She sat at the window as the plane circled the city. The lights below casting a glow over the night sky, they were nothing but spectacular. She could easily make out the hotels along the brightly-lit strip. The beacon to the heavens at the Luxor stood out amongst them all. She couldn't recall anything like it. Even when she left NYC, the lights over the city there were amazing, but these ones seemed different to her.
"See anything you like Sis?" Prue asked from her seat next to her.
"No. Just the lights." Phoebe answered; her mind wasn't really on the lights. But if she looked down at them as she was, her sisters wouldn't be any of the wiser.
Prue looked over at Piper who only shrugged. Piper had a feeling that something was still bothering Phoebe but they had not pursued it. The deal this week was no magic. And they had all shook on it.
They watched as the hotels passed by the window of the airporter shuttle that took them into city. One large brightly-lit hotel and Casino after another flickered by.
"Oh this is going to be so much fun." Prue said placing her arms over Phoebe, "You, me, and the lights of Vegas Sis."
"A blast." She tried to sound cheerful as the shuttle stopped at their hotel.
Phoebe stepped out and looked over her shoulder at the large take off of the Arc de Triumph from Paris. She felt Prues arm wrap around her waist, "This is as close as your gonna get baby. Enjoy it while you can."
Phoebe looked over at Prue and just laughed, "Yeah maybe. Come on Pipers taking off without us." Phoebe started after her sister but felt the hand on her arm.
"Phoebe wait a second." Prue said as she locked her eyes on her sisters. "Are you ok?"
Phoebe wanted to tell her sister everything, but she kept it inside. This was a week just for the three of them: No magic. "Yeah. I'm fine. Now come on let's go find Piper before she gambles all our fun money away." she answered, as she took Prues hand and led her inside the hotel.
They checked in and made their way to their room. Everything reminded them all as if they stepped back into Paris in the early years. The cobble stone streets in the hallways. The Eiffel Tower in the middle of the casino.
"This is so cool. I have to get me one if those drinks, that comes in that glass shaped like the tower. Oh or maybe the balloon one like that Balleys." Phoebe said as she flopped down on the bed.
Both her older sisters looked at her and just laughed. They were both happy to see her returning to their normal Phoebe again.
They had unpacked and then made their way down to the casino level. Having played a few slot machines, they found themselves in the shopping district of Paris.
"Oh there. I have to have one. Lets all get one." Phoebe suggested as she saw the little bar at the side of the indoor street selling the drinks in a replica of the Eiffel Tower.
Prue looked at Piper who only smiled and shook her head. Though before she knew it she has a plastic Eiffel Tower in her hand, "Pina Colada Sis. Cheers." Was all Phoebe said as she raised her glass to a toast, "To the Power of Three. May we always conquer what hides in the dark." She raised her glass and struck hers to her sisters glasses.
Having emptied their glasses in the hotel, they went back and had them refilled before heading out to the strip. Piper ran down the street in front of her sisters, the alcohol taking effect in her system.
"Prue. Should we be worried?" Phoebe laughed at her sister as she tried to leap frog over a fire hydrant.
Prue looked on after Piper, "Not yet. But don't lose her." she laughed as she tucked her arm under Phoebes, as they all made their way further into the lights of the street.
How many casinos had they walked through? Phoebe grabbed a hold of Prue as they made their way through Caesars Palace.
Somehow Phoebe had managed to convince the bartender there to refill the large glasses they had gotten from the Paris Hotel. Though later she thought that was not such a great idea, each of them having already had two and Piper was starting to act crazier then before.
"Prue where is Piper?" Phoebe looked around the casino for her sister.
"Well she couldn't have gone very far. Come on." Prue took Phoebes free hand and started to look around the casino.
They walked out of the casino and looked both ways down the strip.
"Any ideas?" Prue asked, hoping maybe her sisters had a second site, on where Piper had gone.
Phoebe looked both ways, but the lights of the city and the excitement of everything around them she had no idea where her sister could have gotten too.
"Oh. Come on." Phoebe quickly pulled at Prue and started to hurry down the street.
Prue followed after Phoebe as they ran down the sidewalk. "Phoebe?"
