Unfortunate Souls

Ch. 4: Past Changed

"What the hell does this mean? Is this somebody's sick idea of a joke?" Piper muttered as she paced the attic. She was beyond frustrated. They had only been gone for a few minutes and the whole world had changed. Apparently magic school was completely destroyed and now it appeared that she and her sisters had been imprisoned into stones by her own son.

"I think that someone has altered something in our past." Leo said as he studied the contents in the room. He was looking through a book that he had found lying on a dresser.

"Why do you think that?" Piper asked as she joined him on the couch.

"Well, don't you remember something like this happened to Paige once?" Leo said putting the book down and looked towards his wife.

"Yeah, Cole had changed history so that Paige had died before we met her. It makes sense. Someone must have changed history when we were orbing over to magic school. The problem is what did they change that made Chris turn against his family?"

"It's not like Chris likes us that much in our time either Piper." Leo said knowing that he had tell the painful truth or no one would. There was no way that Piper would ever admit that one of her sons hated her.

"Fine so he doesn't get along with us all the time that still doesn't mean that he would turn on us." Piper said with a look of frustration.

"Piper, you and I both know that the only reason why Chris hasn't turned on us is because of Wyatt." Leo said a little exasperated at his wife's delusions.

Piper was about to argue with her husband when a thought hit her. "That's it someone must have changed the relationship between Wyatt and Chris."

"Yeah all we have to do is find Wyatt and we can ask him what went wrong and maybe we can figure out a way to fix it." Leo said getting excited at the possibility of getting out of this changed reality.

Leo closed his eyes and tried to sense for Wyatt. After a few minutes he couldn't find him. He next tried to find Chris and still couldn't find him. Leo starting to feel panic when he tried to orb and couldn't.

"I can't find them and there's another problem, I can't orb." Leo said. Piper turned to a pillow on the couch and tried to blow it up to find that she didn't have any powers either.

"What wrong with our powers?" Piper yelled.

"That would be Chris's fault" a voice said from the doorway. They turned to find their nephew Mark standing there. He was dressed in torn jeans and a shirt that had seen better days. His brown hair was cut short and his usually pale skin was paler than normal.

"How did you get out of the stone Aunt Piper? I won't even ask how you came back from being dead Uncle Leo." Mark said as he walked into the attic and approached the glass container.

"This might sound confusing but we're not from around here. We were orbing to magic school when something happened everything is different." Leo said as he studied his nephew that looked so much like the nephew they knew but was harder, more emotionally cold.

Mark stood there thinking over what he just heard before saying "Is it something like that story you told us about Aunt Paige?"

"Yes, it seems to be almost the same thing." Piper told him.

"Do you know what changed?" Mark asked.

"We think that whoever changed the past altered Wyatt and Chris's relationship." Leo said, Mark laughed at this statement and only stopped when he saw that they were looking at him in confusion.

"Sorry it's just that you guys saying that they actually had a relationship involving anything but yelling and trying to kill each other is hilarious." Mark said after recovering from his laughing fit.

"What do you mean Wyatt and Chris have always been really close?" Piper asked.

"Well, sure they were close until Chris developed his power to alter reality. Then Wyatt kind of started to treat him differently." Mark said.

"What do you mean differently?" Leo asked. Mark gave them a look that said they were weird before saying "Well he started to keep away from Chris and tried to spend the least amount of time with him that he could get away with. He agreed with us that he was to powerful and that he was a threat to the greater good. Personally I think he was as scared of Chris as the rest of us."

Piper shook her head and said "That's all wrong Wyatt was the only one that treated Chris the same after he got his powers he even stopped us from imprisoning Chris."

"See that happened differently here. Wyatt actually tried to help you guys but Chris was able to knock Wyatt unconscious and he used his powers to alter your genes into that of a normal humans. That's why you have no powers Aunt Piper, cause in this time you're just a mortal. After that event Chris slowly started slipping more into darkness. In one fatal swoop he killed every elder and whitlighter up there. While Wyatt was up there Chris came and imprisoned you in these stone. We don't really know what happen to you Uncle Leo but no one has seen or heard from you since that day." Mark said.

Piper was once again pacing around the attic as she thought over what her nephew had told her. It was obvious that it was the change in Wyatt's and Chris's relationship that had caused this dark future. The only problem was what had caused the change in the first place. Then it hit Piper it must have been that demon they were fighting.

"Hey Leo I think it was that demon Ayms that caused the change in history." Piper said as she stopped pacing.

"Yeah you're most likely right, which would explain why he attacked us and then suddenly left for no reason. He was most likely reading our pasts to see exactly what he had to change."

"So now that we know how and why the world changed what do we do about it?" Piper asked.

"Well I'm not exactly sure but didn't the world return to normal when Aunt Paige was able to kill Cole. So all you have to do is kill this Ayms dude and the world should fix itself." Mark said.

"Yeah that should work but there's a problem with that. The only way we know how to kill it was by a potion that Chris found for us in Ayms Fate Book." Leo said.

"Well, we still might be able to get it. I only know of two people that can conjure a Fate Book and neither one of them are that fun to deal with." Mark said with a worried look on his face

"Ok, you guys better prepare yourselves we're going to see Chris." Mark said with a weak smile on his face.

Next Chapter: Evil Chris makes an appearance. a twist at the end awaits Piper and Leo.