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Part 13:'I am going to be taking a nap!'
And pulled out a brown glass bottle and a rag. Cassandra saturated the rag with the liquid from the bottle and approached poor Piper. Piper turned her tear stained face away but it was no use. Cassandra clamped the rag over Piper's nose and she was forced to breath the fumes. In her already exhausted condition Piper quickly passed out! Cassandra turned the now unconscious Piper on her side to ease her breathing and said, "Well a sleeping beauty, too bad I got rid of your Prince Charming!"
The coach finally arrived at Cassandra's cottage to Leo's relief! Piper II had succeeded in making Leo understand her desires but he was still resisting! Flinging one witch over each shoulder he thought, 'Whew! I never thought any version of Piper could be such a temptress! I have to get back to my own world and away from her! She is wearing me down!' Leo got his captives inside and turned the warpstone amulets over to Cassandra II.
"I have been observing your progress through my crystal ball." The good witch said as Pruedencia glared hatefully and Piper II & Phoebe II snuggled up to the weary Leo. "Not only have I worked out a way that should send you home but I also think I know just how to deal with her!(points at Piper II) Preparing the spell will take a few hours, please guard the prisoners closely!" 'Yes closer and closer!' Piper II thought as she pressed her bound and gagged body against Leo from one side and Phoebe did the same from the other! Leo started to sweat again and thought, 'I have them kidnapped and tied up, so why don't I feel in control? I hope Cassandra hurries with that spell! Piper would never understand!'
Phoebe heard the door open and someone come down the stairs again. As Cassandra knelt beside her Phoebe recognized what Cassandra had as 'Chloroform! I am going to be taking a nap! This witch is really worried about us getting free!' Pressing the cloth over Phoebe's face Cassandra said, "I am getting some sleep and so are you!" Phoebe quickly passed out and Cassandra went upstairs to sleep before the big event that night!
KNOCK! Gratefully Leo jumped up and went to answer the door. Opening it he saw a man in heavy blue armor with a sun emblem on it. From the not yet repaired dents and dings it was obviously he had participated in the battle where Leo arrived. The Knight removed his helm and ...
Part 14:"make me God-empress of Earth!"
Leo saw a face nearly identical to his own! The man showed surprise but hid it well saying, "Magic of course! I am Leon De Grance of the Knights of the Blazing Sun at your service! The Lady Cassandra said she had a poor lost but not yet damned soul that I could help with?? I don't understand but duty compels my presence."
Smiling for the first time all day Leo steps aside and gestures the knight to follow, saying "Right this way."
Awaking from her long nap Cassandra went downstairs for some food. After having a large snack in front of the now awake and very hungry Piper, Cassandra said "10:15 PM time to get ready for the festivities!" 'Festivities? What is she going to do?' Piper wondered and worried.
Cassandra II walked back into the living room and said,"I will soon be ready to try to send you home. Oh! I see the good knight and bad witch have gotten acquainted!" Leo looked back at Sir Leon De Grancie who had Piper II in his lap. Frustrated by the lack of ravishment from Leo the little witch had transferred her attention to the valiant knight. As the hours had passed she had become more and more like the Piper Leo knew and as a result all but her wrists ropes had been removed. This infuriated her still tightly bound and unrepentant sisters but she cared less and less. She was so entranced by the knight she was even forgetting to smirk at Phoebe II. Cassandra II touched Leo's shoulder and said, "You have done much good here sir, I only hope I can return you successfully and in time! Due to the Chaos incursion 200 years ago time is different here. I am afraid that the 10 hours that you will have been here will equate to 30 on your world!"
"30 hours! Who knows what horrible things are happening while I am gone. No! I can't think like that! I must be positive about this! Surely they will have vanquished her like all the others!" Leo tried to convince himself.
"Step down Prue!" Cassandra told the the handcuffed at wrists and elbows, gagged and blindfolded eldest sister, who balked at the command. "Either step down as I say or I will tie your legs and drag you by the hair to the basement!" Prue reluctantly complied thinking, 'Getting dragged downstairs might knock me out again and I won't have any chance then!' Getting Prue to the basement Cassandra retied Prue's knees and ankles and forced her into a kneeling position. She tied a final rope between Prue's wrists and ankles to keep her that way. Phoebe was let down from the handrail and given the same treatment. Piper joined them minutes later. With the 3 Charmed ones all bound gagged and kneeling before her Cassandra slid up the sleeve of the long black robe she now wore checking her watch. "11:15. The spell will take 30 minutes and must be finished at midnight. Now I guess it is time to tell you what this is all about and how you 3 will make me God-empress of Earth!"
Part 15:as they watched in horror!
