Distilled Light
Chapter 2: The Saving
-"Telepathic conversations"-
Christopher Perry Halliwell -Water-: Charmed One x Elder, Warren line,
Mentioned Abilities: Orbing, healing, telekinesis, telepathy, perfect memory, computers, aura reading, astral, energy balls,
Characteristics: 6 feet and 1 inch, dark brown hair, grey storm eyes, projection, etc.
Mentality: Leader, Neurotic, has to keep busy, sarcastic, unconcerned about himself,
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Bianca Lynn Perry -Fire-: Phoenix x Witch
Mentioned Abilities: shimmering, fireballs, telekinesis, strength sapping, scrying, thought-by-touch reading, conjuring
Characteristics: 5 feet 8 inches, exotic skin, navy blue eyes,
Mentality: isolated, cares only for a few,
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Candice Mauve Hendrix "Dice" -Air-: Witch x Mortal, Fae, Siren
Mentioned Abilities: Wind powers (healing, warding, listening, oxygen), warding, switching, instrument, potions, dance
Characteristics: 5 feet and 5 inches, blonde with red ends, emerald eyes, petite,
Mentality: daring,
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Davinick Liamason Berkley "Nic" -Earth-: Witch x Witch,
Mentioned Abilities: morphing, super strength, jumping
Characteristics: 6 feet and 4 inches, dark almost black hair, chocolate dark eyes, solid,
Mentality: Laid back,
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Evelyn Berkley "Flower": Witch x Witch
Mentioned Abilities: jumping, turning/conjuring into flowers , slight-of-hand
Characteristics: 6 y/o, cute, black hair
Mentality: always happy, loud
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Kea-Lee Jun: Sorcerer x Mortal,
Mentioned Abilities:
Characteristics: 7 y/o, Asian,
Mentality: quiet, contemplative,
Torches line the stone path hallways of the castle. There are flickers of people and corners and dimensions that shouldn't exist. Its dark and it looks like it's a movie set. There are ground torn away. The visage zooms out and it becomes apparent that the walls aren't turned away. They are warded through.
And Phoebe Halliwell turns over in her bed, completely unaware of her power.
Before they can go into the deserted restaurant many of their lunch memories contain, Bianca Perry looks around them again, the ghost town getting on her nerves. There is no way this area should be still. She sees movement suddenly and a man on a bicycle with the usual tee-pee hat comes by. So it's not a ghost town, and she goes to alert her boyfriend. She grabs his arm and her spine pin-pricks up.
There are grouped people and those she knows are in the center. They're in trouble. Flower is crying and she's bleeding. Jun sits next to her and he's holding his mother's body. Kea-Lee Sr. stands in front of them. They're talking but she can't hear them and guesses that it doesn't matter what they say.
Chris steps out and she gets a bad feeling.
He says something and the man turns around and blasts him with an energy ball. Flower swipes her hand and turns the men wearing black cloaks into stone flowers. She stand up and plucks each of them, leaving them to die. But Chris is dead.
She comes out of it with a gasp and nearly falls with the thought of Chris dead. He's at her side and holding her but she pushes away to stand herself up. She. Will. Not. Swoon, Damn it!
-"What's wrong-what is it?"- Dice asks quickly, stopping in her part of the B.A.E. for a moment.
-"What did you see?"- Nic asks in tandem. He's standing now and
-"Bianca, relax, You're fine"- and Bianca looks at her boyfriend and takes his hand in her own.
-"I saw Flower in a, err, enclosed circle with a bunch of black cloaked freaks surrounding everybody. Atkan was dead and Flower was bleeding. But the real warning was something else. Chris, you stepped out to defend whatever it was that was going on, and it worked but he blasted you with an energy ball."- Bianca hurried the words out before they could slip away from her. She was still holding onto his hand, with some blue chalk in her hand.
"Huh," Chris wasn't taking the news that he had died as hard as the others were.
Nic looks at him like he's psychotic before blanking his face, but then turns around and goes in first, the bag in his hands. Chris was the martyr and their leader-but it was their job to keep him alive and cheer him up. The other three hurry after him, Bianca still gripping Chris's right hand. He squeezes back as they make their ways upstairs and through the door that leads to… an alley?
It takes a moment of squinching his eyes, but Chris sees the aura of the ward. He scoops some dust off of the ground and tosses it in the air. It lands and a slight see-through strip of magic is seen. Bianca finally lets go of his hand and makes her way over to it. Wards are hard to write on, but as long as she knows they are there, she can do it.
