Chapter seven

Possession

Since Ginny and Paris's birthdays were only five days apart Prue and Billie decided to have a double party. The party was taking place at the beach. All the usual guests were there as well as Austin's family who were only there for Ginny. Ginny was turning five and Paris was turning three.

During the party Paris was down near the water digging through the sand. This was happening while the others were still eating BQQ food. Her attention was soon caught by a necklace that floated onto the shore beside her. It was a red gem, a ruby.

"Mommy, daddy look what I found" Paris excitedly showed the necklace to her parents.

"That's is very pretty, where did you find it" Andy asked making sure she hadn't stolen it.

"In the water, can I keep it?"

"Sure, let me put it on you" Andy replied.

Paris turned around allowing her father to tie the necklace around her neck. Nobody saw her eyes flash red as the ruby touched her skin. Paris ran off back to the shore to search for another. Patty decided to tag along hoping to find something herself.

Patty quickly caught up with her and took her hand making her eyes flash red as well. The two searched through the sand but were unable to find anything else of value. Then all of the sudden both of them went wild, they started kicking sand at others who were minding their own business.

"I am so sorry they're not usually like that" Prue apologized to a old lady as pulled the girls away by the wrists.

It didn't stop there Patty and Paris were doing everything they could to misbehave, which really wasn't like them at all. Then something happened to Prue when she decided to take Passion into the water. In the water Prue just dropped her daughter and swam away.

Paige had seen the whole thing as she was on her way into the water with Kenzie. She quickly orbed Passion onto the shore and was relived to see Passion was ok and hadn't been in longer enough to do any damage. Paige shouted out to Prue and saw her eyes flash red.

Quickly she took the babies over to the tables and told the others what was going on. Leo, who had been in the bathroom returned and couldn't stop starring at the necklace around Paris's neck. Both Paris and Patty were in time out.

Straight away he orbed the ruby necklace to a volcano. Everyone looked at him confused over why he was scared of a ruby. He explained it was the ruby of doom, a ruby that had the power to posses those it touched.

"Who has touched Paris since she had it on" Leo asked.

"Andy put it on her but he didn't touch the ruby, afterwards Patty touched her hand Prue touched Patty and passion touched Prue, Paige touched Passion which means Kenzie must of come into contact with it" Piper stated.

"That explains the girls' behaviour and why Prue tried to drown Passion" Phoebe stated in horror.

Before anymore damage was done Leo orbed Patty, Prue, Paige, Passion and Kenzie home to the magic prof room. The rest went home as well, no way they could continue the party. Oh if only Leo had remembered to the lock the magic prof room door.

When Preston ran in he was hugged by Patty who had simply walked out of the magic prof room. Preston picked up a book that was orb stolen by Aria. Then Aria hugged Penny, this all happened before the adults had even gotten in the house.

From there it all got out of control. Preston, Patty, Paris, Aria, Penny, Passion, Prue and Paige ran all over the house throwing things on the floor. Without thinking Coop touched a lamp Prue had thrown on the ground and he took began running around wild.

Wyatt and Chris orbed up stairs with the children who had not been affected. Meanwhile the adults went around trying to lure the others in the magic prof room without touching them magically or mortally. The only ones who were safe were Leo and Andy since they were full white-lighter they were amune.

Passion manged to get upstairs into the room the others were hiding in. Payton didn't know why she was supposed to be in the magic prof room but she knew that's where she was supposed to be. So she took her hand and walked her down there.

It only took two minutes before Payton became possessed too, she hadn't even made it down to the magic prof room. She and her sister went into the kitchen and began throwing plates and bowls onto the floor. They were finally pushed into the magic prof room by Leo.

For a few hours everything was fine, Prue, Coop Paige, Payton, Preston, Patty, Paris, Passion, Aria, Penny and Kenzie were locked up in the magic prof room. However eventually the needed to eat. Leo and Andy carried two trays at a time to the magic prof room. It worked until the last trip when Penny got out undetected.

Those who were not possessed seated themselves at the table and began to eat. Penny was hiding under the table and climbed onto her mother's lap. Phoebe's jumped up but it was too late, her eyes flashed red and she threw salad at Piper.

Since the salad had been in contact with Phoebe it now possessed Piper. Leo and Andy attempted the get the others out but it was too late. The entire family had gone mad and were destroying the manor. Leo and Andy struggled but managed to get everyone into the new very crowded magic prof room.

They hoped it would wear off in a day or so, but no such luck. Every time one was disinfected they were touched by one who was infected. The guys were clueless on what to do, and it was causing many issues. The adults were missing work, and the children were excused from school way to many times. If job wanted to be kept and child services kept away something had to be done fast.

There wasn't anything in the book of shadows that could help them. So they had no choice but to ask the Elders for help. Over the years the family had attempted to have as little contact with the elders as possible since Piper still had a grudge against them.

"A witch must make the cure here are the ingredients, but make sure the witch doesn't touch either of you since you've been exposed to the ruby's curse" The head Elder explained.

Leo and Andy orbed over to Billie's house to find her there with her family and Christy. They quickly explained what they had to do. Billie and her sister prepared the potion as Andy read out the instructions. It took an hour but finally the potion was complete.

The mission was to get each of the possessed to drink a spoonful of the cure. Leo held open the door just a crack so he could feed them the cure. Prue went first then was quickly let out before she was again touched. Piper went next followed by Phoebe and Coop, Henry and Paige. Then the children were given the cure. It only took a few seconds for the cure to take affect.

"MY HOUSE!" Piper freaked seeing the mess.

The very next thing that happened was they all went to see the witch doctor. They were given shots that would prevent them from every becoming possessed again. In such a big family they couldn't afford for something like this to ever occur again.