"You see my prisoners, I have learned much about you." Cassandra gloated as she began telling her plan. "And I know all the others have thought too small! They wanted your powers and what did that get them? For instance the demon Cryto(How to make a Quilt Out of Americans)had your powers but NOT YOUR MAGIC!" All of the sisters began to realize where this was going and weak as they were began struggling again. Cassandra smirked at her tightly bound and heavily gagged victims and continued, "What I am after is everything! First your powers as normal. Then whatever powers you have yet to develop those will also be taken by my spell! Just those things will be fearsome since I learned when a mortal gains your powers like Dr Williamson(Piper bows her head in sorrow at this)there is a multiplier effect. Having all 3 powers made him as strong or stronger in each power than you! Since I am still a witch not an immortal warlock that multiplying effect will work for me too! And since I already have two powers of my own, heh!" Phoebe's eyes widened and she thought, 'She's right! Oh no! With the 5 powers we have added to hers and if this undeveloped power stealing works the multiplication , ooh she might be able to freeze entire cities and topple entire city blocks with her Telekinesis!' "And finally best of all I want your magic! The ability to cast spells powerful enough to travel decades through time. I will have it all!" Cassandra concluded. Prue shook her head and she thought, 'Her plan might just work! If it succeeds who can stop her?'
Bidding Cassandra II and Sir Leon goodbye(Piper II was too busy with Sir Leon to notice!) Leo prepared to leave. Just before he stepped into Cassandra II's magic circle, Sir Leon De Grance stepped forward and said, "Brother Leo, I feel I must thank you for bringing the lady Piper to me. Please accept this dagger as a small token of my gratitude!" Thanking his counter Leo accepted the heavy dagger with the golden sun on it's pommel. He then stepped into the circle and Cassandra II's spell sent him somewhere else!
Having complete her boasting Cassandra started the spell at 11:30. On and on it went with the Halliwells helpless to escape. Their struggles only succeeded in causing them to fall from their kneeling positions to the floor. As midnight drew near Cassandra prepared to complete the spell with the human sacrifices! Starting with the eldest, Cassandra rolled Prue over on her chained arms and withdrew a ceremonial dagger! Piper and Phoebe, seeing this could only manage a few whimpers through their gags as they watched in horror! Cassandra raised the dagger and ...
Part 16:"It looks like the truth didn't set her free!"
Hearing her sisters muted cries Prue knew something very bad was about to happen and using reserves of energy she didn't realize she had astral projected and grabbed Cassandra's wrist! Only momentarily stymied by this turned of events Cassandra pulled astral Prue down and started hitting her with her free hand. It was quite apparent to Phoebe, 'Prue is too weak she can't last long!'
Meanwhile Leo arrived in the attic and saw signs of Prue's captivity there. He began orbing from room to room looking for the sisters. In the kitchen he found a rag and sniffed it and realized, 'Chloroform! Not good, must find them!'
Cassandra knocked out astral Prue and raised her dagger again when..
Something hit her in the head! Staggered she looked down and saw that it was a sheathed dagger with a sun like pommel that had struck her. Before she could turn a leaping Leo landed on top of her! Clamping her own chloroform rag over her face Leo put Cassandra to sleep!
An hour later after all of the sisters have been unbound and gotten some much needed food and water, Cassandra's fate is decided. "She is still a witch like us so she won't go away with a vanquishing spell."Phoebe said.
"No matter what she has done to us we just can't kill her in cold blood!" Piper objected.
"We don't have to! We just need to cast two spells and call Darryl!" Prue smiled and said!
Cassandra wakes up to discover, 'Blast it! My wrists, elbows, knees and ankles all tied! Gagged and blindfolded too! Those witches learned something! Wait what are they doing?'
The sisters finished "Cassandra your powers be bound!"
"MMMMMMPH!!" Cassandra was the one screaming through a gag for a change!
And the sisters, even Piper, felt good about some measure of getting even! "Now for that modified truth spell, ready Pheebs?" Prue said and Phoebe gave a thumbs up.
A few days later the judge recapped, "So you Cassandra Clark have admitted that you broke into the Halliwell home. That you overpowered the Halliwell sisters and held them hostage for from 17-28 hours. Kept them heavily bound and gagged. Denied them food and water. And planned to kill them at midnight! All because they are like you witches and you wanted their magic to become god-empress of Earth! You leave this court no choice but to commit you to the Price asylum for the criminally insane!"
"NOOOOOO!" Cassandra screamed as she was taken away! Phoebe turned to a smiling Prue and said, "It looks like the truth didn't set her free!"
A few days later Cassandra lay in her padded cell wearing a straitjacket when Astral Prue popped in and just smiled at her!
Cassandra started cursing Prue, but by the time the orderlies arrived Prue was gone. The doctor said "If this keeps up you will be spending a lot of time in that straitjacket miss!"
Back at the manor Piper noticed Prue slumped over and then wake up and asked, "Prue you haven't been projecting to the asylum again have you?"
Prue smiled innocently and responded, "Me? Popping in to get Cassandra angry so she will spend the rest of her life in the loony bin? Piper I am shocked you would think me so petty and vengeful!"
"Oh! I'm sorry Prue!" Piper said. She wouldn't have normally been so accepting of Prue's story but she had something else
on her mind, like 'Letting Leo see me in my new short, hot pink bathrobe!'
The End
