Author's Note: Um sorry about the long wait for this chapter but we moved so the Internet wasn't up yet. Plus writer's block was a problem.
After breakfast everyone was running around preparing to leave for Magic school. Paige and Phoebe called their jobs and told them that they were not going to be in for work that day. Piper had called her assistant and had him take over the club for the night.
"Everyone ready?" Leo asked as everyone gathered in the living room.
"Ready or not let's go." Chris stated excitedly. It's been a while since the last time he was at Magic School and he was in a hurry to see it once again.
"Alright let's head for the stairs, Gideon will send a door to us." Leo instructed as he saw his son's eagerness to leave.
"Send us a door?" Piper asked confused as she held Wyatt in her arms. "What do you mean send us a door?" Piper stated as she showed her family that she was really scared and worried about going to this school.
"Watch." Leo stated as he closed his eyes.
Suddenly on top of the stairs, white light illuminated the room and a door appeared out of nowhere and made it self at home in the wall.
"Ahh there's a door in the middle of my staircase!" Piper screamed as she pointed to the door.
"Yeah thanks Piper we see that." Paige stated as Piper gave her an annoying look.
"If only looks could kill..." Chris trailed off as he raced for the door.
He opened and he peeked inside. He looked back at the group with a happy childish look on his face.
"You guys coming?" Chris called back as they all walked towards the door cautiously.
Chris was the first to enter the door as the family followed closely behind him. Everyone's eyes became wide as they took in their surroundings. They were standing in an extremely big hall that was elegantly decorated.
"Wow this place is beautiful." Phoebe said to no one in particular as her eyes took in everything.
"How long does this place go?" Jessie asked in astonishment as she stared down the endless hall.
"Actually no one really knows, not even Gideon." Leo replied as he looked over to his ex-wife, who had this worried look on her face.
"Don't be so worried, this place is protected from evil." Leo said to Piper as he placed a comforting hand on her shoulders. Piper's worries began to fade as Leo comforted her, inside she knew that Leo would never bring them to a place where their lives would be threatened.
As the family moved forward and away from the door, it gradually shut behind them all on its own. As they continued to venture ahead, a girl came into their sight and in a blink of an eye she seem to fade into nothing before their very eyes.
"Um you guys saw that right...or didn't see..." Phoebe stated confused and surprised.
"Leo?" Piper called as she began to become worried again.
"She was probably a student witch with the power of invisibility." Leo stated as he continued forward down the 'Great Hall', followed by the unknowing family.
"This place is so huge..." Phoebe stated as she looked around.
"Here." Leo stated as he gestured towards the wooden double doors.
"What's in there?" Jessie asked
"The Library." Leo replied as he opened the door for them, as the room was unfolded before them. The room was full of books, covered from wall to wall with hundreds of books full of texts. A few kids looked up to from their seats at the table as the Halliwell family entered their study session.
"You said we were going to look up the demon using the school's resources right?" Phoebe asked Leo to clarify as she took in the sight of the big room.
"Yeah." Leo replied confused.
"Ok, this is going to take awhile." Paige stated in awe.
"Leo we don't have time to go through all these books." Piper stated as she held onto Wyatt's hand.
"Can I give you some assistant?" A small bald man asked as he walked up to the sisters.
"Sigmund, it's nice to see you again." Leo greeted the shorter man.
"Hello Leo." Sigmund replied, "Can I help you somehow?"
"We're looking for a specific demon, we don't know his name, we don't know his powers, but we know he's a higher level demon and what he looks like." Chris replied as he stepped forward from behind the sisters.
"Follow me, I'll show you our demon section, we have a variety of text with images you could compare with." Sigmund replied as he ushered Chris to the other side of the room. Jessie decided to follow along, leaving the sisters, Leo, and Wyatt behind.
"Oh you made it." a voice said from the door. The sisters and Leo turned to find Gideon standing there with a book in his hand. The family watched as he held the book up in front on him as orbs engulfed it and disappeared, only to reappear on the shelf across from him.
"Gideon, the school looks amazing since the last time I saw it." Leo stated.
