¤Chapter 5¤

"Got her!" Emily said as the crystal dropped to a local park on Cole's map.

"Great!" Cole said running over to Emily and folding the map up. "Now we just need to–"

A pink light flashed into the room and Mimi's astral form appeared in Cole's room.

"Hey... I need to borrow some lavender, Cole," Mimi said sounding a little surprised someone was in the room, but walking over to Cole's potion ingredient cupboard.

"Do you just project in here whenever you want and take my ingredients?" Cole asked Mimi.

"Yea..." Mimi replied, rummaging through the ingredients.

"Whatever... if you just come with us to do something then you can borrow ingredients whenever you want!" Cole said. Mimi turned around and looked at him.

"Okay... fine... come pick me up at my room," Mimi said as she disappeared in an outline of pink.

Cole flung shut the door of his cupboard, grabbed Emily's hand, and orbed them into Mimi's bright purple room.

"Come on," Cole said, still grabbing onto Emily's hand and running them over to Mimi who was standing there waiting.

"What are we–" Mimi was cut off by Cole grabbing her arm and the smell of her room faded into the smell of trees and outdoors.

"What are we doing?" Mimi finished.

"Just vanquishing a warlock... shouldn't take much though," Emily told her.

"Just don't ask questions, we need to hurry... is this where the premonition was, Emily?" Cole asked.

"Yea... right over there," Emily said, pointing to a path with large trees,"

"There they are!" Cole whispered, as he saw the young woman running from the warlock, "MIMI! Astral project over there and hold them off!"

Mimi did her thing as the real Mimi, Cole, and Emily went running towards the scene of Emily's premonition. Emily looked up as she was lagging behind Cole and Mimi, she saw the astral Mimi kick the warlock hard in the stomach. They reached the fight scene in what seemed like an eternity later. Emily ran over to Dana who was hiding behind a tree, as Cole and the real Mimi joined the fight.

"We're here to help you! Trust me!" Emily told Dana in a flustered tone. Emily looked up just in time to see the real Mimi go flying backwards.

Mimi's other power was pyrokinesis, but it's hardly worth mentioning because it is so minor that she almost never uses it, but, in this battle she decided to. Astral Mimi put her small hand on the chest of the warlock as his black coat began to singe as she pushed him and he fell backwards. Emily watched as Cole flung his hand forward and the warlock flew back into a large tree, his coat swirling around him and blue orbs flying after him.

Then, with his other hand stretched out, the warlocks dagger orbed into his palm... and, with a slight smirk Cole threw the athame at the warlock.

The warlock laughed and threw his gruff hand forward at the last second, sending the weapon flying back at Cole, hitting him hard in the left shoulder! The impact knocked Cole backwards, knocking him unconscious as he hit his head on a huge tree that was behind him.

"Cole!" Mimi yelled out as she sent her astral self over to check him out.

"Mimi! Send your astral you to go get Aunt Paige! I will help you hold off the warlock until she gets here!" Emily said rushing towards the man, preparing for the worse. Mimi's astral form disappeared into thin air, just as Emily stomped on the warlock's foot, and then kneed him in the stomach as he doubled over.

Mimi ran up behind the doubled over man and jumped onto his jacket-clad back, choking him from behind.

"You... little..." the warlock said gasping for air, he thrust his arms apart and broke free from Mimi. Channeling the warlock's power of telekinesis, Emily shoved her hand forward and the warlock was hurled into the tree he had been held against only seconds before.

"Aunt Paige is orbing now," Mimi informed a occupied Emily who was now being thrown down on the ground. Mimi ran over to Emily who was being strangled by the furious man. Mimi kicked the warlock square in the stomach as he rolled off the perturbed Emily, who was gasping for breath. Mimi held her hand forward and helped Emily to her feet just as the astral Mimi and Paige arrived on the scene.

Paige ran straight over to Cole, her dark hair blowing in the sudden gust of wind. A large pool of blood was forming around Cole's left side, as astral Mimi ran over to join the escalating fight between the two witches and the warlock. Paige bent over her son's still body, hoping for the best and she placed her hands over her shoulder, they began to glow a bright gold and the blood began to vanish. Paige smiled as Cole finally began to stir. When she was done working her magic, Cole was completely healed.

"Wha-" Cole started, but as he remembered what had been going on, jumped to his feet.

"Mom!" he exclaimed, grabbing her arm and running ten feet to the battle, the status of the battle still had not changed... it was an even match. Cole pointed his hand violently at the warlock and then thrust his hand even more violently at the nearest tree, pushing the warlock out of the battle, and pinning him to the tree in an all too familiar situation.

"Hold his hands against the tree, mom!" Cole exclaimed as his mother took his spot holding the warlock in place with her powers.

Quickly as possible, Cole pointed at the athame which was lying, dropped in the heat of the battle, on the ground, and, in a swirl of blue orbs, the knife was lunged at the helpless warlock... reducing him to a pile of black ash.

"You guys really should have said something!" Paige said, glaring at her son and nieces.

"You don't just go out looking for demons!"

"We didn't have time, he was gonna kill our innocent!" Emily said, still breathless from the excitement of the battle.

"What innocent?" Paige said looking around.

"Her! Wait... she was right there... she must have ran again!" Emily said, frowning. "I told her we were here to help!"

"Oh well, that doesn't really matter... we got the guy behind the attacks on her, if she needs any more help it will come to you in a premonition," Cole tried to console her.

"Yeah... I guess," Emily said.

"Okay, next time I want you guys to tell me before you go out and do something like this," Paige said in her motherly voice, that she barely ever used.

"Come on guys... let's go home," Cole said as he walked towards Emily and her sister. The four of them orbed home, as they did so a faint laugh rang through the forest, as the old hag who ran the Wicca store stepped out of the shadows, her withered old hand around the mouth of a bewildered Dana... she was smirking slightly to herself.