"I have a gut feeling, nothing more." She called over her shoulder as they ran over the walkway that connected Caesars Palace and the Bellagio. They rushed through the inner works of the hotel. The gold in the ceiling and the feeling of wealth in the structure was everywhere around them.
Prue ran down the grand staircase behind Phoebe who was almost out the door before Prue hit the middle landing. "Phoebe. Wait for me." She called after her sister as she saw her go through the door, back outside.
Phoebe stopped dead when she stepped past the door and could see the water show in front of the hotel. The only problem was that the music was playing but the water was standing perfectly still. She felt someone run into her as she starred in awe at the frozen water. "Oooooh. This is bad." Was all Phoebe could say, as she looked on stunned.
Prue looked at the scene before her, "Ya think?" Prue grabbed Phoebe and started to make her way through the crowd. She felt her anxiety increasing with each step. She could hear the people in the crowd.
"What happened?"
"That's isn't right."
"I think they are having technical difficulties."
"Ok we need to find Piper and fast, before this gets out of control."
"Oh. Ok and it isn't out of control now?" Phoebe asked as she ran in behind Prue as she took another sip of her Pina Colada.
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Piper stood at one end of the large lake before her. She looked on in amusement as the water stood perfectly still. No one even noticed her or what she was doing. But she laughed as she saw the crews and staff from the Bellagio Hotel running around and panicking, as their show was disrupted.
But as she let the freeze go and the water continued it's show, she laughed, as it was now out of sync with the music that was played.
"Well. Let's see if I can fix that.," she said to herself as she held up her hands again and froze just the water. She got a kick out of the crowd that was there as they talked amongst themselves. Stating how something must be wrong.
"You have no idea." She laughed again. As the freeze wore off and the spouts of water went on with their dance.
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Prue made her way quickly through the crowd looking for her sister. Though she now had the other problem of Phoebe, as the three drinks she had where starting to catch up with her. "Ok wait a second." Prue stopped as she looked at her youngest sister, "How did your Eiffel tower get full again?"
Phoebe looked at Prue and then to her large glass in her hand. "I asked the bartender to refill it before we left?"
Prue looked at her not sure is she should be mad or just laugh it off and shake her head. She choose the latter as she took Phoebes hand in hers again and started down the sidewalk.
They walked down the sidewalk, Prue holding tight to Phoebes hand so as to not lose her youngest sister as they had their middle one, when she saw her. Leaning against the wall looking out over the man made lake, the smile evident on her face as to what she was doing.
Prue rushed over to Piper taking her by the shoulder, as she was just about to freeze the dancing water again. Though she knew she was too late by the sound around her. "Piper. Are you completely Nuts?" she asked though the anger in her voice was forefront.
Phoebe looked at the frozen water, "And you wonder why I want an active power." She said as she stepped to the wall to get a closer look.
Prue looked at Phoebe and back to Piper.
Phoebe turned back to Piper, "Yeah. Are you nuts. What if someone saw you do that?"
"Oh relax. It's fun. Watch." She raised her hands and unfroze the water and went to freeze it again when Prue grabbed her hands and pulled them down beside her sister, "No. No magic remember? We all agreed no magic." She warned quietly yet cautiously as she looked around them. "Now come on. We are going back to the hotel before you cause anymore trouble." She took Piper by the arm as she reached out for Phoebe. "Come on you." She said taking Phoebes hand in hers as the trio made their way across the street to the Paris hotel.
He sat with his eyes closed at the end of another show. He had claimed the powers of one witch, the other having been lost on him.
He sat concentrating on the power flowing throughout his body when he felt the sharp pain ripping at him like a knife."Augh!" he cried out
"Sire. What?"
He waited a moment, "Great power. Someone close by with great power. They are using it but I can feel it." He took in a deep breath. Though somewhere he felt the power and who the owner of that power was.
He watched his King, "Sire. Is it?" He did not want to even say what he thought, for fear of his own death.
He took in another breath. "Its not a myth after all." he spoke to himself, "Yes. It is them. But they will not succeed in the fight. The death of the Charmed Ones is closer then they even think possible."