"Yes, well we had a long time to improve. Let me show you around." Gideon stated as he gestured for the door. "We'll leave the two young ones with Sigmund, I'm sure they are eager to find the demon. It will probably take some time." Gideon stated as he looked over to see Jessie and Chris burying themselves in books already.
"Chris we'll be back soon." Piper called out to her son. She watched as her youngest son was oblivious to her call. "Look we just gave him more books to stress over." Piper stated with a sarcastic smile.
"Just what we needed." Phoebe returned.
The family turned towards the door as they left the Library. As they continued their journey down the 'Great Hall', Piper couldn't help but feel awkward and hesitant about the whole place.
"Now I know why I wouldn't let Wyatt or Chris come to this school." Piper stated softly as she grabbed Phoebe's arm for comfort. "This place gives me the creeps."
"Piper, it's not all that bad." Phoebe tried to assure her oldest sister.
"Here are some of the classes we have at the school," Gideon said as he opened one of the doors and ushered the family inside.
"This is a Potion Ed. Class, an introductory course to basic potion brewing.
In the brightly light classroom, the family saw several students reading instructions on potion making, others were already adding ingredients into their cauldron. Paige however saw a group of students goofing around. One of the boys from the mischievous group walked over to one of the other tables and dropped a few peddles into the cauldron of the unaware students.
Paige notice the peddles he dropped in were Foxglove peddles, a poisonous flower that the sisters sometime use in their vanquishing potions.
One of the students from the unknowing table turned and was about to add the next ingredient that was crucial to their potion. Paige's expression quickly changed to one of fear and shock as she realized what the next ingredient was.
"NO don't do that. Lily peddles!" Paige exclaimed, as she held out her hand as the lily peddles orbed into her hand. The class erupted into whispers as Paige outburst excited the class. She crossed the classroom to the table of students she just saved. "Foxglove and Lily of the Valley should never go together." She stated softly, instructing the young ones. "Never." Paige repeated as she turned her gaze to the trouble-making group.
"Start with a fresh batch, this one has been contaminated." She continued to instruct the students as they nodded their heads.
"What?" Paige asked in embarrassment as she returned to group.
"Good one there Paige, if I didn't know any better, I think you kinda enjoyed that." Piper said as she tilted her head to one side.
"Yeah, that felt really good." Paige returned.
Gideon smiled at Paige's remark, as he gestured towards the exit of the classroom. They continued their journey down the hall. The next room that Gideon ushered them into surprised the sisters as well, the room they were now in were full of toddlers around Wyatt's age running around.
"This is our nursery for magical children much like Wyatt." Gideon stated. "Here they are not suppressing their magic and they freely use it. They learn at a young age to control their magic."
"Oh my...." Piper stated as she saw toddlers running around and freely using their magic.
"Aren't you worried that their magic might hurt each other?" Paige asked. "I mean they're just children, what control could they possibly have at their age."
"Don't worry, their
magic are not lethal. It will be years before they are even that
powerful. But if there is an accident, we have a few white lighters
that stay near just in case."
"That's it!" Phoebe
exclaimed as a thought hit her. "Which way back to the Library?"
Phoebe exclaimed in excitement.
"Phoebe what's going on?" Piper asked confused.
"I just thought of something and I need to run it by Chris." Phoebe replied
"Here, I'll orb you there." Gideon said as he waved his arm across Phoebe's body as he sent her away in orbs.
She reappeared in the Library with a confused look on her face as her eyes moved from side to side when she realized she was where she wanted to be.
"Chris! I think I figured it out." Phoebe exclaimed as she ran to the table Jessie and Chris were occupying. Several piles of books where already towering over the two young witches.
"What do mean?" Jessie asked
"The demon! Something Gideon said might be a clue that could help us." Phoebe started.
"Go on." Chris urged as his interest peeked.
"He said it would take years for a being to become powerful, even Wyatt." Phoebe started, "the demon came from the future 22 years from now. 22 years is a long time, time to gain power and to climb the demon hierarchy."
"That means..." Jessie stated as it all fell into place.
"He's a lower level demon in this time. We've been looking for a higher level demon this whole time. Of course he wouldn't be in these books as a higher-level demon..."Chris said
"Or the Book of Shadows, like you told me earlier, some demons aren't worth being in the Book." Jessie continues, "Probably why we couldn't find him."
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