Nic is looking through the bag and mentally calculating everything in it.
Dice has a small notebook in her hand and is randomly moving her finger like the orchestra teacher does as she rhymes to her minds contentment. Chris has his eyes closed and is mentally gathering his powers. He doesn't do this often and might as well now. It is how he mentally builds up for a force field. Wyatt and himself have to do on their own what came naturally as babies.
It wasn't more than a minute or two of scratching noises and mumbled curses from Bianca that they were ready.
-"Are we ready?"- Chris asked.
-"Aye, aye, Capitan"- Nic stated.
-"Yup"- Bianca contributed
-"And I have some useful spells ready"- Dice stated, knowing he had some of his own in mind as well.
-"Then let's do this thing"- Chris stated.
They gathered around, Dice, Chris, Bianca, and then Nic standing in front of the sketchy drawing on the section of the ward that was slightly visible.
As one, they took hands, closed their eyes, bowed their heads and spoke aloud. They unconsciously tugged on their bond to find the words.
-"In our way this ward does keep
Us away from those who seek
Let us through to the problem at hand
So we may seek and say our demands"-
It was iffy and for a moment they looked up and nothing happened. Bianca repressed her urge to kick someone. And then the ward simply disappeared, mark and all.
"Huh," Nic stated.
Bianca pouted. Drawing on wards was hard enough but her minute or two of work had apparently proved unnecessary.
"I guess we'll have to keep that spell handy," Dice said aloud, voicing all of their thoughts. It had just taken the whole ward down. They stood standing before they let their hands down, coming out of the tiny stupor.
"Well, let's go on." Chris stated, walking forward and through the path on to the manor.
"No, I think we'll just stay here?" Nic said to him sarcastically, before moving after him and the girls.
"Suit yourself," Chris retorted back, knowing that it wasn't a serious statement.
They knew their way through the Kea-Lee home, having been there often enough to call the homeowners by their first names-though they knew them by their family names in respect; Except young Jun of course. It looked deserted and all of the lights were turned off. The quartet passed through the living rooms, den, kitchen and made a quick look through the bedrooms just in case. Before going into the back garden where the entrance to the bank lay, they said some silent spells and rendered their bodies invisible to enemies.
The stone floor from her vision was in more detail now and Bianca looked up for a second to see what else was there. The torches turned on when they were in the area, something it did for all people. No doubt now that Kea-Lee knew they were coming. Now all they had to do was look for them and save Flower and The Family of Kea-Lee.
Mentally, Nic sorted through a list of tortures for whoever dared touch Flower, unknowingly copying the thoughts of his three friends around him. Bianca was a little shaken from the news that Chris could die, but she could see how her boyfriend seemed unconcerned about that. She made a mental note to herself to take him home and make sure all of his pieces were in place as well after this little escapade.
It wasn't long before they found them, counting sixteen of the minions of the latest bid for power, and the head honcho between two of his personal soldiers. As they sorted out where everyone was, Nic had to keep himself from snarling aloud and jumping down and using all of those idiots as punching bags. They did have powers after all. Dice handed Bianca a passing breeze for an inner healing before they could split up fully.
Bianca moved around down on the playing field, her demonic abilities allowing her to pass around and remain hidden thanks to her demonic sense on the underworld radar. She made her way down to where the captives were and had to hold Flower's mouth closed from squeaking. Jun look at her for a moment but knew to look away to not alert anybody. She put her finger to her lips and arched her eyes to tell her what to do.
Using the wind that was following her as Dice had directed, she placed it over the wound and it funneled into her but looked as if it did nothing. Her momentary bond with it alerted her to the fact that it was healing the internal damage however.
She then pointed to the head honcho guy, turned her fingers to show him jumping around, and then pointing to Flower and wiggling her fingers.
Flower blinked in understanding, reassured that they were okay and her family was around and about to save her. She kept the immediate emotions away from her, but then the minions were to stupid to watch for the 'little filly'.
"The bank does not stand in your hands," stated Mau Kea-Lee loudly, and with a confidence that seemed to amuse the head honcho.
"Well old man, as soon as I cut off your family line and threaten a few people, it will be once again." The man, another of Asian decent and had an astounding amount of conviction in him for an insane demon. Dice was listening to their words intently. They seemed to be arguing but at the same time splitting their sides. The minions seemed to have no minds of their own. But then, that's what minions were for, right?
