily.
Paige looked out at the battlefield and saw her eldest sister stood next to a warlock, with Phoebe beside them as an added protection.
"Him" she said before she left her cover and formed little orb shields that she formed towards the two protecting the warlock to distract them as Harry walked behind her, using shield charms to protect her from stray curses coming from his mothers duel with the Death Eater. Wyatt and Chris went towards their mother in hopes of distracting her from her youngest sister and her nephew in their mission.
Paige formed two Orb Shields around her sisters with great effort, holding her arms out in front of her and grimacing with the strain in holding the two shields up for a length of time.
"NOW HARRY!" Paige screamed as Harry flung the potion towards the warlock, who flicked his hand and sent it flying to the side.
"You thought it'd be that easy? Stupid witch" the warlock sneered before brandishing an athame.
"I'm a wizard" Harry replied as he flicked his wand slightly and banished the potion back to the unsuspecting warlock, who exploded with a scream. Piper, Prue and Phoebe suddenly fell to the floor before standing, the darkness that was once inside them visibly leaving their bodies. Paige dropped the shields holding her sisters, and took their hands. Piper flicked her hands at the death eater and froze him in his place before she and Lily joined hands with the other Charmed Ones and looked at Dantalian, who had frozen in fear.
'Powers of Light,
Magic of Right,
Cast this Blight
Into forevers' Night' The five sisters intoned before Dantalian too was vanquished. The Death Eater broke free from Pipers freezing power, and seeing he's outnumbered, Apparated away.
The group orbed back to the manor and went straight to the attic. Leo was still sat in the conjured chair and Piper rushed to her husband giving him a loving kiss.
"Leo, I'm so sorry" Prue said as she went to his side and wrapped him in a soft embrace
"Don't worry about it Prue, you wasn't in control of your actions" Leo assured her, rubbing her arm.
"Well now that this crises has been averted, we should get back to our own time" Chris said, tapping the shoulders of his fellow time-travellers. Piper, Phoebe and Paige went to draw the triquetra on the wall and muttured the spell that activates the portal to send the young men back to the future.
"Stay safe" Piper said as she hugged her sons and nephew when they did the rounds of giving everyone a hug goodbye before they took eachothers hand and walked through the portal which closed behind them. Lily then travelled to fetch the children back home and then proceeded to take her son and eldest nephew back to Hogwarts.
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In the future that Harry, Wyatt and Chris had come from, the three boys walked into the living room of Halliwell Manor, the two Halliwell boys following their cousin.
"Nice going blabbermouth" Harry said to his cousin as he stalked into the living area and saw his aunts and uncles, his parents still being at Hogwarts along with his fathers' best friends and their families.
"What's wrong sweetie?" Phoebe asked as she hugged the young man she had taken in her home and has raised until his mothers return, which she then assisted in the raising of the young man while her younger sister got used to being alive once more after a period of being dead for a short number of years.
"When we went back to help Aunt Lily in reversing Dantalian's second attempt at making you evil and taking the Book of Shadows for herself, Wyatt mentioned The Seige of Hogwarts and Hogsmead to them, 2 years before it's even supposed to happen in our third year" Chris explained as he sent his elder brother an exasperated look.
"Well lest just hope that because they know something is going to happen in their future it doesn't change it too much" Paige said before she got up and announced she and Leo needed to return to Magic School.
(A/N Hi guys! I can't apologise for the long wait you've had. Ive had a bad case of writers block and ive also had really rough time with University, which set my anxiety into overload. But here is the long awaited Chapter 12! Please leave reviews on what you think of the chapter and if you have any ideas on where you'd like the story to go, then please feel free to PM me! Until next time everyone!
PotterheadedWhovian J)