Okay, wow, I am actually updating. Yay me! On a completely different subject, I am completely spastic right now cuz season 3 premiere of Nip/Tuck came on last night. I won't give anything away but it was really good. Got to see Julian which made the day great.

I'll shut up now

Chapter 9-Safe And Sound?

"Nana," the young boy screamed as he sheltered both him and his baby sister from the blows that refused to stop advancing.

Wyatt, eyes fixated on his cousins, seemed an impossible foe for Ben who unlike his cousin was not trained and did not stand much of a chance against a child who's only lessons had been of attacks, weapons, fighting. Benjamin was unprepared, except for his forcefield which proved very helpful in saving his and little Persephone's lives.

"Ben," the baby girl cried, unsure of what was happening and where her parents, her saviors were.

"It's okay, Sephie. Mommy and daddy will save us," Ben told the toddler as he pulled her closer, making sure she was safe within the forcefield's range.

"Cole, what are we gonna do?" Pheobe asked. "She was so different, so bitter. She'll hurt them or …..worse. She's turned Wyatt into nothing more than her pawn for revenge."

"We're going to get in there. She will not hurt them," Cole told her, determined to make himself believe the words that he were saying.

"How? It's blocked," Pheobe asked him as tears covered her face and hopelessness filled her mind.

"I'll find a way," he answered, going through every possibility in his mind.

"Nana, help us," Ben cried out again, staring at his frozen grandmother as he threw a small energy ball that was easily deflected by his cousin.

Piper instructed her son to start another round of attacks and Ben was left with nothing other than the shield which was weakening with every blow.

"Why do you wanna hurt us?" Ben asked the woman, trying to stop Persephone from crying.

Piper snarled, slurred something of a word, and then became silent.

"Let us go, please. She's just a little baby. She's scared. She wants our mommy," Ben pleaded in the courageous way that he had been taught to stand up for his family, particularly his young sister.

Piper said nothing to the boy, feeling that he wasn't worthy of her words. It was because of him that her baby sister had died, him and his pathetic excuse for a father. Demons…how her sister had ended up on the other side, she didn't know but she wouldn't let them go on, happy, pretending to be normal when they were anything but.

It was at this moment that the freezing affect on Elizabeth was beginning to wear off, perfect timing it seemed to Ben as Wyatt was about to release a blow that was sure to break the shield that stood between him and Persephone and immediate death.

Elizabeth, seeing what was about to happen, threw an energy ball of her own into the air to destroy the one Wyatt had released mid-flight. Both dissolved in the air, leaving everyone unharmed.

Ben, thankful that an adult he knew was with him, ran to her, pulling the little one behind him, protectively.

"I can't shimmer out, Nana and mommy and daddy are gone. She sent them away," Ben told her..

"I want you to take Persephone and go down the stairs. I want you to get out of here. Can you do that, baby?" Elizabeth asked her grandson

Benjamin nodded his head and tried to pick up the small child. He began to walk down the stairs while his Nana blocked both Wyatt and his mother from hurting her grandchildren.

On the second flight of steps, Ben found his sister too heavy to carry and put her down, forcing her to run as he pulled her arm and they both fled the house, which apparently was only magically sealed from letting people in, but had no problem with letting them leave.

"Mommy," Ben screamed as he saw her, tears on her face, his daddy nowhere in sight.

She ran to them, then, and scooping up Persephone, she pulled Ben into a hug, wrapping him with her arm completely, and thanking God that her children were safe.

"Cole," Pheobe yelled out into the air, knowing that he would hear her, no matter where he was.

He shimmered in, scratches and dirt all over him, dried blood covered the scratches, but he still had a smile on his face as he looked at his wife and both of their children, safe.

"What happened to you, daddy?" Ben asked as he left his mother's embrace and was picked up by his father.

"I was trying to find the ingredients I needed to get rid of the shield that was keeping us from you two," Cole explained. "Where's Nana?"

"Fighting the woman," Ben answered.

"Okay," Cole said and put the child down, not wanting to frighten him since his day had already been horrible enough. "Stay with mommy, okay? I gotta go find the last ingredient so I can get into the house to help Nana."

None of them knew just how much she did need help as the young blonde-haired boy attacked her again. Already weak, she fell to the floor.

Wow. I so proud of myself. I wrote. Please review. I reached my 100th review so I am really excited about this story.