They'd been over the same meaning for the past couple of minutes. Basically, the intruder wanted the bank-his main focus at least. She could tell by his insinuations that his real aim was for something in the bank. She wondered for about half a second what it was before feeling the wind she had lent to Bianca infused itself in Atkan. Though it wasn't obvious, the near-dead mother was now just wounded and passed out.
When Kea-Lee Mau moved in front of his son, blocking him from view of the madman, Bianca slipped quietly to the side and readied herself for an attack. Right after he threatened his line once again, Christopher took a single second to do a number of things. First, he made a sound on the gravel. Then he sent out an astral self that was glamoured to look different. That glamour stepped out into the room as if he had just walked through everything.
"Well, I guess I'm gonna have to crash this party," he spoke with an English accent of someone from the land of scones, tweed, and tea. Dice took that time to send out some wind to give him form, solidifying the matter around him as if he really was something.
The madman conjured an energy ball just as Bianca kicked three minions on their asses with her invisible 'bad' self. The astral self of Chris that was glamoured acted as if he was blow away but in reality all Dice did was take away her wind and send it like a bomb at one of the lieutenants. Nic took that time to run to his sister and the captives. As he did so, he saw his sister rise and sweep both her hands, turning the enemies into flowers of stone growing out of the ground.
Chris took back in his astral self and stepped forward into the light. The battle, if it could be called that, was not more than a few seconds. Unfortunately after a petal count, they had discovered that one of the minions had gotten away thanks to the wards that had been down. Dice gave it a moments thought before dismissing it for later. Mau hurried to check on his wife. He dismissed his servants and workers to the infirmary and back to their jobs.
Flower had literally jumped on and at her big brother before going around and hugging every body from the quartet who always hugged back, to the Kea-Lees who had learned to hug back, to the servants whom would learn to hug back. Chris wondered if she would come up with some kind of empathy.
The witches went around and plucked the eighteen flowers that hadn't gotten away to let them die, sticking them in a small sack to be questioned later. Chris handed them to Mau to do as he wished and gathered around his friends. Dice draped a wind on Flower to heal her cut arm and finger and made sure the little girl stayed with Nic so that her boyfriend wouldn't get any ideas.
Mau thanked them and wondered to himself and aloud how he was to repay them. The four of them shrugged and said none was needed, but as was his custom, he needed to do something. But as they didn't much care for any real penance, he let the thought pass and be saved for later. He was sure there would be something the four of them would need later on.
Back at the house, they shared a meal of flavored beef and spiced noodles as Flower told them her view of what happened and explained how well her day previous had been. Chris hoped through their bond that their Saturdays weren't always this 'exciting', just to have his friends laugh at him. He sighed. Nothing around him was really normal and he knew they were right, but he wanted at least a little bit of normality to his days. He wasn't as crazy about the mortal ways as his mother wanted them to have, but he was close enough for his comfort.
At the end of the meal, they had some fun while Jun showed off his divination skills with some self-drawn tarot cards that Atkan was teaching them to make. Flower showed her own divination skill off, and though it wasn't nearly as in depth, it was nice to see the drawings. Most of Flower's had some kind of plant and greenery in each photo.
-"We should just buy her an Herbery and a greenhouse for her birthday"- Nic told them, and Chris agreed with it whole heartedly.
-"With the way she gets her thumb so green? I wouldn't be surprised if she chased some of the other herbologists out of the field"-
-"In the meantime, I'll just give her another window plot at my flat. That'll keep her busy for a little bit,"- Bianca told them.
Atkan did a palm reading for them, and though they had heard many of the things before and were determined not to think about most of them, she did foreshadow a newer bond forming between them. The four looked at one another in tandem and gave her a few details while Flower sat on the lap of the Sr. Kea-Lee and listed off some properties of one of her new flowers she'd planted in her yard at home.
Before they left, they undid their spell, just to have he wards come back up. Atkan and some of the workers painted some runes, much to the fascination of Nic, and brought down the barrier from the very ward stones that the demons had planted. They made a stop at a Lowe's before meeting back at the Berkley home to collect a new flower for Evelyn. They did so every couple of weeks for the young girl. They would only have a couple more visits before they'd have to start going to other shops and marts in order to find something new for Flower.
By six o' clock, they were tired for the day and Bianca took her hubby back to her apartment where… she made sure that all of her boyfriend was still in place and intact. They try not to become to tired out though. The next day will be a long one.
TBC…
Dont expect the third chapter for a while. I don't know why Im posting this now, but its getting annoyed and there is a limit to how many days a file can be kept on